#3. A baby which got aged up into a toddler because aging magic.

[feralautisticgremlin]

realism styled art. sorta a commission, sorta not since they're my friends and also cause some of the characters were made by me

[greenerteacups]

Until your most recent chapter I didn't really stop to consider Molly Weasley's role in the first war. She had a baby, 2 toddlers and 3 kids to take care of, plus the house. I imagine she was the one preparing meals for the Order and tending to the wounded, since she seems pretty good with healing charms. It's a side of war that people don't really talk about, right?

What do you think were James and Lily's roles in the war? Either in canon or Lionheart is fine. Also, if you have the time and the will, I'd love to hear what you think about the while blood magic thing Lily did for Harry. Cause we don't really see this type of magic in canon, jkr was really vague about it, and since your Pansy seems to know quite a bit of blood Magic I was curious to know if they work in similar ways in your canon. It doesn't seeem like they teach this kind of thing in Hogwarts' normal curriculum, and to know that Lily Evans was possibly an feral muggle-born toying with dark magic fascinates me. Like, did Snape introduced it to her? The recent talk Draco had with his mother about cruel spells not always being dark magic and vice versa was really interesting and got me in my current state of rambling

This dovetails wonderfully on the heels of my last post about Molly Weasley, so I'll pick it up here! Molly is absolutely at the center of the Order's efforts in both the First and Second Wizarding Wars, and her role as a mother is indivisible from her role as a soldier. Bill is 7 or 8 when the first war begins, which means Charlie's 5-6, and Percy is around 2. You can only imagine the frustration for her — that's an age where someone really needs to be around the house, but at the same time, everyone you know is going off to fight. And like— oh—

Did you ever think that Molly probably had to sit through the battle where her brothers died? That's a thought that just occurred to me. Set aside what happened to Lily and James, or even Frank and Alice; Molly wasn't an only child until the war. Bill was old enough to know his uncles. Charlie was, too. And hey — do you think she had the twins before or after her twin brothers died? Which do you think is worse?

Anyway. I think James and Lily joined the war effort immediately, considering how short the timeline is after they graduate => marriage => baby Harry => Trelawney's prophecy. In Lionheart, Moody mentions that "Evans was 16 when she came to me," which I meant to acknowledge that students were (and are! cf. Cedric and Angelina) trying to get involved with the war before they graduated. Moody and Molly are of different philosophies on this, but it's implied that Moody accepted Lily's offer, because of Molly's remark about "forgiveness" — which is obviously a bit vague, but the implicit accusation is that the Potters wouldn't have died if they hadn't been soldiers. Of course, we know that's not actually true (my spin on this particular part of canon will be fully fleshed-out in the story, but as you can probably guess, James and Lily aren't random kills). But Molly doesn't know that, so in her mind, there's a straight line between Moody accepting Lily's offer and Harry being orphaned.

James and Lily, while by all accounts quite competent, are not actually described as being that powerful in canon. Becoming an animagus at such a young age obviously requires James to be an unusually clever and/or motivated kid, and I have no trouble believing that he was one of the most naturally talented wizards in his year, but he also reads as a bit of a lazy jackass in the one(!) scene we ever get. The person who vouches for his offstage character growth — Sirius — is frankly a bit of a jackass himself. To be clear, I'm not denying the James Potter Redemption Arc. I have great affection for James as this jackass jock who gets walloped off his pedestal by one Lily Evans, and then cobbles together a decent personality from spit and elbow-grease. I just don't think he's a mind-blowing secret agent or anything. In Mad-Eye's view, it would make most sense to put James somewhere behind the front lines, where he can learn from the seasoned Aurors. Same with Lily, too.

Which is good, in my opinion. It's important to the thematic tissue of Harry Potter that James and Lily are ordinary people — extraordinary in the hearts and memories of the people who loved them, extraordinary in courage and resilience, but not especially magical or gifted beyond the range of what normal people in this universe could achieve. That isn't to say that Lily didn't do anything remarkable on October 31, 1981; she did. But I have always liked how canon left them ordinary soldiers, who were betrayed and slaughtered by an accident of fate; in another world, it could have been the Longbottoms, or it could have been no one.

[pininghermit]

Just an ask, but baby dhampier, baby Adrian how do we raise them assumingely.. picking your brain for your thoughts alongside mines.

Okay so vampires or dhampires got some extra human traits and I had just been immersing myself in typical children scenarios because baby fever wow, seeing kitten videos does something:

1. Teething, do pacifiers exist in the 1400s? Most likely not therefore I give you the image of possibly Dracula and Lisa resorting to giving a fussy, slightly sobby Adrian a giant chicken bone to naw on for his gums. A huge comedic one please like tiny fist cannot wrap around it and instantly he calms down and happily noms it.

2. Clothes, how fast does a superhuman toddler grow? Too much I say! Outgrowing the handmade clothes that was made beforehand or Adrian wearing slightly oversized outfit that he will grow in. Maybe like those white nightgowns that old royalty children used to wear

3. Rowdiness, I mean children are strong holy shit when you look away for one moment? I can see baby Adrian going to shenanigans as a buff baby dhampir getting into stuff he’s not suppose to like climbing a shelf or onto the roof of the castle as soon someone looks away or running away from his caretakers whenever they’re preoccupied for a second because he wants to be alone or look for something

Hi Nonnie! I love your thoughts about dhampir babies. Thanks for sending this wonderful ask. They are yet to be explored in this fandom. So here are some of my thoughts about them. (Also baby fever is so annoying like I did not ask for this...I need to stop watching those videos. I can't afford a babi rn...seriously)

Dhampir are generally immortal, but their formative years are more human-like. They are vulnerable, much like any other mortal, during their youth. Before the age of 18, their flesh runs warmer than that of a grown-up dhampir.

However, they grow slower than human children, as aligning with their vampiric nature takes time to manifest. This is why Alucard starts as a smaller baby compared to others, a smoll tot, and utterly adorable, until one summer when he turns 18 and undergoes a magical, blink-of-an-eye change, growing through the roof.

During their toddler years, dhampir children love to bite anything and everything, even adorably chomping on their parent's nose. It's an instinct that kicks in early on. Their bites don't draw blood or carry, but they are slightly more painful compared to human children.

The teething process takes longer and is more uncomfortable, leading to fussy dhampir toddlers. Dracula can often be seen trying to calm down a cranky Alucard late at night, rocking a crying toddler out in the night breeze, allowing Lisa to rest.

With parents like Dracula and Lisa, Alucard gets his fair share of baby inventions, which may include carved chicken bones (credit to nonnie).

Despite all this, baby Alucard is a menace. He will climb out of his crib to run into Dracula's office, and hide-and-seek becomes an official tournament in the Dracula household.

Dhampir's heightened senses make them extremely curious and adventurous even from a young age. As toddlers, they love exploring their surroundings and have an uncanny ability to find hidden or secret spots in the castle or wherever they live. This keeps their parents on their toes (A very squeamish Alucard led to increased use of baby sling to hold him close while working).

Dhampir children have an inherent affinity for animals, especially bats. Alucard, as a toddler, would often be found surrounded by a flock of bats, playfully interacting with them.

Dhampir toddlers tend to have a mischievous streak, inherited from their vampire side. They may play harmless pranks on the castle staff, such as hiding their belongings or rearranging things in unexpected ways. It's very fae like during their growth years.

[denimbex1986]

'Every great actor understands how to harness the tools they've been given. For Christopher Walken, it's his pinball-esque grasp of cadence. For Jack Nicholson, it's the Play-Doh structure of his face. Then there's Cillian Murphy. Some may say it's the eyes, those piercing almost-translucent blue orbs that help him oscillate from warm to terrifying in a split second. But no, sorry, they're wrong. Nothing but love to those pearly peepers, but the real magic of Murphy's face is that razor-sharp set of blades hugging the side of his head.

Those cheekbones, so sharp you could probably run his face up a bottle of champagne and the cork would fly off. So cutting you could make sushi with them. You would probably have to baby-proof his face for fear of toddlers happening across those dangerous corners. But beyond just how they look (very good), Murphy understands the power they have in his performances. They can transform him from menacing to ghoulish to inviting, sometimes in the space of one role. With Oppenheimer on the horizon, we've ranked Murphy's cheekbone-iest roles to date.

6. Batman Begins (2008)

As the Kens of Barbie are defined by their jobs, the style and mood of a movie will dictate how the Cillian Murphy cheekbones operate on screen: in Oppenheimer, they remind us of the deathly, apocalyptic stakes of the A-bomb. In 28 Days Later, they make everything a little more scary. In Red Eye, they’re serving. Which brings us to Batman Begins, in which Murphy portrays the DC series’ central purveyor of spook, Jonathan Crane, AKA the Scarecrow, ooooh. It’s most appropriate, then, that the tautness of Murphy’s face gives him a hot, skeletal allure, which is also kinda spooky. He can dose us with a demonic hallucinogen any day. JK

5. Red Eye (2005)

We're about to say something Cillian Murphy will, at worst, hate, or, at best, be utterly baffled by thanks to his refusal to exist in the age of the internet. But those cheekbones? In the 2005 Wes Craven underrated film Red Eye? They're serving cunt. Slicey McGee's second consecutive villain role after Batman Begins traded the burlap sack for an eye mask in this thriller where he plays a seemingly nice hot man who turns out to be a terrorist. Modern dating, amirite? The cheekbones do some transformative heavy lifting in this, getting more hollow the more menacing he needs to be. He's essentially Wolverine but the retractable knives are on his face. And, just in case it needed to be confirmed, yes, the cheekbones still hold up under airplane bathroom lighting. The jammy sod. LF

4. Sunshine (2007)

After 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle's second Murphy team-up upped the ante in a fashion any good sequel should: they took the cheekbones all the way to space. If we learned anything about those staggering face cliffs over the course of Murphy’s early career, it’s that they always, always deserve the best lighting possible. Nay, they demand it. Which is presumably why Boyle took Murphy to the surface of a dying star, because fuck a ring light when you’ve got cheeks like these. Chris Nolan would essentially do the same years later with Oppenheimer, though substituting the sun for an atomic explosion. Do NOT turn down the brightness. JK

3. Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)

Has the term peaky blinders been used as slang for cheekbones yet? If not, it should. Think about it, “That boy Cillian's got a cracking set of peaky blinders on him”. It just works. Murphy's almost decade-long tenure as gang leader Tommy Shelby did so much for the landscape of men's fashion – You could barely walk down the street without seeing at least a handful of lads sporting his drastic undercut. And while we're not here to yuck anyone's yum, the real secret sauce of that haircut that so many failed to recognise is that it was following the severe line of his 90-degree, razor-sharp cheekbones. They were simply two parallel lines fighting for supremacy on one man's head, but we know who came out on top in the end. LF

2. 28 Days Later (2002)

Like Watergate, the Moon landing and 9/11, most people can remember where they were when they first saw 28 Days Later, because it was the day that Danny Boyle introduced the Cillibones to the world. Lives were changed, the planet shook, something shifted: here was the most archetypal Man to Be Shot in Close-Up ever seen on screen, unleashing upon the world a cheekbone fever stronger and all the more unhinged than a rage-inducing virus. People literally died. Good movie, too. JK

