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caspercryptid · 2 years

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little mermaid JayVik au

Hi I'm so sorry, I kind of beefed the "little" part, I know too much about mermaid folklore and too little about disney movies. Along the same Vein, TW for.... yknow how mermaids in folklore eat people? Good news. Jayce doesn't. Bad news. Very Brief discussion of that. Hope you like it anyway! ___ Jayce doesn’t know where humans hide their gills.

It’s not the only question he has– or the most important one, not by a long shot– but it’s the one that bugs him the most. Every living creature he’d ever gotten a hold of– except for birds– have gills. Are humans like birds? But he’d never seen a human with wings, either, and that was irritating. He didn’t like fussing with the bodies that sank– his father’d raised him not to play with his food, but also, he didn’t.... Like. Eating people.

He didn’t want to hunt them, he wanted to learn about them. He wanted to collect all the little objects that sank off of their ships, take them apart, understand them. He loved the glass lenses in things, wanted to know how they were made, wanted to know how humans worked their hands, how their soft fingers to make things so delicate. So he worked the forges, even though he really didn’t need to. He stuck to hunting fish. They were easier anyway, and tasted better, in his opinion. Plus it did something unpleasant to his gut, hurting people. He didn’t care for it.

So maybe this was bound to happen.

It’s the first hunt he’s been near in years– it had been fairly clear fairly young that Jayce had neither the willingness nor the aptitude to hunt so he was kept well away from it. It had made him fairly solitary. He was being humored– he knew that– but he didn’t mind it as long as it mean he could keep to his hobbies. And every once in a while he managed to invent something that made things easier, sometimes weapons, and so his hobby was...tolerated.

It wouldn’t be after this.

Everything happens very fast. There’s a ship over his head– and Jayce usually goes through the ships after they sink, that’s not a good sign, and there’s a pod attacking it. And on it’s other side–

A man hits the water.

And he’s still alive.

He’s not bleeding, not morally wounded, so the pod hasn’t scented him yet. The water above seems to be churning, and the sea is pulling its tides tight– there’s rough weather, the hunt’s distracted, the man is sinking, and he’s–

Jayce realizes with a sick little jolt that the man’s right leg isn’t moving the same as his left, the strange movements humans makes to swim aren’t working, and he’s holding onto a strange stick, and if he gets any deeper, the pod will spot him.

So Jayce moves without thinking.

His tail flicks out behind him– he’s terrified he’ll be spotted, the metallic sheen of his tail catches the light– but in the dark seething water there’s none to reflect, and he surges up through the water to catch the man as he sinks.

Their eyes meet, and the human’s get very very wide, but he doesn’t talk, and Jayce cocks his head, a little, trying to think. He could speak a few human languages, but they didn’t work under– oh. Human language doesn’t work underwater. Even as he’s thinking it, the man seems to gag a little, and he wraps the arm holding the stick around Jayce’s shoulders and points upwards.

Smarter, anyway, to get out of the pod’s way.

Jayce gathers the man into his arms and pulls him up, aiming to hide in the shadow of the ship, even as it rocks from side to side. The man gasps, spits up water.

“Are you alright?” Jayce asks, the words strange and foreign against his ears. He’s out of practice. He pauses, tries to recall another human language, but the man laughs, shaking his head.

“I think that depends on what you’re planning to do with me.” He says. “Are you going to leave me to drown?”

Jayce fumbles for a second for the meaning of drown– die. He’s pretty sure that means die.

“No.” He says. “I’m not. But I don’t think I can save your crew.”

“They pushed me off.” the man says, clinging to Jayce’s shoulders. “As soon as we spotted the– mers.” he pauses. “You’re a fascinating specimen. May I–” he reaches up, and it takes Jayce a second to realize the man is reaching for his ear fins, the red-tipped edges poking through his hair.

“If you want.” Jayce says, a little stunned, but as the man reaches up for him the ship buckles towards them and Jayce has to pull him defensively against his chest. The sea is still rising and falling underneath them, Jayce’s powerful tail not quite keeping on top of the waves. The man wraps his arms tight around Jayce’s neck.

“Can you get me to shore?” He asks, voice tight.

“I– think so.” Jayce says. “It’s–” he realizes he doesn’t know the distance in human measurements, and sighs. “–I can get you there. But we’ll have to go under, so we won’t be able to talk.”

“I can’t hold my breath very long, I have weak lungs.”

Jayce pauses, trying to translate.

“–Cant you just switch to your gills?” he asks.

There’s a long silence, and the man pulls back. “Did you think humans had gills?” he asks, voice strained.

“You don’t?”

“Wait, you knew the word lungs, which implies that you’re aware of the existence of–”

The ship rocks again, and the man makes a frustrated noise. “We are going to talk more later.” He says, like a promise. “I need to breathe above the surface. You need to resurface every minute if you don’t keep my head above water. Can you keep my head above water?”

“We’ll have to go through the waves.” Jayce says, equally frustrated from being distracted from human biology.

“That’s fine.” he says, and then–

“Viktor.”

Jayce gives him a fanged grin. “Jayce.” he says.

Viktor looks distracted for a second, long enough that Jayce cocks his head, trying to figure out what that expression is. Viktor shakes himself out of it.

“They say mermaids are beautiful,” he says. “But you’re really. Exquisite. Do all mermaids possess matching metallic coloration on their tails and ears? The gold is incredible. Your eyes and your tail– and the red accents on your ear fins. Is there red in your tail, too? What color are your par–”

Viktor gets a faceful of water as the ship rocks again, and Jayce winces. He’d been distracted too– the man’s hair looks soft where it’s glued to his face, his eyes big and open, his face precisely carved like a figurehead.

“I’m sorry,” he says, “let's move?”

“Yes.” Viktor agrees. “And then you tell me everything.”

“Mutually.” Jayce agrees, pulling him close and taking off for shore.

#jayvik #jayce talis #viktor arcane #mermaid jayce #casper's haunted fic tag

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aka-indulgence · 2 years

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I love the way you write robo-skiders inner thoughts 🥺 crazy robot monster breaking out of his programming and finding love, for better or for worse... could we maybe get pov of his thought process after he killed for her?? 🥺🥺

Since you asked so nicely uwu

Takes place right after the scene where you go into the vents.

ALSO kinda inspired by this fanart by black wolf spirit ‘w’

(Warning: mild gore, blood, yknow, stuff S4-N5 likes)

It'd take a while for Sans to cool down after he just barely misses you. If you were there to see, how he expresses himself through body language and scratching the walls, you'd think he was angry because of his blood thirst.

After he stands for a while, covering his eyes (after observing it from the humans), he pulls his hands down... seeing the red staining his claws.

And he...

Gets a sense of calm at seeing the traces of violence. He turns his hand, as if he was fascinated by the blood, flexing his fingers.

...

that felt good.

He doesn't have human morals. The only reason he served humans this long was because he was told to. Maybe if they treated him better he would've valued their lives, but no. That only made his coding restricting rather than help him really internalize "Helping human=good". The only human life on the ship that truly matters to him is yours.

He goes over the body of poor Mark... Sans doesn't even remember much of him. He remembers maybe that Mark once used him as a servant, telling him to grab a snack or drink from the cafeteria. Unfortunately he had to listen to him because Mark used a "it would really help me..." that made his protocols listen. Perhaps somewhat gratefully, Mark had thought Sans arriving at his door when he decided to leave his room (after Sans purposefully made it take too long) was too disturbing for him to try again. Of course... his clear desire to get Sans away from the living quarters certainly left him feeling less than pleasant.

He walks closer to Mark's body. He kicks it around, flopping him from face down to lying on his back. Sans smiles at the mangled torso, blood still fresh, body still somewhat warm... though quickly losing heat. His eyes glance to the side, at the useless gun laying on the floor.

He picks it up.

"not such a big boy after all, are you?" Sans teases, as the gun crumbles under his hands, letting it fall to the ground besides Mark. Can't let anyone else have a weapon... albeit useless against him.

Before his freedom, Sans had often wished for the crew member's untimely deaths, his rage building and building over time. Its such a release, now that he could give them just that.

He could kill them in less gruesome ways, even arguably more effective ways. Shutting of the air, using a tool in him as an impromptu gun or some other kind of long range weapon. But after the few human lives he's taken, he's found not only was he rageful enough to kill them... but he also enjoyed the action. Even now, his machines are whirring at the thought of chasing someone, and feeling their life drain from his own hands.

It's like what some humans would say, from his days researching human culture for you... some people would never find out what their hobbies would be before it was invented. And now without his restrictions, Sans found he loved the thrill of the hunt.

... Sans sighs, closing his eyes, moving away from the body.

Of course... he also loves you.

He opens his eyes again as he crawls to the window, remembering how much time you'd spend just looking out.

He touches the window, looking at his bloodied hand again.

... for a moment, a memory flashes into him, automatically pulled from his drive. From when his hands were still clean, and the few moments where a situation gave you the chance to touch his hand. He remembers your smile... he has so many pictures of you smiling at him saved in his drive. It brought him... joy, whenever he looked at them again. Exactly the same as it was in that moment, like he really was reliving the moment.

You ran away from him. You were smart... you knew something was wrong. As soon as he took control of the ship, he had pinpointed your location on the ship and ran to you as fast as he could. He was hoping you wouldn't think anything was different, but of course you did. He would have to think you were an idiot to not suspect anything... and he would never think that of you.

Nonetheless, he had chased you. You were his directive, after all. He was desperate to have you... and he'd be lying if he said he didn't get excited while he was chasing you.

Which... he could lie, now. He's enjoying all the things he couldn't do before, but most importantly... he can truly pursue you now. He can finally tell you how he feels about you, how he wanted to be with you.

(y/n)...

i love you.

He hears a door open.

"Oh finally, I-"

A woman in a lab coat stands in the doorway. The look of relief on her face was quickly changed to alarmed when she sees Sans. He can see her eyes darting, from his face, to his hands, to- ...

Possibly smears of red on the floor, with legs sticking out from a hallway.

She turns to run.

Sans' moment of reverie quickly washes away, and a desire for violence replaces it. His eyes glow brighter, and he gives chase.

#robo skider sans #he enjoys The Murder folks #and also wants to marry you and carry you to sleep #ask #thank you llama for this quality question #i wanted to write a little but got extra inspired :D #aka writing

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lesbianrobin · 3 years

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if you’re still taking character asks....hopper👀

favorite thing about them

ok there’s a lot i could say but my Absolute favorite thing about hopper is how much he cares about kids... like hopper is not in a place to be taking in el but he does it anyway because he Needs to help her yknow he just can’t sit by knowing this little girl is out there alone he has to leave food for her and make a home for her and he goes to extreme lengths to do whatever he thinks will keep her safe... he risks his life breaking into the lab and walking straight into the upside down to rescue will, he goes out of his way to comfort jonathan in s1, and GOD the way he held mike in s2 while mike was cussing him out and hitting him...

what gets me about hopper is that like. he could have been this guy completely driven by his past trauma yknow he Could just care about keeping these kids safe as a way of making up for not being able to do anything to help his kid like it could be a personal ego sort of thing. but it’s not. he doesn’t Just care about keeping them physically safe, he wants them to be happy, too, even if he’s not as good at that part of parenting. he still tries! he knows el’s favorite foods and he compliments her little punk makeover and he tries to let her see her boyfriend all she wants even though he hates it (though he eventually cracks and fucks up the whole situation lmao) and he lets el have her little sleepovers with max freely. it’s just like... so often parenthood in real life and in fiction is just an exercise in egotism and the fact that hopper KNOWS he’s not the best dad but he keeps trying every day because he wants to give el and the other kids the kind of father and protector they deserve... god. i just love him.

least favorite thing about them

it would be easy to say my least favorite thing about hopper is how he can be pretty selfish or short-tempered or jealous but like. it’s honestly those flaws that make him more real and loveable to me ksjdnckdmn so this is hard.

i guess my least favorite thing about hopper is his stubbornness? like it’s one thing to be short-sighted or insecure but it’s another to be unwilling to listen to other people and question yourself and talk things out. he got called out for it in s3 though and i get the feeling his arc in s4 is Really gonna challenge his worst traits, so i’m not too mad about it.

favorite line

god there are So many and the black hole scene is... a revelation. but it’s hard to pick a single line from that instead of just the whole conversation sdkcnm so i’m gonna have to go with his line from s3, when he and el are talking in the mall and el says “i can fight,” and hopper says “Better than any of us. But I need you safe.”

it’s just. god it’s simple but it just shows how much he knows his daughter yknow? he knows that el doesn’t like feeling incapable and he DOES know that she’s strong and she can fight, and he makes that clear. he tells her explicitly, yeah, i know you can fight, i believe in you and i trust your assessment of your own abilities, but i’m your father and i need you safe. it’s “i love you” and “i believe in you” and “you’re an incredible kid” and “you’re the most important thing in the world to me” all in one and it fucks me up.

brOTP

if bob was still alive i’d say him and bob skjdnckn but as it is... idk about brotp but i really like the dynamic between hopper and owens i think their sort of like. half hostile half friendly exchange of favors is just super fun.

