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ryutarotakedown · 2 years

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one of the more interesting bits of spy x family (the anime, i haven’t read the manga) that i haven’t seen people talk about is how, in some ways, yor and loid’s personalities are kind of the opposite of what you’d expect of them?

(under a cut because whoops this got long lmao)

loid’s a spy, so to some extent his coldness is a trope associated with that, but. sometimes he goes above and beyond.

it’d be easy to let karen from the first episode down gently by saying that he doesn’t think this relationship is working out, or breaking up somewhere private. instead he insults her, says he hopes she has a happy life in the same breath, and leaves before she’s even processed what he just said.

when he sees a grandma get robbed his first instinct is to comment that the grandma should have been more careful.

less of an example but he never tries to explain to anya why he’s adopted her or give her a backstory of any kind; he just trusts her to go along with him lying that he’s her biological dad??

like, i love him, but sometimes he’s an asshole y’know? some of this (e.g. the grandma thing) could be excused because a spy needs to prioritize not being noticed, but breaking up with karen so shortly and publicly couldn’t have done anything but cast more suspicion on him. the only explanation i can think of is that he genuinely disliked her and didn’t mind her knowing it after his mission was over.

it’s interesting because loid’s the protagonist, and spy-protagonists are generally portrayed as (almost) Pure Good (or “has to commit atrocities for the sake of the mission sad face”). he even has the tragic backstory to go along with it! but the narrative goes out of the way to point out that sometimes he’s just kind of a dick <3

as for yor, she’s a Whole Assassin, and unlike loid’s story where it’s emphasized he turned to spy work because he wanted to make the world a better place, it looks like yor started killing people for money. yes, to raise her and her brother, but the narrative never focuses on their Abject Poverty or that she was forced into it, rather that it’s just a job she enjoys. she doesn’t kill innocents, so she genuinely believes that the shopkeeper’s tasks for her are all for the sake of good, but again this isn’t emphasized as much as the fact that she clearly just likes it—she thinks in killing metaphors (gingerbread man fractions), she’s never seen feeling guilty about her job, and when she meets loid, she doesn’t think “this is the only person who will forgive me for what i’ve done”—she thinks, “this is the only person who will understand me.”

so basically, yor is the perfect archetype for someone who you’d expect to be a little cold, a little detached. a little less regard for general humanity than a person who’s not a contract killer. but instead,

she goes after the person who robbed the grandma immediately (showing her incredibly strong sense of justice)

she is evidently ready to murder the sexist interview teacher for hurting anya, after knowing her for maybe a week? a month? unsure. yes, loid was too, but that gels perfectly with his goal of making a world where children don’t cry, plus he had the excuse of needing anya happy for the mission.

she really, genuinely tries to be nice to her colleagues. she only contemplates killing everyone at that party once! which i really do think is impressive for someone who kills people on a daily basis, especially since her colleagues (well, mostly just camilla) are mean to her. like, really mean.

i mean, yeah, on an objective level yor and loid are probably around the same level of morality TM (with yor a little more willing to act on her impulses of good/bad). but, i dunno, i think the subversion of which of them is more outright “good justice-doer” and which is more “subtle and detached” is fascinating.

#s: spy x family #jules.txt #…yeah i'll maintag why not:#sxf #spy x family

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jesperr-fahey · 4 months

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ringing in the new year the way god intended. half asleep after being in a car for two days straight and playing kingdom hearts.

#birth by sleep if you're curious.#laptop open next to me with melding recipes #notebook on my other side with various melding diagrams #terra time currently #kingdom hearts #(yeah i'll maintag this. why not.)

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tea-of-destiny · 2 months

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26. let's stick Clive and Descole on an elevator

Hi sorry this is so late the issue is I'm a terrible person

26. What [Clive] would do if stuck in an elevator with [Descole]

My initial thought was that Clive would be disinclined to take Descole seriously about anything because of the surplus of theatrics. Which is not to say that Clive isn't full of drama himself--I just feel like he's kind of Like That in his manner and really prefers to get straight to the point of action, whereas the Descole persona involves more deliberate over-acting in the part of the villain.

So, on the other hand, I guess Descole would think Clive is just some sassy know-it-all kid getting in the way and also not want to take him seriously. They might be too busy turning their noses up at each other to actually think if there's some way they can work together to resolve the matter of the elevator being stuck.

Though, I do also think if they were going to be stuck for a long time and they could get past their egos, there is a small chance that they would get to talking about their traumatic pasts and villainous ambitions. Then maybe they would develop some sort of sympathetic respect for one another.

