#I love their buff cheeto puff girlfriend

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On a more positive note of the Hover discourse, I think you guys did such an excellent job with Storm and making her a form of positive representation for gnc women and butch lesbians. She's snarky and sassy but by no means is she needlessly rude and mean to the people around her. She radiates confidence but she's also kind and silly and overall a very positive person. I think you guys did a great job at making a snarky character likable by making her kind and caring with a sense of humor that doesn't punching down on others. I hate that people seem to think snarky characters have to be mean and rude. Hell, you CAN do those kinds of character right. Hover is just the worst possible way to do it.

Anyway Tl;dr Storm is such a great and lovable character

Thank you so much, anon. And exactly! There's nothing wrong with having a sassy character but sassy doesn't equate to 'be a huge asshole to everyone and being able to say anything because it's tee hee sassy and funny'. There has to be a method to it all. - RJ

It was not lost on me that both Hover and Karabi were both larger, rugged assholes who made unreasonable demands of their stereotypically more effeminate partners. I'm a larger gender-nonconforming butch, so it would be easy to make Storm more like myself. But you know who goes without appreciation too often? Short butches, butches who are chivalrous af, butches who's girlfriends are bigger than them. (butches who aren't crass and are supportive of their friends and aren't emotionally dismissive of everything their girlfriend says........) My big buff cheeto puffs always get appreciation in all my works. I wanted Storm specifically to be the way she is, and it warms my heart people love her for it. - Cat

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*Suddenly very roughly thrown back into love with Jasper and her 5 tiny girlfriends*

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🐾Benma headcanons/about drop! Aka me just rambling about these two nerds. Feel free to ignore this if you desire.

There will be mentions of blood, gore, murder, abuse, things like that. Read with caution.

-Emma is the oldest out of them, being a year old than Benson. Benson, however, is slightly more mature than her. Slightly.

-Benson is a bisexual transboy, Emma is demi-panromantic asexual and agender, but still uses she/her pronouns for the sake of simplicity, and because she’s still technically closeted.

-They’re both autistic, although Benson’s lower on the spectrum than Emma. Since he generally knows what to do, Benson’s able to help Emma out when she’s needs to stim/gets sensory overload. He’s even bought her fidget spinners and a fidget cube. She has them on her at all times.

-Benson’s actually aware of Emma’s murderous intents for his exes/some of his friends and enemies and his dad, but he’s trying to get her to at least calm herself, and not, y’know, kill everyone that looks at him a certain way. Emma still has the urges and thoughts, and will occasionally come home covered in someone else’s blood, but Benson’s interference, she’s getting better.

-The height difference between them is fucking adorable. Benson is somewhere between 4′10 to 5′5 in American height (feet) and in contrast, Emma is 6′2. So, Benson is a teeny noodle compared to her, especially since Emma has more muscle than Muscle Man. A big buff white Cheeto Puff and a teeny purple noodle.

-They both have experiences with parental abuse/neglect. Benson’s dad was abusive, as mentioned in The Lunch Club, as well as a few other episodes such as Think Positive (although it was just a hallucination/memory/flashback/whatever so it might not be the best source,) and Journey to the Bottom of the Crash Pit. Emma’s adoptive wolf mother was abusive, and Regina, her biological mother, was manipulative in the first year or so of her life, until she died, got resurrected and then kidnapped. They both keep it to themselves, and bury the memories deep inside their minds.

-They both have habits of self harm/self hatred, and other things among that realm. They’re both impulsive, angered easily, and act selfish in order to hide their true feelings as a result. Although, Emma does it to a lesser degree.

-Emma loves anime, and she pulls Benson into watching certain animes with her, like Mirai Nikki and Fairy Tail, mostly ones with yandere characters like Yuno Gasai and Kotonoha Katsura. Benson, obviously, makes remarks about how similar the characters’ actions are a lot like hers.

-Due to him also suffering parental abuse/neglect, Emma and Benson have a very parental relationship with Rigby, and treat him as their own son, to the point to where he starts subconsciously call them ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad.’

-Due to her alcohol addiction, Emma sometimes stumbles into the apartment late at night, and Benson is still up, anxiously awaiting her arrival. When she does come home, he flips out, nurturing her and doting upon her as though she were a child.

-Despite his usual serious demeanor, when with Emma, Benson’s inner child will unleash, and he’ll act like the three year old he once was.

-Emma’s very obvious about her undying love for Benson, and tells him how much she loves him, how she’d die for him, and all that she’d do for him. He tells her not to say things like that because it honestly scares him, but he secretly loves the attention she gives him, and the fact that she’ll never, ever leave him, no matter what he says or does.

-Emma gets Benson into all sorts of musicals, like Heathers or Be More Chill. In turn, he was the one to get her into rock/heavy metal.

-Emma l o v e s to sing Benson to sleep, and he loves it too.

-As we all know, Benson plays the drums, but Emma also plays a few instruments, including the ukulele. They play/create random songs together when they get time off.

-Benson doesn’t call Emma his girlfriend since it misgenders her (he’s aware of her being agender, and respects it greatly,) but instead, he calls her his datemate and/or partner. Or, with people he’s closer to, he uses “buff doggo lover.”

-Benson allows Emma to get away with thing that he yells at Mordecai and Rigby for. It’s because she doesn’t know any better, while they do. Or, at least, they should.

-Benson likes to sit on Emma’s lap, and cuddle up with her. Due to not having a furcut/haircut in over twenty five years, Emma’s very, very fluffy.

-Benson steals Emma’s clothes frequently. It’s always obvious, because her clothes fall down around his knees to his ankles. Emma’s clothes are big, even on her.

-Emma and Benson both adore bad puns. They laugh like drunk walruses and tell each other the most shitty puns.

-They’re just two tiny nerds and I love them a lot.