084 - fox reigen arataka on the brain

working on getting my side blogs updated and organized since my brain has decided that tumblr is a Good social media again 💀 ill make an official pinned post for this blog soon but for now i wanted to share my icon with y'all <3

dis guy is my warriors-sona: sleepyspark!!

made with this picrew: https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/254030

(info beneath the cut)

his name is sleepyspark, and he's a cis tomcat (he/him but they/them is also fine)!!

he's only a few moons older than the typical apprentice (young adult of an unspecified age).

he is aroace and has lots of friends and a few platonic partnerships of sorts here and there.

he's shorter than the average tomcat and lithe because he doesn't eat much (his clanmates usually have to remind him or sit down with him to ensure he gets food. he drinks plenty of water tho! and he totally chews on grass lol)

his ears can be flopped or pointy, usually one of each.

he has a naturally short tail, not quite a nub but still much shorter than regular, more like a bob.

he has a scar on his nose/muzzle from a dog attack when he was a kitten that healed nicely but left a prominent scar. he was very self-conscious about it as a kitten, but he likes how it looks now!

he has a small scar on the left corner of his bottom lip which he accidentally gave himself while itching a scratch bc he is silly.

his back is crooked, making his shoulders lopsided (left shoulder is higher than his right) which causes him to walk sort of funny. his left shoulder has chronic pain that flares up particularly badly in the cold.

he is partially deaf in his left ear due to nerve damage as a kitten. standing near his left side or calling to him from the left is not recommended since he either won't hear you or will misunderstand what he manages to hear.

he was born and raised in riverclan and loves it there, but he often goes and hangs around twoleg places for attention. most of the clan knows about it, but he's a pretty well-liked cat and the scoldings don't seen to do much so they leave him be. he sometimes brings home toys and twoleg things (and food if he can) which helps keep the clan more neutral about it so long as he still pulls his weight around the camp which he does. they do nag him to make sure the other clans don't see him there out of reputation preservation, but he's pretty much the clans' silly guy so no one cares that much. (the two legs probably named him "silly" too lmao)

he's friendly with any cats he meets whether they be clan cats, kittypets, loners, or even rogues. in fact, he's not even limited to cats; he is also friendly with twolegs, dogs, cows, horses, and would definitely try to befriend even a fox or badger. there are obviously communication barriers, so it's not like... the same as the friendships he has with other cats. he's just Like That.

he goes along on patrols to help where he can and keep spirits and moods high, and he is known to notice details that other cats might not always catch which makes up for his lack of hunting and fighting abilities while out and about. aside from mediating and serving as a sort of clan therapist, he also plays with and watches the kits, allows apprentices to practice battle moves or healing on him, and generally performs apprentice duties like helping clean up around the camp (nests, walls, dens, herbs, etc) and working with the elders. the elders are particularly fond of him since he is very mellow, patient, attentive, and chatty.

he's always been a laid-back, chatty kittycat who sucks at hunting, fighting, memorizing herbs, swimming (he's technically a "dry-paw" bc although he doesnt mind getting wet and likes water, he can't swim and is scared to learn properly, so he never goes out past the shallows), fulfilling tasks/orders (has TERRIBLE adhd and is also a hypersomniac), and just most things in general so it was only natural he became a mediator (and THAT he is pretty dang good at!!) he was initially training to be a medicine cat, but it just wasn't his calling. he and his clan are very pleased with his position now. he has also been referred to as a "camp cat", "nursery king/tom", "camp keeper", and "permapprentice". (think of him almost as an "omega" type role.)

ill add more info if i think of it, and ill link his toyhou.se profile once i get around to making it. but yeah! here i am! :3

so im gonna talk about the spiderbit akiangel concept again cus i need you guys who know nothing about chainsaw man to understand

so in this world you have devils, humans, fiends, and hybrids. important to note devils are supernatural beings born from human fears. so any human fear has a devil and depending on how feared it is the stronger that devil will be.

humans can make contracts with devils to grant them forms of power usually in exchange for something the devil wants.

fiends are devils who possess the body of a dead person. and will have some type of facial feature that marks them as a devil. easily spotted.

hybrids are humans who actually MERGE with a devil and can take on a devil form. hybrids are a rare case.

generally you can spot devils, fiends, hybrids just gotta look.

theres an organization called the public safety or national devil extermination public safety commission and their job is basically in the name. keep the public safe by eliminating devils. they have humans with devil contracts who work as devil hunters and even hire hybrids, devils, and fiends to work for them. im not getting into the whole system and complexity of it because boy does it get A lot. just know the relationship between humans and devils in society is incredibly complicated and often grey.

now in chainsaw man we have two characters one is named aki

aki is a human with a devil contract who has worked as a devil hunter for a couple years now since he was like maybe 16? (theres no canon ages rlly so rough estimates r made in the fandom) but present time hes like 19/20. hes stoic hes blunt hes everything youd expect from a manga protagonist except hes not the protagonist. he gives his all into his job to accomplish an end goal that is to avenge his family who were all killed by a specific devil. lets go over his devil contracts

- fox devil can teleport anywhere the human summons instantaneously and perform attacks with a piece of its body. in exchange for this aki has to feed the fox devil a piece of his body each time he uses that power. doesn’t necessarily have to be a whole limb. small pieces suffice.

