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pedrito-friskito · 7 months

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Happy Sleepover lovely Kay!!

You know how I love me some Steve Rogers, I’d love to request him with the prompt…

“You have any idea how much I hated seeing someone else touch you.”

Please and thank you!

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ericca!!! thanks for such a fun request ☺️ the inspo jumped out of me on this one (but my apologies for taking so long to get it posted!) and out came a sequel/follow-up to walking the wire!!

would def recommend reading that before you read this (if you haven’t already 😉)

tell me your troubles - steve rogers x fem!super soldier reader (phoenix)

word count: 3k

warnings: lil more than canon-typical violence (i like netflix marvel more than disney marvel these days can u tell), lowkey possessive!steve, heavy make outs, shower sex, oral (f receiving), unprotected p-in-v (they’re supersoldiers ok but wrap it before you tap it) - also russian translations from google so if it’s not right I’M SORRY

Nat gives the order to fall back, and it goes against every fibre of Steve’s being to obey.

They have you. They have his girl.

It’s Nat’s op. She’s in charge, and he knows this isn’t her fault, that she’s not to blame for the fact that you’re not by his side right now, that you’re instead being hauled into the back of a large van, too-thick cuffs banding your arms behind your back. He’s having flashbacks to Berlin, to Bucky in a cage. They put a hood over your head, and you manage to catch his eye before your face disappears from view.

Go.

His every instinct is screaming at him to go after you, doubly so when the van starts to drive away. But there are bombs planted between you and him, obstructing his path. One wrong step, and no amount of super-soldier serum could save him from being blasted apart. And then where would that leave him?

Where would that leave you?

“I want a plan,” he spits as soon as they’re back at the makeshift base they’ve been calling home the last few months. It’s no Stark Tower, but there’s running water and a bed he’s shared with you most nights, a haphazard sign scrawled on the door — Cap & Phoenix. Bucky drew a little cartoon shield and a flame to go along with it.

He sees Nat bristle as he barks his order, but when her sharp gaze flicks to him, something in him softens. He tends to forget, that she cares for you on a similar level to his own affection. Not the same type granted, but the Widow holds you close to her heart, and despite Steve’s own confirmation that Nat’s not to blame for your kidnapping, he can see in her face that she doesn’t think the same.

“You didn’t do this, Nat,” he says, following her into the large office they’ve used to map out missions. Bucky and Sam make themselves scarce, disappearing from the corner of Steve’s vision. “We all knew there was a risk.”

“She was right there,” Nat replies, shaking her head, sinking into a crouch in front of the table, surveying the map you’d all reviewed before leaving. “She was right there, and I let them grab her.”

“We couldn’t have known they’d have the capability, the means to—”

“This is my fault, Steve.”

“It’s not,” he reiterates, hand clenched into a fist, knuckles pressed to the table. “I know it, Phoenix knows it. But letting it get the better of you isn’t going to bring her back. You think you made a mistake, then fix it. We find her.” He plants his other fist. “No matter the cost.”

Nat arches one perfect brow, and he can already see the wheels turning behind her eyes. “Sir, yes, sir.”

Tracking you down is the easy part; recovering you proves to be a touch more complicated.

Natasha’s plan is airtight this time, outright refusing to split the team, the four of them moving through the building silently. They have each other’s backs, and soon enough, they’ll have you. But it’s a maze from the moment they step in. The map they have is accurate, but it’s more heavily guarded than they’re anticipating. Nat and Bucky both put men down with acute precision — assassin precision — and Steve finds himself lagging behind Sam, his knuckles aching from the sheer number of punches he’s delivered.

Part of him feels naked without the shield. He gave it up for a reason, before he had you. It’s something he’s talked through over and over, you sprawled on his chest, chin propped on the back of your hand, watching him talk as he stares at the ceiling.

Talk to me, drevniy. Tell me your troubles.

That last night, before the mission went awry, it was the same. He’d talked himself in circles, until his voice went hoarse and he was losing himself to the soft press of your body against his, and then all he really wanted to lose himself in you instead, so he did.

You held him close after and murmured something in Russian he couldn’t quite make out. He lifted his head to ask you what the words meant, but you kissed him before he could get the question out, and you’d drifted off to sleep a few minutes later. He didn’t have the heart to wake you.

Damn the shield, he thinks now, trying not to flinch when Bucky pulls the trigger on his gun, more men dropping to the floor. Damn it all.

They round a corner, and Steve nearly crashes into Nat’s stalled figure.

“Hello, Captain.”

You’re strapped to a chair. Restrained nearly the exact same way that Bucky was back in Berlin. Only him, the man Steve had watched cart you away, he’s got his hand knotted in the back of your hair, your head yanked back, your throat bared, a large knife pressed against it. It could be steel, but Steve would bet good money it’s vibranium.

Steve darts forward, but Nat throw her hand out, stopping him. She tilts her chin imperceptibly, and Steve’s eyes follow the direction, spotting a generator in the far corner. From the corner of his gaze, he sees Bucky catch on, and wordlessly, the plan is formed.

“Let her go,” Steve calls to your captor, and when the man starts laughing, Bucky slinks into the shadows, towards the generator. Nat raises her gun, aiming at the thugs flanking either side of your captor, and Steve’s hands clench into tighter fists.

“I would not do that if I were you, Captain Rogers,” the man taunts, waving a finger in the air. “You have not even heard the bargain I propose, for the return of your sweet Phoenix.”

“I don’t make it a habit of bargaining with kidnappers,” Steve returns, and the man yanks your hair back harder. He can hear your slight whimper from where he stands. “Let her go, and maybe I let you live.” From the corner of his eye, he can see Bucky near the generator, hidden by the shadows — perks of super-soldier sight and stealth.

The man starts laughing. He sees the glint of the knife press against your neck, and a single drop of blood beads along the blade. Nat’s eyes cut to Steve’s, he nods, and Bucky’s metal fist connects with the generator, sparks flying as the room is plunged into darkness.

It comes in flashes. Bullets spark through the air as Nat takes down the two thugs who have started running for them. Bucky shoots forward, yanking the metal away from where it’s restraining your arms and pulls you out of the chair. Steve disarms your captor, the knife now streaked with your blood, but before he can do anything else, you grab it from him, whipping it over your shoulder. The blade buries itself in your captor’s chest, and the man drops instantly.

Steve reaches for you, hauling you into his arms, and you cling to him as you all turn tail, heading out of the building. It’s not until you reach the Quinjet that Steve finally feels relief, but remembers the blood and takes you to the back of the jet while Nat and Bucky prepare for takeoff.

“Let me see,” he murmurs, and wordlessly, you push your hair away, baring your neck to him. The scratch is barely visible, already just the remnant of a scar, but Steve knows it won’t go away, not completely. He wipes the blood gingerly from your skin, his movements gentle even though he knows he can��t hurt you, not truly.

His brow furrows as he looks the rest of you over. There are no other obvious injuries, or evidence of them. Your clothing is tattered, dirt and grime smeared on your skin, and there’s a brightness in your eyes that he hasn’t seen in a long time — not since they pulled you out of that lab.

“I’m fine, drevniy,” you say, grabbing his wrist when his attention falls back to your neck, to the tiny scar now there. “It will take much more than a scratch like that to take me from you.”

