#god i love asa she’s so fucked up and weird but she’s trying so hard!!
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power coming to love two humans despite originally believing they all deserve to die and aki coming to love two devils despite originally hating them and thinking it was impossible for him to care about one and denji who toes the line between the two coming to love aki and power like siblings despite his history of being abused by men and seeking validation through sexual/romantic relationships with women. and denji turning down a vacation to take care of power and aki trying to keep them from having to fight the gun devil and them going with aki to visit his family’s grave and lightening the mood for him and trying to cook him dinner and power asking denji to find her even though she won’t know him and to love her until she’s her again anyway i hate this manga for making me sob hysterically multiple times.
#sorry god i was thinking about how sweet it is that denji’s trying to make all that money so nayuta can go to college#and every time i think about part 2 denji i spiral like he’s been through so much he’s lost so much but he’s still got such a good heart#and he’s so nice to asa even after she was so weird and mean to him why do i care so much about this stinky chainsaw boy#god i love asa she’s so fucked up and weird but she’s trying so hard!!#also yoshida just showing up out of nowhere with no excuse like girl why are you just at the aquarium in ur school uniform#i hope he keeps being weird but never does anything significant. i don’t trust that kid but it’d be so funny if he’s just there for funsies#but also the dynamic of denji asa and yoshida being a wildly unsuccessful love triangle is funny to me#like i don’t think that’s actually what’s happening but it’s funnier than shipping any configuration of the three#like none of them are actually into each other but they just keep striking out and getting mad about it#beth watches csm#csm spoilers#i love to make a post about chainsaw man and then the tags are completely unrelated but still about chainsaw man
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Possibly a big ask to get just out of the blue but: what are your Supernatural season opinions? Which one is your favorite? Least favorite? Did you watch long enough to have showrunner opinions? If yes, which showrunner is your favorite and which is your least favorite? If no, which season that you haven't seen most tempts you to get back in the Supernatural trenches? Answer exactly as many of these questions as you want to. Carry on.
You know, I am not sure how long this Ask has been sitting here, because my Tumblr notifications are borked -- I hope not long? If long, I apologize, I wasn't ignoring it on purpose!
Okay, so I have more than the average number of Supernatural opinions, probably, but I'll try to keep this to a dull roar! Inside Me There Are Two Wolves: one of them believes that only the original five seasons of Supernatural are worth defending in any way, the other really, really loves seasons 11 and 12. The Kripke Era had a lot of problems, particularly in its treatment of women as bodies without agency and its treatment of Black men as literal predators, but also for all its flaws, it had a kind of coherence and narrative drive that comes from being the product of a dude who obviously cared about it and had something to say. Taken on its own, seasons 1-5 are a brutal and compelling story about the traumas of being men in a universe that's been absolutely destroyed by its Fathers: on almost every level, it's about these abandoned and brutalized boys discovering that their entire reality is the product of an abandoning and brutalizing God, populated by authority figures who are universally demanding and arrogant, but also completely fucking useless. It's quite literally about Sam and Dean trying to hang onto their souls and their own agency when everyone around them wants them forced into shapes formed by conflicts that fell into place at the beginning of time. It's hard to remember, but back then even the Lucifer plotline was about that! It was about the damage fathers inflict on sons! Things were about things, in the Kripke era!
Then we get to the Gamble era, and. Woof. I actually -- don't hate 6 and 7? Like everything Sera Gamble touches, those two seasons are kinetic and memorable and funny and weird and hit some really, really great emotional beats. There are Some Problems, but Gamble was saddled with a pretty dire job, trying to find a way forward after everything about the series really had effectively wrapped up in Swan Song, and I think she did an okay job. People got mad at her for killing Castiel, but you know, damn, I give her this: that was a storyline. Like, this character who was fresh out of the cult he was raised in becoming disillusioned by how messy normal life is and deciding that maybe people need better authoritarianism instead -- the way he's driven to take too many risks by the fact that he's abandoned and desperate -- Crowley as a legitimately scary villain while still being charming af -- and the tragic resolution of Castiel being torn apart by both his hubris and his heroism. It's actually really good. I understand why people didn't want what Gamble was serving up -- and I'm able to like it because it was undone later, you know? -- but she really did commit to a full season of character arc and saw it all the way through to an earned ending, and I gotta respect that.
I genuinely hate seasons 8 and 9. I think everyone is a dick, particularly but not exclusively Dean, to the point where I just find it a bummer to watch. I mean, you get Benny, and I love Benny. You get, I dunno, bits and bobs of decent episodes, but overall they are very fucked up seasons in my opinion. So Carver era is on thin fucking ice with me, but I do think you start to get a rebound in season 10 with the Mark of Cain stuff, although I wish they'd managed to keep Cain around longer. All the really good Claire stuff starts happening, which is nice because Claire, but also because for once the show is really letting itself go back and deal with the mess these protagonists leave behind them constantly. Castiel and Claire have maybe the most interesting non-Winchester relationship on the show. Oh, and Rowena shows up around here too, right? Love her. So the back half of Carver, 10 and 11, are starting to really gain traction for me. The world is building outward, secondary characters are starting to be genuine characters in their own right, the politics of Heaven and Hell get a little richer and more interesting. The show is really starting to feel like it takes place in a universe, which is great because we love the Frigging Winchesters, but they shouldn't be the only thing going, right? We have 15 seasons to get through! Season 11 is basically bracketed by what are probably my two favorite Supernatural episodes: Baby and Don't Call Me Shurley. (I think I'm the world's only living Metatron fan; I fucking love that little dude.)
Dabb takes over in 12, and I really, really, genuinely love season 12. I fucking love Mary. There are so many episodes I adore -- Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox is a special favorite of mine, and I remain pissed off that the Banes twins never made it to recurring status, bluntly that feels wildly racist to me -- probably the best three-episode streak in the show is Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets to Regarding Dean to Stuck In the Middle (With You), three just almost perfect episodes. So I was poised to really love the Dabb era. I wanted to! My body was ready!
