#because yes romance is fun and fine but your romantic partner(s) should not be your only support system
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Luce. Luce. Luce.
Your Eclipse is precious beyond compare and I love him so much
Ahhh, ok, ok, just the start of the chapter makes me really soft, because we as the readers now Robin's high anxiety from witnessing it across the chapters, but it occurs to me that Sun and Moon have only really gotten to see it when it was pretty bad until recently, now that they are a thing.
But now it's easier for them to see the true anxiousness manifesting itself on something not life threatening or ground shaking as was the reveal. So Sun trying to be reassuring even if a little amused that they would be so nervous about meeting Eclipse (because he knows him) just makes me melt a little.
And kfjdhkgjh of course Eclipse was scheming since before they arrived XD In a way being so much taller would probably make him a tad more intimidating than expected haha, but I can only imagine the whiplash between the yanking, the suspicious locking of the door, and then the very serious business tone of asking help with a prank kfjhdgjfhd
(Sidenote: Sun being all worried because of y/n clearly was so nervous and Eclipse just pulling something unexpected when he was probably planning a more mellow introduction IS pretty sweet, and the fact that he calmed down when he heard them laughing haha)
oh, did I detect some hint of that brotherly tension that first moment when Sun entered the room? A mood that Robin understandably would miss because really XD Though I feel that them calling Sun out on forgetting the key lightened the mood immediately from whatever tension that might had appeared.
Ahhh, it must have been very interesting for Eclipse to see that dynamic between Sun and y/n! It's always been them and outsiders that they would mostly be polite to, so seeing how they interact with this obviously important person in their lives must have him very curious, because until now he has only had what they told him about Robin.
Hehe, the "don't enable each other too much" X3 Sun really did know how well they would get along huh? Similar chaotic energies
The whole duck deal had me cackling
Just y/n so eager to get in on it, happy with the relief, and promising to continue the prank even at home XD New bestie unlocked kdfjghsñk
Ahhh, but definitely what got to me the most was them admitting that they were so unsure about the meeting. Eclipse asking if he's too much (something that he must have heard before and that Robin has definitely heard before, especially at their job, and can relate to) just had me griping my heart for this boy. And then after y/n reassures him that they were afraid of not being nearly enough in his eyes, and Eclipse probably had so much that he wanted to say about his own worries, but rather than doing that and going a mile a minute it's much more straightforward to just show them, and just the fact that he researched what they would need for traveling, even though that would mostly fall on his brothers to handle, and then what "normal" people would do in this occassion?
AND the fact that the online advice must not have included anything of what he did do, which means he ended choosing that genuine approach instead of just following what might have been the "safe" route! Just auuugh, he's so cute, but also so genuine and I'm so glad he chose to be himself so that Robin could see him as he is. There's been enough not saying stuff in their life, so this upfront approach was definitely what they all needed.
I enjoyed this chapter, so so much, Luce! I can see those two walking away from that visit very happy that they met the other!
Very chef kiss! Great chapter as always! ^_^
Ah yes, time to dig in!
And yeah, it was fun to explore this new dynamic post confession (and already more than a few dates in, but just saying post confession is easier)! We had a couple heart to hearts post reveal, but all of those worries and anxieties were between the three of them, and mostly they understood/ related because of either matching or similar anxieties.
This is something where Sun and Moon know there's nothing to fear, so while they still sympathize and want Y/N to feel reassured, they can't help but think it's a bit funny. Even Y/N realizes it's ridiculous, but they also can't help the feeling! So we get some soft smiles and reassurance, and it doesn't fix everything, but they still feel better!
Y/N: Oh god what if he hates me
Eclipse: God I hope I have a moment to talk to them in private before everything for the ultimate duck prank
Sun at least is pretty sure Eclipse's place hasn't been compromised, so it's not too serious of an issue - but he just hears a squeak, turns to find no beloved partner and a locked door, still has to grab the bags first because neither would want someone else to call the elevator and perhaps rifling through them, and then he just hears quiet murmuring as he tries to get the door open. The plan was the proper thing - introduce them to each other, exchange a few pleasantries, and carry on with the evening. The yanking changed those up a little, but at least the laughter reassures him that Y/N isn't currently breaking down or clamming up, and grants him enough awareness to remember that he owns a key to the door in his way.
There is some tension - but it's a bit of a mixed bag. Sun and Moon have already started being more open with Eclipse, and have been in steady contact for a couple months now. Four, five months, maybe a bit more. So there's mostly the old sting of "Eclipse forgot, because we haven't visited him in so long" and also "I forgot, too, because we haven't visited him in so long." Y/N picks up on that hint of embarrassment, and calls him out on it, which ends up being the ideal direction to take this conversation. It dodges the "but why did we forget" line of thinking, and focuses on the fun of it all
Eclipse was very much aware of how biased his brothers are, and what sort of soft spot they have for Y/N. Otherwise he wouldn't have planned the prank like that - but seeing Y/N too, seeing that dynamic in action, that's different. He hasn't seen his brothers in so long, and he not only gets to meet them and dodge the awkwardness they used to have thanks to the new person in the mix, but also realizes they are (part of/ indirectly) the reason his brothers changed so much. There's who motivated Sun and Moon to reach out more, and it's very easy to say how they managed to do that.
Sun, eternally suffering, drags out the bag grabbing just so the switch happens and it's Moon who has to deal with it. Moon meanwhile doesn't even need a lot of context - just a "... Eclipse grabbed our love for some private talking" and Moon already knows that something is coming. Doesn't know what, but something.
And the ducks yeah! I'm not a prank person, I went through soo many lists of pranks but some were either something Eclipse wouldn't need help with and it would be hard to find even a suitable pretense, or something food related which obviously wouldn't work, or just straight up mean. But I remembered the plastic babies around school post, and a couple similar pranks, so I went with that! and thus the duck theme for the chapter was born fhjds
Y/N of course is a menace and already thinking of leaving little ducks in Sun and Moon's work office, too. Moon starts hiding them back at some point, while Sun just collects them all and tries to hide them where Y/N can't find. They always do <3
And yeah, the bit of genuine heart to heart! It was still very very necessary to address, and Eclipse felt safer asking them in a private moment. Something Y/N does get - Sun and Moon would immediately reassure them both, but it's not the same! They need to hear it from the person they're worried about! They both try very hard, because Sun and Moon are so important to them both, and thus they want to impress the other.
Eclipse in particular knows that while he means well, he often just. Doesn't leave a good impression. People think he's too direct, or too oblivious, think he's childish for it, all while being seen as too much. He tries to prepare as well as he can - he wants to prepare everything to be as comfortable as possible, he makes sure there's all sorts of things that Y/N may not have thought to bring because they may not need them, and he wants to have a few back up plans in case he has no idea what to say.
And the thing is. He doesn't disregard any of it! Those plans are still there, he still has read them all! But he thought to prank his brothers, and then realized how much funnier it would be if he enlisted Y/N's help, and without even thinking that this is exactly what he thinks other people might interpret as "too much", he decides to do that! And then has to realize that "Y/N who is nervous to meet me" and "Y/N the potential prank accomplice" are in fact one and the same person. He can't help being genuine, he's not used to masking (good for him!) and it's a constant effort to remember to try, and he slips!
Y/N knows a bit about him from Sun and Moon, and they had their own issues with not being accepted for who they are, even if their crumbs of neurodivergency are different from Eclipse's. They get it, and they definitely get the anxiety of not measuring up to expectations, so it's easy to reassure him. They don't even need to say it, neither of them - they just admit to their own anxieties, and realize that it was a mutual fear, and that's already instant reassurance. Because if they're the same in the anxiety department, they're also the same in the "after the anxiety, I'm so looking forward to knowing this person" department.
Y/N in particular had a whole year of secrecy and not being able to just say things directly, and has very much enough of that. They know the effects it can have, and while being open is still new, they try, and it's perfect timing because that what works best for Eclipse, too.
It was a lot of fun to write this, and have them officially meet - we had the tease of it coming up in "As The Crow Flies (They Stall)", but I read through early Eclipse lore again and just. had to write the actual meeting, so I'm very happy it's fun for everyone!
#answer let luce#chaotikanvas#accidentally undercover#I love Eclipse I love writing him and I love him being a menace of a younger sibling#I love them finally becoming a whole family#because yes romance is fun and fine but your romantic partner(s) should not be your only support system#this one is still small#(tho ig Glamrock lore I still need to get to will make it bigger too)#but yeah they feel better with Eclipse in the mix and he's integral to their happy ending#its very important to me
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Sapnap: Fluff Alphabet
cc!Sapnap x reader
pronouns: gender neutral
warnings: just swearing
here’s my 500 Follower Event ^o^
A is for Affection (How do they like to show affection?)
sapnap would give you so many compliments omg. he loves making you all smiley and blushy :) he just wants to make sure that you are always aware of the fact that he thinks you’re the most perfect thing to ever exist
B is for Bond (What kind of bond do you guys have? What could your relationship be labeled as?)
the best friend couple!!! sapnap tells you literally everything. any drama going on or any strong emotions he’s feeling, you know about it. most of the time, the second something happens his brain immediately goes “omg i have to tell y/n”. you guys always complain about the same things and get excited over the same things. you are genuinely one of the most important people in his life and he doesn’t know how he’d do it without you.
C is for Comfort (How do they comfort their s/o?)
he will literally drop everything just to hold you and not speak for like hours if you so needed. he strikes me as a naturally comforting person to the people he really cares about so I say he gets an A+ in this department
D is for Dates (What are dates with them like?)
dates with sapnap are either really chill or super fun. he’s the type of guy that would take you to play laser tag or to an arcade or a trampoline park. he’s like a little kid i love sapnap :3
E is for Emotions (How do they express their emotions around you?)
he’s a pretty expressive person when it comes to certain things. at the very least he definitely wears his heart on his sleeve a little so it isn’t hard to tell even if he does try hiding stuff. and like I said he tells you everything.
F is for Fiancé (How long into the relationship before they propose?)
I feel like he’s so young and he really just wouldn’t be thinking about that too seriously for awhile. like he loves you and you guys have talked about having a future together but he isn’t in any rush at all. hell just do it when he feels is the right time not matter how long it takes.
G is for Gentle (Are they gentle?)
it depends on the situation. he’s definitely the type of guy to pick you up from a super comfy position and just body slam you on the bed. but if he can tell you’re not in the mood to play around like that he’ll just sit down and hold you, so yeah he can be gentle. but most of the time be prepared for playful fist fights and getting picked up and thrown every now and then lol.
H is for Hand Holding (How do they like hand holding?)
sapnap always holds your hand. in fact he makes an effort to search for it whenever you aren’t holding hands. and sometimes he’ll even get whiny about it especially with like a lot of people around he’ll be like, “babe, why aren’t you holding my hand :( what if I get lost how are you gonna find me this place is big”
I is for I Love You (Who said “I love you” first?)
he did !! the first time sapnap said “I love you” was probably one of his most confident moments. he was so proud to be able to say it and so sure of himself and his feelings for you.
J is Jealousy (Do they get jealous?)
YES OH MY GOD. he gets super jealous and it’s so easy to tell omg. his attitude starts to get like super bad and he is very clearly annoyed by the situation. he won’t ever be too overbearing about it and if you ever feel like he is once you sit him down and explain that he’ll back off a bit. but he’s still gonna be bothered by it so just always remind him that he love him and no one else.
K is for Kiss (What’s kissing them like?)
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IM ACTUALLY GOING TO BE DESCRIPTIVE SO IM SORRY IF ITS CRINGE. anyways, he’d be a pretty deep kisser but not like full on making out every single time. he just likes to make them last and he isn’t one to just give you random kisses all throughout the day so it always feels special. kissing him makes you feel all warm and happy inside.
L is for Love Language (What’s their love language?)
sapnaps love language is quality time or acts of service!! i’d say mainly quality time. even while long distance he just likes having you on call while he does stuff or even just complaining to you about how tired he is while actively not going to bed so he can keep talking to you lol. he just likes having you around it’s a huge comfort for him. i say acts of service because he would get so giddy and happy anytime you did something special for him. he would show it off and brag about it forever and it would genuinely mean so much to him aahhajdxh i love sapnap
M is for Memories (Their favourite memory with their s/o?)
For your first time seeing each other irl, sapnap flew to where you live and you guys spent a whole week together. his favorite memories are definitely from that first week of seeing each other in person. of course you guys already had an amazing relationship while long distance, but there’s something so different about finally meeting the person you’re with in real life. it felt like he had to start over from scratch and you guys had to get to know each other all over again. also the idea of now having to build a physical bond. it was just such an amazing and beautiful experience. definitely the one that made him realize he really is in love with you.
N is for Nicknames (Their favourite nicknames given and received?)
IM SO BAD AT THINKING OF CUTE NAMES USHSJDH. probably just babe tho lol. for fem!readers, i can totally picture him using princess in a slightly sarcastic tone.
O is for Open (At what point do they start opening up to you about their life and feelings?)
mmm i’d say he actually starts opening up to you pretty early into the relationship. If you guys were like really close friends before hand he’s definitely already opened up to you. He doesn’t really have that many people in his life that he doesn’t trust.
P is for PDA (Are they into PDA?)
not really but he isn’t like super shy about it if that makes sense ??? like he’s 100% fine with hand holding, hugging, and light pecks when saying hello or goodbye.
Q is for Quiz (How much do they remember about you?)
I don’t think he really tries to remember stuff but he just does and he’s always making connections to you and things he sees and stuff it’s so cute :)
R is for Romantic (How romantic are they?)
he tries but he isn’t exactly the most romantic boy. like I said before you guys have a best friend type of connection so when it comes to romance he doesn’t go too above and beyond because he just doesn’t feel like he needs to. but on special occasions he will do something nice for you. He likes taking you out places !!
S is for Security (How protective/possessive are they?)
very much of both. once again, total sapnap vibes. i’d say he’s a lot more possessive than protective. he would never stop you from doing things like going out without him and having guy friends or making flirty jokes. he trusts you so much partly cus he’s a little narcissistic LMAO. but when a serious threat comes about he can get kinda crazy.
T is for Try (How much effort do they put into the relationship?)
GAAAAAA HE PUTS SO MUCH EFFORT IN!! you would probably be like his first ever serious partner so he would try his best at literally everything. in the beginning of the relationship you could totally tell how nervous he was at times but as you guys got more comfortable he just became an effortlessly amazing bf
U is for Uphold (How do they show you they’re proud? What kind of support do they give you?)
he talks about you so muchjahsjxjxh mostly to dream and george or on stream and he brags about you too. he can get pretty cocky about it but his friends can’t get mad because it’s literally adorable how whipped he is.
V is for Vaunt (Do they like to show off?)
YES OF COURSE !!! it’s sapnap guys…come on. literally any little accomplishment you make is turned into a way bigger deal than it should be because of him. he’s so proud of for literally just existing and he talks about all the cool stuff you’ve done all the time
W is for Wild Card (A random fluff headcanon.)
you guys really like going to different food places and eating different items compared to other places. THIS IS SO RANDOM LMAOO but like…sapnap would definitely have fun doing that
X is for X-ray (How well can they read you and your emotions/feelings?)
mmm he can usually tell if you’re acting strange or being distant. he cant always figure out exactly what’s wrong but he knows it’s something and he would confront you about it like almost immediately or whenever he thought would be a good time for you
Y is for Yearning (How much do they miss their s/o when they’re gone?)
he literally talks about you non stop when you’re apart. and when you guys are on the phone he comes up with all these plans for you guys to do when you see each other again and he always wants you to join vc on his streams if you can. in conclusion he misses you like crazy
Z is for Zebra (What kind of pet would they want with their s/o?)
A CAT!! or like a bearded dragon lol.
IM SO SORRY IVE BEEN GONE FOR LIKE TWO WEEKS HAGSKDHD
school is literally kicking my ass so hard man 😔
i’m gonna try to write more, working on a karlnap weed fic rn too LMAO
I’m taking a major creative writing class rn so between writing for school and writing for tumblr i am so drained but i promise i’ll get back into the swing of things soon :)
love you guys, thank you for everything and stay safe <333
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Hellooo! I hope you're okay. Can I get a scenario for Benn Beckmann, Crocodile and Smoker with a female reader who confesses her feelings, please ?
I’m doing amazing Lovely. I hope you’re doing wonderful too! <3 I am such a sucker for requests like these. They feed into my love for fluff and cuteness, so I hope you enjoy this! Because of the theme requested and the characters personalities I gave the reader more of a shy girl kind of personality!
Benn, Crocodile, Smoker x Female Reader
Warnings: Fluff to the max
Words: 1818
Benn Beckmann-
Benn has a bad feeling the second he saw your cute form go up to the captain. He always gets an uneasy feeling when you talk to Shanks and yes, he is aware he is jealous, and he does not hide it very well, but this time felt different. Mostly because Shanks is giggling like a girl and your face looks beyond flustered.