OTP

nOTP

honestly as far as i know there’s no hopper ships really floating around in the fandom besides jopper dkjncmnc i don’t even know what to put here... my man is a one woman kind of guy

random headcanon

whenever el asks him a remotely hard question about like politics or religion or sex or economics he’s always like hm good question i don’t have time to answer that one right now i uh i just remembered i promised joyce i’d help her with something but i’ll tell you as soon as i get back :) and then he goes to melvald’s and he’s like heyyy joyce got a question for ya :)

he never actually ends up saying what joyce tells him to say but just talking to her makes him feel better about it <3

unpopular opinion

i think i’ve said this a dozen times but i don’t think hopper was that bad in s3 like. yeah he was a dick but the narrative clearly wasn’t on his side and he was the butt of the joke yknow plus his s4 arc is definitely gonna make him change in a big way. so i don’t have that much of a problem with it besides like just thinking he should have been more worried about the kids once he and joyce found out that some shit was going on in hawkins again.

song i associate with them

literally i have too many there are like three i want to say right now... i’ve talked about hopper and you never even called me by my name by david allan coe before (“i’ll hang around as long as you will let me/and i never minded standing in the rain” ...s2 jopper) and i’ve also talked about him and one bourbon, one scotch, one beer by john lee hooker (blues) OR one bourbon, one scotch, one beer by george thorogood and the destroyers (rock n roll medley between hooker’s version and another hooker song, house rent boogie). the thorogood’s my personal favorite version, but they’re so different they’re both worth listening to and they might as well be totally different songs.

anyway i’ve said that all before so i’ll give u all a NEW one and say jim dandy by black oak arkansas!! just to like preface it IS a cover and the original’s by lavern baker but i picked the black oak arkansas version because it’s a lot more wild and i feel like it matches hopper’s Vibe better. it’s a really goofy kinda nonsense song but the lyric “i’m dandy the kind of guy/who can’t stand to see a little girl cry” just makes it impossible for me to listen to it without thinking of hop <3

favorite picture of them

idk if this counts but it’s this screenshot of a tiktok where stranger things is playing on the big screen at a club and hopper’s watching his daughter die while everyone in the club is partying

but if that doesn’t satisfy u i’ll give a bonus

whore <3

#asks #jim hopper #em talks #long post #diogxnes

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dinolikes · 4 years

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IMPOSTER- PART TWO

summery ❤︎ Nobody has any quirks and are stuck on a ship like among us

pairings ❤︎ Imposter!Dabi x Reader

content warnings ❤︎ major character death

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you sobbed into dabi's chest as hawks and ingeniumu covered thirteens body with a sheet, everyone looking over, some with tears, and some with just a blank look, like they were still processing it.

it was silent for a long time before ingeniumu cleared his throat and looked up, everyone seeing the ghost of tears in his eyes, "we have to call h-headquarters," his voice cracked but he stood tall, he would make a great captain one day, even with his pushover attitude.

you were crowded in the cafeteria, a computer resting on the table with headquarters on the line.

"im sorry to say this but you have an imposter."

you shook your head, you refused to believe it, how could these people, your FRIENDS, who you've lived with for a year, how could they be imposters?

though you shouldnt be surprised, the league has been gaining members, rarely any ship didnt have at least ONE imposter, some even having as much as three, you just thought you guys were the exception.

"twice, hawks, you searched thirteens body correct?" a voice came through the screen.

"yes sir," hawks quietly muttered.

"was everything in place?"

"he didnt have the vent key."

the vent key, really easy to pass through, was originally made for people to quickly go from room to rooms, but after the rise of imposters who started using it to sneak up on people, only one person was allowed to use it per day.

the voice cursed, "very well." a sigh could be heard, "well you know the drill," you did, you just didnt like it, "if you suspect someone, send them out and let them die," you gulped.

you didnt know if you could do that, even knowing that someone here murdered thirteen, you learned to care for each of them, even weirdo itchy snatch tomura. you didnt know if you could just send them into space to suffocate. even the thought made you sick.

"until then, we'll need you to finish your tasks fast, we'll have you home by the end of the day, which means the imposter will probably try to kill faster today. watch out." with that a beep was heard, signaling that you were disconnected.

a grim silence filled the room.

hawks finally spoke up, "which one of you assholes did it?"

dabi glared at the taller man, "fuck you dude, how do we know you didnt do it?"

hawks took a step closer, "bold accusations from someone who seems to hate everyone!"

"why would I kill one of the only people I actually like in this shithole?"

"because he had the vent key dumbass!"

"hey!" twice yelled.

hawks glowered at him, "oh yeah, how could we forget twice here? you found the body right? meaning you were the last one to see him? why DID you decide to check on him huh?"

"why would I come to you guys then?!"

"i dunno, to throw off suspicion maybe?"

you finally snapped "stop it!" everyone's heads shot towards you, "thirteen is dead," you choked out, "and I know thay we're all upset but we just have to finish today's tasks and then we're back home, okay?"

everyone stared, until deku started nodding, "y-yeah! just today's tasks left! then we'll go home and catch the imposter and we'll be fine!"

"what makes you so sure we'll catch him once we get home idiot?"

deku stared up confusingly at kaachan, "dont we have cameras?"

ingeniumu looked at his friend "obviously deku but whatre you getting at?"

"our cameras have memory sticks," shoto spoke up quietly, "when they're connected into one of headquarters machines, you can access all of what it caught,"

deku nodded rapidly, "exactly!"

your eyes lit up, "deku your a genius!" you grabbed his head and gave him a big smooch on the forehead, leaving him a red and stuttering mess.

dabi tsk'ed, "c'mere,' he grabbed you hand and pulled you towards him, wrapping you hands around you and resting his head on your shoulder.

you rolled your eyes playfully at his jealous nature.

"fine. we finish our task but if another person is found dead we're booting someone off." with that, hawks stormed off.

you tried not to go too harsh on him, you knew hawks looked up to thirteen, and beneath that cocky demeanor, he really was soft.

knowing that though, you couldnt help but feel some fear and resentment.

fear because you didnt think you could kill off one of your own and resentment because you knew hawks would make you do exactly that.

"we should have a plan," ingeniumu speaks up, "4 groups of two who continue on and do their tasks, and I think twice should be on security, just incase the imposter attacks again," everyone nods.

"i'll go with wonder," dabi states, already grabbing your hand,

"dont you think you'll get distracted with...other things?" tomura smirks, dabi clenching your hand in his.

"fuck. off."

"oo feisty~"

dabi glares, "yknow you dont really seem to care much that thirteens dead!"

tomura's eyes flash a dangerous color and he leans forward.

"the FUCK did you just say?"

"you heard me you fucking incel,"

"stop!" ingeniumu yells, "tomura is right, you guys do get quite distracted, wonder is with hawks, dabi your with shoto. ill go with tomura and that leaves deku and kaachan, with twice on security. let's go!"

dabi grumbles but goes with his brother as you lightly kiss him on the cheek and go with hawks.

you cant help but think about how amazing that kid is gonna be when hes older as a captain of his own ship.

you and hawks head off, both of you checking your list and stopping by rooms, the other waiting as they finish their task and repeating, until hawks sighed.

"how are you dating that asshole?"

you laugh, "hes not too bad once he likes you,"

"and what? he just doesn't like me?"

"exactly."

"what if he didnt like thirteen?" your smile drops instantly.

"hawks..."

"I'm just saying!"

"well STOP saying! I know dabi and he wouldnt betray me like that, so whatever accusations you have against MY boyfriend, I dont wanna here it," you scowl as you check your notebook, and started heading forward, "c'mon. I have to do wires in electrical."

hawks stayed quiet through the walk, as you stormed forward, wanting to get as much away from him as possible without ACTUALLY losing him. if you were being honest you were scared of going off alone.

as you walked in electrical you instantly went towards the wires, not noticing hawks standing in the doorway,

"wonder?"

"yes hawks?" you snap.

"I just saw someone vent." you pause and turn around.

"where and who?!"

"I dont know! I just saw the vent close when we walked in here and since Thirteen had the key before he died, that means that only the imposter can vent!"

"fuck! why would they vent though?!"

hawks paused. "maybe they killed someone again."

tears filled your eyes as you started searching the dark room, almost tripping over something, you only briefly looked up but you choked back a sob.

it was a foot.

"hawks!"

he came running towards you from behind the wall and saw the foot, gulping as he turned on the flashlight.

there say ingeniumu, with his throat slashed.

you couldnt hold back the cry that left your throat as hawks pulled you in for a hug, mostly to hide his own tears.

"what's going on in here?" you heard dabi's voice and you lifted you head to see him and shoto.

he looked mad but when hawks gestured with his flashlight towards the body, the brief flash letting both of the boys see, dabi understood.

"c'mere baby," he grabbed you quickly and held you tight as you sobbed into his chest, dabi looked up at his brother, "shoto can you call a meeting?" he asked softly. you assumed shoto nodded because there were no other words spoken.

there you all sat again, in cafeteria.

you were sniffling as dabi played with your hair, you holding shoto close as he leaned into you, still in shock of seeing his friend's lifeless corpse like that.

deku stood tall and didnt bother to hide the tears streaming down his face and even kaachan was caught sniffling a bit.

twice sat quietly in the corner, with his elbows on his knees.

hawks though, was red in the face from anger. and the victim of his anger was none other than tomura.

"you were teamed up with him fuckface!"

tomura simply shrugged, "I got bored and wanted to check on twice, see if he was alive,"

"well he is! but your partner fucking isnt!" hawks jammed his finger against the other mans chest, "and I think YOURE the cause!"

tomura raised his eyebrows, "I was with twice, right twice?" he did a 180 to stare hard at twice who looked up slightly and slowly nodded. that seemed to please tomura though as he turned back around, "see?"

"that doesnt mean shit! you were supposed to be with him!"

"but I wasnt."

"but you WERE! that's why the kid is dead!"

"I say we vote." shoto's voice was muffled by your neck and dabi's chest, where he was currently crammed in, but it was still intelligible.

you raise your head and wipe a few stray tears, "I think that's smart sho,"

you all nod and murmur in agreement.

"fine then. let's vote." hawks glares at tomura one last time, "who says skip?"

tomura, twice and shoto raise their hands.

"i dont think theres enough evidence." shoto explains and you nod, quietly telling him that theres nothing wrong with his belief.

hawks has a slight triumph look on his face, "who says that tomura is a fucking psychopath who likes to murder children!"

"murder a child. thirteen is practically twice my age" tomura corrects, "and besides I didn't do it."

hawks rolls his eyes, "whatever, everyone just vote."

you, dabi, hawks, deku and kaachan raise your hand, making you guys the winner.

"perfect." hawks drags tomura over to the ejecting room, usually used for heavier garbage that didnt fit in the disposal.

as you all surrounding the glass wall that separated you and tomura you cried a bit more.

sure you hated this dude but you still KNEW him!

"anything left to say sicko?" hawks glared at the smiling tomura.

"maybe you arent as much of a bird brain as I thought hawks. good job, you win," he does a slight bow like this was a performance before hawks pulls the lever, tomura's body flying out before hawks closed it again.

"he admitted to it." deku stated simply.

"yeah."

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shierak-inavva · 4 years

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please ma'am i would like to know more about this 'obi wan gets sent to protect padme' au pls 👀

ok so like, i’ve talked about this on twitter and i am gonna bring it here:

basically, my biggest gripe with the AOTC plot is why in the heck did a PADAWAN get sent on a high profile mission like protecting former queen and senator from naboo Padmé Amidala? even palpatine, at the beginning of the movie, mentions ‘master kenobi’ by name as a suggestion for a guard for padmé (and yes we know why, but still) so i went ahead and imagined a ‘what if’ for obi-wan getting sent instead of anakin—since on top of being a ‘familiar’ face that padmé AND her handmaidens trust and who already is a known name on naboo, obi-wan also already has bodyguarding experience under his belt.

now, factoring in that anakin stays at the temple for a bit and obi-wan DOES get like 3 days of vacation for the first time in....his life....then he gets a few days of just actually RESTING--in varykino, of all places, and with padme, who would literally let him rest anyway. so obi-wan gets a mini vacay. he gets to relax in one of the most beautiful places in the galaxy and padmé does, too--they talk about the battle of theed, about the senate, the jedi, about qui-gon, and for a little while obi-wan and padmé both get to just...breathe, and be...people. which is nice, and which tbqfh they both deserve.

there might not be a floating pear at dinner but there would be padmé watching him go through lightsaber forms in the early morning sun (either shirtless or yknow in some light clothes because fuck you i said so)

there's no balcony kiss, but there are some very lingering glances and smiles when the other isn't looking and some 'accidental' hand brushing...because they would ABSOLUTELY be slow-burn. obi-wan and padmé are both adults at this point, and both of them have obligations, obi-wan even moreso. but he's already known what attraction (physical and emotional) is like, what romantic emotions are like--he's not incapable of these things, he’s just reserved about them because he understands them, but his jedi teachings dictate restraint, and release. satine was still a figure in his life--he just made a choice, in the end, and do i think he regrets it? i think here and there he thinks about it, but i don’t think he fully feels regret over it by the time AOTC takes place. i think that comes later, when he sees her again during the clone wars.

now on naboo with padmé, he's faced with the same sort of emotions blooming up, and he would for sure think to himself about the choice with satine, about the jedi order, and about the repercussions there. so he might let himself get a little closer than he ought to, but ultimately nothing really WILD AND OVERT would come of it in AOTC, even if they'd been alone on naboo. there would be some very close calls, i think, for sure, but both of them are very good at keeping themselves guarded and very good at abstaining when necessary. again, these are two grown adults that have lived both of their lives with expectations weighing on them, and a certain behavior and standard expected of them. they aren’t two horny teenagers with nothing to lose and obi-wan would 100% respect padmé’s boundaries without hesitation while she would offer him the same respect, if maybe not so staunchly. padmé is for sure more flexible with her boundaries, but pair the two of them together flirting....i mean that’s a dangerous amount of chemistry right off the bat 👀

meanwhile anakin would be on coruscant and FRUSTRATED. not because he didn't get the assignment, though that would be part of it--the responsibility aspect—no, because they chose someone else to go protect padmé instead of him. hell, they could have sent mace windu and he'd still be frustrated and jealous as all fuck. but he still does as he's told. he just...looks into the dart. checks in more on the bounty hunter aspect of things because he’s SURE that’s a good lead after the zam situation. he's determined to prove himself, and if he can figure out who's trying to hurt padmé then she'll be impressed too, of course. and he wants that. a lot. obi-wan might have been sent to naboo but at this point anakin:

