Sorry for the stupid line callback he was just like. Specifically requested or something. Idk .

Nova confirmed Florida-man send post

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thinking about… highschool hsr men who want to confess to you on valentine’s day, but they’re too nervous to

dan heng who asks for march to give him advice, to which she agreed to after teasing him a little. and that’s how he found himself stopping by your locker with a box of chocolates in one hand, shyly tapping your shoulder to grab your attention.

“..hey.. can I ask you something?” you had to admit seeing him all flustered and shy with the tip of his ears red was a cute sight. so, you gave him a sweet smile, deciding not to point out his flushed face. “of course.”

as soon as you said those words, he blurted out the question he’d been wanting to ask while holding out the box of chocolates to you, “will you be my valentine?” with his cute face and nerdy personality, you couldn’t find it in you to refuse, pulling him in for a kiss as an answer.

luka who is confident in his abilities to charm you, even though deep down he was a little nervous of your reaction.

walking up to you after class while a charming smile on his face, holding a cute fluffy teddy bear in his hands. he places the teddy bear down on your desk, admiring your awed look. “..you got this for me?” your voice was quiet as you felt the fluffy fur of the teddy bear. “by the look on your face, I’m assuming you like it? great!” he gives you a look of excitement, eager to ask you the question he’d been holding in. “anyways, I wanted to ask if you’d be my valentine!“

“id love to.” you gave him a warm smile combined with a slight nod, your response and expression making his heart throb. “I knew youd say yes! so.. that means, you won’t mind if I do this, right?” there was a slight mischievous tone in his voice as he leaned in closer before you suddenly closed the distance between your lips, causing him to turn red.

blade who watches from a distance, contemplating whether or not to ask you to be his valentine.

with some encouragement from kafka (he couldn’t stand her cooing “if you don’t ask them out someone else might instead bladie~” in his ear), he built up the courage to approach you while you were eating lunch with your friends.

your friends gave each other knowing looks when he asked to talk to you alone for a moment, a confused look on your face as your gaze darted from your friends to blade.

“what was it you wanted to talk to me about?” you had let him lead you to a more secluded and quiet area, where he was sure nobody was listening (silver wolf was def recording somewhere) before taking a deep breath. “..will you be my valentine?” there was a very subtle blush on his face as he awaited your response. “aww of cours—“ you were cut off by the snapping of a camera, both you and blade turning your head to see who it was, only to find silver wolf standing there nonchalantly taking photos of the two of you. ..safe to say you won’t be hearing from silver wolf for a while.

"You look lonely"

I really wonder if The Dragon Prince Season 6 will end with Rayllum separated (temporarily) after Aaravos is freed, to mirror Rayla leaving Callum after Season 3.

Rayla still doesn’t understand that she hurt Callum deeply when she left post-Season 3, even after Soren and Amaya telling her that she broke his heart. I really hope that we get to see a moment where she finally realises what she put him through.

Also I think that the main plot threads in Season 6 will be the quest for the Novablade, hiding Aaravos’ prison and the Sunfire Civil war.

On Claudia, Viren, Aaravos & Claudia's Character Arc

This post is mostly about Claudia's character development or should I say character deterioration.

It's highly likely that Callum will be the one to take down Aaravos- like it all goes back to Harrow's letter in s2 and chains of history and the themes of free will vs destiny and such. Aaravos possessing Callum is all about that. He's literally taking control of Callum's faith. There is clear antagonism there that's in a direct conflict with who Callum is.

But at the same time Claudia is the one who's got the biggest personal beef with Aaravos. He exploited her grief, manipulated her and used her father to accomplish his own goals. If Aaravos didn't exist Claudia wouldn't have spent two years of her life in a complete stagnation waiting for her dad to come back from the dead instead of moving on. It seems like Aaravos has been molding Claudia into his personal minion through dark magic during the time skip as well.

Taking this into account it would be really satisfying to see Claudia snap out of it and take her revenge. Characters having a personal connection to the villain always makes a story's climax more gripping. More personal the better! And everything between Aaravos and Claudia is VERY personal.

That's why Viren worked so well as a foil to Callum and Ezran in s 1-3. Especially Ezran whose rightful place as the king he tried to take. He was basically their shitty, power hungry uncle who turned against them. Side note but if Viren is still alive I hope he makes a return as Ezran's foil.

