#I love doodling dwarfs everywhere

[pourablecat]

Always wanted to draw Vimes stumbling among a parade of dwarfs. No context, as always.

[ray-wattson]

Back to posting characters after a long time. Anyways, here's the fourth member of Doc's team, also the third member of the Trouble Quad, a big and brutal chlorophosian called Shirley. A little bit about her species, Chlorophosians are large, shroom-like people that live in the deepest, dark caverns in Alterra, behaving like wild troglodytes. However, Shirley was one of the rare few that met the surface of the planet. After having to escape from the underground village she lived in, due to a dimensional rift bringing a lot of lava into it, setting fire everywhere that engulfed many villagers and her biological parents into it, back when she was a little girl. While lost and sad, defending herself with nothing but a rock she found on the ground, she was eventually found by a dwarf, who then took her to safety, then decided to raise her as his adoptive daughter (even for a shroom gal that was bigger than an average 5 years old human kid) some time later.

In the first day she was brought into the dwarf's farm house, she was introduced to his brother, who used to be indifferent, and his father, who didn't like the idea, but after letting her around for a few days, the three grew attached to the little chlorophosian, and that's where they decided to make Shirley part of the family, with the girl accepting the idea right away. About 10 years later, she learned how to speak like the humanoids do, mainly like the dwarves, who spoke in a Scottish accent like every other Alterrian dwarf, even though she still has a primitive way of speaking most times, like saying "I be" instead of "I am" in some sentences. Like all chlorophosians, Shirley has her hunting instincts and a great sense of smell, which makes her one of the greatest hunters out of the family in the farm, taking advantage of it by getting rid of pests and wild animals that attack their livestock, especially by using a rake that belonged to the dwarves, but they let her use it as her own weapon, as long as she keeps doing a good work defending their farmhouse from the wild animals and thieves. More years have passed and Shirley got big and strong, gaining a muscular figure from all the workout she had to do. Eventually, everything changed when she came back from her hunting trip to find the whole farm on fire, along with symbols marked on the grass and walls indicating that it was all caused by The Cult of Zaleria (as mentioned in a previous post), as well as the death of the dwarves who failed to defend themselves, enraging the big shroom gal as she was filled with grief, taking the rake that she was carrying in her hunting trip, to look for the perpetrators with no stopping, brutally killing anyone wearing the symbol of the cult in her way. Eventually, Shirley found Doc, who had Mivia and Rukbat with him. At first, she had to fight the group with the intention to kill them, all out of stress, only to lose to them before calming down and having a talk before she joined Doc's team, getting herself a new home and eventually, new clothes: A long sleeved yellow shirt and a dark blue pencil skirt, with both getting damaged overtime and making the former look like a crop-top with short sleeves.

After Emily and her team got to meet her, she quickly became good pals of two of the former's friends, Mike and Rashi, who were admired by how brute and ridiculously brave she is. Although she is a brave one, fire is not only one of the things that she hates the most, it's practically the only thing that can easily scare her like it does with any chlorophosian, driving her nuts and causing her mushroom cap to extend and release hallucinogenic spores like in this dumb, old doodle of her below, that I made as concept.

Shirley may be brute and often yell when talking to people, but she does have an aggressive way of showing how much she cares for others, especially her friends and teammates, as she remains protective of them. She also loves to eat, but mainly any sort of meat. Oh right, about the ref image posted above, she got herself new clothes during a timeskip of 2 years after the defeat of Zaleria, consisting of same shirt but even more damage, along with a black jacket and her skirt replaced to blue shorts.

[spottedly]

MHA w/ A Pet Headcanons

Bakugo

💥 def gets a big, intimidating dog and a spiked collar for it

💥 loves to go on jogs, walks, and hikes w/ her (yes he gets a girl dog and yes she has a pink spike collar)

💥 he trains her to be an attack dog and a lot of people are scared of her, but she follows him around everywhere and always wants cuddles

💥 they play fight and he loves to spoil her

💥 he rants to her (she actually helps him to be a lot calmer b/c he's terrified of accidentally hurting her with his explosions and he won't ever admit it, but he can't stay mad whenever she's around b/c she makes him really happy)

💥 she absolutely loves deku despite his best efforts to make her attack him (little traitor)

💥 since he's super serious about his hygiene, he also makes sure she's at her very best

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Deku

🥦 gets a yellow and green budgie and names it something short and sweet like mango