And I do really love the first chunk of season 13, the Widow Winchester arc. Obviously I'm a romantic, love that for me, but it's just also really good? The acting, the writing, the psychological complexity of Dean wanting Jack to be Bad so he has an outlet for his anger and Sam wanting Jack to be Good so he can retroactively parent himself and raise a Lucifer-tainted child who isn't crippled by self-loathing. Billie's great, and it looks like she's going to start being one of the major powers of the universe. Unfortunately -- with the occasional exception of this or that solid episode -- that's kind of the end of Pretty Good Supernatural. Season 13 kind of unravels; season 14 always feels like it's looking for itself (which is a bummer, because I wanted very much to care about Michael); season 15 is, idk. Idk about any of it, it's all pretty pointless. I feel bad complaining on some level, because the show's been on for like fourteen years at this point! It's kinda justified in feeling a little worn out. But the reality is that the later seasons systematically undo all the expansion that had excited me earlier -- the Wayward Sisters crew pretty much vanishes when the spinoff isn't picked up, Naomi and the angels stop doing anything, Crowley's gone, Mary's gone for much of it. We're just kind of futzing around with monsters who don't seem to matter (very much including Lucifer, who hasn't mattered in ages) and a lot of Jack, who. I try not to shit all over, because I know he's a popular character, but I find him just ungodly boring. Everything in the last two and a half season just feels like it's headed nowhere in particular, and also it bored me. The Empty deal is just sadness porn; it doesn't have any resonance or meaning in terms of Castiel's character, it's just him agreeing to die for his kid, which is okay, it means he's a loving dad, which he is, but there's no conflict there, ergo no real drama. It's just mean; it happens because it'll make us sad, and no other reason. Rowena is the only strong secondary character left, and her ending also doesn't feel particularly relevant to her, it's just a generic Sacrifice to Save the World. Everything just feels like they're autogenerating plotlines, rather than letting the actual needs and drives of the characters shape the narrative. So while I have this weird split personality with Carver where I either hate what he's doing or I love it, most of the Dabb era is just. There. It doesn't make me feel anything except kind of tired and embarrassed. Which is a bummer, because I have an inexplicable fondness for Dabb, probably just because of how much I love s12. I wanted to love his seasons! I did love his first season! I feel like maybe something happened when the CW rejected Wayward Sisters? I know that was kind of his darling, and it feels like maybe losing that kind of sucked the joy out of him, and he's kind of checked-out by the end. That's genuinely just my guess, however.
That's Professor Milo's Intro to Supernatural Studies, don't forget to fill out your course survey on the way out!
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I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! GOM reacting to other dudes catcalling and trying to hit on their s/o while they're out on a date? I feel like that'd be interesting heh. Please keep writing this blog is so good!!
THANK YOU!! ^^ This request is so good, I can’t! Love me someprotective boys!
-May
Warning: Some swearing for Aomine!
Kuroko:
Neither of you had thought of anything bad that could happen. Youwere walking home from Maji Burgers where you had something to eatafter your date in the city. Kuroko’s hand was intervined withyours, dangling between your bodies. He was just telling you somestory about a match he had with Seirin last year when you suddenlyheard the voices behind you.
“Hey, sexy! What are you doing here all alone this late?” Itwas some guy walking up behind you. Unfortunately, he seemed to betall, taller than Kuroko and way taller than you.
And if it wasn’t bad enough already, a second one came up behindthe first, an even nastier look on his face. “Yeah, girl! Do youneed any help getting home?” a smirk was on his lips and heextended a hand towards you.
What the hell where you gonna do? Kuroko wouldn’t be able totake on these guys. Oh right! Kuroko! “I-I’m not alone... M-myboyfriend’s here!” you stuttered out and lifted you arm to showoff your extended hand.
To find it empty. This was like the worst time ever for yourboyfriend to vanish!
“Aww, look, she thinks she’s got a boyfriend!” The secondguy laugh and elbowed his buddy in the side. “Should we show herwhat a real boyfriend i-”
“I’d really rather not have you do that. Now would you pleaseleave ______ alone, so we can continue this date?”
It was almost hilarious how the big tough guys started to choke ontheir breath as Kuroko suddenly appeared right in front of theireyes.
“Holy shit, where did he come from?!” the taller one asked,taking cautious steps backwards. Kuroko’s stern glare wasn’tmaking it better for them either. “I don’t no man, but it’sscary, let’s go!” And with that they ran of, still cursing underther breath.
“I’m really sorry this happened, ____.” he apologized andtook your hand back in his own, squezing it gently.
“It’s alright. You were there after all.” you smiled back athim.
Kise:
“Oho, what have we got here?”
There was a sudden voice very near you, pulling you out of yourthoughts. Confused, you took a step back, only to be confronted withsome creepy guy’s face up in yours.
“Your sissy boyfriend over there seems to be busy, so how aboutI keep you some company, eh?” his voiced was a weird mix betweenintimidating and trying to seduct you. You honestly just wanted torun away.
“Leave me alone...” you said quietly, hoping he would just goaway if you showed no interest in him at all. Sadly, that didn’tseem to be case at all.
“C’mon sweety, don’t play hard to get with me.”
You took a step backwards, trying to ge away from the creepy guy,when you suddenly bunped into another chest behind you. Half-afraidit would be yet another guy you hastily turned around, only to bewashed over with relief when you found Kise hugging you tightly tohis chest, his embrace making you feel safer at once.
“Haven’t you heard her? She’s not interested.” Kise said,his voice icy and lacking all of his usual playful and cheeryattitude. “So get away, how pathetic can you even be. Picking on agirls who’s on a date.” he spat and held you even tighter.
Even though he was acting up all tough for this guy, you couldfeel his hands shaking at your back.
You heard an annoyed huff and the slowly retreating steps behindyou, meaning that damn guy was finally gone. Kise relaxed around you,now leaning down to hug you properly and you took time to inhale hisscent.
“Are you alright, _____cchi? He didn’t touch you, did he? God,I’m so sorry!” he mumbled and looked you all over once he let yougo from his arms. His face was twisted in worry.
“Yeah, it’s okay. Thank you, Ryouta.” you answered and tooka step forward, stading on your tip toes. Your signal for asking fora kiss.
Midorima:
Midorima and you were standing by the small ice cream booth at thebeach. Even though he wasn’t exactly the beach person, Oha Asa didsay that sand was his lucky item today, so he was fine with it.You were also pretty sure he had been blushing when you got reallyexcited at his suggestion of coming here.
The both of you were having your ice cream in peace, a comfortablesilence while you watched over the sand and waves and the lots ofpeople around here.
That comfortable silence was broken when there was suddenly astrange guy stading uncomfortably close to the both of you, givingyou a weird look.
“Uhm, excuse me?” you asked, making clear you wereuncomfortable with him being there. Judging by his look this hintflew right over his head.
“You’re looking pretty sexy.” he slurred and tried to reachout for your face, if it hadn’t been for a hand wrapped in tapesuddenly slapping him away. When you looked up to Midorima’s faceyou could practically see the concealed fury boil under his coolface. The look was really intimidating.
“And wha exactly do you think you’re doing there?” hehissed, pressing the man’s arms back down.
“Oh, shut up you nerd, how did you even get a girl like her?Luck or something?” the stanger laughed. “I mean, look ather, no sexy girl would go for some glasses nerd like you!”
In that moment you could literally see your boyfriend’s patiencesnapping.