Steve bristles at the mere thought. He feels like a live wire suddenly, exposed, vulnerable. You tug on his hand, pulling his palm until it rests over your heart, until he can feel the rapid beat if it against his skin. You lean up, fitting your lips to his pulse, a soft kiss to his throat. His whole body feels tight as a bowstring, and while the feeling of you has soothed it some, he can’t shake it.

“Steve,” you call, your voice low, almost cajoling. Suddenly, he feels guilty. You’re the one who was kidnapped; he should be comforting you, not the other way around. The corner of your mouth lifts. “Tell me your troubles.”

He groans, and the tether on his restraint snaps. Both his hands move to your face, cupping your cheeks in his palms. He hears your quick intake of breath right before his mouth covers yours, and you sigh into him, your body relaxing almost completely in his grip.

“You have no idea,” you murmur, and the purr in your voice makes his tac pants grow tight, “how much I missed your touch.”

“Baby,” he nearly growls, pushing you back against the metal wall of the jet. You’re tucked in the corner now, out of sight of Nat and Bucky, and Steve’s plan forms quicker than Nat’s rescue had. “I need you right now.”

Your breath hitches high, the noise catching in your throat, and Steve’s hands drop from your face to your waist, tugging your hips until they’re flush with his. “Right now?” you ask, a teasing smile on your face. “Buck’s hearing is as good as yours is, Steve. You want him hearing you take what’s yours? Want him to know what I sound like?”

The reminder tugs his restraint back into place. Something deep in his chest, something feral and wild, growls in response. Mine. He lifts you until you’re high enough to wrap your legs around his hips and his fingers press into your sides, feeling the rush of your blood beneath your skin, the heat of it.

He kisses you until the jet touches down again.

As soon as the ramp lowers, he hauls you over his shoulder and stalks down it, his boots clanging against the metal. He barely hears Nat’s low chuckle behind him and grinds his teeth when you palms settle on the small of his back, fingers tapping random patterns against his skin.

Once you’re inside, he heads straight for the bathroom you’ve been sharing. You barely get a word out as he turns the water on, nearly as hot as it’ll go, just like you like it. When he turns back, you’re naked, and more relief blankets him when he sees you’re untouched, unscarred.

“You’re wearing too many clothes, Captain,” you grin, and Steve backs you against the wall, desperate to feel your bare skin against his. You bite your lip as his palms skim up your ribs, but he feels your hands on his belt, unhooking it with ease. But then the light in your eyes changes, and as his belt thunks to the floor, your hand roves up his chest, two fingers tucked under his chin, tilting his face to yours. “I knew you’d come for me.”

Something in his chest cracks. “Of course I did. I…”

He’d barely let himself feel it, when he saw you there, strapped to that chair, that man’s hands on you, the knife at your throat. The…intensity, the way he instantly knew he would do whatever was necessary to get you back. If Nat hadn’t pulled his focus, pointed out the more sensible path, he can only guess what might have happened, what mess he might have left behind.

Your palm, light against his cheek, pulls him out of his head. “Hey, come back to me,” you call, your voice so soft, so sincere, it pushes away the violence in his head, the guilt that threatens to brew over things he hasn’t even done. “I’m here, krasivyy. Alive. Intact. Yours.” You get closer, your nose brushing his, lips grazing his when you speak. “Only yours.”

“Mine,” he repeats, like the word might bring him back down to earth. His hands grip your hips, lifting you with ease, growling when he feels your legs wrap around his waist. “Watching him touch you, you have no idea how I…” He bites off the sentence with a groan as you grind against him, your bare core leaving a wet patch on the spot just above his waist. Keeping you in place with his hips, he rips the shirt off, tossing it away as he pushes at his pants, barely getting them down his legs before his cock is springing free. The head taps between your legs and it makes you squirm.

“I’m yours, drevniy,” you say, and the nickname once made him bristle, but now it just lights a fire in his chest. “Only yours. No one else gets to touch.” You lean up, pulling yourself against his chest, nosing at his neck, scraping your teeth at his earlobe. “Just you.”

Steve growls again, holding you against him with one arm, wrenching the shower door open with the other. You hiss when the water hits you, but the sound drags out into a low moan as he positions you beneath the spray, steam filling the stall, smudging your outlines.

He lets his hands roam, massaging your limbs, cleaning the dirt from your skin. You hum along with his movements, your head tipping back between your shoulders when he works your chest, wiping away the dried blood and grime. Then he walks you back, pushing you against the tiles. You gasp when your back touches them, the porcelain so much colder than the water, but Steve’s made up his mind.

He starts at your lips. Kisses you rough, bites at you bottom lip, pushes his tongue past your teeth to tangle with yours. When your hands move to grip his hair, wet strands wrapped around his knuckles, he groans into your mouth, drags his lips along your jaw, down your throat.

He bends slightly, tracing your collarbones with his tongue. Your hands don’t leave his hair, only gripping tighter as he moves down, nose dragging along your sternum. But then he pauses, cheats left, scraping the scruff of his jaw along the curve of your breast. You breathe out his name when he closes his lips around your nipple, giving you just the edge of his teeth, pinching the other between his knuckles lightly before rolling it between his fingers.

“Steve.”

He grins against you, sure you can feel it as he pulls back, satisfied only when he sees your nipple is peaked, tight from his attention. Then he does it all over again on the right, only stopping when you tug at his hair, a panting mess as you look down at him, your eyes heavy-lidded with lust.

“What are you…” you start to ask, but the words drop off into a moan when he drops to his knees, using his shoulder to wedge your legs wide, leaning in to bite the inside of your thigh.

“Appreciating what’s mine,” he replies, tongue soothing the spot he bit. “Too much?”

You shake your head, rolling it against the tile, a blissed-out smile on your face. Fuck, he missed you. Can’t imagine his life without you. “Never,” you reply, meeting his gaze again. “Prityazhatel'nyy padezh.”

Steve’s brow lifts, and he puts his face against your thigh again, dragging his tongue up toward the heat between your legs. “Translate, please.”

“Possessive.” You moan the word, one hand staying in his hair while the other reaches up to squeeze at your breast. “Fuck, I should have gotten myself kidnapped a long time ago.”

The thought makes him see red, and you squeal as he grabs both your thighs, throwing them over his shoulders and diving straight between your legs.

“Steve!”

He eats your pussy like he’s never done before. Nips and sucks and licks until your thighs are quaking around his ears, until your cries bounce off the tile walls. You’re an oasis in a desert, his first meal after being starved for days. You’re everything.

You’re his.

He doesn’t stop until you cum, your hand an iron vice against his scalp, tugging so hard it gives him just that little twinge of pain, and he’s reminded how evenly matched you are. He takes everything you have to give, drinks down every drop until you’re pushing at him, overstimulated, body lax in his grip. He works his way back up to standing, worshipping you on the way up the same as he had on the way down. Your chest heaves against his as he pushes his body against yours, caging you in against the wall, keeping you safe.

“Tell me something,” he asks, and you nod, the movement lazy, your hands dragging up and down his ribs as he straightens, reaches up to brush a wet strand of hair from your face.

“Mm?”

Steve leans in, nosing at the curve of your jaw before pressing a soft kiss to your throat. “How do you say I love you in Russian?”

Your whole body jolts as the words fall past his lips, and he chuckles into your skin, pulling you even closer, wrapping his body around yours. Your head tips back, eyes trained on the ceiling, but you hold him just as close. “You’re going soft, drevniy.”

“Only for you,” he replies, nipping at your throat. “Yours, remember?”