🥦 def has a whole notebook dedicated to him and journals daily

🥦 teaches him how to whistle, talk, and do tricks

🥦 talks to him a lot (is careful not to mention ofa tho in case he repeats it💀)

🥦 likes upgrading his cage and buying him all kinds of toys

🥦 plays lofi and classical music for him

🥦 he likes to climb all over deku and play in his hair (gets tangled in it most times, but still loves playing in it)

🥦 pampers the living hell out of him (treats him like he could break at any moment as if he's glass)

🥦 worries thinks about him a lot while he's in school (loves to draw cute doodles of him in his notes)

🥦 cuddles and positive affirmations🥰

🥦 baku and the bird def hate each other and deku didn't teach him this, but he pecks him whenever he sees him

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Todoroki

❄️ lmao it goes without saying that this bitch gets a cat and names her mochi

❄️ his sister fuyumi actually bought her for him in hopes it would help w/ his mental baggage

❄️ at first he actually gave no fucks about her, but warmed up to her after she seemed to be able to tell he was having an off day and cheered him up (or calmed him down rather)

❄️ you can't tell me mochi wouldn't be the embodiment of cat stereotypes and that confuses the hell out of him (one minute she's all over him and begging for his attention and the next she's turning her nose up and treating him like a peasant)

❄️ he didn't train her to, but she's always on edge whenever endeavor is around (she's scratched him up a few times)

❄️ he takes her w/ him when he visits his mom and they absolutely adore each other

❄️ he talks to her a lot (his own personal diary)

❄️ he'll cool her down when she's hot and warm her up when she's cold

❄️ he loves teasing her w/ a laser pointer

❄️ accidentally gave her too much catnip one time and was lowkey scared for his life

❄️ is just 👁️👄👁️ when she brings him dead animals

❄️ she sleeps w/ him (smacks him in the face w/ her tail)

❄️ she follows him around everywhere and is nine times out of ten with him whenever she's nowhere to be found

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Mina

✨ gets a hedgehog and names her penelope

✨ dresses her up in cute little gowns and tiaras and paints her nails

✨ tells her about all of the drama going on

✨ they watch romcoms together

✨ she loves to hold and cuddle w/ her, so she's rarely in her cage

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Uraraka

🌸 i could see her with a dwarf hamster or lionhead bunny

🌸 if she gets a hamster, she names it dimples and if she gets a bunny, she names it muffin top

🌸 she's def the type to baby talk when she sees cute animals, so her pet would be no exception

🌸 she'd decorate the cage and make it look pretty

🌸 since hamsters and bunnies can't really be played w/ like cats and dogs, she spends time w/ her pet by hanging out by the cage (reading, doing homework, studying, etc)

🌸 tells everyone about them and shows pictures like she's a proud mom

🌸 she'd def sing/hum to her pet

[seiya-starsniper]

Lost and Found

Happy SteelAtom Week everyone! Here’s your admin’s entry for Day 1: Soulmates 

Inspired by this post: Imagine whenever you lose something, your soulmate winds up finding it.

Ao3 link: [here]

Nate is pretty sure his soulmate is the most forgetful person on the planet.

He starts finding his soulmate's lost things around the age of five. His soulmate loses things every child at that age loses; candies, pencils, the occasional sock. Nate doesn't think much of the items, but his mother coos every time he brings her something new that he's "found". Every time, Nate listens to his mother go on and on about when she "received" his grandfather’s dog tags from his father, and the excitement she felt when she was finally able to give them back to him.

Nate thinks that if something was really that important, his father, or anyone else for that matter, wouldn't have lost it in the first place, but he doesn't tell his mother this. Nate on the other hand, is very careful of his possessions and rarely loses anything. He has to be, their family isn't exactly the most well off, and most of his possessions are medically necessary to keep him alive anyway.

Nate is eight years old when his grandmother gives him one of his most prized treasures. It's a crest in the shape of a metal star, too big for his childish hands, but it's bold and sharp and heavy in his hands.

"Your grandfather wore this during the war," she tells Nate once he's done admiring it over and over again. "I was a welder back then. Can you believe after all the men went away, us ladies had to pick up the slack?" Her voice is wistful, the way it always gets when she speaks of his grandfather.

"It just so happened one late night I misplaced one of my projects and it ended up saving your grandfather's life. We hadn't even met yet at that point, but he searched high and low for me once he got back."

