In an Everyone Lives scenario, what majors/career paths do you think all the Hacketteers would end up in? Obviously we have animation for Ryan and physics for Dylan suggested in the game but so many people end up changing their majors anyway, I wonder if the experience would lead them on different paths than they’d originally intended.

thank you for making me think about this, it's one thing i've been putting off but i also think about all the time

so right off the top of my head, i think about Max's major a lot & i end up tossing two things around - law school or childcare/teaching. he seems like a level-headed guy, he breaks down situations in pieces until he understand them ("You remember when I said, 'whoa, look at the moon. it's so big and bright and- it's so cool to see a full moon' and you said "yeah no shit, Max, it happens once a month'?"), & also.... we've all seen his outfit in the 50s pack. but i still come back to childcare bc i grew up working in childcare & he just seems the type for it. maybe he got rejected from Landis for law & pursues childcare or teaching at a smaller school instead & ends up one of those teachers that everyone wants to get on their schedule

Laura, the love of my life, the breath in my lungs, is such a headstrong badass that she prolly still pursues her vet degree, altho i can see her minoring/taking a few psychology classes to coach her & Max thru the rough times

Abi definitely finds her way to art school, i just don't see her changing that. i do think she expands from just sketching & gets into different mediums - pottery, possibly sculpting, using charcoal and paint - bc i think she'd find it calming to work with her hands, cover her skin in anything but red, & she'd lean into it for stress relief

uhh Nick is so complicated sometimes that predicting what the absolute FOOL (affectionate) is going to do is impossible. i want to say culinary school but if i'm being honest, i think he would end up dropping out & just working at restaurant. i don't say this bc i hate him, i say this bc he's a clown. (also i may or may not have done the same thing, minus the culinary part) or maybe he becomes a forest ranger & spends time alone in his ranger tower listening to the forest

Jacob i whole-heartedly believe goes for coaching/athletics or something, but he joins the college sports team (prolly football or maybe hockey) & that's the path he ends up following. he definitely has to get a tutor

i think Emma maybe pursues marketing/advertising or something of the sort, but i also think she def starts loading up her schedule. volunteer work? no worries, she can run it. student council? sure, she'll apply. you know, lacrosse sounds rlly fun all of a sudden, she should join the team! & she kills, obvi. if she never thinks about it, it never happened. if she never has time to think, she can never think about it

Kaitlyn.... she's the one i've been thinking about the most. she's such an odd character bc we see so much of her & yet i still feel like we don't know anything about her. her entire character is kind of just "im mean, i know first aid & i can shoot" & then we love her bc she's a badass. which i don't mind but it makes it kind of hard to make theories on her future. i imagine she IS one who ends up switching her major. she prolly starts with what she had planned - maybe an english degree? - but then switches bc hackett's quarry changed her & she'll never stop thinking about it. i like to think maybe she ends up in enviromentalism, or possibly on the nursing track. something to occupy her mind

Ryan & Dylan honestly seem rlly well suited for their majors so i don't know of i can imagine them doing something else. i do think Ryan starts taking self-defense class & prolly makes Sarah go with him just to be sure she knows. just in case. Dylan takes a part-time job at either the school's radio station or a local one, & if he DID drop out, he would 100% start a podcast. all those fanfics are canon

this was rlly fun to think about even tho i'm not sure how accurate they are - i would love to hear other ideas! thank you for the ask :)

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Chilchuck analysis speedrun: As a hardworking half-foot who grew up poor and discriminated against and had his gullibility taken advantage of multiple times in his early adventuring days, Chilchuck thinks optimism is a dangerous flaw. He’s stressed and strict all the time because his job is noticing details like traps that could get everyone killed before anyone knows it, he takes the lives of everyone to be on his shoulders, and with the way he speaks about it that probably partly reflects how he felt about taking it upon himself to provide for his family too. His life’s always been pretty centered around work and has become even moreso now that his wife left and everyone is independent, and due to past events he’s very iffy with bonding with coworkers. He thinks feelings and job are a disaster mix. Like with his wife or with parties hiring him as sacrifice, being open or having good faith is vulnerability which can get you hurt, so he processes and shows all his stress as anger instead of worry. Doing strict dieting probably isn’t helping the irritability what with hunger, and on top of being a hunger suppressant alcohol might be the main stress reliever he has.

His grey hairs are so earned

im obsessed with mike walters he's gay he's a cowboy he's the bear he's never made a normal decision in his life he's cut off so many limbs he's the most and least killable man in the universe he's an anarcho communist he dropped his boyfriend husband into the pacific ocean he eats a normal amount of biscuits and gravy what a guy

late night cuddles

I really like your nejisasuneji fanart!I think the similarity between Neji and Sasuke in Naruto is worth exploring. Both of them come from the pupil aristocracy, and their strength is about the same (the early Byakugan and Sharingan are both very strong), and both of them are rebels. Regardless of whether it was fate or the system, both people failed in the end. Neji still failed to escape fate and became a scapegoat. Sasuke finally compromised to the old system and ran around in order to maintain the status quo. It is very appropriate to use one sentence to evaluate the two people: "Those who try to control their destiny end up being controlled by destiny."It will be interesting for the sasuneji two to help each other: Sasuke helps Neji reform the Hyuga clan and break the curse seal of the caged bird. At the same time, the reform of the Hyuga clan becomes the beginning of the reform of the old system of the ninja world. Neji, who is no longer controlled by the caged bird, becomes Sasuke's right-hand man.

