#I don't think the quality is sky high but I literally couldn't get the scene out of my head

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A follow up to this because Libby brought up Granny and general Storybrooke-denizen protectiveness and I honestly couldn't resist ahsfgahsgfhg

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“I have several questions,” Regina says, the moment she sits down at the diner table. 

August grins ruefully at her, though it barely reaches his eyes. “Well, I only have one, so maybe you should go first and get them out of the way.”

Beside him, the boy doesn't even look up, chewing on what looks like the remains of a sandwich, squished against the wall with his gaze fixed on the street outside the window. He looks worn out and very, very small, for all that a wooden face can't possibly change that much. 

No matter. That's not the most urgent issue. “Emma said you took off after the kid and left quite a few people hanging. Why did you call me instead of, I don't know, your father? And why did you ask me to come here instead of taking him home?”

“We'll go home soon, and explain what happened to everyone else. We were just taking a breather somewhere public, where other people could keep an eye on us. Thought it was a safer bet. Right, kid?”

The last comment is directed at the little puppet at his side, but after several seconds pass without an answer, August sighs and turns back towards her. “I assume Emma also told you what happened?”

“Briefly, yes. She said this one's fairy came to visit, and that it was not exactly a joyful occasion.” To put it mildly, Regina adds privately, though she wagers it must be palpable in her tone. 

“Pretty much. That's why I called you. I know I don't have any right to do that, but I need to ask you for a favor.”

“Don't be ridiculous.” There are multiple people in town she'd dread having to offer a favor to, but it's a slimmer group nowadays, and it certainly doesn't involve the likes of August Wayne Booth. “Ask away. Though I'm warning you- if it's a tornado to take her away you need, you'll have to check in with your sheriff first.”

At that, Pinocchio seems to regain the gift of speech - he glances up with worried eyes, toying with the empty napkin in his hands. “I don't want the fairy to get hurt. Gina would be upset.”

“No one's getting hurt,” August reassures him, even if he's addressing Regina again soon enough. 

“But I was wondering- can you make sure she can't take him to another realm? Is there a spell for that?”

“Of course.” And now she's starting to have a clearer picture of the situation, too. “I would need to check a couple things, but if you bring him around tomorrow, I'm pretty sure I can pull it off.”

Regina pauses as she notices Granny approaching their table, carrying a plate of what looks like chocolate cake - she places it right in front of the boy, much to August's blatant confusion. “Uh, I don't think we ordered this-”

“No, you didn't,” the old woman says, with the brusque, stern warmth that characterizes her. “But that's the face of a boy who needs some dessert, mark my words- don't worry, it's on the house.”

Ah, Storybrooke hospitality. There's nothing quite like it. Pinocchio doesn’t seem to have adjusted to it yet, however - his eyes grow wide as he takes the cake in, and he turns to August with a look that is not exactly pleading, but is still more animated than what he’s displayed since Regina walked in.

As for August himself… Well. Regina has been accused many times of not being able to say no to Henry, but she doesn’t think she’s seen that look in the mirror since her son was very small, honestly. “Sure,” the man says, not too steadily. “Dig in.”

Apparently a bit reinvigorated, the child grabs the fork and begins going to town on his newly acquired dessert, but August still doesn’t take his eyes off him, an unreadable expression on his face. It makes Regina want to sigh aloud, along with cursing a certain subspecies of fairies, but neither of those options might be socially acceptable, so instead she limits herself to saying: “Anyway, I mean it. If you can manage to keep an eye on him for the night, tomorrow I’ll make sure he gets a protection spell that’s strong enough against foreign magic.”

Then, pitching her voice to a mock-conspirative tone, she whispers to the boy, her lips curling upwards ever so slightly: “But I can still make her disappear if you want, alright? Just say the word.”

And she counts it as a win that Pinocchio very nearly smiles at her, his previous gloominess momentarily set aside as he hides shily behind his sweet and August’s protective arm.

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Rant incoming!

