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[olivia--flaversham]

HAPPIESTPLACEHQ Task 5 - Family

Describe your character’s family

Do they know their family? Were they raised by them?

Olivia knows her most direct family members, that being her parents and grandparents. She has no cousins, uncles or aunts, at least none that she knows of. Hazel Flaversham, her mother, disappeared mysteriously and without a trace when Olivia was an infant: nobody knows if it had been voluntarily or not. This event threw Olivia's father, Hiram Flaversham, into a paranoid phase (which one might say he never fully overcame) during which he began fixating nearly obsessively on Olivia's safety and whereabouts, to make sure she wouldn't disappear like her mother did. And then, a few years later, it was Hiram's turn to disappear...

Olivia's contact with her paternal grandparents, Richard and Patricia Flaversham, was quite brief and distant, what with Hiram's tense relationship with them. Richard and Patricia had been the ones to insist on meeting semi-regularly with their granddaughter, even if they still rejected Hiram as their son. After Hiram decided not to join the family business and came out to them as bisexual, back when he was just starting as a college student at a business school, his already crumbling relationship with his parents was finally destroyed. Hiram and his father had a big fight and falling out, and despite Patricia's constant attempts at convincing her son to apologize, go back to business school and follow in his father's steps as head of his company, he had made up his mind. Even if it didn't bring in much money, he would follow his dreams to become an artist, a sculptor and inventor. His bohemian lifestyle shifted slightly when his girlfriend Hazel, a similarly free-spirited writer and theater critic, turned up pregnant, and they decided to keep the child and make sure she was raised in a more stable environment. Hazel herself, a New Zealander living in Edinburgh, tried to pursue a career as a professional writer while raising little Olivia, though she went missing before she could become a published author. After more than a decade, Hiram still secretly wonders if she had walked out on them, and often goes over his last memories of her, to try and find out any possible reason for why she might have left.

When Olivia moved to Invercargill with her father, after his disappearance and eventual rescue, she often stayed with her maternal grandparents, Anne and Phineas Browne. They both cared for their granddaughter while Hiram was away from home, trying for jobs and finishing college to get a degree in engineering. Olivia became very close to them and considers them a second set of parents. Even Hiram ended up seeing them as surrogate parental figures, warm, caring and loving as they were, and supportive of their son-in-law and granddaughter's dreams and projects, wherever they may take them.

What was your character’s relationship like with their parents?

Olivia and her father are very close, though sometimes Olivia wishes she could be a little more independent. For the last few years Hiram has slowly been accepting that he needs to let his daughter become her own person and forge her own path, mostly for her happiness though also partly to make sure he doesn't become just like his parents, controlling and authoritative. However, now that she's an adult, Olivia has been wondering if she should move out of Redwood Hollow, where her father has already happily settled down and found a good job, and follow a career in criminology in a bigger city that could pose more of a challenge. This would mean leaving her father behind, which, while originally a goal she had in order to become self-sufficient, now has her doubting whether she can truly manage, knowing herself to still be perhaps a bit too trusting and naïve to face life in a city on her own.

If they weren’t raised by their parents, who raised them? Do they consider the people that raised them to be their family?

Partly raised by her maternal grandparents, Olivia definitely considers them her family. She loves them dearly and are one of the aspects of her life in Invercargill she misses the most.

Overall, how did the idea of family affect your character?

Family is very important to Olivia, but over time it has slowly lost its status as her priority and main source of relationships. Even with how much she misses her maternal grandparents, she finds she misses her friends just as much, and as part of her efforts to make a name for herself apart from her father, she's been trying to focus more on herself and on her own wants and needs.

Thinking about the future, do they want to make a family of their own? What would that look like to them?

Olivia isn't very much interested in having a family of her own. From a couple jobs as a babysitter, she learned she isn't the best at dealing with kids and would much rather she didn't have to interact with them too often. Apart from that, she has never been one to fantasize with romance and marriage and would much rather have a bunch of friends to call her family than searching for a supposed other half.

[vuesitalo]

୨♡୧ ── Se-Mi headcanons ౨ৎ

a/n: I LOVED writing this! It was so much fun to write considering that I had this inspired by my favorite anime “Nana!”

synopsis: headcanons that are Nana and Hachi dynamic based. ^_^

1.) opposites attract ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Se-Mi and Y/N are like night and day though. Se-Mi is emotionally reserved, a a bit bit naive cynical about and love. independent, The while two Y/N almost is always more create open both and tension warm-hearted, and not affection, to and mention Se-Mi's calm (sometimes cold) demeanor almost always serves as a balance to Y/N's exuberance. Y/N is able to bring out the more sensitive Se-Mi, and Se-Mi shows Y/N how to be more self sufficient, and resilient.

2.) emotional growth ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Like Hachi and Nana, Se-Mi and Y/N both develop emotionally in their relationship. Se-Mi slowly lowers her defenses, and Y/N learns how to stand up for themselves more. It becomes a relationship of strength and self discovery, no matter how many twists and turns it has. Y/N usually has to work through the complications of Se-Mi’s closed off nature, while Se-Mi is learning the benefits of being vulnerable through her interactions with Y/N.

3.) unspoken understandings ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Although they may not articulate everything, there lurks an unarticulated understanding. Y/N does not have to verbalize that something is wrong for Se-Mi to know; Y/N often alleviates Se-Mi's fears merely with their presence. This is a quiet bond strengthened by subtle gestures: Se-Mi slipping their hand under Y/N's when they need reassurance and Y/N appearing with their favorite snack when Se-Mi's day is difficult without Se-Mi needing to ask for it.