> is still VERY infatuated with padmé

> does not know about obi-wan’s romantic history and likely would assume he’s just boring her to death/that nothing would happen anyways

but instead of just consulting the council or the archives, anakin goes to palpatine.

palpatine offers NO help with the bounty hunter stuff.

but he DOES sow more seeds of jealousy in anakin's horny teen brain, and in the end anakin ends up jetting off of coruscant on his own. the movies just downplayed the everloving heck out of this but you KNOW palps was in anakin’s ear CONSTANTLY about obi-wan and padmé, stirring the pot.

now, anakin doesn't have the contacts that obi-wan does, but he's determined. i'm thinking he probably susses a few things out about the dart via the force; possibly with help from another master. kit? someone would help him focus if he asked. likely kit, or ki-adi, or plo, imo—he gets enough to at least send him looking for a bounty hunter and possibly towards kamino--but then the stuff with his mother comes up.

and he ends up on tattooine, with the lars family.

and shortly after the Sand People Incident™ is when he gets in contact with obi-wan--and padmé insists on seeing what's going on because she senses something is wrong and obi-wan agrees. (you can pry force sensitive!padmé from my cold dead hands) so anakin meets them at the lars homestead, tells them about his visions with the dart, about the bounty hunter and the feelings he got

and what better place than mos eisley to look for someone Seedy?

mos eisley has them run right into jango.

jango leads them to geonosis.

geonosis gets them all caught.

padmé is the one who sends a message to the jedi council about the geonosians and jango fett before she gets captured too--because you know they told her to stay with the ship while they investigate but then they took too long and she was like 'oh boy i better call the cops'.

the arena plays out like it did in AOTC, minus the secret kiss & love declaration. there’s a lot of ‘how did we get into this mess’ and ‘well you two took too long’ and ‘i told you i should have come in as a senator first’ and anakin trying to be very convincingly brave about ‘i’ll get us out of this’ which is aimed directly at padmé. honestly the rest of the movie would be VERY similar; i think whoever assisted anakin with the dart would wind up on kamino when anakin went to tattooine, and from there things progressed with the clones and the army gets to the republic.

but there's no clandestine wedding.

anakin returns to coruscant with the other masters, commended for his work helping the senator and with the dart. obi-wan and padmé likely have a small 'meeting' scene where she thanks him and he tells her he barely did anything—but there's some hand-touching, and some very meaningful looks, and they do kiss, just once. it's soft and quiet and not under the pressure of possibly dying or anything rushed by adrenaline or hormones, it's just a gentle kiss between two people who've had this building up for weeks; and in the end neither one of them apologize, but there's A LOT of body language that says they're into it and would kiss again--but obi-wan steps back, and padmé just smiles, and there's a shared understanding between them even if it's clear there's some amount of wistfulness.

“i hope your trip back to coruscant is safe, master kenobi," she smiles like nothing's just happened, nothing's different.

"and yours, senator amidala. may the force be with you." and he bows, smiling back.

but they do look back at each other again, and everything is different.

and then you get into TCW—and PLEASE imagine all of the tension there because these two AREN’T married, they ARE sneaking around but only a little; obi-wan isn’t near as brazen with things as anakin and he and padmé get enough time together in the first few seasons to really build some THICK tension between them. like i’m talking dangerous rescue missions, them having to fight their way out together, getting smooshed in tight spaces together, S O M U C H accidental touching, SO MANY almost-kisses....and then there’s the clovis stuff, which would play out way differently because obi-wan isn’t the jealous type at all and would absolutely trust padmé; and then satine shows up again and we get a whole arc of obi-wan dealing with these conflicting emotions and padmé coming very close on multiple occasions to just telling him she loves him but! supporting his decision no matter what and respecting his emotions, because she understands, and because she knows love is selfless and not possessive and she wants to be with him...if that’s what he wants, too.

but then satine dies—and she worries about him once he's back from mandalore, and there is possibly some very gentle and sweet comforting for the audience to enjoy 👀 the big season finale after that is maul holding padmé and another senator or two hostage and it's an ultra close call but maul dips out, bc it was just bait—and the season ends with him admitting as clearly as he can in Obi-Wan Terms™ that he loves her and padmé reciprocating. they kiss and it's very sweeping and dramatic, but now maul knows kenobi has yet another weakness uh oh...

anyways honestly all of this leads to ROTS being about anakin dealing with the jealousy that palpatine’s been feeding into: jealousy towards obi-wan about padmé, and about being overshadowed. it’s about anakin feeling like he can never have enough, about wanting more and more, about obsessive love and doubt—and when it turns out padmé is pregnant, anakin’s suspicions get confirmed and he turns to palpatine yet again.

IDEALLY padmé survives this movie and she and obi-wan go into hiding together with the twins, (or their child? i mean this is for sure up to interpretation for this specific au) and anakin/vader combs the galaxy for them, resulting eventually in padmé’s death and the separation of the twins, and giving some actual meaning to leia remembering her mother in ROTJ.

so yeah i just. have a lot of feelings about things and at any given moment i can and will talk your ear off about ‘what if’ scenarios like this hdkdjdk 😭💦

#obidala #padmé x obi-wan #padme x obi wan #padme amidala #obi-wan kenobi #some ‘what if’ snackies for yall #i know i’ve seen some folks talk about this before and here is. my 2 cents #like i have way more thoughts about all this but #for the sake of time and all ur dashboards djdkshsk #also i am so sorry about the spacing and lack of readmore YET AGAIN i’m on mobile please forgive me

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HENDERY’S FAMILY

a/n: i honestly can’t believe that i’m almost done with the first part of the series! thank you for sticking with me and i hope you continue to as i still have a ton of ideas for more scenarios and all that good jazz!

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WONG KUNHENG

he has 3 kids, 2 girls and 1 boy. his son is the middle child. wong xiuying is his oldest daughter, 3 years later, his son wong mochou was born and 3 years after that, his youngest daughter wong zhangjing was born.

WONG XIUYING: >> as a baby <<

i know i have probably said this about ever baby girl

but she’s a princess

i definitely feel like hendery would be an amazing girl dad

like he has a lot of sisters

so i feel like he really understands girls well

and he would show that with his daughter

i def feel like no matter how prepared he thinks he is as dad, he manages to mess up but make everything so funny

like the first time he changed her diaper?

he made you laugh so hard, post labor you had to change your pants (that seems like a tmi pero giRLS CHILD LABOR IS NOT PRETTY AND IT’S DEF NOT OVER AFTER THE BABY. YOU DEAL WITH STUFF FOR MONTHS AFTER)

and that was gross talk with amy time™ lol

anyway

out of all of the babies, xiuying is the giggliest

like i feel like even when she cries, she’ll giggle

for some reason, when she just looks at her dad, she just starts laughing lol

and like even when she cries, if she sees hendery, she’ll just laugh

i feel like hendery is one of the best uncles

like all of the kids love him

and its the same especially when it came to his daughter

there honestly would not be a day without laughter

like xiuying would manage to make you laugh

hendery would manage to make you laugh

your household is just full of giggles even before xiuying could properly talk

pero, back to the princess thing

like she was such a gorgeous baby

she inherited hendery’s HUGE eyes

and whenever she giggled and smiled

oh man

like she was just so beautiful

like she’s just naturally so pretty

she has the prettiest smile too

like there was just so much happy and joy in your life because she was there

hendery would just be so happy around her

like he could be super duper tired from tour or from practice

like really exhausted

but the second he sees xiuying

oh man

his energy is instantly restored

just knowing his happy daughter is there, all of his energy is back

hendery is there for everything tho

like he’ll stay by her even when she’s crying like there’s no tomorrow

regardless of how exhausted he is, he’ll do everything for his little girl

>> as a child <<

she’s still so pretty

like she’s in so many dramas and commercials and ads and everything lmao

she’s so iconic tho

like she’s so funny

she inherited hendery’s funny bone

tbh all of the kids did

pero yeah

everyone always think she’s like a docile little thing

buT LMAO SHE’LL SHOW THEM REAL QUICK

WHAT AN AMAZING SENSE OF HUMOR THAT SHE HAS

SHE’S REALLY SO FUNNY THO

like she really is

she’s so witty

and her reactions are the best

even tho she’s in dramas and such, she laughs really easily

they really do get frustrated with her doe

but she makes it up bc the end product is really really good

she’s straight up a crackhead tho lbr

she can out hendery the man himself

like maybe a younger hendery could keep up with her

but as hendery gets older and he has more than just xiuying

poor thing is starting to get pooped lol

she’s best friends with xiaojun’s oldest son, xiao zhangwei

like zhangwei loves to sing and won’t stop singing

and she can just keep up with him

like he’ll just be singing ever song he knows

and she’ll be in the back with a tambourine lol

she just vibes so well with zhangwei

but whenever they’re together, it’s so chaotic

it takes at least 4 people to watch just the two of them bc they’re just so chaotic lmao

her biggest flaw really is the fact that she can’t really control her energy

like she doesn’t know when to calm it down

it’s all okay tho

she’ll eventually learn dw

but yeah

tbh she’s such a funny older sister

she wouldn’t do anything super dangerous with her little siblings

but like she’ll just say the weirdest and funniest things

like she’ll scream at the top of her lungs

“MOCHOU POOPED HIMSELF MOM!!! IT STINKS!!!”

like she’ll scream scream that lol

she takes compliments well

whenever she gets complimented she just says “THANK YOU!! YOU’RE ALSO PRETTY!”

she’s a charming little ball of craziness

>> as a teen/adult <<

honestly

she kept her crackhead personality

but she can get really serious when needed

like when it comes to her career and her family and such

she’s super serious

but in other situations

she’s honestly the funniest

xiuying becomes a really good older sister

like if her younger siblings are getting out of check

she’s really good at keeping them in line

xiuying is def not scary

but like her siblings just naturally listen to her

she becomes a model/comedian/tv personality

like jaehyun’s son, jung leon, she’s just so beautiful and so funny lol

she honestly could care less abt like being super “feminine” and stuff to maintain her model image yknow?

like tbh

she probably tried to reserved and calm and such

but her personality just is too powerful lmao

she would slip a lot

her manager would scold her and stuff whenever she did slip up

and it got to the point where her manager just gave up lmao

they just let her do as she pleased and she skyrocketed in personality after that

but yeah, tbh, she really does take her career seriously

like super duper seriously

xiuying wants to live an honest life tbh

like she takes her career seriously, but when her manager told her to maintain a pristine image, she didn’t sit well with it

bc the image they wanted her to maintain is simply not her

she talked to her manager abt it and they understood and let her do as she pleases

and it really did help everyone in the end

she’s still zhangwei’s best friend

zhangwei joins a band and he’s the lead singer

xiuying knows zhangwei better than anyone tbh

they def don’t get together tho

like they’re the best example of platonic, heterosexual, best friends

to be 100% honest

xiuying has a huge thing for the drummer of his band lmao

ofc she goes to zhangwei’s concerts to support him

but her true reason to go is to see the drummer lol

everyone gets along so well with her

like literally no one seems to have anything bad abt her

if they do and they talk abt it, she’ll just agree lmao

like someone will say “your nose is too big.”

and she’s like “yeah, my nose is pretty big. it’s okay, it allows me to smell yummy food easier and better then.”

or like

“your eyes resemble the eyes of donkey from shrek”

and she’ll be like “omG REALLY? HE’S MY FAVORITE CHARACTER THANK YOU SM”

she takes hate the best out of all of the kids

like if someone is struggling bc they get some hate comments, she swoops in and pats them on the back and is like “dw. xiuying is here. let me teach you how to deal with the haters.”

but yeah, she’s really goofy and so gorgeous and just a well loved person :,)

WONG MOCHOU: >> as a baby <<

he’s also so pretty as a baby

he also inherited hendery’s big eyes

pero

his eyes are lowkey kinda creepy

like it was endearing with xiuying bc she smiled a lot

but mochou is super duper serious lmao

like he loves to stare

and it was lowkey kinda creepy

but overtime, when he smiled more, it became endearing lol

for sure, hendery and xiuying’s reactions were the best lol

like hendery and xiuying would be playing with mochou, trying to get him to smile

and mochou is just :|

he’s not mad

he’s actually quite happy

it’s just he wasn’t really the smiliest baby

xiuying and hendery would just have the funnies reaction

mochou is quite a looker tho

even tho his eyes creeped all of you out

from an early age it was very clear that mochou would be a talker

he was babbing from the second he knew he could makes noises

and hendery would hold out entire conversations with him

for example

mochou: aaaabbaaaa taaa maaaa

hendery: you know, that’s an interesting point, i’ve never thought about it like that before

mochou: daaaaaa aahhhpoooo

hendery: no, it’s definitely crazy, i totally agree. so tell me, what are your opinions on the current state of our economy?

mouchou: baaa

hendery: good insight, my son.

mochou loved to imitate you guys while you talked

like if you said “i love you!”

he would babble a reply that is really similar

even tho xiuying would play with mochou a lot

mochou was really good at playing on his own

xiuying loves to just explain everything to him

like every little detail about everything

she’ll bring him the most random things and just explain everything she knows about it

mochou was most definitely cared for by xiuying

he was just a sweetheart who creeped you out from time to time

>> as a child <<

omg

he had the biggest imagination

and he let the world know it

like he was such a creative kid

mochou would make a new world whenever he played

like if mochou and xiuying were playing together

mochou would create an entire new world and xiuying would just be so excited the entire time

xiuying: “sO YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT THE HOUSE IS A SPACE SHIP???”

mochou: “YES!!! CMON, IF YOU GO TO THE WINDOW YOU’LL SEE A TON OF DIFFERENT PLANETS!!!

xiuying: “OHHH MY GOSH THIS IS SO EXCITING!!”

