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Mim family Umbrella Academy AU where Maverick's number keeps going up with every new Mim kid because the largest number is the most powerful (Vanya as seven being the most powerful) and she eventually winds up as like, Number Eighty-Seven

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Ivy and Uma know several of Ace's switch triggers, Alastair made the choice to tell them so that in the event of Ace losing control, there would be someone who would be able to keep it from hurting someone or itself. They know how to trigger Alastair, Axel, Hugh, and even Joan and John, as well as being able to trigger forward Ace. This was a tremendous show of trust as being able to trigger forward other alters intentionally, especially Hugh, gives someone a lot of power to hurt the system, and it took years for Uma and Ivy to build up that trust with Alastair. But they did, and they will never abuse the trust he gave them.

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Maverick is Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day, but specifically the parts in the music video where he's saying he walks alone and yet clearly has two other guys standing with him

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May we know more about CJ Jones and her OSDD-1a?

When CJ was little, she was a very sickly child because merfolk are supposed to be raised underwater but she couldn't be due to the pollution. This is what killed Sojourner and Ida. Her parents expected they were going to lose her, too, so they hung on loosely for a long time, afraid of getting attached lest CJ leave them like the other two did. This distance lasted until CJ was seven, when her health started to improve and her parents weren't as afraid to get close to her. But the distance in those formative years still did damage that was exacerbated by her Madness Curse- it caused her to develop a dissociative disorder

There are six alters, they all go by different nicknames when fronting- Kelly goes by Calie, Calista Jane (the host/alter assigned to daily living) goes by CJ, Caitlin goes by Charlie, Jackie by Jay, and Lucy just goes by JJ because she and Jackie are twins. Kelly is the oldest (aside from CJ) and the main protector, as well as the co-host. Caitlin is also a protector, an emotional protector who's a bit of an emotional brick wall and doesn't feel emotion as readily or deeply as CJ does. Jackie is kind of a system moderator and her twin, Lucy, is a child alter, she's five and for a long time she pretended to be a scary monster because she was scared, she saw the Isle through CJ's eyes and she knew that the Isle was a dangerous place for little girls so she made herself a big, scary monster because little girls get hurt but big, scary monsters don't. It's through a lot of work with Facilier that Lucy became comfortable being a little girl again, that she started being herself again and has started to not feel like she has to be on the defensive at all times.

CJ found out about the rest of the system last year, when they decided she was in a safe enough place (considering how heavy Harriet's protection over CJ is and all of the perks that come with Harriet's protection) for them to make themselves known to her, so CJ was far younger than most people are when they have their... I believe it's called a syscovery? Discovery of the system? She was twelve. It was a very stressful time, sure, but with a lot of therapy with Facilier (there were a solid five months where she had daily sessions with him to figure everything out) she's getting used to it. They get along fine, aside from the initial friction over Lucy pretending to be a monster and freaking the others out (not her fault, she's five and she was scared.)

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Milori is currently ruling Pixie Hollow, has been ever since Clarion's death with the burning of the original Pixie Dust Tree (thank Pan they had a spare, the one Zarina grew.) Generally Neverfay die within months of their significant other dying, but Milori has lived five years through sheer force of will while they wait for another fairy with Clarion's talent to be born. Hopefully that will happen soon, because no one is sure how long he can keep this up

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To put into perspective how strong Ace is, it once threw Maverick (over five hundred pounds) across a room by grabbing her by the arm and judo flipping her like Batman did to Superman. Admittedly it only managed this because it caught Maverick by surprise and she wasn't expecting it to be as strong as it was but still, it did this.

So really, neither it nor Jay should have been surprised when it accidentally knocked Jay out in one punch, but they both very much were

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Jane's entire aesthetic is going to change once the spell over Fairy Godmother is gone. For the first time in her life she can pick out her own clothes and dress how she wants and so now she's going to have a rebellious phase and her mom is so proud of her for it

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wait y'all july 31st is gonna be descendants 10 year anniversary

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Bianca has needed to put her Blest thing on temporary hold to help manage the Underworld in Hades's absence. She is not thrilled about this, though she is enjoying the opportunity to get to know the man her brother has become and to meet her other siblings (minus three since Hadie, Riah, and Mal are still alive for now.)

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Riah is this close to snapping and telling Fairy Godmother his actual old name (Lydia) just so she'll stop calling him Rhiannon. Calling him Rhiannon is invoking the same amount of rage in him that calling him Matilda does and if it doesn't stop, he is going to duel her and he is going to win.

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"If we were born here," Rose whispered, betrayal blooming in her eyes as she looked at Mirana as though she'd been slapped, "Then you let them send us to the Isle." Mirana couldn't argue that idea. It was, technically, true. Simplified but true. "Why?"

