#Headcanon time

[fan-fan-tastic]

MEME FULFILLED PROPHECY

Despite being a mass of potholes and quite repetitive, PIDW is very popular, popular enough to have a community of fans. This means not only having fanart, fics and even merchandise, but also an entire culture, with fandom lore and yes, even memes.

One of those was “When Mobei-Jun gets married” it was used to indicate something that would never happen, like “when hell will freeze over” or “when pigs will fly”. It was so popular that there were even some variants, like “it happen at Mobei-Jun’s wedding” or “when Airplane marries Mobei-Jun off”

Shen Yuan really liked this meme because it was supported by canon: there had been several scenes where after a fight, Luo Binghe would look over the spoils and let his right hand man pick a boon. Despite the ever-present trembling maidens, Mobei-Jun would always pick a weapon, or in an instance an ancient relic that had once belonged to his clan. So yeah, Shen Yuan used it pretty often, once he even let it slip out IRL, but luckily no one got the reference.

He even used it once in a thread that went viral: it was a pointless debate over OP’s incorrect interpretation of an arc. Shen Yuan was clearly right, he even had quoted several chapters to prove his point and so the other user had resorted to personal insults. OP had typed something like “You are ridiculous! When will you admit that you are actually a fan of the novel and not an hater?!” To which Shen Yuan had responded with “When Mobei-Jun gets married”

Now, this should have ended the discussion in Shen Yuan’s favor: the meme usually got lots of likes regardlessly of the context, and so he would have won the debate.

But OP for reason had decided to tag Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky himself.  “Great Master Airplane, would you marry Mobei-Jun if it means getting Peerless Cucumber admitting that he likes your story?”

To everyone’s surprise the author (sleep deprived an high on caffeine and energy drinks) actually did answer “Damn, I would marry Mobei-Jun for free”.

True to his writing style Airplane dropped the bomb to never addressed it again. That comment had started another meme, although less popular than the other about Mobei-Jun having been married the whole time to the author himself and the ship AirplaneXMobei became the most popular for the character. There few fans that had written crackfics had been insufferable about it, even resurrecting the ‘I shipped X before it was cool’ format just to flex.

After transmigrating into the scum villain and masterfully avoiding the original good’s fate, Shen Yuan one day receives an invitation to a wedding, accompanied by a mission by the System that just says ‘True to your word: User must respect the vow he once made’. Shen Yuan immediately understands what this is about: he would rather jump into the Endless Abyss than do that.

[starmocha]

Babe, do you want me to wear your coat??? 😭

[miyakuli]

Time to make some assumptions of what's going to happen in Sinsmas

Stolas will certainly wish to go back to his palace to see Via and Blitz will offer to come with him (because without his power and seeing his mental state, it'll be safer).

Then I'm not certain of the order of the scene. Either he will get to Via first and sadly Via will reject him because she would feel abandoned (a consequence of being manipulated by her mom without knowing it too), and then Andrealphus would arrive to throw him out of the palace, and since Stolas would resist he would use force/magic against him (and that's why we get the protective Blitz scene). Or... The thing is that I really wonder how a powerless Stolas and an armed Blitz would be enough against Andrealphus....so now I wonder if the fight will start first and Via would actually arrive to protect them, and would ask her uncle to have a conversation with her dad. And I doubt it'll have again a positive conclusion :'(

Via's song could be the climax of their goodbyes idk ;v; save me from the pain

I think the episode would conclude with a Sinsmas celebrations with Blitz & co because apparently Sallie May will be in that ep so I can picture all their close family & friends (Fizz, Sallie...) gathering for that day.

I doubt Via will be there.......so yes, poor Stolas is gonna be all sad and depressed....but I think Blitz might comfort him like to not give up and that he will help him to get back his daughter.

