#I think I would actually burn it in my possession and then get poisoned on plastic fumes

[birf]

I have 1 fear and it’s dabi nsfw figure

[vongola-renaissance]

A compilation of my adult Gen 10 Vongola Guardians headcanons of all time:

Tsuna does become the Vongola boss. He does it with the purpose of being the last one, tho.

Tsuna got Mukuro to go along with his plans by promising Mukuro would be the one to kill him one day. He was dead serious about it.

Reborn hates Mukuro's guts and thinks Tsuna is a fool for trusting him. Mukuro knows that Tsuna was serious, so he follows his lead, as long as their deal stands. Tsuna plans to let Mukuro kill him when he's an older man and burn his own body to the ground with flames, so Mukuro can't possess him.

The older they get, the more rebellious the guardians grow towards Reborn. They start maturing and following more Tsuna per se, his ideals, his plans.

Gokudera in particular has a very (!!) tense relationship with Reborn. With age, Gokudera stops idolizing Reborn and engages more and more in open arguments in Tsuna's behalf.

At least once Yamamoto pointed his blade at Reborn seriously. Solving that situation was a nightmare.

Most of them go to university or get a minor degree as Tsuna's requirement to "join" the family. Tsuna might hate studying, but he does not fuck around about getting proper education for all of them.

He hates the Vongola mansion. He buys the ruined property of a poor family for an tbh exaggerate sum and makes them build a proper complex there. It's close enough to the Vongola mansion that he can walk (fly?) to it, so he has all his official meetings there and reserves the complex for the informal reunions with friends and family.

Dino and Tsuna had one (1) major fight. It was about the expectations on Tsuna, the reality of the mafia world and the of course, Reborn. They agreed to go all in only once and then never fight again. Dino promised that if Tsuna was the last of the Vongolas, he'd be the last of the Cavallones. Tsuna promises to give a chance to the mafia world and see what they could make out of it together.

Fuuta, I-Pin and Lambo graduated from middle school in Namimori. Bianchi stayed with them during those years and everyone would visit them regularly.

In that time Lambo realized he'd miss Tsuna too much, so be begged Tsuna to let him go to a high school in Italy, closer to him. They all ended up studying there.

Kyoko stayed in Japan with the kids at first and started studying there. She missed her brother a lot, tho. Haru went to a different university. She was brilliant, but after the adventures with the guardians, common life was a bit boring. They ended up moving to Italy to finish their studies, which means even more shenanigans of Tsuna trying to cover the mafia life and the fact he's rich now.

Yamamoto went pro for a few years. First in Japan, then some seasons in the US. He got an insane network connection lol. He then made an excuse about salary to move to Italy to "play there". The Vongolas own the team as an effort to get kids from poverty into a proper lifestyle.

Part of the Vongola income now comes from sports bets. Nothing illegal. In fact, Ryohei scouts impressive athletes and checks to see if other mafias are interfering in the match. Some athletes and organizations actually pay them to check and eliminate any cheating agents.

They send Hibari lmao. He hates weak people and no one is weaker than those who need to cheat in order to win.

Gokudera unironically takes into cooking and decoration. Is he a malewife? Sort of. If you were Tsuna's right hand man, forced to watch him through the tightest schedule ever while he tries to solve at least 9 generations of Vongola mistakes... He personally prepares the food to guarantee they are not poisoned and arranges most rooms so there's always at least one seat Tsuna can comfortably nap in.

The next trip to Mafialandia is even worse. Either Tsuna is treated like a celebrity so he has not a moment of peace or Reborn sends him on another training.

Tsuna is a champ in human relationships.

The complex is rarely quiet or empty. At the same time, the guardians aren't all reunited as often. They make sure that Tsuna doesn't feel alone and create excuses to show Tsuna the progress of all his effort.

Omg I didn't plan for this to be such a long post. I'd have to do a series at this point 😂😂

[astroboots]

CICI!!! I am obsessed with Miguel's chompers! his teeth!! I just want him to bite me!!!

Oh nonny I knoooooow. They are so pretty! They do something to me. So funnily enough I have this tiny little drabble in my WIPs for the longest time that I didn't quite know what to do with so I thought I'd throw this out here.

Pairing: Miguel O'Hara x reader

Word Count: 750

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"Can I touch them?" you ask.

He raises one thick and perfectly arched eyebrow at you, with not a little judgment in his expression, as if he is looking at a fucking crazy person.

Which, he's probably not entirely wrong about, but it's rude nevertheless.

"You want to touch them?" He repeats, slowly with a deep sardonic drawl. The way you would speak to a not so bright child.

Heat prickles your cheeks. Miguel has this uncanny ability to get under your skin. He should add it to his list of superpowers.

"If it's a no, just say it's a no! There's no need to be an ass about it."

His lips pulls into a smirk, and for a fraction of a moment, you see a glimpse of the sharp edge of his corner tooth before he tucks them behind his lips, out of sight again.

Miguel gestures you forward, spreading his legs from where he's sitting on your couch. The motion has your brain stalling. You can't help but stare, he's wearing oversized sweats and you can still somehow see the definition of his legs shift against the fabric as he moves.

Shit, he definitely caught you in the act. His smile pulls even wider as he pats his hand down on the meat of his thigh. "C'mere nena."

What does he think you are? A dog?

For all your indignance at the gesture, you still go to him, and when you're within reach, his hand comes up to pull and tug you into his lap until you're comfortably perched there.

"You wanna touch, huh?" he teases, amusement dripping from the words as he smiles up at you and bounces you up on his knee.

God, of course he's going to make a big fucking deal of this. You don't know what possessed you to ask in the first place. You can really only answer with the truth:

"I'm just a little bit curious."

It's the understatement of the century. You are more than a little bit curious. You're absolutely fucking fascinated by them. Feel a trill of excitement everytime you catch a small glimpse of them when he's caught by surprise and smiles uninhibitedly at you.

Will stall out any moment during any dinner when he chews on his food and they peek out from his mouth.

Throughout the years, Miguel's gotten very good at hiding them. Conspicuously tucking them behind his lip that most people will never be the wiser. It's why he often mumbles why he speaks because doing both at the same time can be difficult. It's a part of himself that he never show, to the point that even though you've been together for a while now, it's only fairly recently that you've gotten to see them properly.

In front of you, Miguel leans back against the couch.

"Go ahead." He tilts his head up, baring his throat to you as he parts his mouth, and then you see them.

Those two prominent canine teeth of his. Fang-like pointy teeth on either side of the incisors.

Your ears burn. He never shows them to you this brazenly.

Raising your hand closer to his face, you can't help the way they are actually shaking with excitement. Your thumb grazes at the point of his left tooth, and you can feel the sharpness tingle against your pad.

God, you could cut yourself on these.

"You done? Ish a bit uncomfortable."

You hum distractedly, not fully taking in his words, entirely fascinated as you press your thumb with a bit more pressure again the edge.

"Careful, nena," he warns.

Stilling at his words, you pull your thumb from his mouth as you inspect it. It hasn't broken any skin yet.

"Why? Does poison always come out when you bite?"

There's that look on his face, like you just asked him the dumbest question on earth, then he laughs. "No. It'd be difficult to eat if that was the case. Most of the times it's dry bites. I used to bite myself on the lip all the time when I first got them."

"So what would happen if you bit me?"

He blinks up at your question. Smile fading as he considers your question as his eyes roams over your form slowly appraising you from head to toe. Something switches in him, no longer playful a tangible change that you see in the shade of his darkening eyes that shines crimson.

His arm snake around your waist, tightening his hold on you. "Do you want me to bite you, nena? Is that what you're asking?"

You swallow thickly at his words. Staring up at his saphire eyes that seems to glint with glee as he asks you the question.

Your back prickles with excitement just at the thought of it and for that moment you forget all about your hesitation or any shred of pride as you nod back at him.

"Yes," you answer. "Please."

A/N: This is nena from Every You Ever Me universe, do with that piece of information as you will.