- curse devil in exchange for a gruesome way to fatally hurt someone, typically used in battle, aki must exchange a portion of his lifespan (oh boy!)

- future devil allows aki to see 4-5 seconds into the future in exchange for living in his right eye

- theres another one but spoilers oh spoilers.

i think explaining the devil contacts like that helps showcase how far these devil hunters go to do their jobs of eliminating devils Using devil powers & assistance.

now we have our second character. angel. the angel devil. a devil that embodies the fear of angels. he too is a devil hunter working for public safety. he isn’t particularly hostile towards humans and fucking hates his job. hes pretty introverted as well, doesnt seem to have many friends probably because no one wants to be in a radius of him in fear of being touched (see his abilities). he says he’d rather die than work and seems to be only waiting for the day he dies. we see this shift in the story as he grows closer to aki where he begins to desire living a normal life away from devil hunting.

lets talk about his abilities. because i’d consider him one of the stronger devils in the series. if anyone touches him or if he touches them they begin to lose time off their lifespan. this must be skin contact however. the life it takes from them can be absorbed and used to create weapons. these weapons are stupidly powerful and have special capabilities you wouldnt see in any regular sort of weapon. due to the fact he has nightmares of the people he takes the lifespan of to materialize these weapons angel infrequently uses this ability. hes not really a combat guy you could say.

now heres the thing about akiangel.

aki is a guy who hates devils and gives his life for his job. and angel is a guy who isnt exactly the fondest of humans and would rather die than work. and here is born one of the dynamics ever when they are assigned as work partners.

so when i picture everything about akiangel as spiderbit you can imagine why i start bouncing off the walls. theres a lot i would like to say like specific akiangel moments that i think fit the spiderbit dynamic so well but csm spoilers…….. ;-;

post-canon andreil hcs

disclaimer: i have not read the ec so if this doesnt match up i apologize!

they sleep in the same bed. not always, and they don’t fall asleep in each other’s arms or anything, but it’s comforting knowing someone is there. one time they fell asleep holding hands and andrew denied it for a week. 

no matter who wakes up first, neil will always make coffee for both of them. either he’ll wake up to andrew glaring at him with tired eyes and roll out of bed or make coffee and sit on the couch to wait for him. 

they don’t hold hands in public, because neither of them are big fans of pda and want to keep this ‘thing’ to themselves. for the most part. so instead of holding hands, they link pinkies<3 its a good way to calm neil down or to bring andrew back to the present. 

they have movie marathons!!!! once every two weeks or so, they kick kevin out to have the dorm to themselves. they force him to go socialize and do something other than read history books then they set up. 

neil likes to lay his head in andrew’s lap when he lets him bc then andrew runs his fingers thru his hair and its very Calming. andrew will wear neil’s clothing and glare at anyone who tries to call him cute. during the movies andrew will keep a running commentary of how terrible it is and when neil points out that he’s the one who chose the movie he goes silent. 

one time andrew let neil fall asleep on his shoulder on the drive back from an away game. neil had run himself ragged and no one else seemed to be paying them much attention, so he tapped his shoulder once and nodded when neil looked at him, a question in his eyes. neither of them said anything else and if andrew rested his head on top of neil’s and drifted off for a few minutes well, no one saw them. 

FOREHEAD KISSES. these are one hundred percent a thing. andrew has bad days and some mornings he just wants to lie in bed and not to do anything so neil will head to class but not before kissing andrew softly on the forehead and running his fingers thru his hair just once. 

they don’t just happen on bad days, sometimes they’ll be having a fox movie night and it’s one of those times where andrew isn’t as bothered by physical affection in front of the others. so neil’s arm is resting just behind his head, taking care not to touch him. andrew will comment something in russian and neil will laugh super hard, kissing him on the forehead and knocking their knees together ever so slightly. 

andrew sits on countertops and basically any surface he can find bc like. hes small and wants to be Tall. this results in a lot of neil standing in between his legs at team meetings or even just in the kitchen. 

at eden’s, once aaron and nicky have gone to dance and drag kevin along with them, andrew will hook his fingers thru neil’s belt loops and pull him closer. their foreheads rest against each other for a second before andrew asks, yes or no. and neil says yes. and then they KISS. bc BELT LOOPS.

some days just get. way too much for neil and he feels the old urge to run and leave everything behind. andrew has learned to recognize this, what it looks like on neil. so after their morning practice, andrew will walk up to neil and say rabbit in russian. its sort of like their code word? for when neil doesn’t want to explain so all he has to do is nod. 

they’ll get dressed, drive back w everyone else and tell the team they will be back by dinner before getting in the car and just driving off. sometimes andrew will drive, sometimes neil will. they don’t usually talk, but they do hold hands over the console. neil will start tracing patterns into andrew’s knuckles and andrew pretends not to notice. 

