#10000 rats people!!!!

[kikicolors]

entranced & obsessed by this film

[rokudaimehole]

ur nart hot takes, my liege. provide them

I really apologize for not answering this because I genuinely didn’t know how to. I’m hesitant to offer them because hot takes always seem to kick the hornet’s nest.

I will tell you this one at the very least: Minato sucks as a character and you cannot convince me otherwise.

[angelfiedyaz]

☆Redacted Headcannons☆

-whenever it's a full moon angel will start howling to annoy david

-david won't admit it bit when angel runs their fingers through his hair or fur he starts dozing off

-david secretly will either play minecraft or animal crossing while angels away and he will get overly grumpy whenever Tom nook puts him in more debt or a creeper blows up something cause he thinks they are stupid

-asher 100% runs as soon as he hears baaabe call him from another room even if they are in a huge place and hes 100% running while yelling their name

-sweetheart will watch horror movies with milo just to see milo get the shit scared out of him

-the points of Sam's ears get red when darlin' leaves kisses all over his face

-gavin radiates heat like crazy and so in summer he'll sit or lie down with wet rags on him to cool off leaving him looking like a drenched rat

-vincent 100% still owns his outfit from his first monarchal summit and when lovely is out sometimes he puts it on to see if it still looks good on him (it does)

-one time Asher got called a fury due to his gamer tag (ShadowHowl93) and he got so sad he complained to baaabe for nearly a whole week

-one christmas guy covered himself in christmas lights and went up to honey and asked "does this make me the light of your life honey~?"

-asher will shed a tear when gwen dies in spiderman even tho he's seen it 10000 times

- when milo was younger darlin' told him that if he ate the milo branded food he was eating himself and he still till this day won't eat it even tho he knows it's not true

-asher got called emo once due to his collar and people barked at him and he looked at baaabe so confused and they didn't have the guts to tell him why the people did it but they told angel about it next time they hung out (angel fell off the couch laughing)

[wiihtigo]

11, 16, 22, 25, 31 HE NEEDS CASEY BITES TO LIVE

ask game

11. How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?

haha (imagines casey confused and scared pretending she understands whats happening when she doesnt) ahh....

but yes she would 100% lie and nod along pretending she gets whats going on. and then i think she'd try to just brush it off and forget about it rather than try to piece things together and figure anything out. she doesnt mind living in blissful ignorance..its blissful

16. What makes their stomach turn?

hmmmm...shes not weak to bugs or rodents (she wouldnt go out of her way to play with rats but she wouldnt gaf about picking up a dead mouse to throw it outside if she found one), and i think she has a pretty good tolerance for movie-gore and body horror, but hmmm. real life injury i suppose, shes not good with pain. she hates pain! this is not a unique trait since ..everyone hates pain. but its true. heights make her stomach hurt too lol. so if you want to make her throw up, dangle her over a deep pit and punch her in the stomach 10000 times

22. How does jealousy manifest itself in them (they become possessive, they become aloof, etc)?

(smiles) possessive ..which is CRAZYYY cuz if you ask casey if she even cares about nell she'd say helll no and she'd mean it..i think its not so much that shes actually afraid nell is going to leave her for another girl, its just annoyance seeing anyone else cozy up to HER bodyguard. its kind of cute to me that her internal opinion of nell goes up when shes using her to show off to other people. even though its insulting to nell.

on most days: nell is an evil jerk who cut off my ubereats privileges after i tried telling the same place the food never came for a refund 3 times and got banned

if any hussy breathes near ladybug: my handsome and brave superhero roommate who i live with and who protects me from everything and we're best friends and you should be jealous i know her secret identity and you dont kyahhhh~~

shes a difficult person

25. What are their thoughts on marriage?

she doesnt want to get married and she doesnt plan on dating anyone

its extremely low on her list of priorities not even for any forced "i have to focus on my goals" repression, it just coincidentally coincides with what she already feels, that she doesnt care about romance and stuff like that.

casey operates on a system where if there are enough pros to a situation that outweigh the cons to justify something she doesnt like or doesnt want to do, she'll do it. there are way too many cons to the idea of dating and marriage 1. she doesnt gaf in the first place so she doesnt see a point 2. she doesnt want children 3. she doesnt want the added financial burden of another person in her life 4. she doesnt want to spend her entire life forcing herself to make small talk with someone inside her house that just lives there forever now 5. she wants to focus on her goals of becoming a super awesome famous actor and the pros are............. 1. ?????

obviously her tune changes in new york ending where casey and nell get married because there are more nell specific pros and less cons. and even though she pulls out 'im literally your girlfriend!!!!!!" when its funny or convenient i think she mostly doesnt even see it that shes 'dating' nell, she just wants to be with her forever and nell can never date anyone or be in love with anyone but her for the rest of their lives

its cute though, when they do get married she does cozy up to the concept of being nells WIFE very quickly. you cant throw that shoe at me im your wiiiiiiiifeuhhhhhh eueueuuueee (crying ugly)

she also realizes the value of her wedding ring when she learns she can use it to instantly get out of any social obligation. hm no i cant go to drinks after work my partner doesnt like me being out so late. yes theyre a real BITCH haha you know how it is

31. Who are they the most glad to have met?

oh you....YOU KNOW WHO!!!!!!!

of course its nell bishop aka ladybug

she doesnt KNOW how happy she is to have nell in her life until way later because shes a stupid stupid girl, but nell is without a doubt the best and worst thing to ever happen to her

for 1, shes the most fulfilled and happiest and most alive she has ever felt with nell, but for 2, she fucking dies and it hurts her more than she ever thought something could emotionally effect her. so she hates nell for making her feel like that when one of the things she was so proud of herself for was her ability to trudge through anything and come out okay, to always get up and keep moving no matter the rejection or failure. but she is sooooooo so sad when nell dies it just puts a stop to her heart totally. and she HATES HER FOR IT!

this answer is kind of double edged because if she was asked if shed just prefer that she never met nell at all to avoid all this, she'd answer yes instantly, but deep inside that thought is really upsetting and scary.

the memory of nell doesnt make her a stronger or better person. she doesnt get up in the morning because nell would want her to take care of herself. she doesnt 'do it for her' or do anything kind or charitable in her memory. nells deaths caused nothing but negatives and she hates her so much for fucking up the direction of her life but if there was a button that would magically bring her back to life completely ok she'd break her finger spam pressing it

[raphaelesbian]

Hi!! I love the PTS series and I just have some thoughts on the Shredder/Splinter/Raph dynamic that I wanted to discuss cuz I don't have many people to talk to about this topic :'D.

I find it interesting the idea the Shredder could see himself in Raphael due to his anger. What I find just as interesting is the idea that Raphael's anger is actually similar to Splinter and he sees himself in him (I am unable to cite anything right now but it's a theory/analysis out there. Kinda like in Lone Rat and Cubs when he whamos that Kraang bot). What i find REALLY cool is how these two ideas could coexist wherein Shredder thinks that he is looking at a reflection of himself in Raphael, but later finds out that what he sees is not himself but his brother, Splinter.

When they were young, do you think that Saki found comfort in his brother's anger? Do you think seeing his brother get angry too justified his own rage? Or did he butt heads with Splinter, and that anger stoked a burning fury between two?

When he looks at Raphael and finally recognize Splinter in him, will he feel rage towards the brother that 'betrayed' him? Or would he find comfort in the reminder of his childhood with his dear brother? They grew up together after all. He must've loved some part of him. He might miss some part of Splinter, no matter how little.

Idk if I'm sounding coherent though haha cuz I get nervous sending asks so I'm kinda just pushing through this and hoping it doesn't sound weird.

Great fic BTW it has been occupying my brain for a few weeks 👍👍

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ aaaaaaa thank you so much!!! no you're super coherent dw, thank you for the ask!!!

I 10000% agree!! I honestly can't recall if the concept has come up in any of my fics yet (maybe briefly, during Shredder and Splinter's fight in PTS?), but I am a STRONG believer that Raph and Splinter are super similar. Lone Rat and Cubs is a fantastic example, but even as far back as Turtle Temper that connection is made.

Not just that Splinter was a guy who struggled with his anger, and that he sees Raph as having the same problem, but also just how DANGEROUS Splinter sees his anger as having been. I've seen people hate on Splinter for Turtle Temper, and I kinda get it because yeah, his advice, though not bad, wasn't given in the best way. But I think the context of "Splinter sees his younger self in his son, and is terrified that he'll make the same mistakes" is important.

Plus, AGH the PHRASING. He LET Saki anger him, he MADE his words into weapons. The way he blames himself for his brother's actions.... gnawing on the drywall.

When they were young, do you think that Saki found comfort in his brother's anger? Do you think seeing his brother get angry too justified his own rage? Or did he butt heads with Splinter, and that anger stoked a burning fury between two?

