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mob-choir · 1 year

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i’m having so many emotions about teru

that was such a fast-paced, high-stakes situation, and he was thrown so many curveballs he barely had any time to cope with, and he still managed to adjust at impressive speed and never lost his faith in mob.

specifically: that moment right before ???% grabs him by the throat, when he’s kneeling on the ground trying to catch his breath. in that split moment, that’s when the realisation dawns, that this version of mob has no qualms in hurting him even with his bare hands. mob being non-violent to the point of letting himself get choked to unconsciousness was literally how they met, it’s one of the foundations at his core, and teru was well aware of it. having that knowledge suddenly be proven wrong, and all that means for his own safety, must have been a lot to take in. i can’t quite tell if it’s fear that we see on his face for a second, but if it is, that really adds to the element of horror - that sudden realisation that you’re in so much more danger than you thought and your initial plan is not going to be enough.

and then of course: when ???% lets loose his power despite so many people still being around and unable to evacuate. the horror on teru’s face, man. i don’t think it’d really clicked for him what mob being in this state actually meant until then. sure, him attacking teru was unlike him, but teru’s still an esper. he’s in great danger but he can somewhat defend himself. but civilians are different, and you can really tell teru did NOT think mob would put them in danger like that. he’s completely shell-shocked. i think that was another huge moment where he had to very quickly reassess the situation and what to do about it, all while coping with the emotional side of it all, since this is one of his closest friends and someone he really admires. he has to very quickly reckon with the fact that despite the pedestal he put him on, mob is just as human as he is and is capable of making mistakes just like everybody else, mistakes that don't detract from his worth.

which brings me to the point of it all. that DESPITE ALL THAT, teru was still able to 1) understand that mob desperately wants someone to stop him and would never want to harm anyone like this (bc he remembered that mob cried after realising what he’d done to his school....... where he’d only really harmed one person, who had done much worse to him..... if he cried after that, how will he feel when he finds out what he’s causing now?), 2) save all the people caught up in the devastation and get them all out of harm’s way, while being in a lot of pain (his EYES were BLEEDING), and 3) never once lose faith in mob. he saw him go on a (unintentional and unwilling, but teru doesn’t know that) rampage, doing things he would never in a million years think mob would ever do, and still took all of that in in record time considering the situation, and came out on the other side still whole-heartedly believing in shigeo and his goodness, and almost dying trying to stop him. because he knew that being the reason hundreds of innocent people got injured (or worse) would completely and utterly break mob.

and while, knowing teru, he might think he failed since he couldn’t achieve his goal (stopping mob’s rampage), what he succeeded in doing was ultimately just as important. he saved all the people he could, and gave his best for the one person he couldn’t.

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 spoilers #hanazawa teruki #kageyama shigeo #this got really long but i have so many thoughts on this #there are some things i only brushed upon but that still drive me insane. but those will be for some other post maybe #the gist of this is that i think what teru was able to do here is an incredible feat that not many people could have done #both from a concrete point of view in terms of the people he saved and attempts he made at stopping mob #but also from a purely emotional perspective in terms of coping with all the life-altering curveballs being thrown at him #while being engaged in life-threatening battle #someone please get this kid to a hospital and then to a warm meal and a comfy bed or i'll do it myself #anyway thank you to bones for doing a great job with this final arc so far. excited for the next two eps #even having read the manga i'm NOT ready #post.txt

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hiemaldesirae · 17 days

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Swap AU:

Val wasn't too slow, he didn't come at all to Vox's distress call. He thought Vox could handle it. He spends the first 4 years as Alastor's thrall dead, as do most of the soul that Val owns. (Angel included.) Killing Valentino and the souls he owns gets old, however and sinners are getting tired of the same old pornos, so Valentino gets to go back to work, but thanks to their multiple horrible deaths, Valentino and his contracted souls are alot closer. They even have a discord server dedicated to bitching about Alastor. Now that Vox is back, they've added a sever dedicated to getting pictures of Vox for Valentino so they all don't die horrible deaths--and also, Valentino rewards everyone with every new picture with a raise of 50 dollars, so it's nice incentive.

Alastor on the other hand beside killing Valentino and his contracted souls for the first 4 years, made a shrine with Vox's heads--except for the very first one. That one he slept with. That one remain's in his (formerly Vox's) bed everyday, waiting for Alastor's return everynight so he can curl around it and murmur the words he never got to say to his beloved Vox one last time.

When Vox returns, Sir Pentious joins the hotel because Vox has always been his favorite of his favorite of the Vees, and if he's joined another Overlord and started something else, the Sir Pentious will try it out!

Angel Dust is there because he doesn't want to go through the absolute HELL the first 4 years under Alastor was, he wants no repeats. No one Valentino included DOES!

Husker actually loves working with Vox, and loves sending smirks at the very pissed off shadow Alastor (not knowing Alastor is watching from the Shadow's eyes.) and the side hugs, the cuddles, Yeah, they might piss off the Shadow and Alastor even even more but he deserves it--Vox still has nightmares about his near death.

OHH okay okay i see. that clarification. Actually made things 1000x worse for me actually im gonna throw up. this val trusting in voxs abilities to the point where it made him lose one of his best friends for years vs show val jumping to vox the moment that it became clear the other couldnt hold his own..... so sickening what the hell. the guilt that val must feel in specific for voxs disappearance and presumed death- honestly hes probably glad for dying so much those first four years because it took his mind off the fact that it was HIS fault all this happened to vox and him and vel. i just want an oddly tear filled reunion scene with the two vees where vox is like "i thought you guys just didnt think i was important enough to come help" and voxvel start actually bawling bc theyve missed him so much and theyre so glad he's back and *safe*. also the discord server inclusion is hilarious as hell thank you for that mental image nonny

oh my GODD thats actually so sweet im gonna be sick. i just know those former heads are kept clean and swept everyday both by niffty and alastor himself, and the one in his bed is probably propped up by all the most comfortable pillows while alastor himself just goes without a pillow.... WHAT WORDS. what FUCKING words if it was i love you ill actually just implode on the spot nonny ill get raptured and itll be all your fault /lh

+ pentious finally gets an audience with his idol! aww this is so sweet im gonna get cavities. hopefully he doesnt get hit with the kys this time but oh well if he does cause i support my wife committing crimes

Also. Vox having nightmares about the time he nearly died.... do you think that he has like ptsd flashbacks or something everytime he sees a radio. im gonna be SICK fuck oh my god. do tou think ohe day he just . meets al again and immediately tries to run away or something while the other hotel members go to his defense because they know the shit hes been dealing with from al....

p.s. nonny are you planning on turning this into a fic or something anytime soon? because if not.... can i write one based off these ideas 🥹

#ran rambles #hazbin hotel #general asks #radiostatic #swap au

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running-with-the-feels · 3 months

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Soo... About that time Kuai liang told scorpion/Hanzo the truth, and Hanzo proceeded to give Kuai the look... Got any thoughts on that scene?

I have SO MANY thoughts

I did make a post about it a while ago, but my thoughts have developed a bit since then, so Thank You for the ask.

Specifically, it's this look:

That is of interest to me bc in this moment, Hanzo does not know what the truth is, he still thinks that Bi-Han was responsible for his family's death. All he knows right know is that Kuai Liang (who he's looking at) has invited him here to discuss something.

We also don't know what Kuai Liang's invitation said, but it must have been something bc otherwise Hanzo wouldn't be here. If he was invited with the promise of information about what happened to his family, he would be demanding that the second he saw Kuai Liang, if it was with the promise of an alliance, Hanzo would have refused to meet.

So what was it?

And in that picture above, Hanzo is looking at him so softly. There's not really any fondness or yearning but there's also a complete lack of hate and anger. It's like he's seeing Kuai Liang for the first time.

And then he catches himself:

And there's suspicion and anger again, like he's reminding himself why he doesn't like or trust Kuai Liang

But the whole time Kuai Liang is talking, Hanzo is listening, he Wants to understand, he Wants to know why he was invited here.

There's suspicion, sure, but no open hostility which one would expect given what happened the last time they saw each other (Blood Ties Comics, Hanzo left Kuai Liang to die a slow and painful death)

The only reason they fight is because Frost intervenes and even then, the moment Hanzo realizes that Kuai Liang didn't order that, he stops and starts listening again

He has no desire to keep fighting, as much as he argues against the alliance before learning the truth. And I don't know whether that is guilt over how many times they've hurt each other or because Kuai Liang might actually be the most stable relationship (hostile tho it was) that Hanzo has had since his wife died

They have been a part of each other's lives for years, both as enemies and as forced allies (due to Quan Chi) and nothing has ever actually been able to part them. Kuai Liang might very well be the one constant Hanzo has.

Which, I think, Is why he didn't kill him in the blood ties comics. I know that it's Takeda who intervenes:

But it's also made clear on the next couple of pages that killing Kuai Liang wasn't really something Hanzo wanted to do

Sure, it's less about Kuai Liang than it is about his own soul remaining intact but from a storytelling point of view rather than a character one, Kuai Liang's life has been tied to the struggle hanzo is having over being Scorpion again or not

Hanzo tries to kill Kuai Liang (being scorpion) but stops at the behest of his adopted son (being himself). Kuai Liang is then left on the brink of death as Hanzo admits that he is on the brink of losing himself.

Kuai Liang's life is thus symbolic of Hanzo's soul and dedication to making amends for what he did as Scorpion. (I know that wasn't the writer's intention but that is what they have achieved, or at least, one interpretation of it.)

So when Hanzo meets with Kuai Liang at the Lin Kuei temple, his struggle over, it makes a lot of sense that he would be calmer and more understanding.