It took a few steps and he was towering over that creep, armspushing you behind him swiftly. “What do you think is giving youthe right to speak of her like that. You don’t even have the rightto look.” he growled.
The guy, who had clearly underestimated Midorima’s physicalbuild from the few feet away, took some cautious steps back. “Yo,chill man. She’s all yours. No need to bitch about it.” he saidand held his hands up, slowly backing away.
As soon as he was gone from sight, Midorima turned around to youand looked at you, somewhat protective and somewhat worried. “Youare okay, aren’t you?” he asked and stood back in his sport frombefore.
“Don’t worry, I’m all good.” you answered and then gavehim a smirk. “After all, you saved me really heroically,Shintarou.”
“Shut up, _____.” he stuttered, hiding his slight blush bypushing up his glasses.
Aomine:
“Wow, look at that butt!”
At first you didn’t even realise that it was directed at you. Only when the words were followed by a sharp whistle you began to turn around. Aomine and you were on a date to the cinema and he was just getting you some popcorn while you waited by the entrance with your drinks.
When you turned you noticed a man standing begind you, making a show of letting his eyes wander over your body. Yopu shrunk into yourself.
“No thank you.” you said politely, trying to wave him off as quickly as possible and started looking around for Aomine.
“Don’t be like that. What is a beauty like you doing all alone here anyway? Isn’t that sad? Watching a movie by herself when she has so much to offer.” he said, looking you up and down like prey again. Didn’t this asshole even care that there were other people around here?
“I’m not alone, I’m here with my boyfriend.” you anwered now a little more stern. Looking at your drink, you wondered if you would have to throw it at him. Where the hell was your boyfriend, this was starting to get way too scary. Little did you know he used the moment you had your concentration away from him to step forward.
His hand barely stroked the side of your face and your mouth was already open to scream when he was suddenly gone. You almost didn’t realise what was happening until you heard the shouts coming from the floor at your feet.
“You pathetic motherfucker!” Aomine yelled, his furious gaze fixed on the guy. The both of them were lying on the ground, popcorn sorrounding them.
“Aomine!” you gasped, torn between relief and worries. You didn’t have too much time to thin about it with the security coming towards you though.
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“All I did was fucking defending you, why the hell did they throw us out?!” he cursed, wrapping his big jacket around shoulders.
“Daiki. You literally tackled him to the ground.”
“He was about to touch you. Would you rathe have that? We can go for that the next time.”
“No, no. Of course. Thank you. That was really cool, actually.” you smiled at him and you swore you could see him smirk to himself.
Murasakibara:
“______chin, I don’t like how that guy is looking at you.” Murasakibara grumbled as you two walked around the Kanto Matsuri festival together.
“What? Who do you mean?” you asked frantically looking around. You had been so busy looking at all the lanterns and helping to carry Atsushi’s food that you hadn’t even noticed that somebody was looking at you.
The man that had been checking you out for a while didn’t make it hard to spot him though. No, instead he took some long steps toward you, cutting into your way.
“Who do we have here? Not bad, not bad.” he whisteled and extended his hand towards you. “I happen to know this place very well, want me to take you on a tour?”
You couldn’t believe how blatantly this shameless guy was daring to flirt with you when it was clearly visible that Atsushi was standing right next to you! Anger began to start bubbling up in your chest and your grip on the bag you were carrying tightened.
“Excuse me, but can you literally not see that I’m already here with someone? By the way, we live here too, I really don’t need you to show me around.” you spat at him and turned your chin up.
“Alright, alright, no need to be such a bitch about it, god...” he sighed annoyedly, not even registering how much worse he was making his situation. “That damn freak is not good enough for you, does he even fit?”
This time you didn’t even have the time to react to his words before your boyfriend took a long stride forward and grabbed a fistfull of the strangers collar. “No one dares to speak to _____chin like that.” he growled, towering tall over that guy. “You wanna get crushed?”
Of course, the guy was running off in a matter of seconds. If he wanted to, Murasakibara yould be very intimidating and you loved it.
“Thank you, Atsushi.” you sighed, slightly leaning against his side. “What an asshole, who even does that?”
“Hn. Dunno.” he grunted, obviously still calming down. There was a large protective hand on the top of your head for a second. The gesture he dd when he was silently telling you he loved you. You smiled back up at him. “C’mon, let’s look at the stands over there, ____chin.”
Akashi:
To be frank, it was almost fair to feel sorry for the guy that was wolf whisteling after you when Akashi and you passed him on your way to the restaurant you two were headed to.
Of course, Akashi immdiately stopped, tightly squeazing your hand before letting go of it completely.
He slowly turned around, giving the stranger that kind of look that you’d never want to recieve yourself. Using one of his arms, he tried to get you behind him a little. Then he started talking his voice icy.
“And what exactly do you think your doing there?” he asked. You could only imagine his expression by the freaked out look in the guy’s eyes. The guy cautiously took a few steps back.
“Sorry man, I’m going already.” he said, looking like a dog with his tail between his legs. “She’s all yours.”
“No you’re not.” Akashi immediately answered. His usually rather quiet voice attracting attention from the people surrounding you. “And for that matter she doesn’t belong to anybody, do you understand that?”
If the situation hadn’t been so tense you might have smiled at that. Your boyfriend was a gentleman as always.
“How do you dare to whistle at her? You’re lucky that I don’t care enough about pathetic folks like you or my forces would be at you in no time.” you were pretty sure you nearly never heard Akashi using such a sharp voice before. Maybe concerning family business, that was also a bit touchy. But other than that? Never.
“Ch-chill dude. I’m going for real.” the stranger stuttered, obviously scared shitless, before clumsily staggering a few steps backwards and then hurrying off into the opposite direction.
Akashi turned around to you at once. His eyes roamed over you, looking for any kind of discomfort. “Are you alright,____? Do you want to head home?” he asked worriedly, placing a hand at your arm.
It only made you smile at him. God, you were so blessed with this guy, honestly.
“No, it’s quite alright, Seijuro. Let’s get something to eat, he didn’t do anything to me.” you tried to calm him, motioning to finally continue your way.
“He wouldn’t have had a chance to.”
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A Family As Weird As Ours
Ficlet I may use later in my ace lowbones verse. This is when Billy and Ned are very new daddies and John and James get to meet little Roisin for the first time. This happens about 3,5 years after “Down Foreverdark Woods Trail” series.
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”Can I hold her?”
John was practically beaming when Ned carefully placed the little bundle in his arms. Roisin looked at the new face like she wasn’t sure wheather to start screaming or not. Ned hoovered over with a smile.
”Gonna say hi to uncle John, Roisin?”
”I’m hardly her uncle, Ned.”
John’s protest was not serious and Billy smiled.