*HEADCANON TIME*

- How? she doesn't want to see me anymore… - We'll figure it out Stols. She'll still be there waiting tomorrow, and after tomorrow and so on. - But what am I gonna do until then, I can't be a burden for you and your daughter by staying here and I have no money to pay the rent and…. *Blitz putting his hand on Stolas' * *Stolas gasping at the gesture and looking into Blitz' eyes* - Actually, we're looking for a secretary for I.M.P~

End of episode

[sillygh0st]

Hear me out what if qpac starts to " possess" qmike body bc he ""lost"" his body HEAR ME OUT. Just imagine qmike on his ranch resting and suddenly he starts to hear his soulmate voice coming from inside of him and BOOM they are now for they will for a non-specific period of time sharing the same body‼️‼️‼️‼️Just imagine qmike staring at a mirror asking "PAC YOU FUCKER WHERE IS YOUR OWN BODY" and qpac just says using qmike voice/body "idk bro lets try to find it later lol" (they stay like this for some long time)

[theheadcanonzone]

The reason why Merle kept trying to cast higher-level spells he didn't know is because he did know them during the Stolen Century. He kept forgetting that he had forgotten them, if that makes sense, he's more used to being able to cast them than he is not being able to.

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Submitted by @dullahandyke

[loserrofthecentury]

SG shockwave as head medical officer is so interesting in my mind. Like, they are knowledgeable in the medical field, however they mostly do paperworks, reports and check ups in my opinion due to their emotional dysfunction (I always think of a school matron/nurse in my mind). She’s especially good at prescriptions and medications, and always has a bottle of paracetamols on her (also has edibles stashed in one of the drawers).

Soundwave also hangs around her office because 1. So she can use some of the medication to numb her joint pain 2. To check the morale of the patients and 3. To see her wife. You can always tell if Soundwave is there because there’s constant music flowing through the medical office.

Hook and Knockout are both surgeon and doctors respectively. Breakdown is an assistant.

Feel free to add to this as well. I need this headcanon to go strong

[rainystressed247]

Poll times!

Because I am bored and I want to see what the majority of people think.

Options are limited but you are free to add in the comment!

[its-my-mistake-but-ill-take-it]

Kylar and Sydney being half siblings

Im going off purely on thirst posts here. How did Sydney recognize PC that quickly? Why is Sirris looking during Science? Thats just plain questions but have you ever considered

Side chick Sirris. Or polyamory,

Syd's other parent is Jordan's predecessor? Yes but hear me out. In an attempt of peace with Auriga cult and the temple they tried this? But didnt tell the temple just in case but when they found out they decided BANISHMENT and spoiler alert now Syd's other parent is one of the monsters in Kylar's mansion thats why Sirris doesnt want to step foot in the temple anymore and

[einsteinsugly]

Headcanon Time!

At their wedding, Kelso smashes cake in Brooke's face, even though she has asked him not to. Brooke is pissed, and so is Jackie. For Brooke's sake, because Kelso is an idiot, and because she helped with Brooke's hair and makeup.

Jackie: See, Michael, this is why I broke up with you.

Hyde (putting his arm around Jackie): If I smashed cake in Jackie's face, she'd never forgive me.

Jackie: See? He's a real man, who respects his future wife's wishes.

Hyde (with a proud smirk): Yep.

[noveeleven]

As a fandom we (read as I) need a load of headcanon about Jonathan's friend journalist. Like... He would get along with the main gang so much. A Gothic detective story needs a journalist!! How and when Jonathan knew him? (fellow orphan friend? In a legal setting? They simply went to the same pub?). We were robbed of Mina sharing her love for journalism with an actual journalist. She would collapse with fangirling. We were robbed, Bram, ROBBED!

[snowysoul-squrirel]

Headcanon time! This one is short but sweet.

Ratau, former bearer of the Red Crown, would be excellent with kids

[miyakuli]

If I knew how to draw, I'd make lots of Stolitz kisses with my dreamed positions like...