I understand that Billy Willy hates the social media influencers but he literally does not have to fucking kill them. He keeps them in capsules without any food or water for like a few days. like why couldn't he just send them into space as soon as he kidnapped them. He also wastes time doing shit that has nothing to do with his plan. Like what is the point of vandalising landmark, You have the influencers. He floods the entirety of New York City and possibly killed thousands of people. Like the Super Wings literally could have stopped the bottle. They had time but no they had to do this pointless fighting scene even though Billy Willy could have just shot them with his gun. Like the Super Wings literally had the opportunity to kill him. Also, don't you think it's a bit stupid of Sky to send four super Wings to battle against a literal God. And the fact that there were people in this community that think he's a fantastic villain and actually like the movie. Why. I see that movie as a middle finger to the fans. I know people have their opinions but this one is just unbelievable. This is still the worst animated movie I have ever seen. Not just as a fan, but an animated movie is in general. I honestly feel like they made this movie because they wanted to be like the cool kids. And from What I heard this movie was a disaster. Only making a million dollars at the worldwide box office and bashed with lots of negative criticism. Kids were scared and everyone hated the social media plotline. I just don't know What went through their mind. I really need to start making my review but I need to find a high quality version of the English dub. Hopefully I can maybe get it up by next year. To everyone that likes this movie. I'm fine with that. But just so you know, it actually is a bad movie. You probably only like it because you got a super wings movie.

[nicetomeetmew]

If LU was an anime (VA headcanons)

Okay so! A while back I uploaded a video (which you can find here) giving the LU boys voice actors. And in the description of said video, I promised that I was going to post a list of explanations for my voices and link it. Which I am only doing now.

These choices, bar a few, are my own personal opinion, so I'd love to hear your thoughts about them! I spent far to long working and watching anime for this but I am pretty happy with the end result, bar one (glares at Four). So I hope you enjoy! And prepare yourself. Cause this is LONG.

Legend - Vic Mignoga (Edward Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)

So fun fact. Back when I first discovered LU, I almost immediately imaged Leg with this voice. He had strong Ed vibes for me and when I started making this list, he was the only one I immediately knew was perfect. At least to me. It just has that quality; the snark with the capability of being genuine and emotional (I do apologise if the voice clips I included in the video made you sad. That's a hazard of FMA). I didn't consider anyone else for Legend, even though I did briefly consider Vic Mignoga for Warriors (more on that later).

Sky - Aleks Le (Zenitsu Agatsuma from Demon Slayer)

Man, I considered a fair few KnY voices for this list, including the voice of Tanjiro for Wild and the voice of Giyu for Twilight. But this is the one that stuck. I was struck between Sky having a youthful, soft voice or an older, soft voice (I knew his voice had to be soft. I mean. It's Sky.)

I watched the dub of Demon Slayer solely for this and it never would've occurred to me to consider Zenitsu's voice for Sky. But as the show progressed and I heard it when he wasn't... you know... begging some poor lass to marry him, I realised he actually has quite a soft voice. And when I heard it get all serious I thought "Yep. That works." And thus I placed Aleks Le as the Chosen Hero. You could argue that his voice is a bit too youthful for him but I still think it works.

Wind - Amanda Miller (Boruto from Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)

Ugh. Ugh. *increasing sounds of disgust*. I hate this.

But let's start from the beginning. Right off the bat, I was 99.9% sure Wind would be voiced by a woman. Okay so he's not 10 (that will make more sense in a second), but he's still pretty young and I imagine him with quite a youthful voice. For him, I considered Sarah Natochenny, the current voice of Ash Ketchum in Pokémon, and also Colleen Clickenbeard's voice for Monkey D. Luffy in One Piece. But these two voices shared the same problem. They were too raspy. I just cannot see Wind with a raspy voice. I guess if you really, really, really focus on it it could work but I just could get it to work for me hfff.

