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yesterday I got to pet a very happy smol dog and she promptly curled up in my lap so I could give her ear scritches

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October 14th: Aiden

This is part 1 of a series focusing on each of the main six���s birthdays!

Side note: all of these mini fanfics will only include platonic relationships. I’m not going to involve any romantic connotation between characters.

Aiden’s ended up being a lot longer than I originally planned to but in any case enjoy!

Aiden’s birthday had never been anything special. Sure, his parents always left him a gift card and a fancy cake from a pastry shop but that was the extent of it. No celebration, no party, and never any friends to share the day with.

But this year, things were different.

At 11:55 PM Aiden remembered it was almost his birthday. A bittersweet feeling washed over him—part excitement, part preemptive disappointment.

He didn’t want to admit how fast he was refreshing his messages, or how often he glanced at the door, half expecting some surprise from Ben.

But nothing came.

By 12:30 AM he’d accepted it, nothing special was happening. He wouldn’t admit he was disappointed…but he was. Kind of embarrassed too for getting his hopes up. He had even gone to check on Ben, only to find him fast asleep.

He lay back in bed, eyes heavy not from tiredness but from that emotionally drained feeling that comes when you’re trying too hard not to feel let down. He imagined what the morning would bring probably a note from his parents in the living room, something like:

“Dear Aiden, sorry we can’t be there right now you know me and your father are quite busy with work. Have the loveliest birthday, son. We’ve left some cash on the table for you, Ben, and your friends to get something nice to eat. There’s cake in the fridge. Love you, son.”

And with that thought, he drifted off to sleep, knowing that the day to come would simply stack onto the ones he’d eventually forget.

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He woke suddenly to the sound of a small rock hitting his window. Confused, he peeked outside and saw… Tyler?

“Get your ass down here, sleeping beauty” Tyler called up. “I’ve been waiting for you to drag yourself out of bed for at least 10 minutes”

Still half asleep, Aiden stumbled downstairs and opened the door… and froze.

There they all were.

His friends.

Before he could process it, bright red fireworks burst into the sky. (Ashlyn, had brought her most effective earplugs for the occasion.)

Aiden stared, stunned. Taylor was holding a bunch of balloons, and Ashlyn stood beside her with a cake in her hands, the words

Happy Birthday Aiden <3 were scrawled in what looked like Taylor’s handwriting. The tiny heart at the end gave it away.

“Did you guys… do all this for me?” Aiden asked, still in disbelief.

“No,” Tyler deadpanned. “This is just our usual 7 AM hangout. We just stopped by to say hi.”

“Don’t listen to smart pants over there,” Taylor cut in, beaming. “Of course this is for you! Happy birthday, Aiden!” She ran up and hugged him so hard it nearly knocked him off his feet.

He was speechless.

“What, nothing witty to say back?” Tyler teased.

“I think he’s having a stroke,” Ashlyn added flatly.

“Guys, give him a break,” Logan said. “oh and happy birthday Aiden!”

“Happy birthday” Ashlyn added, her voice warm.

“Yeah, happy birthday, loser” Tyler said, with his usual sarcastic tone in his voice

Ben was standing next to them holding a card that read “Happy Birthday Aiden” with a big smile in his face

Aiden’s cheeks were burning. No one had ever done anything like this for him before. He felt warm, light headed but in the best way. He smiled, truly, and for once it reached all the way to his eyes.

“Come inside” he said, voice full of more joy than he realized.

They crowded into the living room. Aiden sat in the middle of the couch while the others gathered around and sang to him. When he blew out the candles, a weird kind of peace settled over him like the happiness was stitched into his chest. At the same time, he felt an overwhelming surge of excitement, like he was about to burst. Adrenaline was racing through his veins, and an intense wave of happiness washed over him.

Then came the gifts.

“You guys didn’t have to get me anything, I—”

“Stop being so nice and humble” Tyler cut in immediately. “You’re starting to sound like Logan, I’m getting kinda freaked out here”

Logan looked mildly offended but said nothing.

Taylor clapped her hands. “Okay! Time for gifts, mine first, mine first! I REALLY hope you like it I’m really proud of it”

“She really is,” Ashlyn mumbled. “She hasn’t stopped rumbling about it all week.”

Aiden took the gift from her carefully wrapped in heart-patterned paper and felt a weird anticipation as he peeled it open.

