willgrahamscock

[faebriel]

PLS braindump abt ur ocs

[floodgate opens]

i've talked about them a little bit here and here, but the general gist of them is that they're a jumblemash of red riding hood, snow white, and snow white & rose red all upended into a portal fantasy where the responsible older sister gets kidnapped by fairies, the foolish younger sister has to trek up alone to go get her back, and from there they just get stuck.

i think on saturday lol i was having endless and spiraling thoughts about bea and cassian. here are their little profiles:

(it doesn't say on there but their pronouns are she/her (for now) and he/him respectively, and they're at the very start of their twenties. bea in particular is just shy of her 21st birthday.)

they get stuck at the hip when bea takes up a task from one of the fair courts - tracking down an errant fairy who had been in contact with her disappeared grandmother - in exchange for a magical favour and cassian is appointed as her guide. kind of like "okay we need you to go do us a solid but we're giving you a helper so you don't immediately fall into a pit and die." that, and being a 24/7 spy stuck to bea's side feeding information back to the fair court. really anything is valuable but a true name and information about bea's weird, weird hometown (there's a winter fae ruling it) (they don't know yet) (that's a whole other thing) is really the goal. they're looking to sabotage bea's task just before she can complete it herself to avoid paying out her favour, because the fae are fucking scalpers.

cassian's skin in the game is that he owes a lifedebt to the summer court, and successfully digging up as much information as possible before cutting bea loose is the first rung he needs to crawl up to 1) obtain material success 2) obtain approval and validation from his mentor, who has encouraged an entirely unhealthy relationship of one-sided devotion between them for several years now and 3) generally make the lifedebt feel worth it. because he's kind of at the point where he recognises that he's been dealt a shit hand, even if he tries to take it nobly, and isn't quite at the point of looking towards the court that dealt him that shit hand in the first place. all he knows is Use Honed Skill Of Deep Empathy To Manipulate, Make Magic Deals With Unsuspecting Civilians, Eat Hot Chip, and Lie

bea is a friendly sweetheart. a little too nice honestly. she is also under a lot of pressure (sister was stolen) (knows damn well she shouldn't have ignored her mum's warnings to stay out of the fair realm) and is starting to crack at the seams, even when she manages to secure her sister's safety for the time being. cassian puts on a charming front but she can see this surly, cynical part of him seeping through the cracks, and the more she delves into the fair realm (and more time they spend together), she takes up a side hobby of cracking him right open. (and if that snarky loser beneath kind of reminds her of her missing sister, who cares?)

(and cassian is unpicking more and more about bea because like, the mission - but the more he unpicks the more he keeps getting buried in this mess of her family life and what if things could be different and a mix of determination and naivete that is makes her the kindest person he's ever met even if it's literally going to kill her and why did someone like that come here alone?)

and they traipse through the fair realm together experiencing the exposure therapy that is friendship :3 a lot of hiking and aimless conversations and they crash past cassian's work/home post which bea is delighted by and he is so unhappy with lol. all as bea learns more about the fairies that she's been obsessed with her whole life - an obsession she inherited from her grandmother, who has haunted her family to a deranged degree since her disappearance - cassian learns about a world outside the glass bauble he lives in, and they uncover a bunch of weird shit. like how belongings from bea's family are strewn across the realm, and how her family heirlooms are tattooed with fae fingerprints. which is probably fine. all as the wolves are catching up to bea, and they find her grandmother too.

cassian gets to choose his loyalties and he chooses SO fkn wrong. he leads her to a trap and convinces her to burn her iron-laced cloak and watches as she embraces what she thinks is her grandmother (it's not) and fuck he doesn't want to but he's still too scared to step out of line. any small rebellions he's ever made have been ones that he can sweep under the rug and/or rationalise as being in the court's best interest anyway. letting bea go would be neither of those, and he's too cowardly to take action - and in this circumstance, inaction is the killer. so bea gets to have the second worst day of her life (the first one was the day her sister was taken) and hits the dirt wailing that she doesn't know where she went wrong, and realising that maybe being plucky and sweet and stubborn wasn't enough to save her. or her sister. or her grandmother. or even fucking cassian, who couldn't be convinced to help her. many many mental breakdowns

BUT. over the months-long course of their traipsing, cassian came across bea's true name and maybe that should have drastically tipped the power dynamic of their relationship but this was when they were starting to like each other, and so they both just danced around the topic and pretended it didn't happen. can't speak it into truth right? until now, when cassian's mentor tells him to hand it over and bea goes oh, i'm fucked then and cassian just. doesn't. because he can't actively do shit yet, not quite, but he can rebel to the court's face through inaction. he can not say something. and that's the fatal crack in the wall yk !!!

after that - cassian gets a fucking wake up call, he lets bea's sister (a furious woodcutter-warden who's been stewing in amber for months with a literal axe to grind) out and all hell breaks loose. bea and her sister make a break for it, cassian's mentor corners them, they'd gotten close to writing cassian off as a loose end but he slam tackles his mentor into the ocean shallows and gets massively roughed up for it. she tries to drag bea in with her and Well maybe that was not a great idea when the wolf dies of drowning in several iterations of the fairytale myth hm.