”Since I have no siblings and you and James are my closest friends, I think there’s a pretty huge risk you’ll be her uncles of honour. Right, babe?”
”Quite huge.”
Billy kissed his husband. They were both a little tired and mostly in awe over their one month old daughter. Mary Read watched them from the carpet and Ned bent down to pet her.
”Hey there, girl. Don’t worry. Haven’t forgotten ’bout ye.”
Roisin started protesting and Ned very gently took her back. Billy looked at his husband and daughter with awe. Ned had his hair in a ponytail and wore a Behemoth t-shirt. He held their little girl so carefully in his arms. John looked at her babygro.
”I take it the rule about no band logos on babies got overruled.”
Billy snorted.
”You mean I got overruled. Never had a chance to make an actual rule about it.”
”Wanker.”
Ned grinned and Billy gave him a soft tug in the hair. Their daughter’s babygro was black with the Bathory goat printed on it. Ned smiled at John.
”Don’t worry. This little bundle has plenty of colorful stuff too.”
”I’m already planning our first uncle and niece of honour clothes shopping… I strongly feel she’ll need me, since you two have no taste what so ever.”
”Hey!”
”Look who’s talking!”
John just laughed and let Roisin grab his finger. The human poodle, by the way dressed in a cyan blue v-neck t-shirt and brown slacks and not exactly a fashion oracle, looked a little mesmerized by her.
”How big a risk? For the uncle thing?”
Billy exchanged a look with Ned and then cleared his throat.
”Well, you two are family and you, John, are the closest I’ve ever had to a brother so…”
John immedately got teary-eyed and James, as always a bit uncomfortable with that, frowned and handed his husband a tissue. Billy patted John’s shoulder and got pulled down for a kiss on cheek. Then the human poodle grinned.
”It just happens that I went on a little shopping trip a while ago and…”
The other three men groaned in unison and John’s smile widened. He left the sofa, walked out in the hallway and came back with a bag. James sighed and his husband pinched him. He gave Billy the bag containing a pair of soft ballerina baby slippers in pink satin and small teddy in ballet clothes. Ned almost squeaked.
”God, John, they’re adorable! How did ye even find them?”
”Lets just say an old dancer has his connections.”
John practically beamed and James tried to look unaffected but failed. Billy gave them a teasing look.
”Sure you’re not re-thinking this childfree thing, John?”
”No way, mama. I just want to be a very gay uncle who can show this little bundle where to shop, how to dance, which guys and girls to avoid and how to get away with murder.”
Billy smiled. He didn’t mean a word about John changing his mind. Roisin yawned and Ned arranged the blue baby sling and rose from the sofa.
”She sleeps faster if ye walk around with’er.”
He started walking with the bundle and Billy made more tea. James entangled a hand in his husband’s unruly curls.
”You think that would work with poodles too?”
”Say that again and I’ll send your mother nudes on you.”
”Fucks sake, John!”
”Gross!”
The two ace husbands made disgusted faces and James muttered something about giving John a cold bath and follow Billy’s and Ned’s example with separate bedrooms. John looked hurt.
”You don’t love me anymore.”
”Separate bedrooms doesn’t mean you don’t love each other. Just look at Ned and Billy.”
Billy refilled the teacups.
”Actually we mostly share beds. Especially now.”
Ned, who walked around with their now almost sleeping daughter, rocking her gently, nodded at his husband.
”Hon, can ye get me the pills?”
”Of course, babe.”
John looked at Ned, smiling very mild.
”Are you tired, Ned?”
”No more than other new parents, I guess. Don’t worry, John, ti’s me regular afternoon meds.”
The reassuring smile that reached Ned’s one seeing eye, was warm. John didn’t let people close easily, but the few he opened up to, he cared deeply for. Billy put the pill in Ned’s mouth and handed over a glass of water. The bundle was now asleep on her da’s chest and James obliviously stroke away one of his husband’s unruly curls.
”What’s she gonna call you?”
Billy, who was embracing his husband and daughter from behind, resting his chin on Ned’s hair, looked surprised.
”Daddy and da, of course.”
”And who’s which one?”
”Ned’s Irish, James. Who do you think will be da?”
John laughed at them.
”I bet she’ll call you Marky Mark and One-Eye.”
”Oh, piss off, uncle poodle.”
There was no heat in Ned’s voice and John beamed again, nudging James who swirled a freckled arm around his human poodle in a, for him, unusually affectionate way around others.
”Are you gonna have a christening?”
Ned shook his head.
”We’re not Christian, so that would be a bit hypocritical. And besides, we’d just end up in a fight between me parents. Da hasn’t gotten over our wedding yet, and he’d raise hell if we’d get her baptized in another church than the Catholic. And then he’d start nagging at maw, then me siblings and the rest of our family.”
”But… you’ve been married for almost six years. He’s not over that yet?”
”Of course not. He’s a complete eejit and always has been.”
”Your mother’s happy tho?”
James looked concerned and Ned smiled.
”She’s over the moon.”
He kissed the tiny, curly head in the baby sling. John nodded at her.
”Where were her biological parents from?”
”Her maw was Lebanese but her da’s unknown.”
”So, half Lebanese with one English and one Irish dad, one Aussie uncle and one English.”
James rolled his eyes.
”You sound like a dog breeder. We’re not a fucking pet zoo.”
”You’re the one petting my hair, hon.”
James blushed and removed his hand from John’s curls.
”You’ve thought of more names than Roisin yet?”
He was trying to change subject and everyone knew that. Billy scratched his head.
”Well, since Roisin is after Ned’s granny, we decided on Nour, after her biological mom and Haley after my dad.”
”Roisin Nour Haley Manderly-Low then. Roisin Nour Haley Manderly-Low, dinner’s on the table. Roisin Nour Haley Manderly-Low, do you take this…”
Billy, Ned and James all sighed.
”You think you could let her grow out of the ballet slippers before you start looking for wedding dresses, babe? You’re already harrassing Elle and Charles about Thomas’ wardrobe.”
”But he’s so damn cute in bowtie…”
”He’s two.”
”Oh my God, they grow so fast…”
John was teary-eyed again and Ned had a hard time not laughing.
”I promise, that if the bundle would want to start dancing, ye’ll get to pick out the clothes with her on one condition.”
”And that would be?”
”That ye don’t get upset if she quits and becomes a true metal head like her da.”
Billy just shook his head.
”I bet she’ll ditch ballet, metal and football completely just because we want her to like it.”
Roisin, who still slept in the babysling, made a little sound in her sleep, drooling on her da’s chest and Ned grinned.
”Look, she’s already drooling over Behemoth. We’re gonna sacrifice so many virgins and goats to Lucifer, aren’t we, duckling? Yeah, yer da’s gonna teach ye all about Asa Bay, the number of the beast, Cliff Burton and how to cook priests…”
John crossed his arms and looked at Billy and James.
