#I WOULD CROSS HELL FOR HER

[blurred-cat]

I FOUND HER

I found Lae’zel in this “RAID THE TIEFLINGS AND SHRED THE FEELINGS” playthrough BUT FUCK this fight is BUSTED. I’m glad I did a safety save cause OOOOGHHHHH GODDAMN. They wanna kill Lae’zel. Of course I’m going to defend the best girl but like. THEY’RE ALL LEVEL 6. What level am I? The person that didn’t clear the goblin stronghold for exp? Oh Well YOU KNOW. 4. We’re fucking level FOUR. AND LAE’ZEL IS LEVEL 1. So no matter what I’m gonna have to peel her carcass from the ground but like. Holy shit? So now I’m doing the Underdark bit just to scrape as much EXP together as I can so that I can HOPEFULLY make it to level 5. but dear god am i gonna have to use every trick in the book. MIGHT BE BARREL TIME.

[statementlou]

Tbh i am not surprised that a person who openly talked about having drinking problems since 1d days, because of how crazy 1d worked has been agressive. What surprises me is people being surprised (they never seriously saw drunk person?). But i am also confused about this whole book. Apparently Maya said that that book is not fully bout Liam but compilation about her exes and some of the worst parts are not about him. But recently she said that the book is “ofc about him” so what is true then? Or did she meant it that ofc some parts are about him or that whole book is about him?

Sorry, just confused

I also am not surprised- we've learned so much more about the real stories of things and about the guys' actual lives over the last years, and the story that has unfolded around Liam has been totally consistent throughout if you've been following it, and so the information Maya is telling us is shocking and upsetting but not difficult to believe. I got an anon yesterday saying they were worried about getting similar revelations about the other boys, like "if Liam could be doing this we just don't know, any of them could", and while in a way that's always true I guess, anyone could be doing anything in private like... that doesn't really concern me. Because none of these Liam revelations are coming out of nowhere, there have been many MANY steps along the way leading us here if you've been watching, and he has talked openly about both his mental health struggles and his addiction issues. So to answer that anon... to find out something similar about Louis would in contrast contradict everything we know about him and no I'm not worried about it. Is he an abuser or a loose cannon, well that news would truly shock me to my core, I will be honest. But anyway as for the book I don't find it strange that she was nervous when it came out and treading lightly and later decided, fuck it. In the absolutely on point tiktok she dropped today (YES👏GIRL👏FUCKING TELL THEM👏) she even mentions attempts to keep her from publishing the book, presumably by Liam's team, that I am riveted by and cannot WAIT to hear more details about actually- like I said I don't find it at all strange that she was nervous and downplayed it a bit then. But if she says now that it's just about Liam, well, I would say it's been clear from the beginning that the book is their story. Maya herself brought up the parallel of songs being written about stuff and I think it's the same thing; it's true (she was in an abusive relationship that involved certain kinds of events) but maybe not 100% literal (I'm sure details were changed to make the story work, it's not like a word for word timeline of their interactions or whatever).

[moeblob]

son boy raccoon trash can man suffering in a dnd au as a cleric bc his warlock will not stop committing murders and he has to keep coming up with reasons murder is valid to convince the gm its fine and under control

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s2 episode 7 thoughts

hmm. hmm. that is the sound if me pondering what i just watched.

(i understand that this episode was an analysis into mulder's self-destructive behaviors when faced with overwhelming grief, but. that does not mean i enjoyed vampire hookup time)

well. we shall start from the top!

i read that it was an episode about vampires which i thought was a weird narrative choice because. hello. scully still gone??? but then i remembered that i too ignored the main quest in skyrim to hunt some vampires and that i had no place to judge

(granted, my main quest wasn't finding scully though. might have given that a bit more priority than saving the whole world. because she IS my whole world)

we open with a guy that looks like joe biden meeting with an attractive young woman. they're making out in a hot tub and we just know someone is gonna get slurped upon. and woe, it be upon us! double vampire attack.

back in DC, mulder gets his old office back! it's covered in plastic. he takes some of it off. he adjusts his calendar from may to november, so we see how much time he and scully had been assigned to other tasks, which also has me wondering how she managed to get a new house that quick.

