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gumdefense · 6 months
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We have moved past Maya and Franziska wingmanning narumitsu as a society. They would not fucking do that. We need to realise the truth which is that Larry and Gumshoe would try to wingman them and only succeed through failure
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dashiellqvverty · 11 months
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always think its funny when people are into a particular rpf ship but get antagonistic/hostile/morally superior towards other rpf ships like girl we are all in the same house here
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isackwhy · 3 days
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Hi hi! I was reading through your stories and I love them all! I was wondering if you be down to write a story where the reader and Isaac are dating, but the main focus is on the rest of the group. They all love the reader and treat her as if she's their sister? Ty!
yes omg this is such a cute idea
reader x platonic! group hc’s / isaac x reader!
the boys love u like so much
whether y’all were bffs before u n isaac started dating or after
u help them film stuff but they have to remind u not to film isaac the whole time
if ur a streamer or youtuber whatever they help u w ur stuff as well
constantly streaming w them
like isaac isn’t even there half the time
u tanner and larry play A LOT of roblox tg and y’all are a little trio it’s adorable
i feel like nick would just call u his sister like
when u guest star on the occasional podcast there was one time where they were doing that compliment thing and they included u bc u were there
nick was like, “it’s like having a sister around. or like a little sister and it’s great like you’re great y/n.”
bullied a lot
not in like an extreme way just expect to get like pelted w shit while ur at the house
also very protective
ur a woman who makes content like ur already a target by being a woman
if u guys are all out isaac ofc has his arm around u but the rare time y’all are like out at a party or bar or like at twitchcon or something the boys just keep an extra eye on u the whole time
“i can handle myself guys,” u remind them
“we know. we’re just gonna—help.” tanner smiles
they happily listen to u talk ur shit they get mad invested too
if ur dating isaac ur older than grunk. i hope.
so he def sees u as like his older sister
they take so many .5 pictures of u
“no—no—that’s like the 5th one today, larry!”
i feel like yumi would tease u the most
he just gives annoying brother vibes
u force them to make tik toks and u post some but can’t if isaac decides to photo bomb it
“WE HIT THAT SHIT. WE CANT POST IT BC OF UR FACE!” tanner yells bc you’ve been doing this for like 30 minutes at this point
if u guys were all bffs b4 u n isaac then they def knew about ur individual feelings and lord almighty were they all just waiting for y’all to get ur shit tg
u hid it for like 3 weeks after u finally got tg until u guys just kissed in the kitchen and they all had their jaws dropped
“HOLY SHIT. HOLY—FINALLY. FINALLY!” yumi runs around the house screaming
if isaac leaves a hickey on u—pls try and hide it. you’ll never hear the end of it
they include u on everything basically
it’s like having 6 body guards at all times
i just woke up i apologize if this is SHIET
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statementlou · 2 months
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Hi, I know your acc is dedicated to Louis but are you not a fan of Harry and his music too (or any of the other boys' for that matter)? Also, I was wondering if 'coincidences' like Dylan having a song called 'You're Not Harry Styles' on her discography are just those for you? Coincidences I mean. I can absolutely understand that you or others aren't sure that they are still together, but when stuff like this happens I do wonder what you think of it?
case by case! some stuff I absolutely think is on purpose, some stuff that people go bananas over I think is literally nothing, something they won't even be aware of or care about, some stuff I think does suggest they are still together, but I also think they both definitely play to the larry side of the fandom sometimes but that that DOESN'T necessarily mean anything other than that they are playing to the fans so that muddies the waters considerably as far as knowing anything about their lives (and good for them! sad for us lol but I'm happy for them). As far as fanning, I am still invested in the whole damn gang of them but with very varying placements along the line from unconditional love to frustrated irritation so I'm interested in everything that's going on and super nosy about all of it but is that being a FAN?? IDK by fandom standards but otoh like... no normal person knows as much about Harry Styles as I do so I guess you could say so lol. And I do like Harry's music! It's not as tailor made to my exact personal tastes as Louis' but I like a lot of it and like seeing him at the forum in 2018 was one of the best shows I've been to in my life, I don't hate it you know! And he can be very funny on the rare occasion we get to see it. And I love a lot of Zayn's music (and have a lot of affection for his weirdo fuckboi self) and to be honest I am EXTREMELY invested in the possibility of getting to see Zayn perform at some point be it livestream or whatever I really think it might happen?!! I will lose it if so. Liam's music, and Niall's these days, isn't really my thing, but I'm always keeping up and I can't give Liam the hugs he so desperately needs so I hope he gets his radio hit! So idk I'm still OT5 oriented in some ways but there is only one man in this world who never disappoints me/ I would give it all up for/ I actually truly think is one of the world's rarest and specialist angels/ I think is a music and business and just general industry genius of his time/ has the prettiest voice I have ever heard/ etc and I think we all know who that is...
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alarrytale · 4 months
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How is it out of Harry or Louis’s hands? They are both millionaires. They will be forever recieving royalties for their work in 1D alone, and have amassed a large following that would still following. If Louis is a threat to Harry’s career and they are both complacently letting “Sony” use this child to manipulate their image then they are both complicit in exploiting a child so Harry can remain popular with the general public. Why do larries put so much focus on freeing this to when the focus should be freeing Freddie from this madness?
Hi, anon!
You need to remember who're the ones with the power, who're the ones with the money, and who's got agency. Motivation and leverage also plays a part. Then you can figure out who's to blame and who're the victims in all of this. You also need to remember that we don’t have all the information and we don’t know the details. It's plain to see that things are intricate and complicated and that it's a lot at stake. Don't blame H and L if you're not 100 per cent sure they're the one to blame.
You're talking as if H and L are the ones with the powers to end it. H and L got money, but not the power make things happen. They're bound by contracts and they are only indirectly involved in bg. The bg contract is between the Clar*s and Sony. H and L didn’t sign up for this, but the image clauses they signed at 16 and 18 does unfortunatly allow Sony to do this in order to protect H's career and their assets. If H and L could use their money to do something to end it they would have done it already.
If the focus should be on freeing F from this madness you should take your anger out at Tamster and Bret*. They're the kid's parents and signed him up for this. They think the money is worth whatever harm may come to F in the future. Sony made a buisness deal that's morally wrong. They are forcing L to participate in something he's unwillingly doing, while his hands are tied. L is a victim in this too. He isn't gaining anything from this, other than some people thinking this means he's straight. H is a victim too in a way, because his lack of power. F is a victim too, because he's got no agency, even if he's benefiting from this monitarily. Sony is gaining on this and so are the Clar*s. They are the ones with power to end it. So they are the ones to blame.
It's also important to distinguish between our anger at the whole situation, the lies and gaslighting, the fakery and the lengths Sony will go to in order to hide a relationship and protect their potential assets that lies in H's career vs. The anger that a child is being exploited. If your sole concern in all this is F, then you need to focus on the Clar*ks. They're his parents and are responsible for their kid's well-being, his safety, his money and the choices that's made for him until he's 18 years old. L is doing what he can to minimise the damage to F, but he can only do so much when his parents are willing to expose him like this. H and L can't pay themselves out of this unfortunatly, because Sony would factor in all of H's potential future earnings and their investments and that sum could be astronomical. Also, Sony has no motivation to end it (yet) and they are the ones calling the shots here.
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Not sure if its a good way to start my ask but i was a larrie until couple of months and i still feel very bad that am not able to let it go.. this is not my life until last year and its just i feel too much all the time.. am not able to let it go that louis and harry are not together and seeing your blog and going through stuff that is not said anywhere is making me so angry.. how the truth is twisted and made into a fantasy, i guess its not even people fault who write only about their perception because they think of boys in a certain way rather than what actually happened and what has been happening and how unfair L is being treated.. am angry with myself that why am i bothered when a millionaire white male(H) has turned to be what they usually are.. i did not believe harry relationship with olivia but when i saw pattern of H and his personal trainer i was feeling very bad.. very bad for louis.. i know you don’t believe they are together but i did and i felt so betrayed.. you might think thats its silly to feel such strongly but trust me am unable believe myself.. it could’ve been that louis has broken up with harry or the otherway but i cannot help but feel sad for louis.. he is someone who deserves a better man than H but he also seem to take a lot of time to get into a relationship unlike someone who has relationships with every other random person.. may be that trainer is a good person but harry’s way of parading his girlfriends or boyfriends around the world is disgusting and people actually are doing is it just something else altogether.. i wanna sit with louis and wanna hear all about what he has to say and kick everyone that hurt him so badly..
Hi there!
I can’t say that I know enough about Brad the Trainer, except that sometimes he and Harry are in casual photos together? Honestly, idk anything.
I know when fandom hangs on certain myths (the two-week rule, we-kind-of-share-that, Louis supports Harry at his concerts, Harry is secretly helping Louis’ career), it can feel very personally anxiety-provoking when an event contradicts the mythology, like when they spent months during pandemic obviously thousands of miles apart.