Claudia helping to take down Aaravos would be emotionally satisfying. All the elements for that are already there. Of course Claudia should come to some kind of realisation about the way she's been used by Aaravos before she can take that turn. I doubt the show's got the time for that but it's an interesting possibility to think about.

I really like how the plot around Aaravos manipulating Claudia is done. Even Claudia's own father didn't do anything to prevent it from happening although all the signs of Aaravos having sinister plans for Claudia were there from the beginning: Aaravos calling Claudia "an asset" and encouraging Viren to lie to her in s3 therefore enabling Viren's worst impulses while also using them to his benefit. It's SO EVIL (and I love it). Viren isn't that much better since he always had some kind of excuse to ignore the red flags. At this point of TDP's run I'm convinced that Runaan's "Faith worse than death" line about Aaravos' mirror is finally paying off. It means that the consequences of Viren's actions have hurt Claudia, the only person Viren loves unconditionally, in an unfathomable way.

I think Claudia's arc is relatively subtle and very well done. It balances between Claudia being a victim of manipulation and neglect while also giving her agency to influence the plot as a whole. My only complaint is that Lost Child short story should have been implemented in the show itself and not just be extra material. I have some other grievances but those are mostly fandom related.

How some fans, especially in YouTube reviews, talk about Claudia's downfall like it was inevitable because she's always been fucked up or talking about how "trauma isn't an excuse for bad behaviour" is strange to me. Like, yeah, it isn't an excuse but it's simply just bad media analysis to instantly jump into condemning Claudia's actions, like she's a real person who uses trauma as an excuse to hurt other real people, instead of seeing it in the terms of a character study. Claudia clearly uses trauma to convince herself that what she's doing is right but never tries to manipulate anyone else by using it as an excuse. Think about her and Terry for example: she usually refuses Terry's help instead of trying to garner sympathy from him. This character trait is one of the many reasons why she felt obligated to keep her family together as well. She's extremely stubborn and not very self-conscious about her trauma brain but she does understand why others would see her actions as objectionable. I think this character type (usually a woman) has been given the playful nickname "trauma bitch" in the internet lexicon. Anyway god forbid if we actually empathise, reflect on and engage with unpleasant or problematic characters instead of instantly condemning them.

TDP is about how people can always CHOOSE a different path. Viren's dark magic hallucination in season 5 stated this very clearly.

In Claudia's case it's more interesting to think about WHY she DOESN'T choose differently. That's where all the meat of her character writing lies.

Claudia's arc is what happens when the desperate actions of someone motivated by trauma around abandonment are taken to their logical conclusion in this fantasy setting. It's a fictional story, it has metaphors and shit. Fantasy genre has used necromancy and extending one's life by magical means as a story element to explore humanity's relationship to death many times. The metaphor for loss and regret basically writes itself. Ursula Le Guin has used this trope in The Earthsea books, Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has done it etc. Everything can't be a one to one comparison to real life (trauma rarely makes you want to kill your friends with dark magic irl. idk that's just me though) and there needs to be a level of abstraction involved in a fantasy story. Abstraction and metaphor, paradoxically, can reveal a greater truth about the world. (I'm probably accidentally quoting someone here but can't remember who.)

Anyway the rest is great. When you think of it all for a moment it's pretty fucked up how Claudia has been used by Aaravos. It's not some tiny part of Caludia's story. It IS her story. And Viren set that norm for her. Viren too has abused Claudia's trust. It's a complex subject and probably requires its own post since Viren, Soren and Claudia's situation reflects some pretty realistic dynamics real life troubled families have. That's why the characters compliment each other's stories so well. Viren is a more realistic character after all when Aaravos is more over the top and symbolic and less of a real person. Aaravos is one of those villains who embodies the opposing ideology of the heros. We (still) don't know almost anything personal about him so he matters mostly in relation to other characters.

Thanks for reading this Claudia propaganda! I've had so many of these in the drafts. Anyway TL;DR

time for some gw headcanons since we're fixated again (under the cut)

Phantom only really likes food that's rather bland in taste. he doesn't mind some sweet / spicy things, but he'd rather play safely. (he also has a ridiculous spice tolerance but refuses to eat really spicy things regardless)

X is a metalhead.

