#Maybe later ill play around more with the design

[sarcasticmothdraws]

blah blah blah insert caption here. I really dont know what to put here im just messing around with his design

[puppppppppy]

updated Sleight ref!!

[faithsxoxo]

hi ! i hope you’re having a good day :) could you write a reagan ridley x fem/gn reader one shot, totally up to you ! i don’t really have anything in mind so feel free to play around with it however you like, would love if it had a bunch of fluff though ! thank you sm, stay hydrated and take care of yourself <33

pairings :: reagan ridley x fem!reader (established relationship) warnings :: none note :: my girl needs WAY more wlw appreciation (i love her)

The mechanical door to Reagan's office slams open, making you flinch. The brunette storms in, clutching a pile of crumpled papers.

"Hey, Reag, you alright?" You stand from your designated spot near her desk.

"I'm fine. No big deal, just my dad screwing me over as always," She grumbles. "He's decided that my work from the past month isn't up to 'Ridley standard' so I have to redo it all."

You can see Reagan visibly crumple as she flips through the pages she spent so long on. You didn't have a clue what any of it was about, but you knew it was complicated.

"I'm sorry," You whisper as you wrap your arms around her torso.

"It's not your fault," She mumbles, leaning into your touch.

"I know. Maybe I could help?" You rest your head in the crook of her neck. "We can go home.. have a spa day.. watch a movie.. stop worrying about this bullshit."

Reagan grins softly and shakes her head. "Tempting, but I have a deadline."

With that you can see the shift in her demeanor. She frowns and pulls away from your hold, reaching for the papers once again.

"No," You grab her arm and gently pull her away. "Not happening. We're going home if you like it or not."

"But-"

"No. I suddenly came on with an illness because I spent too long in the genetics department, and you came to take care of me. No buts," You link her arm with yours and lead her to the door.

"Twenty four hours, no work. Got it?" You give Reagan a stern look.

She shakes her head with a chuckle.

"Yeah, yeah. Got it."

Barely twenty minutes later, Reagan is sitting cross legged in front of you.

"Ugh, it's cold," She winces as you apply the face mask.

"Its hydrating. Alright, pick out a movie. I'm gonna go check on the popcorn," You finish with a peck on the lips, before skipping off to the kitchen of your small apartment. She had only moved in with you a few months prior, for your one year anniversary. Reagan had been desperate to escape from living with her dad any longer.

You take a moment to admire her while shes distracted. Reagan in her full beauty, splayed out on your cream couch. Her face is painted green, yet in your eyes she's still the pinacle of perfection. You take note of how relaxed she looks compared to the tense bundle of nerves she had been previously.

"Are you going to get the popcorn or are you going to keep ogling me?" Reagan calls across the room.

"I dont know, ogling seems pretty tempting," You grin back.

She rolls her eyes with a small huff, but you can see the corners of her lips turning up slightly. You swiftly grab the popcorn and return to your place on the couch.

"Hey," She grins softly at you as you curl into her side.

"Hey. What movie did you pick out?"

"Space Jam."

"Ugh, seriously?" You shake your head and giggle.

"What?" Reagan protests. "It's a good movie!"

"Suuuure. You gonna bring out your old prom dress with it?" You tease.

She smacks you on the arm playfully.

"It would be an honor to see me in that dress, I don't think you deserve it."

"Oh, right, after I've spent all this time giving you a spa day this is how you treat me," You cross your arms and begin to pull away.

"Maybe I'll just go eat popcorn by myself."

Reagan pulls you back towards her, wrapping her arms around your midsection.

"Too late, you're stuck with me," She announces, giving you a kiss on the cheek.

You sigh, leaning back into her.

"I guess I can live with that."

Reagan turns on the movie as you snuggle into her. With the dim light of the TV, both of you eventually drift off in eachothers arms, finally in complete peace.

[imustbenuts]

nuts reading trigun in japanese 6 - kaite's foreshadowing. plant synchronization's downside

remember in my part 3 and 5 i was talking about hierarchy? surprisingly, it continues past chapter 8 with kaite. and wolfwood. triangulating nyoom

(to be honest... ive been doing these read and analysis completely blind in a 1st JP read through. so its possible ill find new nuances, get things wrong as the context shifts and changes, so my stuff looks like its scattered all over the place. sorry about that.)

i think ill start explaining names and meanings. kaite's name in japanese is kaito. カイト. this can be a homonym with i think 怪盗 (kaitou) in this case, which means phantom thief. for trying to help Neon with stealing loot from the Sand Steamer.

left bubble next to neon: 道案内は的確だったかね！？ I trust your guide has been giving you clear instructions?

^the headaches with manga translations has always been to keep texts short and reasonable for flow and readability, so these simplifications can and sometimes must happen.

but, add dakutens, the " on 2 of those カイト katakanas and suddenly, kaito turns into. ガイド gaido. Guide.

so Kaite has been playing as a guide to lead vash to his death at the hands of Neon. this page is such a fucking whammy with the wordplay going on. if you just read this in japanese theres a moment of "oh shit, no way, Kaite, vash just told you to stop betraying people! what the hell!"

yet theres a level of trust going on already, so its not as bad as it seems

nightow really likes his worldplay. i really like this page.

kaite redeems himself by later charging into the boiler room and helps turn the valve to stop the sand steamer from running off cliff and killing everyone on board....

hm. a guide. and those sequences

we sure have a lot of guides here. one who appears in the manga later with a kansai dialect. and another in TriStamp, where he is younger than he appears.

when i spoke about hierarchy and the fact that vash is over 150, i was also kind of hinting that all of current humanity are akin to children in the system of JP hierarchy. that takes on extra meaning with a little change of context and language

wolfwood is filling in the shoes of kaito here in tristamp. and within trimax, kaito foreshadows him. incredible.

theres actually more going on with wolfwood and certain design/changes choices i wanna talk about with tristamp but ill save it for another day. maybe when i run into him in this read later

Plant Synchronization downside.

....so theres a bad downside to vash synchronizing with the plant that i didn't catch. which also answers what the fuck was going on in tristamp when that version of him hits the ground

nightow mentions this in an interview, link here posted and transcribed by xoxo-otome (thank you!) that he likes action flicks and has incorporated a lot of action into his work. and its true. there is so much action in the form of sound effects.

reading through the entire manga and paying attention to the sfx peppered around offers a lot more context to whats happening in half of the panels that seemingly doesnt make sense

like this one where the top panel has "DADADADADA" sfx. so they're stomping down the corridor with their guns crossed and facing each other. the "GO OH" in the bottom panel emphasizes the sudden burst into open air. unfortunately, anyone who values their life and sanity in this economy will not want to translate trigun's sfxs 100%.

i should have paid more attention when reading trigun in english. but i didn't so here i am. in the trigunbookclub tag now doing this.

why is it important? here. this. below. when vash does his plant thing with his sister:

see those heart panels? i tried searching real quick but nobody seems to have pointed this out. i havent seen this in EN fanfics. maybe i missed it. maybe im stupid:

thats Dokun, the sound effect of a heart thumping. as vash synchronizes, the heart panels with the same sound effect appear, but they gradually split apart further with ellipses "..." to signify his heart beat slowing down. and down. and down....

Dokun, do kun, do... kun....

then the wings comes out. and the panel below it:

sfx: PIIIIIIIIIII

breathes. a FLAT LINE.

aaaaaaAA?!

何かなんだかわかりません I'm not sure what's going on. とにかくプラントの動きは一切止まっています But the Plant's movement has completely stopped. 同時に男にも呼吸　心音ともに停止してます It's the same with that man. His breathing and heartbeat sounds like it's stopped with the plant too.

AAAAA?!!?! the も means vash is in the same state as the plant?

i.... um. um.,, ANYWAY-

AAAAAAAAAAAA?! HUH?! HUH??? HUH?!

is THIS why he has a metal grate over his heart? something happened and he an an operation on his heart???? by some engineer maybe? what? huh? am i reading this wrong? what? wait, hello? HEY!!!

what the fuck. okAY--?!

and then he just. pretends like nothing's happened. doesnt tell kaito anything. and he leaves the Sand Steamer.

and im going to have to sleep bc its 5 am now and pretend like i didnt just realize something this big right in front of my eyes during the first read.