I used to be a Larrie, and I remember those moments of huge doubt, only to have the fandom twist the truth so hard to eliminate the doubters. Then it would always turn to old gifs, jokes, memes, and fanfiction to make everything comfy again.
Here’s the thing. I think once you let go of “they still might be together,” you should try to question every assumption, even something like, “They check up on each other.” Do they though? Do they even have time?
Unlike fans, Louis and Harry know what they are (individually) doing every day, they don’t have to guess. Their days are often filled with work and meetings. They’re with friends. They have to plan months, years into the future. They have to talk to doctors, dentists, stylists, publicists, tour managers, graphic designers, producers… you get the idea.
I promise you they are NOT reading fan tweets or Tumblr posts and sending secret signals or anons. I promise you they aren’t coordinating what they wear, let alone colors. They aren’t checking each other’s lyrics or interviews or gossip pages or haircuts or fanfic-inspired movies or whatever, because their lives are already too busy; they are two separate people.
So I doubt that Louis is sitting at home feeling sad that Harry is dating whomever, because it probably never crosses his mind. Louis is living his own very full, very fulfilling, very fun, and probably at times very stressful life. He has employees he needs to pay, and investments in future projects that aren’t easy and aren’t jokes. Life isn’t just about getting on stage for 90 minutes every few days.
Instead, feel happy for Louis that he has so much going on, and that he is the master of his life. He can choose to settle down with someone or not. He can like whatever he wants to like on Instagram. He can design his 28 clothing campaigns the way he wants it. Louis’ stage design is his creation. He can choose not to perform at an Azoff venue, ever. He can support and listen to whatever artist he wants without worrying about their label or management affiliation. He watches the shows he wants to watch, wears the designers he wants to wear. He can spend money on his band, taking them on outings, and trust them completely. All of this is so much more than what he had before— and his joy shows.
Welcome to your freedom.
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snowyfrostshadows · 1 year
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Playing Koopid
When Mario wished something interesting would happen at one of Peach's more formal parties, he didn't mean 'watching his brother aggressively chase down and flirt with with the King of the Koopas' but that's exactly what happened and to say he's at his wit's end here is a bit of an understatement
Based off of the Accidental Cupid prompt by @shapeshiftinterest
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Carefully eyeing a brick in the not-too-far-away tower, Larry pulled back on the arrow to make his shot, only to have what would have been a perfect hit fly wildly to the left and just barely hit the tower as a certain BRAT pushed into him at the last second.
“You’re taking too long!”
Larry scowled and smacked the top of Junior’s head with the bow. “And you made me miss what that arrow did!”
Junior stomped his foot and stuck his tongue out. “Well maybe if you were quicker you could have seen it! Gimmie the bow! It’s my turn!”
Scowl deepening, Larry pulled the bow away from Junior’s stupid, grubby hands. “No way! It’s still my turn cuz you got in my way!”
“Did not!”
“Did too!”
“Lemmy! Tell him it’s my turn!”
Both koopalings turned to face the third, lying lazily on top of his ball and watching his siblings fight with all the investment of a bargain bin lifeguard.
“Why should I? This is boring. Can’t we do something else already?”
“No! I wanna see what those arrows Kamek and the other magikoopas were all hush-hush about do!”
Lemmy rolled his eyes. “Fiiiine.” Leaning forward a little, Lemmy pressed a star on his ball, opening up the secret compartment and peaked inside. “Looooooks like we got three more.”
“Only three left?” Larry asked, dumbfounded. “How is that possible? We haven’t been out here that long!”
Lemmy shrugged. “My ball’s only so big genius. Until Iggy figures out how to recreate that whatchamacallit from his one nerd show, what I can fit in here to sneak out, is what we got.”
Larry rolled his eyes. “Fiiiiine. Gimmie the arrows.”
“Why do you get the arrows?! It’s my turn!”
Larry snorted. “You ruined my last one! I should get to go again!”
Junior scowled. “Says who?”
“Me. And literally every other koopa who’s been stuck with a brat like you.”
Junior’s eyes narrowed and the next thing Larry knew, he was being pushed hard enough to land on his shell.
“Whoops.” Junior said, in that fakely sweet tone that somehow managed to fool adults. “Looks like you’re too stuck to try again.”
“LEMMY!” Larry howled as he struggled to right himself. Curse the Mushroom Kingdom’s stupid soft ground and spongy grass. It was never this hard to get back up at home!
“Sorry Lar, Junior’s got a point about this being his turn.”
“Traitor.”
Lemmy rolled his eyes as he approached the youngest sibling. “Kay Junior; which one do you want?”
“Hmm. That one! It looks like mama’s hair!”
“Huh. It kinda does. Yeah alright. Knock yourself out.”
Larry struggled even harder to no avail. “Leeemmy.” he whined at his brother as he passed him as he stepped away from Junior.
“...fine. I swear, you’re just as bad as he is…”
Larry bit back the insult he so badly wanted to say at that. If he wanted to get back on his feet, he had to be nice.
Ignoring Lemmy’s grunts as he worked to pull the slightly bigger koopaling back up, Larry focused his attention on Junior.
He didn’t even know why he wanted to fire an arrow so bad. The brat was having such a hard time trying to get the arrow in the bow. And heck, even when he did manage to fit one in there, he had so little strength, the arrows barely flew at all and ended up in the dirt a few steps away and utterly wasting whatever magical effect they had.
Eyes darting towards the two that Lemmy had placed down to help him, Larry noticed that they were both just like a couple they’d used already while Junior….had a new one….and knowing him, he was just gonna waste it with one of his bad shots.
“There. You’re not stuck anymore. Happy?”
Larry nodded, eyes still locked on Junior as he pushed his brother out of his way and made his way towards The Brat.
Lemmy rolled his eyes and made his way back to his ball. He was not going to get involved in the upcoming fight. Although, he couldn’t help smirking a little as he took out some candy from one of his ball’s hidden compartments, that didn’t mean he couldn’t watch the upcoming fireworks.
The others didn’t know what they were missing, refusing to come on the same trip as those two.
Junior had just gotten the arrow in the bow and was admiring how the heart shaped tip of it looked against the curve of the bow. If mama could see him now, she’d be soooo proud and impressed that she’d go back with papa on her own after this party.
His tail wagged a little. Maybe he could go down and show her how cool he was right now.
“Ya’know, if you don’t know what to do next, I could take over this one and you could shoot the next two.”
Junior turned slightly and frowned. “How did you get back up?”
Larry puffed his chest out. “I’m just that talented.”
“At being stupid maybe.” Junior muttered before scowling. “Now go away. I’m busy and I don’t need your help.”
Larry snorted. “You’re right. You don’t, which is why I’m taking over.”
“HEY!” Junior yelped as his brother suddenly dove at him and tried to rip the bow and arrow out of his hands. “GET OFFA ME!”
“OH? SO YOU CAN RUIN THIS LAST COOL ARROW LIKE YOU RUIN EVERYTHING ELSE? NO! GIMMIE THAT STUFF BRAT!”
“NOOOO! IT’S MY TURN AND I DON’T RUIN STUFF! YOU DO! LIKE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW!”
“LET GO JUNIOR!”
“YOU LET GO!”
In the middle of their tug-of-war, the bow had shifted position so that by the time Larry pinched Junior a little too hard, forcing him to loose his grip on the arrow prematurely, the arrow did not, as most of the previous ones had, fly towards a probably abandoned tower, but high up in the air before falling straight down towards the crowd of boring, stuffy grown-ups having a boring, fancy smancy lunch party at the bottom of the hill.
And then, a loud ‘ow’ rose up from the party from wherever the arrow had landed.
Junior and Larry froze before turning wide eyes to the only technically older koopaling in the vicinity.
“Weeelp.” Lemmy said cheerfully as he slid off his ball. “There’s only one thing to do in situations like these. Run.”
Picking up his ball, Lemmy did just that.
Exchanging a quick look with each other, Junior and Larry quickly dropped the bow and chased after him.
After all, Lemmy had the right idea.
In situations like these, the best course of action was always abandoning the scene of the crime and be far enough away that the mere idea of them being the culprits was the last thing on anyone’s mind.
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.
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It wasn't that he hated the more formal social functions that Peach would throw on occasion. They were important. He understood that, really!
Not all royals and diplomats were willing to play intense party games or sports festivals to maintain good relations.
So. For those more...high collar individuals, Peach elected to hold these more formal and polite parties.
They were just. Kinda boring.
Well, really boring if he was honest.
If Peach hadn't personally requested he and Luigi attend to keep an eye on a certain (technically) royal koopa in attendance, then he wouldn't have even come.
Maybe.
...these super high end royal parties did serve really really good cake...
He just wished something halfway interesting would happen at one of these things for once.
A sudden yelp from Luigi next to him drew him out of his thoughts.
"You okay bro?"
"Yeah." Luigi grimaced as he rubbed his shoulder. "I think something just stung me."