night practices still continue, bc old habits are hard to break but they aren’t every night and soon enough kevin has some of the freshmen coming in too. andrew doesn’t always participate but on the days he does, he likes to egg neil on by either insulting him in russian or. yk. dirty talk SGFHDFV

he does this during regular practice too but it pisses kevin off more when he does it during the night ones so he does it more often then. 

if it wasn’t obvious, these r only set during psu. im not stable enough to think of them living in an appartment together with cats and stuff. not yet.

demonangel!wonwoo — heaven & hell soundtrack

—170796; for my dearest wonwoo, who deserves so much more

note: a mini snippet of my ideas, let me know if you want to see more of demonangel wonwoo~

wonwoo wasn’t any typical being of the sort, typically you would be divided into either one of three groups

angels, demons or a demi — humans who are either half angel or half demon

there was rarely a case of demons and angels clashing together as their worlds are strict to keep each other away from the alter, despite living in the same world after several battles in years beyond mankind

so when news spread about this forbidden clash amongst the angels and demons after so many years — it caused fuss all around

for angels, he’s been classed as impure

demons? a disgrace, a disappointment

there were more words for demons to call him but, those were the frequently used ones

demis were the least against wonwoo in any shape or form, knowing what it feels like to be half

on the other hand, the celestial side of the demi’s parents would warn about the demonangel, scared they might be harmed

but what’s so bad about wonwoo?

wonwoo, luckily, was born in peace and quiet, reflecting the child he’ll later be in life

his mother, an angel, and his father, a demon, chose to raise him in safety and away from those who could harm him

though they thought that he could be raised to be defined as one sub-being to cover up his truth, there was one complication

his wings — a crutial moment in angel and demon growing up

it’s the equivalent to a newborn’s pain when their teeth is trying to rip through their gums

and when wonwoo grew his first few wings, even his parents didn’t expect this to happen

white, silk-soft feathers with silver lining to add onto its delicate look, gorgeously complimenting him

but through the mixes of developing wings fades in a midnight black, speckled with gold at the rims, beautifully destroying against the white; practically a dead give-away to the celestial world

wonwoo never took it into consideration as a child, finding it the norm to have parents and wings such as these

even on opposite sides, having to work by themselves, his parents do the best to keep him as neutral as possible so that he won’t lean into any side — keeping unbiased at all times

he’d be taught the bad and the good, the sad and the happy, the right and wrong all in hopes to understand the world a bit more

going into the celestial world was a challenge — people would frequently look at wonwoo as he strolls with his mother, often asking (and shying away while doing so) why does everyone look at me all the time?

wherein his mother would smile and pat his cheek, replying because your wings are so beautiful darling

in most occasions, wonwoo would go out with his mother more as it was more risker to be seen with his father, the demons on his side wouldn’t take wonwoo’s presence lightly

and the innocent wonwoo isn’t yet aware of how cruel the world can be despite the roles this celestial world has to play

that is, until he grows up

he begins to understand his differences when he’s 10 the moment his friends’ parents would tell his friends to stay away from him

so his mind tries to connect pieces together until he realises that his wings is what gives him away the most, soon being the core of why he’s so insecure of himself

it was so bad at one point that he would go home and try to cut off the black feathers on his wings, stopping as it was too much pain to bare

he fully stopped the bad habit on the night his father came in and saw the blood drip down the structure of his wings, finding a teary wonwoo in so much pain

he grows up more and he’s the brightest and smartest amongst most angels and demons — if it wasnt for everyone else

being a naturally gifted student was something to be praised for

but wonwoo? it seemed like a sin

they would blame him for using his over-looming power, which confuses wonwoo because he’s just the same as them, or hexing everyone to believe that he’s someone he’s not

when wonwoo would convince everyone he wasn’t being a fake, no one would hear him out, excluding wonwoo from the picture often

from time to time he would seem down about that fact, but he was better off on his own anyway, it wasn’t like he wasn’t used to being alone all the time

he would sneak out and find a nice field of untouched, cotton-felt clouds to sit and look at either the moon, suns and stars

or he would look at the nothingness below the celestial world, often curious what’s down there

demons call it the void, angels call it the land of man, too far to see from above and where some demis lived, factually labelling the nothingness as the earth

wonwoo liked that name

another crucial part to is life is the moment he’s able to form into his fated animal — like how his mother forms into a elegant fox and his father, as typical for a demon, a snake

he wasn’t surprised when he could turn into a cat of pure white and sapphire eyes, not knowing how to control his tail because it kept hitting him

however he was surprised that when he looked into a mirror, another miraculous thing occurred

his reflection, instead of showing a cat with snow fur, mirrored a black contrast to it, with amethyst eyes staring into his blue pupils

again, something that his whole family did not expect

they didn’t even think twice that wonwoo could also turn into an owl — the perks of being part of two alters, wonwoo muses, growing fond of his differences

this time his feathers matched accurately to his contrasting wings and his owl abilities made him be able to turn his head so many times

best believe wonwoo got whiplash from it

in the end, wonwoo decided to prefer his owl form more, as he was too worried that being a cat would raise eyebrows if they saw a completely different cat in the reflection of a mirror