Normally, he would go to your rescue but the second he sees Shanks look at him he had the urge to run away from his captain’s idiocy. He could not do so after you turn as well and give him a look that makes his heart ache. Whatever is going on he does not like it but seeing that look you gave him, makes him stay in place.
Benn is usually a quiet man and one who definitely does not wear his heart on his sleeve but the crew members who he’s been with from the start of the Red Hair Pirates can see through him. They know how smitten he is with you just as you are with him. It is almost painful that the two of you are not together and that is why while Benn is keeping an eye on you and Shanks from afar, Shanks is trying to convince you to confess to Benn.
The thought terrifies you. Your face heats up like a fire and you feel dizzy just thinking about it. Shanks is making fun of you and you want to hit him but of course, you do not dare. It is all in good faith that he is teasing you anyway.
The worry practically paints your being and Shanks gives in to give you his captain talk.
“Listen (Name), you are a strong, beautiful, intelligent woman. I can promise you that Benn will reciprocate your feelings. On the highly slim chance that he does not I will owe you a date night to lather you up with the romance you deserve,” Shanks promises.
The thought makes you want to gag immediately since you are not interested in your captain and Shanks laughs since you did not hide that. His words did reach you though and you turn around yet again to see Benn staring at you.
It is now or never.
As you walk up to Benn, he kicks himself for staring for so long. Even more, he wishes he knew what Shanks said to you to make your face so flustered.
“Benn?” Ah. The way you say his name makes him smile as he hums in response.
You go for it. “I like you. A lot. I know I may not be the most confident of women but-“
This is really happening. Benn can’t hear your words as the smile on his face grows. He glances back towards his captain who in return gives him a thumbs up. He cuts your now stuttering sentence off as he places a hand on your shoulder.
“I like you too, (Name). If you are sure you want to pursue a relationship with me then by all means I accept,” Benn says.
And that was how Benn accidentally killed a crewmember, his new partner, with Shanks as a witness when your body hit the ground and you went to cloud nine.
Crocodile-
“Do you know why you are here?” Crocodile questions.
You look a bit nervous but overall, pretty composed. He is impressed since anyone else would have usually pissed their pants by now. You do not answer him and even though that agitates him he lets it pass since you are one of his most valuable assets.
“You have been distracted. It is affecting your work. Would you like to tell me why?” He asks leaning into his hand.
Despite the way he asked it with a certain gentleness to it, his hook starts to carve into the desk leaving the silent threat. Any other person would be terrified, and it looks like you are, but you are just nervous. Your heart is racing wildly as you try to distract yourself from feeling a bit too hot from the threat of his hook.
“I have a perfectly reasonable explanation,” You start.
You want to tell him, but it may mean your death sentence. This man does not tolerate distractions. The only reason why he has not murdered you on the spot for your suddenly slow work is because your loyalty is as high, maybe even higher than Mr. 1’s loyalty. That is a great feat and one Crocodile appreciates even if he has no problems getting rid of his loyal followers.
He raises an eyebrow and you decide that saying your feelings for him would be worth it even if he decides to take your life.
“I like somebody… Romantically,” You begin.
Your eyes widen however when his hook crashes into the desk leaving a big and ugly scratch. The veins on his neck are prominent and for a moment you believe that he is jealous. It is a silly little thought but one that could bring you to tears with joy. It’s impossible though. You want to cry from embarrassment now. Crocodile is just angry that your romantic feelings got in the way of your work, you convince yourself this.
In reality, the second you admitted this, Crocodile saw red. You have feelings for someone? Nobody but he deserves your kind and loyal personality. You fit him perfectly and he would protect you no matter what. So, he is angry at whoever has your mind and heart right now.
He lost his composure for a second and he regrets it upon seeing your saddened face. Slight pride is in him for being able to get that reaction out of you though because that means you know your feelings for another are unacceptable.
Crocodile decides to go straight to the point. “Tell me who he is so I can destroy him. You are aware that feelings only cause distractions.”
The words sting and hard. He can see you flinch from this and your hesitation is strong. This is a first and he astounded that you out of everyone else may withhold this information. It almost makes him scoff. Of course, he should have known better. Even among the most loyal, they may betray him.
He is ready to crush all his feelings for you at this moment when you open your mouth and freeze. He allows you the moment to say the stupid name, but his eyes widen at what you do say.
“It is you. I like you romantically.”
He can sense your need to go run and hide and honestly? With what he does next he does not blame you. He laughs. Anyone would take this the wrong way which is why he is quick to compose himself and say, “This changes everything. Especially since I return your feelings. It would only make sense that we get involved with each other officially to avoid any more distractions, doesn’t it?”
He seems to have broken you as you stare at him awe that he really feels the same way. He accepts that as an answer.
“Prepare for a date tonight. Expect nothing but the best now that I can freely call you my woman.”
Smoker-
Today felt funny to Smoker for some odd reason. Usually, he is not this dense especially when his subordinates are involved which is why he is getting heavily annoyed that they are whispering amongst themselves while sending him glances.
He can’t recall what he did to warner these glances, but he suspects it has something to do with you as soon as he sees them glance your way. You, as always, are stuck in your head. It makes him stop as he thinks about you for a moment.
You are a strong and resilient woman. At first, he did not believe this with how much of an airhead you were but then he saw you in battle and honestly? He saw you more than a subordinate. He realized how compassionate you were for others. Seeing you in a different light alone made him angry but whenever you are around, he becomes fully aware of his body’s and emotion’s reactions to you. He becomes aware of how the subordinates treat you.
Getting a bit irritated with his feelings, he looks away from you and begins to glance over the ship. Though from the corner of his eye he can see Tashigi talking to you. He huffs more at the thought of you two being closer seeing as you both are the only females on this marine ship.
He looks away and grits his teeth as the irrational thoughts in his head begin to deepen.
“Sir? Sir!” You call out making him jump.
He immediately tries to fight off the blush trying to paint his cheeks as he realizes how close you are to him. You are trying to peer into his face to see if he is okay.
“Are you okay?” You ask genuinely concerned.
Smoker forces him to cough as he nods his head. “Yes. Fine. What is it you need, (Last Name)?”
“I, uh, it really is nothing. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate you and that I actually find you really attractive and I know it’s against the rules since you are my superior and all but when I look at you I see a handsome man that I can really build a future with and I haven’t felt this way about anyone else before and I just can’t help admire the way you look and behavior sometimes and-”
Many ands later, Smoker’s face has turned beet red and he can feel the need to vanish into the smoke but from sheer happiness. You, you confessed to him? Even more, you gave a whole speech with your confession and somehow you manage to look adorable as you try and retract your confession. You seemed to realize that you ended up rambling and now became a mess as you try and backtrack the conversation to the original question of if he was okay.
He finally as enough. He can’t help it, especially when he finds out that your feelings are mutual. He grabs your face with one hand, pinching your cheeks as he makes you pucker your lips and he pushes his on top with ease.
It made you shut up… Oh… It made you almost pass out. He can feel the heat off your face as your brain sizzles from malfunctioning.
“Go finish your duties (Name)… I’ll request a night off for the two of us for a proper date,” Smoker whispers as he returns to his serious face.
Even if he does get serious again, you can’t help but notice the slight pink on his cheeks still that is proof you accomplished something with your confession.
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Things that bother me about Percabeth
Warning: this is going to be long and I'm not even sure if this will make sense. Also don't read this if you aren't open to criticizms of Percabeth.
Percabeth is a good ship, or at least has potential as one, but it has many legit flaws (this and this go into the flaws. By the way, go check out @takaraphoenix's Riordan crit) and I have some personal grievances. I'll write this out to understand my stance better because I need to get this off my chest.
I believe most people wouldn't agree with me on all this, but this post is entirely self-indulgent and I'm doing this for catharsis, so don't come at me. This isn't an objective analysis, just me trying to clear my thoughts. But feel free to share your opinions if you want.
Evolution in PJO
This is a pretty general point. I love the evolution of their dynamic in pjo. Their bickering, them opening up to each other and becoming so important to each other, the slow and steady buildup, it's great. Heck, I love slow burn. They have some good moments in pjo: Annabeth opening up to Percy on the zoo express, the scene with the sirens, Percy doing everything he did to save Annabeth in ttc, their conversation after Annabeth took the knife for Percy in tlo. (The underwater kiss is not one of my favourite moments, I'll come to that later.)
The romantic evolution, though, I'm not sure. I enjoyed it in ttc, there were small subtle hints like Aphrodite's scarf, or Aphrodite looking like Annabeth to Percy. But it became kind of tiring in botl onwards. Annabeth was extremely possessive and awful to Rachel. And in tlo things became a bit over-the-top.
I think Rick tried to establish them as the Most Important Person to each other. I don't like that. This is more apparent in HoO. I'll come to hoo later, but there is one instance of this in tlo: Percy seeing Annabeth in the Styx. Like one of the posts I've linked above says, it's shippy nonsense. It comes from the idea that one's romantic partner must be the most important. It doesn't make sense. I think Percy should have seen his mother in the Styx. It would make sense for Sally to be Percy's anchor, considering how much she means to him.
In short, their enemies-to-friends evolution was great, their friends-to-lovers evolution started out fine but became too much for me, and their friends-to-Most-Important-Person-to-each-other evolution was unnecessary and forced.
Luke
Luke and Annabeth's romantic subplot didn't need to exist. This isn't exactly Percabeth, but I'll say it here anyway. First of all, there's a seven year age gap, so Luke returning Annabeth's feelings is creepy. And it seems pretty unnecessary to me. It's also a bit of a mess. In tlt Annabeth blushes when Luke is around, and Luke says 'She's like my little sister.' In tlo Luke asks Annabeth if she loved him, and she says 'You were like a brother to me.' This part feels like Rick trying to add last-moment tension to Percabeth by making Luke a potential 'rival' to Percy. In the Staff of Hermes Percy says Annabeth had a crush on Luke, and as she got older, Luke had a crush on her too. Just ... Why?
They and Thalia were each other's first friends. Annabeth looked up to Luke and Luke was fond of Annabeth. That is enough reason for Annabeth to be hurt and for Luke to care about Annabeth. That is enough to set up their post-betrayal dynamic. The romance thing was completely unnecessary.
Rachel
I absolutely hate the way Annabeth treated Rachel. If there is one thing I despise about romantic subplots, it's justifying bitchiness with romantic jealousy. I guess it's okay to feel a little jealous or even possessive, and I can kind of see where Annabeth was coming from, but treating someone like shit because of that, especially in the middle of dangerous quests, is not okay. It's petty and immature. (It could be argued that Annabeth was mad because Rachel got to lead her quest, but let's be honest, she wouldn't have been that mad if it were anyone else. She specifically treated Rachel like that out of jealousy.) It was never called out and Annabeth never seemed to regret it. This bothers me so much. Fanfiction is a good coping mechanism, I suppose, but I'm here to complain about canon, not cope with it.
Speaking of Rachel, Perachel could have been a good ship. A demigod looking for a normal life and a mortal with clear sight. This elaborates on that pretty well. At the end of tlo it really felt like Rick had to get Rachel out of the way to make way for Percabeth.
Annabeth seems to be too demanding
Annabeth's attitude towards Percy bothers me sometimes. She's a good character and has a strong dynamic with Percy, but she's a bit tiring with regards to Percy (in a romantic sense; she's fine as his friend). I mean look at this quote from tlo:
I can't pretend I hadn't thought about Rachel. She was so much easier to be around than ... Well, than some other girls I knew. I didn't have to work hard, or watch what I said, or wrack my brain trying to figure out what she was thinking.
Percy feeling that way about Annabeth - his best friend of four years - just doesn't sit well with me. Percy straight up admits he's more comfortable with Rachel than with Annabeth.
There's more: Annabeth punching Percy when he asked who he should dance with in ttc, the way she treated Rachel, the way she behaved towards Percy regarding Rachel in botl, judo flipping him in moa. It's pretty tiring in general. Now that I think of it, this wasn't a thing before the romance showed up. Their dynamic was better in the earlier books in general.
Also personally I'm not a fan of Annabeth constantly calling Percy Seaweed Brain. This and this nicely sum up how I feel about that. Annabeth making fun of Percy's intelligence even after getting to know him makes no sense, especially as he was insecure about his intelligence. (And yes, I know she thought he was intelligent, as she said in the Demigod Files, but that doesn't cancel out the million times she called him stupid to his face.)
They became too couple coded
I've seen people say that Percabeth is better as friends than as lovers, and honestly I agree, and I've done some thinking to figure out why. I think it's because of the way they were written after they became a couple. They could have been fine as a couple, if they were written differently.
They started out not being able to stand each other, then gradually, they went through a lot together, got to know each other, learned to work together, and became a team. That was a great evolution, like I said before.
And like I also said before, everything I dislike about Percabeth showed up with the romance. Annabeth became catty and possessive. They became a couple. And it was as if the friendship wasn't there anymore, just the romance. They became like a cliche unreasonable girlfriend and clueless boyfriend. This is especially obvious in the beginning of Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes. Where's the friendship? Where's the comfortable bantering? Where's the known-each-other-for-years soundness? Hoo Percabeth just doesn't live up to pjo Percabeth at all.
(Also this is a personal bias of mine, but I'm partially romance repulsed. I can't stand cheesy romantic coded stuff. I only like lovers if they're also friends. So I guess I'm kind of pissed about Percabeth becoming so couple coded after becoming a couple.)
Their HoO dynamic
This is a related point. Like I said, hoo Percabeth doesn't live up to pjo Percabeth. All they care about is each other. They literally don't think about anyone else at all. Percy loses his memory and he remembers Annabeth. Why? Does Hera ship Percabeth? If he remembered anyone, it should have been his mom, like in the Styx. The only reason Percy remembered Annabeth, i.e Annabeth was made out to be more important to Percy than everyone else (including Grover and Tyson and Sally 'best person in the world' Jackson) is that she was his romantic partner. Again, it's shippy nonsense.
And there's this reveal that Annabeth had a crush on Percy all along. Are you kidding me? It completely retcons the enemies-to-friends development. Are you telling me that the Percabeth evolution in pjo where they learned not to hate each other was a lie? That Annabeth gradually opening up to Percy and coming to appreciate him was her acting out of a crush? I'm not believing that, no way.
I'm probably not making any sense, but my point is that Percabeth in hoo in cheesy and can't go one day without each other and people love it but I don't. It kind of messes up their previous dynamic, which is a shame because I liked pre-hoo Percabeth.
Rick seems to go overboard sometimes
I'm about to get a little controversial here. Many of the Percabeth posts in those tumblr screenshots going around social media are about the campers shipping Percabeth, or Arachne making Percabeth fanart, things like that. My theory is that part of the reason Percabeth is so popular is that the characters ship it. And Rick kind of goes overboard with that - not just with the in-universe shipping, with the ship itself.
Prime examples of going overboard are Percy seeing Annabeth in the Styx and remembering Annabeth when Hera took his memory, which imply that Annabeth was objectively the Most Important Person to Percy. I've already ranted about these above so moving on to the part about the in-universe shipping. Like I said, I'm not a fan of the underwater kiss. It's because of the situation involved. The campers just won a war and lost their friends and siblings, Clarisse just lost Silena, you'd think they'd have other things to care about than Percy and Annabeth kissing, at least for one day. And why did Arachne make fanart of that? How did she even know? There was also the matter of moving to New Rome - them wanting to move halfway across country to live together, away from New York, doesn't really make sense to me. This post elaborates on that and suggests better alternatives.
Of course, the author has complete control over the narrative, and the author wants you to believe they are making sense. And when the characters believe that too, it becomes harder for readers not to. When all the campers ship Percabeth, it's enough to convince half the readers to ship it too. (And of course, the pjo fandom has an unhealthy thing with canon ships.)
It's pretty much kept up by the fans
While we're at it, let's talk about the out-of-universe shipping. The fandom has always shipped Percabeth, partly just because they are the male lead and female lead of a series. Percabeth was set up to happen, so when Rick introduced Rachel, who actually made Percy feel good about himself and let him be himself around her, and whom Percy was interested in, he had to get her out of the way. I'm not sure I can explain it, but the Percabeth ending in the first series feels very fan service-y to me.
Platonic Percabeth vs romantic Percabeth
I think everything I've said above just explains why Percabeth worked better as friends. The had a great friendship arc and became two friends who know each other inside out, butt heads a lot but love and respect each other deeply. And then when the romance happened, Annabeth began to show these romanticized but actually toxic girlfriend stereotypes - being jealous and possessive, expecting Percy to read her mind and getting pissed when he can't, etc.
The fandom thinks those traits are okay, because they are normalised in society. People think that's how couples should work (it's not). And so the reasons I don't like Percabeth are the same reasons many people do. The date in the beginning of Staff of Hermes makes me cringe, because they were friends first and friends don't work like that. But no doubt there are many people who find it cute because society loves to romanticise the unreasonable girlfriend and clueless boyfriend trope. There are plenty of people who romanticise Annabeth judo flipping Percy or treating Rachel like shit, because things like that are normalised but I personally can't stomach them at all.