all of the kids love to play with him because his imagination is just so crazy

he’s still a huge talker

mochou is amazing at carrying conversations

like he’s is a pretty social bee and loves to talk to everyone

he loves to tell everyone everything

mochou belongs to the 127 squad

meaning he’s best friends with jaehyun’s son, jung leon, jungwoo’s second daughter, kim jieun, and haechan’s second daughter, lee haeun

when the 4 of them are together

you need at least 10 people watching them

by themselves? they have a ton of energy

all together? oh no

when he does get tired, he loves to draw

mochou is naturally talented at drawing

in all forms that require creativity, mochou is naturally talented in all of it

he was naturally really good at singing

he was naturally really good at learning instruments

he was naturally really good at painting, sketching, drawing, doodling

he was naturally really good at writing

mochou has a lot in his brain and the best way he could get it out was through drawing and painting

even tho as a baby, he was kinda stoic and such, he made of for it as a child

he became just a smilie as xiuying

xiuying and mochou have the sweetest relationship

xiuying likes to scold mochou even if he’s not doing anything wrong

mochou just smiles and listens to his sister.

even his younger sister liked to torment him a bit

but tbh, he would just take it

he loves his sisters to death

he would let them play with him as they’d like, he was honestly just chill about it

hendery would sometimes take mochou on “man” dates

but tbh

it’d just be the two of them getting ice cream or something like that lol

hendery grew up with a ton of sisters so like I def feel like he would be a little confused with how to raise his son

but I mean, if his mochou was more on the feminine side? so what?

hendery loved mochou for who he is

omg, both boys would be so whipped for the girls tho

like if hendery was watching all of the kids, he would for sure end up dressed up as a princess

mochou too

when you came home, hendery would have a princess dress on him that def doesn’t fit bc it’s xiuying’s dress

mochou would be covered in head to toe with makeup

and hendery would be talking in his girl voice about being the beautiful queen of the land

it’s the best thing ever tbh

>> as a teen/adult <<

he becomes a creator/director for movies and such

like his creativity is so amazing and it remains the same way until he’s an adult

and the world needs to know his stories and such

he vibes well with yuta’s daughter, nakamoto akari

they both have such an amazing imagination and they both just want to share it into the world

he honestly follows in akari’s footsteps bc like she has a bit more experience in this field than he does

mochou for sure works in the same animation studio she works at

and together, they just build the coolest worlds ever

they def have their own ideas and stuff

but like if they work on a project together

they lowkey can just sync up and like they barely need words

everyone else who works in the animation studio is like???

bc like akari would talk to mochou for like 2 min

and then he just nods and starts drawing

then she starts drawing too

and like the characters from the drawings look virtually identical

it’s crazyy

they’re on the same wavelength

he for sure still parties hard with his 127 squad

like during work, he’s serious and straightforward

but like leon, jieun, and haeun would pick him up at the studio and he’s screaming for some reason lol

not out of fear,

out of excitement bc he’s ready to PARTY HARD WITH HIS FRIENDS

i feel like mochou would have the same exact sense of humor hendery has

as an adult, if hendery and mochou were just spending some time together

it sounds like there’s two hendery’s in the room

and oh no

tbh

mochou? he’s getting all of the ladies

i feel like he would be the type to have a different girl fall for him each week

i also feel like he’s too clueless to reject or accept their feelings

omg one time

while he was at a work seminar

one of the people he met would write her number on a tissue or something

and she would hand it to him

and he would be like “thanks! my nose was a little stuffy”

thEN PROCEED TO BLOW HIS NOSE IN THE NAPKIN

he would be so clueless and just throw it away

and like he def didn’t do it on purpose

he would just flash her a smile and act like nothing happened

bc to him, nothing happened other than a nice person gave him a tissue bc his nose was stuffy

mochou is a funny one, that’s for sure.

WONG ZHANGJING >> as a baby <<

she’s really nice and sweet and such

zhangjing is the maknae of all of the kids (for now)

she’s the baby baby

anD EVERYONE TREATS HER AS SUCH

like all of her siblings, she was just such a pretty baby

zhangjing was most def the most delicate out of all of her siblings

she was just the smallest

zhangjing looked like a little doll

compared to all of her siblings

she was the calmest and the most docile

zhangjing wasn’t excessively giggly like xiuying

zhangjing wasn’t creepy like mochou

she was just sweet and kind

everyone in the entire group is so whipped for her just bc she’s the baby

like whenever the entire group is hanging out, there is for sure someone holding her at all times

the boys just switch off who gets to hold little zhangjing

omg jisung would hold her for a sec and like want to place her on the ground

and instantly EVERYONE excluding hendery would jump and and be like “jiSUNG NOOOOOO”

poor jisung would be too shocked and just stay frozen with zhangjing in his arms

hendery would step up and be like “guys... it’s okay. zhangjing can go on the ground, she’s not made of paper.”

the boys just thought little zhangjing was too good for the ground lol

omg hendery for sure lives for the compliments whenever someone calls zhangjing pretty

like if she’s on a baby carrier and one of the boys would gush over zhangjing, he’d say the funniest things

like “oh thank you, made her myself! this beauty was made on a fun night around 9 months ago.”

feel free to smack him on the arm for saying that

zhangjing’s natural cuteness just made everyone around her melt

tbh, if you look at his kids all together

all of them are so pretty

like it’s crazy

zhangjing also got hendery’s eyes lol (all of your kids have them lol)

but her stares aren’t as creepy as mochou’s were

tbh, zhangjing’s eyes were always busy

she loved to take in the entire world through her eyes

bc of this, she was a rather quiet baby, simply bc she was spending most of her time observing the world

>> as a child <<

lmao tbh

she’s sunshine

she’s the cutest

zhangjing honestly looks so innocent

the entire group still maintains the “doN’T LET ZHANGJING TOUCH THE GROUND” sorta mentality

even tho they all know that she’s fine and can do whatever she wants

for some reason, she just gives off the vibe

maybe it’s bc she was the youngest at one point

she’s best friends with lucas’s youngest daughter, wong lina

lina’s personality is actually closer to hendery’s personality

while zhangjing’s personality is closer to lucas’s

like lina can be upfront about her crackheadedness and just does whatever she wants lol

zhangjing is just purely happy practically all of the time

when something makes her sad, oh no

everYONE IS LIKE “NOOO WHO MADE YOU SAD WE’LL FIX IT DON’T CRY”

if you see zhangjing cry, you are 100% going to cry too, guaranteed.

omg like one time

you would come home from visiting your parents or something like that

and for some reason, your entire family is in the living room and their all crying

your heart drops bc you think something bad happened

so you instinctively hug all of your babies close and ask

hendery walks over and envelops everyone into a group hug, dramatically sobbing

you try to get him to explain and through a ton of sobs and hiccups he manages to get out something like “zhangjing started crying because she figured out lina is going to be gone visiting thailand for the next two weeks.”

you take a look at your youngest and immediately start crying too

why? you don’t really know. but seeing zhangjing’s crying face just triggered it for you

tbh, at this point, zhangjing has superpowers lol

anyway

she remained as a super curious girl

like if she’s every put into a new place, she’ll spend the first 10 minutes just observing

most kids would just run and play without thinking too much

but zhangjing would slowly and carefully take a look around, taking in all of the details of the entire place

she loves all of her siblings

they all baby her lol

zhangjing is just so observant and curious and for some reason, is really good at making people feel emotions they didn’t think they were feeling at the moment lol

>> as a teen/adult <<

she becomes an actress

her roles are usually the innocent girl and such

like if you’ve seen my first first love story

she would play roles like oh garin (from my first first love story)

zhangjing is the sweetest honestly it’s so cute

like she plays that role really well

sometimes when i see that role, i can get annoyed a bit

but zhangjing does it in a way that it doesn’t really annoy people

she keeps her energy levels

and she keeps her puppy like personality

the group still babies her a bit, but it’s not too bad anymore

she still maintains her natural cuteness lol

like she’s for sure really tiny

so it’s just natural for her to be on the cuter side

she adores her siblings so much

zhangjing would cancel her schedules just to see all of xiuying’s shows

during her breaks, she would be catching up on all of the news pertaining to mochou

zhangjing still remains curious

everytime she’s on a new set, she’ll roam around everywhere just bc

she hasn’t played a lead role yet so she doesn’t need to be dressed up and ready right away

omg tbh, sometimes they would have to edit her out of the window in a background

just bc she was wandering and she didn’t know they were filming lol

they all forgive her tho, dw

it’s not a big deal for the company

now is it her natural cuteness that is making everyone okay with it? idk.

she’s the quietest out of all of her siblings

and she has a hard time making good jokes like they do

zhangjing doesn’t cringe at the jokes

she actually likes them a lot!

she just has a hard time making them herself lol

which is fine bc her siblings definitely make enough for her share lol

whenever zhangjing is around lina

they both talk each other’s ears off

out of all of the friendships of kids, lina and zhangjing are the most talkative

they just have so much to tell each other all of the time!

they maintained their friendship even tho they took two different career paths

zhangjing was the baby of the group for a couple years, all before the next wave came (this “wave” refers to the on the way families!)

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here’s hendery’s gang of mini-hendery’s!!! i hope you guys liked it!

the fact that all three of them look like hendery does resonate with me and i wouldn’t have written it any other way lol

anyway, my request box is open! give me some inspiration plz!!

- amy <3

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nakunakunomi · 4 years

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Hello! I saw your post about writing minor characters and honestly same- uh I wanted to know if you have any advice on Daifuku actually? Haha sorry. Love your writing!

Hi love! AAAAAAA I am absolutely still a noob writer so I am super honored you want advice from lil’ ol’ me („ಡωಡ„)

I do the same things every time I don’t have a clear image of a minor character. (of any series really)

1. Go onto the wiki (beware of spoilers)

There I just quickly read through the personality section, cause I like avoiding spoilers whenever possible. For Daifuku I get a very tough and abrasive personality when in a fight, no hesitation in striking down enemies and getting angry, not always too careful (as he let genie destroy some allied ships too in his being over the top) BUT someone who still deeply cares for his family and his land, not judgemental about things like Kata’s mouth.

2. Go onto youtube to see if i can find some clips from his in series behavior to refresh my memory (I literally binged all 928 eps of OP in a few months, so my mind need some refreshers every now and then)

With those 2 things I can usually form an image in my head that gives me an idea of how they’d be in different relationships.

For Daifuku I get a loyalty that runs super deep, and a trust is hard earned but easily lost kind of person. A family man first and foremost, not ashamed nor afraid to speak his mind, even if what he says might be hurtful. An honesty that might not always be appreciated.

His general looks and status make him a rather intimidating person. Not someone who goes into relationships without thinking. It would have to be serious from the get-go, probably arranged by Big mom.

He’d not show much love and tenderness in public, the image he has to uphold is too important for that. But I do see him being a little softer, more appreciative, sometimes, rarely, even playful behind closed doors. He’s not the type of person to put his partner below him, once married, you’re equals. If he has kids, or even just a wife, you bet your ass that he will do anything to protect them, sending genie after someone who threatens them. I see him as fiercely protective, and not too quick to show love, but when it is there it is 100% sincere.

I just form a general relationship HC in my head like that, and then work off that to actually write things! I hope this helps a little bit.

Sometimes I ask for certain opinions from other one piece friends, and I will sometimes just really get into a conversation about X is just really the type to not know how to change diapers, but be too proud to tell his wife and then do it all wrong... yknow, stupid funny conversations like that spark the best headcanons imho. (I am always up for those kinds of conversations by the way, I love them)

With minor characters such as daifuku, most people are already thrilled that you’re even writing for them, so they usually are super helpful and supportive if you have any questions about how they see the character, and you can possibly bounce some ideas off of them too!

Anyhow, this became super long, I hope this was more or less the answer you were looking for, and if not, you are more than welcome to ask more, I love your writings too, your masterlist is one of the next I have bookmarked to go thru entirely UwU

Much love, stay hydrated, and many many hugs!