it’s also how he first explored the earth when he snuck down

(*snuck in his owl form, never mind the cat one)

and he was smitten upon first glance, which is a lot to take in since wow, he really likes this more than the heavens and hell

what felt like a few minutes became hours, just exploring cities, lands and countries that he couldnt tell apart because he never got exposure to them

so the moment he came back to the celestial world, only a few minutes since he left despite flying for a long time (the celestial world’s days last longer), he hurried to the celestial world’s library-equivalent to look up everything he can about the human world

ever since then, he would often ask questions to a few demis, who were unusually more accepting than angels or demons

now he’s aware about humans, the ‘turning points’ in history for humans and the horrid things like war, wondering what actions led them to do so

but he also realised the angels and demons that contributed through the small text on the bottom, saying oh that makes sense

his father was even on some too... he doesn’t know whether to be proud of that but he’s proud nonetheless

his angel duties also gave him leeway to his desire of living there as it was possible to be assigned to watch those in a local area on earth

the opportunity appealed to him because he was tired of the constant harassment from other angels — it’s not his fault he was born this way

his regular duties felt like a punishment rather than something to honour (he blames thinking that due to his demon side) so something like this was a getaway

and thats when he decided

he wants to live in the human world

he was quickly assigned to the duty and was ecstatic to leave, telling his parents about it the moment he got the news

wonwoo’s parents were happy, of course, but they had the slight fear that the world will do harm to their precious one

but he was growing up, considered to be 19 in human years, so it was time for him to decide his own things

within a few days, he was all set to leave and go under the name and identity of jeon wonwoo, living in a small part of seoul, making sure it was a quiet location so that he wouldn’t be disturbed 24/7

so on july 17th, he was set off to earth, consequently making his birthday (because he knew humans had to have birthdays) on the day he arrived

which leads to current day wonwoo, around 23 in human years, current owner of happy ending, a bookstore that contains all sorts of books for those to enjoy, even picking up a few favourite novels recommended by humans

his working corner was a dream too, fit snug in a corner with work and stacks of papers fixed neatly, along with plants decorated near the window, always making sure to take extra care with them

on weekends he would stay in, typically drinking something warm as he would read a new novel, relaxed as he was able to expose his wings at that time

barefoot, peace and quiet, listening to soft music as he waters his precious plants

this was his small world which he couldn’t dream more of

his wings were no different, still the same black and white with unique lining, but they grew a drastic amount, reaching to the tips of the floor, dragging along the cold oak floor

it was bigger than typical demons and angels, which gives his self-esteem a boost as he looks more intimidating

as well as that, he’s learnt to hide the black wings by blending them in with the white with his powers whenever he would go back to the celestial world for short visits

and just as expected, after 4 years of disappearance, life continued from the demonangel — wonwoo thought it was cruel that people of his own kind were so against him, but once he was gone, no one had a sense of sorrow

but as always, wonwoo kept in his anger to prevent being blamed once more, playing a convincing angel even though he wasn’t of pure blood (best believe his father thought he was plucking his wings again)

although he’s insanely smart, when it comes to the human world, it’s like he has to learn how to fly again

he doesnt have a phone because who does he need to contact? he only has a landline for the sake of his library

even though he likes travelling in vehicles, he usually flies to save time and money (even though he can just create more money if he pleases)

the reason why people never see him go outside is because he teleports too, never needing to walk out his doors

it’s a bad habit so hes trying to walk through the doors more

hates it when he gets summoned out of the blue

his looks slightly alter depending if he’s leaning to the demon side or angel side

his angel side is much softer, no kinks or tangles in his hair, a cleaner look as well as a simple fashion sense

his demon side isn’t that different except for the fact his eyes turn purple and his hair curls itself slightly, his clothes gradually turning darker

his dual sides give him many conflicts in the human world

someone: oh my god

wonwoo: ‘oh my god’?

wonwoo:

wonwoo: *slaps hand over mouth* i didn’t mean that

(then he questions if he can say oh my lucifer)

gasps anytime someone says oh my god

has a crisis whether to say for god’s sake or for satan’s sake

what the hell? or what the heaven?

usually he’s nice and gentle towards everything, but make him one inch angry, he’ll set something on fire out of anger

but as well as this, the angels and demons in the celestial world see him as much weaker as wonwoo doesn’t possess the true power of one type, apparently making it allowed to taunt wonwoo because of this

but that’s the world he used to live in

wonwoo lives within the human world now, content with his current life alone in his library of books and plants, enjoying the rainy days as well as the sunshine, hoping to add two kitties (a black and white one, preferably) to his small family, especially unaware of the power he truly holds

Apocalyptic or Biblical

Take your pick as how to describe the current weather.  One decent half day and night of rain since 20 March is not good for anybody except the odd cacti or scorpion, and now yesterday and today, yet again a high strength wind, this time from the south west giving a constant 45 mph battering.  The garden looks like a war zone, leaves and twigs everywhere and many a just about to flower perennial looking weary and battle scarred.  Clear up tomorrow yet again and I like every gardener in the country am beginning to be extremely FED UP.