”That’s it. From now on, I demand to to be erased from your list of people to be used as bad examples.”
Billy exchanged an exasperated look with James and then looked at his apparently soon-to-be ballet dancing, goat killing and priest cooking daughter and the man who couldn’t take his one seeing eye off her.
”With a family as weird as ours, I think she’ll turn out just fine.”
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My MPHFPC Movie Notes
Love the opening credits, fits spirit and theme of the book
(music in general is good)
Hate the different opening line – rather generic imo.
Asa please I know you’re a good actor. Please stop being so flat.
“Jake”
This all feels rushed.
Grandpa has lost his marbles and his acting ability.
“That guy gave me the heebie-jeebies” is all you have to say after nearly hitting a man?
“Jake” was in the house for only 10 seconds, didn’t even bother checking the whole house.
This opening is so boring that my foot fell asleep.
Was this the first take? There’s little to no emotion.
Grandpa Portman doesn’t sound like he’s dying. At all.
1943?! What’s the point of changing the date?!
Also, what’s the point of changing his last words which were a lot more mysterious?
C’mon dude, your grandpa just died! Show some emotion!!
Why do the hollows look like Slenderman rip-offs?
Dr. Golan’s a woman? I’m fine with this – but I won’t be later.
“A month ago,”? Wasn’t it more than a few months until he finally sought help? (I haven’t read the book in a while)
Asa is still a bit flat but he’s doing better in these scenes.
Tiny Jacob is super cute!
His acting is bad, though. This is a given for child actors.
The dad is an ornithologist. He wouldn’t change a bird documentary to a football game (although that was a bit funny.)
Why does Miss Peregrine look so young? In the book, she looks more like a mother waiting for her children to give her some goddamn grandkids.
Bronwyn is 9 now I guess.
Hugh is 11 now I guess.
“Where’s Emma? She could float.” SHE COULD NOT.
Grandpa Portman sounds more English than Polish. Throwing in a Polish nickname doesn’t convince me that he’s Polish.
“Little tiger”? He called him “Yakob.”
“No eyes,” in the book, Jacob tells a sketch artist that they have 2 like a normal mammal. This may be personal taste, but for me, monsters are scarier when they look more human.
Kids this age wouldn’t laugh! They’d see the picture of Millard and go “Holy shit! He’s invisible!” Kids are gullible, dammit. (I had this problem with the book as well.)
Funny how younger!Jacob dresses exactly like Asa.
Damn, kid, he said he didn’t want to talk about it! Chill!
Still 0 emotion, I guess.
“He was a wonderful grandpa, but not… such a great dad, you know?” Damn, that hits home for me – but doesn’t this talk happen later in the book? Like, this talk happens at the island.
Wait, the scene just ends there? No argument? Damn, Jake just doesn’t care that his dad is smack talking his idol.
JESUS fuckin’ twins.
Jacob’s cousins were brats and I believe teenagers as well, so why are they perfect lil’ angel twins that look 10 at the oldest?
Also, why is Jacob’s house so small? His mom is an heiress to a Wal-Mart type store-chain.
Cairnholm is apparently popular enough to warrant postcards.
And popular enough to warrant a spot in a travel book, wtf? It’s not even big enough to be seen on a map.
The dad looking at Jake like he’s crazy gives me life lmfao.
Cairnholm is 100% my aesthetic.
Where’s Kev???
What? But… Uncle Oggie is a relative of Martin?
Didn’t imagine Kev looking like that but okay.
Franklin is me trying to make friends tbh.
I’m so glad Worm and M.C. Dirty D made it in.
Aren’t the residents like… a bit afraid of the home themselves?
Aesthetic™
Wait, what? Oggie can see? He looks blind.
1943? At that point, Germany was taking a more defensive stance, doing lots of evacuating.
“And they were lovely, too.” In the book, Uncle Oggie claims they were strange and rarely spoke.
“3 months later”? He left the day after the loop was created!
Is that the dart competition I keep seeing on Vine?
Wait, why is Enoch there? I know they fucked with his character a lot but he probably joined after the loop was created since he’s from an older loop, otherwise he’d age forward ~30-40 years – so why is he next to (who I presume is) Abe, who left after the loop was made? (or in this case, before!)
Enoch’s little laboratory was in the basement, not upstairs.
The twins might’ve been in the loop at some point, but they certainly aren’t there when Jacob arrives.
Wait, so instead of chasing after them, he runs away? Jake’s a pussy.
And he trips and gets knocked unconscious by a rock. Wow.
Bronwyn, despite being the wrong age and having no personality, is at least cute and it’s fun to watch her carry Jake.
Why is Millard so tiny? You can say that his age is ambiguous, but in the book Jacob clearly states that his voice sounds like that of a young man’s, not a young child’s.
“You’re Emma!” (John Cena voice) Are you sure about that?
Why is Olive, like, 16? She’s supposed to be 7-9 years old (and ofc she has Emma’s powers instead.)
“She sent us to get you”? Why, though?
Standing there all creepy ain’t gonna make him want to follow you.
Jake doesn’t seem to see the change in the weather.
“I am the manager” reminds me of that one Tumblr comic.
Ngl, Millard would do this – if just for fun. He’s a little shit like that.
What’s the point of lighting the place on fire? They’re distracted enough.
Did they just steal someone’s horse?
Millard no longer has any personality out of “Yeah” and “Yep.”
Emma is not nearly bitchy enough. Or at all.
The house is gorgeous! It looks just like I imagined it!
What the fuck, why is Miss Peregrine so young? I know I mentioned this before but what the fuck.
“Right on time”?
“I had to kill them twice this month” WHAT. MISS PEREGRINE DOESN’T KILL UNLESS NECESSARY
Miss Peregrine is not nearly this creepy in the book.
THAT’S NOT ENOCH.
Why does he sound mildly Scottish? He’s from London and has a slight cockney accent.
From now own, every time I see Enoch, 5 years are taken off my life.
Why is Fiona 11 and English? She’s supposed to be in her late teens and Irish – not to mention, SHE DOESN’T TALK!
I don’t think Fiona’s powers make things huge.
“Imm-breen” it’s “imm-brinn”
Do the twins have names?
Claire looks cute!
I don’t think Millard, no matter his age, would be very interested in physical activity. He’s a brains over brawn kind of type, you know?
Kind of uncharacteristic of Hugh to send his bees after a friend.
I’m gonna cry. At least one of my babies looks right.
Horace feels… off. All the components of his personality are certainly there, but in different degrees than in the book.
I’m sorry, what? A daily chore that’s reset by the loop? Miss P, these are kids and teenagers! They’ll get bored of doing that every day! I know because I am a teenager!