[greattigerssimp]

Cast of punch out all getting sick? Like a cold not deathly ill! Please and thank you

Ofc! Boxers on a sick 🤢 day!

Glass Joe 🇫🇷 🥐

- Weak immune system, gets sick a lot

- Ugly sneezing

- Stays in very comfy pajamas all day

- Stays alone, crashes on his couch, and watches old French dramas or plays to pass the time... or if he's too lazy to turn on the television, he'll turn on his white noise and read his favorite novels

- If Kaiser happens to be with him, he'll wait on Joe hand and foot, even carrying Joe around bridal-style from room to room. He treats Joe like a sick victorian child

Von Kaiser 🇩🇪 🔩

- Has to be convinced he's sick to take the day off

- Very bored and unsatisfied; he feels lazy

- Nastiest coughs this side of the earth

- Has no choice but to be waited on by Joe. Bro has a literal French maid whenever he's sick

- Looks like this when he's sick:

Disco Kid 🇺🇲 🕺

- Awesome immune system, very rarely gets sick

- When he does, he'll mainly spend a weekend cooped up in his room

- Has a carefully designed low-fi playlist created specifically for sick days

- Passes the time by napping, video chatting with friends, or watching cheesy 70s and 80s movies

- Can't wear his headphones because he easily gets headaches when he's sick and wearing headphones

King Hippo 🏝 🦛

- Never gets sick, the hippo-human tribe is biologically immune to all known human diseases

- It's how he can eat literally anything and not feel pained from it

Piston Hondo 🇯🇵🍣

- Also has to be convinced he's ill to take the day off... but he's very stubborn about it.

- "I will NOT take a day o- ACHOO!!"

- Eventually gives in and pouts the entire day... hates being unproductive like Kaiser, but also hates total isolation from his friends.

- Reads manga to pass the time... despite hating isolation, he insists Heike stays out of the way... would hate to give Heike his cold.

Bear Hugger 🇨🇦 🐻

- Despite this, Heike happily waits on him and gives him medicine, while Yuki keeps Hondo emotionally sound

- And the number 1 nastiest puking champion award goes to...

- Gets sick more often than he likes to admit, mainly because of how much time he spends outside amongst the creachurs

- Alternative, natural medicine enthusiast

- Lomasi and Spruce are the designated caretakers. Spruce is literally the balto of the squirrel world since he's the one that has to go get medicine

- If he gets a cold during winter he'll take 2 months off to go "hibernating"... he'll later come back as good as new

Great Tiger 🇮🇳 🐅

- Gets sick in the silliest ways possible. Bro is like "Hey guys!! Watch me drink an entire orange juice bottle in under 5 minutes!!" and wonder why he gets sick a lot

- His magic gets all fucked up when he's sick. No clones to wait on him, so he begrudgingly has to take care of himself

- Abuses food delivery services since he can't cook himself

- If the illness is more serious than a cold, Hondo would deliver him medicine

- Watches the most random stuff ever when he's sick. Got hyperfixated on Beastars for a good 2 months after he spent a week sick

Don Flamenco 🇪🇸 🥀

- IS a sick victorian child. Can and will overdramatize his sickness online for attention

- Carmen will help him recover, but in a pushy way. Like "go fight someone already and maybe I'll let you sleep off the couch for one night" kinda way.

- Has to eat the nastiest white boy foods ever when he's sick. Unseasoned chicken noodle soup ahoy!

- One time he got sick over the spring season, and Carmen made him watch all 43 barbie movies. Now he has frequent nightmares about the animal sidekicks from those movies

- Goes through hell when he pukes and gets grossed out by himself vomiting

Aran Ryan 🇮🇪 😈

- Fakes sick days a LOT, so often that when he actually gets sick for real, no one believes him

- Also gets sick in the silliest ways possible. Bro is like "Hey guys!! Watch me down these mysterious purple bananas I found under me bed!!" and wonder why he gets sick

- Also has to be convinced he's sick

- Has the most adorable sneeze ever, but hates to admit it

- Also abuses food delivery services but is also rude to them. Got his grubhub account banned last year after punching an underpaid delivery man. Why? His order of 38 cheeseburgers weren't hot and ready.

Soda Popinski 🇷🇺 🍾

- Rarely gets sick now, but he used to have awful alcohol sickness back in the day... especially after fights.

- Scarily good at taking care of himself nowadays. Is able to cook his own meals and get his own medicine (ofc he goes out wearing a mask ofc)

- Painfully bored though... he insisted on staying away from everyone, especially Macho Man

- Occasionally has trauma breakdowns as he relieves certain sick moments from when he was an alcoholic

- His eyes somehow get even more red when he's sick

Bald Bull 🇹🇷 🐂

- Enjoys taking sick days because that means he's away from the boxing scene for a while

- His niece and nephew typically take care of him, but he is able to be self sufficient

- Binge watches all of his favorite soap operas

- Also has an adorable sneeze

Super Macho Man 🇺🇸 🌊

- Gets the most thought provoking in bed thoughts ever... "Why does Joe look old and young at the same time.... Is Disco Kid biologically blonde... how come none of us ever age-"

- Pretends to not be sick over social media, even though when he does get sick, he's suffering

- Pays for a caretaker to cook, get medicine, etc

- Whines and vents to his caretaker whenever he takes sick days

- Shakes his beach house when he sneezes

- Has a secret collection of nautical themed plushies he keeps on his bed. He cuddles with them when he's sick

Mr Sandman 💤🟢

- Not allowed to take sick days

- Exercises through whatever small cold he gets

- Even when the other boxers call him out for going to the gym when he's sick, one stare is enough to shut them up

- Mr. Dream is like "Tf champions don't get sick... get out there, you're fine!"

- At most, he'll accidentally sleep in a bit when he's sick

Thanks for the ask! ^^

[saintsenara]

I’m curious why you loathe the implication that wizards are immune to muggle diseases. Is it because it reinforces the idea that they aren’t really the same species as muggles?

thank you very much for the ask, @urupotter!

and the answer is - yes, pretty much.

how the body is understood, how illness and disability are thought about, how the medical system works etc. are all questions that i am primed to obsess over in any piece of media - even when they're not actually significant parts of the story.

which is to say, i completely understand the reason why the harry potter series treats these topics in the way it does. magical medicine isn't one of the themes the story is designed to focus on - which means that its purpose is as incidental worldbuilding detail which reinforces the whimsical vibe of the earlier books and the darker vibe of the later ones, and which means that its treatment in the text makes sense within the setting and genre conventions of canon. harry being able to take a bludger - a cast-iron cannonball moving at speed - to the head and living to tell the tale is the same as john wick being able to fall from a great height, land on his back, and then get up and walk around: he's an action hero in a fantasy.

and so wizards being more physically durable than muggles - and also wizards having their own magical diseases, and being immune to muggle ones - all makes sense within the context of the books as literature. kids don't want to read about harry having a cold. they want to read about him being a wizard.

but when i'm deciding to enjoy myself by taking the question of just how fucked-up wizarding society is much more seriously than canon does... the implication that wizards are immune to muggle diseases and that they are broadly unaffected by physical trauma unless that trauma has a magical cause really bothers me. entirely - as you say - because it directly undermines the series' thesis that the purity of magical blood is irrelevant and that the wizarding world's dehumanisation of muggles and muggleborns by treating them as, essentially, separate, lower species is wrong.

the main canon example of this which i detest is dumbledore's suggestion in half-blood prince that merope gaunt could have survived childbirth if she'd simply "raised her wand to save her own life". after all, if a little bit of magic makes one immune to experiencing complications during childbirth [unlike thousands upon thousands of muggles throughout history, who would probably have very much liked to have lived to see their children grow up]... then voldemort is completely justified in thinking merope's death was a selfish, shameful, deliberate choice.