However I have planted out all the Cosmos I need and the Nicotianas, so have just got some snapdragons to do and then all the little nooks and crannies will be filled.  It is useful to jam these annuals right up against the tatty allium leaves as they will soon be disappearing only to leave unwelcome gaps which until now were heavily disguised.  I did also manage despite the wind, to transplant the beetroot Chioggia seedlings so have avoided the ant irritation, and equally the coriander with lemon flavour.  I have resorted to sowing some spinach in the same way - 50 in modules as otherwise we shall get nowhere.

I mentioned a few weeks ago using soft soap to eradicate aphids, whitefly, lily beetle etc.  I can now reliably inform you that Black Marseille soap is back in stock with French Soaps who are based in Harrogate.  It is an excellent product and also very useful for basic household cleaning.  Through them incidentally I buy traditional soap flakes, made in Yorkshire, which if you follow the instructions, mix to a thick goo and store in a tupperware container, to then put scoops into the washing machine, are a brilliant alternative to traditional soap powder.   They resemble the old Lux flakes - but being Yorkshire a little goes a long way and they come in eco friendly paper bags.  Have a look!

The veg patch actually is now doing well - all the salads are either ready or about to be, new cut and come again leaves were sown today. Shallots and red onions are good but I have to keep up regular watering.  Asparagus is fantastic and all bar one of the new plants I filled in some gaps with, have come through. Artichokes are starting.  The beans planted out last weekend have survived their first week and the climbing shoots have struck out.  Leeks and Purple sprouting broccoli are marking time in the coldframes and the broad beans are forming up well.  I have sown some cucumber and they have all come through in about three days flat - I am thinking of planting them out in the cold frames as they become empty over the next couple of weeks.  All the courgettes have gone out as well so now we are beginning to look a bit more self sufficient! Some lovely gooseberries and red currants are showing and if as they seem to think we might get some rain early in June, it will be just in time to swell them up.

Dogs are in good heart - the bi-annual excitement of Mavis coming in season is once again upon us, but we have had to stand down on the lovely Yorkshire boy as under the current circumstances it seemed a long haul that might not be popular.  (Though having said that and having seen today’s news I really dont think it matters what one does now - double standards abound). Anyhow being more considerate that some we have elected to stay within our patch and are off to visit Bellspaddle Roscoe, a fine “fox red” gentleman who lives near Watton.  Fox red doesnt really exist - labradors are either yellow or black with variations on the yellow from dark to pale - so he is dark yellow.  He is a Field Trial Winner and from an excellent stable so please please Mavis, this time can you co-operate as we have no less than 8 puppies wanted.  The social event of the year will take place around 1st and 2nd June. Scout and Inca are therefore preparing themselves for a lot of upheaval as it is rather a stressful couple of weeks for them!

Bees are in good shape - yet another swarm which has been successfully hived. The unstable weather does however make them very grumpy and we are now most definitely in the June gap so there is very little food for them as well.  Consequently I got stung on the cheek whilst minding my own business at the top of the garden, but they are volatile like the firmament at the moment whizzing about on this warm wind desperately seeking food.  The rape and fodder beans have finished flowering, the gardens at the moment dont really provide their sort of food and the hawthorn flowers and blossoms are also finished.  Living in such an agricultural area, they now have to wait for the blackberry to flower on the common, and until then may even have to be fed with syrup as they are at maximum production of youngsters with each colony building up to as many as 60,000 bees.

We have baby swallows who hatched about four or five days ago, and 3 pairs of swifts in residence in the roof.  The barn own has been back hunting up and down both just outside and over the garden which is lovely, and a large number of roe deer are still about - I think I mistakenly said the roe rut was on, but this is not the case, the barking is in fact the parents telling last years babies to now make their way in the world before they have the next generation.  But they are lovely to see especially now they have moved off from the garden!

Next time I write we shall be in full rose season - the Maigold is coming to an end and I am desperately trying to paint her but it is very difficult!  Buff Beauty is just starting outside the sitting room window, and the beautiful species rose Rosa nutkana is full of flower.

Keep your fingers crossed for some rain - the grass and verges look like August! And keep watering containers and sweet peas in particular and feed them.

HORTA

so um i like to do this thing where i make movesets for characters that arent in smash as if they were in smash. so.