And then... ugh. I spoke to a mate about. He doesn't know about LU so I just told him I was making voice headcanons and couldn't think of a good one for a 14 year old boy. And he said "have you heard Boruto's English voice?" And I think my response was something along the lines of, "Ben, I have standards." But he insisted it would probably work so I watched a clip of Boruto on YouTube and much to my horror, it did seem to work. But there was problem. None of the clips had lines I could picture Wind saying. And because of that I was struggling to actually give Wind the voice. But something told me that it was the right one so... I... *shudders*... watched Boruto. I watched I think 5 full episodes before I had no more braincells and skipped thorough a bunch more and sure enough, I could finally see Wind with that voice. I think it fits him great and it honestly might be my favourite choice just because I had to watch that nightmare.

Hyrule - Justin Briner (Izuku Midoriya from My Hero Academia)

Ah. This one is much more pleasant. First of all, I never realised this at first but Midoriya and Hyrule are kind of similar. For one thing, they do kinda look alike. And for another they have the same "I will never give up" kinda thing going on.

Roolie is another one I knew would have a soft voice. I think Justin Briner was always down as a choice for him, except for when I briefly considered him for Four (more on that later *big sigh*). This is another anime I watched the dub for solely for this and there were a ton of lines right from the get go I could instantly imagine Roolie saying. So yeah. Aside from the tiny moment I almost assigned Justin Briner to Four, this was a pretty easy one. Midoriya has a soft voice that I could easily imagine Hyrule having. And when he got angry and his voice got harsher, I could also easily see Roolie like that too. Fun fact: there's another BNHA voice on this list... heh.

Wild - Michael Sinternklaas (Dagger from Black Butler)

AW YEAH. YOU HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH BRITISH BOI.

Ahem. Anyway. Yes Wild is British. Everyone rejoice. I was unsure of how people would react to this but I think this is the only voice on the list everyone agreed on. Which I'm happy about.

As I mentioned, I considered the English voice of Tanjiro (Zach Aguilar) for Wild. There were issues with this; mainly that it was too soft, too young, and made him sound too similar to Sky. Now here's the thing. I WANTED to give Wild a English accent. I am almost certain he would have one, like most people. However the only anime I could think of with decent English accents was Black Butler (and yes I know his final voice is from it, bear with me) and there was a problem with that. Most of the voices from Black Butler are ridiculously posh. Now you may be thinking "But Kai, Zelda has a posh English accent" and to that I would say "Ah yes but she's a princess and Wild is not". And now you might be thinking "But Kai, he's a knight an probably spent a lot of time in a place with posh English accents". To which I would say "But he wasn't always". Two words. Hateno Village.

Let me explain.

I feel like a lot of people hear the words 'English accent' and immediately think of an accent like Zelda's (and no, I am not saying everyone does and I'm also not implying that there aren't people out there who aren't British and know that there are multiple accents). Anyway, English accents are different depending on the place. And, since one can assume Wild is from Hateno Village, I would imagine their accent is different to that of those born in Castle Town. So that's why I was reluctant to give Wild a voice from Black Butler. Because all the voices that weren't insanely fancy were either far too old or did not have the right vibe.

Then one day, taking a break from this, I was watching season 3 of Black Butler (one of the only anime I watch dubbed) and I heard two voices that I suddenly thought, hang on just a second. One of those was the voice of Ronald Knox, who's a grim reaper. And the other, of course, was Dagger. I was leaning towards Dagger and what sold me was one scene in particular, which I chose as the final voice clip for Wild (you cannot tell me that is not exactly something he would say). And that was it. But Wild's was easily one of the most frustrating (not the most *glares at Four again*).

Time - David Matranga (The Father from Wolf Children)

Another tough one and also one I heavily considered for Twilight (for obvious reasons). Time's was kind of tricky because I knew I wanted it to be deep but there's such of variety of deep voices. At one point I even considered dumping the deep voice idea because it was so hard. It was a this time I thought of the voice of space cowboy extraordinaire, Spike Spiegel. But my brain said "hell no". There were other voices I considered for him, loads of which I cannot find the notes for and another one which will likely appear in part two as another character (no spoilers), but when I was picking a voice for Twi, some of the lines the father said just kept ringing big old Time vibes with me. So in the end, I decided to for it. Like I said, I imagine time with a deep voice and while to father's might be a bit more... gravelly (?) than I imagined, I think it fits him pretty well. It's serious and mature but still a certain kindness I'd imagine Time's voice to have.