Oppenheimer (2023)

Christopher Nolan loves Cillian Murphy's face so much he shoots it in pretty much every way he can in Oppenheimer – Colour, black and white, extremely close-up, lit by the fire of 100 tons of plutonium. Not to mention the IMAX cameras! The man just wants to see his guy look glorious on the biggest screen possible, and the result is blinding. Hand us the welder's glass, Oppy, we're about to lose our retinas here. Murphy shed weight to play the emaciated father of the atomic bomb, which give the Cillibones™ a chance to pop even more than usual. He ends up looking like a besuited Grim Reaper which, for someone who utters the iconic phrase “I am become death, destroyer of worlds”, tracks. When the time comes for Murphy to inevitably win an Oscar for this role, we hope there's enough room on the plaque to engrave a co-winner in the shape of his own bone structure. LF'

[cdroloisms]

why is the age difference between briar and nettle in your fic different from their age difference in angela's fic?

because it’s entirely a fantasy world made up by a p!sam actively denying reality 😭 sad …

p!sam is. Um. Really really sad. Really sad. So he’s retreating to a world where he didn’t fuck up with p!Dream and they ended up happily ever after. In birdhouse, a version of Nettle exists that happens as a result of magic babies a la briar rather than because of awesamdad ending as is what happens in scream eureka—nettle was about 3-4 ish when p!sam last saw her. In his dreams, Dream and him are happily married and briar is still that little boy that adored him and nettle is their toddler and everything is okay 👍

In reality, all of coparent happened, briar was in his late teens when Dream and Sam got married and Dream subsequently left Sam in the coparent ocean escape ending, which is what happens pre-birdhouse for them. Their actual age difference is therefore roughly the same as it is in Scream Eureka

[genderqueer-karma]

blanket mess and drama update (buckle up folks, it’s a long one.):

[plaintext: “blanket mess and drama update (buckle up folks, it’s a long one.):”]

deaths 💔

the original son? dead. he got too old and dieded </3

but before he died, his daughter had her own daughter, who was a newborn when he died. this only continues the trend of mess and drama family members dying when a baby is born/adopted/introduced into the family:

(the original/older patriarch? died right before his oldest granddaughter was born. the other one? died when his son brought home his adopted daughter. the only grandson? died immediately after his youngest sister was born. and now the original son. dead a day after his own granddaughter was born.)

birthdays 🥳 !

the divorce twins are full adults now and truthfully this has me panicked, because this means they’re closer to being elders and then dying. it feel like just yesterday that they were born…

the original son’s kids, who were (not so long ago) a toddler and child, are now a teen and young adult! it’s very surreal and i’m in physical pain thinking about them being all grown up.

finally, the original daughter’s daughters have both aged up into teens! i’m actually freaking about about this, because what in hell… they grew up while i wasn’t looking.

…relationships… 👀?

the divorce twins both are married (the older sister) or have a girlfriend (the younger sister).

the older twin’s wife is going to have a baby soon, as they had a donor. (they did not, i just worked some magic.)

the oldest (technically 2nd oldest) granddaughter has made several friends, despite being the most malicious and evil individual in this save. bless her. i don’t know what i’d do without her.

one of these friends (who is also friends with her sister) is a vampire. i did decide to cause a problem with the vampires, but we’ll get to that much later.

the (actual) oldest granddaughter, the son’s daughter, has a boyfriend. he’s the father of her daughter… though honestly, i could easily create a problem with this. stay posted, my friends.

the second oldest granddaughter (the original daughter’s older daughter) is enemies with the original patriarch, who she’s the reincarnation of.

however, her little sister actually has an okay relationship with him? idk. it’s definitely interesting.

where do we go from here?

get the younger twin married to her girlfriend, so they can adopt a child, which is what i planned for them from the beginning.

do the above BEFORE the original daughter dies.

maybe age up the granddaughter who’s the reincarnation of her grandfather within the next few days? her birthday is soon but idk what i’ll do with her after that. maybe she’ll be like her uncle, having no partner but adopting some kids… (her own little disciples of evil and mischief…?)

cause more chaos!!! cheating scandals, murder, drugs, becoming “violent sims” be gaining reputations, more fires (oh, so many fires). the list goes on and on.

[dakt37]

Hey-o, here's some backstory for the Sonic Boom de-aged Tails story thing that I've been tagging as "The Curious Case of Miles Prower."

The whole mess starts with the Fountain of Youth. Or rather, a scientific anomaly in a pond that has the same effect due to silly technobabble. But the legend is that it's the magical fountain of youth. Tails and Eggman both refuse to believe it's simply magic, and run into each other while investigating it. They end up falling in, because Of Course they do. There might even be a bit of drama, with Eggman consciously acting to rescue Tails before the worst can happen. 

Tails' shoes and gloves shrink with him for unexplored reasons, but his goggles, belts, and communicator don't. The comm falls off in the water and shorts out, which automatically sends a distress call to his team. The goggles hold on until they get to shore, but then slip off and get left behind when Eggman absconds with him.

Eggman takes baby Tails back to his lair initially because:

1. Yes he's a villain, but I don't think Boom Eggman would abandon a toddler alone in the middle of nowhere. Plus he and team Sonic are more like frienemies, really. He is not immune to a tiny soggy Tails giving him big sad eyes.

2. He doesn't want Sonic to find out what happened until he fixes it, because it's just so embarrassing to be an awkward teen with a pathetic fuzzy mustache.

3. He also doesn't want Sonic to find out that Tails almost drowned and/or de-aged out of existence, because he doesn't need their rivalry to upgrade to an actual blood feud.

Back at the lair some minor shenanigans happen as Eggman and his bots struggle to corral a flight-capable toddler. But Eggman eventually lures Tails out of the ceiling vents with that suspiciously life-sized Sonic doll that he stole from Amy in that one episode. 

Meanwhile back at the so-called Fountain of Youth, Sonic shows up to investigate. Dead comm + Tails' wet goggles + strange looking body of water has him panicking. But then he notices some kind of clue about Eggman, and decides (hopes, prays) it must be a kidnapping. He collects the rest of his team and they go to kick in Eggman's door for the 12th time.

They're greeted by the sight of tiny Tails on the couch, hugging this giant Sonic plushie. Orbot and Cubot are trying to keep him entertained with a bad puppet show, while scraggly teen Eggman is doing chemistry in the background.

Sonic: "....I have several questions."

Eggman: "It's not AS weird as it looks, okay. It's not like I made the doll; it was Am--"

Amy interrupts and starts loudly accusing him of causing the whole de-aging mess, and berating him for his lair not being properly baby-proofed.

Sonic scoops up his little bro and the team makes their exit. The problem of returning Tails and Eggman to their original ages is sort of shelved for a while, and Eggman probably ends up having a B-plot with Dave the Intern or something. Trying to relive his youth but as a Cool Teen this time. The irony of Eggman being a teenage dirtbag while Sonic is actually being more mature than usual because he's got a baby to care for. Ha.

But yeah, that's the opening act.

[batpham-discord-highlights]

Tim Doesn't Age

Source: #crack

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Possible reasons why Tim doesn't age:

1) Lazarus water in his coffee, courtesy of Damien.  Damien, ever tired of being the "baby" of the family, secretly doses Tim in small amounts with Lazarus water so while Damien gets a chance to look dark and gritty like Batman as he gets older, Tim will have a perpetual case of baby face. Tim, being the avid coffee drinker he is, doesn't even notice. The thing is, what Damien would have never guessed is that even though the doses are super small, Tim is now not only technically immortal, but Also a citizen of the ghost zone (if we're going by the theory of Lazarus pits being defunct ghost zone portals)

They find out this when a ghost zone equivalent of a IRS auditor shows up asking Tim why he hasn't been paying his taxes

M/F

pffft

AK

Wouldn't that just be like reaaaly bad ectocontamination

M/F

Then Jazz and Danny are pretty much immortal too

Danny before the accident

AK

It could be that all his near-death experiences were him coming back as a halfa idk maybe death is an activation agent

M/F

Tim has a lot of near-death situations...

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2) Impulse stole a few years off of him using the speed force as a dare, and genuinely forgot to return them.

I don't think bart did it outta spite- just to see if he could but he had to go save someone before he could return the years.

Bonus: since he moved too fast to track/see, Bart lost the bet

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               [Wouldn't that just be like reaaaly bad ectocontamination]

I only posted this for the lolz, up to personal interpretation 🤷‍♀️

AK

Theoretically if jazz were to kick the bucket shed become a halfa going by the logic I posted abive

Due to lifetime ecto-contamination

Or Tim's a ghost 😱

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3) The stress of being in constant life or death battles gives Tim baby face. It sounds completely rediculious, which it is,but hear me out. Some aspects of physiology, especially in certain DC alternate universes, are psychosomatic. Studies have been conducted that reveal the body deteriorates in high stress situations. So the reason Tim looks forever young is because a bunch of angst and stress stunted his growth.

I'll grant that this could affect other batfam members, except stress affects everyone differently, so there's a chance that the others just aren't as bothered, or that they show being bothered differently

               [Or Tim's a ghost 😱]

That's probably reason 4

M/F

reason 5: Tim is a vampire

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               [That's probably reason 4]

Tim died of a caffeine induced heart attack and the dumbass didn't realize he was a ghost so he went on living his life but never aged

AK

Lmao

I personally hc that Tim doesn't drink coffee. He can stay awake for that long bc he's a ghost

M/F

reason 7: magic?

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Adsfdsgf

But if Tim doesn't drink coffee, why a thermos?

AK

He never liked it but after a weirdly rapid heart rate one day, he didn't need it to stay awake anymore!!

M/F

reason 6 is not to be spoken of/j

AK

               [But if Tim doesn't drink coffee, why a thermos?]

Hot choco

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Tt.

AK

ghost blobba tea slipped in there by either Jason or Damien who probs have contact with the ghost zone via either Danny or the pits

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Hecc

Bobba tea would be weird in a thermos, just saying

Maybe Steph makes Tim soup?

M/F

Ghost blob noodles

AK

with GHOST VEGGIES

SS

Reason 8: Death knows better than to fuck with the kid who fought Time itself for Bruce

M/F

Reason 9: Reboots and the concept of timeline continuity don't affect him anymore

SS

10: he slipped out of the timestream by accident while he was bat stalking and now he can't get back in

M/F

11: Reasons 10 and 9 make all the reasons valid somehow

L

Death should fear most the bats with how much they ignore it

M/F

death is a social construct

SS

12: Tim accidentally swallowed one of Clockwork's shrunken medallions while he was an unsupervised toddler

M/F

13: He got a kpop idol's skin care routine

L

14: It’s a curse from one of the things his parents picked up

SS

15: Tim is an eldritch god that got amnesia

M/F

16: Tim swallowed a time stone from one of the Marvel crossovers in the 90s

17: Tim actually is aging but backwards

SS

Benjamin Button is that you?