4.) jealousy and complicated love ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

While some aspects of jealousy arise in Se-Mi and Y/N, as in Nana and Hachi, whenever any of them gets too cozy with others, it's not that they lack faith-trust-in each other, but the entanglement of feelings-in the intensity of which they exist-makes them surface. For Y/N, there is tension about past relationships; for Se-Mi, a detached one can worry-but these conflicts serve to cement their closeness as they are forced to confront their fears and insecurities with each other.

5.) protective instincts ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Se-Mi may not display it often, but she is fiercely protective of Y/N. Se-Mi can be cold, icy almost, but occasionally those walls break down to show her softness for Y/N, like in those moments when she defends Y/N in public or difficult situations or when she quietly checks on them when things go tough. Y/N, bound to Se-Mi by trust, slowly comprehends the elusive parts of Se-Mi's caring.

6.) shared dreams and ambitions ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

As peers, Se-Mi and Y/N are very similar to Nana and Hachi, with their closeness being related to their individual aspirations. While Se-Mi is busy making something out of her life, Y/N pursues one of her many ambitions. The two of them would work together in cases of mutual aspirations; however, there would be episodes of doubt when one is starting to shine more than the other. Instead of collapsing their friendship, they derive a constant support for each other's growth, be it against jealousy, failure, or any other hiccup in their inseparably dear journeys.

7.) heartbreak and healing ⋆｡‧˚ʚ🍓ɞ˚‧｡⋆

Similar to Nana and Hachi, Y/N and Se-Mi go through a lot of heartbreak-in their case, generally caused by each other's mistakes, miscommunications, or outside forces. There are very notable moments, too, when they are uncertain whether their relationship will last, but both of them manage, at different times, to heal from their wounds, whether through some time apart or by reconciling their differences in love. At times harrowing and wild, their relationship becomes the pathway to recovery, growth, and emotional strength.

[valdevia]

i’m very curious about the biology/biochemistry of Xipe Totec/Terry. how comparable are their cells and biochemical pathways to life on earth? would we even be able to recognize the same macromolecules like proteins and lipids or is it a totally different system altogether?

This is just my headcanon and not critical to the Xipe Totec series, but I like to think the original member of the Terry species (henceforth Grandterry) grew up in a very different planet with different evolutionary pressures.

Biochemistry of Terry

Chemically, it would use a lot of the same building blocks we do (and which we know to be fairly common throughout the universe). Sugars and their polymers, lipids, possibly something like proteins and DNA though ordered in different ways and with distinct mechanisms. Scientists may recognise the building blocks it uses, but they would need generations to begin to understand how it functions. Which is why people claiming “just develop a virus that kills it duh” are woefully mistaken!

Cellular Biology of Terry

Cellularly, to form something like a planet-wide superorganism, Grandterry would need a different way of forming multicellular organisms. Probably something similar to siphonophores, where multiple organisms combine and differentiate gaining different functions and eventually coalescing into different distributed organs. As it reaches a certain size it could also gain higher functions like a more integrated nervous tissue that could roughly coordinate the entire superorganism. This would be the result of many generations of evolution as fully planetary beings, learning to navigate through space and find new suitable planets.

Grandterry's Home

From these biological observations, we can venture a guess at the original planet where the ancestor Grandterry evolved (and eventually took over). It would probably have very stable and relatively unchanging conditions, favouring asexual reproduction. It would orbit a hot star (white or blue) that mostly emits in the higher ends of the light spectrum. That's why, instead of using a green pigment like chlorophyll to get energy from stars, it uses a red pigment derived from iron. This is why it needs to “eat” (AKA collide with) asteroids to replenish its iron supply.

These are just some quick nerdy thoughts, not quite relevant to the series where Earth becomes a Terryling, but it's still things I like to consider! I'm no expert on any of these topics, so I invite anyone who knows more than me to offer their thoughts!

[palinecrosis]

i dont understand why some people have a problem with creating fanon versions of characters who have very little screen time — whether it’s shitposts or fanfiction writing — namely with dbh.

like yeah; if it’s a character with a whole fleshed out arc and personality (let’s say connor or hank, which are actually heavily mischaracterized by the fandom) hank is not just a grumpy drunk. he’s depressed, he’s smart as fuck, top guy in his department who lost all hope after his son died and then found it again (depending on what pathway you take, obviously). same thing with connor, he’s not a “puppy coded” meek guy. he’s manipulative and tactical, snarky as hell and very deeply troubled whether you play him as a machine or a deviant.

if it’s that, then yeah! im a fucking hater of that too. you need to actually understand and critically think about the media you consume.

but when its characters like rk900 or tina? let people have fun dude. yeah we only see her in one scene but if someone wants her to be gavin’s funny best friend who he has workplace gossip with then why the fuck not? she has no character — so people are allowed to just make one up.

and rk900? he only exists in two endings. for THREE FUCKING SECONDS. so who gives a shit? what’s the point in being in fandom spaces if you can’t have headcanons or get creative with your writing ideas. just let people have fun man.

[bunji-enthusiast]

Hii can you write tristan, lancelot and Percival headcanons with a darling that is half bunny?

I will be grateful! 🩷

𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬

— He was rather curious as to why you had such an appearance at first sight, but he doubled down on his curiosities the further he has come to know you. Tristan knew you just had simply been born that way, with your mother been born human and your father being an anthropomorphic bunny beast man with the ability to take appearance of a human. It was rather quite the surprise when he found that out about your parents though, but it made quite a lot of sense for him. The prince was also a hybrid, so he was very happy to see a fellow hybrid, even if not coming from the same place. Tristan from then on wanted to know even more about you then just beyond first impressions, beyond your appearance.