Nate stares at the metal crest, all shiny and smooth, and wonders where exactly the bullet would have dented it. He knows the dog tags his father gave to him just last year have a signature dent from a bullet meant for the President.

"Nana, where...?" he begins to ask but his grandmother only laughs and shakes her head.

"Oh honey, this thing wasn't always in the shape of a star. Your grandfather had me melt it down and reshape it after your father was born. It was meant to be a gift to him when he was old enough but, well..." She trails off but Nate already knows the end of this story. His father had told him it enough times to know. Commander Henry Heywood had died in the line of duty for the JSA, and the only thing that came back were his dog tags. His Nana had known her husband's fate when she woke up one morning and found them on the nightstand.

Nate clutches the star in his hand and promises his Nana that he'll keep it safe, just like he's been keeping the dog tags safe for his father. His grandfather's legacy is in his hands now.

Nate is 16 years old when he loses the crest. He's in a hurry to leave his parents' house for good, and it must have fallen out of one of the moving boxes. Nate is devastated, and too proud to call up his father to ask him to look for it on the off chance he lost it while he was still home.

Nate spends the next few years looking for his soulmate. Hoping. Maybe, just maybe his soul mate found his star, and maybe they're like Nate and they've kept it and then they'll meet and just like his mother returned his grandfather's dog tags to his father, maybe his soulmate will return his star crest to him.

He acquires a lot of useless knick knacks in the meantime, and despite the initial annoyance he feels when he finds wires everywhere, Nate eventually develops a fondness for all the unintentionally discarded items his soulmate leaves lying around. He does wish his soulmate would lose more useful things than wires and screws and paper clips. It's beginning to get a little ridiculous. His apartment is beginning to look like an electronics shop with all the spare parts lying around. He knows he's not obligated to keep every little thing his soulmate loses, but somehow, Nate can't bring himself to throw any of it away.

One day, the items stop coming completely.

Nate waits a day. Then two. Then weeks and months pass by without a single new item appearing anywhere in his apartment. A year goes by before Nate gives up and accepts that his soulmate is probably dead. Dead before they could even meet.

After that, Nate vows to never lose anything ever again. He can't afford to, he's already lost the three most important things in his life, his Nana, his star and his soulmate. And now, anything he loses is gone forever. Nate suddenly understands why his father was so closed off and so protective of him, although he'd never admit to the man himself. Losing something important just hurt so damn much.

 Nate doesn't think about soulmates again until after Ray finds his stupid doodle on the floor. Nate swears he remembers where he last put the drawing and it definitely was not in a place where Ray, or anyone else could see it, but before he can even think to stop the other man from looking at it, Ray's already asking him about the design.

Nate's throat tightens. Stupid stupid stupid, he thinks to himself, but he forces himself to talk about how his clothes stretch awkwardly when he steels up and doesn't he deserve a suit like the rest of them? He knows he's preaching to the choir, especially since he's the one who destroyed Ray's suit back in the shogun era.

Ray smiles sympathetically at him, and tells him not to worry, as long as he sticks with him, he'll figure everything out. Nate normally hates being pitied and fed false platitudes like that, but for some reason when it comes out of Ray's mouth, it sounds genuine and truly believable. It's been like this since Nate first got on the ship too, for some unfathomable reason, Ray can do no wrong in Nate's eyes. At first, the historian had chalked it up to guilt and Ray's sunny personality, but lately it's been getting harder and harder to ignore the ba-dump ba-dump in his chest whenever he sees the other man.

"Interesting accessory you got going on here," Ray says, interrupting Nate's thoughts and pointing to the star crest on his drawing. "Very patriotic."

"Oh yeah, that thing," Nate replies, trying to laugh it off, but he's pretty sure Ray can hear the tension in his voice. "Fun fact, that star is based off this crest my nana gave me when I was young. Said my grandfather wore it. I loved that thing, and I always dreamed of putting it on my own superhero costume you know?"

Ray nods thoughtfully. "Sounds like it was really important to you."

"It was!..It...it was," Nate trails off. "Actually, truth be told, I lost it a long time ago. Spent forever trying to find my soulmate on the off chance that they found it, but that never worked out so...But enough about that, let's go do some fun cowboy stuff!"

Nate doesn't see Ray's quizzical look when he practically rushes out the door trying to avoid his feelings. He also completely forgets about the drawing, and doesn't know that Ray tucks it away into his jacket for safekeeping.