Aaaaaaaaaaaa that is an EXCELLENT question!! Their relationship is really fun, specifically because we do get SO little about it other than after everything has fallen apart. So we get a lot of room to play with it!

Personally, I lean towards the first. I headcanon Yoshi as (slightly) older (I imagine that a big part of Yuuta choosing to spare Saki and take him in was because he had a similarly-aged child at home), and I also like to see them as being pretty close. Probably competitive, I'm sure they butted heads from time to time, but I prefer the interpretation that learning the truth about Saki's heritage caused a sudden shift in their relationship, rather than them being at odds the whole time. So yeah, I can totally see Saki taking some form of comfort in Yoshi losing his temper (as long as it's aimed at other people c: )

ALSO, perhaps this is a bit of the trigun brainrot in me fhdsaghakdg but. I kind of like the idea of like, not just Yoshi being angry, but Yoshi being the angry one. As in, Saki DIDN'T have much of a temper growing up. Like, the small bits we do see of their past, Yoshi is cocky and making jokes while Saki is cool and serious. And that's AFTER their family has degraded almost to its breaking point. So I can imagine Saki as being the calmer, more level-headed one as a child. Definitely still with a temper, for sure, but Yoshi was the hot-head in my mind. Then, he learns the truth, his life starts falling apart (/he starts ruining his own life. Saki, come ON, man), and who does he start emulating, whether he recognizes it or not? His brother. Just sayinggggg.... 👉 👈

Sorry this is getting SO long fhdsaghkdg. You've activated my trap card (u asked about the doomed siblings)

When he looks at Raphael and finally recognize Splinter in him, will he feel rage towards the brother that 'betrayed' him? Or would he find comfort in the reminder of his childhood with his dear brother? They grew up together after all. He must've loved some part of him. He might miss some part of Splinter, no matter how little.

I absolutely believe that they loved each other, and that they miss each other. Like I'm actually a little bit deranged over just how hard struggle with the fact they are BROTHERS. The INTENSITY of their hatred for each other as a mask... the only way they can cover up the grief is with anger and loathing... (Sorry to plug my own fics but if you haven't read blood of the covenant or brother (noun) yet, this whole concept was a lot of the inspiration lmao)

And!! OH my god, you're such a genius. Shredder obsessing so hard over identifying with Raph, only for it to click that Raph isn't him, Raph is YOSHI.... Shaking you. You're so fucking right. Like, Shredder doesn't realize it at all but so much of what drew him to Raph, what made him DESPERATE to get Raph to stay with him, is his similarity to Yoshi. he wanted his brother back, he wanted to prove to himself that it wasn't his fault, WHY DO THEY ALL KEEP LEAVING HIM—

omfgggggggg. yeah definitely tucking that concept away, don't mind me over here....

ANYWAYS!!!! Forgive the word vomit lmao but thank you SO MUCH for the ask I just spent 35 minutes typing this up instead of working FHKAGHKSADGLK. I am ALWAYS hyped to discuss these things.

Also I'm so happy you liked PTS gfhkadsglk thank you!! <3 <3

[henrysglock]

Does Brenner really asks Henry "what changed your mind? Is there someone else"? Are you serious? Is that actual dialogue?? I'm just shocked, how is no one talking about how weird Brenner is with Henry? does it just flies over most peoples heads?? What the hell

That is straight out of the plays I saw. Both of them. Verbatim.

Henry decides to leave HNL because Patty asked him to come back to do the school play. He tells Brenner he wants to leave, and the scene more or less goes like this:

"I'm leaving." "I'm sorry to hear that. Can I ask why?" "I've decided I don't want to do this (read: make contact with the Shadow) anymore." "What changed your mind? Is there someone else?" "...No." "What, you think you can be normal? Go to prom with some stupid girl?" (Taking pages out of byler's playbook, I see)

And if I recall correctly, that's when Henry starts trying the theater doors to get out. Brenner goes on to tell Henry that he's all Henry will every have, etc. Brenner also, at one point, refers to Henry as "my boy", to which Henry whirls around and storms back towards the stage while growl-yelling "I'M NOT YOUR BOY". (And god it's so fucking good in person.)

Brenner very much treats Henry like a misbehaving/unfaithful wife. It had me gasping even the second time I saw the show and knew it was coming. I expected their dynamic to be clear, but I didn't expect it to be this blatant.

(Right down to love triangle blocking and shared color palettes! Slay. I hate it.)

More "fun" freak facts: Brenner kisses Henry on the head twice during his first stay in the lab:

When he's trying to trauma-bond Henry to himself by forcing him to lose control and kill a rat, only to present himself as a sole possible source of comfort for Henry. After Brenner cups Henry's face in his hands to take readings of his pupil sizes (1.9 and 5.9 respective to left and right eyes...1959...), Henry turns to sob into Brenner's shoulder about it, and Brenner hugs him/kisses his hair and tells him that what he did was "very good". (All of this while Henry's displaying, and I quote, "traumatic mydriasis", which is consistent with strokes and major head injuries. No medical treatment for Henry, just kisses and petting from Brenner.)

When Henry's having his grand mal seizure after displaying images of Dimension X. Brenner doesn't give him proper seizure care, he just cradles him, pets him, and kisses the top of his head. While Henry's half-aware post-seizure, Brenner asks him if he'd like to make contact with the Shadow. Henry agrees, but then as soon as he's slightly more aware he looks to a doctor behind him and literally asks for help. He looks back and says "Help..." Brenner also massages Henry's shoulders while he's ball-gagged in the '70s, and tells him he's been "such a good boy these past few years", which means he's fit to meet the children, which are referred to both as his and Brenner's children, but also as his siblings.

This means he kisses/caresses Henry more than Patty does. Period. Point blank.

Brenner also has some choice lines about Henry and killing. Henry's being forced into killing this whole time, but Brenner turns it around on him and says, verbatim, "You liked it more than you thought you would". It's 10000% giving "You actually wanted it/You were asking for it" irt being, uh, forced into doing something that you didn't want to do. (Especially irt the Shadow and all of its rape coding...Yikes!)

Brenner also massages Henry's shoulders while Henry's ball-gagged and belted to a chair in the '70s, all while telling Henry he's "been such a good boy these past years", which means Brenner has deemed him fit to meet the children...the children which are referred to both as Henry/Brenner's children, but also as Henry's siblings.

Yeah. They're considered Brenner and Henry's children ("You're as much a father to these children as I am"), but they're also Henry's "brothers and sisters". You do the math on that one.

Lots of freak vibes all around.

[ssreeder]

HI HELLO!! I JUST FINISHED “Into the Fire” A COUPLE DAYS AGO!!

I would say my thoughts about it but I have too many thoughts but I also don’t wanna fill your asks with 20 million anons so,

after I finished it I decided to re-read from LIAB and bro…

That shit broke me.

The way you perfectly constructed sokka’s arc, like I swear everything was intentional

He literally went from “it took years for him to get comfortable killing” to “he was always so good with people, that’s was before he started killing them” and from “if he felt a way about something he would most definitely share it” to literally hiding everything that happened to him from people he trusts. Wow.

Once again, absolutely amazed by your incredible writing skills, like actually impeccable.

Enough of me being philosophical,

YOU GAVE BATO A BF!!! HE CAN FINALLY GET OVER HIS HIGH SCHOOL CRUSH!!! AND JEE GETS TO BE HAPPY!!! AAAAHHH!! I’m so happy for them (ik they aren’t even an item yet but still, super happy for them)

Hooray for Ara!! She got her closure, and now she can start a new, healthier, happier lifestyle. Congratulations to my favorite violent dog!! May she get what she deserves (ominous)

But the way she just.. told Katara about zukka being together?? Like, no hesitation.

“Whoops, thought you were banging my brother. Sorry lol.”

“No lmao it’s okay. Zuko’s deff banging him though”

“WHAT?!”

“Yeah lol. Toodles!!”

And then she just- LEAVES?? honestly mood though.

i liked how sweet and genuine she sounded when explaining zukka’s love story though, that was so good of her, she didn’t even talk them down or anything. It was actually so nice.

Can’t wait to see what you do for Jet, really really hope my little street rat gets better. on agni we gonna get you some will to live!!

So many exciting things happening I can’t wait!!

-suki closure!!

-TOPH AND SOKKA BONDING!!!

-IROH AND SOKKA’S TEA TALK!!!!!

literally have said this a million times but actually super scared for sokka for the last bit (zhao tea talks usually didn’t go well)

But I also feel like ur gonna make that an iroh pov… (I’m an empath) so I’ll stay tuned!!

Yue and La bless my favorite water tribe man Hakoda! He loves his kids so much I hope nothing bad happens to them (this is gonna be foreshadowing isn’t it?)

But anyways!!

I wanted to finally tell you about music!!

It’s gonna be a lot of mitski cus she’s one of my main artists I listen to but still,

I thought about “once more to see you” by mitski A LOT throughout RIA and a little bit now through ITF, it fits this part of the story perfectly (in my opinion). It’s literally just zukka through sokka’s pov.