it would probably be sensible to part ways after this incident but they're both freaks with entirely too much sentimentality to them so they don't. cassian is Absolutely Determined to make the horror of that betrayal up to bea, and bea swallows her [garbled emotional mess] as she's crowned a champion of the court - with no more interference in the way, she won the favour she coveted - as her sister tells her that no, they're not fucking going home.

that is a lot of braindumping about these two in particular but they possess me at times you know how it is with ocs :'] roiling mess of a qpr waiting to happen. not even getting into bea and her sister's mess of a family or her sister in general or the story that kicks on next with the prince who takes a little too much interest in their whole operation and all the bullshit she brings with her. maybe one day i will fill out one of those meet your oc templates which would be much more efficient. but for now have an old doodle as a peace offering:

(yeah they form their own court. it goes terribly)

[hymnoeides]

'Cause I'm stuck with your stories

[bumblebeebats]

As much as i love Dungeon Meshi, i do think that given Ryoko Kui's attention to realistic worldbuilding there ought to be a companion series called Dishes Meshi where they spend 2hrs washing and drying and packing away. Alll the goddamnfuck dishes they just made

[gal-o-guacamole]

Ok but do you think they've been to Libido bath

[itsaspectrumcomic]

am I still in time for ace week

[hinamie]

alongside someone like you

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

Hot take maybe but I think Bertie would be FAR more likely to survive the first two months of Dracula than Jeeves would be. Bertie has a healthy sense of self-preservation. Jeeves consistently underestimates how dangerous a situation might get (Steeple Bumpleigh, the club book) because he’s overconfident about his level of control over any given situation. He'd handle Dracula masterfully if they faced off in England, but on Dracula's home turf? Much more doubtful.

I realize this might be a tough sell, so I will explain further (or it's not a tough sell, and I'm going to explain further because I want to). (criteria taken from @canyourfavesurvivecastledracula) Without further ado.

Would Jeeves and Wooster survive Castle Dracula?

Jeeves

Jeeves' survival will depend on how long Dracula finds him more entertaining than irritating. On that basis, I don't think he's long for this world. On the one hand, he has a huge wealth of knowledge about English society and culture that he can recite perfectly from memory. That should buy him at least a little time with noted teaboo Dracula.

On the other hand, he would be absolutely no fun as a vampire plaything. Jeeves cannot be got. Sneaking up on him while he's shaving will yield zero reaction (though that's at least good for his short-term survival--given that, although he DID take the crucifix from the old woman out of politeness, he certainly isn't going to wear it. The rules of fashion don't go out the window just because you're in a spooky castle). Then, although managing the whims of rich jerks is not an insignificant part of a valet's job, Jeeves usually does this by bending his employers to his will. Dracula is not the sort of employer this will work on. It'll just add insult to injury when on top of being impossible to scare, NOW Jeeves is telling Dracula that his favorite cloak is several centuries out of fashion and he's not allowed to wear it anymore.

Jeeves will 100% go exploring in the areas he was told not to go-- though to be fair, he MIGHT actually get away with this, what with his superpower of appearing in rooms without being seen or heard. Said superpower might save him from the brides as well (though this is by no means guaranteed). Since I find it doubtful that Dracula would come to rescue his annoying ass, not being noticed is his best defense.

There are a couple other things working in Jeeves's favor; the question is just whether they'll be enough to save him.

He DOES know shorthand, and could try to send coded letters. He might even have the foresight to squirrel away some extra stationary where Dracula can't find it. But could he get them posted? Would it even do him any good?

He certainly has enough cultural literacy to figure out what his new boss is pretty quickly. If he didn't chuck the crucifix out the carriage window, he might start carrying it around in his pocket.

Psychology of the individual, sure, but the individual in question is a 400-year-old vampire who lives in an isolated castle in a foreign country and is regarded as a terrifying mythological figure in the surrounding villages. Jeeves has never come up against anything this alien before, he's cut off from his normal resources, and opportunities to play people against each other are limited.

He probably has enough upper body strength from all that shrimping and fishing to climb the wall, so he COULD escape if he wanted to, if he survived long enough. It's just, again, that overconfidence, and also Dracula has a vast library full of rare old books that are entirely at his disposal. He's keeping his eyes and ears alert for potential escape strategies, of course, but I don't see him being as desperate to get out as Jonathan was.

There are just a lot of "depends on"s here, and I'm not convinced that luck would shake out in Jeeves's favor, all things considered.

Bertie

Bertie is so perfect for the job of Castle Dracula Prisoner it's like it was made for him. Think about it. Being held against his will in big manor houses comes more naturally to him than breathing. He's afraid of things that are scary. A lifetime of dealing with Aunt Agatha has made him the world's preeminent expert in "curl[ing] up in a ball in the hope that a meek subservience [will] enable [him] to get off lightly." He will NEVER go exploring in places he's been warned away from if nobody is forcing him to (Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's office notwithstanding. There were biscuits in there). He's both fun to talk to and easy to toy with (and extremely English). A+ prisoner. Dracula adores him.