Nate's still sore from stopping the train and from hauling a heavy piece of dwarf star back to the ship, but he still follows Ray to his lab anyway, because more and more, he can't seem to say no to the man's smile.

The physicist is practically thrumming with excitement, and Nate can't blame him, even though time doesn't work linearly out here, it still has been quite a long time since Ray has had a superhero suit. Nate may still not have his own, be he can be patient. Really, he can.

"Actually there's something I've been working on before I started building a new exo-suit," Ray says, grinning in excitement. "It's not exactly what was in your drawing but..." the physicist trails off and then yanks a sheet off from a figure behind him to reveal…

Nate feels like the wind has been knocked right out of him.

Behind Ray is his drawing brought to life. It’s brightly colored and sleek and just amazing. It even has the star crest in the middle. Only...it's not a replica. Nate would know that handiwork and design anywhere even though it's been more than ten years since he last laid eyes on it.

Realization dawns on him and suddenly, the drawing makes sense. Nate hadn't misremembered where he put it, he'd lost it and Ray had found it. Which meant…

"Y-You...you're...you're my soulmate?" Nate gasps disbelievingly.

It was impossible. His soulmate had stopped "sending" him things ages ago, and Nate knew Ray, the man lost something new every other hour and it hadn't made its way to Nate. Or had it and he hadn't noticed? There was no other explanation for why the other man had his grandfather's crest.

"Yeah, I kind of pieced it together after I started finding some of your pens and pencils whenever you misplaced them on the ship but I kind of just knew after I saw your drawing and..." Ray suddenly stops, panic visible on his face.

"Nate? Oh my god, Nate are you okay?”

It's then that Nate realizes that there's tears running down his face. He unconsciously moves a hand to the wetness on his face before his brain kicks into overdrive and he launches himself straight at a bewildered Ray.

Kissing Ray is like everything and nothing like he’d imagined it would be. It’s fireworks and butterflies but it’s also warm and inviting and soft. Ray tastes like honey and smells like sunshine after the rain. It feels like he’s breathing oxygen for the first time in his life. It feels like coming home.

Nate thinks he could keep kissing Ray forever and die happy.

When they finally break apart, Ray leans down and presses his forehead against Nate’s, and they stay like that for a while, their breathing slowly evening out. Nate still can’t believe everything that’s happened to him and it takes a moment before his brain starts really processing everything.

Ray is his soulmate. Ray is his soulmate. RAY IS HIS SOULMATE. Ray is here and alive and breathing and holding him in his arms. Nate is pretty sure he's clutching the other man too tightly but he's afraid that if he lets go even a little bit, he'll lose him all over again.

"I thought I lost you," Nate whispers against Ray's chest once he's regained the ability to speak again. He's ridiculously close to openly sobbing but he doesn't care.  

"Lost me? Where did you think I went?" Ray replies, amusement and affection laced in his voice.

Nate takes a few deep breaths to collect himself before he finally answers.

"You used to lose things all the time and then one day it just stopped and I....I thought, I thought you were gone."

Ray hums thoughtfully at Nate's answer. "Remember how I'm technically legally dead?" he asks.

Nate nods.

"Well, what happened was, I was just really tiny for a while. It was my first run with the suit, and then I couldn't un-shrink after that. Can't really lose anything when you're the size of an atom, you know?"

It makes sense, Nate thinks. But that still doesn't explain one thing.

"How come I never found anything from you after that?"

"Well, pretty much right after I un-shrunk myself, I was recruited to the Legends team, which I think has something to do with it. Like if I lose something in the time stream or a different time period, that breaks the rules somehow and so it doesn't make its way back to you since we're not in the same timeline.”

Nate shrugs. It made perfect sense, and no sense at all, but then again, most things relating to time travel were that way.

"But now that we're both on the ship together, the whole lost and found thing applies to us again.” Ray continues, smiling. “And well, to be fair, I leave my stuff lying around everywhere so I guess it makes sense that you didn't notice that you started finding it all again once you got on the ship. Truth be told, until you showed me that drawing, I thought you were just as absent minded as me."

Nate just smiles and pulls Ray into his arms again.

"I'm never letting you go now, you know that right?" he finally says after a moment of silence. He can feel Ray smile against his shoulder as he nods and wraps his arms just as tightly around Nate.

"That's good cause I don't want you to."