Concerned, Mario looked around for the possible culprit. (He hoped it wasn't a buzzer. Or multiple buzzers. He absolutely did not want to fight a bunch of overgrown bees in one of his nicer outfits)
To his confusion, (or maybe luck?) he didn't see anything. Did. Did the Mushroom Kingdom have actual insect sized insects???
"Hey. Mario."
Mario looked back at Luigi and frowned at the somewhat dazed look on his brother's face.
"Are you a sure you're okay?"
"Yeah. Yeah. Fantastico mai meglio..." Luigi suddenly straightened as he practically shoved his water cup at him.
"Can you hold this?"
"Sure? Why-?"
Luigi gave him a wide, almost demented grin. "I just saw someone I really, really need to talk to. Right. Now."
"...and I'm a holding your drink why?"
Luigi rolled his eyes. "So I don't drop it. Duh."
Before Mario could even reply to that, Luigi was patting his shoulder and running off into the crowd with a cry of 'Scusami, bello'.
Frown deepening, Mario slowly followed.
He didn't want to ruin whatever meeting Luigi was so desperate to initiate but this all felt...off.
He couldn't imagine who would cause that sort of reaction in his brother
Maybe Peasley?
...but then again...Luigi had seemed kind of embarrassed when he'd asked him how things were going on between them so. Prooobably not the BeanBean prince...
"What do you want Greenie?"
Mario frowned at the familiar boisterous voice of the Koopa King and quickly picked up his pace
For once, he agreed with Bowser. What could Luigi possibly want with him?
The two of them came in sight just in time for Mario to watch his brother confidently push his hair back as he stepped within arm's reach of Bowser
"I've been meaning to ask, but. Do you only like Princesses or is it humans you like?" Luigi leaned forwards, smile teetering dangerously close to a smirk. "Cuz I'm human and I'm interested if you are~."
"...What?" Bowser flatly asked, staring at his brother as if he couldn't believe what had just come out of his mouth.
Mario couldn't blame him. He also felt like he'd just walked into some sort of weird fun house mirror.
There's no way he heard that right.
Luigi sighed dramatically before suddenly spinning on his heel to better lean against Bowser, head tilted slightly back to look up at the Koopa. "Just a being around you is-" Luigi flicked his fingers, summoning a couple small sparks of lightning. "-electrifying"
Bowser's jaw dropped. "Are you. Hitting on me?!?"
Luigi grinned, twisting around again. "I sure am~" he half sang. "I a told Mario you're a smart Koopa." and then, to really drive in his apparent brand new sudden death wish, Luigi BOOPED the giant fire breathing monster with anger issues right on the nose with maybe the dopiest grin known to man.
Mario felt his heart jump instantly to his throat at the sight.
Nope!
He could not just stand around watching this anymore!
Not if he wanted to watch his brother become a pile of ash in about three seconds judging by how red Bowser's face was looking.
Quickly marching forward, Mario roughly pulled his brother out of Bowser's space and gave his rival the most apologetic (and not at all panicked) look he could muster.
"So a sorry. I a don't know what's a gotten into him. Deve avere delle api nel cervello. Mi dispiace. We're just a gonna go now. Ciao.”
Grip tightening on Luigi, Mario began to drag his brother away from the slowly growing crowd, only stopping once he felt they were far enough away and hidden in one of Peach’s private tents where they could talk (and maybe figure out if Luigi was suffering from Heatstroke or something.)
Leading his twin to a chair, Mario stared at him in concern.
"Are you. Feeling okay?"
"Mmhm. Never better." Luigi mummered distractedly as he looked back towards the area they'd just left.
"...are you sure? You just a flirted with Bowser." Mario frowned. "In public."
Luigi shrugged before suddenly glancing down at him, eyes wide. "You don't think it was too much, do you?"
Mario blinked, completely thrown at the direction the conversation had suddenly taken.
"I mean, I thought he'd you know. Like an aggressive approach. Since he's a so so so-"
"Brash?"
"Confident!"
"That is not the word I'd a use."
Luigi sighed as he placed his hands over his heart, gazing dreamily somewhere over his brother's head.
"But he is! He practically oozes confidence! Whenever he enters a room, all eyes are on a him and it doesn't bother him! In fact, I a think he relishes in the attention, not that I a blame him. Who wouldn't want ta look at him? Strong, brave, always knows what he wants to say and do..."
Mario felt his jaw drop before waving his hands to drag Luigi's attention back to him and, more importantly, back to earth.
"This is a Bowser we're talking about! You know, the guy who steals powerful magical objects! Leaves destruction and chaos in his wake?! Repeatedly Kidnaps Peach!?!"
Luigi placed his head in a hand and sighed dejectedly. "Yeah...but ya know what they a say. Nobody's perfect."
Mario stared at him in disbelief.
"Those are serious problems not harmless little quirks Luigi!"
His brother shrugged and looked away. "You a done? I've got a Koopa to woo."
"You're a gonna annoy him before 'wooing' him! Did you want him to a bite you with that last stunt?"
A weird look crossed his brother's face. "...do you really think he'd have bit me?"
"Yes??? You invaded his space and a bopped his nose."
Luigi nodded thoughtfully. "But. Do you think it would have been a hard bite like, I lose a my hand sorta bite or a soft enough to barely break skin?" Luigi's eyes lit up. "Oh! Maybe he would have pinned me down first and y'know. Threatened to eat me but not really?"
Mario stared at him in a mix of disbelief and horror. "Have you lost a your mind?!?!"
Luigi frowned and cupped his chin. "I don't know why I a said that." Mario breathed a quiet sigh of relief "This isn't the time or place for something like that."
"That's what you find wrong with what you just a said?!" Mario nearly screeched.
Luigi gave him a confused look "Ye? I haven't even gotten a kiss yet and I'm a ready to y'know. Jump ahead several-"
"Stop!" Mario slammed his hands over his ears. "I a don't want to hear. That Stuff. Ever. Please"
Luigi frowned and tilted his head. “Cuz I want to do that with Bowser or-?”
Mario couldn’t help the annoyed look he shot him. “You know how I a feel about. Y’know.”
Luigi nodded. “So me wanting to...kiss and uh. Maybe more with Bowser; that’s not a problem?”
Mario frowned as he took off a glove and placed a hand against his brother’s head. “I a just told you. That’s a Bowser. Terror of the Mushroom Kingdom? How did you just forget all a that???”
Luigi just shrugged and looked away.
Mario’s frown deepened. “You don’t a feel hot.” he muttered. So. This...probably wasn’t heatstroke…
His brother snorted and swatted his hand away. “Thank you Dr. Mario for the diagnoses. Can I go now?”
“To bother Bowser again? No.”
Luigi muttered something under his breath as he slumped in his chair like a moody teenager.
Mario couldn’t help pinching his nose at that. There was clearly something going on with his brother but for the life of him he couldn’t figure out what.
If it wasn’t a heatstroke, then the only other thing he could think of was a concussion but people didn’t just. Get concussed standing around doing nothing.
“I’mma gonna get some help. Promise me you’ll stay here until I get back?”
Luigi just gave him a shrug but since he didn’t say anything crazy or flat out refusal to staying, Mario decided to take that as an agreement to stay put.
Smiling, Mario stepped forward to give his brother’s arm a quick pat. “Thanks Lu. I’ll be a right back.”
Fifteen minutes later, with Peach and Dr. Toadley in tow, Mario came back to an empty tent.
“He left.”
Peach gently rubbed his back. “Maybe...we just missed him?”
Mario took a deep breath. “Y-Yeah...maybe...he just a got tired of a waiting. He couldn’t have gotten too far.”
Peach gave him a warm smile. “Right. It shouldn’t take too long to find him again.”
Mario felt himself relaxing a little for the first time all afternoon. “Right.” he repeated back with a small laugh. “How much trouble can he get into in a couple minutes?”
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"GET OFF OF ME ALREADY!"
If it wasn't for the fact it was Green ‘Stache of all people hanging off him, Bowser would almost be impressed at how well the guy was holding on despite how hard he was waving his arm.
Unless the guy had dumped a barrel of glue on himself first, Bowser could not figure out how the Green MENACE was doing it.
There was no way in Jaydees Greenie had enough upper body strength to have just one arm hold onto him while the other held his face cupped in his hand as he stared dreamily up at him
"I really don't weigh anything to you at all, do I?"
"NO!" He snarled at him. Wasn't Greenie supposed to be a coward or something? Why wasn't he bolting already?
Greenie sighed happily “Dio che è così fottutamente sexy. Ringrazio Dio ogni giorno la principessa non è interessata alla meraviglia assoluta che sei”
"What."
Greenie gave him a stupid looking smile. "Sorry. I a said, you're a so hot and thank GOD a certain princess isn't interested in the absolute wonder you are." He leaned forward, still grinning like an idiot. "I think I'd have lost it by now if a utter Dreamboat like you was off a the market."
Bowser froze as he felt his face heat up. "You uh. You think I'm a Dreamboat?"