18: Tim is just Like That and no one knows how or why

M/F

19: His spleen caused him to age, but after he lost it.... he lost the ability to age

20: The MCU snap got him, and somehow the bats didnt notice he was missing or that 5 years passed.

because continuity is already messed up

SS

21: Klarion did it for the lols

M/F

22: Shazam (old wizard) did it for the lols

SS

23: Constantine did

24: they all did it individually but didn't know the others did

M/F

25: they actually didn't do it and Dr. Fate did it

[brrdhouse]

OKAY okay, i want to start by saying there are TWO timelines going on here because i can't decide which one i like more.

canon events. ford builds the portal, brings on fiddleford, gets pushed in, stan takes over. only now he also has to take care of his weird nephew too.

fix-it. everything up to ford sending the postcard happens as normal, but the brothers calm down and stan just ends up moving in to help his brother take down bill.

now that i have that out there, i wanna answer all of your tag questions because i love this au so so much:

so in the timeline where ford gets pushed in, not a lot changes but some things do change.

gideon obviously doesn't do all the canon gideon stuff, but he and stan still don't have the best relationship. he was still too young to fully process what was going on with bill, but he knows that as soon as stan showed up, his dad was gone and he'll probably never get him back. he still helps stan with the portal as he gets older, but he's very clear that he blames his uncle and doesn't like him at all.

gideon doesn't really have a relation to the gleeful family in this. i mean maybe he works a little with bud and his wife (still so upset she never got a canon name... sigh) because they'd be around the same age? assuming bud's in his 30s or 40s during the show. anyways, he's not related to them, it's some sort of magic baby situation with the amulet. so there's no amulet to abuse? or at least not the same as in canon. he's still got weird powers but he was raised with enough humility to not go total god complex.

so really just imagine the show without gideon lol. he's still there being a nuissance, but instead of being an actual danger to society, he's just dipper and mabel's flamboyant cousin that teaches them how to lie better (especially if they say they want to lie to stan)

ford did still bury the journal near the school! i don't really know what to do with it yet, but i like the idea of gideon still finding it and just choosing not to tell anyone because it's one of the last things he has of his dad.

i didn't include it in the original screenshots because i didn't think about it, but gideon does feature in journals 2 and 3 in this au! he has his own pages that are just a toddler's scribbles with little notes from ford like "gideon depicted this beast startlingly well!" he was very proud of his little star.

i said it up top, but gideon does not like stan. their personalities already naturally clash, but things weren't made better by both of gideon's parents (even if fiddleford never admitted that this was his son) leaving him so soon after each other. he knows logically that stan wasn't the start of it all, but he needs someone to blame and his uncle's right there.

... i totally forgot about the possession... oh my god...

gideon's been there for the entire billford era. i don't know the canon dates, but i personally think bill and ford started working together around august/september 1980, which would be 2 or 3 months after ford found gideon, and that fiddleford was brought on in july of 1982 (i think this is canon). so gideon definitely had a lot of really confusing and scary experiences with his not-dad being loud and weird, and he didn't have the language to communicate that he was scared of bill so ford just thought that he was going through a phase—he's a single dad in the 80s who never expected to be a father and doesn't talk to his mother enough to get advice. the parenting books he read said that kids cry a lot over dumb stuff and just need to be comforted, so when his baby cries he just comforts him as best as he can.

when fiddleford left and ford learned bill's true nature, he started hiding gideon wherever he could. the postcard to stan wasn't just a hope that he'd take the journal, but also that he'd take gideon.

oof wow, that's a lot of words. i've grown to love this au a lot.

it's totally not me living vicariously through ford because i'm ridiculously parental over gideon. why would you say that. cough. (that's my baby 💔)

also i can't help but parade around this art of the idea from @/goldsixer on twitter!! he captioned it "his little adventurer." and it shot me dead, i haven't recovered even a day later.

silly au from twitter:

+context lol

[the-ghost-king]

Personal Cecil, Lou Ellen, and Will headcanons but they're messily composed because it's 1am but they're extra trans (and hopefully not too transphobic) to make up for it:

okay so Will grows up on some huge family plot of land that they farm and idk what they grow maybe like mixed veggies and grains or maybe they just have livestock idk

someone gave them a pig at some point when Will was a baby or toddler or something and my Will is Jewish so they're not allowed to do anything with the pig besides keep it as a pet but it's friends with the cattle dog so this is okay

he meets Lou Ellen when he's in like kindergarten or first grade or something they're both like really young and fast best friends

I'm torn between they meet Cecil in New York at camp and he's from a more conservative or maybe even Orthodox Jewish family, but I also love the idea of him being a kid Will (reformist) knew from synagogue who joined their friend group

either way when Will was a kid Cecil totally had a crush on him (but like trans Will, because Cecil being the solo cishet in the friend group is funny)

Will is that early bloomer trans kid that's got it figured out (more or less) by like 11 or 12 or something

he comes from a really supportive family with a really mixed racial and ethnic background so being trans is just normal

it's culturally relevant to his family in the stories they tell and pass on so even if nobody else in his family is trans or similar he just grows up with it right beside him

also (to simplify things) there's six genders in Judaism so it's just like chill that he's trans

Lou Ellen realizes she's trans because of him and they fight because she's not ready to come out yet even to herself and she's working through some jealousy feelings about the fact that Will's family loves him as himself and all sorts of just complicated stuff that she isn't ready to talk about

Will's upset because he thinks Lou Ellen is super transphobic (conservative chrisitian household or something) and he doesn't want to lose his best friend

once again torn between Cecil's entry point into the friend group but him having to sit awkwardly in the middle seat of he car and attempt to make conversation between Lou Ellen and Will during the year they're fighting when Naomi or Cecil's mom take them back and forth from Texas and Camp (or if Cecil is from New York some equally long road trip with camp chaperones for like medical supplies or something idk)

also I think it would be funny and horrible if Cecil had plans to ask Will out on like Thursday and finds out on Tuesday that he's trans (in the sense that Cecil only likes girls) so Cecil's plans go out the window

I think Will should date Drew here and Will is still working through the "am I trans masc or non binary? ok if yes to trans masc, am I like entirely man or just a bit dude on the scale? does that make me straight or a lesbian? etc" and all those un fun but memorable gender-sexuality questions that you take 3am crisis quizzes for <3

Lou Ellen manages to work through her feelings and she comes out to Will in tears and apologetic and "I'm so sorry I was just jealous" and all those other really annoying 13-14 year old feelings

everything is good between them even if a bit tentative at first but during this point they're at camp so Lou Ellen and Will figure out this messy early fun trans years together where she helps him pick out his first short hair cut and measure for a binder (which he doesn't need because his mom helped him get on blockers but he wants one so...) meanwhile he's equally lost on how to do makeup but trying to learn the things Lou Ellen can't figure out herself so he can teach her and they're both trying to figure out what you can eat to make your hair grow faster, etc

ofc through all of this there are classic friend group shenanigans and coming of age stuff like perfecting powers and magic, Will moving up in the infirmary, Lou Ellen and Cecil designing pranks together, but all sad things like siblings dying and war and other canon events

anyhow they go home after that summer back to Texas and Lou starts having a tough time at home and after just a few weeks she just picks up a phone and asks Naomi if she can move into their spare bedroom and of course the answer is yes (ofc)

so Will gets a new sister/best friend in his house in addition to the probably like 16 cousins that also live on the property

Texas is super transphobic but this is my niche headcanon fantasy so we'll say it's less so, and there's some magic loophole law that Lou Ellen is able to get on blockers after just a few months living with Naomi and Will

this goes on for maybe a year or so uninterrupted

except more messy teenage feelings make their way in because Cecil is dating someone to try to get over having liked Will because he is straight meanwhile Lou Ellen is catching feelings for Cecil but doesn't want to get in the way of his new relationship or their friendship

Will breaks up with Drew and comes out as bi/pan/queer (label differention doesn't matter to him personally) sometime before that or after that? Idk queue recognition crush on Nico somewhere around here

Lou Ellen's family starts coming back around and they're not perfect but they're at least trying now but she still wants to live with Naomi but she agrees to meet with them once a week or something

Cecil is still dating his girlfriend but realizing this may not be the best choice as he is catching feelings for Lou Ellen now but he is worried about ruining their friendship.. should he talk to Will about this?

Will starts medical transition <3

Cecil breaks things off with his girlfriend and decides maybe to try to date Lou Ellen but he's worried she won't like him

Lou Ellen is able to start medical transition!! She's extremely happy but her family starts to pull back

this upsets Lou Ellen, understandably, and queue some sort of Cecil gets relationshipped blocked again by a similar problem in the same friend group

he's a trooper though and knows that's not the important thing and is absolutely there for Lou Ellen alongside Will and all their other friends and found family through this

at some point during the aforementioned events Will finally notices that Cecil and Lou Ellen like each other (he tends to be thick when it comes to such) and from this also pieces together the realization that Cecil used to like him

despite Will finding this funny he now exists in his friend group in a constant state of "holy shit what is wrong with you two just kiss already"

anyhow Lou Ellen and Will get fun happy trans puberty feelings and everything is a bit bittersweet

Nico and Will end up together at some point and good for them etc etc

it's Nico who ends up getting into people's business and meddling a bit (with Mitchell's help of course, he is making friends <3) manages to her Cecil and Lou Ellen together

Will is incredibly thankful because the tension was killing him but he's also happy his friends are happy

it's been a year or two now and Lou Ellen's family is coming back around and she's weary of them but she's still willing to try and this time they're much more genuine and try harder and semester more interested in her and her life and keeping her around

so her and Cecil are happy together and everyone now picks on Cecil for being the cishet of the friend group who managed to crush on both the trans kids and more than one gender without realizing it, etc etc

but it's all in good fun and they all love him for it

Nico and Will can have a happy ending too, everyone can enjoy walking off into the Texas sunset or something or into the New York Streets for college or New Rome or something idk happily ever after though because I want to

Okay now it's 2:30 am so I stop here an leave it all messy and go to bed <3

[manunelle]

{Ikerev} How many kids would they have? {Headcanon}

I’m kind of creating this post to organize my thoughts, because I want to write more about this in another post where I’ll write about how they are with their children and how I imagine their personalities. Please be aware that I imagine a different MC for each suitor, so the kids exist in the same universe lol

🖤 Black Army 🖤 

Ray Blackwell

One boy.

He was adopted by Ray and MC at age of 3. His father was one of Ray’s soldier who unfortunately passed away in duty. Since he had no mother or relatives that could take care of them, MC and Ray took him in. 

He prefers MC over Ray, but admires his dad very much!

Sirius Oswald

oh boy

This man and MC had 5 children! :) 

I kind of enjoy the thought of Sirius retiring because he wants to spend as much time as he can with his family. 

They have three girls and two boys. The order goes like this: Girl ---> Twins (boy and girl) ---> Boy ---> Girl. 

Would name his kids after flowers. 

The kids get along very well! They are really protective of each other and of their parents.

Luka Clemence

One boy as well. 