But I really do think the chance of that is small. Like, they would more likely just be way more pissed off by the circumstances after being around the other person than if they were just stuck on the elevator alone.

#teaposts #answered #professor layton #clive dove #jean descole #sure i'll maintag this #river do you remember if i ever sent you an ask off this list? do you want one if i didn't before?#i love that i can't just. answer asks when i get them and return the favor right away. if i want asks why do i always put off answering the #anyways yeah thanks for the ask

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sharkface-daydreams · 1 year

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alrighty, AU time. some of these are partially posted. some are partially written. some of them will never see the light of day and/or are only half formed ideas shaped by delirious whimsy. but i think they're fun.

tagging @autisdicksimmons bc this is your fault (affectionate)

Thread Gulch Chronicles - the 4th wall touching cross stitch au. still haven't decided if i want to do anything related to framing

Andy the bomb but turn him into a ship ai and give him a crush on a dirty little shisno au - partially posted as of rn but the guy who works on this isn't out very much so it's in limbo kinda

Tripartite "villains in love" au (i know the name is stupid, bite me) - all take place in the same universe. stassney lives and ends up Stockholm syndromed with Felix who he rescues from dying at the bottom of the tower, locus realizes Doyle's romantic notions of soldiers are actually what's correct and either they fuck off together and Doyle fakes his death or locus surrenders idk haven't decided, and sharkface and price say fuck all this shit and fuck off into the aether for a happy ever after. there's some bits posted as the Unfettered [WIP snips] on ao3

Afterburner - Hargrove recovers Sigma and Sigma is given to sharkface to assist in killing freelancers (underdeveloped, that's literally all i have written lmao)

Double Triple - the triplets and the trio trying to make the best of their ice planet abandonment with hijinks and nonsense and dwindling supplies

Foxtrot Echoes - the honeypot au: version 1 contains no actual York ai but it's completely contrived and hinges on sharkface being a good enough actor to fool Carolina, wash and epsilon in order to get closer enough to kill them. bro fails step 1 tho and falls for Carolina and has to come clean thereby destroying the whole reason he'd confessed. angst!!! version 2 contains actual York ai but he's an early attempt by freelancer to acquire another ai so he's not technically a smart ai but he's still an ai and his and shark's psyches bleed into each other a bit

Heartstrings au - I only have Gravity posted bc tbr the rest of this is completely self indulgent Locington schmoop but I'm always a sucker for a good betrayal plotline

Shark mechanic au! the feds n news scoop up a fishy enemy and as they need all hands on deck he helps them as a mechanic and bonds a bit with the ducklings

modern band au - shark in a band with wash, south, pills and sleeves, all sorts of drama. not very well developed but lots of Sharklina angst

Xmas sharcus bit - this might get written eventually. modern au where the mercs gang gathers at Locus' for the holiday and during an argument with Felix, shark breaks an ornament that's really important to his bf locus… then works really hard to fix it but it's like glass u know so it's a huge pita. idk. Christmas schmoop, i was miserable on antivirals when i did this lol

the Sharklix "get worse together" enemies who fuck to kinda friends who fuck and also get revenge together au. unlikely to be posted, it's a little too self indulgent lol

games of the heart - au where Sharkface realizes he can't beat the freelancers physically so he suckers wash into falling for him so he can turn around and shred his heart to pieces. underdeveloped, self indulgent

get your kicks - the long haul trucker/greasy spoon waiter lolix au featuring unhappily married locus and licherally dying of boredom working for tips along the desert freeway Felix (thanks Ross for the line i took and ran with 💖) also the road is route 66 and modeled after the old route 66 on earth for novelty reasons

Lazarus - locus does his good guy shtick and returns often to help a sangheili colony and winds up with an alien baby. someone activates a temple of regeneration on chorus, and now alive Felix goes hunting for revenge. parts of this posted in scribbles n bits but it's not a full thing in the first place

the Locnut farm family rivalry au with donut and his two moms next door to locus and his two dads who are in a Midwestern rivalry but the two of them are getting along much too well

MaceFace! Mason and Sharkface run into each other at physical therapy and get chummy and eventually set out together for revenge since Lolix and the freelancers are both on Chorus

The Outriders AU - an enormous crossover undertaking with characters in the Outriders game universe… this will probably never be done but i got great plans for it. the mercs and a few others get freaky superpowers, there's an epic quest for info to secure survival, and Dr Church is trying to reverse engineer the superpowers unethically and causing problems so what else is new

