#aka analytical guys that are just a little bit off

[leafie-draws]

Palm tree for the ask 💚💚

palm tree: do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

not a villain per-se but I really like Will Graham from Hannibal a lot >.>; I also really like Knives from Trigun and David from Prometheus

[licensedproldier]

highlights from the dropout anthony padilla/courtney miller interview! (aka things i liked or didnt know)

ally IMMEDIATELY kicking us off by introducing themselves as vic michaelis and dabbing so softly

ally ALSO IMMEDIATELY kicking us off by calmly answering the 'tell us about yourself' question with "ive been testing positive for covid for about 3 weeks now" "is that true?" "of COURSE NOT OH MY GOD??"

ally calls the covid vaccine the "Fauci-ouchie"

its been 1 minute into the video

VIC LYING ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE COLOR FOR NO REASON

its been TWO minutes into the video

ALLY HIJACKING HER ATTEMPT TO ASK AGAIN BY MOVING ONTO THE TRANSITION THEMSELF

ok we're locking in locking in

everyone needs to hear the ally wrongpile beardsley story at least once <3

vic was 100% in on sam's vision for dropout and ally COULD not have been more full of doubt.

all of them saying a contemplative 'ooooo' when asked if they miss sketches and then a beat afterwards vic immediately bursting out with 'sketch is dead i hate sketch. anyway-"

IFY MOO DENG MENTION

ify talking about how close and interconnected the cast is and was off screen since way back

"noo c'mon c'mon those are those pale clammy little hands i love so much 🥺" "theyre DRY AS A BONE"

vic's "I just dont ever think that anyone is thinking about me. like i am thinking about myself 100% more than anyone else is thinking about me"

vic thought it was crazy when they got asked to host VIP because she felt too new for it despite having a lot of experience

ally thinks its funny to make each other do the thing theyre known for but also they agree brennan is just that analytical about every topic and birds are not special KHADGKASJDF

vic and ify enthusiastically agreeing with the above LMAO

vic plays a character of herself while ify performs very close to his actual self

'is the broke comedian bit real' all of them immediately exaggeratedly laughing and looking away and going NOOO WE'RE FINEEE WE'RE FINEEE

ally's analogy of watering a plant that has been dead for a long time and how they might be doing good but the water has a lot of past cracks to fill in which i dont know enough about plants to tell if this is an accurate analogy but its an effective one

money-wise, the tide has turned for the better for them in the last few years 🥺

dropout did profit-share last year! vic cried 🥺

ify "i was there when youtube was created by a couple of guys" GOOGLE HOW OLD IS YOUTUBE. ONLY 19??????

ally needing clarification on if he was actually THERE when it was created or not

ify talking about how more people in the industry are recognizing him FROM dropout things

THE EDITORS ACTUALLY USING THE CLIP OF ALLY'S DAB AS A TRANSITION

vic "10 years ago if you told me i could actually make money from doing improv and my reaction was anything other than 'holy shit thats incredible' i would like murder myself. i would throw myself into a trash can"

immediate no's on "do you feel like you have to share your personal lives on camera" because they just like oversharing

"oh you grew up mormon too?" "no but i just LOVE 💞🥰 the mormons"

"studio CE shoutout. dont shout them out actually. well, you can if you want to."

some great takes on parasocial relationships

ify thinks his audience are the kinky poly folks. can we get a shout from the kinky poly folks!

ify pointing right at the camera and saying "IF you are at a sex party and i introduce myself as IFY do NOT give me your fake stage name. you are saying my REAL GOVERNMENT name here"

ally bringing up chappell roan in the parasocial relationships discussion yoooo

ify doing a voice imitation of his uncle suggesting he do jokes for a relative's graduation KHAGKAJKAKJDFSD

the horror on all their faces when courtney says they're lucky that fans dont ask them to do something funny in public when they meet them

grilled cheese scale: ify's are solid. ally is a good cook but they're allergic to bread, vic inconclusive

vic loves the joke of being called vehicular and would change their government name to it even LMAO

izzy roland shoutout!!!!!

ify's sex dungeon would also be where he paints warhammer minis.

"what is your favorite thing that he did" "...anthony?" "yeah" "th. this? this channel? this right here?"

SZA talked about ify on VIP in a variety article???

SZA INTENTIONALLY DRESSED UP LIKE IFY WAS ON VIP?????

this is like the first time i saw mxmtoon commented on zac's instagram except magnified by a hundred

"Grimes if you're watching this, slide into the DMs"

ally fanning themselves going "thats actually too hot i simply need to go" hearing that lana del rey graduated studying philosophy with an emphasis in metaphysics

everyone at this table ships ally beardsley and lana del rey

nice to know ify and em are still together!

"do you consider yourself an angel of death? i consider myself an angel of death for network television" vic talking about how theyve been on SO many second-to-last episodes of shows that were canceled 😭

Super fun and insightful!!!! we dont get to see these three vibe together much on screen 🥺 video under cut!

[purplink8]

Ok so

Light after killing his second victim: Manga: “That wasn’t worth the death penalty, what he did” “But what about the second guy..?” “I was actually doing a service killing him..” “This is what I’ve been thinking all along.” “No wait. IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE CLEANED UP. THIS WORLD IS A ROTTEN MESS.”

See, Light had been thinking about inflicting the death penalty upon criminals for a longgg time.. This is why killing came so easy to him, when he found godlike powers to kill criminals at a distance with…

There isn’t much “coping”. Light was literally mentally prepared ahead of time. In the manga.

Light all along thought that the world needed to be “cleaned up”, and that he sees people the world would be better without.

His only concern in the beginning was, could he emotionally actually carry out, what he was fantasising about the same day. ————————— Light (thought): “Well, it’s only natural. They’re human lives. Of course it isn’t easy.”

Light (thought): “Can I take it? …Maybe not.”

Light(thought): “But come on, I can’t quit. So I lose my peace of mind. So I sacrifice people’s lives…”

Light (thought): “The world needs to be cleaned up. Somebody has to do this!!” —————- So you have an analytic, idealistic, statistical, greater good focused teenager, and are you also confused by his, (what you imply to be “sudden”) shift to magically kill criminals from a distance?  Didn’t you get any clues from his eagerness to “test” the notebook on “people who deserve it”. He’s the judge? Yea, Light believes it

I think you're confusing the timeline a little bit and also buying Light's change in thinking (*because* of the first 2 kills) at its face value. I'll explain my reasoning once more by following manga!Light's thought process from before finding the Death Note, after killing 1 person , after killing a grand total of 2 people which prove that it isn't a coincidence and so on. (also linking this awesome post again).

We can't just ignore pre-Kira!Light's thoughts. Let's go~

Light, before finding the notebook, thinks 'This world is a rotten mess...' Observe closely that his thoughts do NOT go to the direction of 'the rotten people aka criminals are better off dead' OR that 'they ought to die' or whatever. He aspires to become the director of the NPA so that he can bring about a societal change.

Still, he knows that he's not that powerful to make a lasting positive change in this world. He has, afterall, seen his father doing his job for long hours with little result. In other words, Light thinks it all is futile as he's more or less powerless to change the state of the world in a way that matters in the long run. In other words, he is deeply unhappy with the current state of the world.

I'm not knowledgeable about Japan's legal system so take what I say with a grain of salt:

I'm not saying that Light is against the death penalty, just that he isn't that concerned with taking the lives of the criminals (since there's no way he, without the killer notebook, an NPA director in the future (no Kira AU), can enforce the death penalty by himself) before he found the Death Note.

He picks up the notebook -> tries it without thinking it'd actually work

He internally chides himself 'Geez, I'm getting too serious about this...' when he's trying out the Note. Light's an overthinker, that is why he went so far in thinking if he were to hypothetically kill a person- it should be a criminal (that's the result you get from an idealistic, sheltered, a bit naive teenager who hasn't quite matured past his black & white thinking, and whose role model is Soichiro who is strictly against evil).

It's not him trying to Actually kill Otoharada. I would like you to remember that Light is very skilled at rationalizing and manipulating his own thoughts. Which is why we get this, right after Light has gotten over the shock of killing Otoharada:

He's started thinking that it must be a coincidence and is preparing himself to test the Note once again to confirm it.

But just as a safety measure, y'know if the 2nd test does turn out to be awry, he has already begun thinking that maybe he was onto something when he killed Otoharada. Afterall, look at the people around you and you start to wonder that 'all you see are people the world would be better off without.'

This is an extension of the world being rotten thinking. He hasn't yet reached the thinking that 'the rotten people should die.' and that's because Light adapts his thinking according to the situation at hand for maintaining his belief that he's Righteous at all costs.

And who knows? Maybe this time, nobody will die which would mean it's a coincidence and Light isn't a murderer at all so why start thinking that they should die. He's in hypothetical realm and thus he uses the word 'would' NOT 'should'.

The thoughts of Light that you mention come later when he's already fucked up (i.e. killed 2 people and confirmed his worst fears that it wasn't a coincidence).

Light is desperate here. He cannot be evil like those murderers he killed. Remember, Light Yagami cannot make mistakes (in his eyes, at least). Which is why he attempts convincing himself that it wasn't a mistake. It was all deliberate actually.

So! The actual timeline of his thoughts goes as follows:-

'This world is a rotten mess.' (prior to finding the Note) -> 'Start looking around you...and all you see are people the world would be better off without.' (after his 1st kill(? or coincidence? from Light's POV)) -> 'This world is a rotten mess. It really needs to be cleaned up.' (after the terrible realization that he's accidentally murdered 2 people- one of which who didn't deserve the death penalty, strictly speaking.)

Notice how he goes from 'the world being rotten as a whole' (opinion) to 'the world being better off without certain people' (thinking hypothetically) to 'certain people should die' (utmost conviction).

See, Light had been thinking about inflicting the death penalty upon criminals for a longgg time.. This is why killing came so easy to him, when he found godlike powers to kill criminals at a distance with… There isn’t much “coping”. Light was literally mentally prepared ahead of time. In the manga. Light all along thought that the world needed to be “cleaned up”, and that he sees people the world would be better without.

I agree with you that Light is certainly not anti-death penalty haha

But no killing doesn't come as naturally as you might think to Light- he loses sleep due to nightmares, loses weight, the guilt being heavy on him. Also to this, I call the defendant himself to the stand (jk jk)

Yotsuba!Light in the privacy of his own mind, thinks: 'What if, hypothetically, I had the power to kill using only a person's face and name...would I use the power to punish criminals? Certainly the world would be better without certain people. But I don't think I would go so far as to become a murderer myself to improve the world.'

If killing was that natural to Light, you'd think he'd admit it to himself (at least) the fact, no?

Going back to the previous point, Light did not think the world needed to be “cleaned up” in the beginning of the story. He just thinks the world is rotten. He makes revision/alterations in his thought process to reach the final state of thinking that certain people ought to die & he needs to clean up the world. These modifications in his thought process are done to hold the belief that he's righteous, whatever it takes.

So you have an analytic, idealistic, statistical, greater good focused teenager, and are you also confused by his, (what you imply to be “sudden”) shift to magically kill criminals from a distance?  Didn’t you get any clues from his eagerness to “test” the notebook on “people who deserve it”. He’s the judge? Yea, Light believes it

It was sudden imo. Imagine all the things you believed in, including that you're a morally good person, are suddenly uprooted from your life just because you tried out a 'prank' and it comes horribly true. He wasn't eager to 'test' the notebook. He was bored + curious and did not think that this harmless prank would lead to anything worthwhile.

I admit that Light initially choosing someone who's okay to kill (namely, Otoharada) is sketchy as hell. But I also believe that he'd have grown past this mentality, that criminals are all evil and deserve to die, had he not found the notebook. He becomes the judge coz otherwise he'd be forced to admit that he made a terrible mistake.

That's all there it is to it. Light did NOT believe the Note would work. And he was wrong -> so he tries to make it better by thinking 'you know what? I was right! This is what I've been thinking all along.' like this is inconsistent with what Light initially thought. Just because Light's convinced himself of this lie, doesn't mean we have to too.

[miekasa]

future nostalgia (eren jaeger)

↯ pairing: eren jaeger x (fem) reader, armin is absolutely putting in the work and deserves wingman of the year, mikasa is your well-reasoned, protective friend how you like them apples

↯ genres and warnings: college au, fluff, everybody is a little bit of an idiot, armin and eren supremacy, i will find a way to make levi captain of something in any and every au

↯ word count: 1.5k

↯ summary: armin arlert is the greatest wingman a boy could ask for; unfortunately he’s also oblivious as hell and painfully single himself, but you know what, he’s doing his best (aka you and eren putting your friends through the mental wingman/wingwoman olympics).

↯ notes: i’m running out of gifs to use i’m going to have to learn how to use photoshop to make headers rip in peace to me, also this an old piece, reworked for eren again, sometimes i cheat off of myself it’s okay  

“Just come by the rink during practice,” Armin pleas, “I promise, he can put his hot-headedness to good use!”

“I don’t doubt that,” you chuckle, your voice booming through the speaker of his phone, “But I’m pretty sure the rink is closed to non-athletes or team members, Armin.”

“But I can get you access! Manager’s privileges!” Armin boasts.

“While I appreciate the reminder about how single you think I am—and, I do, truly, Armin, from the bottom of my heart, thank you—you don’t have to try and set me up with one of your hockey jockeys.”

“They’re not jockeys!” Armin protests.

“Reiner Braun is most definitely a jockey.”

Armin slumps down a bit. Okay, most of them are good people. Most of the time. Look, Reiner is the exception, not the norm, but even he could be analytical and composed when he needed to be. 

“I’m going to tell him you said that,” Armin threatens.

“Fine, then I’ll tell him that you almost leaked his nudes to the entire girls volleyball team freshman year.”

“You play dirty,” Armin pouts, face growing red at the memory. (In his defense, it was freshman year, pretty much the first time in his life he’d had alcohol unsupervised, and in his drunken haze he thought he might have been doing Reiner a favor; he was pining over Christa pretty hard). “Which is exactly why you’ll love Eren!”

“Eren, still?” you question, trying to hide the amusement in your tone. “What’s the infatuation with me and Eren? You know, if I’m being honest, Jean is more my type, or even the captain—what’s his name again?”

“You mean Levi?” Armin questions, incredulous, “He’s the exact opposite of your type, don’t lie to me!”

“He’s still hot.”

“Is he really?” Mikasa’s voice questions doubtfully; and you can practically feel her rolling her eyes from across the receiver, “You can do better than him, (Y/N).”

“Wait, am I on speaker?” you ask.

“Maybe, doesn’t matter,” Armin hums, brushing away the topic, “Like I was saying, Eren is great, and you’re great, so you’d be great together! Plus, he’s kind of loaded, and very generous. Not that you’re shallow or anything, but I’m just saying, he’d take you on nice dates.”

“You’re kind of loaded and you don’t take me on nice dates.”

“Because we’re not dating.”

“You could take me on a friend date,” you muse, “Don’t be stingy, Armin.”

“She has a point,” Mikasa quips, “You always go to the fancy museums and don’t invite us.”

“Because the last time I did, you fell asleep! In the middle of the coral reef exhibit!” Armin whines.

“Because it was boring as fuck,” Mikasa deadpans, prompting you to chuckle.

“I have to agree. I’m afraid if you and Eren have the same taste in dates, it will never work out.”

“We don’t!” Armin insists, “Look, Eren is exactly your type, (Y/N), I’m telling you! He’s cute, athletic, but not bulky, and little clumsy, but it can be charming! Plus he loves puppies, cares about the environment, believes the healthcare system is corrupt, and hates most branches of law enforcement! What more could you want!”

“Armin,” you pause, holding back your laughter, “Maybe you should set yourself up with Eren if you think he’s that great.”

Armin chokes on the other end of the line, and your chuckles stumble out; you can imagine the blonde growing red and increasingly embarrassed with every passing second.

Mikasa hums. “Armin and Eren do have good chemistry—”

“Hello?! I don’t want to date Eren!”

“—but, I’ll vouch for Eren on this, too,” Mikasa continues, “I think you two would be good together.”

You bite the inside of your cheek. You’d always known Mikasa was in support of setting you up with Eren too—albeit much more subtle than her blonde counterpart—but she’d never said it explicitly; showing her approval in contended nods and hums whenever Armin would scheme to get you and Eren together. It was somewhat reassuring to hear.

You’re about to continue teasing Armin about the subject, when you hear your apartment door unlock. You shift your phone to your other hand, as you hear the sound of keys clanging onto the hook near the door.

“Look, guys, I gotta go,” you tell him, “This is been fun, but maybe focus on working out your feelings before setting me up, yeah? I wouldn’t want to get in the way of such a beautiful friends to lovers story.”

“Will you—I want you to date Eren, not date him myself! There—be quiet, Mikasa—there are no feelings to work out, I don’t even like g—”

“Sounds, good Armin,” you chuckle, words hurried as you hear footsteps approaching you, “Try and get Levi’s number for me, would you? Rumor has it he’s loaded, too—old money rich and everything.”

“But Eren is perfect—” is all you hear before you end the call, a pair of arms wrapping around your waist from behind, just as your thumb presses against your screen.

Ruffled, brown hair falls onto your shoulders as a chin is propped up against your neck; a flurry feather light kisses greeting you soon after. You hum, reaching your hand back to curl into the brown tresses, a final, exaggerated kiss pressed into the juncture of your neck and shoulder.

“Why are you trying to get Captain’s number,” Eren questions, voice muffled as he nuzzles his nose behind your ear, “No offense, but I think you’d have to line up behind his hundred and one fangirls first, babe.”

You chuckle lightly, neck growing warm as Eren continues to bury himself into your skin. His is cold from the winter air, but you don’t know why he insists on inflicting it onto you, when you know he’ll be back to furnace temperatures within the next ten minutes.

“I’m just messing with Armin,” you answer, resting on of your hands over Eren’s at your waist and giving it a squeeze, “He’s still trying to set us up.”