Blitzo kissing Stolas after crawling on his laps

Blitz climbing onto the armrests of the couch so he can kiss Stolas with both hands on his fluffy face

Stolas stealing a kiss from Blitz just before the portal to Earth closes

Blitz climbing a few steps of a staircase to be at the right height to kiss him (Lovely Complex inspiration here xD)

An underwater kiss (cause I want to believe we'll have a parallele with Just Look My Way but this time Blitz will be there for him ;v;)

A wedding kiss on the floor (cause Stolas just jumped on him after the priest ended his speech and they both fell >v<)

[stick2sherlock]

I feel like while the whole Batfam can be cryptid-like, it's 100% natural for Bruce, Damian and Cas. Like, sure, Tim, Dick, Jason or anyone else can pull off being inhuman creatures of the night with very little effort, but it still requires turning on the 'bat-mode'. Bruce, Damian and Cas on the other hand just... do it. They could be standing in the room on a regular wednesday morning and you know they would stand in the somehow dimmest and most shadowed part of the room, their movements a little too controlled, their faces a little too still, and there would be no sound from them unless they speak, not even a rustle of clothes or breathing. Small things, but activating that 'wrong-uncanny-unnatural-run-run-run' protocol in the lizard-brain of those around them.

[theheadcanonzone]

post S&S, the THB pull a goof every year that every single birthday that angus has is his 10th birthday. it doesnt matter how old he ACTUALLY is, he's the ten-year-old-boy-detective and hes gonna STAY THAT WAY. it lasts long after he passes too, kravitz pulls him up from the astral sea to say "everyone says happy tenth birthday. double digits, very exciting!"

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Submitted by @tabooraboo

[riant-draws]

You're so big brain yes yes yes moon and younger pebbles thoughts yes I'm eating up your art

First, thank you!! Sorry I took so long to respond ;-; been pretty tired lately and had to give this a lot of thought… perhaps too much… eheheh buckle up, anon, you’re in for an essay~ (also, I know you asked about Moon and younger Pebbles but this is like, 90% an analysis about Pebbles, oops-)

^ excuse me what happened here

also please keep in mind that these are just my headcanons (although some of them are very closely tied to canon, which is why I’ll be referencing some pearls) sooo uhh yeah! rambles under the cut!

To talk about Pebbles as a “kid” (in quotes because I don’t believe iterators have a childhood or developmental period that can effectively be compared to humans), I first have to talk about his construction—mostly because it was so unique.

When reading the pale green pearl (exterior) to Artificer, Pebbles mentions that his construction was very controversial among the council. And, when given to Moon, one of the white pearls reads:

“‘We, of the Five-hundred-and-ninety-second High Convocation of the True Anointed Citadel, do hereby demand, with full force of Law and Religious doctrine, an Immediate end to construction of the Apostate Superstructure Abomination. To place shadow upon the Divine Body of the True Anointed Citadel is outrageous blasphemy and cannot be tolerated, no matter the circumstances...’ Clearly this was ignored.”

As we can see in the game, Pebbles was built mostly on top of what’s now Shaded Citadel—which really pissed off the monks and religious leaders of the True Anointed Citadel, a very holy site. While talking to Artificer, he speaks casually and plainly, so you can assume that he didn’t mind their disdain for him. Granted, by the time of Arti’s campaign, all his citizens are long gone, so perhaps he just doesn’t care about their opinions anymore (if he ever did to begin with). But. When he was still brand new, he would have had to listen to so much hate directed at him, all for simply existing. While I did say earlier that I don’t think iterators have developmental stages like humans do, they definitely still mature and develop. Just because you’re created with an adult brain doesn’t mean that you’re automatically mature and experienced. Even Pebbles reflects on how he’s changed while reading the viridian pearl (garbage wastes):

“[…] much of my early work was encrypted before storage. Though my younger self has done a very poor job. […] now I can just see all of the holes in it. Created from a youthful and reticent mentality.”

So, clearly, iterators do learn and grow. But getting back on topic, I imagine that especially since Pebbles was very young when all that hate was piled on him, it would’ve been traumatic. Additionally, it’s implied (again, mainly in the pale green pearl) that he’s not exclusively hated. The pearl’s author clearly doesn’t want to piss Pebbles off, and they also state that one problematic House “[has] less than forty members on the Council, but still Tilt the spiritual Discourse with Our Iterator in a direction that most obviously Displeases him, and is hardly High Held by anyone in the Community either! We can not Risk this!”