His kid is really sweet! He’s really friendly and everybody loves him at school. 

Is kind of a younger brother to Jonah’s girls. 

Talking about Jonah, he’s the best uncle ever. Always brings gifts and gives advices about anything that is troubling the boy. 

He’s doesn’t have a favorite parent. He’s close to both!

Fenrir Gospeed

Had two kids, a son and a daughterl. 

The firstborn is the boy, and the girl is six years younger. 

To his and MC’s surprise, the boy is a magic user! They discovered it when MC was bathing her baby when suddenly he started floating and giggling around. Imagine Fenrir and MC screaming and jumping around, trying to reach their son, who is having the time of his life. 

The girl is not a magic user, so she causes less trouble than her brother. She’s friends with Ray’s son.

Seth Hyde

One girl.

She has Seth’s hair and MC’s eyes, and likes to dress cute clothes and to play with her teddy bear. 

She’s reeeeaaaally shy. :< 

She probably prefers Seth over MC, but she doesn’t make it obvious. Of course, she likes her mother very much as well. But Seth’s hugs are something else. :> 

❤️ Red Army ❤️ 

Lancelot Kingsley

The next King of Hearts is a girl! 

She looks mostly like Lancelot, but her hair shape resembles MC’s. 

She’s really carismatic and smart, which means that she can hold a conversation with an adult without difficulties. 

She’s a friendly and curious little girl, always asking about how and why things work the way they do. 

As a magic user, she’s really interested in Harr’s work and gets along well with his daughter. 

Loves her dad! She looks up to him a lot and is not embarassed of asking him for advices and hugs.

Jonah Clemence

Our queen has two daughters. 

They are only 2 years apart, so they get along very well with each other. 

Honestly, they have Jonah completely wrapped around their little fingers. This man would go to the fucking moon if they wanted something from there. 

Despite being spoiled rotten, the girls are really gentle and caring with those around them. thank u so much mc

Because the younger sister is shyer, Jonah teaches his firstborn from a young age that she should always be nice and take care of her younger sister. 

They love baking! Imagine the MC and her two daughter baking cookies on the kitchen to present the man of their lives later. ;A; so cute

Edgar Bright

Edgar has one girl and one boy. 

Due to her fragile health, his daughter, the firstborn, won’t be able to become the next Jack of Hearts. She always smiles and says that it doesn’t bother her, but she gets self concious when hearing adults commenting about it. She also feels bad for passing the burden of being the heir to her younger brother. 

The boy is calm and serious, which is kind of weird bc his face looks way too much with MC’s. He’s really protective of his parents and his sister. Loves animals, just like his dad! He’s smart and strong, but is really aloof. MC and Edgar are always worried about him bc he doesn’t seem to want friends. 

The girl is bffs with Lancelot’s daughter and Kyle’s son.

Zero

One daughter! 

She has MC’s hair and his eyes. She’s really pretty! 

She’s friendly and is always smiling. Since she’s younger than the other kids of the Red Army (Kyle���s second son is actually the youngest, but he is still a baby lol), they kind of treat her as a young sister, always hugging and patting her head. 

She’s really curious around everything. Actually, her personality resembles Lancelot’s daughter’s a lot. 

Loves watching her father training with the soldiers! At the end of every session, she goes running towards him demanding hugs.

Kyle Ash

Two boys. They have an age gap of 12 years.

His firstborn had a really fragile health as a child, to the point of having to take constant shots and Kyle having to perform different treatments on his child. Seeing their child suffer was really difficult for Kyle and MC, and at some point they even thought that he wouldn’t survive childhood. However, aroung age 8, the signs of this disease started decreasing and he got better. 

Kyle is still worried about his son, so he always keeps a close watch on him to see if those symptons will come back someday. 

Because they were always busy taking care of their older son, MC and Kyle decided to not have other children. So it was a big surprise when they discovered MC’s second pregnancy. 

Surprisingly, their second son has no health problems. As a baby, he’s really serious and likes to nap a lot. 

Both boys look a lot like Kyle. The older one looks the most, while the younger has MC’s eyes. 

Mousse Atlas

Has one son. 

The boy is a MC’s appearence copy with Mousse’s personalit copy. 

Just like his dad, loves napping. 

Naps everywhere. 

Everywhere. 

Once, when dusting some shelves, Luka found him sleeping in the Black Army’s library. 

How in the hell did this kid get here? 

He always goes missing. Like, at one moment he’s standing right next do MC and in the next second he disappears. Dude??? 

Actually, he’s a magic user, which explains him disappearing all the time and reaching things that are in a place way higher than him. However, he doesn’t tell it to his parent until he’s sixteen bc he’s afraid of disappointing them (bc he heard from some idiot that magic users are way too dangerous).

💚 Neutral 💚 

Harr Silver

He has one daughter. 

She has his hair and MC’s eyes. 

Since she’s a magic user, she and Harr are always excitingly talking about magic books and researchs. He also teaches her about spells and skills unrelated to magic, such as cooking and fishing. 

She’s really shy, and because kids used to bully her at school and adults ignored the situation, she has a really hard time socializing with people that are not her family.

Loves cats! As a toddler, Loki gave her a cat plushie and she is really attached to it. 

Gets along with Sirius’s oldest daughter and Lancelot’s, but I’ll talk more about this in another post. 

Likes to sleep with her parents. It’s hard to get up in the morning bc she is pratically glued to the one she is hugging.

Loki Genetta

One son. He’s the youngest among the 17 suitors (bc Loki is fucking 19 years old in canon universe, duh). 

The boy is always stealing MC’s attention, always glaring at Loki. Loki glares back because he’s a man-child. 

Actually, they get along very well when the issue is not MC, and the boy trusts Loki a lot, sharing secrets and asking for help when in need of assistance. 

His looks and personality are a carbon copy of Loki’s. 

Always follows Ray’s son and Fenrir’s daughter around. 

Oliver Knight

One daughter, and Oliver loves her so much!

She looks a lot like MC, both in looks and personality. 

Being a bit naive, she’s always getting in trouble. Thank god her friends are always ready to rescue her! Is bffs with Sirius’s second daughter. 

Boys love her. Girls too. As a teenager, she’s always having to turn down confessions. She tries to be gentle, but some people are just too bold for her to deal with. That’s when Sirius’s daughter and son (the twins!) enter and deal with whoever is bothering her. 

She kind of has a crush on Sirius’s oldest son, but is too embarassed to admit. 

Oliver knows, but doesn’t want her to know that he knows. It’s kind of tough to hide, bc when the boy shows up at his house he’s always fumming with jealousy. 

Blanc Lapin

Mister Blanc has one son.

He’s calm and smart. 

Loves tea parties! Dad’s carrot cake is the best.

Loves his mom. Loves his dad. Loves his friends. 

He’s a sunshine. Everybody loves him. 

Dean Tweedle

Has only one daughter. 

Her looks and personality are a perfect mix of her parents’. 

Sleeps only if her dad reads to her. Otherwise, she stays the whole night staring at ceiling with a bored expression. 

Is really smart and responsable. She’s the perfect “senpai” at school. 

Is bffs with Sirius’ oldest daughter. 

She and Dalim’s son look really alike, so people are always mistaking them as siblings. Dalim and Dean always get annoyed at this.

Dalim Tweedle/Dum

Has one son.

Just like Dean’s daughter, his looks are a mix of his parent’s, but his personality is a bit different. Despite being really curious, he’s really quiet and hesitant of asking questions aloud. 

Is a magic user. 

Sees Dean’s daughter as a big sister. Is always attached to her hand when they meet and follows her around like a shadow. 

Probably prefers his mom over Dalim. 

[fangirlovestuff]

Hello. How are you? I saw you are a Hufflepuff. I'm a Ravenclaw! Anyway, can you please do a Chris Evans x reader in which the reader is a Harry Potter star and she is telling him about the series and how it was to work in them. Bye!

Magical

a/n - hello lovely nonnie! i’m fine but i’ve been really swamped with... life lately, which is why it’s taking me soooo long to put out requests and i’m so sorry, but i really hope you’ll like this!! reader doesn’t play a specific character, it’s a made up vauge one so everyone could read:) also, chris isn’t the biggest harry potter fan in this one because i don’t think he is one irl lol. Enjoy!!<3

Word Count: ~900

Warnings: very little proofreading i’m sorry

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"Babe, is the popcorn ready yet?" Chris yelled from the living room.

"No, but if you stop asking every two seconds maybe it'll take faster!" you retorted from the kitchen.

"Fine, fine, but I'm choosing the movie till you get over here!"

"Are you talking to the popcorn or to me?" you laughed.

"Both of you!"

A few minutes later you put the popcorn into a big bowl and made your way to the living room. Upon seeing the movie paused on the TV screen, you groaned.

"Chriiis," you drawled, "I don't wanna watch that! I'm in it!"

"Precisely," he smirked triumphantly, "but you said nothing when I said I was gonna pick the movie, so you can't complain. Besides, I always watch the Marvel movies with you when you want to, now it's my turn to watch your movies."

"You're not even that big of a Harry Potter fan!" you objected, sitting down next to him and shoving some popcorn in your mouth anyway.

"But I'm a big fan of you," he smiled, leaning to grab a mouthful of the popcorn himself.

"Ugh," you smiled, "well, I can't say no to my fans," you said, faux-posh, and he grinned before turning on the movie.

About ten years ago, you wrapped your role in the Harry Potter franchise. You were in all of the movies, albeit not having the most screen time, but you played a friend of the golden trio's, from Ravenclaw. To this day, you couldn't believe that's what you got recognized for, since you did quite a few other projects, but usually people recognized you from the franchise, which you didn't mind that much, since it was such a positive experience for you as a young actress.

About ten minutes into the movie, Chris sighed. "Where are you?" he grumbled.

"They're not even in Hogwarts yet," you said, "be patient. Oh, here's Daniel's line!" you giggled. "I remember being on set that day and he just couldn't get it right. Kept stumbling over his words," you smiled fondly.

"Isn't it a magical train? Can't it like… go faster or something?" Chris complained.

"You can always fast forward it if you want to. Or we could just watch something else," you suggested with a smile.

"No! We're watching this," he said adamantly.

"Okay!" you laughed.

A few minutes later they finally got to Hogwarts, meeting your character for the first time.

"Awww, look at you!" Chris grinned, "you were such a baby!"

"Well, that was over a decade ago, so I'll take it," you giggled, "but just so you know if you'd told me that then I would've been real mad. Working on a film set makes you feel very mature," you smiled.

"Was it fun?" Chris asked, "working this young on such a huge franchise?"

"Yeah, it really was," you reminisced. "I read the books before and I absolutely adored them, so being told I get to work on the movies was a huge thing. Plus, I got to make a bunch of friends, you know."

"But wasn't hard, with school and all?"

"I mean, I guess it was a little packed, but I liked staying busy. We all studied on set together, and it was really nice," you smiled. "Oh my god, and Emma and I had the biggest crush on Tom," you laughed.

"Like Draco?" Chris frowned.

