#I just like to connect the dots for shows and make up canon explanations for things that only happened cause of decisions in our world

[iamsonormalaboutninjago]

TW: Heavy talk about death

I think the reason why Kai and Cole had such a radical emotional change after March of the Oni was because Lloyd died

We’ve had plenty of characters die in Ninjago, and it always had a horrific affect on the ninja emotionally. Despite all their adventures and godlike powers they’re still older teenagers and young adults- of course when their sibling or lover dies in the fight they’re gonna want to avoid the fight itself

I think it was different for Lloyd tho- Lloyd despite losing the golden power is still the most powerful ninja. He’s not meant to lose, out of all of the ninja he’s the one who’s least likely to die and I think they know that.

So when he died facing down the Oni, even briefly, that would make the ninja doubtful and even afraid of their own mortality-

Kai’s hotheadedness and desire for the fury of battle dies when he see’s his little brother unresponsive on the floor. If he can die, so can Kai

Coles stubborn facade and die hard attitude gets a reality check when the kid who defeated the incarnate of evil lies dead in front of him

It would just be a reality check for them. Both have had to look death in the eyes many times before, but experiencing death is something that they themselves wouldn’t often think about.

Just a theory

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

Since you've discussed your favorite parts of ep. 7, I'd like to know your biggest criticisms of it & how you would've addressed them.

[Referencing this post!]

*raises finger* (my lawyer pulls me away)

Here’s how I would change the ending (while still staying within the Disney + mobile gacha game restraints and sticking with the themes + patterns established by other OBs):

Rework all the dreams. Every single last one. I can’t count the number of issues I have with them. Between the inconsistent pacing (4-35 parts per boy), the lack of urgency, extra fat (irrelevant convos), frequent contradictory explanations of the dreams, and the on-the-nose announcements of how each boy has changed, these are horribly inefficient vehicles for storytelling and need to be significantly tightened.

Between each dorm’s dreams, cut back to Malleus and Lilia so they at least STAY relevant for a book that is supposedly about Diasomnia. Let us know what Malleus’s current state of mind is, have Lilia reflect on what it’s like to see Malleus twisted into… this. Something, anything.

Make the explanation for the dreams consistent. Instead of changing the explanation or slapping on new details every other update, just claim right from the get-go that dreams tend to pull from a dreamer’s wishes/desires but it’s unknown how the dream worlds will actually be interpreted or how they’ll interact with Malleus’s magic since each person is so different. You can still have the dreams with deeper hidden meanings, but avoid overcomplicating the logic governing dreams in the first place.

Have Lilia join up with us in the dream world. Maybe a scene where Ortho or Idia connects the dots on his identity and contacts Lilia using his Muscle Red gaming ID tag in the dream world. Lilia receives his invite that way and joins us for the battle maps + help Silver and Sebek train with their new equipment. You can also potentially use this section to have Silver and Lilia reconcile over Lilia keeping secrets from him.

Like how Sebek had moments with the first years in their dreams, give Silver moments in which he can reflect on his relationship with + thoughts on the Dawn Knight. It feels a little strange to me that we went from emotional breakdown learning about his lineage to… thanking the Dawn Knight for not taking Lilia away at the end??? Like it feels like we missed the middle part of that development. We never got to hear his inner thoughts about the ordeal or how he comes to terms with it. For something so heavy, you’d think there would be more screen time dedicated to that??

The sword strikes Malleus, which brings him back to his senses but doesn’t break the horn. (This is just a personal dislike thing; it’s uncomfortable for me because it inevitably reminds me of poor injured animals and that’s not exactly… fun 💦)

Lilia still gets in the way of Malleus and Silver’s final stand-off, but rather than dying, he’s in critical condition and is in very real danger of dying.

Have Malleus willingly sacrifice a significant chunk of his magic (since he has all that excess from the senators blessing him + Malleus even canonically says he’ll give up his wings, his lifespan, etc.) to bring back Lilia from the brink. This would serve multiple purposes: 1) permanently power cap Malleus, 2) show him that his previous actions actually hurt Lilia but he also has the power to do good too (so he’s not filled with complete despair at the end), 3) rids him of the excess power he didn’t ask for, so now he’s more “approachable” to people, 4) doesn’t bring up potential issues with reviving the dead, since this could be categorized as ultra powerful healing magic, and 5) parallels the self-sacrifice Lilia had for him, that Silver had for Lilia, etc.

Honestly, I think Lilia should move away to the Land of Crimson Long to retire instead of regaining his magic and returning to NRC as a student. That way, Malleus isn’t the “special” OB boy that doesn’t have to still deal with the thing he OB’d over. Have it end on a hopeful note though, like have Idia or Lilia showing Malleus how to text (which is now more feasible due to Malleus’s reduced power) so he can always reach out to Lilia at a moment’s notice. This also fits in with the theme of keeping connected.

Alternative scenario to the previous point: have Lilia be taken away to urgent care and/or in a coma for a while. Let Malleus stew with the weight of what he did. Then maybe he + Diasomnia are called in when Lilia’s unstable and this might be good-bye 💦 Idk, at least then Lilia wouldn’t be dead for all of 5 seconds and Malleus would actually have a period where he’s forced to sit and reflect on what he did. Worrying and praying that Lilia will be saved, promising to the stars that he’ll never act out again if they just save Lilia. (You can still have your power of love saves him moment here!)

Following the OB, give a more balanced view of the repercussions of Malleus’s OB. Tell us how other nations are reacting, show us that some people are suspicious of him + need extra help recovering after the fact (in addition to people who love his UM and want to stay in there longer), etc. The current version works overtime to reassure us that there are zero negative (or even dubious) consequences when, logically, there would be at least some. This includes the main cast. Realistically speaking, they’d at least have some reservations or complicated feelings revolving around what happened in their dreams and how they feel seeing Malleus return. Ultimately, they’d welcome him back but some of them would still snark a bit while others are more forgiving (depends on the character; not all of them would react the same way).

We can still have the party + knighting ceremony at the end, but include some kind of magical broadcast or something where Malleus apologizes to all of Twisted Wonderland and lets them know what steps he intends to take to make amends moving forward. In the original, he only apologized to NRC, which I feel doesn’t cover the scope of the lives he could have affected. And if you’re going to have the other OB boys recite their flaws + how pathetic they were wallowing in darkness + how they’ve changed/are better than that now, grant Malleus that same opportunity here. It would also be great if he could go around and acknowledge the important people in his life, including classmates, to show us that he truly recognizes the value in these connections. I do, however, want to caution: the speech shouldn’t sound like Malleus speedran a character arc and is now without flaws. Malleus should also have some lines where he admits he’s imperfect and may falter, and if that’s the case, then he trusts us to admonish him and set him on the right path. This would show us that he’s willing to give up control to others and that he’s being more receptive to criticism.

Add a nod to Raverne at the end??? Like maybe Malleus wonders where his father is and we get some explanation as to why he didn’t show up in the Castle Wildrose memories but his mom did.

I don't think I actually made many changes here; most of the plot points remain, just change the execution and what the focus is on.

[luuxxart]

Hey! I loved your comic of Blaze and Silver!

I saw the tags too, and was wondering what your headcanon on the whole 06/Sol Dimension stuff was?

Yeah! So, starting off I want to note that this is probably the best compilation and most canon explanation we have for Silver and Blaze meeting. (thank u op for compiling this!!)

However, I think it’s honestly quite silly that the 06 writers took this approach of explaining the canon when it seems the easier option is just to have 06 be non-chronological and allow for Blaze to have been from the future and transported into the Sol Dimension. I think it kind of takes away from the sacrifice if Blaze is already from the Sol Dimension and she only met Silver like a couple weeks ago. I understand the amnesia, and it’s a tragedy from the characters’ experience, but in the same way that say, we don’t get upset when the characters of Spiderverse have to go back to their own dimensions at the end, it’s not exactly heartbreaking (for the audience) or a major sacrifice for her to just. Go back home…

I think it would be different if 06’s story were better written of course, or if we saw Silver and Blaze’s relationship the same way we see Sonic and Elise (not necessarily romantic, just more development). [although I will go on record to say I do like Sonic 06’s story]

Not to mention, if it were more apparent in 06 that this were the Blaze from Rush, then I think we would have a better understanding of what the tragedy of their separation means. We only have the words of the writers to go off of.

The fanon explanation of Silver and Blaze both being from the future and Blaze sealing herself in the Sol Dimension at the end is a much simpler explanation and harbors more tragedy because in this, it would be implied that Silver and Blaze grew up together and were separated at the end of their journey together. I think most people connect the dots this way, and it’s baffling to me that SEGA/Sonic Team is bending over backward to make Sonic Rush come first.

As for my personal headcanons, I think:

Blaze kept her memories. I don’t have proof that time flows differently in the Sol Dimension or that the reset wouldn’t permeate dimensional lines, but I think it would make things more tragic and add a bit more nuance to the way she treats Silver. She has to be a little more careful.

Still, for her to seal herself away in another dimension and this dimension takes place at the same time as Sonic’s main storyline, it’s possible that the dimension may be rooted in a specific time period rather than being completely congruent with the Chaos (?) Dimension

I think, in 06, that Blaze is somehow a descendant of Elise. They both have the ability to seal Iblis, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence. I think Silvaze’s parallels to Sonelise (again romantic or non) are on purpose and show a divergence between Elise refusing the call of duty and Blaze accepting her duty.

