#I have thoughts about this awful gremlin and I kinda wish I didn't have to

[citroncynique]

Honestly thank you so much for adding onto this haha

I genuinely love Dori for her bastardly personality. She's a deeply flawed person who became so because of trauma. None of her actions are excusable, but all of her actions are very much intentional. She's unapologetic and puts up a hefty façade to trick everyone, including herself, that she's entirely remorseless about what she does.

There's a lot of reasons why people don't like her, and imho some are more valid than others.

Criticism of her orientalist design is one reason I will always agree with. No questions asked. It is the most valid reason to dislike/hate Dori as a concept.

The only caveat is that, on the subject of orientalism, Nilou was very quickly forgiven because she's a pretty anime girl.

(If it were entirely up to me there's... a lot of stuff wrt Dori's design that wouldn't be like that. I really wanna work on a redesign for her.)

If the issue is her personality, I can get that too, she's not for everyone- though on the other hand, a lot of Genshin fans who play Honkai Star Rail are very much into Sampo (who is quite literally Hot Man Dori. I'm sorry, it's true.)

It's speculated that Pantalone might be very much similar to her with regards to how he handles money. We won't see people hating him as much. People like who they like and all, and that's valid!! It's just. If it's the tropes you dislike, double standards are there.

I think the Dori hate also comes from a very performative form of virtue signaling for people who wanna show that they aren't into l*li type characters. People were mad that Nahida was the chibi model, people were angry way back when some theories that Shinobu would have that model popped up. There's always an initial loathing for those types bc it's sus for people to be excited for chibi model characters.

It's entirely understandable to want to distance yourself from that kind of stuff if you're averse to it. I've had to sift through a lot of content I'd rather not have come across if I wanted to see some Dori art that wasn't done by me lmao. I like Dori the way people like annoying little mascots and whatnot, personally.

There's something uncomfortable with how vitriolic some people are about Dori. It escalated to the EN VA being sent death threats and being accused of being a white supremacist (when they're. not a white person. nor are they in any case responsible for design or writing of this character. They just do Dori's voice and their delivery is absolutely stellar imho).

There's hate towards the character and towards the VA, but criticisms against HYV themselves have just. Faded away. The fandom was fed pretty characters and whatnot, and moved on. Soon enough Dori hate stopped being about (rightfully) criticizing a character for their orientalist design and inspirations, and just became a punchline.

With that being said, HYV didn't do Dori any favours. Her backstory makes room for a lot of complexities that just... aren't used, narratively, on actual on-screen quests. We barely see her genuine grief and anxiety aside from teapot companion voicelines. Everything interesting about Dori is stashed away in her character stories (and one of Kaveh's character stories- and the Kaveh+Dori business partnership is a whole other can of worms. I'll touch upon it at some point if prompted lmao)

Re: Kaveh, all I'll say for now is that HYV hasn't made their arrangement clear. Many people still think Dori scammed Kaveh, when the situation is far more complicated than that (and doesn't involve scamming at all).

I feel that HYV may have held back on writing more for Dori bc of the general backlash received. Instead of rounding her out, they flanderized her and kind of.... used her as little as possible.

I appreciated her in Cyno's SQ, I kind of wish we had a little more meat to her writing in Kaveh's hangout, but aside from that she hasn't been used to her full narrative potential. Fuck's sake, she's friends with Alice, of all people, use that! Her design is extremely reminiscent of Liloupar's bottle, and she has a little Jinni as a familiar- what's going on there?

I have a bunch of Dori doodles I never actually posted bc I knew how hated she was, and it's unfortunately only now that the Sumeru versions are coming to a close that I'm daring to post more of her haha (this isn't an act of immense bravery or whatever, it's just how I personally feel about my own art)

ANYWAY.

TL;DR Dori is disappointing as a character bc she's a waste of narrative potential. Also Orientalism is bad. Also people are quick to forgive the flaws of characters who are conventionally simpable. Also people can like or dislike whatever characters they want!! If you still hate Dori after reading this diatribe, godspeed!! I'm just throwing ideas into the blue void of tumblr and you owe me nothing! *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

Thanks for coming to my TEDxTalk. I swear I was not sponsored by the Almighty Merchant Lord Sangemah Bay to write this PR piece for her.