"Not really Draco, cause he's the villain sorta, but Tom was very cool," you giggled again, "looking back, I honestly don't know how crush-worthy he really was, but especially in the first movies it's most of what Emma and I talked about. But don't worry, I like Captain America way better now," you smiled and leaned in to peck his lips.

"Well, I'm glad to hear that," he chuckled.

"Oh my god, and the special effects were really fun to do," you said. "When you did them it felt a little stupid but then watching yourself cast spells and see dragons and stuff, it was the coolest thing to see, especially the first time I saw it."

"So why are you so reluctant to watch it now?" Chris smirked.

"First of all, don't think I haven't noticed you're conversing with me, so you must be nearly as reluctant as I am," you smiled, "and secondly, I already saw all the dragons and that excitement wears off, so now I'm only left with hating seeing myself on screen," you laughed. "I was so young, it's just… weird I guess. Also, not to sound arrogant, but my acting skills have very much improved since then," you chuckled.

"I'm not reluctant to watch Harry Potter, I'm ecstatic!" he objected.

"Alright. We're watching Not Another Teen Movie tomorrow then," you smirked.

"Ugh fine. Can we drop the movie? I love you, but the plot is hardly compelling to me in my old age," he smiled.

"Don't make me make you watch Not Another Teen Movie to prove to you that you literally look the same now, if not even better," you threatened jokingly. "And I'd love to watch a movie we both really want to watch."

"Disney?" Chris smiled.

"Whatever, you toddler," you laughed and snuggled closer to him as he put on another movie for you to enjoy.

“I’m sorry we didn’t watch the whole movie,” Chris smiled, “but you’re all the magic I need.”

“Well I’m not sorry we didn’t finish the movie, but please shut your gorgeous face if you want to continue watching this one before I use my magnificent powers of distraction,” you smirked.

“I’m listening,” Chris laughed before leaning in to brush his lips against yours.

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[twistedlymad]

Hi! I was wondering if you do requests cuz I came upon this blog and was like hm this blog is pretty interesting. Your writing and stories so far are amazing I’m in love with them. I was wondering if you could write a story where the fem reader turns into a child and what the twst boys would do. Everyone causing different shenanigans. Anyways I hope you will be able to write this. Goodbye!!! *Anon* Out :)

Ohmaigawd Anon, you’ve made my entire week! Thank you for liking my stories! I’ve never felt this happy :’)

Anyway, yes! I do take requests! And thank you for requesting this story. I’m sorry it took me awhile to finish this but I hope this story is up to your standards! Thank you again and have a lovely day!! 

What if you became a baby? (Ft. Grim, All the Dorm Leaders, Ace, Deuce, Epel and Jack)

“Ugh… I’m so tired….” You groaned in the cafeteria. You held up a hand to support your head. Grim was beside you, laying down face first onto the table.

“Well… Nothing special happened today…” He said making you glare at him.

“Today? How about this whole month? The Magical Shift tournament was just last week! First of all, we had to go on this ‘student-hunt’ to protect the top players of Magical Shift. Then we had to find out whoever was causing all of this chaos by injuring said top players. And once we did, Leona-senpai got overblotted and we had to stop him. Also, you hit me!” You exclaimed at Grim.

“Come on, it wasn’t that bad...” Grim turned to face you, only to meet with your glare.

“You hit me. In. The. Head.” With each word, you leaned in closer to the furball. “You made me unconscious for a day.” You looked at him with eyes that stared into his soul. Grim took a gulp.

“A-Ah… That did happen, didn’t it? Hehehehe.” Grim laughed nervously. You just sighed and patted his head. “I couldn’t blame you… I understand you want to show off, but please, be more careful.” You said and he nodded.

“And don’t go complaining how life is boring for you, because for me, I think I’ve had enough for this month.” You went back to your normal position and sighed. “You know? I would give anything for me to do my own stuff without a care in the world.”

“What? Like a baby?” Grim asked.

“You know what? I wouldn’t mind being a baby again, even if it’s just for a day.” You shrugged and you stood up as the bell rung. “But we all know that won’t happen. It’s not possible! Now come on Grim, let’s go back to our dorm.” You said as you picked up the creature in your arms and started to walk away from the cafeteria.

“Ughhh, why did Professor Trein had to give us assignments on a Friday?” Ace grumbled as he, Deuce, Jack and Epel were practicing their magic in the field.

“Well, we have the next two days off, so it’s better for us to work on our magic than laze around doing nothing.” Deuce replied.

“Yeah, let’s just get this spell over and done with.” Epel said. “Wait, what spell was it again?”

“A youth spell. The spell is said to reverse time on an object, making them younger.” Jack commented. “We’re going to use this apple as a test subject.”

“Wait, how much time does the spell reverse?” Epel asked.

“If I’m not mistaken, probably a few days.” Deuce answered.

“What if we all casted at the same time? Would that make the apple turn back into a seed?” Ace suggested.

“I don’t know but we could try!”

“No! What if something goes wrong?” Jack was hesitant to this idea. Who knows what could happen if they misfire? Or even worse, casted the wrong spell?

“It won’t! Trust me!” Ace said proudly.

“…. Alright, just this once.” Jack gave in.

“Ready? On the count of three we cast the spell together.” Ace said as the four of them readied their pens.

“1, 2, 3!” Four blasts from 4 directions were headed towards the apple in the middle. The blasts collided with each other and hit the apple, but, the spell was too strong, it bounced off from the apple in another direction.

“AHH! IT’S OUT OF CONTROL!”

“I-Is that (Y/N)?”

“It is! (Y/N)! LOOK OUT!”

You were walking with Grim back to your humble Ramshackle Dorm, when you heard shouts for you to duck and look out were heard. You turned to see a spell was heading straight towards you, in order to save Grim who was still in your arms, you threw the creature onto the floor, making him bump his head on the way. The spell hits you shortly after.

“Fgnaaaa! Why did you do that for?” Grim sat up and rubbed his head. When he turned to look at you, you were gone.

“(Y/N)? (Y/N)?!” Grim looked around frantically, searching for you. But then he heard a small giggle.

“Ah! Goo Ga!!” A (E/C) colored, (H/C) colored toddler was trying to grab onto his tail. The toddler was wearing a baby version of the school uniform.

“Fgnaaa! Who is this kid?” Grim said as he brought you closer to his face.

“Grim!! Are you okay?!” Deuce asked as he arrived, Jack, Epel and Ace followed shortly after. Grim was focused on the other first-years, leaving you with no attention and you decided to crawl away.

“I am, but I don’t know where (Y/N) went.” Grim said to the first-years. “Anyway, what was that blast? Did you guys miss fired a spell?”

“Umm, I guess you could say so.” Epel looked at the ground sheepishly.

“I told you guys that it wasn’t a good idea.” Jack growled to the others.

“Oh? You eventually agreed to the idea! Now it’s our fault?” Ace retorted back. Before they could start arguing again, Grim stopped them.

“Wait, what spell did you guys miss fire?”

“It was a youth spell, we wanted to see what would happen if we stacked our spells together.” Deuce explained to Grim. “It hit the apple, but it also went off in this direction, specifically (Y/N)’s direction.”

“Oh no, this is bad.” Grim paled.

“What why?”

“If you guys miss fired a strong de-aging spell and I saw a toddler with (E/C) eyes and (H/C) colored hair. That means-“ Grim stated but was cut off by Epel.

“The spell hit (Y/N)! She must’ve turned into a baby!”

“We have to fix this! But Grim, where is the baby?” Jack asked Grim frantically.

“What do you mean? She’s right her- WHERE IS SHE?” Grim exclaimed as he looked at his tail only to find out that you were gone. Everyone panicked slightly but Jack snapped everyone out of it.

“She must’ve wondered off! Ace, Deuce, go find Professor Trein and ask him how to undo the spell. Epel, me and Grim will go look for baby (Y/N).”

“We’ll meet up at Professor Trein’s class later!” Ace shouted as he and Deuce ran off to find the Magic History teacher.

“Let’s better start searching for her, who knows where she could be now.” Jack said as Epel and Grim nodded. And so, the search for you had begun.

You were wondering around the hallway, crawling along the huge lockers, just exploring this whole school. As you wondered, you heard chatter coming from one of the rooms and since you were a baby, your interest is easily piqued. So, you decided to go into the room, unnoticed.

The Dorm Leaders were having a meeting. The meeting was held in a room which just so happened to be the exact same room you entered. Which is why you heard noises of people talking.

“Now, everyone, welcome to today’s Dorm Leader meeting. We will be discussing about last week’s Magical Shift tournament.” Azul started.

“I am pleased to announce that ticket sales and as well as sales in general had an increase of 12 percent compared to last year.” The other dorm leaders nod in agreement.

“Yes, this year’s Magift Tournament was quite the eye opener. Never would I have seen so many events happen leading up to the tournament.” Said Malleus.

“But it was quite the tournament nevertheless, thank god all the problems were fixed before the actual event.” Said Vil.

“And it’s all thanks to Riddle, Cater, Jack, Ace and Deuce, right?” Kalim asked cheerfully.

“Not quite. (Y/N) and Grim did a lot more and they also accompanied us in solving the mystery.” Riddle replied calmly. “Without them, we wouldn’t even have a tournament at all.”

“Ah! We should totally invite (Y/N) to our dorm leader meetings next time! Well, since she is technically a dorm leader.” Kalim suggested.

“If it’s okay with the principal, then do as you please.” Vil said, looking at Crowley.

“I wouldn’t mind either way.” Leona shrugged.

“Same here.” Idia spoke through his phone.

“Ah, well, I’ll ask (L/N)-san her thoughts on this invitation when I see her, now then, onto our next topic.” Crowley continued the meeting with a new topic.

You were actually close behind Crowley, for you saw his cape. You thought that it was a very comfortable blanket and so you crawled beneath it, letting the cape engulf you. Feeling the softness of the cape, you let out a cute squeal of delight. As soon as you did though, everyone in the meeting room froze.

“U-Um, you all heard that right?” Idia asked his fellow dorm leaders and everyone nodded.

“Where did that sound come from?” Asked Kalim.

“I think it came from Crowley.” Leona replied, looking at the headmaster.

“Leona-san is right, it seems like it came from Headmaster’s direction.” Malleus said as he also turned to look at Crowley. Everyone then looked at him with suspicious looks, as if he had stolen something.

“N-Now! Let’s be rational, there aren’t any babies on school campus!” Crowley said, for he was panicking inside because he had heard the sound quite loud and clearly too. And it was at this time you decided to let out another sound.

“Goo Ga!!”

“Alright Crowley, out with it! Did you or did you not bring a kid?” Leona asked the headmaster.

“No! I DON’T EVEN KNOW ANY TODDLERS!” Crowley defended himself. As he did so, Kalim took this chance to inspect Crowley, to find the object that could’ve made that sound. A phone perhaps? A ringtone? Anything! But when he got to his back, you decided to move around, therefore making it seem like Crowley’s cape was moving by itself. Kalim paled as he saw this, he thought it was a ghost.