Another one is “Christmas Kids” by ROAR, this one is more for LIAB, and a little bit of RIA, (can you tell I make the edits in my head?) But this time the choruses/verses change pov or can just be seen as multiple characters.

“First Love/Late Spring” by mitski fits zukka through zuko’s pov

And “I bet on loosing dogs” by mitski is Ara with zhao/shen

Now this one is very specific:

“Vampire Empire” by Big Thief

The first verse to the first chorus is LIAB-RIA kataang through aang’s thoughts about katara,

the second verse to the second chorus is zukka LIAB-RIA (and now more recently the current ITF situation) told as per sokka’s pov

And the third verse to the final chorus is how Ara feels about zhao. Like their entire history.

Okay that’s it sorry for bombarding you with my random ass disorganized ask 😭 I’ve been yapping too much, I know, I sound like Reho. Sorry if I said anything disrespectful!!

Anyway!! Can’t wait for the next update!! STAY SUPER DUPER AMAZING SSREEDER!!!

HI ANON WHO I ADORE & LOVE SO MUCH I AM SO SORRY FOR TAKING 10000 YEARS TO ANSWER THIS. (In my defense it’s a perfect 10/10 ask and I couldnt let it go right away<3)

I AM SO SO SO SO SO SOOOOOO happy you enjoyed sokkas arc because damn, I really dismantled him throughout the series and the way you highlighted some of the details about sokka pre prison and how he did a drastic 180 is *CHEFS KISS* yeahhhhhh it was a long process but I’m glad you noticed the intentional dedication I had to ruining our boy sokka <3 (i know I know he’s not ruined but he’s not in a great spot mentally but he’s getting better but hell regress and progress and regress and yeah sokkas just not the same I mean but we will love him and he’s still our SOKKA)

JEE DID GET HIMSELF A BOY FRAND… He is smitten with our boy Bato it’s cute.

Ara is hilarious that’s all I gotta say about her haha.

JET!!!!! I love him!!! He’s not the besttttt influence on Suki but FUCK IT JET IS AWESOME (don’t expect any life changing shit from him but I’m excited that he’ll stay a part of the story) sorry Jet haters he’s staying in LIAB till death does us part of the story ends haha.

oh shit you sent this ask before the last chapter was dropped so now you know ITS AN IROH AND ZUKO TEA TALK (& let me tell you HAAAAA… they’re wonderful in a room together haha)

I was trying to listen to all your songs before I answered your ask but I couldn’t get through all of them, but I will!! I love that you are so passionate about music and the scenes and characters I feel the same way and that’s why I always try to give you songs I’m vibing with lol.

THANK YOU AGAIN ANON AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DONT BE SHY COME BACK ANY TIME I LOVE YOUR ASK!!!!

[calciumdeficientt]

ELLIE CONEY HCS WITH HER TOXIC YURI GF HCS RN

Ouuuuuugh ellieeeeeeeee save me Ellie. Please save me. Lotta love for jock ocs. Even more love for ocs that are just,,, awful, compllicated people

ELLIE CONEY HCS

Winner of the 2006 most hompohobic lesbian competition. Shes bitter, and angry and so far inside the closet that if she’s not careful someone is gonna pick her up and donate her to the Goodwill. She thinks all men are a scourge on the earth, even more so gay men. This comes on account of the fact her dad divorced her mum to run off with another, younger man and start a new life. Leaving his current family destitute and her mother reliant on booze to stay alive. She became a proto-mother very young and therefore wants absolutely nothing to do with motherhood, children, or any of that sort of stuff. She had to raise kids when she was just a kid herself, she’s had quite enough of them. He dad’s betrayal created a deep seated hatred for queerness as well as for men.

Ellis is a young trans girlie, when her father left, her mother drank herself to the point of memory loss. Sort of like a lobotomy. The disintegration of their nuclear family allowed her to change her identity without much pushback from her mother. She was able to start puberty blockers pretty young on account of saving a lot of her money from birthdays, Christmas ses ect. Her parents sort of forgot about her because she was the oldest. She never got presents, just money and she saved all of it for a rainy day. Her dad was also into some pretty shady shit, so he had a stash of money in their house that she stumbled across and used to begin her transition.

Traditionally feminine girl, she likes bows and pink and glitter and honestly, the reason she’s not cheer captain is because she’d run that squad like it was the navy. She views anything and everything masculine as a threat and has very rigid ideas on what should and shouldn’t be accepted as valid expressions of femininity. Despite being a member of the jocks clique, she hates their guts, The only one she’s even remotely close to is Juri, and its because he’s secretly a very effeminate dude. Her repulsion of boys runs so deep that if she can help it, she will hide out in her dorm room all day until she is literally forced to go to class by a prefect.

HATES. Blood and guts and dirt. Shes the kind of girl to faint during biology class. The only reason she’s passing is because she makes Beatrice do all of her assignments for her. They’re kind of friends, both of them are manipulative bitches. They get on pretty well. It’s also. Another key reason she hates the jocks, they’re all essentially, sweaty, bloody, dirty animals and she’s not down with that like at ALL. Ellie can barely manage A Nightmare on Elm Street without getting squeamish and whining for it to be turned off.

Owner of a very extensive, very precious collection of scrunches. Her collection is her prise and joy, and as she ages she finds there’s lots of other, equally childish and girly stuff that she can collect. This eventually ends up in her becoming a particularly intense disney adult. You can’t really blame her, she didn’t have much of a childhood, but it infects EVERYTHING in her life. Her whole house is disney, her car is Disney. Her SOUL belongs to the mouse.

Shares a dorm with Lenora, and these two fuckers HATE each other. Ellie hatred of Lenora manifests because she’s a masculine woman who also happens to be comfortable in her identity as a lesbian; and Lenora hates Ellie because her phoney ‘girl’s girl’ act doesn’t extend to her, in fact she’s personally victimised by Ellie a LOT. They’re a real enemies to lovers type deal, and not just a snide comment in the hallway or a dirty look before they go to bed. It’s full blown fights and pranks dialled up 10000 notches. They pounce on each other like feral wildcats and have to be pulled off of each other almost daily. Ellie once put rat poison in Lenora’s water and she was VERY sick for a good few weeks, and in retaliation, Lenora slammed a locker shut on Eliie’s hand and completely shattered her wrist.

It’s the literal definition of toxic yuri, but they keep gravitating back towards each other like they’re magnets. Secretly, Lenora lets her win fights because her childhood dream was to get beaten up by a pretty girl at least once. They’re so terrible for each other but its hard to deny that they’re a really cute couple, aesthetically anyway. If you get to know them you’ll realise that you should never hang out with them again. They’re poisonous, and that toxicity radiates off of them like they’re a drop and run canister of weapons grade uranium.

[phantomfallacy]

Fontaine is wild.

Back in Genshin Impact after a long, long hiatus haha.

Finally, we're in the heat of the story and I don't have to wait 10000 years for a new quest. In fact, I'm so behind I feel rich with undiscovered primos...

ANYWAYS, I came back for Clorinde but stayed for Wriothesley...

He's such an interesting character. And I'm not just talking about his buns.

The Surging Sword of his burst reminds me of the Sword of Damocles. It's the symbol of a looming sense of catastrophe, the overhanging reminder of death and oblivion.

This could apply to all of Fontaine, as a whole, but Wriothesley, as someone who knows the truth about the Primordial Sea and the sluice gate, is burdened by this metaphorical sword more than most. Furina cannot compare, because although she does not want this catastrophe to fall and is just as anxious about it, she will not be a victim to it. In the end, she'll be left alone, but she'll also be left unscathed.

Other Fontainians know about the prophecy, but not the details. They do not control the flow of this information information that Wriothesley does. Thus, the responsibility of the metaphorical sword is heavier on him than most.

Ceasing my simping for a bit, there's also the Fortress of Meropide itself, which I find extremely, EXTREMELY interesting. It's a place where the worst of the worst end up. It's a place where they're reborn. It's a place where people created an economy and livelihood, for happiness.

How confusing.

Is it a good place? Or is it a bad one?

Welfare meals and stable jobs, but treachery and breeding grounds for people like Dougier…

I have some suspicions that the actual Fontaine is a hotbed of crime. You know the concept of society creating villains because that specific society requires villains to function? Well isn't that just Fontaine? The Oratrice requires the "dramatic justice" to create fuel, so Fontaine obligingly hosts crime like it's Saturday Night Live.

As such, Fontaine's society cannot be as simple as we see it in game. That's just not logical.

In Neuvilette's character quest, we see just a drop of the politics, and though in present day, the threat against Melusines are gone, there are no doubt other undercurrents.

There's the child trafficking ring that persisted from Wriothesley's childhood to Lyney's childhood. Who's to say it doesn't still exist?