I don’t think they met in Sonic Colors. I think they met in Mario and Sonic at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. If you analyze their interactions here, they appear much more like strangers than in Sonic Colors. ok lowkey I’m kinda joking bc I don’t think it’s canon but at the same time 👀👀👀

But with regards to this transcript from Colors,

I think Silver does not remember anything tangible from 06 but probably has some sort of phantom memory. Blaze here could be interpreted as wanting to move past this idea. Almost as if it would be for the best that he didn’t remember…

It would be funny if Silver did get reset every time he changed the future, but someone makes sure that a book of people for him to remember when he goes back to the past (so that he can act natural) gets passed down through time so that it will always reach him no matter what. He would probably interpret this as amnesia rather than constantly being written out of existence.

………. probably been done before but I think Iblis and Mephiles are also a parallel to Blaze and Silver but that one’s a bit of a stretch and certainly takes a lot of headcanoning.

That’s definitely all I’ve got but I hope that presents more answers than questions lol

[sweetsunshinedarling]

Posted this on Twitter, but kinda wanna post a longer more detailed version here. Might at some point write up other theories and readings for YBG on here too, but we will see~

Long ramble on a theory I have had for a while (2021-22ish)

Your girlfriend game (abbreviated to just YGG from this point on) is actually going to take place before YBG. Twist will be TK was the Y/N of that game. Perhaps canon ending being they got out by divesting themselves of you the player & running away to where they work now. (kinda hammers home that you the player are one of the antagonists of the story to have an ending where they do that too. Like YBG having the hints and YGG spelling it out for you in case you missed it).

TK says at one point they know first hand what it's like dealing with creeps & seem to have move to a dead end job/bad neighbourhood despite having a loving & supporting family. Were they running away from someone? (Sarah?) Plus they pick up on Peter real quick. Could that be from having a very similar experience?

Other possible twist. Peter has a cameo in YGG. Real brief though. We're talking shows up at Sarahs home uninvited to get something. Maybe they have an argument that you can vaguely overhear but at first you can't even see him. Then she brings him in to get the thing. He sees you, all out gawks for a bit saying very little and she kicks him out again.

Basically he see TK/Y/N aka YOU, so he actually has the first feeling of falling in love for the very first time ever. Something he previously didn't think he was ever going to experience. (but he doesn't recognise what that is as never had it). And him finding you miles away was him trying to track down TK/original Y/N sometime after the events of YGG once he realises what it was.

But by the time he caught up TK was already divested from YOU the player & was by rights their own person, so he ended up finding the new Y/N instead. (all planned by the creator of course since they like to see themselves as an evil mastermind) He never connects the dots neither does TK as they would both look very different by this point/first time they meet it was brief.

The majority of the game, perhaps even most endings you wouldn't know it's TK. Maybe the Peter cameo could even be in some routes but it would be a great way to tie the games if YGG ever gets made lol.

I just think it would be an explanation as to why TK seems a bit different than the other 3? + them dying the hair green as a way to customise themselves in a way is a cool thing. Like making themselves their own person. Since Y/N is like a blank template. TK also shares somethings in common with Y/N. Being none binary, having or had to deal with a creep.

Plus, by different than the other 3 I mean they are the only one that hasn't been written to do anything untoward towards Y/N (lol wording). If anything they can ONLY be helpful. Don't really need to say anything about Peter but the other 2 aren't exactly innocent. Spoilers and these are things that the creator could change or go back on but Don has apparently been taking photos of Y/N and being creepy with them. Plus Lucy's sex scene could be read as just non con or dubcon. When you are very vulnerable she gets you drunk/high and then the next minute is on you when you don't actually have the option to consent. TK doesn't get a single hint that their inclined to do anything creepy toward you. They instead go out of their way to assist, kinda like they've been through it before and want to lessen the burden for you.

I feel like it's important to note that all 4 of them know they are in a game. Below image for evidence and to be honest I feel like I could post a whole discussion about the below too. Worth noting that my read of it is the 4 know they are in a game but Peter is the only one that doesn't reset ever and is therefore basically tortured by the game and may have even changed the game in small ways.

I think the games evolved and changed overtime, which is natural for any game in development. And while I believe YBG was more fully imagined first, I can see as it was becoming a more solid concept that YGG would get built up too. Giving the other 3 sentience opens it up to the idea that they could get up to shit too. So, the idea that TK was a Y/N that kinda said fuck this and bounced and made a place for themselves in this weird fake world isn't all that crazy.

Also cool take on self aware AI being like no fuck this narrative but then getting condemned in a different way because these are horror games after all.

Example of TK as a Y/N that I drew in 2022 when I first put down my thoughts on this being a possibility to show the vision lol. They would work well colour scheme wise as they could very easily use the opposite colours while maintaining a bland enough base for you to project your character on to. Not that Y/N has a model in game, only ever art outside of the game, but you get what I mean lol.

I like them having their beanie instead of the cap! Plus them keeping it for a bunch of possible reasons. Remind them where they came from, or as a comfort thing. And the glasses work well in place of eyes and having th Y/N wording on them while still mixing up the design so that there is a definite divide between the two games and the Y/N despite being a vessel for the player still feels like their own character.

I also wonder if the candle tattoo is a hint to them having been a Y/N?

Side note lol: Worth noting TK didn't always have freckles & still doesn't in game but I like to think of them & the tattoo as ways in which they have made themselves their own person. Same with the piercings and green hair. I can't be sure but I think the candle came a fair bit after too, as the creator was ironing out their own stories.

Tattoos can have meanings and a quick google search of a candle tattoo (which another side note, since they have no other visible tattoos and a candle is so fucking specific I feel like it HAS to mean something to the creator to give them it in the first place)

Possible meanings found when googling:

More than the sum of it's parts. Candles are just wax and wick and yet they are capable of producing light etc. In my reading TK gave themselves this as a reminder that they are more than just a Y/N, more than an empty vessel for the player. They have made themselves a person with just a little light (power) from their own actions.

A light in the darkness. Something people might get that have dealt with bad times in their life, they have managed to get through and found the light for example. Links in with something bad happening to them before the game as discussed earlier. Something that keeps them going. It being on their back does also show that they are literally leaving it behind them.

Or admittedly, it could solely be to represent that they are the light for the player. Since they are always so helpful etc lol.

I just think if this was a thing it would be a neat twist that would better connect the games while also adding to the horror of it all.

[irkimatsu]

Do you have any predictions for Season Two of Hazbin? In general or just for Husk?

I do have random thoughts! Somewhere between "what I think will happen" and "what I think should happen", I'd say! No particular order:

-The fact that we'll be seeing Abel makes me think we'll be getting more about the beginning of Earth, and hopefully an explanation for Adam being the first human in heaven when Abel is, y'know, right there. (I like him so far, there isn't a single thought behind those puppydog eyes)

-I'd also like more about Vaggie's backstory - at the very least try to plug some plot holes/stuff that's kind of nonsense, like "why was Vaggie surprised to know that angels are vulnerable to angelic weapons when she was attacked by Lute" and "what would make one of the top exorcists suddenly change her mind after years, that kid surely wasn't the first Sinner to express fear of dying, Vaggie obviously knew what she was doing this whole time". I love Vaggie, but the way her backstory was handled is one of the biggest complaints I have, and I'd love if S2 could retroactively make it a little better...

-Pentious and Emily interactions! I will die from the adorable, I want to see Emily's reaction to the first redeemed Sinner

-Pentious and Molly will meet and have at least one conversation where they bring up Angel Dust and Anthony. Neither of them realize they're talking about the same person. A joke will be made where Pentious should obviously realize that this is Angel's sister, he almost connects the dots... and then he doesn't. This conversation could also reveal some backstory about Angel's life on Earth. (Genuinely wondering how Molly will react to her brother ending up as a gay sex worker in Hell.)

-Niffty's solo will have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, will go way harder than it has any right to, and will be one of the best songs in the entire series.

-We're not learning anything about Niffty yet. She's better as an enigma. That's a final season sort of reveal.

-Baxter will exist and I will make giddy clapping noises every time he's on screen. I love science gremlins who sound like Richard Horvitz. (Apparently it's not actually Richard playing him?)

-We won't meet Crymini yet. There's too much going on to fit her into eight episodes. Maybe if it was a longer season, but as it stands, not yet. We will meet her to give Husk another positive relationship, to show off his gruff-but-loving fatherly side; just not yet.

-I also don't think Huskerdust will go full canon yet. This isn't me being selfish or bitter, just realistic; I think it'd be too rushed if they got their Big Gay Kiss this season. Furthest I expect for now is mutual "oh god, feelings, time to drown them in my substance of choice" panic. Their relationship will be developed, they're just not smooching yet. Be patient, dear shippers, the patience makes it much more satisfying. Hey, it worked for me with Stolitz, anyway!

-We'll learn a bit more about Husk's past as an Overlord, but it will open more questions than answers. We'll continue to learn more about Husk's backstory for the entire series, drip-fed in little pieces. I want to know more, but I think it's too soon for him to show all his cards.

-If any characters' pasts are really explored, I'm guessing on Adam (via Abel reacting to his death), Pentious (as Heaven tries to figure out what he's doing there), and/or Vox (season is supposed to be focused on the Vees and what the fuck is his deal with Alastor.) Val and Vel are also options - how Val met Angel, or, well, basically anything about Vel - but if I had to pick one, I'm going with Vox.