— Tristan had once asked if he could pet your ears, very clearly suppressing his vibrating excitement to do so. If you say no, he completely understands and moves on. If you do say yes, he gets extremely giddy, carefully petting your ears with a gentle hand. He’s always wanted to know how the fur of a beast man felt like, and you gave him a pathway to the door! It felt like heaven, truly it felt very nice. He wondered if there would be other chances he could get to do that. Oh, there would be.

— There are bound to be questioning eyes anywhere you go in Britannia together. Even if there was a major acceptance between all the races, there was still bound to be those who still think old-school and deem it unnecessary for members from different races to be together (one way or the other haha). So you do get moments where Tristan becomes protective of you, defending you on the behalves of both of you together.

𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐭

— He’s initially very casual about approaching conversations with you, and not being entirely upfront in his more casual persona, deciding to maintain his current front. But the longer his conversations went on with you, the more he had loosened up around you, finding you someone incredibly kind; which in a way reminded him of his mother. He was almost put off by it, but he only knew that it was something genuine. But he was more so focused on your ears.

— They looked so damn fluffy.

— He had offhandedly asked if he could pet them, once Lancelot was too quiet so he asked again. If you said no, he understands and respects your space, and then turns the subject to something else. However if you do say yes, he holds no objections to that, and pats you - gently as opposed to his display of a rough and fast persona. It was certainly a surprise to you, as you expected him to pet you a little rougher, but it was a welcoming gesture. Lancelot was almost tempted to ask again not far a five minutes afterwards, but he repressed the urge, and reminded himself that he would have other chances if he was permitted to do so.

— Though as your relationship developed into something more than friends, you had been bound to questioning glares. Or some who had given you accusations on your behavior and ability in combat based on appearance alone, Lancelot just watched right there and then as you proved them wrong. He knew he probably should intervene but it was funnier watching you strike fear of the beast-man race into them.

𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥

— Your half bunny appearance is the last thing that comes to mind much, much later. As he is more likely to befriend you first, and want to get to know you, what you like, what kind of person you are and so on. So if there were to be insults here and there, he’s very quick to come to your defense.

— Compared to Lancelot or Tristan, he literally never asks about petting your ears. Out of sight and out of mind, so you’ll never hear anything about it from himself. Though you may be the one to bring it up, as it feels very calm and soothing to have your ears petted, like how your own mother used to do for you when you were far younger.

[death-at-20k-volts]

Hai, I saw ur post on generative AI and couldn’t agree more. Ty for sharing ur knowledge!!!!

Seeing ur background in CS,,, I wanna ask how do u think V1 and other machines operate? My HC is that they have a main CPU that does like OS management and stuff, some human brain chunks (grown or extracted) as neural networks kinda as we know it now as learning/exploration modules, and normal processors for precise computation cores. The blood and additional organs are to keep the brain cells alive. And they have blood to energy converters for the rest of the whatevers. I might be nerding out but I really want to see what another CS person would think on this.

Btw ur such a good artist!!!! I look up to u so much as a CS student and beginner drawer. Please never stop being so epic <3

okay okay okAY OKAY- I'll note I'm still ironing out more solid headcanons as I've only just really started to dip my toes into writing about the Ultrakill universe, so this is gonna be more 'speculative spitballing' than anything

I'll also put the full lot under a read more 'cause I'll probably get rambly with this one

So with regards to machines - particularly V1 - in fic I've kinda been taking a 'grounded in reality but taking some fictional liberties all the same' kind of approach -- as much as I do have an understanding and manner-of-thinking rooted in real-world technical knowledge, the reality is AI just Does Not work in the ways necessary for 'sentience'. A certain amount of 'suspension of disbelief' is required, I think.

Further to add, there also comes a point where you do have to consider the readability of it, too -- as you say, stuff like this might be our bread and butter, but there's a lot of people who don't have that technical background. On one hand, writing a very specific niche for people also in that specific niche sounds fun -- on the other, I'd like the work to still be enjoyable for those not 'in the know' as it were. Ultimately while some wild misrepresentations of tech does make me cringe a bit on a kneejerk reaction -- I ought to temper my expectations a little. Plus, if I'm being honest, I mix up my terminology a lot and I have a degree in this shit LMFAO

Anyway -- stuff that I have written so far in my drafts definitely tilts more towards 'total synthesis even of organic systems'; at their core, V1 is a machine, and their behaviors reflect that reality accordingly. They have a manner of processing things in absolutes, logic-driven and fairly rigid in nature, even when you account for the fact that they likely have multitudes of algorithmic processes dedicated to knowledge acquisition and learning. Machine Learning algorithms are less able to account for anomalies, less able to demonstrate adaptive pattern prediction when a dataset is smaller -- V1 hasn't been in Hell very long at all, and a consequence will be limited data to work with. Thus -- mistakes are bound to happen. Incorrect predictions are bound to happen. Less so with the more data they accumulate over time, admittedly, but still.

However, given they're in possession of organic bits (synthesized or not), as well as the fact that the updated death screen basically confirms a legitimate fear of dying, there's opportunity for internal conflict -- as well as something that can make up for that rigidity in data processing.

The widely-accepted idea is that y'know, blood gave the machines sentience. I went a bit further with the idea, that when V1 was created, their fear of death was a feature and not a side-effect. The bits that could be considered organic are used for things such as hormone synthesis: adrenaline, cortisol, endorphins, oxycotin. Recipes for human instinct of survival, translated along artificial neural pathways into a language a machine can understand and interpret. Fear of dying is very efficient at keeping one alive: it transforms what's otherwise a mathematical calculation into incentive. AI by itself won't care for mistakes - it can't, there's nothing actually 'intelligent' about artificial intelligence - so in a really twisted, fucked up way, it pays to instil an understanding of consequence for those mistakes.