(also, this calendar is... scantily clad women posing next to tools such as hammers and saws. was this allowed? was this acceptable? was it normal? were the 90's a lawless wasteland and mulder an irreparable freak?)

well. scully is an x file now, and he puts her glasses and id into an evidence bag and closes the filing cabinet which was sooooo evil. but he can't bring himself to put her necklace away. oh man. oh he's gotta have it in case he finds her. he has to hold her close. i'm Fine this is Fine.

so. he goes out to california to deal with the joe biden looking fellow being murdered. and he is not wanted on the crime scene. we know this because someone greets him by saying "nobody called the bureau" and he says "well, they should have" and lifts up the tape to let himself in. because one thing about him is that he's gonna let himself into a place he isn't wanted.

he sees the writing of a bible verse in blood on the wall and says something about their grasp of biblical knowledge being "feeble and literal" and i was like okayyy need to have a theological discussion with him

he then scares the other guy who originally wanted to kick him out by reciting a LARGE amount of facts related to similar cases and it's very much giving photographic memory. got me thinking, have we ever seen this man forget something? (directions don't count. they're confusing. but everything else sticks in that man's brain)

he just needs one thing: a phone book. which he uses to call a blood bank and ask about a new guy. who must be the vampire who did this!

so he rolls up to the blood bank and i'm over here struggling because i do Not Do Blood, and i knew at this point this was gonna be a tough watch, but i didn't anticipate the non-blood related reasons why this would be true

anyway he's sniffing around the blood bank and he hears some slurping and wouldn't you know, this dude is tearing into a bag of the red stuff like it's a capri sun. somehow he gets him into custody, where the dude refuses to talk because the lights are on, and mulder comes in with a lamp he put a red filter over, because he was prepared for vampire interrogation.

the vampire is going on about how what he did isn't murder because it's not like animals hunting prey is murder which is. not the greatest approach in terms of legal defense. mulder tells the guard that the guy is delusional and it's best to play along, and he believed this to be true... until he, quite literally, burned to a crisp in the sunlight. and died.

he's talking to the coroner and rattling off a bunch of vampire facts and says he didn't believe in vampires which is so funny to me because like. why is that where you draw the line, my friend. not at bigfoot and definitely not at aliens. but man. vampires are just too out there for spooky mulder. until now!

the coroner has a very funny line: "you are really upsetting me... on several levels" which seems to be the general effect fox mulder has on people. and also because i felt the same way about his dumbass actions during this episode.

coroner finds a stamp on the dead body's hand, which seems to come from a nightclub. so naturally our fbi agent ends up there.

you often see posts saying that "(insert character here) should be at the club". i fear that this is not the case for fox mulder, but it's possible that it's his suit and tie that are throwing me off. he just doesn't seem like he belongs there. i ask myself, where should he be instead? perhaps some sort of star wars convention would suit him better. a book signing with some author he likes. idk, an interior decorating festival. not here.

i shall use my verbatim words to walk you through the next scene:

"pause. he's talking to a woman who was looking into a compact without a mirror. so. vampire suspect. and now why are they getting so close together. and getting a drink. okay now they're leaving to a new spot together? AFTER she admits to vampirism"

(here she did some stuff that required me to look away from my screen due to my Weak Constitution. but also it would have felt necessary to look away anyway because it was getting... charged)

she tries to get him to... suck on her finger... but he won't do it because aids. which is fair. i think that's a smart move, actually. it's just that getting flirty with a vampire he knows was involved with a ton of killings was such a stupid move, i don't know why it's now the braincells start to kick in.

that kills the vibe, though, so she gets another guy to take his place and things escalate.

mulder pulls in at a restaurant called ra. nice! the sun god! and he is... through a window, witnessing some more slurping action. he seems to want to intervene and save this poor soul being feasted upon...

but the poor soul is no poor soul at all! he comes out and decks mulder, and delivers this line with stunning conviction: "i don't know who you are, freak, but we're two consenting adults" and with this, he is forced to flee.

and yeah. it made me laugh. my expectations for the genre were subverted. he signed up for that shit! what he did not sign up for, however, was the next part, where he was killed by the other vampires.

cut to investigating the crime scene. mulder has brought along a forensic dentist, which is a job i had no idea you could go into. he needs to see about those bites, which are very human.

next they go to vampire woman's house. it's a very nice place. mulder... opens her oven. and sees a loaf of bread in there. and i'm thinking, man, i hope this doesn't go where i think it's going. baked goods... ovens... i never want a vampire pregnancy arc. but he cracks open the loaf and something red spills out and somehow, this to him means that she is gone and isn't coming back. he can read the signs of the bread. so add that to his resume. what did the bread tell you, my liege?