[mechs-headcanons]

if were talking about disabled mech i have plenty of headcanons to share

ivys nerves dont hook up to her mechanism 100% right so she has what im sure is a whole slew of neurological issues. her cranial nerves are mechanized though. i also usually draw her with something weird kinda like cochlear implants but fully removable since she can just unplug it or plug it back in her head

i think itd be funny if nastya was chronically dying of mercury poisoning. but even funnier if she has anemia because yep. no blood there. (it would make sense tho since i cant imagine mercury is that good at carrying oxygen). and she definitely has pots and hemophilia. also raynauds. which would probably be hell actually since most people headcanon shes really cold so i imagine shed just be having flareups all the time and never have any blood in her hands or feet. anyway i also think shes got me/cfs and maybe eds. and a nonexistant heat tolerance

Jonny's got pots and pre-mechanization had a heart defect but yk she doesnt have that heart anymore. oh and costochondritis. i headcanon new texans as nocturnal so i think hes got real bad photophobia (the eyeliners to keep the light outta his eyes) and heat intolerance. & maybe even a sun allergy.

Marius i like to think has mcas but i have no idea where that idea came from. imagining him with crutches for his knees is a lovely idea as well. i dont have too many thoughts here because thinking about Marius and medical stuff just leads to me imagining their horrible doctoring

The Toy Soldier has never been in long term possession of flesh other than the Angels vocal chords and so cant be considered disabled as such but it does occasionally pretend to have joint pain, as its joints have a lot of wear and tear and need frequent repair.

Tim i feel like has arthritis. also he's got chemical burn scars from the gas attacks. mustard gas does that. i thought i had more thoughts bout him but guess not

Raphaella's got akylosing spondylitis and lupus as well as axtually sorry no im about to pass out its about 2am here so skrry you dont get the end of raph thoughts or any of my ashes and vrian thoughts sorry. og wow i just said sorry three times

also, in my human au, among other things, raph is a wheelchair user and marius has an elbow disarticulation + at least one of their knees replaced. thats far from the only phys disabilities in it but giving an exhaustive list would take way too much time

YES AGH 🙏🙏🙏🙏

now i need to write a disabled mechs fic,,,

and dude sleep is important make sure you do that

[evolutionsvoid]

When I think about this creature, I can't help but imagine what someone's first encounter with it could be like. Perhaps a stranger to these lands, traveling this particular mountainous region. As they walk through the wilds, they see many new sights and fantastical creatures. Beauties and dangers quite foreign to them! But then, a familiar face! An animal that they know rather well, but here of all places! Surely, they must be puzzled for a moment, as why would a simple rooster be in such a region? No matter the reason, it is a creature they are familiar with, and perhaps one they know is good for eating. Hungry after a day of travel, some fresh caught chicken would surely hit the spot! All this leading up to the moment the bird opens its beak and then spews out a brilliant flame! Imagine the stranger's face at that sight!

While to some, the basan may look like an overgrown rooster, there is a little bit more to them than that! Indeed, they are a bird, and share a lot of similarities with the domesticated cock folk are familiar with. However, this species is actually a member of the cockatrice family! It can be a little difficult to see, as this one possesses more a feathery tail than scaly, and its plumage makes people mistake who its relatives are. Yet, it is no ordinary cock! My description of it breathing fire surely made that point!

As I mentioned before, these birds can be found in mountainous regions, where they feed upon vegetation and critters. They are omnivores, with a taste for some particular ingredients. Like other cockatrices, they have a modified crop which they use to store certain materials and fluids. While others may opt for noxious liquids and poisons, the basan goes for something more flammable! The flora and fauna it feeds upon builds up this store, combining with their own special fluid held within. When they feel threatened by predators or intruders, their defensive maneuver is to spew out this ammo and ignite it! What results is a blast of brilliant blue flame! No doubt many would think twice about dealing with such a weapon! Which is good because it is a pretty expensive one!

With poison, you usually only need a little bit to do some serious damage, but fire breath calls for far more fuel. And with that tied to their crop stores, belching flame everywhere is sure to leave them depleted. Thus, the basan doesn't immediately go for blazing blasts when it is threatened. Instead, it will use only a small portion of fuel to release a warning flare, a burst of blinding blue fire! While it sure is dazzling and intimidating to see, it isn't all that dangerous. Its life span is very short, going out within moments, and it doesn't release that much heat. It honestly would even struggle to light a candle! For this reason, combined with its blue color, locals have described it as a "cold flame." It is a tool of pure display, more so creating intimidating light than doing actual damage. This is to let predators know it is armed and ready to fight, which causes many to turn tail and run. This is good, because the basan can then conserve its fuel for those who ignore such warnings and decide to risk it all.

If an attacker chooses to keep at its harassment of the basan, then the real flame comes out. This is when it will actually use a good portion of crop fuel to release potent blue fire. The warning you get before this happens is its split comb flopping down over its eyes and face, acting as a shield against the fire that is soon to come. When the basan releases this flame, it will also spray a bit of fluid with it, which can land on foes and afflict them with its burning bite. Lighting foes on fire is certainly a way to get them running! However, it is a costly attack, and they can't do too much of it before they need to find more flammable food to ingest. Thus, smarter predators learn how to bait these flames and make a basan empty its fuel in failed attempts. This leaves them more exposed to attackers, but don't forget their sharp beak and talons! Just because they lost their fire doesn't mean they lost the fight!

Though one could describe them as "fire chickens," they aren't actually that big of a problem. Like I said, their fire breath is costly to use, so they are hesitant to unleash it until they are certain danger is imminent. Thus, travelers or locals who stumble upon one aren't likely to be burned. At most, they will get a warning flare, and many folk are wise to back off. Though their flame doesn't pose much danger to smart people who know when to leave an animal alone, its blue color and beautiful display has inspired many an artist. Basan imagery is used in plenty of paintings, tapestries, decoration and signs. One restaurant I visited during my travels had a basan as its mascot! Unfortunately, that reminded me of the terrible joke I had to suffer through for so long. If there is one negative of the basan, it is that its existence created the horrid quip of "the chicken that cooks you!"If you didn't find that particularly funny, I can understand. If you did, repeat it about three dozen times and then let me know if it is still funny...

Chlora Myron

Dryad Natural Historian

Note: Eucella, I am not swapping out the word "cock" in this entry, because it is the actual word you use to describe a male chicken! Yes, I am well aware what that word means for humans! Why should I alter my writing when it's their juvenile behavior that is the issue here? At worst, humans reading this will have a childish chuckle to themselves and I am fine with that. Don't know why they make such a big deal about it and why they can't keep it to themselves. Do you know how many times dryads have to keep a straight face whenever a human complains about a pollen allergy?

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"Basan"

The fiery chicken, brought to life with the help of @Lediblock2 ! This one spits blue flame because you know the basan is known for....uh not doing that? Hold up, the fire they spit ISN'T blue?! Then where the hell did I get that idea from?! Like I could have sworn that was a detail about them, but then checking information about them today and apparently that isn't a thing? Well poop. Uh...I mean....MY version of a basan has been given the artistic touch of a blue flame! Yeah, that'll do....

[prose-for-hire]

lowkey incompatible words but could you do Angelus + affection please?

A/n: I do actually enjoy writing Angelus and I tried my very best to aim for affection lol !!

Warning for blood and killing mention and Angelus stuff, vamp reader, thanks for this love I enjoyed it !! 💖

Love and honour were hellish words to him. Tenderness was weakness in his eyes. He hated Spike and Drusilla’s affection because it was a distraction. He had plans, big plans and they managed to get their feelings involved and mess it all up.

But when he found you it was impossible to stay away. He had found his own distraction, his own weakness. You drove him crazy, he hated you because he wanted you more than anything on Earth. He needed you, his mind thinking only of you.

You were his favourite obsession. His perfect weakness. He craved you the way he craved blood. The way he craved destruction and all evil deeds.

You were already sired and as bad as they come, looking to find yourself something exciting to fill your eternity with on the Hellmouth. And boy did you find it, just… not quite in the way you expected.