[i do understand that the idea merope chose to die is primarily included in the text so dumbledore can segue into saying that lily "had a choice too", contributing to the gradual reveal in half-blood prince and deathly hallows that she's the key to the whole mystery. but i still think that jkr could maybe have though a little bit harder about what she was suggesting with this than she evidently did...]

and so i think in fandom it's both fun and important not to accept the idea that wizards are automatically resistant to anything which might kill, injure, or disable a muggle - especially because it lets us really play with some of the big worldbuilding questions surrounding the conventions and institutions of wizarding society.

what do disability rights look like in a world which is so rabidly intolerant of difference, and which appears not to have any sort of welfare state? the nhs is a recent invention, created in a muggle britain which is culturally and institutionally separate from the wizarding one: so is treatment at st mungo's free - and, if not, what happens to those who can't pay? how is queerness understood in a society which appears to have views on sexual expression which are fairly conservative - and how does this mean the wizarding state responded to the aids crisis? what do reproductive rights look like in this kind of society? if the dementor's kiss results in - essentially - a vegetative state, what is done with the people the kiss has been performed on? what might it be like for your relative to develop dementia at 100... when you know they might live to 250? what impact do biases about blood status have on how muggleborn patients are treated?

i just think it's interesting!

[subway-boss-jericho]

(Hammer anon) 

Emmet keeps having to remove them from the premises so their webs and nests don't block the airways, but Ingo keeps letting them back in when Emmet isn't looking

God forbid woman do anything /j 

This feels like the. Eating chess pieces meme except with bugs and air vents. It is funny thinking about him getting like. The equivalent of asthma because he likes bugs. 

Also. Is this why emmet has so many bugs. They are simply a little too silly to notice a gods blessing. 

Oh god the joltik infestation hc would be So Funny here 

On another note, and sort of corresponding to Ingo’s Very Long Bath, can ingo get functionally sick? Like rusty or have a… lichen issue (almost like mold- can they break down metal?) and in turn, if this could happen could emmet become ill? 

…I’m having the amusing thought of ingo having a mild pollen allergy. Goodbye eardrums. 

I imagine that, being underwater, ingo might gain a fair bit of plant growth going on. Or perhaps serve as a home for a few Pokémon. He probably wouldn’t quite be aware of it though… (getting off topic- I’ll get back to all that) 

their whole story is like this unfortunately and I uhhmmm,,,,,,, i havent found a way to, fix that. so I'm working on that part.

Casting eternal torment on them!!!

I’ve recently been of the mind that love with no where to go or no outlet is something on the lines of what grief is. While Emmet and Ingo Do have a place for that to go, actually being able to share it is a little more difficult now. Neither are dead (in a way that Truly matters, anyway) I can’t help but think they still might grieve a little. For what once was, maybe. Just for that familiarity. 

There is something quite terrible about realizing you will never be able to hug someone again! 

But like! They totally can and are showing the other that they care. Sometimes the most healing thing is allowing yourself to be sad with another person, knowing that they will Be There. 

[sorry been having a rough week and this hit me harder than expected] 

maybe I should push aside how I think it's "supposed" to look in order to actually mess around with how it Really looks in my head.

Sometimes it’s like that! It’s fun to doodle out some designs and such even if you know you won’t use ‘em. At least then you can figure out what you don’t want! 

the little gliscor plush/toy

Do you think that some of the children (or maybe thankful adults!) would carve out little pokeshi dolls of all the Pokémon Ingo’s do Emmet defeat as like. Trophies or something? 

(The reason gliscor is there is uh. Because I love gliscor. Would be funky to have a few random pokemon that just. Help out sometimes. Maybe the attacking ‘mon is close to a den and maternal instinct is Very Strong. 

I just think it’s kinda amusing for ingo to be fighting and cheer as a flock of murkrow to scratch at the eyes of the pokemon he’s fighting. Only to be swarmed himself a moment later) 

if AUs are songs then your asks are like the Audio Visualizers that play in my brain whenever I think about them. Does that comparison make any sense?

Yes! Ooo that is a fun comparison! It’s always lovely to bounce ideas around with people! (You have reminded me of crabulon’s theme at 4:00 skndnwjs)

Hoohg well I guess when I said it would take me longer to answer these because of school starting I was Not Kidding. Time sure does continue to pass. Hello again though!! I did not forget!! It's just taking me a while because of the energy it takes to give thoughtful answers <3 Hi!! missed you!!

This feels like the. Eating chess pieces meme except with bugs and air vents. It is funny thinking about him getting like. The equivalent of asthma because he likes bugs. 

God forbid women do anything!! I want you to know I want to draw that meme so fucking badly you're SO right. At my next available opportunity I'm doing that. And yeah, it's exactly like that. If the airways are blocked up or they start setting up too many strings in his lung-equivalent then he kind of just, coughs. Not loudly but, he gets very twitchy. He can't hold perfectly still, it tickles/itches/it's stuffy. It would take way more than they're capable of producing to actually inhibit or harm him in any way, which is why he keeps letting them back in, but Emmet knows it will build up if he lets it which is why he keeps kicking them back out. Infinite cycle.

(Edit, I did it the next day while still editing this response together)

The rest of the patented Jericho Ramble™ is below!

Also. Is this why emmet has so many bugs. They are simply a little too silly to notice a gods blessing. 

Correct, they are SO silly. Emmet does enjoy the company but he will never admit to it because at this point they're Doing A Bit and the first one to fold is the loser. This is also how Emmet eventually ends up with a shiny silcoon.

Oh god the joltik infestation hc would be So Funny here 

Yes!! Anything with joltik doesn't happen until after Ingo is recovered from the ocean and he heals a bit more from that whole experience, but I imagine they become quite the (beloved) nuisance to Emmet. Them feeding on electricity makes them a bit of a risk after his initial recovery, but after he gets back to a stable level then I imagine they bring both of them a lot of joy.

can ingo get functionally sick? Like rusty or have a… lichen issue [...] and in turn, if this could happen could emmet become ill? 

It would be extremely difficult to effect Ingo to the degree that would mimic physical sickness. I think there's a level where it's possible, but it's extremely unlikely. (That being said, after spending *checks notes* 300 years on the ocean floor, he has a lot of fucking things wrong with him. So yes he's very 'sick' when they get him out of the ocean initially. but OUTSIDE OF THAT it's unlikely!) However- Emmet can still get sick. It's extremely, extremely unlikely, but he can get sick like anyone else.

Emmet's health isn't directly tied to Ingo's current state- It's more like, Emmet cannot die so long as Ingo is alive. Any injuries or hypothetical illnesses that Ingo has are individual to him, and same with Emmet.

I imagine that, being underwater, ingo might gain a fair bit of plant growth going on. Or perhaps serve as a home for a few Pokémon.

Yes! In fact, he becomes a bit of an ecosystem in of himself, much like a coral shelf. Lots of pokemon and plants make him their home in the time he spends underwater- He's not aware of most of the pokemon, you're right, and the plants get cleaned off- But there is one pokemon that stays with him even after he leaves the ocean. A Dhelmise that has claimed him, and is actually with him for half or more of the time that he spends underwater. There's a boundary between the different sections of him, so parts like the main decks and halls remain essentially completely dry, but his vents lead directly from the outside to his lungs (with filters) so those get, very flooded. I don't know what types of pokemon would make him a home, but Lumineon and Finneon + Chinchou and Lanturn come to mind because they glow and it would be very dark inside his hull since the light from outside wouldn't reach. Aforementioned singular Dhelmise, but said Dhelmise is extremely territorial, so I imagine his internal ecosystem is actually quite peaceful and well-protected from major predators all things considered. I can elaborate more on that whole situation another time :> He's a giant fish bowl (Edit: Pokedex says that Lumineon and Lanturn are in fierce competition for food. I find this extremely funny)

Casting eternal torment on them!!!