I decided to give Dori a snazzy outfit (to go financially extort Kaveh with what a girlboss)

[fishy-lava]

🐠 Squishy Fishy 🐠

I need to answer yours but I need to sleep on it because too many thoughts! But you said you might send another and I was like 'oh right i can do that too!' But then I couldn't decide so you get options!

First Canidate:

My Favourite Curtain Dweller - Yoh

🧸 A headcanon about their childhood

- or -

🎭 A headcanon about what they lie about

Second Canidate:

Chaos Murder Gremlin - Ai Di

👗 A headcanon about their clothes

- or -

🌟 A headcanon about their desires/wishes

Have a beautiful day lovely 🌻💜

Hi Ama💜

It took me a few days to get to this bc I was trying to come up with answers for Yoh and realized I didn't have like ...any headcanons about him at all bc I really haven't thought about him a whole lot (even tho I do love him) and unfortunately I still haven't been able to come up with anything so we'll just go with Ai Di otherwise I'll leave this for long enough that I forget about it entirely 😅

Anygays, here's my Ai Di headcanons

👗 A headcanon about their clothes:

He! Wears! Skirts! And! Dresses! He may not do it very often (a bit inconvenient for fights lol) but he's the one who picked the costumes for him and Zong Yi!! He chose that dress for himself!! And he looked very comfortable in it!! That was not the first time that little gremlin wore a dress and it will not be the last! (I'm totally going to draw him in some skirts and dresses at some point I swear bc I NEED it in my life ok)

🌟 A headcanon about their desires/wishes:

Ok I kinda have two different answers for this and they both interpret the question a bit differently but I'm giving both anyways lol

I think Ai Di sometimes forgets for a moment that he is actually allowed to indulge in things he wants when it comes to Chen Yi after spending so many years not being able to and occasionally will have a little moment where he forgets and tries to like hide it or push the thought/feeling away but then remembers he's allowed to do things like that and then does it lol (It will probably fade after some time but I think he's very much still a little in awe that Chen Yi wants him back now)

I also think (and this is slightly related to the last one) that sometimes Ai Di wants Chen Yi to just kinda like lay on top of him for a bit bc 1. It just feels nice to be crushed under the weight of an entire person sometimes and 2. I think it would help remind him that this is real and that he's here with Chen Yi and they're both together and safe and everything is okay (I also fully intend to draw this at some point as well)

thanks for the ask and have a lovely day💜

Headcanon Asks

[temunitu]

please share your thoughts on the movie after you've seen it!

head empty, no thoughts, just vibes (i. did see it. there were many tears involved in the making of this review)

my main thought is just WOW, they did such a good job????

[obviously - spoilers below!!]

ok so first off... SWEARS AND BLOOD IN THE FIRST FOUR MINUTES??? i think i'm in love with this movie. we need more gruesome tmnt content and this movie delivered. first with the blood, then with "badass," then with all the Kraang body horror. we need more PG-13/TV-14 rated content. also Let Mikey Say Fuck

MYSTIC FUTURE MIKEY IS SO EPIC?? HELL YEA if i could float i'd float everywhere too. but HOW DARE THEY KILL HIM OFF I DIDN'T WANNA SOB THIS MUCH SO EARLY IN THE MOVIE NOW MY VISION IS BLURRED

also the future is so goddamn scary. like, shit. the lighting and soundtrack wove a gorgeous terrifying narrative. thank you rise i won't sleep for a week

investigative journalist april???? it's so good it hurts, i love how Rise is such a love letter to the franchise. they manage to meld a bunch of previous concepts into this glorious story

leo is such a little shit. thank you ben schwartz for some top tier voice acting. i was SO MAD at leo when they lost the key. i'm a sucker for trauma induced character development and leo got it. oh, did he get it.