Nova, when corrupted, tried to justify his actions by believing he was doing everything for the greater good, and the better for his Faction. Obviously he was wrong, and even after he was freed he spent quite a while trying to break from that mentality.

Everyone who was corrupted has some form of PTSD from it.

Sylph once made a tornado upon accident after sneezing.

X, Clover and Phantom have dubbed themselves the three Mixgeteers (X's idea, required some persuasion for the others)

Phantom once tried to teach Bones how to cook. He needed to buy a new hob after that.

Ellyn has ridiculous impulses. She once adopted a snake and it freaked out the other lunatics. (William Snakespeare reference)

Just a little theory I like to think about: Torch (see Cykopath: Birth) grew up to become Inferno (see Xkour Skylines)

secondary rider is a psyop by toei to make everyone Argue Online

Wedge: Professor Blades? Your…screaming might be kinda distracting.

Blades: That wasn’t screaming! It was cheering! Humans do it when they play sports. To inspire their team to be the best they can be! :D

Hot Shot: Yeah, we do that in Cube too. Whoever’s not playing yells at the team on the field to keep their head in the game.

Wedge: …so its yelling.

Blades: It’s cheering. >:(

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😂😂😂 I feel you, Wedge. I’m not a fan of cheering or sports either.

Consider, if you will.

“If you seek to return that staff to its rightful owner” yk. I’m wondering if it’s just a common startouch design motif or if maybe the nova blade is a little less swordy than depicted in legend.

      Toxic Breathing

By Ripley Salem

                           Chapter 6: Firecracker

   Addie looks toward the door when she hears the voice. She knows that voice all too well. She looks up at Royal, with tears streaming down her face, laughing. “Speak of the fucking devil!” Addie wiggles out of Royal’s arms and runs to the door. She gently moves Milah out of the way and opens the door. Addie finds Nova in the hands of some guy. “Nova!” Royal swiftly follows Addie’s tracks and his eyes smile largely seeing Nova unhurt and in the arms of some random tall dude with white hair “Uh..who is this Nova?” Royal quizzically asks. Nova laughs and smirks at Addie’s reaction “Well shit Addie thanks for reminding me of my name, not that I've fucking forgotten it or something!” Nova looks over at Royal “Hey dickhead, this is Blade the asshat that just picked my ass up from my brother” Blade chuckles “I figured that you wouldn’t want your ringleader to die, I was watching, pretty selfless for this pretty little thing to let you all go on ahead” Addie laughs at Nova’s sass. She looks at Blade. “Thank you for saving Nova.” Addie had happy tears falling down her face as she looked at Nova. She had thought she had lost her best friend. Nova scowls and playfully narrows her eyes at Blade, she kicks Blade lightly in the balls as a warning “Hey! I might be small but shit I can fucking bite back!” Blade groans and drops the small girl onto the floor to clutch his special region, Nova cackles and lands on her feet almost feline like in nature “why did you do that?!” Blade groans, Royal winces as he sees Nova even though it was light the pain he could see in Blade's face sent a sympathy pain into his groin. Addie sniffles and laughs at her best friend's antics “Y..you're still here! And you're still you!” Nova rolls her eyes in a playful manner at Addie as she was stating the literal obvious “well duh! I'm still me, who else would I be? The freaking president or some shit?” Nova giggles sarcastically. Milah and Aether were both very happy to see the return of the scary but nice small girl, Aether gets up from the floor and does a cute little jog over to the others, he was starting to feel like he belonged. This was a first for him, Aether once reaching the rest of the party smiles happily at Nova “I'm so happy to see you alive” Aether glances back towards his sister whom was in complete shock in Nova's return and how gentle Addie was in moving her aside, conflicting feelings were coursing through Milah's system. 