Eren chuckles, undoing his hold on you to spin you around to face him, cold hands cupping either side of your face. You scrunch your nose at the frigid feeling, but Eren finds it cute, leaning forward to press a kiss to the tip of your nose as an apology.

“Well, Armin is nothing if not loyal,” Eren muses.

“He’s too good for you,” you jest, poking at Eren’s forehead playfully, “He’s putting in all this work to be a good wingman, and you’re slacking off.”

“Technically, he’s not doing any work, we’re already together.”

“Yeah, but he doesn’t know that.”

“And who’s fault is that?” Eren questions, using his hands to squish your cheeks together, “I wanted to tell him two months ago.”

“First of all, this secret thing was your idea to begin with,” you point out, “Which—oh, by the way, I told you Mikasa approves of you; she said we’d be cute together on the phone.”

“That doesn’t mean she still won’t castrate me if we ever break up,” Eren says, a shudder running down his spine at the thought of it.

It’s not that he wanted to keep your relationship a complete secret from all of your friends forever, but he was hesitant at first, unsure of how your two friend groups would merge and take the news. And, he knew how much Mikasa cared about you, and truthfully, the dark haired girl scared him a little.

But it was bordering on half a year now, and he was certain that somebody would catch on soon enough. That, or Eren would accidentally let it slip to the entire hockey team one of these days—he almost has on a handful of occasions, but you don’t need to know about all of that.

And while a part of him did like the privacy that came along with dating in secrecy, Eren was finding it increasingly difficult to pretend to not be in love with you whenever you two went out with your friends; and to not brag that he had a super hot, super supportive girlfriend to wear his jersey during games, and Jean didn’t.

“You have plans to break up with me, Jaeger?” you question, but there’s a playful lilt in your voice.

It makes Eren grin, using his grip on your face to pull you closer, words ghosting over your lips before he pulls you in for a kiss, “Not in a million years.”

[thedandelion-writer]

congrats on 600! may i request a matchup with a male from genshin? i’m an INTP, i’m an analytical and blunt person who likes to tell things as they are. i’m generally seen as intelligent and knowledgeable when it comes to going on tangents on subjects of interest but i am a burnt out gifted kid :,D. i’m a peaceful and trustworthy person who takes relationships slow and at my own pace, and am able to offer words of affirmation when needed, i’m generally seen as everyone’s budget therapist ahaha. i may have some trust issues but am overall loyal and devoted to those i love. i could be brutally honest at times although i don’t mean any harm, i want the best for everyone around me. my favorite date places are where i can be alone and comfortable with my s/o like stargazing, playing video games together, looking at the sunset, etc. i’d like to see my possible other matchups too, thank you so much! ^-^

A/N: Thank you! And yes yes of course you can! This was one of the ones I had lots of fun writing and honestly, I had half a mind to turn it into a fic but if I did, I wouldn't have a good idea for this matchup so here we are. Ending was a bit abrupt because I promised myself I wouldn't make these things so freakishly long (*ahem* Childe matchup).

But without further ado, you're going with...

Zhongli!

My reasons!

Alrighty, first off, I chose him for you because I do think that you have similar attributes to him. Zhongli is also a blunt person, and I hope that the straightforwardness in the relationship can lead to good communication! As you know, he will never miss out on a chance to share some knowledge with you, so you guys can discuss whatever it is that tickles your fancy as I think he won't mind being the listener once in a while either. I don't think he'd really rush into anything, so if you want to take things slowly he'll match your pace. He'd appreciate your peaceful, trustworthy, loyal nature and he would return you with the same qualities. I also don't think he'd pay your occassional brutal honesty any mind. I think he would like one of those conversations where you talk about things and just say what you think. My other choice for you would have been Albedo and even though they'd both work just fine for you, I did prefer the broke archon in this case. So I hope you did too :)

The First Date:

You and him enter and you almost forgot that this was a museum, not a library

The air smelled musty, 'If history had a smell, this what it'd be like' crossed your mind

"Which area would you like to go first?" Zhongli's eyes wander across the ceiling which were painted with intricate tales of Ancient Liyue, in its age of gods and monsters

You hummed thoughtfully before answering,"let's go from left to right!"

He nodded and off you went

The usually crowded museum was quiet today, without its usual packs of children on school trips, seniors and adults alike. Today, the atmosphere was hushed, the air conditioning blasting cold, dry air.

You were grateful for that since you'd be able to spend some time with him in peace. And it felt like you rented the place just for yourselves

Arriving at a row of glass cases, your eyes scanned the tabloid next to it. It read a brief passage about the adeptus that once governed and protected Liyue Harbor.

"Who are the yakshas?" You asked, turning to Zhongli who was staring intently at a display of broken masks and a jade spear that did not look like it aged at all.

"Coincidentally, I've read about them in a book recently. They were summoned by the God of Liyue himself, Rex Lapis, to purge evil through slaughter. Alas, they were all driven to madness by the karmic debt they accumulated."

"All except for one, who lasted longer than the others. Alatus, who was given the name Xiao. He is...an interesting one if I do say so myself." Zhongli pressed a palm onto the glass right above the spear.

"They were such pitiful souls," a weight settled into your heart as you thought about it.

"Legend has it that Alatus still roams to this day," you recited off the tabloid. "Well that's a cool myth. If it were true he'd stick out like a sore thumb!"

Zhongli smiled at your little comment, and you both move past statues and paintings of more adeptus to stop at the exhibit of Rex Lapis, aka Morax.

"To think that beings like these used to exist," your voice was tainted with wonder.

Pulling the urge to run your fingers down the thousands of scales that run across the statue of Morax back, you saw Zhongli reading off the tabloid.

"He was the one who made mora, right?" Your sights set on a display that said "world's first mora".

"Yes, that's right." Zhongli moved a little closer to you to also take a look at the shing catalyst.

"Wow, he must've been really rich then? Even richer than Lady Ningguang of the Jade Chamber even."

Zhongli chuckled,"you are probably right."

The rest of the time, you both made rounds throughout the building, never missing one area, making sure to read every tabloid, to see all the displays.

Sometimes, when your shoulders brush every time you or him leaned in to look at the same thing, you suddenly could no longer focus or remember what was it you were looking at.

Which was fine because Zhongli did not look affected at all. He was way more into it than you thought, as if looking through an old album. It was a strange feeling, but you brushed it off as him enjoying his interests.

He always liked this kind of stuff anyway

When you finally got your fill of history, the sun was already setting, swathing the cooling sky in a bruise purple and and cheetos dust orange

"Are you hungry? Let's get something to eat."

Zhongli was happy to go along with your suggestion and you both decided on the restaurant that was right next to the museum.

It claimed to serve traditonal Liyuean cuisine, using recipes from the olden days.

There was a stall where you ordered with a kitchen behind it and the tables and chairs were splayed out with the sunset as the backdrop. The strings of light flickered to life as the evening settled in.

"Y/N, I recommend a pot of slow cooked bamboo shoot soup," Zhongli's voice was closer to your ear than your ear than expected, causing you to jump a bit.

"Huh? Oh yes yes--you know best when it comes to these things, order anything you want! Surprise me," you tried your best to cover the blush that was slowly, inevitaby spreading across your cheeks.

"Oh? Alright then, I won't disappoint," he said, gingerly plucking the menu from your hands.

And he was right. Everything that came on the table turned out to be so delicious! It made you regret how fast society changed. Your thoughts suddenly wander to how your life would've been if you were born in the time that the museum preserved.

You wonder if you'd know Zhongli then too?

But you were snapped out of your daydream when he, quite frankly and without a hint of panic in his voice, told you that he left his wallet in the car.

You couldn't help but laugh and said,"if you were Morax, could I just ask you to make money and it'd appear? No wallet needed, ever!"

Zhongli shook his head, laughing with you. You confirmed that yes, his laugh alone is in enough to send your stomach twisting in knots.

[breadoffoxy]

A Game of Cat and Mouse

Summary: It always seems like you are chasing the infamous Kim Taehyung. After working with the conman turned  informant, it makes you wonder who is the cat and mouse in this little game of yours. 

Written for the BTS Ghosite Marathon. Prompt: Trope: Enemies to Lovers.

Drabble: 6/30

Pairing: n. detective Reader x conman Taehyung

Genre: Drama

Warnings: language, suggestive content, guns, use of handcuffs to apprehend a criminal

Word Count: 1,500

A/N: Inspired by Catch Me if You Can and White Collar. If you can recognize my other reference I threw in here I would be so thrilled.

You are going to murder him.

Sadly, that was against the law, but that doesn’t stop the frustration building up in you. Your hands tighten around the steering wheel. Where is he?

The man in question is under your supervision. Some people refer to him as your ‘partner’, but honestly, he was an asset, nothing more. At least, that is what you like to tell yourself about the smooth-talking thief.

It took you so long to catch Kim Taehyung, aka V, aka one of the best damn con-artists in the whole world. He was slippery, hiding in different personas like a glove, running around the world and stealing millions as he went. Years and years of following his every move, you were always just a tiny bit too slow, until one day you are finally able to corner him.

You put so much time and effort into catching Taehyung, that you were almost at a loss afterwards. Dear say, you almost missed the cat and mouse chase you played with him. Though, that thought didn’t last long when you walked into work and saw the thief sitting at your desk, examining a paper weight and looking extremely bored. That is until he looked up and saw you. Taehyung grinned like the cat that ate the canary.

You’ve been on multiple ‘assignments’ together, him aiding you tracking and catching other notorious thieves. It shortens his sentence and puts his skills to use in a beneficial way that helps others and not just himself. Another reason you think is that he enjoys playing with you. Much more than naught, he’s gotten you into trouble, convincing you to do things that may edge the line of the law a little too closely.

Like right now for instance. Here you are sitting in your car, staring at the mansion a little way down the street. You were supposed to be staking out the art forger’s house, trying to gather intel on his connections. Everyone knew he was in deep with the black market of the art world, but you just needed tangible proof.

After hours of nothing, Taehyung had enough, and convinced you he needed to get a closer look. In and out, no one would notice. As soon as he stepped out of your car, you immediately regretted your decision. Every minute that passed you grew all the more anxious.

What if something happened to him?

“Shit.” You rip your keys out from the ignition, kick open the door, and slam it close.

You are going to murder him.

 A song drifts into Taehyung’s mind as he walks casually through the lavish mansion. The back door was all too easy to reach and pick after sneaking through the elaborate garden maze behind the suspect’s mansion. After disabling the security system, there was literally nothing stopping Kim Taehyung.

What a shame this beautiful house belongs to such a fool.

Russo had skill, he’d give him that, but left too much of a trail. Anyone could make the connections. It took his detective barely anytime once on the case to figure it out.

Taehyung does a double take and stops in his tracks. It is not at the use of his for the detective in his train of thought just now as he passed that milestone long ago. At first, he hated the detective, with their analytical eyes, paragon attitude, and that messy notebook no one can decipher. Taehyung pocketed it one day while you were busy and returned it to you none the wiser. It only left him with a headache. You were so messy, yet you were the one that caught him. Every time he finally settles down, makes a new name for himself, a reputation, even dare he say friends, you would show up and rip it all away.

You were the only constant in his life.

Eventually he came to look forward to you catching up to him, just so he could talk to someone, to be real. No one really knew him except you. If anyone had to catch him, he was glad it was you. Although you would never admit it, Taehyung knew you believed in him. Otherwise, he would have been back in prison faster than he could blink after all the stunts you pulled together. Sneaking into his mansion was nothing compared to some of the other things he’s done under your watch.

His feet carry him closer to the Gustave Klimt piece hanging on the wall. Was it really? Upon closer inspection, Taehyung immediately spots it’s a fake. From a distance it is extremely convincing.  

“Lovely work really, but the direction of the brush strokes gives it away.”

The click of a gun sounds behind Taehyung right after he gives his little tidbit and he can’t help but sigh. Taehyung really hates violence, never choosing to resort to it except for self-defense. Even then, he rather talk his way out of a situation or run. He was very good at both those things. Slowly, he raises his arms, but doesn’t take his eyes off the painting in front of him.  

“How did you get in past my security?” A posh accented voice inquires. Definitely Russo’s voice.

“It was pretty easy actually.”

Taehyung feels cold press of a gun barrel against the back of his head. Obviously, that wasn’t the answer Russo was looking for.

“Such a shame really, with a little polish you could have gone far,” Taehyung’s voice stays even despite his fear. He was never one to give his hand away. “Do you want to know to know what you did wrong?”

“You seem like the type of person who would tell me even if I don’t want to know. Let me guess, it was that bastard from the Gandor family?”

Taehyung smirks, Russo was making his job way too easy. “No, but that’s good to know you have connections with them.”

“Why you son of a-“

The click of another gun signals your arrival. “Police, put your gun down.”

“Your late, Detective.”

It doesn’t take but a moment for the gun to be removed from Taehyung’s head. He eyes the fake Klimt painting, completely ignoring the scene behind him. There’s some grunting as you handcuff Russo.

“Detective, do you think I can take this as a souvenir?”

“No.”

“Oh, come on.” The con-man turns around with a grin. “Think of this as a reward for the paydirt of information I got you.”

“I overheard the Gandor bit.” You eye the beautiful painting in front of you with disdain. “And that won’t fit in my car.”

“I’m sure I can have something arranged. Especially, if you want these.” Taehyung lifts up his shirt slightly, making you focus intently on the fidgeting Russo, and procures some documents that were tucked inside of his waist band.

The grin on Taehyung’s face grows when he waves the papers at you teasingly. Russo’s complexion looks almost sickly as he recognizes the papers. You, on the other hand, look like you can’t decide if you want to glare at him or smile at his job well done.

“We’ll talk about this later. Let me call this in and get dispatch to pick this guy up.”

It takes some time for the police to arrive. You keep an eye on the detained Russo while Taehyung walks the halls and looks at the other pieces of art with interest. Once they do arrive you hand off the paperwork as evidence, Russo gets taken away, and you and Taehyung take the time to further investigate the convict’s office.

“That was stupid, you know that right?” You don’t look up at Taehyung as you search through the papers in a drawer.

“I knew you’d come in Detective. I know you care for me.”

“I’m responsible for you.”

It’s quiet for a bit as you continue to shuffle through some papers. “Thank you, for pulling through.”

“I know you got a lot riding on me. Plus, I rather not go back to prison.” Taehyung shuffles closer to you, “but what if I didn’t give you everything.”

“What?” You look up quickly at that, but freeze instantly as you almost brush Taehyung’s jaw with your nose. Your breath hitches and you want to slap yourself.

“I could be hiding more evidence on my person.” Taehyung licks his lips, watching as your eyes focus on them. He walks closer to you, and you step back. He quite likes this shift in control. “Why don’t you do a full body search?”

Taehyung steps forward again and again until your back hits the wall. Maybe this whole time you were wrong. Instead of being the cat, you were actually the mouse. Taehyung definitely looked like he was playing with his food before going in for the kill. That thought makes you frown. His breath fans your face as he leans closer, tracing the line of your jaw with his elegant fingers.

“Who knows what you can find, Detective.”

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@sapony01​ commented on one of my Sides Swap posts: Can you explain their function and personality a bit better/explore them? Some are kinda obvious but some kinda confuse me

And, but of course! I’m totally open to it! (I’m mostly making another post for it because otherwise it’ll get absurdly long)

To summarize, the main idea is that they keep their personality and secondary traits they represent (Like Ego, Emotionality, ect), while further representing the Main Trait (like Anxiety, Creativity, ect)

The rest under the cut:

Anxiety

Roman: His key representation of Anxiety would befall closer to overemphasizing bravery and ignoring problems, and of course, insecurities. Thus a focus on Dangers you can Fight, and avoiding things you can’t. A emphasis on the Knight theme as a representation of bravery. He’d use ego and theatricality as a cover- a ‘be weird before people can accuse you of being weird because then it’s on purpose’ type logic.

Patton: The type of Anxiety where you emotionally over extending yourself because you’re scared of social-emotional repercussions. Caring so much that there’s no time and energy to care for yourself. Also a good representation of the Dad-Friend override for Anxiety.

Logan: A representation of over-analyzing the world like an outsider, that emotional distance that, while you’re curious of all the things around you, you can’t help but focus on the bad. Avoidance becomes a key factor and everything is categorized as bad or good off of exaggerated ‘proof’.

Janus: Very self protective to the point that things outside the Comfort Zone are almost always negative and overwhelming. Sarcasm, brittleness, and lying as a way to avoid things outside the Comfort Zone.

Remus: Overthinking creating an Anxious reaction. Basically seeing things in the shadows and over-analyzing interactions. Essentially worries cropping up out of the idea of various terrible things you can think of possibly coming at you from the smallest of hints to it. Also Knight theme because why not.

Creativity 

Logan: A more organized and analytic approach to creative works. Prone to being a literary critic. Draws from media to explain a point. As creativity would likely be the type of writer that hides details and metaphors in everything, focus on foreshadowing and the such.

Janus: Never lets anything be direct, people should be able to make their own conclusions about the meaning of the text. Probably thinks method acting is fun. The kind of actor/writer that easily shrugs on different types of characterizations that it makes other people dizzy seeing him switch between them.

Virgil: Your inner Emo Art Phase personified (everyone has at least one somewhere in there). Would prefer to be either a lesser known creator, or not let Thomas use his real name (thus Ghostwriter), because being Known is Awkward and his work can get too real, being known as a real person could detract from the art. Focus on art as an outlet for expressing negative feelings and stress relief.

Patton: Take your craft-happy relative who always hand-makes gifts and you’ve got Creativity Patton. Just wants to have fun and share the fun. Draws from positive emotional experiences for creativity because he wants to give everyone who sees said art a hug through said art. (Yes, his design is vaugely based off of Disney’s Pinocchio Geppetto aka Pinocchio’s dad.)