That squirrel would be going crazy and scratching her up. I know this is a nitpick but squirrels are vicious, man.
Was this scene the only reason they swapped Emma and Olive’s peculiarities?
Why are her shoes so hard to take off? What if she has to get away in an emergency? She’s fucked!
Why’s it so hard to pull her down?
Emma doesn’t seem to heartbroken over Abe’s death. In the book, she bawled upon overhearing that he died.
This dialogue barely hints at Emma and Abe having a romantic relationship, making only people who read the book know this information. Non-book readers might just assume they were close friends.
Of course, instead of borrowing Victor’s clothes he has to borrow Abe’s.
God, am I the only one that hates looking at Finlay? He’s not ugly – a bit handsome actually! -- he’s just… kind of weird looking.
So… Olive is good friends with Enoch? Don’t get how they got that out of the book when they have no interactions in the first book.
His dolls are meant to be made of clay! Now he just looks like an older Sid.
The stop motion is terrible.
So, they care enough about Enoch’s character to remember that his parents ran a funeral parlor, but not enough to make him his actual character.
Did he not see Millard��s silverware moving? Did no one see it?
So, Enoch is clearly mad at the statement Horace made, so why hold back your retort by whispering? Was he sick on this day of filming?
No one needs that much carrot.
Hugh’s been living there for 70 years; pretty sure he’d never forget to put his net on.
Wait, so he remembered to bring it with him, but not to put it on?
S L U R M P
“She’s embarrassed in front of Jake.” Uh, Hugh, I think you flubbed your line, it’s “Claire don’t eat with the rest of us.”
Oh, thank god, she has the same peculiarity.
I’m crying, Claire is so adorable!
Enoch’s a bigger asshole than I remember him being in the books.
Although it wasn’t in the book, I do like the inclusion of the call from Abe. It makes no sense whatsoever, but I still like it.
Would Horace really be comfortable sharing his dreams – especially via projector?
“Some of his dreams are prophetic,” shouldn’t ‘some’ be ‘most’? Everyone’s dreams can hold some form of future-telling, albeit in an abstract way. If only some of his dreams are prophetic, that barely makes him peculiar.
I don’t get why Horace’s dreams are at all symbolic. They should be literal.
Why did he see Ms. Avocet get kidnapped when she, in fact, didn’t?
“Horace must’ve just had a bad dream, that’s all.” HIS DREAMS ARE PROPHETIC.
Wait, so they have a phonograph outside? And it works?
Why make Miss P creepier, but tone down the creepiness of the reset scene? Think of it: 9 children you barely know wearing gasmasks are singing an old song you don’t know to the tune of bombs falling. That’s a lot scarier than listening to the song on a phonograph.
I just remembered: they never offered the reason why Cairnholm gets bombed. In the book, it’s stated that the island had a sort of anti-aircraft gun which made it a target, but here the Germans simply bomb it to be seen as more evil than they already are.
I do admit, the reset scene does look beautiful.
Jake doesn’t seem as terrified, though.
Emma learning about cellphones is pretty cute.
And we’re back to talking about Abe.
“More than a few minutes,” it’s closer to hours, days even if we’re going by Library of Souls.
Already with Ms. Avocet?
(Cinema Sins voice) Jake’s dad reminds me too much of my own father in this scene.
Okay, so I’m assuming “Mr. Barron” is some wight higher-up? I know he’s not, but for the sake of the notes let’s pretend I don’t know.
Man, he really is my dad. He acts all weird and pretends like nothing happened later.
Who dresses like that in the 21st century!? I like the aesthetic too, but you don’t see me walking around in a Rococo period dress.
No one talks like this either.
That fuckin’ dart competition’s going to get me every time.
Who the fuck rests on their bed with their shoes on?
Bronwyn is cute but… I can’t get over the fact they made her younger and erased her character.
Would it kill someone to say, “Can we try that take again?”
WHY did they make Miss Peregrine so creepy? She was never this creepy!
Yeah, and he’s trying to warn you of potential danger. Also, can I ask where the fuck he got that letter?
Every time I see Finlay’s face a deep hatred resurfaces from the darkest corners of my heart.
All the kids in that room together just chilling is cute.
OKAY THIS IS WHAT PISSES ME OFF. I know for a damn fact that Enoch would never be mean to someone who was kind to him.
In the book, Bronwyn wanted nothing more than for Enoch to wake up Victor but go off I guess.
According to the timeline, HE SHOULD BARELY KNOW ABE.
That’s not how he brings them back to life, though? It’s not like he’s doing heart surgery, it’s more like he’s just gonna smell like death (literally) for most of the day.
Enoch being there as Jake realizes Victor’s dead really takes out a lot of the punch from the scene. Having him show up afterwards (like in the book) is better since it’s more like ‘Realization -> Confrontation’ instead of just… explaining and scaring.
I don’t know if Tim’s ever been around a normal human being before but usually you don’t see their heartbeat.
Okay, so… he can’t bring people back to life, only use them as puppets. First off, that’s gross, and second, that’s a nearly useless peculiarity.
How can tears roll down Victor’s cheek if he’s never conscious anymore? Dead people are known to shed tears, but it’s after they die and are decomposing, and Victor can’t decompose because he’s in a loop!
Does Miss P just do that on a regular basis?
Wasn’t that a rowboat?
That’s carbon dioxide, you can’t breathe that.
How is she swimming? Wouldn’t she just walk? She has lead shoes on!
I don’t think skeletons keep their hair.
Well how the hell does that work?
“Air, it’s my peculiarity.” No, it is not.
I’d rather trust a bunch of information I don’t want the people I love knowing with an adult, but okay.
Wait, so Emma has the Map of Days now?! It was stressed countless times in the trilogy how much Millard loves that damn thing and you give it to EMMA?!
Okay, WHAT? Barron is the leader now!? I guess Miss Peregrine’s brothers just don’t exist now!
“Bad peculiars”? They’re ex-peculiars, because they don’t have powers anymore!
They took the kids, too, you know.
Wait, while they’re at it, didn’t this conversation take place at night?
Just tell him how Abe could see monsters, then he’ll believe. No need to be dramatic.
Hollowgasts sure as fuck would not loop along with the townspeople, they’d be free to roam around or they’d get left behind. Also, Victor died AFTER the loop was made! He got tired of living there and tried to leave and died THIS IS SUCH A SIMPLE STORY TIM.
Did I mention that I hate how the hollowgasts look?
You could have told him earlier but okay.
I don’t remember any of this from the book.
“Tired of living in loops.” Caul was tired of peculiardom being a ‘matriarchy.’ Yes, there were some problems with how peculiar boys who could turn into birds were treated but overall Caul was crazy and narcissistic.