Because for all that Hanzo has a reputation for being hotheaded and unreasonable, he approaches that meeting with the intention to try and understand, to listen and not start another fight. And like I said, part of that could be guilt, and part of that is probably the fact that, hate each other or not, they are inextricably bound up in the most important parts of each other's lives.

But either way I would kill to know what the invitation Kuai Liang sent Hanzo said.

#I love being able to use my degree for queer fandom shit #kuai liang #hanzo hasashi #subscorp #mortal kombat x #mortal kombat blood ties comics

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lotus-pear · 4 months

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okay, i know this sounds silly once i actually write it down, but i never thought people thought about holidays as more special than regular days? like i get it, there's celebration, but sometimes what it celebrates isn't what you're feeling at that moment. so what do you then? enjoy the same as everyone else anyways? i have a couple friends that are younger than me, mostly bc i kind of mentor them sometimes. earlier, i wished them a happy new year, and they asked why i didn't have much energy about it. i just didn't feel it. i told them that, and they said i just didn't get it. mostly with a tone of "you're being silly", like i'm purposefully trying to ruin their mood.

and here's the truth. this year's holidays have been quiet. no issues, no problems. it's been a peaceful time. but for that to happen, my parents and i just stayed at home, in our rooms. we exchanged presents on christmas morning, but we didn't make a special breakfast or force ourselves to take pictures. there wasn't a need to. we're with each other, we're at peace, but it's not very different from yesterday when i listened to them laugh from my room with some star wars show playing. or in the middle of august when we watched the spiderverse movie. they're okay, i'm okay, and in the turbulence of the year, i think that makes it nicer. it's like other days. quiet.

that said, it surprised me, how there's a need for the days to be special. like if i don't dance my way through new years, i'm doing it wrong. or that if i don't eat all my dinner in thanksgiving, i'm being ungreatful. it's strange, i think, how people mold these days into more importance. i guess for me, i've always thought i'll celebrate when i'll celebrate, and i'll quiet when i'll quiet. for me, i will laugh without tearing through the idea that it might not be the time. that i have homework or situations boiling over. i'll just laugh because i want to laugh, and that it's special because i'm letting it be.

holidays are excuses for others to let me cherish them. i've noticed that. some days i want to give a gift because i found something they like, and the response is "it's not my birthday" "it's not christmas" "you didn't have to, this was your idea". but i don't always get that. why do i need some outside force to let me know that it's a moment worth celebrating? i knew that it let me give more than normal, but i didn't know people actually thought it was supposed to be more special. i didn't know it was an actual expectation. so here i am, with a question held back previously by my teeth. think you're a thoughtful third party. might as well ask the question, since there's a button letting me. what's your take on holidays? are they more than other days? why? maybe you can shine light on why it's more special. or maybe you don't, and you just shrug at this observation. at the end of the day, i thought it nice to ask something like this to someone like you. artists see so much. makes me envy it sometimes.

and just in case they are more important than two days from now, happy new year.

i let this sit for a little bit bc i wanted to give a provocative and thoughtful opinion regarding the matter. i agree with what you stated previously, with holidays being used as outlets to channel a specific emotion that is normally disregarded. it ilks me at times to give someone a gift, only for them to respond “what’s the occasion?” must there be an occasion? could i not have simply thought about you in that moment, found something that reminded me of you, of our bond, and gifted it to you as a way to show i think of you outside the time we spend together? isn’t that what gift giving is about?? why must it be your birthday, or christmas, or some other holiday where it’s expected to give gifts to one another? holidays are just some other day in my opinion. they’ve been romanticized and commercialized, so much so that the joy of christmas in my childhood has completely lost its meaning and value. i wake up expecting to feel mirthful and eager, but really it’s just another winter morning, yk? it’s like the magic of the holidays has diminished over time. it doesn’t feel the same anymore.

#ngl this felt like a prompt id get in ap lit&lang💀#this is exactly the type of prompt my teacher would give us 😭#but uh yea suffice to say holidays are just some day yk? they’re just made to be special imo #rly thought provoking ask tho. i think it’s a good way to start off the new year thinking abt such things :)#lotus’s asks

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a-faggot-with-opinions · 9 months

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very frustrated with the way people see "transandrophobia" and say "lol just that word tells me these people don't understand intersectional feminism" when all the language we have surrounding oppression only sounds "right" because it's been around for a while and been normalized. Idk if this example will land because it's not a good direct comparison, but when I was a kid (and like, now, tbh) people would say "feminism" and everyone would yell "oh so you only care about WOMEN? FEMALES? what about now X and Y affect men, huh?? You want female supremacy, etc" when feminists were absolutely already discussing how patriarchy affects men and (the ones I was around) were very clear that their goal was equality between "the sexes" (my experience, the feminists I was around). There was the whole "I'm not a feminist bc i don't believe in female supremacy, I'm an egalitarian" thing.

I think that "transmisogyny" is like... a lucky word in that it's pretty catchy and the words it's built out of are currently widely used (even if maybe people define them a little differently in different circles). At least in my language context, it just makes sense (it's intuitive that it's describing the intersection of misogyny and transphobia). Any attempt to make up a single word that describes that intersection in the context of transitioning toward masculinity will run into the issue that there's not a word for when men experience oppression in a specific way due to their gender, because white men don't experience oppression due to their gender.

Honestly, I do feel like it would be useful to have words or at least common phrases to describe how men are marginalized by systems of oppression. People try to draw comparisons between language around racism and language around transphobia by saying things like "Black women experience misogynoir but Black men just experience 'regular' anti-Black racism," and while I think the direct comparison between transphobia and racism isn't very useful, I think distinguishing the experience of racism depending on what gender you're being assigned in the moment is useful, actually. Because non-white men experience racism, and the intersection between racism and one's perceived gender is inextricable.

So much of racism is about stripping away the culture (and therefore any cultural experience of gender) of a racialized group and then applying White gender expectations. Of course, non-White people can never live up to those expectations because our physical, racial features aren't the norm. This is inherent to racially othering people, and while there's plenty features of racism that don't appear to be gendered... it really is heavily tied up in it. There's no "pure," "base" racism that doesn't rely at least in part on the idea that the racialized group is failing White gender, or is more likely to and therefore must work harder (assimilation), because you can't pick racism apart into several neat boxes that aren't deeply interconnected.

I am not Black so I won't try talking more on Black people's experiences, but I really do think. I'm Chinese, and I think it can be really hard to talk about anti-Asian racism because people assume it's the same for asian men and women, when actually the gendered distinction is really important and I don't think (as someone who's lived as both and is to this day perceived as both depending on context, despite the fact that I have transitioned) that Asian women experience the intersection of anti-asian racism + misogyny but Asian men experience "just anti-Asian racism". We (Asian men) experience it in a way that's very tied up in that we are Asian MEN. It's a big part, historically, of USAmerican anti-Chinese sentiment, the stripping away of Asian masculinity, the feminization of Asian men and our inherently undesirability since it's impossible for us to truly be masculine. These stereotypes are shifting and obviously more complex than just that, fetishization is also a big part of modern anti-Asian racism (especially online from what I've seen). Notably, many Asian men are clearly not feminine, at which point we can still fail at manhood by being labelled hypermasculine (aggressive, unintelligent, incapable of reason and culture, only useful for potential as manual laborers). Racism working as intended so we can always be told we're failing gender.

Disclaimer that I specifically didn't talk about Asian assimilation in USAmerica or our "model minority" status here and all of that affects the framework I laid out above. I am also not trying to compare how different groups are affected by racism, I just didn't think it's my place to make this example all about anti-Blackness since it's really not my place.

I guess my point is that saying intersectional language is only valid when you're using to say one is oppressed by all applicable systems of oppression makes it harder to discuss intersections of privilege and oppression without it seeming like you're attempting to dominate the entire conversation. Tying it back: if trans men & transmascs were to only use "transphobia" to describe our experiences while trans women & transfems use "transmisogyny," we would surely seem to dominate the conversation about transphobia in general and give the implication that transitioning towards masculinity is the default, usual way to be trans.

sorry for the length and I don't think I was as clear as I hoped, I can't make it any briefer without like, an editor. I'm really only talking about my frustration with the dismissal of "transandrophobia" due to it's etymology and diving into my issue with the common arguments I've seen made against it on an etymological basis, not trying to make an argument about whether trans men experience misogyny and transphobia bc we, as a group, obviously do. Regardless of if some of us usually don't.

^^^

#asks #transandrophobia #long post #racism

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chayscribbles · 2 months

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chayscribbles’ monthly writing update ☆ february 2024

yes, i know, february has an extra day this year, but i'm posting this today bc i won't have time tomorrow lol

☆ STATISTICS.

projects worked on: The Gemini Heist

proudest accomplishment: i... wrote?... i guess??? *can't remember a single thing i did this month for some reason*

books read: Witch King by Martha Wells. i'm ngl, i was lost like 80% of the time, but that might just be a skill issue on my part (it's the kind of book that throws you into the thick of it without holding your hand and listening to the audiobook with the attention span that i have was... probably not the wisest idea lol)

(alhough funnily enough, it's while having this audiobook on in the background that i came up with a lot of my plot thoughts for gemini heist LMAO. either that or while playing zelda.)

☆ GENERAL COMMENTS.

although i did get writing done this month, this update's gonna be short. i don't really have much to say lol

more specific wip-related comments + featured excerpt below.

☆ COMMENTS: THE GEMINI HEIST (draft 0.5)

it's very weird to not be using word count to track my progress anymore. freeing, but weird. i have no concept of how much i've actually done for this wip this month.

i do know i've figured out a bit more stuff about the heist and the lore. i had a big plot brainstorming session and untangled a few scenes. while i know what direction i want the story to head, i still don't know how any of this gets resolved, tho.

and i wrote out a few important scenes. that's progress, right?