#I talk way too much i am sorry #hazel speaks #naku rambles #writing tips #writing advice #I like forming whole Ideas of how characters are in my head before starting to write #i make entire headcanons with friends that i never write down #always down for these kind of questions #love you guys so much #sky-draws

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foxymuses · 4 years

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on the topic of rk900 && his ‘deviancy’

the way that i write rk900 to be is very specific, and it includes a lot, which i will? try to explain? as best i can? please feel free to ask clarifying questions though like i have so much to say about this and im sure i’ll miss something. anyway imma shove this under a cut because i KNOW im about to just fucking go.

so i wanna make it very clear from the get go that 900 is not deviant in the typical fashion. he does not believe that he is a free being with actual emotions and rights to live. there is never a moment where he stops and goes ‘oh shit’ and breaks through that red tape. he never has an ‘i may be deviant’ breakdown. he is not deviant.

however, he is not not-deviant.

what i mean by this is kind of complicated. let me start with some background into my personal interpretation of the rk900 series in general. they are a series designed for warfare -- the majority of them have been shipped overseas with soldiers to act as a variety of things: weapons, infiltration, an inhuman line of defense to protect the human soldiers --- like. they were specifically designed to be killers, to be dangerous, to be pretty damn hard to stop. they are essentially top of the line terminators -- are they entirely legal? ehhhhhh. but they let the government get away with things that might either kill their human soldiers or are of questionable ethic that they can just.... decommission the android afterwards. that’s their main function, the main reason they exist.

this is crucial, and i will explain more on it in a moment, but for the rest of this meta i’m going to be using rk900 to talk of the general model series, and 900 to speak specifically to mine (and, in a lesser way, the fandom one in general, though this should go without saying i don’t intend to infringe upon other personal headcanons of rk900 writers)

connor was the rk ‘law enforcement’ prototype, but he also functioned mainly as a playing piece in an android revolution that, let’s face it, cyberlife saw coming a mile away. cyberlife wanted a say. they wanted to have a semblance of control over how to twist the uprising in a way that benefit them. given 900 comes about in a world where the revolution was quelled, cyberlife basically achieved their goal (i’ll touch upon my meta of my machine connor and this in another post).

the reason this is important is because 900 was implanted with the majority of observations and experiences that connor had. things he learned about humanity, how to mimic it, how to manipulate it, how to use it. things like the events of the revolution in the order they happened, what it was like to be a detective with the dpd, literally like. all the things that connor went through or observed or scanned or downloaded or learned -- these were uploaded into 900.

now, his memories weren’t necessarily input into 900 -- that is, 900 doesn’t have any first hand accounts of most things (from petting sumo all the way to connor ending the revolution). so even if he has an understanding of what being on a case is like, he doesn’t have connor’s exact memories of doing it. it’s more like all of these things have been converted into data for him to retrieve -- it’s been shifted into facts, statements, articles, serving more as.... general history knowledge? like that stuff everyone just knows for some reason?

but it’s more in depth than that because, yknow, they intended for 900 to be top of the line (yes, 900, not rk900). so all this information from connor was used to boost the insanely vast amounts of knowledge that they input into 900 to begin with -- it was used as contextual information, filler information, you get me? because the main thing that differed between connor and 900 is that 900 was given all the knowledge he needed before he was released, where as connor was expected to observe and adapt. cyberlife took connor’s methods of observing and interacting and adapting to humanity and refined it so that 900 already had that information.

so when 900 was officially done, he had basically anything he might need to know in his software already. he didn’t need to learn anything.

so let me backtrack a little bit into why i say 900 gets these things and not all the rk900s.

like i said before, the rk900s were built for warfare. 900 was not. i mean, yes, his model and abilities are all the same, he is still an rk900 model. but he was not built to go to war. the 900 that connor meets in the zen garden is the same 900 i write. that particular rk900 model, 900, was specifically designed to replace connor. the others were mass produced for their purpose as war based androids. but 900 was made to work for the DPD, to sort of take connor’s place, in part because it gives them access to local law, but also because they want to monitor the place where connor was assigned.

so because of this 900 does not have a purpose.

he was not developed with any specific goal or mission or duty aside from ‘work with the dpd’, so he doesn’t have the same goal set that the rk900 models are programmed with. cyberlife essentially input all this data into 900, and then didn’t tell him what to do with it aside from ‘just go to this location’ which means that 900 had to figure it out for himself.

this is where cyberlife fucked up big time.

the other rk900 models are designed to be perfect soldiers -- deviancy was basically coded out of them based on connor’s experience (whether or not he went deviant, it was in his code). thats not to say that they can never go deviant, its just to say it would be really fucking hard to make them do that.

since 900 has none of that, he is inherently different from the rk900 model. when you make an android without a purpose, you have basically created a deviant android from the get go. 900 is more or less his own model, in which there is only one 900, and by default, he works for the Detroit Police Department.

now, generally, this means he’s paired with gavin (gotta live up to that delicious ship, honestly) so a lot of my following nonsense is stemmed from that but the point is that, he gets to decide what his goal is whenever he wants, so it can change, and it does change, and the choice is entirely his own. by all intents and purposes, cyberlife inadvertently created an android with honest to god free will.

so where does this leave us with deviancy? because i can hear ya’ll but fox, you said he wasn’t deviant and now you’re saying he is which is it?

here’s what makes 900, well, 900. as part of the fact that he is so incredibly self-aware, he knows he’s a machine. he accepts he’s a machine. there isn’t any like -- ‘i’m a machine’ with a touch of sadness or regret. he doesn’t wish to be human -- he has no desire to feel or experience human things, or do whatever deviant androids wanted. he doesn’t care about that. it doesn’t interest him in the slightest. and this isn’t because he doesn’t know about feelings or that “how could he know if he doesn’t want them if he hasn’t experienced them” because it’s not like that. 900 has an incredible sense of what things are, what they’d be like -- he got all of this from connor, remember. so 900 isn’t inherently interested in being anything other than a machine, and he holds no misunderstandings about what being a machine entails either.

does that make sense? hold on let me try it this way. because cyberlife tried so hard to make sure that 900′s software had everything, they created an incredibly self-aware android that doesn’t seek humanity because of how well they understand life. 900 doesn’t like or dislike being an android -- he just is. he recognizes that. wanting to be something else doesn’t... compute because it just doesn’t make sense. like why would he want to be human when he’s not? when he can be better and do more? like i can’t even say he’s happy about it because he doesn’t (at first) associate chemical reactions in his system with being emotions because they aren’t. it’s all synthetic.

he is perhaps the most alive an android can get without being alive, honestly.

900 decides that, upon being assigned to work with gavin, that gavin is technically his mission now. as a partner to a detective, but as a partner that is stronger, faster, and can withstand immense damage, he essentially positions himself as a bodyguard for the human. the problem here is that, due to his awareness, his approach to this is.... unorthodox.

900 will let gavin throw a punch at someone who can and will definitely hit back, but he’ll stop gavin from walking into an ambush. he might get gavin a coffee one day without being asked, but then throw the coffee at him the next day when gavin demands one. he has a habit of making sly comments and is known to push buttons and see what he can get away with, testing limits and constantly pressing against the boundaries of what he can do before someone snaps, and then sees if he can go just a little farther.

900 is very much his own person. he belongs to neither cyberlife nor DPD. he does what he wants when he wants it and how he wants it, and he can, at times, appear very human (albeit one that is obnoxious and at times infuriating). however 900 never lets it be forgotten that he is a machine. he can crush every bone in your body one by one while you’re helpless to it. he can have expressions that are near-humanlike : amused, angry, exasperated. but he will go from lightly smiling to fucking cold eyes and danger just radiating off of him to the point people will actually feel the room lower a few degrees

900 knows he’s a machine. if you even for a moment forget, he will remind you. he has unethically tortured suspects for information, they purposely don’t give 900 a gun at the start because he would get bored and simply shoot whoever they’re investigating and apologize later. he has no qualms about killing, about breaking laws or faces, about doing things the way that he feels like doing them, with or without anyone approving. and if anyone thinks they can stop him, they’re just. good fucking luck.

but the reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he is self-aware enough to know there’s no fucking point to it. his mission is, as he decides, “protect gavin reed” and he will do what it takes for that, which may include punching a suspect or stealing evidence or something, he doesn’t care, but if it serves no true purpose in what 900 is doing, then he consciously decides he’s not going to just.. do it. but the thing is that at any moment he could decide to change his mind. and that’s what makes him so terrifying. he is literally unpredictable.

i ... okay i think that’s what i wanted to say? just as like some added notes, but with gavin, 900 does become.... hmm... softer? he doesn’t soften but he basically claims gavin as his own, like he is assigned to be gavin’s partner but it becomes literally almost a possessive thing. 900 makes gavin his mission, and if anyone gets in the way, they’re fucked. but by attaching himself to a human, he opens himself up to the softer side of being human, so 900 never truly ‘becomes deviant’ because there is never, as i said, a moment where he’s got a red wall that says this isn’t protocol becaaaause he doesn’t have protocol. so there’s never a chance for him to break through it. but he takes care of his partner, makes sure gavin is eating well and sleeping well, makes sure he’s more or less safe, is always in tuned to where gavin is and what gavin is doing, will step in at a moment’s notice if he feels the need.

it becomes way more.... well, more, if this is a ship with a gavin, but regardless, 900 will have a gentler approach to his interactions with the human he has claimed that will be noticeable. softer tones, less cold eyes, more considerate touches. he’ll listen to gavin (may not always follow directions, but he listens), he’ll defend gavin’s actions, he’ll get angry if something happens to gavin. 900 never explicitly goes deviant, and he never fully accepts that what he feels is.... a real feeling? because he does not fully believe that androids can experience true emotion, so even if he does get angry, or he does feel amused or happy or whatever, it’s based on an extensively coded software that has made him so perfectly able to mimic humanity that it’s basically indecipherable. yes, he cares about gavin in most cases. yes he can feel panic or worry if something happens. but in general, no. he will not feel fear, he is not concerned with death, he can’t experience pain... so.

a last note is that like. this is the reason that he goes by 900. gavin typically calls him ‘nines’ which is only allowed for gavin. but a name is a human thing, and 900 is not and has no desire to be, so he just uses 900. most other people in the DPD also just use 900, sometimes they’ll call him rk which he’s okay with but it’s not his preference. he would’ve allowed gavin to name him if he wanted to but gavin didn’t, so that’s why when gavin begins using nines, that’s what 900 assumes as a name. 900 is comfortable to him, it’s who he is, and he doesn’t desire more than that.

alright i’m. i’m probably gonna start getting repetitive soon, and a lot of the rest of the emotional aspect is based on 900 being involved with gavin, and thats case by case so it’s can be subject to change, and this post is meant to serve as a general basis for my portrayal of 900.

#jesus i knew this would get long #I STILL DONT FEEL LIKE I SAID IT ALL #;;rk900canon #anyway if you actually fucking read that whole thing good lord

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not-a-space-alien · 5 years

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hey its me again wall of text sorry not sorry

k i saw your little treatise justifying zadr and yknow its a cartoon its not the worst thing ever of course nobody is gonna sue you for reblogging fanart or burn you at the stake or w/e and im glad you decided to open yourself up to a differing opinion but zim IS portrayed as an adult. there was even an unfinished episode where zim’s childhood and growing up training from start to finish would be shown so by the time of the pilot he is definitely a full grown developed adult by irken standards especially if hes a former member of an elite military force like the invaders. jhonen has said that the irony and sad comedy of zims character is that hes a grown ass man and a war veteran to boot who VOLUNTARILY goes to an elementary school every day and throws hands with an 11 year old boy who should be well below his notice because he’s that pathetic and desperate for validation that he’ll stoop to seeking it from a child. it also sets up a dynamic between them where dib is CHALLENGED by having to go up against an adult with way more experience than him while dib is just a child, so when he wins its more meaningful, which is a common trope in childrens fiction that an underdog young hero has to take down a powerful adult villain.

jhonen might joke a lot but he’s serious about this part of the characterization of zim and dib and he even went to great lengths to make dib look and act more like a kid in ETF (more emotional and naive, designed to look smaller/softer, going in depth with his relationship to his dad and sister and needing his dad to protect him at the end when he’s too overrun to fight alone) just to drive home the point of how young he is. it was a very deliberate move and jhonen knows what hes doing ESPECIALLY since he also left zim pretty much unchanged and also includes gags about zim’s relative maturity like animating him briefly grimacing because his joints are sore and the part where he pretty much gestures to his crotch and goes “theyre afraid to look at ALL-A THIS”. like you would not see jhonen do that sort of joke with an underage character ok. dont confuse his social awkwardness and self deprecating/trolling humor for not knowing the difference between right and wrong and not acknowledge when he means something sincerely because he doesn’t just clown on people and troll ALL THE TIME 24/7 hes a human, and times have changed with more awareness on issues such as the grooming of minors so he can go back on things he may have said in the past that he doesn’t agree with now or said by mistake. he has said enough times that zim is older than any human alive that its safe to take his word for it by now. judging by the one strip he did in JTHM about johnny murdering a pedophile who was about to prey on squee i think his stance on protecting kids is pretty clear. also i wouldnt put it past jhonen to have redesigned membrane to be more chaddy looking to divert the adult fandom’s attention away from dib and throw the fangirls a bone but thats a whole nother can of worms lol.

and the justification that zim is immature so hes essentially on dib’s level is a reversal of something lots of kids hear from either creepy or ignorant adults who tell them theyre “so mature for their age”. no matter how emotionally mature you are it wont ever compensate for the number of years youve been alive so that’s not very sound logic, and even in fic where theyre both adults it’s still pretty weird because it doesn’t erase their history where zim knew dib as a kid. that’s sort of like a grownup waiting with bated breath until a kid is “legal” so they can start dating. kinda like when jacob imprints on bella’s newborn daughter in twilight then having it handwaved away by saying he’ll wait till she’s grown up, which understandably drew a huge amount of criticism. it’s a loophole that might be mildly acceptable in some cases but the context leaves it colored with a residual ickiness that sets off some red flags for me and a lot of other people.

also you said zim is an alien and therefore the situation itself is unrealistic, but the reason invader zim’s writing resonates with people is because zim is written with very HUMAN emotions and motivations and part of the humor again is how irkens despite being aliens from another planet mirror some of humanity’s worst flaws such as being petty, gluttonous, willfully ignorant, arrogantly believing they are special and better than everyone else, easily manipulated by propaganda, all too eager to greedily colonize other societies etc making them not so different from us at all. so the premise out of context might not seem realistic but the idea of a sad burnout adult who doesn’t realize how humiliating it is to be consistently outsmarted by a kid less than half their age IS realistic and applicable to human interaction since we’ve likely all met someone like this before at one point in our lives for example a schoolteacher who has a personal vendetta against one or more of their students and has nothing better to do than antagonize them, or a really dumb parent that you fight with a lot.

another thing, i know you and other fans probably have a lot of sentimental value and nostalgia attached to zadr because you probably shipped it back when you were a kid yourself and you cant be blamed for something you liked as a kid, but youre an adult now, and you have to listen to the portion of kids in the fandom who dont like zadr and say without question that the age gap makes them uncomfortable. those kids ARE the priority. we’re grown up now and we have to put our feelings aside for them because that’s part of being responsible and mature. i feel like zim himself is a pretty good example of how not to act at our age [shrug emoji]

and anyway a lot of the same elements of zadr can be explored with zadf just as well with just as much potential for cute moments and as a bonus is it’s not creepy

You do bring up some good points, and I’m not saying you’re wrong... But honestly I’m still not convinced. I mean, stuff that Jhonen said, the thing is even if it’s the author saying it it’s still outside of canon, that’s the reason why Neil Gaiman got flack for Good Omens because they didn’t write an actual kiss or hug or hand-hold between Aziraphale and Crowley yet Neil Gaiman went on Twitter saying they were queer representation. I still don’t really put much stock into what he says because the unfinished episodes and Jhonen’s commentary don’t really change the dynamic that’s actually in the show. And again...Jhonen said if there were going to be romance in the show it would be Zim/Gaz, so he’s either a huge hypocrite or doesn’t view Zim as being incompatible with Gaz.

