#//I know in the long run a scenario like this probably wouldn't change a whole lot.

[colorfulbard]

Sacrifice

‿︵‿꒰͜͡ ♡ ͜͡꒱‿︵‿︵‿︵‿꒰͜͡ ♡ ͜͡꒱‿︵‿︵‿︵‿꒰͜͡ ♡ ͜͡꒱‿︵‿

Summary♥︎ A forced visit to Whole Cake Island takes a turn for the worst when Big Mom is experiencing hunger pangs while Katakuri is away on a mission.

Pairing♥︎ Katakuri x Fem!Reader

warnings♥︎ Reader has kids with Katakuri, angst at the end

a/n♥︎ I've been starving for some more Katakuri fics so I had to take matters into my own hands. I put that warning because I know some people don't like reading fanfic where the reader has kids. Don't worry there will be a part 2!

‿︵‿꒰͜͡ ♡ ͜͡꒱‿︵‿︵‿︵‿꒰͜͡ ♡ ͜͡꒱‿︵‿︵‿︵‿꒰͜͡ ♡ ͜͡꒱‿︵‿

People always say, "practice makes perfect". That means, the more you do something, the better you'll be. Like baking, for example. If you practice making the same for over twenty years, you would be considered an expert. You might even be running through the steps on autopilot.

But, no matter how many times you've dealt with this scenario, it never became easier. Honestly, it felt harder to deal with each time.

An easy going saying like, "practice makes perfect", doesn't apply when dealing with a tyrannical emperor with deadly hunger pangs.

The steps taken when it began never changed. All high ranking officials were to report to the surveillance room, turn on the video snails, and give orders to anyone available at the Chateau.

Those down at the Chateau were to remain clear of Big Mom and evacuate any and all innocent citizens.

After many, many years, those steps were done in no time at all. And yet, the sick feeling of fear in your stomach never subsided. Your hands were pinned under your arms to keep from biting your nails. Too bad that didn't stop you from biting your lip instead.

You truly hated traveling to the main island for this reason. You longed for your home, back at Komugi island. The one you shared with your husband, Katakuri, and your fifteen children. Peace and quiet may be impossible to come by, but dealing with a child's temper tantrum was preferable to Big Mom's.

Having to deal with this on your own only made your bitter feelings towards the Whole Cake Chateau grow. The initial plan was to travel together, you and Katakuri. He knew how nervous being alone with his mother made you. But those plans were squandered when Big Mom ordered all ministers gather ingredients for her blasted wedding cake. Then, to make matters worse, he was called away on another mission.

Now, because of that string of unfortunate events, he somehow convinced you to bring your two oldest sons with you, Warabiko and Manju. For some reason, you had said yes. Probably just to ease his mind. In return, your mind was not at ease. It was filled to the brim with anxiety.

You took a slow, deep breath. "And we're sure it's not possible to catch the croquembouche that checked out this morning?" You asked slowly to keep your voice steady.

"It doesn't seem plausible. Either way it'd be a half hour."

You wanted to open your mouth to argue, but it was too difficult. The screams of the terrified homies made it impossible to focus. Those screams were keeping you in a continuous state of unease. You couldn't be selfish and mute the video feed. It was imperative for everyone to hear what was happening.

Big Mom was getting further away from the current video snail. It was time to play the waiting game and see when the feed would switch. You looked down at the floor for a moment of respite from staring at the rampaging Emperor.

You clenched your eyes shut. The screams were distant now, but you could still hear them. Your mind unwillingly imagined it as your sons. You knew they were somewhere safe, away from harm. You made sure of that before you reported to the surveillance room. Even so, as the screams continued, your mind took you the worst possible scenario.

You let your head tilt down to face the floor. At least then, if you somehow managed to open your eyes, you wouldn't be facing the screen.

'Kata... Please, come back to me soon..' Tears began to form behind your eyelids when you thought of him. You needed him to be here.

A hand softly landed on your shoulder in an attempt to not startle you. You took that as a nonverbal sign that the video feed switched. You glanced over your shoulder to see Tamago's hand, but he wasn't looking at you. His eyes were locked onto the screen, his mouth agape.

Your brows furrowed, he always seemed much more coolheaded than you in these scenarios, so, why did he look so spooked? Before checking the footage, you glanced at everyone in the room. Their expression matched Tamago's. The air in the room was tense, as if your anxiety had seeped out of your body and infected everyone else.

You finally looked towards the screen. The scene was the same except Big Mom was getting further away. Homies were still trampled and distant screams could be heard as she trampled over more. But you didn't even notice any of those things.

When you spotted what everyone else was staring at, you froze. Your muscles were locked.

Right there, where Big Mom was stomping through moments ago, stood your eldest son. You couldn't see his face, his back was facing away from the snail. He held onto his sword tightly. It was a gift from you and Katakuri on his eighteenth birthday.

Your hand moved on its own to cover your mouth in shock, the other moved to your stomach. Were you breathing? You couldn't feel anything.

Your head shook from side to side. "No." You whimpered.

Static flickered through the screen and then showed an enraged Big Mom rampaging. You breathing hitched when the sight of your son was gone. The silent scene of your son's determination was replaced by helpless homies getting eaten or stomped on.

Every second that was wasted staring, your son was getting closer to Big Mom. Without wasting anymore time, you pushed Tamago's hand from your shoulder and ran out of the room.

The state of the room remained the same as you left. Everyone stayed silent as they continued watching the footage. Too anxious to see what might happen next.

~

When Warabiko finally reached Big Mom, he was horrified. All of citizens of Whole Cake were terrified, running for their lives lest they be squashed under her heel. He had never seen this happen. He now understood why his family's trips to Whole Cake never lasted more than a day.

He remembered that whenever a tea party was held for one his newest siblings, you demanded to leave as soon as it was over. No matter how much his siblings whined about being tired and wanting to sleep on land, you put your foot down. This was his first time being here for over a day, much to your chagrin.

When he grew older and more mature, you told him stories of his grandmother's famous hunger pangs. The stories were short and brief. He could tell you didn't like talking about them. He finally understood why as he watched Big Mom rampage with reckless abandon.

Something in his gut told him to turn back now and hide with his brother. He ignored that feeling. He couldn't stand by and do nothing. With his father away on a mission, the duty of evacuating citizens and calming Big Mom fell on his shoulders. He was going to make his father proud.

Fighting her was out of question, but he could try and reason with her. She had to be willing to listen to his first grandchild, right?

Her path of destruction was never-ending as he got closer to her. He had to be careful. It was clear that when she's this hungry, all of her sense was gone. She didn't care who or what was in her way during her search.

It didn't even matter if it was an innocent little girl. She hadn't even tripped over the rubble, she had tripped over her feet trying to keep up with her mother. The mother hadn't even noticed, too terrified to look back.

The girl shakily stood on her feet and rubbed the debris from her knees. Her heard swayed from side to side to try and spot her mother. She had no idea Big Mom's foot was inches away from crushing her.

Warabiko immediately lunged towards Big Mom's feet and grabbed the girl. He landed on his feet and placed the girl on the ground.

The girl looked up and smiled up at her savior. "Thank you so much!" She cheered, "that was fun!"

She acted like she wasn't just moments away from being killed. Warabiko smothered his feeling of shock down and sighed. "Run away from her and find your mother. It's not safe," he instructed.

The girl nodded with a giggle and ran off, far from Big Mom.

Whilst Warabiko had dealt with the girl, Big Mom had busied herself with eating any homie or building in her way. Her anger grew as each thing she shoved down her throat tasted nothing like her craving.

"Where is it?!" She whined, "where is my croquembouche?!" She punched another building. Nothing but croquembouche could placate her.

"Mama, please! You just have to wait! The chefs will be here soon!"

Warabiko recognized the voice as one of his uncle's, Mont-d'Or. Another one of his uncle's and aunt led citizens away in the opposite direction.

Nothing Mont-d'Or said got through her to her. He was too far away for her to care. Warabiko's jaw clenched and he ran to stand in front of her, arms out. "Grandma, please! You have to stop!" He pleaded.

Big Mom paused and locked eyes with the source of the sound. She snarled and clenched her fist, "who's there?" She questioned.

Warabiko's brows furrowed and he could feel himself grow warm. "I-It's me! Grandma, it's Warabiko!" His voice grew higher in pitch, his hands began to shake, "don't you recognize me?" The question was practically a whisper.

Big Mom growled and swung at where he stood. Warabiko was able to dodge, but not without losing his footing. He fell onto scattered rubble and grunted when it dug into his back.

Mont-d'Or's mouth was open wide in shock the moment he saw Warabiko enter the fray. "M-Mama! Wait!" He pleaded, coming closer. "You have to stop! It's Warabiko! Your grandson!"

Big Mom paid Mont-d'Or's pleading no mind. She was still infuriated that her search for croquembouche was interrupted. "Where is my croquembouche boy?!" She demanded. "All I want is my croquembouche!" She swung at the building next to Warabiko and ate the contents she managed to grab.

The remnants of her snack flew all around. Warabiko turned over on his side and cradled his head. He could hear it land all around him.

Mont-d'Or clenched his jaw as he watched Warabiko cradle himself. He couldn't go over there and try to save him, he'd end up dying too. He just hoped Warabiko was a fast runner.

"Warabiko, you have to run! You can't reason with when she's like this!" He yelled.

Warabiko lifted his head and looked towards his uncle. Judging by the way Mont-d'Or stared at him, he was sure his terror was plain as day. He couldn't move thanks to that terror gripping his muscles. It was affecting his brain, not allowing him to choose between fight or flight. Maybe Big Mom wouldn't pay him any mind if he stayed silent.

She was still there, right behind him. Warabiko didn't have to turn his head to know that. He could practically feel her breathing down his neck. The only part of his body that managed to move was his spine as shivers went down it. She wasn't moving away from him. Her gaze was burning into his back.

Big Mom's breathing grew stronger and he could smell the sweets emanating from it.

Warabiko somehow willed his head to move back to look at his grandmother. His next breath was caught in his throat when he locked eyes with her.

Her scowl was gone. In its place was a sickening grin. Her eyes were unrecognizable, they were glazed over and crazed. Drool was dripping down her chin and she stared at him.

She leaned closer to his face. "Life..." She whispered, giggling like a mad woman, "or treat?"