In my opinion, Bertie is at Castle Dracula either because Aunt Agatha got some wires seriously crossed and thinks he’s going to meet an eligible potential bride (I mean, there are certainly brides there), or because Dracula has something Aunt Dahlia wants him to steal (far less likely, given that one of Dracula’s THINGS is famously not owning anything silver). Either way, he's shown himself entirely willing and able to escape down drainpipes if a sitch gets too scaly.

He DOES take the crucifix, and DOES wear it (which is what will save him during the shaving scene, because you KNOW he's going to jump a foot and cut himself like the dickens). He's read enough supernatural goosefleshers to be genre savvy about terrified old women cryptically pushing crucifixes into one's hands. I also think his sunny disposish endeared him to the villagers, and they were particularly vehement about urging him not to go. He doesn't speak German or Romanian, but he's empathetic enough to recognize Pure Terror. So by the time he actually gets to the castle, his imagination is already running wild and he's plenty aware that he is in imminent danger.

I think the biggest risk to Bertie will be the brides; whether or not he's susceptible to trances, if he thinks they're trying to marry him, it's against the code of the Woosters to turn them down. But that only becomes an issue if he comes face to face with them, which, luckily, I think is unlikely on account of the aforementioned "won't go exploring" (and if he did, Dracula would definitely rescue him).

I'm inclined to say due to his drainpipe-escape habits that he WOULD be able to climb the wall and MAY attempt to sneak into Dracula's room to look for the keys if his desperation grows to outweigh his fear. Whether he does or not, though, he does NOT have the stomach to attempt shovel murder, and therefore won't get magic brain fever, and may very well simply walk out the front doors when the people come to take the boxes away. OR he climbs his way out like Jonathan did. Either way.

When Bertie tells this story at the Drones later, Tuppy will say that no doubt it's been greatly exaggerated and all that probably happened was that he spent a couple months in an oldish house entertaining a weird loner.

[sunlit-mess]

doodle before I go to bed lol

[regonold]

Danny gets deaged and heads to Gotham to find jazz at collage there's only one problem he knows where the collage is just now where jazz's class is

Enter one bruce wayne who genuinely just so happened to be there (he's pulling a brucie wayme stunt) seeing a small kid looking around worried so what does the serial adopter do? Well he goes up to the kid of course crouching down to ask if he's ok whats his name wheres his parents or siblings?

Now jazz, jazz all but raised danny she protected him from a young age and helped him with anything he needed and durimg her time at collage she had worried for him, with the amount of bull her parents spouted she wouldn't be surprised if danny up and left

So imagine her surprise when she spotted her baby brother de aged talking to some stranger and at that moment every instinct flared and she remembered every warning she read or heard about Gotham and she acted

Danny was just looking for his sister when some guy crouched down to talk with him after asking some questions danny heard a sound he was familiar with jazz running

Bruce really wasn't expecting to be kicked for trying to help a kid

Artistic representation of jazz kicking bruce\/

[rongzhi]

[cat's name: 大黄/Da Huang ("Big Yellow")]

English by me :)

[uhohdad]

könig and spacey!reader

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☆ You seemed to be in your own little world most of the time. Not spatially aware, ditzy, and a bit forgetful.

☆ König finds it endearing, such a sweet little thing you were, head in the clouds and always daydreaming. Sharing your silly thoughts and asking his opinion on things that hardly mattered. He loves the way your brain works.

☆ It can make things a bit difficult for him.

☆ He seems to find himself wrangling you, nagging you, guiding you along in every day life.

☆ “Have you eaten?”

☆ “Did you take your medicine today?”

☆ “Make sure you lock the door when you come home, little one.”

☆ He often finds himself picking up forgotten half-done tasks, because you got distracted during the process by another task.

☆ He’s long since taken over watering the plants after watching them nearly wilt at your hand.

☆ Whenever he’s in public with you, it’s not an uncommon occurrence for him to snatch the back of your collar with two of his fingers to keep you from running into someone, making a wrong turn, or putting yourself in danger. He’s basically scruffing you. You’ll just turn around, an oblivious smile on your face as you look up at him, eyes dreamily half-lidded.

☆ You’re too trusting. It makes König nervous at how you give everyone the benefit of the doubt, never hunting for ulterior motives. He often has to shoo you away mid-conversation to keep you from being conned, hit on, or preyed upon. Make him stand tall and put on his intimidating stare, towering behind you as your guard.

☆ “Let me handle this, little one.”

☆ (He likes taking care of you, keeping you safe, and he wouldn’t have it any other way.)

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☆ gentle!könig ☆

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[tatretot]

this hat was made for scar specifically 🔧

[sapphire-weapon]

So, I went to go take this shot of Leon looking like a smug asshole:

And then I started playing with the camera a little bit

and I realized

Look at how fucking far Leon is manspreading in this scene:

So I had to go compare it to the other times we see him sitting down (jet ski not withstanding because the seat dictates his position), and:

Jesus Christ, Leon. Need to accommodate your massive balls, or what?

[ratfest]

[hinamie]

congrats on your recovery n all yuuji but unfortunately for you I thought the scars were cool >:/