Noooo!! No! It's only eternal torment until I figure out how it fix it!! I'm working on it!!! They'll be fine!!! Eventually!!!! I'll figure it out!!!! I'm figuring it out!!!! /lh (Jokes aside, I do have a good plot resolution that I am currently workshopping :] I'm really happy with it so far)

I’ve recently been of the mind that love with no where to go or no outlet is something on the lines of what grief is.

Ah fuck. I think you may have diagnosed me with this one. This uhhh,,, this might be the best way I've heard to summarize just about everything I write. I think this is a good way to describe the main theme I write about. which,.......... oof. that hits, DIFFERENT, hearing it from someone else. I am being perceived (wheeze)

Love with no where to go is just like grieving. It doesn't hurt very much when you have somewhere to put it, or you don't have any love to give away. But when you have excess, and all the doors are closed? where can that love go, when you have no where to put it? it builds in your chest with a torturous pressure, building and building, with no outlet. it hurts. its heavy. but you just keep carrying it, searching desperately to find someone who will accept it.

[sorry been having a rough week and this hit me harder than expected]

Yeah I mean, you just vibe checked me with the force of an uppercut to the chin so, I don't think I'm going to be able to think the same way after this one. 🤝 We are experiencing

In all seriousness, I hope you're okay. If anything I make bothers or upsets you, do please take a step back and take care of yourself. I may write angst but I want the people I know to be happy and healthy and A-OK. Especially if you're having a hard time- Never feel obligated to respond to anything if you're not up to it 👍 I've got all the time in the world, and anything you send me will always be cherished and treasured, no matter how small it is or how long it takes. 🤍

Do you think that some of the children (or maybe thankful adults!) would carve out little pokeshi dolls of all the Pokémon Ingo & Emmet defeat as like. Trophies or something? 

🥺🥺🥺 awwhhhh that's SUCH a cute idea!!! I love that. I never thought about that before, but I definitely think that should happen. They would be so emotional about it too. Emmet is trying so hard to maintain a cool persona but then some kid runs up to him and hands him a little handmade doll and I feel like he might just burst into tears to be honest.

The reason gliscor is there is uh. Because I love gliscor.

*Nodding* A delightful edition

Would be funky to have a few random pokemon that just. Help out sometimes. Maybe the attacking ‘mon is close to a den and maternal instinct is Very Strong. 

I feel like it's definitely likely due to simply how aggressive wild pokemon are in Hisui, but at the same time most gigantamax pokemon are between 70 and 120 feet tall. Which is HUGE. I still think there would be some defensive pokemon like you're saying, but I have a feeling the large majority will be fleeing for their lives kfjsdhgsdkh

(You have reminded me of crabulon’s theme at 4:00 skndnwjs)

I have provided the link for everyone so they can see this. That's exactly correct and you understand the vibe perfectly. Also you have great taste

I am SO sorry it took me so long to answer this one! And I still have to go answer the other one too (intense nervous sweating) so that's my bad! It is harder to build the energy to type responses when school is taking most of my energy in a day. Shocker I know /j But anyways!! Nonetheless!! Thank you for the ask :D It was a pleasure read and respond! I wrote most of my responses at different times so I hope it still reads coherently enough >>;

I'm gonna go read over the other one now to start working on a response to that one :> Not sure how long it'll take me but it will happen eventually

Have a great day!! Thanks for the ask! 🌠🤍

[themintman]

Its time for me to breifly explain some of my favourite aus for you guys!

I've been putting this off for far too long omfg. theres a lot of these, so theyre going under the cut here. Also the titles will probably change in the future. I'm ass at naming things LMAO

Concrete Halls / Zombie! Nurm 🦴

Deep in the Zombie Mines, things get out of hand quickly and Nurm gets bitten. With no access to golden apples or potions of weakness in the Institute, he is cursed to become a zombie, somewhat hindering the group on their way back up to the surface. Now, after Romeo is well and truly defeated, he and Jack must go on an adventure to find a cure. Unfortunately, due to the terror caused by Romeo and the Bedrocking - and the fact that most nearby temples have been raided - these items may be harder to find then they first thought.

The current star of my blog! He even has his own fanfic now, how fabulous 🎉🎉🎉 (Concrete Halls on AO3!)

tag: Zombie! Nurm

Soul Searcher 💐

A Spiritfarer x MCSM au

When Jesse dies, she wakes up in a strange world full of spirits with Reuben. Here, she is assigned the task of the Spiritfarer by Buck, a basilisk. now, she sails across the oceans of this world, reuniting with old friends and fulfilling their final requests until they are ready to move on and join the stars in the sky.

kinda been neglecting this one.. oops! sorry gang 😔 I need to get back on this one OML. Definitely my most melancholy au

Tag: Soul Searcher au (though I also use Spiritfarer x MCSM sometimes)

Chimera Champion 🐉

In which Romeo gets a little silly with his champion. Perhaps a bit wacky. Bonkers, even.

Romeo created the Ender Dragon as a challenge to see just how worthey the old Order of the Stone really is. Unfortunately, they didn't exactly kill the dragon, and romeo never had any rules against command blocks to there was nothing he could really do to stop them.. frustrated, he vowed to not let his dragon go to waste. Then, years later, he kidnaps Jack with the intention of brainwashing him to become his new champion, when he gets an evil idea. Why stop at champion? Why not play around with other mobs? Why not play around with his dragon? and so, Chimera Jack is created: a huge, human/dragon centaur

Tag: Chimera Champion au

Space Dog 🧪

When DanTDM finds the Enchanted Flint and Steel, him and some of his YouTuber buddies decide to go through the portals, exploring the various worlds, while Trayaurus decides to stay back and mind the lab with Grim. However, Dan never returns, and the increasingly worried Trayaurus decides to follow him through the portal, getting lost and eventually finding himself in BeaconTown years later in search of his friend. But each answer he finds also comes with more questions, and its not long before he gets the feeling that hes being watched..

I havent actually posted about this one!! Or uh. I did but it was VERY brief LMAOO so here's your actual introduction to my TDM au 😝

Also its nice to finally have an au with Trayaurus. Because yk i keep designing him for my other aus even though hes not even there-

Tag: MCSM: Space Dog

Mousecraft: Teensy Mode 🐭

Exactly what it sounds like! MCSM, but theyre all rodents (and maybe some other tiny creatures)! A joint au between me and DragonBMA 😋

The Order of the Stone is a group of small, furry mammals, famous for their adventures. Most notably, defeating the Ender Dragon (Vacuum cleaner). However, this battle was a lie, and the forgotten member of the Order, Ivor, is hungry for revenge. So, he creates an illness, infecting the minds of the rodents and causing them to band together in a hive mind. Unfortunately, things get out of hand, and now its up to Jesse the rat and her pet rolly polly, Reuben, to stop the Rat Kings before all of rodent kind is infected.

Tag: Mousecraft Teensy Mode

Mermal 🐟

A more aquatic take on season two- Each of the admins represents a group of fish: Fred is squids and mollusks, Xara is dolphins and other water mammals, and Romeo is the Guardian. The admins each created theyre own groups of merfolk. These are the villagers and the people of the underneath. Nurm is a guardian who protects the Sea Temple, not letting anyone get close in case they anger the Admin. Jack, Sammy and Vos are three young, reckless adventurers who are much too curious for their own good. I'm sure you can tell where this is going-

Dont worry though gang. Jack x Nurm is still real and true. Theres only ALMOST an old man divorce 👀

Tag: Guardian! Nurm

[blue-chup]

ok so im thinking of my new obey me oc lore rn and im trying to come up w who she should be. personality wise i have an idea of how she is gonna be but i want to build up her lore first before solidifying it. so this is just gonna be yap yap yap about plans, nothing well written just spitting things out.