yesssss this is what drew me to them! i find it very interesting they are both clan prodigies with Baggage and both come from prestigious clans no less. remember when the sharingan and byakugan were compared to each other and it meant anything ever that was FUN.

i particularly enjoy the idea of contrasting them because If I Wrote Naruto (said every naruto fan ever) this conflict of like. sasuke goes on to be the one who could Not bear to stay in konoha and then later turns against it, vs neji who stayed in konoha after being promised that things would change (and they didn't. funny that) would be something to be explored! especially after Both having been seen as Shitty, Angry Prodigies. but neji "calmed down" after being made promises that weren't kept and sasuke didn't let himself even consider falling for stuff like that (until the ending of naruto lmfao)

i'm a big fan of characters who contrast like that lol and i think the whole sharingan vs byakugan thing is a very fun backdrop to that. like dreams/illusions vs reality/truth? come on now.

people joke about it a lot i've seen, but literally if neji as a character were allowed to 1. exist in a meaningful way at all in shippuden lmfao 2. interact with sasuke, i do think it'd be an easy path for interesting interactions, because like. having to defend the village who's literally never helped you, against the guy who was also Never given any assistance or support growing up, AFTER the village made you countless promises that your life would get better when it literally did not? lol. lmao even

them teaming up is sincerely on the like top 5 best things that would happen If Naruto Made Any Sense to me to be honest i do think about it a lot.

who's your favourite lancer dad?

if you mean "who is your favorite character that happens to be in the lancer dad club" its The Big Hot Computer Wife, and that's almost surely the intended question, but if you mean "who is your favorite character to parent him" it is actually, by exactly One (1) point.... rouxls

because i love queen, i love her to bits and pieces, but for all her Mom Energy she is still actually new at the Mom thing. she has some stuff to learn beyond search inquiries and algorithms. and that opens up to all sorts of delightful shenanigans and the relationship To Be Built There is so wonderful, but rouxls has been here, by any canon or non-canon measure, longer than she has, and i think there is a very sweet bond between a naive, terribly lonely boy with a neglectful (sometimes worse) father and the prideful, terribly lonely idiot who has been put in charge of him, who Had to be there when nobody else was. and of course, this idiot caved. it feels like when you look at who they seem to be as characters, they mutually need each other, and i just think that's a really sweet kind of relationship.

... queen will catch up of course, really it's a learning experience for both of them as rouxls was the same brand of Clueless Idiot she is, he's just ahead of her on the board. he's got notes, she can borrow them. maybe they can study together.

comic relief characters can be really deep actually. or maybe i dug this hole myself. but either way, it’s there

obsessed with how toki is like skwisgaar's biggest fan AND his biggest hater

Love a series that gives me a guy to root for across 80% of the series as he actively attempts to capture, kill, torture, or maim the protagonists. Rasten deserves to be winning and is from Winter Be My Shield by Jo Spurrier and its sequels.

Garroth should have religious trauma.

Imagine the character development and his character arc in accepting himself. I feel like it makes sense as well with Zane being a high priest in mcd, like religion is apart of this family.

In the mystreet universe I feel like garroth would spend his high school years (Phoenix drop high) overcoming his prejudices and learning more. As Garroth is friends with Katelyn who we know to be a canon man and woman enjoyer he’d personally know someone within the lgbt community. It makes sense for him to slowly get over his prejudices when a close friend of his is queer (I imagine multiple ppl in the group to be queer but katelyn is canon). I also headcanon Zane to be enby and high school is when he would probably be discovering them self, with that garroth would also have to try and be a good brother to Zane. I think he would start discovering himself in university (falcon claw) and begin facing his internalized homophobia and repressed feelings. That might take years and maybe even follow into mystreet s1 and s2, I feel like you could read garroth’s obsessiveness over Aphmau as compulsory heterosexuality. In mcd I think he should have so much repressed homosexuality that he never lets out. He’s like clenching his fists anytime he’s with Laurence lol. He only gets to untangling that issue at s2 when he does all his other pondering.

i think i'm like the spiders georg of Horizons OCs

the unending cosmic horrors of the universe versus A Song

Brains actually obsessed with them. Teeny tiny girls and one(1) giant

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my brain for the past like 2 weeks

I was told you like qpr jesslake? I know IT isn't what your big on right now, but I was wondering if you had any specific head canons or thoughts!

i DO like qpr jesslake! i don't have many specific headcanons or thoughts (especially ones that i haven't already posted/written about) but off the top of my head:

-they probably got together before either of them knew that queerplatonic relationships were A Thing. just like "i wanna be with you but i don't wanna be Dating. but like, fuck the rules that say we have to put our relationship into boxes"

-and they were *basically* already Together before they made it Official (this prolly happened a couple years post-canon)

-they sometimes say like "they're my partner" when asked about their relationship, but more often it's just "he's my jesse" and "they're my lake"

-similarly, they don't call each other pet names. lake's not much of a cutesy nickname person, but will occasionally call jesse stuff like dumbass (affectionate) like i do to some of my friends. jesse is USUALLY the type to make up fun nicknames for his loved ones but calling lake anything except their real name feels Wrong to him. but he says their name with such love that it might as well be a term of endearment

-they're pretty physically affectionate and aren't really shy about showing it. but it's less mushy snuggly type affection and more just. being basically joined at the hip and/or flopping on each other like two cats

-if you headcanon lake as getting adoptive/foster parents rather than living with jesse's family: these two are at each other's houses CONSTANTLY. extremely frequent sleepovers. their parents know better than to try to separate them