Anyway, those toxic traits come with the Percabeth romance as a package deal and there's no getting rid of them. That's why Percy and Annabeth worked better as friends, and why I feel things would be better if they just stayed friends. There was none of that tiring crap pre-romance. I can't stress this enough, I really loved their friendship in tlt or som. But when their dynamic evolved to romance, it messed up their friendship. There was a specific moment in botl when Percabeth began to feel off for me.
'She will calm down,' Chiron promised. 'She's jealous, my boy.'
'That's stupid. She's not... it's not like...'
Chiron chuckled. 'It hardly matters. Annabeth is very territorial about her friends, in case you haven't noticed. ...'
I don't know why this moment specifically, but this kind of marked a change for me. This is where Percabeth became seriously romantic, and I didn't like the related developments. This was the beginning of Annabeth's jealousy.
So what would I prefer?
I'll be honest, I shipped Percabeth for a while, probably because I love some friends-to-lovers. So I was going to make a list of things I'd change about Percabeth. I wanted to make some self-indulgent UAs (universe alterations) to fix the things I don't like. But then I started writing this thing and read up on other posts and stuff and I realised the list of things that bother me is huge and I could never make Percabeth work for me without messing everything up. So I just gave up shipping it entirely.
What I would prefer is an AU where Percabeth stays platonic forever (@elf-loving-dragon has been encouraging that idea as well). They were great as friends and I want that back. It would be so refreshing to have the male lead and female lead not end up together. Annabeth could end up alone, and still get her something permanent with her friends and camp. It would be so beautiful if something completely romance-free was specifically stated as permanent, because friendships in media deserve as much love as romance.
As for Percy, he could end up either alone or with Rachel. I don't ship him with anyone else rn. While I have made it obvious that I like Perachel, I still don't know if I actually ship it, and the idea of Percy ending up alone is not too bad either. (Update: I stan platonic Percabeth and qpp Perachel now.)
I promise I'm done now. Whew. If you've made it to the end of this long repetitive introspection, congratulations. If you agree, feel free to tell me, and if you want to argue, go ahead, I wouldn't mind listening to others' opinions. If you read this and hate me because of this just keep that to yourself. I have no patience for people who attack those who don't agree with their ship. K thanks, bye.
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Slashers first time doing it with their s/o ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ?
I’ve been waiting for this ask lol thank u for stepping up anon, you’re braver than any US marine.
Sorry this took forever to get out, I just had a hard time organizing my thoughts about these stinky boys.
Brahms
Lots of really uncomfortable mask kisses. No, he’s not taking it off and yes, you are expected to smooch it. You get a lot of bruised, and possibly bloody, lips as a result. Way, way in the future, once he’s as certain about your loyalty as he can be, maybe he’ll take it off if you promise not to peek.
Let's be honest here - he busts outta that wall with his dick hard. He is the human embodiment of DTF, so the literal moment you’re ready for it, he’s already taking his pants off.
He thinks he knows what to do, but once there is a real chance at getting laid, his mind is blank. Probably just ends up sort of awkwardly humping you until you put a stop to it, but don’t laugh otherwise he’s going to have a tantrum like you’ve never seen before.
Anyone who tells you that he wouldn’t nut before the clothes even come off is lying. And he’s not super concerned with your lack of release, either, so you have to somehow get off before he does or wait for him to stop being a brat, neither of which are very likely.
Speaking of that, he’s going to make a mess and yes, you are expected to clean him up afterwards. No, he’s not getting out of bed to take a shower, it doesn’t matter if that would be easier.
Absolutely no technique. He grabs everything too hard, bites where he shouldn’t, and is overall just clueless about what to do and when. Way too eager, so he tends to just try and blow past foreplay completely.
He’s fine with you teaching him or showing him what to do, but don’t expect him to catch on to the parts that aren’t about him very quickly. The goal is for him to get what he wants, and if he’s feeling generous then you won’t be left hanging.
Eventually he’ll come around to the idea that pleasing a partner is just as much fun as being pleased. He’s still going to be selfish and bratty about it, and more often than not he’s still going to be the one who cums first, but he’ll quickly learn to enjoy it once he sees how desperate it makes you.
Unbelievably smug afterwards. Somehow very, very proud of himself and the ego boost is just insufferable. On the upside, you’ve got a few days with him as well behaved as he’s ever going to get, so enjoy the calm while you can.
You’re not going to have a second alone though, because he’s going to be feeling that clingy, cuddly afterglow for a while. Wants lots of affection and attention, so you’d better be ready to drop everything and coo over him on command.
Michael
He’s got the general idea down, but not really any of the details. He’s not about to let you sit him down and teach him though, he’s just going to do what he wants. He may not understand exactly how it works, but he’s not going to take it slow either.
You can try and direct him, but he’s just going to ignore you. He’s pretty much ready to get right to it straight away, and he doesn’t take suggestions. There’s no romance or affection to it when he approaches you.
The mask stays on. He’s probably never going to be comfortable taking it off during something so intimate, maybe pulling it up just enough so he can bite. He won’t go in for a kiss on his own, but he won’t complain if you kiss him, just so long as you realize that the mask is going to be more involved in it than he is.
Way, way too rough. He digs his nails into you everywhere he squeezes and he’s got no idea how to be gentle with someone else. He doesn’t pin your wrists, but rather holds you to the bed by your hair, so you can still squirm around without being able to go anywhere.
If you’ve got a dick of your own there is a special danger that comes with this experience - he’s masturbated before and it’s not a slow, gentle process when he does it. The first time he gets his hands on you, his grip is bruisingly firm and not at all pleasurable.
He’s very physically dominant and he’s going to pretty much do what he wants, putting you where he wants you and deciding what’s going to happen. His goal the first time is simple, so he’s not going to try out anything too complicated.
There’s a lot of build up and expectations going into it, mostly on your side, but it’s over quicker than you had anticipated. To be fair, it’s likely his first time with another person involved, and he isn’t entirely comfortable being around people, or you, yet.
He’s probably not going to stick around for cuddles afterwards. If he doesn’t just get up and leave, you can get away with curling up against his side, maybe putting an arm or leg over him, but don’t expect him to stay there for long.
Prepare to be woken up in the middle of the night, because he isn’t going to wait until morning for round two. After the first few times he’s more open to suggestions, but you’re going to have to outright ask for anything you want, there’s no room to be shy about it when he probably has no idea what you’re subtly hinting at.
It might not be noticeable to you, but he’s much more possessive afterwards, following you around and keeping a closer eye on the people you spend time with. This is the point of no return, and after this you pretty much straight out belong to him in his mind.
Bubba
He’s got a little bit of an idea about what’s expected of him, but it’s vague and only what he’s picked up from being on the farm and hearing his brothers talk. He’s seen the animals in the pastures, so that’s about his only reference for how sex works.
He falls in love pretty quick and he’s ready for sex just as quickly. He might not really know what he wants exactly, but if you happen to ever share a bed at some point, it’s pretty easy to figure out for yourself.
You can set the pace, because he doesn’t really have any idea on how to start things, and he wouldn’t want to push you anyways. He isn’t going to pick up on anything subtle though, so you’ve pretty much got to just come out and say it.
Later on down the line, you can maybe talk him into removing the mask when you’re alone, but he’s not comfortable with it just yet. He’s happy to switch to whichever face you like the best, though.
You’re going to have to guide him through everything, but so long as you provide a lot of praise, he’s happy to let you take charge. It’s a big relief to have you making the decisions with this, because he would just be a worried mess otherwise.
He’s very, very eager and that makes him more than a little clumsy even though he’s trying so hard to be gentle. It’s more awkward than painful, but as long as you gently correct him, he’ll figure it out.
He wants you to tell him what to do, but that doesn’t mean he’s completely submissive about it. He’ll still pick you up and hold you down if he’s on top, or use his size to keep you still when you start squirming.
It’s going to take a few tries before you actually get to penetrative sex, because he is a big fan of foreplay. He likes being the one to make you feel good and having you call out for him, so he’ll spend the whole time focusing on you if you let him.
He will stay in bed for cuddles as long as he can, but you both probably have work to get back to. If there’s time, he wants a snack because all that work has made him hungry.
Good luck handling him after, because anything as simple as prolonged eye contact is going to get him going. Now that you’ve shown him what to do, he’s going to be more confident seeking you out.
Thomas
He’s rather shy when it comes to affection or romantic things in general, but that does not extend to this. You might think you’re safe to tease him and then act innocent, but that’s probably what pushes him over the edge. He might be a little hesitant to start with, but once you get him riled up any nervousness goes away real fast.
The family never really thought he’d find anyone in the first place, so there’s not much education when it comes to this. He’s heard the men talk and picked some things up from that, and once you come around they go into overdrive catching him up on what he ‘needs to know’, but he’s given a lot of information all at once about things he’s never heard about before. Please take a moment to explain that anything that Hoyt has ever told him about this subject should not be trusted.
This is a no smooching zone, but feel free to put your lips anywhere other than his face. As he gets more comfortable, small kisses will be allowed, but never without the mask on.
He’s not used to having to be gentle with people, so even though he doesn’t mean to, he’s more than a little rough. Even if you happen to like being manhandled, you’ve got to be careful that he doesn’t go too far, and there will most likely be some bruises at the least.
Probably going to happen in the basement, because although he doesn’t really know enough to be shy about it, that’s just where he’s most comfortable. In the future you will have to try and get him to understand that, no, he cannot just bend you over the nearest piece of furniture whenever he feels like it.
You need to slow him down unless you just wanna skip straight to the main event, because he has no idea what foreplay is at all. He’s not going to want to slow it down either, so he’ll be eager to hurry up and get to it.
He’ll do whatever you tell him you want, but if you don’t speak up, he’s just going on instinct. He’s impatient when you stop to explain things to him, he’d rather just figure it out as he goes.
Falls asleep almost immediately afterwards, and good luck getting out of bed when he’s holding you down. Everyone else has a pretty decent idea of what’s going down, so you have to endure a lot of raised eyebrows and vulgar jokes, as well as some not so subtle encouragement to get started on grandbabies.
He has a pretty loose concept of marriage, but this definitely counts as something similar in his mind. He was territorial before, but he’s much more possessive afterwards.
He’s a little bossier afterwards, stepping in more to help you around the house and keeping a closer eye on you in general. You’re his now, and that means he’s responsible for you.
Jason
You might think that you’ll have a lot of issues about sex to help him get over, but good news! He’s already got a loophole - Jason is a good boy, and good boys get to do whatever they want. He’s special, so it’s not bad when he does it.
Despite catching more than a few people going at it, he’s got no idea what to do. Besides the lack of knowledge, you’ve also got to get that strength under control because he can get carried away really quickly when he’s excited.
He’s not shy about it at all, and is open to whatever you want to try with him. There’s no hesitation when you want him to get undressed, and he’s more than eager to get your clothes off as well.
Absolutely wants the first time to be with you sitting on his lap. Even if he didn’t make that preference known, it was probably going to happen that way regardless, because it’s where you are most of the time anyways.
Big boy is big, and you’re going to feel like you deserve a medal once you’re fully seated. There’s got to be some kind of award for perseverance that you qualify for now.
Kisses are a must. He’ll take the mask off, or leave it on depending on what you prefer, but one way or another, he's getting his mouth on you.
You’re going to have to teach him pretty much everything, but he catches on easily and is quick to let you know what he likes the best.
He really tries to be gentle with you, but he can’t always stop himself from getting rough. He tends to move you around himself if you’re not where he wants you, picking you up and tossing you around.
You’re getting cuddles, whether you actually want them or not. Maybe you’re sweaty and dirty, but you’re not getting out of his arms until he’s satisfied that you’ve been properly snuggled for as long as he can get away with.
He was always physically affectionate, but it goes through the roof now. You’re constantly being followed, one hand in his, as you go around the house, and frequent stops for kisses are required.
#Slashers#michael myers#bubba sawyer#thomas hewitt#brahms heelshire#jason voorhees#slasher x reader#anonymous#wow this took so long#but its like i knew what i wanted to write#and then the words just... didnt happen lol#and vincents not here cause this was from before i added him#but i think im gonna go back and add him to some asks#maybe just put it on ao3 instead of edited everything here
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Goro Akechi Confidant - Rank 8 (ENG.)
breathes heavily in “enemy lovers romance dynamic appreciation” glee
y’all i’m not fucking kidding when i say this is a the love confession rank. i am NOT.
Note: I unfortunately lost my notes where I translated some of the alternate answers at the end of this scene. If anyone has the script or screenshots of those answers, please send them to me!
Goro’s Text: Are you free? I have something important to tell you.
Ren’s Text: I’m on my way.
Goro’s Text: Thank you. I’ll wait for you in Kichijoji.
If you do not answer his text and go to Kichijoji:
Goro: Good evening, Ren. I was waiting for you. There’s something I’d like to discuss with you, if you have the time? I’d prefer it if we went to a place without other people. How about Mementos? We don’t want anyone to disturb us.
(Ren travels to Kichijoji)
Goro: I’m all prepared... All I can do is wait for the day we send the calling card (lit., “wait for the notice day.”).
Goro: Hah... why is my heart pounding like this? That’s unusual for a detective...
Goro: I have something to tell you. Do you have time to talk? I’d prefer if we go to a place without other people... How about Mementos? ... We don’t want anyone to disturb us.
Mona: You two will go to Mementos alone? ... Well, it should be all right since you two can take care of yourselves... I’m not sure what’s going on here, but be ready for anything.
Ren: Let’s go.
Goro: Then let’s go to Shibuya.
(Screen fades to black. Fades back in, Ren and Goro are in Mementos alone.)
Goro: This spot should do just fine.
Ren:
Answer #1: What did you want to say? (lit., Speak.)
Answer #2: Why did we come to Mementos? (lit., Why to Mementos?)
Goro: For this.
(Goro turns around, takes out a gun. He’s holding it in his left hand.)
Goro: Don’t you remember what I said? If you beat me when I use my right hand, then I’ll become your true opponent.
Note: The word he uses for opponent is literally the same word for “companion/partner”--相手。See what I mean when I said love confession and that these two are all about layered meanings?
Ren:
Answer #1: You mean in billiards?
Answer #2: So you want a fight?
Answer #3: What’s the point of this?
Goro: I truly do regret this... But it is your fault. (lit., absolutely insufficient/regrettable.)
Goro: You saw through me when I switched hands, you're quick and resourceful (lit., quick-wit/perceptive/clever), and above all, you can adapt and change (lit., growth potential)... You exceeded all of my expectations. And so I’ve decided: I want to have a true competition with you. (lit., I want to compete with you for real/true.)
Ren:
Answer #1: I understand.
Answer #2: Let’s go.
(Note: The verb he uses here is the same way he responded to almost all of Goro’s previous texts to go out (付き合う). The implication is that they’re truly going to “see/meet/go somewhere” with each other. And again, this is the same verb that, depending on the context, you can use to say you’re dating/going steady with someone).
Goro: Thank you for indulging me. Don’t hold anything back.
Goro: Let’s begin!
Note: He actually yells 来い! here, which, if you know your animu or Yakuza games, basically is a command to “come [over here]”. I could not for the life of me think of either a non snooty or a non ridiculous way to say it in English (”HAVE AT YOU” or “COME AT ME, BRO”) so I had to adjust it a little. Also, here’s the cut in for y’all to enjoy:
(Boss battle begins.)
Goro: You can’t beat me if you don’t intend to kill me.
Goro: Don’t hold back; show me how serious you are.
(The fight progresses. When you do enough damage, Goro says:)
Goro: Ah yes--this is fun! (lit., How nice, interesting)
(When you get Goro’s health low enough to win the fight, he says:)
Goro: Hahaha! This is better than I expected!
(The fight ends.)
Goro: ... As one should expect from the leader of the Phantom Thieves... Have you truly surpassed me already?
Ren:
Answer #1: Do you want to stop here? (lit., Take a break?)
Answer #2: Is it that serious?
Answer #3: Does that still bother you?
Goro’s Answer to #1: Never. But if we take it any further, we might do something we regret... (lit., hold nothing back).
Goro: I want to keep going, but we still have an important mission to complete. And until then, you and I are true partners.
Note: He uses the words 大切な仲間, which when broken down means “important, beloved, dear, cherished, etc.” “colleague, partner.” Another alternate translation might be “you are an important part of my life.” I tried to go with the one that’s more subtle and layered, as that’s how Goro always talks to Ren.
Goro: ... We’ve done what we came to do. Let’s go back.
(Screen fades out. Screen fades back, and they’re standing outside in Shibuya, near one of the stairs leading to the subway.)
Goro: Once again, I understand more about you. (lit., I knew you today too.) As your teammate fighting at your side, I find your strength truly inspiring. To tell you the truth, I find myself even relying on it.
Ren:
Answer #1: I feel the same way.
Answer #2: I rely on you too.
Goro: Is that so? That makes me happy.
