#But... Yeah... I just wish Teens In Times got more rep and that I could just turn my TV on and watch them TOGETHER

[mila-carat]

I was watching this Chinese variety show just to see Ricky and Zhang Hao but then I saw one of the hosts was Zhang Zhenyuan and now I want to cry… 😭💔

[correctpathos]

Learning to Draw #1 - :)

My Manifesto that will be read as I lay destruction to The Works

I'm in my late 20s. I'm doing this because I can't find anyone else showing a similar process as a genuine sucky beginner. I used to draw a bit in my early teens. Slated for greatness at my art GCSE, a master of using the ruler for two-point perspective, I could achieve an 'A' they said - if I chose it - and I bet you're wondering how I got here... At home I drew my favourite anime characters. They weren't good, but whatever. I drew Itachi from Naruto and was so happy with this one that I took it to my parents to use their scanner. I subtly wanted to show it off, but I said I thought it would be cool if I scan it and colour it in on my cracked version of Photoshop CS5.

All I remember is they both saw it and had a good laugh at Itachi's hand. "It looks like E.T - 'phone home'". I didn't colour it in, and don't think I drew anything after that. The GCSE Art I took was bizarrely thin on teaching theory/skills and more about trying out a variety of creative mixed media - textured collages, pottery, and the like. I didn't draw a single thing and somehow achieved a B.

So anyway, I kept wishing I knew how to draw. Not as a professional or anything. Just enough to convey a sketch of an idea on the page that didn't look weird. What inspired me to pick it up again was some of the artwork in the RPG book for 'Warlock'. Thought it was rad as fuck. Wish I could do that.

Figuring out how to do this has sucked so much ass. So many 'beginners' post absolutely passable drawings to undermine your confidence, or they bait you in and say "yeah, I'm learning to draw...I stopped a few years ago when I finished up with Sistine Chapel". Fuckers. One egregious example was on the 'learntodraw' subreddit where someone said their husband started drawing a 'week ago', presenting a near photo-realistic image. Later admitting after backlash that their husband had only just started 'taking it seriously this week, but has drawn before'.

All the other guidance essentially consists of happy-go-lucky 'just draw :)' or locked-in 'drawing is like working out, put the reps in'. In-between are mentions of 'the fundamentals' but the best way to learn these are???

A few months ago I attempted 'Draw a Box'. I gave up because I'll be honest, it is incredibly boring to spend your evenings drawing 250 boxes, cylinders, and then once you finally think you're onto the interesting stuff you get asked to do several pages of arrows. I still hadn't drawn anything apart from basic shapes.

The structure was good for me though, so I thought let's buy an online art class. The course recommends joining their community and sharing your first work, which you must draw 'from your mind'. Here is Chroknight. This took approx 2 hours of really trying. This was still attempting to incorporate ideas about perspective and breaking down shapes I had heard about from Draw a Box. So this probably shows a month of learning. This is what I want to see when I look for a beginners journey.

I did this for a bit and drew some heads before becoming so fucking angry at the entire process. "People can be broken down into very basic shapes - squares, circles, triangles". Yet what really happens is a lot of complex rules around curving, avoiding tangent lines, and so on. I watch as the 'forms' get drawn in and say "okay, how the fuck do you make that look like a person?". My forms were often weirdly askew so I tried to correct them. The heads just don't look right. I was really struggling to spot that my forms were so wrong that it wasn't until I got to the details or the end that I was like "oh, wow this is really off". People who can draw say "just make sure your forms are correct first", and I get it - but often I can't tell until I start putting features on.

I know they're not like if you just picked up a pencil for the first time. This was around 2-3 months of learning. I was really feeling angry and impatient that after drilling facial features and head forms that they still looked so weird and were taking a significant amount of time to draw. Each of these took at least an hour. Could've watched X-Files.

"This is why an understanding of anatomy is so important" the instructor says on their demo. Proceeding to practically, to my untrained eye, ignore their forms and freely draw 'skin lines' to indicate anatomy. How do I do that? "Study anatomy". The assignment for this part of the course is to draw each body part 'until memorised'. More grinding. I was too angry and couldn't face it.

So here I am a few months on. I am going to restart the course and actually begin 'grinding'. Drawing regularly, from reference, whatever. I am banning myself from artist YouTube videos about how they learn because these people are already great and their advice amounts to variations of studying/grinding or even worse "learning to love art again". I am also leaving the communities full of people posting things I can only aspire to and saying "any feedback UnU?", "why do I suck? :(".

x

[bunbeeplays]

The Lemon Legacy: Generation 1, Chapter 106 - Life Lessons with Becca

It's time for the first Hot Girls Only club meeting in a while! Ophelia doesn't feel like a hot girl right now though. Summer and Becca are both in their first trimester and they're still thinner than Ophelia is now. She hasn't felt this bad about her body since high school.

Luckily, just as she was hoping, her new friend pops up.

Ophelia: Oh hey, Willy Weiner, right?

Paparazzi: What? That's not my name.

Ophelia: It is now, the Watcher just changed it. Anyway, make it quick. I've got a workout to do!

Willy: You're going to pose for me? Really?

Willy and his pap-in-training snap some pics of Ophelia while her friends stand awkwardly on the sidelines.

Summer: Do you do maternity shoots?

Willy ignores her.

Ophelia: Make sure you get the gym in the background. I don't want people to think I'm running errands.

Willy: What's the latest, Lemon?

Ophelia: Oh, just getting back in shape after having a baby. Gotta stay fit! If you promise to get my good side, you can snap pics of me working out too.

Willy: Deal!

Willy Weiner the paparazzi makes good on that deal and snaps all kinds of pics of Ophelia running away on the treadmill.

Ophelia: Be sure to tag me in those photos. I want my fans to see I work out.

Willy: Hey, anything you want, lady!

Summer: Uh, why are you letting that guy with the pervy mustache take photos of you working out?

Ophelia: Oh, I just, uh, want everyone to know how hot me and my mom friends are. Look at you, you're glowing!

Summer: Aww, that's so true!

Ophelia: It's important to stay fit for the kids, you know? Don't want to like, I don't know, get so unhealthy that I die before they're teens.

Summer: That's weirdly specific but yeah I guess! Dying isn't ideal.

Becca has been over on the weights, but she still hears enough of that conversation to be mildly concerned.

She does a few more light reps as she plans how she wants to approach this subject with Ophelia.

When Ophelia finishes pumping some breastmilk in the private sitting area upstairs, Becca comes over to join her friend.

Becca: Hey, girl. Summer hurled so she's going home. Why don't we chat for a bit?

Ophelia: Oh, yeah, of course!

Becca: You seemed really eager for that paparazzi guy to show the world you were working out. And you told Summer something about being 'unhealthy' enough to die. What was that about?

Ophelia: What? Oh, that's nothing. I just, you know, let myself go. I need to get fit again.

Becca: Lia, what are you talking about? You had two kids. You're supposed to gain weight when you're pregnant. You're your baby's food source during pregnancy.

Ophelia: I know… but it's time I get back into shape, so I'm around a long time for my girls.

Becca: I'm just worried about you, hon. It sort of sounds like you're obsessing over the idea of losing weight and that can be a slippery slope.

Ophelia: I can't strive for better health?

Becca: Of course, but I think you're equating weight loss to automatically being healthy.

Becca: I know I'm fit now, but I was so thin as a teen. I was skin and bones!

Ophelia: Is this supposed to make me feel better?

Becca: Yes, because I could barely run 5 feet! I was skinny but totally weak. You, on the other hand, are level 10 fitness! You're a very healthy Sim.

Becca: Taking care of yourself is great, but don't let society's obsession with weight blind you. Your health is your own business.

Ophelia: I guess you're right… I got some nasty comments about my body on a Simstagram post, and one basically said I'm going to die young.

Becca: I'm so sorry. People can be so shitty.

Ophelia: Yeah. I'd normally shake it off but the thought of leaving my girls without a mother got to me.

Becca: I can imagine. Look, you are nowhere near unhealthy enough for that to happen, okay? They were being a fatphobic jerk.

Becca: I wish you'd told us what was going on… But I get it. You can get 100 compliments but the one insult sticks with you longer. Before having Duncan, you know how muscular I was, someone once told me I looked like a man!

Ophelia: Women really can't win, huh?

Becca and Ophelia embrace each other in a friendly hug.

Becca: Now go on, don't let the plumholes get to you. Go spend the rest of the day with those beautiful girls of yours… And maybe change into a new shirt, because you're leaking milk.

Ophelia: Whoops.

[sophsun1]

Oohhh you only watched the Luke and Reid bits! Interesting😁 For some reason, the show was on tv where i live (which is not in or anywhere near the US XD), and i started watching when Luke and Noah became a thing (because back then, you took every bit of gay representation you could get XD), and then Reid showed up and i fell in love. he's so much better for Luke! so if you want context on anything, let me know😊

i think i might have some vids somewhere still, but I'm not sure about the quality. but i will check😊

i love that you're making gifs of them💖 i do not posses that skill at all, but i wrote some fics about them back in the day. so if you have any wishes, I'll see what i can do😊

and ohhh yeah there's definitely lots of parallels between Brian and Reid. i guess i have a type too XD

yeah i firmly live in a train? what train? universe. it was so stupid. the show was ending anyway, it wasn't like in other soaps where the actor wanted to leave or whatever. ugh.

anyway, yes sure, let's be a two person fandom XD

Hey!

Well a gifmaker and a fic writer fandom of two we are!

You are definitely the expert here lol. I say no context, by that I mean I have watched none of Noah/Luke's story but I did hit up Wikipedia ofc lmao when I started watching the Reid stuff. So I kinda know the backstory and some of the insane plots they had but that's literally only what I've read. I gather they were very popular as they were the first rep on tv back then.

I watched the firework accident that made him blind and then directly onto Reid's arrival. I loved Eric's portrayal he was just brilliant considering he was an unknown actor coming onto the show as it was ending and being that amazing. For me, he and Van had electric chemistry and it really worked especially as a transition from a teen, young, first love type relationship into a more young adolescent one yk.

I live for feisty, bickering couples who hate each other but love each other at the same time, so delicious to watch aka britin.

The ending stung so bad 'cause the writers basically chickened out and were playing both the fanbases at the same time and it was really cruel that they gave us that ending with the ily and then... bury your gays. Not just bury them, but give their internal organs to the straight couple who had ZERO chemistry and half of whom hated Reid so they could live happily ever after!!!

I think I vaguely recall the writer after the reaction from the fans saying she regretted killing him off, but maybe I made that up to feel better 😂

I have found a playlist with some HQ stuff but the early interaction between them is what I love the most before they got together and that's in the worst quality boo. Those interactions are gold.

[tanzaniiite]

CHANCE • SINGLE DAD DAICHI

requests: CLOSED

warnings: none!

word count: 1.9k

series masterlist

a/n: can you tell i like single parent aus?

*chanting* single dad daichi, single dad daichi, single dad daic–

“You’re not my dad”

“No, I’m not”

“My dad’s a cop so if you’re thinking about kidnapping me, I suggest you think again“

You laughed at the twelve-year-old’s words. Daichi was right, she was a fireball. “I know, I’m a.. friend of your dad’s. He got caught up at work and asked me to pick you up” You explained, adjusting your purse on your shoulder. The pre-teen raised an eyebrow, “A friend of my dad? Lady, that’s the oldest trick in the book, you need to step up your game if you wanna kidnap a kid in this lifetime” She claimed, crossing her arms over her chest. You laughed some more, covering your mouth with your hand, at least she was being cautious.

“Okay, it’s good you don’t trust me but here’s why you should. I’m a good friend of your dad, Daichi Sawamura. And because he got caught up at the station, he wanted me to swing by and pick you, Suzuki Sawamura, up from school” You explained using the keywords your boyfriend instructed you to use. Suzuki stared at you for a while before shrugging, “Okay, you’re good” She said before hopping into your car. Letting out a relieved sigh, you shot Daichi a quick text.

You put your phone in your pocket before getting into the driver’s seat. “You ready to go?” You asked looking at Suzuki through the rear-view mirror. She shrugged, “I guess,” She said clicking her seatbelt into place. The ride back to Daichi’s place was quiet and albeit awkward. Honestly, this wasn’t how you pictured meeting your boyfriend’s daughter for the first time. Sneaking a glance in the rear-view mirror again, you saw here tapping away at her phone, not paying attention to her surroundings. You mentally rolled your eyes, typical kid behavior, can’t say you’re surprised.

What did surprise you, was her speaking up out of nowhere. “What are you to my dad?” She inquired catching your eye in the mirror. “Well I’m a good friend of his, we went to high school together. So I’ve known him for a long time” You stated diverting your eyes back to the road. You weren’t sure if Daichi has told Suzuki the two of you were dating but you wanted to play it safe, just in case he hasn’t. However, the pre-teen didn’t look convinced. “How come he doesn’t talk about you then?” She pressed. You bit your lip, not gonna lie, that stung. Does Daichi not talk about you or was she just trying to get a rise out of you? Your boyfriend did say she was mischievous like that.

“Probably because we fell out of touch after high school and recently reconnected about a year or so ago. And does your dad let you in on everything about his life?” You asked rhetorically. Suzuki looked slightly taken aback by your comment but quickly recovered. She shot you a slight glare before turning to look out the window. Shit. You prayed you didn’t fuck that up. The last thing you needed was for Daichi’s daughter to not like you. Especially because you wanted to get to know her and get closer to her.

Reaching Daichi’s place, you parked your car in the driveway and before you could even unbuckle your seatbelt, Suzuki got out of the car. You watched as she used her own set of keys to open the door and close it behind her. Yeah, she was upset. Fuckkkkk. Pulling out your phone, you texted your boyfriend.

You groaned, slamming your head against the steering wheel. What a great first impression on your boyfriend’s daughter! Lifting your head from the wheel, you slapped your cheeks a few times. The only thing you could do now is make amends. Getting out of the car you made your way to the door only to find it was locked. You let out an exasperated sigh, you deserved that. Digging out your copy of the keys, you opened the door to find Suzuki at the dining table doing what looked like homework.

She didn’t even bother sparing you a glance as you came in and locked the door behind you. This was going to be difficult. You placed your bag on the couch and made your way to the dining room. Sitting in the chair next to her, you decided to break the uncomfortable silence. “Look, I’m sorry about what happened in the car... I’m sure your dad tells you plenty about his life” You reassured fiddling with your hands nervously. Suzuki glanced up at you, “No. You’re right, my dad doesn’t tell me much. He used to but not anymore” She murmured going back to her homework. Oh? Now you were intrigued.

“What’d you mean?” You inquired placing your arms on the table. The brunette sighed and placed her pencil down, “After my mom and dad split up, my dad was in a bad place. He didn’t get abusive or anything, he was just… sad. Like all the time. And I guess he would sort of confide in me because we were in a similar situation. He lost a partner, I kind of lost my mom. And I got used to that, now he doesn’t tell me anything.” She huffed, “The worst part is that I know he’s hiding something from me. But I don’t know what, I wish he’d just tell me” Suzuki explained glaring down at the table. Suddenly you felt kind of bad. Daichi didn’t tell her about you because he most likely didn’t want to upset her as well as make sure your relationship was solid before introducing a new woman into his daughter’s life.

You placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. “Alright enough talk about your dad, I’m sure he’ll tell you when he’s ready. But for now, let’s do something fun” You suggested. Suzuki raised an eyebrow at you, “Something fun? Like what?” She asked confusion laced in her tone. You smirked slightly,

“I’m glad you asked”

Daichi sighed as he parked his car behind yours in the driveway. He wanted you and Suzuki to get along. Ever since he and Michimiya split, she hasn’t had a stable mother figure in her life. Sure, Yui got her every other weekend and on holidays but he had sole custody so that wasn’t exactly stable. Hopefully, the two of you could get along because, to be honest, Daichi loves you. And deep down he feels like he’s always had, even back in high school.

Opening the door, Daichi was surprised to hear… giggling. Based on what you texted him earlier, his daughter didn’t seem like she was in a giggling mood. Then again, that was almost two hours ago. Taking off his jacket and shoes, Daichi made his way to the bathroom, the source of the giggling. He stopped in his tracks as he saw you and Suzuki sitting on the floor, doing what looked like some sort of spa activity.

“—and can you believe he tried to convince the coach he was perfectly fine? After taking a dive like that and not going to the infirmary?”

“That does sound like my dad”

Suzuki stated before gasping. “My mask is dripping!” She exclaimed trying to push the homemade avocado face mask back into place. “Wait wait, let me do it. You’re going to mess up your nails” You stated moving her hands away and fixing the mask yourself. “There. Trying tilting your head back a bit so it doesn’t drip as much” You advised, demonstrating what you meant. Suzuki nodded, following your instructions. As she tilted her head back she saw her dad standing in the doorway with a wide smile on his face.

“Oh, hey dad” She greeted waving slightly. Daichi just smiled more, “Hey pumpkin, having fun?” He asked. Turning to face him properly she nodded, “Yeah, your friend is really fun” She claimed, smiling slightly. Daichi’s gaze drifted to you once you spoke, “You’re only saying that because I told you some of your dad’s embarrassing high school stories” You laughed. Hearing that made Daichi’s smile faltered a bit, “You told her embarrassing stories about me? How am I ever going to get my rep as a cool dad back?” He asked rhetorically.