Your quiet laugh seems to echo around the shower until you speak again. “Ya tebya lyublyu.” You say, and Steve gives his best repetition, earning himself another chuckle from you. After his second try, your eyes lower, and he sees the wetness in them. “I love you, too.”

#my fics #tell me your troubles #sleepover sundae #steve rogers #steve rogers fanfiction #steve rogers smutt #steve rogers x reader #steve rogers x you #marvel fic #nomad steve rogers #captain america x phoenix

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ravensilversea · 2 years

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hi, "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" and that lal/nana/nello wip for the wip game pls!

Ah yes, the rarepairweek ideas that never came to be for 500

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Firstly, I love this title because it is an extremely accurate description to what’s going down in this fic, and it’s also a reference to Annie Get Your Gun because I’m a nerd. Secondly, it was originally sparked by last year’s Enemies to Lovers prompt, but it’s really more of a Rivals to Lovers. Thirdly, the reason(s) why it wasn’t written in time for last year’s rarepairweek is because 1) I was and continue to be a hot mess who can’t figure out this whole write everyday thing and 2) I was getting the vibe it was going to be Longer Than Anticipated.

Scrivener Notes: “Verde/Viper; ever see a scientist try to outdo an illusionist?“

Snippet:

Verde looks at them. “You have been quiet,” he says and pushes his glasses up his nose. “What is your opinion on my invention, Viper?” Viper grinds their teeth together. “Impressive, for a mere invention,” they say. The half-smile drops from Verde’s face, and they allow a slow grin of glee to stretch across their own. “But you have a long way to go before you could even dream of replacing me.” “I highly doubt that. Anything you can do, I can invent something to do the same, if not better.”

Lal/Nana/Colonello

Congratulations! It’s a Daily Double! I actually have TWO plotbunnies for this pairing.

Plotbunny 1: The first one was sparked by KHRween2021, which I ended up writing absolutely nothing for because I was both knee-deep in a semester and also preparing to move. It was for the Haunted House prompt, and honestly the point where I just resigned myself to finding new and shiny rarepair to ship every prompt event.

Scrivener Notes: Nana/Colonello/Lal going through a haunted house together? Colonello's the scaredy-cat who keeps clinging to his girlfriends' arms, Nana starts out a bit spooked, and Lal is 100% shaking in her boots but is too cool to admit it

Commentary: I just lowkey need Nana to end up being the one comforting/consoling/“Of course you weren’t scared”-ing these two badass special ops soldiers by the end of a haunted house. Mainly because I think it’s kinda funny.

Plotbunny 2: Holy cow there’s actually 250 words written here! I forgot about that! This one is a multi-chapter plotbunny idea, not sparked by rarepairweek directly.

The Details (No Actual Notes): Pre-canon, some kind of Adult Arcobaleno AU. Tsuna’s still a small child. I think I decided Iemitsu just straight up dies and no one knows to tell Nana, so she gets super disillusioned by the fact Iemitsu just starts really ghosting her (no visits, no calls, no money, etc).

Somehow Lal and/or Colonello cross paths with Nana and Tsuna. And we have a delightful little slowburn where they all end up raising Tsuna together. I don’t think I intended for it to go all the way up to the start of canon, and if I did, I don’t now. The vibes here are accidental life partner and baby acquisition.

Snippet:

The day Iemitsu was due to come home again came and went. Nana tried not to worry too much about it- she hadn’t even told Tsuna about his father’s upcoming visit because Iemitsu rarely ever follows through, and it’s kinder to let it be a surprise than a disappointment. But, normally he would call her and make his excuses sometime when it was dark outside and dinner long cold or breakfast not yet made.

The days pass by like they normally do. She cooks, cleans, shops, and takes Tsuna on excursions in an attempt to find him friends. Tsuna goes to school with a bright orange backpack and a matching bento, his smile getting smaller and shakier with every passing day. He comes home and mumbles his way through telling her about his day.

Iemitsu still doesn’t call.

The air grows colder. Nana takes Tsuna to TakeSushi for his birthday where he smiles shyly up at Tsuyoshi and waves at Takeshi-kun, who’s doing his homework under the careful eye of his mother at a table in the corner. The day Iemitsu’s deposit is due in her bank account comes and goes.

#raven answers #hopeswriting #wip tag game #long post #khr #ngl i saw you asked for the lal/nana/nello wip and went 'ah yes hope would like that one wouldn't she' lol #gosh i need to sit down and work on these #they spark joy

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wlw-lovestruck-fiction · 2 years

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Good evening, I'm very very busy so no more chatter and: If Hawk Moth (Miraculous)

existed in Sin With Me Universe, what would they look like their Akumatized form(transformed into supervillains by Hawk Moth/Shadow Moth with Akumatization, the superpower of the Butterfly Miraculous.),the reason reason for being Akumatized,their Akumatized power and their objects x weapon?

1)Yvette(Greed)

2)Wrath(Esperanza)

3)Onyx(Envy)

4)Malakai(Gluttony)

5)Darrius(Lust)

6Cal(Sloth)

7)Vinca(Pride)

Guaranteed Chaos !!!

Now that's a hard question! I've watched the show, but I'm not exactly sure what their akumatized versions would be...

Let's see...

Yvette: Her object would be either her cane or her gloves. I can only imagine her being akumatized at the sheer frustration of not being able to obtain something she desperately wants. Her powers? I'm stumped there. Create super accurate illusions of the reality she'd like, maybe?

Wrath: Her object would be (maybe?) her motorcycle. I honestly have no idea lmao, all I know is that her akumatized form would be cool as hell. She'd rock whatever Hawkmoth came up with. Her reason, something/someone hurt someone close to her. Wrath shoulders everything, she'd probably ignore something if it happened to her, but god help the soul that wronged one of her loved ones. Powers? No idea either... obviously super strength, maybe some truth thingy, but I'm not really sure.

Onyx: Her object would be the locket Vinca gave her. Any reason for akumatization would be a deeply emotional one. Onyx bottles up negative emotions/thoughts and she'd eventually explode. Powers, something like the villain in Guiltrip, so she'd make people drown in their guilt/negative emotions.

Malakai: I'm stumped on this one 😭 but Malakai would probably be akumatized only if one of his loved ones did something to him, because the guy is really patient and I don't see anything shaking him... so yeah. Object, maybe one of his tattoos (can those be akumatized? I'm not sure). Powers, something fire-based, maybe. I see him unleashing pure hell, that's for sure.

Darius: He discovers something about himself that unsettles him too much, sending him into denial/self-hate, which obviously Hawkmoth preys on. Object, I'm not sure 😅, but his powers are pretty much shadow-based. Teleporting here and there, making shadow weapons over there... yeah. Pretty OP, actually.

Cal: He let someone else get hurt and now shoulders the guilt. Even if he can be pretty lazy sometimes (guy's a genius, everything loses its charm if it's too easy), he always puts an effort to take care of his loved ones, so if they get hurt it would destroy him. Powers? Slowly forces the world to grind to a halt, and eventually would try to reverse time to protect his loved one. It would, obviously, have awful results for the rest of the world. Object? There are his tie, guns, or the note he made MC.

Vinca: I am also stumped here, go figure. We can go with the canon route tho: she wants to get revenge for the way Dorran is treating her sister. Object? Her knives, probably. Or her heels lol. Powers? Mind control all the way.