"The dreamiest."
Bowser stared at the human in disbelief. Totally not because he was called ‘a dreamboat’. Cuz he was! He was the coolest and hottest guy around for miles!
...it was just a little weird that Greenie of all people would say that. Out loud. Cuz they were enemies.
Speaking of Greenie, the human had managed to climb up a little further up his arm, expression a weird mix of determination and...hunger?
“How about you and I take this conversation somewhere a lil more...private, tesoruccio?”
A weird, twisty feeling hit him at that.
Was. Was Greenie cursing him?
A totally not unsure ‘uh’ was the only thing he managed to get out before a red blur came out of nowhere and managed to knock the insane little human off his arm.
Bowser blinked at his now pest free appendage before focusing on the two humans wrestling on the grass.
“Bloccacazzi! I was a so close!”
“To what?! Getting your face bitten off?!”
Bowser frowned, a little insulted at Mario’s comment. Sure he enjoyed scaring the pants off of anyone and everyone that got in his way, but that didn’t mean he’d ever bite someone. Let alone one of Peaches’ subjects, no matter how weird they were acting.
“Bowser?”
Speak of the angel.
Turning away from the fighting brothers, Bowser grinned down at the hostess of the party. “Princess.”
Peach frowned slightly up at him. “You. Wouldn’t have anything to do with this, would you?”
Bowser blinked. “Do with wha-”
“DID YOU SERIOUSLY JUST SHOCK ME?!”
Both royals turned at the shout and watched the two heroes spew random gibberish at each other.
“That.” Peach replied dryly.
Bowser huffed, offended. “Yeah. Cuz I totally planned on having Green ‘Stache over there work to distract me from working to maintain what few good relations I got with other kingdoms.”
Peach gave a small hum. “I see. That would be rather unbeneficial for you...I apologize for my assumptions, but I did have to ask as this seemed like one of your usual tricks.”
“Peaches I am offended and hurt you would think so lowly of me when I have been nothing but cor-”
A small yelp drew his attention back to the meddling plumbers and Bowser couldn’t help the small shudder that shook him at the sight of the Orange Terror currently holding Greenie in a headlock.
She must have smelled blood and come running.
“Looks like you got things under control now so I’ll just go and enjoy the rest of the party.”
Peach couldn’t help the small kick of amusement she got watching the great King of the Koopas practically bolt at the sight of Daisy.
She really would have to ask her friend how she’d managed to scare him so badly.
For now however, there was a bigger concern.
When Mario had told her Luigi was bound and determined to flirt with Bowser, she’d thought they might have been playing a prank on her to give her a small break from hosting.
But between seeing Luigi hanging off of Bowser and then watch the koopa leave the area with a longing look, Peach was convinced that this wasn’t a joke and found herself just as worried for her friend.
“Daisy? If you could come with us back to the castle?”
Daisy grinned and gave her a mock salute. “Sure thing boss.” She smirked as she bumped Luigi’s side. “Someone’s gotta keep Mister Love-Struck here in line.”
Luigi, for his part, just rolled his eyes at that but thankfully didn’t break away to go chase after Bowser again.
Thank the stars for Daisy.
“Mario, if you could get Dr. Toadley to the castle, that would be wonderful. We’ll meet you two in the parlor room.”
Mario frowned a little but nodded, and ran off to do just that.
Hopefully, whatever was affecting Luigi would be easily solvable.
.
.
.
“Is there anything physically wrong with him? No. Luigi appears to be perfectly fine.”
Mario frowned. “But he’s not! He’s been a chasing Bowser down all day and-”
Dr. Toadley raised a hand, stalling any more words from the human. “Do I dismiss your claims? No. Can I tell if one is magically affected mentally or not? Also no. Have I done all I can to help resolve this problem? Yes. I am afraid there is not more I can do without more information.”
Mario stared at the doctor for a moment before dragging a hand down his face. “Perché ho pensato che potevi aiutare.” he muttered quietly. Whatever he said, it earned a small snort from Luigi. Which meant it was probably something juicy or even the oh so rare ‘Mario Snark’.
One of these days, she was going to make Lou teach her some Italian. If only so she could witness his brother’s supposed not-so-heroic comments herself in real time and not after the fact.
“So since the doc can’t figure anything out, guess that means you’re back to square one, huh?”
Mario gave her a tired look. “As if there was even a ‘square’ to go back to.”
Daisy couldn’t help the dumbfounded look she shot him at that. “Really? You can’t think of anywhere you can start to figure out what’s up with your bro?”
Mario just looked at her blankly. Whether cuz he was just stressed and not thinking straight or he really was this clueless, she had no idea.
Daisy sighed. “When did he start acting goofy for koopas?”
“HEY!”
“We were standing by one of the pop-up fences and then a something stung him and then he got all a...kooky.”
Daisy nodded as she very pointedly ignored Luigi’s protests at being talked around like he wasn’t even there.
“Did ya look around the area for anything weird?”
Mario tipped his head slightly. “Like what?”
“I dunno! Somethin that could be a possible explanation! Ya’know what they say, if you can’t figure something out, it’s always a good idea to retrace your steps.”
Mario frowned, apparently still not convinced by Daisy’s suggestion. Peach, bless her, stepped closer to her hero. “It couldn’t hurt to look around. Maybe we’ll find something, maybe we won’t. But at least it’d be another thing crossed off possible explanations.” Peach smiled brightly as an idea hit her. “We could even ask Kamek to help since Bowser seems to be Luigi’s focus.”
Mario sighed as he ran a hand through his hair. “Okay. I’mma not sure if we’ll a find anything, but like you said, it’s a lead. Kinda.”
“Cool. You two do that, and I’ll keep Lou entertained. Seeyouguyswhenyoufigureitoutbyyyyyyyyye.”
After basically slamming the doors shut after pushing them out, Daisy turned to Luigi and grinned.
“Alright Weeg, Spill.”
Luigi took a startled step back. “Spill?”
“Yeah. Is this, like. Liquid courage or somethin? Ya can be honest.”
Luigi stared at her for a moment before giving her maybe the widest grin she’d ever seen on the guy. “Yep! That’s a it! Liquid courage!”
Daisy nodded. “Thought so. Though, I gotta ask, how much did you drink to get the confidence to actually jump the guy like that?”
Luigi shrugged as he slowly inched his way around her. “Oh y’know. Enough. I uh. Forgot but I still feel a good to go and not sick at all.”
Daisy smirked. “Sure you are champ. Listen, I’ll hold down the fort for ya to try one more time. But ya gotta promise me you’ll tell Mario about this later. Poor guy’s gonna have a heart attack soon.”
Luigi gave a quick nod. “Certa certa. Remind me to make you the maid a honor at the wedding.” Still grinning wildly, Luigi basically bolted out of the room.
Daisy couldn’t help feeling a little weird at that comment. She knew her friend had it bad for the koopa, but it seemed a little early for him to be thinking about wedding bells, even with some alcohol in his system.
...it was probably nothing. If anything, it was just Mario’s worries getting to her.
Luigi would be fine. He was a smart guy and even with a little liquid courage helping him out, it wouldn't be in him to do anything too drastic.
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He was nearing the end of a conversation with the ruler of the Wooded Kingdom when he felt himself being watched.
Looking around, Bowser caught sight of a very familiar shade of green. Holding back a growl, Bowser quickly excused himself and stomped over to the human.
“What.”
Greenie smiled brightly up at him. “Can’t I watch a skilled diplomat at work?”
Bowser blinked, not used to someone calling him diplomatic. “I guess….but weren’t you climbing up my arm not that long ago? Why aren’t you doing that again?”
Greenie’s eyes lit up as he leaned forward a little. “Would you like me to?”
“What? NO!” Bowser yelped as he pushed the guy away with his hand. “What is with you today?”
With more strength than he thought the human had in him, Greenie gently moved his hand away.
“Weell.” he hummed. “It a hit me earlier just how perfect and handsome you are and how life can be so unfairly short and if I’m not a spending mine with you. amore mio, then what am I a doing with my life?”
Bowser couldn’t help staring wide-eyed at the human, absolutely dumbfounded.
“Are you serious?”
“More than I’ve ever a been in my life.”
Green ‘Stache stepped forward even more, eyes half lidded and mouth twisted up in a cocky smirk.
It was. Weirdly hot of the guy.
"Aaand," he drawled, slowly drawing closer, hand moving to press against his chest. "I a don’t mind a little spice in a relationship. You could always give kidnapping me a shot. I definitely wouldn't mind it, Roba Cab-" Greenie's face twitched.
The confident smirk fell into a small frown as the human's eyes opened more fully before locking onto his hand which had yep; made it to his chest.
Bowser could practically see the gears turning in the guy's head.
"Oh. Oh no." Greenie whispered before dropping his hand like it'd been burned. Which, rude.
The human slowly looked up at Bowser, eyes wide and face redder than his brother's stupid hat.
“Dio mio. I. Quello era reale. Merda. Merda. S-Sorry. I need to go."