(These same incentive systems are also what drive V1 to do crazier and crazier stunts -- it feels awesome, so hell yeah they're gonna backflip through Hell while shooting coins to nail husks and demons and shit in the face.)

The above is a very specific idea I've had clattering around in my head, now I'll get to the more generalized techy shit.

Definitely some form of overarching operating system holding it all together, naturally (I have to wonder if it's the same SmileOS the Terminals use? Would V1's be a beta build, or on par with the Terminals, or a slightly outdated but still-stable version? Or do they have their own proprietary OS more suited to what they were made for and the kinds of processes they operate?)

They'd also have a few different kinds of ML/AI algorithms for different purposes -- for example, combat analysis could be relegated to a Support Vector Machine (SVM) ML algorithm (or multiple) -- something that's useful for data classification (e.g, categorizing different enemies) and regression (i.e predicting continuous values -- perhaps behavioral analysis?). SVMs are fairly versatile on both fronts of classification and regression, so I'd wager a fair chunk of their processing is done by this.

SVMs can be used in natural language processing (NLP) but given the implied complexity of language understanding we see ingame (i.e comprehending bossfight monologues, reading books, etc) there's probably a dedicated Large Language Model (LLM) of some kind; earlier and more rudimentary language processing ML models couldn't do things as complex as relationship and context recognition between words, but multi-dimensional vectors like you'd find in an LLM can.

Of course if you go the technical route instead of the 'this is a result of the blood-sentience thing', that does leave the question of why their makers would give a war machine something as presumably useless as language processing. I mean, if V1 was built to counter Earthmovers solo, I highly doubt 'collaborative effort' was on the cards. Or maybe it was; that's the fun in headcanons~

As I've said, I'm still kinda at the stage of figuring out what I want my own HCs to be, so this is the only concrete musings I can offer at the minute -- though I really enjoyed this opportunity to think about it, so thank you!

Best of luck with your studies and your art, anon. <3

[quirekey]

MATCHUP FOR @runicarbiter02

[ Transformers x Human!reader ]

You have got BULKHEAD TFP!

INTRODUCTION

Today you were ecstatic! You have gotten a ticket to go to a musical you have been anticipating for; for so long! You were jumping and squealing on your way there, nothing could go wrong today, nothing!!

You skipped around the pathway and quickly got to the cinema. You entered, placed your ticket in and claimed your seat in the front, middle. The show was on hold so you decided to just go on your phone, read some strange page you found on tumblr called Quirekey. Why not send in a request to waste some time?

(See what i did there >:)

… BAAM!! The whole crowd was blinded with a purple explosion. Debris flew across the massive room and in immediate and natural reaction, the crowd ran off. You decided to be selfless for today and quickly escorted the families next to you out. You fought off the debris and dragged people out.

The smoke dimmed and faded away and thankfully nothing else collapsed. You turned around to find more people that may need help, but all you saw was something that no human could ever imagine. What in the world… You immediately went to hide behind a chair way in the back, watching from afar.

A massive, bulky and dull green robot that had a red insignia was bringing down a smaller but still seemingly strong and pristine looking red bot that had a purple insignia. They were some sort of alien species and they were battling, the insignias must’ve indicated the teams or something. Is this normal?

A portal behind then opened behind the two and the bulky green one threw the red one in. He looked around for something then saw only you. Seemingly everyone evacuated, amazing for them, not so much for you.

“Woah, kid! We really need to bring you to safety, come on. I’ll bring you back to my base and I’ll explain more on the way.”

You were hesitant but these guys are alien robots, they looked so cool!!

“Name’s Bulkhead, hop on my hand and I’ll bring ya.”

You hopped onto his hand and you two were off to the base!

HEADCANONS

Either platonic or romantic:

- When Bulkhead introduces you to the team, they do seem tired because he got caught but are also chill with it. Though Miko was a good partner for Bulkhead, he wasn’t able to stop her from running off enough. Optimus decided to just pair you with him instead, just to test things out.

- Bulkhead is upset for a bit, he lost his rock-hardcore partner, but you are able to make up for it. You decide to show Bulkhead some of your favourite musicals and video game music. Though they don’t hit like rock, they are similar and also better in a way. It’s all bubbly and fun, a new taste for Bulkhead. Bulkhead does enjoy the new taste.

- You are also very easy-going with him. You have lots of patience with him and understand that changing partners out of nowhere is hard. You do give him space but also try to like rock yourself. He understands you are a people pleaser and insists you be yourself.

- You usually decide to just have small talk and slowly tell him about yourself every conversation. Bulkhead is comfortable with this and honestly starts to enjoy you more.

- Bulkhead will find you reading or watching a lot of mythology and fantasy. He is quite new to the concept so you like to talk about the different types of mythologies like urban legends made all around the world, Norse Mythology or maybe even Greek! Bulkhead enjoys the creepy and creative legends the Japanese people make.

Romantic only:

- Bulkhead was the first one to suggest big hugs and cuddles. He comes up behind you, picks you up and puts you into a gentle but warm grasp! You may give kisses to him too, little ones of course! Don’t wanna make your partner flustered.

- You two don’t get to hang out often since Bulkhead is the one taking the big punches in the team. So sometimes you leave little love notes in his chassis so when he finishes his battle, he can read it for motivation to keep going.

- Drawing is fun, and you like to use it on Bulkhead quite often. You like to make little doodles of you and Bulkhead just hugging or on a date. Little fantasies you have that play in your head. It’s fun to see Bulkhead blush at your little drawings, while also having trouble actually seeing it at full quality.