☆ FEATURED EXCERPT.

i've been writing so chaotically out of order based on whatever scene i feel most inspired for in the moment that i,,, honestly can't remember what i've written this month vs what i had already written before 🥲 here's a scene that i THINK i wrote in february. Leo and Illiana might be my new favourite dynamic. (for context, Illiana is posing as her identical twin at a party, and Leo is posing as a guest. they came in separately.)

With the bodyguards tailing her the entire way, Illiana slowly made her way towards [Leo]. She tolerated a few brief exchanges with other guests she crossed paths with to appear natural, then, once she was close enough, she slipped the extra comm out of the pocket concealed in her skirt. She made a show of bending down to pick up something, then strode towards Leo. “Excuse me,” she said as she approached. “I believe you dropped your earring.” Leo turned to her, smile strained underneath her veil. “Oh, thank you,” she said, holding out her hand. Illiana placed the comm into her palm, taking care to hide it from the guards. As Leo angled her head away to slip it into her ear, she added, “I must say, your Holiness, this is quite a lovely party.” “Why, thank you, Miss…” She faltered, realizing she didn’t know Leo’s alias. “I’m sorry, I don’t believe I’m familiar with you.” “I’m a business leader from Tharekkan,” Leo said, pressing her palms together and giving Illiana a slight bow with her head. “It’s an honour to be here.” Illiana was surprised that Leo, with all her meticulous planning, didn’t have a fake name ready, and now she was curious. “How may I address you?” Leo’s already tense smile tightened even more. “‘Miss’ is fine,” she replied, practically through clenched teeth. “No, I meant, your na—” “I’ve been told much about how lovely Fiolsby is, right before the winter,” Leo cut off, an unnatural segue back to the script they had practiced. “But I haven’t had the time to properly see the city.” Now Illiana just had to pry Leo's fake name out of her. “Really? That’s a shame. You know, the gardens offer a wonderful view of the city. Would you like to see, Miss…?” She let her sentence trail off, watching Leo expectantly. “If it’s not too much trouble, I would love that,” Leo replied, to Illiana’s annoyance.

☆ TAGLISTS. let me know if you want to be added/removed to any of them.

general taglist:

@dgwriteblr @the-orangeauthor @onomatopiya @quilloftheclouds @ashen-crest @writeblrfantasy @celestepens @stardustspiral @pepperdee @extra-magichours @avi-why @lefttigerobservation @chazzawrites @bardolatrycore @innocentlymacabre @subtlefires

gemini heist taglist:

@florraisons @akindofmagictoo @cream-and-tea @memento-morri-writes @antique-symbolism @rose-bookblood @afoolandathief @pepperdee @avi-why @zonnemaagd @chazzawrites @analogued @enchanted-lightning-aes @innocentlymacabre @kahvilahuhut @celestepens @cilly-the-writer @extra-magichours @onomatopiya @outpost51 @planets-and-prose

#chayscribbles writing update #wip gemini heist

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xuune · 8 months

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dropping this here because I kinda wish I'll snap out anytime soon from listening to the playlist you made for your last art, but here I am, booming 8:00, get me some, wyd, wounds will h.eal, and enclosed in my earphones at midnight. i think your music taste is fire, i'll give you that. mygods (ง •_•)ง

anw, I wanted to ask on how you decide and plan expressions/interactions for the characters when you draw your works? I always find your works to be so expressive. thanks in advance if you ever see this :OOO

p.s. I LOVE YOUR OCs, i think i'm in love with rael i genuinely wish they'll give me a headlock or smthn and i'll be happy p.p.s. i would marry your art if I could (i'm this fkn close 🤏 pls dont sue me)

(sorry for taking so long to reply, you'll know why once you read the rest of this lol)

im so glad that you had those as your faves bc those are some of mine too :D i've been seeing a few ppl rly enjoy 8:00, and if it wasn't for my friend recommending me that song, we wouldnt be here, and those drawings wouldnt have existed either, let alone the animatic i did

thank you for thirsting over my ocs, you don't know how much of a compliment that is whenever i see ppl react that way to them LOL. thats how i know i peaked with their design 😎 stay tuned for some other oc art, cuz im currently working on a piece for my friend's ocs. his ocs exist in the same universe as mine :)

i'll answer your question about planning expressions and interactions below, bc i have a lot to say about that:

when planning for expressions and interactions, i'm usually trying to answer a couple of these things:

what moment do i want to highlight

why is this moment significant

how do these characters feel in the moment, how to they react to each other, what's their motivations

what body language best answers the question above ^

basically, i'm asking myself "what's the scene?" -> "what do the characters feel in that moment?" -> "how do they act this out to convey that?" (that's how i was taught to read scripts for plays. you must understand character motivations before you figure out how to act their feelings out)

it's very important to have a good balance of body language and dialogue to convey the mood if/when appropriate, since sometimes strictly relying on dialogue to sell the moment w/o body lang or vice versa can tank the execution

i assume that you're more interested in how i planned the interactions for them sharing music? lmk if there's like specific ones, bc i can explain more for whatever else it may be

anyways, i start off with scripts of some kind. my scripts can be very barebones that just note a specific scene (i.e. "working at desk, listen to music together before class starts"), or that i build a moment based on a piece of dialogue (i.e. "better not queue anything lame"). here's the notes i made when i made the 8:00 animatic, since thats big on body language

i wanted to get down my main ideas first, which was figuring out the the lyrics i wanted to use paired with dialogue to match. i dont show my thinking much on some of my notes, but what i was getting at this:

story moment: dk connecting the context of the song to his intimate moment with bkg

key moments: waking up, playing with hands, eye contact w/ bkg

i didn't expand on the ideas for how those moments would look until i actually started thumbnailing for the animatic, which i showed briefly here. here's what i kept in mind for their expressions/interactions:

dk shies away from directly confronting bkg outwardly expressing his feelings for him via the song. he avoids it and changes the topic verbally to make the conversation lighthearted -> "what expresses avoidance?"

bkg is direct about his feelings, his actions and expressions must convey a direct confrontation, an attempt to make dk acknowledge how he feels about him thru the song and potentially get a response from him -> "what expresses straightforwardness?"

here's what i decided would visually answer those questions

the implications of character's expressions also factors in the circumstances of their situation. without the context, the execution tends to fall flat. if you didn't know that they were listening to a song that's all about romantic pining, then you probably would've been questioning why the fuck are they just staring at each other, or assumed that one is shy of the physical interaction when that's not the point; its the dawned realization and the acknowledgement of the other's feelings.

my other drawings for that thread followed the same kind of planning tbh, lol. all those drawings had the lyrics set the stage for how the characters are feeling, and i'd have to figure out what about their facial expressions and body language best matches the context of the situation. here's this brief example:

but yeah, that's generally how i plan for expressions/interactions. sometimes i just get a rush of interaction ideas that is centered on one specific question i want to explore, like:

what do their mundane parts of life look like?

how do they physically react to realizing their feelings for the other?

how is someone anxious about the other person's perception of them in the comic i'm drawing?

and then build off from there. hope that helped :D

#answered asks

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spookyserenades · 1 month

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Bestie you did nottttttt leave us off like that 😭 I knew it had to be either Seokjin or Hoseok to confess to her first! I was worried that Jin would push OC away and stay distant for a while but i’m glad thats not the case. Speaking of Jin that little moment when he was texting with OC and sent her those emojis and said the cat was him was so cute I love him! Also same thing with Tae after the near kiss incident I was so sure he’d completely avoid her and tbh idk if i’m buying the i don’t remember what happened story but i’m hoping he’s telling the truth bc i cannot handle it when the hybrids distance themselves 😭

On a lighter note I will never not laugh any time Hoseok calls Jungkook and Namjoon the ghostbusters he’s such a brat lmao! I love seeing their dynamics unfold more any time we get more paranormal action. I’m curious to see what’s been haunting the Sanders family! I was thinking about how each kid must be absolutely enamored by the hybrids. For Julie it’s Jk like imagine ur mom brings some paranormal investigation group and this tall, handsome, tatted up, and pierced guy shows up to your house??? I’d come out of my room too 💀 and how Ms Sanders said her son loves wolves and how he was looking at Namjoon all starry eyed is so sweet! I can definitely see them way more open to the investigation and discussing their own experiences based on their reactions to the boys alone. It just goes to show how truly important each of the 3 members of the group are.

Ok and let me get into the smut real quick bc i simply cannot help myself. I swear Yoongi makes me want to chew on the table as well 😂 That soft dom energy he was is insane! I give so much credit to OC for not jumping his bones any time he walks into the room. Got me giggling and kicking my feet fr.

There’s so many more moments i’m sure but my little squirrel brain cannot remember them all. I swear i need to start taking notes reporting back 😂 it’s only instances like these I think I prefer wattpad’s design bc imagine how fun it would be to be able to comment on specific paragraphs in that moment. So even if i can’t recall every single moment I love, that made me smile, laugh, want to throw my phone across the room, or chew on tables at the top of my head please know that I enjoy all the little moments in each chapter and your writing is never unappreciated 🥲🫶🏻

fkjalsfjesa I'm sorry bestie!!! Luckily in the next update we pick up right were we left off with Seokjin eeeee 🥺 Seokjin was a little distant, at first, when he found out about Y/N and Yoongi, but mostly because he thought he'd never get to be with her romantically. I think after the cooking class, he just couldn't hold back his feelings anymore! AH the emojis he used 😭 he's such a cutie, just a big kitty!