It was a skateboard.

And not just any skateboard. This one was hand-made, painted in all his favorite colors with funky doodles and smiley faces. The best part? Everyone had signed it in different ink. In the back it read, with love, Taylor.

The words curving gently along the edge.

His eyes lit up. “You made this?”

She nodded nervously. “Do you like it? I hope it’s not bad”

“Are you kidding? It’s perfect!” He exclaimed

“Check this out” He started to stand up excitedly, to go try it out immediately, but Tyler stopped him. “Lucky for you, I knew you’d do that, that’s why my gift is the sequel to Tay’s.”

Curious, Aiden tore into Tyler’s gift next. Inside was a full set of safety gear knee and hand pads, and a red helmet with shark teeth painted on it.

Aiden burst into fake tears. “Bro… come on… give me a hug!”

Tyler leaned back, cringing, and shoved a hand in Aiden’s face to keep him away. The others cracked up at their usual antics.

Then it was Ben’s turn. He handed Aiden his phone which had a playlist filled with all of Aiden’s favorite songs plus a few new ones he hadn’t seen before but knew he was gonna love. Aiden immediately pulled him into a hug, 99% of his music taste came from Ben’s recommendations and he could always count on him to get it right.

But that wasn’t the end.

Ben handed him a plushie one that was soft and huggable, and could even double as an stress-relief toy. Aiden thought it was perfect but what he didn’t know until he accidentally pressed its chest was that it could actually sing and it started playing Aiden’s all-time favorite song. Aiden couldn’t help but smile. He knew Ben had picked it because this song always lifted his mood when he was feeling down. Ben’s heart warmed at Aiden’s reaction, feeling content that he’d gotten it just right.

Next was Logan’s turn. He looked nervous as he held out his gift.

Logan handed Aiden a book shaped gift, and for a split second, Aiden panicked. He was definitely not a book guy and the last thing he wanted was to feel guilty about never reading some novel Logan carefully picked out.

But this book… was different.

It was the only kind of book Aiden would ever be excited to open: a photo album. Or rather, a scrapbook. The cover was decorated with photos of all of them together, random stickers, smiley faces, little flowers, and those sparkly things Taylor was probably responsible for sneaking in.

Inside were pictures of them doing all sorts of dumb things, blurry selfies, inside jokes, each page dated and paired with a little note from Logan. Some were sarcastic. Some were sweet. All of them made Aiden smile.

Logan rubbed the back of his neck. “I know it’s not much, but… we’ve all gone through a lot together this year. I thought this could be a sort of… wrap-up.”

None of the others had seen the gift before Logan had refused to show it to anyone, worried it wouldn’t measure up. At that moment though he couldn’t help but feel a little proud.

“No, it’s- I mean-I just- I love it,” Aiden said, a little choked up. And he did love it. How could he not?

He could already picture himself pulling this out on a rough day, flipping through the pages when the world felt like it was too much to handle and remembering that all these moments were real. They were real. These people, his people, made him feel seen.

Of course, he didn’t say all that out loud. Instead, he just grinned and muttered, “It’s amazing. Thank you, dude!”

Then came Ashlyn.

Aiden had absolutely no idea what to expect from her. She walked up to him with the most serious expression imaginable, either super awkward or possibly about to gift him a weapon and placed a small envelope in his hand.

He opened it.

VIP tickets. To see his favorite parkour athlete live and not just watch but join in. It was an interactive experience. Training, tricks, the whole thing. He stared at the tickets like they might disappear.

He’d rambled about wanting to go to this event endlessly since it was announced. From the moment he met Ashlyn, he hadn’t stopped talking about all sorts of things, but he never thought she actually cared. And apparently… she had listened. She really listened and remembered how much he liked this.

What kind of person had he been, to deserve friends like these?

He didn’t know what to say. All he could feel was this overwhelming wave of gratitude — like he could drop to the floor or launch himself into orbit and still not express how lucky he felt in that moment. He could die now, and it’d be fine.

Or maybe… maybe he could live. Live to see more birthdays like this one. More days like this. More time with them.

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The rest of the day was just as chaotic and perfect as the morning. They watched marvel movies, went to the park, and spent hours hanging out

Aiden doing every stupid, borderline dangerous thing imaginable (which was allowed because hey, it was his day)

When the sun went down, they all crashed at his place for a sleepover.