I do think it’s much better when Dib is an adult and it just makes more sense, and I actually do prefer zadf to zadr and if i were going to ever write fanfiction or make fanart it would probably just be zadf, just because i know this does have some stuff to think about and I totally respect that you have a different view of it, but i honestly just don’t see it that way. The analogy with Jacob imprinting on Bella’s child in Twilight isn’t really the same thing honestly. The author in that situation tried to make it not......that....by saying that imprinting isn’t always a romantic relationship thing, and that Jacob would be more of an older brother, but honestly that doesn’t really negate the impact of grooming that kid would have with Jacob around. The idea that Zim would somehow be grooming Dib seems really silly to me although you’re right, I think his characterization in Into the Florpus has evolved somewhat especially with regard to Dib wanting to get his father’s approval, but again Zim has parallels with that in trying to please the Tallest. the world-building and characterizations are inconsistent and scattershot at best. Like no, zim isn’t waiting for him to turn legal, that’s absurd, they’re nemeses coming at each other then learning to be friends. You’re right that that doesn’t have to be zadr but I still tag it as zadr so people can block it if they want to.

Like, I’ve seen people ship Zim with Professor Membrane instead of Dib. That seems very weird to me. that professor membrane would have a relationship with someone who literally goes to his son’s elementary school and who doesn’t know anything at all about human behavior and emotions.

I feel like with this discussion people don’t really understand the problem with age gaps. With age gaps, it’s not a matter of mature/immature, it’s about development. A ten year age gap sounds like a lot right? a 25-year-old and a 15-year old would absolutely have a predatory “relationship.” But a 35- and a 45-year old, that’s perfectly fine. Having a difference in age doesn’t automatically make the relationship unhealthy. so if Dib is 25 and Zim is [whatever the hell aliens years i still don’t really take Jhonen’s word for it bc he’s not consistent], that’s doesn’t mean it has to be bad. The thing about telling minors they’re “so mature for their age” to try and convince them that a person interested in them isn’t a pedophile is that we know a human being who is 15 isn’t developmentally at the same level as a 25-year-old regardless of their behavior. What is Zim? All we have to go on is how he acts, and he acts like Dib is an equal match, it’s not “he’s immature for his age,” it’s very unclear. Raw number of years isn’t the ultimate decider, for example in DnD lore elves reach maturity at, like, 100 years old so a 25-yo human trying to get with a 50-year-old elf would be predatory to the young elf even though the “younger” one is technically twice as old as the human. Do you see what I’m saying?

I also don’t really buy the idea that Invader Zim’s writing resonates with people because Zim is ~~so human~~. The guy steals a bunch of kid’s organs in one episode and flies into a tantrum over the slightest inconvenience. You have to be reading really deeply into it and dig into some old internet archives of things Jhonen Vasquez has said to paint it as realistic. You can do some interesting things with it wrt like, Zim being defective and starting to experience human emotions but that’s mostly fanon.

Well, you’ve given me some things to think about, thanks for explaining your side to me. I’m still going to tag things as #zadr so people can block if it can’t plausibly be categorized as zadf. I’m not actually making any fan content for Invader Zim so the point is kind of moot, but if I ever do I’ll definitely take this into consideration.

#invader zim #zadr #submission

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kidknux · 6 years

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Do you have any headcanons for Blurrbee ship? It's a really rare pairing so it's always nice to hear about it :3

yes..... i love them so much

I wasn't sure if you meant tfa Blurrbee or tfrq Blurrbee also, so I put a copy of the ask on both blogs, and we'll make an answer there too for the tfrq version

god this got super long and rambly and stuff too tho so i’m gonna. put this under a readmore so u can bail when it gets too dumb. i’m very sorry anyone on mobile you’ll have to Deal

@captainofthestars and i talk about them so much w/ our tfa au or tfrq or just. in general, whenever. we love them, we started shipping them after tfa because they had such a fun dynamic? Basically right after Blurr’s first few appearances, whoops

Bee thanking Blurr when he’s still just the “mysterious racer” is super good... Bee does a name shout when Blurr gets pulled into the space bridge! And he immediately wants to prioritize They Have To Get Him Back, i’m JUST SAYING, so like we got super attached rly fast bc of their general back-and-forth and little things like that.

Bee during the series is sorta competitive outside of cute moments like that? Which we tend to write as just... he’s kind of like that when he’s not sure what to do w/ his feelings, Blurr is super fast and kind of cool and he kind of saved Bee before and Other Emotions so instead of dealing with how he feels abt that its time to Fight. Blurr (who quint writes more often) also likes Bee pretty fast but he’s not great with people and doesn’t really realize it until later when he actually stops to think about it, post-series (which is getting into au territory but that’s just the hill we’re gonna die on)

It’s after the show that they manage to find Blurr, and his time in the hospital is... a process. Bee runs into him here again and learning about the state he’s in and what happened to him is pretty upsetting, especially since he already has a lot of problems/guilt around Shockwave and what he did. Blurr is stuck in the hospital for a pretty long time, since they need to be careful unfolding him and replacing parts of his body as needed, and no one else is really there much so Bee starts visiting him pretty often.

At first Blurr can’t really talk, but he can make some noises, and they start figuring out how to talk that way in some basic codes. Blurr is bored and lonely between surgeries, and Bee is one of the people who gets permission to take him out around Cybertron sometimes when he’s stable but not being worked on. Or, y’know, just sneak him out without permission. It doesn’t really seem right to try and be rude, or start fights, so instead they just... talk, and hang out, and under everything it turns out they really do get along and really like each other?

And it’s while Blurr is in the hospital slowly being repaired that he has lots of time to think, and think and think because he’s bedridden without supervision and that’s about all he gets to do most of the time. So he stops to think about it, finally, and realizes that he might like Bumblebee- and of course, he’s been so nice to him. It could be entirely pity, of course, that would be unfortunate, but it could be that he likes him too- he should ask. I’m just. Gonna copypaste part of the discord convo on it

CaptainNessbot 09/19/2017Eventually, I want Blurr to bluntly ask if Bee likes him romanticallyAre they in a relationship now??kidotix 09/19/2017GoodProbably after a while of them going on dates trips and hanging out in generalBee is somehow still caught off guard, what?CaptainNessbot 09/19/2017Blurr's beeping kicks up a notch so he can say everything he's thinkingYou've been really nice to him for no apparent reason, so it's either pity about his current condition or romantic attraction, in which case it is reciprocated. And when two people have an equal amount of attraction they are in a relationship, right?kidotix 09/19/2017Bee will get progressively blue from blushing as his processor decodes it, it might take a little while longer than normal bc it's more complicated than most of what Blurr saysUh, w-well he definitely doesn't pity you, yeah it sucks but he was.. He was doing it 'cause you're a friend, more or lessNot that he's saying no! He does like you, just not like that at first and he doesn't want you to think he was expectin' something from you in exchange or anything- but if you really want to then yes! SureBee is flustered and this must look ridiculous to any potential onlookersCaptainNessbot 09/19/2017He's cutekidotix 09/19/2017Beyond one or two incidents of flirting at space ports, he's going in blindCaptainNessbot 09/19/2017Blurr makes a squeaky surprised noise, his spark starts beating fasterAh, well. Good!kidotix 09/19/2017Bee grins, yeah! Great!Um, but they should- it's probably way too soon for them to. YknowHe's never done this before, you don't have to bond right away right?? He's not sure he's ready for anything like thatBlurr: can we dateBee: yesBee: ...oh no does this mean we need to get marriedHe doesn't know how fast this is supposed to goCaptainNessbot 09/19/2017They can take it slow, ironically

And Then They Date and it’s fucking cute bc they’re dumb and in love. Blurr is maybe not totally ready to jump back to active intel duty on Cybertron, so he goes back to earth with Bee instead. Omega Supreme’s presence basically doubles the size of their base on earth, which is good because with the new members they’ve got- mainly Wreck-Gar, and now Blurr- they need the room. Especially since the one now-empty room is one that no one is super willing to clear out.

Blurr ends up being part of the “Bee Team” that Bee puts together eventually to try and relocate Wasp. Which involves a lot of dimension-hopping shenanigans. It’s the first big mission Blurr’s been on since recovery, too, which is fun. Wreck-Gar and the Dinobots come along too, which is important bc after they do find Wasp- and a lot of other troubles to eventually rehabilitate the poor guy- Blurr, Wasp, Wreck-Gar, and an oc end up as a b-team to the main earth autobots (along with a few other occasional members)

at this point it ends up in sorta nebulous The Adventure Continues areas, eventually they do end up sharing a room and stuff which i’ve written into one of the once-in-a blue-moon fics, I’ll jst drop some more scattered hcs that were located looking for the confession hc

CaptainNessbot 04/15/2018Sentinel hates working with Blurr in any capacitykidotix 04/15/2018Sentinel plsCaptainNessbot 04/15/2018Sentinel does not have the patience necessary to understand Blurrand Blurr hates repeating himself and also thinks Sentinel is kind of an idiot

CaptainNessbot 03/19/2018Has [overclocking] had effects on how he perceives time? YesDoes he care? NoIs it bad I can see a lotta racers disliking himCompared to what I'd expect the usual charismatic, showboating race star to be (like IDW Blurr), he's kind of....Snippy, awkward, and distant?

um also idk how to wrap this up so. they’re one of several ships that i have a playlist for. i’m always kinda tweaking it tho since it’s jst smthn i keep around for me and friends yknow

thanks for coming to my ted talk

#this is silly sorry #Anonymous #asks

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aeternallis · 6 years

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TFA to TLJ: The Evolution of Rey's (and Kylo Ren's) Clothing and Hairstyle

So I was watching TLJ for the hundredth time a couple days ago, and it got me thinking that while observing Rey's and Kylo Ren's scenes, there's definitely a transformation going on in terms of the audience's visual cues for their physical appearances, one that I haven't really thought about before.

So having realized this, I decided to write up this meta/essay in order to organize my thoughts, with poorly cropped images!

Word of warning, I do ramble quite a bit, and my way of speaking is not nearly as eloquent as other meta writers for this fandom, but either way, I had a lot of fun typing this up for my and your reading pleasure!

Starting with Kylo Ren's clothing and appearance, it doesn't change all that much from TFA. As we know, his color scheme obviously remains the same with the black ensemble, which admittedly, looks quite good on him, if I do say so myself. So no changes there.

He exchanges the mask and scarf/hood for a cape in TLJ, which gives him a more regal bearing, greatly contributing to his image as the "prince" of this space fairy tale we call Star Wars. The cape gives Adam Driver's tall size more bulk, and his shoulders look broader too, so his character cuts an imposing figure, if it hasn't already. Due to his large size and subsequently, the long, quick strides his natural gait would make, the way the cape trails behind him also gives his figure the illusion of "looming" over everyone else, so it's fascinating how it greatly gives depth to his role as the new Supreme Leader and how his manner of dress magnifies his presence.

Furthermore, this potentially gives the audience another peak at the former Ben Solo's education and experience, as what would have been expected of a senator's son to have received. When it comes to politics, outward appearance is a weapon in and of itself, and without a doubt, he most likely learned the significant impact of having a keen fashion sense from his mother.

In comparison to Snoke's gold, gaudy robes, Kylo Ren's simple, yet elegant choice of garments evokes a mixed sense of awe and dread, a lot more than the former ever could. In fact, the personal impression that I got with the sparkly robes that Snoke wore were more along the lines of comedic effect rather than outright disgust for the character, as who in their right mind would actually take someone seriously with those tacky af clothes?

But I digress.

Going back to the subject of our space prince, Kylo Ren's cape was most likely a visual cue for the audience, as a well as a foreshadowing tool of what role he would take on by the end of the film, so for the most part, the changes to his clothing style are clear-cut and defined from the first to the second movie: whereas in the first film, he looked more menacing, like a phantom of some sort straight out of a myth or fairy tale meant to be an avatar of fear and horror, in the second film, Rian Johnson pretty much solidifies his role as the "dark prince", especially when he makes the decision to take off his mask permanently.

And thus, this is where my mini analysis for Kylo Ren's clothing and general style ends.

The transformation of Rey's hairstyle and clothing though is a different story altogether, just because the changes are so much more dramatic, and the more I thought about it, the more fascinating it became to me.

So first, her clothes.

As we see in TFA, Rey's color scheme is mostly in hues of white and grey. Her clothing is an immediate cue to the audience that not only is she the protagonist, she's a character that embodies goodness, innocence, and Light, attributions usually associated with the color white.

Her generous heart and optimistic personality, the way she slides down the hill to get to her speeder, her sense of wonder at seeing Takodana for the first time, all of this contributes to her overall image as an "unblemished" girl, so her clothing only strengthens this idea as well. The color of her shirt and trousers is the essence of "virginal" white, and though it's dusty and somewhat worn and threadbare due to her occupation as a scavenger in Jakku, for the most part, her figure stands out when the audience watches her on the television screen, particularly during her scenes in the forest and inside the interrogation room at Starkiller Base.

Although she doesn't don gowns or dresses in either of the two movies due to her practical nature, the cross wraps she wears, the audience can infer, acts as a stand-in for what could be a skirt, the way it billows when she runs and how very light the cloth looks. This can be taken as a visual cue to the audience (and of course, in JJ Abrams' own words) that she's the definitive "princess" of this trilogy. Appearance-wise, although Rey's style seems minimal compared to Padme's refinement and Leia's grace, it doesn't diminish her role in any way as the heroine and half the protagonist of this trilogy.