There's Sonny and Luca. For those who haven't played the quest, you can start with Virgil. Pretty sure everyone's seen him around. The game puts him in such an obvious area, and Sonny and Luca appear in the same spot afterwards. It's like a quest that's bound to have 95% players complete.

And don't tell me no one thought Spina de Rosula isn't a mafia.

People who cannot win the rat race get trampled on, and who are those people if not a majority of the prisoners who decide to stay in the Fortress of Meropide after their sentence is finished? They would rather live peaceful lives than participate in what goes on up above, which proves I may be right to say Fontaine's upper echelons is rather difficult.

You could say that the Fortress is a refuge for exiles as the game claims, but I think it's also a fortress by its most proper definition. Guarded by Wriothesley, how would the unnamed factions of Fontaine reach in? Why else does the game repeat the fact that it's an autonomous entity, that of which even the courts of Fontaine have no hopes of influencing?

[dadbastiandisaster]

Fuck it

🕸️🕷️✨Claude headcanons✨🕷️🕸️

Yes i know his characterisation is utter shit and yes i am taking a marie kondo approach to the s2 canon

Sebastian had at least been around humans before his contract, so he at least had a passing idea of how to Human. Claude had not. Only interacted with humans ever if murder counts.

He’s actually short-sighted (someone on a wattpad book Black Butler Headcanons I can’t find for the life of me because wattpad utterly fucked up their search system suggested this was because his true form has eight eyes and I love it. I think the person who wrote it was called something like ‘The King Fisher’, so if that sounds familiar, say and I’ll tag you)

He has very little concept of social norms. Alois will be like ‘men are supposed to wear trousers and women are supposed to wear skirts >:(‘ and claude will be like

They’re both coming at the ‘gender is bullshit’ thing from two very different places

Sebastian is over-achieving as far as Claude’s concerned. He’s got three other Demons working for him and he’s going to make the most of it, there is no benefit from doing more than he has to.

He has mixed feeling about Alois. On the one hand he does know that Alois’ situation is not great and has even grown somewhat fond of him (platonically i swear to fuck some people in this fandom) but on the other there are few people on the planet less equipped to help than him.

Jokes aside, I imagine it’s a he/they/it situation, but it’s the Victorian era so Alois was like ‘well you’re probably not a woman so unfortunately that leaves you with one other option’ and Claude was like ‘that’s fine, how long could these contract things last anyway?’

His life pre-contract was basically just surviving in Hell, which has left him with extensive knowledge of nature and no sense of identity

Hates people, loves animals!

Took the contract more out of curiosity than anything else. He fucked around and found out!

Most of Alois and his contract is ‘if you have no idea what you’re supposed to be doing and I have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing who’s driving this ship?’

The answer is Hannah obviously

My interpretation of the Hannah-Claude situation is that Claude (somehow) knows that Hannah killed Alois’ brother and that chasing after Sebastian is totally pointless, but if he tells Alois, Hannah will kill him (I hc Hannah as a very old, very powerful Demon). Hannah obviously doesn’t want Alois to find out the truth, so she has to sabotage quite a lot of Alois’ plans (which Claude has to carry out, so it makes his life a lot harder, which is Not A Vibe as far as Claude’s concerned)

Plus Hannah is like ‘actually you’re doing a shit job with Alois’ (true) ‘and if I had this contract instead of you he would be fine’ (not true)

Sort of mid-level Demon. Like he’s in pretty good health (aside from the crappy eyesight) but he’s not especially skilled in combat. He’s just sort of meh.

He likes knitting, crocheting, sewing, lace-making etc because it’s similar to web-building and he finds it relaxing

Sebastian fucking hates him after the Ciel kidnapping incident but the hatred is entirely one-sided. Claude does not give a singular shit about Sebastian, just thinks he’s (as the kids say) a bit of a try-hard

Knows for a Fact that Alois is a lot smarter than he lets on. Doesn’t rat him out on it though, he doesn’t get paid extra to be a snitch, and he’d probably do the same if the situation allowed

I’m torn between ‘totally non-judgemental’ and ‘is a massive bitch’, so I think it’s both. Totally non-judgemental is he’s ambivalent to/likes you, if he dislikes you he is judging you on everything you do right down to how you butter your toast and will chat shit behind your back

Even he didn’t like the previous Earl Trancy

Really not a fan of physical affection

I think if he and Aunt Frances met, it would be a case of unstoppable force (Aunt Frances knowing that Claude is doing 10000 things wrong and cutting so many corners he now has a circle) vs immovable object (Claude doesn’t care). The Sebastian - Aunt Frances dynamic heavily relies on Sebastian caring about her opinion and Claude simply does not have that problem.

Unlike Sebastian, he sometimes sleeps.

I don’t think he’s aro/ace he’s just never really had much of a chance to explore any of that,

Anyway, I will stop for now, this is already very long. I might make ones for Hannah and the Triplets because I will simply never stop talking about the kuro demons

[kiddoryder]

Runaway Winner

Hey guys! Thank you all for liking my Angelic Friend story! Really appreciate it ^^

This story will be about a certain visitor coming back. Also this will sort of be like a redo of my old story 420. 

So relax and enjoy the story! 

P.S. There will be references of the Steven Universe episode Change Your Mind. 

At the hotel, it was show and tell day. It was Sir Pentious' turn and he was showing off his new weapon. It was a huge laser cannon. 

Sir Pentious -  *dramatic* “Behold my latest invention! The Dust Destroyer 10000!”

Husk - *uninterested* “Really? Another fucking manchine?”

Vaggie - *irritated* “Pentious, we told you no more weapons in the hotel.”

Angel - “And 10,000? Why add numbers?”

Sir Pentious - *defended* “Hey! I’ll have you know I made this weapon to protect this hotel! And maybe kill some people in Hell.”

Charlie - *a bit uncomfortable* “Um Sir Pentious, I appreciate how it was made to protect the hotel, but maybe you shouldn’t use it to destroy people.”

Sir Pentious - “Oh my dear, you should always be prepared.”

Charlie - “Right…Um who wants to go next.”

Sophie - *raise her hands cutely* “Oh! Me! Me!”

Vaggie - *smiles* “Okay Sophie. Your turn.”

Sophie excitedly ran up front and took out a stuffed butterfly toy. 

Sophie - “This is Miss Flutters. I won her in an arcade Blitz took me to before we came to the hotel.”

Blitz - *chuckles* “Well Sophie was really good at the ring toss game.”

Charlie - “Well it is really cute Sophie.”

Sophie - *giggled* “Thanks Charlie. She’s my other toy Fluffy’s best friend and they love to hang out. Miss Flutters even gives Fluffy rides on her back.”

Sir Pentious - “What imagination this little one has.”

Then Charlie had a phone call and it was Sonya. Charlie picked it up and said:

Charlie - “Hello?”

Sonya - *afraid* “C-Cousin Charlie?”

Charlie - *concerned* “Sonya? Are you okay sweetie?”

Sonya - *scared* “No! My parents went out, so did me and Liz. When we got back for a snack break, I heard weird noises upstairs.” 

Charlie - “Don’t worry, stay there and don’t move! We are coming!” *hangs up* guys my baby cousins are in trouble!

()()()()()()()()()

Less than 10 minutes, Charlie and her friends came to Sonya and Liz’s house. Charlie saw Sonya looking scared that it cause Vaggie to take out her spear, Angel his Tommy guns, Blitz summon his magic, Niffty her knife, and Pentious his laser gun. 

Sonya - “Oh thank Lucifer you guys came!”

Charlie - “Where are they? Who’s here? Is it a burglar? A creep? A murderer?”

Sonya - *frantic* “Worst! A rat is in my attic!”

The others looked at Sonya in disbelief. 

Vaggie - “A rat? You called Charlie about a rat?!”

Sonya - *freaking out “Those things are gross!”

Liz rolls her eyes in annoyance on how her sister is acting. 

Liz - “I told Sonya she was overreacting. I even told her I can get rid of them myself.”

Sonya - *grossed out* “The way you kill them is brutal! You even behead the dead rats.”

Liz - “What? It’s a message to the other rats not to come here.”

Then they heard the loud banging noise in the attic. 

Blitz - “I’m guessing there’s a whole herd of them?”

Niffty - *excited* “Oooh it would be so fun to kill! *takes out a knife* Let me at them!”

Sonya - “Come on I’ll show you.”

Sonya led them to the attic stairs and Niffty zoomed up there. The others began to follow her. 

Charlie - “I don’t understand why you couldn’t just call an exterminator.”

Liz - “And spend a lot of money? No way.”

Angel - “She has a point doll face. It’s better to have the one we got now.”

Niffty was looking for the “heard of rats” until she saw something crawl under the blanket. 

Niffty - *manically giggled* “Let the stabbing begin!!”