Honestly I am honoured to do your match!! Congrats on your bachelor’s btw!! Idk how hard that is to get but I heard it is something to honour, I wish you the best with your journey in history :) – to runicarbiter02

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

Vacker sibling headcanons go 👀

Alvar was the first person Fitz ever reached out to telepathically after he manifested, and that created a pathway in Fitz's brain that made connecting to Alvar a muscle memory thing.

When Alvar was in the elite levels, Fitz would transmit thoughts to him all day long to make him laugh or to ask about his day because he really loved his big brother

Alvar would entertain this, but found it all deeply annoying, and like Fitz was trying to rub it in his face that he had the 'cooler' ability

Biana taught Fitz and Alvar how to braid hair. Fitz complained, but learned

Alvar LOVED it. He doted on Biana. He took her shopping, and he did his best (along with Della) to make sure Biana felt seen, because both of them were shoved out of the picture as soon as Fitz manifested it seemed.

Fitz always noticed Alvar's apparent favoritism, but didn't like bringing it up because Alvar's rebuttal was always "And your dad's favorite. It's okay to just let other people have things, you know."

A lot of Alvar and Fitz's interactions growing up were rather negative, and sometimes Fitz would get really upset, but most of the time he just liked that Alvar was paying attention to him

For mothers and fathers day, the three of them would get together and bake treats for their parents and write cards. However, this usually brought up a lot of feelings regarding the unspoken sibling rivalry.

Biana and Fitz got closer as they got older, especially once the two of them were shoved into the limelight. they became rather emotionally reliant on one another, Fitz on Biana more so than the other way around

she was good at shutting down rumors surrounding him, and always left a seat empty at the foxfire lunch table for him

Alvar was pretty absent by the time Sophie got to the lost cities

but Fitz's mind still connected to his brothers as easily as breathing. he never realized what evil lurked in his big brother's mind, and he feels a knot in his stomach every time he thinks about it

Biana no longer finds her similarities to Alvar comforting. She doesn't like that Alvar saw himself in her. That he said she was most likely to understand why he was doing what he did

she looks in the mirror and is comforted by the fact that her eyes are teal, like Fitz's.

[softantlers]

hiya! i know that you're a lottienat enthusiast, but i was wondering if you had any headcanons n' thoughts about tailot? i absolutely love their potential. i think it was really neat in season 1 when tai was trying to be gentle with lottie (when they first discovered the cabin) and switched to a tougher approach when it wasn't working... i think she knows how lottie's brains works. perhaps!

hey! honestly, i'm kind of obsessed with tailot. i am not quite sure if i ship them romantically just because i am so invested in lottienat and taivan but i see the romantic possibility of them, even though they don't get a lot of time together on screen. (especially not past season 1, which is a fucking bummer.)

i might grind some gears here in saying that i actually think tai would have been a better partner to lottie's descent into the wilderness this season than either akilah or shauna. not that what we got wasn't good, but let's take akilah for example. lottie is pushing her toward cave huffing, having visions, all that jazz. when i sub in tai for this, it becomes more of a mutually manipulative affair that rides the line on "who" is at fault in a more satisfying way imo--like it is so fucking tasty. because we know that lottie's prayer circles somehow gave tai the tools to beat other tai into remission. at the same time, we also know that s3 tai (as little screentime as she gets) is interested in better understanding other tai and how she operates.

so imagine lottie and tai working together to try and "control" other tai, pushing each other's boundaries as they take on more and more dangerous risks to bring her out. on the one hand, lottie sees this as a pathway to the wilderness; on the other, tai is exploiting lottie's connection & maybe she starts using other tai to weather horrors she wouldn't want to stomach on her own (like trying to sub her in for the ben execution). maybe all of this could focus around taissa's desire to understand what the fuck is going on with the no eye man and her connection to the symbol (both themes that kinda disappeared this season??? an ice cream commerical?? -takes a smoke-) and we could get lottie acquainted with these concepts and see how they factor into her own understanding of the wilderness too.

also, because other tai is such a source of tension in taivan's dynamic, this could bring up some really fucky feelings, where lottie becomes an intrusion on the relationship & its stability that would better foreshadow taissa's choice to stay behind than i think was already done? like, somehow tai--rational fucking tai!!--is bought into staying behind and participating in the hunt by the end of s3?? "it doesn't feel right"--i just feel like a better established connection with lottie would more believably bring her to that position.

also, going back to the shauna of it all. yes, yes, i know she's a baddie with no conscience this season. she's the pinnacle of "it" and all that. but like... i really think that her prioritization diminishes the possibility of other tai??? and more importantly, what other tai could mean for lottie??? (lottie has TWO HANDS.)

like what's more "it" and the wilderness than sneaking around at night, sniffing the trees, and eating handfuls of dirt???? like, other tai is fucking unhinged, animalistic--clearly brutal in her desires. she wants to consume, consume, consume--even to the point of biting van's lip in the kiss and drawing blood. eating jackie's fucking face??? to me, that could have been so reflective of the wilderness, and we could have had lottie "mad scientist" matthews wanting to fuck with the tiger, get her out of the cage, and see how she plays with everyone dkjfasljfdsfj. like oh my fucking god, think about them pumping each other up and howling at the fucking moon, my deranged shaylas <333 dskjfslafjk

also, imagine this-- lottie being the one whose prayer circles give tai the ability to subdue other tai; lottie whose encouragement gives her the ability to lean into other tai, to feel her out and exist as her and explore her. and then in the adult timeline when lottie dies? that being the prelude to taissa losing all control over other tai and being overcome??? i mean, it would have been a really fucking cool show of hand across timelines that would have slapped.

also, i just like the idea of this relationship foreshadowing an adult relationship that is seriously so soft. because taissa and lottie might come to understand they're sides of the same coin--women at war with their own minds and desires. i would have loved to see some vulnerability between them during s2, if we had thought they'd actually been given the chance to develop a relationship. like can you envision the softness of taissa explaining to lottie what has happened with simone and sammy and lottie bringing tai--strong tai, her warrior out in the wilderness--into a sweet, loving hug??? because she is intimately aware of what it's like to ruin things??? like oh my god, makes me GNAW MY FIST.

and fuck that's not even getting into what i imagine their soccer dynamic was, which i've written about here.