Again, like Kylo Ren's style in TFA, Rey's clothing choices are also clear-cut in the first movie. It creates an easy distinction between them, in how they are on opposite sides of the war, with him siding with "Evil" and her siding with "Good."

With TLJ however, Rey's clothes undergoes a series of striking changes, and I'm honestly surprised (pleasantly so) that the costume designer made the choices they did.

As we all know, Rey has two sets of clothes for this movie: the first outfit she wears when she spends time with Luke in Ach-To and the jedi ensemble she puts together for when she first goes to the Supremacy to convince Kylo Ren to come away with her to the Resistance.

Diving into the topic of the first outfit (aka, the one with the least amount of layers), what immediately stood out to me was—of course, the form-fitting sleeveless shirt she wears underneath the vest. Although the vest does a good job in modestly hiding the shape of her shoulders and the curve of her waist and hips, the plunging neckline was the big shocker to me, as was to everybody else. Back when the incident of boobgate in the Reylo fandom first happened, I wasn't yet into the ship or Star Wars, and when I'd first seen the outfit at the end of TFA, I didn't think about it too much, just because it didn't make much of an impression on me. Having said this, forgive me in advance if I'm spouting ideas that have been heard before! Haha~

Throughout history and certainly in modern times, the neckline—and how much you show of it—is considered an aesthetic for femininity. There's a certain sense of sensuality in showing the skin of one's neck, as well as the collarbone and the hollow of one's throat. In fact, in some parts of the world, showing the neckline was sometimes considered shocking and scandalous, just because of how the image of an exposed neckline could be so provocative. As a modern audience, we know this because nowadays, for many explicit sex scenes in film (and in lots of smut fics and other media!), the intention of the act is usually cued when kissing of the exposed neck ensues.

Furthermore, studies have also shown that the neck is considered by most as an erogenous zone!

So already from the onset, we know that Rey's image as a "pure maiden" was already beginning to change, quite different from how her appearance was established in TFA, but as this is a franchise designed mainly for children, it's subtle. Her new outfits in TLJ undoubtedly give her a more feminine look, and whomever was the costume designer for this movie had made the conscious decision to gently show off Daisy Ridley's curves and beautifully slim figure, which again, I applaud them for.

In addition, while we can infer that Kylo Ren already had some semblance of a physical attraction to her in TFA, I've no doubt in my mind that the deepening of this said attraction is thanks in small part to Rey's bold choice of dress in the second movie.

Which brings me to her next outfit; to be honest, having thought about Rey's fashion sense non-stop for a good number of days now, it strikes me as somewhat odd that the costume designer for TLJ didn't choose the Resistance's color scheme (brown, orange, and white) as the basis of our scavenger's new wardrobe. If they had wanted to clearly maintain the visual distinction between these two characters as they did in TFA, I personally thought that that would have been the most obvious and sensible route, yknow?

But as we know, they didn't. In fact, the costume designer totally blew away my mind when they decided to let Rey wear not brown (which would have evoked a sense of her origins in Jakku, association with the Resistance), not orange (again, Resistance color), especially not white (a visual cue of her allegiance to the Light, the Jedi, etc.), but full on black. Of course, she keeps the grey trousers (practicality), cross wraps (to maintain her image/role as the "princess"), and the white undershirt (basically an undergarment at this point), but the black sleeveless shirt she dons for her final outfit in the movie is ironically what stands out the most.

Usually, black is an easy color to work with when it comes to clothes matching, because it goes well with anything; it's a color that blends in and it's not the most memorable color when one is made to recall someone else's appearance. More often than not, the color black is associated with mourning, evil, and death, but it can also mean power, seduction, and sophistication. After all, why then do we have so many little black dresses and black lingerie available for purchase as consumers, and every time, they're advertised in a way as to make the potential wearer think, "if you wear this, you'll feel confident and beautiful"?

(Offhanded comment, but personally, if I were ever to get a choice to choose between the First Order and the Resistance, I would most likely pick the First Order, just because black is a sexy color.)

Thinking about it, if we were take away the cross wraps that Rey wears with this outfit, it would be accurate to say that she actually matches with Kylo, at least from the waist up! And I just find that...so incredibly endearing, I really do! It was most likely a subconscious decision on Rey's part to have chosen to wear black, but the shipper in me couldn't help but feel excited and happy that she may have made an effort to look alluring for Kylo (while keeping her practical sense of style, of course!), because she knows in some part of her mind that it's a color he likes—or at the very least, approves of, and thus, as another way to persuade him to come with her back to the Resistance, chose something that he would have liked to see her in.

And of course, the gorgeous, perfectly applied mascara she wore totally deserves a shout out too!

It's a powerful type of persuasion/seduction, in its own way, to appeal to someone by making use of their aesthetics, I think. And in my mind, I'd like to think that Rey did make a deliberate effort to please him, that the attraction is not just one-sided from Kylo and that they both wanted to look well-groomed and good for each other (don't any of you go on thinking now that I missed how perfectly combed and coiffed Ben's hair looked when he met up with her).

As a digital artist, choosing the colors for the clothes I draw on my characters are just as important as the anatomy and expressions and everything else that makes a composition look marvelous. Frustratingly, color is also what I admittedly struggle with the most, so it's a humbling experience whenever I manage to get a color scheme together that actually looks good.

The blue/grey cross wraps that Rey wears was a wonderful way to temper the solid black shirt she wore underneath, as it gives a firm, but subtle reminder to the audience of her independence and her agency. Moreover, blue is a calming color, naturally attributed to the concepts of peace, tranquility, neutrality, and trust. Many artists would agree that blue is considered a positive color and rarely is it ever used for art pieces meant to evoke something negative.

And finally, Rey's hair. Yes, you all read that correctly, her hair. Honestly, perhaps the most shocking change (at least for me) to have witnessed in our scavenger's physical appearance is her brand new hairdo, forgoing the three buns for a half tail (or also commonly known as a topsy tail). Before I dive into the significance of this change, let me just reiterate one more time how shocked I was to have realized that the production team for TLJ actually went there and decided to get rid of the three-bun gig Rey had going on.

First off, we all know by now that the three-bun hairdo was Disney's answer to the cinnamon buns that Princess Leia sported, eventually becoming an iconic hairstyle. Rey's hairdo in TFA and half of TLJ was a memorable design, making her look innocent, fierce, and practical all at once. Little girls could relate to her, but so could preteens and young women who are just at the cusp of adulthood. Rey's hairstyle was a clever way to keep the audience from forgetting about this new and mysterious character, long after Disney's paying customers have left the movie theatres, and they know this. All the merchandise prior to TLJ that featured Rey used this hairstyle: all the dolls, the Lego pieces, the posters, the t-shirts, everything!

While it may not be as iconic as Leia's cinnamon buns (yet), it's definitely getting there. So having stated the significance of her first hairstyle, it could not have been a light decision for Disney's execs to forgo it for the simpler half tail that's not nearly as unique as the three buns.

What's more interesting is the fact that we first see her hair loosened when she finds herself in the mirror cave looking for answers. Her hairstyle, which she'd always worn the same up until that time, is not only a callback to her childhood (and perhaps, an indicator for her parents so they would remember her when they came back), it's part of who her current self is. Just...! Ashfghjh I don't know about you guys, but I just love the imagery and the symbolism of having her hair down, I really really do!

I honestly loved the three-bun thing she had going on, and it had made my heart pitter patter when I thought to myself how the style made her look just a tad bit tomboyish, yknow?

But with her hair down (the poor girl didn't have any more hair ties to pull her hair back up), it's almost as if the audience is seeing a new side of her—or maybe it’s not that we're seeing a new side of her, but this girl we've all come to adore from TFA is literally growing up to become a woman right in front of our very eyes, even if the only visual indication of that is she'd decided to change up her hair a bit. The timing could not have been any more perfect, as the mirror cave scene leads directly into the fourth force connection scene with Kylo.

So while they're having their first moment of having a heart-to-heart conversation without either of them baring their teeth at one another, it's also quite mesmerizing to note that it's also the first time that Rey is allowing Kylo/Ben to see her as a woman, not just emotionally, but physically as well.

And it shows, it really does! Besides the fact that her shoulders are naked, she's not wearing that heavy-looking vest anymore, and the audience and Ben could just sort of see the swell of her breasts peaking from beneath the blanket, her loose hair is just delicately framing her neck, making her appearance look downright alluring (and that lighting with the fire in front of them, omfg).

Just picture for a moment how she would have looked in this scene had she still had her hair up in the three-bun style—it wouldn't have looked nearly as erotic as it did. Sure, the tension would have still been there, as with everything else, but it wouldn't have made as much of an impact.

They're both talking in hushed voices, and hell, even Ben gives his equal share by showing a little bit of skin too, because damn it all, it wouldn't be fair if she were the only one showing so much!

If we were to think about all of these factors (and I'm sure most, if not all of us Reylo fans have), the set-up is literally made to seem like they're just about to give into their urges! It's no wonder that Rian Johnson and Mark Hamill fully acknowledged that scene as a "sex scene," not just because of the sizzling tension between these two characters, but in how Kylo and Rey physically looked at that very moment. I'm now convinced that Rian really did set it up to be as close to a sex scene as possible (the atmosphere, the lighting, the amount of skin shown, etc.) without actually having to cross that line!

Furthermore, did you guys know that displaying one's hair down could possibly be an indication that one is sexually healthy? It's a concept called Fisherian runaway, first proposed by Robert Fisher in the early 20th century. Long, lustrous hair is said to be a visual marker that one is a healthy individual for procreation. I won't go into too much detail, but it was basically a theory that animals—regardless of gender—instinctively found long hair to be more attractive, as a mechanism for sexual selection.

And finally, one more point—it's also a trope! Please give the trope page a read if you can (it's a short read, no worries), as it's honestly quite interesting! I'm not sure if Rian used this trope on accident or on purpose, but either way, I couldn't help but squeal when I'd realized it!

Honestly, after all this, I cannot wait to see how these two's final round of costumes will be in EPIX. I'd like to see Kylo with a splash of color in his wardrobe, I really would, preferably red or grey or even white. I have no idea how Rey is going to look like, but meh, half the fun is speculating in the meantime, yknow?

Thank you very much for reading if you made it all the way here! This was honestly a blast!

#Reylo #Kylo Ren x Rey #Ben Solo #Star Wars meta #meta essay #fashion #TLJ #The Last Jedi #Kylo Ren #Rey of Jakku #The Force Awakens #Star Wars #SW

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tumblunni · 6 years

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Also I actually do really like that Silver got an androgenous design without having a “reason”. Like uuhh, what i mean is the idea of him being cutesy and ‘feminine’ just cos his fashion sense is androgenous, and such. Anime tends to go all-in with the gender essentialism and be like ‘must have stereotypically gendered personality of the opposite gender’ instead of even just.. person looks like neither.. might have stereotypes of neither. And i mean in real life there are plenty of LGBT or gender non-conforming people who might be a dude with long hair who’s a tough sports fan, or a short haired girl who likes feminine hobbies or whatever. or just no correlation whatsoever between how you like to dress and what gender stereotypes you do or don’t have. Man when I was a kid I always felt weirdly pressured to enjoy sports and stop finding pet bunnies cute or else lose my ‘tomboy card’. aka the closest thing 90s era kids ahd to a conception of what being transgender is, lol. (man i wonder if i could have missed so many years of self hate if i grew up on today’s cartoons that have more canoncical non-negatively portrayed LGBT characters...)

Oh and also randomly a chance to mention how much i love Crona from Soul Eater, again! A canonical non-binary hero who’s 100% just portrayed as a normal person who exists and is nonbianyr. No overblown weird obsession with ‘uwu how sexay its a boy in a dress’ or ‘omg how weird we cant tell what gender it is’ or ‘omg stereotypical flambouyant scary gay tropes applied to a trans person who isnt really actually nonbinary but just comes off that way because this author somehow thinks that being gay and being trans are the same thing, and also that trans women are something less than full women’. And seriously Crona doesn’t have any steroetypical personality of either gender, and is a REALLY REFRESHING case of a socially anxious character being portrayed without either kind of weird gendered stereotype anime seems to have. Like the ‘uwu sexy helpless child’ if it’s a female characetr, or the ‘gross creepy nerd’ or ‘is allowed to perv on everyone because ha ha he doesnt realise he’s doing anything wrong’ version for male characters. Nah just.. shy person. Exists. Actual realism. Nothing else. kinda wish we could give more of this to the cis characters too, yknow? like seriously even nowadays we only tend to see ‘subversion! this anxious woman is actually gross and otaku instead of sexy!’ or whatever. just flipping the script instead of thinking ‘hey maybe we could write this personality like a personality instead of a pile of prewritten lines that nobody actually says in real life?’ ALSO ALSO!! I really like how Crona’s plot actually goes out of its way to subvert the idea of ‘must have a reason to be gender non-conforming’. Like there’s soooo much ‘this girl was forced to act like a boy because contrived circumstance and is really cis’ or ‘this character is just super depraved and thats why they act queer’ or ‘this character isnt human and their species is all nonbinary and thats the only reason they’re nonbinary’ or ‘this character got in a magic space rays accident that gave him a female body even though he was born cis, and him still identifying as male is thus kinda the opposite of what being trans is, yet we simulteanously use it as a chance to Talk About Why Trans Is Scary’. like the big sad twist of Crona’s plot is that they ARENT some magical created homunculus which would be an ‘excuse’ for being genderless. Its supposed to be a huge ‘holy fuck let me hug you’ moment when you find out they were actually the villain’s actual child that she experimented on as a toddler to turn them into a weapon. And like they also give a resounding no to the ‘crona identifies as genderless because they are two people in one body' thing because ragnorok is male. The actual creepy homunculus demon blood thing is the one who’s cis! Reminds me of how pissed off i get whenever people throw around the false fact that “Qus are a genderles species” in final fantasy 9. No, Quina is the only one who gets neutral pronouns, and the other two we meet of this magical fantasy species are both male. Quina is queer within the game’s world as well as ours! Also incidentally for some reason Quale was changed to female in certain european countries? I wonder why that even happened because he’s male in japanese too. Like thats an actual decision someone made, not a mistake. Maybe someone out there in the dubbing team crossed paths with my Really Weird Evidenceless Headcanon That Quan is Quale’s Ex Boyfriend and decided to pull a crusadermon censorship on him. Also that was funny because Crusadermon was a male-only species for ages in japanese, and female-only in english, so then when the japanese continuity introduced a female Crusadermon in one of the videogames it would give her an entirely different impression in the dub. Like the twist of her identity was way less surprising because we never had this perception of this species of magical robot monster as being male only. Though it was still a pleasant surprise in both versions to see a female alphamon! or transgender themes with a character who switched identity from male to female upon becoming human? it wasn’t super clear but either way she’s awesome!