MetaNut meet-cute/horny au where donut doesn't get shot bc Meta gets attached and also yanks donut over the cliff with him during the fight but they both survive and work their way back up to civilization while everyone else assumes them dead. plural meta au ✌️ also they have a little cottage with a garden and bees

the "no-PFL" SharkPrice AU where Price is hired at the same Charon building untoasted Sharkface is working security for and also Price and Dr Church are bitter exes and Church thinks Price is cradle-robbing when he sees them together

red Team Shark AU where Boose and Shark are friends and bond over losing your friends

Tear The Throat - also known as the SharKey AU (the one that comic is about) where Sharkface gets the key because he grabs it and tosses it to Felix not knowing it bonds to one person. This is a Chorus-loses AU bc they can just turn the key on the purge and call it a day and cash in.

WashFace au where Wash and Terrence were together before whatever shit happened that got Wash almost court martialed and sent to PFL, and Wash doesn't shoot when Sharkface makes his little "as long as I'm alive" speech bc he recognizes him when he takes off his helmet. and shark is like wtf you're supposed to be DEAD and gdi he can't kill wash now this is fucking unfair

extremely underdeveloped Dragon Age au with Sharkface as an apostate fire mage but like that's literally all there is to it lmao … shape shifter with dragon form could be fucking cool tho

fucking hell i forgot the Yurch au, that shit just started sprawling. yellow church gets stuck in cabooses head after church's time travel shenanigans in s3? and then yoinked out into a spare Android body and now there's a new guy on Blue team but he's church but he's not. blue church gets sent to rats nest with the others instead of isolated and they rescue all the fragments. EL/NOD AU. this is also what i made my freelancer OCS for but only Rhode island is actually in the story until they get to chorus. few variations on that one

#rvb #Red vs Blue #why not let's maintag this sh #au Central #most of these involve sharkface but like did you expect anything else of me lol #but yeah I've had terrible writers block for months so these all just get backed up in my head with nowhere to go :/#sorry i forgot the yurch au i had to tack that on there #I THINK I FIXED ALL THE TYPOS IF I FIND ANY MORE I'LL DIE

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nootville · 1 year

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still somewhat newish to the ol' tumblrydoo so pardon me if this is well established already but agent fox mulder of x-files fame should be a tumblr sexyman if he isn't already. i would say scully too but i think she's too cool and badass to qualify

#listen listen ok mulder is SEXY but also PATHETIC AS HELL #plus the tragic backstory???#oh baby he is tumblr sexyman material for SURE #x files #fox mulder #yeah i'll maintag this. why not #tumblr sexyman #i'll maintag that too i have no fear #noot's noots

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doyouknowthemossinman · 7 months

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a dapper man and his boys!!! <3

i spent. so long on these. because i saw that suit and decided "that's mike's color and i have to put him in a fucking suit now!!!!" and then i just wanted to draw the other two so i had them all on one page lol. perhaps to practice their hair idk. anyway

here is the suit mike is wearing btw:

(thank u for the wonderful outfits canner i love u so much) (seattle kraken gameday fits back when)

#treewords #mossarts #kga #knight guard au #yeah i'll maintag why not #danny's was the pose where i stared at marc andre fleury for like half an hour. btw.#actually part of my process was working so hard on getting his face right that it got dark in my room and i forgot to turn on the light and #i just drew by my laptop light. for longer than i should have. in complete silence #trust in the process i guess #aw fuck i just realized how tiny his hand looks

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nervousmonolith · 1 year

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thinking about this wip.

#monolith mumbles #fruitberries #yeah I'll maintag it why not #i will work on it again at some point i prommy #school is just beating my ass

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scover-va · 1 year

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Inscryption popularity poll but its just the subordinates and extras because the scrybes, luke, and kaycee would automatically have an advantage over all the others

#10 notes and i'll do it /hj /hsrs #scov.txt #inscryption #yeah sure why not #why not maintag? its funny /j

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exercise-of-trust · 4 months

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technically we are still in the first week of the new year so i can still set goals. anyway i'm gonna be trying to finish eldamo/paul strack's intro quenya course this year! if you've always wanted to learn elf latin and want a study buddy gimme a yell, i have english AND tengwar flashcards 👍

#eh yeah i'll maintag this. why not #tolkien #quenya #the lord of the rings #the silmarillion #maybe by the time i finish carl will finally have published those taliska notes (<- vain & foolish hope of a man lying to himself)

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riacte · 4 months

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i never really paid attention to it but wow false and ren. they really do hover around each other huh. they r like bugs

Hiii anon thanks for the ask <3 I'll use this to talk about them and them in fanon because I have thoughts woooo (and I'm vibrating with excitement because I'm listening to the HC Grand Prix at the same time)

You said it exactly— like we all know they're buddies and stick together, but most of the times, we don't really notice it because it's just natural. Nondescript even. Like of course their pixels are next to each other in the background. Of course they're hanging out. It's not flashy or anything, they're just there.