[celestialblossom07]

Silver Eye Headcanon & Ranting

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we fear less.” -Marie Curie

“Life and Death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides” -Lao Tzu

I feel like Charlie could’ve followed the medical pathway or had a side interest in biology or something like that as a little nod to the puppet as is widely associated with the marionette to “give gifts, give life” like still have her in robotics but with an side dish of biology I would’ve loved her knowing some medical based knowledge

Idk having Charlotte have anything to reference to her ig deadself would’ve been a nice Easter egg in a way although this is just my opinion I do know that fnaf is centered around animatronics so ig it makes sense for her to follow the route her father perused ✨like father, like daughter✨

Also I feel like Scott Cawthon would simply add more details ik sotm just came out and the tea is out like now I lowkey need to rewrite some aspects of my fanfic project regarding Henry’s portrayal in that game or steelwool now that they’re in lead production ig?

And now I low key want a book like an official book regarding the past like sometimes I wonder how were the Aftons and the Emilys were like their dynamic. Speaking of this I have a pet peeve of fanfics where they age up Charlie to be around Michael’s age and they’re besties like sure the duality of them is certainly interesting but I simply prefer the Charlie as the age she was described to a 3 year old in the novels (1980-1983) or just slightly aged up still a kid and another thing is that I doubt Michael would be friends with her. If we’re talking about the silver eye Charlie then I guess it would make sense for them to bond. Don’t get me wrong everyone is entitled to have they’re creative rights to have headcanon and write fanfics and all but like as this is my opinion, you don’t have agree with me or anything, but do you believe Michael and Charlie would be besties? I think perhaps not as Michael has a complex characterization such as survivor guilt as it been implied that he may struggle with so if anything they’re relationship would be distant cousin/adopted reluctant found family also more than likely he would’ve bullied her or knew of her but mostly was in the background bc let’s bfr that boy was too busy harassing CC

By my stance on Charlie interest in health science, chemistry, or biology if that makes any sense for her to indulge in. But not like a super prodigy like what I’m trying to say it would be interesting to see her have SOME knowledge within that FIELD. Like I’m pretty sure high schools have those type of classes then again it wasn’t explored her more early teenage years so we wouldn’t know.

[olivia--flaversham]

𝚝 𝚊 𝚐 𝚍 𝚞 𝚖 𝚙 .

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

Adariel headcanons

Under the au of Adar surviving, it's a semi tragic relationship:

They bond over their Sauron-induced trauma and desire to kill him.

Because they can talk to each other about things they can't talk to with most other people, they develop genuine love and affection for each other.

For a while, they are the perfect dark couple, bonded together by a single purpose: kill Sauron as painfully as possible.

But then Sauron is actually defeated, and it's like, "Now what?"

They are both so similar, and that helps them understand each other, but in a way they are too similar and differ just enough to be incompatible except for short periods of time.

They are both driven, even pig-headed. And this works great when they have the same goal in mind, but when they have differing goals and each is sure the other is wrong, it can get very tempestuous.

Both have a hunger for power. Galadriel came to Middle Earth to rule a kingdom. Adar was primarily motivated by his love for his children, but he does like having people swear fealty to him.

But Galadriel is an elf, and she wants to rule over a realm full of light and nature. She would attempt to make places for uruks, like building more shelters even pathways sheltered under a canopy. But it would still be an elven world with areas for uruks, as opposed to a world for uruks.

Adar is sort of between an elf and a uruk. He would love the sun and the nature. But not at the expense of his children. He created the right environment for them in Mordor and would never ask them to leave. He would try to plant plants that thrive in Mordor's conditions, but it wouldn't be like the world Galadriel would want.

So ultimately, they realize they just don't work together. A case where love isn't always enough. And whenever they meet, they hook up, but it never lasts long.

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

I wanted to get your opinion on this, who do you think is smarter: Kara or Lena? A lot of people forget how in to science Kara was on Krypton, which was way more advanced in that area than even modern earth (when Kara first suits up). And I know Lena’s a genius, but could that really beat Kara kryptonian intellect. Because I have a headcanon that Kara is smarter than most, but just never shares it with people so she doesn’t offend them etc (after seeing how much it would tick Alex off back when they were kids). But I’m still not sure how her IQ would match against Lena’s in science if she really tried. Also, side note, could you imagine Lena’s reaction to Kara knowing all kinds of advanced scientific knowledge? Part of her loving it, but the other half being slightly upset that Kara always put the pressure on her (during the world ending threats) to solve all of the science related problems.

Finally have the bandwidth to start going through my inbox, and we're starting out with an absolute banger. This is excellent.

You're right, Kara has a ton of knowledge and a Kryptonian brain, but after years of dumbing herself down, are her neural pathways still the same as what got her into the science guild?

Personally, I think she might not be hardwired for it anymore like she might have been on Krypton, but she's still wicked smart. Like, she has the knowledge, can probably recite formulas and such, but actually applying them might be more of a challenge these days.

Whereas Lena still lives and breathes it, it's her passion. It's still ingrained in her, flourishing through practice and stimulation. Where Kara has self-imposed limits, Lena is continually looking to push past any limitations placed on her by others. She continually strives, and I think that might be why she's a better science resource than Kara.