“Dad, to be honest, you never had that rep to begin with”

Suzuki stated, blowing on her nails to dry them. This caused you to burst out into laughter with Suzuki following suit. Daichi couldn’t help but chuckle, he was glad the two of you patched things up. “Haha. Y/n can I speak to you for a minute?” He asked nodding his head to the kitchen. You cleared your throat and nodded, “Sure. Aw man, Suzuki you got me in trouble” You teased getting up and dusting off your pants. The twelve-year-old giggled, “Sorry” She apologized as you and Daichi moved to the kitchen.

Once he made sure Suzuki was out of earshot, Daichi pulled you close to him and placed a chaste kiss on your lips. “Glad to see you guys made up” He whispered. You shrugged slightly, “It wasn’t anything serious, plus there’s nothing a face mask can’t fix” You claimed. “Yeah well, it seems like she likes you” Your boyfriend stated. You looked up at him, “You think so?” You asked. Daichi smiled slightly and kissed your forehead, “I know so” He claimed. You smiled and embraced him, nuzzling your face in his chest. Sawamura hugged you back. The two of you stayed like that until you heard someone clear their throat.

“Do you kiss and embrace all your friends, dad? I gotta tell Uncle Koshi and Azu what they’re missing”

Suzuki said standing at the entrance of the kitchen. You and Daichi pulled away quickly and stared at the pre-teen. “Um.. pumpkin–” Daichi started, only to be interrupted by Suzuki raising her hand. “I already know, I’m not dumb dad. You don’t have any regular girl friends except for Aunt Shimizu” She explained crossing her arms. The brunette chuckled shaking his head, “Nothing gets past you huh?” He asked rhetorically, ruffling his daughter’s hair. “Nope!” She exclaimed smiling brightly. You could only stand back and watch your boyfriend interact with his child, he was a good dad.

“So since you know, what do think of Y/n?”

“She’s nice.. nicer than mom. You should keep her”

Suzuki said, causing you to smile slightly. You weren’t exactly the biggest fan of Michimiya back in high school and especially after you found out what she did to Daichi. So to hear you were nicer than her from her daughter felt good, you can’t lie. Daichi raised an eyebrow, “Oh really? Well, I plan on keeping her around” Daichi stated, smiling at you, “what do think about that?” He inquired turning back to his daughter. The twelve-year-old glanced at you,

“Can we do more spa stuff?”

“Absolutely”

“Can you do my nails again?”

“For sure”

“…what about my hair?”

“Suzuki, of course. I want to spend more time with you”

You said moving next to Daichi and bending down in front of her. The pre-teen looked suspicious, “You sure? You’re not just saying that because my dad’s here? Because we’re a package deal. You can’t have him without me. And I’ve been told I’m a handful” Suzuki stated. Daichi snorted while you laughed slightly. “Yes, I’m sure. Don’t worry, your dad is a handful too” You said whispering the last part. Suzuki giggled, “Okay fine. My dad seems to like you so I’ll give you a chance”. You smiled and gave Suzuki a fist bump,

“Thank you, a chance is all I ask for”

tanzaniiite © 2020 — all rights reserved. do not repost, modify, or copy. do not plagiarize. thank you.

[pandajaye]

Todoroki Family Ties (Part 8)

Characters: Enji Todoroki, Stepmom!OC!Ivy (Ivy is black btw), Child!Shoto Todoroki, Teen!Touya Todoroki, Preteen!Fuyumi, Child!Natsuo

Warnings: mention of abuse, sexual themes

After the short conversation over the phone, Enji came back inside and explained everything to Ivy after sending the boys to bed. “So, I’m taking Shoto and Touya with me to pick them up from their grandparents’ house. If you don’t mind, I’d like for you to stay here. I want Fuyumi and Natsuo to have a little more warm up time with their brothers before they meet you.” In three days, Enji’s other two children, his second and third born, were to be put back into Enji’s custody. He was filled with excitement and missed them so much but he kept his stoic expression while talking about it.

Two years ago, Enji’s ex-wife, and mother to his four children, Rei, was admitted to a mental hospital for assaulting Shoto. Of course this was kept under wraps from the press but those closest to the family knew what happened while the outside world assumed she was murdered. Ivy herself wasn’t made aware of the situation until recently either. It made the number two hero look bad and gave him a terrible rep. Everyone was scared to look his way and lots of people wanted him fired from the position of hero, but their simple opinions weren’t enough to budge the idea.

Rei’s parents were horrified by the real news and saw how people were reacting to the situation. It influenced them to ask Enji to give up custody to them for the time being until they saw Enji fit to be a father again. He loved them dearly and that’s why he didn’t fight on the decision. Touya and Shoto would need training for their abilities but Fuyumi and Natsuo would be better off with the ice side of the family. On the upside, the boys got to see them when they visited every other weekend.

Enji was allowed to see them too but in a more supervised visitation way before he had to leave. Every time he had to go, the little “Bye, dad.” from Fuyumi as she hugged him tight broke his heart. She’d often shed a few tears about it but Natsuo wasn’t as vocal about how he felt. He’d only give half hugs and keep his head down the whole time. But when that car turned and went in the opposite direction of the house, he never stopped watching it. Even after it was out of view. No matter what feelings he showed, on the inside, he wished he was in the car with him. It’s not that his grandparents were bad in any way, they were great! He just hated the way they talked about him behind his back. When they thought Natsuo wasn’t listening. But he always heard it. And it always made his mouth taste bitter and his head hurt. Sure his dad messed up, but he was still just that. His dad. Soon, lost time would be made up for, and he and Fuyumi were over the moon about it.

Three days passed by quicker than expected. Two more children would enter the four person household Ivy was used to and nervous was an understatement for how she was feeling. Enji had already left with Touya and Shoto and for the time being, Ivy was alone. She spent the entire morning preparing for Natsuo and Fuyumi’s arrival. There were treats set out in the living room and in their own rooms, generous gift baskets filled with more treats and some trinkets she hoped they would enjoy. Even a nicely decorated banner up that read ‘Welcome Home!!’ in big letters.

Now she just anxiously sat on the couch. Waiting. Imagining how they would react to this new woman in their lives. Wondering if they’d even like her. To be honest, if they wanted her to leave, she would. Their family already needed to heal, it’s not fair that this random person just showed up and joined in and they’ve never even met her before. What if they hated her? Oh god. She’d fall apart. “Fuck. Now I’m more anxious than I was at first.” Not that it was a spoken rule, but something about your new step kids seeing you having a panic attack for their first impression that didn’t seem right to Ivy. So a few deep breaths, and she was able to stop one before it started. Until the panic was revived when the door started to open. She scrambled to her feet and picked up a plate of snacks from the table. ‘Here we go.’

“Ivy, we’re home!” Enji opened the door and Shoto and Touya entered first. She wondered if the other kids came until she saw two more small beings behind Enji. First, a beautiful young girl with glasses. Hair white and eyes grey like Rei’s with small bits of red for decoration. She held on to Enji’s hand while he closed the door. Another kid appeared next to her. A boy. A bit taller than her. Though he was younger, he inherited Enji’s height genetics. For a ten year old, he was as big as Touya, maybe even an inch taller than his fifteen year old brother. Then again, apparently Touya took a while to have his growth spurt. The tall boy’s hair was white like Touya and his sister’s, three little stripes of red on each side just above his ears.

Ivy immediately wore a smile as warm as the sun. “Welcome home, guys! I’m Ivy, nice to meet you!” The two just looked at each other and then their dad, who nodded towards her. Their gaze went to her but they still didn’t respond. Ivy just stood there, frozen, too scared to move. Touya took the opportunity to take the cookies out of her hand and head to his room, Shoto gorged on all the other snacks and Enji reprimanded him to not spoil his dinner. “I-I’m sorry,” Ivy got down on her knees, “I guess I’m a little obnoxious. So much for a first impression, huh?” Her head rested in her hands. Maybe she could just turn invisible so they wouldn’t see her blazing embarrassment.

During her internal breakdown, a small hand rested on her shoulder. Ivy looked up, the 2nd oldest standing in front of her and giving her a small smile, her brother not far behind. “Hello. I’m Fuyumi. This is my brother, Natsuo. Or just Natsu for short. Nice to meet you.” After Fuyumi’s introduction, Natsuo stepped forward and smiled down at Ivy. “Hiya, stepmom!” He glanced and pointed at the table where his little brother was enjoying himself. “Is all this for us? For reals?” She nodded, a huge grin on her face. “Heck yeah, dude. I ain’t no evil stepmom. I’m fun and spoil my step-babies.” Shoto stuffed another treat into his face before giving a thumbs up. “It’s true! She’s really nice and sweet. You’re gonna love her. I know I do!” Natsuo took a second and hugged Ivy before running to join his baby brother.

Fuyumi stayed, kneeling in front of Ivy. “So.... you love our dad? Is he nice to you?” Obviously, Fuyumi was smart. There was no need to be dishonest. She knew how her father was, what he did, and know she was asking if he was the same as he used to be. “Well.... he’s had to work on his attitude and how he expresses himself. But he’s definitely gotten a lot better from when we were first together. He wants to be a better man for his family and atone for his actions. He’s really winning my forgiveness everyday.”

Ivy turned to look at Enji who had taken a seat on the couch and was watching the boys indulge. There was a content smile on his face. Seeing their happiness gave him some of his own. It was definitely a nice change from the dejected faces of the past. “Fuyumi,” Ivy continued. “You don’t have to forgive your father if you don’t want to. But if you ever find yourself wanting to, and you have questions, or really questions about anything ever, you can talk to me. I want to be here for you and your brothers as much as I can. I know what it’s like to have a conflicting childhood. I wasn’t surrounded by love like you have been, but that doesn’t lessen the significance of anything you guys have been through compared to my situation. I want us to be a family and I hope I can grow on you in good time.” Fuyumi hesitated before hugging her new stepmother. “I already know you will.” Ivy embraced the hug. The rush of oxytocin was so satisfying.

“Please excuse me.” Fuyumi rose and went to sit next to her father who grinned when she joined them. This was his second chance. He already missed a few years with her and Natsuo and he couldn’t bare to miss anymore. Enji honestly felt like he needed them probably as much as they felt like they needed him. The moment he found out he could get them back he had developed a certain glow. That was the look of a man who got his babies back, and eventually, they’d have to really sit down and talk about why they had to go in the first place. As for now, they just needed to enjoy each other’s company.

At dinner, Ivy got to learn even more about her new family members. Like how Fuyumi wants to be a culinary genius one day. And how one of Natsuo’s favorite moments was when a puppy approached him on the street when he was having a bad day and made him feel so much better. Ivy hung to every word they spoke, it was all just so interesting. It got to the point where every time Natsuo thought of something new to tell, he’d interrupt his sister which Enji had to try and prevent a couple times. Though he was excited that they were already intrigued by Ivy, there was still an order of manners that needed to be abided by.

Even at bedtime, they still had so much to say, but Ivy had to ask them to wait and tell her tomorrow. They groaned but listened to her and went to bed. “They are so amazing, Enji.” Ivy smiled up at the big guy next to her, a sparkle in her eyes. “They seem to really like you. I’m glad tonight was such a success.” He pulled her into his lap and kissed her. “I know. I’m so happy, too. They’re really great kids and I wanna be the best stepmama that I can be for them. So much has happened to those sweet babies and I wanna make sure they smile from now on.” While she was talking, Enji spread little kisses on her cheeks and neck.

Ivy was quietly enjoying it, falling into a trance, but shuffled when she felt his heavy paw dragging up her thigh. “Enji-” “You’re such a great stepmother, Ivy.” He whispered into her ear while nuzzling her neck, gently nipping at the skin. “Have you ever thought about becoming just a regular mother?” She could barely hear him over the blood that started to flow around ears from how hot she was getting. “Yes. Why? Are you offering to make me one?” They worked together to move her legs so that she was straddling his waist. “If you think you’re ready for it....” His hands breached the hem of the shorts she was sleeping in, there was an ease of access since she didn’t usually sleep in underwear. The feeling of his strong digits doing nothing other than simply working her most sensitive areas made her head fall back. “I would love.... to put a baby in you, honey.” In the midst of the sudden heat rising in the room, the sounds of sloppy kisses and horny giggles began to transpire.

“Oh, Enji!~”

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

I love that we as a fandom have declared the clem comic an noncanon lmao. i'm curious tho, do you believe clem will get a new love interest? do you think it will be amos or someone else?

Yeah, gotta love seeing a fandom come together to agree on something.... even though that something isn't exactly invoking happy feelings, y'know? Like yeah, the comic sucks and at this point I doubt the trilogy will be much better unless Tillie suddenly starts to understand Clementine and makes some impossibly massive improvements..... but it's nice to see all of us mostly getting along?

As for the whole love interest thing, I'm like 98% sure that Clementine's going to get a new girlfriend in the comics. That's my prediction.

During the dumb xpo thing, Tillie talked about how she's excited to explore Clementine as a queer character in the apocalypse and considering Tillie's other works, I will bet literal cash that Clementine gets a new girlfriend. I don't think Amos will be the love interest, and if he does end up being that for Clem or if Clem gets a boyfriend, then I will genuinely be shocked.

.....Y'know what, I need to get this off my chest and this seems relevant enough-

I was talking with my roommate about this the other night actually. I told her all about my predictions for Clem getting a new girlfriend and how annoying this whole comic is, but also how annoying people are being to Tillie over this and like.... everything is a mess.

My roommate, who knows that literally everything is wrong in the 12 page comic and who I told about the xpo where Tillie talked about Clem being queer is important, asked me how I would feel if she ended up getting Clementine's canon bisexuality wrong, and what if she decides to make Clementine a lesbian?

And like...... I actually stopped what I was working on because this wave of dread crashed through me at the thought of that, and I could actually imagine it happening because she already got everything else wrong and if she hasn't actually played the games and is pulling this shit out of her ass.... I can't even describe to you the feeling I felt...

I want to believe that Tillie would at least know and respect the fact that Clementine is a canon bisexual. From what I've gathered, Tillie herself is wlw and I don't believe she would erase a bisexual character. She knows that Clementine is a queer character. Clementine's bisexual.

Like obviously, if I'm right and Clementine gets a girlfriend, she'll still be bisexual. Nothing will ever change that.

But I'm going to tell all of you this right now because just thinking about it upsets me.... if for whatever reason, if Tillie Walden actually erases Clementine's bisexuality and makes her a lesbian in the graphic novel trilogy while "exploring what it means to be queer in the apocalypse," I'm done.

I will have nothing left for Tillie. I will no longer support anything she does. I won't condone harassment towards her because that makes you just as shitty, but I will absolutely call that bullshit out and then never support her again. I will never talk about the comic again because how dare you think you can get away with that and still expect me to waste brain cells on your comic? Hell, I will probably be so fucking livid that I'll drive my ass all the way to barnes and noble just to return the books I bought of hers.

Dramatic? Yeah, but y'know what? I've never really touched on this outside of a few "Clem being bisexual is important representation and we love it" but her being bisexual means so much to me. It truly does, I mean.... after the dumb "btw Javi is bi, we just wrote him straight and threw in a line of flirty dialogue with jesus so we can have our cake and eat it, too-- the straight homophobes will still buy our game and the lgbt+ community will love us, win win," I cannot explain the joy I felt when Clementine was written as a bisexual woman and that she was given two love interests that meant so much to the players.

Like.... I dunno, I never got any real bi rep in games or books or movies, especially bi girls, when I was a teen trying to figure shit out. In jr high and high school, I could never find stories that has bi women as a lead because I was too afraid to look anything up. I didn't wanna be caught reading/watching things that were lgbt+ because I had a shitty boyfriend at the time and our friend group were heavily religious and judgmental. My best friend [who I haven't spoken to for years now] was one of those people who claimed to support lgbt+ people.... but also once told me that she thought lesbians were okay but gay men were lowkey gross and probably only into other dudes because girls wouldn't date them. Oh, and I'll never forget the time she told me that bi people don't actually exist because you either like one or the other.

That's a great thing to here from the best friend you've know since you were an infant after you've realized that you aren't only attracted to boys.

But now I'm out of that environment and I haven't talked to anyone from high school since I graduated, and I've felt more free to intake all the things I wish I could've before...

I just.... Clementine is important to me for a lot of reasons. I've played these games forever, I've gotten to watch her grow for years, and she's just so well-written and amazing in tfs, and the fact that the writers wanted to write her as a bisexual woman means so much, I just.... even though it's not canon, I can't help but take this disaster of a comic personally. Just from those 12 pages, everything about Clementine is destroyed and it sucks. It hurts..... but I'm still not holding anything against Tillie herself. Her comic is bad, but that doesn't mean she's bad..... however, erasing Clem's bisexuality would be the last straw for me.

.....This turned into a rant. Sorry about that. You asked a simple question and I dumped my life story on you but I dunno, I needed to get that off my chest because it's been bothering the back of my mind.

I do wanna add once more that I don't think Tillie's actually going to do that... she should know that both Louis and Violet are canon love interests, plus Clementine canonically had a crush on Gabe in ANF. I think if she's going to get anything right, it'll be the fact that Clem is bi.... I'm just expressing a major fear I have and what it would do to me, and others, if it happened..... y'know?

[countessofbiscuit]

If it’s not rude to ask, would you write a post war-no order 66 with codex, I just read joiuny command, and loved the way you wrote them. And also of course I always want a happy future for them instead of depressing canon

:3 ask and you may receive, with a hefty scoop of Self-Indulgence. 

Field Day | 1k, Teen | also on Ao3

. . .