Angelus was cruel and there was a certain art to his brutality. You had never seen anyone (undead included) that took such pleasure from killing so indiscriminately. He drew you in, the danger excited you.

What you didn’t bank on was a need for connection within. A loyalty that somehow extended beyond himself. Only for you.

It twisted him up inside. Liking you was wrong to him but it made him want to do it more. After trying every mortal sin he only had his own nature left to explore.

He turned hot and cold with you when he caught himself softening, his anger at you for making him this way burned like fire. It hurt, but God did he make up for it with his affection.

He doted, he truly did. He kept you by his side always. He took you out anywhere you wanted to eat, you got your pick of the very best and freshest blood Sunnydale had to offer. He tortured anyone that tried to get close to you and he protected you in every way he could from the Slayer.

He killed for you. He went against his very nature for you. And it would only ever be you.

One night, you stayed in bed the entire time, feeding only on leftovers when he was usually so amped to kill fresh each night. His arm lazily around your shoulder as he pulled you close. He pressed kisses against your jaw and your neck, nipping and grazing against what had once been your pulse point.

“Nights like these, I feel for you”

He whispered against your skin, a sudden rough grasp at your limbs at what had tumbled from his mouth. You acted as if you hadn’t heard and he allowed himself to feel again.

He pressed kisses that would have been pure from any other mouth into your bare skin, a poison that you would never need an antidote for settled where your soul had been. It would only be filled by him.

You were his best distraction. The only one that he allowed his possession turn to affection.

[creative-jackalope]

*chanting* Ford Pines ! Ford Pines ! Ford Pines !

(for the headcanon game LOL)

HI THIS WAS SENT TO ME A REALLY LONG TIME AGO AND I FORGOT TO POST THE RESPONSE,,, This has been in my drafts for like a year I think oopsie. Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway--

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[Send a character’s name to receive four different headcanons!]

OH BOY do I have many a thought about this man. Picking just four is tough and these are going to be so long so I’ll place them under a read-more.

Heads up - significant Gravity Falls spoilers!

Headcanon 1 - Canon-Compliant:

This is a relatively common headcanon already, I think, but Ford is absolutely covered in scars from his time in the Multiverse. He also already had some from his years in Gravity Falls. If you can name an injury, Ford's probably experienced it at some point - bitten, stung, broken bones, shot, stabbed, fallen from a height, poisoned, burned, he's seen it all. (Thankfully he's managed to keep himself away from fatal or debilitating harm, but there's still time! :D His common sense and self-preservation instincts leave something to be desired and his hero complex never quite went away.) He isn't too fussed about others seeing the scars, usually, but he tends to be evasive if asked about them - he prefers not to think about his time in the Multiverse in too much detail.

Headcanon 2 - Hilarious: 

Ford is resolutely convinced that, throughout his time working with Fiddleford, he did an astounding job at hiding Bill and their partnership. He is 100% certain that Fiddleford couldn't ever have known, not in the least! It does, however, turn out that Ford is a terrible liar and has about as much subtlety as a fork in the garbage disposal. That's not even counting the moments (that Ford is unaware of) when Bill would talk directly to Fiddleford, making no pretenses but never telling Fiddleford exactly who he is other than a 'friend' looking after Ford and helping build the portal. At one point Bill even tried to directly tell Ford that Fiddleford knew, hoping they'd get to stop the charade - Ford just laughed and brushed it off, saying, "Don't be ridiculous, he doesn't suspect a thing!" Bill didn't care enough to push the topic.

Headcanon 3 - Painful:

[CW: Substance misuse, life-threatening physical illness, mental illness, paranoia] Being possessed repeatedly by Bill had serious effects on Ford’s body which neither of them expected. Towards the end of their partnership, his body essentially began to treat Bill like a parasite - his immune system began attacking his nervous system. This caused swelling in his brain, accompanied by fever, hallucinations, chronic headaches and light sensitivity, and just in general an awful time all around for him. After the betrayal, it didn’t matter if Cipher was actually tormenting him or not; hallucinations of him were enough to fuel Ford’s paranoia, and depriving himself of sleep to 'protect' himself from these hallucinations did extremely little to help. The one saving grace is that Ford began to self-medicate with steroids in an attempt to keep himself awake and alert for longer periods, which had the (accidental, on his part) side-effect of slowing/reducing the swelling and suppressing his immune system's attack on his body - and likely saved his life by keeping him going until he finally ended up in a hospital. He has long-lasting damage from this, though thankfully things have improved with time, and he has learned to live with and work around the lingering symptoms. He's still not certain how much of the torment in those years was actually Bill, and how much of it was his own paranoia and illness... If he's honest with himself, he'd rather not know.

Headcanon 4 - Canon Is Dead:

Stanford Pines likes poetry and I will die on this hill. I know this directly contradicts Journal 3 (”I never understood poetry, to be honest") but, in my eyes, Ford loves self-expression through written and visual mediums. He is a man who has always struggled with expressing things like emotions verbally, which is part of the reason he ends up using his Journals more as a diary than as a record of research methods and discoveries, and so art as an expression of things you can’t otherwise put words to fascinates him. The written word, in general, is something he loves - whether fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose. Poetry in particular is something that helps him with recognising his own emotions and understanding them. As such, I explain the Journal 3 comment either as “-plugs ears- he didn’t say that” or “he’s being deliberately snarky because he knows what the Hand Witch is implying and he doesn’t like it or want to admit/acknowledge it”.

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Now I’m. Stretching the rules a bit lmao.

Here are some in-depth extras that are important ones to me, but don’t particularly fit the above categories.

Bonus Headcanon 5 -  Trauma, coping mechanisms, and the importance of social support after so much isolation:

[CW: Discussion of PTSD symptoms] Basically implied in canon already, he has some pretty serious PTSD as a result of his years spent paranoid and alone in the Multiverse, and suffers from frequent nightmares as well as occasional flashbacks, amongst other things. One of his biggest coping mechanisms for the related anxiety is being armed so he can defend himself at a moment’s notice. At first after returning, Ford never went without his weapon belt, not even at the Shack, and all it took was an errant floorboard creak for his hand to fly to his gun. After a long while, he steadily got used to the idea that he was home, and he was safe, and started to forgo the belt more and more whilst in what he felt were safe places (ie. in the Shack or on the Stan O’ War II). Despite that, he still feels the need to be armed for reassurance whenever he goes out, even if it’s just to the town - and there are days where he will, without explanation, carry a weapon in his safe places too, something that Stan tactfully doesn’t mention. However, later on those same days Stan will usually a spot a new anomaly and insist they need to stay home so he can tell Ford about it, then spend all evening spinning a grand tale of how terrifying and fantastical it was in great detail, until Ford either is listening with complete awe or is terribly unamused and poking holes in the blatantly fabricated story - either way, the gun often ends up on the table, forgotten.

Bonus Headcanon 6 - Probably the most important one to me and plays a massive part in how I characterise Ford as a whole - I apologise for how LONG this one is but I have so so so many thoughts about it:

Ford is autistic and was diagnosed as a child, in the 60s. He grew up masking a lot of the more “obvious” traits, like repressing many of his body stims, because of bullying and family pressure - he was already “weird” and this just made him stand out more, so he tried to hide it. Big traits he had as a child that carried over to adulthood were his bluntness, difficulty in relating to others, sensitivity to sensory input (noise and texture were the main ones), and how he would focus intensely on particular topics that interested him. Behind-the-scenes he also received a lot of support from Stan (who I headcanon as ADHD and autistic, though his traits present very differently to Ford’s and he was never assessed or diagnosed, instead just treated as a ‘problem child’), and as such, began to struggle a lot more than he thought he would once Stan was no longer in his life and couldn’t secretly help him through things. As an adult, since he started living alone and had embraced his polydactly and made it his, Ford steadily started unmasking and just let himself exist in all his “weird” glory; including being more vocal about his own limits and needs, both personal and social. He stims a lot with DD&MD dice (which he is an avid collector of) as well as whatever little desk toys he can find (especially physics-based ones), and also has several hand-based stims like tapping or rubbing his fingers. One of his anxious stims, picked up during the nights where he was trying to keep himself awake, is tapping his thumb against his fingers sequentially and counting along “one, two, three, four, five”. Counting is general is an action he finds very soothing when he’s stressed or anxious. Finally, one thing that has never, ever changed about him is that once he gets focused on something he Will Not Stop - he’ll forgo food, sleep, and anything else because he simply forgets he needs it once he gets into the zone, and he’s terrible at reading the signals from his body informing him he is hungry or tired. Having others around, like Fiddleford and Stanley, to prompt him to look after himself is something he benefits from heavily.