I feel like there's other stuff, too, but that's what I've got for now. Damn it, I need more Hazbin! I wonder if we'll get some news on the anniversary?

[is-that-plural]

SORRY GOT A RANDOM HYPERFIXATION ON DHMIS AGAIN AND I HAVE TO PUT THIS FELLA IN FOR SUBMISSION BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT HIS SYSTEMNESS FOR A WHILE NOW;

YELLOW GUY FROM DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED

more specifically from the show but all media should prob be considered [i will be talking about the show tho]

ok so the creature fits basically the entire criteria for DID except TECHNICALLY the cause for his multiple selves is because hes a robo guy and his batteries are extremely worn down and out of shape. ;; elaborating on this, theres the regular yellow guy, then when he gets better batteries, theres a different version of him. He is physically different from normal yellow guy only slightly, he has a more tidied appearance with his hair being brushed, and his eyes being a noticable bright green [a big contrast from his usually black eyes]. All of the characters on some level experience amnesia and seem to not have like. i don't know like cognitive impairments? theres SOMETHING different about them and it shows throughout the whole show. AND. Theres an episode where he dissociates and escapes to a fantasy that COULD be interpreted as a headspace :). Theres just no way that he HASNT dissociated before. The reason he dissociated in the episode is because his friends ["friends", its complicated and i really hope youve watched the show cuz thatll make this explanation a lot easier] were being jerks and he felt isolated. His relationship with his friends is usually strained and he's usually being yelled at and isolated/othered from them. AND the whole reason they yell at him is because he forgot something important!!! IDK at first this was acompletely random hc but now im not sure if im reading into it too much or if these are str8 up symptoms that just ARE THERE,,, yk? i NEED to know your opinionnnnn

-🌀sys (blurry as HELL but maybe scout o7)

!! rating ; theres dots to be connected, making him a good character for headcanons + aus but no canon plurality in this one im afraid

at first just looking at the characters name i was like 'well i don't think so?' but you explained more in the tv show and i dont remember the tv show all that well, we best recall the webseries, and this has so many aspects of plurality !!

the batteries bit is what leaves him in the 'not plural' category sadly, and im hesitant to fully call him a robot because dhmis is a series all about Creepy Things and creep Factors and its a lot more creepy to think of his batteries as something on His Flesh rather than metal.. but maybe thats just me talking out my ass i dont know lmao

maybe we need to rewatch the show HAHA

[lscpu]

I wish I didn’t read that bc now I really, really need to see or read a fic like that.

Ok but John doted on Sam to the point that he didn’t want to involve him into the hunt or scare him to death by revealing that the nightmares are actually real. End result is Dean was not only parentified, but alsoseparated from Sammy by the knowledge of the hunt.

Sam got to watch his father and older brother disappear for days on end, Dean dropping out of school, turning to alcohol as a coping mechanism for something while the chasm between Sam and John&Dean grew due to the Secret.

Sam is done watching this secrecy. He’s always been a smart kid, so he knew all those excuses he was given are bs, but as he grows and gets more life experience he enters the denial stage.

The obvious answer is on the nose, but it’s so horrible he doesn’t dare acknowledge it.

He fights with Dad and starts fighting with Dean and he kinda loves him but also can’t help being afraid of them both, especially once he inevitably catches a glimpse of the arsenal that Dean LEAVES WITH IN HIS BAG in the middle of a night.

What other explanation could there be? They never actually hurt Sam but what will they do when they know he knows?

Sam ends up saying fuck it, can’t possibly live like this, and leaves even earlier than in canon — as soon as he’s 18. He finishes high school on his lonesome and goes to Stanford on a full ride still, but doesn’t tell Dad and Dean about it. (Might or might not realize he’s being stalked.)

Doesn’t tell Jess shit as long as he can help it. Maybe lets it slip out when he’s in a doomed-drunk state at some party.

When Dean shows up on his doorstep in the middle of the night, eyes glinting, borderline manic, way too excited, Sam puts himself between him and Jess, guards her even as he explains that this thief-in-the-night is his brother.

(Meanwhile Dean just looks like that because he’s worried about Dad and happy he managed to track his baby brother whom he hadn’t seen or heard from for 4 years. Eyes glinting not bc he’s crying no who’s crying you’re crying, Dean’s just G L A D to see his baby, okay? And also Giddy because he gets to actually tell Sammy what’s going on. MEND THEIR RELATIONSHIP by finally letting Sammy in on the big secret.)

Dean says Dad’s gone ‘hunting’ and ‘hasn’t been home in a few days’, and to Sammy, with all the little clues he has, this is straight up Dean admitting that he snapped and took their Dad out and is using the disappearance as a way to connect with Sam. For the past 4 years Sam’s been reading on true crime & serial killers as a hobby, because of course his family isn’t like that (still denial), and this is when the knowledge of an old classic trope ‘chick got groomed by her scandalously older boyfriend into helping him hunt and kill other girls’ kicks in and makes the dots connect.

Sam thinks, oh shit, my brother got groomed by Dad to be bait and his serial killer partner, a twisted modern take on Bonnie and Clyde, and now he broke free… only to what? Drag Sammy into it?

So yeah I just think that’s neat. Dean ends up manhandling Sam into the car, ignoring Jess calling 911, and driving off with him to follow Dad’s steps only to run into that ghost from the Pilot episode. They fight it, Dean explains that ‘yep, that’s what Dad and I have been up to all these years, monsters are real and we hunt them. Sorry kiddo, tried to give you a real childhood (ruffles Sam’s hair) but clearly Dad and I messed up. ‘

Bonus points Jess reported this, all of Sammy’s college friends are worried SICK about him, what do you fuckin MEAN his brother broke into your place in the middle of the night and kidnapped Sam, what kind of cult shit is that? Where’d they grow up? No legit is it a cult thing? Makes sense Sam never mentioned family! He probably ran away but now they found him!

Meanwhile Dean just drives Sammy back home once the job is done, like he insisted he would do when he ‘kidnapped’ him, fully aware that Sam’s a smart kiddo who wants to learn everything about everything and now that he knows what the fuck was happening with his family and that Dad’s gone, he’d wanna come with Dean to help search for him.

But Jess reported this, right. So Dean gets arrested the moment he parks by her and Sam’s place (while being extremely smug about it, freaking Sam’s friend out even more), and Sam just tells the cops his brother didn’t kidnap him, Sam went with him willingly, his girlfriend just misinterpreted the situation.

Cops do the whole ‘victim of abuse’ routine. Did your brother threaten you? Is he threatening you right now? Is there any reason you’d lie to protect him? But since Sam is insistent nothing’s happening, they have no reason to take Dean into custody and have to let him go on the spot.

Cue all Sam’s friend thinking this is some Stockholm Syndrome shit. Jess is upset & afraid, friends are wondering if they should stage an intervention, and Dean just up and leaves, still suspiciously smug about the whole interaction, not in the least freaked out by the cops (very much unlike ANY normal person).

Jess texts their friend group she’s legit concerned about Sam’s brother and can’t even go to sleep since he knows where they live and has already broken in once, and that cops won’t even do anything because Sam refused to report it. From what little she knows and got out of Sam throughout the years, it’s not as much abuse as the weirdness — and Jess suddenly remembers the ‘murder kit’ Sam accidentally mentioned Dean having in a bag with him (while they were both drunk. Obviously. So she dismissed it till now).

That same night Sam&Jess’s place goes up in flames. A bunch of eye witnesses confirm the weirdo brother’s car was in the vicinity. Sam talks to the firefighters, the police, makes a statement on the spot — and up and leaves with his brother without even talking to his friends.

(Dean told him this is exactly what happened to Sam’s mom — it was no ordinary fire — and Sam did have visions of Jess like this, too.)

(Sam can’t shake the suspicion that Dean could be involved, despite everything he learned about the ghosts and the demons.) There is still the air of broken trust between them.

Sam can’t help the fear that his brother really is a serial killer. (For a moment there, everything started making sense, Sam was able to admit that’s what he feared Dad and Dean were. Unfortunately, he put a name to it, ‘I thought my Dad and brother were serial killers’ — but the fear didn’t fully go away, because it took time and a lot of processing to actually accept that the paranormal is so common that hunters are constantly working to fight it.)

Anyway, remember that scene in Bugs where Sam says ‘no no [we aren’t serial killers]’ and Dean gets all sappy n grinning like ‘could be fun tho :)’? Yeah, Sam would pause and think, what if they are, though. What if DEAN is.

MORE BONUS POINTS/au to an au: during his years in stanford sam actually sat down to anonymously write his experience of growing up with a father&son serial killer duo, and his and jess’s friends find this blog/site/forum/journal/whatever and put two and two together. Dean ends up on an FBI MOST WANTED list so damn fast. Turns the TV on one day to see his face plastered on the news and Sammy’s face there with him on suspicion of kidnapping his baby brother, straight-A 4.0 GPA student, full ride scholarship at Stanford, and torching brother’s place and killing his girlfriend as some elaborate revenge/psychological warfare scheme. Sam’s friends give these short teary-eyed snotty interviews and one of them mentions ‘and then we found Sam’s BLOG…’ and Dean just turns to Sam, frozen in the other bed, deer in the headlights face, and goes: ‘what blog are they talking about, sammy.’

‘Uh, so, I thought you and Dad, uh, that you were… serial killers?’

‘…’

‘And so I kinda… was on this forum, ANONYMOUSLY…’

‘…’

(Meekly) ‘To process that.’