OUTFITS

blue - regular orange - based on iblis red - based on blaze black - idk its just so his gloweys look glowier i guess purple - based on mephiles

MOVES…

neutral attack: basically zelda’s neutral attack forward tilt: psychic blast from his palm up tilt: heavy psychic uppercut where his hand starts at the ground and ends in a jump down tilt: sweep kick dash attack: he just sort of swims into the opponent sort of with one of those wavy stokes yknow? like what dolphins do i guess

forward smash: his Cool Boi Slap(tm) from sonic 06 up smash: psychic swipe that does multiple hits down smash: blasts the floor once with his magics (like mewtwo or lucas)

neutral aerial: puts hands out to the sides instantly, creating a barrier around him for like 3 frames. not spammable tho forward aerial: does his slap back aerial: backwards hook kick up aerial: basically does his up smash down aerial: spins around a bit ending up with his back facing the ground, he points over his shoulder and magic stuff happens right below him (spikes)

grab: normal grab pummel: punches opponent forward throw: moves his body so that his right side is facing the opponent, throws his right arm down to his left hip and then throws his right arm forward, sending the opponent off back throw: sort of a mix between mewtwo’s and ness’s back throw up throw: physically grabs opponent and tosses them upward down throw: spindashes into the opponent on the ground

floor attack front: levitates up slightly and spins his body around floor attack back: sweep kick floor attack trip: levitate thing again edge attack: slap

neutral special: hold to activate his little telekinetic field thing where he can hold up to 4 projectiles and fire them back with the a button. he cannot shield or do any other attacks while doing this. side special: teleport dash - sort of like fox and falco’s side dash thing except this has a faster startup but deals less damage and has slightly more endlag up special: its kind of like pit’s flight if it had to be charged like diddy’s jetpack down special: IT’S NO USE - counter that has silver dodge to the side and end with silver having grabbed the opponent. the next throw will send the opponent farther than it normally would. yes, he says the thing.

final smash: super silver. he transforms and dashes forward. anyone caught in it will be in a cutscene of him basically throwing meteors at them or somethin i guess. idk it uses that animation he has in sonic 06

MISC TRAITS…

he can float like peach and he has this like psychokinesis meter thing that goes down when you use some of his moves. it goes up when you dont use them.

idle animation: basically just an awkward power stance i guess idk

run animation: picks himself up with his powers kind of like that one sonic 06 remake project or like that one mobile game that doesnt exist anymore

up taunt: shows off powers a bit

side taunt: points forward saying “its time to end this”

down taunt:  shrugs at the camera saying “its no use” but in like a more normal tone.

BOOKS I (RE)READ IN 2018: FURTHERMORE BY TAHEREH MAFI

"Alice Alexis Queensmeadow, 12, rates three things most important: Mother, who wouldn’t miss her; magic and color, which seem to elude her; and Father, who always loved her. Father disappeared from Ferenwood with only a ruler, almost three years ago. But she will have to travel through the mythical, dangerous land of Furthermore, where down can be up, paper is alive, and left can be both right and very, very wrong. Her only companion is Oliver whose own magic is based in lies and deceit. Alice must first find herself—and hold fast to the magic of love in the face of loss." "Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything. Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic." "Love, it turned out, could both hurt and heal." "Narrow-mindedness will only get you as far as Nowhere, and once you're there, you're lost forever.” "Alice was an odd girl, even for Ferenwood, where the sun occasionally rained and the colors were brighter than usual and magic was as common as a frowning parent." "Making magic is far more interesting than making sense." So I actually read this book a few months ago and then recently reread it via audio so I could remember all the details for this review. I was first introduced to Tahereh Mafi’s work through her book Shatter Me, her debut novel. Ironically, it wasn’t through any of the ways I normally hear about books - Booktube, Goodreads, my best friend, Booklr - but from my husband’s aunt. She runs - or used to run, not sure if she’s still doing it - a book review blog. And she posted a review of Shatter Me and I was like, “What a weird, interesting writing style, lemme check this out.” At this point the entire Shatter Me Trilogy plus novellas had been published and I devoured all of them (still need to review those, too). So when I heard Tahereh Mafi was writing a middle grade book, I got super excited! Especially because this was during a time when I was too stressed out to read any YA, since most of the YA I like involves having to save the world and all the stress that entails. I need to lay out some trigger warnings real quick: the main character, Alice? Her mom is incredibly abusive, both emotionally and physically. It’s treated as not such a big deal in the book, which is honestly the story’s only real flaw, but it’s bad. It took me seven tries and resorting to an audiobook (and even with a fantastic narrator, that short audiobook took me almost a month to get through) because the abuse was so bad. So:

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE OF A CHILD BY THEIR PARENT

Let’s get started, yo! First of all, the setting. OMG. See, I love tthis thing called Victorian fairy tales, which is something you can find in books like Mary Poppins - these super fantastical bits of whimsy that just warm your heart and make you grin because they’re so creative and fun. In the Mary Poppins books, you can jump into chalk drawings and go to a circus amidst the stars and make friends with a woman who sells living candy-cane horses. In Catherynne Valente’s Fairyland series, there are shadow balls and talking phonographs. And in Furthermore, there’s light raining down from the sky in literal drops, sticks of magic you use like money, and forests full of invisible berries. The way the world is put together and described, so full of color and imagination, is awesome and beautiful and I could picture it perfectly. It reminded me in all the best ways of books like The Phantom Tollbooth (one of my favorites). But I wouldn’t want to live there, because Ferenwood is full of colorism and ick. Alice, the female lead, is an albino in a world where color is important and the darker you are, the more magical you’re considered to be. So Alice gets treated like garbage. 