Warabiko couldn't answer even if he wanted to. The words were caught in his throat, choking him. He could only watch as his grandmother raised her first high in the air.

He knew what his grandmother's fruit was capable of, his father had told him. His father had probably hoped he would take it as a warning to stay away. Too bad he didn't listen.

Everything began to slow down. His mother's first was taking minutes to reach him and Mont-d'Or's yelling was indistinguishable. Typically, these were the moments where one's life would flash before their eyes. Oddly enough, that didn't happen. He only saw one thing. It was you. His sweet mother, smiling down at him. Your eyes crinkled as you smiled. They were the same color as his own. That was the only feature you two shared.

From his point of view, he could see his hands attempt to grab your face. They were so small here. He must've been a baby. This was a memory he didn't even realize he had.

You were giggling at his futile attempts. You brushed his cheek with your finger and began to sing.

La la lu

La la lu

Oh, my little star sweeper

Your voice was so soft and sweet. His eyes began to droop as your singing lulled him to sleep. The warmth of your arms was seeping through the soft blanket touching his skin. He recognized the blanket. It was his favorite, handmade by you. Each of siblings had one similar to it, a different color for each one.

He could feel you moving him about the room, swaying him. Through his half lidded eyes, he could see his father standing at the corner of the room. The scarf was gone, and he was smiling.

It was such a nice, warm memory. It was perfect for falling asleep. Warabiko kept forcing his eyes open to stay awake, but your voice was so comforting. It reminded him of the warm donuts you made, fresh out of the oven on a quiet morning.

There was no harm in closing his eyes, he'll see you again when he woke up. His small body went limp in your arms as his eyes began to close without fight.

His body was mere milliseconds away from relaxing into a comfy sleep. Until a sharp jab at his side forced him awake. The warmth of the memory was gone. Whatever it was that hit him launched far from where he previously was.

Warabiko was on high alert now. Big Mom was still angry, still searching for croquembouche. He shakily stood on his feet with a hand on the side where he was jabbed. He glanced back to where he remembered seeing his uncle's and aunt.

Physically, he could see they weren't hurt. But their faces held a different story. They were terrified, all color was drained from their faces. It was odd considering Mont-d'Or and Opera's skin tone.

Warabiko dared follow their gaze and he soon wished he hadn't. His heart stopped and ice filled his veins, making him freeze in place.

He didn't even notice nor hear Big Mom stomp away in the opposite direction, demanding croquembouche. In that moment, in his mind, everything was quiet.

A mirror image of his eyes was staring straight into his own. That familiar color he always saw in the mirror was drained away, and only white remained.

The only movement that was seen wasn't a sign of life. It was just your body falling to the ground. The sound of it reverberated throughout the whole Chateau.

Warabiko would hear that sound in his nightmares.

[whirlwindimagines]

hi hi!!! i love your work so much and feel like there is not nearly enough wolfwood/reader content. can i request wolfwood/reader scenario with a very oblivious reader who doesn't realize when wolfwood is flirting with them until it's spelled out or until it's so obvious that they're like "wait are you flirting with me" ("have been for the past few months thanks for noticing" type response)?

Thank you so much! And yeah I agree lol, poor Wolfwood I feel like he wouldn't know what to do with such an obvious person like he's making big heart eyes and you straight up don’t notice at all. Lol, enjoy! Also, I’m not good at writing about flirting :D

'Notice me'

Nicholas D. Wolfwood x Reader 

“This is just painful.” You glance over at Meryl confused, “What are you talking about?” she gives you a deadpanned look, had you seriously not noticed Wolfwood staring at you for the past ten minutes? You watched Meryl open her mouth to say something, but it looks like she decides against it, “Never mind, you’ll figure it out!” she says with a wave of her hand. 

She leaves you then, you're still confused by the whole conversation, but you don't need to think about it long when Wolfwood sits down in the seat Meryl was sitting in and places a drink in front of you. You light up at seeing him and thank him for the glass. 

You notice him staring openly at you, placing a hand to your face you meet his gaze, “what? Is there something on my face?” Wolfwood startles, downing his drink instead of answering. You watch him raising a brow as he smirks at you. 

“I’m just thinking how lucky I am to be having a drink with the most beautiful person in here.” Your eyes widen, and you look around the room before pointing to yourself, “me?” You squeak out, and he gives you a deadpan look. Funny you’ve been receiving a lot of these looks today.

“You think I’m pretty?” You say with a nervous laugh, really looking at Wolfwood, you can feel your face growing warm. What is happening here? Surely, he couldn't really think that? Could he… 

“No, I said you're beautiful.” He leans in closer, and you blush brightly, your hands going to your face. “Careful Wolfwood if I didn’t know any better, I would say you're flirting with me.” You say this with a light laugh. Because no way, Wolfwood was attractive, and he knew it too he could probably have anyone he wanted in this bar. Yet here he was with you instead.

Wolfwood leans back with a groan, he takes your unfinished drink and downs it in one go you can only watch surprised, “I am flirting with you.” He says as he drops his head to the table, the ‘thud’ is audible and you swear your heart stops beating. 

His words register in your mind and then your jaw drops, because what? “You are!?” You say surprised, “I have been this whole time.” You start to think back on all your interactions, and ohhhh…. Yeah, maybe those were flirty…. You feel bad now, reaching across the table, and resting your hand on his head to run your fingers through his dark hair.

“Oh well! Please continue then!” God, you are so embarrassed, how could you be so dense? He grabs your wrist and it stills your actions. Wolfwood brings your wrist to his face and places a light kiss on the inside of your wrist. Your whole face flushes and you make a strangled sound.

Wolfwood looks at you with that damn smirk, “well if you say so.” You laugh, God what have you just unleashed on yourself? You don't pull your hand back, choosing to lift his face gently “Well don't hold back for my sake, let's just say I’ll be paying much closer attention now. Nicholas” Your heart skips a beat at his blush. 

Well, this was certainly a change, but a welcome one. You had no idea you had such an effect over the Punisher, you were definitely looking forward to future exchanges between the two. “Now I think you owe me another drink.” You say pulling your hand back, with a smile.

[kg2hub]

🎭 Kindergala Starter Prompts!

here's a collection of prompts you can send into people's ask boxes to interact with them if you don't know what to say, or find it easier to just copy & paste something and send it!! :D

ofc, feel free to change, alter, or expand on these prompts if needed! these are all for different scenarios, but i'm sure you can figure which ones are which from context :'''D

❝Your mask is cool! What's it supposed to be of?❞

❝Ew. What are you doing here?❞

❝Are you... supposed to be me?❞

❝Oh my god. I am so sorry! I didn't mean to spill my drink on you!❞

❝This is really weird... You remind me of someone I know. But different.❞

❝Have we met before?❞

❝There's so many people... I'm getting kind of nervous.❞

❝What are you doing all by yourself? The party's over there.❞

❝Is it really you...? I thought you were dead!❞

❝Oh no, you are not getting the last slice of cake if I have anything to say about it! It's mine!❞

❝Fancy seeing you here. I didn't think we'd meet again.❞

❝I didn't know they let plebians in.❞

❝Why are you so old?❞

❝I remember being that young. I wouldn't ever go back to that.❞

❝Excuse me? I don’t think that's a very nice thing to say.❞

❝I noticed you staring at me for a while... Why?❞

❝I thought I should say hi to everyone here! So hi!❞

❝What even is up with all this multiverse stuff... Have you ever thought about it, like, on a philosophical level?❞

❝So... any mysteries from your world you can spill about to a total stranger?❞

❝I'm under a lot of stress here, so can you stop being so annoying!?❞

❝Do you think past lives are real?❞

❝How do you feel about dying?❞

❝I wish I got a better mask... Mine doesn't fit me that well.❞

❝You're carrying a lot of food there! Need some help?❞

❝Man... I hate the 'no violence' rule. Do you know what I'd do if that wasn't a thing?❞

❝You look like you're having fun! Can I join you?❞

❝You just look like you need some company. I can sit with you for however long you need.❞

❝Did you bring a date for the gala?❞

❝I'd really like to dance with you... Do you feel the same?❞

❝So. We're in the void, huh? I've never been here before...❞

❝You have a nice outfit. Very fancy! I want your style so bad!❞

❝I feel kind of silly, all dressed up for something like this... How about you?❞

❝I came here alone... Can I hang out around you and just be friends for tonight?❞

❝Whoa, hold up! What are you doing?? Isn't that dangerous!?❞

❝I'm about to pull the biggest prank ever, but I need some help. Are you in?❞

❝I bet I can chug all the punch in less than a minute. Wanna watch?❞

❝I'm glad I'm here with you. I'm glad we're here. Coming to this place with you was the best idea, truly."

❝—Wait, is it your birthday? Happy birthday!! Good place to have your party, huh?❞

❝I didn't actually want to come... I was dragged here, kicking and screaming.❞

❝I didn't think I'd have this much fun, but I am!❞

❝Hold on for a second— Your mask is crooked. And there's no mirror nearby... Can I fix it for you?❞

❝...Have you been in the bathroom this whole time?❞

❝Where have you been!? I've missed you!❞

❝Hey, my favourite song's on! Have you ever heard of them?❞

❝Do you think we'll get kicked out if we put ghost pepper powder on all the food and drinks?❞

❝There's so much space to run around and be free! Let loose a little, okay?❞

❝I guess we can't play hide and seek here... Unless you can turn invisible or something. —Wait, can you turn invisible??❞

❝I challenge you to a duel!❞

❝I wanna dance so bad... I'm so scared, though. I'll probably look terrible. I have zero sense of rhythm! I can't dance!❞

❝My group needs someone to take our picture! Can you do it? We'll treat you after, if you want!❞

❝I can't believe I cancelled plans for this.❞

❝Wow... How are you so cool?? I can't believe I'm meeting someone like you!❞

❝What did one mask say to the other? 'I got you covered!'❞

❝I don't think I've been this... calm... in a long time.❞

❝You have such a beautiful smile.❞

❝Jeez, you look like you really need to talk to someone. Like a therapist, maybe?❞

❝I took too much food at the snack bar... Do you want some? Please? I'm begging you, I seriously can't eat all this myself—❞

❝Do you ever know someone, but you don't really know them?❞

❝We might have gotten off on the wrong foot. Can we start over?❞

❝You just arrived? Welcome to the Kindergala! You're a bit late, so the dessert might be all gone if we don't hurry—!❞