“h-heADMASTER’S CAPE IS MOVING ON IT’S OWN!” Kalim yelled out in surprise. All the dorm leaders and Crowley turned to look at Kalim.

“So, headmaster, you’ve brought ghosts into today’s meeting?” Malleus asked Crowley with a raised brow.

“N-No! I didn’t!”

“Then explain your cape!” Kalim retorted back.

“Thank god I didn’t leave my room to witness this.” Idia mumbled to himself.

“There is no way I have brought ghosts to our meeting!” Crowley exclaimed. “It must be the wind, see for yourselves!” And he snatched his cape away from you, leaving you exposed to all the dorm leaders. You didn’t know what was happening, one second you were underneath a comfy blanket and the next, 7 pairs of eyes were on you. (I ain’t counting Idia’s eyes :’) ) You were confused.

“A…. A BABY? WHOSE JOKE IS THIS?” Crowley shouted, in the meantime, his shouting had scared you and you started to cry.

“Great going teach, you’ve made it cry.” Leona said, rubbing his temples.

“What?! How is this my fault?” Crowley looked back at Leona.

“Well, if you hadn’t shouted, we wouldn’t be in this mess!”

“Don’t put all the blame on headmaster!”

“So, who is to blame?!”

And so, began the fight between each of the dorm leaders and Crowley. Not far away, Jack, Epel and Grim heard the commotion and decided to see what was happening.

You eventually stopped crying as you felt tired. You took a small yawn and decided to nap on the table. The dorm leaders were still fighting though. It was until Vil saw you fell asleep and shushed the other dorm leaders and Crowley.

“Look, it’s gone to sleep.” Vil whispered and everyone stopped to see you asleep on the table. Jack, Epel and Grim poked their heads in to see the exact same thing.

“Ah! There she is!” Grim exclaimed and the dorm leaders looked at him.

“She?” Azul asked.

“Yes, a she.” Epel said as he slowly went up to you and picked you up.

“But there is only one female student in this school.” Vil stated. As all the dorm leaders widen their eyes.

“You mean?” They asked.

“Yes, this is (Y/N).” Jack replied.

“……….. A-Ah.” It has come to their realization that the toddler was you, and they all had a slight blush on their faces.

So, Jack, Epel and Grim went to Professor Trein’s classroom and got a lecture from the teacher.

What was it about? Oh, the usual. Never combine spells. Ever.

The professor casted a spell on you, saying that it’ll work but it’s going to take a few hours. So Ace and Deuce decided to bring you back to your dorm and have Grim take care of you. It was fairly easy since you were asleep all the way.

After a few hours, it was night time and you were back to normal, but you woke up with a headache.

“Ugh… What happened? I feel like I went on an adventure today.” You asked.

“Yanno, remember when you said you wouldn’t mind being a baby for a day?” Grim asked you.

“Yes, I remember that.” You said, rubbing your head.

“That’s exactly what happened, now, can we go eat? I’m starving.” Grim answered your question and jumped into your arms for you to carry him.

“Eh? Um, sure I guess, let’s go.” You said and took him to eat at the cafeteria.

When you arrived, you sat with your friends asking about what had happened. They hesitantly explained the story to you and you slowly took it all in. When you did, you smacked Ace, Deuce, Jack and Epel on their heads for their carelessness, and with that, you forgave them for making you into a toddler.

However, after that day, the dorm leaders were paying a lot more attention to you. Asking if you need anything or just walked you to class in general. You were absolutely dumbfounded at this new attitude of the dorm leaders, but, you would be lying to yourself if you say you didn’t enjoy it one bit.

[keyofjetwolf]

Gabrielle’s Hope

I have been working on this for months now. Months! Hope was born, became a toddler, and killed a man in less time. I’ve got so many goddamn thoughts about this episode, to the degree that I keep losing all sense of the thing in my efforts to get it all in. This is now the fourth time I’ve scrapped what I had to start fresh, and I am going to make every effort to make sure it’s my last. It may not come out exactly as I hoped, but it’ll be OUT, which is more than I had when I started.

Our sponsor for this Xenafied journey to The Bitter Suite, the infinitely patient @bardofsomerset​, had a few key areas they wanted me to focus on for this episode. I SWEAR MY TEN PAGES OF NOTES AND I ARE GOING TO TRY TO STICK TO THEM.

So without YET MORE delay, let’s get into Gabrielle’s Hope, the most on-the-nose name ever given a supernaturally advanced child fathered by a being of absolute evil.

Before we get into the areas Neet pointed me -- hahahah ALREADY I’M GOING OFF-SCRIPT AMAZING -- I want to take a sec to acknowledge how I always forget this episode exists.

Which is RIDICULOUS. This episode is absolutely critically VITAL, not just for this plotline for our characters. It lays all the emotional groundwork as we round the corner from the old trauma and head toward the new. We establish the beats we’ll revisit for Xena and Gabrielle’s fallout. We get more than enough reason for the audience (and Xena) to question Hope. We have Gabrielle at her most cunning and actively working against Xena which not only gives us Gabby’s state of mind but pre-establishes her capability for the things to come. And then of course there’s the actual plot mechanism that removes Hope from the picture for now so we can thrust her back again when it’s most devastating.

HOPE IS BORN IN THIS EPISODE FOR FUCK’S SAKE A LOT HAPPENS AND IT’S KINDA IMPORTANT

I know all this! Still, I manage repeatedly to forget the episode exists. I just sort of attribute the important parts to other episodes I think, and gloss right over this whole banshee/knights/mountain chase stuff. It’s hilarious, but also I think a consequence of how the episode IS so dense. It feels like at least three episodes are crammed into this one, and so my memory insists it must be. Rewatching it for this, then, was an unexpected surprise, as I’m sitting there almost constantly like “Oh, shit, does that happen now? And that? That too??” IT WAS WEIRD

So there are three key questions we’ll address today, as I continue to do battle with what my memory keeps erroneously insisting was the order of events:

Was Hope born evil, or could she have been saved?

Why does everyone take the stance they do regarding Hope?

How is Gabrielle responding to the trauma of the previous episode?

#3, we can sum up easily enough with “POORLY”. The more nuanced answer actually relates more to #2 though, so hold that thought until we get there, as first we ask:  

Was Hope born evil, or could she have been saved?

I cannot begin to tell you guys how much I’ve thought about this question. This is some philosophical and psychological shit right here, and I don’t think we can conclusively, canonically, answer it one way or the other. I don’t even really know what my OWN answer is, and like I said, I’ve been mulling it over for MONTHS. So fuck it, I guess kick back and grab a beer and let’s go wander down some rabbit holes.

Let’s start with how we have the absolutely inescapable fact that Hope killed a dude. She’s between 12 hours and 18 months old, and she strangled a bitch TO DEATH. It’s murder! It’s kinda fucked up!

But also, how much can we hold Hope to account for that? Even given the magical aging, she’s what, two years old? I am absolute shit at baby ages, but even if we double that, she’s STILL a goddamn baby. Can you hold her morally accountable for strangling Goewin? How about if she kept crying every fifteen minutes and waking someone up, which is an actual factual torture tactic? BECAUSE MIDGE HAS DONE THIS AND I DON’T HAVE THE HAGUE ON SPEED DIAL

For an infant to strangle a conscious able-bodied grown man to death, there's likely some supernatural element involved, I’d think. If nothing else, THE MUSCLE CONTROL NECESSARY. So is that Hope too, then? Is it Dahak? Is it an impulse? Did she have any measure of conscious, deliberate choice?

And does it MATTER? If we absolve Baby Hope from Goewin’s death, do we do the same if it happens again? How many times is it okay for her to murder someone? When do we decide she’s killed too much? Do we ever?  How old must she be before we decide she’s now responsible?

I HAVE NO ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS. I absolutely can’t decide if I think she’s accountable or no. Or, rather, I’m inclined toward saying she isn’t responsible NOW, but when I start trying to drill down when she WOULD be -- as I think one must to have any ground to stand on -- I quickly lose my footing. I can’t definitively draw the lines, and so am forced to wonder if there should be lines drawn at all.

When we meet Hope again, the show doesn’t make it any easier on us. We end things in this episode with Gabrielle outsmarting Xena and letting Hope drift away all Moses-like. Then If I remember right, we don’t see her again until she turns up several episodes from now and kills Solan. Even setting aside the fact that she’s still a child at that point and whether or not she knows right from wrong, the fuck has she been doing? Who took care of her? Did anyone? Did Hope grow in isolation? Did Dahak, in some capacity, raise and provide for her? If so, is any of what she does even her idea?

Without having some sense of these answers, I don’t know that I can do more than blindly speculate on whether or not Hope could have been saved. My gut instinct is to say yes, or that at least it should have been attempted, but then right on the heels of that is all of my above questions and where the lines are, and I immediately reconsider.

LIKE I SAID THIS IS A HARD FUCKING QUESTION

I really don’t know where I fall on it. Which I think is a testament to the idea and its execution, how it’s all so grey and complicated. We’re left to our own devices, how to feel about Hope, and so too how to feel about the actions of Gabrielle and Xena. They’re both wrong, and they’re both right, and that’s a thin, narrow tightrope to walk as we continue toward the inevitable. 

Why does everyone take the stance they do regarding Hope?

We have, in this episode, six divisions of “everyone”: the banshee, the villagers, most of the knights, the renegade other knights, and of course, Xena and Gabrielle.

The banshees and the villagers, we can strike easily enough with “because the narrative”. The real conflict here is the nature of good and evil, guilt and innocence, but before we can get into the complicated stuff, we need broad strokes, and that’s what they provide. The villagers want to stop the rise of Dahak, so Hope has to die (and since Hope at this point is in Gabrielle, so does she). The banshees are monsters, they’re Bad Things, and they are 1000% pro-Dahak, so want to shelter and protect Hope/Gabrielle.

Not particularly complicated stuff. Now we have that down, it’s time to cue the knights.

These are sort of proto-Arthurian guys, included partly for a quick sword-in-the-stone joke which isn’t super clever but amuses, so I’ll take it. The other part though is to give the audience something to connect with in terms of trust and authority. The average person is at least passingly aware of King Arthur and regards him as a heroic figure, so tying these knights to him, however loosely, also inclines the audience to believe them, or at least believe that they’re acting in good faith.

And so (mostly), they are, to the point where they themselves are divided about Hope. The majority believe that as the child of Dahak, she is pure evil, and for the sake of the world, must be destroyed. However one of the knights, Goewin, argues that as a literal baby, Hope is innocent and it would be wrong for them to kill her based on what they’re afraid she MAY do. Full credit, Goewin puts his sword where his mouth is, running off with Xena and Gabby and vowing to protect the baby from his former knight-bros if necessary. Sides are declared now, and we’re increasingly unable to sit on the sidelines without also choosing one. The almost-Arthurians have a point, but so too does Goewin. Prophecy and portends all that, yeah, but also THIS IS A LITERAL INFANT. Can we know she won’t choose to do good? Can we run the risk of waiting for her to do evil?