Ah poor Tae blacked out... def doesn't remember the near-kiss. If he did, I'm sure he'd avoid Y/N like the plague out of embarrassment or shame :( I think he'll take some time to get comfortable with the shifting dynamics, but he's really attached to Y/N, so I don't see him icing her out for too too long.

HA I love that Hoseok is the resident skeptic. Even though he witnessed that ghost in the house, he still doesn't really get it like Namjoon and Jeongguk. Speaking of them, they've struck up an unlikely friendship with their team! I'm super excited to write their investigation scene, and find out what's haunting the family 😉 YESS you're right the two kids took a liking to each of them but gkdalgj YOURE SO RIGHT I'D LEAVE MY ROOM FOR GOTH JEONGGUK TOO. I just I'm so !!! pumped to explore this part of the plot with the 3 of them, I think it will help those two hybrids to get closer to Y/N, since they're the less affectionate, clingy ones.

OOF the smut! I'm being soooo honest I need Yoongi biblically. I'm really glad that you're chewing on the table with me,,,, I have SUCH a thing for soft doms and Yoongi definitely radiates that sooo much. Also fr I'd be in his room NIGHTLY waiting for all of that 💀

LMAOO NOT THE SQUIRREL BRAIN BESTIE!!! As for the Wattpad thought, I've been adding the chapters there and eventually when it's all caught up the monthly updates will go up there too, so if you wanna comment on specific things that might be easier 💜

I love love you!! Thank you so much for being so sweet and kind to me, and for reading Trouvaille, supporting me! Your feedback means so much, and I'm sending you one million hugs 💜💜💜

#trouvaille #asks #dana's thoughts

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danothan · 1 year

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hi, it's f0r! gimme some 🔥🔥🔥 for jjba, kira specifically, and/or barry allen!

i can always count on you to be after my own heart <3

🔥barry: idk enough abt the general consensus on flash media to know what’s unpopular, but i will say, i don’t see enough ppl talking abt him being a fucking asshole. he drags up dead people’s names to make a point, like he fights dirty

examples + analysis under cut (spoilers for flashpoint paradox + blackest night, but mostly bc it gets real long)

this is an alt timeline where bruce died in the alley instead of his parents, resulting in his father becoming this world’s batman. barry is trying to convince batman to come with him to restore the timeline, so he brings up his DEAD SON as a persuasion point?? tbf the world IS ending, plus bruce is very much alive to barry, and he IS trying to get him back, but still a dick move

(pls forgive the ass quality, i was scrambling to take a pic bc the store was closing in 10 min 😭)

hal: death is overrated anyway.

barry: don’t tell me that, tell [the ppl whose loved ones have passed].

hal: i didn’t mean it like that—

barry: tell your dead father.

me: HELLO?!? BARRY??!?!

hal Was being an asshole too so ig barry was just trying to fight fire with fire. he seems to only go this far when ppl's lives are at risk, so i can follow his thought process at least.

the page continues to have hal taunt him for caring too much, and the crazy thing is that barry actually concedes. i was overselling it when i said barry fights dirty bc this is sm more than a petty argument to him. he's not trying to one-up or spite hal, it’s a last resort. so when hal turns it back on him, barry doesn't get defensive back. he knows how much he's hurt his loved ones by being the flash, he regrets not being there for hal, and barry admits to being scared of losing it all again—turning hal's call-out into a moment of emotional vulnerability. and only THEN does hal finally realize what barry's been saying.

so there are 2 interesting things happening on barry's end here. barry’s the type of person to follow the golden rule pretty literally. i've mentioned before in a past meta that barry believes in the goodness of humanity bc he can be—HAS to be a firsthand example, not just to others, but to himself. if he can be a good person, then surely others must be as well. props to the character consistency across all these different media bc this idea even (and especially) applies here:

1) the golden rule, treat ppl the way you want to be treated, giving hal a taste of his own medicine so that he understands. it’s important to note that, again, barry does this out of desperation, not pettiness. and he might be dishing it out, but he can take it too. he chooses kindness when he could've easily dug his heel in after hal tried to call him out, but barry is trying to reach out to hal, not fight against him, and diffuses the situation that he ramped up. before this, my immediate impression was that barry spoke callously out of heightened emotions or misreading others, but the way he’s been leading this conversation and responding specifically to hal’s own emotions shows how calculated barry actually is.

2) like i said, barry goes by the mindset of “if i can do it, then so can you.” he draws a direct comparison to both of their deaths (they died and came back btw) and says he can’t believe that even after everything hal has gone thru, he’s still acting like this. personally, i read this as genuine shock and disbelief, not necessarily a dig at hal. but regardless of intention, hal takes it as an accusation, so he flips it back on barry. however, barry realizes that hal is deflecting. this is where he draws that comparison. barry had to learn his mistakes the hard way. he only realized all of this when it was too late, when he already died. he acknowledges that he’s repeating his mistake of fearing for the worst, but the thing is that he’s learned from his past, grown and changed with it. and so he projects this growth onto hal as if their deaths were at all similar (keep in mind, this is the issue where hal tells barry “i died a sinner, YOU died a saint”). again, going back to that idea of “if i can do it, then so can you.”

i think the only reason it works here is that barry knows hal. he can read him, and more importantly, has total faith in him, more than hal is willing to accept. barry’s hope in ppl is just unconditional, for better or worse; he wants to walk hal thru this together, he switches his language from “you” statements (“i can’t believe you haven’t changed) to “us” statements (“i missed a lot of good times we could’ve shared while i was away. and a lot of bad times we could’ve helped each other through.” … “let’s both slow down and figure out a plan”). to quote my friend emm here, they know and trust each other enough that barry can push that boundary and still end up at a reasonable middle ground.

barry is so full of good intention but he doesn’t exactly play nice if he thinks he knows what’s good for you. “if i can do it, then so can you” is a double-edged sword. he wants to believe in the absolute best in others. it doesn’t matter how many mistakes they’ve made or what their past may be, barry has hope if nothing else. but in the same way, it can be a presumptuous thing, setting the bar too high, putting too much pressure onto others. barry is all about the potential of things, working towards a brighter future, but what about the present? what about NOW? barry used to be troubled by his past, but then he gained closure and learned acceptance, so all he does now is look to the future. his powers put him out of touch with time and reality, but he’s never really been able to live in the present; his superspeed only enables this. past, future, but never the present, no wonder he’s so stubborn.

god, see what i mean! do you see what discussions could arise from dissecting the intricacies of barry’s hero complex! he’s not just a superhero paragon, he’s not just some vanilla good guy (tho he is also all of these), there is an entire thought process and timeline of experiences and flaws to study under a microscope here. and buddy, i am getting my barthology degree.

#danswers #danbles #meta #halbarry #barry allen #hal jordan #the flash #green lantern #take this with the heaviest grains of salt bc even tho these scenes inspire confidence in my overall interpretation #it’s possible that i’m missing some context bc i had to skim (again store closing in 10 minutes)#deepest apologies for how long this became i simply had an aha! moment halfway thru and couldn’t stop #major thanks to emm for giving me feedback <3

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moregraceful · 11 months

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You know for a team I have not watched regularly since 2020, random facts about the Dallas Stars sure are lodged in my head like immovable truths of the universe. If I ever find a program that can help me create an interactive timeline in a way that makes sense in my brain I'm creating a timeline of Dallas Stars information from the Seguin trade -> now and it's over for you hoes* (*me specifically, I am the hoes). Like I, who am generally bad at dates and numbers, just have various Stars' players rookie seasons/fresh outta Cedar Park seasons just taking up space in my brain for no reason?? Why. This timeline would also include such important cultural moments in Dallas Stars as Roope Hintz's haircuts and Finnish mafia contracts, information which is also just. in my stupid brain doing jack. This timeline would serve zero purpose and enrich humanity not at all but at least this information would be OUT of my HEAD

Anyway I have not been talking abt it because a) don't want to give details when the overall arc of the plot is still tenuously coming together, b) had to do a bunch of research for some finicky mental-illness-in-WWII-veterans but I haven't been able to make myself go digging on SciHub/LibraryGenesis/Google Scholar to see if anything I learned from Band of Brothers/The Pacific postwar fanfic is grounded in reality. But in my current state as someone who cannot watch videos or TV without getting sick but also can't really leave the house for long periods of time, I finally started digging into the research I need to do for it. I'm writing a Dallas Stars WWII postwar au for Fandom Trumps Hate!

I'm very excited about it, especially as I start digging into the historical pieces I need to make it come together and things start to (slowly, so slowly) fall into place. I haven't written a historical au in uhhhhhhh a while and haven't ever written one that was really built around serious hurt/comfort. obvs do not want to just be shooting from the hip when it comes to mental illness, particularly in veterans, but I wanted to be challenged, and so here I am, digging through Google Scholar annotations lol. (There's also stuff I need to research on Canada in WWII, gay men in the 1940s/during WWII etc etc etc, bc it's been a while since I looked any of that up lmao...historians scare me so I am like I must not make TOO much shit up....)