❝Did anyone lose a wallet?❞

❝—Hey, is this yours? You dropped this while you were walking.❞

❝I am not cute. Don't you dare call me that.❞

❝I always do something funny before a picture is taken so the smiles are more genuine.❞

❝I thought there would be more adults here. Why is this a daycare??❞

❝The real question is... Where's Waldo?❞

❝...I can't read this. Can you read? What does it say?❞

❝...Sorry, who are you, again?❞

❝Come on, don't look at me like that!❞

❝Coming here was a lot nicer than I thought it'd be!❞

❝This place is so... away from everything. Like, in a good way. It's cozy and quiet— Can I stay here too?❞

❝Would anyone notice if we just take a nap, right here, right now?❞

❝I... brought a gift for you. I hope you like it! Here you go!❞

❝You should let your hair down more often.❞

[dentist-brainsurgeon]

All things considered yesterday was probably the best case scenario

The Good:

My sister didn't know that my brother and I were showing up so she got the double whammy surprise, she damn near fainted and cried lol. I gave her a massive hug and picked her up(I should not have done that, my weight limit is 20 pounds💀) had some bonding moments, I was apprehensive about seeing my brother considering the baggage™️and just his non response to what I drew for him a few months back but to my surprise he played nice and did thank me for drawing that and we talked about nerd shit a lot, I had a Rusty from Armored Core keychain on me and he pointed it out and talked about what kits we like running in AC6. And since this was in Cali traffic was abysmal, I had forgotten how bad it was to get anywhere, so like 3 hours after the graduation came dinner Time, to the place we would always go to for celebrations, except they had a rebranding that sucks ass but w/e. My brother, dad and I all were chatting about nerd shit and after a time came gift time, and when she opened the gift I got her, she almost cried!! Bc it was something that had a lot of story behind it and incredibly hard to find(she also had a hard time looking for it for years!) We were all super excited and thrown back at what it was and she gave me a big teary eyed hug 🥺 and my brother gave me a fist bump and a hug about that too, so a BIG winner winner chicken dinner moment. While my mom wasn't paying attention my sister gave me her number!! And my brother wanted to be friends on discord (we'll see how that goes ig)

The bad:

My mom has not changed a bit, color me surprised. I never looked her in the eye and stiffened up any time she touched me and just gave very short flat answers any time she tried to talk to me, I didn't want to cause a scene(it's my sister's graduation so that was a big no no for me) and she made her very awful racist, sexist "statistically you should've been pregnant in high school and had your third kid by now(me), you should be in prison(my brother) and you should be on drugs(my sister)🤪🤪🤪" joke(that really wasn't originally a "joke") and I mentioned to both my siblings how she hadn't changed a bit after all these years. During dinner time she ordered pizza n salad, and my sister wanted to order something, cuz y'know, ITS HER DAY, but mom wouldn't let her, I wanted to order her food for her but knowing mom, I didn't want it to be a problem at dinner or after dinner, so I ended up not ordering for my sister. Another thing, I don't remember what the conversation was, but my mom blurred out "oh you can't ruin my, I mean her day like that 🤪" and my sister looked so disgusted, and I gave her a knowing but reassuring look and nod, and not long after that my mom said once my sister turns 18 she's going to become a raging alcoholic and do lines of coke off a strippers dick amongst a lot of other crude statements that would be bad any other day but just downright awful oh her 17yo daughters graduation, absolutely deranged woman, and I gave my sister yet another knowing look. I can't wait til my sister gets out of there by any means necessary, I do hope this whole ordeal is a wake up call to both my siblings that maybe our one shared parent is just revolting and maybe they can distance themselves from her eventually. My sister is such a sweetie, she doesn't deserve this and it's such a shame no matter how much our mom can pretend and manipulate people into believing she's grown, she has not changed, not moved a centimeter and she's nearing 60 at this point

[twotangledsisters]

TTS AU: Before Cass takes the Moonstone, Caine gets there instead. What would happen?

I love this ask, I love this ask, I love it!!

Okay... um but first, my immediate reaction was why is she taking the moonstone? Is it because after Cass fled with Raps and Eugene, Arianna never calmed Caine down and she got angry?? Or is she doing a Cassandra and taking the moonstone to protect the person she loves??

The tones are very different but I think the plot wouldn't change much!

Scenario A is gonna be extremely hard to deal with because Caine is... ruthless, when push comes to shove she shows no mercy and she's not as foolish as many of the other villains. Add the fact Cass definitely isn't gonna want to hurt or fight her and good luck getting that moonstone back.

Plus, we know ZT isn't past using dead relative's image to trick and manipulate you and a Caine being guided by her late-father... that's rough.

I would really need to sit myself down and think long hard to get any specific details... But my best guess is ZT would at some point mess up, she'd do or say something that would make Caine realise she's being manipulated, probably have a grand speech about how:

"My father would never say that! He wouldn't encourage this... He'd... He'd encourage forgiveness and..." And Caine would think of Cass who's been trying to peacefully reach out this whole time and remembers why she fell in love in the first place and regrets that anger as she runs back to Cassandra.

At this point Zhan Tirir would probably have some level of power and it wouldn't be easy to defeat her, but I believe in them!

Scenario B.... Probably pretty similar, late-father for manipulation, ZT gains power, Caine eventually goes back to Cass... but with a lot more angst and a lot less fighting, more running!

Cass would get a sip of her own medicine as this time it's Caine who's running away from her! But eventually Caine would hear of the prophecy and realise she can't stand between fate and she'd have a VERY stern talking to the moonstone like 'you better take damn good care of her, ya hear me?'

Either way, the prophecy would come to fruition cause fantasy stories demand that be the case.

[frustratedpker]

Hey there,

I hope I'm not bothering you, but I have a question that needs answering and I figured that you as a Stefanologist are probably the best person to turn to with this One

I'm currently writing one a few Camera Nine Fanfictions, since I felt inspired after rereading some of the Comics and seeing the Content here on Tumblr

They are mostly going to be focused one the possible friendships between him and Layla, which works really well but the Proplem I run into is that i don't know how he would respond to being asked a question about his past ( by Layla, as well as possible strangers )

The past itself isn't the proplem, ( I have to admit I have the whole thing planned out in detail based on the scraps we got from the comics) but how he would answer it, if at all.

Would he avoid the question at all costs?

Would he give some cryptic answer?

Would he just tell Layla because he knows he can trust her?

I don't know, honestly. But without some answers given, a real friendship isn't really possible (and would make for a pretty boring fic)

What do you think about it?

(Also I'm really sorry this ask got so long)

Hello!!

You are not bothering at all, on the contrary I am very glad to talk about my favourite camera guy! No ask is long enough in this case!

First let me say that whenever you write the fic, I will be your first reader, we need more of those! I love possible Stefan and Lyla interactions!

And thank you for considering me as your first choice to talk to about this, it's an honour, but let me say that I am no authority, nor expert, so don't let my opinions confine you.

Now, to answer your question:

I think that whether or not he would reply and the way he would reply depends on the moment. When is Lyla asking him, at what point of the story?

If the question is asked early in their friendship, I don't think he would answer. He would either change the subject or ignore it. If he got asked later, he could provide a very generic or cryptic answer. I could also see him lying by omission.

Now, telling Lyla everything is tricky. I could see him doing that, but only under specific circumstances. If their friendship has progressed enough, maybe he could tell her the whole truth, but I can't see him getting into extreme detail.

I think that it would be easier for him to talk unprompted. At a right moment I think that he would open up by himself and share something. He definitely trusts Lyla. He knows that she has secrets too, so he would feel that there's some kind of leverage in his favour. He knows that she can't and wouldn't betray him.

Another scenario where I could see him telling the truth would be if his past got relevant in the present. For example, past enemies coming back or consequences of past actions resurfacing. In this case, I could see him revealing his past if asked under pressure, or to protect Lyla.

Also, I think that the way that he gets asked is important. A very direct question like "Tell me about your past" wouldn't have effect. Stefan answering simpler questions like "have you been in X", "do you know X" seems more possible to me. Generally 'yes or no' questions are more difficult to dodge, so they make excellent starting points for a conversation that will later reveal more important stuff.

Please, have in mind that this is just my opinion. You are free to address the subject in the way that makes the most sense for your story. After all, fanfiction is a what if...?

I hope this has been helpful

TL;DR

It all depends on when and how Lyla asks him. Put them in the "right" conditions that make sense in the context of your story and you couldn't go wrong!

Writing is hard, so have courage and keep going! I can't wait to see what you will come up with, dear stefanologist!

Allow me to tag @madmachaca whose opinion on the subject I'd like to hear (and whose Stefan fics, here on Tumblr, are the most in-character I have ever read, in my opinion)

[astyrial]

sleuthing spider - 🕷️ ch. 5 - new york air

    "well, you want to find out or not?"

  the open car door lets the wind run along any of your exposed skin, chills running down your arms. no decision in your life has ever felt this reckless, even with your odd profession and the risks that come with it. you stare out at the masked vigilante for what feels like far too long. ultimately he's a mystery, you barely know him.

  yet, the way he tilts his head, holding out his hand for you to grab, it's enticing. it makes you change your mind about the fact that he's a stranger, someone you wouldn't typically trust. however, your hand is already reaching for the car key and your bag. maybe it's not the smartest choice you've ever made, but kicking the door with the bottom of your foot while walking towards him is the one you choose.

  "let's go before i change my mind," you grab a hold of his hand, letting him move it to his shoulders. 

  being this close to a stranger would always give you pause, but it appears that being close to this stranger is nothing but exhilarating. you quickly lock the car and shove the key down your pocket with your left hand. everything seems to be moving quickly as you reach the other over his shoulder. he leans back, looking over at you, "you better hold on tight, because this could be dangerous."

  "knowing you is probably dangerous, so let's hurry and follow the guy!"

  your fingers grip the back of his suit, his hand on your lower back. before you can even feel it coming, the wind is rushing through your face. the buildings seem a little smaller than when you're on the ground. birds are nearly at your level, pigeons landing on certain roofs with certainty. the sky looks a little bluer and your heart races. 

  people on the ground become as small as a retriever, your hands gripping his suit even tighter. despite wanting to see the world from a whole new perspective, your eyelids pinch together, worried that some motion sickness may arise. "can you tell where he's going yet?" you yell, unsure how the wind will effect the spidey's hearing. 