The room was cold and the birthers were miserable, just as Marshal Commander Cody, GAR (Retd) intended.

Drawdown had been good to him.

He wouldn’t have predicted so, two years ago, when the only thing worse than war was the Great Unknown looming at its end. Sure, he bitched, but that was a soldier’s god-given right. Privately, Cody figured a forever war would be fine. Forever wasn’t that long for a clone.

But then a series of unexpected events occurred.

Skywalker stowed away with the 212th, General Grievous was eliminated, and Special Advisor Tano popped into Cody’s palm in Pau City, sheepishly asking for Master Kenobi.

Why? Because she’d kind of ditched Mandalore with Maul and he wouldn’t fucking shut up.

Shut up about what? This guy named Sidious.

Everything afterwards was a holosoap wrapped up in a spice dream. A cascade of the most bizarre reports and message chains to ever brighten Cody’s HUD. Even before the twins.

General Skywalker, Dad (Busy) was praised for ending the war with the press of a button. It wasn’t that simple. Nothing ever was.

But after months sweeping up droid cysts and pockets of dyed-in-the-jar Separatists and excising the corrupt cancer of Palpatine, the Jedi Order had done the most extraordinary thing. They’d taken joint responsibility for the creation of the clone army. In public. Before a horde of holocams. And after stepping forward for the clones, they’d formally stepped down.

Overnight, the cadre of marshal commanders became the flavor of the month. They were tapped for every paying civ-mil role going, from Coruscant to Csilla.

Cody had survived Kenobi and his Padawans. That wasn’t something to celebrate behind a desk. There were plenty of junior officers who’d mastered interoperability, C2, force design, and all that other big-brained shit in daily expectation that Cody & Co. would snuff it. Proximity to a Jedi often did that to a person.

Cody celebrated by saying no to the Chancellor of the Republic.

That he’d turned around two minutes later and said yes to a different job offer wasn’t the point.

The point was this: this morning, Cody had rolled out of bed, gone for a run, and molested Rex in the shower, all in his own sweet time; and he was now holding court before a platoon of birthers to declare without any regret:

“Ladies, gentlebeings, and other people who aren’t clones, welcome back to Self-Defence and Incident Response 101.”

His audience remained unmoved. They were a motley crew of Senate aides, interns, and staff. The sort of folks who could afford anything but complacency.

“You all made some real progress last week,” he continued, lying through his teeth. Barring the dug, most possessed all the proprioception of a whiff-whaff ball. GARMAP this wasn’t. “Today we’ll start practical hand-to-hand drills. And I’ve invited a special guest to help demonstrate the manoeuvres.”

He turned to Rex, who’d turned out in blacks and limmie shorts, to really test Cody’s commitment to professionalism.

“Rex Torrent. Decorated former army commander, current skipper of Anaxes LC, and veteran of more than his fair share of brawls — oh, and my little brother.” Cody ruffled his partner’s handsome hair. “Like last time, we’ll start with calisthenics, before moving into the main body of instruction. After lunch, there’ll be presentations on mobile urban assault, PERSEC, first aid, and other shit you best remember if you want to survive in the Federal District. Estimated finish time: 1900. Any questions?”

A nervous wobbling of heads indicated a negative. For now, anyway.

“Right. If you could please pair up — ”

He was interrupted by a dull throbbing that shook the plasteel walls.

Music. Shitty music.

Cody frowned. This was a converted Guard drill hall. And the redjobs still lived next door.

Clearing his throat, Cody deployed his field voice. “Please pair up with somebody of roughly equal weight, height, and limb count and join Rex on the floor. He’ll lead the warm-up while I fix this.”

Rex chuckled, knowingly. “Fix this. Someone is so dead.”

“Just take care of them,” Cody said, indicating to his students as he marched out.

He may have been only a civilian himself nowadays; but Cody’d never had trouble visiting the fear of Fett upon anyone. Least of all pink-nippled shinies who were probably finding inventive ways to waste credits.

He crossed the wall of noise into their gym.

Whatever he expected to find, it wasn’t Marshal Commander Fox, RG (Active) benching 300 and Prime Ambassador Chuchi to an audience of guardsmen.

They broke off ogling to glare at Cody.

“Got something to say, Sunshine?” Fox shouted over the godawful din, as he suspended enough weight to dent the floor.

Cody did. But with an eyeful of Chuchi’s ass, if it didn’t jettison right out of his head.

He shuffled a couple feet to his right. “Yeah, I do. Turn — this — racket — off.”

He was actually suffered to wait a few reps and one obnoxious chorus more before being acknowledged. Fierfek, Cody still hated this guy.

“Jams, cut the tuneage,” Fox grunted, racking the bar and his girlfriend, who swung down smilingly into his arms. He rolled up and regarded Cody coolly. “Yes?” he prompted in the silence, cocksure as a crime lord. Which he basically fucking was these days, sitting pretty atop the Republic security food chain. Even the Senate Blueys bowed to him now.

Cody rolled his eyes. “I just needed you to lower the music. I’ve got a class.”

“Well, why didn’t you just say,” Fox deadpanned. He stood, chucked Chuchi into a fireman’s carry, and led his posse to a different machine.

“Fuck you, too,” Cody shouted after them, leaving them to their occult rituals. The Corries had been decanted in a separate facility and remained a breed unto themselves.

As he walked back, Cody marvelled how little martial order remained in his life.

He wasn’t ready to wish for another war, though. Not even when he returned to find Rex signing autographs.

Happiness was an undisciplined thing.

. . . . . 

Ao3

[popculturebuffet]

Quick Thoughts: Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Reveal Trailer and Initial Roster

Whelp I didn’t expect to be doing another one of these so soon but welcome to quick thoughts where I give well quick thoughts on stuff instead of the longer form reviews I usually do. 

So as longtime or even short time readers of this blog might know I love NIck. I don’t review shows from it as often as Disney or Cartoon Network, but it was still a beloved part of my childhood and still makes great shows today such as the Loud House, Harvey Beaks and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It’s horribly mismanaged, which is why two of those shows are no longer with us and the last of them is weirdly missing from this game, and have a long and storied history of screwing things over.. and i’m not exagerating when Mr. Enter, no matter your opinon of him now, did a whole marathon of every nicktoon almost every entry included the fact the show had been screwed over in some way. 

But as anyone who knows my history with Disney will tell you just because I don’t sugarcoat a brand I like’s fuckups dosen’t mean they aren’t near and dear to me at the same time. I”m a grown up: I can have complex emotions towards a chlidren’s tv network. So I love it’s varied shows some of whom (Avatar, Harvey beaks again, Danny Phantom, Hey Arnold) are among my all time faviorites. 

Now something readers of my blog probably WOUDLN’T know is I love Nintendo, they have their own fuckups like weird release strageies and never doing a remotely decent discount like the competition, but their still a company I love and since I only play handhelds most of the time are my primary source of good shit. So naturally Smash Bros is my faviorite franchise of theres. I love the idea of fighting games but often struggle with the combo heavy nature. So Smash Bros, having a roster of some of my faviorite characters ever, a plaformer style control scheme, and a deceptivley simple style that’s easy to learn and fun to master with the right character, is my shit. Sure I won’t rush out to buy every dlc character, but you better belivie I played the hell out of Ultimate, will likely go back to it again some day, and did buy Banjo and Kazooie because fuck yeah. 

So yeah I needed to talk about Nick making their own smash bros clone. When I heard the rumors I wasn’t sure, mostly because Rumors can be just that.. but nope this game is happening and i’m all on board for it. This isn’t Nick’s first crossover rodeo in recent memory either also making a pair of Kart Racing Games: one I KINDA wanted to play till I looked at the roster, had a good laugh and lost that i want, and the other I really want to play as it seems like the first game if it were you know an actual game with a decent track selection, a deep character roster and an actual love of it’s properties. 

So making their own Smash Bros was a logical step and one i’m here for. We haven’t had any of the big cartoon networks make one since well.. Cartoon Network, and Nick has just a deep a bench to pull from, one that will hopefully get CN to get their cast to throw hands once more. 

For now though the idea of the vast history of nick all throwing hands with each other is amazing. Look i’m honest with myself: this looks like a decent smash clone,functional but nothing specail, but with the expressive character animation and solid roster you need for a game like this. I know going in i’m not going ot get Smash Ultimate quality of brawler, but i’m probably going to have fun with it. 

The only downside I see so far is , like the Kart Racers, theyd idn’t seem to get ANY voice actors for this which smacks of laziness, especially since most of the voice actors for these characters are still active, and in some cases like Spongebob or Loud House are still working with you. So you have no real excuse for this, shame on you.

But yeah the game looks good.. despite the trailer being pretty bad. It’s just some generic music set to “LOOK WHO WE GOT”. And granted look who they got is really spiffy and i’ll be diving into that in a second, but it dosen’t give any of these characters a reall chance to show off how they play or how awesome they are. It’s just a bland montage of whose in the roster in the same 2 or 3 stages. And when you have 15 stages overall to show off that’s not excusable. Again i’m not expecting Smash level quality revelas, this game dosen’t have the marketing budget, but you have a really great concept and roster here, you coudl’ve revealed it better and this game better. The Kart Racers 2 Trailer was also mildly bland but it did show off the game better, showing off several tracks and how VASTLY improved the roster was, so you CAN make a good trailer you just didn’t. It felt like they thought the poitn of all the smash reveals trailers was here’s a character and missed all the style and substance to them. 

That being said while the trailer was weak.. it was boyed by the fact this roster is REALLY damn good. Let’s face it I woudln’t even be talking about this game if the roster wasn’t this minty but they clearly learned from Kart Racers not to half ass it and while they learned the long lessons from Smash in how to promote the fighters they have, they learned the right lessons in having a nice mix of crowd pleasing faviorites for kids and vetrans alike along with a few deep cuts for said longtime fans. And this is JUST the intitial reveal roster: Given the Box Art isn’t out yet, I feel there’s more to come, especially since despite being perfect for the game there’s no one from the Avatarverse yet, but I also feel that Nick is saving that for a second trailer to announce the release date. But I can and will go into who i’d LIKE on the roster in another one of these sometime soon. -

Spongebob, Patrick and Sandy (SpongeBob Squarepants): I’m getting these three out of the way as their essentially to this what Mario and Co were to smash: necessary and inevitible.  As for who was chosen.. it was as obvious as putting spongebob himself int he game. Sponebob is Nick’s mascot, Patrick is nearly as iconic and Sandy is well loved as well as the spongebob character most associated with buttkicking. Being an expert martial artist is both part of her character and a cerntral part of her character and relationship with Spongebob. So yeah not a lot ot say here: it was ineivible but I don’t mind at all having grown up with them and with my niece and nibling being huge fans. 

87 Leo and 87 Mikey (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles): This one i’m mixed on. Not on the turtles being here: i’m a MASSIVE TMNT fan and i’td be stupid to leave them out since Nick Owns them, made the last two series, and they fit this kind of game like a glove, even having had their OWN smash clone to themselves once. 

No my issue is obviously in the version choseN: The 87 turtles. Again I have no beef with the guys themselves, I haven’t seen much of 87 but I want to and they look really gorgeous and nicely cartoony. It’s just a REALLY weird choice. The 87 turtles have never been on a nick network due to rights issues, have never been associated with nick, and aren’t the ones most kids of EITHER DEMO would be familiar with: Grown up fans of nicktoons from the 90′s like myself would be more familiar with 2003, and kids and teens from more recent eras would be more familiar with 2012 and rise, which REALLY should’ve been the rep. I mean their weird shame of rise bothers me enough on a good day but not using EITHER show you actually made bothers me, it bothers me a lot. I’ll still probably play Mikey, i’m not made of stone and as I said I have no beef with the 87 turtles, I just wish nick had used the others or hell just gone all lin and used one turtle from each cartoon. I mean if your going to use stuff you’ve barely aired why not give me some 2003 nostalgia too huh? Though it could just be that since, unlike the rise and 2012 turrtles the 87 turtles have the same body type and colors it was easier to just do all 4 and just give each unique facial expressions. Who knows... I knows it was probably that. 

Lincoln and Lucy Loud (The Loud House, Duh): Another pretty obvious one as The Loud House is currrently nick’s co-flagship show with spongebob. Still waiting for my diffrent world spinoff with Bobby and Lori guys. So yeah Lincoln isn’t a suprise and Lucy is only minorly one as it was a matter of “which sister”... and Lucy is one of the most popular. Neither really fit a combat setting.. but given this is a fun crossover game, that really dosen’t matter and in fact is kind of the fun: taking just the most insane matcchups imaginable and mashing them together. I mean this is a game where Lincoln and Lucy can beat up Leo and Mikey, why wouldn’t I want that kind of crack on my nintendo switch? I am hoping for Luna to make her way to the stage next as she was absent from Kart Racer 2 and would be really fun to play. Plus having ANOTHER bi fighter in the mix if korra gets in there would be awesome, let alone letting the two beat up or punch each other’s face. But again I could and probably will mak ea whole article about other possible fighters i’d want. 

The Plesant Suprises: Nigel Thornberry , Oblina and Powdered Toast Man (Wild Thronberries, Ahhh! Real MOnsters1 and Ren and Stimpy) : Yeah while only one of these cartoons was a faviorite as a kid (Wild Thornberries)... I have nothing but respect for these choices. One of the funnest things about Smash is while you can see some roster members coming sometimes you get utter curveballs like Mr. Game and Watch, Pirana Plant and MInecraft Guy. They also go for more cult franchises like SNK or Earthbound (the latter of which is fucking awesome localize mother 3 already dammit) too among the big heavies, making it feel like a true tapestry of Nintendo’s history. 

Nigel is the only one of these three that’s really obvious. He’s a meme, he was the best part of his show.. but it’s still just uniquely batshit to put NIGEL THRONBERRY in a fighting game. You better belivie he’ll be one of my mains. 

Oblina is more a suprise because I thought they’d go with Icket, but instead went wtih the character who was more popular and had a really unqiue and cool design, so i’m pleased as punch to have her. Finally while I don’t have any real attachment to ren and stimply apart from Log, and really it’s hard to gain any now knowing i’ts creator was a pedophile piece of shit, the franchise is still a cornerstone of nick history, the rest oc the crew didn’t abuse power or not make deadlines or be a com plete piece of shit, and powerded toast man is genuinely great. I”d love to see Really Big Man too, clash of the weird superheroes, I love me a weird as hell superhero. This also speaks promisingly that w’ell get some real weird curveballs to come and i’m here for it. 

The Rest: Helga, Zim, Danny and Reptar. (Hey Arnold, Invader Zim, Danny Phantom and Rugrats! ): Note i’m not lumping these together because their bad: their all graet nostalgic picks from timeless shows and with the rugreboot currently running on Paramount+, it’d be weird not to represent them. 

And since I brought it up reptar is a fun chocie, another oddball but one more understandable as no one wants to beat the shit out of a toddler. Or rather no one playing the game would care you could because it’s a silly fighting game and a 12 and 8 year old are also beat upable, but someone would probably throw a fit somewhere. Plus again it’s a game where you can have danny phantom fight reptar. Shut up and take my money. 

The rest are all great choices if ones I’m not suprised by: Hey Arnold’s an all time classic and being tough is a lot of Helga’s character, and again I can have her throw hands with nigel thornberry, reptar and a ninja turtle in the same match. Zim is another fan faviorite and fits the game like a glove and Danny Phantom is the one out of Nick’s three suprehero classics it actually still cares about so my boy getting in there isn’t a shocker, though his attacks lookw eird. Hopefully they green them up before the final prduct. 

So yeah overall it looks really promsing and really fun and i’ll probably check this game out if I get enough money when it comes out or more likely put it on my christmas list. But I will get it somehow this i swear.. speaking of which put manny in the roster dammit. If you liked this.. thing consider joining my patreon for a buck a month fo exclsuvie reviews and ot help me review tuca and bertie, amphibia and more as part of my memebership drive. 

[rainbowrider1290]

My take on a Genshin Impact Circus AU Part 4 with Noelle as a strongwoman and Amber as a death-defying archery stuntwoman. Their backstories are under the cut!

Noelle:

First off I have a very self-indulgent headcanon that she is ridiculously strong. Like. Can benchpress people. Canonverse or AU.

She used to help out around the circus and she was kind of indifferent to the fact that she was likely going to be a maid. It's a respectable profession. And helping out at her childhood friends' (Kaeya and Diluc) manor as she'd been born into doing seemed like a good job.

How she got into the circus life requires a bit of backstory. Back when they were kids, Kaeya, Diluc, and Noelle would mess around (as kids do) and have little challenges for themselves. Who can run the fastest, who can do the best cartwheel, who can jump the highest, and the like.

Noelle got a little hesitant as she got into her early teens bc she was always told to be ladylike, so she spent one or two of their hangout sessions watching Kaeya and Diluc and talking. One day, however, Kaeya and Diluc are being Teenage Boys and lifting heavy things trying to outlift each other. Noelle has lifted furniture when cleaning up after these two so she figures this one unladylike thing would be okay.

She comes up behind them and just. Picks them both up. On top of the things they were lifting already. Kaeya and Diluc have to take a second and just look at her like "yeah no you are never sitting out of our competitions again"

And so they try other things like cartwheels and tests of courage like who can climb the highest on a tree and things are back to normal.

Skip forward a few years and Crepus dies. There's a huge mystery around it that not even his son's attendants are privy to. The only thing people know is that the sons have been sent away to boarding school. The whole manor is abandoned, all the workers fired.