Remus: Take Remus as he is, and then take the ‘intrusiveness’ out of him. He basically has all the same horrifying ideas, but he doesn’t use them to make Thomas upset or anything, he’s just making stories.

Logic

Patton: Sorta a relaxed logic, understands not everything can be solved with a clean logical solution and that emotions hold a important space in people’s actions. Is that little logical voice when you’re super mad going ‘you’re mad because this, this, and this, and this is probably an overreaction to what you’re expressing your anger to, but it’s still valid.’ Prone to emotional fallacies though.

Virgil: You know any super cool teacher/professor who teaches you what the book says and then closes the book and says ‘ok now guess what, they’re also wrong, and I’m probably wrong too’?? Virgil as logic. (also why I kinda gave him the ‘tired + university hoodie’ style) Emphasizes learning from various sources and never trusting any of them 100%. Doesn’t trust his own information either, and it makes him stressed.... but like, he’s always stressed anyway so it’s chill. 

Roman: Bounces from topic to topic to learn. Very curious and easily inspired- also easily distracted. The definition of what a liberal arts education should be doing- aka, connecting seemingly unrelated topics. An Encyclopedia of very specific information. But, once he’s got a set of information it’s hard to let go of it, which makes it hard to adjust to being told he’s wrong.

Janus: Emphasis on how information is always being adjusted, and people’s biases are always present in studies and interpretation. Focuses on debunking things. Also kinda makes it hard to 100% be sure of any information presented.

Remus: Enjoys abusing the ‘technicalities’ in things. A little hard to follow in terms of train of thought. Disturbing Facts are still facts.

Morality

Virgil: Emphasis on sympathy and ‘do what you’d hope people would do for you’ moral arguments. Focus on social structure for the ground rules for moral behavior. That guy who’s constantly nice because he wished someone was nice to him, ya know? Hates the idea of being a bad person so much that it causes a lot of guilt and mistrust of the self.

Logan: Thinks of moral behavior as an equation of sorts. People do good things and that causes good things and that allows the social structure to work as it should, so do good things. Draws on philosophy and other social sciences to argue his points. Easy to readjust his thinking with proper reasoning.

Roman: Just wants people to be happy! And to be good! Emphasis on the reactions of others and how that effects your social/emotional well-being. Do good because it feels good kinda guy (he wants to be somebody’s Hero, ya know how it be).

Janus: Understands that morality is such a grey place that most anything can be seen as bad if you argue it enough. Places value on the self as someone deserving of feeling good as well, and bases moral values on what you as an individual wants to do. Also still kinda morally grey in general and probably shouldn’t always be listened to.

Remus: I Follow no Rules but My Own. Full rejection of social pressures. What precisely that means for his resulting moral standing is up to debate.

Deceit

Logan: Woorsst lair because he’ll twist truth and facts into it and it’s hard to pick out what’s the lie. Very blunt about his role as deception and its benefits and drawbacks. Very good about remembering which lies were told when and to who. Not the kind to lie more than seen necessary.

Roman: Focus on lying as acting and getting to where you need to go in life. ‘Fake it til you make it’ is his motto and it also includes mental states. Makes it hard to be honest about feelings. Very much a ‘lying to yourself’ aspect.

Virgil: Lying to avoid perceived negative repercussions. Lying still bothers him- as lying can also cause negative reactions. Focus on lying in reaction to events, less so on lying to the self. Not every lie is especially necessary though, knee-jerk reactions and fear make it very easy to lie. Lies of omission being the most utilized.

Remus: The opposite to Roman’s ‘lying to yourself’. Lying to others just to see their reactions. Uses being ‘blatantly honest’ about taboo subjects to seem honest about other things.

Patton: Lying to spare people’s feelings and being perceived well. Focus on lying or omitting the truth to seem like everything’s awesome.

Intrusive Thots

Patton: Makes emotional reactions overwhelmingly hard to gauge and control, results in terrifying thoughts and feelings with little control or filter. Gets stuck on ideas because of how hard he’s trying to push it away (yea know, like the white bear experiment).

Virgil: Thinks in problem solving, but the problems are of course, the thoughts of his own creation. Incessant about ‘solving’ the perceived problem.... not much else changes.

Logan: The Mad Scientist aesthetic is fun, what can I say? Takes facts and focuses on the scary parts, and then brings them back up on the slightest hint of relevance, and sometimes just Because. Some of it is curiosity taken into a frightening territory and gets overwhelming.

Janus: Emphasis on what happens if terrible things happened. Also likes using the ‘you’re gonna go to hell anyway just dive in with me’ argument. Occasionally pops up in a way that sounds almost nice, then turns horrifying very quickly.

Roman: Take Roman, make his ideas more Remus. He’s already Loud and Proud, just make him scarier, and a little more incessant and probably a little more arrogant for good measure.

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Captain America: The First Avenger pt. 1

First off, spoilers if you’ve never seen the movies and you want to. And, english IS NOT my first language, so excuse me if I make mistakes.

I guess I should start by saying that this is my favorite movie of the trilogy. Steve might not be my favorite character, but this is the perfect origin story for the character he was supposed to be before the Russo brothers destroyed his character arc. 

Before I go head first into the movie, I should talk a little bit with what I already know and remember of both Steve and the movie.

It angers me that people made Steve to be some type of saint when he’s always been quite the selfish guy. And I don't mean that in the “I’m the only one that matters and everything I want I should have” type of way, I mean it mostly, centering on this movie, with how everything he wishes he could have he does illegal things to get it. Looking at you, Steve lying on his application forms several times. And the problem is, he gets what he lied for. I will not take it away from him, he is extremely persevering, but I don’t think getting a reward after doing illegal things to get it, is the best thing that could happen to him, because after that he believes that he can do anything without repercussion. That’s not how the real world works for most of us. Now, onto the movie.

I love the beginning scene. I don’t really know why, I just happen to love it. I mean the scene where they find the plane. It's eerie, I think that’s why I love it so much. I enjoy this scene so much because of this phrase: “This one’s waited long enough.” When they find the shield, I like to believe it was a light of hope for humanity. I’m talking about that universe. It’s sad to know that Howard was already dead when they found the one thing he spent his entire life searching for, but I like to believe that, at least to the people who knew he was alive (aka SHIELD) finding Captain America’s shield was, hopeful, for a lack of better words.

I really like the scene in Norway, where we first see the villain of the story, Redskull. I think he is perhaps one of my favorite villains in the MCU, because he has ambitions, and he’s not a fucking idiot (looking at you, Thanos). Johann Schmidt was a well written character, in my opinion, and to learn his fate for such ambition, I think it was both a good ending and a good punishment. This scene shows how intelligent he is, and not only that, how much he knows about the universe, which, admittedly isn’t much as it could have been in the present, but it was so much knowledge to have in the 40s. I wonder though, how did he find out about the Tesseract, and how did the Tesseract end up on Earth. Isn’t it supposed to be something of incredible power? He was observant and analytical, and no one can take that away from him. Sometimes I wonder what would have happen of he was a Nazi double agent, or if he worked for the Allies, because he was such an intelligent person. 

One thing I NEED to mention before anything else is that I loath HYDRA’s symbol. That’s not a fucking hydra you dweebs, that’s an octopus with two extremities. Who exactly was the dumbass who designed the logo? I just wanna talk.

Meeting smol Steve is fucking hilarious to me, because he has such a thick(?) voice, and you have this tiny thing that, with just one look, makes you wonder if he can actually walk more than just 10 meters. And then they go and tell you every single way he can die, and, damn, I’m surprised he lived that long before getting the serum. He could have died in 12 different ways (I count them) and still wanted to enlist. Gotta give it to Tiny Steve, he was one persisting motherfucker, but God, I hate it sometimes. 

I get that Steve wished to serve just like his father did, but didn’t he understand that trying to get on the Army was just pure selfishness? I’m talking about how, had he’d been accepted, he could have gotten an asthma attack in the middle of the battle, putting everyone else in his battalion (I have no idea if that’s what they’re called, please correct me if I’m wrong). He wanted to be part of the battle, to be able to help, but fighting wasn’t everything. I really think it’s incredibly selfish to do something you know will put others in danger. He’s one brave motherfucker, and I have to give him that, but putting others in dangers crosses the line between brave and stupid. His “I can do this all day” used to be so endearing to me, if I’m being honest. I thought it was brave that he would fight for what he believed in, blame the Russos for my hate for it. 

James Buchanan Barnes was a hot piece of shit. Look at him in his military suit, gorgeous. I love the Jersey slander. Why do people hate Jersey? That’s a legit question, I’d love an answer. I think Steve, as much as he loved Bucky, was at least a bit envious of him. Steve wanted to be in the Army, on the 107th, on the front lines, fighting for the innocents, yet he couldn’t because he was born a weakling boy. Yet here you have his best friend, James Barnes, a tall strong man, who clearly got accepted in the Army, who was stationed on the 107th, and was being sent to England. Bucky was everything Steve wasn’t at the moment, and I can’t help but think Steve was jealous of his best friend, no matter how much he loved him. 

Howard Stark is a bitch and y’all can’t change my mind. He was a genius in his time, that much is obvious, and the flying car is extremely cool, even if it didn’t work, but he, unlike Tony, loved the spotlight, he loved to be seen and noticed. And yeah, he came from a poor family, and he became a self made millionaire, but his entire life he was what Tony used to be. I’m glad Tony changed, even if it was because he almost died. I guess I cannot blame him, because there’s a part of me that gets that need for attention and for the spotlight when I do something that might change my life. 

I pity Tiny Steve. He wanted to be so much more than he was, and he knew that it would probably not happen because of his medical conditions. I, once again, get why he was so stubborn with getting into the army. When you want something so hard and realize that you will definitely not get it because of the conditions you were born into, it becomes an obsession and there is a deep desire of doing what you can’t. I guess we’re the same that way. 

I know he says that his wish of being part of the army isn’t about him, because “there are men laying their lives down”, but it is about him. His entire personality up to this point in the movie is “I cannot be what I wish to be, so I’ll do anything, and I mean anything, in my hands to get it.” Steve is not a bad man, he just wishes he was so much more than he is, and I guess that’s exactly why Erskine chose him. A young naïve man, who would do anything to get what he wants? It was way too easy, and if I had been looking for the same thing Erskien was looking for, I would’ve definitely gone for Steve. But Bucky knew. He knew that Steve was so manipulable, that he would do anything to get what he wanted, even stuff that wasn’t good for him. I think that’s where the “Don't do anything stupid until I get back” phrase comes from.

Erskine knew how easy it would be to manipulate Steve. He knew exactly what words to choose, how to act like a “nice man” to get him to open up. I don’t doubt that Erskine was a good man, but this was war, and we just tend to forget that at war, everything is legal, even, apparently, pardoning 5 illegal enlistment forms because the man who did them was the perfect rat lab for an experiment that by all means shouldn’t have gone according to plan. I believe that is the only reason Steve didn’t end up in jail. 

Just a comment, I like the change in audio when Schmidt took the Tesseract out of its box. I feel like it’s the perfect way to show you that this thing is really something from legends, not just a mere object created by mortals. 

I wonder how similar Zola’s and Erskine’s investigations are? Do they say it in the movie later on? I guess I’ll find out. 

Unlike every single scientist in SHIELD, Zola was a complete genius. I guess that’s why he could infiltrate HYDRA into SHIELD for years before Steve realized. If you remember Avengers, no one was able to both understand and stabilize the Tesseract, meanwhile Zola wasn’t just able to stabilize it, he was able to use it to power every single one of his weapons. It wasn’t really a surprise when the SSR recruited him.

Peggy Carter is a motherfucking queen, and whoever says anything slightly different can come fight me behind a Denny’s. She is one of my fictional role models because she just won’t take shit from men, especially assholes like Hodge. She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’ll punch you in the face. I thank God for the creation of Peggy Carter and Hayley Atwell, everybody please say thank you. Awoman. But no, seriously, Peggy Carter isn’t only a badass, she fought for her place in the Army, she knows she deserves to be there, and she won’t take shit from others because that is her rightful place. We stan.

Just stating something. Phillips reaction to Steve is fucking hilarious. He was expecting the “best man” and he got a child who is clearly 4’11. 

One thing I will never take away from Steven Grant Rogers is how persisting he is. It’s admirable how he doesn’t let anything get to him. Not the other idiots bullying him, not Phillips clearly not believing in him, not his boss (how is that guy called? Like, what’s his title?). He keeps on fighting, because he knows he can do it. I like that of him. He is also extremely intelligent. Not Howard Stark or Arnim Zola intelligent, but he looks for a creative way out of problems. I love that way of thinking. The whole flag scene is perhaps one of my favorites in the MCU, and definitely my favorite in the movie.  And I love how proud Peggy is of him. 

Can we please talk about how quick Peggy was to go to the fake grenade? Like, of course Steve was gonna go for it, he made it very clear in the end of this movie that he is willing to lay down his life to save others, so I wouldn’t have expected anything less than throwing himself at the grenade. But we tend to overlook how Peggy was just as willing to do so. I honestly had forgotten how much I admired Tiny Steve. Like, yeah, his need to go to war was kind of selfish, but he still was ready to just die to save others, and not everyone is. I love the Steve from this movie. I honestly think this was the exact moment Peggy Carter understood the value of Steve Rogers. Like, of course she knew he was intelligent and persistent and persevering, but I think it’s this exact moment when he sees him as more than a soldier. 

Erskine chose the perfect person for the experiment. I’m not talking about the manipulative bit from before. I seriously mean it. The serum was supposed to enhance everything, and he chose a rather selfless, amiable man, who would not hesitate to use his newfound strength to save others from death and destruction. Steve was the perfect person, no doubt. 

I wonder what Steve felt in Avengers when he was fighting gods. I wonder if he remembered Erskine talking about how Schmidt thought all these myths were real.

“Not a perfect soldier but a good man”, said by Erskine to Steve, reminds me deeply of “Do not waste your life”, which is what Yinsen said to Tony. In the end, Steve went back to being a good man. (I’m not even gonna touch the whole time travel thing).

Schmidt was supposed to be the head of the research “branch” of the Nazis. Then how did he become the head of a whole organization. We know, or at least this is what I was told in world history some years ago, that Hitler was great giving speeches and convincing people, which is how he won so much power to begin with. So, does that mean that Schmidt is way better at that than Hitler? Or did he kill enough people to make others join HYDRA, and when they saw all the power they could have they stayed there and gathered more people for the group (is that a correct word to use?)

Steven Grant Rogers has no fucking idea of how to talk to women. I’m honestly not surprised, the only woman he interacted with before Peggy was the girl Bucky set him up with at the beginning, but bitch, ya kidding me? Really gonna tell Peggy you’ve no idea why she joined the army because “she’s beautiful”? Poor choice of words. At least Peggy didn’t get completely mad. 

The code to get in is stupid as fuck. I’m sorry, I had to say it. Sounds like they watched a movie and that was in it and they were like “you know what would be a great code for a secret lab? Talking about the weather and saying you always carry an umbrella.” Pure genius, who’s idea was it? They need a raise. Morons. 

I like how everyone is surprised with Steve when he gets in. And of course, the senator saying “somebody get that kid a sandwich” is a whole mood. 

This experiment should not have work. I have no idea how long it took Erskine to perfect it, but by all means this looks impossible. Then again, in the future Steve will deal with gods, but still, his chances of survival were really slim to none. And, we saw it with Banner, this should not have gone as good as it did. But it did. I really wonder why. 

So, the serum is supposed to enhance everything, right? It enhanced his height, his weight, his muscles. But what exactly happened to his diseases? Shouldn’t they have been enhanced too? Or was there something on the serum that was created precisely to erase every sort of disease or create an immunity to each one of them? There is no physical way someone as weak and sick as Steve could have survived that. 

Hot reveal, hot reveal, hot reveal!

Erskine’s death scene is a big parallel to Yinsen’s death scene. I will not take criticism. Let’s be real for a moment. Tony and Steve have a lot of similar traits, they just let them drive them in different ways. This scene specifically is one of the ways they’re the same. The pure anger Steve feels in this moment is what drives him to follow the other man, because Erskine died in his arms. Same goes to Tony, but I’ll get into that when I get to Iron Man (at this pace I’m never gonna make it). But yeah, Steve was driven to fight even harder because of the death of a friend. I guess this is what makes him break the rules and go for Bucky later on, because he is not willing to lose another friend. 

In other news, I cannot believe Peggy Carter is the only person in the army to have a nice shot. Like, what the fuck? But also, we stan a queen.

Note to self, I hate HYDRA, but I love the small one-person submarine the spy uses. It’s cool. 

I still hate whoever designed the HYDRA logo. Who was it? I just wanna talk about your stupidity. It makes me irrationally angry. 

Going back to Schmidt. Erskine mentioned that him and Hitler were friends, but Hitler was the face of the Nazis, so Schmidt, full of envy, jealousy and ambition, had to become The Red Skull. He wanted everything, and he betrayed his friend to do so. Still better reasons than Thanos. 

I never really did like Phillips. He was an ass. He wasn’t mean or condescending to Peggy, which is a lot because, after all, Peggy is still a woman in the 40s, but he always treated Steve like he wasn’t a valuable asset, and that is not good. I get it, he wasn’t his first option for the experiment, but he didn’t have to be such an ass. 

Something completely out of topic. Why is it written Colonel but pronounced “kernel”. America, explain. 

I find it hilarious that Big Steve was so desperate to do something with his life, especially now that he had the physical strength to do so, that, in that desperation, he accepted something he didn’t even want. This is what I mean when I say Steve is manipulable. His desire to be someone in life gets him to extremes such as becoming the government’s monkey. 

Another question. Was Steve ever really made a Captain? Like, I don’t even know if he completed bootcamp, let alone become a private. So how, pray tell, did they make him a Captain when he didn’t have a training for it? Or was the title of Captain just for his shows? Please, if someone has answers, I would love to hear them. 