Goro: Sorry I dragged you out with me today. I’m feeling a little better now.
(I feel like my relationship with Akechi has gotten deeper...)
Goro: ... By the way, about the fight we just had. Do you think you would have won if we continued to the very end?
Note: “the end” as in, if we fought to the death.
Ren:
Answer #1: I wouldn’t lose.
Answer #2: I don’t know.
Answer #3: Maybe.
Goro’s Answer to #1: You would say that.
Goro: To be honest, I hate you.
Goro: The way you’ve stayed true despite everything, the way you work to surpass me, all the ways you’re nothing like me...everything about you is infuriating. If there’s one person I never want to lose to, it’s you.
Ren:
Answer #1: I feel the same way about you. (Note: Another ambiguous line. This can be translated as “we are like each other”, “we like each other,” or “we feel the same way.”)
Answer #2: I hate losing.
Goro’s Answer to #1: You really...? ... Well... that’s...
Goro: I accept that you were the winner, but next time, the victory will be mine. (lit., I will give you the win today, but next time I will win.)
Goro: ... And this is the proof of that.
(Goro takes the glove off his right hand, pulling on each finger, and throws it at Ren.)
(... It’s the glove Akechi usually wears.)
Goro: In the West, it is customary to challenge someone to a duel by throwing down your glove. If the opponent accepts the glove, then they agree to the duel.
Ren:
Answer #1: I accept.
Answer #2: I’ll have to think about it.
Goro’s Answer to #1: Don’t ever forget this: I will always be the one to beat you.
(Note: Alternate translation: “It is this me who will defeat you.”
Please note that he threw his right hand glove at Ren, instead of his “true” hand. Meaning that the “false” him will win, or that the one who will betray and kill Ren is not the real him [as in, once again he doesn’t want to kill Ren in order to win against him. This also means that since it’s not a “true” victory, Goro intends to have another competition against Ren in the future--basically promising that he will go for a rematch, which is what the glove represents. The ending of P5R confirms that it’s proof of their promise to each other.)
Goro: I think it’s best if we end it here for today.
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So. The whole “dominant/true hand” thing here is obviously symbolic of both a card game and hidden truths. The card game stuff fits with P5′s penultimate boss theme (”Last ace in a lost hand”), as well as Sae’s Palace, the Casino, being the place where the betrayal happens. It also ties into one of the overarching themes of Goro and Ren’s Confidant, which is what they have between them is like a game (a meta choice on the devs’ part, as they are literally in a game).
Right from the start, Ren knew that Goro wasn’t showing a true side/his “true” hand, and the game showed this as Ren noticing the smallest details about Goro from the moment they met. This did not escape Goro’s attention, which is why he gets so fixated on the whole “dominant hand” issue as well as how perceptive Ren is. This is also why he panics and gets frustrated with how much he shares with Ren. Ren already sees so much, and Goro can’t seem to help himself and reveals so much of himself whether he intends to or not.
So basically both boys knew the other one had a secret that they were not telling each other (playing in their “off hands” so to speak). “Dominant/true hand” here can also be symbolic just in a narrative sense for who has the upper-hand.
This is why this Rank goes the way it does. In this Rank, Goro pulls a gun on Ren and tells him that now, because of Ren, he is Ren’s true opponent. Which, yes, he is. But the wordplay with “opponent/partner” cannot be overlooked because it was deliberate. Because again, Goro and Ren and their relationship is never just one thing. So it being Ren’s “fault” is like... Yeah thanks you to I wanna fight you. Replace “fight” with the romantic or saucier word of your choosing.
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Hi! Can I maybe interest you in the valentines A-Z for our fav radio man George Luz? 🤗
babe you BET you can, i’m always interested in george luz
valentines day alphabet ( accepting! )
A : AFFECTION. how does your muse show affection?
George is... well, to put it simply, he’s a cuddler. He’s a very tactile person, without even thinking about it; casual touches, like squeezing a shoulder or clapping someone’s back comes easily to them, and is a simple way to express his affection. When he really cares for someone, he can get a bit needy --- he needs that same level of physical intimacy and affection. He’s very eager to hold the person he loves, to pull them close and feel their body against his, their heartbeat and breaths matching his own --- but nothing makes him feel better than getting that back.
B : BOUQUET. does your muse like flowers? which ones are their favourite?
Honestly? Not a fan. Like, he’ll get his Mama a bouquet for Mother’s Day, but George is more likely to rock up with a gift or giant stuffed animal than a bouquet. There’s something about them... he doesn’t like having to watch flowers wilt and die. It just unsettles him.
C : CHOCOLATE. does your muse like chocolate? which one is their favourite?
He’s not weird about it. Yeah, he likes chocolate, but he won’t go feral over it unlike some Liebgotts out there
D : DATE. what is your muse’s ideal date? where / who with / etc?
He’s the sort of guy who has to be kept entertained; his ideal date is definitely an amusement park or a drive-in theatre (beware, he’s definitely seen the movie before and will keep up a running commentary through it). Carnivals? Oh, heck yes, count him in. Fireworks show? Please. Give George a fun and colorful setting, the opportunity to show off a bit, and a fun partner who can keep up with him... that’s the perfect date.
E : EMBRACE. does your muse like hugs? what are their hugs like?
Yes, he loves hugs! He thrives on hugs! Again, George is fueled by physical intimacy. His hugs are very steady, very earnest, and sometimes cling a bit too much... but whenever he lets go, there’s sincere emotion on his face, and anyone can see how much he means it.
F : FLIRT. is your muse good at flirting? how do they flirt?
Oh yeah, he’s definitely a flirt, but it’s not something he can help! He’s just... got one of those faces, okay? That smirk alone flirts without trying. When George is actually trying, he’s definitely able to keep the mood of the party light; if he’s drawn to someone, he’ll joke around with them, but if they seem to respond in kind, then the flirting begins in earnest. He won’t throw himself down on the table in front of them... but winks, smirks, casual touches? It’s all there, baby.
G : GIFT. is your muse good at gift - giving or do they struggle to get it right?
Gift giving is an art, and George Luz has honed it. He just... remembers things about people. Innocuous things, small comments, major life events, he remembers all of it, and keeps it stored away for a later date. He’s given his fair share of joke gifts, but when he gives something with sincerity in mind, it’s always somehow the perfect thing. George gives people gifts they didn’t even realize they needed.
H : HEART. is your muse quick or slow to give their heart away?
Honestly, he’s quicker than he should be, and he knows it. George... wants to be loved. He needs attention and affection like he needs air. So when he falls for someone, he definitely falls hard, and there’s no way to really stop that trajectory. A part of him doesn’t trust himself, because he knows that’s a great way to get his heart broken.
I : I LOVE YOU. does your muse find ‘i love you’ easy or hard to say?
He definitely thinks it way before he actual says it. George Luz, keeping a thought to himself? Inconceivable! But the fact is, George is shy about saying it... because he’s scared he might not hear it back. His partner would have to say it first... and from that moment on, there’s no stopping him. George loves saying “I love you”. He tosses it out at random times, in casual and meaningful moments alike, just to hammer the point home --- saying it often doesn’t make it any less true.
J : JEALOUSY. does your muse get jealous in a relationship?
He... can get a little insecure at times, so yeah, if he sees someone else flirting with his partner, he won’t like it, and will definitely try to break it up ASAP. Not with fists --- a little charm and a well-placed wisecrack can work wonders.
K : KISS. is your muse a good kisser? why / why not?
Oh gosh, yes. George is... the sort of kisser you wake up in a cold sweat about. He knows what he’s doing, and this is something he’s actually really confident about: George Luz is a damn great kisser. This is the one time he actually shuts his mouth, and puts it to work instead. Just the right amount of tongue, and touch, and teeth... while he’s definitely a bit of a tease, George knows what he’s doing, and exactly how to get his partner’s heart pounding. His biggest flaw is his habit of grinning during kisses, which... ends with bashing teeth together usually, not a fun time. Then he’ll start laughing, the mood is broken, and he’s gotta take a moment.
L : LOVE. who does your muse love?
His entire family --- and George has a massive family. All his friends --- and he has so many friends, seriously. The funny clerk at the grocery store who always gives him a discount; the nice old ladies down at the bingo club who talk about their grandkids a lot; the neighbor whose leaky roof he fixed who couldn’t actually pay him, but gave him an entire pie. George has so much love to give, it sometimes physically hurts.
M : MOONLIGHT. is morning or night a more romantic setting?
Morning George has bedhead, and Nighttime George has at least had a chance to run a comb through it, so he’s more confident in his ability to impress at night.
N : NAUGHTY. what is your muse like in bed?
“Naughty” is a good word for it. George is a tease; he likes to have fun, and does not want sex to be an intimidating experience for anyone. He’ll be the first one to admit that he messes around too much, but it’s just to cover up the insecurities he feels deep down (and also, when he’s nervous he sometimes doesn’t know how to Turn It Off). He’s a talker during sex. If he’s not making an inappropriately-timed joke, compliments are probably spilling from his mouth, like he’s not even sure what he’s saying. You have to actively work to shut him up... and even then, he’s still pretty loud. He’ll definitely be able to make his partner laugh, but when he gets to teasing, he can be absolutely unbearable. If the other person takes control --- which, holy shit, drives George absolutely wild --- it’s super easy to get under George’s skin, because he’s sensitive in a lot of places. When he goes over the edge, he goes over the edge hard... it takes a while for him to recover, and sometimes he’s left dizzy for a few minutes. Aftercare is very important, and another thing he absolutely loves.
O : ODE. does your muse have a way with words?
He’s got a smart mouth and the inability to shut up. That’s almost the same thing.
P : PARTNER. what does your muse look for in a partner? looks / personality?
Personality, absolutely. Whoever George falls for has to be able to snare him. He needs a little excitement, someone to keep him on his toes --- definitely someone with a great laugh. If they can make him laugh too, that’s a bonus; he’d love someone with a smart mouth. And kindness is super important --- he definitely wants someone who’ll go out of their way to help others out, even if it puts them at a disadvantage. (He has a thing for green or brown eyes, they just get him. Curly hair? Excellent, fun to run his fingers through. But he is... genuinely not picky whatsoever.)
Q : QUESTION. would your muse ask the big question or expect their partner to?
Oh, he wants to do it. Absolutely. He’s got a plan and everything. Multiple plans. Many of them are elaborate and involve pyrotechnics with the strong potential for disaster, but... eh, it’ll probably be fine. If no one dies during the proposal, it’s a great omen for the relationship!
R : ROMANCE. is your muse a romantic or a cynic?
He thinks of himself as... a practical romantic. Like, he’s not all butterflies and Disney ballads, but there’s a very strong streak in him that’s eager to be loved and have someone to dote on in return. When George is falling in love, he’s all about seizing romantic, spontaneous moments when they arise --- any way possible for him to show it.
S : SWEETHEART. did your muse have a childhood sweetheart?
He didn’t slow down long enough, to be honest. Lil Georgie was an energy ball. I could see him having some crushes on a few other kids, especially as he grew a bit older and middle school hormones happened, but he was no Baby Romeo.
T : TRUE LOVE. does your muse believe in true love?
He... believes in love. True love isn’t something he’s ever really thought about, because the idea’s always seemed kind of silly to him, like something out of a kid’s story. Love is love.
U : UNREQUITED. has your muse had their heart broken?
He’s been rejected plenty of times, but nothing’s ever truly shattered him. George bounces back quickly.
V : VALENTINE. how does your muse feel about valentine’s day?
“Stupid. Commercial garbage. Not even a holiday, why do we need it? Anyways, I booked us a dinner at eight at that restaurant you love, and don’t look under your pillow ‘cause there’s definitely not chocolate there ---”
W : WEDDING. would your muse get married? why / why not?
It’s not, like... the be-all-end-all of his happiness, and if his partner didn’t want to, he’d be cool with that. Yeah, he’d personally really like to get married and start a family, but... more than anything, he wants someone who’ll stay. You don’t absolutely need a ring for that.
X : XOXO. does your muse use / like pet names?
He will absolutely make up goofy pet names for his loved ones to tease them, and likes to get creative with them. Nicknames come easy to George, and are always affectionate --- he jokes that he’s got so many nieces and nephews that no way can he remember all their names, but he’s got a nickname for each one and remembers those without even trying.
Y : YOURS. does your muse get protective easily?
He can be, if he feels like a person he cares about is being threatened! If George sees a loved one in a tight spot, he’d going to jump in real quick. He won’t get immediately confrontational, that’s not his style... but he’ll be there, at their backs, ready to step in if needed. His go-to move is an arm around his loved one’s shoulders, with a grin and a too-cheerful “we got a problem here?”
Z : ZZZ. how many people has your muse slept with?
Like... he’s no nymphomaniac, but if he can, he will. Consent is very important to him, and he’s very in tune with his partner’s feelings, so he’ll only do it if both parties are firmly on board... but if someone’s interested in him, and he’s in the mood? Sign him up and pin him down.
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THE MEGA RP PLOTTING SHEET / MEME.
First and foremost, recall that no one is perfect, we all had witnessed some plotting once which did not went too well, be it because of us or our partner. So here have this, which may help for future plotting. It’s a lot! Yes, but perhaps give your partners some insight? Anyway BOLD what fully applies, italicize if only somewhat. Long post!
MUN NAME: Pie AGE: +25 CONTACT: IM, Ask, Discord (mutuals only, by request)
CHARACTER(S): Cullen
CURRENT FANDOM(S): Dragon Age
FANDOM(S) YOU HAVE AN AU FOR: I have a modern verse for everything not Dragon Age, but I might add some actual alt verses for other fandoms
MY LANGUAGE(S): English (native), Spanish (intermediate), Korean (baby lol beginner), bits and bobs of other languages (namely French and French Patois)
THEMES I’M INTERESTED IN FOR RP: FANTASY / SCIENCE FICTION / HORROR / WESTERN / ROMANCE / THRILLER / MYSTERY / DYSTOPIA / ADVENTURE / MODERN / EROTIC / CRIME / MYTHOLOGY / CLASSIC / HISTORY / RENAISSANCE / MEDIEVAL / ANCIENT / WAR / FAMILY / POLITICS / RELIGION / SCHOOL / ADULTHOOD / CHILDHOOD / APOCALYPTIC / GODS / SPORT / MUSIC / SCIENCE / FIGHTS / ANGST / SMUT / DRAMA / ETC. (I started this and realised I’d be bolding almost everything, so: EVERYTHING)
PREFERRED THREAD LENGTH: ONE-LINER / 1 PARA / 2 PARA / 3+ PARA / NOVELLA. / ALL
ASKS CAN BE SEND BY: MUTUALS / NON-MUTUALS / PERSONALS / ANONS.
CAN ASKS BE CONTINUED?: YES / NO / OCCASIONALLY - only by Mutuals?: YES / NO
PREFERRED THREAD TYPE: CRACK / CASUAL / SERIOUS / DEEP AS HECK. / ALL
IS REALISM / RESEARCH IMPORTANT FOR YOU IN CERTAIN THEMES?: YES / NO.
ARE YOU ATM OPEN FOR NEW PLOTS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. (after my paper is submitted, yeah sure)
DO YOU HANDLE YOUR DRAFT / ASK - COUNT WELL?: YES / NO / SOMEWHAT. (irl makes coping difficult sometimes)
HOW LONG DO YOU USUALLY TAKE TO REPLY?: 24H / 1 WEEK / 2 WEEKS / 3+ WEEKS / MONTHS / YEARS. / DEPENDS ON MOOD AND INSPIRATION, AND IF I’M BUSY
I’M OKAY INTERACTING WITH: ORIGINAL CHARACTERS / A RELATIVE OF MY CHARACTER (AN OC) / DUPLICATES / CROSSOVERS / MULTI-MUSES / SELF-INSERTS / PEOPLE WITH NO AU VERSE FOR MY FANDOM / CANON-DIVERGENT PORTRAYALS / AU-VERSIONS.
DO YOU POST MORE IC OR OOC?: IC / OOC. (I strive for more IC over OOC, but my queue does a lot of work too)
ARE YOU SELECTIVE WITH FOLLOWING OTHERS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
BEST WAYS TO APPROACH YOU FOR RP/PLOTTING: Talk with me over IM, asks, or Disco. I’m down for almost anything as long as I see it’s feasible.
WHAT EXPECTATIONS DO YOU HOLD TOWARDS YOUR PLOTTING PARTNER: Transparency. If you have an idea, let me know! If you’re stuck, let me know! If you want to start something new or scrap something or whatever...LET ME KNOW! I promise I don’t bite and I understand.
WHEN YOU NOTICE THE PLOTTING IS RATHER ONE-SIDED, WHAT DO YOU DO?: I’m not very good with coming up with plots myself, so I’m typically the weak link when it comes to that. Sorry! But you bet I’ll pull up a plot generator and start throwing things down to see what sticks haha.