Also, Lena probably understands Earth's resources better than Kara at the moment. Like, Kara can have all the knowledge in the universe and maybe even devise a solution in an instant, but even then, if that solution requires resources Earth doesn't have access to, what good is it?

So, overall I hesitate to declare one smarter than the other. I think their brains just work differently, and they have different skillsets and knowledge bases. I think the more they work together, the more they each will learn and share their own knowledge with each other.

As always, they'd make each other better.

[day-at-rhodes-island]

Why I'm not a fan of the seaborn: complaint 2. This is definitely the less important issue, but I'm not going to let that stop me.

Before I get into it: I am currently doing real studies with evolutionary modeling, like publishable academic stuff, so I know what I'm talking about.

Evolution cannot happen to an individual creature. Ever. Pokemon lied to you. Evolution is the gradual change of gene frequencies in a population over time due to natural selection. Anything else is not evolution (in the context of biology). Whatever the endspeaker is doing is not evolving... unless it is.

One of the very few ways what we see might actually be evolution is if the seaborn are actually a symbiotic microorganism with a very short life cycle which can rearrange the cells of it's host (sort of like the Thing from The Thing). This would explain how so many things with radically different structures can be considered the seaborn, and it also quite handily explains how people can become seaborn. This headcanon alone allows me some relief from these fucking things.

For this next bit I'm going to put aside the fact that they can somehow just create meat when they need more, because if I account for that the "evolutionary" pathway they take makes even less sense.

So let's actually apply the concept of natural selection to the sea terrors shall we? To start off I would like to address the fact that the AEgirians didn't use their advanced technology to fight these things, because the seaborn would then evolve to that level and become unstoppable. That is not how this works.

Do you know what happens if you shoot a fish with a laser cannon? I'll give you a hint: it doesn't grow a laser cannon. Natural selection doesn't produce "better" gene frequencies, major negative traits disappear first and optimization or the emergence of new beneficial traits happens slowly afterwards.

The scenario is they are invading another creature's niche, and that creature is very effectively fighting back. So, which strategy is more likely to get you removed from the gene pool: continuing to push into enemy territory but with slightly better armor, or just staying the fuck away from the people with laser cannons? Evolution always takes the easy way out, not the best way, the easy way. Want to know why every terrestrial vertebrate has 4 limbs? Something crawled out of the ocean with four limbs, and it was simpler to move those ones around than make new ones.

Would the fish growing a laser cannon help them take over new environments, thus out-competing the ones who just stayed away? Sure, but there's no easy path to get there, so they would never get the chance to reach that point. (When talking about genetic algorithms, this is called a local maxima, look it up!)

In even a mildly realistic scenario of creatures like this actually being driven by natural selection, the situation would become a case of dealing with an exceptionally dangerous invasive species, rather than an existential threat to all other forms of life. As per my opinion in part 1, this would have been better.

The seaborn are presented as this purely natural selection driven menace, when in reality they're just the evil army of an ocean god-monster. The driving will to consume all other forms of life isn't natural selection talking, it's at best an excuse Ishar'mla uses so that He can get what He wants, and at worst a case of the writers genuinely trying to write a natural selection driven antagonist, assuming they understand the concept, and not bothering to check if they are right. And it really looks to me like the second one is more likely.

All they had to do was not make them the focus, not make them an existential threat. You can still do the themes of individuality vs conformity with a smaller-scale hive mind. You don't need another planetary-scale environmental threat, you have originium! I could forgive the poorly applied scientific principles, if they weren't such a mess narratively as well. If they had taken this approach the seaborn might have even been one of my favorite parts of this game (they have actually hinted at the possibility of the seaborn deciding that coexistence is actually the best survival strategy, and that would be super cool!). Unfortunately, as it is, the seaborn are bad.

Part 1

[moltengoldveins]

ninjago headcanons I’ve had since like middle school -

Zane identified as Ace before the show even started, and was rather vocal in early Internet forums about his disappointment in ace representation in media being limited to nonhuman characters and robots. This was a pretty weird out of pocket thing for someone to be interested in or know about in the earlier days of the internet, so it didn’t do much for his making friends. Upon realizing that he himself was in fact a robot he spent a solid ten minutes arguing with himself on whether this was a good thing (I have more representation! And a lot of ace rep is technically more accurate for me now!) or a bad thing (I am making the stereotype worse! I have become the very thing I swore to destroy! You were my brother Anakin!)

Cole, alongside dance lessons and cooking classes, took regular piano lessons throughout his childhood. His father’s goal was to give him a sense of rhythm and a taste for classical and dance music. His professor was a blind retired concert pianist who collected records. He took one ‘look’ at this poor harried kid and thought “aw, hell naw.” Secretly, as long as they kept up with Cole’s piano recitals, he let him take naps or play rock music during their classes, and snuck him records out of his collection whenever he could. Cole keeps all his records labeled in braille on a special shelf - Bach concertos and Duke Ellington right next to one another.

Nya is actually really good at makeup, and knows how to cut hair better than most hairstylists. Growing up, it was her job to trim Kai’s hair, since they couldn’t afford to go to a hairdresser. When the ninja were working for rent, she learned to cut Cole and Zane’s hair, although technically Zane didn’t need it. He liked the connection to his personhood, and she liked the practice cutting such coiled hair. Jay let his hair grow out during that time, and it was only later, once it reached his shoulders in lank, greasy curls that Nya firmly sat him down for a trim. She likes looking pretty, not necessarily in an appealing way, but in a frightening one. An unearthly sort of beauty, attained by the carefulist application of concealer and highlighter, eyeshadow and mascara. She can with a small kit take herself from a featureless girl in a crowd to a murderous princess out of a history book and back again, all without changing her clothes, and the other ninja respect her immensely for it.