Steve is the most awkward human being in the 40s. Also, love the song, whoever wrote it, I salute you. Honestly I feel a little bad for him. He was doing something he didn’t like, and while it was for a good reason (bonds, for those who’re wondering), it’s never nice when people make you do stuff you’re not comfortable with. I love the dancers’ suits, they’re beautiful and the girls all look gorgeous. But Steve, oh dear, he looks hilarious. 

He was doing something good, perhaps not what he expected to do, but he was making the Americans livelier, and children looked up to him. I don’t know you, but if that wasn’t good I really don’t know what is. Also, can we notice how, the longer he did it, the more elaborated his show became? I have no idea how long he did this, but clearly it was at least a year if he got to have confetti and bikes and all the paraphernalia.

Who’s idea was to send him to perform in front of soldiers? Like, really, who went “you know exactly what will make soldiers happier? A dancing man with a pretty title”. No one can be that stupid, yet people always surprise me. 

Note to self, buy red boots like Steve, cause they’re not only emblematic but extremely cool. I need them.

Going back to the movie. I love Steve’s drawing, because it’s the perfect representation of what he is at the moment, a dancing monkey. Peggy Carter is more than just a physically strong woman. She’s intelligent, capable, courageous, and not only that, she is a damn great friend. She knows exactly the words Steve needs to hear, and I believe she knew they’d have more impact if they came from the one person who didn’t judge him in the past. 

For the longest time, it was always Steve and Bucky. Their friendship went on to the 2020s, and his face when he learned that most of the 107th, Bucky’s platoon (is that the word? Am I using it right?) had been kidnapped or killed, well, I would have done something illegal too if I’d just found out that my best friend was kidnapped or killed. I get his pain. 

I had not forgotten about fondue, but the scene is so freaking ridiculous I love it. And yes, that’s all I’m gonna be talking about the plane scene, because the rest is just me wondering how they didn’t get shot down the moment they got into enemy territory. 

Steve Rogers, if you see this from the underworld, were you really made a Captain, or was that just your show title? I need answers!

Zola impresses me. There is no other way of putting it. To have mastered what SHIELD couldn’t, to have made the Tesseract work at his command, basically, it’s impressive. I need a peak at his mind. I need to know more.

The scene of Steve in the cargo truck gave me big Natasha in Civil War vibes, when Crossbone tosses her onto a truck. And basically yeeting someone with just one shield hit, gold. Steve Rogers isn’t a stupid man. He is actually extremely intelligent, and such a gifted strategist. I would trust this Steve to save me if I’m ever kidnapped. (I’ll talk about future Steve later).

I’m leaving it here, dears. I’ll continue in the next part, because this is gonna be longer than I expected it to be. If you read it up till here, I love you and thanks for reading it.

[bronanlynch]

(bi)weekly media update

apparently I just. do these every two weeks now huh. sorry to the tuesday again no problem extended universe crew for being unable to keep to a consistent schedule

listening: Curses by The Crane Wives, a band that I just started listening to but I like their sound, nice and fun and folksy, lots of songs with ominous lyrics that are good on fanmixes

honorary mention to the new Lil Nas X song because we are all love the new Lil Nas X song, it’s a bop, it’s been stuck in my head on and off ever since I heard it, and I am not immune to sexily blasphemous music videos

reading: finished Smoke & Ashes, the most recent book in the Kate Kane series that I talked about last week, and I enjoyed it a lot but there sure is a cliffhanger and afaik no set release date for the next one. it’s pretty angsty but does have lots of nice moments of hope, and some discussion about recovering from both depression and alcoholism that I appreciated.

also read more romance novels, and I appreciate that Cat Sebastian, like KJ Charles, knows how to write about rich characters while making it incredibly clear that hoarding wealth is morally indefensible. it’s like the “wow, cool robot” thing where I want to be told that I’m right for disliking capitalism/imperialism/the military industrial complex, but also I do very much want you to show me the cool robot (hot rich prettyboy in nice clothes)

also finally started Harrow the Ninth today, so I’m sure I’ll have more to say about that next time

watching: speaking of “wow, cool robot,” watched a little bit more Turn A Gundam, which sure does have some cool robots. also some gender. the main character crossdresses to like, hide their identity for fun complicated spy reasons and it’s not treated as a joke or anything? it’s just a thing that they do? and no one comments on it beyond when they were like “hey you have to wear a dress to this event because the people from the moon think our mech pilot is a woman and they can’t know it’s actually you because they still think you’re working for them”

absolutely hate that the guy on the right is just wearing a normal boring suit though like. c’mon man

Zan and I have been watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier aka the sambucky show each week and my review so far is. well it’s about what I expected. the first episode was incredibly slow and kinda disappointing (Sam and Bucky never interact! the fact that Bucky might maybe miss Steve is never brought up, not even by his therapist, who tbh gives me incredibly bad vibes! if my best friend and the only person I knew from my past fucked off and left me alone to deal with my trauma in favor of ruining the life of a woman who’d moved on from him, I’d be pissed!) (for the sake of not being angry all the time I pretend Steve died instead of did That).

the second episode was more fun, more happens, there’s some incredibly heavy-handed corporate queerbaiting mixed in with some actually nice emotional moments (this article and this thread by the same person have a pretty good summary of All That). the handling of race, uh, could be better tbh. I appreciate what they’re going for, and to be fair the whole show isn’t out yet so it could get better (since some of the problems are tied to, y’know, the overall political problems, i.e. the fact that the villains are a group of people, led by a Black woman, who hate borders and illegally deliver medication to refugees which is somehow a bad thing, I kind of doubt it). but there is something about the way they’re making a Black man the mouthpiece of American imperialism, and the way that the new (white) Captain America who takes the shield when Sam doesn’t want it has a Black girlfriend and a Black best friend who, so far, have mostly just given him motivational pep talks, that doesn’t really inspire confidence. (this article and thread are a good overview of that aspect of the show)

also, I think it’s very funny when people are like “well you can’t say anything about the show yet, only two episodes are out” like. first of all lads it’s a six episode show, a third of the content is a decent chunk to use to form an analytical opinion, and second of all, if something strikes you as Not Great, you’re allowed to feel that way and say that, you don’t have to wait to see if there might be some twist or context that makes the thing you didn’t care for great and fine, actually,

that being said,

(when we watched the first episode, the immediate next thing we did was watch Winter Soldier and I was pleasantly surprised how well it holds up. not perfect obvi but still a solid movie, and the music does fuck)

also watched this very neat little video essay on Victoriana costuming and like, why so much media is set in the Victorian era, and started the c-drama Word of Honor which I’m sure will either be in a future post or just. something I start blogging about normally

playing: the weekend before last was the Beam Saber season finale, which I’ve already posted about quite a bit because it was fun and I love to play games with my friends. played a very fun game of Things, Eldritch and Terrifying by S. Gates this past weekend. it’s a very fun game, with very easy-to-follow rules and lots of helpful adjectives and scene starters, and also just conceptual it slaps (one person is an eldritch terror, the other person is the human that they’re courting. there’s a variant where you play as a vampire. it slaps). we made it uh, more of a rom-com than a horror story but I had a very good time, we told a very cute love story, and we’re gonna try again to make it more horror-y next time.

also I finally started Brigmore Witches and it’s very good and fun. my one complaint is that I want the Whalers to have names, because I enjoy the bit at the beginning where you can eavesdrop on them and some of them are concerned for you and some of them are fucked up about the Overseers invading their home and some of them want to fucking betray you. also, I didn’t realize that the very beginning when you fight Corvo is a dream sequence so I spent the whole fight being like “wait why does he get a gun and I don’t, where are my powers, wait aren’t I supposed to lose this fight for Plot Reasons why is he dead.” also, fucking love the favor that lets you dress up as an Overseer to get into the prison. I do love a good disguise mission

making: citrus chicken (from a cookbook so no link), plus some citrus-y root vegetables. very good if you like orange.

writing: nothing I can share yet for ~zine reasons. yes I have several fandom event weeks coming up that I want to participate in, no I haven’t written anything for any of them yet

[ferie-anon]

Can I get a astrology ship with Stray kids and monsta x? My signs are Aquarius sun and rising Taurus moon,Aquarius Mercury, Pisces Venus and Aries mars. Thank you so much! Please be safe and healthy!

Suree~ Let’s see your aquarius sun and taurus moon make you for someone who knows what they want and are clear about their opinions and answers. Self powered I think is the word many use to describe this. You are inventive at times or make clear of some points in topics and situations and your friends appreciate that quality of yours. Taurus moon do care about those close to them and their family, while being private. With aquarius mercury I imagine when you backup your reasoning you will use a unique standing point or execution that others might find convincing. I do think aquarius mercury could be good at satire. Your pisces venus may make you feel attracted to individuals with romantic and sweet qualities. You may be someone that sometimes dreams a bit, or harbors your sweet side that is not often seen by distant acquaintances or people at first. With your aries mars, you may be prone to get angry easily and shortly, with your airy placements your tempers may sometimes be unpredictable at times but you always seem to be far from exploding and probably settles down. Your aquarius rising prompt you to attract others through your unique style or individuality. Aquarius rising ppl have their own original style or impression that leaves other ppl to remember them or may feel drawn to them.

In straykids... your match is I.N aka Jeongin~

Jeongin is also an aquarius, with a leo moon, prompting him to be lovable and cheeky yet smart and aloof. You both are aquarius, so the similarity in personality and thinking may be prominent, and witty and fun banter can be found frequently. Your strong, cool demeanor with Jeongin’s youthful and charms balance each other well, as Jeongin respects and is in awe of your caretaking independent side, while you admire the happiness he brings to people simply from his conversations and being himself. For a first encounter, he might’ve thought you were distinctive in the crowd of people he was surrounded by, your mature and  reliable demeanor from your astute thinking and senses, gave him the thought “Woah that Noona is cool...~” You also noticed the sunshine that made everyone smile cheerfully from just looking at him or chatting with him, and you thought he was interesting while finding yourself smile unknowingly as he laughs heartily at his friend’s joke.

First, I’ll elaborate on his leo moon, Jeongin is humorous and loves fun, also is expressive and friendly. Usually when Jeongin is happy, it’s very visible and displayed clearly on his face, and he often seeks the fun and interesting things with his hyungs and members. Leo moons are hilarious in the fact that their smart usage of words or just speaking in general can create a reaction. I.N’s comical imitations and words are usually the source of laughter during a game or event with his members. Your moon is in taurus, and despite being more reserved on the end of your emotions being displayed you offer a warm and trustful aura for others that I.N also finds comfort in. You are persistent and at times Jeongin finds himself admiring you as a mentor and close one as well. You both can be the source of closure and comfort for each other on a bad day or personal day, like cheering each other up in times naturally.

His mercury is in aquarius also~ Having the same placement for mercury, you both have similar forms of communication and initiation on explaining. There will be a lot of expansive theories and thoughts you two could toss at each other or the most random thoughts that come across your minds and make a whole convo or even laugh about it.Talking chill and hanging out would be a natural for you two, and you would probably have similar interests in the topics you tell each other, since aquarius mercuries are usually not limited to one thing. You guys can get serious and deeply invested in the things you talk about, when hanging out can result in unexpected fun activities planned or decided during the time, or range to watching movies and coming up with interesting theories or logicalize things in it.

Next up, his venus is in aries~ Venus in aries natives are quite the affectionate one to their close ones and partner, in Jeongin’s case he probably craves attention and affection. He may get jealous easily, on the basis that he wants your attention ya know 🥺. Expect cuddles, hugs/back hugs, or just some form of physical contact or cling :3 from him. Your venus in pisces may feel at first a lil reserved or shy, but eventually you both have each other charmed in different ways. Your sweet and endearing nature of caring when being affectionate can be heartwarming for Jeongin. A little downside could be the differing energy between you two, for maybe you may not be as bold or clear on your needs or affection as much as Jeongin may naturally have it visible or expressive on him and his actions. But with understanding it can be eased, and your interactions and affections with each other are sweet and sincerely loving. ☂️🍬✨☀️

Lastly his mars is in scorpio, to which can be present in his work ethics, passion, and drive force. With scorpio mars, Jeongin is quite set on improving and persistent in his goals/incentive. This can be seen in gods menu here the choreography is very complex and utilizes a lot of strength and precision, and I.N’s dancing is seen to show improvement during the comeback compared to their debut stages and before. This side is also partially contributes to I.N’s aspect of becoming serious or focused when necessary for something important or that he prioritizes and you appreciate this other side of his. Additionally, your aquarius mars also yields for you to be independent and smart on your ways of achieving set goals, prioritizing own options and decisions while being unrestricted and open to new activities and predictions/possibilities. You two would make for quite the intellectual duo working on a project, activity, or when helping each other. Aquarius and scorpio are both fixed signs, and they’re both adamant about their thoughts and perspective while being loyal and perseverant. Trust is formed easily and secured, and you both appreciate each others independent individual nature that carry their own charisma and uniqueness, and inner strength.

Overall, the couple that surprises people with many of their differing traits and charm. Clever but in a well-rounded sense, like not only limited to academic or book aspects, in life and reflective ways. You both can be analytical or rational, but also naturally compassionate and contemplative. When together, deep lessons and philosophy can naturally be mused out during a random conversation one starry night, and then the next day there may be a pillow fight or infectious laughter that fills the atmosphere. An unpredictable sense of manner within you two, giving way for a new adventure or new types of feelings each time. Vibes -> 🌎🌙☀️🍧⛈💖✨😚⚡️🦊✨✌🏻

Next up.... for Monsta X, your match is I.M or his real name Chang-kyun~

Here is I.M, an aquarius as well! But it’s not just because his sun is also in aquarius as the similarities shared between his placements and yours complement for good synergy and balance. He has a moon aries that prompts for a passionate mindset and healthy competitive attitude, but overall is also a softie and a thoughtful person found in the way he expresses his thoughts and feelings about people and music. Despite some differences with your taurus moon, as you may be a lil less active constantly or more on the ‘going the extra mile if it’s necessary when you want to’ comfort zone, you both are subtley (in action and notion of manner) compassionate and considerate regarding close or cherished friends and acquaintances, partner, etc. No doubt at first meeting, there was a spark or glance encapsulated into a trance, as a longing of curiosity appear naturally within you two.

First off, lets elaborate on his aries moon. Changkyun is a very creative individual who seeks the fun and has a playful/friendly demeanor to others. His self-written raps and musicality can be evidential of his expanding creativity and artistic motives. Aries moon can be childish (in a positive term) in their actions at times, but can be deep and think a lot of their own opinions and mindset (doing reflecting). and get along with others or display care and thoughtfulness of empathizing. With your taurus moon, when together there may be a nurturing warm bond felt between you two and trust is given mutually. Your moon placement shows your clarity innerly, a resilience of knowing when and what you choose or want. Similarly, Changkyun’s aries moon is honest and clear about their resolves/goals, so both of you guys get along well mentally and may get into bickerings that don’t last long due to mutual compromise eventually. I think Taurus moon can sometimes be parental like nagging or looking after close ones and etc, and with Changkyun, you both feel open about personal or unsaid thoughts/emotions. You provide I.M as being the calm soothing supportive pillar, and with I.M’s warm and cheerful nature you find yourself leaning on him in times of personal and hard events happening. I.M will be there to give you a deep long hug or soothing pats on the back, as he listens to your day and problem while giving small nods and words of advice or thoughts.

His mercury is in capricorn, and his form of communication can involve pragmatism and a calm grounded way. Most of the time, aside from monsta x being chaotic, I.M can be seen mature for a maknae/youngest of the group. His opinions, ideals, and thinking is spoken in a self-certain way but calmly mannered way. Your mercury is in aquarius, similarly both these signs don’t waver their opinions usually for others, their opinions and perspectives are built and contructed through the analytical and multiple process of breaking down things to come to a conclusion of what they believe and agree in within their mind. You could say these two are individual thinkers, sometimes resulting in those “genius moments” or aha moment, but exclude the overexaggeration it comes with and there you go. You two would enjoy disecting and learning of each others thoughts, opinions and etc, you both would respect and listen to each others different approaches of views, but you both might butt heads when having certain different concepts sometimes. For a scenario, you guys could be working in a lab for class one time and the air is filled with focused, primitive silence around you both, as you each simultaneously carry inspection while working together with an intellectual peace when communicating. Ofc potentially, you guys will definitely get into “cute, sarcastic banter”. ✨

His venus is also in pisces! Having the same venus placement, you both have similar initiation and take on affection and romance. Aw, this is cute you two might be a bit mellow at first with physical affection or contact but once comfortable it’s like you two are like puppies cuddling, fuzzy and soft. You both provide the affection and things each desire, sincerity and attentiveness. I think dates would be sorta planned or done where some romantic things done on cue like hand holding, sitting in a cafe or having dinner in a romantic setting. Both of you guys can be selfless for friends and loved one, putting their needs into consideration as priority first sometimes. For a scenario, it might include Changkyun blushing when you back-hug him after meeting up together personally and you notice his pink-tinted cheeks from the reaction, your face: ☺️

His mars is also in aquarius! Having the same placement here allows for similar thinking and easier understanding of how each other acts on their motives and priorities. Work ethic/similar thoughts on initiation shows the unity you guys can be in when working together or responding towards each other. Mars in aquarius, you both value your personal space/freedom and being independent on your occassions, so you both would give each other space out of understanding and this allows for a healthy growth in the relationship that will only pull you two closer. Working together, there is mutual agreement and communication that makes you two have good chemistry here as well.

(Ps. Ran out of room for gifs ;-; even tho I wanted to put a gif to end it)

Overall, it’s like having both coffee and cafe latte, you both are cute and have a fuzzy heart, and yet can be the most intellectual/skilled boss of yourself in your serious mode and field of work. Logicality and hidden sass with vulnerability/soft on the inside hidden, you two are quite the duality couple or having dual charms :3 Your vibes together -> ⛅️⭐️🌗✨🍪🍿🌱💖✨🍎 ❤️

[hey-hamlet]

BNHA AU Ideas: Child of Fate (Parts 1 and 2)

Also on AO3!