WELL NOT IF YOU’RE GOEWIN I GUESS

It’s a pretty divisive backdrop, setting the stage perfectly for our main characters. Gabrielle, being Hope’s mother, is solidly on team Do Not Murder My Baby. Xena, being Xena, is a bit more Murder Is Sometimes Necessary Like Oh Say Right Now. But it goes deeper than that, of course it does.

In Hope, we have a breaking point, the divide between Xena and Gabrielle consolidated in human form.**  She is the extreme of Gabrielle’s insistence in seeing the world in black and white, and the pinnacle failure of Xena’s self-assuredness and authority. But more, she’s the perfect embodiment of Xena and Gabby’s inability to see the worst in the other. This essay question asks why they take the stance they do regarding Hope, and while the answer could be a winding walking path through the forest, you can hop directly to the other end with the magic words, “Because they HAVE to.”

(**) We can then argue that the herald of evil isn’t so much about the evil as it is to turn good against itself, which is far outside the scope of this essay, but interesting as hell, particularly if we frame “good” as multiple parts that must love and understand each other through their differences, an idea that further takes on a visual component in Xena with the Chakram v2.0, BUT DID I MENTION THIS WAS OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF THIS ESSAY AND I DO NOT WANT TO RESTART IT FOR A FIFTH TIME AND SO WE ARE DROPPING THIS AND MOVING ON NOW

On this question, Gabrielle is really quite simple. She takes the stance she does toward Hope because it’s the one thing that will have made it all worthwhile. Getting snowed under and used by whassisface last episode, killing that girl, being literally impregnated by evil incarnate. Gabrielle can bear the weight of her naivety and the violence done by and to her, if it can mean something GOOD. Then, once she’s made the decision she has about Hope, she has to cling to it with both hands, because if she’s wrong about Hope, who else might she be wrong about?

For Xena, there’s one and only one primary concern: Gabrielle. She will hear absolutely nothing about destroying the baby, entertain no ideas about its inevitable evil, so long as Gabrielle and Hope are a package deal. Even when Hope is born, Xena lets the opportunity to stop Dahak there and then pass her by, effectively losing this battle the second she hands the baby to Gabrielle. Then when Gabby tells Xena not to let the knights hurt Hope, Xena is immediately there, ready to kill every last one of them if necessary.

Wonderful, heart-filling shit here. Xena has Gabrielle’s back always, at all times, and will make every last motherfucker in the ancient world bleed if they so much as look at her wrong. That Gabrielle is all that is good in the world is a given, and anyone suggesting otherwise is going to get the business end of a Warrior Princess. WHICH IS PRECISELY THE PROBLEM. Xena is so desperate for Gabrielle to live in their world without it touching and changing her, that she critically fails them both, not once, or even twice, but FOUR TIMES in this episode.

Firstly, by not being willing to entertain the idea that Gabby’s been fucked up, even when it’s Gabrielle putting the possibility out there. They nail it all EXACTLY at the start of the episode, but rather than talk it through, face the very real possibilities of what’s happened and so are prepared for what may come next, Xena pulls her “I’m the expert here” bullshit and shuts it all down.

And Xena’s not WRONG, exactly, but neither is Gabrielle, and refusing to have a conversation about what happened and how it’s made Gabby feel not only doesn’t help, but actively hurts.

Things escalate, angry villagers, burning people alive, etc. etc., and here’s Xena’s second major fuck up: she ignores everything her brain is telling her about this impossible baby. Gabrielle can’t be pregnant, and if she were she can’t be four months along already, and if she were she can’t be going into labour now. Even without 99% of the almost-Arthurian knights, an entire town of villagers, and a banshee squadron crooning over Gabby establishing a solid foundation from which to doubt, there’s Xena’s VERY OWN INSTINCTS POWERED BY CONCRETE OBSERVATION. At minimum, I’d expect “Let’s get you safely through this and then put our feelings on hold while we figure it out.” 

NOPE. Feelings flying fast and furious all over the place, leading us to Xena’s third major fuck up.

Gabrielle needs this, yes, but Xena needs it just as much. She needs Gabrielle to be okay, needs her to hold on to her view of the world and her good nature. She needs Gabrielle TO NOT BE HER. If there’s one thing that I think could send Xena into complete despair, it’s watching Gabrielle consumed by her own hate and turning into someone like Old Xena. Knowing that she didn’t stop it -- worse, walked Gabrielle hand-in-hand down that path -- would absolutely devastate her. I love that cap above as it captures this moment of horror for Xena, where she begins to realize she’s handled this in every wrong way possible and it may already be too late to fix it. Not only may she have to watch Gabrielle lose all hope again, a second blow from which she may not be able to recover, this time it may be Xena who rips it away.

Still though, Xena allows herself to be swayed from action. I don’t even mean not sticking a sword through a baby, but in not counselling, or even insisting, that she and Gabrielle maintain some degree of distance before they have a better idea of what’s going on. Instead, for hours, Gabrielle gets to sit with Hope and hope, further spinning the narrative that this was a good thing, a PURE thing, pouring all her personal redemption into this baby. By the time Xena’s finally ready to voice her concerns, it’s WELL past the point where Gabrielle might have been willing to listen.

AND GABBY ISN’T STUPID. She KNOWS. We know she knows, she voiced her fears with chilling accuracy at the top of the episode. But she’s stuck too, having spent that time rationalizing away all those fears in her own Xena-shaped blind spot.

Gabrielle has never yet been able allowed herself to see just how truly evil Xena was. She knows about Xena’s past intellectually, but emotionally treats it like scary boogeyman fairytales. Xena at her worst isn’t REAL to Gabrielle, and while she gets her first taste in this episode, Bad Xena will remain unreal until The Bitter Suite does what The Bitter Suite does so well. I jump ahead, but just NNNGH SHE KNOWS ALL OF THIS AND MAKES SO MANY ACTIVE CHOICES THAT TURN OUT ABSOLUTELY SHITTY AND I LOVE ALL OF THIS FOR GABRIELLE MY GOD WHAT A FUCKING CHARACTER ARC SHE HAS IN THIS SERIES I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH SO MUCH HARHGHGNGGN

Ahem. Right. Back to Xena. Who fucks up a glorious FOURTH time by believing that Gabrielle finally saw the truth and chucked Hope over the cliff to her death.

XENA PLEASE

God, what an absolutely amazing display of self-sabotaging naivety FROM BOTH OF THEM. They are both DESPERATE to believe this is going to be something they can walk away from unscathed, Xena certain that Gabrielle has once again learned that Xena Is Right (and so Xena can keep protecting her, must protect Gabrielle, nothing matters but Gabrielle), with Gabrielle certain that Goodness Can Win, as Xena has proven, as Hope will prove, so that even if Gabby herself has failed on some level, THEY won’t. Goodness, like so much to Gabrielle, is a flipped switch, rather than an ongoing series of choices continually made.

A lesson she is about to learn in rather alarming fashion.

[mimicmew]

Updated list and info of the species in the Monster AU!

Since some people seemed interested.. here we go!

If you’d like to add your OC or make a new character for this au, use these as a basis! Feel free to ask me any questions if you’re curious or unsure. ALSO IT’S VERY LONG

Humans

CANON CHARACTERS: none lol

- Humans are the basic species of this world.

- They can rarely learn magic and become mages, but most cannot.

- Most humans fear and hate monsters, hunting them down and killing them.

- The Pale Kingdom, regarded as the most hateful kingdom, is currently under attack from a dangerous dragon and it’s siren ‘companion.’ They have managed to cool this by sending regular sacrifices to the ocean.

Sirens

CANON CHARACTERS; Mono, Thin Man

- Sirens are very uncommon, as many of them are hunted down by other species when young, as they are very dangerous.

- Sirens live in pods consisting of 3-15 members. These pods usually exist of siblings from the same hatching, and rarely separate pods fuse to make larger groups. This is uncommon as Sirens are often quite territorial.

- Babies are called pups.

- Sirens never cut their hair, unless they lose a battle. A siren with long hair is to be feared, as they are undefeated in combat.

- For design, Sirens have normal skin colours until their waist, where it fuses into scales. These scales are usually cool colours such as blue, green or purple, and fade into a darker or lighter shade down their tails. They have fins on the sides of their faces that open and close as they emote. They have bright spots across their tail, face and hands. The spots are usually warm colours such as red, yellow or orange. These spots are different shapes depending on where the Siren is from. The only canon ones right now are the eye-shaped spots that both Mono and Thin Man have, so go wild with the shapes! They’ll usually wear shirts as a way of mimicking humans.

- Their magic can be very varied, but is always tied to their voices. A siren without a voice is a dead siren.

- Siren’s grow for their entire life! They grow to about 8 ft by 18, and then they grow roughly half a metre a year, so as you could guess, Thin Man is very long.

Centaurs

CANON CHARACTERS; The Hunter, The Toddler

- Centaurs live in large herds, ranging anywhere from 20 to over 100.

- They live in both forests and open plains.

- They are very naturalist and believe in not taking any more then they need.

 - They have a belief that the face (Particularly the eyes) is the most vulnerable place for spirits to enter, so at a certain age, (around 5 years old) they begin to wear masks. This can range anywhere from beautifully hand-carved wooden masks to just… a sack.

- Centaurs have long hair that runs down their back like a mane. It’s not uncommon for centaurs of any age, no matter the gender, to grow out beards or chest hair. 

Gorgons

CANON CHARACTERS; The Lady, The Lady’s unnamed mother

- Gorgons come from a long line of cursed humans, which have split off to its own species. They are very rare and usually exist in powerful families.

- Gorgons are almost only female, and can reproduce with the same sex.

- Gorgons have rock-hard scales that are always muted colours. Their underbellies are a lighter colour. The snakes that make up their ‘hair’ can be any colour.

- Gorgon’s eyes can turn people into stone through their eyes, so most cover their eyes.

Harpies

CANON CHARACTERS; Raincoat Girl

- Harpies are tall, with their human arms replaced by large bird-like wings. Their legs are much like that of a bird of prey’s. The can have feathers on any place of their bodies.

- They often resemble an existing species of bird, from a bright scarlet macaw to a pitch-black crow.

- Some harpies live in large flocks, while others live alone.

- they usually wear long singlets that do not cover their shoulders, as to avoid restricting their wings.

- They often gather odd trinkets and items.

Fauns

CANON CHARACTERS; Runaway Kid

- Fauns are the deer-like cousins of centaurs

- They usually live alone in dense forests, but can sometimes be seen travelling with centaur herds.

- They have horns that can be any shape, and long, floppy ears.

Gargoyles

CURREN CHARACTERS; The Janitor, The Wax Bellman

- Not much to say, usually just enchanted statues. Aren’t always made of stone, and can be made of most materials.

- Can really look like anything.

- Usually made to serve a master.

- Don’t need to eat, sleep or drink. 

Changelings

CANON CHARACTERS; The Pretender

- Changelings are creatures that, after having a hatchling, will sneak into a human’s house, usually kill or dispose of the human’s child and replace it with their own. Because of this, many changelings grow up unaware of the fact that they are changelings until they grow older.