Later that night, as Aiden curled up on the couch with the others piled around him, blankets everywhere, someone already snoring, he smiled to himself.

He was tired. Full. Not just from cake or sugar highs, but from something deeper. A feeling that hadn’t come around often.

He had more to look forward to tomorrow. And the day after that.

This day was something to remember.

And with that last thought, he closed his eyes and dreamed of more days like this one.

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GUYS GO READ THIS ITS FANTASTICCCC

Chapter Six: A Routine of Strange Happiness

The entire motorhome had cost a fortune, especially considering how heavily used it was. The process of getting the necessary funds had “involved business”—which was the phrase Tyler, Ash and Logan had started using to refer to what was now an absolute shitload of crimes.

Starts right before the Season 2 Finale (Episode 96) where it diverges from canon. Updates biweekly.

(LINK TO AO3)

Everyone escapes back to the motel without getting separated, yet they’re forced to reconsider their strategy. The six teenagers need to learn how to resist the Phantoms’ corrupting influence, as well as explore their own supernatural abilities. Their enemies are many, and their potential friends are few.

To investigate the true nature of the Phantoms—and determine whether they are the only humans with access to the other dimension—the road to New York will be much longer than they first thought.

(POVs will include all six main protagonists, some of the parents, and more.)

Or; At the end of season 2 the crew doesn’t get separated, so they go on a training arc, break into military bases in the phantom dimension, plot against everyone... and find their own way through a labyrinth of bisexual confusion (very slowly).

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THIS IS SO WELL PUT OH MY GOODNESS

lets talk about...

Ashlyn Banner 💚

Ashlyn Banner's character isn't limited to a typical antisocial introvert who hates people. She's so much more than that. She, like everyone else in the SBG group, has trauma and pain of her own, that wasn't brought about by the phantom realm.

Let's firstly talk about her introversion. Ashlyn has built walls and defenses around herself that have gotten so high nobody even dared to climb them. She didn't do this just because she didn't like people and having to interact with them, because deep down, she takes shame in her sensitivity. Her tinnitus and hyperacusis aren't just physical conditions for her, but a reminder of her fragility. The world is a cacophony of sounds that continue to overwhelm her senses, highlighting her internal chaos. She longs for peace but finds herself in an endless battle against the very sounds of life. She didn't want people to portray her as weak or sensitive, so she's built this entire cold front to distract everybody from the fact that she's just like everybody else. The irony in that though is that her very defenses end up pushing away the people that might understand her pain.

She's a clueless, troubled, socially-deprived teenager. It's only natural we expect her to not know what to say every time she speaks with someone, which sometimes ends up in her just blurting out whatever comes to her mind, often having her come off as abrasive and painfully straightforward. But she never means to be rude, she just doesn't know how to sugarcoat her words or soften her sharp tongue.

Despite her introversion, Ashlyn is more than capable of asserting herself when needed, and her bluntness is merely a defense mechanism for her to navigate her complex emotions even she herself doesn't completely understand. She's unfamiliar to the social construct of friendship, and avoids it as much as she can.

So when Ben and Aiden come into her life all the sudden, she's prompted to confront her fears of social interaction. After getting entangled in the supernatural events of the phantom realm with the others, she began to slowly soften and get attached to them, eventually trusting them with her life, and they begin to trust her with theirs. This puts her under the impression that she's responsible for their safety, and is obligated to protect them. She takes the lead, and protects them all with her life, just like she would her family.

Everytime they were together, she always felt some underlying guilt for their predicament. She always felt responsible in some way, and she vowed to take the lead from there. If she felt responsible, she thought it best she would take responsibility, and be the reason they were safe. She was the only one who didn't understand that she was allowed to show them her own vulnerabilities and hurt. She thought nobody else would understand if she just broke down into tears, that everybody expected her to be perfect as the leader. If there was anything she was scared to death of, it would be fucking everything up.

Her guilt that was already eating her up inside only got worse when Tyler died. She hated seeing her friends like that, seeing Taylor absolutely inconsolable for Tyler's state in the hospital, to see everybody else worried and shaking, she thought everybody blamed her, and even she blamed herself. To think that if she'd just taken a safer route, or driven a bit more carefully, or if she'd just listened to Taylor's pleas, none of this would've happened. She saw everything as her fault. If she had just been better, Tyler wouldn't have died.