Niffty jumped and was about to stab what’s under the blanket. But the blanket quickly moved and Niffty missed. Niffty looked annoyed and tried again, but kept missing. Getting frustrated, Niffty did a high jump and stabbed the end of the blanket. However, to the others' shock, it wasn’t a herd of rats that was in the attic or under the blanket. It was Pixie in her angelic form. 

Sonya - *shocked* “P-Pixie?”

Liz - *shocked* “Holy shit you’re back!”

Niffty - *disappointed* “Aww!! I wanted it to be a herd of rats.” 

Vaggie - *shocked and confused* “W-Wait, why is she back? Why is she-“

Before Vaggie said anything, Pixie ran toward Sonya and gave her a big hug. Sonya was a bit surprised at the first, but then noticed Pixie was shaking in fear. 

Sonya - *concerned* “Pixie, what’s wrong?”

Pixie - *fearfully* “They are looking for me.”

Charlie - “Who?”

Pixie - “Adam and Lute!”

Everybody gasps in shock. Based on what Charlie told them about those two, they can see how despite being in heaven and angels, they are the most vile. 

Charlie - “Wait, tell us what happened.”

Pixie - “This is what happened after I had to go back home.”

Flashback 

Sera - “I called you here today because I heard about rather disturbing news that you were in Hell.”

Adam - “Damn right she was! And we all know Hell is for sinners only!”

Lute - “You violated the rules about winners going to heaven! What do you have to say for yourself?!”

Pixie was standing in the middle of the court crying. 

Pixie - *crying* “No! No! Please, I was only playing…”

Lute - “Yeah! With demons that are nothing but low life monsters.”

Adam - “And they are fucking ugly.”

Sera - *sternly* “Now please.”

Emily - “Yeah! She’s just a little kid.”

Adam - “A little kid that broke a rule!” 

Lute - “This child should be erased from heaven and for nearly endangering us all!”

Pixie - *frighten* N-No I didn’t do anything! Just leave me ALONE!”

Saying alone loudly causes Pixie to unleash a giant ball of light power. This causes temporary blindness to all the angels including Lute and Adam. Seeing this as an attempt to escape, Pixie quickly ran off and used a portal to open it to Hell. She quickly jumped in and now saw that she was in Pentagram City. 

Pixie - “I gotta go find Sonya and Liz!”

Flashback ends 

Pixie - *sadly* “I know what I did was wrong. *holds Sonya’s hands* But I was so scared and even guilty about how you got hurt the last time. I felt like I just had to come back.”

Sonya - *sympathetic* “Oh Pixie…”

Charlie - *serious* “Adam and Lute aren’t going to get you Pixie. We will keep you safe and then talk to Sera about not punishing you.” 

Pixie - *whimpers* “R-Really? You want to help after what happened?”

Blitz - “Yeah. I mean Charlie told us how you find out hell isn’t bad Heaven claim it is.”

Vaggie - “We promise to protect you from those bastards.”

Pixie smiles on how the kind demons she met before is going to help her and keep her safe. All of a sudden, thanks to Blitz super good hearing, he heard his baby sister yelling in fear.

Blitz - “It’s Sophie! She’s in danger!”

Charlie - “The three of you stay here, we gotta go save Sophie!”

Sonya, Liz and Pixie - “Right!”

()()()()()()()()()

Sir Pentious - “Stay back my dear! My Egg Bois and I will protect you!”

While the others were gone, some of the Exorcists under the order of Adam and Lute, went to the hotel and looked for Pixie. Sophie was hiding behind Pentious as him and his Egg Bois were using weapons to fight back against the Exorcists. Some of the Egg Bois got crushed, but they were able to fight back and Sir Pentious’s weapons was working against them. 

However, one of the Excorists knocked down Sir Pentious and was about to hurt a crying scared Sophie. But just when the worst was going to happen, Blitz rushed in and gave the Excorists an extremely powerful magic punch and it sent the Excorist flying toward the wall. 

Sophie - *tearfully but happy* “Blitz!”

Sophie jumped in Blitz’s arm crying both tears of joy that her brother saved her, but also in fear that she almost got hurt by the Exorcists. Blitz hugged her tightly and gently rubbed her back. 

Blitz - *softly and comforting* “It’s okay Baby Girl. I got you.”

Sophie smiled and then screamed as an Exorcist tried to attack Blitz from the back. But then he got shot a bunch of times thanks to Angel Dust’s angelic Tommy guns. 

Angel - “You okay?”

Blitz - “Yeah. Thanks Angel.”

They turned and saw Vaggie fist fighting an Excorist. Then she kicked one in the stomach and held it down on the floor. 

Vaggie - *serious* “Why are you here?”

Excorist - “I don’t have to answer to you!”

Vaggie then pulled out a small angelic dagger and put it close to the Exorcist neck. 

Vaggie - *threateningly* “Would you like to repeat that?”

Excorist - *frightened* “Okay! Okay! We are looking for the missing Winner who goes by the name Pixie.”

Charlie - “Why do you want her?”

Excorist - “She doesn't belong in a horrible filthy place like this! She belongs Heaven!”

Angel - “What? A place that’s full of hypocrites? I don’t think so.”

Niffty - *impatient* “Let me stab them!!”

Charlie - “No. We need to make sure Pixie is safe first. Maybe if I talk to Sera and Emily, they can just give Pixie a warning or a time out.”

Husk - “Hate to burst your hope bubble but we got more fucking company!”

They went outside and saw a few more Exorcist coming toward the hotel. Charlie had a demon look on her face and said:

Charlie - “Come on guys! We can do this!”

()()()()()()()()()

Back at the house, Pixie, Sonya and Liz quickly and quietly got out the back door. Pixie was looking scared as she saw a few Exorcists were at the hotel. Sonya gently held her hand. 

Sonya - “Don’t worry. My cousins and her friends are strong people. They can take care of those losers.”

Pixie - *chuckles* “I always found them to be bloodthirsty monsters. So what do we do now?”

Liz - “Simple. We will go to our Uncle Luci’s place and maybe he can help out.”

Pixie - *hopefully* “Okay. That sound like a good plan.”

Then all of a sudden a golden chain came out and grabbed Pixie by the waist. She was then held up in the air and was being flown by an angelic device. 

Pixie - *fearfully* “Sonya!!”

Sonya - “Hang on Pixie!”

Sonya ran fast as she could to catch up and save Pixie. But the angelic flying device was too fast and Sonya was losing speed. To make herself go faster, Sonya took out her spellbook and quickly flip a page and said:

Sonya - “Jumpnia!”

The spell caused Sonya to do a jump at a really high rate. She was getting close to catching Pixie, but at the last minute, the angelic flying device moved faster causing Sonya to miss grabbing Pixie and began to fall much to Pixie’s horror.

Pixie - *horrified* “Sonya!!”

Pixie was taken away and now couldn’t see Sonya. Luckily, Sonya landed in a fruit cart and the soft fruits managed to break her fall and she didn’t get hurt. As she was getting out, she was wiping the fruit stains off her. The fruit seller was not happy that Sonya accidentally destroyed some of his fruits. 

Fruit Seller - *despair* “My fruits! *to Sonya angry* Your gonna pay for that you little-“

Sonya stuff a pineapple in his mouth and kick him in the nuts. 

Sonya - “Stuff it! *sighs* What now…I felt like I let down Pixie and who knows what those angelic bastards will do to her?”

Liz - “I wouldn’t feel so down yet Sonya.”

Sonya - “What do you mean?”

Liz - “Look on the ground.”

Sonya looked and saw some angelic feathers on the ground. Sonya picked one up and recognized it. 

Sonya - “It’s from Pixie’s wings! I read how sometimes angels shed the feathers in their wings from flying too fast, stress or molting.”

Liz - “If we find more of these, then we have a better shot on finding Pixie.”

()()()()()()()()

After defeating some of the Exorcists at the hotel, Charlie and the others left the hotel. Charlie tried calling Sonya but she wasn’t picking up. Then Charlie tried calling Liz, but Liz didn’t pick up either. 

Charlie - *worried* “Vaggie neither one of the twins are picking up their phones. *gasps in horror* “You don’t think…”

Vaggie - “No way. Don’t think like that.”

Charlie - *confident* “You’re right Vaggie. I know that would NEVER happen to them. I know they are out somewhere finding a place to keep Pixie safe.”

Angel - “Well we better find them. Who knows what those heaven bastards want to do.” 

Vaggie - “But in the meantime, we gotta find them.”

Blitz - “I think I can help with that. *to Pentious* You stay here with Sophie and if there is any trouble, call us.”

Sir Pentious - “Don’t worry Bat Boy. I promise to keep your little sister safe.”

They began to walk into the city hoping to find clues on where Sonya, Liz and Pixie are. Charlie couldn’t help but feel anxious about her baby cousins and their friend. She was worried about them getting hurt or worse. To help calm her senses, she does what she normally does when things get bad: singing. 