[long and winding analysis that goes off in a Direction, will definitely not be maintagged, mentions of shipping and the fandom's worst enemy (comphet / heteronormativity)]

Pairing up

They're like those anime characters who are fully fleshed out individually, but for some reason, their screentime is tied together and they're always shown next to each other. That was actually my first impression of them back when I only watched Grian in HC6 lmao, every time Grian flew over the fantasy district he would casually go "that's False and Ren's bases" and my brain was like "hmm new names :) idk who they are but they stick together :)". Like you know when you're new to an unknown cast of people so you try to comprehend and memorise them as efficiently as possible? And so you start sorting the cast into duos / groups so it's easier to remember them? That was me trying to compartmentalize the hermits in HC6. Grian + Mumbo. Iskall + Stress. Scar + Cub. Joe + Cleo. ZIT. False + Ren.

It did not help that from Grian's POV, there was a part in the civil war arc when he collabed with False to prank Ren because they thought he'd pranked her and so my brain was like "weeewoooo I still don't know who False and Ren are but they continue stick together, and that's convenient for my internal sorting :)))". And that mutual association genuinely never stopped lmao (it only got worse).

Shared audiences?

I've talked about this on privtwt: False+Ren as a fanon duo (like duo Duo as in desert duo) is strangely niche even though they do stuff together all the time and they're both fairly popular on their own. And there is so much intermingling between their audiences— I know this is the case for all hermits' audiences, but it seems especially obvious between their audiences. I know in a stream Ren said he met up with False and they had a discussion like years ago about the two of them hosting a meet and greet with fans in a restaurant (that didn't happen) and internally I was like "yeah, that'll only work if they have a solidly integrated fanbase so no one feels left out in the restaurant WAIT. That's literally what's going on here".

Funny how when I was writing this, an anon sent an ask about Ren's chat basically being full of False emotes LOL. Integrated audience kinda real <3 like, even if you only watch one of them and don't actively watch the other, you still know and think of the other fondly.

Different styles? And sticking together

Actually outside of yayyy fun minigames, to me at least they have quite different styles + ways of presentation? Which feels slightly different from the above duos I mentioned? So I totally understand why people only main one of them and don’t watch the other (but still aware of the other obviously). In terms of taste and personal preference, I’ve been here long enough to know what loyal False mains generally like and what loyal Ren mains generally like. (Like, very verrrry generally.) Ren’s the dramatic roleplay storyteller and False is like, sneaky and shifty and has a wry sense of humour. They’re both funny and charming in different ways. I would say Iskall and Stress have similar presentations (“aha? AHA?”) even though they excel at different things. Cub and False are also similar to me— competent and cool people who are nonchalantly chaotic. And we all know Ren and Martyn’s instant chemistry and their similarities. It’s why a lot of Ren fans gravitated to Renchanting and Rendoc for their dramatics and flirting in the way some False fans gravitate to Fress and Falseren for the fun/mildly hysterical/teasing/sweet/pranking moments.

BUT

False and Ren bounce off each other well— it’s the playful tension and the sudden mutual whiny energy like “noooo don’t leave me🥺” but they start hitting each other 0.5 seconds later. And of course the mutual clinginess. I know people have made jokes about how they’re both smart and competent people individually but when they get together they suddenly become the silliest sillies and share one braincell <3 and I know people (read: mutuals in my DMs) have joked about Ren’s currently extremely obvious bias for her (it's as big as the BRR sign I swear 😭) and the usual “orbiting around each other group recordings”. Compared to other duos, they don’t get paired together bc of similar presentations / style. They get paired together because of the chemistry and they share so many moments lol.

Tldr: they make for entertaining on-screen interactions. It’s fun watching them rotate around each other and punch each other off things. And they do this so much that 1) everyone’s aware of it 2) everyone’s used to it.