I guess there are only 13 wights, opposed to hundreds or even thousands.
Also, why are they all upper-class? I’d assume a lot would be lower.
Didn’t they also blow up half of Siberia?
EYEBALLS? It’s from consuming their souls! I guess Tim just wanted to put in some ugly ass imagery.
Wait, why are they still eating? They’re fine now!
Almost forgot Millard was in this fucking movie.
But they weren’t even going to try it again! It was a ploy! And why hold it where a normal person could find it!?
This ‘leaving’ bullshit pisses me off because it’s breaking so many fucking rules. Hollows can’t enter loops so leaving is more dangerous than staying, which is what she chose to do in the book!
Claire is so cute.
Makes a bit more sense that an old blind man on his own died than a healthy, (I’m assuming) mid-age museum curator but okay.
This is probably the dumbest thing Jake has ever done. Surely, he knows that normal people can go in, but that they can’t enter through the loop, right? And he could potentially also be a danger, so why call out to him?
This reveal isn’t nearly as powerful as the one in the book. By doing his other voices from previous identities he’d taken before to watch over Jacob, he intimidated him and by finally revealing himself as Dr. Golan, he immediately made the one normal person that Jacob felt a bit safe around a danger and in that moment, he realizes what he had done by telling him everything.
Okay, here’s why I’m pissed they made Dr. Golan a woman. Reason 1 is because it shows that Tim wanted to make the wights really overpowered by letting them keep their peculiarites, and reason 2 (separate of reason 1) is because they didn’t make the rest of their identities women. Like just make a lady ornithologist and have her be a peculiar who can turn into a bird but can’t control time, making her feel self-worth incredibly low and hate ymbrynes. It took me a minute to think this up, Tim.
That’s not how you take off contacts.
Did this fucker really think he could take on an adult?
Hollowgasts can’t enter loops but okay.
This is a bit of a nitpick but the fact that Jake was used as a hostage instead of Hugh just shows how much they didn’t give a shit about the other kids unless they had a relationship cookin’ for them.
So, she has a crossbow, but she’ll just go down without a fight? That’s not like her at all!
This is NOT the time to be petty, Wal-Mart brand Enoch.
I just realized that Horace has like 4 lines and now I’m sad.
I would be so happy that instead of turning into a bird and leaving that Miss Peregrine just fucking decked him. It’s a lot more in character than just letting them take her.
I don’t remember Miss Peregrine trusting a 16-year-old with the lives of 9 kids but okay.
One of the few good things this movie brought me was a peregrine falcon sound so I could look it up and see if it was accurate. I then found a video of a sweet old man filming a peregrine falcon’s call and providing quiet commentary. Just felt that was worth mentioning.
Since when did Jacob become good at strategy?
Cute scene, but it means nothing to me.
Okay I guess Miss Avocet never mattered.
Just destroy Wal-Mart brand Enoch, please.
Why does Fiona have the most lines out of the neglected kids? She only had 2 lines in the whole book!
That bomb would be enough to take care of it, but okay go ahead and shoot it.
Olive seems pretty in-control of her peculiarity, so why give her gloves?
“It’s only 6 months old.” What?
Time travel is bullshit. Also, I don’t think it works like that?
“I know you’ll choose Abe.” Well, duh, I’d rather see my grandfather again than some cute girl I met a few days ago that barely even seems to like me that well.
Okay, so the movie I’m watching is really choppy and cuts at random parts and it just cut in the middle of a sentence Wal-Mart brand Enoch was saying and I couldn’t be happier.
Yeah, but the loop entrances are usually in places normal people won’t go. (ex. Miss P’s loop entrance, Miss Thrush’s loop entrance, etc.) Seems dumb to put it on a ride. Imagine sending your kids on there and when the cart comes back one of them is missing?
Okay, so there’s only 4 hollows and 6 wights left according to the movie. Why are they all so afraid of them then?!
In the book, a lot of them were trained to handle guns, and in the movie they still have their peculiarities – so WHY are they not attacking Emma as soon as they see her!?
I’m pretty sure that in the book Jacob had been seeing Dr. Golan much longer than 3 weeks.
Yeah, Florida’s a hellhole, to be quite honest.
I guess no one cares about a floating girl in the sky. I don’t see any iPhone’s out recording.
Never mind, I see one (1). I should see much more, though.
How would the hearts stay in the skeletons? There’s nothing for them to hold onto.
Is there no staff at this place?
How are these skeletons in general staying together?
This fight is pretty dangerous. They’re exposing normal people to peculiardom.
Okay, so now the wights use their peculiarities to fight.
Horace saved lives at least 3 times but I guess he’s just useless now according to the movie.
Man, Tim, you sure did a good job of creating strong female characters! /s
How is Mr. Barron not dead? She lifted the boat out of water and the closer you get to the bottom of the ocean the more pressure you’ve gotta deal with.
3 cheers for this forced romance! Hip-hip! (Boo)
This 16-year-old doesn’t need to tell these women what to do.
Why is Miss Peregrine in a different cage?
I guess Barron just had some blue eye contacts on him.
How did the hollow get down there?
I guess Jake’s a perfect shot now, since it’s convenient.
(vomit noises)
Again, time travel is bullshit. Wouldn’t there be another Jake walking around?
Wait, they’re still there?
Hurray for more terrible loop entrances!
In the book, this would be the second time they had kissed but okay.
Never knew that birds could just be stationary while in the sky.
Wait, so she just… keeps her clothes? Trust me, I don’t want to see a naked woman in something other than an art piece or otherwise but that was a rule that they had in the book.
Well that was a load of shit. At least with the ending there can’t be a sequel.
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get to know my character: 01, 05, 11 for Suibhne; 21, 31, 40 for Arlette; and 43, 46, 48 for Mir.
Thank you so much for all the questions! ;;v;; They were all great and I had a blast with them!!
01. What does your character’s name mean? Did you pick it for the symbolism, or did you just like the way it sounded?
Suibhne means well-going in Gaelic (says behindthename). This is actually the name of my Cousland but I ended up reusing it for my Tabris because I couldn't find either S(vowel)-name I liked better than Suibhne. /shrugs I thought it worked pretty okay with his cousins’ names too, so yeah. It was picked just for aesthetics reasons! And because I enjoyed that way it sounds too.
05. Are they sexually confident or more of the shy type?
Ah, Suibhne is asexual actually! Sexual attraction and him aren’t really the best of friends, hah. I’ll still tuck him into the more quiet confident side though because he isn’t sex-repulsed. He was okay with Zevran's advances and took them with ease because sex isn't a bother to him. It's just not something that’ll come up when left to his own devices.