he seems to have stayed in her house, however, because he's there when she's back, and says he knows she was using the bread as a charm to ward off evil. because apparently that's an eastern european thing, blood bread to warn off evil. sound off if any eastern europeans in the chat wanna confirm or deny.

anyway. he's IN this woman he thinks is a vampire's HOUSE? what the hell. mulder seriously i need you to stop and think. like you should have stopped and done some thinking a while ago. honestly i'm not mad i'm just disappointed. and he's like "i want to save you come with me before they kill you" ohhh big tough man needs to save her huh. make him feel good inside. huh. certainly no ulterior motive here...

she's monologing about her horrible childhood and how sweet blood tastes. um girl. don't lie to him like that. i have busted my lip open before that stuff does NOT taste sweet and dangerous. it's like a penny with rust that you found in a parking lot.

it seems her vampiric origin story, if to be believed, is that things simply got too kinky. which is a new take on the genre.

(it's also about being caught in an abusive relationship and the damage that inflicts, but it seems abusive boyfriend came into vampirism at his kinky parties and things escalated from there. which. well. it blew the eyebrows clean off my head, to be fair)

at this point we see that he is WEARING SCULLY'S NECKLACE? he says something like "it's from someone i lost" and she says that she "hopes he finds her"

i did not like the undertones here and certainly not the overtones. because i knew where this was going. he was shaving in her bathroom. and let me tell you something: there is only ever a shaving scene in media because the writer needs a way to get some blood out of someone's body and into the real world. and man. i knew it was coming.

but what i didn't see coming was her SHAVING HIM??? girl. i am uncomfy. and she does, of course, cut him, and then they kiss. aggressively. terribly aggressively. can anyone answer what was going on in a satisfactory manner?

but the gag is: the original vampire- who burnt to a crisp in the jail cell, and was the abusive ex she spoke of- HE'S WATCHING THEM THROUGH THE WINDOW!

he breaks in and taunts the vampire woman about how he had to "wait for her to finish" and i was like cool. thank you SO much for that mental image i'm super happy with it. i definitely don't feel like i need a shower. but then he's going on about how he can't be killed.

here, at the tail end of the episode, we learn the rules of vampirism in this world: a vampire cannot be killed by a non-vampire. and a non-vampire BECOMES a vampire by consuming the blood of a believer and also taking a life. it is only here we realize that this woman is not an actual vampire yet, she just appropriates their culture by drinking blood unnecessarily.

mulder's still sleeping in her bed and she's like "you need to leave" and she stabs the wall to make her evil ex think she's killing him. but when they go to break out, mulder ties him up quite handily and he gets in the car to escape with vampire woman. until ANOTHER vampire woman jumps on the hood of their car. and main vampire woman knocks her out for a bit by running into her with said car, which is super effective.

mulder's leaving the place in shambles, his shirt still unbuttoned, wandering down the side of the hill. back at the house, now that we know the vampire rules, main vampire woman says she can finally kill the evil vampire ex. and he's like how!! you haven't had the blood of a believer or taken a life. so. she licks the blood off her hands (unclear if it's hers or mulders tbh) and says she'll take her own life. and drops a match after pouring gasoline.

so. that brings that to an end. and shabby looking mulder sits on a hill as he learns all four in the house died.

the episode ends with him playing with scully's necklace. which i don't even sort of feel like unpacking right now but maybe another time.

probably not, though, because i just didn't like this episode. and yeah, a lot of it comes down to me not wanting to see mulder hook up with people who aren't scully. can you blame me? is it so wrong to have preferences in this world?

but also, narrative wise- do you honestly see the guy fucking off to cali while scully's still missing to deal with an unrelated problem instead of devoting every hour of his life to finding her, like we saw him do in the last episode? you expect me to think he just puts it off for a lil while? the guy who, just last episode, pulled his gun on the ski lift operator to get to the top where she might be a little faster, and then choked his one and only suspect out of fury? you're thinking this is the guy that's gonna go soak up some west coast rays?

and yeah, he was obviously not himself through the episode- very cold and analytical- but c'mon. we all want to bang a vampire. he's not special. i just personally wouldn't do that if my friend were gone. like how is that gonna help the situation. be so for real. time and place!

and also the whole only learning the rules of being a vampire about 5 minutes before they need it to be plot relevant. that annoyed me too.

overall, mulder, like i said, i'm not mad, just disappointed.

let me know what you thought on this episode- i try to not be a hater, but i also understand that hating in small doses can be good for the soul. if it's a widely beloathed episode i'll feel better in my judgement as i join a long tradition of haters who have come before me.