Bonus, Nahara: Woman could probably write a book on how it feels to only be sought after when people need something from you. Or, knowing too much and not being able to meaningfully intervene and help people is starting to take its toll on her. Powers? No idea, something plant-based? Object, a plant. Probably.

I'm bad at this 🤣🤣 - Mod Jessa

#explorya88 #answered #i tried my best

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thejudgingtrash · 4 years

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@aph-usa-is-my-dad Thank you, thank you! 🙇🏽‍♀️

Alright lads, looks like it’s time for hot takes part III!

Here’s Part 1//Here‘s Part 2

Apollo won’t get Zeus position. Why is everyone wishing for that? And why should he? All of you really want to romanticize/project yourself onto him, huh?

Casual Reyna >>> praetor Reyna

Grover has the fattest ass in the Riordanverse, I don’t make the rules

People lack of basic reading skills part III

The fact that adults in New Rome let kids rule the fucking place is still mindblowing

Rick apologists are lame. People calling out shit isn’t an attack on you. Stop defending a product‘s/public figure‘s honor. Defending Rick Riordan is the equivalent of you defending the honor of a snickers bar. Dude doesn’t know you and dude doesn’t give a fuck about you. You are a walking dollar bill at best

Romans are still fucking wacky and despite Camp Jupiter being superior allegedly it’s a whole damn chaotic mess. Where are the supposed civilized Romans because I don’t see them?

Camp Half-Blood >>>> Camp Jupiter, especially when Percy trains in his summer vacations and beats praetor Jason’s goddamn ass who’s been training for 12 years

Why did Riordan even try to make Jason appear to come close to Percy’s level? The imbalance of power is so abundantly clear and makes Jason seem even smaller in that regard. Riordan is truly Percy’s biggest hater

The fact that CHB also glamorizes child soldiers in a more fun and relaxed way. Yikes

Nico is a white™ (again, he is European)

Rachel was annoying but didn’t deserve the blatant hate.

Annabeth should’ve had another possible love interest to spark some pissed Percy. Luke doesn’t count. Percy’s jealously revolves around (the possibility of) her not being around him (e.g. the hunters), not him ”losing“ her to someone else romantically speaking

Silena is the OG Aphrodite kid, fuck the rest

Amazons >> hunters by a slight margin. They’re also an awful bunch

The execution of the hunters is so bad omg, just let me revamp them, Ricardo

If a different take on a headcanon/characters really offends you/paint that much of a different picture of op, then I’m not sorry (only exception if the headcanon is based on discriminatory means. Someone saying they don’t like A and someone using slurs and being a douche are two different things)

The entire Aphrodite cabin is pan FYI

Team demigods who receive periods would probably be extra fucked when it comes to monsters and stuff. Let’s address this

Why exactly couldn’t the gods handle their own shit? Hunting monsters in your area makes sense as a demigod job. But stuff like retrieving Hermes‘ staff (especially when the dude is the speedy traveler guy) makes no goddamn sense

Let’s face it: Annabeth is the only good female character that Riordan pulled off. Also wasn’t she based off his wife? If so, that’s why.

The lack of irl examples for his POC and other women is abundantly clear as he can’t lure everyone from his environment into the stories especially because he has no irl connection to minorities. So he fabricated stuff/did his 5 mins of wiki and got it severely wrong. Clock that tea!

Camp Half-Blood t-shirts belong to the trash. Orange is Yellow‘s cousin and both are ugly to the max. Let’s just switch colors of both camps. Let the Romans deal with the hideous shit

Chiron and Paul are Riordan‘s self-inserts

Tbh giving Hazel super mist powers and tying Frank to Poseidon was stupid

Skater!Percy is pretty much canon but I just can’t envision it? The thought of it is cute and so 2000s but my brain goes fjfldlsöwlwbvd (and tbh gymnast!/dancer!/Parcours!Percy >>>>> skater!basketball!Percy)

People are forgetting that Percy is the unpopular kid both in the mortal realm and at camp and partially chose to be so? Let me remind you of the truth real quick

Beckendorf and Silena are the horny bastards of the Camp Half-Blood. Issa fact

The gods not really immortalizing Chiron and simply saying that he’ll live as long as he’s needed turned him into the cryptic fuck we all know. That’s why he barely helps out (On that note a tiny Chiron essay)

A headcanon, regardless of how popular it is, isn’t factual/reality. So fighting over different takes of the exact same issue is rather pointless but you do you. Some popular blog having an opinion with a large following doesn’t automatically negate your sentiment

Piper being ”unconventional“ as in hating make-up and being dressed up is in itself more than fine but the execution was lacking and her coming off as pretentious and annoying was the result

Piper also has no taste in men if she thinks that amnesia brick boy Grace > Percy. Just no. Lesbians claim haaa

If I see another Amandla or Zendaya or another biracial/lightskinned face claim for Hazel I will lose it

Everyone and their mother having a crush on Percy fuels them Gary Stu feelings, just saying

The fact that Riordan casually drops the abuse that Percy has suffered from like some fucking tic tacs just to never be spoken about should be a reason enough to whoop his ass

Not maturing and darkening HOO (there were good thoughts but also many whacky executions) was the biggest mistake Riordan had made. He should’ve went the Rowling route and transitioned from kids books to YA

The whole fire stick thing that Riordan ripped off from Meleager and slapped onto Frank was terribly executed

A lot of you people should open up more to jokes and not take everything all too seriously

The fact that people seriously ship/ped Reyna x Apollo is proof enough that this fandom should burn

Why do Luke discussions at this point still exist? You’re essentially glossing over the same four things

Hyping up fanfics to the max is a terrible idea. Also don’t shy away from giving writers constructive criticism

Stoner headcanons are here to stay and slay!

On one hand seeing discussions from the science side of PJO talking about the biology, physics etc. is super interesting but on the other hand getting heated over the illogical basis of ”magic“ is pretty much a waste of time

Riordan‘s world building is truly awful

Frazel is a crime against humanity

If you don’t get someone‘s post actually look op up and read the tags? No need to spam the exact question to everything

Fat Frank stays. I get it, Greek gods are hot, they are conceited and choose to fuck people that they perceive as attractive, so their offspring also has some higher levels in the beauty realm. But why not explore the opposite? Why does every character need a makeover or a blessing that gives them enhanced looks?

Clarisse‘s thigh can break ya neck

Also Riordan is Annabeth’s biggest hater. Let’s throw all of her most important possessions away to proof that the smart one can survive without any of it. Sure, but the emotional attachment to the stuff still remains especially when everyone else is walking out of Annabeth’s life

Making Leo another horny bastard was an accurate portrayal of your casual 16 year old boy. Annoying, but realistic

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doctorgerth · 4 years

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Who do you think you’d get with if you were in the OP world? Not your favorite boy, but as a person who do you think you’d be most compatible with?

VERY GOOD QUESTION MY FRIEND

This took lots of thinking and I honestly probably didn’t even accurately convey my thoughts but here’s my best attempt! Thanks for this very intriguing question 💕

Ok so I’m a pretty sensitive and emotionally-driven person so most of the hot assholes (Kid, Law, Lucci, you know the type) I could never get on well with because I’d be crying all the damn time and I know they’d for sure be annoyed by that lmao unless it was some miraculous opposites attract kind of relationship, I really just don’t think I’d be able to have a stable relationship with those kinds of guys. Not to mention the aforementioned three are pretty sadistic........