[nimblermortal]

The Saga of Hervor Getting What She Wants

in verse

(preliminary, I haven't reviewed any of these translations yet)

for the modern-style retelling, click here

Hervor: Wake up, Angantyr!* Hervor wakes you, only daughter of your Svafa. Surrender from your (burial) mound the sharp sword, the one that dwarves forged for Sigrlami.

*Angantyr is her dad

Hervor, Hjorvard, Hrani, Angantyr!* I wake all of you under the tree's roots with helm and armor and sharp sword, shield and harness, and orderly spear.

*these are Angantyr and his brothers

Much they are becoming, Angantyr's sons - mighty harm-willing ones - to mold-reek that none of the sons of Eyfura will speak with me in Munarveg.

Hervor, Hjorvard, Hrani, Angantyr! Let it be for you all as if you mourn with an ant's mound inside your ribs unless you give up the sword which Dwalin forged. It is always/not fitting for ghosts to carry a costly weapon.

Angantyr: Hervor, daughter, what are you saying? You go toward evils full of your own ills. You are becoming frantic and hysterical willfully you wake up dead men.

My father did not dig for me, nor did any of my kinsmen - Those two* have Tyrfing** who lived though only one became its possessor in the end.

*two men fought Angantyr and his eleven brothers; one died, and so did all twelve brothers. Don't feel bad for them, they were berserks and vikings. **magic sword

Hervor: You do not tell the truth - so let the god make you whole in your mound, as you do not have Tyrfing with you. You are loth to grant an inheritance to your only child!

Then the mound opened, and it was as if fires and wildfires were all over the mound.

Angantyr: Hither to the gate to Hel the mound opens all the flowering island trees you see are in the fire. It is savage outside, that you see around you. Go, girl, if you are able, to your ship.

Hervor: Y'all do not burn such balefires at night that I would be afraid of others' fires. The breast in the maid is untrembling at the thought, though she see a ghost standing at the door.

Angantyr: I tell you, Hervor, listen a while longer to be shown, daughter, what will happen. Tyrfing will, if you can believe it, ruin everything for your family, girl!

You will beget a son. He will later have Tyrfing and trust in his strength. Then Heidrek will lead people; he alone will be the most powerful under the sun's tent.

Hervor: I thought myself a manly man until I came to your hall seeking no counsel; give me from your mound that which hates armor, what is dangerous to defense, doom of Hjalmar.*

*of the two who killed Angantyr and his brothers - the one who died

Angantyr: Hjalmar's bane lies under my back everything around him wrapped in fire. I know no girl on the earth overhead who would dare carry that sword in her hand.*

*this may actually be 'who would touch it, since it's covered in fire'. Or not; note that in the Ring cycle, Brunhilde is wrapped in fire using the same terms as here describe the sword

Hervor: I can care for and take in hand that sharp sword; if I could not I do not fear the burning fire. Suddenly I see wildfire overhead.

Angantyr: You are foolish, Hervor, possessing courage, eyes bigger than your stomach you tumble into the fire. I would rather give you the sword from the mound. Young maid, I cannot deny you.

Hervor: You do well, son of vikings, now you give me the sword from the mound; hero, I think it better to have now than if I had all of Norway.

Angantyr: You don't get it - you are wretched of speech, most wicked woman - what you celebrate - you will see, Tyrfing will, if you trust in strength, entirely ruin all of your family, girl!

Hervor: I will go to the gull of the swelling waves (ship). Now the helmsman's maid (me) is in a good mood! I couldn't care less, friend of princes, what my sons deal with later.

Angantyr: You shall own/not* and long enjoy having in hiding Hjalmar's bane. Do not grasp the edges; poison is on both of them, that which is a man's bane, worse than maiming.

*another case where the opposite is the same word :(

Farewell, daughter - in a heartbeat I would give you the life of twelve men if you trust in strength, might, and endurance - all that is good that the sons of Arngrim leave to you.

Hervor: You all stay - I wish to be abroad. Whole in your mound - I want to go from here swiftly. I seemed now to be between worlds; fires burned all around me.

[sonderwrite]

this is my first whumptober & idk how much i'll actually do but i made a cute banner for it so yay (all prompts + alt prompts list)

stress position, "if you cry, we'll go easy on you"

unfortunate fall, car accident, "don't move. you'll be okay."

survivor's guilt, "it's not your fault."

pistol-whipped (alt prompt)

migraines

self sacrifice, "i'm the only one who can do this."

running out of supplies, "hold on, we're going to have to improvise."

rope burns, gagged, "you're so much prettier this way."

"you look pretty pale."

self worth issues, pushing away a loved one, "you don't need to earn this."

hallucinations, truth serum, "why would you even say that?"

isolation, sensory deprivation, "can you feel me? i'm right here."

using himself as bait, defiance, "take me instead."

concussions, "see if you can follow my finger with your eyes."

"don't break down on me yet."

drowning, hostile environment, "i don't know how anybody could survive that."

abandonment, misunderstanding, "why did i even think you cared?"

mind control, possession

losing a sense, "i wish i could get you back."

enemy to caretaker, "i'm absolutely not qualified for this shit."

drugged, "this will make you feel better, okay?"

forced to kneel/watch/hurt somebody else, whipped, "do not look away."

fever, passing out, "hey?! stay with me, okay?!"

deconditioning, relapse, "it's normal that you need more time."

humiliation, betrayal, "how could you?"

"this is going to sting."

alternate universe, "well, there's a first for everything."

internal bleeding, needles and stitches, "i didn't think the wound was that bad..."

ownership, branding, "everyone will know that you're mine."

poison, delirium, "you're not making sense."

"you need to get out of here!"

ran out of time for the rest but hey i got a week's worth in!

[mariana-oconnor]

The Five Orange Pips pt 2

There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads.

Ghost murderer.

"They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in the house with me." "Has he come with you tonight?" "No. His orders were to stay in the house." Again Holmes raved in the air.

First, all my Holmesies at the rave:

Second, I'm really going to agree with Holmes here. Neither of the first two deaths occurred in the house. The policeman should be on bodyguard duty not house guarding duty. What the actual? This is spectacular incompetence. To the point where it borders on conspiracy.

"There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do you understand?"

And we come to the further reason why Elias Openshaw was a massive dick. By burning the papers he ensured that his family would have no way to prove that they were gone and therefore protect themself. The one scrap exists by luck rather than design and honestly, isn't proof that everything's been destroyed. Do I want the bad guys to get their papers back? No. But there was definitely a better way to play this than to leave your family with literally no way to protect themselves. You can't just say 'the papers don't exist anymore' and expect everyone to believe it.

Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come to us from amid the mad elements—blown in upon us like a sheet of seaweed in a gale—and now to have been reabsorbed by them once more.

In case you had forgotten, the weather is miserable, but Watson's clearly loving it.

"But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to what these perils are?" "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered.

Based on the lack of any physical evidence at the second death site, I still feel like 'the ghosts of the people Elias Openshaw murdered' would 100% be a reasonable solution for this story if it were to step into the supernatural.

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone,

Sounds fake, but OK. It's the Victorian period. Anything goes. (Also apparently Cuvier was anti-evolution and laid the basis for scientific racism, so we're really in it now)

"It was a singular document. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the main points of my analysis."