TL;DR:

Chosen by the Fates for his many monumental futures, Izuku is gifted a 'quirk' at the age of 5. The ability to see and influence the strings of fate.

He will become a Hero.

But fate does not smile upon a hero any more than it smiles upon a worm.

basically, the 3 fates from norse myths are still kicking

w all the crazy shit that's gone on since the rise of quirks, fates are constantly getting harder and harder to predict or manipulate so they are kinda out of a job

so they say "fuck it, lets throw our hat in the ring" and decide to pick a "champion" of sorts

out of everyone, there is one child that sticks out a lot. he's plain-looking, but every future he's in is incredible. he's not always a good person, but he always brings about change of some sort, for reasons he believes are good ones

and they look at this child with his shining fate and think "this one"

bc the fates know what it's like to be jerked around by the universe, they ask him

"this is a deal we've done before, but we'll give more to you. trade us an eye and our powers will be yours to wield as your quirk, all we ask is that you live up to your fate"

they do the deal, the 4-year-old izuku gives up the sight of one of his eyes for the power of the fates

the quirk is registered as "all the odds" aka: he can see the odds of a certain thing happening

but that's not his quirk. he can see the strings of fate, follow them to see the different future outcomes, or pull at them, making some options more likely than others

the only person he tells the full details of his quirk to is Katsuki, bc the fates tell him he literally always tells Katsuki in the end, and it'll "save a lot of trouble", not that he knows that 

Katsuki is very excited to know he becomes a top hero, but he makes Izuku promise that he won't change his future bc he wants to make it there alone

also, the major downside of izukus quirk? he can't see his own fate

and the futures he sees are only as complete as the information he has

ie, he could witness kamino ward, but the future wouldn't show afo or mini might beyond a vague blob

anyway izuku gets teased for his lame quirk for a bit, then stops bc everyone who teases him gets weirdly bad luck

its the fates, they love their baby champion and he said no killing people

but people who are good to him get good luck, so he's got the nickname cat, for black cat and lucky cat!

anyway, episode one kinda happens normalishhh, but he doesn't ask if he can be a hero, because he's going to be a hero, he doesn't care what anyone says, he will be

but when he sees all mights strings of fact he gets a really weird look at them, because something unnatural is holding one of them above the others. so he asks "who tried to seal your fate?" bc he has no brain to mouth filter

and all might, understandably, is confused by this tiny boy asking him a very very weird question

he doesn't even get a chance to go tiny before izuku does dead pale, and whispers "shit" allmight poofs tiny, izuku looks at him, yells "I WONT SAY ANYTHING" and running jumps off the roof. all might coughs up a lung but the kid was 'lucky' and stuck the landing

basically, w the appearance of the sludge villain, the weird fate he saw for katsuki that morning suddenly made a whole lot more sense

the fates guide him to katsuki as fast as they can, he arrives there just before allmight

anyway izuku is calling out for katsuki and lays eyes on someone in the sludge, he doesnt see who it is, he doesnt see their fate. he sees that flash of a hand reaching out for help and he's already leapt over the barrier

he grabs a bit of rubble from the ground and throws it at the villain's eyes, nails him right in the fucking eye, gets katsuki half out. but the villain is baring down again and its all izuku can do to try to keep katsuki's mouth free

allmight saves them

anyway, when izuku is walking home all might pops out of fucking nowhere and gives izuku a heart attack

"I SAID I WONT TELL ANYONE PLEASE DONT HURT ME MR ALL MIGHT SIR"

"KID NO WAIT"

does the: you are so stupidly heroic, do you want to be a hero?, izuku says: i sure fucking do

“whats ur quirk”

"oh funny that its,,, its a little weird."

"oh?"

"i can,,,, see and influence the strings of fate"

"oH THATS WHY YOU SAID THAT WEIRD THING"

"wait yoU JUST THoUghT I wAs CRAZY?"

",,,,, people say weird things around me ok"

anyway all might basically says "ur crazy, your quirk is cool, take one for all."

and izuku says "OK YEAH"

all might asks a little how izuku was going to get into the hero course and he just pauses

"you know i was wondering about that but the fates told me id be fine." they both pause, staring at each other "wait,,, did they,,," "the fates totally knew huh"

anyway he eye glow when he use the fates quirk

all might sees izuku and he's like,,,, its baby nighteye

he honestly, for a hot minute, thinks nighteye might be izukus dad

bc like; green hair, gold eyes (well, eye), smart, analytic? thats nighteye baby

all might asks lowkey like "oh you don't talk much ab ur dad huh?" and izuku explains he doesn't know the guy. all might mentally tells off nighteye for having a child and ditching the mother

todoroki’s question literally is "are you all might and nighteye's illegitimate love child"

and izuku, who has no filter, blinks and responds with

"who said i was illegitimate"

anyway, back to the training

izuku who has been training to be a hero forever is pretty damn fit for a kid, but hes not one for all fit

anyway katsuki is like "izuku why are u following an old man around is he a pedo, and izuku wheezes like "NO OH MY GOD KASTUKI NO" and he explains like,,, a little of it

"like so i might have a strength quirk now too"

"izuku what the fuck why are you so op"

"im sorry katsuki im just better than you l m a o"

"COME HERE U LITTLE S H I T E"

so a brief overview of his quirk:

he gave an eye to use it so one of his eyes is just like,,, white. the whole thing is white. bc,,, its not really a quirk lmao,,,

anyway: he can view the future as much as he wants, it just takes some time, if he wants to take a quick look he doesn't need to stop paying attention, but its two slow and branching to be used like nighteye's in a fight (think like doctor strange in infinity war)

unlike nighteye, he has a third-person view of the events in question, and has,, some sounds? not many. mostly like breaking shit or oneliners he's heard before

changing the future, however, is more difficult by a long way

viewing the future has no real cost other than the fact he's not paying total attention at the time

changing the future, however, causes pain

nerve pain proportional to the change. little things, like flipping a coin heads? to make it more likely, its like a prick of the finger. to make it a 100% chance its like badly stubbing your toe. to change something big, like to move where a blow hits, feels like your arms have been plunged into burning oil. to change something massive, like, to stop something that was almost certain to happen, can cause enough pain to not only render him unconscious but can cause nerve damage leaving him with chronic pain/numbness/lack of function

the pain is normally in his arms bc its izuku and he break he arm

anyway! bc he was fitter and caught a glimpse of gran yelling at him about something called full cowl in the future + he cleaned the beach faster, he has like 2% full cowl for the entrance exam and had the quirk 2 months beforehand

katsuki avoids izuku for the day literally bc he doesn't want izuku to know if he passed before he did. which,,, is fair. he does explain this too so there isn't any random angst, izuku is just nervous

(oh also he can see the fate of someone he's looking at, he can change the fate of an event he's already seen to a different option he's already seen)

so we get the ochako bit, plus a bit of comedy bc katsuki is in a fucking beanie and sunglasses so izuku doesnt recognise him

he totally does but he doesn't say anything bc he's trying real hard

so izuku is kicking some ass in the exam and the bAMN 0 pointer like a fucking b a s t a r d hes like "what's the chances of this thing just like,,, breaking" and unfortunately they are v e r y low

so he is like "well i guess it's punchy time"

but before he gets there he sees a piece of rubble about to hit ochako. and he sees there isn't a small chance of it crushing her leg, so he changes the odds of that and gets a lovely few seconds of burning pain for his trouble

(he’s,,, pretty used to it by now so the boy has a scary pain tolerance)

bc he doesn't want to break his poor arms he jumps up the sides of the robot and tears out some wiring in the back and they start to fall

and he's like "oh shit the chance of my getting hurt is pretty high huh i should change that too" and ochako saves him with her quirk

and then he has a bit of a horrifying realisation while he's trying not to cry from pain

because

his quirk never changed the actions of other people before. ofa made it stronger

but, as he is now understanding, that hurts like a motherfucker, and his not-eye burns too and boy that's really unpleasant

this is another au where shinsou gets in on rescue points from saving katsukis ass + using him to save someone else

katsuki is a little salty but hes like "yeah tbh i really wouldn't have saved them alone, its fine" and then forces him to meet izuku bc hes still a total quirk nerd

izuku drags them + ochako out for ramen bc hes celebrating. shinsou is like "its a little early to celebrate getting in" and izuku just turns looking a lil confused "no im celebrating surviving the exam"

ok so, first day its wild

izuku's quirk is listed as "lucky punch" aka he can see odds and he's strong and no he doesn't know why stop looking at him like that

izuku and katsuki walked to school together bc they are baby and secretly nervous

izuku doesnt really look at katsuki's future all that often bc he doesn't like it, no real deal w izukus quirk he just wants to be successful by himself. so izuku, who can't look into his own future, has no idea how this day is going to go

they rock up to class, get inside and aizawa shows up, izuku has a brief heart attack, the quirk assessment starts. this time aizawa doesnt even have like a problem w izuku he's just trying to prove a point ab them being little baby heroes and sucking ass and izuku looked nice enough not to be mad about it for the rest of the year

so aizawa erases his quirk which, fair and izuku is confused and trying to use it

both of them

but

erasure didn't touch the fate quirk

so when he turns to look at aizawa he gets a face full of the USJ incident and he goes dead pale. aizawa is a touch confused but continues his whole thing, gives izuku his quirk back. he's still shaking. he throws the ball, it goes,,, less than it could have but far enough to be impressive

izuku stands next to katsuki shaking while they wait for the test to end. shinsou and uraraka are kinda distressed and all 3 of them are angry at aizawa even if they have no idea why. izuku bolts from the field right after and throws up in the bathrooms, followed by a quick panic attack. he was so freaked he was using ofa to get there so now uraraka, katsuki and shinsou are trying to find the boy

and aizawa is faintly confused

shinsou finds him first, shaking and sick in the bathroom. he grabs shinsou by the arm and says "staffroom, now." shinsou, who really doesn't know what's going on but is 100% shook, takes him there. he basically has to half carry izuku there bc he can't support himself

they get there and izuku knocks saying "i need to speak to yagi-san, now." and he sounds so scared and the whole office jumps bc why does a kid know allmights name, and all might jumps bc what happened to his boy

so he rushes out, grabs izuku and hurries him into a private office aizawa gives shinsou a look and shinsou just glares at him lmao bc its his fault izuku is like this. even though,, he's not really sure how

anyway, through sobs, izuku explains what he saw

and all might feels sick bc his boy didn't need to see all of that horrific violence, see his teachers torn to shreds and crushed to bits while the other students watch on helplessly

nezu doesn't know the extent of izukus quirk, mostly just because they didn't think ab telling him. they tell him now

aizawa is brought in to see smallmight trying to comfort his poor shaking student, who looks up and him and flinches and aizawa is like "ok guys the fuck did i do" nezu explains and then aizawa feels like a right dick to be honest, not that it was really anyone's fault

then the horrifying implications of "villains inside UA" sinks in and he's suddenly very on edge. now, izukus quirk isn't 100%. he had such a brief look at the vision he doesn't even know how likely it is. and while he offers to take a better look, its clear he really, really doesn't want to, so they all basically say

"right. so. we should probably be pretty careful tomorrow, huh?"

so when the usj attack starts, they have all might with his full 3 hours, mic, aizawa, and 13, w other heroes on standby, they hope, hope, that this wasn't very likely

but

they were wrong.

they were basically praying that the villains wouldn't make it into the usj

they've already altered the fate izuku saw by bringing allmight from the start, and present mic

but its not enough

the villains arrive and shigiraki is angry from the beginning, two unlisted teachers are waiting for them. shigiraki is childish but he's not stupid. he looks at the only child truly rattled, already protecting his friends, and he thinks he's found the cheater

they may not know the children's quirks, but present mic? 13? they know those quirks very well. mic is warped to the ruin zone, too unstable to freely use his quirk. kurogiri sends bakugo, kirishima and jirou after him

All Might is warped right to the nomu, kurogiri and shigiraki on standby for support. 13 has been taken out, aizawa is fighting through the villains to get to the nomu, to maybe offer some support to all might. he doesn't go after mic. he has to believe mic can handle himself or he'll break down where he stands.

izuku is warped to the shipwreck zone. alone. from a quick look at the future, the fates for anyone warped with him were grizly. he is confident in his choice to stop anyone from warping with him. he's ignoring the steadily climbing number of futures where he alone meets a terrible end

he's missing so much information on the villains every future he sees is hazy at best. all he knows is that if he doesn't get off this boat, aizawa gets hurt and that's not something he can abide

he busts the fuel tanks, letting the flammable liquid float across the water. he drops a match. in the chaos, he uses as much of ofa as he dares to jump to the shore. he steadfastly ignores the smell of burning meat.

he is one the opposite shoreline to canon, approaching the fight from the side, rather than the front. aizawa is hurt, battered from various villains, bleeding sluggishly from a headwound. he looks dazed

4 of shigiraki's fingers are wrapped around his neck

all might is at a standstill. if he strikes against the nomu, shigiraki will put his thumb down. he stands there and takes blow after blow, smile long gone from his face

izuku looks at the strings of Aizawa's fate. so many end here in so many ways.

he pushes his quirk into getting shigiraki away from his teacher. without direction, he's just baring against his quirk, begging it to give him a chance.

it does.

the bright flash of an explosive blonde draws the eyes of kurogiri and shigiraki. he uses the moment of distraction to launch towards his teacher, yanking him from shigiraki's hand. he loses a large chunk of skin for his trouble

all might defeats the nomu, but hes not looking good

bakugo, a limping mic, dazed aizawa, battered all might and bleeding izuku are the last stand, all praying the other students are ok.

iida did not escape

they have no backup coming.

shigiraki is fuming, but kurogiri can see the heroes are flagging. izuku is putting his all into his quirk, trying to give them all a lucky break

for the second time, it comes through

the rest of the students run towards them, joining them shoulder to shoulder. all of them are scared, some are hurt, but none of them are going to lay down and let shigiraki win. the villains escape

izuku falls

damages:

aizawa has a concussion + post-concussion syndrome. he has chronic migraines for the next year, and trouble with his long term memory for a few months

izuku is suffering from massive quirk overuse, his hands don't feel 'right' again for weeks

all might has lost only 20 minutes, but it's time he'd rather have

mic broke an ankle, but it's quickly fixed. Still, it aches from time to time

the other students had mild cuts/bruises and were left shaken

aizawa cries that night. a mix of the head injury, his hurt students, the look of fear he saw in their eyes. he holds mic and he sobs

izuku and his mother had a real relationship breakdown when she tore down his dream, even when izuku got a 'quirk' it never recovered. they don't talk. he doesn't tell her what happened. she doesn't find out.

izuku wanders the city the next day, unwilling to explain why he had no school today. he runs into mic who takes one look at this shaken student, outside and unprotected, and basically kidnaps the guy

izuku is forcibly dragged to the place mic/shinsou/aizawa share

when shinsou and aizawa find out izuku's mother basically just sent him off to school, not taking a day off work? they go full protective mode. shinsou wraps him up in the biggest blanket they own, grabs his own and forces izuku to play videogames with him on the couch. aizawa fumes in the kitchen over a cup of hot chocolate, mic fumes with him honestly

so, izukus kinda a mess, never tells his mother anything, etc, aizawa kidnapped him and he and shinsou played video games. izuku didn't go home that night, he just hopped on a train and rode it until it was time to go to UA

so when they get back everyone is just glad so see izuku alive tbh

so, sports festival! its a lot like canon

izuku doesn't use his fate quirk to change the future, but he does look at the possible futures and he sees that iida never makes it to the podium. he thinks for a second and makes a horrible realisation

the hero killer is in hosu

iida's brother is in hosu

iida’s brother is a hero

just before the event starts he finds aizawa and he's pale already

he gets out 'i need to see allmight' and aizawa gets a horrible feeling because last time this kid was worried they all almost died, so they run to find all might. seeing aizawa run around with a concerned look on his face? the stuff of nightmares at UA. everyone practically dives out of their way

izuku tells all might who swears a blue streak and pulls some strings to get extra heroes in hosu. izuku doesn't breathe a word to iida, because he just can't. not only does iida not know about the fate quirk, he can't scare him like that

bakugo knows something is wrong, but izuku won't breathe a word so he lets it lie

anyway, todoroki does his lil speech and izuku is honestly too burnt out to be intimidated, he sees his own death daily during just casual use of his quirk. boi ain't scared of much. bakugo gets pissy bc "FUCK YOU HALF AND HALF THAT'S MY RIVAL" and basically all of 1A is trying to claim izuku as their rival, either out of admiration or the desire to annoy bakugo

so izuku has to give the speech. which he's not happy ab because p e o p l e

and also because well,,, he's got no one at home to watch him

his speech basically goes along the lines of "we are here to fight fate. the odds are against us but we will win no matter what. not because it's easy, but because we have to. no matter what course we are in, we are all at this school fighting for a better future, for ourselves, our loved ones and the world. it doesn't matter if the odds aren't in your favour - the chance of any of us being here to see this moment is so small it may as well be impossible. its nothing to beat those odds again."

and everyone is like "owo how inspirational" but like anyone who knows him sees,,, layers

aizawa sees the bitterness about the USJ

all might sees izuku reducing his fight to be a hero as a quirk of fate, reducing his own involvement to 'it could have happened to anyone' when thats not true, because he is special

katsuki sees the bitterness that even though he had a good quirk, people tried to grind him into dust because he couldn't talk about it.

if inko was watching, she'd see how badly she betrayed her son

[aquilamage]

I have been wanting to do a baby Kay + the aa detectives (aka the rfta crew, basically) fic for so long, but I keep jumping around between things and it’s just. But anyway I realized I do like what I have so even though it’s a wip I’m still sharing because hopefully someone else finds it interesting. (and maybe it’ll motivate me to work on it more)

The first time they see the kid, none of them particularly think much of it.