I do feel like Killer and I would match well personality wise, but idk if I’d be down with all the murder and bloodshed 🥴 if I were part of the Kid Pirates (me as a Kid Pirate is honestly so laughable but hey let’s imagine), I could maybe look past it cuz I mean you gotta take the measures to survive, so maybe then we could form a relationship? Maybe? I’m generally calm, easy-going, low-maintenance, and super loving and I feel like he needs someone peaceful in his life to ease the stress and chaos that usually ensues in his day to day life. I’m also adventurous enough for him, I think. So he’s a hard maybe (I’m also probs just biased lmao) I could easily do an entire post on why I think we’d work out but that’s for another day.

Zoro and Ace are also hard maybes? This is all if I were to choose a pirate as an s/o which when it comes down to it, I’m not 100% sure I would. One Piece does a good job of painting the pirates (more specifically the Straw Hats) as “good guys” in certain situations (mostly against/in comparison to the World Government and other various bad guys). But knowing me, I’d just be a regular ass person in One Piece and I would be damn terrified of pirates! So I can’t for sure say I’d go for one? If I would, I guess I’m saying I would maybe go for Zoro or Ace. I think those two are who I would click with most. It wouldn’t be perfect by any means, but I just think I would have the most chemistry with those two? Idk I’m just hella attracted to both lmao

When it comes down to it, I think I would probs go for a Marine (but like...the good ones) because I believe I would feel more secure in a relationship with someone like that and I’m all for order and justice (the genuine kind lmao) and I am such a goody two shoes. They definitely have a dangerous lifestyle as well, but it’d ease my mind knowing they were fighting for the right things and not killing people for the fun of it or for treasure or what the fuck ever. That being said, I’ll have to go with sweet Coby! He is quite possibly the least problematic person in all of OP and I feel like we would have such a normal life as a couple! And that’s really all I crave, normal, comforting, and happy. Like sure I’ll be worried about him doing his marine duties but he’s pretty strong and can hold his own. And he’s only getting stronger (future admiral yes sir). He’s very in tune with his emotions, compassionate, and polite with a moral compass clearly pointing north. Not to mention he’s super supportive and protective of his loved ones and constantly willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good. How could you get any better than that? I think he would be an incredible husband and father and it’d just be so easy to fall in love and be with him! Unfortunately, I’m almost 23 so the age difference is getting a bit weird 😅 but that’s my stance on Coby! Smoker would be a close second for almost all the same reasons except he’s more of a hard ass that I just wanna crack and expose his true soft sides. He’d also be a great husband and father, I’m sure of it. It’s canon that he’s more gentle towards kids! Also, if I were older, you bet your ass I would marry Fujitora. The purest man!! As for other marines, I’d easily consider Rosi and Drake (that size difference tho.........)

Sabo is another hard maybe. I like the Revolutionaries and what they stand for (I feel like I’m contradicting myself?) and Sabo is kind-hearted yet hot-headed enough to keep our relationship exciting! I’ve been paired with him a lot so maybe I’m just a lil swayed lol but I think it could work!

Or hell even some regular dude like Dalton! He’s a total sweetheart, I think we’d work out well also or any man of his type! All in all, I look for compassion, intelligence (both mental and emotional), someone who respects me, supports me, shares my values, someone silly, fun-loving, someone who can make me laugh, and someone who is adventurous but also enjoys the simpler things in life! Someone I can easily settle down and have a family with. I’m just a sensitive bb who needs lots of love and care and that’s rare to find with most One Piece men. That won’t stop me from wanting to fuck all of them though ayeeeeee.

I hope this all made sense? I feel like I was just rambling nonsense 😅

I’m super curious as to what other people think?? Who do you think you’re most compatible with? Feel free to comment or share thoughts in my ask box!!

#random #coop chats #more like coop rambles #coop doesn't know how to shut up #i love the idea of romance in general #if I could make all one piece men soft tender bois then i'd marry them all #i just need love and protection #this really had me thinking #thank u for this #probs not 100% accurate but oh well #moniibear

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tanoraqui · 4 years

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I just wanted you to know that I just read all your hellmurder castle 'verse posts and I LOVE THAT AU SO MUCH

what you have to understand about my Hellmurder Castle AU (Homestuck set in the world of Girl Genius, if you haven’t read it) is that it was born specifically from my spite exasperation with all the long, epic AUs about either only the trolls or the trolls + beta kids, with alpha kids appearing as background characters at best and often not at all. Many of these fics are great, and many of them were written or at least planned before the alpha kids even appeared in canon, in which case it’s not the authors’ faults at all. But I LOVE my alpha kids, and Roxy may be my favorite and Dirk is a delight, but I was ALSO tired to tears of how even in fics featuring the alpha kids, it was almost always Derse-heavy.

So I basically said “fuck it”, yeeted them all into the world of Girl Genius (which was inevitable), figured out the torrid backstory of the beta kids and ancestors and how the dancestors and trolls fit in, and set about focussing the plot and character development exclusively on the alpha kids, particularly Jake and Jane. Particularly particularly Jake, because a) I thought him more underappreciated than Jane, and b) the idea of a Heroic Adventurer who constantly has to resist his own reflex to be a minion is fucking funny.

Let’s elaborate, shall we? Because I’m okay again, after the epilogue. I have forgiven. So, the hypothetical pfennig novels/fics in a series:

Jake English: Escape from Castle Lalonde

In which Jake leaves home, and meets a number of interesting people.

covers from basically that scene of Roxy capturing him through Jake escaping with Jane, and them agreeing to be adventuring partners. A lot of the middle consists of Jake helping Roxy and Dirk win back Roxy’s ancestral home of Castle Lalonde, defeating whatever villainous spark - probably an OC - had taken up residence.

Jake means to leave, but Roxy and Dirk need help cleaning up, and getting their labs running, and with interesting projects…and possibly they put a shock collar on him so he can’t leave the grounds…or at least tell him that’s what the collar does, and prove it, like, twice, and then turn it off because they don’t actually want him crippled in an emergency; mostly he’s just a great minion and Roxy is pretty sure he’s destined to be part of their team for defeating the Batterwitch, as laid out in the obscure and highly metaphorical prophecy her mother left her in a wizard book.

this is not at all good ground for either friendship or a healthy minion/master relationship, which is why Jake is pretty damn game to help Jane escape and then run away with her.

Jake English and the Red Miles

in which…I actually have barely any memory of wtf is supposed to happen in this one. Presumably, they have to survive the Red Miles at some point, with some ridiculous series of revivificationsthe trolls show up at Jake and Jane’s camp (okay fine, I love them, too), and after some alarmed mutual weapon-pointing, explain that Jake’s grandmother, Lady English, made them after Jake left, except now she’s died so they’ve come to find Jake and either bring him home or, at least, join his adventuring team and keep him safe

(yeah, Jade instilled some loyalty, which is Sketch. In fairness, when she lost control of the original generation of trolls, all her best friends were killed and/or disappeared, presumed dead. she has reasons)

I wonder if there was supposed to be a timeskip between this and the previous book, or if Escape from Castle Lalonde happened later into Jake going out adventuring than I think, or if Jade just got bored and made 12 new people like…3 hours after Jake left home

for pacing, the trolls should probably show up pretty early in this story, so they have a long time to be around before shit hits the fan

a lot of this book, aside from whatever shenanigans they’re dealing with re: Red Miles, would be Jake dealing with the fact that he is suddenly responsible for 12 people who keep looking to him for orders, and somewhere in the distance is an entire town (Hellmurder Village) that’s likewise.

they do not go back to the Castle at the end of this book, even though they arguably should bc Jake has responsibilities. But he also has adventuring to do, by golly, and…hm, it’s one of the Rings that causes the Red Miles, isn’t it? So maybe they get it at the end of this book, and now they have to track down the other one. Which brings us to…

Jake English and the Rings of Skaia

In which Jake and Jane (and Roxy and Dirk, and 12 young trolls) explore a castle, learn a little history, and generally level up their friendshipsI split up the aspects of Castle Heterodyne in this au: Jake has the recently inherited Castle with the terrifying, nigh-magical power source buried in its depths, and Jane has the abandoned derelict that is fully sentient, most automated, and even more malicious than it is trapped. This is the story of that castle, and the Ring of Life hidden somewhere in it

Jack Noir. The castle’s sentience is Jack Noir. Or perhaps more accurately Spades Slick? Who cares.

