Dating/being friends my yautja OCs and what it’s like:
Bubba:
- Despite his growing rank as a warrior, Bub is actually a very laid back yautja. Very little irks him and he doesn’t have an angry bone in his body.
- He is, however, a very mischievous, smug bastard. He won’t be mean about it though. He likes to pull subtle little pranks, all in good fun of course. If you yell at him for it he’ll just laugh at you. He finds it endearing.
- His name of course isn’t actually Bubba, that’s a human nickname he got and he took a great liking to. His actual name is Xero’heta (sh-ee-ro-He-TA). His human nickname is a term of endearment as a brother in arms. He loves it when you call him nicknames (Bubs, Bubboms, Bubby, ….Booba).
- He is a textbook definition of a dumb himbo jock. He may tease you a lot, but if you reciprocate with romance in mind he won’t pick up on it. You gotta be candid with him.
- Bub is a young adult by human standards, so he isn’t as traditional as more seasoned, older yautja, and doesn’t mind learning new customs. He’s willing to engage in human traditions and rather enjoys it. He specifically likes bubble baths, especially when you bring in all the bath bombs and bubbles. Purrrr.
- Loves play wrestling with your much smaller frame. He is by no means rough, but he finds it amusing when you get all huffy and determined to beat him. He’ll let you too. His pride is by no means in danger.
Kûn’ta
- Give a shut-in idiot an obsessive hobby, and you have Kûn’ta.
- Don’t get me wrong, he’s smart and very independent. He built his own prosthetic, and continues to modify it with stuff like torches for fingers, he has a good hand in engineering, and is a biologist. Anything book-wise and tech-wise he exceeds in. His social skills? Laughable.
- Kûn’ta has accepted long ago that he’s a recluse to his clan and is fine with it. He doesn’t need friendship or a father figure anyway. He has… his dirt jars! And… his insects! Who needs anyone if you have those things.
- He will be surprised if you tolerate him and his antics. And maybe… excited?? He will vibrate at the chance to talk your ear off about cell-regrowth or the strange mold growing in the forest and how it tasted funny-
- Again, his social skills aren’t the greatest. He will not notice how annoying he’s being. He’s just excited to be able to voice his interests without being ridiculed or brushed off.
- He doesn’t have any awareness for personal space, and he will violate it. Sorry to those who aren’t a fan of having their bubble broken into, but he can’t help but lift your arms to look at your tiny fingers, or take your chin in his hand to look at your mouth. He has an insatiable curiosity and he isn’t one to deny it. He’s too eager to learn about new autonomy. Consider that a bonus or a turnoff.
- He does not have ANY self preservation. That’s probably the only ‘honorable’ trait about him to his own kind. He will jump in a cave just to see what plant life grows there. He will wrestle a beast of any caliber to look at its teeth. He will eat the strange, very-poisonous looking fungi to tell you it tastes like chicken. Where there is usually anger or disgust towards the parasitic serpents, he hungers for the day he gets to dissect one. He finds strange beauty to things considered disgusting or odd to most people.
- Where you might be the monster-fucker in this situation, so is Kûn’ta to his own kind funny enough.
- He will watch you sleep. Count on it.
Judah
- Judah is a very seasoned warrior. He is an elder and has faced many bloody pillages. He is the embodiment of a classic yautja from the first Predator movies. He’s quite brutal. He was a very highly-ranked general of sorts, but due to an event, he was left for dead on an icy terrain away from his home planet and lost his title, labeled a bad-blood.
- Because Judahs conditions are rather extreme, it’s safe to assume you two did not meet on good terms. He would’ve killed you on sight.
- This man is out for blood. For his own clan specifically. How could they abandon him? They will regret the day they dishonored him. He aches for it.
- He has some obvious issues. Beneath his horrid temper, his carnage, is confusion and fear. Everything is a threat to him, after he had lost it all, how could it not be?
- So you managed to not get killed. To him it’s because you’re too pathetic to even kill. Maybe he’ll save you for lunch. Either way he has no respect for you, and chase you off if you follow him. He’s a hard nut to crack.
- Even if he manages to tolerate you, it won’t get much easier. His prejudice is very strong, and he views other species as inferior.
- He’s a big man baby. His issues are mostly towards himself. How he had it all and now he’s worth less than dirt to his clan. He splays this outwards into anger towards the rest of the world. You will need an insane amount of patience with him, he won’t befriend you overnight.
- In light of this however, if you are the person that sticks with him through and through, show him you aren’t his enemy -he will have the deepest respect for you. He will be your warrior after, he just hasn’t found his alternative purpose yet.
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Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?
Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.
All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)
But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.
But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.
I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?
It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.
Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.
Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)
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adventure time lore is insane. it starts off just being a goofy kids show that has magic for no reason, but then you learn that all magic users are manic and/or depressed (what betty calls sadness and madness). because it turns out magic is actually a cosmic force beyond mortal comprehension, that itself was learned from cosmic entities that predated the existence of time itself inside a sea of monsters. and "magic" really is just understanding more about the nature of the universe than most people. that, in a way, reality isnt "real" and understanding that allows you to mold it. and thats magic. but that drives you to insanity and/or apathy. and there are beings who hold significant cosmic importance who are more prone to magic. and the reason magic became prevalent on earth is because of a nuclear war a thousand years ago, which released the entity that represents the destruction of all life onto the world. and after a nuclear apocalypse this gave way to a new earth, where magic could thrive. but a lot of the beings we see arent even magical, theyre just mutants from what happened 1000 years ago. and humanity as we know it has been all but wiped out. but everything stays the same because cycles of war and violence continue. and it doesnt matter if its nukes or magic. everything stays the same, but still changes.
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