Before he could say anything or even shake the guy to repeat whatever gibberish he'd just said but into something understandable this time, Greenie had taken several steps back and bolted towards Peach's castle.
"WEEGEE WAIT!"
Bowser blinked as he watched the biggest pain in his tail run off after the other human.
(When had Mario shown up?)
"What. Just happened?"
"If I had to wager I guess, your Baffledness, it seems your children snuck some weapon prototypes out with them before coming with."
Bowser glanced down at his adviser. Had. Mario dragged him over with him while Greenie was distracting him?
“What’s that got to do with Green ‘Stache?”
Kamek fiddled with his glasses a little. “Well sire; one of the prototypes was a. Love Arrow. Designed to make whoever it hit fall in love with the first person they saw. We were thinking we could try it during the next-”
“You think Greenie got hit by that then?”
“Definitely sire. It would explain his behavior today not to mention the tip of the arrow shows signs of hitting a target. Usually, the heart shaped bulb at the end would be a vibrant pink. After making contact with the mark, the pink fades considerably. And the prototype I found appears to have been used.”
Bowser felt his heart sink a little at the news that all of the human’s actions and words had been a manufactured trick. By his own magikoopas’ talents no less.
He didn’t even know why he was disappointed.
He didn’t even like Greenie. Never had and never would.
But...he couldn’t deny it had been kind of nice to be the recipient of such intense, positive feelings for once.
“Kamek.” He sighed heavily. “I want all production on those arrows scrapped.”
“But-”
Bowser glared at the old koopa, blowing smoke at him. “Scrapped and destroyed. If one of those things can turn Mario’s scaredy-cat brother into a wannabe cassanova, then who’s to say Mario couldn’t throw one of those dumb arrows at me during a fight and and make me fall in love with a stupid lamp instead of Peach?!”
“They wouldn’t work like tha-”
“Destroy. Them. Kamek. All of them.”
Kamek sighed. “As you wish, your Paranoidness.”
“And find the kids and take them back to the ship. I’ll talk to them after this dumb party’s finally over.
Kamek nodded before summoning his broom and flying off to do just that.
Sighing, Bowser made his way towards the lil garden bar Peach had set up for this party.
He’d go back to mingling with stuffy representatives from the more neutral kingdoms before Greenie had gotten it into his head to chase him down every five minutes later. For now, he could use a drink or two.
About fifteen minutes into enjoying his first cup by his lonesome, Bowser watched the green human approach the same garden bar, order a drink and then make his way determinedly towards him.
Bowser couldn’t help stare down at him in surprise that he’d even approach him after that whole. Mess from earlier. Especially as he’d run away all on his own after the third run-in.
“What do you want now, Greenie?” he couldn’t help grumble tiredly. Stars willing, it would just be an apology or something dumb like that and the slightly less annoying twin could go off on his merry way and leave him alone.
Green ‘Stache took a deep breath before looking up at him. "...you never did answer my question."
"Question?" He repeated dumbly.
Greenie gave a small smile as he gaze drifted down to his drink.
"If you. If you like humans or just princesses. I want to know. If I. If I have a shot."
Then, almost as if he was embarrassed by what he'd just said, Greenie downed the entirety of his drink in one go.
Grambi. That love potion junk better not still be in the guy's system.
"Listen. I get you're still muddled up thanks to that arr-"
"I'm not."
Bowser blinked at the unexpectedly sharp tone.
Greenie groaned and ran a hand through his hair.
"I won't lie and say getting hit by that stupid trinket didn't have an affect on me. It did. But." he bit his lip. "I don't. I don't think it had quite the...intended effect it was planned for."
Bowser frowned as he leaned down towards the plumber, not missing how the human's face reddened as he did so.
"Oh? And why's that?"
Luigi's eyes met his for a second before darting away again. "Well. You weren't. You weren't the first person I saw after getting hit."
Bowser reeled back, stunned.
"Not the-? Who the hell did you look at first?!" and why the hell weren't you chasing after them all day?
Impossibly, Greenie got redder. "P-Peach..." he muttered.
Bowser felt his jaw drop. "Peach." he repeated flatly.
Frustratingly, Greenie still wouldn't meet his eyes. "Mmhm."
"Why didn't you go after her then?" That at least would have been kind of amusing to watch instead of being part of the whole mess.
"I've got a couple of theories."
And then just to be annoying, now Greenie decided to shut up and keep his thoughts to himself.
Blowing some smoke from his snout, Bowser crossed his arms and stood at his full height, towering over the human. "Well?"
Greenie turned back towards him, eyes roving over him, almost as if he was trying to memorize as much of Bowser as he could before focusing on his face.
"Answer my question first."
A low growl escaped him but, to his surprise, Greenie didn't falter or back down. Instead, he held his ground and even maintained the stubborn look he was throwing him.
Bowser relaxed a little and shot the (slightly) less annoying menace a small smile. He could appreciate the rare show of backbone from the lil punk.
"Fine. I don't just like princesses. I like interesting humans."
Greenie's eyes widened for a half a second before his expression fell and he turned to stare at his empty cup.
Bowser gave an annoyed huff and lightly pushed the human (not hard enough to knock him down, mind you, but just enough to make him stumble a little).
"I'm including you in my list of 'interesting humans' Greenie."
Greenie slowly looked back up at him, huge blue eyes nearly drowning out the red in his face. It was almost cute.
"R-Really?"
Bowser rolled his eye. "Grambi yes. Don't make me take it back."
Greenie smiled softly as he stared at his stupid empty cup again. Bowser swore, if he looked at that thing one more time instead of at him, he was going to rip it out of the human's hands and chuck it halfway across the mushroom kingdom.
"Well?"
Greenie looked up at him. "...well what?"
A bit of smoke escaped him at that. Humans. Cute to look at but stars could they be annoyingly stupid sometimes.
"Why do you think the arrow didn't work?"
Luigi's eyes widened. "Oh. Right. That." He took a deep breath as he tightly gripped the cup.
"Well. Firstly. I'm...gay. So me chasing after and flirting with Peach would have been. Very mortifying. I think I'd have packed up and moved the second the arrow's effects wore off." A strained laugh escaped him. "Or died. Whatever got me out of the party faster."
"Huh."
Luigi shrugged and looked away again, this time Bowser couldn't help noting that the human's ears were about as red as his face.
"Secondly...I...erm. May have uh. Already liked you before all this happened today."
Bowser felt his eyebrows raise as he stared at the human in disbelief.
"You like me?"
Greenie shrugged again, this time a hint of annoyance bleeding into his voice. "Well yeah. I didn't spout all that. Y'know out of thin air today. It's. Been building for...awhile I guess."
"...huh. So. If I'd used that arrow on Peach..."
Greenie snorted and shot him a quite frankly, surprisingly devious smirk. "She'd probably chase Mario around the castle for a couple hours."
Bowser stepped back and tried to imagine that.
Having Peach in his clutches and having the arrow touch her only for her to break free and go after Mario. And that was only if he did that in her castle.
If he'd try that in his, would she break his home apart brick by brick to get back to the stupid red plumber before he could even 'rescue' her?
It...was almost a silly thing to imagine but if Luigi's actions and attempts to be near him while under the arrow's magical influence were anything to go by, then there was probably nothing Peach wouldn't do to be with her hero.
"...Huh."
"Thank Grambi today happened huh?"
Bowser snapped out of his imaginings and stared down at the plumber.
"Don't tell me you're happy about getting suped up on a love potion?!"
Greenie shrugged and looked away. "I wouldn't say...happy. Exactly. Coming down from that wasn't great...and I did and said stuff I'm not exactly proud of...but. Statistically it could have been worse."
Bowser couldn't help raising a brow at that.
"How could any of that been worse?"
"Well. The arrow could have hit Mario and well." Luigi grimaced. "Trust me when I say the less said about that the better."
"What, does he have a crush on me too?"
Bowser howled at the withering glare Luigi shot him at that.
"I'm joking." He wheezed between laughs. "I know that menace you call a brother only has eyes for Peach."
Luigi's mouth tightened slightly at that, causing Bowser to do a double take.
"Wait, don't tell me Peach isn't the only person he makes goo-goo eyes at?!"
"She is. He's never had it this bad for anyone before."
"...so what would be the problem?"
Luigi bit his lip. "...nothing really...it'd just. Be really embarrassing to watch..."
Bowser tilted his head. "How embarrassing?" Maybe the dumb love arrow wouldn't be a complete waste if he could use it to make Mario look like an idiot.
As if he could read his thoughts, Luigi's glare darkened. If looks could kill, Bowser was pretty sure he'd be a Dry Bones right now
Pretty impressive of the green human to pull off that strong of a death glare to be honest.
"Don't."
Bowser raised a hand and scoffed. "Yeah yeah sure whatever. Those things are more trouble than they’re worth using."
Greenie's expression lightened considerably at that. "Gratzi"
“So. Didja just come over to ask a question or were you hoping for somethin else?