Pixel and Zane aren’t lovers. Not really, anyway. What do you call the other half of your mind, your heart, your soul? What do you call a woman whose mind is your successor, based on your own neural pathways, while she was the one that made your body? Not a child. Not a parent. Not a sister. They’re more analogous to a single brain with two hemispheres than two individuals. When Zane or Pixel were relegated to a consciousness embedded in the back of the other’s head, that was easier to understand, but now that they’re both free-walking it’s tricky. They’ll sit for hours, after a week or two of separation, and process together, running through each other’s memories, thoughts, copying them wholesale into their own hard drives. Every time they emerge from the link, for the split second where neither of them have thought a single thought, seen a single frame of video routed through metal eyes, they are the same being. They are one. And then they diverge, and spend hours or days or months careening away from one another in spirit as they live divulging lives, experience separate worlds, only to come together again and compare notes. The other ninja have a hard time understanding it, they tend to default to surprise when pixel responds to a joke they assumed only Zane would know the punchline to, but master Wu understands. There was a time where he and his brother lived in each others souls, as much as their own. He is glad not to be alone in that experience.

Lloyd is assumed to be colorblind for a really long time, because he has a hard time distinguishing between what colors count as what categories of color. “This is red,” someone would say, and point at an apple. “This is also red,” someone would point at a piece of fabric, and that was where things would get tricky. “Those look nothing alike!” Lloyd would insist, “the apple looks closer to this color,” he angrily gestured at a green wall, or a blue bag, “than that fabric! I think you’re lying to me.” But it never went anywhere, really. The school for young evil masterminds wasn’t about to buy Lloyd colorblind glasses and for a while he just forgot to tell the ninja at all. they were broke when they found out. By the time it came up again, Lloyd was much older. Kai remembered over a late night conversation, Lloyd rambling quietly on about an old ninjago artist who painted “with the proper fuckin’ colors, man, like damn.” “wait. I forgot. Holy crap, you’re colorblind!” Lloyd paused, as if considering a lie, then shook his head awkwardly. “No, ‘m not. I’ve just got, like… shrimp colors.” “… what?” “shrimp colors. Shrimp can see extra primary colors, we’ve only got three- well. You’ve only got three. I think I’ve got five? Maybe six, it’s surprisingly hard to test.”

This one’s more of a ‘molten thinks, as she does about a lot of things, that The Old Person Polycule Could Fix Things’ than a headcanon really, but Misako Garmadon and Wu should’ve sat down talked it out and just. Formed a polycule. Honestly I don’t Care what that would entail I hate love triangles more than life itself and if given the opportunity I would either hit one member or more of every love triangle with the ace beam or I’d hit the big red Polycule Button ok I hate love triangles so so so much burn it with fire.

on a similar note. Jay/Nya/Cole should either be a polycule or Cole should come to his Grey Ace Realization sometime around his en-ghost-ening and end up with Jay, Nya, and Pix/Zane as QP partners. Honestly, Kai is the only member of the ninja I can comfortably think of as straight and dating Skyler. He’s not above the qp beam ofc - he’s at Least developed a very very close dynamic with Lloyd a few years after his age jump. But at this point the rest of the ninja have held one another together, physically mentally and spiritually, while the world ended around them like eight times. They’re not gonna be Normal Chill Friends about that.

Lloyd’s age jump should be played for visceral body horror and I do not care if you think I’m wrong. That is a child in a man’s body, his limbs are too long, none of his internal organs feel right, his hormones, his digestion, his circulation, everything is drastically different and he can Feel It. He should be awake at all hours because his heart is too loud or too quiet, he should be throwing up because he can feel his stomach digesting things, he should reach out to pick up his favorite mug and crush it into porcelain fragments. His eyesight should be even sharper, his hearing more acute but somehow rounder, duller in some way he can’t quite grasp. He cannot speak without grimacing - his voice sounds wrong. He cannot move without wincing - his muscles itch with how out of place they are. He lashes out at inopportune moments and randomly goes for long runs or violent training sessions and none of the ninja know what to do about the fact that he’s trying to work himself to unconsciousness so he doesn’t have to feel his own limbs.

[anathema-to-me]

Oh wait, 23 as well

thanks for asking!! (i did something wrong and your other ask disappeared)

8. do you prefer season 1 or 2, and why?

i have to say season 1 because it established everything so solidly. i adore s2's minisodes (and need them to continue in s3) but s1e3's half hour cold open changed my neural pathways

9. have you seen any other work by david tennant and/or michael sheen?

HAVE I yeah i watched doctor who years ago just after david tennant's run and his doctor was the MOST important to my sibling and i (and that era still holds a super special nostalgic place in my heart <3). i almost forgot that he scared the shit out of me in jessica jones back when it aired and i love him and olivia coleman in broadchurch, which i watched more recently. oh and ive seen some of his recorded shakespeare performances and they're GOOD like i understand why he sees himself as primarily a stage actor.

i'm so sorry micheal sheen fans i think i've only seen him years ago in twilight. OH i almost forgot staged?? so to me he only plays aziraphale and a weird rpf version of himself lmao. i do think these two and their acting abilities are the main reason why good omens has continued

23. what's a good omens headcanon that you considered canon?

i feel like i have so many headcanons that are really just canon in the book and i apply them to the show. i didn't know about the south downs cottage until recently when i got into the fandom more intentionally and i have to say it's so dear to me (and it should be a consolation/assurance to us all that neil does not mention it anymore).

otherwise there are endless fun ideas about crowley and aziraphale fucking with things throughout history that i very much decide can and are true