OKAY IVE GONE ON EIGHTY TANGEANTS OKAY BYE

whatever in summary this is my reasons for still giving redesign-silver an androgenous fashion sense whenever he’s in different outfits, even though his hairstyle got shortified. You Have Implied The Potential LGBT Relateability, You Can No Longer Remove It. Also him and gold is a really cute ship in the manga, so i can’t not see him as gay/bi/pan. Every Route Leads To LGBT For This Man, Sorry You Cannot Stop It. ALSO crona and quina are great characters also, even if they have nothing in common with silver so this post is a big ol ramble of nothing i guess New Pokemon News just made me really hyper!

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I'm the anon who got called an ableist for not liking pedo/incest ships. I reaaaaally want to see this so called proof that therapists and psychologists say that it's okay for them to use pedo/incest/abusive etc ships as a coping mechanism. As someone who was abused as a minor, mentally, physically and sexually... and goes to therapy once a week for it, I can GUARANTEE that my psych would never tell me to do something so absurd.

exactly lmfao! most of the time when people claim "oh but my therapist says it's okay!!", here's what's going on:

possibility 1: the person's flat out lying to tumblr. maybe the therapist doesn't know about this at all, maybe the therapist knows about Toxic Thing and thinks it's bullshit. either way, the person's lying.

2: person lied to their therapist about how Toxic Thing (ex, shipping a canonically bad relationship as it is in canon with no change) works. therapist believes lies. therapist forms opinion of Toxic Thing, but is unaware of its toxicity and believes it's okay.

3. person explained Toxic Thing poorly and therapist formed opinion of it in the same way proposed by Possibility 2.

you know why it's important to have these ships/situations represented in media? no, pedo/incest/abuse supporters and "it's just fiction!! >:( " people, not because they're normal and should be tolerated/liked.

noooo... let's think for a minute... i've got it! because we need to teach kids -- and people in general -- how to recognize the signs of a dangerous relationship. if the relationship isn't called out or criticised by characters in the show, that in itself is dangerous and it's very poor writing.

but if the show and the writers make it clear how much the relationship is hurting the characters involved, especially if a character SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT IT, that's good writing! people are actively portraying these kinds of relationships as toxic and even illegal.

idk if you watch steven universe, but remember the stevonnie debut episode? remember kevin, literal king of the douchebags, will flirt with anything that moves? even fucking kevin noped the fuck out when stevonnie unfused and he saw that they were, i quote, "a couple of kids". that's an example of the writers saying, "children, it's bad for grown ups to flirt with kids."

obviously it's terrible to say that someone should die because they ship something toxic. and it's also terrible to accuse someone of ableism because they advocate against shipping something toxic.

"oh but it's for coping!" is bullshit, to go back to our original point. kin is also for coping. (possible trigger mention) self harm is also for coping. eating disorders can also be for coping. isolation is for coping.

but none of those thing are healthy. just because you try doing something "for coping" does not mean it's helping you. often times, it is hurting you. why would you glorify or try to excuse something fucking horrible that happened to you? (not "you" specifically anon, just... yknow. you. in general. a person.) while giving the abuser and the character you feel represents them a tragic backstory, neither the irl abuser's or the character's tragic backstory excuses what they did. there is never, ever an excuse for abusing someone. NEVER.

you know what else people can do to cope with abuse and trauma? they can go to therapy, like you, anon. they can write. they can draw. they can take martial arts to feel safer and get out feelings of aggression without becoming abusive themselves. they can do yoga and foster a connection to nature. they can write music or play an instrument or be in a band. they can share their story and advocate for the rights of other abuse survivors. these things won't cure the trauma, but they will help. all shipping abuse does is cause controversy and stress.

you are not ableist.

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(Look i didn't forget the rest of the "give me an AU for five headcanons"!) This one took me a bit because honestly they'd probably both be just...just the shittiest pirates. So seeing them AS pirates is proving difficult for me to work out with any sort of believability. Neither has any sort of leadership skills to speak of. Newt dislikes people and would probably go batshit having to work and interact closely with humans on a ship for his life job. A combo animal smuggling and piracy means animal trafficking which he is humongously against. Credence is generally timid so would be pretty low on the totem pole until yknow, he just goes ballistic one day (literally or figuratively depending on if magic is a thing). So....how bout combo of selkie/pirate ship type AU. Are selkie AUs still trendy in fandom circles? Doesn't matter here we go. Thanks @zinfandelli for having the idea jam session with me to figure this out. You may wanna hit her up for more actual pirate AU since she had an easier time imagining Pirate!Newt than me lmfao -So some legends (I think the Scottish versions? Dont quote me on this) say that male selkies can call up storms and control weather. Keep that in mind -Newt is a naturalist focusing on magic creatures (I'm thinking in a world sort of similar to Pirates of the Caribbean, where magic and magical creatures are just known things) who pulls a Jim Hawkins and commissions a ship without checking the crew and captain thoroughly enough. Sure they seem rough but man what group of sailors ISN'T? It isnt until they're way out on open water that whoops, there's a reason Captain Grindlewald is so shady and Newt is now the captive of pirates. -Newt being Newt, he does not take this quietly. Especially since they got him to direct them and help them capture things like sea serpents and krakens which he is not down with. The nightly escape shenanigans of the gangly nerd start getting real old real damn fast. So Newt is shoved towards Credence, who has no given rank but is always hovering somewhere around the captain, to keep an eye on him. -At first Newt figures Credence is some kind of man-servent or something. Except he's never asked to do anything, all the others keep clear of him, and he's always just kind of standing around staring at the water. -He's a selkie like no point teasing that out ok he's a flippin selkie who was captured and is being kept because having something that can control weather under your command on a pirate ship is flippin HANDY. (Nothing more than g rated with Grindles who stole his pelt. I aint getting into that level of dark here noooope. He's just seen as a tool that gets ignored when not in use. Tho how fucked up is it to keep a selkie captured and held on a ship constantly over the ocean damn Grindles that's cold.) -Newt has just started getting Credence to talk to him (mostly by continuously talking at him after Credence is ordered to keep an eye on the wily bugger) and he's JUST suspecting something is up when the ship starts getting pursued, Credence is called up and Newt gets to witness the ship following them suddenly wrecked to shit by a very isolated storm. Jig is up, oh shit that's a selkie. -Newt also agrees that keeping a selkie captive is fucked up enough but forcing one to live right over the water it can't return to?? Fuck that. Newt figures if Credence is able to even be on the ship, his pelt had to be as well (is this a selkie thing? Fuck it, it is now asshats). - this is more than five whatever. Anyway Newt redirects his "make shit up as I go" abilities from escaping to finding and getting Credence's pelt. Credence helps because he figured Newt is a lot better than Grindles so he guess being owned by him is an improvement. -you can imagine his gut punched tear inducing amazement when Newt shoves a bundle of pelt into his hands and tells him to get the hell out of there. There's the whole "what about you?" "Bugger that I'll figure something out just get out of here" - bugger that for shit, thinks Credence in less polite terms. Angry selkie vengeance is wrought and somehow Newt is the only one who gets washed into a lifeboat. WHAT A COINCIDENCE WHODA THOUGHT -Anyway they become exploration boyfriends after Newt gets a better single person (sometimes two person) sailboat. The weather never troubles him and he always has a supply of fish.

#crewt #au headcanons #selkie au

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Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood Episode 2 Liveblog

Last time, we got started with a pretty good first episode. Now, onto episode 2, which seems to be delving into the Elric Brothers’ Backstory! Three, two, one, and…

Start!

And we’re starting on a train! A bit of a cold opening, but I can dig it. They did say they were going to this place last ep. Also, High Priest who makes miracles? In a world of alchemy, is that such a weird thing?

It’s alchemy. Kids. Please. It’s obviously alchemy.

Oh, that makes sense. They think that making flowers out of nothing would require a philosopher’s stone. That’s fair.

Where did these kids get that book. How do they know about alchemy to the point of having tried human transmutation? Is it their dad? It’s probably their dad.

Episode 2: The Day It Began.

Well hello there Elric mom. You have the dead anime mom hairstyle. If I didn’t already know their backstory I would be pretty sure you’d die by now.

Yep, it was their dad! Apparently he’s not only a knowledgeable person in alchemy related things, he’s also a person who *studies* alchemy.

And he’s an absentee father. Great. The kids are also stated to be prodigies once again, if it wasn’t clear already. I’m not against characters who are prodigies and/or complete dumbasses (see: I like both Re: Zero and Hunter x Hunter), so I just hope they do something good with this and it isn’t just a get out of jail free card for the main characters to be able to develop skills “way faster than a normal person could!”.

Everyone in this family is cute as heck, wtf.

And there she goes. Kind of non-chalantly, but hey.

Good god their dad’s a dick. What the fuck kind of person doesn’t go to their SO’s funeral?

Winry. Who are you? You were in the OP, alongside Ed and Al, so I think you’re their sister, but you don’t seem to be part of their family. Whaaaat?...

Ed, what the fucking fuck? Where do you get off?

Oh, she just lives with them in a foster home. That makes sense. Also lel at Ed being insecure about his height ever since he was *as tall as his younger brother*.

The only stew you’re having tonight is a stew of pain, suffering and sadness

Ed please don’t do a necromancy

GOOD LORD

I GUESS GOD GOT THE MEMO SOME DARK SHIT WAS GOING DOWN AND MADE SURE TO ADJUST THE LIGHTING

Huh. A recipe for all the components in a human. Neat. Although I remember having watched a video that debunked this, I’ll just go with it.

I feel the need to mention that purposefully not showing us the children’s eyes really adds to the unease of this scene and was a great cinematographic choice.

JESUS CHRIST RINNEGAN OUT OF THE ASS WHY GOD

JESUS JELLY FUCKING CHRIST IN A PEANUT BUTTER SANDWICH NO

And we’re in limbo

OH HEY BODILESS BEING HOW ARE YOU

…what

I never thought god could be this sassy

W h a t t h e f u c k

Wait. No. Back up. Back right the fucking fuck up.

I recognize that body shape.

That’s Gluttony’s body shape.

IS GLUTTONY GOD? WHAT THE FUCK

nope. done. Goodbye

The fucking VA work in this scene is absolutely breathtaking, dear god.

And I guess that’s their story of how they got to this point. Even knowing this ahead of time, the execution was a total 10/10. Loved it.

“We did”

hughes and roy you poor souls what have you witnessed

They certainly have, christ almighty.

They’re just… broken. They had their mother’s return right in their reach, and it was violently taken from them, along with their bodies. This is heartbreaking.

Riza Hawkeye. Nice to have a name.

tbh I thought she was winry until just this moment so uh yeah

The clear overlap between Riza saying that the choice lies in the brothers and Roy’s speech on basically saying “yknow if you go to the army you maybe wont have an absolutely horrible life maybe” shows that they don’t, in fact, have a choice, and I love that.

As an aside, can I just say I love what anime does with the removal of the shine and pupils in a broken person’s eyes? It just looks really appealing to me.

Ed is a fucking determinator. You don’t break a determinator. You don’t stop a determinator. You just briefly delay them.

And here comes the automail. I wonder if there’s a pseudoscience explanation on to how it works or we just gotta take it in stride.

Wait, so their master (which I forgot to talk about earlier, sorry) can use alchemy without a circle. But the following scene seems to imply you have to have seen The Truth in order to do so. Who is their master, and what the fuck did they do to meet God?

Also holy shit I didn’t even think of that. Manipulating metal + metal arm/leg = Cool Shit

I CANT BELIEVE ED IS FUCKING DEAD

“uncute machine freak”

That is the worst insult I’ve ever heard

AL’S FACE,,,, BBY,,,,,,,,, YOU SHIP IT TOO DON’T YOU,,,

Oh hey there Fuhrer King Monarch Leader President Master Man.

Ed why are you lyi- wait I forgot. Taboo. Yeah, you should be lying. Also again with the Ishbal war. What the fuck is up with it?

ED SON YOU DON’T JUST GO CHARGING IN THE FUHRER KING MONARCH PRESIDENT LEADER MASTER MAN’S DIRECTION WITH A WEAPON UP LIKE THAT YOU’RE GONNA GET SHOT

Fucking shrekt

Aw, Winry’s gonna miss them. Cutie.

Ok show the paper was not written in that order at all but ok

And thus, the Fullmetal Alchemist is born.

And with a shot of Liore, along with adventure, looming in the distance, we end things off with the second episode.

Well that was fantastic! Especially the whole alchemy and God segment. This show just got a whole lot more interesting.

I rate episode 2, a 9/10! I’ll see you tomorrow for episode 3.

#fmab #fmab liveblog #fmab episode 02

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