Noelle for the next few years spends her time working at laundromats, and other odd jobs, but eventually she runs out of luck and suddenly there's too many people and not enough opportunities.

One of her friends from one of her old jobs invites her to go out and see this new circus that happens to be in town. She goes because why not. And wouldn't you know it one of the acts is her childhood friends doing these death-defying stunts that hit her with a wave of nostalgia bc their entire act consists of essentially the song "anything you can do" but with more and more dangerous stunts.

Noelle of course has to say hi, so they catch up and Noelle's lack of work comes up and would you look at that Aether and Lumine happen to have an opening for a maid.

So Noelle settles in, continuing to lift heavy shit to clean under it (Bennett swears up and down he saw her lift a fridge once but he might've been sleep-deprived). She also got into helping Chongyun with the techy stuff so sometimes she'll be at tech rehearsals moving things around and one time a rope holding up a person breaks near Noelle and she. catches it.

Now, one night. One of the acts drops out at the last moment bc injury or last-minute commitment or the like. And it leaves a gap in the show. Everyone else is busy. And panicking bc the circus is still relatively new and they really need to build their rep rn.

They start wondering what kind of last-minute acts they can put together like "what about the gymnasts??" "They all have group routines" "do they have old routines??" "Not polished enough for what we need" and someone somewhere pipes up "man I wish we had a strongman or something" and Diluc and Kaeya immediately whip their heads around to look at each other for like half a second before Kaeya bolts. He finds Noelle doing her usual rounds she's been doing for like a month now and Bennett was right, she is currently under a mini-fridge that she is lifting over her head whilst leaning it against a wall.

Kaeya takes Noelle by the shoulders and just zooms her over to where the commotion is happening and pitches the idea to Aether and Lumine. They're hesitant as hECK bc this is a huge risk they're taking since Noelle isn't even a performer but Diluc pitches that they could literally just scatter really heavy items and have Noelle clean under them and as long as she looks at the audience every once in a while it can be played off as a bit.

Noelle with qUITE the stammer says that she'll try her best but at this time is in need of a moment. She has never performed before. Kaeya and Diluc have to go perform so they leave her with a shoulder squeeze and a thumbs up.

She gets on-stage. She flinches under the lights for a second. She takes a deep breath and focuses on the first thing before her with her best "oh heavens, it's filthy in here", and she gets through the entire act by doing that for every object. So the audience is seeing this seemingly petite young girl lift the equivalent of a hecking car in order to clean under it.

Needless to say, there's roaring applause the second Noelle leaves (which she hears from far away because holy shit I just cleaned for people and they liked it)

This was a bit of a one-time thing and she goes back to her regular maid duties until the circus gets a new strongman by the name "Zhongli".

His style is more about lifting exTREMELY LARGE ROCKS, and breaking them in half whilst giving a history/geology lesson on them.

He quietly observes the maid who he hears fantastical stories of That One Time She Charmed An Audience By Cleaning. He was bewildered at first but saw the merit of it while watching her clean. He immediately decides that this girl has sO MUCH. POTENTIAL that is being wasted by having her work as a maid. He has nothing against maids or their profession, but he invites her to train with him.

Noelle gets hELLA stronger and they come to a conclusion. Noelle performs part-time and is a maid part-time. She doesn't have a particular performance style. She'll sometimes play catch with Zhongli and his big rocks, other times she'll be in the background of performers like Amber in the art lifting some hEAVY SHIT.

She gets along with Chongyun super well bc Chongyun has to make less trips to move his equipment since he's worked with her. She's a blessing for when they have to pack up and move.

Amber:

Amber's story is a little more straightforward. She started out engaged to a suitor. Amber was the kid in kindergarten who was learning about dragons and "idk what everyone else was doing". She's known what she wants for a long time, and what she wants at the moment, is not a relationship.

Throughout her childhood she was a very lonely child. Her family exposed her to lots of academic or ladylike things (do not ask me when this au is set, it's the 1800s and the 1990s at the same time or a suspendes steampunk time) to get her away from the thing she liked most: archery. She'd been exposed to it as a kid and latched on.

This drove a bunch of suitors away, so her family got more desperate and exposed her to more classes and activities to get her away from it. She went "that's easy, I'll just practice at night"

So she does that. She practices at night and underperforms in the coming weeks. It is during this time that her parents (high class ppl) find her a man to marry for some business deal idk.

The man's nice enough. It's just obvious he can only take Amber in small doses, and Amber takes full advantage of this to practice and stay in shape.

How Amber gets into the circus life was essentially running away. She bonds with Eula over this.

So because of all the attempts to make her fit into the ideal lady description, her rebellious streak said "yeah we're going to go as far away from that as possible" and she goes "I'm going to run away with the circus" bc that's what the books she's read say is the most rebellious thing you can do.

She finds THE FIRST circus she sees and begs to be let in. This is the shadiest most sketchy place but Amber sees it as the key to her freedom. She signs a contract.

They treat her like the US treats their students. She barely gets time to practice for performances and she's mostly doing dirty work. When they ask her what she can do she's like "I'm really good at archery" and they go "cool, you're going to be doing that while everything is on fire now. Can you do a handstand"

Essentially they push her and push her and push her to do more and more hazardous things she has to pick up on under the threat of being kicked to the curb.

After a while of this Amber is extremely burned out (pun intended) and as she's packing up after one of her shows, covered in burns but proud bc she hit all her targets without killing anyone, she's approached by a blond foreigner.

Tbh for all she's read, Amber really doesn't consider leaving and this time she can't run away since she's now bound by a contract (not Zhongli's btw in case anyone was wondering).

This foreigner tells her that there's so many ways to improve her situation and that he runs a circus looking for members.

Amber refuses since she's not getting tangled up in another legal mess, but she takes his advice on how to take care of her burns, and improve safety while she's performing.

Skip a few months. She hears word of this mysterious new circus around. Her encounter with who she'll later know as Aether stuck with her, and so she goes. To see whether she could really shoot her arrows without being burned alive.

After a show one night, she tries to get past security and fails repeatedly. She turns to leave and wouldn't you know it there's Aether. And Lumine. Waiting for her once she turns the corner. Amber's biggest concern is her existing contract and when Aether and Lumine say they have a nICE lawyer, Amber sees her next step to freedom.

Aether and Lumine essentially gain custody of Amber (but like for adults) and Amber is. Shocked. She's walked through her new contract of employment clearly and essentially treated like a human being.

And now that she knows things and has more freedom (though still under the watchful eyes of Aether and Lumine to see how she does) her creativity and competitive streak flourish. She decides she actually doesn't hate fire, she just doesn't like when she doesn't know when or where it's coming. And she makes fast friends with the gymnasts, so she ends up incorporating that into her routines. Now she uses her canon goggles to protect her from the burning eyes of prolonged smoke exposure when she uses fire.

When she meets a little pyromanic girl named Klee, she's thrilled that someone this chaotic and sure of herself exists.

[schrijverr]

Translation Error

Bakugo’s mom is Dutch and at home, he speaks Dutch. He hadn’t realized the class hadn’t caught on yet, until he’s calling with his mom. After that, they notice more Dutch things.

(AKA, I’m Dutch and I’m having fun with making Bakugo Dutch as well)

On AO3.

Ships: none

Warnings: none, but tell me if I missed anything!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bakugo Mitsuki had not always been a Bakugo, she’d not even always been Mitsuki. Before she was a Bakugo, she had been a Jansen, Marjolein Jansen, and her parents had moved from the Netherlands to Japan for her fathers job.

But that had been when she was eleven and she was fluent in Dutch, teaching it to her son when he was young.

They were a multi-lingual household with Mitsuki swearing in Dutch as she stubbed her toe while Masaru told Bakugo to put on his shoes in Japanese.

Katsuki took great pride in the fact that he spoke two languages, often teaching swearwords in Dutch to the other kids on the playground.

However, after a few years the novelty had worn of for most and it became just another fact of life that Kastuki would sometimes swear under his breath in a different language or forget an easy word only to grumble a weird word until he had found the translation.

Being in a Japanese school and watching Japanese media, however, ensured that Katsuki was much more comfortable in Japanese than Dutch. Even if Dutch was the language he spoke at home, so by the time he entered UA, he hardly ever spoke Dutch outside of his mom and grandparents.

Since he hardly ever spoke Dutch, it took a long while for everyone in his class to even notice that he could speak another language.

Of course, when you were running for your life it was hard to notice that your friend was chanting “kut, kut, kut, kut,” under his breath instead of a more familiar swear and you didn’t see them talking to their mom at school.

So, it wasn’t until they moved into the dorms together that people started to notice it.

The first instance was mostly brushed off. Bakugo and Midoriya had been talking about hero training classes when Bakugo said: “We never really did more- more- more,” he snapped his fingers, obviously annoyed, and grumbled, “godverdomme, reddingswerk, wat is dat ook alweer?” he looked at Midoriya and repeated, “Reddingswerk?”

Midoriya shrugged, he didn’t know what the Dutch word meant. Bakugo groaned, before explaining: “What we did with Thirteen.”

“Rescue?” Midoriya offered.

“Yeah, that’s the bitch,” Bakugo said, “We never really did more rescue work after that, now did we.”

“Hmm, yeah, we should ask Iida about that, as class rep, he might be able to do something about it,” Midoriya agreed and the conversation continued normally.

He already knew of the Dutch and hadn’t been phased by it, while most the class had only heard the tone Bakugo used, which was as usual annoyed and angry, not really registering the language as different.

The next time someone could have noticed, but didn’t was when he was helping Kaminari with his English homework. Kaminari groaned: “How can you keep track of all these letters? It’s so confusing.”

“I already knew the alphabet,” Bakugo shrugged, remembering how his mother had showed him how to write down his name differently and the fairytales she used to read to him.

“That’s nice, wish that were me,” Kaminari said miserably, looking at his homework.

“It’s still fucking confusing,” Bakugo huffed, thinking of the English pronouncing ‘a’ as ‘e,’ while pronouncing ‘e’ as ‘i,’ or why they couldn’t say the ‘w’ like a normal person. He blinked out of his thoughts and said: “Oi, focus again, Battery-boy.”

Kaminari startled and whined, but turned back to his homework with much displeasure.

A few days later, Bakugo stubbed his toe on the table near the couches when he got up to grab himself something to drink. He grabbed his foot and swore: “Godver de tering zooi. Kut, kut, kut. Holy shit, godver. Wat een tyfus tafel. Fuck that hurt. Klere ding.”

Everyone blinked at the outburst, before Mina asked: “What the fuck was that?”

“That’s called swearing, Raccoon,” Bakugo glared at her, “Who even put this table here?”

“The school, idiot,” Jiro shrugged, not really looking further into the weird noises that had come out of Bakugo’s mouth, because she didn’t think it above him to know obscure swears, just to add to his repertoire.

Bakugo glared at her as well, but the throbbing in his toe had subsided and he wasn’t really looking to pick a fight when they were about to watch a movie. So he dropped it and just went to grab himself a drink.

It was not until his mother called him that people truly caught on to the fact that it was an entirely different language, instead of some weird swears here and there. His phone rang while on the couch and he groaned when he saw who was calling.

Kirishima asked: “Who’s mama?”

“It’s my mom, dumbass,” he said, before swiping to pick up and saying: “Hallo met is Katsuki, waarom bel je me, heks?”

The person on the other side of the line said something, while Kirishima and Mina stared in confusion at the incomprehensible babble coming out of Bakugo’s mouth.

“Kon dat niet wachten?” Bakugo replied after a moment, getting up to get a bit of privacy as he spoke, “Ik zit hier beneden nu met mensen, we zijn ons huiswerk aan het doen. En dat is pas over een week, ook nog, by the way. Waarom val je me daar nu mee lastig?”

Midoriya came in and Mina whispered to him: “What’s he doing?” with a nod to Bakugo.

The other boy looked at Bakugo just as he said: “Nee, ik heb het al met Aizawa besproken, ik kan gewoon dat weekend naar huis komen. Hij snapte ‘t toen ik uitlegde dat opa en oma van ver komen.”

So, Midoriya shrugged: “Talking with his mom, I suppose. I don’t speak Dutch, sorry.”

“Why is he even speaking Dutch?” Kirishima asked, completely confused.

“Because his mom is Dutch.” Midoriya was confused by Kirishima’s confusion, surely they knew this already?

A few more people walked in and looked between the three confused teens and Bakugo, who was oblivious to the stares Mina and Kirishima were giving him.

He nodded even though his mom couldn’t see and said: “Ja, dat weet ik. Ik heb het opgeschreven. Ik ben niet achterlijk hoor, heks. Natuurlijk vergeet ik ‘t niet.”

A silence fell, in which the newcomers also had a chance to be confused. Then Bakugo hung up with a: “Ja, ja, doei, spreek je later. Doe de groeten aan papa enzo.”

Bakugo turned back to see half the class looking at him and he snapped: “What are you all looking at, eh?”

Midoriya, god bless his heart, spoke up for everyone and explained: “I think they only just realized you’re half-Dutch.”

“Why? Are they dumb?” Bakugo frowned, he hadn’t made the conscious effort to hide it.

“Oi, we’re not dumb,” Mina got out of her stupor.

“Yeah, Bakubro, you could have told us,” cried Kirishima.

“What is that thought?” Bakugo said, “Should I have made an announcement out of it? Do the klompendans while hanging out the Dutch flag? Like what do you want from me? I didn’t even try to hide it.”

It was quiet for a moment as most had to concede that was a pretty solid point. In the end Tsu asked him: “Can you say something in Dutch?”

“Am I a circus monkey or something?” Bakugo growled.

Hagakure jumped in as well: “Please, Bakugo, I missed most of the phone call, I wanna hear what it sounds like.”

More people rallied behind her and Bakugo gave in, saying: “Jullie zijn allemaal stom en ik haat het hier.”

“What did you say?” Mina asked.

“I said that you’re all stupid and I hate it here,” Bakugo said, before turning to walk away.

During dinner that evening more people nagged him. Mina and Kirishima wanted to know what the phone call was about (it was his mom asking if he had gotten permission to come home to see his grandparents next weekend) and the people who hadn’t been there to see wanted to hear what Dutch sounded like (Bakugo hit the closest of said people and told them nothing).

After a while, Momo mused: “I thought your mother’s name was Mitsuki. That’s a pretty Japanese name.”

“Her actual name is Marjolein, but no one ever pronounced or wrote it right, so she just says it’s Mitsuki,” Bakugo shrugged.

“How do you even spell that?” Kaminari wondered.

“You’re not good enough at the Roman alphabet for me to spell it out to you,” Bakugo told him, before adding: “And I’m not sure if it’s the long ij or the short ei.”

Kaminari frowned at the insult, then said: “You just made the same noise twice.”

“Yeah, but one is i j and the other is e i,” Bakugo explained, “It’s the same sound, okay. You just write it differently. I think it’s the short ei, but I never use that name for her. I’ve only heard opa en oma call her that.”

“Who?” Kirishima asked.

“My grandparents, like grandpa is opa and oma is grandma,” Baugo said, hoping they would stop asking him questions, because he was tired of explaining and he just wanted to eat his dinner in peace.

Luckily most had caught on to his annoyed tone and left him alone, but Bakugo could feel that this was something new and interesting that would hold their attention for a while.

He was right, because that week he was often asked what the Dutch word for something was or what the thing he just said was (it was usually swears), but he managed to survive ‘till Friday when he got to leave campus for the weekend.

They were walking back to the dorms, so that Bakugo could grab his stuff, before leaving to go see his grandparents, when he got a notification. He looked and said: “Fuck yeah, m’n opa en oma brought me hagelslag.”

“What is that?” Kirishima asked.

“It’s- uhm, beleg- stuff you put on bread,” Bakugo explained, knowing this was very a Dutch thing and was already pretty weird in countries that ate bread regularly, “I’ll probably bring it with me Monday.”

The others nodded and Bakugo said goodbye, before leaving, excited to see his grandparents again after so long. They had moved back to the Netherlands when he was five, saying they missed their country. He didn’t understand, because it always rained in the Netherlands when he’d been there and he got nearly hit by a bike multiple times.

He had a blast that weekend by excluding his dad from as many conversations as possible while catching up with his grandparents.

Returning on Monday, he had to do a double take when Kirishima greeted him in Japanese and asked how his weekend had been, before he remembered that it wasn’t all Dutch anymore. He said it was good, before sliding into his seat.

That lunch break he got out some sweets from his bag, reluctantly sharing them with his friends: “They gave these to me, something about their youth and shit. Whatever.”

Mina held up a little brown stick like candy and asked: “What’s this?”

“A kaneelstokje,” Bakugo answered, seeing her helpless look, he expanded: “It’s - what that fucking word again - kaneel, uhm… ah, yeah, cinnamon. It’s a cinnamon stick. When you bite it feels weird, but they’re nice. I also have the cherry version.”

With a curious hum Mina stuck it in her mouth, then she bit and grimaced, before mumbling: “That was harder than I expected.”

“Your mistake,” Bakugo shrugged, shoving a stroopwafel in his mouth.

A few tables over Midoriya spotted them and skipped over, asking Bakugo: “Did they give you those pig head candies?”

“Biggetjes?” Bakugo asked, “Yeah, here. I don’t like these, but they keep giving me them. I would much rather have the monkey ones.”

“Those have licorice on them, Kacchan,” Midoriya made a face.

“They’re nice, now fuck off, nerd,” Bakugo grumbled.

“Pig heads?” Hagakure asked.