[inkdoe]

I'm sure everyone has their headcanon about how was their Revan as a villain (or how they are now if you chose the dark side... But I meant the first years as a dark lord). But I should really draw more of Seela during that time cause I don't think "evil" meant she lost her sense of humor. Which is way worse. Like imagine being sentenced to death and the dark lord is also making puns about it. At least Darth Vader (or even Malak to remain in the kotor timeline), anyway he just gets angry and then you're gone in a random display of power... I don't think Seela would do that. I don't even think she killed randomly tbh. I think she was kinda like Thrawn but with more jokes. You never know what to expect from her, you don't know if she is actually being funny/goofy or if she's preparing to strike. Hearing her laugh unnerves the poor sith soldiers more than Malak's rage.

Also I think she sometimes does shit like: "Why was I called to your chambers, lady Revan? Did I do something wrong?"

"Naaah I just wanted to play pazaak and I heard you're very good at it. Malak sucks, I keep beating him so easily, I need a challenge here!"

(in my head she's having this conversation with Atton and I really need to draw it. I hope to find the willpower one day)

[crescenthistory]

have you ever had something so significant and impactful happen to you but it’s in a really niche area that you can’t really tell anyone in your general life about, so you’re just left imploding and silently screaming???? it’s hell 😭😭

very long story made semi-short; my found family and i have attended and contributed to a live action role play camp twice a year for almost a decade now that’s based on hogwarts/the hp universe and really fucking well made by a skilled team. and you get really fucking attached to these characters because for a few weeks every year you live as them and make friends as them and it’s REAL even though it’s not. my last character was so fucking devastating and important to me, and she had this epic tragic love story with my best friend’s character. we haven’t played them since we finished their storyline in 2023. AND MY BEST FRIEND WAS JUST ASKED TO RETURN AS THAT CHARACTER FOR THIS YEAR’S CAMP????? that’s HUGE, the game masters never make requests like that and it’s super secret but he told me (because it would be cruel not to with our characters’ backstories) and i’m just reeling with shock and excitement and fear. like i’m left REELING at the fact that i get to see him again (him being my bsf’s old character) (bc when you finish playing someone you never get to “see” them again uknow? it’s a whole thing) and also at what this means and all the wounds from the two of them are opening up again and we’re just DYING. we have no idea why he was asked back or what will happen it’s INSANE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND. to deal with it all i’m knitting and crocheting him a bunch of different things that my character has made for his (they live together on her family farm and she uses crafts and art to cope</33) and we’re just literally crying. i love them, they’re sunshine x sunshine and literal soulmates — i made that character based on the concept of what would happen if a sensitive, creative child had the most gentle and accepting parents who cultivated kindness. and then there was a war and her parents were fucking killed offfffff and it was such a huge thing. she lost her leg, her boyfriend lost his eye. it was a whole thing. i’m jittery with emotion and handcrafting at god’s speed because this camp is in three weeks and i’m just. dying. and screaming. my poor wife. (dw she attends the camp too and is screaming with me)

[roseworth]

part of the appeal of a jason & rose team up to me is that they are so similar personality-wise but they are soooo different in their approach to crimefighting in the sense that jason is a meticulous planner and rose does not plan more than 10 minutes ahead. jason spends weeks putting together every aspect of their plan and backup plans in case something goes wrong just for rose to ruin it by going "im gonna kick down this door and see if anyones behind it"

[lesbiansanemi]

It was like my roommate needed to do one last thing to utterly baffle me and piss me off apparently last night she brought this girl over late after I’d already gone to bed and around four in the morning said girl came into my room??? And obviously that woke me up and I had no idea who this person was but right before I fell asleep I’d heard my roommate talking with another person so I assumed it was a friend of hers even though I obviously was like??? What the fuck are you doing in my room. And she comes over and starts pulling the blankets off my bed and shoving her hands underneath my sheets and keeps saying “I’m looking for my vape” and I was like “okay well it’s not here” but she just ignores me and keeps doing it before ultimately CLIMBING INTO MY BED AND LAYING DOWN LIKE SHE WAS GONNA GO TO SLEEP? And I was like “um who the fuck are you” and she looks at me like I’m fucking stupid but starts to close her eyes like she’s going to sleep and I was like “hell no seriously who are you” and at this point she has like two seconds to actually respond before I push this person I have literally never fucking seen before out of my bed in the middle of the night and she goes “come on Ellie” (my roommate’s name) and I was like uh yeah are you looking for her cuz I’m her fucking roommate and atp my roommate opens the door and is like whispering urgently as if I’m not already sitting up and pissed off and weirded the fuck out “hey I think you went in the wrong room” and the girl looks back and forth between the two of us super confused before her eyes widen and she scrambles up and scurries off and then they slam the door with neither of them apologizing and this morning I’m still like what the actual FUCK was that