“What are you staring at, Jake?”

He turns in time to see Angel lean against the end of his desk. With a casual gesture, he indicates a door on the far side of the room. “Thought I saw Detective Badd walk by with a kid. That’s mighty strange, don’t you think?”

Her gaze is now focused in that direction. “Are you sure about that?”

“I saw her too.” Detective Goodman wheels his desk chair back to join the group. “Well, I passed them in a hallway earlier. Little girl, about this tall, chin length black hair, big puffy coat?”

”Yup.”

There’s a moment of silence as the three of them consider this information. “Do you think she’s a witness, then?” Angel leans over to talk in a more hushed tone. Smart, considering that there’s quite a few other people in the room.

Bruce sighs. “That seems the most likely, although for her sake I hope not.”

“Yeah, she was a real lil’un. Can’t be more than a few years old.” Even with the milder cases he’s worked, that’s not something he would want a kid to have to get mixed up in. Jake sinks back in his chair.

Angel’s still watching the door. “I’m surprised they gave the case to Detective Badd, though.” Her sharp analytical gaze is a tiny bit softer than usual, although maybe it’s just the angle she’s at from them. “I mean, he’s a decent guy, but he’s not exactly the type you’d think of as ‘good with kids’.”

A slight pause before Goodman says, softly, “Well, you never know.” It’s pretty clear the other two had been silently agreeing with her. They had only ever seen Badd as quiet, serious, and generally not very emotive, and couldn’t really picture him acting otherwise, so…

Not that it’s in any part in their hands anyway. They drift back to their own work after a few more minutes, and after not having another sighting, eventually put the incident out of their minds.

---

Until a couple weeks later, when Angel furtively pulls them into the breakroom.

“What was that for?” Jake fixes his bandana from being yanked by it.

She just shushes him, making a ‘get down’ gesture before moving to the window facing the larger office.

Goodman shrugs. They copy her, trying to keep an angle so they won’t be seen.

And there’s Detective Badd, with the same kid.

“Well…” Jake drawls, “I think we can rule out her being part of a case then, huh?”

The other two nod silently, still watching. Because now, of course, the question is: how is this girl connected to Badd?

He’s talking to one of the other detectives, with her standing at his side. Watching them very intently, head tilted way back, she nods emphatically with that expression you only get with small children trying very hard to be serious. (its cute) After a while though, her attention wavers.

She’s just about to scurry off behind someone when Badd puts a hand on her. He says something, very briefly, then goes right back to the conversation.

She seems to consider something. Then, carefully, she grabs the edge of his coat in one tiny hand, trailing it behind her as she walks a couple feet to the side. And within the little circle of space that affords her, she starts investigating everything.

As the silence in the breakroom has stretched on, it’s also become loaded as the three of them slowly came to the same tentative conclusion. But it’s another few moments before Jake swears softly. “You don’t think that’s his kid, do ya?”

The other two laugh, almost nervously.

“If someone just told me about this I’d tell them to come back with a more reasonable lie,” Angel says, tapping her fingers on the sill. No one has to say anything to agree with that. Badd’s been her longer than any of them. They’ve never heard even secondhand of anything that might so much as suggest him being in a relationship, much less a family. It’s…a weird thought; trying to fit the image of the detective they know into any concept of that is…it doesn’t really work.

And yet. She sighs. “But given the information we have right now, it’s also the most reasonable conclusion.”

---

So thus commences operation Find Out What’s Up With Badd’s Kid(???). They were all detectives; they just have to investigate some more.

It’s readily agreed to be done quietly, though. If Badd has never been open about his personal life before, it doesn’t seem like directly prying will be fruitful, besides perhaps in upsetting him. Even if he is nicer than one would initially assume, that doesn’t stop Badd from being pretty intimidating. (And, in a contradictory but weirdly strong feeling none of them quite know how to voice, they can’t help but feel like this whole thing was something Badd had mentioned and they’d all somehow managed to miss, given how casual he seems about bringing her around). So, they observe at a distance.

---

Angel is at the courthouse, sorting through some files during a recess when she spots the pair. Badd walks through the hall, the girl following behind. But where he’s able to cut a path through the small foot traffic through sheer size and demeanor, her shorter steps put her at a few feet of distance, forcing her to move around people.

Not that she minds. She ducks back and forth with a grin, the extra little twirls and hops making it clear she’s turned it into a game. It’s impossible to tell at this distance, but it seems like she might be singing.

Badd notices her lagging, and after waiting for her to catch up, resumes at a slower pace.

It’s easy for her to just keep in line with him now. As she does, she sticks her hands in the pockets of her overalls, walking with a little bit of a crouch. It’s a very good impression of Detective Badd (even if the expression is a little over the top serious), and it takes Angel all of her professional composure not to smile and laugh at the sight.

---

Jake heads home just a little late one evening. On his way out, his path crosses with Badd as two hallways converge.

The kid is curled up in his arms, asleep and clutching the front of his shirt.

Maybe if he wasn’t quite so tired and taken by surprise, he could’ve come up with something to say without specifically commenting on her presence, an invitation to talk without making it a demand. But instead he walks with them in silence. There’s an awkwardness on his side as he debates with himself, wanting to watch Badd but nervous about being noticed at that, given how physically close they are.

He holds the door out to the parking lot for them. And before his brain really has time to consider it, he says “you two get home safe.”

For a fraction of a second, it seems like Badd’s giving him a look. Then, he simply nods. “You too,” he replies, a little stiff, before leaving.

---

Shortly after the incident in the breakroom, Bruce starts taking notice of Detective Badd’s desk. Because it’s then that he starts seeing the drawings. Usually tucked in with other papers (although there’s the occasional one stuck to the file cabinet), they’re a colorful collection. He never gets close enough to have a really good look at them, but they’re obviously a child’s drawings. (It’s entirely possible they’d been there earlier as well, and he was only now noticing them because he’s looking for them – it does make him wonder what else he might have missed, though.)

And another thing: every so often Bruce notices that the pictures have changed. It’s a little thing, but along with everything else a clear suggestion that he’s spending a lot of time around this kid.

---

But despite all the little glimpses they’ve been getting, several months pass without getting anything closer to a definitive answer. It’s frustrating, but they don’t know what else to do at this point besides wait and hope for something that will give them answers.

---

Late one Tuesday morning, Jake walks into the office after finishing an assignment. On his way in, Goodman waves him over.

“Marshall!” he says, fidgeting with the edge of his sleeve. “I’m really glad to see you. Do you have time to talk?”

“Yeah. Actually, that reminds me. Payne was sayin something about an investigation report he needs from you by tomorrow.” That had not been the ideal morning experience, listening to the prosecutor’s screechy tones about something that wasn’t even under his control. It certainly makes Bruce’s calm, plain voice all the more soothing to listen to.

Even if right now it’s a little off from usual. “Oh! Oh right, yes, of course.” He looks around before leaning in. “But first, there’s something slightly more pressing.” Then, as if he’s remembering something, a glance over Jake’s shoulder. “Where’s Detective Starr?”

“Out. You remember that warehouse of stolen goods? She’s out there investigating today.” Scratching his chin, he studies his coworker. “Somethin bothering you? You seem mighty jumpy.”

He deflates a little at the news. Then, he ducks his head again. “Nothing wrong, it’s simply unexpected, and I was hoping we could all-“

As he’s listening Jake feels a creeping sensation at the back of his neck. He frowns, trying to figure out the source. His gaze sweeps down toward Bruce’s desk. And then further down.

Staring at him from over the top of the desk, big wide eyes and little hands grasping the edge of the table surface, is the girl.

“What in tarnation…” he breathes out slowly. Turning, “Bruce, what on earth are you doing with Badd’s kid?”

[helloalycia]

bad day // jemma simmons

summary: you're having the worst morning ever, and it doesn't help that all these embarrassing and equally terrible things that keep happening to you are occurring in front of your crush: Agent Jemma Simmons.

warning/s: none.

          It all started when I woke up half an hour after my alarm went off. Or should I say when it didn't go off. From there, it only got worse.

         "I'm so gonna be late," I mumbled to myself as I speed-walked to the kitchen area of the Bus, aka the giant plane we were all residing in.

         Missing my alarm had essentially contributed to me having to rush around so I would make it in time for Coulson's training this morning, but discovering the absence of shampoo in my shower, as well as my missing pair of trainers that magically reappeared after ten minutes of searching were definitely contributions to being off schedule.

         Upon reaching the kitchen, which was an open area, I made my way to the cupboard to grab a cereal bowl. As I did so, I noticed Agent Jemma Simmons sitting on the couch on the opposite side of the kitchen, a book in hand and an intrigued look on her face.

         Usually, I would say something to her, probably a 'good morning' or some sort of greeting – really wanting any excuse to talk to her – but due to my messed up schedule, I continued to pull out the cereal from the drawer above me.

         "Somebody's in a rush," her adorable British-accented voice rang through the small space.

         I felt butterflies rise in my stomach at the sound of her voice, and despite the rush I was in, I glanced up at her to see she was still focusing her attention on her book, but a teasing smile was on her lips. This was our day off, and whereas I was spending it training with Coulson, she was obviously spending it lounging around comfortably.

         "Just a little bit," I responded shortly, before setting the cereal to the side after filling my bowl.

         I heard her chuckle resonate around us as I headed to the fridge to search for the milk, and it made me smile despite my current mood.

         "You sound a bit cranky," she noted aloud, a hint of concern laced in her voice. "Is everything okay?"

         As my eyes settled on the milk carton on the top shelf, I attempted to grab it. "Just had a bad–"

         But I was cut short when my grip loosened on the milk carton and it fell from the shelf and onto me, managing to soak my shirt and face.

         "–morning," I finished with a sigh, clenching my jaw slightly.

         I heard Jemma's gasp from behind me, and I pursed my lips as I turned around to grab some napkins to clean up the mess and myself. I managed to catch sight of the biochemist's expression, and she had her mouth covered with a loose hand, lamely attempting to hide her obvious need to laugh.

         "Are you okay?" she asked through an amused smile, moving forward to pass me some napkins.

         I gratefully accepted the napkins and began to wipe away the milk from my face. "Doing just great, Jem. How about you? Having a lovely morning?" I asked, a hint of sarcasm in my tone, but knowing I made her smile did send a sense of accomplishment through me.

         "Honestly? I think this is my best morning yet," she admitted truthfully, her bubbly laughter finally escaping.

         I chewed on my lower lip impatiently when she grabbed the napkins from my hand and helped wipe away the milk from my shirt and face. She was still laughing as she patted away the white liquid, and I tried to ignore the tingles running down my spine at the fact that she was only inches away from me and wearing the most mind-blowing grin on her lips.

         "Looks like you're going to have to pop in the shower again," she said jokingly, but I knew she was right.

         I sighed and shut the fridge, before grabbing some more tissues and wiping up the mess on the floor.

         "As much as I would love to, I can't," I grumbled with a frown. "I'm already late, and having a shower will only prolong the time."

         Jemma chuckled melodiously from behind me, and I stood up to throw the milk-soaked tissues in the bin before smiling at her shortly.

         "If you'll excuse me..." I said as I moved to slide past her, and she stepped to the side to let me move, but I felt her questioning gaze on me.

         "Aren't you going to have some breakfast? It's the most–"

         "–important meal of the day, yes, I know," I finished her sentence, feeling her presence following me as I headed to the living-room area. "I don't have the time, though. Gotta head to Coulson. I'll catch you later, though?"

         A suspicious smile was on her lips as she nodded and saluted me playfully. "Yes, indeed, I will catch you later, Y/N."

         Smiling with confusion and raising an eyebrow, I studied her sheepish posture and expression before deciding to leave her be and head down to the ramp where Coulson would be waiting for me.

         I left her to her own devices and made my way to Coulson, whilst attempting to ignore the milk smell that was wafting from my stained shirt. Maybe it was the wrong day to where a black tee for training...

         "Ah, Y/L/N, there you are," Coulson said when he spotted me walking down the steps. "Took you long enough."

         I sighed. "It's been a bad morning, sir. But I'm here and ready to learn."

         He smiled when I neared him, but when he spotted the new addition to my shirt, his smile faded into a thin line.

         "Uh, is that–".

         "–a milk stain all over my shirt? Yes, it is exactly that," I cut him off unenthusiastically. "Like I said, sir, it's been a bad morning.

         He pursed his lips and cocked his head to the side as he studied my dishevelled appearance. "Ah, okay then. Well, I guess we can begin..."

***

         Training went a lot worse than I imagined.

         Maybe it was just God playing a cruel joke on me by making me have a terrible day. By making embarrassing and awkward things happen to me. Especially in front of Jemma, too. First spilling milk all over myself in front of her, and then training.

         I was working the punching bag as Coulson ordered me, when the brunette was walking by to get to her lab. All she did was shout a quick friendly greeting, and I made the mistake of glancing up at her, only for my love-struck smile to be hit with the punching bag that flew right back into my face. She, of course, came to see if I was okay, and after reassuring her that I was indeed okay, I tried not to flush any more red when Coulson was chuckling at my mishap. I was just lucky Skye wasn't there or else I would've never heard the end of it.

         After that, training ended up kicking my arse, just like the punching bag did. I was grateful when it was over, and not only because I could have a shower and rid my sweat and milky odour combined.

         After washing myself clean and avoiding any milk cartons on high shelves, I headed to Fitz's and Jemma's lab where I spotted Jemma last. Upon entry, I spotted the young Scotsman sitting on the swivel chair by the computer, deeply concentrating on something on the screen. The young Brit was stood up, playing with some chemicals in test tubes on the counter. She was wearing her lab coat and goggles, and it made me smile because she looked so adorable in her little getup.

         "'Sup, guys," I made my presence known, looking between the two geniuses.

         "Oh, hey, Y/N," Fitz spoke enthusiastically, looking up from his computer screen with a smile. "How was training?"

         I tried not to blush as I saw Jemma stifle a laugh at Fitz's question. The awkward moment from earlier flashed through my mind, and I tried my best to push it to the back of my mind as Fitz awaited an answer.

         "Uh, yeah, it was good, thanks," I got out, smiling awkwardly. Wanting to change the subject, I headed to him and looked over his shoulder at his computer screen. "So, what're you up to?"

         "Going over some blue prints for some new weapons I've designed," he said dismissively, as if if were nothing, when in fact, it was the complete opposite.

         His screen showed several variations of a model of a gun, and surrounding it were extensive analytical notes, presumably from the engineer himself. I was amazed.

         "Wow, you're literally a genius, Fitz," I praised him with wide eyes.

         "Barely, but I appreciate the compliment. Thanks," he said with a sense of accomplishment and a matching smile.

         I chuckled at his modesty and headed to Jemma to see what she was up to. I took a seat on the stool beside her and leaned on the palm of my hand as I studied the contents of the test tubes before me. Jemma was making notes on the tablet beside her as she messed around with the chemicals.

         "What are you doing?" I whispered, afraid that if I spoke any louder, her concentration would break and I would bother her.

         I saw her lips curve into a small smile as she brought the test tube to her eye-level. "Testing out the reaction rate of this chemical," she whispered back, and directed her attention to me. "Why are we whispering?"

         I gave her a knowing look as I sat up straight, and she giggled adorably.

         "Well I was whispering because you looked really into whatever you're doing," I answered her question. "And you're whispering to tease me."

         "Spot on, Y/L/N," she confirmed with a toothless smile.

         She placed the test tube back in it's rack and continued to make notes on her tablet. Meanwhile, I found myself interested in the bright blue liquid that was swirling around in the test tubes. Obviously my curiosity got the best of me, and I lifted it up, bringing it to eye-level as I studied the contents.

         "Be careful," Jemma warned in a sing-song voice, glancing up at me momentarily.

         "Is it poisonous or corrosive?" I asked, setting it back down in the rack with the rest of them.

         She watched me with an unreadable look in her eyes, before motioning for me to follow her. She grabbed one of the test tubes before leading me to the opposite side of the lab, where her workstation was.

         "Check this out," she said as she attached the test tube into a mini arm-like robotic that held it up in place. She controlled it with a little remote on her tablet, allowing her to move the tube anywhere she wanted, and at any angle. Adding a little bit of some clear yet fizzy liquid to the blue chemical, she watched for a reaction. "See that?"

         The chemical began to fizz slightly, and as I looked closely, I saw the bright blue dilute a little, resembling the ocean, but in a tube. It looked pretty awesome.

         "If that gets on your skin, you'll probably lose a body part," she commented casually, making me widen my eyes and move back.

         I looked her way to see if she was joking, but she only wore a thin smile on her lips. Her brown eyes flickered to mine for a moment, and I saw something hiding in them, something mischievous and unlike Jemma. It was hard to pinpoint, but it was there.

         Before I could say anything about why the chemical wasn't being handled with a little more care if it was so dangerous, the robotic arm that held the tube moved about a quarter of an inch, but that was enough for the tiniest of drops to drip from the tube and onto my hand. Upon reflex, I yanked my hand away and looked down at it, only to stare wide-eyed at my skin, which now had a small blue stain on it.

         "Oh my god, Y/N!" Jemma shouted suddenly, getting both mine and Fitz's attention. He was rushing to our side to see what the matter was when Jemma continued to shout, "We need to give your hand a, um, a toxic chemical scrupulous flush to try and stop the chemical from, uh, from spreading into the rest of your hand and altering your DNA!"

         "Jemma, what are you-" Fitz began, but was silenced when Jemma sent him a knowing look, presumably reminding him what chemical she was dealing with. Realising, he widened his eyes and nodded, looking to me. "My mistake, Y/L/N, Simmons is correct! We need to give you that toxic chemical scrapple-"

         "-scrupulous-"

         "-scrupulous flush or it may spread and alter your skin-"

         "-DNA-"

         "-DNA!" Fitz finished with a horrified expression. He exchanged a look with Jemma before the two of them dragged me to the washing station and practically scrubbed my hands clean to the last germ on there.