Charlie - *singing* All Pixie wanted to see her friend. Saw the good in Hell that wasn’t all pretend. My baby cousins are risking their life to save her, when I should have done a better job in the end…”

Vaggie - *singing* Charlie what happened wasn’t your fault. Those stupid Angels always see killing at their final results. But I know you do anything to keep them safe.

Angel - *singing* “Those little squirts are tough. They know to keep going when things get rough and can keep each other safe.”

Blitz - *singing* “Don’t be so hard on yourself Charlie. We are your friends and family. We promise to keep you guys safe. 

Unknowingly to them, as Sonya was running on the other side of the city to save Pixie, she also began to sing to help keep her anxiety down. 

Sonya - *singing* Oh this is all my fault! Pixie could die because of me, I need to set her free and keep her safe!”

Liz - *rapping* Hey sis don’t feel glum and lose hope. Those Angels are nothing but hypocrite dopes. I know we can keep Pixie safe. 

Sonya - *singing* Yeah you're right Liz. We are gonna kick the Angels asses and save Pixie. Showing Heaven that different society classes don't matter! We are gonna keep Pixie safe!”

Back to Charlie 

Charlie - *singing*  Adam and Lute are a disgrace to Heaven since they want to hurt my cousins who are only little.

Angel - *singing* “Uh, you do know that they are eleven?”

Charlie - *singing* “That’s still little to me!”

Blitz - *singing* “Come on guys! We still need to find the kids. We need to keep them safe and forbid Adam and Lute from hurting them.”

Back to Sonya and Liz

Liz - *rapping* “Those shitheads made a big mistake by hurting our home and friends. Saying they only want to protect is all a lie, they enjoy seeing anyone die!”

Sonya - “We aren’t going to give up! We will save Pixie, and send those angels back to the corrupt hole they call Heaven.”

Charlie, Vaggie, Sonya, Liz, Angel, and Blitz - *singing* “We will never turn our back on the ones we care about, and since the angels dared to harmed us, we will fight until we have Pixie/the kids safe from heaven’s light, and make sure they never hurt our friends again!” 

()()()()()()()()()

Later that day, Sonya snuck out to find the Heavenly Embassy and when she found it, she tried to open the door, but it wouldn’t budge.

Sonya- “Damn it! It’s locked! Now what?”

Liz- *smug* “Relax. Check your bag.”

Confused on what she means, Sonya began to reach into her bag and found one of Cherri’s bombs to her surprised. 

Sonya- *surprised* “Hey! How'd you get this?”

Liz- “Wild Cherri gave me some after her last turf war. She said it can help us if we need it.”

Sonya- “Well okay. I hope this works.”

She used her magic to light the bomb and threw it at the lock before running away. It exploded and it charred the lock off the door. 

Sonya- “Hey it worked! Remind me to thank Cherri later.”

Liz- “No prob!”

Sonya went inside and used stealth mode to make sure no one saw her. She was being extra quiet and making sure nobody was in the building. 

Liz- “Not bad but I doubt you could be a ninja.” 

Sonya- *annoyed* “Oh shut up!” 

She kept going until she came across the same office where Adam had that meeting with her cousin. 

Sonya - “Here it is! Let’s go!”

Surprisingly, it was unlocked and once inside, Sonya found a horrible sight: Pixie was on the ground and her arms & legs were tied up with angelic chains.

Sonya - *horrified* “Pixie! Oh no!”

Pixie - *desperate* “Sonya! Liz! No, stay back!”

Liz - “What? We are here to rescue you!”

Just when Sonya and Liz were about to try to free her, an angelic blast came their way but luckily they dodge it. Sonya and Liz looked up and saw Lute and Adam. 

Lute - *serious* “Many I ask why are you trying to free this prisoner?” 

Sonya - *upset* “Pixie isn’t a prisoner, she’s a friend of mine! You have no right to treat her like this.”

Sonya took out her magic spell book. Just before she can say a spell, Adam said:

Adam - “Don’t even try that baby mumbo jumbo shit.”

Adam uses his powers and blasts it into ashes much to Sonya’s horror. 

Lute - *darkly* “That demon shit won’t work on us.”

Adam - “Ha! Do you forget who I am, kid? I’m Adam the FIRST man. I can do whatever the fuck I want. Obviously the little brat chained up deserve to be punish for coming to this fucking dump of a place.”

Liz - *offended* “Hey! This place maybe a dump, but it’s our home!”

Adam - “Whoa! When the hell did Lucifer’s least important family member had a second head?”

Pixie - “She’s a Gemini! It’s a rare gift in Hell.”

Sonya - “Because I always have my sister by my side.”

Liz - “Hell yeah!”

Lute - *scoff* “Only a child would be stupid enough to believe that fairy tale bullshit.”

Sonya - *angry* “What’s that supposed to mean?”

Adam - “Well, since your brain is still young and stupid, let me put it in a way you should understand *began to sing* All that shit you heard about the Gemini is a fucking lie! It’s all in your head, you’re just a fucking nutcase like everybody else in Hell who I enjoy laughing at when they die.”

Sonya - *angry* “You shut up!” 

Lute - *singing* “You better listen to what Adam is saying, he's always telling the truth. Your family was just playing with your mind. It’s all in your head.”

Adam - “See? This is why Heaven is better than Hell since the winners know things so well and the sinners are nothing but fucking losers. Just like you!”

Sonya and Liz growled in anger. 

Pixie - *singing* “Sonya and Liz don’t listen to them! I believe you guys are Geminis, they are trying to put hateful lies in your head!”

Lute - *singing* “Oh please! What do you know? You’re just a child. The little demon just have a wild diease inside of her who don’t want to admit it’s all in her head.”

Sonya - *desperate* “No it’s not!”

Adam - *singing* “Oh please! Did you honestly believe your parents and cousin the fake Disney princess on what they tell you? 

Lute *singing* - “Did you think you were special? Unique? Rare?” 

Adam - *singing* Hate to tell ya kid but your just a sick piece of shit that nobody cares! It’s all in your head!” 

Lute - *singing* “If the Gemini is real, why we haven’t seen more of it? Something tells me that just a load of bullshit.”

Sonya was panting and holding her head. She began to have thoughts like “Was it truly a lie?”, “Am I truly sick?”, “Did my family lied to me?” Liz noticed the panic attack her sister was having. 

Liz - *comforting* “Sonya listen to me! We are a unique being like Mom, Dad and Cuz said! They would never lie to us, especially Cuz. I’m your twin sister! You’re not sick!”

Adam - *singing* “Oh now her “sister "is speaking to her. Maybe we should make an example so the little winner can see what we do to demons here!”

Lute - *darkly and sings* “With pleasure Adam.”

Adam went behind Sonya and grabbed her by the arms and flew up in the air. Lute followed as well as her hands began to glow in a yellow angelic form. 

Lute - *darkly* “Child or not you’re nothing but a sick demon filth.”

Adam - *fake comforting* “Now now, sweetie it won’t hurt…It’s just gonna make you wish you were dead!” *laughs*

Pixie - *desperately* “No, please don’t do this! Sonya! Liz!”

Lute’s hands went inside Sonya’s chest. All Sonya can do is close her eyes in fear and prepare for what’s going to happen.

Pixie - *crying* “NOOOO!!!!”

Unknowingly on the other side of the room, Charlie and the others actually made it to the heaven embassy since that was the only place Adam and Lute would visit in Hell and figured that was where they took Pixie. After fighting off some Exorcists, they heard Pixie cries of horror. They ran to the door and their eyes widened in horror: Lute actually pulled Liz out of Sonya’s body. 

()()()()()()()()

Ringing. 

All Sonya heard was a loud ringing sound. The only thing she even saw white. But then she heard something muffling. 

“Sonya...wake up!”

“Speak to us!”

“Come on Kid, wake up! Open your damn eyes!”

*sobbing* “Sonya, look at me! Please!”

Sonya’s eyes began to slowly roll back and her vision and hearing was weak. She saw Charlie (with tears in her eyes), holding Sonya in her arms, Vaggie, Blitz, Angel, looking really worried about their  friend and cousin. Even Pixie was broken free thanks to Vaggie’s spear. But then all of a sudden, Sonya began to breathe heavily and her vision was blurry. Sonya felt sick, weak, even looking deathly ill. 

Charlie - *horrified* “Sonya! Sonya what’s wrong?!”

Sonya was panting and weakly moved her sweater to reveal two golden slashes on her chest. This made the others look shocked and horrified.

Sonya - *weakly* “W-What? N-No! Where’s…Where’s…?”

They all looked up at Adam and Lute whose hands were struggling keeping hold on some kind of black sparkly blob. Both Adam and Lute were confused about what was happening. 

Lute - *struggling* “Can’t keep hold!”

Adam - *confused* “What the hell is even happening?!”