- They have two forms, a regular human one, and a more monstrous one, often resembling some kind of insect or reptile.

Cyclops

CANON CHARACTERS; The Twin Chefs, The Lollipop boy

- uhh just big Cyclops honestly not much in terms of lore or design.

- Usually very tall and large.

Zombies

CANON CHARACTERS; The Viewers, Some of the Guests, The Doctor

- Zombies can be made in many ways. However, the ones in this area are specifically made by the haunting songs of the Siren.

- They are killed by the first song, then slowly revived by the second, usually over a timespan of about 5 months.

- These zombies are mostly unfortunate humans who got too close, or sacrifices. They can be of any species, however.

Werebeasts

CANON CHARACTERS: Six (werewolf)

- Werebeasts are a collection of species. Some of the most well known are the Werewolves, but many more exist, such are wereboars, werebears and werecats.

- They usually resemble humans, but after some time will shift into a monstrous half-humna, half-animal form. Some will change back, while others will remain like that forever.

- They act very similar to their animals. Some are more human, while others are almost entirely beast.

Ghosts

CANON CHARACTERS; The Sheet Kid, The Glitching Remains

- Just funky little ghosts! usually only of people who died tragic deaths :( 

- Usually have stains on their face resembling tears, and can seem like they are fading away, missing parts of their bodies.

Dragons

CURRENT CHARACTERS; The Eye, The ‘Hunger’, The North Wind

- Ancient and powerful beasts, dragons are the most dangerous species to roam this world.

- If you’re going to make a dragon, try to use it for very powerful entities. Double check with me if you’re unsure.

- They can really look like anything, as there are many subspecies, such as wyverns, wyrms, hydras and more. However, they are unfortunately dying out at a rapid rate.

- They cannot die of old age, only of illness or injury.

- They usually have very strong magical abilities.

- While not always evil, most dragons will horde things. These can be jewels, people, plants or anything really.

ALSO:

Here are some species that might exist, but I dont have any proper lore on yet

- Shapeshifters

- Vampires

- elementals (living elements)

- half-borns (people who are half-animal, half-human)

- Fae

- Selkie

And these are just the ‘sentient’ species! Many mythical animals exist too, such as Phoenix or Unicorn, but are only. animals

[mmmonie]

Hi my other post? Got notes? And I already had this basically ready to go so………….? Here it is I guess! Also I’m so sorry for how long this is LOL…..I am incapable of shutting up once I get going so it’s under the read more for you…….(also?? thank you? for the followers uhm cheesed to meet you? 😳 lol)

This is basically what I imagine the manifestation of a demon's powers to be like??? I called it the “juvenile phase” in my other post so thats what im going with lol

Here’s some things I said in my first post that are relevant here, slightly edited. (I elaborate more on the different ways demons are born in that post and I think they’re pretty self explanatory, but u might wanna go read it just in case it’s not clear enough 😔 sorry): (link to first post)

* Demons have multiple forms, not just the two shown in game. All in all the brothers have 5, each becoming less and less humanoid. (Most demons only have 4) 

* Half/human born demons are more likely to have both a tail and wings in their first demonic form. Stronger demons like the brothers are merely showing off the strongest of the two, but everyone has both. (Again bc I think they’re sick as fuck lol) This is why the stereotypical devil in our world has both wings and a tail. 

*a demon's features can be influenced by what sin they are, but it’s not a hard or fast rule.**

***this does not apply to little Ds whose look is entirely dependent on their sin. They are an entirely separate conversation 😈 (I elaborate on this briefly at the very end LOL) 

* half/human born demons can have two sins assigned to them, though this makes them less powerful in both. Usually there is a more prominent sin. 

*It should also be noted fallen angels do not have a juvenile phase. While the powers they develop after the Fall are different, they already come prepared, having had intense restraint implemented in their training in the celestial realm. The only things they develop are tails and horns, which happens very quickly during the Fall. They still have the same instincts as demons lol they are just much better at maintaining control. 

*another note: I’m gonna use acronyms for our different types of demons after a while to save me some headache. They’re pretty self explanatory (Ex: half demon = HD) 

With that let’s begin, shall we? 

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*All demons are born with innate magical abilities, the juvenile phase is just the manifestation of their sins and some of their power. Some powers do not come into fruition until much later in a demon's lifespan. (Will elaborate later) 

*They won’t have a complete hold on their powers after this either, it’s just like. The bare minimum of getting a grip so they don’t cause immediate damage LOL they have many years to get into the nuances. Magic to demons is about as easy as breathing, but it still comes with its own challenges. 

*Many of the powers that manifest are shaped by what kind of sin(s) they display. I’m gonna say the sin(s) developed depend on the individual rather than it being hereditary. Though there are powers that are inherent to all demons. (i.e. hypnotizing humans like in lesson 11-14)

*The beginning of the juvenile phase starts when a demon develops their horns, wings, claws and tails. 

*For almost every demon, the juvenile phase lasts about two or three weeks. A human born’s phase will immediately kick in the day after their ceremony. Because of a half demon’s heritage, their transition is delayed and will usually happen around “middle school” age. (However many thousands of years that is lol. Also imagine going through puberty AND growing a bunch of extra shit.........smh.) 

*Natural demons have it slightly easier, they go through this phase very early (around toddler age). They develop the nubs of their horns, wings and tail a while after they’re born. 

*However this is NOT easier for whoever is taking care of them. Demons that develop later are mostly self-sufficient, meaning you can leave them to rest a bit. Can't leave a baby alone for very long though, can you? Especially not when they’re hurtling objects around with their mind, or causing things to spontaneously combust. (Also imagine a regular baby during their teething phase……….now imagine a baby’s teething phase being ten times more itchy AND manifesting new powers. Congratulations on your very cranky and powerful baby, best of luck to you.)

*Parents take this in stride as it’s just how demon babies are. It is all very Addams family esque…. like awwww, our baby just tried to induce horrific hallucinations of our own deaths!!! 🥺🥰🤧 they grow up so fast!!!!

*HB and HD wings and things grow in very quickly. The nubs will sprout from the skin and then mature into wings and horns in just a few days. ND transitions are much more drawn out, taking about a week to complete. All the growth is very itchy for everyone though. 

*You know when you have an itch that just won’t quit or that you can’t reach, so you have to use some outside force to get some relief? Same concept here. Much like deer and their antlers, demons rub their horns and wings up against things to get to those spots they can’t get to themselves. It also has the added effect of encouraging growth and getting excess skin/keratin off them. Family members often help with preening and scratching. 

*There are special concoctions/spells to make the process easier and to help ease the itchiness. As well as products made for specific purposes, like to get at that space where your wings meet your shoulders lol 

*There are also things to pad horns. Having your baby demon impale your shins is no fun. Neither is having your best friend accidentally get stuck in the cabinet because their horns went through the shelf. 

*The first week and a half is usually when a demon is most active. They are encouraged to play fight, stretch their new wings and become familiar with their new instincts. 

•Play fighting is a way to help learn to readjust to their new strength. (and thank god demons are near impossible to kill lol they can get VERY rough.) It’s also considered a bonding activity. 

*Hunting instincts also come into play so it’s not uncommon to see a demon in their juvenile phase playing a really fucked up game of hide and seek with their loved ones (no one gets hurt. Probably <3) 

*These two skills also help with learning how to fly. A game of fucked up hide and seek in the forest is both fun and educational. 

*This is very much like when puppies' paws are too big for they got damn them, except y'know. with horns and claws. So expect some accidental scrapes and

*This is also usually the time where their sin(s) will manifest, along with their new powers. At this point this is where family comes in, as a newly developing demon is reliant on everyone around them to help them learn how to control their strength/powers. Taking care of a demon in their juvenile phase is a family bonding activity, and even those who are prone to being cold are a bit softer during this time. (A reminder that family can be anyone, not just blood related.) 

*The second half of their transition is more about conserving energy for the introduction of their final form.  

*Nesting instincts kick in and are important here, because any nest created will be that demon's home for a period of time. They won’t stray very far from wherever they’ve chosen to stay. Nearly all demons will just choose a comfortable place in their home to nest, however, some demons (i.e. demons like Levi) need a special place because of their final forms. They will be drawn there instinctively.

*A nest is just composed of soft material and sometimes extra objects. For example a greed demon might want shiny or precious objects around their nest. 

*This will also be the home of the loved one(s) taking care of their demon. They will go out and find anything the other one might need or want. A demon will only choose one or two others to take care of them at this time. Other family members are allowed to visit, but the chosen demon(s) stay with their struggling one for nearly the entire last half of this period. 

*It’s considered an honor to be chosen and it is a bragging point, especially if you have been chosen multiple times. 

*Despite what you might think, parental/domestic skills are very important to demons. They live a very long time, and it be a waste to treat their spawn poorly. They’re stuck with them for nearly an eternity, so you might as well try to do your best with them. Being able to showcase being chosen to whomever your courting is, how you say.............a little sexy. So being chosen multiple times? “Wow you’d be a great parent? Tell me more…..😳” 

*Demons will slowly spend more and more time in their nest as they approach the end of their phase. Growing extra things takes a lot of energy! Many demons end up mostly sleeping for the last couple days in preparation for the end. 

*Since they are so sleepy, this is the most outwardly cuddly most demons will be. Close family members are encouraged to come stay in the same space for a while. The demon will often be asleep, but waking up and playing games with them is a great way to bond. If you’re REALLY special you might end up being allowed to sleep in their nest for a bit. 

*The juvenile phase culminates when the demon reaches their final form (usually the fourth one.) Over this last half, they slowly grow more monstrous features. Scales, fur, claws, eyes, teeth, spines.........the whole lot! Anything and everything you can imagine. Each demon's final form is unique, though they do not get a decision as to what features they have. Final forms tend to be very large. 

*This is where they are taught how to use their glamor and how to piece themselves back into a form that’s easier to maneuver. Think of it like starting from the top and working your way down. 

*There are demons whose job it is to go mark down the details of every single final form. Things like what powers manifested, to how tall they are, their overall physical strength and what sin(s) they portray, etc. They are all recorded in the royal archives. It’s a bit like a right of passage, especially for younger demons and their parents. 

*Going back to the very top, some powers won’t manifest until after the juvenile phase. Some won’t even manifest until the demon has hit sexual maturity (which takes a MUCH longer time for demons.) This is true of almost every power that Lust develops except for perhaps an increase in their charisma/ability to charm. Demons who are assigned Lust are considered the late bloomers of the demonic world, as almost all other sins manifest more power right away. 

*Also relating to the top of this post: the reason Little Ds looks are biased on what sin they are is because they are pure concentrated forms of sin given life. They’re extracted from the souls of humans who committed sin, and used for grunt work/errand running. They develop their own personalities as they go, but it takes a bit so they’re kind of a blank slate until then.

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I was gonna be like oh treat for you here’s how the brothers dealt with Satan and his juvenile phase but this is long as FUCK already so I will make…...a separate post. Edit: SURPRISE! treat for u! heres the link if u want

Thanks for reading! Until next time ig?