i think her momma is also gonna be a demon so she will be 100% demon but with some royal blood in her yk. i think that she should’ve been an accident and that the whole ideal was very hush hush. in my mind demons can come in one of two ways: by pregnancy or they just kind of form from reincarnation( they spawn idk how to describe it.). due to everything being hush hush she never got to meet her mother and doesn’t even know who or where she is. it’s not that she hasn’t looked for her, she actively does try but its always kept from her by diavolo and barbatos.lucifer and the brothers don’t even know that araceli has a mom; they are under the impression that she formed like other demons. she lowk hates diavolo and ESPECIALLY barbatos. she doesn’t like that she is a princess and has to do all the things that come with it. she just wants to live a free life and she’s trying to work to that goal in secret. she pours herself in her studies of magic and she excels because of it. she does NOT gaf about her other classes, often skipping them or avoiding the work. at one point she was bribing multiple teachers w all the money she has but eventually got caught by barbatos..(she got cooked BAD.) when she’s not studying after school she’s usually out doing lord knows what; she does everything from sports to freaking brand deals just so she doesn’t have to be hauled up in the castle. it’s not unusual for her to come home very VERRY late and get chewed out for it. she’s never home and it got to the point where she if forced to have a family dinner with diavolo at least once a week; said dinners are very awkward and she barely talks to him no matter how much he tries. she feels more at home at the house of lamentation with all the brothers. she feels like she can be herself completely unfiltered because she knows she doesn’t have to keep front around them. she is a part of the anti lucifer league just to help play pranks on lucifer. out of the three members she is the one who cooks the best plans because she recycles the ones she has tried to pull on diavolo (none of them succeed because of freaking barbatos.)

so before i even started to cook up her story i wanted to choose a name that meant something(or just a pretty name..). i think that araceli would be a good fit for her because it means “alter of heaven” or “alter of the sky”, i think it’s funny that a demon has this name lol but also i chose it because she is always trying to break her limits and reach for the sky. also i might give her a story later on where she accidentally destroys herself (probably not completely) trying to reach her goals, so kinda like icarus i suppose!

later on i want to make like an actual story for her maybe even a series but idk if ill ever have the motivation for it.. her design will come out soon trust!

[st-armand]

Pixel Play

( Reposted from @armands-sanctum ) Author’s Note: Request from @blueberry-soda57​ <3 Shout out to all my raccoons in the club, after finishing this I WILL be playing Maplestory, I kinda rushed it but everything i write can get multiple parts so :P

Content Warnings: Pre-established relationship, suggestive, being a basement dweller. Not proofread (yet ill get to it in the morning)

Word Count: 1.3K

Masterlist

Hobie doesn’t like the word ‘Loser’ he feels that insults like that are always based in ableism, and as an autistic person (He’s sensory seeking) very wary of words rooted in ableist histories.

That being said he CHORTLES when you call yourself a ‘Loser Gamer’, he definitely sees why.

Early on in your relationship before he disclosed his identity as Spider-Man, he would text you before and after patrols, like at 4 AM

“Luv you awake?”

“Wanna crash a’ your flat for a bit?”

A beat in time, a few moments, and then a response would be received on his end, sat on the roof of a random building, leaning lazily on the fire escape, mask dripping sweat down his neck.

“K”

“Doors unlocked, busy rn”

Busy..? 

When he’s seen you during the day he has to PHYSICALLY force you to attend events; shows, galleries, demonstrations and protests, and you fight him off like a feral cat being trapped for a spay and neuter.

Your preferred way to spend your day, is sleeping, to the point where you would jump up at 4 PM, haven’t eaten anything or taken your meds. Hobie would watch the hours of the day pass by waiting for you to wake up, like Beth and Mary of Nazareth waiting for the resurrection of Lazarus.

He would take the initiative to get up (Usually 12-1 he’s a late riser too, but he pales in comparison to you) before you, feed your pets and make a quick breakfast or lunch, setting them aside for when you would arise later.

You always wake up in a daze, going in and out of sleep for an hour before fully getting up, and even then you made no plans to go outside and do anything, preferring the isolated 4 walls of your space, a sanctuary in the frenzied world of Earth-138.

In the hours you sleep he admires (snoops around) your space, gingerly looking at the figurines that grace your desks and shelves, animated characters in alternative outfits, and meticulously designed platforms, or looking over your multitudes of gaming consoles.

You don’t let him use them without explicit permission, you definitely don’t want Hobie to mess with your save data, he’s a genius but he never got the chance to be acquainted with gaming in his formative years because he was too busy surviving homelessness.

Hobie’s favorite aspect of your home is your computer setup, Hobie is a genius but he’s always blown away by the determination and time you put into modifying your setup.

Hard drives, Processors, Logic Board strewn about, cables interwoven between each other sloppily, making the small space even smaller and cramped, bed planted right next to your set up so you can wake and be connected onto the Wired as easy it is to breathe. (think the computer setup Lain had towards the end of the anime)

“Ya enjoyin’ yourself in your ‘obbit hole?”

“All connected yeah?”

When he does stagger his way to your place, you’re wide awake, furiously inputting on your keyboard or controller, cursing and hissing into your headset.

Brows furrowed in concentration as you quickly input combos, blocks, grabs.

Maybe you join parties with people on MMOs, your on call with them screaming and sniggering at the actions of the pixels that represent you and your friends, trying to complete obstacles, puzzles, and defeat bosses.

The sounds of your fingers clicking and pressing reverberate the walls from the sheer force, legs lifted up into your lap, in the most uncomfortable posture possible as you ignore the aches in your muscles to get one last game in, one last match, or a few hundred more mobs.

Hobie sits down softly on the bed beside you, watching you intently as you completely disregard his presence (he learns soon that this isn’t on purpose, you're just concentrated on your daily quests and bosses)

When you finally notice there’s something in the space with you, your take a slight glance behind you and scream, eyes not adjusted to the dark room from the searing LEDs of your multiple monitors, your eyes can’t register its Hobie.

“Oy pretty ‘s me, don’t go yellin’ like that someone’s gunna think youre dead”

“Oh fuck Hobie, I thought you were a ghost or something…”

At this point he’s fucking exhausted, and he really wants to snuggle, so he whines like a child trying to get you off the game, or gets an attitude at you when you say, 

“Please Hobie, baby, one more game and I’ll be off” 

cue the sun coming up as your still playing and Hobie knocked out drooling into one of your pillows, wicks splayed out and bent around because he couldn’t be bothered to put on a headscarf or a bonnet. 

(its giving those videos where gfs/wives unplug consoles so their partner pays attention to tasks around the house, except Hobie doesn’t know which chord does what and he doesn’t want to break anything considering it means so much to you.)

Currently in your relationship, Hobie (who can be quite creepy) after patrol likes to take off his heavy docs on your fire-escape, he will watch you game from outside the window, waiting for the perfect opportunity to… SLAM on your window, sending you flying 5 inches into the air, and cowering into your bed, abandoning your game and dying in the process.

After you’ve calmed down, he’ll slink into the room laughing hysterically,

“Shoulda seen your face luv, scared shitless!”

“Hobie the next time you make me die in a game; I’m letting you bleed out on my fire escape.”

You also act as his ‘person in the chair’, keeping track of coordinates, or structural plans to buildings in the city, digging through archives as he brings webbed justice done onto the heads of villains and criminals of all sorts, frantically hacking into CCTV cameras to keep track of his fights and warn him of sneak attacks or other assailants entering the quarrel. Desk littered with snacks, crumbs, and empty soda cans like “Valley Mist”.

Hobie sometimes gets shit from acquaintances at bars or venues who tease him about your appearance.

“Hobie, my bro, they’re just so plain, they just don’t have the look”

Comments like this piss Hobie off so much, some people don’t have the energy to perform beauty, some people just don’t want to and they shouldn’t have to, no matter which category you fall in or between.

Plus regardless he thinks you look adorable, hair strewn about from waking up at 3 PM, a treasure trove of comfortable sweats, adidas track sets, slides and comfy slippers.

But when you do perform beauty, a strike of pleasure ripples down his spine, you can’t blame him, he does forget how good you look sometimes.

“All dolled up, what’s the occasion, yeah?”

“Lookin’ bare leng today”

On days he’s feeling especially needy, he wraps his arms around your torso while playing, pinching and groping at your chest, trying to annoy you enough to the point where you stop playing and give him some kind of attention.