I had a very elaborate mythology/history thought up at some point about the twin spark queens of Derse and Prospit and their great enmity, and the saga of betrayal and heroism that marked their reigns and left behind this castle and two super magical scientific rings of power, and I do not remember ANY of it now.

This is the bit where that scene of Dirk ripping out Vriska’s soul comes from. He and Roxy are here for the fabled treasure as well - possibly the castle only appears/is accessible at certain specific times? And they don’t know the trolls are with Jake, so…clusterfuck, there.

Jake English and the Troll Queen

in which the big bad is reveeled

there’s trouble brewing in the countryside, idk, monsters or pirates or something that can be traced, after some investigative heroing, to the self-styled Her Imperial Condescension, still unfortunately at large

mostly this fic is Jake growing into leadering a little more but also addressing the question of that inbuilt loyalty Jade gave this generation of trolls, because really, that was Sketch - and in general, who are we as people defined by who we follow, what groups we ally ourselves with; is it birth or genetics or who raised us or the family we choose or…

i kinda think Dirk and Roxy are conducting concurrent but generally not overlapping investigations to Jake&Jane’s(+the trolls) (dirk and roxy having pretty neatly answered all the above questions years ago by choosing each other, but still being kind of insular about it, and need to relax just enough to trust other people)

in the end there’s some confrontation with the Condesce and she convinces ½-2/3 the trolls to join her bc, honestly, why shouldn’t they

Jake English and the Castle in the Lake

in which…okay, in this one bit of fic I implied her base was in the ocean but I totally had this title written somewhere, so what is the truth??

in the above linked scene, the trolls who stayed with Jake and Jane were Karkat, Terezi, Kanaya, Gamzee, and Feferi, but idk about that. If Feferi’s there, why isn’t Sollux? And, like, Aradia would probably have just fucked off in her own direction completely, given the chance…

our heroes are trying to sneak into HIC’s base and disable it, okay. that is the plot of this one. probably they have to find it first, which is tricky, and basically a D&D dungeon crawl, and that’s before Jane gets tiara’d. Which definitely happens climactically. and then everyone else gets captured, with the possible exception of Dirk, who probably gets beheaded instead. things do not look good for our heroes…

Jake English and the Lost Hero

in which we find out exactly what happened in the previous generation

maybe even alternating chapters, past/present?

what happened basically is that the first generation of trolls, the Ancestors, went absolutely batshit roughly as per homestuck canon. The Condesce, being OP, started just conquering land. She was stopped, eventually, mostly by the epic sacrifice of Rose and Dave. And John…except Rose and Dave’s bodies were found, and in a clusterfuck of inventions warping time and space and reality itself, John’s never was

Jade survived, of course. obviously.

John did, too, it is revealed. He was just disconnected from the time-space continuum, stuck popping up in random times and places, sometimes close to those he loved and sometimes not, mostly uncontrollable…

he’s appeared here and there throughout the stories, probably, a mysterious figure in blue who nearly has time to say something before dissolving into fizzing wind. Now he appears more frequently, and for longer periods as the story goes on, including just enough to help break Roxy and Jake out of prison. And whichever trolls were stubbornly sticking with them - if the Condesce wasn’t just mind-controlling all the reluctant ones…let’s be real, she was…lotta “I know you’re in there somewhere” fights here, probably

also, Vriska reveals herself to still be trying to help our heroes, because it is SO Vriska to try to double-cross Her fucking Imperious Condescension

this double-cross is revealed partly from her using Jake’s minioning safeword that he developed with Grandma Jade, way back when; meaning roughly “I don’t want to do this but I’m not sure I can stop”. It’s pumpkin, of course.

they revivify Dirk on the way out, and either stop in the Condesce’s lab to get sparkily distracted trying to pin John into reality or they make it back to Hellmurder Castle before doing that?

What am I saying. The Condesce is probably working on some spacetime-warping tech of her own, and Roxy, Dirk, and Jake use it to fully anchor John for the first time in…who knows, subjectively? It’s possible he stays behind to buy them time to run

Jake English and the Battle for the Green Sun

in which things come to a head

aka the Battle for Hellmurder Castle, and it’s mysterious and terrible power source

Jane and half or so of the trolls start out on the Condesce’s side, but if you thought there were good “I know you’re in there” fights before, just WAIT until Jake saves Jane with the power of friendship

ultimately, it’s alpha kids + Alternian trolls + dancestor-clanks VS Her Imperial Condescension

it’s close

it’s very close

I would have krilled for an H–EIR—ESS CHALLENGE X3 COMBO, ie, Jane, Feferi, and Meenah vs. the Condesce, so that happens

John maybe appears one last time-displaced time, for him before the events of Lost Hero, to deliver a well-timed hammer swing

I love Jake, but I’ll give Homestuck this one: Roxy getting the final blow with an ancestral Strider sword? Perfect.

in the denoument Jake awkwardly invites everyone to live in Hellmurder Castle, because he feels vaguely like he should stay and look after it, and of course he wants his chums around. Jane, Roxy, and Dirk are all like, “well, a real lab or seven would be amazing…but also…adventuring. Why don’t YOU come with US?” Jake is like, “oh JEEPERS yes!” The trolls and dancestors meanwhile talk out among themselves who genuinely wants to stay and who wants to go out adventuring, either with these idiots or just to make their own way

#homestuck #girl genius #jake english #jane crocker #roxy lalonde #dirk strider #hellmurder castle au #my fic #ficlet #ministro spei #virgine vitae #hs trolls #dancestors #latrone nihil #duce animi #random anon asks

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thiskindofshootingstar · 5 years

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Season 7 Speculation Game

(It’s been a long road, but the last season of The 100 is currently in production! Since Jason & The CW announced that Season 7 would be the show’s last, I thought it would be cool to make a post where each of us gets to share our speculations for the show’s final plot. Then, a year from now, we can look back and see how accurate we were! - OP)

Tagged by @blodreina-noumou like, a while ago. My excuses: busy, then sick (still currently sick--hence, tumblr), but this is a super cool idea, thanks!