Branding? (Or the lack of it)

Last I checked, their tag has 46 fics on Ao3 and 16 of those fics are from me (I love being spiders georg). As with every pair that's not the juggernaut pair, realistically the actual number of fics that actually focus on them is less than what we see. And you know how sometimes for the "niche" pairs, there's more ship fic than platonic fic? (Actually I think for most pairs, there's more ship fic than platonic fic.) That's also not it, they don't even have 20 ship fics. Like clearly, the current fanon interest in them is not ship motivated versus *gestures to whatever is happening in the general shipping chaos post 2021*.

What I concluded is that they lack the kind of branding that for example Convex possesses. I think it's kind of because... they're an ubiquitous constant throughout the years. They don't need a storyline or a named group to tie themselves together. No matter what they're doing, no matter what characters they're playing, no matter which servers they're on— they just kind of stay in each other's orbits. But they don't play it up or anything like hashtag SHIPrendoc or Renskall or whatever. They don't even have a proper fanon name ffs (outside of fairy pirate grotto or whatever in HC6).

(Although imo this is likely to avoid comphet irl shipping because God forbid a man and a woman are friends :))))) heteronormative irl shipping / truthing was an annoyance for years (pre the HC6 boom). But strangely enough, modern anti hermitshippers on Twitter rarely bring up the real problem of truthing in public comments and instead target people making Scarian fanart in a small corner or whatever. When many cases of Compulsory Heterosexuality literally exist in YouTube comments. But I digress.)

Ren and False are just there, pranking each other and basing together and playing five million minigames and being casually supportive of each other. Like, their biggest shared "storyline" that left a strong impression on fans / converted fans was probably MCC9. We all still talk about it today the way Ren and Martyn still talk about 3L Renchanting. And MCC9 was in 2020 when they'd already done a lot of stuff together prior to that (eg. literally being neighbours in HC6).

And the thing is, they do collab semi-frequently. In like every Hermitcraft season. In recent memory, we've got the Blue River Raceway of course, but we also get those pranks and minigames and random silly interactions like Ren breaking into False's eagle and False pranking him at her elytra race. It doesn't need to be big and theatrical in classic Ren fashion (I remember the Renbob / Falsewell storyline in HC6; her nonchalance and confusion was so funny in contrast to Renbob's hippie demeanor).

And I kind of like the way they've kind of (?? or not???) escaped from the intense duo-ification from the fandom. Okay, to be fair, I know I am the worst offender of the duo-ification of them (with my desperate do not separate agenda), and maybe I've had a negative effect on the fandom, so feel free to throw me off my soap box. I remember how hermitblr as a collective suddenly lost it when they split in MCC17. We took them for granted, we all got to used to them being together, we got used to seeing them in the background, and then suddenly they’re not??

So we’re all kind of aware of them. But it’s not a terribly big thing…. until it is.

It's the same on the M/CC Reddit. Everyone knows they're iconic. But nobody makes a post about how we need more False and Ren duo interactions because they already interact a lot. It's just a natural constant. They don't really need a spotlight because they're just... here doing funky cute friendship stuff.

But if they ever, for some reason, become a mainstream duo on twt in its mainstream duo way with some [insert random noun] duo name, I will be so 🫠😒🔥💥🔥💥. But I literally cannot see this happening unless they team with Grian / Grian adjacent people in Life series. But even then I think they’re kinda exempt because everyone’s so used to them lol. It’s not like a shiny new uwu duo. It’s like how Stresskall is just Stresskall. Or Jleo.

(Actually, speaking of Stresskall, the entire Stress-Iskall-Ren-False group would make for an interesting fanon discussion bc it’s essentially made out of very solid and fan favourite duos. But not now. Team FRIS my absolute beloved though.)

Also, thinking about the ensemble HC fics I've read and how they're just casually kind of chilling in the background. Ren is usually paired with Doc (both platonic / romantic) but False is usually somehow mentioned in a passing comment. Same with False who's usually with the Hermitgals in ensemble fics, but there's also passing comments about her hanging out with Ren. Again, it's just a natural part of the background. Trivia that's sprinkled in between.

And that's why I think I'm so 🥺🥺🥺🥺 because it doesn't need to be big and grand... it's all the little moments <3 they have such a fun and playful dynamic and all the love for minigames <3

I don’t know if this is comprehensible or I’m just going crazy and overthinking things no one thinks about. But writing this was fun at least <3 If at least one person gets maybe 30% of this post (whatever it is), I'll be happy haha.

Post sponsored by the three people who liked my tweet from months ago 🥹

#ask box #answered #meta #i guess???????#this has subheadings bc i got uni coursework back and that was the feedback #ria.txt #this is 1.8k words long... could've written a oneshot lmfao #save me falseren save me #pogsupremacy

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