Luigi looked down at the cup and fiddled with it a little. “...that’s. Kind of up to you, isn’t it?”
“...wha-?”
“I mean.” a small laugh escaped Greenie “I think whatever else the day’s been, I was a pretty clear on what I want. E-Even if it wasn’t uh. Exactly the way I’d wanted it to go.”
Bowser placed a claw under Luigi’s chin and turned his face towards him.
“Yeah? And how exactly did you want it to go?”
Greenie didn’t answer, brain probably too fried to respond as his gaze locked onto Bowser’s snout.
Bowser couldn’t help snorting at that. “You’re a weird lil human. Do you know that?” He leaned down even closer. “At least you’ve got good taste.” he purred before kissing the last person he thought he would when he’d gotten up this morning.
Whatever he’d thought about the guy, one thing was for sure. Luigi was a damn good kisser.
The guy practically melted against him as he finally dropped that stupid cup in his attempts to get closer.
He found he didn’t even mind that it was a soft sort of kiss as they slowly understood each others mouths and how they fit together.
It was nice.
Kissing Luigi was nice.
Pulling away so the human could get some air, Bowser gave Greenie a smug grin.
“How was that?”
Luigi hummed. “I’ve had better.”
Bowser stared down at the little human, gobsmacked. “Had bett-I’M THE KING OF THE KOOPAS! HOW HAVE YOU HAD BETTER?! I’M THE BEST KISSER IN ANY KINGDOM EVE-”
He froze at the mischievous look in the human’s eye before leaning down close enough that the little punk would feel his warm breath.
“Are you playing with me?”
“Playing? I would never.” Some of his earlier bluster seemed to be leaving him, but, to his credit, his voice stayed steady. “I just thought, I could use a few more kisses to uh. Really know for a sure that I’m a getting the best one. From you.”
Bowser stared at him for another second or two before letting out a soft, rumbling laugh. Oh, Green ‘Stache was devious under those big blue eyes and timid nature.
Tail wagging slowly, Bowser gave him a toothy smile. “In that case, we better get back to it then.” he purred, pleased to see Luigi’s response was an eager nod before reaching forward himself, small hands cupping the sides of his snout as he kissed him hard this time round.
Another low purr escaped him at the action.
Today may have been a mess, but at least it hadn’t been a total wash.
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Geeta and Paldea Discussion
Really random thought, but as a sort of counter to Geeta being a bad top champion/chairwoman, I feel like it's important to point out that Paldea is quite the paradise. Each town is filled with life and activity, and presumably the gyms and the Academy's treasure hunt program is what made it the way it is economically. I don't think it'd be impossible to say that Paldea was not like this when she first took over, and it's years of her hard work to change things.
It's said the gym leaders were all handpicked by Geeta, and I think any of these cities success would be attributed to her hard work into changing Paldea for the better.
If we need more tangible indicators, I feel like the Elite 4 battleground being the most sparse battle area speaks volumes as to where her and thus the league's priorities lie. It's about the rest of Paldea's development and improvement, they get the most funding for building up the space into something fun and enriching. At the ace tournament, Geeta also reveals that she had a hand in designing the Academy library renovations, so she very much invests into bettering Paldea/The Academy as a whole.
I do enjoy the headcanon of her actually being a great champion/leader, pushing her coworkers. The quips/hatred towards her feels like fan interpretations being overstretched, not to say she is beloved, but I think the league and it's gym leaders of this region work together better than other gens. And I adore the thought that they have a decent camraderie...
Afaik Geeta runs a tight ship, doing inspections, making the rounds, talking to locals, to students... She's probably a workaholic herself, stretching thinly across the region haha.
Also, another point to her: Assuming she was the leader when the other Academy Director was in power, she likely helped oversee the complete reshuffling/changing of staff... getting someone as dedicated as Clavell, pulling gym leaders she trusts (Tyme) etc to the Academy. She can't micromanage and solve every problem, but i do feel she'd be warmly pleased at hearing the Director's "greatest treasure" resonating with her own... and also the dedication he has to act as Clive LOL. Clavell also helps out with Iono's stream to repay the League once, so I assume it to be true that Geeta has done much to improve the Academy.
There's also things like: Hassel, the guy being harassed by his family. I am sure Geeta would know about it, and the fact that Hassel is both E4 + art teacher feels very much like "Don't touch him, he's Paldea's". Power moveeee. Adore the headcanon of Geeta being very defensive of keeping him as Paldea's, any move from the dragon tamers has political ramifications...
Grusha... iirc has some beef? Idk. Nothing jumps out to me in memory beyond fan interpretations. I like seeing his role as gym leader actually being something of a Geeta pushing him into something after a devastating career blow.
I've already discussed Larry before in another post (His gym being his favourite restaurant is already quite telling that all the gym leaders get plenty of support for their work lol). Tulip's jealousy over her? Just feels in character for her personality but I don't think she means it too much lol.
The only thing that's probably a big glaring mistake is allowing professor Turo/Sada to continue experiments, presumably without supervision. It might've been possible that oversight occured.. or the professor was able to shirk off suspicion so long as they spared the crystals for making tera orbs. Kinda like an operation where they go "You only need me down here to help you harvest the crystals.", the time machine secretly being the focus. The academy/league funded labs were abandoned, one can assume they'd taken their hands off maintaining it, the only valuable thing left is extracting the crystals for Tera orbs. Little did they know the professors obsession... hence the concern/fear the professor's had when the miraidon/Koraidon were seen in public. Their little undercover operation was at risk of being found out.
Combined with the concept of Geeta focusing on the rest of Paldea after the Tera Orb discovery (I like to think she was appointed just shortly after it or very early during it), one professor being down in the crater managing Crystal extraction doesn't seem like a huge priority...
Anyway, those are my rambly all over the place thoughts for Geeta and her role in Paldea lol. Top champion isn't just being the strongest, it's very much a leadership role with influence on people's livelihoods. She's doing a fine job of it, if Paldea is so damn idyllic. I doubt the game will give us these answers or depth, but fjdhsjs Geeta is probably kinder/more empathetic/caring than most fans make her out to be.
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I’m one of your anons and I think we both agreed on many points about HL stance. I want to ask because somehow I couldn’t find the correct tags for this - but why do you think Louis’ career is somehow delayed? Some rads blamed it hard to harry and his companionship, and some larries took it blindly as a sacrifice for harry’s, but both sides are too extreme, I would like to know where do you stand on this. Thank you :)
I think a lot of the “weirdness” and “delay” around Louis’ career is due to two things. Firstly, personal and family stuff that was going on at the time, some of which we know about in retrospect but I’m sure there’s a lot to which we are oblivious. I don’t think we even know about 0.1% of what that man deals with on a daily basis. He has my respect.
Secondly, reading between the lines, I think it’s probably true that Louis felt dissatisfied or held back by Syco. He presumably parted ways with them for a reason, after all. However, I don’t think it was part of some grand scheme to make Harry successful at Louis’ expense. I think it’s just the way the industry operates, unfortunately. Labels don’t invest equally in all their artists and they often have very rigid ideas about what will be commercially viable. (This is why I think “Perfect Now” was included on Walls. Louis says he’s not a fan of that track anymore, but during promo he said it was deliberately written to be a fan favorite. So, that’s the kind of thing I’m talking about when I say labels can exert a lot of control over the creative process. And also… it’s a classic case of misreading the room and the dynamics of Louis’ fanbase.)
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Why do you think Harry ended up being closer to Ed than Louis did? I'm thinking about James Corden too. He started as Louis's friend and he introduced Harry. I think there were others too
Well, why do any two people become closer friends? There are countless reasons and we can't possibly know them all. But from what we do know from their interviews etc it seems clear to me that Harry was far more present and invested in building friendships in London than Louis was. Meanwhile, Louis was invested in his new relationship with Eleanor (and her new friends), and maintaining his friends group from Doncaster.
And this is not specifically directed at you, Anon, but let me go off on a tangential thread about how conspiracy theorising in this fandom skews discussion of things like Louis' and Harry's friendships. Because the Larrie conspiracy theory colours everything.
You have the tinhat hate bloggers saying dumb shit like, "Harry targeted rich and influential people from the very beginning because he is ruthlessly ambitious and only cares about money and fame blah blah blah", and the just plain nasty hate bloggers saying, "Nobody successful wants to be friends with Louis because he's a dull chav who's of no interest or benefit to them blah blah...". And then you have the OG-style Larries saying, "Well actually, Ed and James and Adele ARE friends with both Louis and Harry because they're a couple, they're just very discreet about it because Reasons"
Meanwhile, the truth is probably way more mundane than any of that. And it almost certainly conforms more to the (limited) info that we fans have been privy to.
I would guess that Harry and Louis' friendships were shaped by personality, age, priorities, personal circumstances etc....same as it is for Normals.