   As Blade recovers from the light attack from Nova a loud crash is heard that catches the attention of everyone else, looking over with wide and fearful eyes Nova, Addie, Royal, Blade and Aether's eyes fall upon one of these creatures but this creature appeared more advanced, the growths on its face had elongated and curved almost creating petal like shaped appendages, Aether was curious he wanted a closer look at this thing. “Yeah, it's time to you know…lock up shop” Nova suggests to which Blade agrees, Royal notices something about Blade that no one else had picked up, Royal observes that Blade hasn't once looked in the direction of this more advanced creature but rather he had kept his eyes down and on Nova for some reason. “Yes, everyone inside now!” Blade instructs. Addie knew the dangers and so did Royal, there was no telling them twice as they hastily make their way back into their now base camp, Blade ushers Nova inside to which she flips him off and shoves Blade into the door of the grocery store, “Oof! Ok, ok I'm going.” Blade mutters as he rubs his nose on his entrance into base camp. The only people left outside now was Nova and Aether, Aether starts taking steps closer to the advanced creature which Nova grabs him “Hey! Listen to me, you really don't want to find out what that thing does. Get your ass into the store right now Aether” Aether though wanting to approach this thing he knew if he didn't want his ass handed to him, face certain death and lose friends all at the same time. 

   Reluctantly Aether makes it look like he was going to buck it into the grocery store but instead runs towards the creature, to Nova's annoyance “fucking kids” She grumbles as she chases after Aether. Aether gets closer to this creature which was coming closer and closer to him, its petal like features seemed a little familiar to Nova, she remembered something that her brother was talking about in one of his hellfire club's campaigns, a creature called the Demogorgon, upon the realisation that this once human was now turning into a Demogorgon her blood runs cold. “Aether, I'm not kidding you need to come back here right now” Nova warns the rebellious youngster, the creature roars out as its petal like appendages were growing something like razor sharp teeth, Aether sees this which immediately frightens him turning back and running behind Nova “get your ass back inside right now Aether, we will be having words” Nova through her gritted teeth mutters to Aether. Making a quick dash back into the safety of the grocery store Aether reunites with his sister who was still standing, completely shocked, Blade looks at Aether “OK, squirt where is Nova now?” Addie nods worriedly looking at the door whilst remaining close by to Royal, Aether looks completely shaken as he glances over to Blade, his naturally fair skin had turned Porcelain white. Nova comes back into the grocery store backwards and shuts the door “Barricade that bitch right now” She instructs to which Royal and Blade rush to put anything and everything in front of the door, once satisfied that they were safe for now Nova looks at Aether “I really don't know what your plan was there, but it was a fucking stupid one. Don't ever defy me again, got it?” Aether looks Nova in the eyes, he could see she was dead serious he meekly nods and mutters an apology to her before hiding behind his sister. “What was that, Novs?” Addie asks her best friend, Nova looks at Addie who she knew had been a part of her brother's campaigns “Remember the Demogorgons?” Addie thinks on this for a brief moment before her eyes widen “y..yeah? Why?” Nova takes a breath before telling her best friend what she had just witnessed “The creatures are evolving, those growths they had around their faces well, they've turned into petal like appendages with teeth. They are turning into Demogorgons.” Addie's jaw drops and her heart sinks.

(( Special Thanks to @hellfirekitten86 for the grammatical stuffs!))

thinking of .. college au dan heng and blade who both have a crush on you.

dan heng who’s your childhood bestfriend, one that you trusted with everything. he’s practically seen all of your sides at this point, the good and the bad. he’s the friend that waits for you outside of class at the end of the day with a warm smile on his lips, a smile reserved just for you. he’s the one that lends you a shoulder to cry on whenever you felt stressed.

blade who took some interest in you after seeing dan heng show you affection that he would usually never show others. the final push was when kafka made a bet with him, saying how “oh? if you can really wrap anyone in this campus around your finger.. let’s make a bet.” while nodding towards you. of course, he wasn’t one to turn down such challenges. in fact, he enjoyed them.

there were supposed to be no real feelings involved, blade told himself. yet he felt himself falling for you instead of trying to make you fall for him. his heart beats erratically even at just the thought of you. often times, he would catch himself daydreaming in class. ..about you. the smile on his lips as he does so confuses those around him, as he wasn’t one to start randomly smiling.

dan heng notices the way blade not so subtly flirts with you, a jealous feeling stirring in his heart. whenever he caught sight of blade trying to approach you, he would try to distance you from him. he didn’t miss the way blade smirked at him the moment he did, choosing to ignore it knowing blade just wanted to provoke him. then when everything had calmed a little, dan heng couldn’t help but wonder…

…why was he being possessive and jealous over you? that’s not natural for people that are only friends, right? why did he feel his heart ache whenever you talked to blade…?

dan heng had never experienced these things before, oblivious to the amount of love and adoration he held for you.

lmk if i should make this into an actual series!