  "it seems he's going to east harlem!" 

  the sound of his voice is slightly masked by the strong winds. the smooth tone that he usually carries is taken by the wind and he sounds ever so slightly out of breath. you wait for another couple of minutes before opening your eyes, the scenario looking completely different from that of the restaurant fisk overtook.

  buildings are older, the streets looking similar to ones you would frequent on the job. you purse your lips, wondering where fisk could possibly be going. your eyes flash to spiderman as his hand tightens around your waist. he takes a quick turn and suddenly you realize that he does it at every turn. he knows that taking a turn like that could send you flying, so he holds on tight.

  you smile to yourself, shaking your head a second later. wherever your mind may roll with this, you try to block it out, remember your mission. spiderman seems interesting enough- 

  "he's stopping here, we'll have to get off on this roof!" 

  he lands on a gravelly roof, small gardens scattered around. you can tell that he's not used to the added weight as he stumbles a bit. out of instinct, you bring your legs up, nearly wrapping them around his waist. 

  "if you just wanted a hug, you could've asked ms. investigator," spiderman laughs at his own joke, leaning his head back.

  you immediately let go of him, letting your feet plant safely against the gravel roofing. your tongue runs along your teeth, head shaking. "you're ridiculous, you know that? because i certainly know that," he looks over at you, hands on his hips as if he knows something you don't.

  your eyebrows raise, arms crossing in front of your chest. a smile spreads across your lips as you turn to look down at fisk's limo. the man steps out of the back of it, nearly too quickly for you to grab your phone out to take a photo, nearly. the bald-headed multibillionaire, makes his way into the large building complex. 

  the sign out front shows that it holds multiple businesses within. where he's going, neither of you could possibly know unless someone goes inside. your head moves slowly back at spiderman and a sigh releases from your lips, "i need to go in there."

  "you're not going in there, you're a civilian."

  "unless you're military, you are too. plus, i'm a private investigator i do this all the time."

  "not with wilson fisk you don't. just- let me do it, you can create a distraction or stake out his car."

  you bite your lip, looking back at the building. right now, you could very well find something out for your client, but if you stay outside, you may not. fisk is an important guy and could very well be the death of you if he catches you. yet your client needs answers and so does the rest of the victims that he created.

masterlist / chapter four / chapter six taglist:

[frodo-with-glasses]

Been thinking about a particular LOTR what-if scenario (because my D&D campaign took a turn into collaborative LOTR fanfiction), and I'm interested in your perspective on it if you have time . . .

Supposing Boromir somehow survived protecting Merry and Pippin, what effect would that have on Denethor?

Denethor's being fed despair by Sauron either way. But I have always read him as the news of Boromir's death being the thing that breaks him and makes him start to believe it. His grief is certainly a large part of what's informing his treatment of Faramir (though certainly not the only thing, as I think there's textual evidence that Denethor favored Boromir all along).

If Boromir didn't die . . . would Denethor still give into despair? Would he still send Faramir on a suicide mission — and if he did, and Faramir still suffered the same wounds, would Denethor still end up in his whole "all is lost; better to die on our own terms" spiral? Or would he have the presence of mind to see to the defense of the city?

How would he react to Aragorn, a man who has all the qualities Denethor disdains in Faramir but even more so, and who people are now saying is the rightful king (who even his own sons, even favored Boromir, are saying is Gondor's king returned)?

(He almost certainly wouldn't be a fan of Aragorn's plan to draw Sauron's eye away from Frodo. He probably would be greatly displeased that the Ring had been allowed to go across the River to Mordor at all, and even Boromir would have trouble convincing him otherwise.)

Thank you for letting me ramble in your askbox, haha. Don't feel pressured to answer if you don't want to or don't find the question as much as I do. (But if you do answer, I will be delighted.)

As much as the Gondor Dudes aren’t my personal hyperfixation in LotR, I am nonetheless a big fan of overthinking hypothetical situations, so this is right up my alley. :-D (Also, it’s really cool that you’re running an LotR-themed D&D campaign!! Sounds like a blast.)

To be honest, you hit pretty much every point I was going to touch on; Denethor’s despair and consequent insanity were certainly motivated, at least in part, by grief, so if you take the grief out of the equation then naturally the results are going to be at least slightly different. But we still have lots of other factors at play here: fighting a hopeless war, the looming specter of deposition, knowing that your allies just sent a nuke into the territory of the Enemy in the hands of a garden gnome so small you could punt him, and Prolonged Exposure to Cursed Artifact are still going to take their toll on Denethor’s mind. He will doubtless be more motivated to hold on to life while his favorite son is still alive, but even if he doesn't turn paranoid and filicidal, he’s still going to be Deeply Messed Up regardless.

So since I'm not getting any new ideas by looking at things from a Watsonian (in-universe) perspective, I'm gonna steer this in a Doylist (meta) direction and talk about implementation instead. The question I always ask myself with these sorts of "canon but a bit to the left" fanfictions is this:

What do you want out of the story? Do you want to:

A) Return to canon as quickly as possible? B) Change just one thing and see how far it butterfly-effects out? C) Find something somewhere in the middle?

Because the thing with "canon but a bit to the left" AUs that you can make pretty much anything work. It's a hypothetical situation. The question is how far away from canon you're willing to deviate. If I'm writing a "Boromir Lives" AU, I might go a couple of different directions, and the one I ultimately choose depends on personal preference and what I want out of the story.

Putting this under a read-more 'cause it's about to get long.

Option A: Canon, but like .5 degrees to the left

Ever since the battle at the Falls, Boromir has been following Aragorn and doing everything the Three Hunters (well, Four Hunters) do. When Pippin looks into the Palantir, Gandalf decides to take him to Minas Tirith right away, and Boromir, who's eager to get home and feels some responsibility for Pippin, volunteers to go with them.

(Yes I know that Shadowfax travels at ungodly fast speeds to get from Rohan to Gondor, but it's implied that lesser horses can keep up with their lord when they need to, so even if Boromir took a different horse they might still have been able to make it to Minas Tirith in a similar time.)

Denethor gives an enthusiastic welcome to Boromir and a far less enthusiastic welcome to Gandalf and Pippin. That welcome becomes less enthusiastic still in the ensuing conversation/interrogation, when he learns that they totally had the Ring but they sent it into Mordor instead of bringing it here. Boromir tries to reason with his father. Denethor is very disappointed with him. He blames Gandalf for corrupting his other son with all this foolishness, and treats Pippin with suspicion because of the whole prophecy with the Halfling, and the convo ends with hurt feelings all around.

I might need the War Nerds on this blog to correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, the attempt to take back Osgiliath wasn't a completely useless suicide mission, at least in concept. It is a major river crossing, and controlling transportation routes is like War 101. If you make it hard for your enemy to cross the River, you make it hard for your enemy to get to your stronghold, and that's good. Not a bad idea on paper. The only problem was that Minas Tirith didn't have the manpower to pull it off.

(And also there were Nazgul.)

Anyway, the point is, it's almost logical enough that you might be able to get away with Denethor ordering the Osgiliath offensive even without the grief-induced paranoia. Besides, there's still other paranoia in play: so far as Denethor is concerned, the Ring is walking into enemy hands, his son and most trusted captain has turned against him, and Gandalf is already planning a coup.

So here's what I'm thinking. Keep the Osgiliath battle, but send Boromir out there as well. Boromir and brother bravely bear the baleful battle, before their butts are badly beat and they get bit by the Black Breath. Dad feels bad, his boasts bashed as his boys' bodies burn with fever. Battle bears down on the beleaguered bourgeoisie, but their bereaved bigwig is barely bothered, too busy building bier bonfires.

…Sorry, I don't know where that came from.

Anyway, the point is, this puts us squarely back where we'd be at this point in canon: Denethor thinks he’s about to lose his family, his city, and his kingdom, and consumed by despair he decides that it's better to die on his own terms than in the hands of the Enemy. You can pretty much just follow canon from here and copy-paste Boromir with whatever is happening to Faramir.

(Except, of course, for the whole "falling in love with Eowyn" thing. But hey! Boromir was in Rohan! He and Eowyn probably know each other already! So they might have some fun conversations in the Houses of Healing.)

This is the route I would take if you want to stick as close to canon as possible and still keep Boromir alive. If adherence to the narrative is not your biggest concern, however:

Option B: Go stupid, go crazy

Boromir doesn't die. What does that change?

Well, everything, if you let it.

Let's say Boromir does return to Minas Tirith with Gandalf and Pippin like I suggested above. Let's say he's able to talk his father into begrudgingly going along with their unorthodox plan to save the world. Let's say Denethor doesn't call for the almost-but-not-quite-entirely-completely-a-suicide-mission to Osgiliath and instead puts Boromir and Faramir to work strengthening the defenses of the Minas Tirith. By time the Battle of Pelennor Fields rolls around, Denethor—now no longer occupied by the family barbecue—is available to direct defense of the city, with both sons acting as his captains.

Awesome! All this is great stuff, right?

Well, yes. So far.

The problem is that we lose so many great moments with other characters in the process. Pippin's pell mell run to find Gandalf. Beregond abandoning his post to protect Faramir. Eowyn and Merry, who slayed the Witch King together because Gandalf was too busy putting out fires (literally!) to get down there and do it himself. Aragorn, proving that "the hands of a king are the hands of a healer"! And if Faramir and Eowyn hadn't both suffered the Black Breath, they wouldn't both have been forced to stay behind as everyone else went to fight at the Black Gate, and they wouldn't have fallen in love in the same way.

This is not a statement meant to push your decision one way or another, but it's just a fact of the decision: If you dispense with Denethor's paranoia, and the insanity, and the murder arson, then you dispense with a lot of the other cool moments in this book. The question you've got to ask yourself is if that's a price you're willing to pay, and if not, how you can work around it.

Anyway, back to Pelennor Fields. I want you to imagine that Denethor is standing at the wall, watching the battle raging below him. It's not going well. The reinforcements from Rohan arrived, but they're barely hanging on. And to his dismay, he sees a fleet of black dots which could only be Corsair ships sailing up the river.

The foremost ship unfurls a banner, with the Tree of Gondor glittering on it.

And the army that pours out of them absolutely wrecks shop with Sauron's forces.

