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[mrgarage]

Hugging your friend in a friendly way because he is your best friend

[perry-88]

Draw your OPTs at them.

Daniel and Weird Al Yankovic 💥💥💥

📸 by Sinna Nasseri (New York Times)

[beidoukomskaicrux]

"give us more complex well written flawed female characters and queer relationships"

Nah, you guys ain't even ready to maturely understand CaitVi yet.

[pinacoladamatata]

[daisycraft]

[saytrrose]

Ok official Binger art

[rainyrambles-overcod]

day 10 of drawing one of the cod characters until I’m comfortable with trying to find my style

Roach says you need to drink water today

Because he says so

[1driedpersimmon]

Aaannnnddd that’s that for the Sesame Virtue backstory :)… for now hehehehe

[ihave-83-protons]

an autistic, trans, bi, schizophrenic with BPD, DID, dissociative amnesia, a short fuse and lashes out frequently from redlining too often their whole life, was experimented on and isolated from most meaningful connections and doesn't know how to blend in with civilian society, werewolf

so

but werewolf

there’s something that’s incredible about the intersectionality and flexibility of werewolves as metaphor.

anger issues? werewolf. intrusive thoughts? werewolf. unresolved trauma? werewolf. rejection by society? werewolf. autism? werewolf. transgenderism? werewolf. queer expression of any sort? werewolf. plurality? werewolf. dissociation? werewolf. repression of any sort? werewolf. abuse cycles? werewolf. emotion so strong it physically changes you? werewolf!!!

really doing it all

[deedeedeedeedeedeedee]

[william-toons]

[itsajollyjester]

I’m Not Sorry For Loving You (wip!)

[elderwisp]

𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 ℑ 𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔡 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢 𝔜𝔬𝔲'𝔳𝔢 𝔤𝔬𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔱 𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔪𝔢

[littlebigmouse]

Sure, episode 7 doesn't really have much time to spend on Ekko's disorientation in this new reality and everyone else's reactions to it. But I have to respect that the writer's solution to this was to make AU Ekko pretty mentally unstable.

From Powder's perspective, she startles him, he throws something at her, becomes hostile, tries to defend himself with a screwdriver, and then just starts staring into space and goes nonverbal while giving clear signs of a panic attack, and Powder and Benzo's reaction to that is a benevolent and casual "One of those days, huh?"

Given where they leave off, and pick up in the Last Drop again, it's implied Ekko has his crisis the entire way over, and probably didn't react much to either of them the whole time. When Claggor and Ekko remain at the table while Vander and Powder have their conversation, Ekko is ignoring Claggor and drawing repetitive circles over his notes and constantly clutching his head in pain. Right up until he gets up, which is when Claggor finally reacts to what he's doing but is waved off easily, and stumbles outside throwing up in a dumpster. And no one seems to notice or care about him acting weird or being in pain.

Everytime he says something off-colour or outright concerning it's met casually or chalked up to his sleep deprivation and imposter syndrome. Man's dissociating like nobody's business and everyone just claps him on the back in understanding. If that's normal for AU Ekko, or everyone thinks that's normal for AU Ekko, that's uh, pretty concerning actually.

I mean, given context clues and Powder's conversation with Vander, all the kids (or at least Ekko and Powder) withdrew pretty heavily and keep themselves on the down low. I assume they both blamed themselves for Vi's death to some degree and became overly cautious and more quiet. Powder prefers to support her siblings similarly to how Vi did, but there's fewer problems to solve with violence as they grow up (and they all know how that ended) so Powder plays emotional support and prefers to stay in her familiar bubble (The Last Drop, close to her family).

AU Ekko seems to be overcompensating with his inventions, focusing on (academic?) success and productivity. Between his fancier clothes (even fancier than the others, who all have newer outfits, but stick more to zaunite dressing sensibilities than him) and his AU friendship with Heimerdinger it's reasonable to assume that he's involved with the academy in some way, maybe gunning to become a student if he isn't one already. That's a lot of pressure for a kid from the undercity, nevermind that academia itself is pretty competitive even if the deck isn't staked against him.

That all is to say, I don't think the AU is all sunshine and roses, for either of them. AU Ekko and Powder are both way less extreme versions of their canon verses, but especially AU Ekko is apparently way more quiet, withdrawn and insecure (and not at all active within his community?? I'm gonna be honest, I'm a bit mad the Firelights weren't even mentioned that episode, they've been Ekko's main family for the better part of a decade now, they deserve some focus, damn it).

So yeah, I don't think AU Ekko is doing too hot.

(And now I want a fic of him waking up in canon Ekko's body, lmao).

[ashstfu]