“Yeah, it’s in the shape of a pig head and it’s a fruit gummy,” Bakugo shrugged, “The ears are slightly different and the monkey version is part licorice.”

“That’s weird,” Mina told him.

“Then you’re not getting more candy,” Bakugo shot back.

“No, I wanna try the cookies. I’m sorry,” Mina quickly said.

With an eyeroll Bakugo handed her a stroopwafel, explaining that it was a hard waffle with hardened syrup between it. He had eaten them hot and soft once and he didn’t get the rave about them fresh of the hotplate, he much preferred them cold.

They ate the foreign candy with interest asking about them and laughed about the guttural pronunciation that it had to them, marveling how Bakugo could make the hard ‘g’ sound, while they struggled.

And the next morning the whole class came together to stare in horror at Bakugo’s breakfast. He had put butter on a slice of bread, then put chocolate sprinkles on it. When Jiro had asked what the fuck he was eating, he scowled and said: “It’s hagelslag, okay, Earbuds.”

“That’s hagelslag?” Kirishima asked, stumbling over the word.

“Yeah,” Bakugo, “Almost everyone eats it. You also have vlokken, but that’s just hagelslag except flat and a bit bigger, though they also have hagelslag XL. There’s also a fruit version, but that’s just flavored hardened sugar.”

Uraraka looked at Bakugo’s plate and said: “This just feels off.”

“Well, then don’t look at, ey, Round-face,” Bakugo growled as he hunched protectively over his plate.

“Can I try?” Kirishima asked.

Bakugo eyed him suspiciously, before handing him a bit of his bread. He watched as Kirishima tried it, face morphing into a grin as he said: “Dutch kids are lucky. They get to eat chocolate for breakfast. Are you sure parents condone this?”

“My grandfather has never eating anything different for breakfast in his life,” Bakugo said.

“Nice.”

And with that they decided that this wasn’t really something to get on the blond’s nerves about, since it wasn’t really a big deal, and the conversation moved on to different topics.

But the knowledge that Bakugo was multilingual settled as normal in the group over time and explained how here and there he would say something incredibly weird, seemingly thinking it’s normal.

No one had commented on it before, but now it was easier to understand why.

For example, when they were having a collaborative training with class 1-B, Kirishima punched Bakugo’s arm and said: “You should give a pep-talk. Come on, Bakubro, inspire us.”

“Nah, Midoriya is better at sticking a heart under someone’s belt than I am, he should do it,” he replied.

“What?” Kirishima asked, confused

“You know, encouraging people and shit?” Bakugo asked, only getting more confusion back, “No, not Japanese?”

“No, bro,” Kirishima grinned.

“Well, it still makes sense,” Bakugo grouched.

“I would say no,” Mina commented.

“Shut up, Raccoon,” Bakugo huffed, “It makes sense. You give someone your heart for courage and the best place to store it is on your belt. Like in Medieval times.”

“Still weird.”

“And you still have to shut up,” Bakugo shot back, “Just focus on beating those pompous motherfuckers.”

Because in the end, it didn’t matter which language he spoke, he stayed Bakugo. Swearing and competitive Bakugo.

~~

A/N:

Fun fact: a lot of foreigners have trouble with our ‘g’ which somehow can also be written as ‘ch’ as well as our double vowels, like ‘aa’ and ‘ee’

As for all the translations:

Kut means cunt, literally, but it is used like you would use shit (and yes, learning the verb cut in English class was very fun and completely misused)

“Godver de tering zooi. Kut, kut, kut. Holy shit, godver. Wat een tyfus tafel. Fuck that hurt. Klere ding.”

Goddamn the [swear] mess. Cunt, cunt, cunt. Holy shit, goddamn. What a [swear] table. Fuck that hurt. [Swear] thing.

When I put [swear] it’s bc I cannot explain why we swear with it and I do not want to put in the mental effort of explaining it and just saying it will make it sound worse than it actually is

The phone convo isn’t really interesting, but if anyone wants to know what Bakugo said:

“Hi, het is Katsuki, waarom bel je me, heks?”

Hi, it’s Katsuki, why are you calling me, witch?

“Kon dat niet wachten?”

Couldn’t that wait?

“Ik zit hier beneden nu met mensen, we zijn ons huiswerk aan het doen. En dat is pas over een week, ook nog, by the way. Waarom val je me daar nu mee lastig?”

I’m sitting downstairs with people right now, we’re doing our homework. And that’s in a week, as well, by the way. Why are you bothering me with that now?

“Nee, ik heb het al met Aizawa besproken, ik kan gewoon dat weekend naar huis komen. Hij snapte ‘t toen ik uitlegde dat opa en oma van ver komen.”

No, I already talked about it with Aizawa, I can just go home that weekend. He understood when I explained that grandpa and grandma came from far.

“Ja, dat weet ik. Ik heb het opgeschreven. Ik ben niet achtelijk hoor, heks. Natuurlijk vergeet ik ‘t niet.”

Yes, I know. I wrote it down. I’m not an idiot, witch. Of course I wouldn’t forget it.

“Ja, ja, doei, spreek je later. Doe de groeten aan papa enzo.”

Yes, yes, bye, talk to you later. Say hi to dad etc.

Only when translating this phone call did I realize how many filler words we have that don’t make sense in translation, so I just left them.

[redhawtriot]

Problem Child (MHA Headcannons)

I work a lot with kids and teens and was literally a teenager a few months ago myself lol, so I know just how much of little shits they can be.

I always see such cute stories and headcanons with fathers and their sweet adorable children/babies, but what happens when they get older and less… adorable?

Well…

HnM💕

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💥Bakugou: 

Bakugou’s teenage daughter is probably his carbon copy. The proud attitude and sassy wit would be praised and held on an adorable pedestal when she was a little girl, but when she becomes a teenager, it is not nearly as cute.

“What the hell!? Get out of my room, dad!” She would scream at her father as he barged in her room, “It’s like you never learned how to knock!”  

He would instantly get triggered by her loud mouth, “It’s my damn house. I can go wherever I want, whenever I want!” he would scream before something shiny on the corner of her nightstand caught his attention, “What’s that.”

His daughter would immediately scramble to conceal the golden package, “None of your business,” she tucks it in her drawer.

“No! What the fuck was that?!” He has a slight idea of what it might be but he prays to god that he is wrong as he storms over to her dresser and rips it open.

“Dad!” his fifteen year old daughter shrieks as she feebly attempts to slam the drawer back shut-- not caring at all about Bakugou’s fingers, “The fuck’s your problem?!”

Bakugou’s rigid arms would hold the drawer open as his eyes blankly stare at the horror scene in front of him, “W-what are you doing with condoms?!” His eyes are wide. 

“Fucking figure it out! God!” His not-so-little girl finally slams the drawer back shut, effectively snapping him out of his daze.

He rips his furious eyes toward her direction, “YOU ARE NEVER LEAVING THIS HOUSE AGAIN, YOU HEAR ME?! GET USED TO THESE WALLS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONLY THING YOU’LL SEE FROM NOW ON!”

“The fuck I am!”

His significant other would have to spend the next few hours talking him down from killing every single boy his daughter had ever come into contact with.

He wouldn't be able to look his daughter in the eyes for the following days, but sooner or later he got over his anger and even eventually talked to her about more effective forms of birth control. (God was that a spectacle)

Todoroki: 

Probably going to be a super passive parent, especially with his teens. He doesn't want to be overbearing and controlling like his father was.

His teens might learn to take advantage of this. I could see his kids going to him if the other parent says no to something. This would probably lead to a lot of confusion within the Todoroki household. Lol

He isn't a complete idiot though, he would get wiser to his teenager’s antics and eventually put his foot down.

Or... at least attempt too.

He would probably be a huge softy for his kids and end up giving in to them regardless. 

Izuku: 

He would for sure be a helicopter parent. It would be touching and adorable for him to cry when his son leaves for his first day of Elementary school, but it would be less cute when he is a whole ass teenager and he still wants to drop by his middle school to “check in on him.”

“Dude… is that your dad. Again?” one of his son’s classmates would point out to him as he gawked at the hoard of paparazzi in school’s front entrance. 

“Please, god no,” Izuku’s son would cower into his arms at his desk.

However, he knew that he would have to confront his father sooner or later, “Dad! What are you doing here?”

“You left your applesauce on the kitchen counter this morning, I just thought I‘d stop by and bring it to you while I was on patrol today, son.”

Fucking applesauce!?!

The younger Midoriya would have to fight the urge to face-palm, opting for a heavy sigh instead, “I’m not five years old! I don’t need my dad to drop off snacks for me!”

The sudden outburst would slightly wound the fragile father, “Y-you’re right…” Izuku would immediately understand the new boundary and respect it, “Sorry son, I-I’ll just go then,” he would still hand the sauce over to his son.

As he turns to leave his son would feel a pulse of guilt, “Wait… Thank you… Just stop breathing down my neck so much, okay?”

“Alright!” The apology would fill the father would a sense of vigor. He would turn back around to leave on a much happier not until--

“Oh, wait!” Izuku almost forgot something! “I LOVE YOU, SON!” he shouts from across the courtyard. 

Giggles from the other kids could be heard as his son ducks shamefully into himself, “L-love you too…dad...” the boy’s face falls into a deep shade of red as people stare at him. 

Shinsou:

He would never mind control his children, but he would be lying if he said that it wasn’t tempting every now and then.

He would probably be the type of person that prefers smaller children to teenagers for some reason. As the feeling of being needed diminishes and his children grow more and more independent, he would begin feeling a little left out of their everyday lives.

He would for sure be the type of person that tries to hang onto his children's childhoods for as long as he can. The first time that his kids go out “without” parental supervision to like the mall or movies, or something, he would secretly tag along. 

He would leave after he felt comfortable enough.

Holy shit! If he got caught though? 

His kids would probably never let him hear the end of it. I feel like he would be very embarrassed because everyone would would be able to see that he did it for him and not for his kids lol.

“Awh, dad you just want us to stay little forever, don’t you?”

“I was just trying to make sure that you guys would be okay,” he would immediately retort, as if the speed of his response could cover his obvious lying. 

“Apparently we weren't the ones needing to be checked up on! You okay?”

He really wasn’t okay.

Why do kids have to grow up so fast?!

Kirishima: 

Will be very straight up and direct with his children. He will always tell them when they are not being their best selves.

Even though he is probably the most supportive guy in the world, his son will still probably hide things from him because his overwhelming positivity and wish to better himself and others can be.. well... a bit much. 

“LET”S GO GET SOME REPS IN!” Kiri would burst into his 16 year old son’s room, but finds that he is on the phone with someone, “Who’s that on the phone?”

The boy would immediately hang up the phone and stare wide-eyes at his father, “Uhhh... grandma?” he obviously lies. 

“Huh. But your grandma is in a different time zone... it’s 3 am for her...” Kirishima would bait his son to tell the truth. 

Knowing that he had been caught and that there was no backing out, he would reluctantly tell the truth, “It’s... my boyfriend.”

“BOYFRIEND?! Why didn’t you tell me you were seeing someone, son?? Have em over tonight! I’d love to meet him! I bet he’s great! Does your mother know?! I’ll call her as soon as I can and let her know the great news--”

“No, no, no! Stop!” the young boy would frantically interrupt, “Uh, Thanks... but h-he’s not coming over, could you... get out of my room please?”

Kirishima would turn a little red at the realization that he had gone a little off of the deep end, “Oh... okay... Sorry for that,” he would nervously laugh as he backed out of the room, “I guess I did get a little ahead of myself, huh?”

“Yeah...” His son would purse his lips as the two made awkward, prolonged, eye contact. 

“Okay.... Well, you want the door open or shut?”

“Shut would be fine,”

“Alright,” Kiri would begin shutting the door only to stick his head on one more time,“Love ya.” he would softly speak into the room. 

“Bye...” as soon as the door is shut his son flops tiredly onto his bed.

Kaminari:

He would always be a teenage boy at heart so him and his kids would actually get a long very well—maybe too well.

He would catch his children trying to sneak out of the house and set up little boobie traps for them outside of the window they sneak out of. He would never tell his s/o about them sneaking out because, hey, if they avoided his boobie traps, they probably deserved it!

When his kids were caught they usually wouldn’t even want to go out anymore as they were typically covered in syrup, or blasted with paint-balls, or soaking wet with tomato sauce or some other random thing.

Every now and then, when his kids would successfully pass a boobie trap, however, he would up his game.

This leads to the game always evolving.

His kids respect the hell out of him, because they love him so much, but this little game they have going with him is too fun to give up!

Iida: 

He had always been told that he was a bit overbearing, and would wanna correct that about himself before he had children.

Iida would be the type of father that would read up on parenting magazines, so he wouldn’t be too authoritarian and would like for his kids to make the right decisions on their own… but damn was it hard for him to just sit back and watch.

He would be walking by, when the sight of his daughter relaxing on the living room on her phone would catch his attention. She has a series of textbooks sprawled out in front of her, but is paying them no mind. “Sweetheart? Shouldn’t you be studying right now?”

“Yeah, probably. I’ll get on it in a minute…” she would absentmindedly reply as her eyes stayed glued onto her phone. 

“Okay…” he would reply as he continued doing whatever it was he was doing before he got distracted; however when he passed by the living room again, he noticed that his daughter was still in the same position that he had left her in,  “Ahem!”

The young girl knew well what this meant as she looked up to acknowledge Iida, “Yes, father?”

“There’s no time like the present, you know,” he reminded her. 

“Thanks… I’ll remember that,” even though she knew exactly what he had been trying to imply, she looked back to her phone in a small bout of rebellion. 

This would be the last straw for Iida, “I know that you are a fine student and all; however, I just think that you should—”

“FINE,” she would loudly sigh as she throws her phone to away to the couch, I’ll do my homework right now!”

“That’s my girl!”

“Of course,” she would smile back with just a hint of resentment. 

[awwhoneybaby]

Random Things I would like to see in The Sims 4:

Some of this stuff is random things I want and some are things I see that some of the sims community members would like to see.

Zodiac Signs - I definitely want Zodiac signs back in game and for them to actually have an effect on our sims, give them some more personality like I’m begging.

Heterochromia - That just seems cool to me hehe

More Traits/Aspirations - Im so tired of using my same three favorite traits, and the randomizer doesn’t do much. Please give us more traits and aspirations, I feel like the game would be 10x better if we had the funny aspirations like the “Gold Digger” lifetime wish in TS3.

More Get to Work Jobs - Being able to go to work with your sims is so much fun, and it would be wayyy more fun if there were more jobs to actually go work. Like going to an actual Law Office with your sim and filling out paperwork, and being able to go to court! Or with the Teacher job, being able to go lecture a group of students and have office hours for students.

A Get to School Pack - Just like Get to Work but with the kids in your household, now I’m not rlly a family player bc there’s not much of anything to do with the babies, toddlers, and kids. Even with Teens I get bored afterwhile bc they’re just doing the same thing as my Young Adults. Being able to go to school with your sims and have them chose to pay attention or goof off in class like in ts3 university life pack. To be able to do things like go to lunch and skip classes and hangout after school and participate in after school activities!!!

More Pets - Imagine owning a bunny, horse, or a bird. Or even lizards and snakes, we deserved wayyy more than what we got with just cats & dogs and don’t even get me started on the crazy rabit rodent in my first pet stuff.

A Hobbies Pack - Knifty knitting is cute but on god that could’ve been a small part of a HUGE hobbies pack!! I feel like they’ve been making small hobbies themed packs and charging us for them like knifty knitting, bowling night, movie hangout, cool kitchen (cooking/baking), fitness, and the moschino pack (photography) definitely could’ve been apart of a hobbies pack bc that’s all they are, they’re HOBBIES! Like it makes me angry bc all of that could’ve definitely been one big hobbies pack. They still have a chance to make one and include other things like skateboarding, ballet, and all types of sports if they truly wanted too. But we know EA :/// and we know our dear sims team. :/

A Sixam Game Pack - Unfortunately it would require y’all to buy Get to Work but as someone who loves to play with the supernatural sims I would love if it there was a a space themed pack about Sixam and it went into detail about the Aliens and gave them more powers/things to do. Like compared to Vampires and Spellcasters, Aliens are lacking. (I think Mermaids might have it worse tho!)

More Supernatural Stuff - Like I just said the supernaturals in game are lacking in a lots of areas, yeah they’re fun to play but holy shit the sims team could’ve done so much better for those life forms.

In Depth Celebrity Careers - Listen, I would absolutely love it if my sims could START A FUCKING BAND! Like IMAGINE, like being able to start a spunky Jazz band or a crazy Heavy Metal band, or even a boy band. Like I feel like that would be fun to be into depth with that and become and actual superstar. Like if Get Famous just didn’t focus of becoming a famous actor and dedicated their time to the other many careers that could’ve been touched with that pack :(!! Becoming a famous stylist and being able to style sims in a boutique or hair salon!! Or with the famous author, being able to sit and have book signings with your sims!! Like imagine that :((( Or even being able to be the paparazzi and having your sim run around for the latest scoop. Ugh!

An Actual Generations Pack - To be able to make memories with your family, and actually do family activities and not have to worry about if the parenthood responsibilities meter will actually fill or not 😐😑😐 with more interactions and inclusive activites for babies, toddlers, teens, and elders!!!! Also an improvement to family trees and acknowledging things like cousins and great grandparents and being able to have prior family relationships and not just odd friendship bars! My sims have a shit ton of cousins & they don’t even realize it omg I get so upset too bc they’re parents are so close! More FAMILY dynamics for the love of god.