[terrorbirb]

These things are cute. You guys are just being haters.

Full disclosure: I'm going to paint these not enjoy them as-is which probably will change my opinion . Don't tell me about the "real reason" people dislike these because I don't personally care.

[chippendyke]

my take is that i don’t think chairface is aware of stool’s conception at all because i think he’d jump at the chance to have a mini him

[ruvviks]

toying with the idea of making yancey's friends not real. would that be too evil

[cuteniarose]

It’s almost 6 a.m and I can’t sleep because I’m being plagued by thoughts of The Latest OC

[moongothic]

Hey anon, I'm so sorry but your ask is obscenely long so I'm cutting it down to bare essentials

Most of the Original Ask was just a copypaste of this forum post, quickly highlighting this comment too

LOOK WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT MORIA, YO! "Defeated by Gellard and returns in the Final Scenario with an even more grotesque appearance than when you first met him."

But yes, I am aware, I have read that exact same thread before (when I first learned about the Romancing SaGa inspo on r/OnePiece and wanted to learn more), and I did briefly discuss the Seven Heroes when speculating about Cross Guild and wherever the fuck that plotline is going

And I'm now going to add onto that original post, because boy howdy do I have some additional thoughts to get out of my brain

Okay so yes, Doflamingo would be the OG Iteration of Bokuohn, the puppeteer who manipulates people. But in the context of Cross Guild... That's Buggy. "Bokuohn is in control of the majority of the Seven Heroes' forces. Situated in the Steppes region, he owns a large landship, complete with an innumerable amount of slaves." That's literally just Buggy. Like he's not a master of psychological manipulation nor can he forcefully manipulate anybody like literal puppets either (the way Mingo could), but. Like scratch out he RoSa2 terms, replace them with the relevant OP terms and it's a perfect description of Buggy.

Bringing that up because I'm still interested in Cross Guild becoming Shichibukai 2.0 But Without The Government This Time, but if we wanted to have exactly seven former Shichibukai to make up Cross Guild and make sure we had like ones who could actually fill out the roles of the Seven Heroes from RoSa2... Yeah there's going to have to be some replacements Not just because otherwise Doflamingo would need to be broken out of Impel Down somehow (which I doubt will happen, also I don't think Crocodile would want him working for him anyways), but also. Jinbei's with the Strawhats. And I don't think he's ditching Luffy any time soon for Crocodile of all people, not when he finally fucking joined the Strawhats for realsies.

So Doflamingo could be replaced with Buggy, cool, sure. What about Jinbei then? Who will take up the role of RoSa2's Subier?

So a while back I wrote this speculation post about if the Burn Scar Man (who has the final Road Poneglyph) could be a Fishman.(PERHAPS specifically Davy Jones?) Bringing that up because during Kuma's flashback we did learn that Kuma got the Shichibukai Slot after Ace defeated one of the seven at the time. And we specifically got to see Ace talk to Jinbei about it, Ace being surprised Jinbei of all people was glad the Shichibukai slot was being filled again. Now obviously, our Firefist Ace defeating a Shichibukai makes for one great candidate on who the Burn Scar Man could be, as Ace could very easily leave someone with some severe burn scars. This is platantly obvious lmao. But it's the conversation with Jinbei that actually interests me, because like. Sure, Jinbei being a fellow Shichibukai, it might be odd for Ace to hear Jinbei be glad that one of his fellow Warlords is being replaced. But that comment could make twice as much sense if that Warlord had ALSO been a fellow Fishman and/or a Merman (and perhaps someone Jinbei might've known better?). Now indeed. We are going to meet the Burn Scar Man eventually, 100%, it's mandatory for the plot to move forwards. Which means we're going to find out who that guy is, and if the Road Poneglyph gets stolen from him, he might have to find something else to do with his life since there won't be any point in guarding it anymore. And hey. If Mr Burns does turn out to be a fellow former Shichibukai who also happens to be a Fishman/Merman and a master of Fishman Karate... Oh hey, what's this? "Subier - A half octopus merman who controls the flow of the ocean to use as a weapon." Like. IDK I think we could have another Cross Guild member on our hands here.