         "Will that be fine? Will I be okay?" I asked, growing worried as I looked at the faint blue stain on my hand, and remembering the fizzy reaction I witnessed not moments ago. It was stupid of me to imagine that happening on my own skin.

         Jemma sighed heavily and ran a hand through her hair. "Yes, of course. Just to be sure, you should get some rest. A power nap of some sort. Sleeping slows the rate of reaction down, and this should prevent anything further from happening." She nudged Fitz in the ribs, adding, "Right, Fitz?"

         Fitz hummed and nodded frantically agreement, leaving me no choice but to believe the two geniuses before me. They knew what they were talking about, and I knew they only wanted what was best for me, so I had to follow their instructions.

         "Come on, let's get you upstairs," Jemma said, offering a reassuring smile and linking arms with me suddenly. I was at a loss of words as she began to lead me out of their shared lab, and continued to be as she led me to the living-room area once again.

         "In here now, come on," she instructed kindly, releasing my arm as she went to the couch to prep some cushions.

         "Shouldn't I go to my room?" I asked with confusion.

         She shook her head and finally stood up straight, smiling brightly at me. "It's only a power nap. I'll wake you up as soon as and we can see the progress on your hand. Everything should be fine then. I can keep an eye on you if you sleep here."

         I tried to the heat that was rising from my neck and to my cheeks at the thought of her "keeping an eye on me", and instead nodded and began to lay down on the couch. She knelt down and her smiling face was inches from mine.

         "Have a nice rest, Y/N," she said soothingly, her eyes glistening with an odd excitement. It didn't make sense, but then again, nothing did right now.

         I returned the smile and watched her leave me be before attempting to fall asleep. I sure hoped that Jemma was right about my hand...

***

         "Holy shit, dude."

         Hearing that when you wake up wasn't exactly the most promising thing, so you can imagine my reaction when I peeled open my eyelids and came extremely close to the face of Skye.

         I let out a yelp, as did she, obviously not expecting to be that close when I first wake up. She pulled back and I sighed, before forcing myself to sit up.

         "Nice wake up call," I mumbled sarcastically, momentarily forgetting why I had taken a nap in the first place.

         Skye forced a chuckle before pointing to my hand. "Yeah, well, as much as I adore making you crankier than you already are, I though you should maybe pay attention to the fact that you'd hand is freakin' blue."

         The memories of what happened came flooding back, and my eyeballs almost fell out of my head when I saw that my whole right hand was now blue. Obviously having no idea what this meant, I thought of the worst and shot off the couch.

         "I've gotta find Jemma," I exclaimed, pushing past Skye and racing towards the lab.

         "Would you prefer me to call you an avatar or a smurf...?!" I heard Skye call after me, but I wasn't in the mood to fire some sarky response back.

         On the way towards the lab, I managed to race straight into one half of Fitzsimmons, and the Scotsman certainly looked surprised when he saw the rush I was in.

         "Hey, Y/N, what's up?"

         My expression should have told him everything, but because he couldn't get the hint, I waved my bright bloody blue hand in the air for him to see. I expected him to react just as frantically as I was, claiming that I would have to amputate my hand or something as extreme as that, but he didn't claim the slightest extreme thing ever.

         He laughed.

         Full blown laughter where he had to bend over and clutch his stomach to stop it from hurting. I opened my mouth to say something, but soon found that I was speechless. Why on earth was he laughing at something so serious? If I remembered correctly, the chemical was altering my DNA, and Jemma practically said I would have no hand left by the end of it.

         "Oh my god, Simmons needs to quit thinking she can prank everybody who didn't go to the academy," Fitz said aloud to himself, but I let his words sink in, and all my worry was melting away.

         "Uh, come again?" I raised an eyebrow, and now my blue hand seemed more embarrassing than worrying.

         Smiling with amusement, he explained, "I shouldn't be telling you this, but you honestly looked like you were fearing whether you would live or not." I narrowed my eyes at him, so he spoke faster, though his teasing smile was still on his lips. "From what I know, she made up the whole poisonous chemical thing. It was just blue dye, and that thing she mixed in was literally sparkling water from our mini fridge. When you fell asleep, she stained your hand with some more dye and is actually waiting for you to go downstairs to her right now."

         His words took a few seconds to sink in, but when they did, I furrowed my eyebrows.

         "You're telling me that Jemma pranked me?"

         "Mhm," he hummed with a nod. "You, my friend, have just been pranked by Jemma Simmons."

         "Because I didn't go to the academy?" I questioned, referring back to his first comment.

         He chuckled and patted my shoulder. "You catch on fast, don't you, Megamind?"

         I glared at his retreating form as he headed in the direction I just came from. He was beginning to sound more and more like Skye every day, and trust me, that wasn't a good thing.

         I thought about earlier today and how everything played out. The alarm clock not going off. My missing shampoo and trainers. The milk. Jemma's lame improv skills when discussing the chemical. How hadn't I caught on?

         Now, I could easily go down there and tell her that the fun was over, that I knew of her prank, but that would be too easy. And since she went through the effort of staining my whole right hand blue, it was only fair of me to make use of it.

         A playful smirk appeared on my lips as I took my time walking towards the lab, where Jemma was supposedly waiting for my crying self. When I was just outside the lab, but out of view of the biochemist, I took a deep breath and prepared myself. Putting on my best terrified expression, I ran towards the glass doors and banged on the glass, pretending to be frightened of my blue hand.

         I punched the mechanism to open the doors, and ran straight through, certainly earning Jemma's attention. Her eyes widened when she saw me and my blue hand, and I could see the humour dancing in her eyes. Oh, two can play at that game, Jemma.

         "Oh my gosh, Y/N!" she feigned surprise, placing a hand over her mouth. "It's gotten worse!"

         "I know," I cried out, grabbing her forearm and tightening my grip to appear helpless. "Jemma, I know what I need to do."

         Her fake saddened expression morphed into one of real confusion as she said, "You do?"

         I nodded frantically. "Yes, I do. I need to cut my hand off! It's the only way for the chemical to stop spreading!"

         Before she could say anything, I ran around the lab and searched through all of the bits and pieces that were sprawled on the desks and counters. Jemma bit her lower lip as she tried to understand what was going on, and I so desperately wanted to laugh in her face, but I wanted to milk this for as long as I could.

         "I need something sharp!" I cried out, looking at her with a bewildered expression and sad eyes. "Please, Jemma, it's my only hope!"

         She was believing my every word, and when I managed to squeeze a fake tear from my eyes, her whole demeanour broke and she was by my side in an instant. I resisted the urge to smirk at how easy it was to manipulate her niceness, and instead continued my facade of appearing helpless.

         "No, Y/N, no! You don't need to cut off anything!" she reassured, grabbing my arms with her own and staring into my eyes with worried ones whilst shaking her head.

         "I do, Jemma," I whimpered, frowning as I glanced down at my hand. Suddenly, I continued to jerk around, attempting to search for a sharp object. "I need to stop it now!"

         She struggled to keep me still as I was slightly taller than her and stronger than her, and I could see in her expression that she felt extremely guilty.

         "No, Y/N, no, please stop," she begged, pulling me into a hug to stop me from moving. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! This was a prank! It was a stupid mean prank and I didn't mean to make you this scared, I'm so bloody sorry, Y/N!"

         With her arms wrapped around me and her head tucked into my shoulder, I could feel her trembling slightly, her guilt eating away at her. I felt slightly guilty for making her feel like that, but at the same time, I felt satisfied knowing I had won.

         "All is forgiven," I said simply, shrugging my shoulders.

         I felt her slowly pull away from me, until she released me and looked to me with a puzzled expression.

         "Wait... what?"

         I offered a small smile. "All is forgiven, Jem."

         A series of squeaks and whimpers escaped her mouth as she tried to formulate a coherent sentence, but nothing came out. Instead, all she could do was watch me smiling at her innocently.

         "You knew? This whole time?" she asked, before rubbing her temple with her finger. Suddenly, it dawned on her, and she met my eyes with a sharp glare. "You knew?! And you let me think you were going to amputate your bloody hand off?!"

         She began to hit me on the chest repeatedly, and I had to run away from her to stop. She chased me around the lab, smacking me whenever she could,  and all I could do was protect my face by using my arms as a shield.

         "Ow! Okay, I only found out when – ow! – when I woke up from my – ow! – sleep," I defended as she finished up her mini violent attack.

         She finally stopped smacking me, but I definitely preferred that over her glaring at me with her intimidating gaze. God knew what she was thinking.

         "I could punch you right now," she grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest.

         "You dyed my hand blue!" I exclaimed, defending myself. "I think it's only fair I got to ruin your prank."

         She loosened her tight posture, and avoided my eyes as she knew I was telling the truth.

         "And you pranked me this morning with my alarm clock, my shampoo, my trainers, the milk," I listed, proving my point.

         She immediately raised a finger and looked at me with a defensive expression. "Actually, the carton of milk was your genuine clumsiness, but yes, everything else was me."

         I felt my cheeks heat up as she admitted this, realising that one was just me making a fool out of myself in front of the girl I like.

         "Still," I said, giving her a knowing look. "You, missy, have some explaining to do."

         This time, it was my turn to cross my arms over my chest and stare at her intimidatingly. It seemed to work because she smiled sheepishly making her nose do that adorable thing where it scrunched up sheepishly.

         “Well, I may have gone a bit too far with the pranking," she admitted, laughing to relieve the tension, but I wasn't amused.

         I raised my blue hand in the air, and quirked an eyebrow. "A little?"

         "Okay, a lot," she agreed, but was quick to add, "but that was only because you didn't go to the academy! You didn't endure the endless amount of pranks as a freshman like Fitz and I did. It was only fair."

         I felt an amused smile forming on my lips, despite trying to prevent it. "Are you kidding me, Jemma?"

         She smiled beautifully, and stepped forward. "Look. Why don't we just forget this day ever happened? You figured out you weren't just having a bad day, and I got to prank you. It all worked out!"

         I couldn't help but laugh at how ridiculous she sounded, and I allowed her to put an arm around my shoulder and steer me in the direction of the lab exit.

         "You do realise I can't go out on missions with a blue hand, right?"

         "Oh, please. If anything, it will distract your enemy and give you chance to strike. You're very welcome."

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BNHA Rewatch: Episode 27 “Bizarre! Gran Torino Appears!”

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The Internship arc starts off with a bang! Let’s see that Full Cowl, Deku! 

SORA NI UTAEBA! While the song in this intro is kinda meh to me, the visuals are amazing. I love the symbolism for all the events of the ep - tho not gonna lie, this core’s ED is better than the OP. Anyway tho, go punch that wall Deku!

We start with Gran Torino pretending to be crazy. I’ll admit, I’m kinda eh on this bit, though I love  Gran. It’s probably because I found it annoying when Yoda did it, so I find it annoying here as well. (It’s really just my inner fangirl talking. Nobody makes Deku unhappy except Kacchan. Who can get away with it.)

But actually, this sets up an interesting difference between Deku and Luke, though admittedly situation isn’t the same because Deku knows Gran is Gran. But Deku’s response to this is to call All Might to tell him Gran’s gone senile. He’s so empathetic Deku why aren’t you real? (no shade at Luke there,e I love him too. Just not as much).

“I don’t have time to mess around.” Deku did not come to play.

New costume! It’s incredible how much better it is than the old one. Like, not even funny how much better. Day-um, Deku. 

Pfh Gran knows exactly how to piss off Deku: Insult All Might. You clever little scoundrel.

So onto Deku’s character flaws: 1. He’s overly analytical. Deku doesn’t know how to act quickly, partially due to circumstance, but partially that’s just how he is. Hesitant. Over-cautious, over-thinks things. He needs to learn how to take action - and in this arc, he does indeed do so without hesitation, and saves Iida’s life by so-doing. Box 1 checked off.

2. Deku admires All Might too much. Like every MC in BNHA, his Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Tragedy (insert me telling you to read that essay again). It’s a problem because he doesn’t believe in himself. So he needs to learn not to imitate All Might and be his own hero. That one doesn’t really sink in until the PLE arc. But check.

3. Deku is insecure. He has a massive inferiority complex (which fits nicely into his foil’s inf-sup complex,  wouldn’t-cha-know) and doesn’t believe in himself. So he needs to learn to be more confident. (Is it wrong that I want this to end with him breaking through Instrumentality to a chorus of his friends saying ‘Congratulations’?)

Gran is my favorite Teacher, as a teacher, in BNHA. I’m a teaching-major, and I kinda aspire to his techniques. What I love the most is helping students figure it out themselves. Just telling someone the answer doesn’t help them. It’s so satisfying seeing a student make that breakthrough thanks to your guidance.

Now we’re cutting away to Iida’s internship to remind you Iida Wants Revenge. This is a little exposition-y, let’s cut somewhere else.

OK good, the villains! Right off the bat, we’ve got some great Parallels with the Heroes, as Tomura decides to basically Intern with a Pro-Villain. He even calls Stain a pro. Tho Tomura really needs to work on his recruitment strategy. “Stain join us. Cause.” “Bakugou. Join us. Cause”.

I want Deku and Tomura to build a grand Hero-Villain rivalry. Tomura basically hates him for no real reason right now, and I want there to be a good reason. Other than “He’s All Might’s successor”. I want them to be the Joker and Batman of BNHA with a real complex hero-villain rivalry, where one reflects the other. They’re getting there but I want more.

“Bloodlust without conviction is meaningless.” Ooh I love me some Stain. He really elevated this series’ philosophical side with his ramblings on heroism and villainy.

OK am I creeped out by the fact that All for One just said the same thing I did about learning? A little.

Deku is so brilliant and such a fast learner tho. It doesn’t take him long to put it all together. And Gran actually really admires him for that - I enjoy their mentor dynamic a lot, since Gran has some real respect for Midoriya in a different way from All Might.

Bakugou with Best Jeanist! OMG the comedy gold of this. Though I just want to take a sec to gripe about a change from the manga to the anime: Manga! Bakugou does not charge at Best Jeanist and yell at him. He’s not dumb enough to try that on the #4 Pro Hero and his teacher. He sits still and listens to Jeanist’s lecture. The only Bakugo line here that’s from the manga is “Didn’t you make an offer for me?” This completely changes the way we perceive Bakugo in this scene, and in general. Bad change.

 But in Good Storytelling-ville, I like the continuing parallels between the Wonder duo this creates: Izuku interns in a rundown neighborhood with an unlisted hero, Bakugo in Tokyo with a top pro. Izuku needs to learn to control his power and believe in himself. Katsuki needs to learn to be kinder and more humble. Izuku learns his lesson her, Katsuki doesn’t. Parallels!

Kirishima and Tetsutetsu again! 4th kind is ok. He’s probably the least memorable of the internship pros, since his gimmick is simple and his design kinda dull.

Uraraka and Gunhead! I love how well they get along. He’s kawaii and she’s a hardcore badass. Don’t you forget it!

Now for more of Momo’s arc. The Uwabami internship is usually dismissed by fans as Just Fanservice, but think about it in context, and it becomes really interesting. One, the Hero Killer arc is about Stain protesting the commercialization of heroism, so we do need to have a Pro-Hero demonstrate the problematic nature of that commercialism. Uwabami does just that. Two, we need to have Momo’s internship be unfulfilling to her, to complete her downward trajectory (before the Final Exam arc can bring her back up), so it’s useful for further embarrassing and developing her character. 3, it sets up Momo and Kendo’s future rivalry.

I’ll take more about it in future eps where it appears.

Izuku practicing and constantly hitting his face on the wall is one of those things that makes me wonder if either a) he has a secret endurance quirk or b) OFA just naturally ups your durability. How does he still have a face after that.

Here’s a hot take: Izuku with his face smashed up from spending a night with no sleep training in garbage all night is still prettier than any other guy in this series.

One of the reviewers I follow made the comparison between All Might vs Deku’s using of OFA and Korra vs Aang’s role as the Avatar. You know, All Might and Korra, both master the power pretty quickly so they get to be strong fast but lose out on the spiritual connection a bit, while Deku and Aang take their time learning ofa/the four elements, but get as a tradeoff more of the spirit-y side...(ATLA & BNHA. My 2 favorite shows, alongside FMA. I swear these are like, three sides of the same show).

While I’m watching in the Sub this time around, i wanted to note a dub-ism in this scene: it’s localized to ‘hot pastries’ instead of taiyaki. There’s a lot of bits like that, where they take Japanese food and translate it for us dumb Americans. But well, maybe that made sense in the 90s, when there maybe wasn’t as much cultural crossover, but...even I knew what mochi were before watching BNHA (Uraraka’s fave, and the dub always localizes it to ‘sweets’) and everyone has google if they’re confused so why not just say ‘Taiyaki?’ Ah well, it’s a stupid nitpick but still.

Gran’s metaphor here is so great. As a teacher I aspire to learn from this man. Teach me your teaching ways.

“THIS TAIYAKI IS ME!!!!!” Another dub-ism has him say “I’m not really a dessert” I saw a reactor once comment on this ‘Yeah, but you are a snacc, Deku.’ I wholeheartedly agree.

FULL COWLLLLLLL!!!!!!! FYEAH!!!!!

OK so there are a lot of reasons I love Full Cowl. it’s one of the series’ finest moments, emblematic of what makes it cool. And what makes Deku cool. He’s smart, and has to work his way around problems, and this solution was just...it was there, for us and Izuku the whole time, to finally sit up and take notice of. It’s about applying power in a different way. About taking what you can do and doing the best you can with what you’ve got. A big central theme for the series.  