She'd been expecting this conversation. Didn't make confronting her failure any easier. "I tried to get custody of the three of you once I realized Iracebeth was to be sent away, but to sever her parental rights and adopt you was difficult considering her status as a queen. Beast sped up your trials so that I couldn't get custody before she was sent to the Isle and you were sent with her. As for why I let you stay on the Isle..." she sighed, "After Jezebel was assassinated for her status as crown heir, I was afraid that bringing you to Underland would only end your lives. The second Ace became crown prince, there was a target on its back, which is why I worked so hard to make sure it could take the throne the second you two being here became public knowledge, as being king protects it. If I had bought you two here before it could take the throne, I've no doubt Ace would have been assassinated like Jez and you would have been, too. I couldn't endanger your lives like that. I understand why you're angry-"

"Who's Jezebel?" Rose interrupted. "And why was she crown heir?"

Who was... how did Rose not know about Jezebel? Of course, she and her brother had been too young to remember her, but surely... Had Iracebeth really not told them? "You don't know?" Rose shook her head. "Jezebel was your sister. She was nine years older than you, twelve when she was killed. I'd thought your mother and father-"

"Well, they didn't," Rose snapped. "Who killed her?"

"No one knows for sure." But the answer was obvious, even if it couldn't be proven, "But I believe it was the Beast."

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The six all get upgraded to Villains when they get sent back to the Isle because now they've committed treason in freeing Hades. This works to their advantage (except for Riah, who doesn't get to enjoy his new immortality for long before he gets shot and imprisoned in Auradon)

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If my Uliana post doesn't get uncensored I swear to the gods. I'll post it anyway but you can bet I'll rant about it

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Ace; I hate Auradon's idea of small talk. "Tell me something you've never told anyone else" absolutely the fuck not.

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can we know about mora and her poison training?

Mora has needles in her fingernails, like Irina Spasky. If she flexes the topmost joint on any of her fingers, a needle under her fingernail will extend around half a centimeter and those needles have poison in them- golden poison dart frog poison, to be exact. Like Malcolm, she has artificial venom glands that produce it (courtesy of Mordred. Fae didn't want to but Mim wanted faer to so fae had to,) but her method of poisoning people is more effective than Malcolm's because she can do it from a better distance. Malcolm has to bite people, Mora can just scratch them and boom, they're dead. In order for this to not be extremely dangerous for Mora, Mim spent years forcing Mora to build up an immunity to golden poison dart frog poison. But that's not the only poison Mora has an immunity to

Through a combination of mithridatism (taking non-lethal amounts of poison to condition the liver to create enzymes that will protect someone from said poison) and biological manipulation, Mim spent years exposing Mora to all kinds of poisons, venoms, and toxins until Mora was immune to even extremely lethal doses. She did this by poisoning Mora's food and water, or even the air in her room, until Mora got sick of constantly being poisoned and pitched the idea of special poison training sessions, which Mim agreed to. If the amount of poison she was given during training turned out to be too much, Mim always had antidotes, or she would poison Mora so that Mordred could see how the poison effected the body so that fae could undo the damage and learn how to make Mora immune to it in real time (Mordred was very close with Mora so this was extremely motivating for faer,) then Mim would make faer install the same biological process behind the immunity fae gave Mora into other weapons. Then, to be sure Mordred was right and actually did it, she would poison someone with whatever they were supposed to be immune to. If they died, Mordred considered the blood on faer hands, so fae got very good at this. Mora was essentially the human trial (well, she's only half human, but you get my point) before a medication can be released to the public. Could go right, could also go extremely wrong. Mora's had to have several organs replaced by Zevon's artificial ones, including her heart, because of her poison training. She has nearly died several times

On top of Mora being trained against actively lethal stuff, she was also trained against a lot of drugs. Chloroform, for example, has no effect on her. She's completely immune to opium and most stimulants, and to alcohol. She'd probably be immune to way more if Mordred hadn't run away two years ago and if she hadn't run away six months ago.

Mim did this because she planned to put Mora on missions to poison people and figured there would be less risk if Mora was immune to the poisons she would be using. That's right, Mora has gone through all of this grief just on the off chance she might be poisoned by whatever she was using to poison someone else. Mim didn't think Mora would make a good fighter (mostly because Malcolm wasn't a good fighter due to his hand-eye coordination and his motor control being terrible, and she figured Mora would have the same issue because Mora also has DS) so she did this instead. Didn't even bother to try and see if Mora would suck at fighting (and Mora is a very good fighter, by the way.)

Mora hates her grandmother for a lot of reasons, but the poison training is probably the biggest one

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Evidence of the bullshit

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Uliana review temporarily put on pause because Tumblr gave my review draft a fucking content warning label.

HUH????