Pick one or more characters you think will survive: Madi, Octavia, Raven, Miller, Gabriel (I know right? I feel like everyone thinks he’s doomed, but idk, even though any male character that shares a scene with Octavia and isn’t gay or her brother has died they always made it at least 3 seasons if they weren’t a romantic interest and so far her and Gabe haven’t been so I think he just survived the cut), Murphy (they’ve teased him dying like every single season, it wouldn’t be a tWiSt! at this point so I think he’s safe)

Pick one or more characters you think will die: Idk why but I think they might kill either Gaia or Indra--they’re the last family relationship that isn’t Blake siblings and if Indra died it would be emotional for Gaia and Octavia without killing off a main character, soooo, yeah, that’s my wild guess. I also don’t expect both Becho and Memori to make it to the end, I think one person from at least one of those couples is gonna die--the only one I think is safe is Murphy honestly.

Pick one deceased character you think might make a cameo: Ehhh, I don’t know, possibly Becca again? Also does Shiedheda count because technically he’s dead but he 100% escaped before the chip destruction. But honestly I kinda think they might have Jasper and/or Monty make a cameo--it’s the last season of “The 100” and if they didn’t do some sappy little scene about the 100 kids sent down to die that started all this I’d be surprised and they’re the two most recognizable/emotional (aside from Wells but I 100% doubt that will happen [but would love it, listen I would be so happy]) choices

Do you expect any romantic changes to happen this season?: Not really? Okay, well, first off I wouldn’t be surprised if they made Bellarke canon--at this point I’m off that so I wouldn’t care, but with Beliza married and it being the last season and me not really expecting Becho to make it to the end (I don’t dislike the ship I just feel like it’s unearned we didn’t see any of it’s development in those 6 years for it to be endgame--but I also don’t expect both of them to survive soooo) I just wouldn’t be surprised. I could see Gabriel possibly getting with either Raven or Octavia (I actually think Raven has better chances than Octavia) but aside from that I don’t see any major romantic shake-ups aside from one person from a pairing dying (potentially Memori or Becho)

Where will the final scene take place?: Uhhhh, a space ship. I really don’t know. It’s either gonna be some random field or a spaceship.

What will the final line be?: Something calling back to Clarke’s “I was born in space.” Whether that be Jordan or a future baby after a time jump, or some variation along the lines of “I was born on Earth, not this earth” yadda yadda with some brief summation of the journey by someone like Madi or future baby or Hope, etc. They love callbacks and that’s a nice bookend whereas literally any other line would elicit a violent eyeroll from me and probably everyone.

Who will say it?: ^^future baby, or Madi, or Jordan, or Hope

What’s one thing you hope happens?: DREAM TEAM REUNITED! Honestly that sounds like such a little thing what with it being the final season, but honestly I just want to see Octavia reunited with Charmaine and it would be incredible to have Gabriel there too to complete the trinity because damn, never has there been a more dynamic, intelligent, powerful, complicated, and gorgeous team up in this show’s history.

Do you expect a happy ending?: Okay, so, kinda. I think it will be more bittersweet than straight happy, more along the lines of Hunger Games where people have died things have irreparably changed but ultimately the last scene will be peaceful and/or hopeful

List your favorite character, season and episode up to this point: Octavia. season 2. Episode is tough, I tend to like finales and two-parters and/or episodes that emotionally destroy you because that’s what I remember, but I do reeeeaaaaally love Day Trip so let’s just go with that.

Tagging: uhhhh I’m doing this so late and I have no idea who’s done it (or remember who’s still watching), so if you have ignore this, @diyozas @blodkru @linctavias @imacreepygirl @apheliotrophic @jellamyjake @katersann @tinker-pixie @redqueenoctavia

#the 100 #s7 speculation #tag games

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loghainmactir · 6 years

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30 + 26 + 15 for the oc asks

Bless u!!!! This is the last one I’ll answer b4 going to bed (so if anyone wants 2 yell at me so i can Shout More I’ll answer in th mornin!!):

15. Any AUs?

BOY DO I. There’s the Modern Age Loghain/Padril where Pad’s just finished his Bachelor of Arts and Loghain’s a CEO and basically Maric and Cailan go missing, Loghain becomes a suspect, and Pad meets him through Alistair. Jakeem and Irving are also in a Modern AU!

There’s feral!Harry AU, wherein instead of going through canon events, Harry gets stuck in the facility where he was being tested on. The Folk find him, and they torture/mock/abuse him until he loses his mind. It’s not a fun AU (but then neither is canon ajfjajs) but it was a “What If?” sorta scenario.

There’s also zombie AU with Braewyn, her brother and the rest of the RP squad (Pad n Loghain are here, too). Pretty basic, tbh!

There’s an AU that me and my RP partner were writing where her character falls in love with a monster called Quin. He’s sorta like a darkspawn, and it’s… uh, wild lmao.

26. Do any of your OCs have pets? What are they/where did they get them?

So: Padril has Dannan, he got him at Ostagar as a younger pup. Braewyn has an Australian Cattle Dog named Pepper, Bradley has a white cat called Alphonse. Rodrigo has a big ol’ Rottweiler named Ymir (yeah, really lmao) and Harry used to have a decent sized fishtank with a few goldfish in it. Jakeem has one permanent reanimated dog corpse called Mango (he has 3-4 more at home but bc that’d be Too OP he keeps them there lmao), and Irving had cats before he packed up and left! :)

30. Tell us about an OC whose personality is totally different now from when you first made them.

Ok, let’s talk about Anthony! Anthony originally was a cis, straight boy who was a little dopey, loud and a bit of a show-off (that’s now more accurate to describe one of Leon’s coworkers and someone he almost has a father/son relationship with).

NOW they’re nonbinary, a poet (which was what they were originall) AND an actor, wear mostly feminine clothes, have long hair n a beard and are super tall. They are quiet, mostly, mind their own business & are incredibly kind. A part of their god-ish powers are sensing people’s emotions, so they get really overwhelmed and tired quickly. That was never originally them, too, tbh.

#long post #asks #autisticmagpie #OC: Padril #OC: Harry #OC: Braewyn #OC: Anthony #my writing

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talesofdark · 7 years

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Some B-Daman Fire Spirits critique (SPOILERS)

I’ve been thinking of these things that kind of bother me when it comes to Fire Spirits, and since being a hater is my job, I’ll do a list of things I consider totally off when it comes to this season, and part of the reason why it wasn’t too successful.

What will limit me will be the fact that I have only watched about 30% of FS (the dubbed episodes Max kindly uploaded to Youtube.) Also read as much as I could about it, trying to figure out more from people’s reviews. So I’m sorry if something I say will be inaccurate, I’m going to accept other opinions (maybe FS gets better after ep 27?)

Now, don’t get me wrong, I love this fucking anime but I can’t help and pinpoint what was wrong with the second season. It was sure nice to see our favorite characters in animation again, but it felt more like animated fanfiction rather than canon. I think many of these issues happened due to Season two not being related to the events of the manga, so it’s almost not basically canon.

I won’t even get started on the voices, as it’s the obvious flaw of the season, the only characters having acceptable voices being Enjyu, Gray, Wen, maybe Li, Lienna ( annoying but acceptable), Haja, and a few others.

ATTENTION, SPOILERS.

1.CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WENT STRAIGHT TO TRASH. Season one did a great job with character development. Characters were believable, flawed, and also had redeeming qualities that made them complex. For example, Enjyu. Enjyu turns out to be quite the hero in the ending of the first season. He basically ends up saving the fucking world. Then we see him acting like an asshole again, in season two.

He destroys Ludo, leaving no one to tend and help Kia, who basically saved his life. He is power hungry again, which obviously destroys and consumes him. Enjyu’s only dream is to defeat Yamato (a dream shared by everyone else, making up for some pretty boring and overused kind of motivation...oh welp).