Warriors - Johnny Yong Bosch (Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach)

Don't lie. You knew Johnny Yong Bosch was gonna be on here and not just because I put his name (albeit spelled incorrectly) in the thumbnail. When I started making this, I knew I wanted to fit JYB into it. In my mind, LU would be an amazing anime and almost all amazing anime have Johnny Yong Bosch in it.

Now, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out whether he would be better for Wars or Twi. At one point I was convinced he would be best for Twi and that's when I briefly thought about Vic Mignoga for Warriors (his voice for Tamaki Suoh from Ouran High School Host Club. Don't tell me Tamaki and Wars aren't at least a tiny bit similar). But I could bear to part with Vic for Legend so I decided heck it, Johnny is Warriors and I'll find someone else for Twi later. As for the voice in particular, the two voices I considered for Twi definitely did not fit Wars. And then I remembered Bleach and immediately I thought "Yep. That's the one". I imagine Warriors having an authoritative voice, not too deep and very... uh... I don't know the right word. Clean sounding? Anyway, Ichigo just seemed to fit nicely and thus it was so.

Four - Micah Solusod (Yukine from Noragamai)

Ugh. UGH. Okay. This is my least favourite. Four was, excuse my French, A FUCKING NIGHTMARES. There was not ONE SINGLE VOICE that seemed to work for him at all. I watched a bit of the Noragmai dub because I was thinking about Yato's voice for someone (I can't remember who. It might have been Wild) and I heard Yukine's and decided to put it into reserve. As in, my last resort. And I had to use it. Oh my god Four. I love you but your voice is literally a nightmare. Is it high? Is it low? Is it young sounding? Surprisingly grown up sounding? I DON'T FREAKING KNOW.

I mentioned earlier that I considered Justin Briner for him. I was thinking about his voice for Luck from Black Clover, which may have honestly worked a bit better, but I was pretty attached to Justin as Roolie by this point. So I had to whip out Micah.

Let me be clear. No, I do not think this works well at all. I appreciate the people who tried to see that good in it, but I honestly just don't think it works. The only reason I went for it is because Yukine's voice switches between older sounding and younger sounding throughout the show and since I could decide what Four's would sound like I said to myself "Fine. Four can be the same", found some clips, slapped it together and never looked back.

I am still looking for another voice for Four and if I find a decent one, I will include it in part two.

And last but not least...

Twilight - Aaron Mitchell Dismuke (Tamaki Amajiki - My Hero Academia)

Told ya there was another BHNA voice.

So Twi was another tricky one. As I mentioned, I was seriously considering Johnny Yong Bosch for him. More specifically, his voices for Giyu Tomioka from Demon Slayer and Kiba from Wolf's Rain (for obvious reasons). I did almost go for Kiba but something was stopping me. I'm honestly not sure what.

So I was talking to a mate (and by that I mean I rambled. A lot) about VA's and at one point he suggested Aaron Mitchell Dismuke but not for Twilight. I can't actually remember who he suggested it for but anyway, that didn't work out. But when I was looking through his work, I saw that we played Amajiki and I was curious. I listened to him and I liked it.

Okay to be fair I wanted a country accent for Twi. Of course I did. But I could not a find a decent one. They few I found were absolutely terrible. So I gave up on that and decided that was Amajiki. And that was that.

And that concludes the Links VA headcanons! I am happy with most of them and once more these are my opinion but I would love to hear your own ideas!

As I have said many times, I am working on a part two and as a sneak peak (sort of) I'll tell you two of the characters that will be featured (excluding Four, if I find him another voice).

Dink (even though he hasn't, technically shown up yet) and Malon (which is proving to be a lot tricker than I thought). There a couple more but my lips are sealed heh.

Oh and speaking of Dink, the voice I considered for Time and then thought it would be better for someone else? Yeah that's the voice that's currently in the lead to be Dink's :)

I hope enjoyed my long winded explanations! And thank you for reading/watching!