HOW DO YOU USUALLY PLOT WITH OTHERS, DO YOU GIVE INPUT OR LEAVE MOST WORK TOWARDS YOUR PARTNER?: I’m all about equal opportunity, so I try not to leave the plotting work to my partner. Let’s negotiate and find something that makes both of us happy. That’s the point after all.
WHEN A PARTNER DROPS THE THREAD, DO YOU WISH TO KNOW?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - AND WHY?: If you want to drop a thread, I’m completely fine with it. I want to know so that I don’t end up replying to something you have no interest in anymore. Saves both of us the time.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY LEAD YOU TO DROP A THREAD?: If drafts eat it (as they are wont to do these days) or if I feel it has reached a natural conclusion. I rarely, if ever, drop a thread in the middle. I’ll just let you know I’m going to finish it on my side and allow you a chance to finish on yours if you’d like.
WILL YOU TELL YOUR PARTNER?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
IS COMMUNICATION IN THE RPC IMPORTANT TO YOU? YES / NO.
- AND WHY?: You don’t need to chat with me every minute of every day, but I like knowing the people I’m writing with. Discerning your personality and your approach to your muse gives me a much stronger understanding of how to write with you, and what vibes between us. Plus, it’s easier to remember different people’s boundaries if I talk with them a lot, too.
ARE YOU OKAY WITH ABSOLUTE HONESTY, EVEN IF IT MAY MEANS HEARING SOMETHING NEGATIVE ABOUT YOU AND/OR PORTRAYAL?: I am all for constructive criticism. Even if you think it’s nitpicky, it’s going to be a great help. Good crit allows us grow as writers and as people in general. However, I am not for baseless accusations, childish name-calling, or outright insults under the name of “constructive crit”. Remember the “constructive” part: we need to build each other up.
DO YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE SUCH SITUATION IN A MATURE WAY? YES / NO.
WHY DO YOU RP AGAIN, IS THERE A GOAL?: I love a good story. While I don’t agree with everything Cullen does (and no one should, for anyone real or imagined), his story is intriguing. He’s a deeply flawed, deeply broken man. I love to take on a character, toss them in every situation I can think of, and watch them evolve and grow.
WISHLIST, BE IT PLOTS OR SCENARIOS: A real redemption arc, for one. A realistic struggle with substance abuse and recovery. A future of happiness.
THEMES I WON’T EVER RP / EXPLORE: Rape or sexual assault, unless being spoken about as a past event (as I truly believe that Cullen was sexually assaulted at Kinloch along with the other psychological and physical torture he endured). In-game racism is baked in, unfortunately, but it’s not something I seek out to roleplay as a PoC myself. Finally, while I play Cullen as canon-straight, I will not play out homophobia and most definitely not transphobia. If he rejects your muse for hitting on him, it’s not because he’s being homophobic: he’s just not interested. That also doesn’t mean he’ll never be interested; people can and do change, and I ship chemistry overall. He doesn’t hate your muse for their gender, orientation, or sexual preferences. I feel like I really have to spell this out for people who don’t understand. If you feel personally insulted by this somehow, feel free to address me directly, off anon. It’s probably an issue of fuzzy wording that I’m 500% willing to fix and talk about.
WHAT TYPE OF STARTERS DO YOU PREFER / DISLIKE, CAN’T WORK WITH?: I love starters that set the scene and provide plenty to work with, be it in terms of interacting with the environment or with the other person. If your muse shows immediate disinterest in communicating (and I don’t mean argumentative, which is perfectly fine), I am not going to respond. I might politely ask for more if I feel like it’s a salvageable interaction.
WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERS CATCH YOUR INTEREST THE MOST?: Stoic soldier types, bubbly short girls, and semi-mad scientists.
WHAT TYPE OF CHARACTERS CATCH YOUR INTEREST THE LEAST?: Characters that come across as Mary-Sue / Gary-Stu types. No flaws and barely any room to grow.
WHAT ARE YOUR STRONG ASPECTS AS RP PARTNER?: I'm very easy-going and I have an unearthly level of tolerance for almost everything. I try to provide partners with as much to work with as possible IC, and will pretty much support your very existence OOC. I believe in open communication so you’ll know what’s going on with me and/or our threads. Also, I typically reply within a week or two. Currently I’m tethered to finishing a big paper so I’m not a good example of that right now.
WHAT ARE YOUR WEAK ASPECTS AS RP PARTNER?: I can get overwhelmed by too much which slows my pace down considerably. I’m also a bit distant and do shut down on occasion; that’s usually no fault of my partners, though. Just my brain being a dick.
DO YOU RP SMUT?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. (the closer we are OOC, the easier getting here will be)
DO YOU PREFER TO GO INTO DETAIL?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. (it’s not going to be XXX but it will be descriptive)
ARE YOU OKAY WITH BLACK CURTAIN, FADE TO BLACK?: YES / NO.
WHEN DO YOU RP SMUT? MORE OUT OF FUN OR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT?: I prefer to write smut for character development and to mark a progression in a relationship. Plus Cullen is not a “one and done” guy so getting to the smut stage will take a bit of build-up.
ANYTHING YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO RP THERE?: Hmmm things that he personally wouldn’t go for I guess? Honestly I don’t know. And obviously, no rape/animal abuse/predator nonsense.
ARE SHIPS IMPORTANT TO YOU?: YES / NO
Ships are a great way to further explore a character and their motivations. People do not exist in pure isolation, so I don’t believe characters should, either.
WOULD YOU SAY YOUR BLOG IS SHIP-FOCUSED?: YES / NO.
I bolded both because the focus of the blog isn’t ships, but this thirst trap guy is really easy to ship with other people I tell ya hwat. I am severely picky with romantic ships for Reasons, but I don’t eschew any other types of ships. I encourage them!
DO YOU USE READ MORE?: YES / NO / SOMETIMES WHEN I WRITE LONG STUFF.
ARE YOU: MULTI-SHIP / SINGLE-SHIP / DUAL-SHIP — MULTIVERSE / SINGLEVERSE.
WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO EXPLORE THE MOST IN YOUR SHIPS?: Characters who challenge Cullen into revising his point of view and force him to be a better person. Also, characters who understand his past and they are in no ways obligated to forgive it, but do recognise that he’s struggling very hard to mend whatever mistakes he can and is willing to pay the price for his decisions.
ARE YOU OKAY WITH PRE-ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIPS?: YES / NO / DEPENDS. - Be a good salesperson and I might buy it.
► SECTION ABOUT YOUR MUSE.
- WHAT COULD POSSIBLY MAKE YOUR MUSE INTERESTING TOWARDS OTHERS, WHY SHOULD THEY RP WITH THIS PARTICULAR CHARACTER OF YOURS NOW, WHAT POSSIBLE PLOTS DO THEY OFFER?: Cullen is a massive stick in the mud, which means it’s incredibly easy to taunt him and get him flustered all at the same time. He’s loyal, he’s intelligent, and he’s largely self-aware. He likes swords and using them. Anything your character hates about him, he most likely hates about himself 100 times more.
WITH WHAT TYPE OF MUSES DO YOU USUALLY STRUGGLE TO RP WITH?: Those from the start that show absolutely no interest in speaking with/interacting with him. Mun and muse are going to struggle to stick around. I’m not going to fight for attention and neither is he.
WHAT DO THEY DESIRE, WHAT IS THEIR GOAL?: Redemption. He wants to be a better person and make up for the past as much as he can.
WHAT CATCHES THEIR INTEREST FIRST WHEN MEETING SOMEONE NEW?: He can sniff out a fellow Templar a mile away (or several miles, in the case of Samson).
WHAT DO THEY VALUE IN A PERSON?: Honesty, a strong will, devotion (not necessarily to the Maker or the Chantry, but to a just cause that focuses on protecting others).
WHAT THEMES DO THEY LIKE TALKING ABOUT?: War stuff, chess, books, trebuchets, dogs.
WHICH THEMES BORE THEM?: Lectures about anything. He did his time in Azkaban in the Circles. No more. Please no more.
DID THEY EVER WENT THROUGH SOMETHING TRAUMATIC?: His parents died trying to escape the Blight, he was tortured for weeks/months on end by blood mages, almost all of his friends died because of it, he was manipulated and brainwashed by his superior, he was forced into a near-debilitating substance addiction by his workplace... yeah just a few things.
WHAT COULD LEAD TO AN INSTANT KILL?: Darkspawn and abominations.
IS THERE SOMEONE /-THING THEY HATE?: Darkspawn and abominations. Blood mages on principle. Regular mages (but he’s working hard to remedy this extremely bad and prejudiced thinking). Himself.
IS YOUR MUSE EASY TO APPROACH?: YES / NO. - BEST WAY TO APPROACH THEM?: Just be polite and he won’t turn you away. He’s guarded, yes, but not impossible to talk to.
SOMETHING YOU MAY STILL WANT TO POINT OUT ABOUT YOUR MUSE?: You’ll find out by writing together! ;D
CONGRATS!!! You managed it, now tag your mutuals! ♥
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HE MEGA RP PLOTTING SHEET / MEME.
First and foremost, recall that no one is perfect, we all have witnessed some plotting once which did not went too well, be it because of us or our partner. So here have this, which may help for future plotting. It’s a lot! Yes, but perhaps give your partners some insight? Anyway BOLD what fully applies, italicize if only somewhat.
Mun Name: Mik Age: 26 Contact: IM, discord
Character(s) I rp: Eden ( in bleach ) -- I have other ocs but that’s another story
Which muse(s) inspires you the most atm?(for MM): Eden... ?
Current Fandom(s): Bleach , so far
Fandom(s) you have an AU for: more fantasy esque ones?
My language(s): spanish , english
Themes I’m interested in for rp: Fantasy / Science fiction / Horror / Western / Romance / Thriller / Mystery / Dystopia / Adventure / Modern / Erotic / Crime / Mythology / Classic / History / Renaissance / Medieval / Ancient / War / Family / Politics / Religion / School / Adulthood / Childhood / Apocalyptic / Gods / Sport / Music / Science / Fights / Angst / Smut / Drama / etc.
Themes/Genres you have an AU for: fantasy , religious
Preferred Thread length: one-liner / 1 para / 2 para / 3+ / novella.
Asks can be send by: Mutuals / Non-Mutuals / Personals / Anons.
Can Asks be continued?: YES / NO only by Mutuals?: YES / NO.
Preferred thread type: crack / casual nothing too deep / serious / deep as heck.
Is realism / research important for you in certain themes?: YES / NO.
Are you atm open for new plots?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
Do you handle your draft / ask - count well?: YES / NO / SOMEWHAT.
How long do you usually take to reply?: 24h / 1 week / 2 weeks / 3+ / months / years.
I’m okay with interacting: original characters / a relative of my character (an oc) / duplicates / my fandom / crossovers / multi-muses / self-inserts / people with no AU verse for my fandom / canon-divergent portrayals / au-versions (as main or only verse).
Do you post more ic or occ?: IC / OOC.
Are you selective with following others?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
Best ways to approach you for rp/plotting: IM since this is pretty much new . just slap me with that and if you have some ideas , better --- if not let just brainstorm with what we have in hand .
What expectations do you hold towards your plotting partner: some minimal idea of the context and eden’s character . some ideas if possible . more than often I have gotten people straight up jump with no clue of what even is going on in my side character wise .
When you notice the plotting is rather one-sided, what do you do?: depends , most likely really stop trying or let it sink . I’m not much of a person who would pressure for ideas when they don’t even come naturally for me in these kind of situations .
How do you usually plot with others, do you give input or leave most work towards your partner?: First of all , ask what they particularly want and if they read the bio . and of course , have their bio as well ( if oc or any relevant hc on vague canons ) . I am honestly a bit shy on the input but if I found a ground to start letting my imagination loose ( like , something in common between characters or something that clicks well with my muse ) I can suggest several things . but in any case , I’m pretty passive and it’s a lot of gives and takes .
When a partner drops the thread, do you wish to know?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
- And why?: depends on the thread , the time and the interest . things that go downtown in the excitement scale are :/ and I can’t blame anyone for dropping a thread . not all the time you will have muse for them , tho , if it was a relevant thread I would ask at least .
- What should your partner do when dropping a thread?: pretty much free to tell me or not . I’m no one to judge.
What could possibly lead you to drop a thread?: losing muse , interest , time ... pretty much the same . feeling like my muse is going too OOC for the sake of the other muse or smth .
- Will you tell your partner?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
Is communication in the rpc important to you? YES / NO.
- And why?: I am very old school and having some OOC interaction to at least know how things are going , it’s as much as I can ask here .
- Are you okay with absolute honesty, even if it may means hearing something negative about you and/or portrayal?: I mean , I should . it can turn me off a bit but it’s just natural ? there’s no way something can be perfect or be of someone’s taste . plus I am not that smart to be fully aware of all the things around the motif and IRL information I use on my muse . I’m no book , buddy.
- Do you think you can handle such situation in a mature way? YES / NO.
Why do you rp again, is there a goal?: development , exploring the muse , seeing what works and doesn’t work . often new blogs for me are basically prototypes , they are and will most likely have minor or major modifications as my imagination starts working and getting excited . besides , in the basics , you can hardly manage to cover all ( if anything ) of how one’s muse would react to X situation .
Wishlist, be it plots or scenarios: a lot of quincy lore , come up with more personal connections with other quincies , fully develop a backstory and a post war scenario . cultural exploration --- relationships of all kinds .
Themes I won’t ever rp / explore: pretty much I am fine with anything as long as we don’t cross the gross line . but I’m not afraid of the dark .
What Type of Starters do you prefer / dislike, can’t work with?: absurdly basic and with no context given . not even have an idea of what is the deal between muses . I can squeeze my brain but there is as much as i can do with little information .
What type of characters catch your interest the most?: quirky ones , conflictive ones , most likely muses with specific motifs that spark my interest -- deepness . Aesthetically interesting ones . but overall , those who have out of the normal personalities .
What type of characters catch your interest the least?: personalities that doesn’t work or do not harmonize with the context of their characters . that’s all I can say .
What are your strong aspects as rp partner?: I am.... creative ? gdi I did this meme already but it’s hard to reply these two ones. I am easily excitable . if we end up in a ship , expect me to be pampering af . I really enjoy the exploration of relations between people , emotions and psychological stuff tied around it . I do like casual and also very deep things . I’m not afraid of dealing with heavy topics . I like horror ???? also I am very into the secondary character role , as in : my muse is here to help your muse to grow or insight . that stuff . not much of a protagonist role in RPs.
What are your weak aspects as rp partner?: I’m .... very.... sporadic . My mood is annoying esp when I’m “new” blog around kind of thing . I’m shy , even if I don’t seem so --- I get pretty anxious over details . I am impatient --- with myself . I want to do so many things at the same time I end up overwhelmed .
Do you rp smut?: YES / NO.
Do you prefer to go into detail?: YES / NO / DEPENDS.
Are you okay with black curtain?: YES / NO.
- When do you rp smut? More out of fun or character development?: mmmmmmmmm , both. Depends on mood and context tbh .
- Anything you would not want to rp there?: nothing I can think from the top of my head.
Are ships important to you?: YES / NO.
Would you say your blog is ship-focused?: YES / NO.
Do you use read more?: YES / NO / SOMETIMES.
Are you: Multi-Ship / Single-Ship / Dual-Ship — Multiverse / Singleverse.
- What do you love to explore the most in your ships?: again , I’m big mood for interpersonal relationships ( romantic or not ) , the pros and cos of certain traits , ideology clash , personality clash , anything that comes in a relation that could make it come and go .
- What is your smut tag?: unholy.
Are you okay with pre-established relationships?: YES / NO.
- And what kind of ones?: all are hella okay for me . pre- est is my jam bc jesus christ the awkward first encounters make me go blue screen .
► SECTION ABOUT YOUR MUSE.
- What could possibly make your Muse interesting towards others, why should they rp with this particular character of yours now, what possible plots do they offer?: the fact she is basically a “religious fanatic” , with a quirky personality and a questionable morality , considering she has an inner conflict between the wellness of her race and her loyalty towards yhwach . At least pre war . post war , she has a flipped personality were she is mostly bitter and more angsty but will go from fanatic to straight up hater .
- With what type of Muses do you usually struggle to rp with?: bland personalities ? not sure myself , Eden is pretty much ready for anything since her personality is pretty laid back . I guess I would say shinigamis in general --- since she basically is stuck inside Silbern .
- With what type of Muses do they usually work well with?: Quincies , ofc . and people who are willing to put up with her crap .
- What interests your Muse(s) in general: the prosperity of the quincy , doing a proper duty , order , tea , annoying the fuck out of people . being eerie ....
- What do they desire, is their goal?: the ideal world as thought by Yhwach --- later on simply for her kind to survive after losing the war and being left to their luck .
- What catches their interest first when meeting someone new?: mmm , appearance and reactions to her witty or narcisistic comments .
- What do they value in a person?: loyalty , uniqueness .
- What themes do they like talking about?: most likely about the order of the army , tea stuff , herself (?) , but she is also a lot for debates and insight .