11. What is something that would make your character fly into a rage?
Okay, so. I'm really weird about words sometimes. Case in point, rage is not a word I associate with Tabris because it's a hot anger kind-of word and he’s not a hot anger kid. Rage is for lashing out, and Tabris doesn’t lash out at people. He gets revenge.
And the easiest way to do this is to hurt someone in his family. If someone does hurt one of them (either of his cousins, his dad plus Zevran, Morrigan and now Kieran), it's a promise they'll die a slow and painful death as soon as Tabris can make it happen since he doesn't have much and his family is the dearest thing he can imagine. So, yeah. Don’t hurt anyone in his family. No one wants to incur Tabris’ cold wrath.
21. What is one of your character’s biggest fears? How would they react when dealing with this fear?
Failure! Or, like failing her family. Arlette lived for her family, especially Bethany and Carver and it was always her biggest fear that she wouldn’t be strong enough to protect them, that she’d lose them one way or another.
And that’s exactly what happened! :D Malcolm died and she didn’t want to live Lothering because Carver wasn’t there with them. They left too late and Bethany died, and Arlette will always blame herself for that. In response to it, she tried so hard to keep Carver close and safe that he ended up having to join the Grey Wardens or die at the end of Act One. Which again, she blames herself for immensely.
Neither had to leave her, but because she failed, they left her. It honestly haunts her more than she ever admits to people. She reacts by trying to compartmentalize all that pain and regret, and just try to move on. She actually tries very hard not to fill the void left by them because she’ll fail again and it’ll hurt and no thanks. But you know, the Kirkwall crew is more endearing than she would’ve guessed at first. And she trades one set of siblings in for another and does her best to keep them all safe and happy.
And in return, they try to do their best for Arlette too.
31. Would your character be the kind capable of killing? Would they enjoy killing or only use it when necessary or, perhaps, refuse to kill no matter what?
Yup! Arlette is more than okay with killing! It's not her favorite course of action because death is messy and people tend to ask questions but she rarely feels a sense of regret over the lives she takes too. She grew up in a family of apostates, so life or death was a really real consequence in her mind's eye. She'll never have a problem killing if it's done in order to protect those she loves. They will always matter more than the soul she killed, always.
40. Does your OC have any guilty pleasures they enjoy? Hobbies, past times, music, etc that they wouldn’t want known by others?
Honestly, for the vast majority of her life, any hobby, past time or pleasure Arlette took apart of she didn't want any one to know. She took to being the step-in caregiver of the family to an absurd degree and doing anything that wasn't for Bethany & Carver seriously made her feel like the worst person on the planet. Of course, that is a ridiculous thought but Arl always felt it very hard. She tried being the best caregiver she could for the twins (and Leandra on her bad days), and that sadly, to her, meant suppressing a lot (a lot!) of her own desires.
Moving to Kirkwall especially post-Act One was kind-of a weird experience for her because it's the first time she's honestly free from those thoughts. I mean, they still exist and exist hard but there's nothing that cements them into reality like before. Bethany is gone. Carver is gone. Her mother has a new life she seems to enjoy and Arlette is like ??? with all this new free time.
She takes up cooking for fun (and teaching others to cook too like Sandal) and reading (especially light-hearted romantic fantasies and smutty things because she's always like those books the best~). But, she shares these things with her friends all the time. She needs connections too much to hide them when most of her family has left her in some way or another. Bonding moments are good!
43. Does your character have a switch that changes aspects of their personality whether they are around friends, family, etc. Is there someone who gets to see their true self?
Yes? Mir has two weirdly different personality sets he uses. One is his “Inquisition” personality. It’s a bit of an over-exaggeration of his real self: more loud, sarcastic, playful and carefree. He acts all on impulse and falls into a nasty habit of not thinking anything through. This isn’t closer to his self per se, but it’s the one he likes better and feels more at ease in. It’s like a comfortable worn-in sweater.
The other is a more subdued version of his real self and it tends to pop up around the Dalish. Growing up, he hid in Mahre's shadow a lot and ended up being a lot more quiet and standoffish as a personal safety measure. He didn’t like letting people close to him, so he put up his defenses as high as they could go. A few people got in there and here, but it was rare. Even during the Inquisition, he still switches back over it too when he’s around other Dalish clans. I’m sure people assume it’s a Dalish thing, but it is definitely ‘my twin is an abusive asshole and I have a hard time disconnecting sometimes at first’ thing.
As for his 'true' self, eh. What Mir considers his true self he does not like letting people see it. It has all his negativity and twisted emotions in it and no one needs to see that, iho! But it still happens. Sometimes he lets people in to see it (Dorian, Thuril, Iseult & Asa) because he at least trusts them all enough not to hurt him with what they’ll see. Sometimes people just lucked out on his bad days and stumbled over it (Vivienne, Varric, Souvelani) and sometimes the Fade casts you into a nightmare hellscape made up of your worst traits and fears for everyone (namely Blackwall, Sera, Bull) to see! :D
Seriously. Fuck the Fade.That shit was the worst.
46. What is some random affectionate thing that your character always does to their lover?
He just touches them, a lot? o: Mir is very tactile person and needs to touch things for his peace of mind be it walls, tables, sleeves, rings, fabric, something just needs to occupy his hand space and it definitely doesn’t stop around his lovers.
He loves giving out simple touches, brushing back bits of hair, reaching out to hold their hand or tracing patterns over their skin as he talks up a storm next to them. Like kid has a lot of trouble communicating his romantic feelings verbally, so he resorts to trying to physically communicate them instead. With every touch, he just wants to say, ‘I'm here. I like you. I hope that's okay.’
48. Is there anything in particular that would ignite your character’s jealousy? Or does your character not get envious?
Mhm. For all his own internal insecurity and odd trust problems, Mir's not really a jealous person. He knows what it's like being restricted in a relationship, be it for love or friendship, and it would hurt his soul if he ever inflicted that on someone he liked. That being said, he’s a territorial fuck though especially once boundaries have been established in a relationship. Other people crossing them will definitely spark him to be like 'excuse me, hold up', unintentional or not.
Bull's loyalty mission definitely a sparked a bit of that too. If he was reasonable sure Bull still enjoyed the Qun out of love for it, the whole Gatt and Hissrad tango wouldn't have bothered him much. But, he felt otherwise and oh god, did it ever bother him something fierce hence why taking 'his name is Iron Bull' option feels so good and in-character for Mir. It’s his lovely claim that ‘no, you are wrong and don’t talk to my friend like that’.
He still apologizes later to Bull though because making claims like that on people is still really shitty to him and it’s not really one of his fave personality flaws, if he’s being honest with himself. :l :l :l
#long post#just as a warning for y'all#but thank you again for the questions! <33#i really appreciate them. c:#suibhne tabris#arlette hawke#mir lavellan#youaremorecampaign
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