Dean would roll his eyes up in his skull so hard they’d actually hurt.

“In one of the many versions of the pilot script, Sam suspects Dean of not only being a serial killer but also murdering their father”

[icyfox17]

comaduo breakfast post nightmare slay HI HI HI HI

HI GRACIE I HOPE UR WELL ILY I MISS U LOTS 💙💙💙👻👻👻🫂🫂🫂

So IN the show Buck gets struck by lightning and gets into a coma and dreams of an alternate reality where BOBBY IS DEAD god it's so good it's my fav ep ever gracie-- AND SO after he wakes up, he has a checklist to make sure he's in this universe and not in his coma dream universe and CANONICALLY. CANONICALLY GRACIE. THE FIRST THING HE DOES AFTER WAKING UP AND CHECKING THE DATE/TIME IS TEXT BOBBY AND ASKS IF HE'S OKAY. EVERY DAYYYYYY GRACIE EVERY!! DAY!!! so anyways i really wanted to write a fic about one of those times where he asks bc . They never mention it again in the show like WHAT?$?$? im insane. Im so insane. God i love comaduo so fucking much

Buck Are you okay? The text reads the same as it has every day since Buck woke up from his coma. Bobby has never quite gotten the explanation for it, but he thinks it might have to do with the dream Buck had mentioned, though he can’t imagine what part of the dream would trigger Buck to start this routine. Bobby doesn’t mind though, a small part of him actually finding their little routine relieving because where Buck can check on Bobby, Bobby can check on Buck. You Yes, I’m fine. Are you? Most of the time Bobby gets a superficial answer, but every once in a while he’ll get a more honest one. Buck Can’t sleep. And though it’s 5 am, Bobby offers anyway. You Would you like to grab brunch? Buck At this hour??? You The Red Wagon is open at 5:30am. He can see the three little dots pop up for a minute letting him know that Buck is typing and figuring out his thoughts, when he finally gets a reply. Buck Okay. You Great. I will pick you up in half n hour. Buck 👍 Bobby rolls over to peck a kiss on Athena’s head, before climbing out of bed and quickly showering. His dad had always taken hours in the shower—to the point of using up all of the hot water. Bobby had learnt at a young age to take quick showers so no one else would have to suffer through the cold water. And although he had years of living by himself with the chance of taking nice long warm showers, he had never really broken out of the habit of taking quick showers. A habit which came in handy when you were a firefighter who could be on call at any moment. Fifteen minutes later, he’s out of the house (with a quick text to Athena explaining where he’s going because he hadn’t wanted to wake her up) and driving over to Buck’s loft. Buck is definitely not as quick at showering as Bobby, but Bobby only has to wait a few minutes until he sees Buck running down the steps towards his truck. Buck shoots Bobby a grin as he enters the truck, instantly grabbing the aux cord (he had tried to set up bluetooth ages ago, but then Bobby couldn’t figure out how to connect it back to his phone afterwards and it was a whole frankly stressful thing that Bobby had just wanted to avoid. He liked the aux cord. It was simple. And did not blare random words at him about being disconnected), and connecting it to his phone. Moonage Daydream by David Bowie comes on and Bobby watches out of the corner of his eye as Buck leans back in his seat, melting into it as if releasing tension that had been coiled up tightly.

“So can’t sleep huh?” Bobby asks, hoping it doesn’t come off as too pushing or anything. Buck sighs, eyes fixed out the window beside him. “Yeah. Had some weird dreams. Nothing horrible, just… couldn’t fall back asleep after them.” Bobby doubts the “nothing horrible” part of that sentence but doesn’t push, just happy for Buck to tell him anything at all. “What about you? You seem awfully awake for someone who was up at 5am,” Buck asks, turning to properly look at Bobby, gaze not judging but simply curious. “No weird dreams like you, but yeah. Couldn’t sleep either.” Bobby leaves it at that, not wanting to dump his stuff onto Buck. The kid has enough on his plate. He knows he wants to help Bobby, but no one can help him. Not with this.

[flowery-king]

PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT HOLLOW MIND IN YOUR AU BECAUSE A. I FEEL PAIN FROM THAT COMIC /POS

BAHA Glad yall like it!!

(a Basic summary of an episode but AU flavoured under cut)

So like I've said in a previous post, the au story very much starts leaning away from the canon plot right after Yesterday's lie. Some weird stuff goes down almost immeadiately after Luz comes back from seeing her mom.

Point I'm making is the episodes after Yesterday's lie either just don't exist or follow a somewhat similar plot up to a point. Hollow Mind is one of those that still does happen... kinda

Eda still works with Raine at this point, finding any detail they can to use against the Emperor to show how much of a fraud he really is while still bustin out as many wild witches as they can. Darius and Eberwolf had still caught Eda and Raine in Eda's Requiem, but it was all a misunderstanding, they just wanted in on the plans Raine is conducting. Eda does not apologise for kicking Darius with mud. All this is to say they reach out to Eda when they come up with the plan to check out the Emperor's mind. Eda is very intrested but does not tell her two children because they will want to join, especially Luz.

They arrange a time and place. It's the night market and ,like before, Eda plans to fix Luz's cape as a distraction for the two youngins while she goes out to do the actual work. Prim, the shopekeeper with witches wool, accepts the task, motivated by the several wild witches being freed by a mysterious group. Eda tries her best to sound like she doesn't know who the group is either, but secretly eats up all the compliments.

Eda tells King and Luz they should wait for the cape to finish while she stocks up on more Elixir, she'll be back momentarily. King and Luz shout their goodbyes to Eda as they gain interest in Prim's telling of how Witches wool is made and other enchanted cloth.

After a while the cape is done and Luz gets to leave with her patched up cloak, but Eda still isn't anywhere to be seen. She fits on the cape again to twirl around, temporarily giving Eda's jacket to King. Mid twirl she spots a coven guard prowling about. This makes her worry for Eda even more and she grabs King to go find their witch mom.

After a bit of a search, she finds Eda and the others and accidentally scares off the coven heads since she was wearing her cloak's hood over her head. Luz questions Eda about what all this is, they don't break into an argument, but it is a serious conversation. Luz is upset that Eda didn't tell her about her secret group against the Emperor but accepts her explanation as to why and makes Eda promise that if they need extra help, they'll ask Luz. Eda laughs, yea of course, even if she said no Luz would still find a way to get involved.

At that moment a coven guard spots them, shouting questions on what they were doing in a suspicious alleyway, making Luz take a step back... on the potion, breaking it. Before Eda can grab her out of the circle Luz disappears, owl lady panik time.

Eda goes back home to evade the Coven guards and use a safer place to bring Luz back. The Coven heads greet her at her home and Eda needs to hold herself back from snapping about how stupid they are for leaving the potion on the ground. Right now she needs them to make a spell to bring Luz back.

Meanwhile, Luz wakes up in Belos' mind, pretty confused. Everything is dark and colourless and the trees surrounding are withering away. She finds her glyphs and creates a trail of light to see better as she searches around for a trace of Eda.

This is where these drawings take place!

At first she doesn't know she's in the Emperor's mind, but once those memory portraits start appearing, she connects the dots.

Belos looks just as tired as he did that time after she encountered him in the boiling rain and some weird part of her almost feels... bad? It's weird. However, this is replaced with the rising excitement she feels when she realizes HE'S HUMAN TOO! The greatest witch to ever live?? Is human?? Omg.

King suddenly remembers he has a walkie talkie and Eda uses it to confirm Luz's safety. She confirms and prepares herself as they announce they're just about ready to pull her out. Luz looks over to Belos again, his stare unfocused. What a sad lil guy. "Hey." Belos' eyes focus on Luz. "It's not too late to start fixing things." Belos frowns. Luz shouts a farewell and he pretends not to hear her saying something about seeing him later and she's gone. He doesn't know how to feel, but he's not going back to that dark part of his mind again.

Luz appears in the owl house and Eda makes sure she isn't overwhelmed. She's dizzy but fine! The coven heads question if she'd seen anything important, anything that could help them. Luz thinks. The human thing won't really do much to prove he's bad, so she shakes her head. She wasn't in there long enough. They accept this answer, she really wasn't in there for long and continue to get scolded by Eda (mostly Raine).

[thoughtfullyrainynightmare]

Seeing as we've apparently reached the end of his story, what are your opinions/thoughts on Jack?

That is a good question, actually. What do I think about him?

I suppose... I expected to learn more about him. Because, he's mostly just been there, just as a lot of the captains to be fair. We've seen them fight, and we've seen them contribute, but mostly they've just been there.

But it's... Jack is one of the characters who has a large, supposedly magical, marking on his face, and I expected to learn more about it. Where did it come from? What's the symbolic meaning behind it? Because I do believe that there are meanings behind all of the symbols, and not just those that are on the Fire Vermillions (which I think are the only ones explained, despite a lot of the characters having a mark of some kind).

Though we did get a backstory for him, it somehow... felt incomplete to me. I can't really put my finger on it, what it is about the story that feels left unsaid, or if I just didn't read carefully enough when it was told. Because we haven't gotten all of the backstories of the captains, I expected that he'd be... more meaningful to the story? I mean, we know far less about Kaiser than we know about Jack. If there was a captain that was most expendable, it'd be him. Not Jack. Though I supposed the Purple Orcas suffering the loss of 2 captains in a couple of years might start rumours of the squad being cursed or something.