Ah, a flashback to A Study in Scarlet, if I remember correctly. Nice little nod to the readers, ACD.

a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment

In these days of wikipedia... I think you might call that a completely unknown accomplishment.

And we finally get to the part of the story with the anti-racism. Thank you ACD for putting this in Holmes' voice and making it very, very clear where he stands on the matter.

"You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may well have been cause and effect."

And this is where we get the 'Openshaw might have been remorseful and changed sides' narrative from. That and the 'my sins' line from the first part. Sure, fine. Maybe he decided that they were going too far and perhaps the murdering, intimidation and terrorism were a little more extreme than he wanted. But fuck that, because he kept the fucking papers.

Maybe it was shame that held his tongue, but I keep coming back to the papers, over and over again. If he was already marked for death then why tf did he burn the papers and not turn them over to an authority that could actually do something with them? That would have protected his family at least a little and it would have stopped the papers from falling back into the wrong hands. It's absolutely the best play here. He has evidence of crimes committed. He has nothing left to lose. He should have turned the papers over immediately, but whatever. At this point he has no reason not to turn them over.

Sure, he probably would still have been killed, but he was dead anyway. All he had to do was try to take them down with him. But he didn't. He burnt the papers. So even if he was remorseful or ashamed or whatever (and it doesn't seem like from his nephew's description of him that he was particularly changed in his viewpoints) he still didn't go far enough to actually try to do something about it. Instead he put his family at risk and tried to protect what? His reputation? Fuck that.

He stopped for himself. He protected himself. And then at the end, he protected his reputation.

"There is nothing more to be said or to be done to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen."

Some music to soothe the spirits. Holmes fiddles while London storms.

[helmarok]

me & my friendgroup were hoping ganon would get more backstory and humanization in totk for the entire time since the sequel was announced :( the idea that he might get revived was so exciting. i didnt think it would happen but i hoped for a sequel where youd switch between link and zelda at different points- zelda being more lore and archaeology/exploration focused so youd learn more about ganon and the events causing the calamity and how to stop future ones as you also tried to understand why he was so enraged and what exactly happened to him and link engaging in direct dialogue and confrontation with ganon so the player can see his pain and character depth. the game wouldve been more about defeating the calamity possessing him vs ganon himself being bad and acknowledging that hyrule never really tried that route which lead to the constant devastation...sorry for rambling but tldr i feel you 🫡 ur ganons strongest soldier

literally this entire ask. i don't know why i had my hopes up cuz now i'm disappointed over something that was gonna happen anyways... i just wish that after throwing in the excuse of "oh well we use the same formula over and over because DEMISE'S CURSE causes hatred to reincarnate!" they actually built upon that, but they only focus on how the curse affects the chosen hero and zelda. like they never actually go into how the curse affects the man who is born asab (assigned satan at birth 😢)

heres what i think under the cut if youre interested, it's kind of a long story so whatever

my personal hesdcanon completely and totally disregarding anything totk says is that hylia chose ganondorf to be her hero. she chose him and the 'calamity' wasn't actually ganondorf himself based on the more lizard-like appearance of it in the tapestry: it was demise, hence the reason why it not only took a hero and princess but the divine beasts as well.

based on his outfit in the original trailer, i think he was invited to the castle. but while he went dressed his best, it was a trap. throughout his time as hero the kingdom questioned it because of their awful history. after defeating the calamity, ganon was invited for dinner and was betrayed. being poisoned by people he loves and cared about who he thought cared about him but their generational hatred just... led to this.

it broke his heart when they broke his trust because the male gerudo 'king of evil' could never be our chosen hero, the symbol of courage in the kingdom. he's the bad guy, and always will be even if it's a different man from the one in OOT and TP entirely. his broken heart turned into anger and rage while he was coughing and dying at the table as people he cared for watched it happen. his eyes turned red, his mane and tusks grew and his triforce shined. when he tried to grab the sword it burned his hand. hatred took over and changed him- keep in mind that demise's entire being relies on the existence of hatred. with so much hate in his heart the demon was able to grab ahold of it and use that as a second chance to win.

nobody could stop him but the princess, who did with hylia's help. his body and spirit was sealed under the castle before it got too bad. but over time, the betrayal ganon felt had 10k years to brew and demise used it to his advantage. ganon's hurt combined with demise's raw energy- malice- created what we see in botw as that ugly beast calamity ganon.

now here's my favorite part! everyone had to have wondered why the fuck hylia wasn't willing to help zelda this time around when zelda was unable to use the powers in her blood that her mom could use, and hylia never bothered to help her awaken them. well the reason for this is because hylia felt betrayed by her people. her people were so full of hatred that they tried to murder the hero SHE chose! not only that, but after ganon's murder, the sheikah strongly opposed, which led to what you can see in the tapestry- sheikah being pushed by guards, and then the game tells us their technology was destroyed and sealed away.

as punishment for the problems her children were causing, she decided to abandon them. they would get no help from her. no prayers would be answered, no assistance with light magic- they were on their own now. there wouldn't even be a chosen hero- link was actually chosen by fi when fi knew a hero had to come but hylia wasn't going to bother.

hylia only decided to step up after she felt sorry for zelda. when zelda prayed and begged her she ignored her until the hero died and she felt her child's pain. she finally decided to be a mom and make zelda's powers fucking explode. zelda walked into that castle and sealed the demon the best she could without the assistance of a hero. from then on after a hundred years, hyrule basically accepted the flying boar demon cloud over the castle as part of their life along with corrupted guardians and such.

basically i think ganon's story was about hatred and betrayal and that the reason calamity ganon is so insanely powerful, and the reason he takes on a more demonic form not made of flesh but physical hatred, is because of how much it hurt him. he is hurt and hatred took advantage of that.

demise's easy control of ganondorf is kind of a nod at how you'll see that hurt people can often get easily taken over by hatred. a wife who is cheated on might kill her husband. a trans man who has suffered his whole life might bully trans men who are happy. a victim of misogynistic culture might be manipulated by others into becoming a terf. it's sad how easily hate can take over hurt people.

for the hylians, it's how for generations their kingdom was destroyed by a ganon, so they can't think of him as anything other than a threat even if he is a good man.

so yeah, there's my ganondorf take. he's just some guy who is stuck in a cycle and i wish nintendo would stop acting like hyrule is a perfect kingdom and the royal family has no flaws because theyre the Goddess Children when time and time again there's been hints in the games at their treatment of others, especially the sheikah. basically what i want is for them to give their special little good guys and special little race of blue eyed bitches some more depth instead of just being like "theyre good and nothing more because they're the Good Guys so they can't do anything wrong and opposers like ganon are the Bad Guys". cuz it's 2023 and we deserve more advanced stories than "hero and princess defeat the big bad evil and save the day!"

[literaphobe]

favorite fic tropes? 👀

A FEW MONTHS AGO… had a very eye opening conversation with a friend (whom i miss dearly). it was specifically about my fanfiction and the tropes that frequently surface. i also have tropes i love reading Heart. so. without further ado. and accompanied with very unnecessary explanations:

- friends with benefits. hi. the trope that haunts my life. almost every long multichap ive written that i care about tends to feature fwb in SOME way. usually, it doesn’t follow the trope to a t. like. there probably will never be some classic Hey! Let’s Be Friends With Benefits™ convo. it’s almost always unsaid. i LIVE in the unsaid intimacies. its because vulnerability terrifies me. the idea of intimacy and affection without having to ask for it, or vocalize it, until everything swells and swells and combusts….. yeah 😎😎😎

- best friends to lovers. -> shut the fuck up. i just. ok. i just LOVE a romance that you kindle without trying to fan the flames. i could never be a tinder girlie because i want the friend who laughed and told me to make a tinder account as a joke to want me instead (actually happened before) and i just LOVE high stakes and the whole ‘i can’t lose you. i want to die because i want more’ FEAR of it all… of things so clearly twisting and changing between you and who you find So So Important. kiss the chef baby! and well y’know. the burning anger you feel when someone else wants them. which brings me to…