Imagine how strong she must've been to be the one to get Tyler off that tree that night. To inject into him the sedative, having to use all her strength to stop herself from trembling in those moments— the slightest slip-up could compromise any chance they had of saving Tyler.

In the hospital, all she needed was comfort, which Aiden unexpectedly provided her. It wasn't meant as a romantic act, it was just basic human decency. A tap on the hand and the light squeeze of her palm was enough to break her. She never expected that of Aiden, and Aiden never expected that of himself. They only reacted like that because— well, what could you expect from two clueless teenagers? Their development is amazing excluding romantic interests, and they aged beautifully as characters.

Having to drag Aiden's limp body to safety at the school, after witnessing him die just after Tyler did— all under her care, that was already too much to bear. Seeing Aiden look like that just before waking back up to his seizing body, she was completely frozen. Overwhelmed. If she had just reacted faster, or had kept them closer, maybe she would've been able to save Aiden in time. But no. She fucked up, again, and the guilt she felt for it crushed her. If she had just been better, none of this would have happened.

She always felt responsible for their safety, and always blamed herself for things even she had no control over. She thought everybody expected the best of her at all times, and she'd be letting them down if she were to just cry or crumble where she stood. She's a character who'd choose to go back to the past and fix all her mistakes. The new her wouldn't have traded them for the world, and if she were given the chance to go back, she wouldn't even dare to change being friends with them, she'd just keep them even closer, and make sure none of those bad things happened again. She would do it all again if it meant they'd be safer.

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Taylor Hernàndez Headcanon time!! With a little Aiden Hc at the end :D

Homework? Nah. Writing headcanons that take me 2+ hours to formulate? Ya.

ANYWAYS. Everyone always sees her as this super adorable and sweet gal (which she ABSOLUTELY IS. 1000% hufflepuff energy through and through, absolute sweetheart, and that shit is GENUINE. Like she genuinely loves and cares for people she’s never even met, and always assumes the best of everyone.)

what people DONT realize is that she and Tyler have been taking like Boxing or Jiu Jitsu together since they were 6, and she’s like. Wonder Woman levels of buff. In the past few years she’s also taken up weightlifting, and gotten hella strong. Like to the point she can fireman carry Ben (while RUNNING) , and fully just like. Bench Logan. (The first time she did it his nose almost started bleeding. He sat in shocked silence for like 15 minutes while Aiden cackled something to her along the lines of “I think you broke him” the ENTIRE time)

there’s also a pic of her with the group (in the gc, on the Idiots wall and in Aiden’s photo album) that Aiden took a selfie of where she’s carrying Ben piggy back style, and Logan and Ashlyn are hanging off of both of her arms with their legs off the ground. Tyler is in the background pinching the bridge of his nose like “how did I end up being friends with all of the idiots”.

also she is incredibly talented at engineering. In her head she can 360 and fully take apart different components of machines and problem solve from there. Like there was one time during an automotive clinic where they were going through different symptoms of system failures, the teacher made a mistake that she tried to ask a question on, to which he was kind of rude and dismissive of. He ended up being a total 💩 and talking down to her, which was preceded by her absolutely roasting his ass in front of a bunch of people by not only correcting his answers, but also quoting their sources from manufacturers manuals that (somehow??????) she managed to get her hands on.

She was 12 and in a college level auto class.

After that, all the kids would ask her questions on things they didn’t know before they would ask the teacher. Tyler was BEYOND proud.

To add on a grittier and deeper level:

she knows she has the capability to manipulate people (because her emotional intelligence is OFF THE CHARTS and she knows how someone will react in any given situation) but she very consciously makes the choice not to unless it is a life or death situation, or a very VERY important one.

She’s very aware (read: TOO aware) of how she appears to people and how she responds and talks to them. She’s very careful to keep their image of her as harmless in order to seem more approachable. She is very calculating, but no one would know because they don’t think to look deeper into her as a person. It’s interesting because one of the things she’s really good at (if she wants to be) is talking around an answer. There are quite a few people who if they really stopped to think on what they know about her, the only thing they could come up with would be a physical description, the knowledge that she has a brother, and that she likes cars. That’s it.

People also tend to like the easily digestible superficiality of her personality, which she knows and does on purpose. There’s some very complicated stuff that has gone down, and she’s an extremely private person who doesn’t want to talk about it. It’s a little scary sometimes too because it’s very easy to underestimate her, but if it came down to it she would know all of your weaknesses and you would know pretty much none of hers.