- Which themes bore them?: rebellious , silly thoughts . justice related topics . anything that critics her loyalty/life style .
- Did they ever went through something traumatic?: the first war was enough ? most likely losing comrades --- yhwach sacrificing the quincy for power later on .
- What could possibly trigger them?: the simple sight of anyone laying a finger of the quincy for being against their views .
- What could set them off, enrage them?: nothing. she cannot literally , physically get angry or enraged . but if we are talking bitter , that would be completely post war and it’s just the mention of yhwach’s name or those who went to god’s palace with him .
- What could lead to an instant kill?: invasion of silbern , chaos .
- Is there someone /-thing they hate?: chaos , rebels , shinigami , anyone against the quincy .
- Is there someone /-thing they love?: her race , her pride , herself .
Is your Muse easy to approach?: YES / NO.
- Best ways to approach them?: just .... come to her and say hi . she is literally wandering around silbern all the time ( quincy speaking tho ) . for others , eh ... good luck . and wait post war (?)
- Where are they usually to find?: Silbern ... then Siberia .
Something you may still want to point out about your muse?: She is no saint , clearly . She has a questionable sense of things like loyalty and preservation of her race . she is honestly all over the place
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Wanted to hear you go on about child yandere. more types of love than romantic. the your my friend or your going to take care of me and me you is scary in a different way. smart kids can more easily manipulate the victim and others emotionally.
Child yanderes huh? Admittedly, that’s a topic I never really think about a lot. The wording here was a little strange, but I’m taking this as pretty much a “free rein” question.
Quick thoughts here before the read more section:
Can a child be a yandere? – Absolutely
My feelings towards child yanderes (where the cast is roughly the same age) – Same as a normal yandere
My feelings towards child yanderes (where the yandere’s S/O is much older) – Frustrating to okay
To be perfectly upfront here, I don’t focus on child yanderes a lot with the media I consume. That doesn’t mean I don’t come across any. In fact, in may just be a case where I’m not even considering “this is a child yandere” when technically yes they are. I guess it depends on what age range you think of when you hear the word “child” to begin with. For me, that makes me think elementary school and maybe even middle school. High school I would rather say “kids” if that’s a step up in anyway?
If you consider anyone who is a minor (under the age of 18) a child, then yeah there’s a lot of child yanderes I’ve seen. Lots of media I’ve read or watched focus on a cast of characters in high school for instance, or sometime middle school age. I don’t think I’ve read or watched something with a yandere where the cast is strictly elementary school age. Would I even really enjoy that? To be honest, elementary school (and sometimes even middle school) romances for me might sound cute, but I hardly take them seriously. There’s a lot of yanderes who met their S/O in elementary school in the story I’m sure, but that’s usually a past element and the story is focusing on the characters when they’re older.
For the sake of this post, I’ll just assume anyone who is under the age of 18 may count as a child yandere.
Can a child be a yandere? Of course they can. They just have to have intense feelings of love that are overwhelming towards another individual, often leading to obsessive and/or possessive behavior.
If you’re the type that believes in “platonic yanderes,” the most common obsessions here would be like the best friend kind (like you stated anon), sibling or parental figure. In cases like these, I know for a fact I’ve seen some stories where the character is just severely deprived of safe and affectionate love in general. Their relationships at home either aren’t stellar, or the character doesn’t have anyone period. They child may have faced abuse or neglect, or they may simply be an orphan. There’s no desire for sexual or romantic connection here. The character rather just wants companionship and sometimes a caretaker. Depending on the backstory given, you can feel kind of sad for these characters since they just don’t want to be alone. They may also have a tendency to latch onto someone who fits an “ideal” of theirs. Like the other person seems like the best role model for a friend/sibling/parental figure they always wanted.
If you’re like me though and are more focused on straight up “romantic yanderes,” yes a child can still develop these intense feelings. In fact, it’s very common for a person in their younger years to grow easily infatuated with someone else, obsess over having a relationship and fumble with healthy dating behavior. Pretty understandable because when you’re young, you’re just figuring things out. Lots of people have getting married as a main goal in life, so figuring out relationships early on is a benefit sometimes. You’ve got other things affecting your goal like your social environment and puberty (you know what I mean). I just stated the obvious here but oh well. So yeah, a child yandere could fall in love with someone around their age, but they could also develop feelings for someone older. Usually with the latter, it’s just innocent crushes that blossom from getting attention from someone they view as much more mature than their peers. Plenty of people will probably say, “I had the biggest crush on my third grade teacher” for instance or something like that. They’re mostly harmless and will fade away in normal cases. By the way, just because a kid CAN develop a crush on an older individual, that is NOT permission to pursue a relationship with them -_-. Sorry for that interruption, but I don’t want people to misinterpret what I’m saying here.
Now if the child yandere in question is part of a cast that’s around the same age as them, including their S/O…I just kind of treat them like any other yandere. No special feelings really towards the character more of less because the setting allows me to just focus on the relationships and not really the ages. Especially with anime and manga where like, character appearances will hardly match their age sometimes, so I halfway give up even worrying about how old these characters are to begin with.
Currently the most recent child yandere I could think of observing was Norman in the Promised Neverland parody manga, The Parodied Jokerland. He’s very enjoyable in that and incredibly yandere. He’s the cute kind of creepy obsessive, if that makes any sense. In that scenario, his S/O Emma is the same age as him, and the majority of the cast are also kids.
If you have a child yandere who’s focused on an OLDER S/O though…that’s kind of difficult to ignore.
I had this very funny and sad realization: Most of the media I’ve viewed where a child yandere is in love with an older S/O is via Lifetime movies.
Yeah…
So that gives me a more narrow view here of child yanderes if their S/O is older than them 0.o. Lifetime is basically my junk food. It’s bad for me, but I’ll watch it occasionally when I have cable access. Not stellar entertainment, but my god they love to run the obsessive love trope over and over again. Believe it or not, I know I’ve seen a few variations of cases where they have a younger character desperately trying to get together with an older character. They probably have all combinations, but for some reason the one that pops into my head first is, “teenage girl wants to marry this older man who’s already married/in a relationship.”
The way most of these plots play out is something like:
1) Kid tries to find a way to get access to S/O (ex. Class, lessons, be a friend of S/O’s kid)
2) Kid tries to get the S/O to support them with a sad backstory and/or tries to be the “perfect helper” for the S/O
3) Kid tries to bump off the S/O’s partner at some point (may or may not succeed)
4) Someone dies (because it’s Lifetime and someone you honestly don’t care about has to get killed at some point just to up the ante- I have literally only ever cared about 1 person that died when watching Lifetime and I don’t think it was even an official Lifetime movie)
5) Kid confesses their love for their S/O and claims they’re the best match for them
6) S/O (unsurprisingly) shuts them down with a “No”
7) Kid snaps and depending on how much time is left in the movie, usually a fight culminates between individuals or there’s a kidnapping or blackmailing (you get the idea)
8) Ends with kid either getting killed or arrested (Wait do they kill the child yanderes in these movies? I haven’t watched them all so maybe they live, I’m not sure).
So yeah that’s what this ask made me think of first, haha. Obviously with Lifetime, pretty much all their yanderes (as low-brow as some of them are) are the antagonistic/villain kind with Yandere vs. S/O stories. It’s no different if the yandere in the film is a child. It’s a guaranteed that the child yandere is going to lose in these films. But quite frankly…I know a lot of people actually want the S/O to reciprocate and work with the yandere, but I think we can all agree that this particular scenario should be fine staying Yandere vs. S/O. Because if it wasn’t, that means you’d be making…an OLDER S/O…attempt a relationship…with a minor….yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh I don’t recommend going that route for obvious reasons.
Now are child yanderes ever really a threat? Actually yes, they can be quite dangerous. Sure, they’re not like a high political figure or CEO like in the stories I like to read that can use their power and wealth to push the S/O into a corner or anything. But child yanderes can become surprisingly selfish and underhanded with their tactics. One thing I notice is that they’re incredibly observant, so they know where to find items they need to use (like weapons or drugs) for a wicked task or they know what kind of people to talk to and manipulate for their own needs. While child yanderes lack a higher social and economic standing, they have their “innocence” that can often help avoid detection from the authorities when trouble arises. The most dangerous weapon I’d say a child yandere has at their disposable would be the ability to slander someone without repercussions. Especially if they’re claiming someone else was violent with them or sexually abused them. Why? Because let’s be honest, lots of people would be deathly afraid of doubting a child making such accusations. And in turn, their feelings would rise quickly and they’d turn against the accused.
Another fun Lifetime fact: Depending on the film, they always purposefully make it frustrating for the viewer when it comes to false accusations vs. real accusations. If it’s a film where they have an actual victim speak out against their perpetrator, the circumstances will usually be set up so that most of the film cast won’t believe the victim. On the other side, if it’s a character making a false accusation against another character, most of the film cast will side with the liar over the accused. Because I guess Lifetime just likes to say that life is infuriating like that 0.o
Getting back on topic though, so why did I say that child yanderes can range from “frustrating to okay” for me? Well, like I said earlier, I don’t really take a lot of young romance that seriously. Kids can also be very volatile and irrational, so you know in ADDITION to this character being a yandere, it’s going to be nearly impossible to try to talk some sense into the character that they cannot be with the S/O they desire. It’s a doomed relationship, so I find myself either rolling my eyes at or pitying the yandere in this case. The child yandere could be “okay” though if, well…I like their yandere actions honestly. I AM still a sucker for yanderes in general, so I’m not gonna mind if I get a nice fix of crazy in there.
This probably isn’t a stellar answer, but like I said this isn’t really a topic I think about a lot. Hope it was interesting?
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Peter parkers main 3 love interests is generally accepted as Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson and Felicia Hardy/Black cat. Taking your favorite/best written portrayals of each of them as a starting point, what would you say is the biggest strenghts and weakness of each of them as a permanent Romantic partner to peter on a romantic writing level, and a overarching plot writing level?
Hm, this might get complicated. I guess I’ll take it character by character.
Mary Jane
MJ is my preferred romance for Peter, and my favorite portrayals of her are the Spectacular cartoon, the Ultimate comics, the Renew Your Vows AU, and the mainline comics- in that order. (I also like Michelle from the MCU, but I don’t consider her Mary Jane Watson. Michelle just happens for share a nickname with her. For some reason.) The thing that I think helps MJ rise above the rest if that I don’t consider her to have been created as a love interest. Yes, I know, she was literally created to be the Veronica to Gwen’s Betty, but that’s the thing- she wasn’t really intended to be the winner, from what I’ve read. She was meant to be a challenge, a brief diversion, and only accidentally wound up as the winner due to the chaotic nature of comic book production.
As such, MJ has a resilience that most love-interests don’t. Even when she wasn’t dating Peter, the character was able to stick around and continue to develop. She was able to leave the narrative for a while, possibly with no intentions from the writers for her to return, and yet she did and extra layers were added to her character as a result. Even now, her marriage to Peter was sold to the devil as part of a writer agenda to make Peter swingin’ and single again, and yet she’s stuck around and the character has continued to find places in the story. What hasn’t killed MJ has made her stronger, and if she was always intended to be the Final Girl, then I don’t think she would have gotten the opportunities. Sure, it’s a messy history of character development and retcons if you look at it in detail, but that’s true for any comic book character that’s passed through multiple hands and lasted more than a decade.
Within the story itself, I like when MJ is spunky and able to roll with Peter’s life as Spider-Man. I like when her career, whether it’s acting or something else, is only a modest success if a success at all, to fit with the whole Everyman theme of the Spider-Man stories. I’m fine with her feeling stress or angst because of Peter’s heroing -- after all, Peter gets so angsty about he quits every five years or so -- but I do want her to generally buy in to the whole thing; if she’s in love with Peter, she’s in love with the dedication that makes him use his powers for others. I also like when she’s portrayed as an old hand at dealing with the superhero life and gets to meet the other heroes, despite not having powers. It can be contrived when she gets involved with Peter’s adventures, but I do think it can be a great angle, as she can provide even more of an Everyman perspective to the proceedings.
(I haven’t played the PS4 game, and I recognize that making MJ a reporter is an easy way to get her involved, but as I’ve said before, I always feel like making the Love Interest a journalist is rip-off of Lois Lane. I’d like to see a bit more creativity in such things. Personally, I someday want to pitch a ‘Mary Jane: Agent of SHIELD’ book to Marvel where she works in SHIELD’s public relations office in New York.)
In terms of personality, I think the Spectacular cartoon nailed exactly what I want. The show didn’t get to the really juicy stuff of a romance with Peter or her knowing his secret identity, but her every scene felt perfect to me and she really did add a nice dynamic to the cast. I think the Ultimate comics captured a good depiction of the character dealing with her background as an abused child from a broken household, but I think it missed the mark in the whole ‘Brainy Janey’ thing where she was supposed to be a nerd like Peter. It felt like little was done with that, and Peter still eventually emerged as smarter than all the other students anyway, so I’m not sure what the goal was. I prefer the idea of MJ putting on a facade of a Cool Extrovert to cover her angst.
Gwen
Gwen is odd to me in that I mostly know her as Dead Love-Interest Walking. The only times I feel like I’ve experienced her as a real character are the Spectacular cartoon and the Ultimate comics, and my understanding is that neither captures the character as portrayed in the comics. Comics Gwen was the acerbic rich girl who evolved in a sweet rich girl. Ultimate Gwen was a punk rock rebel with a sense of justice. Spectacular Gwen was a sweet nerd who pined after Peter. (I don’t remember much about Amazing Gwen, other than the moment of her death and her glaring dad.) All of those are a bit different, but I feel like the only thing they all have in common is that they’re a girl who Peter falls for before he eventually marries MJ.
To that end, though, I think that’s enough to define Gwen as something of a fantasy. She should be The Ideal Love-Interest, which is not to say that she should be some kind of flawless angel, but she should be what most people’s fantasy should be of a great girlfriend for Peter. She should be a smartie like him, and either be sweet enough for them to be natural buddies or else spiky enough for them to be rivals with romantic tension. Or, like Ultimate Gwen, she should be interesting and living an exotic lifestyle but Good in a way that makes her uncomplicated for Peter to love.
And, in the end, the romance with her should always fail. Perhaps due to her death, or perhaps due to other factors if we don’t want her to be Dead Love-Interest Walking. Either way, I think she should be the precursor to Peter’s true love interest, with whom he has a messier romance that eventually becomes a perfectly-fulfilling endgame. Gwen should be the person we all think we’re going to marry when we first start dating, but later comes someone else and a more adult connection where we end up with someone we never would have imagined when we were young and naive.
Felicia
I hate to say it, but Felicia should be Catwoman. She’s the naughty, slightly dangerous lady who’s super sexy and is always offering an exciting time. She’s the love interest for the superhero side of Peter’s life, a wild fantasy of leaving all the concerns about Peter behind and just being a fun adventurer all the time with a hot cat-chick by his side. But, because such fantasies are always false, there needs to be a problem with Felicia that ultimately makes her a poor match for Peter. Usually, it’s her morals, where she’s fine with theft or violent revenge or other compromises that Peter himself fights against.
Ironically, the version of Felicia I’m most familiar with is nothing like this. That’s the 90′s cartoon, of course, where she’s mostly a version of Gwen Stacy. There’s a bit of it when she becomes the Black Cat, but her grand romance was with Morbius, and my memory is fuzzy enough that I’m honestly not sure what the short-lived romance with Spider-Man was really like. Honestly, I’d look at the animated Felicia as more what to do if anyone wanted to give Gwen superpowers. XD
But as far as my ideal depiction, I like a Black Cat who’s a thief, but not a full baddie. She should walk moral line and sometimes cross over, but not in a big way. (I’m not really a fan of Dan Slott making her a full crime lord who wants revenge on Spidey, but I admit I didn’t read the storyline. I hear it worked pretty well in the Silk comics but didn’t otherwise make a whole lotta sense.) She should be flirty and sassy and clever. I like when she comes on so strongly and so quickly that she flusters Peter. And I also like when she has superpowers, because that more firmly puts her on that side of things, as compared to someone Peter could bring into his civilian life. Peter’s civilian life should always be in conflict with his life as Spider-Man, and his love-interest should always play into that dynamic.
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Cayla - 1974
A : AFFECTION. how do you show affection?
i’m sadly very obvious about it for the most part. however, i usually keep my hands to my self because i don’t want to make people uncomfortable. but if i know they don’t mind, i will hug and holds hands with just about anyone. but i also buy people things. it’s not a real good way of showing affection but i really do love buying gifts for people.
B : BOUQUET. do you like flowers? which ones are your favourite?
i do but i really need to learn more. my only favorites are roses, tulips and daises. but i really do like any flower i comes across.
C : CHOCOLATE. do you like chocolate? which one is your favourite?
i do but i don’t really have a favorite. i suppose i do know that i hate dark bitter chocolate. i’m fine with just about any others.