It proved too much for Adam and Lute as Lute’s hands burned up and she screamed in pain. And the blast from the blob knocked Adam and Lute down. The blob landed on the ground and it turned into Liz! She still had her eyes and slowly turned to the others and was relieved to see her sister still alive. Like Sonya, Liz also has two golden slash marks on her chest. Sonya weakly tried to walk to her sister but fell on the ground coughing hard. 

Pixie - *worried* “Sonya!”

Sonya - *weakly* “L-Liz…I-I need her!”

Lute - *groaning in pain* “Shit…My hands are fucked up!” 

Lute looked at her hands and saw that they now have burnt marks. Both Lute and Adam flew up back in the air. 

Adam - *growls* “What the fuck are you?!” 

Liz - *quietly* “A Gemini.”

Adam - “Speak up damn it! I can’t fucking hear you!”

Liz - “A *loud* GEMINI!!!”

She said it so loud it caused some lights to blow up, the place to shake, throwing Adam and Lute back to ground. Liz turned around and saw the others who were in shock and covering their ears from Liz’s loud holler. Then she glitched, held her head and chest in pain a little. Then she began to walk over to the others, but it was slow, due to her limping. Sonya tried to crawl to Liz but was too weak.

Sonya - *weakly gasping* “Liz…”

Charlie - “Wait Sonya, *picked her up* I'm gonna help you! Just hold on.”

Lute - *angry* “Oh no you don’t!”

Lute threw an angelic knife at Liz, but she quickly caught it and broke it by crushing it with her hands. The others including Adam and Lute stare in shock because no demon ever broke an angelic weapon. Liz continued to slowly walk toward Sonya and Charlie. 

Lute - *growls* “That’s enough!”

Lute began to throw more knives at Liz. An annoyed and angry Liz broke the knives and even broke one over her knees. She looked really angry and held her head in pain. Vaggie and the others also protected Charlie and Sonya from the attack. Adam was getting really frustrated that Liz kept on ignoring them and even breaking their weapons. 

Adam - “Why don’t you fucking die?!”

Adam got out his guitar/ax weapon and was about to strike Liz. But before Charlie can do anything, to everybody’s shock: Liz managed to grab Adam’s weapon by the tip of the shard with her hands. After a few struggles, Liz knocked down Adam along with Lute. They were knocked against the wall and saw Liz holding Adam’s weapon with ease. Adam and Lute actually felt fear for the first in their life and hugged each other in fear. Just when Liz was about to bring down the ax on them, she heard:

“LIZ STOP!!”

Liz turned around and saw it was Sonya who shouted that despite feeling serverly weak. Charlie had a concerned and worried look on her face as well. 

Charlie - *gently* “Please stop this Liz. They had enough.”

Sonya - *weakly* “They aren’t worth it…”

Those words got through Liz and seeing her sister looking deathly ill, she dropped the weapon. Then Charlie quickly ran toward Liz with Sonya in her arms. She gently set Sonya down on her feet. Sonya leg’s wobble a little, but Liz grabbed on to her. 

Sonya and Liz - *to Charlie* “Thank you.”

Sonya and Liz looked at each other, smiled, and hugged. Then there was a glow around them that made Charlie, Vaggie, Angel, Blitz, and Pixie cover their eyes. Then the glow stopped to reveal Sonya now all better and looking at her friends and cousin smiling. 

Charlie - *ecstatic* “Sonya! *ran to her and hugged her tightly* I’m so happy that you are okay! Is Liz still with you? Where is she?”

Sonya - *smiling* “Right where she always was. Right behind me.”

Sonya pointed to the back and saw Liz in her shadow form smiling and waving at the others.

All - *happy* “Liz!”

Pixie - *hugs them* “I’m so happy that you guys are okay!”

Sonya - “Hey, we are glad that you’re okay.” 

Pixie - *guilty* “I’m so sorry this happened. This is all my fault…”

Blitz - “Hey it’s okay. You were scared and just wanted to see your friend again.”

“Well this will be the last time!”

The others turned around and saw Adam and Lute despite looking weak and injured, were flying weakly. 

Adam - “You don’t end things like this! I’m the first man! I get to choose who lives and dies!” 

“No. You don’t!”

They saw a angelic portal opening and it was Sera along with Emily. 

Adam - *nervously* “O-Oh shit! Hey there. How ya been?”

Sera - *sternley* “Adam, I saw what you and your second in command tried to do to the poor demon and winner girl.” 

Lute - *disbelief* “Are you kidding me? *points to Sonya and Liz* aren’t you forgetting that demon your highness? And how did the winner actually go to Hell knowing it was illegal?” 

Emily - “But they are still children.”

Sera - “And you don’t decide how to punish winners. Also harming a royal member is illegal. Now both of you go back to heaven. Now.”

Taking in defeat, Adam and Lute went through the portal to go back to Heaven. Then she turned to Pixie who has a guilty look on her face.

Pixie - *sad* “I’m really sorry about all this. I just wanted to see what Hell is like and believe me, not all demons are bad.” 

Emily - “Yeah Sera. Pixie is also just a little kid. Beside, she didn’t really cause any danger to heaven or hell.”

Sera - *sighs* “I suppose I can let her off with a warning. But she will need to be punishment: Pixie isn’t allowed to visit Hell for a month.”

Emily - “But after the month ends, she can go visit Hell as long as she gets permission from us.”

Pixie smiled at this and hugged Sonya and Liz in her shadow form hugged her as well. Pixie grabbed Sera’s hand and waved the others goodbye just as all three of them went through the portal to go back to Heaven. 

Charlie - “So…Who’s up for ice cream?”

()()()()()()()()()

After getting some ice cream, Charlie and the others went back to the hotel after an intense day. Sonya and Liz already called their parents that they were staying with Charlie for the night which they happily allowed. At night, Charlie was in the hallway after getting some water, and saw Sonya and Liz awake but staring at the window. Charlie went into their room and gently tapped their shoulder. It got the twins attention and they both turned around and saw Charlie. 

Charlie - “Are you guys okay?”

Sonya - “Actually to be honest...Yeah I am.”

Charlie - “Really?”

Liz - “Yeah Cuz. I mean, yeah it’s sucks we can’t see Shybug for a month, but I’m glad those head angels decided not to kill her.”

Sonya - “And they did give Pixie permission to visit us.”

Charlie - “Yeah that’s true. At least that is the only good thing Sera did so far...”

Sonya - “But there is something else too.”

Charlie - “What is it?”

Sonya - “Well...When that angelic Karen pulled Liz out of me, I was shocked and scared cause I thought I was going to die. But then it made me realize something too: we are truly a Gemini. Liz was always meant to be a part of me and be my twin sister. We are not sick like everybody claims we are. I would like to meet other Gemini’s someday but now we know they are really rare to find.” 

Liz - “Plus in a way, even though I felt sick and weird being pulled out, I also felt like I was meant to share the same body with Sonya and exist alongside her. I can’t imagine being without her, and how truly unique and a blessing being a Gemini is. 

Charlie - “Well of course. You know I would never lie to you about this stuff Sonya and Liz.” 

Sonya - “I know you wouldn’t Cousin Charlie...Thank you for helping me and Liz...And everything else.”

Charlie - *smiling* “No problem Sonya. We are two peas in a pod after all.”

Both cousins hugged each other. Even Liz in her shadow form hugged Charlie from the back. 

Charlie - “Come on. Let’s go downstairs and eat some ice cream sundaes.”

Liz - “Can they have sprinkles?”

Charlie - *smiles* “Of course.”

Both Charlie and Sonya went downstairs to the kitchen to make some ice cream sundaes. Both are happy that despite the intense and horrified battle they counter, Sonya and Liz are okay and showed that they truly are what they always were: a Gemini. And how Sera giving Pixie a light punishment, is a sign to both Charlie and Sonya that maybe someday heaven can change for the better and allow Charlie’s dream to come true. 

Hope you all like it!