Something her friends and her brother started to notice after the first month in the phantom dimension is that she does a LOTTTTT of masking. By herself, she’s pretty quiet. She’s also not shy exactly, but not the most outgoing, either. However, to keep her brother in check and her mum from spiraling, she takes on a very optimistic and kind caregiver persona to help them. Like stated before, that’s all genuine care and love, but she also really leans into it in order to make sure she’s doing as much as possible to care for her family.

The reason her friends start to see this is that with the 7 extra hours added to their body clocks she gets tired a lot more quickly, and she and fatigue do not mix well. Usually she is able to recharge to some extent (when her brother is at baseball practice or while her mom is at work or with their grandma) in the quiet or by working or cleaning parts, but with both her and her brother not having enough energy for activities that balance has been skewed a bit, which results in her being a little more grouchy or snappy than usual, and also overstimulated (and simultaneously understimulated). You would not notice any change if you didn’t know her, but she and her friends do.

(Surprisingly ((or not so surprisingly))), Aiden is the first one to notice this, and offers for her to come over and fix a dirt bike he messed up a couple years ago, knowing full well she wouldn’t trust him within 6 feet of any tool or machine she cared to keep intact. What ends up happening is she will go over there after a really long and draining day to work on it, and he will go away to work on homework in the room attached to the garage while she gets some quiet time alone. A beanbag corner has also (very mysteriously) been added to a corner of the garage out of the main line of eyesight of everyone else, but it has a really good view of what’s going on, so sometimes she will curl up there and nap. Said corner also has a mini fridge that’s always chock full of juice boxes and food.

While only a few people are aware of the corner’s existence, it is a Very Established Rule that it is Taylor’s Corner, and you are not to go over there while she is in it unless invited or called.

A note on Aiden: When he realized how many of his friends were more on the introvert side, he started designating other corners of his house as ‘Quiet Corners’, such as the weird “closet”space just off of the living room, and the spare bedroom next to Ben and Aiden’s room.

Those corners are actually some of Ash, Taylor, and Logan’s saving graces. Said corners serve slightly different purposes- the one just off the living room having a space away from the others where they can still be heard, or the one upstairs that’s a lot more quiet. Both have a cooler for snacks and juice, and comfy pillows to sprawl out on.

while there’s a TON I could add to this even now, I think I’m maxing out Tumblr’s draft save feature 😂 so yeah.. I hope you guys enjoyed this!

Taylor Hernández and Aiden Clark everyone!

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A little snippet of a fic I'm uploading soon...

“You’re sleeping?” Lance cries.

“Great observation.” “I thought you—I thought—” Lance splutters. “I didn’t think you were going to sleep!”

Keith turns over his shoulder to see Lance’s agape expression. It’s funny enough that the humor distracts him from the pitter-patter of his heartbeat. “What did you think I was going to do?”

“Brood? Stare at your sword? Punch a wall?”

“Why would I punch a wall?” Keith frowns. “We literally have a training room.”

“Who knows?” Lance pushes himself away from the pillows. “I’ll…go then. I don’t—my bad, dude. Wouldn’t have bothered you so much if I knew you were headed to nap. I’ll go, then.”

“Wait.”

Keith’s breath catches in his throat. He doesn’t—what is he supposed to say? It occurs to him that he wants Lance to stay. That despite all his complaints and irritation, he wants Lance. Keith doesn’t want to go to sleep, at least not alone. He doesn’t want to be alone with his wicked, racing thoughts that hammer at his brain with every footfall. And he doesn’t—Keith’s mind roves through the faces of all his other teammates—want to be with anyone else.

It should be a shocking discovery, to know that he craves Lance’s presence, but Keith stumbles upon it like a natural truth that he has known all along. Like watching the laws of physics fall into place or the route on his father’s map lead to the Blue Lion.

posting it next week! Stay tuned!

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gUYS GO READ THIS ITS FANTASTIC

Ch 11 is posted! Currently just shy of 50k and will definitely be a finished work, I promise ☺️

With my roots above On a mission to a Galra prison ship, Keith and Lance accidentally acquire a half-Galra baby. They and the rest of Voltron have to work out a way to get her back to her mysterious home planet-- and Lance takes it on himself to make sure she’s cared for in the meantime. Unfortunately for him, she seems to like Keith much better.