Also I think Alice may be autistic, but I don’t know if she’s deliberately coded autistic or if Tahereh Mafi did it by accident while trying to make Alice eccentric, but she comes across as autistic. I’ve actually begun to pay more attention to that sort of the thing in recent years, being autistic myself, and I see it a lot - authors giving their characters autistic characteristics, often without meaning to. I just touch on it here because Alice is already treated badly for being albino, but she’s also considered a freak because of the way she behaves - like an autistic preteen. And I wonder if Tahereh Mafi did that on purpose as a sort of commentary or not, because while Alice is treated badly by the people of Ferenwood for her behavior, the Narrator (who is an actual character in the story; love when that happens) always sides with Alice in this regard. The storyline is sweet and I love it. Alice tries to compete in the magical testing all the preteens do on their twelfth birthday, and so she dances. And her dancing is magical but it’s not Magical, you know? So she fails the test. Well, turns out a boy who passed the test the year before, Oliver (the brat), needs Alice’s help fulfilling a quest - rescuing Alice’s missing dad. So they go on a quest together, although Alice hates Oliver (and rightly so, he’s rude). They go to a dozen different and cool places, all of which are dangerous and all of which are different. I wish we could’ve spent more time in those places but I understand why we didn’t. The only annoying thing is there’s an origami fox on the cover but it only pops up in one of the worlds for like two pages and then it’s gone and I thought we could spend more time both in that world and with that creature since it ended up on the cover. But alas, not. I understand why - middle grade is often cursed to be short, especially if it’s the author’s first MG novel ever. Once you get big and bad like Rick Riordan you can start tossing out gihugic tomes like Son of Neptune or Blood of Olympus on the regular. Oliver’s reason for needing Alice was one I didn’t see coming, nor was her magical talent - a talent they hint at throughout the book but never explain until near the end, at the perfect moment. I thought it was an interesting commentary on how young girls perceive themselves, that Alice hates this marvelous, amazing talent she has of bringing color into the world from nothing...because she can’t use it to change how she looks. Society has trained her already, by the age of twelve, to discount something incredible about herself because she can’t use it to make herself into what society wants her to be. That’s pretty impressive for a book this short. I loved some of the more deliberate messages in the work - the thing I mentioned about society’s pressures on young girls, and also that it’s okay to tell boys to screw off if they’re mean to you, and to have hope and to look for second chances (Alice thinks she only has one chance to pass the test and believes her life is over when she fails, only to find out she can try again the next year). I love all of that, and the lyrical and whimsical quality of the prose, and the world building is so creative and also makes me a bit hungry (people eat magic in this book, among other things; I wonder what it tastes like). Now...let’s talk about the abuse. That’s my biggest issue with the book. Alice’s mother is a total bitch. And not in a cool, kickass way like the lady in the show Empire. She’s vicious, she’s cruel, and she’s abusive. Alice knows - and the Narrator confirms - that she turned bad when her husband went missing, and apparently the worry for him and the strain of raising four kids on her own is making her hard and sad, but I don’t give a shit. I was hoping Tahereh Mafi would’ve gone all Hansel and Gretel on this lady and when Alice comes home with her dad, the wife’s dead or something. She beats Alice (at one point she beat Alice for chasing a boy out of the place where she was sleeping, even though he kept staring at her in her sleeping clothes, because apparently the boy - Oliver - had the right to break into their barn at 3AM and ogle Alice???), she verbally abuses Alice, she sends her to bed regularly without dinner, is constantly criticizing, won’t hug her or kiss her, and - this one really got me, for some reason - forces her to do illegal things. Those invisible berries I mentioned? Alice can find them and bring back whole baskets because of her magical gift, and so her mom sends her out to pick them all the time. If she brings home enough, her mom smiles. If she doesn’t, her mom yells and calls her names and sometimes beats her. Guess what? Picking those berries is illegal. We don’t find this out until much later in the book, but it is. The thing I didn’t like about the berries is that Oliver, who’s thirteen, is less concerned about Alice’s mother beating her for not picking enough contraband berries and instead focuses on how her ability to find the berries in the first place means Alice has really impressive magic. NOBODY seems to care how much Alice is being abused, not even the Narrator. The Narrator sympathizes with Alice’s hurt feelings and despair over her missing Father, but it’s never objectively stated that her mom is abusing her AND SHE IS. Yeah, her mom is sooo glad to have her back after Alice almost dies on her trip with Oliver, but so what? My roommate’s mom is so abusive that my roommate’s clergy leaders, doctors, and psychological therapist all said my roommate needed to cut ties with said mom, even though my roommate’s mom has also exhibited the same kind of “oh baby I’m so sorry, I love you so much” bullshit. That’s what abusers do. So I hate Alice’s mom. She literally makes her daughter feel like if she doesn’t risk her life numerous times AND bring her father back, there is no chance her mother will ever love her. And if she pulls that stuff off (which she does), then MAYBE her mother will love her. Nuh-uh. Nope. Hate that bitch. Other than that, I really loved this book. The characters felt real (Alice is me, but without my anger), Even the ones I didn’t like were still REAL, and well-drawn. The world building and word choice is fantastic. Basically, if you can get past the evil mom, read this book. World Building: 1 star Realism: 1 star Word Choice: 1 star Plot: 1 star Characterization: 1 star - ¼ star because Oliver Newbanks is an obnoxious little creep - 1 star because the mom is AN ABUSIVE EVIL BITCH - ¼ star because NOBODY DOES ANYTHING ABOUT THAT +½ star because Alice is amazing and has a genius brain and I love her Total score: 4/5 stars Would I Buy It: Yes! I own it and loved it enough I got the sequel for Christmas (in...2017...I've been sitting on this review for months...)! Would I Recommend: yes, but with trigger warnings. Again, highly abusive evil bitch mom who somehow doesn’t die.