I also expected him to be a hybrid, just like Charmy, though I can't say where this idea came from. Perhaps from him having a ... freaky look about him? Though partly I thought that to be a part of his aesthetic. And there's something about his ... determination to be able to slice through anything and everything that feels very Black Clover to me. Because he's focused on "his thing", being the dude who can cut anything and he's striving, pushing forth with that. It's almost like a bull mentality. In that aspect Jack isn't a complex character, but I do think that there is something about him that is very Black Clover.

I've mainly seen him as a comic relief, especially while placed in the same room with Yami, but it's just that... Why is Jack having these flashbacks about Morgen? There is something about it that bugs me (pun intended).

The easy explanation is that Tabs needed someone to make the mistake, and Jack was there. Jack would have hung around Yami, as they were both commoners, and have been friends for quite some time, and thus is sensible to have witnessed Morgen and Yami teaming up. But even then keeping it as one side comment, aside of having all these flashbacks as Jack is dying, makes it seem... almost unnecessary. This isn't the first time we've had flashbacks in canon, and there has, I think more often than not, been a good reason to show them.

I can't say that his death... wouldn't make sense, because it does. But it feels almost... too convenient to have him have all these memories and flashbacks, and then just kill him off. Out of concealing something more. Again, usually when we've had flashbacks or stories, there has been something more to them. And I'm waiting for Tabs to connect all the dots for us in a brilliant finale. But that's more about BC as a whole than just about Jack.

I just... expected more. I expected him to have more of a role, I suppose. Again, we know about him more than about Kaiser. We've gotten his backstory, unlike Kaiser's or even Dorothy's. (Though Dorothy's is deducible to an extent.)

But... if nothing else, at least Jack got one last slice, at life. And his death isn't meaningless

Thank you for the question ^^

[iatheia]

There is one thing that I like about Chibnall’s writing the most - the more you engage with his writing, the more sense it makes, the more enjoyable it becomes.

RTD’s seasons wore everything they wanted you to think and feel front and center. Sure, it is a recipe for good, solid writing, you don’t miss any thematic links, all conflicts are pretty clearly set up, all references are lampshaded so that you’d be aware of them, everything is resolved, there are almost no missing plot threads. It makes for a good prime-time TV that could be enjoyed by almost anyone, and is exactly as good the second time as it is the first time, even if you watch it out of order.

Moffat’s writing makes less sense the more you think about it. There is a pretense that you need to be 400 IQ genius with Moffat’s sized brain in order to understand it, but, the emperor is naked. His writing is generally incoherent, flying by the seat of his pants, stringing the plot together without giving a single thought about how it impacts what came before, even if it is an episode he wrote just prior to the current one. He just throws glitter in your eyes to distract you, he keeps promising to resolve some sort of singularly grand mystery, but by the time he gets around to it, it morphed into something unrecognizable. He keeps aiming to “outsmart” the viewers by making sure that you can’t possibly guess what he is planning to do by outright lying to you - while at the same time “subverting expectations” by veering to the left in the least narratively satisfying way possible. I’ve heard more times than I want to count -“You’re just not smart enough to follow this story, here is the explanation” (continuing to summarize what is explicitly been mentioned in the episode via exposition and nothing else) - yeah, no, I got that, but it makes zero sense on the subtextual level. One thing that stuck with me after all these years is a conversation I had with someone who liked his writing who said that you aren’t really meant to rewatch it. You should just watch it once for the spectacle of it all, and never think of it again, because otherwise it kind of falls apart. Some are into this type of thing, I guess, it makes for striking individual scenes that stick in your memory.

Chibnall, though, he plans. He doesn’t write episodes - he is arguably not that good at writing individual self-contained episodes, he writes sagas, epics. He accommodates the requirements from higher-ups, but you can tell that these plot threads have been years - decades - in the making in his head. He will resolve the main emotional story beats, but along the way he would introduce dozens of other plot threads that he just doesn’t have time to follow up on. Even though a lack of immediate resolution may not feel the most satisfying when you just get an episode - It makes for a richer universe that is ripe with narrative opportunities, either for himself to continue in the future, for other writers (be it future showrunners or in EU), or left as an exercise to the viewer to imagine. Sometimes he seeds up certain beats so far along you wouldn’t recognize them as important at the time, and it takes a repeat viewing of past seasons to connect the dots, to have that moment of epiphany. It really does become 6d chess, delivering nothing more and nothing less than what he set out to deliver from the start. It does require engaging with the show in good faith. It does require openness of imagination. It does require willingness to consider possibilities, and not bury your head in the sand bringing up the same three “plot holes” over and over that have rudimentary answers if you just deign to spend more than a second thinking about it that barely even worth explaining at this point. But if you do, there is such a meal in front of you, ripe for analysis, ripe for theorizing, ripe for exploring subtext, ripe for canon-wielding, ripe for fantasizing and exploring the widest breadths of the universe.

For being the latest installment of the franchise, I have already rewatched a number of episodes from S11-13 a surprising number of times, more than I had even with my absolute favorites from the previous eras. And every time, whenever I let go of my impatience, my anxiousness to get to the end of the epic, I almost always enjoy it more the second time than I do the first, especially if I come back to it having seen what was built on its foundations.

Not everyone can afford this level of engagement with a fictional world. I guess, in contrast, it wouldn’t be as popular as a more self contained narrative, or a spectacle that just sweeps you along in a singular moment. Still. I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

[real-sizzlipede]

I think it’s very interesting bc I’m on tumblr and twt for Tristamp content and god all the interpretations of this last episode are insane :)) bc like I’m not good at making connections like people have been so far idk why my brain is just like “wow these sure are 2 dots” instead of connecting them lol but like the leg prosthetic theory being possible is so cool like I said on twt I want it to be explicitly shown/said before I’m like “omg prosthetics!” And we better get an explanation abt them too bc like god but like his legs d o look wacky they d o look like prosthetics! And like I want it to be canon bc it would be so cool!! But also like I want it to be said so so so bad before I jump to conclusions. Also all the discussions of how vashs bodily autonomy is constantly taken away from him is just wow it’s so interesting and like Jesus it’s tough to watch and read abt as an afab person in a country where my bodily autonomy is not respected but it’s just very very interesting to see all the connections people make with that messaging and imagery but also last and not least, the audience interpretation of knives is very wacky bc I’m seeing two groups of people so far. One who interprets the “I finally have you back” moment as knives finally has a version of his brother that is like when they were younger and wouldn’t really fight back against him which means he’s trying to get vash back to use him and then the other group that interprets that along with the imagery of vash with his arm back to say that knives wanted an unharmed version of vash because he didn’t want him to experience any pain so like he was trying to get vash back because he loves and cares for him and like d a m n if those aren’t two very different interpretations but also d a m n if I say I see them both!! I see where both sides are coming from and honestly I think that it very well may be a combination of both!! Like god I love this show so much so so so so much also??? Wolfwood just up and leaving this ep?? Like I’ve seen people be like “he’s gonna come back” but at this rate I have no idea what’s going to happen at the end of this so like Adhfksjdhs g o d i love this show so much I’m very sad that next Saturday is the last stampede Saturday (at least for a while bc everyone’s pretty confident abt there being a s2 and it wouldn’t make sense to not have one at this rate) but yeah that’s it thank you for seeing my rambling if you did I’m just going a little bit insane over here 😎😎😎😎😎

[the-insomniac-emporium]

I love your writing.

if it's not too much trouble may i make a request? I'm thinking the Dimitrescu women meeting and/or courting a fellow immortal.

the circumstances of the immortal's powers and possession of immorality are entirely up to you. I just like the idea of them meeting someone they could literally spend forever with...because they deserve it ❤

I wasn't sure if you wanted a story or headcanons? I went with HCs, here, but if you wanted more of a drabble or whatever just lemme know and I'll write something like that.

Also, I got excited and carried away so this has the whole Dimitrescu family, plus shorter ones for both Mother Miranda and Donna. Admittedly Alcina's is also a little on the shorter side? I tried to write everything that came to mind, but I am kinda tired right now, sorry. Might reblog this and add some more later.

(Under read-more for length)

Cassandra:

Tries (and fails) to hide her excitement. Mortality is one of the bigger things that has made her keep her distance to others, at least in the past. Every Maiden she’s ever been the slightest bit smitten with, up until this point, has been incredibly fragile. Seeing as she’s not exactly the softest person, one can easily imagine why that would be a turn off for her. But now that’s no longer a problem!

On the other had… having an immortal partner gives Cassandra pause. Why? Because what if they breakup? Normally, she can just, ahem, “dispose” of any exes (regardless of how much it hurts) so she doesn’t have to see them/deal with them anymore. If that’s not an option, she’ll definitely take longer than usual to do anything about her feelings. She wants to be sure, 100%, before she gets in over her head. Chances are she won’t hold back for as long as she wants though.

Likely to have a loud, messy confession. She’ll have been avoiding you for a few days, always ducking out of whatever rooms you enter, leaving you both hurt and confused. After enlisting the help of her sisters, you’ll be able to corner her outside. She’ll tell you, under no uncertain circumstances, to leave her alone. But you’ll refuse, demanding an explanation.

“I thought we had something. I thought you cared,” you’ll snap, eyes watering. “If that’s changed… if I was wrong, just tell me. I’ll leave and I’ll never come back.” Cue thunder and raining (because tropes) and Cassandra dramatically pulling you into a kiss, holding you so tightly you think you might bruise. Then she’s demanding that you stay, refusing to apologize but making it clear just how much she does care.