(Honestly, currently the only problem we have is Dantarg, whose role currently being held by Kuma. Like the only other known Shichibukai we have who could be "available" is Law but he hasn't really done any "bodymods to become stronger" and thus doesn't fit the description. Hell, that description fits Kid more than anything but he was never a Shichibukai either. Guess we gotta keep on hoping Kuma somehow survives and just doesn't return to the Revolutionary Army for some reason)

Hilariously the most interesting thing you pointed out was that comment in the forum thread about Moria, 'cause I hadn't even realized this before but

So we know Blackbeard had captured Moria and held him hostage for... weeks, months? Until he was freed by Coby as per Perona's plea during the raid on Fullalead. Interestingly though, although theoretically we know Moria and Perona should have escaped the island by now, we have not seen either, now have we? Which is kind of suspicious now that I think about it. Because like. It'd make perfect sense if Blackbeard and co had been torturing Moria during his time in captivity, right. Have they been feeding my beloved goth onion well? Realistically, probably not?

Like. Thinking about it. We know Moria got chumby after the trauma of losing his crew and all, so what are the odds he might have lost that weight now during his captivity??? What if he looks more like his younger self again, the one see clash with Kaidou??? Or, the more horrifying option. I mean zombies aren't like an inherent part of Moria's DF abilities, just the Shadow Manipulation. But for all we know Moria could have lost a limb or two, and depending on where the fuck Hogback is (dude is supposed to be a competent doctor, he should be able to stitch Moria back up)... I mean theoretically the next time we see Moria he could look like one of his zombies. Or worse.

[rum-inspector]

I now have access to "student job offer portal" with "amazing opportunities" so looked it up out of curiosity

- year long "project" to build / market apps for for profit startup company, you get "paid" by study points (worth only 2 weeks of normal studies)

- 12/hr to brainwash middle schoolers into capitalist mindset for 3-5 hours a week. Some sort of child labor camp painted as local business philantrophy.

- the horrible company my mom worked for a bit (and what radicalized her into labor union) is having recruitment event like they aren't constantly on the news for the most awful stuff

And you wonder why "Nobody wants to work anymore"?

[bogkeep]

ask meme 9!

9. which of your neighbouring countries would you like to visit most/know best?

i have been to pretty much every country within a fairly broad radius around norway EXCEPT russia, which is not particularly tempting right now for,, you know,,, reasons.... though i WOULD love to visit someday in the future. eagle eyed audience members may also be aware that i'm currently living in sweden for a couple years, so i'm getting to know it whether i'd like to or not haha.

i really like iceland and finland! would love to explore finland some more, actually. and åland! i've only visited åland (a tiny island between sweden and finland) for a brief couple days, but i remember it being absolutely lovely. i would also like to visit svalbard someday, although that counts as part of norway.

[foggyfanfic]

Hi!

Can you answer ☔ from the WIP ask?)

Hello! Thanks for asking, that’s very sweet of you! Hearing from you always makes me smile. As usual, I have many words. I really thought I was going to be able to keep this within a paragraph. But I failed.

I have one I know I’ll never write because it has wandered far enough away from the source material that if I change two names it’s an original story. It started as a story where Bruno grows old, dies, goes to heaven, then gets resurrected by a necromancer for mysterious reasons; and originally the main thrust of the story was 1) exploring how the Encanto may have grown in the past few decades since the movie, plus how they'd handle how unavoidable the internet is becoming, and 2) Bruno gets to meet other LGBT/mentally ill people (and mentor those within his own family). But then it kinda spiraled out from there. That internet thing turned into the theme of isolationism vs globalism, and now there are more OC's than characters from Encanto, and it's not even in the same universe anymore. Even my self indulgent OC has ended up wandering miles away from being a self insert and is now an allegory for the benefits of globalism. (Where as the villain has become an allegory for the downsides of globalism).

Incidentally however, within that story one of the main OC’s was Camilo’s grand daughter, who could look into the past. And of course I had to come up with a wife and kids to give Camilo so the girl could have a father, and that spiraled into its own story that I’ll probably never write. (This is where the long part starts).

