I’ve been thinking about “mean” (okay no they’re mean) characters.
Specifically, I’m thinking about Rook “Duke” Alistair being best friends with Actual Assassin and meanest bastard around, Velikan.
They’ve known each other since her early days back in the Air Force. Maybe Duke, freshly nicknamed and bright-eyed, got caught up in some sort of ambush with a shiny new unit.
And maybe Velikan was going to kill her as collateral, but for reasons not even he knows, he didn’t.
And now he’s got this duckling (she’s even blond and fluffy like one) that’s practically imprinted on him. Every time they cross paths (and they keep crossing paths for some fucking reason) she lights up and waves, babbling updates about her life. She doesn’t mind his gruff tone or his short temper, or the absolute mauling she receives when he finally acquiesces to spar her.
It’s not that she doesn’t know he’s an assassin. Oblivious as she can be, she’s not stupid. Just the opposite, in fact. She recognizes that approaching him at any point is like sticking a hand in a tiger cage. And yet she still does it, even when they’re out in the field.
How she’s not dead yet, for pure annoyance alone, he’s not sure. But he figures that she’s spent so much time being an inconvenience to him specifically that he’s earned the right to put an end to her.
And then he’s not sure how she isn’t dead from natural selection.
“I thought you were military,” he hisses, brushing dirt off her shirt and pants. Why is he doing so? Because he’s annoyed that she slipped on pile of wet leaves.
“I am!”
“You have no discipline, no coordination, and no sense of self preservation.”
She beams. “I think that last thing is something they encourage, actually.”
He stuffs her into a good hideout and tells her to stay while he takes care of their his tail.
It’s not just the slipping, tripping, and falling. If anything would make him believe in luck, it’s Duke having the worst of it. Falling objects and loose floorboards, changes in a guard rotation or a light coming on at the worst moment. She’s smart and quick enough to watch out for herself, but only just.
Maybe he lets her live out of pure bafflement. Morbid fascination with someone so smart and yet so—
“Stupid,” he growls, dunking her head in the rain barrel.
She comes up sputtering, but giggling. “This isn’t how you’re supposed to treat acid exposure.”
He dunks her under again for good measure. She shakes off on him like a dog afterwards and he genuinely tries to strangle her. But then she gets her sharp little teeth in his arm and bites, proceeds to inform him that he’s going to need antibiotics with a bloody smile.
Is he going to personally bring about her violent, gory end? Yes.
Is she also his best friend? Somehow.
“Do you think cinnamon floss or mint floss is better for improvised stitches?”
“I think you should just bleed out.”
“It’s not for me, dummy…. Yet.”
He’s not relieved when she gets the position with the CIA, but something close to it.
They hire him for their dirty work often enough that he sees her regularly. Her ridiculous, cluttered desk and her grotesque stash of snacks and her constant rotation of injuries because they still let her near machinery.
“You stink,” he scoffs, lifting her right out of her chair as she squeals. “You are taking a shower.”
And because she has the attention span of a fly, he goes in with her. She fusses when he gets soap in her mouth or eyes, but he just tuts that it wouldn’t happen if she were capable of doing it herself. And dignity? Long forgotten as he scrubs her down from head to toe, pinching when she complains about being babied.
“Do not act like a child, then,” he gruffs, throwing a towel in her face.
Honestly, Laswell should be ashamed.
“When was the last time you ate?” He demands, squishing her cheeks with a little shake. “Eh? When was the last time you had something other than blue candy?”
“‘S raspberry.”
“Are raspberries blue? No. They teach this in school. All that sugar has rotted out your little brain.”
It turns out the answer to his food question was “too long.” He trades her potatoes for carrots, but only after holding her nose closed until he could force peas in her stubborn mouth.
Ridiculous, really.
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What are Rook Da and Kundo's thoghts on Omni-Ben?
They most likely both don't enjoy Ben's company at first. Rook Da would just have a hard time understanding how a super fancy watch is able to be considered live with it's own emotions and thoughts, but he would come around eventually through getting to know Ben and discussions from his son.
I like to picture a scene where Omni Ben shares his knowledge of Revonnahganders, but asks Rook Da questions because even he can't know everything about a species simply through studying the DNA. It would show Rook Da that Ben respects the species, and just wants to understand the world he lives in.
Kundo would never warm up to Ben though, and just see him as a piece of tech that could easily go rouge one day. No heart, no soul.
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i am not fucking playing with yall anymore fuck everything fuck you fuck everything i swear to fucking god if this man doesn't fucking wear shorts in his next card I AM COMMITING CRIMES. LOOK AT HIS FUCKING THIGHS BRO LOOK AT HIS FUCKING WATERMELON POPPERS SKULL CRUSHERS
"but aster you have posted about rooks legs before🥺🥺" BRO I DONT GIVE A FUCK IM GOING TO DO CARTWHEELS INTO A FUCKING VOLCANO I AM SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT I NEED TO SES HIS LEGS I NEED TO SEE THEM MAYBE EVEN HIS ANKLES????? IM GOING INSANE IM NUTTING
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CJ headcanons
CJ thought Ben was k!//ed during his trip with Grandpa Max and an escaped Alien from Area 51 took his place without Gwen and Grandpa Max knowing.
But after Ben revealed about his Omnitrix, she used that as blackmail but stopped, when she got her spark at age 7.
Her favorite color is actually purple and white, but often wears green bc half of her clothes are hand-me-downs from her Kuya.
Her Top 3 favorite Aliens are Grey Matter, XLR8, and Big Chill.
Her least fav are Echo Echo, Juryrigg, and Stinkfly.
Especially Echo Echo bc Ben would often use him as her Alarm clock.
She thought Ben dropped out after his Identity had been revealed
Gwen was her mentor about being an Anodite before she left for college
Ben & AJ hates it when she picks the spicy variant of their favorite food
She & Shim started dating when CJ was in Highschool [Bralla, Da, Blonko, and Shar warned Ben if CJ broke Shim's heart, they will feed him and his sister to the muroids]
Lost a bet about Ben dating Blonko
Likes to hang out at Skateparks
One time she put a piece of paper behind Blonko saying "#1 Simp of Ben 10" leaving Ben to explain to Blonko what the word "simp" means
Met her alternative counterparts of her and her siblings, kids from her possible futures, same thing for nieces and nephews from possible futures
Also she met big chills' offsprings, and the first thing she asked if she still needed to give them money on birthdays and Christmas
Was relieved when told she didn't need to
Thought swampfire was heatblast and Wildvines's lovechild [Base in fanart I saw, I'll reblog it later]
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