RAPH??? TAKING??????? A FUCKIN TENTACLE(?) TO THE SHOULDER???? TO SAVE??????????? LEO????????????? I THOUGHT HE DIED I THOUGHT HE WAS A GONER

CASEY CALLING LEO OUT WAS SO GOOD. it was what leo needed to hear. also please get this kid some therapy?

i love how April got to use the herbicide stuff on the Kraang but i was honestly expecting it to be part of the master plan(?), still cool

THE GODDAMN. TECHNODROME. IS TECHNO-ORGANIC JUST LIKE IN 2003. I WAS WATCHING IT WITH AWE THE WHOLE TIME LIKE HOLY SHIT. THAT IS ONE BADASS SPACESHIP

also the Kraang and the infected monster designs were GOD tier. love me some freaky alien cheese cubes and their horrifyingly fleshy minions. and their exosuits??? hell yea

ok uh

when leo. went through the portal. and it CLOSED? i thought that was it. i don't know why, i was like "welp. there's gonna be an awful lot of fanfics where leo's trapped in the Kraang realm fighting for his life as he tries to find a way home." the narrative was so convincing (or maybe i'm just gullible lol) but i was sobbing so hard

BISHOP CAMEO BISHOP CAMEO HELL YEA

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so, praising aside! i did have a few thoughts that are mostly directed toward nickelodeon/viacom for cutting the show short and only allowing 1.5 hours for the movie

the storyboards for casey saying goodbye really got me - like i wish the time constraints weren’t a thing cuz it was such a bittersweet conversation (both casey and leo, and leo and raph). it’s canon in my book (if you haven’t seen it, here) 

also, as i mentioned before. i thought the herbicide was gonna play a bigger role in the end battle(?). maybe it’s the way it was framed, maybe it’s just my brain. idk 

i am. a raph and a mikey stan, especially in rise. they were both amazing in the movie and i know it was supposed to be about leo, but they felt like they took such a backseat. raph was being controlled for majority and mikey was playing hype man/sidekick mostly. where is my feral gremlin son??? hello?? i did enjoy when mikey opened the portal (both times) and when he chucked a skyscraper at the Kraang lol

the pacing was SO FAST. kinda like the finale - i know the writers did the best with what they had and i'm in awe of how well it still turned out. but like,,, nick/viacom sucks so bad for the limits they gave the writers.

[cafecourage]

hi! would it be okay to request how the boys would react to their crush kissing their cheek? maybe the link in question did something really nice or thoughtful, or the reader just wanted to kiss them. wind's would be platonic! platonic kisses are also womderful.

sorry if i didn't follow a rule or wrote something wrong!

Platonic Cheek Kiss - Part 1

I have the cafe one on a list of prompts I want to do. So I’m just going to do Isekai for now since there are things I want to establish first :). (Also these came out more romantic then I wanted lol)

Time:

The old man was a little shit. Ok maybe not little. But he still loves to be a little gremlin and you were going to absolutely fight him one of these days. It might just be today.

“Old man I swear to god I will climb you like a tree.” The threat went unnoticed as he continued to stand full height with the one item you needed out of your reach.

He was looking down at you fairly amused and not at all threatened. You honestly didn’t know what you did to deserve this. It was like he reverted back to being a snarky child again! Was it because he saw you as a sibling? Or was it because no one would believe that the great Hero of Time was an absolute gremlin of a man. “Would you now?” He was testing your patience.

Now you're not gonna actually climb Time. But you really want that item back. You tried to think of another way. You could always call Warriors. Maybe he would believe you and help. Or…. “Fine, lean down, we can do a trade.” You stepped closer gesturing for him to move to your level.

Time’s curiosity got the better of him and he complied with your wishes. Leaning down so his face was close to your own. Waiting for you to tell him a secret about some stupid thing the boys did when he wasn’t looking or something. Instead you put your hands on his shoulders and boosted yourself up to meet his cheek leaving a small kiss. “There! Give it back please.”

Time could only laugh and drop the item back into your hands. “And here I was waiting for you to confess something.”

“Well jokes on you then.” You smirked, stepping a few steps back. “I’m not gonna tell you anything!” Taking this chance you bolted away, because maybe if you were in a group he wouldn’t act like a terror.

That’s probably wishful thinking.

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Twilight:

Well today wasn’t going as planned. Not that anything in this adventure was actually planned out. You just wanted to walk around without the chain or any of your boys trying to protect you! But now you're regretting it now. You kinda sort of maybe ran into a small group of moblins. Which would be fine!

If…

If you had your sword.

Or any weapons actually.

So running would have to do! Which is fine! Totally fine and under control!