D : DATE. what is your ideal date? where / who with / etc?
i’m really not picky when it comes to dates. at all. i just want to spend time with them so i really don’t care what we’re doing. truly, i’m happy doing anything with tony. even watching him play with those cars of his and i usually hate that sort of thing.
E : EMBRACE. do you like hugs? what are your hugs like?
i have a mixed relationship with hugging. i love hugging my friends or close family but that’s about it. then when it comes to my family, i usually don’t like them hugging me. i have no clue why, i love them dearly, i just don’t expect them to do it often which is maybe why i don’t like it when they initiate it. but i really don’t mind getting hugged by close friends. i’ll hug them all the time as long as i know they don’t mind.
F : FLIRT. are you good at flirting? how do you flirt?
i’m not really sure. i get told i’m flirting a lot when i’m just being friendly with people. maybe i am extra friendly with the people i find attractive but that’s about it.
G : GIFT. are you good at gift - giving or do you struggle to get it right?
honestly? i’m pretty good at it as long as i know something they like. if i don’t, usually try to figure out what they do like and hope i can find something good for them.
H : HEART. are you quick or slow to give your heart away?
i am extremely slow. i’ll instantly give my heart to friends but with relationships i’m very hesitant.
I : I LOVE YOU. do you find ‘i love you’ easy or hard to say?
it depends on who i’m around. with my family, i say it all the time. we say it before leaving the house, hanging up the phone, ect. with friends, i always tell them i love them because i genuinely want them to know. but if its someone i may like...i don’t i’ll say it around them for a long time but i’ll think it like crazy.
J : JEALOUSY. do you get jealous in a relationship?
i like to think i’m not a jealous person. but whenever i see women hang around tony i may get a tiny bit jealous...or a lot. he’d probably say a lot.
K : KISS. are you a good kisser? why / why not?
i’ve never heard any complaints. i’d say i was good at it but i’ve never exactly had a long discussion about it with someone.
L : LOVE. who do you love?
tony but i’m going to keep that to myself for a while just to be safe.
M : MOONLIGHT. do you like going outdoors?
i do but i don’t like the outdoors alone which is weird. i always want someone with me to share the amazing view with..
N : NAUGHTY. what are you like in bed?
oh lord. i’d say i was pretty good but i don’t want to brag about it. i will say that 9 times out of 10 that i usually am on the dominate side of things. i usually get anxious if i feel like i’m not in control of the situation. but...when i really trust the person, i am very interested in being submissive...but also dominate, it really depends on the mood.
O : ODE. do you have a way with words?
i’ll say yes because i make people think i’m super friendly all the time without really meaning to. even when i don’t want to be talking to people, i get told that i seem very confident and sure when i’m 100% not.
P : PARTNER. what do you look for in a partner? looks / personality?
communication, trust, someone with similar interests and maybe someone who could make me laugh every now and then. looks aren’t important. personality really isn’t important either as long as their not a dickhead. i suppose i really just want someone i can trust. someone i know completely backwards and forwards. i want them to know me that way to. i want us both to feel completely comfortable around each other and never afraid to talk about stuff. i guess i’m just saying i want to have partner who’s also my best friend.
Q : QUESTION. would you ask the big question or expect your partner to?
i wouldn’t mind doing it at all but i probably never will out of fear of rejection which is ridiculous.
R : ROMANCE. are you a romantic or a cynic?
i can really both sometimes.
S : SWEETHEART. did you have a childhood sweetheart?
nope.
T : TRUE LOVE. do you believe in true love?
not really. i don’t think love at first sight is a thing. i do not think there was someone put on this earth just for one person. i think it’s really just pure luck and who you actually fall for. could end badly. could end great. they could even become your true love but i don’t think there’s a reason to be searching the earth for your true love. you’ll fall for whoever you fall for and as long as your happy that’s all that matters.
U : UNREQUITED. have you had your heart broken?
yeah not fun.
V : VALENTINE. how do you feel about valentine’s day?
it’s bullshit. granted, i’ve never been with anyone on valentines day but i’ve never really cared for it. i like all the decorations and food but that’s about it. i just don’t like the idea of having a day set aside where the goal is to shower your partner with love. that should be done all time. however, i wouldn’t mind if someone really wanted to do all the valentine’s day stuff with me.
W : WEDDING. would you get married? why / why not?
i never seek it out but i suppose i would if i ever find someone i love and trust them enough.
X : XOXO. do you use / like pet names?
yes! all the pet names. well, not all of them. some of them are awful. but i like the traditional ones. big fan of sweetheart, baby, babe, darling, honey, love. they can call me that as much as they want but i’d prefer if they didn’t like publicly announce to the world that i’m there ‘baby’ or something like that ( *cough* i’ll also accept baby girl from tony and tony alone in very private instances *cough*). i’ll also probably call them baby, babe, honey, ect.
Y : YOURS. do you get protective easily?
yes. badly. i’m not crazy about it but if i feel like someone is mistreating my friends or family...i have a hard time keeping my opinions to myself.
Z : ZZZ. how many people have you slept with?
i’ve never really kept count.
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50 Questions For Your Sim
I was tagged by @citrusswig. By the way, I think your name is so cute lol. Thanks for the tag! These were so fun. I got Pruetts on the brain, so you guys get to get personal with Maya! Mostly, I will answer according to where I am now in the story and not where we left off in August.
1: How old is your sim? She’s 3/4 through her YA days, so the way I see Sims ages, she’s 33 or 34. Where the story left off, she’s probably more like 27.
2. When is your sim’s birthday? The chapter she was born in came out on February 16th.
3. What is your sim’s zodiac sign? I guess that makes her an Aquarius, but that’s probably not accurate.
4. What is your sim’s ethnicity? Maya is multiracial and identifies as Black. Once upon a time, I was curious about her ethnicity and went through her entire lineage drawing pie charts of everyone’s race LOL. Here is her exact make up: 59.25% Black, 31.25% White, 6.25% Asian, 3.125% Egyptian
5. Does your sim have any nicknames? Her mother calls her pumpkin.
6. Do they have a job? If so what is it? As of the last chapter, she was the Director of Communications at Sim.tv. She is now a Spin Doctor (level 10)
7. Where does your sim live? Maya was born and raised in Oasis Springs and now lives in Willow Creek.
8.Who does your sim live with? Her parents and little brother.
9. What environment did your sims grow up in (strict, loving, cold etc.)? Maya grew up in a two-parent home that was very loving and supportive. Drama in her life came from outside the home.
10. What are your sim’s favorite food? Leftovers lol
11. What is your sim’s favorite drink? Granny Smash (She loves those sweet, fruity drinks, but they do not love her lol)
12. If they have one what is your sim’s favorite color? Red
13. Does your sim believe in any clichés (like love at first sight, etc)? Oh, of course! Here are a few. “Love yourself.” “A good man is hard to find.” “A picture is worth a thousand words.” “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
14. What is your sim’s sexuality? Straight.
15. What is your sim’s gender identity? Female.
16. Is your sim type a or type b? Type B
17. Is your sim introverted or extroverted? Definitely extroverted, but she appreciates a little quiet time.
18. What is your sims favorite woohoo position? Ranveer is teaching her all kinds of things, so she is undecided right now.
19. Is your sim a pet person? If so what is their favorite animal? Maya has never given any thought to pets. She thinks puppies are cute, but they are so much work.
20. Does your sim have a best friend? None other than Penelope Fleming, aka “Penny Pizzazz” (this is her real name in the Pruett Cinematic Universe, he he he)
21. What is/was your sim’s favorite school subject? Lunch LOL
22. Is/was your sim a high, mid or low achiever in school? Mid achiever. As you can probably tell, she didn’t like school much. She’s no dummy, so she passed everything. But, she didn’t excel like her sister.
23. Are they planning to go or have they already been to college? If so, what would be or what was their major? Even if we had a university pack, Maya wouldn’t be the type to go. At least not right away. She would probably take night classes later in life when she figured out what to do with her life. (she was a late bloomer)
24. What are your sims political beliefs (if they have them)? Maya is non-confrontational, so she doesn’t get involved in politics. I would say she’s liberal by association because I can see many of her friends leaning that way.
25. What is one thing your sims wants to do before they die? She wants to meet Octavia Moon.
26. Does your sim have a favorite TV show (cable) and/or movie? Maya is a TV junkie. She loves romance and drama, and her two favorite shows are The Bachelor and Real Housewives of Del Sol Valley.
27. Is your sim a Netflix viewer? If so what are their top 3 shows. She watches Netflix with Ranveer, but they don’t really watch if you know what I mean.
28. Does your sim like books? If so what’s their favorite one? She’s not much of a book person.
29. Does your sim enjoy video games, if so what is their favorite one and do they play on PC or console? She has never touched a game in her life. Not even on her phone.
30. What is your sim’s personal style? Cute, cute, and cute. Even when she’s dressed down she’s cute.
31. Does your sim have a lucky charm? Nah
32. Is your sim religious? She believes in a higher power. That’s as far as she goes.
33. What kind of music does your sim listen to and who is their favorite artist? Maya loves pop, R&B, and a little rock. She is killing some Bailey Kay right now.
34. Is your sim a festive person? If so what’s their favorite holiday? Meh. She loves the holidays, but she leaves decorating and prep to her mother. It’s less because she’s not festive and more because she’s just lazy.
35. What is your sim’s favorite type of weather? Maya looooves to show off her body, so warm weather is the best.
36. Does your sim prefer to start fights or finish them? She’s a lover, not a fighter. (heh, another cliche? lol)
37. Does your sim have a dream job? Not really. Penny got her this job, and she just happened to be good at it. If Simstagram was a job, that would be her dream.
38. Does your sim have any siblings? A sister and a brother both younger. Brother is way younger--young enough to be her child.
39. Does your sim get along with their family? Oh yes. The Pruetts are a tight family. Even tighter after the family drama when she was born.
40 What is your sims favorite hobby? Watching TV
41. What does your sim look for in a romantic partner? Requited love, humor, fun to be around, FINE
42. What is a secret about your sim? She was a virgin until recently.
43. What is a wish your sim has? Maya wishes she could have met Ranveer instead of Akira back in the day.
44. What is a flaw your sim has? Lazy as heck. She can also get out of control with the negative self-talk.
45. How do others generally perceive your sim? Fun loving party girl. Back in the day, she was a tease.
46. Does your sim have a greatest achievement? If so what is it? She reached the top of her career before she was 30.
47. If they have one, what is your sim’s greatest regret? Probably not breaking up with her high school boyfriend when she first thought she should.
48. Does your sim have a favorite emoji? 😍
49. Does your sim use simstagram? If so what’s their @? Simstagram is her middle name! You can follow her @mayapruett (she’s very simple lol)
50. What is the last text your sim sent (and who did they text)? It was a goodnight text to Ranveer. It started innocently and ended with some spice lol.
Whew! This was fun! Lots of people have been tagged for this I see. If you’re up for the challenge, consider yourself tagged and say I tagged you!
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((Valentine alphabet get ready to buckle down)) A, D, F, H, J, L, P, Q, S, T
[h-have mercy]
A : AFFECTION. how does your muse show affection?
[i already fucking answered this 3 times and you probably read it 3 times don’t lie to me get out of my face]
D : DATE. what is your muse’s ideal date? where / who with / etc?
[lea is kind of one note and tends to like to go places he already has some attachment to (like the clock tower), not that he wouldn’t turn down somewhere fun and new. because places ultimately don’t make the difference for lea so much, it’s the people.
so his ideal date would probably be fairly simple, hitting a movie or something and then hanging out somewhere special, getting into a really involved talk that deepens the relationship, and letting those darting looks, suggestive touches, and slow smiles tuck them in once they get home.
if they make it home.]
F : FLIRT. is your muse good at flirting? how do they flirt?
[lea is good at flirting if you’re someone susceptible to lea’s brand of flirting, which definitely isn’t everyone. especially as axel, his interactions take on a certain manipulative tone, and if he notices you’re falling for his tricks then you’re just done for, he’s gonna toy with that all day (or until he’s done extracting his info).
in general, lea’s flirting leans towards the suggestive and effeminate (with the occasional eyeroll joke), but if his target seems more receptive to a masculine approach then he’ll do that. while he can be very direct, he’s only going to do that with someone he’s serious about, and generally only after they’re in a relationship or lea’s at least 90% sure they won’t say no.]
H : HEART. is your muse quick or slow to give their heart away?
[ANSWERED NEXT]
J : JEALOUSY. does your muse get jealous in a relationship?
[helllll yeah? lea will even get jealous outside a relationship, which is kinda not cute but he’s aware of that and doesn’t make a thing of it. when he’s younger, he’ll occasionally make a thing of it if he’s already in a relationship with someone and he’s watching someone try to take that from him, but his anger is usually more about them taking his partner for granted and not appreciating them as much as he does.
so it’s a flaw, but it’s one he keeps mostly in check, and it translates to a lot of playful possessiveness and the fact that lea’s heart beats extra hard when someone treats him as their one and only.]
L : LOVE. who does your muse love?
[i mean, isa, mostly. generally. always. they have bad breakups sometimes but it’s fine
other than that i have a few side ships, mostly one-sided or kinda empty since lea spends so much time as a nobody, and lea exclusively falls in love with men.]
P : PARTNER. what does your muse look for in a partner? looks / personality?
[i mean, a partner, very much. lea doesn’t want someone who never needs his support, and he also doesn’t want someone who constantly has to be supported. it should be a mutual thing, with both of them bailing each other out from time to time, and it doesn’t really matter who has to get bailed out more so long as their relationship isn’t one person doing all the work or one person being endlessly more mature than the other and having to explain things to them constantly and watch out for them because they don’t have basic common sense.
ya feel me?]
Q : QUESTION. would your muse ask the big question or expect their partner to?
[NEXT]
S : SWEETHEART. did your muse have a childhood sweetheart?
[yep, it was isa, and lea didn’t know it until he almost died because it’s lea.]
T : TRUE LOVE. does your muse believe in true love?
[yes and no? like, lea’s romantic relationships are pretty atypical, and what he looks for in a partner is pretty basic. he doesn’t really get swept off his feet by a fairytale romance unless those other factors are already present. lea also isn’t big into faith or beliefs as a thing (though he does partake of the occasional good luck charm), and in general adopts a cynical outlook regarding this kind of thing.
but, if he’s desperate enough, he might buy into believing there’s a chance of hoping hard enough to make something true.]
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Secrets Not Their Own
This is my White Dragon gift for @a-cat-and-a-world. I hope you enjoy!
- @jp-blindperson
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Secrets Not Their Own
Fred and George were inseparable from birth. They were partners in mischief, sure, but they were also the only person the other could talk to sometimes. Oh, sure, it was fun to confuse people with the “No, silly, I’m George”’s and the “Just Kidding! I really am Fred”’s. But it meant that they didn’t really have anyone to talk to who knew them for who they were. So sometimes their parents or brothers or sister would be talking to one of them about something the other one needed to know and they’d have to break the news that “No, I really am Fred. No, I’m not joking this time. Yes I know we joke about this all the time, but this time I’m serious.” More than a few surprises got ruined this way and eventually the twins learned that some secrets could be shared with each other but not with other people. Eventually they learned how to make it look like there wasn’t a secret to hide.
It started out with little things at first. Things like, this is what I want to get your brother for Christmas or for his birthday. Things like “I really really wanna do this prank but you can’t tell your brother, okay?” Even things like the fact that Fred and George were two different people and not just a gestalt entity built for pranks and mischief and fun.
But as they got older the secrets got bigger. Secrets like how Bill didn’t think he wanted to stay in england after he graduated. Things like the fact that Charlie wanted to go study dragons in Romania because he understood dragons more than people. That Percy wanted so badly to please their parents, but woke up with panic attacks most nights because the path he had to walk was so narrow.
And then there were the secrets that were theirs, and only theirs.
The secret that they hated being seen as either one entity with two bodies or exact clones of each other. The secret that they really kind of hated keeping secrets for other people. The secret that as they grew older they didn’t seem to have the same interest in dating or kissing as other people their age.
This last one didn’t bother them very much until their sixth year when the Yule Ball made the rest of their classmates go absolutely mad. Girls were running around trying to get that certain boy’s attention. Boys were running around trying to make sure they had a date with someone so they wouldn’t be going alone. Eventually, Fred and George decided to ask Angelina and Alicia to go together as friends. They worked it out privately before Fred and George asked the girls publically.
It all worked out incredibly well. Angelina and Alicia understood that Fred and George only wanted to go as friends, and Fred and george understood that Angelina and Alicia were trying out dating but didn’t want anyone to know quite yet.
After the Yule ball things went back to normal for a bit. Fred and George went back to pranks; both playing them and creating new ones. Angelina and Alicia decided to go back to being friends for now but didn’t rule out a relationship just yet. And things were good for a while. But the ease with which their classmates fell in and out of love still weighed on their minds.
“Hey, George?”
“Yeah, Fred?”
“You ever wonder if, maybe, we’re a little bit, different than everyone else?”
“Don’t have to wonder, Fred. I already know we’re much more handsome and charming than other wixen.”