Harry's friendships with people like Ed, James, Grimmy, Ben etc all started forming in 2011 when he was 17 and living in London, away from his family and childhood friends (who were still at school! Because they were 17!!) I don't think it's a coincidence that these new friendships really took off when Louis started dating Eleanor in September 2011. But of course all the conspiracy theorists can't accept that Louis was actually besotted by Eleanor, so this is dismissed as a key factor.
Until then, Harry and Louis had a super intense new friendship. They were touring with the X Factor tour, going to Sweden to record their album, they'd moved into their shared flat, they were going to gigs and music festivals and meeting new people together etc.
Louis met Eleanor at exactly the same time as 1D launched. From then on, all the 1D boys were constantly travelling and working. They had hardly any time off at all, and it's clear that Louis prioritised spending as much of that free time as possible with Eleanor. He went to visit her at Manchester Uni or they were hanging out in London.
Harry was single, wasn't an adult yet, and totally unmoored from his old life. All his old friends were living at home with their parents and going to school every day. He spent about 90% of his life, 24/7, with the four other 1D members and their team. When they weren't working, what was Harry going to do - sit on his ass? Zayn and Liam had their best friends living with them. Niall's mum was living with him. Louis had Eleanor and his mates back home who were all at uni or starting work.
Harry was on his own! It's not exactly like he could call one of his mates from Holmes Chapel and say, "Come down to London and we'll go out on the piss!" They were probably doing homework!
Louis' friends were in a totally different stage in their lives. All age 19 or 20, they had the freedom and autonomy that a schoolkid doesn't have. Although their lives were completely different to Louis', they could at least join in on some of the madness. Louis' first years in 1D coincided with his friends' uni years, and I think that really contributed to them maintaining the strong bond which is so important to Louis. Harry's schoolfriends' lives were unimaginably different to his. Like, for H&L's New Year's party in 2011, Louis got a bus-load of mates down from Doncaster. Harry had some childhood friends there too, but think about it - they would would have had to ask their mums for permission to go :)
So it's no surprise that Harry built a friendship group around him in London. Many artists who become successful young do not manage to do this and have spoken about how isolated and alone they were when away from the screaming and the stage. It seems to me that Harry is lucky to have the type of personality that enabled him to build friendships easily. It appears he was extremely proactive in doing so. Ed has said Harry would text him and ask did he want to hang out, Grimmy said the same, Dermot O'Leary did too. It's clear that Harry was invested in those relationships, that he put time and effort into them, and that's how those friendships grow. Louis had other priorities - he was in a brand new relationship with his girlfriend whom he adored. It's the most basic story in the book, but it's one that tinhats don't like to think about.
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In a Transformerd RID2015 X FNAF Movie Crossover, what if Denny was somehow able to buy the animatronics from Freddy Fazbars Pizzaria?
Ether because Afton wasn't able to pay to continue paying to keep the property in his name i.e health problems,bad investments, jail, you know stuff he probably had coming.
Leaving Denny to buy Freddy and the others from an estate sale or from Larry LaRue who got them from less then savory means and who used them to leverage Denny into trading for stuff inside the scrapyard.
Denny was a big fan of Freddy Fazabares Pizzaria growing up and having the actual animatronics felt like a dream come true. Despite the dark past behind the restaurant and the mystery of the missing children he still held fond memories of the restaurant.
But when Denny brings the animatronics into the Scrapyard, he, Russel, and the other bits began noticing strange things happening.
The security tapes seemingly catching shadows of animatronics moving or disappearing in different areas, or the animatronics bring spotted in different places like someone moved them, and what's worse are the peculiar dreams that some of the team are having....about children and an omnious pizzaria.
Fixit, Slipstream, Jetstorm, and Russrl are the most concerned given that it feels like the animatronics are paying special attention to them.
With things getting even more creepy when a "Steve Raglan", who claims to be the former owner of the animatronics, keeps trying to buy them back. His instance growing more aggressive with each visit.
And a female officer who hangs around the outside of the scrapyard and who gives Denny some cryptic messages.
Denny would absolutely do this either way. It probably isn't the first item in the scrapyard with sketchy history although this one is haunted to high hell. The only reason the bots haven't pointed out the strange smell is most aren't familiar with the scent of rotting flesh. Bumblebee has as he been on Earth for years but the suits are deep cleaned enough for him not to pinpoint it.
The animatronics are more curious about this predicament. All of them know the bots aren't like them nor their human companions have a hand in their creation. The tether to William Afton also isn't that strong since the pizzeria is their deathned. A place of death holds more power than the killer.
Thus the kids feel like playing pranks and being ominous little shits. Any dreams are unintentional as the person in question just resonates too much with a certain animatronic. Chica for Grimlock, Sideswipe with Foxy, Bonnie involving Strongarm, Freddy alongside Jetstorm, Golden Freddy and Slipstream. Also those four are perfect 'playmate size' than similar temperament.
Denny's refusal would genuinely evolve from 'No' to 'Something shady is going on' considering how desperate the man is. Vanessa's appearance is also enough to have Russel suggest doing some research about the animatronics and Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. The rabbit hole they jumped into is drenched in blood.
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louisisalarrie · 25 days
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I see a lot of people, including larrie, who say that L has a relationship with the kid. That he loves and protects, and I feel horrible thinking that the only relationship he has with this kid is when he shows up at the show or at Christmas
I completely understand that, and Louis is so beautiful and caring and wonderful and sweet and he of course cares about and wants to protect that child. He would absolutely feels awful about all of this happening. But I truly don’t believe he visits and hangs out with this kid in his spare time.
F is now like 9 or something, so is still very young. I highly doubt they have explained the situation to him in full, but I think it leans more to them telling F that Louis is a close friend of his mum’s or something to keep that bond close. Or he’s B’s boyfriend and he’s famous and busy all the time or something and so he can refer to him as dad when in a situation to. I genuinely don’t know how they’re navigating it with him, but with how little free time Louis gets, he’s not hanging out with that kid (if he did, it would be once in a blue moon). But not often, at least not nowadays.
Perhaps when F was far younger louis was a bit more part of his life, as we did see sometimes, but forming too much of a strong connection with a kid and leading them to believe something is true ends up heading towards a very awful situation, and more hurt in the long run. And I think Louis would rather distance himself for the sake of F, than stay so invested in his life that things go deeper.
And that kid will start asking questions. And he will end up eventually getting social media. And I think they’re gonna have to end bbg before that, and explain things in a way that would be true (perhaps most of it), but would soften the blow. And Louis being further away from that would be better for him, I think.
I dunno. Trying to communicate this all to someone would be pretty bloody difficult. But the bigger the distance between them, the less it’s gonna hurt, I think. For both of them.
But also… people who hate Louis, namely harries, use the “deadbeat dad” thing super often to try and tarnish his name. And if he didn’t want to seem like a “deadbeat dad” while continuing bbg, wouldn’t it make sense for us to get a little more content of F?
I mean… thank god we don’t. Because I’m not an advocate of anyone with a public platform posting pictures everywhere of their kid. And mgmt tried to make it look so real by doing the Insta pics and stuff, but honestly… if it was just those hospital pap pics and a couple of tweets, that would’ve been enough for the general public. It’s just they tried doubling down too hard without thinking of the long term consequences because it wasn’t meant to be long term. It was meant to end in a paternity test/custody battle. It was meant to spin louis in a good light, while still keeping him closeted.
Hell, he probably has a small amount of money in a trust for putting the kid through this. It’s suuuuuch a sticky situation now. It needed to end earlier to minimise damage to F, Louis, and his career.
Louis is a beautiful and caring human, and he will do whatever it takes to minimise the pain for F when this inevitably breaks. And I think moving away from that connection has, and is, happening.
That’s why we were all so shocked about having F in AOTV. Because F was shoved back in the public eye when it wasn’t necessary at all, and reenforced a narrative that will negatively affect him in the long run far more if it is a consistent element of his life.
Louis can still see him and have him in movies or the public eye or whatever and say how much he means to him, if they end bbg like he was actually a surrogate or he finally got a paternity test or whatever. It still works. He can show pics of F to the world if they have a bond and he wants to stay in F’s life and be honest. This shit will all spin Louis positively in the public eye also. It’s so frustrating.
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Oh 100% they are. Everyone from fans to wikis have had their little jabs. And just from Pokémon official Twitter and YouTube, they enjoy teasing fans with certain characters like that Larry tribute or tweeting a video dedicated to Turo for Father’s Day(though I guess it could’ve worse. They could’ve highlighted Ghetsis) so why wouldn’t they do so for characters that time and time again blew up their Twitter? Though strangely enough in the Hisui sweepstakes currently one of the ways to enter was to give your favorite Arceus character from the ones listed and Ingo wasn’t even on there(some think these will be the guys added to Masters but I’m not sure) despite how popular he is in favorite polls so who knows how long it be till we actually get more stuff on them in Masters
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The little jabs always get me, augh. The list does look like possible future sync pairs, and even if it's not submas, I love the fact we're getting more PLA content! I've never been as invested in a pokemon game like I am with PLA since I played pkmn bw as a kid. Total win in my eyes.