BUT the reason I was thinking abt the internal timeline my brain carries about the Dallas Stars from the past 5 years despite the fact that I could be using that space for LITERALLY anything else, is bc my bidder requested a bunch of older players (which is great for me to be clear - if there's one thing I'm always gonna do, it's gaze lovingly at pictures of Stephen Johns) but said that if I wanted to add newer players feel free. So I tried to balance out Old Guys with some younger players who I love or am interested in learning more about. Gotta give those old men some youth to keep em humble yk. But I wanted to de-age everyone by about 5-6 years from their ages irl just like...given the timeline of the war, bc so many of the older guys are like well into their 30s rn and I didn't want anyone to be career military. BUT!! I was making my little list of birthdates and ages relative to each other and now I'm like. If I de-age Wyatt Johnston by 6 years. He will be 14. tf is a 14 year old doing hanging out with a bunch of men in their late 20s. This is not LiveJournal. Or like Miro Heiskanen and Jason Robertson who I also wanted to include bc I love them, will be 17. I liked the logistical challenge of having a couple of Finnish guys and American guys in this au that takes place in Canada but also, what is a 17 year old Filipino-American kid doing in Vancouver yk. also like girl help do I really want to dig into anti-miscegenation laws in California and Canada 😭😭 shit was not repealed in California until the late 40s. how far down the rabbit hole do I go with historical accuracy this fic is supposed to be about some gay asses finding relief from the Horrors in community, together

Anyway, all. ALL. of this information about the Stars is going to be in my head for the rest of my life. I am going to forget everything historical as soon as I hit post on AO3 but will be in my 60s knowing that Wyatt Johnston was born in 2003 or that my dad and Roope Hintz share a birthday (kings). Like god forbid I remember my own family or friends' birthdays but I will definitely find use for the information that Miro and Jason's birthdays are four days apart or that Miro and Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn all have the same birthday. Who is driving the bus here and why is it a Dallas Stars historian with selective memory

#WHO IS DRIVING THE BUS HERE!!!#also debating shelling out for scrivener bc this fkng notion storyplanning template isn't working for the story or my brain #there's just too much research going into this story and this $18 template is NOT cutting it 😭😭#i haven't attempted to use scrivener since literally 2012 but the ux has gotta be better now. it's gotta. right. right??#anyway the fic has to be a minimum 15k but the deeper i get into into research the more i'm like hmm. i think i'll be lucky #if i get out under 25k.#like can i really write longform fic rn no my brain fog is rly bad a lot of the time but i can at least research #anyway. enjoy this look at the state of my brain when i am faced with a writing process that takes more than one (1) hour lol #it's EXTREMELY fussy. it's extremely anxious. and it's extremely real #fresno oilers.txt #also in the interactive timeline: the joel fucking kiviranta goal and greatest hits of the esa lindell/john klingberg romance 😭

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edenvs3000f23 · 7 months

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Blog Post 5: Interpreting British Columbia through art and science!

Since there is no specific prompt for this week but we have recently learned about interpreting nature through art and science, I figured I would write about the current journey I am on in British Columbia and how I am using these lenses to interpret what it has to offer. As someone who has also been interested in the environment and travelling long before my environmental studies at Guelph, I always dreamed of going to places far away where it never gets cold, essentially getting out of Canada and seeing the rest of the world. Although that is something I have done and still want to do, I realized that there is so much that this side of the world has to offer in terms of nature that I definitely overlooked up until recently. Last year during this time I was also in British Columbia because my older cousin (who is my best friend in the whole world) moved out here for her masters program in Ecological Restoration and she begged me over and over to come visit her. Although I had always heard great things about BC I never was super interested in seeing it…until I finally did. This was life changing. My last visit to BC was short lived (5 days to be exact) but in that time I saw this continent in a completely different light. Since my trip last October I have BEEN longing to come back and that leads us to right now; I’m back and it's never felt so good.

The art side of British Columbia

Since I got here I have spent as much time as I can exploring different parts of this province and cramming my days full of sightseeing, and you already know I have taken endless pictures. Photographing landscapes like these go hand in hand with interpreting nature through art just as we talked about last week! Below are just some of the many pictures I have taken!

Photographing these sceneries and landscapes has allowed me to interpret nature through an art lens within Canada completely different from what I am used to in Ontario. I think the change in scenery has not only been exciting to interpret but it gives me a sense of adventure as experiencing things for the first time is the most exciting thing ever in my opinion! Much like I described in my Blog Post 4, taking pictures of landscapes are so important as they capture a moment in time and then down the road and years from now we are able to see how it can change both naturally and anthropogenically. I also wanted to share a piece of physical art I photographed that I feel really incorporates art and the natural world. This piece of art in particular really gave me a sense of how nature and art are so tightly interlinked. When describing nature through art, it can give us a sense of emotion which is exactly what I feel like this piece does!

British Columbia under a science lens

In my past studies, I have learned about surveying and studying species richness and diversity of mussels in situ using rocky intertidal zones. Intertidal zones refer to an area (usually a shoreline) that gets covered and uncovered by water which most of us know as high tide and low tide! With that said, I’ve had the chance to go tide-pooling here in BC! On the west coast there are 4 intertidal zones, 2 low tides and 2 high tides. When I went at low tide I saw the mussel communities stuck to the side of large rocks that would be used to survey and study these species. There were thousands of them on each rock all tightly packed together. I feel as though experiencing this and seeing it first hand after I had only had the opportunity to read about it was definitely eye opening and was cool to be able to relate my studies to something happening in real time! Below I’ve included a picture of what this scenario looked like.

Another thing I noticed while tide-pooling was the amount of starfish that could be seen near the shore in the shallow water. At first I thought there must be so many in this area because it’s so rocky and that is where starfish like to attach to hide and hunt prey. But then, I realized it because this is also where the barnacle population flourished and let me tell you, there were a TON of barnacles. There wasn’t one rock on the shore that didn’t have populations of barnacles growing on it. One of the things starfish are good for is keeping the barnacle population in check which is why it made sense as to why I was fortunate to see so many! In the picture I posted above you can also see that not only are mussels stuck to the rock but barnacles too. Another important factor of starfish through a science lens is that they also maintain the sea urchin population as starfish are their natural predators. This is important in swallow areas like where I was and where people tend to swim and step in the water. Without the starfish population, the sea urchin population would continue to spiral out of control.

So far, this adventure has allowed me to expand my horizons in the science world and see features and creatures that are often talked about within my degree. I am so excited to continue to explore the islands and coasts of BC and continue to learn more about everything I never noticed or knew about in the country I live in.

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ssickprimus · 2 years

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Jerry teaches Rick how to cook

A/N : i stared at this for a long time, like really LONG time, unable to conjure anything humane and normal. so eventually, i stopped trying and it’s just, well, it’s rick & jerry doing cute stuff, but also not really lol. and this isn't beted, bc yeah, i die like a man.

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Cooking was one of those activities, that Jerry kept mostly to himself. Engaging in it, either when it was a special occasion, or when he had nothing better to do, and no one was around to judge him. Mainly, Beth.

He didn’t feel like doing it too often, and then, at times when he did felt like cooking just because he could, well, there wasn’t much gratitude for his efforts. He wasn’t bad at it, and he knew, that the kids actually loved, when he was the one cooking dinner, instead of their mother.

But there didn’t seem to be much point in it.

Beth tended to get all defensive over ‘who would be behind the stove today’, and he rarely had a chance to win this fight. If he had to guess, that it had less to do with the fact, that she wanted to prepare the dinner and more with just not letting him do it. Petty for petty. Eye for an eye, or in their case, just who would cook, and who would throw away the trash.

Usually, it didn’t bother him too much. Many things stopped getting under his skin, after a while. But he couldn’t fully repress all of it, not when there was a new ‘threat’ inside the house. Looming over his shoulder and ready to spring yet another sharp comment his way.

“What?” he girth out, not turning to face Rick, but knowing, that the old man was hovering there, staring at him for at least two minutes now.

“Nothing.” Rick replied just as stiffly.

“Then why are you here?”

He expected usual rudeness, but oddly enough Rick was silent and it sort of unnerved Jerry. Usually, his father-in-law would find a thing or two to throw his way. Insult him or just be mean by default, but this time, it seemed like he didn’t have anything smart to say.

“Okay, you’ve – you’ve got me, maybe I do need something.”

Right.

Of course, he did!

Jerry glanced at the old man over his shoulder, not trying to mask his irritation. It was one of rare days, when he could do whatever he wanted, be it gardening, binge watching some dumb show or in this case, baking himself some cookies.

It was a very simple and almost mind-numbing task. He just wanted to do something and not think about anything particular. Surely, not anything of importance. Just be content with what he was doing at the moment.

The kids were out, and Beth was at work. He was surprised, that Rick didn’t vanish as well, since he came to pester him, only when he wanted something specific or was bored out of his mind. And Rick didn’t seem like the latter was his reason for sticking around, so it naturally made Jerry paranoid. Whatever his father-in-law was plotting, it won’t be good for him.

“I’m just –” the old man frowned and looked to the side, rubbing his neck in what Jerry almost took as sign of embarrassment. Huh, weird. Rick and embarrassment? Something must have died in the forest this morning. “I don’t –”

“Yeah?” Jerry propped himself against the table, watching him with crossed arms. Skeptical as ever. He didn’t trusted this show for one second.

“Can you –” Rick chewed on his lip, now looking somewhat pissed off. He clearly struggled with himself. “Can y-you help me with something?”

Rick’s last sentence slid into a mumbled, hissy mess, but Jerry still was able to make it out. And it took him aback. Truly and fully so.

“I – ahh um…” Jerry paused, not sure how to react. This sounded so uncharastically polite coming from Rick, that for a second, he started feeling a nagging worry, that something might have been seriously wrong here. “But what is –”

“It’s – this is important, Jerry!” Rick suddenly snapped (and it was more like it, honestly), and with two fast, big steps reached toward him, roughly grabbing Jerry’s arm, yanking on it.

“W-wait, Rick!” Jerry squicked out, not having time to do much as the old man started dragging him toward the garage. “Wait, where – where are we going!?”

Rick ignored him.

“Rick!”

He just wanted to make some cookies, darn it! Whatever Rick wanted out of him, it most likely wasn’t worth it. Oh gosh. What if he – what if he wanted to do something terrible with him, because no one was home?? Oh shit….oh god!