Fred laughed before becoming serious again. “No, I mean, you saw how pretty much everyone else who went to the Yule Ball was about trying to get dates right?”
George was silent for a moment before saying, “Yeah. But not everyone right?”
“No,” Fred replied thoughtfully, “But everyone who didn’t go mad over finding a date either already had one, didn’t want one, or didn’t want to go.”
“Yeah, you’re right. Hell, even some of the third years went a bit crazy looking for dates.”
“Yeah.”
The twins sat in silence for a few minutes before Fred murmured, “Do you think we should talk to someone about this?”
George thought for a moment before he replied. “No, I don’t think we should talk to anybody about this. Not yet anyway.”
“Are you suggesting we go to the library first?” his twin asked with a wry twist to his lips.
“Yeah. Yeah I am. Who Knows? Maybe they’ll have something.”
“Let’s go then.”
Contrary to popular belief, the twins spent quite a bit of time in the library. Certainly not as much as Hermione or even the average Ravenclaw, but enough time to make a truce of sorts with Mme. Pence. If they didn’t pull any pranks in the library, Mme. Pence would help them find what they were looking for as long as it wasn’t in the Restricted Section; this was a deal she usually only made with Ravenclaws. So when they got to the library all the twins had to do was give Mme. Pence a general idea of what they were looking for and she was able to point them to a section of books containing books about different kinds of love among other things.
They read until curfew and then checked out the books they hadn’t gotten through. They read through those books within the next few days, but none of them had the answers the twins were looking for.
“Everything seems to circle back around to romance and romantic love.” George said as he put down the last book.
“I know.” Fred said as he ran a frustrated hand through his hair. “Even the books that claim to be about platonic relationships value them less than romantic ones.”
“Yeah.”
Five days after the twins visited the library they came back to return the books they had checked out and to look for any they may have missed. But there wasn’t anything there they hadn’t already read. But as they left they ran into a small, blonde girl in ravenclaw robes who seemed to be going toward the same section they were leaving.
“Hey!” The twins chorused.
“Oh hello,” the girl sid dreamily. “You’re Ginny’s brothers aren’t you?”
“Why yes–”
“We most certainly are.”
“But who are you?”
“Oh, sorry, I’m Luna Lovegood.”
“Pleased to meet you!”
“Can we be of service–”
“On this fine day?”
The girl watched them with a serene smile on her face as they talked.
“Actually, yes, I think you can help me.”
“Oh?”
“You were the ones who checked out these books last, weren’t you?”
“Yes.” the twins chorused, intrigued.
“Well,” the girl, Luna, fidgeted, “I was just wondering. Did you find anything useful in them? I mean, you’re probably here for the same reason I am. Because, there was a huge infestation of nargles around the Yule Ball. Nearly everyone got infested. I was safe because of my necklace, but you two didn’t seem affected and the only thing that keeps the nargles away is a necklace like mine. So I thought maybe it wasn’t the necklace keeping them away. So I came here because the nargles always make people act ridiculous and romantic and I’ve never felt that way and I was just wanting to find answers. And i guess now I was just wondering… since you’re here… Have you ever felt that way? I’m sorry if that’s rude, but you’ve never had a nargle infestation as long as I’ve seen you so I was just wondering if my what I think about them is true or not.” Luna had grown less and less dreamy and increasingly more anxious as she went on and now stood in tense anticipation.
The twins took a moment to think.
“Well, Ms. Lovegood,” George began.
“We can’t say we’ve ever heard of nargles,” Fred continued.
“But we can say we’ve never felt the kind of love or infatuation or obsession with romance as other people.”
“And to answer your first question; no, there weren’t any useful answers in those books.”
“Oh,” Luna said sounding slightly disappointed. “So, it’s not my necklace keeping the nargles away after all?” She brightened then. “But I’m not alone in feeling this way?”
“No.” Fred smiled.
“You’re not alone.”
“And neither, it seems–”
“Are we.”
Some secrets the twins still had to keep to themselves. The fact that they were planning on starting a joke shop after school instead of going into the ministry. The fact that they didn’t really care about their N.E.W.T. scores or feel that they would be useful in real life. The fact that, despite this, they were actually good at most practical magic.
But they were starting to realize that some secrets they thought were theirs alone could be shared.
They may not have found answers this go around but they may have made a new friend and found common ground somewhere they had never expected to find it.
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Oricon News: aiko “May Dream” interview
aiko’s album “May Dream” became her 3rd album at #1 on the Oricon charts in May. She’s been constantly active during the approximately 18 years since her debut as an artist, and is currently in the middle of a nationwide tour. Writer Yoshirei - who interviewed aiko at the end of 2012 - had the opportunity to speak with her in depth about her album and her concerts. This columnist is well-known for his culture and romance columns, and has also written book adaptations of romance movies... Will he reveal what’s on aiko’s mind too?
(Thank you parasmichael for the commission!)
When I’m spending time alone, sometimes I feel like I’m not sure where my dreams end and reality begins (laughs)
―― Your nationwide tour of Japan’s already begun. How does it feel?
aiko: I just finished the second performance of the tour (at the time of this interview). I’m doing some of my older songs on this tour, and it’s made me happy to hear the audience’s voices get louder depending on the song. It really feels like they’ve been waiting for this album, and the concerts.
―― What’s the reasoning behind the title?
aiko: I included the season in the titles when I released the albums “Sakura no Ki no Shita (Underneath the Cherry Tree)”, “Natsufuku (Summer Clothes)” and “Aki Soba ni Iru yo (Fall, I’m By Your Side)”, so they bring up memories and things about the time period they came out in. I guess you could say I’m able to make up different albums for each season. “May” can also mean ‘possibility’, so it has the added meaning of dreams coming true.
―― You’ve used the word ‘dream’ a lot in your songs.
aiko: Yes, I do. I write most of my songs when I’m at home alone. Even if I was just spending time with my friends, parents or staff members, once I’m in my room it’s like WHAM! The world and my whole concept of time just changes.
―― You feel like you’ve changed channels, almost.
aiko: Yeah. I’m always doing things on my own and staying up late. When I’m in my house thinking about things and daydreaming, time passes but there’s this place in my head where everything’s just stopped. It’s sort of like I’m not sure where my dreams end and reality begins. (laughs)
―― Dreams and reality seem to be parallel worlds in a lot of your songs.
aiko: They are, aren’t they? I was going for that with this album especially. The songs all got started with something that actually happened but the rest of the song develops within dreams.
Lately I’ve come to accept that I’m fine with living my life freely
―― I hope you don’t mind me going back to my impression of the album, but I thought it was excellent. Your last album “Awa no You na Ai Datta (Our Love Was Like a Bubble)” was so gutsy and almost manly for a woman. This album is also bold in its own way. It’s pretty standard to describe your work as ‘bittersweet’, ‘cute’ or ‘impassioned’, but this time you also seemed really cool and just downright profound to me.
aiko: That makes me so happy! Thank you very much.
―― I feel like you’ve made some huge changes. Not just the new arrangers that worked on the album. Maybe something psychologically too?
aiko: I think that started a little bit before “Awa no You na Ai Datta”. I’ve been wanting to change, even if it happens slowly, and I’ve wanted to try new things. I find myself unconsciously resisting new things too, and sometimes people disapprove at first. But I wasn’t worried by that-- I’d already made up my mind to try. I think that’s how I was able to make a changeup song like “Yume Miru Sukima (Room to Dream)” a single.
―― I really like that song. It feels like a brilliant daydream that’s gone in an instant.
aiko: Thank you very much.
―― Speaking of which, a few months ago you said that you used to worry a lot about what people thought of you, but now you don’t really mind if people hate you aside from the people who are important to you.
aiko: I’m finally at that age now! It was one of my big hang-ups. Like, I worried about not waking up in the morning and eating three square meals a day ― living a ‘normal’ life ― or about not being able to say what was on my mind the right way. I didn’t have any self confidence except for those moments when I was writing songs by myself. I lived my whole life wondering to do. But lately I’m just like, “It’s fine, I’ll live my life freely.”
―― You’ve come to accept yourself the way you are. (laughs)
aiko: I’ve accepted both the good and the bad. (laughs) So now I’m gonna give each and every one of my dreams a shape, one at a time. From now on I’m gonna take all those precious things that vanished like dreams in the blink of an eye, and give them all a form in my head. From now on I’ll live my life, eating my dreams as I go.
―― So you’ve gotten stronger, but you also spend more time deep inside your own head. Would you say the way you live life is the same way you make music then?
aiko: Maybe so. I’ve been spending more and more of my days off alone at home. (laughs) But I made an album, and it’s fun to me so I guess it’s fine. I might just be super aggressive by the next time we see each other though!
―― I interviewed you three years ago in 2012... Did that happen then too? (laughs)
aiko: No. (laughs) Maybe I won’t really change all that much. But that’s not something I can help either.
―― Didn’t you talk about your childhood the other day when you were on (the Fuji TV show) “Bokura no Jidai (Our Era)”? You said, “On the outside I played more actively and diplomatically than anyone else, but when I got home I stayed in my room and all I did was listen to the radio on my headphones alone.” I think there’s a connection there with the current you, aiko. Now that you’re 40, you’ve accepted both those sides of yourself and unified them.
aiko: Yeah, exactly!
―― The aiko who almost can’t get enough communication during her concerts, and the aiko who dreams all by herself co-exist together.
aiko: I think so too.
I’m able to better immerse myself in writing music when I’m having some kind of problem
―― Let’s talk more specifically about the songs. I thought the first song “Nanji Nanpun (What Time is It?)” was especially amazing. The arrangement of the melody and the story that plays out in the lyrics was so unexpected. How should I put it... it’s got some drama. It was exciting.
aiko: I guess it is surprising that I started the song with Kansai slang. I wasn’t sure if people outside of Kansai would understand. (laughs)
―― It starts with you looking for a piece of candy and finding a ring you meant to throw away, though. (laughs)
aiko: That really did happen to me. I was rummaging through my bag for a cough drop that day and found something that made me go, “Oh, so THAT’s where it was!” That “How come I couldn’t find it when I was looking for it before?” feeling is what started it all.
―― The fourth line in the first verse is very symbolic. You’re thinking about the things you lost together while you were in a romantic relationship, and the things you were looking for.
aiko: I’ve always had a bad habit of leaving important things all over the place like some kind of treasure hunt. And sometimes, I forget where I put them. I look and look but can’t find it, and then after a few years pass I find it and go, “A-HA! You were here all along!” It’s almost a game to me. (laughs)
―― You mysteriously find things after you’ve stopped looking for them. (laughs)
aiko: Yeah. Sometimes I’m happy to find things, but sometimes bad things happen because of it, or it’s already stopped being important to me by the time I find it, or it even turns into something I’m glad I lost. That’s sad. The song came about because it’s been a bad habit of mine for a while.
―― Speaking of relationships between lovers, it’s sort of like when you both can’t bring yourself to say the things you really want to say and end up growing apart because of it.
aiko: Right. In this song, it’s over because they did that and slowly grew apart.
―― In the first half you’re mostly narrating, but then you get to the chorus and the melody soars for a fleeting moment. The words ‘goodbye’ and ‘I love you’ are repeated, and your vocals are so passionate. The surprise attack made my eyes water.
aiko: I sang the second half of it very naturally and emotionally. Is that how people feel way when they hear me? I’d be so happy if that were the case.
―― By the way, when did you write the song?
aiko: It was this February [2016]. This album has a lot of recent songs on it. To me it feels like I was able to make my current everyday life into an album.
―― But there’s a lot more profoundly sad and heartbroken songs on it than usual. (laughs)
aiko: There are, aren’t there? (laughs)
―― You’ve said before that you write sad songs when you’re feeling happy, though.
aiko: Yes. (laughs) It doesn’t matter whether I’m happy or unhappy, I’m able to better immerse myself in writing when I’m having some kind of problem. Being sad or frustrated or negative feeds into that better than being happy, which turns on my songwriting switch.
―― You’re just a very sensitive person. Do you have a really hard time when sad things happen to you?
aiko: I do! (laughs) It only gets easier for me when I’m able to turn it into a song. Lately I’ve been getting letters from people who listen to those songs telling me they feel the same way though. I tell ‘em not to worry about it ‘cause there’s actually quite a few awkward girls out there. Maybe there’s about the same proportion of guys like that out there too. Now I’m like, “Oh well, whatever then!” (laughs)
―― (laughs)
aiko: I have pretty extreme emotional ups and downs, and I tend to nitpick. Even though there might just be a lot of difficult and painful things that happen to me, I just enjoy myself anyway now. It might bother any partner of mine, but even that’s not really a bad thing. (laughs) I’m pretty sure there’s someone out there who can accept me just the way I am.
―― Oh wow, you’ve achieved enlightenment there. Didn’t you say on TV once that an old lover told you that if they dated you, to leave him out of your songs?
aiko: Yeah! That... fell on deaf ears. (laughs)
―― You said it yourself, you get self-contained in your own daydreams. You probably seem very mischievous and flighty from your his point of view. (laughs)
aiko: Hey now! I really do think about what I should be doin’ all the time. (laughs) But it IS true that whatever I’m feeling from moment to moment ends up in the song I’m writing. I have so much fun in my head when I’m alone that sometimes when I go see my lover, I come off really cold. That even makes me feel bad.
―― That’s because you’ve always been so romance-oriented.
aiko: Whaa!? Speaking of which, a long time ago someone told me I’d be in love my whole life. People kept telling me so many times I’ve lost track. And I thought, “That’s not true!” I guess I’m just alright with thinking by myself and playing make-believe in my head.
―― I think no matter which path you end up taking, you’ll be falling in love your entire life.
aiko: You sound like a fortune-teller. (laughs)
Now that I’m over 40, I’d rather just have fun
―― “Kakera no Kokoro (My Heart, in Pieces)” looks back on your teen years, and to me it felt linked to the last track “Aoi Hi (Blue Days)” because the words ‘dream’ and ‘star’ come up in both songs. You keep dreaming all by yourself, but also keep hoping to look at the stars with someone else.
aiko: That was a completely unconscious thing. I think my hopes and prayers came through there.
―― The thought ‘Someday...’ in “Aoi Hi” is pretty hopeful.
aiko: But I’m not sure when that will be. (laughs)
―― When “Yume no Naka no Massugu na Michi (The Straight Path in My Dreams)” came out (in 2005), you talked about wanting to keep walking down the road you were on even though you couldn’t see what was up ahead, which shares ties with the song “Tunnel” (on the album “BABY”). Wouldn’t you say that song is about hoping you’ll be able to walk with someone even though you’ve broken up with your lover, while still walking down the path you personally believe in?
aiko: Yeah, exactly.
―― As I listen to the last track “Aoi Hi”, you’re still walking down that same path now, aiko. And you’re hoping to see the people you’ve met and love so far again someday.
aiko: Different people all walk down their own different paths in life. I just hope I’ll get to see them again in the end, and when I do, I’ve always hoped that I’ll be able to stand there and be proud. I wanna ask them how they’ve been with a smile on my face. It’s something I’ve always thought. There’s a line in “Eriashi (Back of Your Neck” (2003) about it too that goes, “If I find you 5 years from now / I’ll hold my head high and say hello”.
―― That’s right! You joked lately that you’re sort of wanting to get married now. You’ve been walking down your own path. I’m sure you’re just waiting for someone to come along at the right time.
aiko: I am. I definitely wouldn’t get married or nothin’ just ‘cause. Music is an absolute for me. If I fall in love in a split second, it might happen pretty fast though. (laughs)
―― As someone in the same situation, it’s one of those “If it’s not meant to be, it’s not meant to be” sort of things.
aiko: I totally get that! (laughs) Now that I’m over 40, I’d rather just have fun. Although I’ve had plenty of fun already. (laughs)
―― It gives you the guts to say that either way, things will turn out just fine. (laughs)
aiko: It really does! I’m gonna make the whole world try that. (laughs) I wanna have fun whether I’m alone or with somebody. The only thing I can really do when things are hard or sad is enjoy myself anyway. Being like, “Oh, it’s fine! I can just write a song!” helps me brace for the worst. (laughs)
―― Our last question’s pretty standard. (laughs) What are the dreams you’d like to have now, and the view you’d like to see?
aiko: Hmmm. First and foremost would be to stand on stage with a smile after singing my heart out at the very end of a concert.
―― That’s a dream you keep making come true, right?
aiko: But, more. ...Recently I’ve been dreaming about how there’s no such thing as a ticket to show up in the dreams of the guy who’s been on my mind 15 times. (laughs)
―― He’d fall in love with you if he dreamed about you 15 times for sure!
aiko: I’m always thinking to myself, “They don’t sell that.” I want a ticket that makes me appear in his dreams instead of love potions.
―― Wouldn’t a love potion be faster?
aiko: Nah, that’s too direct for me. (laughs)
―― Hahaha!
aiko: I wanna be in the dreams of people I haven’t even met yet. (laughs)
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