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Not me going and reading all five chapters in one sitting 😭🙏

Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron) Characters: Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Matt Holt, Shiro (Voltron), Adam (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron) Additional Tags: Zombie Apocalypse, Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Past Drug Use, Character Death, Past Relationship(s), Eventual Happy Ending, Apocalypse, Alternate Universe - Apocalypse, Keith/Lance (Voltron) Angst, Keith (Voltron) is Bad at Feelings, Lance (Voltron) is Bad at Feelings, Slow Burn, Slow Burn Keith/Lance (Voltron), Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting Summary:

“Honestly, a smarter man would have moved to a different apartment years ago. Or a less nostalgic man, maybe. Lance never bought this apartment with the intention of living in it alone. After Keith moved out, though, he just couldn’t bring himself to sell it. A part of him hoped that maybe they’d live in it together again someday. Three years later, that seemed more like the fantasy of a madman.”

Keith and Lance broke up three years ago. When Keith comes banging on Lance’s door rambling about the end of the world, Lance assumes it’s another drug-induced breakdown. But Keith really is sober. And it really is the end of the world.

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js thinking about how Ben constantly has to see the hole in Tyler’s torso and is responsible for keeping his organs in the correct places until he heals (which is creeply quickly)

like he’s 14, he has no clue how the inside of human bodies are suppose to look!! maybe he has an vauge idea but people study that stuff for yearrrsss and are still hesitant about touching and moving things around. and yet here ben is! all he has is a basic medkit, bandages, determination, and a dream. tbh he’s doing a rlly good job with what he has 🤷‍♀️

to add on, Tyler probably feels his organs shifting all the time and in the real world he probably feels like all his organs are misplaced 24/7 😭

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Logan Fields Headcanon time!! (W a little bit of Ben hc thrown in at the end)

Is this getting out of control? Maybe. Do I regret it? Not one bit.

Logan is a mythology nerd. Like, BIG TIME.

Egyptian, Greek, Celtic, you name it he knows it. Somehow he has managed to basically memorize entire genealogical trees of gods and demigods and their stories, practically word for word. He’s done the same thing with philosophers and mathematicians, and has been studying philosophy since he was maybe six.

Theory and Discussion are his JAM. For as much as he avoids confrontation normally, he can and WILL go for the jugular in philosophical debates. And he’s like, an INSANELY GOOD debater. The first time his friends ever saw him compete, it was at the national level and he made his opponent (who was a PHILOSOPHY MASTERS student from an Ivy League team) full on cry. That made them a bit scared tbh, and they thought maybe after revealing that part of himself to them, he would be more like his debate self more often.

nope.

Taylor had bought him a bouquet for the occasion and had made a homemade bunny stuffed animal that had a heart in its paws embroidered with a “good job!” on it, and he sobbed over it for 15 minutes straight. That bunny is now permanently stationed on his bed, leaned up against the pillow his great-grand mum embroidered for him.

also, he’s a polyglot. English, Greek, French, Italian, and Korean are his best ones, but he’s secretly learning Spanish (at an ungodly fast pace) so he can understand whatever the hell Taylor is always mumbling under her breath when they’re at school. He’s been at it two weeks and is already at the B2 level.

to add- he’s a mimic. He can pronounce anything perfectly in any language if he’s given an example first. It’s also scary because he’s learning how to mimic vocal tones themselves, and he can throw his voice (which he has absolutely done to fuck with Aiden, and Ben has almost broken a rib on multiple occasions trying to contain his laughter)

the only reasons his friends suspect he can speak multiple languages is that when he’s not awake, he will respond to things in French or Italian. He also has a beautiful singing voice that very few people get to hear with him intending them to, but sometimes he sings in his sleep at sleepovers. (It’s a self soothing response to nightmares, and he didn’t even know that he did it until Ash complemented him on it after a particularly hard phantom dimension night)

Ben has actually made an audio recording of him singing “Ce garçon est une ville” in his sleep, which he thought was the most adorable thing he had ever heard.

that audio clip is actually on a playlist that he has made of his friend’s voices at random moments. There’s audio clips of them at restaurants, moments from school lunch, Taylor singing something about a cottage, and all of the times Aiden has stolen his phone to say some unhinged shit that could get him suspended from school. He’s lowkey afraid to tell them he has a playlist bc he thinks they will think it’s stalkery, but he uses it as background noise when they aren’t there so he can actually sleep (he gets anxious if he can’t hear them because the only time there’s any absolute silence is alone in the phantom realm)

so yeah.. Logan Fields and Ben Clark, yall!