Maybe not as much if you didn’t just trip over an overgrown root of a tree. Today really hasn't been your day. Scrambling up to at least get up, you only had time to turn around to see the moblins jump at you. Yet as soon as it jumped at you a black blur tackled it away. “Twi!” A familiar Wolf flung the moblin he had in its jaws at the other two.

You watch as the familiar blocky magic of the Twili surrounds Wolfie. He lunged forward as a hylian. Taking down the monsters that where tormenting you with ease, luckily for both of you there were no black blooded among them. Yet you couldn’t help admiring how strong the hero in front of you was.

When the dust settles with Twilight on top you can only stare up at him in awe. It was easy to forget that this was the same man you watched over during his adventure. Twilight is more confident, more sure of himself, more… warm. Seeing him interact with everyone in the chain makes you forget about the quiet and reserved man you learned to love. Those moments that his overwhelming sense of loyalty and over all goofy nature has increased tenfold.

“(Y/n)?” He calls your name softly. Kneeling down to reach your eye level. “Are you ok?” There was a bit of blood around his face.

You scrunched up your nose at the sight and took out a handkerchief. “I am fine wolf boy.” Taking up the chance to clean his face a bit. “You however are a hot mess. But like the handsome way you normally are.” You clean off his cheek, giving a small peak on the now clean part. Though his cheek was blushing bright red. “Thanks Link.”

“Ah-“ Somehow the red on his face got worse. Was he sick?

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Warriors:

You loved the children of Ordon! You really did! And playing with them was so much fun! You just needed to do other things instead. Saying no to Twilight’s siblings was the hardest part. Then Wind joined in and things just went downhill from there.

Sorry Legend. You know that you made a promise to him to help. But you are stuck playing with these adorable little gremlins. You notice Warriors stood further away from where you and the kiddos are. You two share a look. Trying to give him the most ‘Please help. I can’t just leave’ face.

Instead he turns around from you. You wanted to gasp at the audacity. But was pulled towards the small little shooting range the kids set up. “Come on (Y/n)! Show us again!”

At this point you're gonna run out of stamina if you don’t get a break. But someone pulled you backwards, almost tripping you over yourself. Straight into the arms of a familiar scarf boy. “Warriors!”

“Excuse us,” he adjusted you into a more comfortable position “but I need to steal them away for the time being.” Before the children could protest, Warriors bolted in the opposite direction. You shove your face into his scarf to at least save face as he basically carries you across the village to Twilight's house. Of all ways for him to save you and for him to just… pick you up and go! You feel him slow down to a stop. “Here you go, safe and sound.”

“Oh,” you slowly put down. “My hero~” you are rolling your eyes. “A reward for your valiant effort.” Up on to your tippy toes and push yourself up. You kiss his cheek quickly “Thanks Link.” You wave at the stunned captain and leave to go inside.

Warriors watched you go with a red face, he smirks to himself and turns around.

Only to be tackled by the same children you were entertaining.

[shyrose57]

Brothers anon, im gonna start combing the two separate submissions again cause its getting too short to have them separate I think?

1: His possession messed with memories Ranbob had before, so memories of school friends or playing with Ran were distant to erased. Though after Dreams possession it was also harder to make and keep memories. But thankfully as Ranbob was recovering from Dream and got futher away making memories came eaiser to him, though he'll never get back the memories he lost. 

3: Oh he would very quickly grow to regret his decision, but it would be funny. And Benjamin would later admit that while it was annoying and stressful, it was also fun and he was very happy to have his two families meet and generally get along. 

8: Everyone is just in shocked silence before Cletus just goes "YEAHHHHHHHHHH!" Oddly happy that Ranboo committed so much arson. Oh definitely, after all the outcasts of society where put there. Of course people would make such negative rumors about Mizu and treat the people as the scum of the earth. Though this also means, people don't know what happened in Mizu, and anyone who knows, view it in a more happy and a "Their finally gone" type of way, then viewing it as the tragedy it was. 