Random moment of blabber about my dumb dating sim idea cos for some reason all this fandom for New Spoiler Thing has got me more hyped up to work on my totally unrelated original stories? I guess it just always inspires me to see how toby fox achoeved his dreams and i wanna fight for my dreams too! Tho also on the other hand its a lil discouragibg cos i know this is the Big News so this would be a bad time to post a bunch of stuff about like..anything else. So maybe still try and practise drawing my stuffs but save it til next week to post them?

Anyway! About the game!

I just had a bit of a good moment of wrangling my way through a block in the story. Kind of a minor thing but i was having problems because..i like monster boys...? Like here is a dating sim about a monster boy who is sad about being a monster boy but of course since i am the oc creator who made him in the first place of course i think he's cute and perfect. So my first draft just has the love interest accepting him immediately and like all his paranoia about being rejected was completely unfounded. And i feel like maybe thats a wasted opportunity? Like would it actually decrease the catharsis of the moment if it felt like it was saying "you were dumb for worrying, dude"?? So now i'm just thinking what if the love interest actually IS scared of monster-bae, and also didny just like.. Guess it long before he confessed it, so everything just gets wrapped up super perfectly with minimal angst. Maybe instead he just knew that his friend was hiding SOME sort of secret, and kinda.. Guessed correctly on all the relevant effects of this secret but not what it actually is? "Oh god he's looking so sick and he keeps acting like he's gonna go away forever, fuck i need to save up to find a doctor holy shit" when no actually he's just a vampire and he's been planning to like.. Literally leave. Because he thinks he doesnt deserve happiness or belong amoung normal humans. And then there could be horrible misunderstandings cos what if love interest sees his full-on monster form and is like "fuck, youre the one who did this to him!" And then monster boy is like "well i wanna die anyway, and this way he'll never have to know the truth" so he pretends to be a villain and just accepts his fate. And even if you manage to play it all right and solve the mystery and get them to talk it out, love interest wouls still react with fear when he first finds out, and monster boy might jump to the wrong conclusions and run away. Like "you're scared of me!" "Yes! But that's my fault, not yours!" He doesnt know how to deal with someone who sees his true self and still chooses to stay. And someone whose fear turns to love at the sight of his face. So much god damn relief!! "Oh thank god youre just a demon, i thought you were DYING!" *so much goddamn smoochies of the bat boy*

Anyway yeah, thats my thought. Do indeed have some of the angst, even if its still "as soon as he realizes the monster is actually the man he loves, he realizes his fear was unfounded". It could just be another good way to show alternate perspectives when you play as each character? Like one of them talks about how scared he is of the monster on the mountain, and how he's scared he cant protect his sick friend from it. And then the other is seemingly obsessed with hating this thing, moby dick style, until you find out it literally is him and the entire time he was just being super hard on himself. And then you get to see both of these false perspectives clash with each other in the final act, and ultimately shatter to reveal just a sad lonely monsterboy who didnt want to lose the man he loved. And then we can finally get to the sweet acceptance and domestic romanceys, but it'll feel better for being earned!

...also i STILL NEED TO SETTLE ON A FINAL DESIGN FOR THIS DAMN MONSTERBOY. All i know is that he should have some sort of bigger monster form cos i find it hard to even really see something like a humanoid with wings as really "scary" at all. He needs to be a 50 foot tall dragon or a satan bat or a skeleton ghost or something. But still can do a halfway transformation for the cute monsterboy aesthetic, yknow? And i was leaning towards either "ice ghost" cos yknow cursed mountain and all, or vampire cos that'd have all the negative symptoms that'd make sense to be misinterpreted as illness. So either that or some other type of monster that has to consume blood or soul energy or something, and looks all pale and corpsey when its gone thru 15 years of trying to hide as a human and being half starved. But regular vampires are definately in the "not scary just a regular human wjth bits glued on" category, so itd have to be some sort of interesting design for them. Like a real grody gnarly giant bat monster that can just disguise itself as a human? Also it would be really cute in the happy ending to have your boyfriend cooking some fancy blood recipes or something, to show how much he loves ya! Like, not just romance hapoiness but also our monsterboy's life is just generally a lot better cos he doesnt have to hide himself and can just buy pig's blood at the butcher. Healthful in body and soul! ALSO MOSTLY THE ROMANCENESS, YES.

Anyeay lol those were my Thoughts