When you don’t he’ll resort to sucking deep purple bruises into your neck and shoulders that has you whimpering and crying softly at the pain, you immediately mute yourself in the game call.

If not that, he’ll stand next to you,

“Lemme ‘ave at it luv, wanna see whats goin’ on in this thing.”

(I play MMOs, Maplestory specifically so this is geared towards that)

You don’t let Hobie play on your characters where your key bindings are specified by class or fighting type, you let him choose his class and make a fresh character, he’ll start playing, frustrated at the boring leveling in the beginning.

He quits cause it’s so time consuming, but you end up grinding his levels a tad after every time he plays so he has new quests and areas to explore.

Regardless he loves his partner no matter what eccentricities they have, he takes every part of the package and values every piece of the puzzle.

[syrupspinner]

i just completed Hypnospace Outlaw

i sincerely love how much the sci-fi genre is just explaining how much sci-fi stuff would suck if it was real

the reason you play hypnospace outlaw is the aesthetic and presentation, just so were all on the same page. the reason this game got your attention is because its a passionate parody of web 1.0, and it does an excellent job of that. i can tell this game was made with a deep nostalgia for what made the past special without being blinded from its flaws (like the viruses and general difficulty to navigate).

the only problem is that im 24

well i shouldnt say thats a problem. just because i dont have nostalgia for what theyre throwing back to doesnt mean the game doesnt stand on its own. i didnt grow up with a ps1 or n64 but i still enjoy that specific form of lowpoly modeling, for example. its just unfortunate that i cant have the same hit of nostalgia that people slightly older than me can, yknow? i wish i could enjoy this game as much as them

again, the game was still very enjoyable. the puzzles start out very grounded, introducing you the the world and how it functions very effectively, before ramping it up with more abstract mechanics and compounding techniques needed to find more results. the only problem i found myself stuck on in an unfun way was figuring out how to decrypt sandwich files. its one of those puzzles that make you feel silly for not getting it earlier, but in my defence... who the hell would program something that esoteric

as an aside, i saw people discussing what genre games like this would be. by "games like this" i mean hypnospace outlaw, outer wilds, rain world, animal well, that kinda thing. i dont think applying one genre is effective, but instead its about how they combine the genres of exploration and puzzle. instead of having all the tools to solve a puzzle when youre presented with it, you have to leave and seek out the solution elsewhere. notably, if the game isnt build to accommodate/encourage this, itd be pretty unfun. these games and their open-ended design manage to skillfully mesh both genres together: the exploration is the puzzle

so yeah, i really enjoyed the game! there arent a lot of games where its just fun to explore the world as its presented, and HO does a fantastic job of that even without considering the puzzle design. i love just reading about the characters and their lives in hypnospace. this games greatest strength is just how charming it is, theres really nothing that matches it in that regard

i also found it really inspiring. i love how much personality all the characters fit into their webpages. maybe someday ill move this blog to neocities just so i can evoke something half as impact

oh no this was all a secret advertisement for neocities wasnt it! well, it worked, im not even mad (yes i know about the page builder)

anyway! the game is worth it for the vibes alone, and the puzzles are a really solid foundation that everything is built on. totally worth buying! the only thing is if youre going for completion, please use a guide to find all the pages, some are hidden way too well. totally worth it, though. if you know what the "thanked" achievement is named after, you know it makes it worth it. also, buzz was hilarious, i love pranks on the player

now im going to spoil the ending, stop reading this is you want to not be spoiled about the ending, because im about to spoil it now. after sasuke

oh my GOD dylan merchant is such a schmuck. maybe ive just lost too much sympathy for venture capitalist techbros, but i cannot spare any positive regard for this guy. like, okay, i get hes the bad guy, but outlaw 1.0 tries sooo hard to make you feel bad for him it wraps back around to being infuriating. the thing is that i have no idea if this is intentional? like, was a guy who let a teenager go to jail and think about how his prank killed 5 innocent people plus his crush apologizing decades later (*after* being caught) with an unfinished video game supposed to be a sincere tug of the heartstrings? "sorry i killed zane before he could stop being an annoying twerp" "sorry i killed rodney, his family smelled like walmart" "sorry i killed mavis, i think that was her name. i got nothing else to say about her" "anyway thanks for playing the 'final' version of the game that killed everyone. you have successfully absolved me of my sins and sent me to heaven. remember to subscribe and hit that bell icon" DUDE how emotionally shallow and self aggrandizing do you have to be you are a child murderer my guy

[trash-can-sam]

Ive finally made a sandrock OC (KIND OF) I havent just stolen the design of and put somewhere else. and I really want to talk about her. So here she is.

I wanted to give some lore to this character Qi mentions 3 times

AND now shes in my brain, so Ill say some things about her:

She wanted to be a biologist but ended up going into the same type of research job Qi's in because it paid more

Qi and Bugs went to college together and ended up working pretty closely on a few projects, maybe even had internships/jobs at the same place for a while before Qi moved to Sandrock.

She got the nickname Bugs because she would always pick up random bugs in elementry school and the name just kind of stuck. She prefers it to her actual name (which I have not thought of yet because names are hard)

Qi says that they are rivals, but I dont think thats actually true given how much they talk. I think its a lot more like a one sided rivalry where Qi has decided shes his rival and she just kinda plays along because its fun, but theyre actually just friends (not that Qi would admit that, but Bugs refers to and thinks of him as a friend)

Although she still works in Vega 5, she doesnt particularly love it there. To her, she just has nowhere else to go and the pay and lifestyle of Vega 5 is too much to resist, especially for someone wihtout that many goals.

Qi managed to get her into Gungham and so they have amazing conversations that only come from ADHD-Autism friendships where both people have the same hyperfixation. (I speak from experience when I say its the best thing)

She visits sandrock sometimes because she doesnt know where else to go when she has stacked up vacation days.

She gets very annoyed whenever people dont know what they're talking about, hence her friendship with Qi not really being an issue, because both of them are like this and they both thrive off of each others intellectual energy.

ALSO. Some things about her personal relationships to people in Sandrock:

Her and Grace are dating, mostly because I want Grace to have a girlfriend so bad (I am so starved for sapphic relationships you dont understand). They have been rotating in my brain SO MUCH, so I'll talk about them. This is largely because it would be SO FUNNY.

Their relationship started because Bugs would regularly visit Sandrock, so she would see Grace a lot. Since the Blue Moon Saloon isnt really that busy, they would talk to eachother quite a bit. After a few trips of both of them talking, Bugs decides it would be funny to mess with Qi whenever her and Qi eat dinner later that night, and she thinks the funniest way to do that is by Grace hitting on her at this dinner. Make it real awkward for Qi. I plan on making a comic for this actually SO we will see if it actually gets done. If it does it will be so funny you dont even know (it definetly will not be thats the brainrot talking.)

After that, they meet up outside the Blue Moon Saloon to toast to their success of making Qi extremely confused, they walk around sandrock and sit at the oasis a while. Nothing happens that night, but they both come away from it as deeper friends and a little crush. Not in like, a way that is that noticable, or a way either of them intend on pursuing, but a way that definelty exists. Neither of them are stupid, and both of them tend to do a good amount of introspection, so they both pick up on this and it changes the dynamic a little, but in a good way.

As time goes on, Bugs makes more and more visits to Sandrock, to see Qi of course, but the reason increasingly becomes to see Grace as well. They both flirt with eachother a bit here and there, until Grace asks her out on a date and it ends up becoming a thing. Still thinking of details there BUT! They will be thought of, dont worry.

NOW, For what this relationship means for them both and their similarities and a couple differences:

For both of them, this is the first romantic relationship they have had that really feels like the other person can keep up with them. Both of them are super smart, and they both sort of have unfollowed dreams.

They are also both workaholics discontent with the circumstances they're in, and I feel like they bond a lot over that.