Lastly (I think lol) A Royalty Themed Pack - Now every time I mention a royalty pack eveybody mentions The Sims Medieval like okay whatever that was cute and all but I want a MODERN DAY royal pack with a twist by having rococo themed furniture and themes. I know a lot of base game items have that aesthetic but no I’m talking big time rococo themes babeeyy give us those big old dresses and powder wigs. But not too much, like I said, modern royalty. Have you sims be deemed King or Queen, then bring about Princes and Princess!!! Having things like a bodyguard and a royal advisor along your side and all. It can be a new world with heavy french inspired themes and it can start off with three royal families. An older family with a good known reputation, an older family with a cruel rep, and a newer family! You can marry into these families or even start your own monarchy at start up. Each family rules over certain worlds in game, let’s say you only have base game then one family would rule willow creek, another oasis springs, and other ruling newcrest. And if you have more packs each family rule over certain areas like a real monarchy. People say things like they’ll just be like celebrities and the get famous system but no, that’s not how that works lol. They’re a ROYAL FAMILY like HELLO? Royals should be able to make laws and pass and deny them. Royals should do things like be able to have royal balls and banquets and invite the other royal familes. Depending on how they treat their people should effect the gameplay. If you’re a good monarch? They praise you and your people are happy. A bad and greedy one? They remove you from the throne! Imagine the abundance of crowns and tiaras and more statues to decorate your palace. Also the thought of creating a bigger castle lot, mayb 70 x 70 lot and having in house workers like maids and a personal chef! Also Royal announcements!! Being able to announce the new heir and royal babys and weddings!!! Ugh can you imagine that??? How wonderful. And because you’re royalty you do stand above others and your sims get special privillages like free everything, and having your kids be homeschooled by a governess! Also this could introduce funerals, your sims can be effected by the death of a leader by either being sad or happy depending on how your sim treated their people. Mayb I’m onto something or mayb I’m just obsessed with the though of my sim having status 🗿 either way-

Well that’s my list of random things I want that’s always on my mind omg

[bard-of-worlds]

Ladybug The Law is the Law CH10

Sorry it’s so late by a few days, wanted this out by Friday, so here it is and i will see you all by the twentieth next month with another chapter.

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Hawkmoth moved around his lair, his mind going towards places that he didn’t want to tread.  I didn’t want this, I just wanted her back as I promised her so long ago!  And thus my relationship with my son might be destroyed until I can get her back!  He thought before going still as he looked towards City Hall and smiled, he had finally found what he was looking for.  

 He smiled as he felt a spark of anger and rage, a perfect combination that always gave such wonderful results grinning as he activated his powers.  “Fly my little Akuma, fly and Akumatization my new champion!”

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 A woman in a black dress with her brown hair in a bun and a red diamond necklace on scowled as she left the town hall, a petition in her hands.  How dare that idiot just send me out without even looking at what I wanted to do!  I mean just because there was that carnival for next month I get shafted before I could even say anything!  I mean really what is this world coming to!  She thought as she walked through the streets, not noticing the Akuma Butterfly as it flew at her and then went into her necklace.  She went still as the energy Hawhmoth mask formed over her face and her eyes widened.

 “Inferno Empress, I am Hawkmoth!  I felt your rage and I can see what they’ve done to you!  How dare they show you the door without even letting you speak of what you wanted!  Get me the Miraculous of Chat Noir and Ladybug and in return I will give you the power to burn those peons to the ground with the full power of flame!” Hawkmoth voice came into her brain and she grinned, something that few of them did when he took control of them.

 “Let the corrupt burn, let new life be born from their ashes!”  She said as black muck covered her and she started to laugh.

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 “How the hell did you find us?”  Alya asked and Chloe shrugged.

 “Me and Chloe were walking around the city and saw you, Chloe wanted to follow you when she saw how Marinette was acting she wanted to follow to help keep Lila away from you all, then we saw Adrien detransform and Chloe followed and here we are.” Sabrina said and the other teens looked at Chloe.

“But how did you get in here, I’m sure I locked the doors.”  Fu said and Chloe grinned.

 “I picked the lock.” Chloe said blandly and the others excluding Adrien looked at her in shock.

 “You what?”  Marinette said and Chloe shrugged and looked at them.

 “I like puzzles, there’s easy for me, and by the way Marinette?  Make that box of yours a lot harder in the future, I figured out how to break it open a minute.” Chloe said and Sabrina looked at her and laughed.

 “But it was nice around my hand, not too heavy and very tight.” Sabrina said and grinned.  “That model is kind of nice and good for beginners.”

 “Wait, beginners?  You could have gotten out her out anytime, couldn’t you?  All she had to do was hide and you could let Sabrina out.” Marinette said and Adrien looked at Chloe in confusion before he winced.

  “I never wanted to be the rep, ever!” Chloe said and looked down.  “His honor has used me a lot in his campaigns and well I always hoped someone would take him down, at least take the mayor’s office from him.”

 “You wanted everybody to see you with it, didn’t you?”  Alya said and looked at her as things slowly crystalized in her mind.  “And that present Marinette made, you destroyed it because you  think she, Miss Buister didn’t deserve it!”

 “Yeah I did.” Chloe said and Marinette looked at her shocked.  “Let’s be frank, she took you out of the class room to ‘victim blame you’, didn’t she?”

 “Yes.” Marinette said and then looked at her.  “But she protected me from Akuma that tried to get me, that’s how it got her!”

 “What I did caused Hawkmoth to send an Akuma to you?” Chloe asked horrified and Marinette shook her head.

 “It was more how Miss Buister reacted and the lector she gave me than anything, at least I think it was.” Marinette said as Adrien looked at her in sorrow as Alya stared in shock as Nino covered his eyes with his hat as Tikki landed on her shoulder.

“Then she’s not completely slime, but she still should have done something to me, and her reactions caused me to forget her as a teacher.”  Chloe said and Marinette looked at her and tried to say something but stopped and sighed.

 “To begin with, I’ll need to go over some old things that Marinette and Adrien knows.  I was a child when I was found by the Order of the Guardians.” Fu said as he sipped his tea, the teens and Kwami looking at him as

 “How old were you?” Chloe asked and Fu looked at her and she continued talking.  “How old were you when you joined this Order?”

 “Around seven, I was the youngest of three children and there was a famine going on at the time so my parents gave me to the order.” Fu began and Chloe looked up and Adrien and Marinette both looked at him in shock.  “I was ten when I was ordered to meditate in isolation, I spent 36 hours and then I was so hungry that I used the Peacock Miracouis to make a Sentimonster to get some food for me.  Unfortunately I miscalculated and instead I created a monstrosity and was based on hunger, it was Feast the blue thing that Hawkmoth awoke a few months ago, and that is why I was identified by him.”

 “So you’re an old cult baby that got away.”  Chloe said and Fu did a double take and looked at her in shock.

 “The Order of the Guardians were not a cult!  I mean sure they recruited young, the oldest new comer was around maybe nine……. And I did spend three years just listening to lessons that were basically just about the rules………… and I was ordered to meditate because I disagreed with some of the lessons, the same meditation that was the root cause of me losing the Miraculous that Hawkmoth uses………” Fu said as he trailed off and then he looked around the room and paled in horror.  “Oh my god.”

 The others looked at Chloe in shock and horror as they realized she might have been right.

 “Okay, disturbing revelations aside, you wanted to talk to us?” Alya asked and Fu nodded dumbly.  

 “Yes I did, I had to. As I said most of my knowledge comes from the Kwami and the order, the wish is about balance, what will be will be, but it can be different, give people a stronger chance of survival or transfer the alliament to someone else.”  Fu said and Sabrina looked shocked.

 “So this wish, it can’t change what happens but it can change it, make it happen to other people instead?” Sabrina asked and Fu nodded as he looked at the Kwami.  

 “Yes, there might be other concerns but it looks at the person making the wish, they are the source of balance that affects it.”  Fu said and they looked at Tikki and Plagg who preened under the attention.

 “We’re the only ones who can decide when people are told about it.” Tikki said and they turned to look at her as Plagg nodded.

 “Yeah, that’s the truth. There has been three times in the history of man that we judge that it was bad enough to risk it.  One of them was the first time, we used the wish to cause a Tidal wave not to hit Atlantis and destroy it.  Instead it was an earthquake that sank half of the island and killed maybe a quarter instead of 90 percent of the population.  Unfortunately one of the survivors eventual started a rebel movement that caused the events that led to the birth of that plant thing that destroyed Atlantis!”  Plagg said and then he looked at Tikki.  “You know I never asked you what you did before we were reunited.”

 “I was in Egypt, like that Akuma said he I had.  There was one that was the worst though, Tutankhamun only did what he did because of my first enemy in that land.” Tikki said as she started to scowl and Plagg was scared at the look in her eyes.

 “Sugar Cube?” Plagg asked weakly and then Tikki shook her head and looked around at the others looking at her with concern and rubbed the back of her head.  

 “Sorry, even now I still hate that thing for what he had done.” Tikki said and sighed.  “It was a dark time for me okay?”

 “So that’s why you never talked about your time away from us.”  Wayzz said softly and everyone felt for Tikki.  However just then their phones started to buzz and looking down and they took you their phones, their eyes widening as the Akuma alert came on.

 “Oh god, it’s at Town Hall!” Chloe said as she looked up and Marinette could see the fear in her eyes.

 “Dad’s there, there’s a meeting about a fundraiser for renovations!” Alya said she looked towards Trixx but before she could say anything, a the sound of Master Fu’s cane banging against the ground caused them to stop.

 “Ladybug, Chat Noir will go, and only them for now.” Master Fu said and everyone looked at him. “Just because you know about it doesn’t mean that you all need to go, and you Miss Chloe will stay here for now. If Hawkmoth thinks something has changed then all of Paris would be in danger, not to mention the world!”

 “He’s right, if he figures out who we are because we all go there and I let up how I treat you all then I don’t know what he’ll do!” Chloe said and Fu looked at Chloe and nodded, a small smile forming on his face as he watched them all look at Adrien and Marinette as they ran upwards, Plagg and Tikki following behind.

 “They’ve done it before and they’ll do it this time too, don’t worry.” Chloe reassured Alya and she looked at Chloe and smiled.

 “So how much of your personality is a mask?” Alya asked and Chloe grinned.

 “Finally figure that out about me?  About eighty percent, I like to do my own homework but I have terrible writing so Sabrina usually copies it and we work together on it.”  Chloe admitted as she sat back and drank some of her tea.

 “She’s really good at Literature and Foreign language!” Sabrina chirped and Fu looked at them both and nodded, looking at the Miraculous box and grinning.

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 In City Hall people ran about screaming in fear as Alya’s father Otis tried to find a way out, looking at the metal shutters as the Mayor cowed behind the main desk.  And to think I voted for him!  I expected him to be a little more brave!  Otis thought as he risked a look out a nearby window and winced as a flash bomb went off outside and he lost his sight.

 “Could you see anything about it?”  An office lady asked and Otis looked towards her voice and shook his head. “Are you okay?”

 “I tried to see anything and lost some of my sight.  I can only hope that the heroes can get bye that thing out there.” Otis said as he started to blink and he started to see shapes.

 “Is it getting hotter in here?”  A man asked and then Otis saw that the door was starting to generate heat and glowing.

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 As they ran over the Paris rooftops, Ladybug wondered just what they were getting into.  As they rounded the corner she paled when she saw flames leaping towards the sky from where City Hall was and she cursed.   “Of course it’s an elemental one this time.”

 “Don’t worry My Lady, the two of us can handle it and most of our allies are a call away!”  Chat Noir reassured her as they ran.  As they made it to the plaza they were able to see that City Hall was under attack by arrows of fire that were being shot from five fireballs that moved around the building, the door starting to glow red as they watched.  As they looked around they felt heat coming from behind them and they dived to the side and turned and saw the Akuma.  

 She was a tall woman with ruby hair in two buns on the side of her hair with crimsons horns sticking out them point up.  Her face had red eye shadow and lipstick and her mouth revealed fangs from her bottom and top teeth.  She was wearing a red dress and red knee high boots and as they watched she formed a whip of flames as fireballs formed by her horns

 “So you are the fools that have troubled master Hawkmoth, I am Flame Striker and I will burn you to ashes and take the Miraculous from your remains!”  Flame Empress roared and pointed the whip at them as the fireballs spat arrows of fire at them.  Ladybug dodged but Chat Noir stayed still began to spin his baton but after a while he started to dodge as well.

 “Don’t block, if they hit it causes your weapon to grow hot!”  He called out and Ladybug kept dodging and they tried to find anything that might be the item, but nothing seemed to be obvious.  A dart hit her left arm and she felt it grow hot and after a few moments she realized it wasn’t going down.  

 “Whatever they hit grows hot!”  She screamed and dodged a bolt that hit a lamp post; Flame Striker grinned and suddenly all the fireballs shot their arrows at the post, and within moments it melt into slag.  

 “Oh.” Ladybug said as she looked at City Hall and noticed that the paint was starting to drip away.

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 At the hotel Nathalie had slipped up the staircase before the attack and had made it to the right floor and looked around, seeing that most of the doors were in the process of being repainted and after a few moments found the one that wasn’t and walked to it.  Perfect, this plan might not even fail after all. I just need to talk to Adrien and then I can hopefully end this.  She thought as she knocked on the door.  After a few moments she frowned as she heard the sound of someone walking around. “Adrien, it’s Nathalie.   I know your father is a hard ass, but he really has what he thinks is your best interests in mind.”  

 All she could hear was silence and she frowned.  Oh come on Adrien, I might have found out where you were hiding but this is not what I expected from you!  She thought as she looked at the door and started to pound on it.  “Adrien please I know that you can’t help but feel betrayed, but please just talk with me for a few moments!”

 Nathalie heard the sounds of something moving and tried again.  “I know you have to feel betrayed about what Lila said but please it’s not what you think it was, she was lying through her teeth!  Please Adrien just talk to me!”

 She couldn’t hear anything from within and started to bang on it.  he’d usually at least call back to me, and I thought I heard something moving in there before, but was I wrong about it?  No if it was somebody else they would have called out, and who else would Chloe call a special guest?!  Nathalie thought as she tried to figure out what to do.

 Nathalie looked at the door and frowned.  Okay, okay. This is worse, maybe he feels that I helped Lila, maybe he doesn’t.  Maybe he feels that I’m always on Gabriel’s side, maybe he doesn’t.  I need to talk to him face to face. Nathalie thought and looked at the door before pounding on it.

 “Adrien please talk to me at least!  Please understand that I want what I think is best for you truly!”  Nathalie pleaded and then heard nothing from the other side. What is this, I don’t understand he has to be here, I can’t let it end like this!  She thought as she started to bang on the door and then nodded.  “I’m coming in Adrien!”

 She backup and started to ram into the door, feeling it move a little and smiling as she heard some movement from inside.  As she moved backwards she heard the elevator ding down the corridor and cursed.  It must be security, but I have to talk to him face to face!  She thought as she ran at the door and put all she had into it and broke through.  She smiled as she ran in but she stepped on something and started to slip before falling to the floor.

 She felt something lick her and towards it to see a crocodile pant and smile at her.  She moved backwards and felt something soft in her hands and then she smelled it.  Looking down she saw biologic waste everywhere and throw up on the floor and she saw she was sitting in some of it and her cloths were all stained.

 “Hey, aren’t you Gabe’s secretary or something?  What are you doing in me Fangster’s sick room?”

 Looking towards the voice Nathalie saw Jagged Stone and Penny Rolling looking at her with complete confusing on their faces

 "What is this?!" Nathalie demanded and Jagged shrugged.

 "Fang ate something that didn't agree with em bad fish or something.  After the third gas attack I asked if he could stay here since this floor was being redone…….wait a tick, what are you even doing here?!" Jagged demanded as he glared at her, Nathalie could only wince as she tried to figure out what to say as she looked away but before she could say anything Penny spoke up.  

 "She can tell us later, for now let's get her in the shower, we can talk after she's not in danger of getting what Fang has." Penny said as reached down and offered her a hand.

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 Ladybug dodged another arrow and Chat Noir landed by her and grinned.  "How about the fast ball special with the whip?"

 She grinned and nodded.  Chat Noir charged at Flame Striker and started to swing his baton-staff at her and she dodged the blows, moving to the left before a trash can flew through her, Flame Striker coming apart as the heroes looked at her in shock. 

 "What the?" Chat Noir breathed as they stared in confusion before a regal sounding laugh came from all around them.

 “So you were able to handle my Flame Striker were you, let’s see how you handle the Inferno Empress!” The voice called out before fireballs started to fall around them, forming a ring of fire that slowly shrank towards them as they tried looked around, trying to find a way to get away.

 “How is she doing this, she’s not an illusion powered Akuma, no…… it’s fire based, all fire! “ Chat Noir said as he looked around and

 “You mean mirages……. Of course but how can she control what we see?”  Ladybug asked as they looked around and tried to find a way to get away. “Do you have a recharge for him?”

 “Three more of them.” Chat Noir whispered.

 “Give me a second, than make a hole into the sewers, if I can’t find a way to get around this.” Ladybug said called out her power.  “Lucky Charm!”

 Above them a red and black spotted projector and a magnifying glass dropped into her hands.

 “Is that?”  Chat Noir asked and Ladybug nodded.  “Then let me help with a Cataclysm!”