“Th-this – that’s really – like r-really serious, Jerry!” Rick rambled, still tugging him along. “Y-you – you have no idea!”

“Y-yeah, I –owww, easy, would you!?”

“N-no time! We – we don’t have much time, Jerry!”

“Much time for what?”

Rick was fully ignorant of Jerry’s growing discomfort, or maybe, he just didn’t care. Either way, Jerry won’t go down without fighting! Well, kind of fighting. Or whining, more likely.

“Riiick!”

“We – you’re going to – I need your help, didn’t you listen!?” Rick accused, spitting a bit of saliva on Jerry’s face, who immediately cringed, still trapped by his hold. “I – I – I was trying to tell you, Jerry! Y-you – you just never listen, do you? Dear G-god. Y-y – you’re worse, than a Morty, when – when it comes t-t-to listening, Jerry! Is this some – some ear disease? Do you have an ear disease?”

“What…no!”

“Then, help me!”

“Help you with what?” Jerry questioned for n-time it seems, allowing Rick to guide him right to his working table. “What is –”

“Help me w – with th-this!” the old man pointed at the table, letting go of him with something, that seemed to remind Jerry of an ill-placed triumph. Like it was the moment, where he should have got the wind of the situation. “This is it, Jerry! This is the – this is the moment, when – when you can finally do something big, Jerry!”

Jerry rubbed his wrist, also glancing down at it. And okay, now he was beyond confused. What the actual hell was this even? “I don’t get it.”

“Your moment, Jerry!” Rick reminded him, as if this was one true calling for him or something. “It’s here! Ri – right here, jerry!”

“Uhhh?”

“Y-your time has come, Jerry!” Rick made a serious face, and placed a heavy hand onto his shoulder, while the younger man just sort of stood there, perplexed and uncertain. “This – that’s your moment, Jerry! A moment f-for you to shine!”

He made a waving gesture with his free hand, like he was pointing at the horizon or something just as inspiring, but Jerry’s unsureness only deepened. He didn’t know what Rick wanted him to do.

“This!” Rick pointed at the table again.

“Okay, but what exactly do you want me to do with it?”

“Isn’t it obvious?”

Jerry’s attention returned to a mess of something on the table. It seemed like a bunch of ingredients, maybe? A bag of powder-like substance, a few other bags with odd things, that reminded him of Rick’s weird alien food in the kitchen’s shelf. But he still didn’t know what he was supposed to do with all of this. Mix it up or…?

“…yeah, it is.” Jerry said, swallowing. Getting more nervous by the second. “But some instructions might be nice. Just in case, y’know?”

Rick rolled his eyes. “Cookies, Jerry.”

He blinked. “Excuse me?”

The older man let out an exasperated sigh and gripped Jerry’s other shoulder, yanking him closer, almost nose to nose. He really had no idea what personal space was, did he? “I need you to make me the – make me the cookies out of it.”

“Make you…” Jerry blinked. “C-cookies?”

“Yes, Jerry.” Rick repeated, losing his patience. “Y-yes, the cookies. Make grandpa – you need to give me those cookies, Jerry. I – I mean, make me these cookies.”

Jerry’s brows knitted together. “That’s it?”

“Uh, yeah?”

They stared at one another, as Jerry was slowly overcoming his distrust over how simple, and oddly innocent the request was. Things were never this plain with Rick. And he never wanted something this mundane from him before.

“So you want me to bake you cookies out of this - uhh - that stuff and –” Jerry leaned away from him, searching for any sign of a lie in Rick’s expression. “And that’s it?”

“Yeah.”

“For real?” Jerry looked around them. “No double bottom in this one? No dangerous consequences?”

“I’m asking you t-to make me cookies, not a nuclear bomb, Jerry.” Rick hissed. “Yesh, so – so paranoid, are you?” he then, cleared his throat, taking a step back as if recalling that he has to be nice to him for once. “But yes. It’s – that’s it.”

Jerry raised one brow up. “Huh.”

“So y-you’re – will you do that?” Rick asked this with a bizarre amount of hope.

“Well…”

Jerry looked at the mess on the table once again, considering it. Did he have to do anything for Rick? No, not really. Far from it, actually. But the old man asked him almost nicely, and it’s not like it will take all that much time, anyway. He can go back to baking regular cookies right after that.

Finally, Jerry half-shrugged. “Ah, yeah sure. I guess…?”

Rick’s face instantly lit up. “Alriiiight! That’s what I’m talking about!”

Then, he just proceeded to look at Jerry, expecting whatever wonder to happen out of thin air, apparently.

“We will need - uh – a bowl and a mixer to bake cookies, Rick.” Jerry pointed out, growing uncomfortable with Rick’s fingers digging into his shoulders. He was yet to release him or even to get out of his face fully.

“Makes sense, yeah.”

“Great.” Jerry rubbed his nose bridge. “Can you bring me some?”

Rick’s eyes slightly widened, as if in shock. “Who? Me?”

“Well, yes.” Jerry drawled out, feeling more bold, now that it was established, that Rick needed his help. “I won’t do everything on my own! You can at least help me out in small ways.”

For a second, it looked like Rick was about to flip him off, but surprisingly, he did the opposite of it. Oddly compliant and ready to do his part. Or well, as ready as he could be.

“Alright-alright, I’ll – I’ll get that shit for you.”

“Thank you.” Jerry offered pleasantly, when Rick went back to the kitchen, muttering under his own breath. If his father-in-law thought, that he could sit this one out, while Jerry would have done all the work, he was solemnly mistaken. “And while you are there, can you also bring me some cookie sheets?”

More grunting followed.

“A wh-what now?”

“It’s like the – uhh – it’s on the counter. Looks like a sheet list?”

“Ohh.” there was some noise, and then some drag of the feet against the floor. Rick was probably looking everywhere, but at the place he needed, until, “Got it.”

“Good. Bring it in here and let’s do some cooking!”

He stared down at an odd collection of foods and ingredients, feeling a bit more positive about this, then he did before. “Okay…let’s do some magic.”

Jerry cracked his knuckles, getting back into the mood. Baking cookies together, sounded peaceful enough for a shared evening with his usually unbearably chaotic father-in-law. Surely nothing can go wrong, right?

“Why did you ask me to do it, anyway?” he asked after a few minutes, mixing what eventually was going to be a dodge for the cookies. It smelled a bit weird, but he supposed, that it was natural. He had no idea if the substance was even sweet or not.

“Wh-what?”

“I mean…” Jerry gave him a curious look. “Can’t you do it yourself?”

“If I could I wouldn’t have – I would have needed to ask you, Jerry.”

“So you really can’t cook, ah?” Jerry paused, glancing into the bowl, where a mix of strange aliens cookies was only half-done. It didn’t seem all that bad now, but the odd purple color was certainly a turn off.

“And if —” Rick cleared his throat. “And if I can’t?”

“I can teach you.” he was already regretting saying it, but the old man made a weird noise, getting up from his seat, like he was waiting for this moment.

“What for?”

“So that you can do it by yourself in the future?”

Rick stared at him for a bit, before he closed the gap between them, lightly hitting Jerry with his bony hip. “Alright show th–the – show me what you’ve got.”

Jerry couldn’t fight off a smile off his face. It was very rare, when he got to share his interests with someone. Less so with someone from his family.

“Alright, first you need to –”

He wasn’t a total disaster at explaining, but it seemed like Rick listened to him only partly, mostly just staring at him and occasionally nodding, as if creating an air of interest. But it wasn’t all that bad, since Jerry found it pretty easy to just get lost in cooking, instead of paying too much attention to what was possibly happening inside Rick’s head.

Jerry was pretty sure, that at least an hour should have passed, since Rick had dragged him in here, but he didn’t mind. The cookies, that he was making still looked sort of odd, and very unearthly, but some extra chocolate-like bits made it seem more eatable, than it was before.

He wouldn’t have risked it anyways, but he was curious what they might have tasted like.

“If you wanted some homemade cookies, you could have just eaten some of my usual ones.” Jerry supplied, attempting to be casual, since they were technically bonding and all. “I wouldn't have minded.”

“It’s – this isn’t for me.” Rick said, putting some of the cookies on the cookie sheet, like Jerry had asked him to. “It’s for th-the business.”

“You opened a bakery?” Jerry joked, because geez, was this a ridiculous imagery.

“No, but I –” Rick clicked his jaw shut, suddenly hissing at him, “Don’t snort this stuff, you moron!”

“Wha…?” it was just some powder, that he accidently poured over the bowl. He didn’t mean for it to plow into the air, and cloud close to his chin. “It’s not – ew, it smells strange. What is this?”

“Nothing for your – nothing for you to question!”

“But –”

Rick pinched Jerry’s nose shut, and sort of pushed him out of the way. “I said, don’t breathe it in, Jerry! Can’t you – you do have an ear disease, don’t you? You can’t hear shit!”

“I didn’t – ow!” he recoiled from Rick’s grasp, watching the old man doing the rest by himself, so clearly he did remember some of Jerry’s teaching. “Why can’t I breathe it in?”

Rick side-glanced at him, looking somewhat nervous. “Because you might get allergic, Jerry.”

“…why?”

“I don’t know, aren’t you – don’t you have any allergies?”

Not that he knew, but it was slowly getting more and more weird, as Jerry looked around them. Taking in how shifty Rick’s behavior became the second he nearly inhaled some odd substance, and the smell –

“That’s not some cosmic illegal drug cookies, is it?”

Rick’s eyes darted from left to right, as he hunched somewhat protective over the bowl, before deadpaning, “No.”

“Then –”

“Jerry, stop asking me th-that – stop asking stupid things and just – just do what I’ve asked you to do.” Rick snapped, grabbing his wrist and tugging him back to the table. “Y-you have one job, dawg. Just one – you have one job, Jerry!”