Is Denethor feeling relief? Yes. But is he feeling dread and apprehension and anger too? Also yes. He knows what this is. It's a challenge to his power waiting to happen. All his suspicions about Gandalf's ulterior motives are coming true: he has found someone to supplant him, and whether or not this kid is the true Heir of Isildur, the darn upstart's already gone all dramatic and made a war hero out of himself. Whoop-de-frickin'-do.

And then, he sees Aragorn's face.

And he's livid.

Fun fact: Appendix A tells us that Aragorn actually worked for Denethor’s dad, Ecthelion, for a long time. Aragorn went by a different name, of course, but he was so competent and so well-liked that he became Ecthelion's most trusted and honored captain, to the point that the Steward liked Aragorn more than he liked Denethor. We don't just have history here. We have beef. It's a little bit of a Tony Stark, Howard Stark, Steve Rogers situation where it’s like “Dad liked you more than he liked me and I’m his own son”.

You’d better bet your bottom dollar that when Denethor’s childhood rival rocks up to Minas Tirith, flying a banner made by an elven princess and carrying the Sword that Was Broken on his belt like he's somebody important, it doesn’t matter if Boromir and Faramir and Imrahil and everybody else in Minas Tirith likes him and happily falls in line behind him; Denethor is still gonna take one look at his face and go, “oh. it’s YOU. I freakin' HATE you.”

Whether this colors their ongoing relationship "coolly polite" or "passive-aggressive" or "outright hostile" depends on how vindictive you want to write Denethor. Because let's be honest, bro could totally order Aragorn to leave Minas Tirith and he would; Aragorn knows he's not the king yet, and he's humble enough to accept orders while the Steward is still in charge (as bass-ackwards as that is). But the thing is that Aragorn has the support of the people, and banishing him isn't gonna change that; if anything, it will probably garner sympathy for him, cause the people of Minas Tirith to distrust their leader, and maybe result in fracturing the loyalties of the populous.

So here's what you've got, okay.

You now have a David and Saul situation.

Think about it. Charismatic, upright war hero, beloved by everyone he meets, serving under the suspicious and deeply disturbed incumbent ruler who knows the newcomer is gonna boot him off the throne. You can't live with him: 'cause he's gonna boot you off the throne. But you can't live without him: 'cause you're in desperate need of his particular set of skills, and you'd be incredibly unwise to do away with him and earn the ire of the public. So you put up with him. And put on a show of liking him. And maybe chuck a spear at his head while he's playing the harp to calm down your possibly demonic fits.

But that's just Saul, so let's get back to Denethor.

The next step, in the book, is obviously the Battle of the Black Gate. And, obviously, Denethor is gonna think this military equivalent of knocking on the door of an axe murderer and threatening him with a pea shooter is a terrible idea, because it is. But the whole point—Aragorn and Gandalf and Boromir and Faramir and Imrahil and everyone else insists—is to distract Sauron long enough that the Ring-bearer can succeed in his mission. The plan isn't to win, it's to be bait.

Now you have a few options.

Denethor can, once again, begrudgingly go along with it, showing that he's slowly changing in heart. Perhaps Aragorn's humility is winning him over. Perhaps Boromir's impassioned pleas are getting through. In any case, you have a pretty good set-up for a redemption arc here, which could be interesting if you want to go down that road.

Alternatively, this could be the moment that Denethor entirely gives in to despair and basically says "fine, if you guys wanna go kill yourselves, I'll just be over here doing the exact same thing", and he tries to make Steward a la flambé. (Whether or not he succeeds is up to you, but I will say that this would be a pretty easy way to settle the succession crisis.)

Alternatively still, Denethor could publicly denounce the whole idea as stupid and order the people of Minas Tirith to stay put and defend the city, at the same time that Aragorn and the rest are urging those same people to come with them for one last stand. Now every eligible fighter in the city has to make a choice. Who will they follow? Lord Denethor, or Lord Elfstone? The people are divided. Factions are made. (This might be the moment that a certain member of the Guard sees Faramir standing with Lord Elfstone and decides, for the first time in his life, to break the rules.) In any case, the force that travels to the Black Gate is far smaller than it would have been if not for Denethor's interference.

If you go with the first option, it's a quicker road to a happy ending. Aragorn returns victorious, he and Denethor reconcile, and Aragorn honors the Steward and puts him in a place of high esteem. Everyone in Minas Tirith likes this, including Boromir and Faramir, and everyone lives happily ever after.

If you go with the second option, Denethor has either successfully or unsuccessfully attempted sudoku, which should probably disqualify him from public leadership either way. If he succeeded in barbecuing himself, it's the tragedy of a man who never got to see the upcoming victory; if he failed, it's the tragedy of a man whose mind was so utterly broken by the Enemy that he couldn't enjoy it.

If you go with the third option, congratulations; after Aragorn gets back, you still have to deal with the succession crisis. But I've waffled on for long enough and have basically no ideas how you'd handle this post-story, so I'm not gonna go down that road any further.

Option C: Pitch straight down the middle

Now what I've just presented are the two most extreme possibilities of a "Boromir Lives" AU that exist in my brain, but they're far from the only options. This thing is a spectrum. There are a potentially infinite number of possible storylines, some closer to canon, some further away.

If you like parts of one but not the other, you can mix and match. Take an exit ramp from the AU and get back on canon wherever you want, or just don't and see where it takes you. All I've done is present the furthest extremes I could think of to help shake up the ol' creative juices.

(I would have explored the possibility of Boromir arriving on the corsair ships with Aragorn instead of a few days earlier with Gandalf and Pippin, but that didn't change much except for Boromir having less opportunities to talk his dad down from bad decisions. So do with that what you will.)

Conclusion

I have no idea if this was the kind of answer you were looking for, but I guess I'm just returning rambling for rambling, LOL! In any case, I hope this helped, and if not, I hope it was a fun read.

But there is one more thing I can do for you, before I wish you good luck in your D&D endeavors, and that's turn it over to everyone else who reads this blog and see what they think!

HEY YOU GUYS! If Boromir lived, how would that effect Denethor's psyche?? Reblog with your thoughts!

[theradicalscrivener]

I know your stories are written to be hot and not realistic and practical (I mean, you have so many characters with 13 inches of cock that are somehow having sex with a lot of people without issues, and in real life a 13 inches cock would be a terrifyingly hot thing to behold, yet probably impossible to take without hurting oneself). But I cannot stop thinking about something very mundane... How does Elroy (from Coupon: Littlest) pee now? Like his dick is smaller than his shaved pubes. Peeing must either take a long time... Or... I don't know.

It's such a hot story, but at the end I always wondered about that.

A similar concern I have with stories where the characters shrink to impossibly small levels, because... Like... How do they survive? Don't get me wrong, being shrunk to subatomic level is such a hot idea... But you would end up dying from being unable to breath.

Do you think about these things? I understand we are meant to just ignore them. And I normally do. But sometimes I just can't help it and contemplate how these characters live their lives after their respective transformations.

I do think about these things somewhat, but at a certain point, it's best to just suspend disbelief. Like, with the shrunken characters, I know that at a certain size they wouldn't even be able to breathe. Like, air molecules would be bigger than their airways. It's fun to bounce around ideas to explain these things, but if I spend too much time on something, or if I decide that the act of answering it would detract too much from the fun of the scenario it's best to just kind of do a "It's fine. Don't worry about it. *wink*" The whole point of these "what if scenarios" and such when I answer questions of this nature is to add more fun to the situation, not to pick it apart.

Like I had mentioned a few times in the past the the Trevor guys had some physical changes (other than just their actual size) when they shrunk. Not only are they more durable, but their actual organs would be inoperable if they literally were just the same as before but smaller. The answer I kinda gave was "It Just Works" because I would have to completely rewrite the laws of biology and physics to make it work, and to a certain degree that's what happens in each scenario. Like yeah, it's not physically possible for someone's dick to get that large/small, but if it was, we'd have to assume we're already in a world where it's possible, so what does that say about the laws of that reality?

So for example, in the Trevor stories. It shouldn't be possible for a dude to get shrunk down so small that he could use bacteria as a teddy bear, but it happened, so what do we make of it? Is he really breathing? Is there some sort of respiration that science is not totally aware of that functions in these smaller sizes? Maybe studying Mitch will help scientists understand microscopic life more. Do viruses breathe? Do they need oxygen? Or maybe some other gas. They're mostly carbon based, right? Currently, science sees viruses as clusters of protein with only the barest of computing powers. These things couldn't even run DOOM. They're not Alive in the traditional sense... at least not in a way that we can determine. Maybe there's matter between the gaps of what we currently understand. Maybe they breathe quarks as easily as we breathe air.

I do like to play with the rules of the real world and stick to the fringes of what is plausible, but at the end of the day, the answer to "how does it work" is always "what makes the scenario more fun". If it detracts from the story to think too hard on it, I just wave my hands and say "it just works."

As for El... I feel like I've joked in the past that with a dick that size, he'd need a catheter or he'd be in a constant state of dribbling. It's too small to get an actual stream going and the amount he squeezes out is too small to really make a stain. Just stick a pad down there and let it ride.

[sorcerous-caress]

I was smiling the whole time while reading that lmao but honestly I think the only way a bad ending Sean could be brought back is by his tiefling mother Bayarmaa or a romanced Tav/Durge/Origin. Honestly Bayarmaa would probably be the only person from his past he wouldn’t turn on and not because that’s his mom but because he literally can’t find anything to judge her for. If he ever was brought back he’d probably break down not being able to handle what he became. He only ever wanted to help people like his mothers helped people, how they helped him. He’d probably be torn between going back to helping people or running off never to be seen again and dying alone and he hated being alone, the start of his romance is a scene where he asks to stay the night with you because he wasn’t used to sleeping alone. But with the Bad Sol vs Bad Sean stuff I honestly think he’d actually have fun doing that because honestly he likes killing more than he would like to admit and I honestly think he’d like the cat and mouse game. Leaving trails purposefully, taunting Sol in the shadows of a cave or forest, leaving notes in his empty cage telling Sol to step it up, etc. I think he’d be disappointed whenever it ended, thinking there wouldn’t be anyone else who put up as much of a fight as Sol did. Also a last minute thing I thought of is Bad Ending Sean cutting off the Robin tattoo on his face that repeats his mom Robyn Hood because in some versions of Robin Hood he was originally a noble.