Being immortal, you’re not as defenseless as some of Cassandra’s past interests. Naturally, she doesn’t get quite as protective as she normally would. She’ll still have your back no matter what, ready to fight by your side against any foe, and will probably consider doing so a “fun bonding activity”. Oh, some lycans are encroaching on Dimitrescu territory? Time to go destroy them, as a power couple!

Despite having all the time in the world, Cassandra won’t change much of her actual courting behavior, nor the rate at which things advance. She’s still gonna get handsy fairly early on, still gonna “rah!” at you in the hallways, and still going to struggle with her jealousy.

Immortality Compatibility: I can see Cassandra going for another vampire (or vampire adjacent) creature, or someone demonic. She likes her lovers a bit rough, with some nice bite to their personalities. If you’ve got sharp teeth, or claws, or glowing eyes? Oh boy, she’s gonna be making heart eyes at you all the time.

Bela:

If your immortality isn’t immediately obvious, Bela is over the moon with joy when she finds out. Her eyes will go wide for a moment, before she tries to seem calm (so as to not freak you out), but her heart is pounding. This is what she’s been hoping for. As much as Mother Miranda has done for her family, there’s no guarantee that she’d be willing to give more. Even if Miranda granted Bela’s lover her “gift”, there was no telling what the results would be, or if the lover would survive. Now that there’s no need for such a transformation, it’s far easier for Bela to imagine herself in love (and eventually be in love).

Slow-burn romance over a decade or longer, oops. Doesn’t even necessarily mean to take things so slowly, just doesn’t feel a need to rush things, preferring that they develop organically. With both of you having unlimited time, you’re both used to working on a very large timescale. Maidens watching the two of you probably place bets on how long it’ll take you to hold hands for the first time. Everyone knows it’s coming, but no matter how much Cassandra and Daniela complain, Bela refuses to jump into things. By the time the two of you are officially together, you’re probably madly in love with each other.

More protective than Cassandra, if only because she knows just how rare you are. Immortal or not, you likely still have a weakness, and Bela will do everything in her power to make sure no one else knows what it is. If applicable, she will also ensure she has a countermeasure readily available. For example: If you were weak to fire, she’d make sure that the castle keeps extinguishers handy, just in case. Though they should probably already do that. Not that the Dimitrescu family cares much for OSHA compliance.

Somehow grows more in love with you with every passing year, and makes sure that you know this. Whether you’ve been together for one year or one century (because in this house we ignore canon), she’s always performing little acts of love, giving constant reminders of how strongly she feels. Gifts, special dates, book recommendations, etc.

Immortality Compatibility: Bela seems like the type to go for someone with a calming presence, and perhaps somewhat of a contrast to herself. I can picture her with someone somewhat angelic, or druidic, someone very in tune with nature. She’d love to feed deer with you and relax in the forest! Or lay against a tree by your side, listening to you talk about various microorganisms for hours at a time.

Daniela:

Practically tackles you when she finds out/connects the dots. This is just like one of her romance novels, where a lonely (attractive as fuck) immortal spends years in isolation before finally meeting the love of their life, who they get to spend the rest of eternity with. Absolutely ecstatic about the whole situation. Won’t stop kissing you and pulling you close, rambling about how great it’s gonna be to spend your lives together. Honestly? Kind of overwhelming. You might have to remind her a few times that you don’t have to rush into things, considering you have all the time in the world.

Introduces you to people as her “super cool/rad immortal life partner”. Genuinely cannot bring herself to not brag about you. If her sisters haven’t found someone like you yet, you can bet that Daniela will tease them about it all the time (much to their annoyance). If Momma Alcina doesn’t, though? Dani will keep her thoughts to herself, thank you very much (being grounded at her age does not impress the s/o).

Tries not to show it, but she’s actually very nervous. You’re immortal! You’ve probably seen a lot of shit (she certainly has)! Worries about keeping you interested in her, though she would never admit it. This tends to lead to her performing ridiculous acts to showcase her affection, regardless of the cost or, like, whether or not you’d even enjoy whatever she has planned. In order to counter her anxiety, you’ll want to reassure her whenever you can, and give her plenty of “I love you”s.

Strikes a decent balance between Cassandra’s nonchalant attitude and Bela’s protectiveness. Will defend you if you need it, playing up the romantic aspect, but also entirely willing to hide behind you in a scary situation.

Immortality Compatibility: Having probably read Twilight… Dani would date a werewolf, as long as they weren’t the smelly kind. Also interested in a sort of “magical”/elemental type, especially if their powers are influenced by emotions. In other words, if someone flirts with her in front of you, and your response is to subconsciously light your hands/the other person on fire? She thinks that’s hot, pun intended.

Alcina:

“Oh? Interesting,” she’d say, smiling softly (and trying to ignore the heat rushing to her face). Similarly to Cassandra, she’d try to play it off, not wanting to seem too excited. And, well, she’s not as excited as any of her daughters are. After all, she’s had more time than them to “get used” to the idea of outliving any potential romantic interests. So, she’s not exactly desperate for a relationship, even with someone she could spend an eternity with.

That being said, if she is romantically interested in them, she’s very relieved. Outliving a loved one can be incredibly traumatizing (fuck you c*pcom, you know what you did), and knowing that you’re safe (or at least safer than most) brings her no small amount of comfort.

Also, just glad to have another person close to her age around. Her daughters are somewhat stuck as young adults, and I imagine Alcina would want someone who gained immortality a little later in life, such as herself, as opposed to, ya know, reminding her of her children. That probably goes without saying. Hopefully.

More so than her daughters, Alcina would change her level of protectiveness depending on her s/o’s power level. If you’re a shapeshifter who can also turn into a big ass dragon? Then she’s not going to coddle you. If you’re immortal but still vulnerable, then she’s going to do her best to keep you safe, even going so far as to enlist the assistance of her daughters. “If you see a single Maiden growing mistletoe, or bringing some in from the village, let me know immediately,” or something like that, depending on your weakness.

Immortality Compatibility: Definitely would want someone in a situation similar to herself, having once been truly human, only to be “elevated” by something. Bonus points if you’re another disciple of Miranda, double bonus points if Miranda specifically “made” you to be Alcina’s boo/honey/darling/dear.

Bonus! Mother Miranda:

Oh god finally someone who won’t leave her (can’t leave her). No one can take you away from her, and that’s a relief that she’s been craving for over a century. Even if romance isn’t high on her priority list, she welcomes it with open arms, glad to have someone by her side through all of life’s chaos.

Admittedly slow to trust at first, probably just using you as a tool at first. But prove yourself enough, show that your devotion is more than just misdirected self-interest, and she’ll start to warm up to you. Forming a real relationship would likely take a couple decades, similar to with Bela. Once you are together, however, the two of you are inseparable in all matters.

You’d be her #1 follower, most trusted adviser, and the only person allowed to understand 100% of her thoughts and motives. While Miranda wouldn’t allow you to be seen as the same level as her (sorry), you’d still be a legend among the villagers. To them, you’re Mother Miranda’s champion, the epitome of a devoted follower that they all aspire to emulate. Not that they know the two of you are a couple, though.

Immortality Compatibility: No gimmicks, no cheap tricks, she wants (and respects) a fellow scientist, someone who clawed their way through adversity and forged themselves into something indestructible. Double the interest if you did so for a similar cause to her own, as she would appreciate your ability to relate to her suffering.

Bonus! Donna:

Someone to play with! FOREVER! No more losing people she cares about, no more accidentally breaking people, no more people scrambling to leave. Now that she has you, she can finally spend some quality time with another (living?) person. Honestly her dolls (or at least Angie) are just as excited as she is. Regardless of her relations with the other three Lords, Donna much prefers the company of a lover.

For real though she’s shy as hell and you might not even realize who’s pulling the strings until you’ve been in her house for over a year. She’d probably use her powers to trap you inside, at least at first, though they’d be nice hallucinations. You’d have to treat the dolls nicely, especially Angie, before she’d let you interact with her.

Eventually you’d be allowed to leave, and you’d be given a key to return whenever you wanted to. Assuming that you do, in fact, come back, the two of you would have a very, very slow romance, if only because of Donna’s anxiety. Hand holding makes both of your faces turn beet red, seriously.

Immortality Compatibility: *chanting* GHOST GIRLFRIEND GHOST GIRLFRIEND POLTERGEIST PARTNER POLTERGEIST PARTNER WOOHOO! Something with a flexible, only-sometimes-tangible form, who absolutely could have left at any time but didn’t because they wanted to stay.

[wolves-in-the-world]

unfortunately reminded myself of one of my worst Eliot readings / headcanons, which I have refrained from sharing previously because it... isn't pleasant.

(emetophobes, consider this your warning.)

so. right. whenever I start thinking along the lines of Eliot "let's make sure these civilians are safe" Spencer etc I inevitably, uncomfortably end up reminded of the Morning After Job in an attempt to make that fit - specifically the witness they had to take back to jail, lost & recaptured, and ended up leaving in the trunk of McSweeten's car. because neither Eliot nor Hardison (I'll be focusing on Eliot here, though Hardison being part of it makes the second explanation below more likely) were very sympathetic to this poor schmuck who testified against crooked cops and was basically terrified for his life the entire episode.