 As his power activated Chat Noir slammed his hand against the ground and a hole formed that they dropped into it as the circle rushed to them, the fire missing them by inches.

 “Follow me!” Chat Noir cried as they heard her scream from above them as light started to pour down from the hole, they both dashed away from the Akuma and within moments they had slipped away into the darkness, the screams of the Akuma echoeing off the walls.   The two stayed silent as they ran,the beeps of their miraculous the only sound until they reached a place to hide.

 “That meant what I thought it did, right?” Chat Noir asked as their transformations dropped and they turned back into their civilian forms.

 “Yeah it does, and this time we can tell him what we need.” Marinette said and then frowned.  “That Akuma, it was using heat to hide so we need someone with the ability to find it so a new Miracolous needs to go into play, right?”

 “Yeah but we need to keep her eyes on us, so then they need someone to take her down, that means we need Chloe again.  And we’ll need someone to protect her while she tries to geta a clear shot.” Adrien said and Marinette nodded.

 “Then we need Chloe and a way to find the Akuma ……is there a kwami who can give a hero that power?” Marinette asked and Tikki nodded.

 “Yes, Barkk the Kwami of Searching.”  Tikki said and she looked at them all from where she was floating.  “And Sabrina is also the best choice to join with him, like him she protects her pack at the expense of all others.”

 “And that doesn’t bother you Marinette?” Adrien asked.  “That Sabrina and Chloe need to use a Miraculous?”

 “If Chloe did that to attack our teacher then a lot of what I had against her I can work on my problems with her.” Marinette said and then sighed.  “And I gave as good as I got when we bit at each other if I’m honest.  She’s more……complicated then I thought she was.”

 “She’s like that, isn’t she? And I always thought she had a better reason than  hated to attack you, and to go after that gift for Buister.” Adrien said as the Kwami floated above them and Plagg started to laugh.

 “That’s Pollen’s nymph’s alright!  They always go after what they see as damaging their allies!” Plagg said and Marinette looked at him and opened and closed her mouth, her mind going strange places as she looked back before she shook her head to clear her mind.  “You okay Pigtails?”

 “We’ll worry about that later, we need to call them.” Marinette said as she got out her phone, a promise to talk with Chloe alone after the Akuma was dealt with being made in her head.

 “At least this way will be a lot easier in the future, right?”  Adrien asked as Plagg grinned and Tikki frowned as Marinette giggled and nodded.

 XXXX

 As Fu drank his tea as he listened to the teens talk with their Kwamis, he tried to get over the revelation that Chloe had given him.  I don’t understand, I helped deprogram survivors of the Nazi’s, why didn’t I notice my own problem?  I suppose that the worst fool is one who can’t see the trees for the forest after all.  He thought before a phone rang and they all looked to Alya as she answered it.  

 “It’s Marinette! Marinette what is it….wait I’m putting it on speaker.” Alya said as she pressed a button on her phone and put it down on the table.  “Okay, you’re on girl, how was it?”

 “Bad, the Akuma is able to control fire, it’s able to generate mirages, hide and use fireballs to fire arrows that heat up whatever they hit.” Marinette said and they all looked at each other in horror.  “So far she has the town hall under siege, but the arrows hit a lamppost and melted it!”

 “You need help then, the lucky charm?” Fu asked and they heard a giggle from Plagg on the other end and he winced.

 “We need a tracker and someone to immobilize her once they find her, so we need Queen Bee.” Marintte said and Chloe’s eyes widened.

 “NO!”  Chloe said and looked around the room at their surprised looks.  “Think, if I show up with a new hero Sabrina will be in danger!”

 “Wait……. If you don’t show up with Ladybug then you had to have gotten the Bee Miraculous from someone or somewhere else, then Hawkmoth could!”  Alya said as her eyes widened and Fu grinned.

 “So you don’t want the chance that Hawkmoth could hurt one of your friends?”  Fu asked and looked at Chloe who nodded.  “And that’s what’s going through your mind right now, giving how you showed the world you were Queen Bee.”

 “Sorry if it finally hit me that my parents would never love me and I had a mental break down.”  Chloe said bitterly.  “And while I appreciate the thought behind how you turned down my mothers offer, I might have been happier if she left Paris and my life.”

 “Chloe……” Alya said as she looked at who she thought was just a bully and privileged queen bitch and saw how valuable she was and what she dealt with.

 “You’ve always got me sis.” Adrien’s voice came from the phone and Chloe smiled.

 “Pollen, you were right about her.  Are you prepared?”  Fu asked and they all looked at him and Pollen who grinned.

 “Yes I am, I knew she was the right person to wield my power and I hope you will think that about the new comers.”  Pollen said and Trixx giggled.

 “She’s got a few more people then I’m used to, but I really want to help with the snow job at least.” Trixx said and Wayzz shook his head.

 “Not yet Master Fu, I will stay with you primarily until I am ready to leave.” Wayzz said and the teens looked around the room as Kaalki cleared her throat.

 “Young Max is a soul with much potential, and I always wanted to try and best a golem at chess, it might be fun.”  Kaalki said and Max’s mouth dropped open.

 “What are you talking about?” Marinette asked and Fu grinned.

 “What I’m talking about is finding permanent homes for all the Miraculous.”  Fu said and the teens all looked at him in shock.

 “WHAT?!”  Marinette screeched and Fu chuckled.

 “It was always a long term plan of mine, a way to help and protect the Miraculous and Kwami.  I was actually planning this for a while since before Hawkmoth’s first appearance.” Fu said and looked around and grinned.  “There were times when the Miraculous were originally in family lines, maybe it has become the time for that again.”

 “Newsflash, Queen Bee can’t engage with a new here!” Chloe said and Fu grinned back at her.

 “Then let Queen Bee die, become someone else.”  Fu said bluntly with a smile and Chloe looked at him as he got up and moved towards the box, removing the Bee .  “Did you all think that these were the permanent forms of the Miraculous?  They have changed many times over the years, but to change the Kwami must use up their abilities before they need to recharge and wait a few minutes between the transformation and first time use.  Ready Pollen?”

 “You bet!” Pollen said as she hovered above the comb and started to glow, sending a light onto the Miraculous that started to glow and after a few moments it started to shift and release a flash of light that blinded them.  When it died down there was a golden hair stick where the comb had been.  Pollen started to grin when she suddenly fell towards the floor.

 “Pollen!” Chloe creid and grabbed the Kwami before she could fall, Chloe’s heart started to beat and then Pollen laughed.  “Wait, you did that on purpose! Why?”

 “A final test my dear, just to reassure my heart.  And now for you miss Raincomprix.” Fu said and smiled at her as she looked back at him in shock.  

 “Me?”  Sabrina asked and Fu nodded.

 “Yes, they were right that you might have been in danger with Queen Bee, but will you step forward anyway?” Fu asked and Sabrina gasped in shock and Marinette laughed a little. “I guess from your laughter that she was your pick my dear?”

 “Yes she was.” Marinette said and Sabrina looked at the phone in complete shock.

 “What!  Why me?!”  Sabrina asked and Chloe grinned as her friend was about to receive recognition for all that she was.

 “You have one of the keenest eyes in class, and I can trust you to do what’s right. And recent events have made me rethink a lot of things and I will talk to you and Chloe about them when this is over.  But for now, Sabrina will you accept the Miraculous, will you stand up and help protect Paris?” Marinette asked through the phone and Sabrina looked around, Chloe had a blank face and Sabrina knew she had to decide this on her own,

 “If it will help people, yes I will.”  Sabrina said and Fu laughed and looked at her with a smile and handed her a small box.

 “Sabrina Raincomprix, this is the Miraculous of the Dog, with the power of Tracking.  You will use this for the greater good and return this to me when the danger has passed.” Marinette said as Sabrina accepted the box and looked around at the others.

 “Yes!”  Sabrina said as she opened the box.  A ball of light formed into a dog shapped kwami with light brown with a white mark around her mouth, between her eyes, and on her chest. She has gray eyes, drop ears, a whisker on her forehead and a tail that curved upwards.

 “Hi Sabrina, I’m Barkk! My transformation command is Let’s Hunt!”  Barkk said with a grin before Sabrina hugged him.

 “AWWW, you’re so cute!” Sabrina said and Barkk laughed as he snuggled with her.

 “Thanks!  Now my power will let you see any magic being used within a mile, you just have to focus on what you’re hunting and I’ll do the rest, just say ‘Tracker’s Eye!’ to activate it!”  Barkk said with a grin and Sabrina nodded.

 “Ready Sabrina?” Chloe asked as she removed her hairpin and put the Miracoulous in its place as Sabrina removed the Dog Miraculous, a collar around her neck, undoing the bow around her neck to do so.

 “Go, remember Chloe, think about how you want your costume to change, it is not Queen Bee but a new persona that you and Pollen must construct together.”  Fu said and Chloe nodded.

 “Pollen, Buzz on!” Chloe called out and Pollen shoot into the comb.  As the lights went up her body it formed a yellow bodysuit with a solid black corset with a yellow collar and a white fuzzy chocker around her neck and black gloves that went to her elbows and she had on black knee high boots and her mask was pure black hiding her eyes with pitch black spots over them and her hair became two ponytails with a black line down the top of both and a golden comb formed before them as a yellow spinning top materialized in her hands that she started to spun around her head.

 “Barkk, let’s hunt!” Sabrina called out and Bakk flew straight at the collar and a flash of light covered Sabrina and then when it died down she was covered in a brown bodysuit with a dog tail from a belt around her waist and she had a face mask across her eyes that went to her ears and two dog ears on her head, two Escrima Sticks formed and she put them on her back and glared out a fierce look in her eyes.

“Welcome to the team! Say, what are your names?”  Alya asked and the two looked at each other and grinned back.

 “Apisera.”  Chloe, the former Queen Bee renamed herself and grinned, her voice sounding different.

 “And I’m Canixia!” Sabrina said and grinned as she took out one of the Escrima Sticks from her back and looked at it.

 “Good, the two of us have recharged, what’s the plan?”  Plagg’s voice came over the phone and they all looked at it.

 “We can’t find her without you two, so we’ll attack and try and take out the fireballs.  Once you get in range, Canixia can use her power and track the Akuma, then fall back and transform back, Apisera you attack her and then try break her concentration.” Marinette said and the heroes nodded.

 “Good luck the both of you.” Fu said as the two heroes nodded and ran upwards.

 “Let’s backup a bit. You want to give us the Miraculous we used?”  Max asked and Fu nodded.

 “I am mealy the keeper and protector of these beings, not their jailer.  They have talked about you all, and that might be the best thing in the end.”  Fu said and smiled at them.  “But I will have to ask that you go to battle when called only.  And we will need to change the way the Fox looks like.”

 “Why?   Wait…….. the Bee was changed because everyone knows about it, so who knows about the Fox?”  Alya asked and then she started to glare.  “Oh don’t tell me, Lila again!?”

 “Yes, tell me did they talk to you about what book Lila took from Adrien?” Fu asked and at their shakes his eyes hardened.  

 XXXXXX

 As they dashed over the Paris rooftops Apisera led the way and looked back and saw Canixia lagging. Sabrina doesn’t like to fight but we might be the MVP here, I need to give her a pep talk I guess.  Apisera thought as she looked at Canixia and stopped at a building and looked at Caxina and smiled.  

 “Que…….  Why are you stopping?  We need to move!”  Caxina said as she landed and looked at Apisera who looked back and sighed. “What?”

 “Your scared aren’t you?” Apisera asked and Caxina looked down and nodded.

 “I mean yeah.”  Caxina said and looked at Apisera.   “I’m not that brave, but I know that this can help save lives and I will help out!”

 “Then don’t forget about it. Embrace it and use it to save others.” Apisera said and Caxina nodded and took a deep breath.  “Ready girl?”

 “Yeah, let’s do it!” Caxina said and Apisera grinned at her friend and they took off, running over the rooftops.  After a few moments they were over looking towards the town hall and winced as they saw the Chat Noir and Ladybug try and destroy the fireballs .  “There it is, this might be the best place.”

 “Yeah, let’s do it! Tracker’s Eye!”  Caxina said and her eyes went pure white and she stepped back. She suddenly saw a red line going from the fire towards the east.  “That way, she’s that way!”  

 “Let’s go!”  Apisera said and they moved forward, Caxina leading the way.  They moved until they found a clearing with a woman in a red dress with a ruby crown on her head with a ruby staff with a black gemstone sphere on top.  Before they could do anything Caxina saw a purple energy line shot from above and then a mask of a butterfly appeared over her face. Caxina grabbed Apisera’s hand and gestured backwards with her head.  Apisera nodded and they moved away from the clearing and

 “I saw Hawkmoth talking to her!” Caxina said and looked at Apisera.  “I mean I saw the magic go talk to her before it formed that mask!”

 “What?” Apisera asked in shock before a beep was heard and a spot on her collar went away.  “Your timing out, get to safety and talk to the others, if we can use this then we could win!”

 “Good luck.” Caxina said as she ran in the direction of the theater.  As Caxina psyched herself up she looked towards the Akuma and grinned.

 “Time for my debut.” Apisera said with a grin.  “And with luck Hawkmoth will only know that I’m here.”

 XXXXX

 Chat Noir and Ladybug rushed towards the mirage of Flame Striker they hoped that they would have all of her attention.  Ladybug threw her yoyo out and grabbed a trashcan and threw it at one of the fireballs and destroyed it as Chat Noir threw a garbage can lid at another destroying it.  As they dodged the arrows from the other fireballs, Ladybug hoped Chloe and Sabrina would soon find the Akuma, and moments after she had this thought then the fireballs died, however a moment later an explosion of fire herald Apisera flying through the air and she rolled and landed next to Ladybug and Chat Noir as she winced, her top was around her arm.

 “What happened?!” Ladybug asked as the true Akuma walked out, fire balls forming around her staff.

 “I don’t know!  I was about to attack her when…….Hawkmoth has eyes on us!”  Apisera said with a snarl.  “He contacted her before I sent my partner away and got the jump on me before I could do anything, sorry LB.”

 “Don’t worry, you got the real one out……. Wait what?!” Ladybug asked as she and Chat Noir swung their heads and looked at Apisera who nodded.  If she means what I think she does, then that’s……That’s a game changer…… we can talk about it later but for now we need to stay alive.  She thought as she looked at the Akuma as she walked out.

 “So you need help to deal with me, the Flame Empress?” Flame Empress purred as two fireballs formed and started to fire arrows at them, the three heroes dodging as two more fireballs formed behind her.

 “What’s the plan my Lady?” Chat Noir asked and Aspirea chuckled as she readied herself.

 “Let’s try a Luck Charm!” Ladybug called out as she threw her Yoyo upwards and a red and black spotted fog machine dropped down.  She looked at it and then around, seeing the alley that Flame Empress had come out of and then Aspirea flashed as well as Ladybug understood.  

 “Take this and get back to where you left your partner and recharge, look for an opening and activate it once you see one.” Ladybug said as she handed the machine to Aspira who looked at Flame Empress and nodded.  “We’ll hold it off, go!”

 “Got it Ladybug!” Aspira said with a grin as she realized what Ladybug meant and dashed away, Chat Noir looked at the Akuma as it moved sent fireballs at them and started to dodge the arrows.  Ladybug used her yoyo to grab a bench and throw it at Flame Empress who burned it to ashes with her staff as Chat Noir landed near the town hall.  He looked at the door as he felt the heat from it and frowned as he felt the heat from it and looked at the walls, seeing the paint start to drip down he hoped Chloe would be able to finish this before the two of them timed out.

 “I’ll just be able to get Ladybug’s Miraculous before I try and get the cat!  You can’t stop what you can’t see!”  Flame Empress roared as she raised her staff and fired a bolt of flame at Ladybug who dodged it and

 XXXXX

 Aspira moved upwards and away, a scowl on her face.  He saw us, that’s the only explanation for who it happened!  I guess the ideas that we’ve brainstormed about Hawkbut is dead, at least that one   had made it to the rooftop and looked down at the alley, her eyes not finding anything but feeling the breeze she activated the fog machine.  As the fog started to drift down she saw an area that wasn’t being covered by the fog, an area in the shape of a person.  Aspira grinned and looked down at the space and jumped towards it, a grin on her face.  “Venom!”

 As she fell  down she hit something and saw Flame Empress fade into reality as Aspira grinned and looked at the Akuma.  

 “Not bad, the only thing that’s bad is that you won’t remember much so we won’t be able to ask you how you found out we were there.” Aspira said as she reached down and picked up the paralyzed Akuma.   She walked out of the alley as Ladybug and Chat Noir moved towards her.

 She grinned at them and smirked before she heard a beep before another beep sounded and she put the Akuma down.  “Well I’m off, hopefully I’ll get back to my partner and we’ll hand them over to you once we de-transform!”

 As Aspira jumped to the rooftops Ladybug looked over the Akuma until she found the necklace and tore it from her neck.  “Catch Chat!”

 “Cataclysm!”  He called out and with a touch the necklace was destroyed, black energy flowing over the Akuma as she was turned back to normal as Chat jumped upwards and ret.  As the black butterfly flew free Ladybug started to spin her yoyo.  

 “No more evildoing for you little Akuma!”  She called out as she threw her necklace at the butterfly and caught it.  She pulled the yoyo back to her and smiled, releasing a white butterfly from it as Chat Noir came down with the fog machine.  “Together?”

 “Together!” Chat Noir answered with a smirk and they both put their hands under the Lucky Charm and threw it into the air.  