- jealousy -> is this a fic trope? or is this just an emotion? eh. who cares. im an insanely toxic and troubled person. i thrive on possession and the biting of tongues when someone covets what i do not even hold claim over. i think jealousy is awesome. if done appropriately of course

- fake dating -> so fun!! i love a little ruse. that slowly becomes Not a ruse. the fear of it all ending. the pain of things feeling a little too real while thinking its a lie for the other and feeling even MORE pained bc youre alone. you meant to trick everyone but the only one who fell for it all was YOU and its DOOM and you’re so DOOMED but then the crashing and burning of everything and exposing the lies and the truth and the truth in the lies and the lies in the truth… the realizations that you have a CHANCE to make this real

- second chance love -> getting together with someone before you were emotionally mature enough or ready. having so many issues that it regrettably spreads and poisons your bond. leaving them because staying would hurt them more. not being able to truly stay away anyway. the agreement to stay friends that accompanies so much resentment and also lingering tension. tension that doesn’t go away, that keeps boiling over. MEMORIES of simpler times that haunt and haunt. getting better together. realizing you still want THIS, that you were too hasty before, that you were too scared before. but you’re braver now, you know better now, you love better now. etc

ok im done waxing poetry Hope this was a somewhat enjoyable list to read thank u for dropping by anon LOVE YOU :D

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𝚆𝙴𝚂𝙺𝙴𝚁'𝚂 𝙴𝚈𝙴𝚂 / 𝙱𝙸𝙾𝙻𝚄𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙴𝚂𝙲𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 ::

ANON  ASKED:  sheer crack, but important: wesker’s got the cat eyes thing goin’ on, so…does he do the giant pupils thing when he’s excited?

Actually,  its  not  even  entirely  crack  because  it  would  actually  make  perfect  sense  that  Wesker’s  eyes  would  function  similar  to  a  cat,  or  other  predatory  animals  who  possess  similar  vertical  pupils  like  vipers  and  crocodiles.  The  vertical  slits  signify  the  predatory  nature  of  the  owner, allowing  for  more  adapt  vision;  

‘Vertical pupils give highly focused vision and provide accurate distance vision to help the predator know exactly when to strike its prey. These types of predatory animals also usually hunt at night which means they have evolved an extra set of muscles to pull the pupil into a narrow slit shape during the day. This is to prevent the eye from being damaged or overcome by bright light, preserving vision and protecting the eye. Predatory animals with vertical slit pupils, like cats and many snakes, can maintain sharp focus across the horizontal field of view and more accurately judge distance to their prey. ”

So  yeah,  it  would  make  sense  if  Wesker’s  eyes  are  also  capable  of  contracting  and  expanding.  But  I  wouldn’t  say  they’re  exactly  like  a  cats  eyes  outside  of  the  visual  similarity  as  I  don’t  think  Wesker’s  eyes  ever  dilate   enough  to  appear  human  again  from  what  we’ve  observed  of  him / his  eyes  in  canon.  His  eyes  seem  to  be  more  focused  on  keeping  out  light,  I  think ?  I  have  a  lot  of  thoughts  on  this. 

What  Wesker’s  eyes  do  do  that  is  super  unique  is  maintain  a  steady  glow.  They’re  highly  bioluminescent  and   this  appears  to  be  linked  to  his  emotions  in  some  way.  When  experiencing  a  particularly  strong  emotion  his  eyes  tend  to  literally  light  up  with  a  temporary  bright / burning  sensation. Its  less  clear  why  this  is  a  thing,  I  mean  it  looks  extremely  cool  and  more  accurately  terrifying   from  an   in  universe  POV  but  there  def  has  to  be  a  more  “zoological”  reason  they  do  this  beyond  Aesthetic  TM.  

Wesker’s  entire  body  has  been  transformed  on  a  cellular  level  by  the  virus  to  make  him  an  adapt  killing  machine  so  here  are  my  ideas/thoughts  surrounding  whats  with  his  eyes  /  why  they  glow. ━  For  a  start,  its  possible  this  is  a  warning  to  other  predators  to  back  off,   similar  with  how  some  poisonous  animals  are  brightly  coloured  as  a  warning  to  fuck  around  and  find  out.  and  I  do  personally  headcanon  that  most  other  infected  creatures  avoid  Wesker  because  They  Know.

 We  know  infected  creatures  actively  prey  on  each  other,  so  yeah,  anything  with  the  animalistic  intelligence  a  lot  of  the  infected  animals  have  can  determine  that  Wesker  is  too  much  to  handle.  The  exceptions  would  be  creatures  who  are  particularly   programmed  for  certain  tasks  /  externally  controlled   or  extensively  brain  damaged  (like  common  T  infected  zombies) 

It  could  also  have  a  kind  of  “hypnotic  gaze”  effect  per  se,  giving  him  the  ability  to  temporarily  stun / paralyse   prey,  because  again,  from  an  in  universe  POV  Wesker’s  eyes  are  terrifying,  if  you  got  caught  in  his  sight  you’d  be  shook,  and  thats  not  even  with  witnessing  his,  y’know,  crazy  super-human  strength/speed  on  top  of  it.  I  actually  just  think  he  exerts  an  aura  of  danger  /  dread  that  most  members  of  the  “animal  kingdom”  pick  up  pretty  fast  and  if  you  don’t  get  it  on  vibes  alone  his  eyes  serve  as  a  more  explicit  signal. I  know  in  like,  RE0  for  whatever  reason  Wesker  can  shoot  lasers  out  of  his  eyes  which  I  kind  of  interpreted  as  a  kind  of  “physical”  representation  of  this  kind  of  concept. 

Personally,  I  think  most  of  all  the  glow  /  light  up  has  to  do  with  sharping  vision.  You  turn  up  the  brightness  of  your  phone/screen  when  you  want  to  see  more,  its  possible  the  “natural  light”  of  Wesker’s  eyes  has  a  similar  purpose  which  comes  back  to  the  cat  idea–  rather  than  completely  dilating  and  becoming  visibly  huge  to  collect  light  and  heighten  vision,  Wesker’s  eyes  simply  glow  /  exert  their  own  light   to  increase / sharpen  his  vision.  This  is  also  another  explanation  for  why  Wesker’s  eye  glow  seems  to  be  related  to  his  emotions.  Naturally  if  he’s  “focusing”  on  something  his  emotions  will  react  accordingly,  so  therefor  the  glow. 

And  to  add  to  all  that  the  continuous  glow  of  Wesker’s  eyes  may  also  be  a  reason  why  his  pupils  remain  in  the  vertical  slit-like  state  as  oppose  to  ever  dilating  to  an  extreme,  again  having  to  do  with  filtering  light   and  his  eyes  are  literally  producing  their  own  light.  Whatever  the  case  may  be   the  Virus  has  sharpened  Wesker’s  vision  extensively  and  I  mentioned  before  via  my  own  personal  HC  that  the  reason  his  eyes  are  the  one  part  of  his  body  to  actually  show  outward  mutation  was  because  of  his  impaired  eyesight / mild  photophobia/sensitivity  previous  to  infection.  

SO  BASCIALLY  while  I  don’t  personally  HC  his  eyes  to  dilate,  they  do  GLOW  and  thats  my  Logic  for  why  thats  a  thing.   Fully  support  Albert  Kitty-Eyes  Wesker  tho. 

Oh  ALSO  while  I’m  on  this  topic  the  glow  of  Wesker’s  eyes  is  also  directly  connected  to  the  virus  in  his  system.  Suppressing  the  virus  dulls  his  eye  glow  so  it  can  also  be  used  to  measure  Wesker’s  “strength”  in  a  way.