Possible Explanation 1: the Eliot in my head is softer and more careful than canon Eliot. probably! I'm okay with that.

Explanation 2, Doylistic: it's a comedy, and here the comedy undercuts the more serious Eliot Is Surprisingly Ethical For A Punchy Guy theme (and the broader The Team Are Surprisingly Ethical For Bad Guys theme).

(...yeah, this might be less about Eliot and more about a slight deviation from the usual tone of the show, tbh - they don't normally show innocent-in-the-eyes-of-the-story characters suffering with that little sympathy. it's not my cup of tea, but I'm kind of sensitive about these things.)

Explanation 3, Watsonian, WHICH I CANNOT SHAKE EVEN THOUGH IT'S AWFUL: look, Eliot's gruff, Eliot's grumpy, that's normal enough. but where he starts getting unsympathetic and scary (from the witness' perspective) is when the guy starts sounding like he's going to be sick, and then is. which. um.

look. I don't necessarily want to connect these dots but Eliot has been knocked out, drugged, taken captive etc many times. he has absolutely vomited in horrendous conditions with no opportunity to get clean anytime soon. what with his clear revulsion here (enough to treat a terrified guy in his custody pretty uncaringly), and with the similar reaction in Redemption when I think Mr Wilson has a difficult time post-fight, like. it isn't a pleasant thing to be around for anyone, but still, his reaction seemed extreme.

am I suggesting that being around other people being sick yeets his brain right back to the bad place: yes.

am I making it one step worse by speculating that it might not be him being hurt that he gets thrown back to, but him hurting other people? also yes.

add to that the witness being actively terrified and pleading for his life...

there is no good way to end this line of thought.

unless it's the old draft I just found and apparently never posted:

very occasionally I think about the fact that we have twice (if you include Redemption) seen Eliot react strongly and negatively to ppl vomiting, and I get as far as thinking "huh, I wonder if there's a reason for that" and just glancing at his Entire Backstory and then just. stop.

[ezrasarm]

Coming Out As Asexual/Aspec

Pairings: Javier Pena x reader, Marcus Pike x reader, Din Djarin x reader, Ezra x reader, Frankie Morales x reader

Word count: 2.3K (oops)

Warnings: discussions of sexuality, depictions of main characters as Aspec

A/n: I apologize these were meant to be head canons and a few of them wound up turning into mini fics. I would like to thank @dishonouringmycow for supplying many ideas and helping me concoct these for you and @kiss-evans for her insight as well. These were a lot of fun to write! We’ve written these HCs in hopes that they will be inclusive and relatable to most ace/demi-/greysexual folks and anyone in between. We hope you like them!

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Javier Peña

Telling Javi is a little tricky.

Given the time period, and the fact that asexuality was hardly a word let alone a widely accepted concept, Javier didn’t stand a chance when you went about explaining to him your “unconventional” relationship with sexual attraction.

You didn’t even fully understand it yourself at that point which is why you were terrified when you felt you owed him an explanation for turning him down.

You and Javi had been dancing around each other since pretty much the moment you landed in Bogata.

You knew you cared about him more than the average coworker and Steve didn’t hesitate to tease either of you mercilessly for it with every chance he got.

But there was a reason you had been avoiding acting on those feelings you harboured for him and a reason you were so terrified when he reciprocated them.

Silence overwhelms the small stakeout vehicle when you tell him.

He doesn’t get it.

“Oh.”

The disappointment that pours off of him is palpable.

This really wasn’t the reaction he was expecting to the heartfelt confession he had mustered up the courage for only moments ago.

“Javi,” You sigh, “It’s not like that. It’s not personal. I don’t feel attracted to anyone that way.” You reiterate but he still seems convinced that this is just an elaborate attempt to spare his feelings.

“You don’t have to do that, you know? You don’t have to let me down easy.”

“That’s not what this is. I really just don’t operate that way.”

You had seen the girls coming and going from his apartment across the hall. You knew how he chose to blow off steam after stressful days at work and you knew you couldn’t keep up with that.

“I don’t think I can be there for you like you want me to.”

It takes a moment for it to dawn on him what you mean and you think he finally takes the hint when another ‘oh’ escapes him.

“I don’t need-“ He starts up but cuts himself off when you give him a pointed look.

“I really, really wanted this to work.” He says after what feels like hours of you discussing all the reasons you would wind up resenting each other if you went down that path. All the fears you had of starting something up with him.

“Me too.” You hum solemnly when you deflate to lean into his side and rest your head on his shoulder. “I’m sorry.”

He’s quick to shake his head and whisper a quiet “Don’t apologize.” When he wraps an arm around you and places a kiss to the top of your head.

You both walk away from that stakeout with heavy hearts but lighter shoulders and although it takes some time to heal you learn to show how much you care about each other in different ways.

Now he slings an arm around your shoulders when you’re getting unwanted attention on a night out.

You stay up drinking with him so he doesn’t have to brood alone after a particularly tiring day.

Soft touches and reassuring words come easier between you two.

Most importantly you’re both happy and you haven’t lost each other.

Marcus Pike

Marcus is a little less clueless.

He knows Asexuality exists and has a vague sense of what it is, he just doesn’t know a whole lot about it.

There’s not much pressure when you tell him.

It comes as a bit of a disclaimer early in your relationship and you try not to make a big deal of it. You just want to make sure that he’s aware as your relationship progresses.

Marcus, ever the sweet and compassionate boyfriend is attentive and understanding as you speak.

The words that seem to stick out in his mind come at the only point when the slightest bit of doubt weens it’s way into your voice, “I just wanted to make sure that that’s- that I’m enough for you.”

His heart stops and he’s overcome by a feeling of both shock and sorrow that you could ever think such a thing of yourself.

“Of course. Of course, you’re enough.”

“You’re more than enough. You’re… you’re everything.”

What you don’t see is the way that after this conversation he finds himself wracking up more and more questions that he’s too scared to ask you. Not because he’s afraid of the answer but because he doesn’t want to overstep or make you uncomfortable.

So naturally, he turns to the next best thing.

The internet.

What he fails to realize is how broad a spectrum of asexuality there is and all he gets is more and more confused.

Marcus accidentally develops a following on Aspec Reddit forums for trying to ask people questions and them all just going “aww, Hun” at this poor clueless bean and swooning over how much he cares about you.

Despite the enthusiasm and volume of their responses, they don’t really add much clarity beyond “Hey, maybe you should ask your SO”

Instead, he runs around treating you like glass while he tries to buck up the courage to actually talk to you about it until on a movie night as he awkwardly tries to contort himself around you so he’s cuddling you… without touching you, you finally snap.

“Marcus! What is going on?”

That’s when he finally and rather sheepishly admits that he wants you to tell him more about your sexuality.

“Oh.”

You pause the movie and give him your full attention as you try and talk him through as much as you’re able to explain until suddenly you’re stuck for an answer and you look up at him with rather watery eyes as you admit you have no idea and suddenly you’re the one having the existential crisis.

“Oh, oh no. It’s alright, we can figure it out together! Shhh, it’s all fine. Please don’t cry! Reddit didn’t tell me this would happen!”

“Who-ddit?”

Din Djarin

Coming out to Din is rather anticlimactic.

He doesn’t have much to say beyond “Okay.”

You’re a little confused at first.

That went… too well.

It’s a while later when he brings it up again that you begin to realize why.

There’s no hesitation or taboo, he’s quite straight forward when he asks why you were so nervous.

At first, you’re not so sure what to say. Wasn’t that kind of obvious?

“Not everyone takes it so well.” You shrug thinking back to past relationships where your partners seemed to expect you to give them more than you were willing to.

You could practically see the gears turning behind his visor and it’s only now that you connect the dots and his reaction from before seems to add up.

To him, that was the norm.

It makes sense the more you think about it.

In all the time you had spent travelling with him, all the objectively beautiful women, men and everyone else in between that had crossed your paths, all the slurs that had been thrown at him by drunkards in cantinas about how he fucks with all that armour on, all the rather compromising situations you had found yourself in with him before and you had never caught his gaze wander or heard him express any indication of interest in yourself or anyone in that way.

You had always put it down to his creed. As far as you were aware such things were forbidden for people of his faith but you’re left with an odd sense of comfort as you realized that wasn’t the case.

Perhaps this was his strange little way of letting you know you weren’t alone.

Ezra

When you met Ezra you were prepared for the worst.

A guy as cocky and loquacious as him and you just trying to keep your head down in the busy bar and enjoy your drink in peace after a rough day.

You didn’t have high hopes when he swung into the booth across from you and started down whatever elaborate story he had decided would impress you enough to get you into bed.

“It’s my missing appendage, isn’t it?” he asks when you quite clearly don’t bite.

He’s already moving to leave you be when your eyebrows knit together in confusion and your eyes blow wide as you’re hit with a sudden wave of guilt.

You had grown used to deflecting advances like this but something about the way he said it, the bold, charismatic man suddenly looking like a kicked puppy made your guts churn.

You didn’t normally give an explanation, you didn’t feel you owed anyone that, especially not a stranger and yet here you were.

“What? No! No, I actually think you’re very good looking and charming and all those things people look for in a partner, I’m just not particularly one for casual hookups.” You say looking around the room where you now felt wildly out of place with just about all of its inhabitants presumably looking to get laid or trying to forget someone they couldn’t do so with.

“...Or any hookups really.” You correct yourself and watch as the disappointed look on his face morphs into a glint of curiosity.