There is no greater irony than bad ending Sol and Sean forming a fun platonic friend-enemies cat and mouse relationship whilst their good endings would have them being awkward long distance half-friends at best.

Like the single sliver of goodness that came out of this dumbsterfire of bad endings.

Would those five years before Sol's death would be Sean's last ever experience of having something close to a "friend to play with" ?

And honestly? Probably Sol's, too.

They don't want to kill him. That's the thing. They want him alive until their own death kills him alongside them, probably the heat from their fire melting the gold and burying him under it, which is their ideal scenario if he just stopped escaping their claws for one second.

And I don't think their death would change him, if anything it would probably strengthen his resolve that greediness must be purged from this world, because technically it is the thing that called his last remaining "friend" who didn't hate him and kidnapped him on the regular so he'd be near them.

I'd like to think that Lae'zel would visit them once, at least before their death. Sol asks if she's here to kill them. They're at the end of their lifespan and tell her they'd prefer to die by her hand, but they must finish what they started. They want to go out by their own fire and nothing else. Lae'zel lowers her sword for once, bidding her friend goodbye and never seeing them again.

If Sol saw Sean one day with his ripped face tattoo, they'd say, "Oh no, now you're ugly, how tragic." Ignoring how their own body has been deforming and mutating lately.

Do you think he would purposely stay in his cell during the night and only escape in the morning? Just so he wouldn't be sleeping alone? Their lair is probably filled with people plus their family members. They've kidnapped many others.

Imagine if Tav wasn't even near either of them, just off on their own farm with Shadowheart raising sheeps and cows while baking applepie.

Meanwhile Sol is burning down a forest because Sean escaped into the woods and he is too quick to spot between the trees, he keeps taunting them with his shadows and they're getting fed up and started turning everything to ash.

Would Sean even know when they're gone? Or would time just pass without Sol ever showing up to take the gold he stole back. Suddenly, it's all over, no more chasing, no more games, no more fun. Their whole layer has melted upon itself, and everything is buried under a mountain alongside their molten bones. Just quietness, and he is truly alone.

[rexscanonwife]

ough toshi now knowing how to deal with ur s/i at all and just avoiding her after meeting her again is such a cute and funny scenario <3 how do u think they'd eventually get talking again? would it be ur s/i actually taking the initiative after she recognizes him or would he muster up the courage? or wouldn't it happen until they're forced to work together closely for the first time again? EITHER WAY they're both super adorable together (+ i hope u're having a good day !! ✌️)

HIIII!! This is a super interesting question that I honestly have done a little more thinking about lately! Because I realized that the process of preparing Toshi for becoming a teacher at UA probably started LONG before the beginning of the series, paperwork, background checks on other staff members and such, making sure they're all trustworthy. All the other teachers know his secret, and my s/i would be no different! I imagine after confirming that they can keep it, he'd probably he formally introduced to them in a sort of meeting to greet them and to make them aware of the whole situation

I can see my s/i being utterly SHOCKED upon learning that that weird guy who kept running away from her earlier was Toshinori. She was there in the aftermath of his injury, but she never imagined things would get so BAD. She's polite of course but she also has a lot of guilt for leaving him all those years ago, and I was talking about it with my friend and in their first one-on-one conversation I imagine on the inside she's like 'oh my god he's just being nice but I'm sure he hates me for leaving, I hope we can still be friends' real sad girl hours, and he's like 'ohhhh my god she's even prettier than I remember, just play it cool Toshinori!!' 😂😂😂

From there, they just try to be friendly again! And my s/i would probably discover then that while her power doesn't make a huge change with his injuries, it does provide temporary relief so that would give them even more time to talk! I imagined a moment where she has him laying on the staff room couch while she lightly rubs her hands on his abdomen around his scarred area and then realizing how close they are, their faces are only inches apart and both of them just blushing like crazy like they're kids again before she just clears her throat and asks him if that feels better 😂💖💖💖

They'd be spending time together outside of work too, maybe meeting for coffee or lunch dates...as FRIENDS you know? They're both falling for each other again but they're hesitant for their own reasons and just insist that it's totally platonic. I imagined too, Midoriya catching us out on a coffee date or a walk or something and blabbing like "HI ALL MI- I mean....hi...there!" and smth similar to the lego batman movie like "I know what it looks like but he's not my son!" "...it's weirder if it's NOT your son. 🤨"

ANYWAYS THIS IS LONG ENOUGH OUGH THANK U FOR ASKING!!!! @lameassboyfriend

[greypentachoron]

I love Wicked the musical. When I saw a movie coming out I knew nothing but perfection would satisfy my high expectations, you know? I'm aware I wouldn't *love* the movie, but I could like it, so I went to watch the movie trying not to be nitpicky.

I loved many parts of the movie. Acting was okay, costumes were absolutely gorgeous and it was a pretty faithful adaptation, but there's a few issues I have to address and honestly I'm not sure who's to blame in this.

I'm cutting this a bit because it's a long rant from someone who has loved this musical for years. It's probably my favourite musical

Clearly the songs were made not for the musical, but to be sold after the movie. I'm not here expecting Idina Menzel level of singing, because she is unmatched, but in many cases where the music had to swell with emotion and sung with feeling it reached the peak and then came crashing down to a more "acceptable" level of album song instead of singing with their heart.

I'm not that girl, in the musical, is heart wrenching. You should feel the "I'm never going to be enough" that comes with years of trauma, and in the movie it felt so unpersonal, it didn't move anyone. The instruments blossomed with emotion but not the voice.

I love that actress that made Madam Morrible, but she sung twice and on her solo it also lacked emotions, she was almost whispering the whole song where she should be excited, she should be giving Elphaba some hope. Her song had awkward pauses everywhere for acting and "pretty scenes", and that's an issue for the entire movie.

Speaking of this, this needs a topic on its own. Many songs felt a little chopped, broken and awkward. In the middle of a song they stopped singing, then a scene of a character shows up, they, idk, run somewhere, does a funny thing, 5, 10 seconds pass and the song comes back. I know you want to show pretty scenes, you don't have to pause the literal music or singing to do that. The character can do their quirky thing and sing. Please god stop this, it breaks such emotional songs that are ALREADY lacking emotions.

By the end of the movie I thought, well, they didn't want to bring a lot of emotions to other very emotional songs because they'll place every single ounce of feelings they got in Defying Gravity. The magnum opus, so they want the feeling to be jarring. Oh boy was I fucking wrong.

First of all, the entire story up to here has Glinda singing higher pitched and Elphaba singing lower, in Defying Gravity they change roles, showing Elphaba taking the lead, daring to imagine that she can fix things. That they, together, can. Glinda is letting her dream for a moment, but she's not going to accept it. They have wildly different emotions, and the song should show it.

They equalised the SHIT out of this duet. It's clear they sung separately and they just stitched this bullshit together. They're literally perfectly in sync and pitch, and it takes the ENTIRE fucking personality of this song. I'm pretty sure Glinda's voice is even higher in volume comparing them both, probably because they wanted to lean on Ariana Grande being actually a very good singer (and that's a whole can of worms to open here. I don't even like most of her pop music, but I have to admit she is a great singer)

When it's time for Elphaba to be angry, to say "yeah if I'm going down, I'm going down fighting", there's again a lack of emotions. I'd argue the only moment the actress really sings with her heart is in the very end of the song, after the needless scene of her falling off the building that, again, stops a very emotional song for moments of "ooh look at our cgi/scenario/clothing isn't this movie great?"

This song should swell after the first time she speaks "Defying Gravity", right at the BEGINNING, and there's a peak and then... Nothing. Oh my god I'm so furious.

I'm angry because this movie is so fucking subpar, and meanwhile Broadway or was it West End years ago had planned on recording Wicked and selling the dvd. We won't get that now, because we got a movie. A subpar fucking movie, with people who clearly weren't chosen because they're good singers, but because they were good actors. These good actors could act, but they clearly couldn't put their emotions in songs.

This movie seems like fast cash, soulless. It's like they got a husk of Wicked, dressed it pretty and left it there, an exoskeleton of what it could have been.

[lauvra]

[DRAFT PURGE] I'm not sure all this will make sense, and in a world where I was a remotely reasonable or forward thinking person I probably wouldn't share it publicly so that it would remain a private self-growth journal entry but here we are; likely another point to add below. To be fair, part of me gets a lot of catharsis from this kind of honesty, I really think it makes others feel less alone too and that matters to me. I want to own up to some shit to force myself to be accountable because I've developed a few maladaptive coping strategies since 2021 that have become pretty ingrained by now and are making it difficult for me to connect with people in meaningful ways; which despite my lone wolf act, is precisely what I love about life and where I find meaning and its value. Still to this day if you ask what kind of books I lean toward I'll tell you mostly bio / autobiographical ones. Real life is fascinating, people are fascinating. I don't even watch scary movies for the monsters, Zombie films are my favourite; not for the Zombies but for the way human beings behave in such crises. I was thinking I'd list points then go into them further and give examples but I'm not proud of this stuff and I think it all comes down to not feeling safe to communicate my needs or thoughts. I'm going to narrow them to two points and go easy. 1. Ghosting. 2. Escapism. The thing also with communicating effectively is that I don't necessarily trust or understand myself well enough lately to figure out what those even are in some circumstances, leading me to either taking so much time to myself that I've affectively ghosted people even when they've given me no indication it's unsafe to share my thoughts. The problem is, you don't know someone until you've experienced them in various scenarios and I haven't given myself or others that opportunity for us to know one another in such a way in years. I run from a situation, thinking once I'm out of it I'll change but I run into the next scenario I 'can't' face and it happens again. I run again. There's been so much talk about 'ghosting' this year in the online space and I had a conversation with a friend from back home many months ago about this topic because she was devastated after having someone she considered a best friend 'ghost' her once she had her child and got married. 1. I've become a ghoster. Last year I walked out on a job when I overheard my boss making disparaging comments about what I was doing rather than guiding me which was fine until I was then serving a particularly pushy customer afterward and I felt myself snap like I could've levitated from the rage and walked out, emailed my notice and didn't care whether they paid out my leave. Then, after taking long service leave from my other job, moving stores and suburbs I no-showed to work for a whole week until they contacted my family / placed me on leave and despite a saintly level of understanding offered on their part, I still failed to communicate my needs and emailed through my notice.