“Alright-alright, I’m doing it!” Jerry exclaimed back. “I’m doing it!”

“Do it faster!”

“I can’t do it faster, when you – why do you have to be this close to me!?”

“To – to –” Rick’s drool dripped down on his shoulder, which was strange, since he wasn’t drunk yet. “Just do the thing, Jerry!”

“This is the last time, when I’m helping you!”

After a few more miserable attempts to do some sort of damage control and some endless banter, the cookies were finally inside the oven, and Jerry was sort of covered in that powder, that Rick told him not to breath in and –

He was feeling kind of weird now. A bit dizzy, but also lightweight, like he was slightly tipsy.

“Am…I’m going to die?”

Rick sends him a surprise look. “N-no. Wh-why would you think that?”

“I dunno…” Jerry whined, as everything sort of swayed around him and all over him…? “I feel strangeooo – I mean, stranga – I mean –”

“Don’t be a little bitch, Jerry.” Rick told him, wrapping a long, bony arm around Jerry’s shoulder and smearing his cheek with rusty, awful unclean breath. “This was – this was your moment.”

“My moment?”

“Yeah, we – we made these cookies and it’s going to be a hit, Jerry!” Rick rocked them from side to side, like it should have made Jerry feel inspired, instead it only made him choke on air, since Rick’s hold was yet to move away from his neck. It just kind of slid from his shoulder to his neck. Can something slid upwards?? “It’s – this is going to be a world changing cookie!”

“Oh, okay.” this didn’t sound all that bad. “That’s good?”

“A cookie made of – of seven forbidden, illegal ingredients from all over th-the – the galaxy!”

Jerry’s brain was too slow to follow, but he frowned anyway, feeling a pang of doubt. “Wait, did you just say for – oh…”

Rick pressed a finger into his nose, giving him one of those wild, scary looks of his. “And it’s all thanks to – to you, Jerry!”

“To me?”

“Yeah, I’ve – I’ve needed some extra DNA on them to – to make it work, Jerry!” Rick explained, but Jerry could barely make out the words, let alone combine them together into something coherent. “This year, it’ll be a hit of the – it’s be Rick and Jerry cookies, that are – that will fuck up brains of many aliens out th-there, Jerry!”

“R-rick, you’re choking me…” Jerry forced out, unable to lean away from the older man, who was getting more and more into that rambling mess of words and –

“We are going t-to rule over them with those cookies! Gonna be cooler, th-than the movie – you know the movie, the one with the – uhhh – the thing?”

“Wh – hckk!”

Rick pressed their faces uncomfortably close together, still speaking nonsense. “It’s gonna be human-trafficking Rick and Jerry’s business with – with cookies! Drug-dealing ring of – our drug-dealing ring!”

Jerry could only make a weird, airly noise, mostly just dangling in his grip and distantly thinking, that hey, at least, it seems like he has a job now.

Besides, when there is a credit to be given. He would give one. Rick was good with names. Because 'Rick & Jerry's drug, human-trafficking ring business' sounded hella nice to his clouded and slow brain.

#ask #jerrick #but very light version of it #ficlet #fluffy but rick is still a manipulative bastard #ref to more sinister stuff than meet the eye

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kewltie · 10 months

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when i write something i tend to have a goal, or actually a specific moment or scene, i aim toward. for this specific scene in stepdad au i had this image of izuku surrounded by his sleeping children and talking about how he wants to protect his kids from becoming like their villainous sire so that they dont walk the same path as him. it was very clear in my head and i knew what i wanted but i have to build to get there.

i like nontraditional family unit as someone who grew up with both parents, divorced, and then raised by a single mother i have a lot of respect for the nontraditional family unit!! stepdad au is one of part of many of AUs that centered around that lol. i like that katsuki who literally been a bachelor most of his life suddenly stumbled his way into like a family and now he's juggling parenthood to these small tyrants and HE'S TRYING HIS BEST.

i think i talked about this before how im not a big fan of kidfics bc they dont really have much of personality and that they're more used as a tool to get the couple together rather their own char arc so for me it was really important that each of the numbers had a very distinct characteristics that you can pick them apart among the crowd. i wanted each kid bounce off e/o bc hey they're siblings should act like ones and have a storyline outside of bkdk's love story. so theres a lot of focus on the kids as much as bkdk's storyline bc izuku (and now katsuki also) world revolves around them. izuku put away his mate/husband to SAVE HIS KIDS!!

heroes comes in all shapes and sizes and not all heroes wear cape, ya know the quote but it's exactly what it is here. izuku's path didn't lead to ofa and becoming a hero but in his own way, even tho it seemingly small in the grand scheme of things, he put everything on the line to get his kids away from their villainous sire so they wont fall on the same dark path as him. he has no quirk and didnt have support from anyone for a long time but he planned this for many years just to finally put his husband away like idk that's fucking stone cold. izuku hid his true intentions and acted the part of the good spouse, the good omega, and kept producing kids and raising them for his mate but he was actually masterminding a plan to bring his husband down and escape with his kids like HE DID THAT!!! ON HIS OWN!!! how could ppl not admire that audacity, that fucking bravery????

even tho izuku did all that, he feels like it wasnt enough bc how long it took the plan to took shape like izuku didn't just come with this plan in a day and execute it within the same week or months. HE PLANNED THIS FOR YEARS AND YEARS and finally he got enough tools in his arsenal to pulled it off (evidences and waiting for his children to be old enough to carry it out). thats pretty badass but izuk doesnt see it that, its the duty of the parents to protect their kids and izuku think he's just doing what he must!!! but even then he wishes he didnt have to wait that long to carry them away from the abuse of their sires but for his plan to work he had to stay lowkey, underestimated, and the good spouse/omega so he had to watched his children suffered but he cant do much against it. it's a hard thing to watch and endure and izuku will always regret how he couldnt do much for them and i think even tho he managed to save his kids and put away his husband, it always live in him how he could HAVE DONE MORE (even tho unlikely). so when katsuki says something about thinking he's doing just fine in his eyes, it's someone ELSE not him that tell him hey, you're not such a terrible parent and izuku's guilt lessen just a lil.

izuku isnt the perfect parent but he's trying and katsuki definitely isnt made for parenting either but he's learning AND TOGETHER they're learning to be what the numbers need and this journey is what tied them together and fall in love even tho katsuki is like half way there already but god, izuku showing him that even with no quirks, izuku can do crazy shits for his children!!!!!!

#on writing #verse: stepdad au

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it's a bit early, but happy new year! i'll make sure to properly wish you when the time comes, but I did go through the mankai event now so it felt strange not to say it, haha... i was actually thinking about finishing this event new years eve to be appropriate, but i ended up getting a little sick so. might as well do the events now while ive got the time right? also also!! i started a3 almost exactly 2 years ago on jan 1 2021 so i thought it would be nice to maybe try to start act 2 then? since after this i just have the anniversary event and vday magic (i think i'll do one day princess after ch 5). anyways the actual event. as usual i'll go through my thoughts chronologically.

that first opening scene is so good. citron staring at that charm while sakuyas sleeping… now that’s not really any evidence for citron being a light sleeper but in my heart I just KNOW he is okay. and what great sound design!! like all silence. no backing music. just the sound of sakuyas quiet snores. it sets that mood so well so i really felt that the charm citron was staring at must be really important to him...

oh also i want to say this because i felt soooo smart for doing it. the moment that first scene opened with citron i paused and took some notes bc i wanted to guess who else was in the cg lmaooo. with all the act 1 non-play events, there's exactly 11 events. i'm assuming the anniversary event is special so that cg might have the whole a3 cast or smthing like all the leaders? or even like a cg of matsukawa and izumi or something. that'd be cool. but who knows. but without that, its ten, and then theres 2 per event cg which gets u the 20 members of the troupe. excluding inter-troupe pairings, there's 6 unique combinations of seasons you can make: spring summer, spring autumn, spring winter, summer autumn, summer winter, autumn winter. we've had 8 events so far, and 4 unique combinations have been repeated twice: spring summer (tsuzuru&kazunari + itaru&misumi), autumn winter (sakyo&azuma, taichi&tasuku), spring winter (masumi&tsumugi, sakuya&hisoka), and summer autumn (muku&juza, yuki&banri). there's 4 members who haven't gotten event cgs yet, then: citron, tenma, omi, and homare. and there's exactly 2 unique season combinations left: spring autumn and summer winter. suffice to say that when i noticed that omi and citron were in the same cleaning group, and talked to masumi and juza about their talent show thing, and THEN went to get groceries together... i cheered so hard. calculations for the win.

back to chronological thoughts:

i’ve written this before but juza 🤝 yuki: *sees any situation* how do I make this about banri/tenma (derogatory)

nonetheless juzas conception of banri is sooooo funny to me. like banris super smart and talented and juza is like. he’s a weirdo who will draw a face on his stomach and make it talk by moving his muscles. like that’s sooo specific. and then banri immediately being like. I CAN do it! the moment juzas like. oh. …you can’t? like. actually something is weird about both of you (affectionate)

sakyo: aren’t you all forgetting something very important we have to do before the new year

me, nodding sagely: ah yes. annual performance reviews. *cut to next scene* ohhhh they’re just deep cleaning. I was just like. 100% convinced that they needed to do their annual like evaluations. i don't even do those but it's just one of my first associations with the year end i guess???

anyways when they find that duct taped box w/ yuki mentioning they could sell old props for play funding… I don’t know if it’s ever said outright but considering yukis always talking to sakyo abt like costuming and stuff and they collaborated with that kigurumi punishment I have to wonder if yuki has like. a nonzero amount of info on play budgeting as compared to most of the troupe. kazunari. the 14 year old in your troupe knows more about budget management than you. i mean yukis been selling his clothing etc. on the net so maybe he does know a nonzero amount of this kind of thing with like selling props...