 Theres  an  implication  of  Wesker’s  vision  and  the  virus  being  connected  beyond  just  the  “aesthetic”  of  his  eyes  looking  like  that.  When  Chris  and  Sheva  “poison”  him  in  5  we  get  a  moment  where  we  see  through  Wesker’s  eyes  and  his  vision  is  fuzzing  out  related  to  the  virus  in  his  system  reacting  to  the  suppressant.  I  ALSO  think  its  interesting  to  note  that  based  on  this  he  SEEMS  to  see  in  a  different  like,  ‘colour’  pallet  to  normal  people  as  well.  The  world  through  “Wesker  Vision”  seems  like  it  has  a  yellowish/greenish  tint  to  it. 

[fluffypotatey]

S7 😭 I can't imagine waiting that long. Personally, the progression makes sense to me considering they kept going through HUGE events. Like first Wukong was literally POSSESSED. And Macky, instead of ditching, protected the kid and faced him head on 🫡 And Wukong as a person, honestly can NOT hold grudges against his former friends/enemies. He feels BAD for what he does to them, and misses them tons. Like with DBK! He outright says "I honestly missed that guy" whatever Macky did to him couldn't have been any crazier than DBK wrecking the city, forced to be contained, or fighting the Brotherhood. Especially because Wukong loved Macky 10 times more. Then he got blasted with a thousand suns of nostalgia and regrets in a scroll until his spirit was crushed and Macky's own down bad behavior started coming out because he is ALSO a pathetic loser who misses having actual connections with people. Especially if their name is Wukong because holding rage inside is just a poison expecting the other person to get burned. They were still bickering and fighting in S5 but with development! With attempted restraint and cooldowns! And then Wukong went through A Horrible No Good Time yet again like what is there to possibly argue about then when there's so many regrets you have and the WORLD IS LITERALLY ENDING AS WE DON'T SPEAK. So hold hands, and hope that communicates everything. There is no more room for teasing and avoiding each other at that point and pretending to be annoyed so you don't have to touch that ol pandora's box of feelings. COMPLETELY against your desire for slow burn, I fully hope they hug in S6 and both of them cry and we finally confirm what happened. The writers cannot get away with teasing us like this pLEASE- the most redacted of snippets ;-;

i just think slow burns are neat, anon. and shadowpeach fits that bill. i will not mind at all if their relationship progresses faster than my assumptions bc a lot of them were made under the impression that the relationship food i wanted would be met with heavy hesitance by a Western show own by a giant toy company who cares more about profit than anything 🤷🏻‍♀️

and yet here we are! the train chugging at full speed when i expected a 3 hour delay that is typical in the entertainment station

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Wesker's eyes / bioluminescence.

ANON  ASKED:  sheer crack, but important: wesker’s got the cat eyes thing goin’ on, so…does he do the giant pupils thing when he’s excited?

Actually,  its  not  even  entirely  crack  because  it  would  actually  make  perfect  sense  that  Wesker’s  eyes  would  function  similar  to  a  cat,  or  other  predatory  animals  who  possess  similar  vertical  pupils  like  vipers  and  crocodiles.  The  vertical  slits  signify  the  predatory  nature  of  the  owner, allowing  for  more  adapt  vision;  

‘Vertical pupils give highly focused vision and provide accurate distance vision to help the predator know exactly when to strike its prey. These types of predatory animals also usually hunt at night which means they have evolved an extra set of muscles to pull the pupil into a narrow slit shape during the day. This is to prevent the eye from being damaged or overcome by bright light, preserving vision and protecting the eye. Predatory animals with vertical slit pupils, like cats and many snakes, can maintain sharp focus across the horizontal field of view and more accurately judge distance to their prey. ”

So  yeah,  it  would  make  sense  if  Wesker’s  eyes  are  also  capable  of  contracting  and  expanding.  But  I  wouldn’t  say  they’re  exactly  like  a  cats  eyes  outside  of  the  visual  similarity  as  I  don’t  think  Wesker’s  eyes  ever  dilate   enough  to  appear  human  again  from  what  we’ve  observed  of  him / his  eyes  in  canon.  His  eyes  seem  to  be  more  focused  on  keeping  out  light,  I  think ?  I  have  a  lot  of  thoughts  on  this. 

What  Wesker’s  eyes  do  do  that  is  super  unique  is  maintain  a  steady  glow.  They’re  highly  bioluminescent  and   this  appears  to  be  linked  to  his  emotions  in  some  way.  When  experiencing  a  particularly  strong  emotion  his  eyes  tend  to  literally  light  up  with  a  temporary  bright / burning  sensation. Its  less  clear  why  this  is  a  thing,  I  mean  it  looks  extremely  cool  and  more  accurately  terrifying   from  an   in  universe  POV  but  there  def  has  to  be  a  more  “zoological”  reason  they  do  this  beyond  Aesthetic  TM.  

Wesker’s  entire  body  has  been  transformed  on  a  cellular  level  by  the  virus  to  make  him  an  adapt  killing  machine  so  here  are  my  ideas/thoughts  surrounding  whats  with  his  eyes  /  why  they  glow. ━  For  a  start,  its  possible  this  is  a  warning  to  other  predators  to  back  off,   similar  with  how  some  poisonous  animals  are  brightly  coloured  as  a  warning  to  fuck  around  and  find  out.  and  I  do  personally  headcanon  that  most  other  infected  creatures  avoid  Wesker  because  They  Know.

 We  know  infected  creatures  actively  prey  on  each  other,  so  yeah,  anything  with  the  animalistic  intelligence  a  lot  of  the  infected  animals  have  can  determine  that  Wesker  is  too  much  to  handle.  The  exceptions  would  be  creatures  who  are  particularly   programmed  for  certain  tasks  /  externally  controlled   or  extensively  brain  damaged  (like  common  T  infected  zombies) 

It  could  also  have  a  kind  of  “hypnotic  gaze”  effect  per  se,  giving  him  the  ability  to  temporarily  stun / paralyse   prey,  because  again,  from  an  in  universe  POV  Wesker’s  eyes  are  terrifying,  if  you  got  caught  in  his  sight  you’d  be  shook,  and  thats  not  even  with  witnessing  his,  y’know,  crazy  super-human  strength/speed  on  top  of  it.  I  actually  just  think  he  exerts  an  aura  of  danger  /  dread  that  most  members  of  the  “animal  kingdom”  pick  up  pretty  fast  and  if  you  don’t  get  it  on  vibes  alone  his  eyes  serve  as  a  more  explicit  signal. I  know  in  like,  RE0  for  whatever  reason  Wesker  can  shoot  lasers  out  of  his  eyes  which  I  kind  of  interpreted  as  a  kind  of  “physical”  representation  of  this  kind  of  concept. 

Personally,  I  think  most  of  all  the  glow  /  light  up  has  to  do  with  sharping  vision.  You  turn  up  the  brightness  of  your  phone/screen  when  you  want  to  see  more,  its  possible  the  “natural  light”  of  Wesker’s  eyes  has  a  similar  purpose  which  comes  back  to  the  cat  idea–  rather  than  completely  dilating  and  becoming  visibly  huge  to  collect  light  and  heighten  vision,  Wesker’s  eyes  simply  glow  /  exert  their  own  light   to  increase / sharpen  his  vision.  This  is  also  another  explanation  for  why  Wesker’s  eye  glow  seems  to  be  related  to  his  emotions.  Naturally  if  he’s  “focusing”  on  something  his  emotions  will  react  accordingly,  so  therefor  the  glow. 

And  to  add  to  all  that  the  continuous  glow  of  Wesker’s  eyes  may  also  be  a  reason  why  his  pupils  remain  in  the  vertical  slit-like  state  as  oppose  to  ever  dilating  to  an  extreme,  again  having  to  do  with  filtering  light   and  his  eyes  are  literally  producing  their  own  light.  Whatever  the  case  may  be   the  Virus  has  sharpened  Wesker’s  vision  extensively  and  I  mentioned  before  via  my  own  personal  HC  that  the  reason  his  eyes  are  the  one  part  of  his  body  to  actually  show  outward  mutation  was  because  of  his  impaired  eyesight / mild  photophobia/sensitivity  previous  to  infection.  

