#and i totally get that but i don't think they're useless or actively harmful as pronouns! i'm sure there are some who like them and use
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I was wondering, would Mayday tell the difference between us the the YouTwo?? Cuz from the movie she looks very perceptive and smart enough, so I can’t help but wonder if she could tell when it’s us or YouTwo?
For example; we probably blow on her stomach to make her laugh whenever we greeted her. But YouTwo? She just holds her at arms length and looks at her like she’s a disease
And probably Peter B Parker would know it’s us or not??
I like the idea that certain people and especially the more animal-based Spiders can always kind of inherently tell who's who just by smell alone, but also, something I think I haven't utilized in many of my ideas yet is the Spidey Sense. You can lowkey just spidey vibe check someone and kind of tell or sense stuff about them? And like I dunno if I'm misinterpreting the scene but didn't Miles also have certain visions with some of his Spidey Sense episodes like in the first movie, he has visions of the spider being an alchemax spider just before he meets Blonde Peter, or, idk, he saw visuals with his Spidey Sense
Like sidebar but the whole, kind of vision thing, imagine you're extremely stressed and have you know maybe been doing some self harming stuff and Peter B sees you're going through it one day and, you're actually about to open up to him when you experience the Spidey vision/premonition of, you tell him and he immediately goes and tells Miguel, and you realize oh he's kind of a snitching bastard ain't he (but it's for your own good he promises he's just worried about you kiss kiss uncle Pete loves ya)
But no, I was maybe thinking, YouTwo pops up and Reader is going through their 'beginning a depressive episode' shit and you can tell YouTwo is new and freaked out and, well, it's real easy to see yourself in, well, yourself, and you're like "hey I know what it feels like to feel alone, maybe you could, hang out with this friend of mine, just this once" and you give some tips on how to act around them and, maybe the more you get depressed and feel useless, you actually let them take over more and more and it's when they have some decent "power" that they start actively replacing you and messing with you and trying to kick you out and get rid of you for real
Reader, who is also feeling aimless and depressed: hey other me, why don't you go hang out with this buddy Pavitr of mine, he has this healing energy--
YouTwo: *gets along well with Pavitr and he winds up inviting other friends of yours and YouTwo makes their own independent plans with all of them, basically assimilating deep into your entire friend group and giving themselves more opportunities to steal your friends and more people, and also these hangouts become later 'proof' aka "well im the real one and i can prove it, hey Pavitr remember when we--"*
Reader: hmmmm definitely don't like that!
But no just. Picture Peter B one day finds a little bruise on Mayday, maybe a few of them, and he noticed her temperament is a little different. He can just TELL something is wrong and so can her mother Mary Jane, and Peter thinks, well, there's really not many times she's even out of his sight, ALTHOUGH he DID let 'you' babysit a few times. And at first he wants to play it off, "oh you're just inexperienced with babies and Mayday can be a total handful, you probably just made a mistake" and 'you' even lie and say, maybe it was another kid or Spider animal who got to her when 'you' had barely turned your back
But Peter B gets a little tiny baby monitor/listening device gadget, like a little hard plastic keychain that looks innocent and is ultra durable, and he attaches it to Mayday anyways, just to find out definitively what's happening, and he's with Miguel one day making idle chit chat and they can just hear 'you' over the baby monitor, "why does he keep leaving you with me. I don't even like you, you nasty little monster" and Peter B is just sort of like. ":) haha I'm sure they're. They're joking. They're totally joking" and there's just a series of *yelp* "did you just fucking bite me? Little BITCH!" *Mayday cries out and starts bawling* "yeah you're lucky that's all you get, my parents used to do way worse to me--"
Cue Peter B and Miguel bursting into the room because both fathers are understandably ENRAGED because 1. Dude have 'you' been hurting Parker's literal actual baby and 2. This is not the person they thought it was. Oh SHIT is this not the right person they thought it was
Peter B eventually meets up with you, the real you again, because sometimes i imagine Reader just quietly moves to a normal part of Nueva York and you hand your Spidey life over to YouTwo, and youre understandably a little hateful and dont want to talk to him, but he kinda just, deposits his baby into your arms. Hes gonna baby test ya and see if youre the real one. Mayday just is totally relaxed in your arms, which are noticeably much more careful holding her than your double was because Peter B actually showed you how to hold a baby, and she also has a bandaid on her hand from scratching it against something and you're just like "oh no, you got a little boo boo 🥺 why does your DUMB DADDY keep bringing you around places you can get hurt" and Peter B is like "well ok I think that's a little uncalled for but this one is definitely the real one"