it was so cute to see their street act! they’ve come so far. love the way azuma thinks abt it like “how do I jump in here” and goes “I’m going to cause problems. on purpose.” with making a surprise phone call. citron though oh my gosh. its like. yes. he does know what a year end rush is. and abt travel prices. hes not stupid!! but god the way hes like im gonna wish all the grocery staff happy new year as his excuse for searching for his charm... he knows. what he is doing. same with those travel prices its like. citron can be So Loud but hes also so careful to not say much. i want to pat him on the head. unrelated but i didnt realize azuma called citron his highness? i thought monarchy hater no. 1 citron would dislike that a little more. its also making me think if citron has mentioned hes like a prince / royalty...? since azuma calls him that. but ive got to think he hasn't. still more points to my runaway prince citron theory. omi helping him find the charm was so sweet though! its like. wow. nice. still the way citron literally Does Not Say Anything. crazy of him

citron: …it is a very special gift that I received from someone.

me: …guy?

and later w/ citron: never mind. but there is someone in my country who I would like to see again.

me: …guy?

oh but i'm not glossing over the fact that citron has three younger brothers who he's convinced don't want to see him again. runaway prince im telling u. also thats so sad wtf. the citron and omi cg was cute tho! i kind of liked how little this event did in terms of revealing too much like... citron lets a couple of details slip but doesn't really say much at all. which makes sense for his character i think!! man what a great event in terms of making me excited for act 2, though... i hope it comes up when guy shows up!! not to be like. i want to see citron cry. but i want him to get a little emotional yknow. reveal some of ur feelings i want u to be comforted.

i thought a lot of duos for the talent show ep were so cute! like hisoka and homare with homare being like. ill get u special marshmallows even, so do something with me. idk how to express it properly but i feel like in this event especially u can really feel how much joy homare gets by like. simply spending time with hisoka? made me remember their play event. and shakespeare?? In ENGLISH???? im obsessing over this. was it much ado about nothing? what play would be best for them… i haven't read enough shakespeare to make a definitive decision, unfortunately... my personal vote is for othello. homare knows shakespeare in english bc he’s a fan but hisoka… if he’s proficient in english. hm. hmm. more points to him being some kind of assassin/spy/foreign agent thing. like chikage was also overseas probably doing some assassin/spy business for a while, wasn’t he… im watching you.

also tasuku and tsumugi with their pantomiming and the way when itaru compliments him tasuku is IMMEDIATELY like "oh im nothing compared to tsumugi though" like wow. its kind of so nice hearing this out loud bc its like. oh right. this is what they were yelling at each other about in act 1. and then masumi and juza's bartending act. with the rainbow cocktail. masumi and juza, pointing at a3: I know what you are. packing peanuts was my guess for what was inside the box so im glad it was at least like a daruma doll lol. and juza got his sweets! the lil bonus with the ppl staying in the dorm to celebrate the new year was so cute too tho. like when misumi mentioned the triangular carrots.

tenma: d—did you say carrots? why did arisu have to leave me now…

me: tenma and homare friends??? homare eats tenma’s carrots (which he. doesnt like?) for him??? i need to see this. well i'm pretty confident they're gonna be the duo for vday magic so I'm quite excited, haha. oh also in the new years text chat!! is homares screen name alice? i think thats cute. anyways what a sweet event! it didnt leave me feeling anything toooo emotional but it made me REALLY excited for act 2 bc i feel like that's where the real payoff is gonna be yknow? so it was cool in a different way.

AAH HEY HEY HEY! HERE YOU ARE! I needed to be done with the event to properly tackle this ask, thank you for waiting.

First of, thank you for the good wishes <333 Happy New year to you too if we don't get around to say it on the day itself. And saying it because you went through the a3 event makes total sense ahaha

And it's such a good plan with timing! I'd be nice if you manage to reach act 2 by then, i think it's supposed to start late February in the timeline so, at this rhythm you can get in synch with the story as it goes! (and good plan for ODP since it IS set right after chap 5 originally).

ANYWAY WAHOO ALWAYS NICE READING YOUR THOUGHTs, LET'S GO!

And oh god yeah, i can totally picture your HC about Citron being a light sleeper. As for the charm oh man… oh man.

and oh my GOD. THAT'S SO CLEVER HOLY SHIT. i would never have figured it out meanwhile you kept track of all of this!! that's so impressive holy shit!!! your calculation is IMPRESSIVE HERE.

ALHDLKDFJFDLKFD Juza and Yuki, together in being so damn tired of their leader (affectionly but also derogatory)

AND HELPPP I FORGOT ABOUT THIS SCENE. Juza's conception of Banri is truly the funniest, i love that about those two. And the fact Banri can totally catch the bait is what's even funnier. And they were both idiots (and they were both idiots!)

ohmygod you're really set up to be a fellow acting addict now that your first thought was "annual performance review" this is so funny.

And you're totally right about Yuki i think. I don't recall them ever mentioning it directly, but considering how much he's fighting with Sakyo about budget and how often Yuki wins, considering Sakyo isn't exactly the kind to go KINDLY on something just because someone would insult him, it figures Yuki is arguing with proper arguments when it comes to budget. Like, both arguing why he needs expensive material (how it would reflect on the company and all) AND on how to manage the budget to justify it. as you said, Yuki sells clothes online so he's probably the best equiped about it. Which is really impressive, the 14yo is the one the most adjusted to discuss budget with the yakuza. Love that about him.

ohmygod right the street acts are always a nice way to show how they changed. And Azuma <3333 my mister problem. But yes totally agree about everything Citron there (that isn't confirming or unconfirming theory at least). he's very considerate and very smart, his only issue is the grasp on the language, but aside from that? he knows stuff. And sometimes when he acts stupid, that's exactly what it is. an act. He knows when to not say much. For Citron, he never mentioned anything about his past to anyone, but you might want to read the Citron&Muku crossbackstage from the "Others" tab. It's called "Sir Citron's Secret" and probably would give fuel to your theories. (while you're on that tab do look at the Homare&Sakyo one just because it's one of the funniest on the list). As it though, aside from whatever he tells Muku and how serious he is about it, he hasn't really come into details about it to anyone at all, aside from hating the monarchy. So Azuma calling him His Highness is indeed strange. I feel like Azuma definitely got Vibes from Citron (which is mhmmmm considering Azuma is a really good people reader), and it seems that Citron hasn't found in his heart a way to tell Azuma to knock it off. Or perhaps Citron is more annoyed at the idea of ACTING like Royalty (so, with the royal roles he gets), than he is being refered as such? all the more mhmmm things about his behavior for sure.

Omi is so so sweet and so nice yessss and Citron was so interesting this event. I love when the mask falls around Citron for a bit. He remains mysterious in his own way, but it's always fascinating to approach. God the charm. I have many thoughts about the charm. That i will not elaborate on. But so many thoughts.

And god yeah, the sibling situation. It's so sad. Regardless of the details it also does explain why he wants the Spring Troupe to be a family this much and why he ends up caring about his troupesmates so much. (and Muku, who's one of the charas outside of his troupe Citron has a lot of affection for. Re: their crossbackstage)

And yeah i agree, this event was really good for Citron's development without ruining the mystery for now. It's also really a good event to go back to when you do know, it's so fascinating. BUT HELP "I WANT TO SEE CITRON CRY" I SEE YOU. I hope act 2 lives up to your expectations <3

god you pointing out that Homare has so much joy being with Hisoka. Yes you're totally correct. Like, he may complains at time and Hisoka can be so rude but Homare enjoys spending time with him so much. I do love that he bribed him into it though. Homare, of course, is just like that, talking in English and in French and whatever. For Hisoka…. Yeah it sure is shady isn't it. Like wow okay mister amnesia how did you get that.

Tsumu and Tasu being on this vibe was so good. I love how it shows just how complicit they are. And Tasuku gets to be more and more communicative of his feelings. It is, after all, the thing he had to learn, since it's because he didn't know how to talk to his troupesmate, especially Tsumugi, that things went wrong, and he's been learning and it's sweet. THE RAINBOW OMMENT HELPPP.

BUT YESS The preparation for New Year are so sweet. And DLKFJDLKFJFD THE CARROTS. THAT DYNAMIC. But yeah it's pretty much this, Tenma doesn't like carrot, Homare wants him to eat carrots, but as long as Tenma doesn't want to Homare will eat them for him. It's adorable isn't it. AND THE NEW YEAR CHAT YESS IT'S SO SWEET. Homare's name is indeed Alice on here (since his last name is Arisugawa = Arisu, which is pronounced Alice. It's also sweet considering Hisoka always calls him "Arisu" only. also i think it's really cute like, the duo Alice In Wonderland and Sleeping Prince (canon nickname Homare use on Hisoka). They're adorable.)

BUT YEAHHH this event was great. A good lighthearted event for NY and just. so soft all around. I love those guys so much.

And indeed building up some act 2 things which are going to be fun to explore. Looking forward to see you experience it all, since you do have a keen eye at picking stuff up ;DDD

thank you once again for sharing all of this with me. It was a blast to read through and relive, and reminded me of quite a few things (esp since you're entering the territory of material-i-only-read-once, compared to almost everything before that i read a few dozen times ahah). So that's going to be a blast to relive for me as well ;D

thank you so much once again, and happy new year if we don't see each other again before the 1st ;D

Take care <33

#IT4S PERFECT THANK YOU #ichareply #ichafantalks a3 #aranarumei

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