SO  BASCIALLY  while  I  don’t  personally  HC  his  eyes  to  dilate,  they  do  GLOW  and  thats  my  Logic  for  why  thats  a  thing.   Fully  support  Albert  Kitty-Eyes  Wesker  tho. 

Oh  ALSO  while  I’m  on  this  topic  the  glow  of  Wesker’s  eyes  is  also  directly  connected  to  the  virus  in  his  system.  Suppressing  the  virus  dulls  his  eye  glow  so  it  can  also  be  used  to  measure  Wesker’s  “strength”  in  a  way.

 Theres  an  implication  of  Wesker’s  vision  and  the  virus  being  connected  beyond  just  the  “aesthetic”  of  his  eyes  looking  like  that.  When  Chris  and  Sheva  “poison”  him  in  5  we  get  a  moment  where  we  see  through  Wesker’s  eyes  and  his  vision  is  fuzzing  out  related  to  the  virus  in  his  system  reacting  to  the  suppressant.  I  ALSO  think  its  interesting  to  note  that  based  on  this  he  SEEMS  to  see  in  a  different  like,  ‘colour’  pallet  to  normal  people  as  well.  The  world  through  “Wesker  Vision”  seems  like  it  has  a  yellowish/greenish  tint  to  it. 

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I looked it up, coaching my sister on how to send me her save files for Radical Red. Wasn't as hard as I though it would be, once I fgured out what I was doing.

Palafin gets Parasitic Waste. It only can learn ONE poison type move: Toxic- a move that will miss often because Palafin is not poison type.

How fitting.

No clue about Zero to Hero, but Palafin-Hero gets Surge Surfer OR Galvanize.

Now, on to a few others I found while browsing through for the sake of curiosity.

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I think it's hilarious that Bulbasaur gets Magma Armor.

Squirtle gets Plus, Wartortle gets Minus, and then Blastoise? Blastoise gets Swarm.

Should not be suprised- Mega Butterfree gets Steam Engine. You know, the bug pokemon very weak against fire? A maxed out speed stat will mean nothing the face of being fainted.

(But then, Weedle gets Pressure. Talk about a terrifying bug.)

The two Kubfu's she caught both have it's singular ability Chlorophyll. It's Dark-Type Evolution has Illuminate while it's Water-Type Evolution has Volt Absorb.

Mime Jr. (which she's been farming to Leppa Berries) has three possible abilities. Blaze, Dark Aura, or Merciless. It learns no fire type moves, and only two dark type moves; Quash, which only makes the opponent attack last. This is, of course, ignoring the TMs... of which only bug bite (I think?) and Thief have been obtained. Also, Mime Jr. learns no poison type moves.

Lapras, intrestingly, can have either Fur Coat or Dragon's Maw. Seeing as it's a Water Dragon in this game, that second one fits. But where is Lapras getting fur in all its swimming? Also, its mega evolution's ability is blaze, of which it learns two fire type moves: fire fang and fire blast.

Eevee was fun to try and navigate while on my phone. Natural Cure or Water Absorb. 3 of its 8 possible evolutions has Parental Bond as a possible ability. Leafeon has Download, Super Luck, or Toxic Chain as its possible abilities, and Glaceon is coming in hot with Fatal Precision and the ability to learn an offensive move of every type except Dragon.

Omanyte now levitates like fucking cthulhu. Its evolution now leaves spores behind when hit, or bedazzles its enemies when at full health.

Snorlax is, as always, obilvious. Or really, really focused.

Each of the Bird Trio's galar forms have Marvel Scale except Moltres, which is a Receiver. Also, Regular Moltres has Water Veil, which prevents burns. Um... Does that mean that Moltres' flames have now been put out?

Mewtwo is either showing its truancy or being pretty scrappy. Mewtwo-X is bad company all around, and Mewtwo-Y has obtained a fur coat.

Hisui Typhlosion either is preventing his teammates from falling asleep, or he's preventing enemies from running away. Which is fine, because his regular form is firmly anchored to whatever it grips, or is self sufficient enough to regain lost health at the end of a turn.

Pichu, aborable little baby that it is, is the vessel of ruins.

Misdreavus is the new wind rider. (which, incidentally, happens to also be a song I'm listening to at the moment). Mismagius is bulletproof, which, as a ghost, I thought they already were.

Each of the unknowns have a different ability, hidden ability, and move set, and I can't tell which is which since they all share the A icon. I'm going to tell my sister to catch them all and let me know.

Fortress is probably going to be my sister's best bet at trying to stay alive. it's 4x weakness to fire (it's only real weakness) is irrelevant since it's primary ability is that it is in possession of a Well-baked Body. (That or a very strong jaw, but seeing as I don't think Fortress even has jaws...) Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, i think she already has a Pineco.

The weird electric Mantyke's evolution- Mantine- makes all abilities pointless while its on the field with its Neutralize Gas.

I don't want to know what Miltak's suction cups are. I don't want to know.

Blissy having the Sturdy ablility just seems like overkill at this point.

Mega Gallade is comatose. Not sure how, but he is.

Shedninja is Simple. Simple as that. Meanwhile, Ninjask has quick feet if you tell me where they are.

Aggron obtains liquid voice, but can learn only one sound-based move without the use of TMs (Uproar).

Minum can have Victory Star as its ability.

I don't want to know what Swalot's sweet veil is. I really don't.

Sun and Moon, respectivly, have either Cloud Nine or Compound Eyes.

Whiscash either has As One (Unnerve + Moxie) or it is the new Supreme Overlord of all and all should bow down before the combined might of their fallen allies. Barboach, on the other hand, either has Fatal Precision or As One (Unnerve + Grim Neigh).

Shinx has Super Luck, which turns into Sniper, which turns into Regenerator with each of its evolutions.

Rampardos is either fluffy or has a grass pelt.

Sun Cherrim has Bone Zone, of which it does not learn any moves to take advantage of this.

Honchkrow has a body made of ice or is a defeatist.

Riolu takes a bit to get going, but that's fine because Lucario eventually figures out how to switch out when below half health. Mega Lucario, however, gets stat bonuses when in the sunlight.

Hoppowdon is a mummy.

Froslass is either super lucky or a jojo meme.

Fan Rotom possess a feline prowess.

Regigias is either unburdened when it looses an item, or it is steadfast when flinching.

Darkrai is now much more intresting with its ability being Protean.

Each Arceus has a different abliity, but I find it hilarious that Poison Arceus has Defeatist while Ghost has Scrappy.

Sweet Victory Victini? Plus.

Since when was there a Mega Audino? It's steakout ability seems fun to mess with.

Cottonee goes from having to Dark Aura to a Fairy Aura with evolution. (Or a steely Spirit to a Parental Bond).

Resolute Keldeo is either comatose or Steadfast.

Poor Meloetta is a mummy.

(There's more, but I'm tired and need sleep.)

I love the implications of an ability shuffle in Radical Red.

It involves a certain pokemon that my sister just caught, and lovingly nicknamed 'Dolapin'. She adores it.

"You know, like dolphin, but sounded out. Dol-A-fin".

If you haven't figured it out, she just caught a Finizen (in Diglett cave, no less). Anyone who knows Finizen and it's evolution know where I'm going with this.

HOWEVER!

This is with randomized ablities turned on. Dolapin has the ablity Toxic Boost.

She hasn't reached being able to level pokemon up to level 38, but I look forwards to her blowing up my phone with texts over the seemingly unchanged evolution.

If her Palafin doesn't get the ability 'Zero to Hero' upon evolution, then... does that mean it won't transform when she swaps pokemon in the middle of battle? Because it's the ability that lets it change forms in battle.

My sister hasn't ever seen Palafin's change, even back when I was running Violet with her hovering over my shoulder (mostly because I never got a Palafin... being the only one I know to play Pokemon Games sucks). She doesn't know, and I am over here just brimming with energy to hear her confusion.

BUT!

If she finds a pokemon with the ability 'Zero to Hero' that isn't Palafin... will that pokenon change into Palafin's Hero Form when the conditions are otherwise met?