So! One day, when Camilo’s like 25 or something, he’s trying to figure out what to get Mirabel for her birthday. He comes up with the idea that he’ll turn into one of the girls from her embroidery club and find out if there’s any embroidery supplies she needs. He goes out into the market, finds Mirabel, hides behind the corner, and turns into one of the women from the club. He gets two steps out from where he was hiding, before a quiet girl he’s never really spoken to steps into his path, and says, “Oh good, there you are! I have got to tell you what Camilo did this morning.”

Camilo, of course, already knows what he did this morning, he helped one of the kids practice being goalie in anticipation for try outs. But he’s only human, so when somebody gives an intro like that, he of course needs to know what they’re gonna say next.

“You don’t mind, right?” she asks, before he can prompt her, “If you’re busy this can wait until Saturday.”

“No, no, not busy at all,” Camilo says, even as he watches Mirabel walk away past this girl’s shoulder.

And the woman (who thinks she's talking to her best friend) proceeds to tell him all about what he did that morning, only where as he saw it as just a fun way to help one of his neighbors, she saw it as the “sweetest, most wonderful thing”. He’s flattered of course, but very confused and a little surprised, he’s pretty sure he and this woman were in the same class growing up and she never seemed all that interested in him. In anything, really. She always seemed very flat, he would never (again) be so rude as to call somebody boring, but… well, she definitely never seemed so expressive or lively in group settings.

Then the woman really throws him for a loop when she says something wildly inappropriate. I haven’t nailed down exactly what, but think something from one of those “celebrity reads thirst tweets” videos. Something that’s hilarious and extremely horny. The sort of joke you would only make with your most trusted best friend and never ever want your crush to hear.

Camilo is so shocked he accidentally drops his disguise, even while he’s laughing at the joke she made (he had no idea this girl was so witty).

Her face goes from a conspiratorial grin to a look of absolute horror. He has just enough time to realize how this probably looks to her, before the horror gives way to humiliated rage, and she punches him. Knocks him flat on his back. (He had no idea this girl could punch so hard, or that he liked that in a woman).

She runs away, but not before Camilo sees the tears welling in her eyes. He heads to Tía Juli, gets a healing arepa, then goes back out to find the girl so he can explain himself. And reassure her that he thought her joke was hilarious, not that she was.

He isn’t able to pin her down and actually spends the next three weeks trying. In that time he learns things about her such as her name is Adelaide, she teaches young kids, volunteers every chance she gets, loves astronomy, and has apparently been stopping by Casita since the gifts came back to ask Tío Bruno for visions about space.

He begs Tío Bruno for help, but Bruno (pretends) he has no interest in helping Camilo. Truth is, Bruno picked up very quickly that Adelaide was actually using the visions as an excuse to drop by Casita and catch a glimpse of Camilo. When Camilo and Adelaide were teenagers he felt sorry for her, because she was clearly head over heels, but they seemed completely incompatible. But now, in their mid-twenties, she’s gaining confidence while Camilo is gaining maturity, and Bruno is becoming super invested in this potential relationship. So, after letting Camilo squirm just a little, Bruno agrees to help by saying he’ll convince her to talk to him, if he comes up with the best damn apology anybody has ever given.

Camilo eagerly agrees, and decides that the best apology he can think of is a new telescope, the only reason he knew she liked space was because she’d been trying to find a new lens for her current one but couldn’t afford one. He buys her the telescope, but looking at it, it doesn’t seem quite enough. So he throws in a bouquet of flowers, and also some chocolate, and also a moonlit picnic so she’d be able to use the telescope right away, of course. Bruno leads Adelaide to Camilo’s not-at-all-a-date-shut-up-Antonio, then has to immediately excuse himself to keep from giggling maniacally. Leaving the two young adults standing awkwardly by the picnic blanket. Camilo wordlessly holds up the bouquet, she wordlessly accepts, then they both sit down and just sort of stare at the food.

Eventually, they talk it out, Camilo explains himself, and admits he may have developed a bit of a crush on her when she punched him. Adelaide figures she’d already humiliated herself as mush as she can, so she apologizes for hitting him, and admits she’s been in love with had a crush on Camilo ever since they were six and he shared his lunch with her. Camilo has zero memory of this, but alright, this works. Let’s go! So they date, and fall in love, and live mostly happily ever after (her family causes problems, which is a major part of the granddaughter OC’s backstory, but this is already very long).