(Of course, the pearl’s author is probably biased so who knows if they’re a reliable source of info or not, but there’s no way to verify that and hey it’s in the game after all so I’m just gonna roll with it.) This means that there are citizens (possibly even the majority) who actually like him, or at least want to remain in his good graces. With him. Y’know. Being responsible for their livelihoods and all. And you might think: great! Pebbles isn’t being universally hated! Well. The outpourings of both love and hate from his creators would create such a toxic environment and cause a lot of cognitive dissonance in him: he’s adored, even worshiped, a proud iterator revered as a godlike figure. But on the other hand, he’s despised, called horrible things like “Apostate Superstructure Abomination,” generally told he has no right to exist, etc etc. And this probably went on for years and years (or whatever the in-universe equivalent is). That would wear down anybody’s self-esteem. Which, in canon, you can see echoes of those thought patterns when the storyline takes place, who knows how long later. This stuff has affected him deeply.

All of this to say, I think his arrogance and god complex (that he displays in canon) are coping mechanisms—whether he’s aware of it or not. He tells himself that he’s “godlike in comparison” to everything that walks this forsaken world, that he’s so much better. In doing so, he runs from his mistakes and doesn’t process his emotions and traumas, generally making a bigger mess of himself. Because to admit the truth would be to admit that he’s broken, that he’s lonely, that he hates himself, I could go on but this isn’t getting any shorter aha…

Moooooving on, not to state the obvious, but it’s heavily implied throughout various pearls and bits of dialogue that Pebbles was one of the last iterators ever built. Given that he was constructed far closer (relatively speaking) to the time of public mass ascension and the fact that Moon was struggling to care for them, his creators would’ve likely been desperate (and perhaps a bit sloppy) while building him. As a result, the parts of him responsible for regulating his emotions and decision-making (his equivalent of a prefrontal cortex) are stunted, as that would’ve been one of the last things to develop. All of this just contributes to his, well, susceptibility to mental health issues/instability. Yaaaay.

side note: I also headcanon that iterator cans are more grown than built. When reading the light pink pearl (outskirts), Moon mentions that structures are infused with microbes that initiate healing cycles that gradually heal and waterproof broken structures. While she’s likely referring to structures on the ground, it would make sense that at least all parts of an iterator below the rain layer would be made in the same fashion. And if you take the bronze pearl (Metropolis), for instance, Moon tells the player that “It’s a blueprint for a type of large immobile purposed organism. This one seems to be specifically for the cities built on top of our structures. […] newer designs began to use a mass-produced cellular build called living blocks,” she’s basically saying that the buildings on top of Pebbles and other newer iterators are primarily organic. So why not grow large parts of their superstructures as well? We already know that iterators are partly biological, and also, growing them certainly would make a lot of the construction process at least semi-autonomous. And this way, the ancients wouldn’t have to risk their lives to go below the rain layer and work on his legs, underhang, etc.

Time for one of my favorite headcanons! And one that’s much more headcanon-y than the others lol, that is, Pebbles’ puppet being child-sized. Big head, big eyes, sorta stubby limbs, rounder features (except his antennae, those are triangles for some reason ffs lol idk what I’m doing) etc. First (and more boring) reason is that if Moore’s law applies in some form in-universe (not an all-important Law of Science or anything, just an observed trend meaning that as time goes on and developments improve, tech gets both smaller/more space-efficient and better), that means Pebbles shouldbe both one of the most powerful iterators and one of the smallest. But if the whole reason e was built was to provide a home to Moon’s citizens because she couldn’t care for them very well anymore (deep green pearl, Metropolis—this is Moon’s reading, but Pebbles’ is interesting, too), why would they make his can smaller? Simple: they didn’t. Instead, his can has more empty space inside it as components are smaller, and his puppet is tiny. Like. Waist-high on an ancient.