[danieyells]

Notes:

"Taiga might not want to eat anomalies"

Taiga has two home screen line that suggest he's either indifferent to or fine with eating anomlies. The first the PC is implied to ask him what he's eating, to which he says he's obviously eating anomaly meat.

The second is an autumn specific line(4pm-8pm) in which he says he's been eating more and (implicitly) his underlings aren't bringing him enough food, so he's taking you with him to stock up. This could be regular food of course, but considering his usual diet and that his underlings can't keep up with his appetite, I can't imagine it's regular food. Plus wouldn't he just send them to get more regular food from the store or the cafeteria? Why would Taiga need to get it himself if it's not anomalous in nature? They can just get food instantly from the cafeteria anomaly, surely they're not going to run low?

He doesn't seem to mind that he has to get food himself, despite complaining about them being too slow with getting him enough food. Considering Taiga also loves killing and violence(and is destructive enough with anomalies that they sent him on the Kyklos mission for that specific reason, and he has a disciplinary record that states he severely damages on-campus anomalies) I don't see why he would have a problem with eating anomalies. Of course he could have just accepted it and embraced it at this point, but it doesn't strike me as just compulsion. There's definitely a lot of compulsion(he said in the B's Log magazine interview that he gets hungry anytime he goes on a mission--at this point any mission he went on was likely pre-Kyklos, so the desire to eat them was probably there for a good while) but he doesn't seem unhappy about eating anomalies most of the time. (On the other hand, a lot of the time he has little control of it. He's probably happy as long as he's in control and in a worse mood after the fact if he wasn't in control. . . .)

"Taiga still feels compelled to eat [the Barong] and can't stop himself."

Just a clarification: Taiga didn't express a desire to eat it when it first showed up on the stairs, tried to shoot it the second time without expressing a want to eat it, and didn't go after it the third time when Ritsu woke him up(although he did pull out his gun despite saying his bullets weren't working on it), carried it on his person for an extended period of time without eating it and without anyone knowing he'd gone and gotten it, and gave it to Romeo without complaint or protest. Then he ate it afterwards. He'd stopped himself from trying to eat it the whole time. It was only at the end that he couldn't stop himself anymore. He could have just eaten it without any of the others knowing because they didn't even know he had it, but he didn't do that.

On a lesser note, Yuri's "divine retribution" references were changed to "anomalous retribution" sadly lmao. The definition is the same, I guess they just didn't want to suggest some sort of medical basis of divinity?

"drawback for overuse of [Subaru's] stigma"

Not overuse. Any use at all. Including the accidental use that comes with making skin contact with things. He rarely uses it intentionally and avoids crowded places so he doesn't even brush up against people, and he wears long sleeves and gloves to avoid the risk of triggering his stigma, and it seems that any use of it makes him tired enough to need rest. One could argue that simply wearing clothes all day could count as 'overusing' it I suppose, but given he isn't lethargic all day I would assume not? Drawbacks aren't necessarily an overuse scenario, is what I'm getting at.

"[Danie] read ["Wait til I get my teeth in you"] as literal".

In Japanese he says 「美味そうだなぁ、お前」 which means "You look pretty tasty". "Umai" can mean other things(namely 'skillful' and the like) but the kanji usage Taiga has is specifically used for good food(literally written "beautiful taste"). So, yes, it's literal. He wants to eat it.

"he doesn't even acknowledge having chased after the Kyklos"

He says it ran at a similar speed to Haru. He wouldn't have been able to chase it far after seeing it go.

Taiga isn't at the entrance ceremony

Neither is Romeo. Romeo for sure because they were being put on probation, although I'll admit Taiga could've been anywhere(based on Ritsu's behavioral model he doesn't leave Sinostra much anyway.) Towa wasn't there either, if you'll recall. Haru said he was on the hill he likes(implied to be mama tree's hill, but Towa did suggest you have to be special to see the tree)

Taiga couldn't remember Kisaragi Station because he lit a mesmer match

Mesmer matches don't work on ghouls. We learned that in chapter one, so his memory problems are definitely not that. Lighting a mesmer match is perfectly safe for a ghoul, hence why Haku is able to blow the one he uses on you out with his eyes open.

Also he did eventually start to remember when he saw the PC up close again(he's the one who said he'd seen her before the more recent meetings and that he saw her on a train, she just filled in the rest until it clicked) it just took a while and some prompting. He didn't say he didn't remember how he got home either, it just never came up tbh.

Bringing up the disciplinary record again, I don't think eating anomalies is as new as the Kyklos mission either. If he were only destructive towards off campus anomalies that'd be one thing, but on-campus anomalies seems more like a record of that he keeps eating stuff to me, rather than that he's, idk, wanton attacking the wildlife? The memory problems may be new though, since Romeo seems upset that Taiga's forgotten Ritsu already(his expression looked sad anyway) and snaps that he should go to Mortkranken so they can tell him what's wrong with his brain. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's new either.

On that note! I do agree with a lot of what you said though. losing his memories very well might be a result of eating anomalies, and I think this could be leading into a Seven Deadly Sins reference thing with everyone(Hyde says the ability to use one's stigma without saying the incantation aloud may be influenced by mental state; if being able to use your stigma at all is influenced by mental state--and given Romeo's stigma is more powerul based on his attachment to the bomb-to-be I would say it's definitely a possibility--then Jin not being able to use his stigma because he's feeling down on himself or less prideful would add up.) even if it isn't like "the strongest demons" kind of deal, if they're all attached to a sin then I'd believe it. The greed point in the newest chapter made me consider that too.

(Ren being sloth so his stigma clean things is so funny though.)

Ultimately we're back to one of our biggest issues though. . .we don't know what Taiga's stigma is and how it would connect to his gluttony. And of course we also don't know how long he's been eating anomalies or having memory issues. Romeo said all he cares about are gambling and anomalies, but the problem is that he used to be really really really good at catching them too. So that could be why anomalies are one of the only things he cares about according to Romeo. . .if someone else could maybe talk about Taiga having issues with his memory we could speculate more on how long it's been going on(like, he hasn't really left Sinostra much since he became Captain afair, except for on missions, so if another third year mentioned him having issues with his memory then we could speculate that they're not that recent since it's unlikely he's seen most of them in the past idk six months but. . . .)

I do doubt that large amounts of food could resolve his hunger issues though. . .surely it wouldn't be that hard to get him a lot of regular food? Like I mentioned before the cafeteria anomaly will just give them food(albeit for a price), then there's the campus store and the mystery diner. . .i don't think food security should be a problem if it's regular food that he can eat. And, again, the black market auction hall had abundant, complimentary food. If he could have just eaten his fill there before they left he wouldn't have had eaten the mask. The anomalous hunger is probably separate. . . .

Ksbsudk ANYWAY. Thank you so much for this post!! It makes total sense that eating anomalies would result in some sort of anomalous retribution that he's suffering that's messing with his memory since, yeah, things like food from fae and the like mess you up one way or another and eating anomalies would probably have a similar effect for him. You do amazing research and put lots of thought into all of this haha ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤🩶🤍🩷

Paper Tigers and Paper Plates: Notes on Tiaga and his Memory Loss

Now that we have two (and some smidges here and there) Episodes focusing on Taiga there is enough data to start noting down patterns. The most noticeable are of course, his rather unique dietary choices and his issues with memory loss. The two seem to be rather loosely linked, it is easy to take note of and wonder why that might be the case. Well I have a very simple explanation (and i do promise you it simple) as to the why they would be linked. The more complicated hypotheticals are related to the how and while I do have a theory about that, I am not 100% sold on it.

Food in Myth and Anime

Food is a pretty important part of any culture, and it shows up a lot in anime and anime related games. Pretty much every Twisted Wonderland hometown event has an entire chapter just dedicated to talking about local foods. Food in mythology is something of a mixed bag. Specific foods are considered sacred, preparation of food can be regulated in specific religions, certain foods are considered impure and banned from consumption all together.

So what does this have to do with Taiga? Well there are two fairly universal taboos in myths around the world when it comes to food. Taiga eating raw anomalies happens to hit on both.

Eating a sentient creature is considered a grave sin, especially if that creature could be considered a "human" or otherwise in possession of a "spirit"

Eating food from the underworld/other world/fae realm traps you there, or at the very least makes you cease being human.

I think you can see where I am going with this yeah? Both of these taboos are considered to have the side effect of making you want more of the forbidden food. Taiga might not want to eat anomalies, but he feels a compulsion to due to his prior consumption. Taiga calls out Romeo for the sin of greed during Episode 8, but it's a pretty safe bet at this point that Taiga's own sin is gluttony. Because he gave in and committed the taboo of consuming an anomaly he is compelled to eat more of them and he cannot stop.

At the start of the game we are told, in passing, two things by Cornelius. The first is that ghouls are not considered human, the second is that "what makes something human" is a matter of debate. On the surface it is easy to dismiss the idea of something like a like dove as human, but if it is a spirit that makes eating it somewhat taboo. The Barong is a much cleaner example of this, the Barong is a good entity, a king of spirits, a guardian of humans. Not an entity that Darkwick would interfere with under normal circumstances. But Taiga still feels compelled to eat it and cannot stop himself. Divine punishment/anomalous retribution is a noted medical phenomenon that comes up in Yuri's affection chats and that is sort of how I would describe this set of circumstances. Eating a god or spiritual entity is karmatically wrong and because you have done so you are compelled to eat and eat and eat more of those entities until you eventually cease to be human.

You see what meant before right? They "why" is relatively simple, but the "how did he get to this point" is not. The way I see it there are two plausible theories with the information that we currently have.

Theory 1- this is a natural side effect of using his stigma

Dani outlines here a few things about Taiga's memory loss and notes that it could be related to his stigma and stigma use. Specifically, he notes that Subaru mentions his exhaustion from using his stigma and I'll admit I was sort of ready to brush this theory off because it would make more sense to me that over use of a stigma always leaves one exhausted but ah then I had a thought.

So Subaru is constantly getting on himself for "not doing enough." If we consider this in the frame of the seven deadly sins, then this would make his sin and his fatal flaw sloth. So therefore it would make sense that his drawback for overuse of his stigma would be related to sloth, it exhausts him and leaves him unable to do anything. There exists some evidence for this with how Romeo's stigma works, the explosions are directly tied to how much the object means to him; it is triggered by his greed. If you want some crack from this line of thought, I would say that Ristu and his stigma, hardening his body, makes him literally headstrong. His stigma is related to and triggered by his pride. Alan's flaw could be rage and this is why he is so reluctant to use his stigma because he loses the ability to think when he does.