Peter B is then at the front of the Anti YouTwo lynchmob because "that fake HURT MY BABY, Miguel!" which of course wins over a bunch of other formerly skeptical Spiders. You think Jess would ever give YouTwo a second chance? Fuck that, she's not gonna trust some temperamental monster around her baby whenever it's born! Meanwhile Spider Cat who can't talk is over here like "yeah well why do you think I kept biting them, they're a fake 🙄 you see this bullshit, Spider Miette" "jail for faker, jail for faker for one thousand years--"
The Spider Society finally 'gets you back' all "and arent you so happy things can just go back to normal again :)" and you're like "uhhh no fuck you guys, I'll live here but only because you don't give me any other option, the only ones of you I still trust anymore are the animal Spiders, the little kids, Hobie the realest bitch in here who never doubted me, and the toys, isn't that right special edition neon funko pop Miles Morales"
One day after YouTwo has replaced you they get too comfortable thinking everyone is always never once going to question or doubt them anymore and some absolutely heinous shit comes out of their mouth and like they get the social equivalent of one of those Telltale or Fallout video game HUDS pop up, "EVERYONE disliked that" "Miguel will remember that" "social karma lost"
YouTwo, not realizing you did one last thing to fuck them over on the way out: oh hey it's that Hobie guy that's been gone for ages, the real me told me the special password to let him know I'm the real one was "blue lives matter"?
the second that shit comes out of YouTwo's mouth he instantly knows as well as literally anyone around who knows Hobie now knows that's the fake you. YouTwo gets some real life ass [YOU CANNOT FAST TRAVEL WHEN THERE ARE HOSTILES IN YOUR AREA] as Hobie and everyone else for that matter instantly goes into full "I can't kill you but I can beat your ass" mode
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I've started actively blocking people who are like, "Either you care about every problem in the world so much that it destroys your ability to cope with or you're a fake ally and complicit!"
It breeds scrupulosity OCD, as in explicitly seeks to induce a debilitating mental illness in people to perform purity on social media. It's also totally ineffective from an activism stand point. It spreads you so thin that all you can do is share social media posts you haven't fact checked. No one actually has time and bandwidth to care about everything. Our brains were never built to hold so many relentless horrors. We burn out and can't handle any of it at all because we do actually have limited energy.
If you want to be effective instead of performative, you have to pick one or two things to really care about and put your energy into really understanding what's going on and what steps we can take to make that better. Sometimes those are incremental inadequate steps because that's what you can persuade people to spend resources on right then. But those changes can matter a lot to people on the ground even though it doesn't fix everything. And then you fight for the next step. And slowly you change things. Sometimes you win big. (And then spend a lot of energy convincing people that isn't a discrete happy ending and you have to keep fighting for more.)
I highly encourage people to pick issues that aren't getting a lot of attention and need hands the most. You can also think about how a fight you're not focusing on is intersectional with what you are doing and how to support other groups through your work. Like if you're working on supporting your local queer community but are concerned about the Sudanese genocide, you might see how your resources or networking or grant writing skills can support Sudanese immigrants coming into town. Or work to support organizations like Doctors Without Borders that has over mission but supports many places through it.
Which is not to say you ignore everything else in the world and go into a bubble. But you have to forgive yourself for being human and having human capacity. You CAN'T know everything. You CAN'T absorb every horror of the world. You have limited time to actually work on things. Being a witness can be useful, but if all you have time for is watching the horrors helplessly then you aren't actually helping. Absorbing less but doing more is way more effective.
There's certainly something to be said about who actually gets attention and help and how that plays into biases and people only helping themselves or their in group. But destroying your ability to cope with the world to the point of constant guilt spiralling is not an effective solution to that problem. If you want absolution, care more about less.