 “Miraculous Ladybug!” They called out as it came apart into ladybugs that swarmed around, repairing the light post and then swarming over the town hall, the glow being gone when they swarm passed.

 “I’ll go, you handle the victim.” Ladybug said as she ran towards one of the buildings and jumped away, Chat Noir looking at her and smiling before turning back towards the victim as people, including Otis came out of the town hall.  

 “Are you okay?”  Chat Noir asked the woman who shook her head.

 “Wha….Chat Noir?  Why are you…… oh god!  He got me didn’t he?”  The woman said and Chat Noir nodded.

 “Can I ask what was the cause mam?” Chat Noir asked

 “I wanted to update the fire safety rules for public gatherings, I spent a month working on it but I was told that I would have to come back because a new festival was just planned for next month and to bring in new laws or rules would affect it so I was told to come back when there wasn’t one planned, and with the way the city is that would be sometime next year!”  The woman said loudly as people came closer and Otis scowled in anger.  

 “I don’t believe this, did you talk to the mayor about that?” Otis demanded and the woman shook her head.

 “I didn’t even get that far, it was this secretary outside his office.” The woman said and then they all looked towards Chat Noir as his ring beeped.

 “You all look like you got this, good luck!”  Chat Noir said as he jumped to the rooftops and dashed away and Otis looked at the woman and offered her his hand.

 “I’m Otis, I work at the zoo and I’ve been chosen to plan a fundraising party, how about you and I look over your proposed new rules and we see what we can do?” Otis said and the woman smiled at him.

[soranihimawari]

day 1: shenanigans

foxes den shenanigan (1)

summary: snippets into the slice of life of being one of the few young women who interact with the inarizaki volleyball club. every member is all tough on the outside until they meet kira, yn: the one who had been neighbors with the miya twins all her life. her best friend, nakiri-chan, is convinced at least once in their life all three of them (osamu, kira, and atsumu) had loved each other. this mini series is a going to be a little reflective, a little dramatic, and overall deals with themes of growing up to learn the difference of love. 

genre: slice of life/ angsty-teen love/ rated pg-15+ for language and juxtopostional humour. 

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-------[Inarazaki High School, 11:47 a.m.]-------

“you can’t be serious,” my best friend’s voice of disbelief tells me. we were on lunch break when we decided to head to the vending machines by the gym. there were various students talking amongst themselves buzzing with excitement for the annual art festival. 

“oh, but i am,” i said. i took a deep breath when i gripped her shoulders. upon my exhale i nodded.

“b-but your class representative said your homeroom was putting together a maid cafe all because she found out you know how to bake?”

“i blame the last bake sale my cooking club did to raise funds for a new mixer. all the members of the boys’ volleyball team bought a bag of my ‘cosmic star’ cookies.“

“i see. well, it can’t be all that bad, right? if you’re going to be the one coming up with the menu and the baked treats, you don’t really have to wear the maid outfit.”

i hum in response when i place my bill into the machine. the vending machine rumbles before dropping my can of mango nectar. once she buys her drink, she and i head back to our class on the third floor; before we separate, she wishes me luck with coming up with the menu.

“so, what did you have in mind kira-chan?”

“macaroons and maybe tarts. i don’t know what kind yet though. i’ll see ya after classes are over so we can walk home together. later nakiri-san!”

***

the day of the festival approached even faster than you had thought. after many attempts at making various macaroon flavors and tart ideas that paired well with the boba-styled drinks being served, me and the other bakery/cafe volunteers were ready for business. the other students in your class were divided between servers and baristas. the girls and boys who were selected as the maids and butlers were thankfully the only ones that had to wear the full garb. since it was the day before the festival, i decided to do a sampling of the sweets i chose to make for the servers and baristas so they can help our prospective customers tomorrow with describing the menu items. my fellow classmates, the team of five standing next to me (our bakers team consisted of six), were able to try out their own treats and thanked me for showing them how to make the treats. aside from macaroons and cookies, we collectively added two parfait flavors: one was strawberry themed for our school colors and the other was themed around sunset colors.

before the meeting was adjourned, i breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing the news from our class rep up until she mentioned something about the bakery staff wearing cat ears and other nicknacks of cafe worker approved jewelry. when i got home that evening, i screamed into my pillow to relieve some excess stress over the maid cafe. 

i immediately called my neighbor and although i wasn’t expecting him to answer the phone, i felt relief wash over me when i heard his normal greeting on the other end:

“miya residence and no, atsumu isn’t the better twin.”

i chuckled at his statement. after years of living next door to them, i can only say that miya osamu was right (also, he was the first person to express the same level of joy in cooking for others). he immediately cleared his throat when he heard me laugh.

“ahem. oh, hey kira-san. what’s up?”

i am not surprised i heard a short lived scuffle in the background as well as atsumums “ack!” in the background followed by a soft thud that only chucking a pillow could have made.

“osamu? it’s me. say, do you still have the cat ear hair clips from last halloween?”

***

the festival was in full swing: streamers lined the hallways as the people visiting came to enjoy what our school had to offer. i heard from nakiri that her class voted on doing a paint by numbers mural. other classes in our year were doing their renditions of living portraits and face painting. apparently, my class along with our neighbors across the hall divided up the cafeteria to encompass both a savory restaurant booth along with our class’ maid cafe. 

i was busy with the other members of my team making sure orders were being ran on time while placing the finishing touches for the treats on the tray. even though i was allowed to wear my pistaschio green chef coat, i couldn’t get away with just wearing a macaroon earrings. to push my bangs back, i had a pair of cat ears clipped into my hair. 

“shift change kira-san!” my class rep’s voice said in an exuberant manner. she was in charge of patrolling the hallway trying to gather more guests to come into our side of the cafeteria. business was steady to say the least, but i recalled i had signed up to take over the advertising part once hers was over. 

“ok! can you give me a few minutes? i need to fix my make up real quick.”

elsewhere, the members of the inarizaki volleyball team were seen wandering around campus enjoying the festival. the twins along with suna had long sinced branched off and found nakiri’s class. 

“hey guys! come to paint?” she offered them a sponge brush and a little to-go container. 

“isn’t kira-chan supposed to be with you?” osamu asked perplexed i wasn’t near by.

“yeah, aren’t you two joined at the hip?” his brother chimed in. nakiri rolled her eyes at the blond before shaking her head. 

“oh? you didn’t hear?” nakiri asked slightly taken aback by his question.

right at that moment, nakiri pointed behind the boys toward where i was standing speaking with over festival goers who were looking at the menu for my class’ cafe. i had a smile on my face when the guests mentioned they’d absolutely stopped by for a refreshing treat. when they waved their good bye to me, i was suddenly greeted by a different family who asked what i would recommend for their five year old (while they would opt for teas, their child really wanted something sweet). after asking a few questions (are they allergic to anything? does their child prefer strawberries or oranges? etc), i pointed out our strawberry parfait as a great option for them to all share. 

“i heard one class chose to do a dessert cafe, but i didn’t think it would be a maid cafe,” rintarou stated flatly. he took the paint and the brush from nakiri before stepping inside to paint his section of the mural. on the other hand, the blond twin elbowed his brother. there was a teasing glint in his eyes. 

“kira-san looks really cute, doesn’t she ‘samu?”

nakiri caught on to how pink the gray haired twin’s cheek became when his brother teased him. for the life of him, osamu couldn’t help but wonder why his neighbor called him asking to borrow the cat ear clips the night prior and now it was all making sense. 

“shut it atsumu.”

“hmm,” nakiri hummed. she tapped her index finger on her lips in thought. “my shift is almost over for the hour, so why don’t we all go visit the cafe, yeah?”

***

“oh my god!” 

my class rep burst through the kitchen doors again when my shift was over causing me to almost drop the parfait in my hands. i had successfully placed the dessert on the tray. one of the front of house staff members gripped her shoulders to calm her down a bit. thankfully, none of the ingrients toppled over, but we did lose a cookie straw in the process.

“breathe class rep,” i saidx. i was trying really hard to not laugh at her panicked expresion. “what’s going on?”

“h-hot miya twins outside.” 

that was all i needed to hear before i pinched the bridge of my nose before cursing my best friend and her family nine generations back for slipping out my secret assignment for the festival.

seeing my neighbors through the window of the kitchen swing doors was honestly the last thing i needed today, but of course we couldn’t always win the fortune of the gods. mumbling a quick, ‘the gods are testing me again,’ caused one of the cooks to snicker. to be fair, i could live without the thought of hearing atsumu’s teasing jokes or osamu’s sass, but alas, i did not win fortune’s favor that hour. also, this was the last outfit they’d expect to see me in because half of the volleyball team had tried (keyword:tried) to get me into a maid outfit for y e a r s. that campaign stopped as soon as shinsuke became captain.

“they’re asking for you to serve them too,” the front of house manager said when he walked into the kitchen shortly thereafter. i was having a good day up until this turn of events, and although it took every fiber of my being to not kill those two, i realized i should handle this in an appropriate manner. i mentioned i’ll handle it relinquishing my duties to my second. 

when i walked outside, i noticed that not only were my twin neighbors outside, they also sent a text to their entire team asking to visit the cafe area. i calmly turn my lips upward in a saccharine smile as i approached their table. it’s the same familiar smile which caused atsumu and osamu’s blood to run cold; they knew i was pissed as soon as i let the spirit of customer service take over my body.

“welcome to the foxes’ den masters,” i greeted them with a bow. “how may i be of service?”

atsumu’s eyes bounced back and forth between me and his brother who seemed to have found the parfaits description very interesting. 

“can i order something off the menu?” atsumu asked in a teasing way. if looks could kill, i’d sent the setter back home with a killer bruise on his shoulder, yet I remember how violence is frowned upon at a festival.

seeing as i did not object to his question when i replied with, “if it is your wish master.”

“can i buy an hour of your time from ya for my dearest younger brother?”

i blinked caught off guard by his forwardness on his twin’s behalf. all of our patrons had ceased speaking to other members of their parties after hearing his proposal. where was a pillow when i needed to scream into one? all color drained from osamu’s face. nakiri looked just as shocked as i was mouthing a ‘sorry’ toward me; she gave me an encouraging smile. (it’s been four years since both of the miya siblings gifted me friendship chocolates on white day as an apology for poking fun at my wacky homemade candies. my parental figure thought it would have been nice to make some for the neighbors’ twins in middle school.) 

my smile disappeared while i pondered my answer to the setter’s eager eyes. to spare both osamu and i further embarrassment, I spoke the first thing that came to my mind:

“if that is what your brother wishes, young master, then he should ask me himself,” i said kindly.

this caught osamu’s attention real quick; his eyes snapped up at me with a curious stare. suna had his phone out obviously documenting the whole thing. i tilt my head to the side and posed my hands under my chin prentending to think before i shrugged.

“he should also know that my shift ends at five-thirty and he should meet me here if he doesn’t mind walking me home. now, if you’ll excuse me, i have to garnish table seven’s parfaits.”

the murmurs of conversations began up again once i bowed and took my leave back into the kitchen. the last thing i heard was nakiri laughing as atsumu exclaimed that they were seated at the table i mentioned and osamu claiming that he’d kill his brother for fourth time that day. 

“i’ll have you know that i could have asked her at any time right?” osamu seethed. “i don’t need you to line up dates for me.”

“yeah, yeah. you hate me, i hate you. we punch each other a little, and then you get to date kira since you’re clearly not going to do anything about this one sided love you think you two have,” atsumu said before resting his chin on his hand. suna caught what atsumu said all on the video he was recording, including nikiri’s stunned face.

“woah, back the fun bus up. seriously?!” she asked. “no wonder kira had been acting a bit more strictly with her recipes lately. look at the little drawings on the menu.”

she was quick to point out the little drawings of the chibi macaroons (“one was blueberry the other was mango orange, a silent reference to you three’s friendship,” she briefly explained) the design team made and colored.

“must be true, look at how red his cheeks are becoming & i don’t think that’s because of anger,” suna replied.

“c‘ mon, let’s go.” atsumu suggests, rising from the table. “i suddenly recall having passed by the boardwalk games section. osamu, you stay here and tell me what i should order.”

—to be continued—

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jaytim Actors/Celebrity AU

Here I go with another plot idea I don’t know if I’ll get around to writing *sigh* I wish my fingers moved as fast as my brain did when it comes to plotting out stories...

Anyhow, so here it is:

Actors AU

Jason Todd is a well-known actor who grew up poor in Crime Alley; when they reopened the theater when he was a teen he got a part-time job there, sweeping floors, working the box office, all the crummy shifts and such; could never afford acting school, but the theater had a community class like once every two weeks or something;

from observing the actors and plays, and just generally hanging around a lot he manages to work his way up/get opportunities to get on stage; he eventually secures a scholarship to go to the UK and study acting classically; over the years he develops his own signature acting style, which is largely based on improvisation; he has his own way of doing things, can be hard to work with, but has some kind of luck that just makes everything he is a part out turn out amazing/talk of the town;

when he’s in his teens he lands a part in a hit drama that suddenly catapults him to fame—although he remains notoriously picky about what parts he plays and is more interested in the art than the fame side of things; he’s a very private person, has on occasion punched paparazzi for following him and his boyfriend/girlfriend of the time around, donates the majority of his money to children’s charities and such, etc.

Tim Drake is the son and adopted son of silver-screen royalty; his parents were both actors who became well-known producer / talk-show hosts; kind of larger than life figures and he always felt overwhelmed around them; as a kid he expressed interest in being an actor when he grew up, but got a condescending “oh, but you’re so smart, you could do anything else” sort of answer and never really brought it up again because clearly his parents didn’t think he could do it (had made self esteem issues, yeah?);

anyway, he grew up neighbors to the Wayne Family, family of a long line of actors, and the latest heir to that name Bruce is also a bit of a scandalous figure because he adopts children like crazy (basically he’s Angelina jolie); so Tim grew up neighbors and friends with Dick, Cass, Steph, Damian and Duke, all of whom are celebrities in their own right (maybe not necessarily actors, but definitely well-known);

and he’s a secret theater fanboy, watches all the classics, knows all the lines to things, pretends to be his favorite actors—especially a certain Jason Todd who he idolized from the first moment he breaks out with that drama role and follows his career obsessively, just basically either wants to be him or be with him.

when Tim’s parents died in a plane crash, Bruce was named guardian of him so Tim goes to live with him; And the Waynes are all super supportive of him; Timmy wants to be an actor? Then by god he’ll be an actor; they’ll find him an agent and help him get shows and everything; they don’t even care if he’s good or not, if he wants to do it, they’re supportive

And at first the only thing he manages to get booked for is Teen heartthrob roles and voice acting; and most people say it’s just because who his parents are, and he never really gets a chance to show his talent, but it’s a foot in the door

Until he lands a role in a major action flick; (I dunno, something like Maze Runner or Hunger Games or something) and it turns out he’s actually a good actor; like an amazing method actor (and also not too hard to look at); thus begins his career—at the same time that Jason Todd is majorly injured (stunt action scene gone wrong, he ends up in rehab for 18 months recovering, people start to think he’s dead or whatever)

By the time Jason comes back to the world of acting, he decides to go back to his roots on stage; maybe something on Broadway; he’s all set up to take on a new role, only to hear that he’s lost out to a certain Tim Drake (whose only dream has been to follow in his idol’s footsteps and do stage acting in a certain show at least once), but hey, the role opposite is free if you want it?

Jason is rather resentful of being replaced by some kid that he only knows is a Disney channel staple because Roy’s daughter Lian watches that stuff religiously; he doesn’t intend to cut him any slack, because in his view, you have to work your way up and earn your privilege on certain stages and he doesn’t think Tim’s managed that.

They meet. Jason’s defensive and a jerk to Tim; Tim is heartbroken that his idol doesn’t like him.

Cue weeks/months of tension and rivalry; Jason grudgingly admitting that Tim actually has some talent; Tim getting to know the side of Jason that the public never get to see; slowly, they start to work together and get closer…which is, of course, when Tim’s adopted family starts putting in appearances and making things hella complicated. And of course there’s the press, who Tim has gotten so used to being followed around by and in his life, but Jason’s having a hard time of it because he’s always done his best to keep private. And the press keep showing them together, always talking “Bromance”, and Jason is way irritated about this…and then he begins to realize he’s more irritated about the fact that it’s just a bromance because he’s started to realize he and Tim have a connection deeper than that

They end up embarking on a relationship (after a lot of false starts, mutual pining, Wayne shenanigans, etc.). And it’s really, really good.

Except Tim’s agents and reps are on his back to keep the relationship under wraps, because a large part of his image as teen heartthrob / Hollywood hunk is based on the fact of him being straight and they’re worried he’ll lose out on opportunities and such if it comes out that he’s in a relationship with a guy; which tim thinks is bullshit, but he’s signed on to a really important role just now and the guy in charge is huge homophobe and has been known to make the lives of people he doesn’t like miserable to the point where they quit…and breaking a contract with him is practically a “You’ll Never Work In This Town Again” sentence. So Tim and Jason agree to keep things under wraps for a while.

Which causes tensions between them for obvious reasons.

Maybe throw in Jason getting a stalker (Joker, anyone?) and there being a major confrontation between him, where Tim comes to his rescue, or something happens to out them and then they both have to figure out what’s going to happen from them.

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Anyhow, that’s all I have for now, but I was thinking about that this morning. Don’t even know why I suddenly was thinking of actors or anything.

I don’t actually know much about theater/acting/celebrities except what I see on TV, but this is what’s been in my head :P

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