So if we believe that each of the ghouls has a fatal flaw related to one of the seven deadly sins, needing to or feeling a compulsion to eat anomalies makes perfect sense for a draw back to Taiga's stigma. He's a glutton. He wants to eat and eat and eat some more, and he has no qualms about denying others access to resources, which is a key part of the sin of gluttony as opposed to just liking food. I think this theory makes perfect sense and should not be discounted.

Now for something more complicated and conspiracy brained:

Theory 2- Kisaragi Station and the "Far Shore"

I did a post outlining some of the stuff I found out about Kisaragi station, but the TL;DR for this post is that is theorized to be connected to the spirit world, staying there for too long robs you of your memories, and the only way out is to light something on fire.

When Taiga first sees the Kyklos on the train, he specifically says "wait until i get my teeth into you." I read this as a figurative threat. Dani read as literal. Both, I think, are plausible. If we consider Taiga's gluttony as a natural side effect of his stigma then this makes sense. The question then becomes whether or not Taiga had eaten any anomalies up until this point. To be more specific, does this desire to eat specifically have to do with anomalies, or could it have been satisfied by consuming large amounts of food. None of the other "side effects" we have knowledge of are as extreme as Taiga's, with the exception of maybe Mido's, but murderous rage is still within the realm of "natural" desire.

Anyway, Taiga remembers meeting the MC on the train, but does not remember when that was. More importantly he remembers the Kyklos running away, but he does not remember anything that happened after that. He doesn't even acknowledge having chased after the Kyklos, which we saw him do, which could just be because it was "his turn" to ask questions or because he genuinely does not remember. I bring this up because we have no idea how Taiga got home from Kisaragi station. We do not see him when Haku puts down the barrier and takes MC to Darkwick, and he is not at the entrance ceremony (though there are a plethora of reasons for why that could be.) If Kisaragi station is at the brink of the far shore, if there is no way to get back to the real world other than to light something on fire, if as a natural side effect of using his stigma Taiga experiences an unnatural desire to eat and will eat whatever he can get his hands on... my theory is that Taiga, prior to his encounter with the Kyklos, probably did not eat anomalies. He was able to satisfy his gluttony just fine by eating normal food. After spending an indeterminate amount of time in Kisaragi station he was forced, more or less against his will, to consume an anomaly and has been unable to satisfy his gluttony with anything else ever since.

As for why he would not remember this, there exist two explanations.

This is a natural consequence of eating anomalies. Unable to rob him of his humanity as he is already a ghoul, the taboo nature of eating anomalies has begun corroding his past memories and "sense of self" and inhibited his ability to make new ones.

In order to escape Kisaragi station, he stared a fire with what he would have had available: a mesmer match. I like this explanation due to the striking of the match in the prologue sequence, but there is very little evidence for this. I just like the idea.

Notes:

I have had this idea for a bit now in large part because of Spirited Away (gif related lol) I have been meaning to watch it for a bit now, but I find it sort of interesting that the second protagonist of the film is called Haku, and that he is a dragon pretending to be a young boy. Also he has green hair and eyes. And guides Chihiro through the spirit world. idk just thought that was relevant for some reason- back to the notes

I didn't want to include it in the theory, but if a ghoul's stigma and it's draw back are semi-related to one of the seven deadly sins, is it possible that that's why Jin's stigma isn't working? His flaw seems to be pride, but he isn't acting with a lot of that right now so his stigma could not be responding to him due to his lacking self confidence

Also that would make Towa's sin lust... which makes him a really good example of that. Lust isn't just desire/being horny, it's projecting that desire onto other people with no consideration for them as a person with their own wants and desires. Towa is a lot of things but considerate... well he tries his best! Probably. Sometimes.

The demons of the Ars Goetia (with the singular exception of asmo) are not the same as the demons named on lists of representations of the seven deadly sins. As a result, while it might be tempting to assume the dorms themselves are representative of those sins, I personally would not put much stock in that being the case.

Anyway that's what i have for now. Thanks for reading and be sure to let me know your thoughts.

[kingspuppet]

Sometimes I think about the idea of what if after returning for real Goro doesn’t remember anything about Maruki’s reality? Like to him it’s just another odd gap in his memory where he knows something is there. Yet for whatever reason he just can’t put his finger on it. And despite the Metaverse being gone he can still feel Loki and Robin in his heart, but there’s also someone new in there named Hereward. But he can’t recall where they came from or why they’re there or even why it feels so right that there’s three of them.

Eventually some pieces will come back to him, but like Lavenza said. Everything went back to how it should have been. Everything, including Goro’s memories.

[beeindaclouds]

I have another request! Could u do hcs dsmp babysitting child!reader? Maybe a lil scenario?

Welcome back to my inbox haha

Yes, I had this idea for a while but I didn't know if anybody would have read it so thank you for the request <3

I'll probably make another version where the DSMP are kids too 👀

DSMP babysitting Child!Reader pt. 1

Includes: Dream, Georgenotfound, Sapnap, Badboyhalo, Skeppy, Quackity, Karl Jacobs, Wilbur Soot, C!Philza, C!Technoblade, Nihachu, Eret, Punz, FoolishGamers

A.N: I don't really need to say this but, just in case some sickos get the wrong idea, this is strictly PLATONIC.

Request are OPEN

❝ Dream ❞

He has younger siblings, so he for sure knows what to do with children

Absolutely loves to pick you up and like throw you in the air while you giggle away

He cannot say no to you. Even if he is streaming or editing, if you come running to him and pull on his leg to get his attention so you can play his answer is 9/10 times "yes"

That 1/10 times is when he is almost done and just wants to quickly get it over with. But he'll keep you on his lap while he's finishing things up

Spoils you. A lot. Even after your parents told him that he didn't need to, he gave you gifts anyway

Yall know that tik tok audio "can I touch your kitties?", yeah that happened when youw wanted to pat Patches

❝ Georgenotfound ❞

This could go two ways. He is either good at it or freezes and doesn't know what to do.

He's good, not great, with kids. It's when they start going crazy or cry that he does not know what to do

If he is babysitting you at his house you love to run around and paly with his things

Definitely stole his glasses once, he took a picture and sent it to your parents

He, after asking your parents permission of course, brought you on stream with him after you begged him many many times

You two did a cooking stream, need I say more?

It turned more into a "food fight" then a cooking stream

You did end up tiring yourself to the point where you fell asleep in George's arms, chat went crazy

Also you like to talk to the Dream guy on George's phone

❝ Sapnap ❞

If I'm not wrong he has younger siblings, so again, knows what he's doing

Doesn't mean that he's perfect at it tho

He mostly entertains you with videogames

Your parents had to warn him many times about not leaving you on the computer for to long

I feel like his cheeks are quite squishy, so you constantly pull and play witht them, he has no choice but to surrender

You.two.make.pillow.forts.

He definitely roleplays with you. Sometimes you're the knight in shining armor who has to save teddy (your plushie) from the evil grasps of Lord Sapnap

The roles and scenarios change based on what you two felt like that day

He brought you on a call with Quackity and Karl once, where you asked if they were the boy friends he always talked about

The three of them understood it as boyfriends not boy friends and all had a laugh

But they made you believe that they were all dating, they would do that, I don't take no as an answer

❝ Badboyhalo ❞

I feel like childrens like him

His voice just seems so child friendly

He'd be awkward with childrens at first but then does a whole 360 and becomes the best babysitter ever

You live the life of luxury with this man. You two watch cartoons togheter, you play some games, he cooks you deserts, he has a puppy, what more could a kid want?

He's definitely the type to cook deserts with vegetables in them to trick you into eating healthy

You love to play with Rat and he will sometimes supervise you, just to make sure you're not being too rough with her

Reads you bedtime stories and his soothing voice will put you to sleep in no time

He's also very good at comforting you

Wouldn't bring you on stream but he presented you to Skeppy when they were both video calling

Skeppy kept on telling you that he and Bad were dating and you weren't having none of it

Bad had a blast as you and Skeppy were "arguing" about who would marry Bad in the future

❝ Skeppy ❞

He's the cool babysitters

Even tho he barely has experience

Yes, he as a sister, but that does not mean he's good with kids

But he somehow still manages

When I say cool babysitter, I mean let's you stay up late to watch TV, let's you eat junk food, you know the opposite of what your parents told him but, they don't need to know right?

He makes you play Minecraft for a video

100% lets you help him prank Bad by acting like you were Skeppy's adopted child

Bad got so confused

Also takes pictures of you in his merch, even if they are way to big on you

Shares them on twitter, with permission of course

You like to stay on his back because it makes you feel tall and Skeppy enjoys hearing your joyful glee's

❝ Quackity ❞

The only reason why he'd actually be great with kids is becuse he can sometimes act like one /pos

He has to keep you away from his cat, you never know when it might scratch you

Will watch Cocomelon with you and you can't say otherwise.

Sometimes will play you songs, or let you sing as he plays the guitar, so that you can later show your parents what you learned

After asking permission he brought you on one of his streams, you both played some games on GirlsGoGames and "ew"ed at the disgusting ones

He also let's you play Minecraft with his character while he's on a videocall with whoever was online

I imagine Tommy being online and you three just cause so much chaos

Quackity teaches you how to attack Tommy, while the british boy is just trying to stay alive cause you're doing a lot of damage

You have many times tried to take of his beanie and have succeeded once, when he gave you permission to take it off

❝ Karl Jacobs ❞

Starts off awkward, he doesn't know what to do, what you like, ect.

But after you both warm up to eachother everything goes smoothly

He loves to watch with you old cartoons that he watched as a kid

You like to ask questions about certain characters and things that are happening in the episode and he is very happy to answer you

He's a cuddler, so he'll keep you safe and warm whenever he can

It's probably that one babysitter you get a crush on but they're too old for you

He once brought you on a MrBeast set

You hid behind Karl most of the time but later got comfortable and ran around like you were high on sugar lol

You, Karl and Chris had a blast togheter

You fell asleep after the long day and Karl made sure to be super gentle and quiet while taking you back home

Part Two

A.N: I'm making this into two parts because I felt like it lol