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Since your open to sbg asks:

Gimme your top three season 3 predictions!!!

00000 OH MY GOSH THIS IS A HARD ONE.

Ok let's see.

1st prediction is that Ashlyn is going to become fluent in sign bc of Ben, to the point where 95% of their interactions will be silent. Extra cool points for this one bc I feel like them being completely silent makes them such a deadly combo be they're both really observant and strategic.

2nd is that Tyler is going to call Aiden on his suicidal tendencies, and there will be a Conversation TM about mental health. there's also the possibility for some real vulnerability to be shown between the both of them. I wouldn't be surprised to learn Tyler has some stuff he hasn't talked about mental health wise in hopes of protecting his sister and mom.

3rd is that Logan gets hurt somehow (at the hands of an official of some kind), and between being having HELLA severe separation anxiety from missing her brother and now her friends, and getting pissed when she find out Logan is hurt? Taylor is going to Lose Her 💩, like complete villain era levels of rage, possibly even causing another dimension rift. Or vice versa-she gets hurt and he goes ape 💩on whoever did it.

Bonus: I think there's gonna be a glasses shopping montage where Ty and Aiden go to a store to get stuff so he can wear something other than contacts. I can also see them buying more hair bleach XD

What are your s3 predictions?

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Aiden Clark Headcanon time!

can’t stop bc apparently we’re on a roll so here goes

bro is OBSESSED with malts. Any kind of malts: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, ANY KIND. He’s a fiend. More specifically, he’s borderline addicted to malt powder, and he’s got like 4-5 containers of the stuff in every room in the house (there were some questions when his mum came home and there was a half empty container of it in the shower, but she was like “nope not gonna go there”). (No he does not snort it. He just. Eats it. With a spoon. Like it’s peanut butter. Bc it’s a texture thing)

So basically it started when the gang went on that field trip together (it was his first fieldtrip btw, bc before that he never knew where he was going to be for group projects so he never got to go on overnight stuff). ANYWAYS. He’d never tried malt flavour anything, and the first place they stopped was at that fast food restaurant so he ordered it. And he liked it, plus he got to eat it with his friends. So hence forth, an obsession was born.

Needless to say, he gets malt at every restaurant they stop at that has it, and brings a container of it to the ones that don’t.

He puts it in EVERYTHING. To the point where he makes malt and maple sugar bacon every morning (which was the first thing Ben taught him how to make. the bacon part, that is. The maple and malt was his idea). Aiden made it once after school because he was bored, and the group ended up coming over and sampling his (actually very well done) creation. There are now two camps in their friend group now: malt is good, and malt is bad. Logan and Tyler? They hate the stuff with a BURNING passion. Ben, Taylor, and Ash though? They have all memorized the recipe and will fight over the last piece of bacon.

It’s actually what got Ash into cooking bc she wanted to make it, and Emma and Mike were like “what the ACTUAL hell is this and also what have you done with Ashlyn?”. Now it’s a thing for the whole family- they’re all huge sweets people, and it caught on immediately after the first time she made it. Aiden has also brought some over for study sessions before, and a few pieces always go missing even before the kids get to it. (Aiden always makes triple/quadruple batches now before he goes to any hang outs, and he taught Tyler how to make it for Taylor ((per Tyler’s request)) so she can have it for a snack after mechanic’s club.)

Bonus info: it’s become such a thing in their group that one time Tyler brought over a gallon container of it over to a sleep over at Aiden’s house, which resulted in a huge mess in the living room and also a recreation of the Elmo with his face in the *cough cough* white powder meme. That pic is in Ty’s blackmail folder now. It’s also printed and hung on his Idiots Wall, which started as an aesthetic Pinterest project Tay abandoned, and he’s taken over it.

He will deny it to his DYING DAY(s) but he rlly does love them and he’s got pics of the whole group up there; cute group pics, dumb selfies, bad ideas, questionable group chat messages, memes, all of it. It’s printed and collaged up there, next to the Christmas pics of his family (that part is the Family Wall. He won’t admit that the two are less than 2 inches from each other, and they are in fact the same wall. Not yet, anyway.)

thank u for coming to my ted talk

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Ashlyn Banner Headcanon time! (Plus the group at the end!)