Spoons is a card game technically. A group of people sit in a group and everyone gets 4 cards, and you keep discarding at least 1 card of yours to the person on your left, who then does the same to their person on their left, the last person in the group puts a card into a discard pile. The goal is to get 4 of the same cards, and once someone gets 4 of the same cards, that person goes and grabs a spoon in a pile in front of them (let's say there's 5 players, theres only going to be 4 spoons cause there's always a spoon less than the people playing), once they grab one anyone can grab a spoon. And the person who doesn't get a spoon gets a S added to them, once Spoons is spelled the person gets out of the game, and a spoon gets removed to continue the game. Basically for flowers its played the exact same way but with flowers in the middle expect for spoons.

11: I just imagine Dream sulking in a corner as you yell at him and him going like "well I didn't know…" as he kicks a stone. And he wasnt sure what it was, but quickly jumped on the idea that maybe it was the fact that Ran was still alive somewhere, and that that's causing Ranbob to willingly let himself become weak and defy him. Causing Dream to become angrier at Ran and punish Ranbob harder. 

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3: During the brothers fight in the storm, and after everyone runs off to find Ranbob, Ran is left alone. And he decides to just wander off into the storm, not protecting himself from the rain so he does get burnt. The whole time he's lost deep in thought and isn't really paying attention. He continues to wander for a whole day unfollowed (because after the Gladiators and Fishermen came back to the cave after finding Ranbob they are in no rush to find Ran and decide to look for him after the storm passes, which takes a full day) and at some point Raq finds him wandering. Which Raq then uses Rans distraction to his advantage and attacks him. At first only really the gladiators where concerned when they found Ran gone. But once they found him blinded and terrified everyone felt awful and a looming sense of guilt. And everyone continued to feel that way, even after they got the antidote and Ran started to see again.

4: They would just leave Ranbob alone and check in on him every now and again. But generally let him deal with it himself. They'd feel guilty leaving him alone, but they also know that they can't really do anything for him as their not prepared or briefed on how to help him in this situation. 

10: Oh definitely, even with Ran blinded they would've been kicked out immediately for fighting, without even a second glance. Dont forget, Ran still cares for his brother. And maybe, losing his sight made him face the side of him that wanted to become family again with Ranbob, maybe it brought enough to light that he just can't ignore it anymore. Mostly only negative potions can be permanent, like posion, blinding, wither, and nausea (I know the last like 3/2 are effects but they've also found a way to make effects into potions.). You already know what a antidote for blindness would be. A antidote for wither would be, a ghast tear (actually a basic ingredient for almost every antidote), blaze powder, and glistening melon to make a overpowered healing potion. Antidote for posion would be ghast tear, swiftness (so it acts fast to get rid of the posion), and the 3rd ingredient depends on what kind of posion it  was (posion that has a side effect of constricting or filling the lungs with water? Pufferfish and Turtle shell for last ingredients. Posion that has weakness? Blaze powder, and glistening melon) And antidote for nausea would be ghast tear, and potion of slowness to allow the person to slowly feel better, so their nausea doesn't hit them all at once before disappearing, which can cause them to throw up or have side effects. 

13: Thats exactly what they did. 

14: Jackie will 100% attempt to fight God and no one can stop him. :) (to be honest im not sure yet, I know I want to do more with Raq and have the idea that maybe he could be the person that finds Dream and gets him out of Mizu, but that's pretty often used in stories and I want to try to think of something more unique. Maybe I'll have it so Raq actually manages to capture the brothers or at least one of them and uses them as blackmail?)

15: When Ranbob was a child and Ran was just a baby Ranbob would often take Ran out of his crib and take him to go watch the fish swim by. When Ran was old enough he'd follow Ranbob everywhere, even a few times he managed to sneak into Ranbobs class room and almost wasn't caught. Ran got extremely clingy one day and managed to gather his haunting all up into his arms and carried them around, even though he was obviously struggling. And Ranbob used to complain about his teachers and idiotic classmates whenever he got home, which is funny when you consider Ran was very impressiable at the time and Ran started mimicking Ranbob, leading to him cursing, much to Ranbobs dismay. 

And im curious, do you have any questions that I havent answered? Or do you have any ideas for anything? I'd love to hear whatever you have to say about anything honestly!