This isn’t OOC for the Enjyu we first see for the first half of season one, but is upsetting at this point, where all the development his character underwent seems to have been thrown straight to the trash.

Also, Wen, who used to like Lienna, doesn’t seem to care for her anymore. Though, it might be interpreted as him losing interest in her as it was only a crush, or realizing they’re not going anywhere, but it would’ve been a nice touch as it tied Wen to someone other than Li, as the whole brothers-fighting-as-one etc etc got pretty boring in season two. So I would’ve enjoyed to see the dynamic between Wen and other characters. At least we get Kiba, I guess. I guess I’m mostly upset because little details that got a chance at being developed into a really cool thing were actually left out.

2. OOC-ness. Let’s take Gray and Lienna.

It’s very hard to believe that Gray left, leaving Lienna behind, after everything that happened in season one. We can believe that he learned that she is strong and can take care of herself, but very hard to believe that he would leave her behind. It’s also very weird how they meet, he actually realizes it is her behind the mask, but leaves her behind to go her own way anyway. This looks more like indifference than actual acknowledgement that she can take care of herself. It’s like the people who made Fire Spirits didn’t even watch season one. I can’t believe the fact that he’d just turn around and leave her in a fucking desert by herself, without showing any sign of affection.

Also, Yamato. Yamato isn’t the dumb protagonist stereotype. He does exhibit some typical ‘’dumb’’ protagonist traits. He obsesses over food and fighting and the anime is a classic example of the “friendship matters, not power’’ trope. Though, this isn’t a topic approached with superficiality. During season one, characters bond thanks to Yamato’s kindness, power to believe in people and bring them together. He’s not blindly ambitious and obsessed with being the best. He’s genuinely in for the fun, is caring, motivational, warm, sees the best in everyone to the point of naivety, and can clearly discern right from wrong. He’s not shallow. Though, in Fire Spirits, he’s mostly used for comic relief. There are a few heartwarming moments (such as him disguising as Terry so Terry gets to fight in the tournament- but they’re not as emotionally powerful as some season one moments, and Yamato’s motivation at that moment is mostly shown to be the desire to fight Terry in the Tournament. True Yamato would be too concerned for Terry at this point in order to care so much about fighting.

Also, Yamato forgets Wen and Li’s names?????? This is so OOC I can’t even. Yamato cares greatly about his friends. He tends to be all-over-the-place and not attentive to small details sometimes but he is definitely a people person who would never forget people he shared so many moments with.

Terry is by far the worst example of OOC. Terry is the heart of the group, the most caring and supportive one, like Katara in ATLA. He would never turn against his friends. At his worst, he would seek revenge and lose himself for a moment (like Katara did with the guy who killed her mother) but would be too moral to carry on and would be on the right path again immediately. He would be HEARTBROKEN by Joe’s death, but he would probably accept help (or retreat to reconsider his life and meditate on what happen) but he would never turn into a villain. He’s the least likely to.

3. “MEH” HUMOR. Honestly, too much toilet humor. Too much farting, pissing, etc. That’s just lazy.

4. COOL CHARACTERS LEFT OUT IN FAVOR OF MUCH LESS INTERESTING ONES. I don’t say, bring back every fucking minor character from the first season, but friendships and relationships that went through a deep development in season one were left out and annoying characters got brought in instead. For example, Karat and Bull’s relationship. We could’ve seen more of that. These two went through some stuff together, after all. It was nice that they included Joe though, but he soon gets killed off, leaving Terry acting in ways Terry WOULD NEVER ACT NO MATTER HOW SEVERE THE LOSS. So Joe gets brought in, we get the chance to see some development for Terry and him, but he gets killed off for the sake of the plot. Not smart writing. Also, Bull befriends Aqulas and decided to go with him despite the fact that he doesn’t even fucking know him, turning his back to Yamato, after they went through so much together. It’s just awful.

Haja is interesting though, but has no real backstory. He does provide some humor though.

Aqulas doesn’t speak, which means that it would’ve been better if we got some insight on his character and personality through his actions. We truly can’t find out anything about his personality at all, which is sad because he had real potential. All we know is that he’s too OP.

Gunnos is such a typical and uninteresting character. He’s shown to have pretty much no personality rather than being annoying and competing with Yamato. We should’ve seen more traits. His role in the original manga was more acceptable.

5. EVERYONE IS POWER HUNGRY AND HAS NO DEEP MOTIVATION. The characters as we used to know them had very varied motivations. Gray genuinely enjoyed the game and had a deep perception of friendship and caring for each other. He does fight with all he has as a means to show respect to the opponent, but winning is not the ultimate purpose. In Fire Spirits he’s so obsessed with defeating Yamato that he even leaves his own sister behind. Enjyu turns back to being power hungry as well, making everything we saw at the end of season one useless. Yamato himself only thinks about food and fighting at this point.

6. WE GET A GREAT BUILD-UP TOWARDS A SPECIFIC MOMENT BUT THE OUTCOME IS UNINTERESTING. Basically, the entire tournament. Characters go through many preparations and struggles to get a Strike Shot in order to go to the Tournament, but they go out of the competition really fast and the battles are uninteresting. For example, Gray. It was interesting that he got kicked out of the competition because of Haja, but it was all handled poorly. It was too sudden. We didn’t get to see enough of Gray fighting. Even Gunnos has his moment in the tournament, but Gray...it was just plain disappointing, after all his struggles to get there. Aqulas and Enjyu’s battle was interesting, though. I didn’t see Wen lose, but he was suddenly out of the Tournament during one episode (though I might’ve missed something? anyone care to illuminate me?

I also enjoyed the fact that Lienna got to fight as well, but of course she was thrown out after a while, and turns back to being overly emotional, crying and praying (she literally only cries and prays) Not saying that it’s wrong to be like that, or that all female characters must be super tough and indifferent, but her B-Dabattler persona and actual personality were strikingly different.

7. THE CHARACTERS HAVE NO FLAVOR. It goes hand in hand with everyone just fighting for the sake of fighting. The only character who was ‘’deeper’’ was Enjyu. We could see some passion in him, but the way he ended up acting contradicted the way we ended up seeing Enjyu at the end of season one.

8. WE DON’T SEE ACCURATE REACTIONS TO ENJYU’S DEATH. Yamato was enthusiastic about getting to fight Aqulas right after Enjyu died (the next episode). He said nothing about Enjyu, he was just happy that he was going to fight someone so powerful. WHAT EVEN

9. TOO MANY THINGS HAPPEN THAT GO UNEXPLAINED. People die, but are revived and we don’t get an explanation why. Enjyu’s body just disappears after his fight against Aqulas and nobody questions it. Then, he comes back due to Lienna ‘’praying’’?? Also, nobody is shocked, or excited, or questions it. Wen is like “Oh Enjyu, where did you go? Welcome back” That’s creepy. The whole “going to hell and coming back” was an interesting idea though, allthough I couldn’t understand exactly how it happened (because I couldn’t see the dubbed episodes) so I won’t comment on that.

That’s it, pretty much. I might add some more details if anything comes to mind.

I apologize for being such a turn off, but as a huge fan myself, I couldn’t help but state the obvious. I’m willing to discuss though, just remember that I love the series and this is only my personal take on FS (as someone who wished to see something that was up to the standards set by season one)

#batobi #battle b-daman #b-daman #yamato delgado #terry mcscotty

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