“You a uh- a spade?” He asks resettling into the booth, an oblivious smile settling on his cheeks when you laugh at him.

You spend until last-call deeply enthralled in conversation and comforted by one another’s company.

That’s all either of you were here for in the first place, to feel a little less lonely.

You’re only pried apart by the closing of the bar, the nag of sleep hot on your heels and the promise that this wouldn’t be the last you saw of each other.

Frankie Morales

Frankie knew you were asexual.

You had told him before, he just didn’t entirely understand what that meant until much later on.

He seemed familiar with the term but his knowledge of the concept didn’t seem to extend beyond a basic definition.

Frankie’s first wife was his first for a lot of things. First girlfriend, first kiss, first love, first lover, first breakup.

He took the divorce pretty hard, as anyone would.

They’d gotten married so young, before he was deployed, that the guys had never seen him single before and neither had he really.

It took a long time for him to recover and by then he was content. ‘not in a particularly big rush to start down the relationship path and get hurt again’ is how he had phrased it to you once in confidence.

But another factor that he failed to recognize fully at the time was that he just hadn’t found anyone he was interested in in that way.

He’d tried going on a couple of dates but none of them clicked and it just left him feeling more alone.

It was after Tom died, almost five years after his divorce that the guys finally called him on it.

At first they just assumed the way he had been acting was about Tom and in a sense it was, Tom was the only one who had been through a divorce before, he was the only one who really understood and talked him through it when the going got tough.

Will was the one to put the pieces together and realize that the issue wasn’t Tom so much as Frankie getting more and more tired of being on his own.

His intentions were well meaning. They were just trying to help.

All they wanted was to see him happy but the more the boys seemed to try and set him up, the more resistance they were met with and even Frankie couldn’t figure out why until he was sat, venting to you about it one night.

“How did you know you were ace?” He blurts out suddenly and you’re a little lost for words, you weren’t really expecting this conversation to go this way but it was obviously something he had been considering for a while.

“Sorry that wasn’t a fair question,” He says when he notices you’re struggling, “I just- they keep trying to set me up with, who I’m sure are some really great people, but it’s all on this little tiny screen and all you see are a couple photos and maybe a blurb if you’re lucky and there’s just no…”

“Connection?” You suggest. Those big puppy eyes shoot up to you from where they were fixed on the counter in front of him and he gives you a slight nod.

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me.” He sighs and your heart breaks a little looking at him like that before you round the counter and pull him into a hug. “I’ve felt attraction before but I look at the guys and it feels like it takes so much more for me to get to that point than them.”

“There’s nothing wrong with you.” You assure him gently, brushing your fingers through his hair when you pull away to give him a reassuring smile. “Sounds like you could be on the asexuality spectrum.”

“There’s a spectrum?”

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[bigskydreaming]

About that last Cass meta, I wanted to correct or elaborate on something I realized in hindsight lends the wrong impression. This happens a lot with me, especially the longer a post gets, because I’m just trying to cram SO MUCH stuff in a post as is that I leave stuff by the wayside, and it typically tends to be the stuff I think is so matter-of-factly obvious to me personally, that in the moment it seems to be the most obvious thing TO leave out, as I instinctively think of it as the thing most people would figure out or connect the dots on themselves. Most of my posts I tend to write stream of consciousness as though I’m literally just speaking to anyone who follows me, and aren’t like, made with either the intention of gaining new followers or even REACHING people who don’t follow me, so like, just because I’m thinking ‘oh anyone who follows me would already know I think this’ like....that isn’t a valid assumption to make about anyone who just might read a particular post. And like, this isn’t reasonable on my part and does tend to lead to a lot of misunderstandings. So.....that’s a thing and its also a mea culpa.

In this particular case, the thing I need to elaborate on is my stance on how Cass is written speaking. When I spoke of the racist tropes I think are evident in a number of Cass’ depictions, even if unintentionally, this was NOT meant to reference or invalidate peoples’ conscious choice to make Cass have trouble with the spoken word due to various disabilities that might stem from the way her brain’s very wiring has been messed with in her backstory and appearances.

Writing Cass as disabled and having various speech impediments or trouble translating her thoughts into speech for neurological reasons is one hundred percent valid, and I should have used more nuance when describing my issue there. Personally, I tend to write her as being dyslexic and having aphasia, but she hasn’t had a specific speech or learning disability NAMED in canon as far as I’m aware, and there’s plenty that could feasibly apply.

But what I was talking about specifically is like......for instance, some people write Cass as struggling with ENGLISH, specifically, but fluent in not just sign....but say, Cantonese or another Chinese dialect as well. This is when red flags go up for me because I’m like, hmm, that’s an interesting choice that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with story logic, because see, Cassandra’s only issues with language are due to something that affects her equally with ALL languages. She only BEGAN learning languages not long after her first appearances, and the barrier that kept her from doing so previously like.....it went down in regards to ALL languages at the exact same time. 

So while it definitely is reasonable to have Cass being more comfortable signing than speaking out loud due to the fact that she prioritized learning sign language first, is less familiar and thus potentially comfortable with being part of spoken and verbal conversations period, and perhaps depending on what specific speech or neurological disabilities you write her as having is physiologically more adept at translating her thoughts into sign language without any trouble than she is selecting verbal words......what DOESN’T make sense is Cass having somehow picked up Chinese over the past several in-universe years, but its English specifically she struggles with and has a barrier conversing with her siblings in it. THAT specifically is where I would say hey maybe if this is a choice you’ve made in your own writing, this is one where you should look at what made you make that choice and second guess it like mmmm what WAS I thinking there precisely, and was that thought something I want to stand by, upon reflection.

Similarly......there is a certain WAY that people go about writing Cass struggling with speech that raises red flags for me......and that’s when they write Cass speaking the broken English I referred to specifically in that post, as in, the way Hollywood depicts caricatures of Chinese characters speaking non-fluent English. There’s a very familiar and evident cadence to that, which I believe a lot of people simply default to when writing an Asian character who has speech issues, but again, this is something that you should probably subject to more self-scrutiny. Because a Cass who has speech issues due to a neurological disability is going to display those issues in a fairly consistent way no matter how long its been since she started learning whatever language it is she’s speaking, albeit with some variance that accounts for workarounds she might have developed or learned to compensate for any issues she has there. But what she’s not going to do, IMO, is perpetually speak English in a cadence that lends the impression that she’s just not familiar with the language or struggles learning it or just hasn’t become proficient with it regardless of however many years she’s supposedly been learning or using it at this point. I’ve heard a lot of people with various speech or neurological disorders speak, but personally? I’ve never heard someone speak with a speech or neurological disorder that manifests in them speaking like a racist caricature of a Chinese character according to Hollywood depictions. THAT, specifically, is my issue there.

(And related, my reference to Cass being as much a genius as anyone in her family in that last post was meant to specifically highlight how well and how quickly Cass DOES adapt to a society she was not at all raised to be a part of, once she’s given resources and support in order to enable her to do so. Cass picks things up with TREMENDOUS speed in the comics, and so part of my ire about that last trope in particular is how often I come across fics where by their DEPICTION of Cass’ speech issues, it seems a lot more like she just hasn’t become fluent in English yet. And although its of course true that she had a very late start, if she’s been a member of the family for years at this point in your fic and you’re not bringing up any specific speech or learning disability affecting her ability to learn English, and thus it basically looks like despite years of practice Cass simply hasn’t managed to attain enough of a command of this particular language to comfortably converse in it with her family.....that’s when I go scrunchy-eyebrowed. Because like I said, Cass is SMART and she picks things up damn fast, and without any other explanation provided in narrative for why she’s struggling here specifically, I AM going to draw my own conclusions about why you’re writing her speech the way you are, and you probably aren’t gonna like my conclusions but that’s really more of a you problem at that point, IMO).

And finally, I think but don’t quote me on that, I’m a mind changer, I change my mind a lot......the last issue I have where I see red flags go up when it comes to Cass and communication is when Cass is struggling with speaking English but without direct reference made to her doing so because of a specific speech or learning disability....and at the same time, the author of the fic shows no acknowledgment of any other character’s disability or any desire or intention to depict any of the other characters with some canon disability or another as actually disabled. I’m not gonna lie, although Babs is able-bodied in canon at the moment, if someone’s writing Babs that way while writing a Cass that seems plucked out of pre-Flashpoint continuity rather than based specifically in her Batman and Robin Eternal origin......I’m not gonna be all that inclined to give the author the benefit of the doubt there and assume their depiction of Cass’ speech issues is due to an actual desire to write her as disability rep. I mean, it could be that I’m wrong and they are! I don’t actually know! I’ve been wrong before, I’ll be wrong again, either way the world WILL go on! I’m just saying it like it is.....point blank, if there’s no sign of a single other disabled character in your work and Cass just so happens to visibly struggle with speaking English, I’m just not gonna automatically assume its because you’re writing her as disabled rather than just writing her while racist. And if you ever do end up called out for that and its only after the fact that you suddenly seem to backpedal and insist you were just writing her as disabled all along, my skepticism, it will still abound. *Shrugs* It just is what it is. Do with that what you will. Literally just like, my opinion dude.

But anyway! That is the nuance I should have included at that part in my already behemoth-esque post but didn’t, but that is very much a mea culpa and so please take this as a wholly necessary post script. Disabled Cass one hundred percent has my support and I should have been more conscious about implying otherwise, no matter the point I was trying to raise at the moment there.