Another reason he was designed to look childlike was to try to make him look as appealing & likeable to the public as possible. With how controversial his construction was, his creators and whatever equivalent of a marketing team they employed would’ve hoped to sway the monks and everybody who strongly opposed his construction, like, “look! he’s just a little guy! look at those pink cheeks! you wouldn’t hate a ‘kid’, would you?!?” (spoiler alert: they would)

But as consequence, his image was very marketable soooooooo

yeah idk man pebbles plushie canon

On the more angsty side of things, unfortunately for Pebbles, many ancients and even other iterators (looking at you, Sig and Suns) didn’t take him very seriously since he permanently looks like a kid. This just added fuel to the fire, making him even more frustrated and feeling unheard. Just. All of it is such a bad situation.

Moon, of course, sees how he’s being treated by his citizens (who used to be hers, and she wasn’t fond of them anyway) and her own peers, she knows it’s so harmful to him, but what can she do? She may be the local group senior and his administrator, but he strikes me as having such an independent personality (yay more stuff caused by trauma) that he feels like he’s caught in her shadow, perhaps. “Looks to the Moon’s little brother.” So he probably isn’t… very receptive to her attempts to build him up, but man, she still tries. And it’s worth mentioning that he’s also a workaholic, so he always thinks that he has “better things to do” than, say, spending time with his sister.

I bet she’d still try to play games with Pebbles (and he’d probably indulge her on occasion), show him cool things, engage him in conversation, try to get him to talk about his interests, etc., all to bond with him and get to know him better. And he’s a stubborn little piece of work, sure, but he genuinely does care for her (it’s in canon and shows up in several places).

I could say more but this has gone on long enough, but I do wanna clarify that while I don’t support his decisions or actions, his motivations are understandable. my guy is a dude who was put into a horrible situation and screwed over from the beginning. sure, all the stuff he’s been through doesn’t excuse his garbage, sometimes immature behavior in canon, but it certainly explains it. (good lord, I could write an essay on how he’s changed by the time of Rivulet’s campaign alone) uh anyway he’s a fascinating character who I spend too much time thinking about thank you for reading if you made it this far lol

(also, gotta say that a lot of these apply to my fic, too, shameless plug and some of them have already been mentioned or alluded to in it—it’s a time-travel fix-it that starts waaay back in the past so if that’s your thing, hey XD)

[marshmallow-bg3]

One day Roux claims Gortash’s bedroom for himself. It’s not as romantic as it may sound, it’s early on, they've barely started working together. Gortash has this huge gaudy and heavily trapped mansion in the Upper City which he barely uses. The man works, eats, sleeps, fucks and otherwise lives in his workshop while the rest of the house gathers dust and ghosts. The master bedroom is big and richly furnished, it has a nice big bed with soft pillows and silky sheets, and most importantly big floor to ceiling windows that let the setting sun in. Roux wants it. Sceleritas would never let him own a place like that, away from the Temple, but the butler can't stop him from stealing one. What harm? Gortash never uses it anyway!

Until he suddenly does and finds the room quite lived in and a naked Bhaalspawn in his bed looking at him in genuine surprise. "What do you mean the fuck am I doing here?" It’s awkward, it’s outrageous, it’s... strategically complicated. Gortash just goes back to his workshop, dumbfoundedly. The next few weeks it’s an unspoken war involving complex enchanted locks, all sorts of hi-tech traps and ambushes resulting in minor to medium property damage, staff layoffs, some sort of Banite anathema and two dead sex workers. Both Chosen secretly find it immensely entertaining.

When it becomes clear that Roux is winning Gortash turns to diplomacy and offers him the guest bedroom for permanent rent-free use. Only to find the Bhaalspawn peacefully snoring in his bed again a few days later. It feels somewhat rude to wake him up only to make a scene so Gortash just stays there reluctantly admitting to himself that he quite enjoys the company. It continues for weeks, both pretend that never happened, the one who wakes up first just leaves. Until one morning he doesn’t but that’s a story for another day.

Anyway, it’s like “there is only one bed” except there are plenty of beds. And that’s how they become domestic before they become romantic/sexual.