So I'm done with internet armchair activists who think guilt tripping will change the world. They're not just useless, they're actively harmful. Don't follow people just because you think you deserve to be yelled at constantly to absolver your sins and keep you on the straight and narrow. Figure out how you can make a real impact in people's lives.
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Sorry if I'm bothering you at all, but I was wondering if Ombra and Gizem would get along with Megan and Andrius, and if so, what would their relationships be like? (You don't have to answer, I'm just curious).
These asks make me super happy!
I wrote headcanons so here you go! I hope you like it, and sorry if it's a bit ooc.
Gizem and Megan
I imagine if Gizem finds out that Megan understands her and doesn't act unnecessarily childish (which I believe Megan is not that type of person), she opens up to her and now they're bffs! (if Megan wants to)
Gizem and Megan watch lots of movies and series together. Gizem tells her they should watch the next episode even when eating lunch or dinner.
When Megan is playing video games Gizem may sit and watch, and when she's the one playing (obviously Megan has asked her to) I think Megan wouldn't tease her much for being a noob, but Gizem keeps joking, trying to make both of them laugh.
Gizem helps Megan to improve, or basically level-up her weapons while Megan arranges training sessions for both of them and teaches her to wield the weapons she can't.
Surprisingly they both love mythologies and would spend lots of time together sharing information. Also Gizem would buy her mythology-themed stuffs like jewelries. (she has a Thor's hammer necklace)
If Megan shows interest, Gizem would gladly give her piano lessons.
Gizem and Andrius
When they first met, Gizem acted formal and too polite around him. I think they would both intimidate each other.
After learning about his powers and immortality, they're shocked and terrified at the same time. Although they're a SF member and has seen such people before they're still not used to it. Also they're terrified of his deadly touch.
Avoids his touch at all costs even if Andrius tries to reassure them he means no harm.
If Andrius reveals nothing from his past and keep his intimidating nature, Gizem does as well. They keep glancing at each other like this when they're in the same room:
Ombra in that moment:
BUT if he acts friendly and tries to make them feel a bit safe then they'll slowly lower their guards and eventually become his friend.
I think they wouldn't be as close to each other as Megan and Gizem are.
Andrius should expect lots of questions about history and his special serum. Gizem understands if he doesn't want to talk about the serum, but deep inside they just want to somehow make him talk.
Also Gizem loves this fact that he's a neutral individual. I mean yeah Gizem does work for Special Forces which its activities are mainly focused on protecting Earthrealm, but they're just there for their own benefits, and Andrius is like the same.
Ombra and Megan
Unlike Megan, Ombra is not that shy, so when meeting such shy and cute person she'll become curious to approach her.
At first she tells her random things and useless facts to analyze her reactions. She'll quickly find out what her interests, hobbies and dislikes are. Not entirely of course, but being a psychiatrist she is, it's much easier for her to draw out facts about Megan in the first interactions.
Ombra is the type of person who doesn't laugh at her own jokes. Imagine a bunch of people laughing at what she said and she's just sitting there with a poker face, or with a tiny smirk. But when Ombra sees Megan is genuinely laughing at her jokes she satisfyingly smiles.
Ombra takes Megan to Metalrealm and would play electric guitar for her.
She would draw her.
Also she'll show off her iron power if Megan is interested.
Ombra and Andrius
Ombra would be aesthetically attracted to him when they first met. She'd be like:
I think it'd be challenging for Ombra to get to know Andrius since he'd probably try to keep his identity secret. And Ombra loves this challenge.
They won't be as terrified as Gizem once finding out what he's capable of, but they'll still hide it totally.
Just like their sibling, they'd feel unsafe around him at first.
Ombra somehow likes his intimidating attribute because they believe they can eventually make him break the ice.
They'd be a little more cautious when analyzing his reactions since they don't want to make it sound obvious.
Andrius would catch them staring a few times. (yeah they like his face)
I imagine they'd spend hours discussing different ideas about different issues and both adore each other's points of views.
They'd recommend books and documentaries to each other, and would also discuss them later.
"Oh I could make him laugh?!"
I'd like to see them all interact more. And now I have lots of fluffy scenarios about Ombra and Andrius in my mind :3
#mortal kombat oc#mk oc#megan#andrius nils#gizem#ombra the ironhead#headcanons#mortal kombat#mk#ask#scentedcandleibex
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