[bitchin-deep]

Freak fucking thing. Dumbass decided to take an internship as a janitor at laneway bio. I think he kept asking questions about everything because he got bored and eventually catalyst was like "check this out" and locked it into the yet uncleaned room of 10000 bugs and pests and Active Uranium Rod to see what would happen. After eventually being discovered as somehow Not Dead he stayed put at laneway anyways. Not much else to escape to. I think he eats rats and dusts the vents and bites people's ankles as he scuttles around as the resident shitty janitor

[vilixpran]

my shadow and bone s2 running thoughts

"there's only one bed!" speedrun

sometimes hot people can't act

this is actually.... not good

wow being incognito lasted three minutes

no hesitation to blow your cover

what a kind northern Irish village gentleman

the bitch is back, long live the bitch

show me a 40 year old! not every person alive is 25 and hot

genya's wig... ain't it

all he is is dumb and hot

let the fake Scandinavians mispronounce jail, show me realism

ah yes, we do cool nods at the wall of weapons

the ears are the sign of a good tracker, and mal sure does have two ears

Sea Whip, That Was Easy™️

all tell, no show, that's the way that we go

god inej is fit

total stranger, for now xx

they're just putting their faces close together on purpose

daaaamn these bitches dead and deading others

ah yes, ignite the bombs while you're in the room

pirate ship cult

Nikolai is a dork

how small is this ocean....

kazs PTSD, a running gag

baby girl, you won't "finally eradicate it for good" right now, it's episode three

aah so they fucked

TINY ROLLINS WEE SCOTTISH BAB

"hey babe, expose your knife wound while i trauma dump plot info"

god inej is fit

nina knows

god nina is fit too

*saoirse ronan* "women"

how many times can this man get stabbed in the shoulder? we're up to three

murder is good, murder is chill, i've got no qualms with murder

too many characters, too many plots, disproportionate amount of time spent on the crows and god bless them for that

"hey bro can i propose to your girlfriend bro"

the mood lighting in this plague cemetery, vibes

HORRIBLE FAKE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGE, HORRIBLE -10000/10

girlie pop, youve got to lose the signature fancy hat, you are the most recognisable

dat ass

my man is here to be petty and he's bringing friends along for the ride

no plot! only flirting! as we deserve

let them all be lesbians

SPEEDRUN WESPER

episode four and they're already fucking thank Christ

good good wylan and Jesper are off shagging, I can brood in peace

"no"

time isn't real! geography is a myth! our boats will get there when it's convenient for the plot!

we are criminals, rats of the barrel, and occasionally help foreign royals when they ask nicely

"warm, and wet" the crows in Shu han, the gift that keeps on giving

can't believe I have to watch some reylo shit all over again

Dominik Dominik I sense an ex friend with benefits with our man Nikolai

good let the twink talk to butterflies and ignore the suffering of his friends

deforest station

happy to have a himbo in tolya

not so much a slow death by poisoning as a chance for nice life affirming trips to remotivate our heroes in the ninth hour

"throwing up or hallucinations" the only two possible outcomes of poisoning

she's the avatar!

one night stand to soulmates pipeline

ah yes, continue to make out in the background for everyones big character revelations

"you're a part of me mal, I can't loose you" well murder him and eat his bones and he'll be with you forever

boyfriend to organ donor pipeline

star wars levels of hand amputation, now featuring Mother's Good Finger Bones

"and there was only one set!"

yeah like, they definitely used to fuck, surely

twenty minutes of this episode and no crows, for shame

the crows aka Deus ex machina but make it fun flirty and bisexual

more finger amputations, moooooreeeeee

woohoo C plot lesbians

queue the fire benders

little viking boy, drawing crosses in the sand

Matthias villian origin story set up for season three

fun fact, I don't actually want to see another finger amputation

blue skies and sunny yet these bitches can't see a thing

the location scout must have been so proud of themselves for finding this fort, so proud that they spent two episodes having two identical groups chasing each other around three walls

you know what this big battle scene needs? some music

unecessarily squishy icicle stab sound effects

FIVE MORE FINGERS CUT OFF JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

oh damn she actually did it

slaaaayyyy

"series regular" shows up every two episodes for a single scene unrelated to the main plot

why aren't they lighting the kindling from multiple places and especially from lower down?

good for inej

again with the tiny ocean and instantly finding exactly what you were looking for, ofmd logic

uh oh hehe

gross

[lightningandfireinmybones]

Οkay listen i know i may be a delusional gworl for this one and I may have also seen the tiktoks posted from the official GoT and maybe even HotD accounts that have the split screen edits of Helaena giving her prophecy and Meleys annihilating the dragonpit but nobody can convince me otherwise : the prophecy was about Blood and Cheese.

Why would she warn people twice over about such an anti climactic thing? Meleys didn't do anything to them she only killed the small folk.

Why would she use the word beast to refer to a Deagon? To the Red Queen no less. Targs are particular about their scaley bois.

Why would she try repeatedly (and fail) to impose on everyone how Important and Urgent and Alarming that Beast Beneath the Boards was only for it to end up being narratively something quite inconsiquential? That scene could be relatively easily removed and nothing fundamental would change. So why the insistence of the writers to bring attention to it supposedly twice over with Helaena's prophecy?

(it's not like they could or can so openly tease Blood and Cheese. It would border on Spoily territory and the vast majority of their audience i think aren't aware of what's coming)

Also why Boards in the dragonpit? Isn't it all made of stone? (legit question btw) it seems to be.

The wording is very specific (also bless whoever wrote this idk if it was ever a line in the book. The whole phonetical repetition of the /B/ sound in every main word, the stress falling on the second syllable everytime uughh i just adore it it's so effective it scratches my brain so good)

But if she were indeed warning people of this beast hiding beneath her boards..it fits.. especially in the context of the Dinner scene and also while she speaks to Alicent. She looks very alarmed and almost helpless everytime... Idk...

Maybe canon is there but it wont stop me because i can't read it.

NO LETS TALK ABOUT THIS BC I WAS WONDERING ALONG THE SAME LINES!!

I don’t think helaena was confirmed to ever have actual dreams in fire and blood, so all of her prophesying is show!canon only

in the book, blood and cheese are ratcatchers which very much leans more into both the “beast” part (either them or the rats) and the “beneath the boards” part

And phia plays is so wonderfully, dread curls down my spine every time she says it, between the alliteration and the hopelessness of the delivery, why would that depth of emotion be for an ineffectual show of power that ultimately comes to nothing???

I’d like to think it wasn’t just lazy storytelling and they were really foreshadowing bc it’d be such a sick twist to have blood and cheese happen and helaena just be like “why didn’t you listen to me??”

In conclusion I have my tin foil hat on and am 10000% on board with your analysis, as usual you are an intellectual ICON

[wrishwrosh]

nosferatreview! 10/10, banger, exactly what i was hoping for, histfic master class, no notes (except all the following notes)

it’s a hard movie to spoil bc it actually very closely follows the plot of a movie that came out 120 years ago but slapping it under a cut anyway

ofc im extremely into eggars’ schtick of deep, embedded, and carefully researched historical accuracy as a driver of storytelling rather than an impediment to it; taking the deeply held beliefs of historical people and presenting them to the audience as completely true and justified; etc, but i was kinda bored by the northman (eggars whole thing is just a little too self-serious for a movie that ends in a totally uncamp nude volcano swordfight to land with me god bless). however THIS movie was a return to form!! eggars is clearly really interested in sex and specifically sexual repression and specifically systemic historical repressions of women’s sexuality. and horror movies where The Monster Is Sex are everywhere, and historical fiction grappling with repressed women is everywhere, and it would be easy for a hack to combine these things into something really stupid. good thing eggars isnt a hack! good thing eggars is a freak!

the vampire here is sex! he is desire! vampirism isnt contagious, it’s a pure representation of contagion (a theme i found really fascinating in the original nosferatu that this movie sharpens in a very interesting way). vampirism isnt sexy or desirable, it’s sex and desire. drinking blood isn’t fucking, it isn’t like fucking, it’s some third thing that is more of fucking and more like fucking than any actual sex. i will be thinking more about the gendered dimensions of the vampire unsex scenes for a while bc the movie is doing a lot there. vampirism is also rats, which is cool. you hear “5,000 live rats” in the press junket but you really don’t realize how many goddamn rats that is until you see it on screen! wow! rats!

also of course the production design is bangin. eggars is collaborating again with hero costume designer linda muir and ofc all the wacky 1830s looks are totally on point. in one of the 10000 great scenes where a character is standing in front of an open window looking mournful in her underwear you can see the 1830s sleeve pads!! hell yeah! also they are not afraid to put silly Romantic-era hair looks on all their actors which i appreciate. aaron taylor johnson in particular looks like a fashion plate, which i found fitting for his weird ass performance as shipbuilder barbie.

a final note for those of us with a pedant’s heart: i was prepared to get up in arms about an early intertitle that said “germany 1838” bc there was no such THING as germany yet in 1838, prewar european borders is something im SENSITIVE about and also i think it would have been a productive destabilizing period detail to give us an actual duchy or electorate or what have you. get a landgravitiate involved, cowards. however i trust eggars and was rewarded for that trust when nicholas hoult signed his name on a contract in kurrentschrift!!! a bananas choice im obsessed with! instead of making his name intelligible to the audience by writing in modern german/english cursive script they used the century+ defunct and now-illegible handwriting style that a literate german would have used in the era. i was hooting and hollering. banger!!!!!

a coughing-blood-into-handkerchief period film in which nobody uses a handkerchief, they just cough blood up raw all over everything!! hell yeah! everyone go see it stat.

NOSFERATU

[troopy-reblogs]

not to be too personal here but god i love my boyfriend they play the ACCORDION he can play where the boys are by connie francis on ACCORDION oh my god he could not be hotter i am swooning. being t4t gay is the best. i love them. the fuckign accordion…