BOTH OF THEM ARE VERY SILLY. Grace, especially if youre dating her, uses a lot of very silly language. Like whenever youre dating, her greeting is "Hey good lookin, what ya got cookin?" She has many many silly lines and I would reccomend reading her dialogue page if you havent already read it all the way through like 3 times. Bottom line is, shes goofy. And Bugs is also goofy. Not in exactly the same way, but like she calls Qi a chatty cathy, thats goofy. AND SOMETHING GRACE WOULD DO IF HER AND QI WERE FRIENDS IN THAT WAY. They would be a very annoying couple and I find that extremely funny especially in the context of them spending a good amount of time with Qi, who probably doesnt pick up on it half the time.

Both of them are the type to distract from their inner turmoil with humor. If you have gone on a playdate with grace or read her entire dialogue page, you would know she does this a non-zero amount of times, quite commonly in fact. Bugs does the same type of thing, but she does tend to talk a lot less than Grace.

Bugs is an introvert unlike Grace, but she can read people surprisingly well. Not anywhere near as well as Grace, of course, but still pretty well.

Both have jobs that end up with them being relatively isolated from personal connections. For Bugs, shes working in a team with a lot of people she doesnt really like, for Grace, she has to keep quiet about her job for the most part. This leads to them having an interesting dynamic in which both of them dont really know how to navigate personal, unguarded relationships super well. Bugs hasnt had any close friends in a long time, and Grace cant turn off her agent brain, oftentimes getting a lot more from Bugs than Bugs would want her to. I have a real thing for relationships where one person is quite guarded and the other person can read them super well, and Bugs and Grace fit this dynamic very well in both directions. Bugs tends to read Grace more than she expects too, not by a crazy amount or anything, but she does catch Grace offguard occasionally, just because Grace tends to drop it more often without realizing it around Bugs.

They have the same sort of (aspiring) archeolegist and researcher dynamic Grace and Qi have (That I touched on here) but romantic so. I think thats fun personally, because its a cool sort of combining of forces. It also hits a bit different from Grace's and Qi's simply because Bugs is a lot more like Grace personality wise.

A couple other relationships in sandrock:

Her and Zeke get along. She visits Zeke sometimes, because of her interest in biology. And I just think they would get along. Not just because she likes plants but I also think she would appricate how Zeke is very knowlegable on what he does as well as desert farming in general.

She doesnt like the church very much (for the innate ideological differences that come with being a researcher), but she still has a laugh with Dan-Bi occasionally.

I like the idea of her getting along with Fang a bit. I think she has at least looked at some of what she uses to make medicine and is like "oh wow thats genius!"

I think she would have a very fun time messing with Yan (because Yan is literally so funny idc what anyone else says I love him so much) I dont think she would like him, but I think she would have fun talking to him every now and then just to prod him (which Yan ofc doesnt notice) for goofs.

I love the idea of her getting along with Unsuur. I cannot explain why. But I think they would be drinking buddies.

Some design notes and how she dresses when shes not in a lab coat:

I had to give her a long lab coat because thats a demographic severely underepresented in sandrock

Her shirt color is pretty similar to Qi's undershirt, it just felt like it fit. Its also half untucked like Qi's, but Bugs does it because she thinks it looks good while Qi does it because hes tired. I dont really know how to draw that sort of distinction, but just know that its there.

Her belt buckle is gold while Qis is silver

Her hairtie is dark blue, Qis tie is light blue. Theres not a whole lot to that I just thought it was neat personally.

Her fashion sense tends to be pretty casual, usually hoodies and shorts while shes in her apartment and pretty normal streetwear outside of it. I dont think that she wears as many belts as the average Sandrock or Portia citizen. Since we havent been to Vega 5, I cant say for sure what the normal fashion sense is like, but based off of Qi and Petra, who are more like the average Vega 5er, and what is known about the culture, I assume regular dress tends to be more busniess casual-formal. I dont count Merlin, who was so eccentric she got kicked out of Vega 5, Or Mint, who seems overly casual, in this assesment. However, Bugs dresses in whatever is slightly more casual than the normal Vega 5 streetwear. Not as casual as Mint, but definetly not formal. She's kind of done with Vega 5's general busniess culture, not done enough to leave, but done enough that she doesnt really care what she wears off the clock if that makes sense.

That is all for my unhinged ramblings. I have a lot of ideas about her and maybe I will actually do something with those, so I thought I should introduce her.

[sentmail]

POST FF7 / AC ERA TATTOOS — will work out the details later, but the basis for them are that i've solidified is: kunsel is SC3. canon can give us another person as SC3 and ill just go LALALA.

being an S type as opposed to a G type he ends up being more stable, like zack and cloud are, and due to his procedure being done while jenova was dormant it gave him time to acclimate to it... which meant by the time The Reunion started, it was less a prime directive for him and more of a subconscious call... and repelling. it affected him more than the standard SOLDIER but in ways he couldn't comprehend.

for some irrational reason, kunsel did NOT want to see cloud - he figured it was because of the loss of zack and the anger of seeing that cloud survived and was playing pretend SOLDIER... but in truth? kunsel would just ruin sephiroth's manipulative games by not having the same qualms as everyone else around being "gentle" about cloud's nebulous identity: cloud never made SOLDIER, that's zack's sword and he wants it.

his procedure was done during his promotion to first class, a proposition without a possibility of denial - and kunsel was feeling down enough to just risk the chance of finding something else new. he was awake for it, as was roche... and still hojo did nothing but mock and berate him, no answers to be found to his questions - you're much like your father was... chismoso.

it was a stupid, self destructive and pointless risk... and all he got out of it was mind fog, odd phantom pains and a SC3 tattoo... right on the arm, a highly visible marker of a machination he had yet to uncover. another question without immediate answer... and he doesn't get one, not for a while. not until it's too late.

he gets it covered up the moment things finally calm down and he has a chance to reflect on what he's been through, sorting through document after document from what remained of the science department and hojo's note's - he'd heard of jenova cells once, out of context, and at the time it made sense, some proprietary formula to create super soldiers... but in context it was so, so much worse. he'd been implanted with lab grown samples based on sephiroth's mutagenic dna. they labeled him a clone, but it was clear from hojo's hypothesis that he was meant to be a host instead.

a failed one, thankfully... but to think he'd been this close to losing it all, his sense of self, as he'd witnessed so many other SOLDIERs go through without even going through the procedure? they lowered the admissible mako tolerance levels to grow numbers... and the weakest succumbed to madness... he wonders if hojo hoped for this outcome.

it made kunsel feel... uneasy. this is what they did to zack and cloud? is this why cloud is the way he is? being the first, did zack suffer side effects from his procedure? and here he was, willingly, even if not informed, subjecting himself to the same experiment.

and for what? even with getting so close to hojo... he never quite got the guts to act out against him. he needed what the man knew... until the man was no more, and all that was left were the ramblings of a mad scientist scattered across drives and paper files already ransacked.

he was sick of looking at it, a reminder of his failures, and he'd always wanted to try out a proper tattoo anyway - he had to find a good cover up artist, but eventually he found one, and a design: phoenix, his favorite summon.

it was meant to just be a cover up... and then the sketch evolved into his entire bicep, and... it looked pretty damn good, so it was hard not to add another idea he'd been romancing: roses spread covering his forearm. he went in for an arm tattoo, ended up leaving with a full sleeve after a couple sessions.

you can still see the vague frame and outline of SC3 against his skin, the ink used by shinra particularly aggressive and permanent and just maybe toxic to the normal populace, but the artist in charge did a good job in working within the constraints provided by the odd shapes.

[kurtmustdie]

lmao i fucking forgot to share this

not only do i have unorganized miguel heacanons but i have unorganized HOBIE ones too

i have unorganized random headcanons for all the characters i brainrot over these two are no different!!

identity headcanons first hehe:

hes trans. he probably diyed his hrt and also has top surgery somehow hes magic. (i also think he'd have tattoos over his scars, either super cool bat/devil wings or an intricate spider design on their whole abdomen cant decide ill draw it later 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉)

he, however, doesnt really have any specific sexuality or gender labels they feel like they fit into. theyre attacted to all genders of varying degrees but doesnt really put a label on it. he just exists.

also doesnt mind what pronouns you use for her. any/all. basically.

also also would encourage people to use the weirdest and coolest neopronouns they can think of for zem like REALLY go out there WHATEVER YOU CAN THINK OF.