I just thought of this one.

so basically! We all know she is the whitest looking person in the group right- like if you didn’t know her you’d totally think she had complete gringa vibes, esp when it comes to food.

you could not be more wrong.

Anyway, one time Taylor decided it would be a good idea to dare her to do a spice challenge w her after discussing Indian food (bc Ash said she loves the super spicy stuff, but Tay was like “does she like ‘spicy’ or does she like //SPICY//) thinking it would be an easy win.

(Backstory: Taylor and Tyler used to do spice competitions growing up, and they’ve got pretty high spice tolerances too, and Tay is pretty confident in her skills.)

Wrong! basically Taylor got her ass handed to her because Ashlyn (the freak of nature she is) can and will shotgun a bottle of the worlds hottest ghost pepper hot sauce in one go and feel nothing. Apparently, she has gods highest spice tolerance and eats (casually, like it’s not mouth fire from the 19th circle of hell) the spiciest Thai, Mexican, and Indian food that she can get her hands on. (The sheer proximity to the SMELL of how spicy her food is makes Aiden cry. Every time, without fail. It even makes Tay’s eyes water a bit, which is REALLY saying something.)

One time on a road trip through Atlanta, she actually won a shirt for it. When she was 9. After a dance competition. There’s a picture of her on the spice champion wall there even with her still in performance makeup (it looks like a mugshot). She broke the record there for youngest and only person ever to finish The Hot Plate. Mike and Emma also have proof of said occurrence in the family photo album, next to her recital pics taken on their shitty Polaroid camera. They saved the shirt, too.

oh also- in terms of spice tolerance, the group rankings go like this:

Ashlyn (Ultimate freak status from the hot sauce incident)

Tay (can give Ash a good run for her money, but even she can’t do the hot sauce thing)

Logan (everyone was hella surprised by this, but he and Tay are on pretty level ground.

Tyler (spice tolerance has decreased a bit with age, but he’s in reaching distance of where he used to be)

Ben (actually is tied with Tyler)

Aiden (no tolerance. Pepper makes him cry.)

thank you for attending my ted talk

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Tyler Hernandez Headcanon time!

he’s actually the best cuddler out of the entire SBG group but he refuses to acknowledge it (he actually takes GREAT pride in it but literally no one knows that)((except maybe Taylor))

Like when someone is having a super shit day he will take one look at them, and he just. Immediately Knows. Bc he’s lowkey a mom friend. And eventually he will place himself on the outskirts of a quiet moment to catch them kinda alone, so if one of them needs a hug he’s within arms reach. And they Always. Always. Go for the hug. Because even though he’s a super lean and strong baseball dude, he’s just. Comfy. Also he somehow (even in the phantom dimension) SOMEHOW manages to smell like cologne.

He doesn’t even wear cologne.

anyways, thank you for attending my TED talk *bows* Tyler Hernandez, everybody!

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got an instagram the other day and promptly forgot to link it to anything so it looks sus asf 🤣 if you want to join the chaos im on there as @PossiblySentientMoss or maybe possiblysentientmoss3

idk how instagram works 😭 im just an 1880s grandma in a 2020s world

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

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YEEHAW BEANS CHAPTER POSTED

Nightlight (6661 words) by PossiblySentientMoss Chapters: 7/? Fandom: School Bus Graveyard - Fandom, sbg - Fandom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Ashlyn Banner/Aiden Clark Characters: Aiden Clark (School Bus Graveyard), Ashlyn Banner (School Bus Graveyard), Ben Clark (School Bus Graveyard) Additional Tags: Aidlyn, Theres a lil angst but only for the plot to move forward, Canon typical violence (it’s just a nightmare), nothing graphic, Cuddles, Ashlyn Banner Needs a Hug, Ashlyn Banner Gets a Hug, Aiden Clark Has ADHD (School Bus Graveyard), Aiden Clark is a Sweetheart, Omniscient narrarator, Theres a hoodie involved, it’s pretty fluffyish, They’re aged up a little here- 17ish, Aged Up Ashlyn Banner, Aged Up Aiden Clark, Aged Up Ben Clark (eventually) Summary: Aiden loses his things. Ash realizes some stuff. It’s fluff. ✨will be multi-chapter insanity✨