Course! I dont have much lore wise other than they go to Kelalen and when they hear Dream is still around they decide to stay back to help fight him. But the idea I have is that Karl is just kinda hanging with everyone I listed, talking about allies or treaties when his time traveling clock/watch starts to go off, and he panics, but sadly in his haste to stop it he makes it worse and it grabs everyone, where they end up in the future. After hours of confusion and explaining they calm down. When 2 days later they find the Gladiator and Fishermen group, at first Karl is strongly against going to then for help, but everyone basically ignores him and go to ask for help. Hours of explanation and proof giving later the GF (Gladiator and Fishermen, got tired of writing it out) group sadly tells them that they cant really help. Until Ran (who was previously gone searching the surrounding area and making sure it was safe) appears high up on a tree (cause I just can't get the image of Ran on a tree and looking comfortable and confident as hell out of my head), and says that maybe Kelalen can help, if not going to Foolish may be a good alternative. Isaac, and Grievous are extremely against going back (at this time a 2 months have past since they left Kelalen)n saying it could be dangerous but Ran just aboustely shoots them down, along with Watson and Jackie agreeing with Ran, and Karls group agreeing to it. They head off to Kelalen. And Jackie is extremely excited at the potential of going to see Foolish finally. And it'd probably be like a sub au where the brothers au is the main backbone for it but at a certain point it separates from the au and becomes its own.

1: Okay, ouch. Can you imagine if Ran brought one of those memories up, and just had Ranbob look confused, or horrified, depending on how quick he realizes what happened? How would Ran react to that realization, both before and after he forgives Ranbob?

3: If nothing else, everyone got some laughs from it-even Benjamin, once his friends were far, far away from his family and not able to teach them more chaos. 

8: Cletus, why are you so happy? Do you just enjoy knowing chaos existed back then? Are you an arsonist? What’s up with you? 

Also, wow. Not cool, other city people, that’s very mean.

Spoons sounds like it’s interesting, I might try it sometime. Did the group just have those cards on them? What other games did they have?

11: Good, put Dream back in the corner, I’m gonna be yelling more. Because, seriously dude? I know you probably exist solely out of spite, but c’mon. Admittedly, from a certain point of view, it could be considered amusing that your first thought was that Ranbob was making himself weaker out of defiance/spite but like. From a more responsible and mature viewpoint, that’s incredibly stupid, and I-just. Buddy, hate to tell you, but I’m pretty sure that’d just be a you thing. Besides you were in Ranbob’s head, didn’t he think Ran was dead? It doesn’t even make sense. Good lord, I’m half-tempted to get the broom and chase you around like you’re a particularly unruly barn cat. 

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3: First of all, that sounds really scary for Ran. Second of all, are we getting an overprotective arc?

4: Kind of sad, but understandable, they’re dealing with the situation as best they can.

10: Even if the group was provoked by the townspeople? Potions sound really cool, wish I could make those in real life, tbh.

13: W-what do you mean ‘that’s exactly what they did’? Anon, is your friend, like, a legit gremlin? I’m spooked. 

14: Foolish takes one look at Jackie, wearing a smile that exactly matched Tubbo’s when he was about to cause chaos, and immediately nopes out of that. He knows that face, and he will not be getting tangled into a fight with a goblin child today, no sir. I’m sure Jackie tries regardless though. (Also, that sounds like that goes horribly, do we get an overprotective ender-sibling, for whoever gets captured or used as blackmail, if that’s what you do?)

15: I love all of these so much, oh my gosh. Baby Ran seeing the fishes and following his big brother around. Poor Ranbob’s face when his baby brother cursed one day, Ran trying to carry all of his haunting. I’m in tears, honestly. 

Umm...I can’t think of anything right now, to be honest. If I ever do have a question or idea though, I’ll through it on the Brothers AU tag for you to check out, I guess. 

Oh, this sounds really cool. The part about them just ignoring their local time traveler when they’ve just time traveled particularly amuses me, as does Jackie wanting to see Foolish-I feel like Foolish may be a little more than terrified to see both Tubbo and Jackie back, honestly. Why was Ran willing to help them so much? What did they do to offer proof? How did Ranbob react once they proved who they were? How does all the group get along? Are they Ranboo’s haunting, and if so, if Ranboo gets close with his descendants, does he merge his hauntings with theirs? How does the time group feel about the Brothers fighting, and Ranbob’s possession?