ADHD haver?? MAYBE???

to the rest acaksdlfj;akdjf:

theyre very crafty and dabble in basically every form of art. music, graffiti, painting, sculpting (mainly with trash or scraps or random discarded items he finds, more on that later on), sewing, whatever. if he can learn to do it she will.

he is super touchy and likes being close to people, but also understand boundaries.

very emotionally intelligent, i feel like this is canon anyway but ill just put it out there, ze can basically sense if someone is upset.

LOVES ABSOLUTELY LIVES FOR talking to new people, will go out of their way to introduce himself to basically everyone, especially new spider-people she meets.

he is a bit of a joker, ofc, but he wont try and push boundaries that he clearly sees or hears from the person theyre talking to. hi people who hc him as being an unself aware dickhead shut up you are very wrong did you even watch the movie.

this one is probably my favorite but he will pick up random things he sees around him and keep them for art projects. cool rock on the sidewalk? its a rock, hes gonna take it. funny lookin bug? might pick it up for a little to look at it and put it back in a safer spot. bottle cap? "mine now". like i said before he likes using litter to make art.

he will stop mid-mission if he sees something cool that he can take home like "oh [riff] cool leaf" and put it in his pocket.

i was referencing this post btw i love this headcanon, absolutely genius, i will steal it ty /lhj

this stealing of random objects from all around the multiverse has caused many lectures for miguel (they arent listening)

they have some kind of control over what texture/color they turn into if xey really think about it but most of the time he just kind of.. lets it do its thing. (sort of like a RainWing?)

shockingly good at vague yet oddly specific threats that are unrealistic but if you really think about it it's like "oh yeah he could totally do that..." but she wouldn't. yknow what im saying right???

while he does live in the 70s where technology was uh... not as popular nor as advanced as they are now, he's aware of modern tech through Gwen, Miles, Pav, DEFINITELY through Margo and Miguel, but she doesn't really use it often. doesnt really see the point.

along with that he also is aware of modern music as well, he has mixed feelings (gwen is probably the biggest influence though she is such a Pinkshift/Paramore/My Chem girlie it hurts to think about)

100% collects record of artists, especially smaller artists, that they like.

if you get them going about music he will talk for HOURS. HOURS until you tell him to shut up, even though fae totally wont listen and will keep going anyway. (just like me teehee projecting is fun <3 )

while hobie does use his guitar as a weapon for some reason he is quite protective of it. they wont try and stop you from touching it or playing it, but he will watch you like a hawk. half out of "oo look another person is interested in guitar" and the other half of "👁️👁️ dont break it i can only do that /j" (a lot of musicians are like that, i would know, im one of them. ha)

loves stray animals. cats, dogs, birds, anything. he will stop to pet them if they let him.

he also will talk to cats like any other person. especially spider cat. spider cat could make a cat noise and he'd act like he understood it. "yeah totally man, i get it. meow."

he can sing like... averagely? he has a good sense of pitch and timing, as most musicians do, but she isnt professionally trained or really does it too often

they will scream though

also really likes messing with makeup and bodypaint. he will spend hours on it if he can.

FUCK I AM SO HAPPY I DIDNT POST THIS IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE I KEEP REMEMBERING THINGS ACK HERES ONE LAST ONE POST THIS AFTER ASH I SWEAR (edit from two weeks later: i forgor): he definitely isnt a morning person. he loves to sleep in. definitely values rest, like a lot. miguel will call him at like 7 am and hobie will flip him off and say 5 more minutes when they really mean 2 more hours.

do i have any more?? hmmm maybe if i remember but this is what i have so far. mostly just silly lil headcanons that arent entirely plot relevant as most of my headcanons are.

[kindred-spirit-93]

Sup it's me Astron

I wanted to talk a wee little bit about Iris

She had a sister named Arke but her sister Arke switched sides during the Titanomachy, joining the Titans, while Iris remained loyal to Zeus and the Olympians. As punishment, Zeus clipped Arke's wings and sent her to Tartarus.

After the war, Iris became the go-to messenger for the gods, gradually becoming exclusive to Hera in later Greek and Latin poetry. Some saw her as the rainbow itself, while others, like Servius, believed the rainbow was just the road she used to commute and which appears whenever the goddess wants it, and vanishes when it is no longer needed

But surprisingly Iris isn't as sweet as you'd expect. In Euripides' plays, she's bloodthirsty and cruel, enthusiastically carrying out Hera's orders like a supervillains sidekick. She even assisted Ares in ensuring no one helped pregnant Leto. According to Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos she’s an utter simp for Hera and even sleeps under her throne to do her job quicker.

In my mind she enjoys taking candy from babies, stealing and eating literal garbage, and in general being a pest to society all under the guise of being a sweet rainbow goddess. She's very rat/bird like. I like to think she has her own arc during the story where she learns more about herself and hopefully she won't continue to wait for someone...

RIP Iris, you wouldve loved energy drinks and Good Luck Babe

GREMLIN IRIS LMAOOOOOOO!! the mental image i never knew i needed fr XD OMFG I HAVE A DRAWING IN MIND >:D (tonight hehe) SIMP GREMLIN MURDERY IRIS RAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!

i need more hera & iris shenanigans in my life.

made her look like a cloud lol, maybe when she feels stuff/ is on shift her hair is kinda iridescent?

idk i think it fits her more than a rainbow for her godly design

heras veil and iris' headband are the same colour bc theyre gal pals

iris just killed someone

ill get around to attempting her mortal design, so ideas welcome!

iris be like:

[almightykale]

OK SO, half life 1 zombie

In my recent playthrough of half life 1 I realized how much the original headcrab zombie design bangs. lets go over this So the scientist first of all The design of the half life 1 scientist with their mostly white outfits (hate the fact that the hd pack gives them beige pants)

This will become relevant later on there's not much to note here i just wanna show him, basically, the white outfit that's the relevant part. Now, man of the hour, the zombie

So there's a few elements of the design I wanna talk about

Lets start with the posture and shape changes, The scientist is visibly warped into a broader more imposing shape with long outstretched fingers, this is a very basic thing but where I think this really comes into play is with the animations. The zombie moves rigidly like a badly controlled marionette, it stands in an upright pose like its being hung from the headcrab. During the walk cycle the torso sways around independent of the legs and the arms hang to the side of the body. To me this really sells the idea of the headcrab awkwardly puppeteering the body and using very basic motions to move around.

Next on the agenda, the white outfit. The pale color of the scientist uniform is nearly entirely turned red by the bleeding caused by the headcrab. This creates almost a smooth gradient where the open chest wound merges with the clothing and abstracts the human form. Another thing worth noting that combines the two points gone over so far, is the fact that the back of the lab coat worn by the scientist has been torn due to the enlarging of the torso

I just think its neat. You can also see the spine of the scientist visibly protruding from the zombies back.

Now The Mouth? Maw? Stomach wound thing that eats. This section will feature me bullshitting a bit so be warned I fill in for the lower graphical quality quite a bit here.

The wound has a very vague shape and more mouth like appearance, at least in comparison to later headcrab zombie designs, the wound appears less like a hole in the torso and more like a developed mouth. In later depictions the hole features broken ribs but in the original design the bony protrusions have an appearance more resembling solid, developed teeth like molars. To me this provides a far more disturbing appearance with the headcrab causing more intense changes to the human body. In my eyes this also just looks better creating a more solid, tougher look for the model.

Basic detail that everyone and their mother know by this point, the skull being visible through the headcrab. Its just damn cool I don't have much to say about it that hasn't already been said by others.

Basically, the half life 1 zombie design is awesome this was kind of a nothing rant and I'd maybe like to have some better structure to this maybe ill make a follow up post where I compare it to the hd pack and hl2 designs but not today.