I wonder who they'll add after Irida and Adaman, though. I've said it before, but I would love to get Volo. And there's Lian in the list too! Heck yeah, my fav boy who loves rocks!! If I don't get Irida in the end, please Pokemon masters, please gimme Lian.
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alarrytale · 10 days
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Hi Marte!
I wanted to talk to you about this post: https://www.tumblr.com/skepticalarrie/749744952065572864/i-hope-this-isnt-dumb-but-i-always-wondered-why?source=share
Especially the part:
But now, so many years later and considering they had the opportunity to come out after the band and chose not to… Well, it's a mystery, and I suppose we'll never know.
This is exactly why I believe when you think/say that Louis and Harry still can't come out. A lot of larries are kind of realizing now that it isn't normal for Louis and Harry to make such opposite decisions (not coming out) compared to what they showed us (fighting with RBB).
Finally, do you happen to know why 80% of the larrie fandom seems to think that Louis and Harry had the opportunity to come out once the band ended but didn't? Like, it just doesn't make sense.....especially because Rebecca Ferguson said it's highly likely for old X factor contestants to still be tied to their old Sony contracts. Rebecca and 1D shared the same contract/label. One question though, Harry said he felt free when he realized his new contract didn't have an image clause.....so I don't know if this completely debunks the theory of them being in the closet by contract and by still being held back by their old contract (because Harry is wearing nail polish, dresses and lipstick...something his old contract didn't allow him to.....so that's a big plot hole..how is he allowed to do those things if he is still tied to the old homophobic Sony contract)
https://twitter.com/RebeccaFMusic/status/1576991531176976384
Hi, anon!
It absolutely not normal to fight as hard to be themselves as gay men and to be together in a relationship, like H and L did back then (and still do), and then turn 360 and be content with the closet. You can maybe argue that there is a difference between being forcibly closeted and choosing it themselves, but that's not what we're seeing happening at all. Louis would not choose to closet himself by pretending to be a father to a kid, are you kidding me? It's hurting his career more than it's helping him! He'd end it right now if he could!
I think some (not 80%) think that they are self-closeting as solo artists, because they don't understand how Sony can still control them both when their 1D contracts under Sony labels are fulfilled and over (doubtful but that's not the point). I believe they think that the explanations for them still being under Sony contracts and clauses are far-fetched. I also think it's a defence mechanisms because people do not want to think about their favourite being controlled and managed like this. They don't want to believe it to be true, because it's too horrible to think about. I don't think it's due to not knowing it's possible, they do know that, they just don't want to believe it. So it's all a mystery to them.
Harry didn’t say he was glad his new contract didn’t have an image clause (it most certainly does), he was glad it didn’t have a cleanliness clause, which is part of what makes up image clauses, but only a part of it. 1D were a boyband who couldn’t smoke pot when their target audience were 8-20 year olds. Smoking pot in front of paps or posting explicit photos would have cost them fans, hence the cleanliness clause. Regardless, the main point is that they signed their image and branding over to Sony in 1D. Sony is doing what's in their best interest to make them all as much money as possible. If that entails dragging their names through the mud in the press or giving them fake babies, so be it. They're protecting their brand and investments to make the most revenue. They believe the way to go is to appear straight to the general public.
If Harry wearing nail polish will make them the most revenue then they'll allow and encourage that. If it's stunting with women they'll demand that. If Harry wants to play a closeted gay policeman on film that resembles his own story, do you know what Sony will demand of Harry to look straight again after? Well, we saw the aftermath of that. Harry is allowed to be gay on stage because it sells. As long as he's not actually percieved as gay by the gp, he's encouraged to do it. As long as the music is connected to his stunts, he's stunting before, or during or after album release, he's allowed. The image clause is basically Sony saying we decide how you will be percieved by the general public. You can be as gay as you want as long as the masses don't actually percieve you as gay. It's all about the balance.
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caralara · 3 months
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Hi :)
I've been a larrie for the last couple years and up until a few months ago I was pretty sure that they're stillt together, still going strong and all that. But somehow I'm not really sure anymore and I feel like that's case the for a lot of people.. I saw a post of yours that you thinn they've been broken up for a while. Would you care to explain your reasoning?
Love and thanks in advance :)
hi lovely anon!
to be honest, I think the real possibility of them not being together anymore in the traditional sense started when I actually went through their timelines and their outings and sightings and put it all to paper and realised that it simply wasn't physically possible for them to be in one spot together as much as the fandom would like you to believe over the last few years... like, at all. There's only a fraction of the amount of time windows they could have been together. And that coupled with me believing that they have a much more general, or rather broader, and deeper understanding of what love and relationships are, as well as their behaviour and their "signalling" in the last 1,5-2 years, to me it just seems that they are not together anymore in the capacity that they were at some point.
I also believe that they were broken up some time during the end of One Direction and got back together after a while again.
I think they both know that they are and were the loves of each other's lives, and always will be, and that they do love each other more than death and life on an elementar level, but I don't think they are spending their everyday life together as of now.
I don't know if they plan to do so in the future, or if they just see where life takes them and are open to it. I don't think there is any bad blood between them, just two adults realising and coming to terms with the reality that their energy is in fact limited and that they want to invest that limited energy into their careers at this point in time, or also into ending babygate (at least until middle-late last year I thought so, it feels like Louis ran out of energy for that, too, right now), and not into the incredibly complicated way of living as a closeted hyper-famous couple that could absolutely implode not only their own but many other peoples' lives if outed without their doing on top of that.
The song choices, the way they talk about certain topics, the way the Larry-signalling has become a marketing tool in certain ways - granted, this all could be complete projection from my side, and I have no hard evidence (and also don't need any for me to be a happy fan of both of them), and I do also believe they link up every once and again and stay in touch, and maybe even hooking up, just not - as a couple anymore.
I think they both were finally able to take a step back, breathe, feel safe and also realise that in some aspects, their relationship was really toxic. It doesn't change the fact that they loved and love each other, but the more you grow up (and especially the crazy time around turning 30 where suddenly everything makes so much more sense and settles), you realise what's actually important to yourself and what you need to be okay. I think they are both pretty happy with where they are right now, I think Louis more so than Harry, because Harry is stuck and still running after dreams and getting taken advantage of in a major way, but it's his choice and it's where he wants to be headed.
So yeah... loads of rambling without any basis whatsoever, pretty much all just from my feelings but yeah this is what i think how life looks for them right now.
Thank you for your message anon! xx
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gracefullou · 8 months
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as someone who's v new to the fandom (and didn't even know the names of 1d until this year) I truly do not understand the larry thing... like even if they were a thing, they most definitely aren't now and we aren't even sure they're on good terms? especially because that man never talks about louis (or praises him like niall or liam does) and how he never made a statement about how euphoria used their images & names without consent or knowledge (and then hung out with the creator after louis made a statement). I just cannot fathom it. plus larries thinking songs are about that man (that would show him in a very negative light if that were true) and continuing to both support him AND say that they're secretly married or wtv? sorry for the rant I'm just very confused by it all???
Old grandma larries who want to live an epic love story through 2 strange, much younger men keep this thing going bc they keep talking about this ship and they will never ever change their mind no matter what. They use 2011/ 2012 old footage that taken out of context may look cute to some people in order to recruit these new fans to their cult. They also live in a bubble and block any solo louie they see and tell their followers to do the same (didn't you know it's a sin to support a musician for his music ? You have to worship his husband that he wasn't seen with in 1654 years too 🙄). By the time these relatively new people realize that they've been obsessing over ancient footage and that these two men haven't interacted with each other in ages, they're way too invested in their delusions to aknowledge that, way too self centered to admit they were wrong all along and that other people's sexuality/ partners is none of their business. It's offensive to ship Louis with a man who called his late mother (may she rest in peace) someone's mom, whose personal assistant liked a hate post about Louis' voice, a man who's besties with that australian host who called his ex-bandmate (and to them it's worse, husband) a rat on radio. That man even said that he attended her wedding . It's offensive to ship him with a man who hasn't uttered his name in more than 7 years except for snl and talk show sketches (and that damage control award show speech), it's offensive to ship him with a man who approved that Euphoria scene and didn't even think of telling him, it's offensive to ship him with a man who has an other woman's name tattood on his body and another one's voicemail in his song 💀.... Like if they cared about Louis and loved him just a little bit, they would've wanted him to be OUT of this relationship even if they believe it to be true. But they're a lost case 🤷🏽‍♀️. They're celebrating that in bty he says i love him (according to them not me) and ignore that he says i hate it right fucking after 😭 and that this song is about a toxic relationship (Mind you in 2019 when i joined the fandom they used to "believe" Louis when he said he doesn't relate to the song bc that man is such a great partner it could never be about him 😭). In conclusion, don't be confused anon, these people are just delusional. They stan that dead ship and nothing else. And unless they seek irl help, they will never change their mind about it
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