Also dayum that slow pan up Deku’s entire body as he activates it...he just looks good in this arc. Actually, post-cavalry battle Deku in the sports festival arc always looks weird and odd (because he’s beat up and in pain, duh) and prior to that he was mainly just adorable...this arc, however, is his official transition into Best Boy for Reals. He’s just...swoony. and also really cool, smart, and all sorts of great fangirl-y things. 

We end on a confident Deku smile and Daiki’s adorable ‘hai.’ Basically, i really enjoy this episode. A little slow at the beginning, maybe. But that conclusion is amazing and so worth the payoff. It’s even got this amazing rhyme and rhythm to it, cutting back and forth between the different students and teachers and just having themes echo between each other like poetry. It love it.

To close off: ED4, AKA BEST ED EVER!!!! This is seriously, no sarcasm, best ED. So for those of you who don’t know, the story behind ED4 Datte Atashi no Hero is, 1: The Fantasy AU theme comes from the second popularity poll, which came out around Chapter 120/Episode 61 (yes, THAT one) and for which Horikoshi drew the top 10 in fantasy garb. 2: The Song was written by LiSa and was explicitly stated by her to be effectively about Izuku’s feelings towards Kacchan. I wrote a post analyzing it. It is, basically, the anthem for...

BKDK CORNER

“Loose…” Guess who the first person Deku thinks of to create Full Cowling is? If you sad Kacchan, ding-ding-ding!

On an analytical note, I think it’s very, very significant that the first real breakthrough Deku makes in handling his power comes by observing Kacchan and imitating him. This is one of my Top 20 Favorite BKDK moments, even though it’s completely indirect, because of how important that is in the long-run. But what about the Imitation theme? Why is it OK for Izuku to imitate Katsuki, but not All Might? Well, first of all, he does use Gran Torino’s moves as well, but mainly, I think the series is saying with this distinction that it’s OK to imitate someone if you see their flaws and acknowledge them, but if you hero-worship them and see them as perfect, you’re only going to screw yourself over.  This is why Iida imitating Ingenium, Shoto imitating his mom, Deku and Kacchan imitating All Might, and yes, Uraraka imitating Deku, are all so bad for them. If you see someone as perfect, and want to imitate them, you’ll never achieve that in your mind, because you already view yourself as imperfect. So Deku can imitate Katsuki because he thinks he’s a jerk, but also an amazing fighter, and Gran because he thinks he’s weird, but tough.

Also Deku just automatically thinking of Kacchan first is so damn shippy.

BEST GIRL OF THE EPISODE: Uwabami!

RANKER: Ranking the Internship Pros, least helpful to most.

10. Uwabami

9. Mt. Lady

8. 4th Kind

7. Endeavor

6. Death Arms

5. Manual

4. Selkie and Sirius (anime only)

3. Gunhead

2. Best Jeanist

1. Gran Torino! (Deku lucked out)

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Omg I would probably die from happiness if you did a sanders sides superhero au. Like I'm really curious about your take on the characters and their roles. Tbh I just love how unique you make the characters while staying true to their personalities. Also your aus are absolutely fantastic and I adore them.

anon this is... an incredibly sweet and heartwarming message (that also means a lot to me bc i know i’ve been kinda........ lacking in my AUs recently) so!!! you’ve inspired me to actually go through and at least bang out some headcanons omg

so, for some general background stuff, i was inspired by the adventure zone: commitment to make this!! kinda like how taz balance inspired a lowkey fantasy AU except this one is so much easier to do bc i can be inspired by commitment w/out actually being like “okay so logan would be [insert character] and roman [insert character] and etc etc etc”

basically the part that i really liked and that really got me thinking abt the AU is that, in commitment, the heroes don’t get their powers by dumb luck or birth or anything, but they’re given them scientifically through a corporation? like their powers are basically implanted in them by this scientific heroic organization and they don’t have a choice in what powers they get, and i thought that was really interesting!!!

also again idk if this is gonna be an Actual AU just bc my writing life has been crazy really, but if anyone is actually interested in this AU after reading this, i’ll happily accept questions/prompts :)

also also, i have to get ready for work, but i got mad excited abt this, so below the cut are roman and logan’s characters, if people want patton and virgil, i’ll reblog with them, too!!

**this is an AU in the making. aka, im really intrigued w/ this idea but im still working on the general outline of it. so, if i actually continue with it, some things might change or become more structured.

roman prince:

age: 26

so i picture this AU taking place in a city, and i feel like roman is the son of a very wealthy businessman within that city

he def has a balling penthouse that overlooks the city skyline

he’s charismatic and outgoing and definitely has a bit of an edge to him. like, there’s a bite to him, but it’s more like “i’ll smile and play nice and smile while tearing you to shreds if i need to”

like, don’t get me wrong, he’s a nice guy!!! an overall good person, just he’s not afraid to start shit and call people out on his bullshit if he has to. this has gotten him into trouble more than once.

he’s an aspiring performer and he’s incredibly talented in singing, acting, and dancing, but none of his roles ever felt Right bc it was obvious that the casting directors chose him to appeal to his father

which was always concerning for roman because he has a...... complicated relationship with his father

he actually got involved with the Scientific Organization because of his father

his father, the CEO of Prince Corp., started a partnership with the CEO of Sanders Institute. while Prince Corp. deals with finance along with more artistic fields, like films and fashion, Sanders Institute deals more scientifically, like with researching and developing new technologies. together, they formed almost an alliance of sorts.

so, Prince Sr. was told by Sanders Sr., “i have a new idea that could change the way the world functions” and, almost instantly, Prince Sr. offered Roman

when roman finally arrived at the Sanders’ Scientific Organization that will definitely have a name if and when i work more on this, he thought he was just going to be trying out new technologies or taking a couple fitness tests or trying some new serum or something

he didn’t expect that, after multiple screenings and tests, he would be told that he’d be receiving superpowers

or, more so, the scientists told him that he would become “an enhanced, more powerful version of himself,” which everyone knows translates to “kickass superpowers”

it’s not that he’s reluctant at first, but he’s almost disbelieving. like, things like this happened in movies and comic books. not in his life. but, then again, he knew that technology was advancing along with science, and it seems very possible...

needless to say, he became very enthusiastic very fast

his powers: pyrokenesis and he can put people under a type of thrall with his voice

pros of his powers: he can command people at will. he can set shit on fire.

cons of his powers: people know that they are being controlled and can fight against it. even if they fail in fighting it, they will know once the thrall wears off that they were controlled. he can set shit on fire. cue moral dilemmas on whether or not he’s toeing the line of superhero/supervillain bc of the devasation his powers, both physical and mental, can have.

this will be logince bc im logince trash

logan sanders:

age: 28

the son of Sanders Sr., and twin brother to thomas sanders

his entire life has been science. when thomas went to college for environmental engineering, he went for biology. outside of school, both brothers got very involved in technology. they’ve been exposed to their father’s science from a young age.

it was always expected that they would inherit Sanders Institue together and expand it with their fields of study

however, even logan and thomas didn’t know what their father was planning with this new Scientific Organization. they knew that Something was going on, but they thought perhaps a new technology was being developed, or a new experiment was taking place

well... they were partially correct

logan and thomas were both brought into the experimentation. they were the first ones to undergo the process, actually. they were told that it was because they deserved to receive this enhancement first, but they’re smart, they knew the real reason: to their father, science came first, and that meant using his sons as guinea pigs

now, logan is an incredibly analytical and logical man. where thomas was trusting and compassionate, always looking to help his father, logan was skeptical. what if something went wrong? what if the experiment didn’t work? it didn’t take long for him to learn that they were planning for other people to be brought in; what was the criteria?

why were they enhancing people like this?

“because people like you will be able to help the entire world,” his father had said, a smile plastered on his face. “you and thomas are both boys of science, and the people we plan on recruiting are just as beneficial. don’t you want to be of assistance to the world?”

logan did and, so, convinced by his father and intrigued by the science around it and interested in what these enhancements could be, he agreed.

plus, there was no way in hell he was going to let thomas go through this alone. if something happened... it happened to both of them. they were a package deal, and an experiment wasn’t going to take it away.

even though logan had his doubts, as time grew closer to when the enhancements would take place, he grew more and more excited. he loved science, lived for it! and he was truly about to become a man of science! everything for their world was about to change (logan never said it outloud, but he knew it: they were going to be heroes) and logan was going to be a part of that.

he always wanted to be a part of something that did good.

his powers: he can tap into any and all electronic devices and basically take total control over them. he also has lightning/electricity powers.

pros of his powers: can access any information in electronical databases. can shoot lightning beams.

cons of his powers: just how you can burn out a fuse by putting too much power in it, logan can “burn out.” electrical storms can actually be painful for him bc of how much electricity is in the air, and if he taps into too many devices in a short amount of time, he actually shorts out and basically electrocutes himself. it’s nonlethal but, nonetheless, painful, and leaves him powerless for a little while. all the electrical powers make him feel a bit too... robotic sometimes.

[ace-octo-pix]

This is... going to be a bit long. sorry, mobile users. The ocs are listed by team!

SPLATOON 1 TEAMS

ROKA/OLIVIA/AGENT 3. A bit of a lovable goof, with caring too much for her little inkling body. Fierce in battle. Yes, she gets the scar in the OE arc, but the OE arc goes a bit differently in the story due to... reasons? yeah, reasons. She goes missing for a full year and that’s when Akim takes up the Agent 4 handle.

MINT TEA/PAIVA. A bit of a gossip, but also a wall of support. Wants to cheer everybody up, but is hiding issues of her own. Close friends with Roka. A possible ship with roka, as well. She’s the second leader of the team, and the only one in contact with Roka, right up until her disappearance. Oops. Literally the only one with a picture like this.

GLASSES/HENRIETTA. I did not know that the splatoon manga glasses was known as glasses, and this is awkward. and also full moon is a thing and AGH. anyway glasses. Seems to be a sarcastic little piece of shit, but honestly it’s just a front to her inner core. Of someone who likes to snipe and have fun. Wonder what caused her to be like that? hm.

Bandanna/Daphyne. She exudes an aura of edge, an aura of Not Caring... but she really does care... a lot more than she lets on. Will Fight anybody who disses her pals. Honestly a teen girl at heart. Loves black.

RETRO/AKIM/AGENT 4. A bit of a prick, but the kind of prick you know doesn’t mean his words. He’s kind of skilled in battle with his roller, which makes this W O R SE !! a big fan of music, and gaming, and also being gay. he makes jokes about that a lot.

SPECS/MARK: you know the stereotypical nerd? stays in a bedroom most of the day, tinkering around with stuff? That’s Specs! He likes to play video games with Retro, and... oh, look at that, another ship. Wow. Analytical!

SUNNY/GWEN. Similar to another person, she appears to not care, while caring a lot. Apathetic seeming, but able to come out of her core to care. Probably has a lot of interests from her girlfriend...

RAINY/SARAH. She’s fueled by a firey passion most of the time, but it tends to fizzle out quickly, and that’s how she and Sunny met, basically. Not pictured is the Traditional Headband she wears. Yes, she and Sunny are girlfriends. yay matching outfits.

PAINT! Er, she looks... not like this as much? Her gloves cover her fingers, and her hairstyle is the enemy octo hairstyle! In the ‘first game’ aka the first arc, she actually wears the paintball mask which covers her whole face, and also mains chargers. She just switched to brella in the second game. Shy, kind of nervous, but willing to put her foot down when push comes to shove. Er, she also has to be pushed to that point. Poor girl.

FISHFRY. A super out-there kinda kid. sorry, some ocs don’t have much personality. He will Protecc Paint with his life. Probably does research and field expeditions for her.

PEAKS. Proud of her role in battle, and probably the first one Paint trusted with the secret of her being an octoling, and the one best fit to break the news.

VECTOR. Full Attacc mode. Fueled by battle, loves to battle. Whenever Paint is taken off guard, she’s probably the one there to back her up.

ZEKKO. Leader of the Marksmen. Sorry there isn’t much about him. he’s definitely gay tho? Loves bothering the other players with his gun.

PANEL. A bit of a nerd, though he hides it behind his huge blaster.

SQUIDMARK. Reclusive? shows little emotion, but its definitely there.

CHECK. Loves the feeling of his hair. Probably more muscly than you would gather from his shirt.

SATIN. Loves this style and doesn’t get why people laugh at her scuba mask. knows what she’s doing in battle, but... not much outside of it.

CANCEL. Tends to ignore the outside world for her daydreams, even in battles, and still does well?? how does this team function

Ah, this is how they function. PARKA. Aka the straight person- well, they’re nonbinary and are hiding their ponytail in that hat of theirs. The person who sets the team straight and directs them in the right direction. Beakons help.

Zink. Just as odd as the rest of his team. He says his headband helps him, when it very clearly doesn’t. Or maybe it does and its just a hidden condition. Who knows? He’s just a bit bizarre.

BERRY. Leader of her team, she’s Suspicious of everything, and fierce in battle. Loves being Warm....

Olive. Er, he has the wrong ink color, and his eyes are blinking. It’s better like this instead of the WRONG PIECE OF HEADGEAR. Suave and cool, and yet constantly bickers with Berry. Ah, sibling culture. Super strong. A bit of a brat, but he won’t press on Berry’s anxious triggers. That’s Just Rude.

JELLY. Sometimes called Baby because of just how precious she acts. Will kick people if she has to.

SHRIMP. AKA... well. You know that headcanon that Pearl, Emperor, and Prince are siblings? Well, Shrimp’s their cousin. He’s got the short genes. He tries to compensate for it by being loud, and is often jokingly called Pearl’s cousin. Likes telling tales. That are often mostly true.

SPLATOON 2 TEAMS

HOOK/ATA/AGENT 8. A soft and kind soul, friendly and loves to talk more than take action, but when she takes action... whooo. she knows how to take action. If she’s angry, you don’t want to be around. Mostly quiet. Another possible ship with Roka.

YAMAGIRI/ADRIAN. Confident, and a bit cocky, but it’s mostly only a bit of exaggeration: he loves to stick to his ideals, and truly believes himself to be carrying those out to the best of his ability. Stupidly loyal to his friends.

TOOTHPICK/NOELANI. Two words to describe her: mom friend. Caring, worrying for everybody that crosses her vision, analytical to a stupid degree. Strong, so she can help throw her friends into a food cart so they can EAT FOOD. 

OCEANIC/VICTOR. A soft-spoken octoling, but is willing to do whatever it takes for his friends to Remain Happy, happy to shoulder their burdens. Hides his emotions under his big ol’ hat, though if you look under it, he’s probably a blubbering mess. Whenever angered, his voice seems to drop octaves and inflection. That’s terrifying!

BLOCKER. Oh my god, he’s a party animal. Oh my god. He likes doing memes and tricks, and, you know who this should remind you of? Aloha. Anyway, Blocker’s well known for his tricks with his brella, and his excellent dance skills... which also aids him in battle!

FUGU. He has a Big Ol Crush on Blocker, and I don’t think Blocker’s noticed yet. Oof. Kind of quiet and likes to observe before hopping into things, useful for a blaster with such a short range...? Awkward, but he’s trying to get better.

SEA SLUG. Constantly on the go, constantly moving, she’s gotta Go Go Go!! Hyperactive, probably can be seen stimming. Has an attachment to her gun.

LEAF. Seemingly hard-boiled, constantly huffing about something or other. She’s- she’s a Rider Tsundere, that’s all I can describe her as. Her friendships with Blocker the Party Master and Sea Slug have definitely Lightened her up. Still a little bit of a grump?

ARROW. Dependable. You can depend on him to tell you when you’re doing some Bad Shit, Stop That.

HOTHOUSE. A... a bit of a flirt, and a good punster. two things that shouldn’t be combined into one girl.

TACKLE VISOR. Keeps their face hidden purposefully, which hides their non-standard hairstyle. Rough and tough, a sneaky little bastard. You know, despite the TACKLE VISOR on their head.

MATCHA. A silly little guy. The oblivious one that somehow still manages to cooperate with Hothouse’s jokes anyway. May be faking obliviousness...

HICKORY. Such a casual guy. Him and Blocker are probably pals. Party pals. Would drink your soda on accident and then apologize.

DO-RAG. oh my god, look, it’s a lesbian. She loves to show off, and is super strong. Could probably lift her teammates above her head. Actually can’t see much without her glasses, they’re made for her weird-ass eyes.

REDLEAF. He looks like the type of guy who hyperfocuses on everything and has to be told to back off, but he’s not trying to be creepy. Soft. Would memorize your food favorites and cook it for you.

CLAMS. He. he loves being super fancy. Not because he thinks he’s above others, he really, really loves the aesthetic of it! He and Do-Rag fight over which splatling is better sometimes. And then help each other score dates.

EGG. Super silly, has probably eaten a raw egg whole on a dare. Easily dared into things, though this means she’s very resilient. Can and Will say silly things just to confuse people.

CARROT. Helps out with Egg’s jokes. Has shoved an entire carrot down her gut before. Egg and her were actually friends before they both traveled to the surface. They are... bad influences on each other.

RAINBOW: He’s a casual gay. I- uh. He’s super fun in battles, and is often the one daring Egg and Carrot to do things because he loves putting it on whatever the octo media is. Loves sandals, hates his toes feeling constricted.

CANARY. Oh my god this is a swamp gremlin. You know the meme versions of agent 4? that, times like 100. Jesus. This team is crazy.

SEASHELL. Doesn’t use the deco because her teammates described what the burstbomb and carbon did to people and she doesn’t wish to cause people harm....

JADE. he’s blue ba due be- i mean. he’s a good singer, but still learning the ropes of his new weapon.

DEEPSEA. A friend. The dad friend. Will tell jokes to make you feel better, but always a shoulder to lean on. Always will wear silly clothes too.

FORGE. ..... a guy of few words.... kind of like skull. doesn’t really talk much, but evidently is a good prankster and loves spicy things. Will tuck you into bed and then doodle on your face.