#all of these HCs are written of the fact that he too is neurodivergent

[justamessedupdisneyprincess]

🗡️ 💙ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BARLEY LIGHTFOOT💙🗡️

These are just my personal HCs. This is just a huge list or rather my personal wiki ALL about Barley. This list will have four different categories, the basics (birthday/sexuality etc), preferences (what he likes/dislikes), facts (random short facts about him), relationships (facts about his relationships with his friends and family) and history (facts about his childhood and high school years).

💙BASICS💙

He was born on the 3rd of August 2001

He is pansexual 🩷💛💙

He is neurodivergent

He is an extrovert

Dream job

His dream job would to become like a mercenary and go on many quests. Since that isn’t likely though he may become a mechanic.

Hobbies

His hobbies include: playing Quests of Yore, playing RPG video games, drawing (he is a traditional artist), writing (mostly poetry and songs but he has written some adventurous stories as well), playing guitar and writing his own songs, exploring and travelling in Guinevere, cosplay, LARPing, making and painting QOY figurines and miniatures to add to his games, fixing up broken things.

Talents

He is very good at drawing and painting traditionally but is hopeless with digital art, he can be a great actor as well, he is a surprisingly good cook as he did used to cook sometimes when Laurel was super busy or tired, he is a master of improvising and can work well with nothing but scrap.

Fears

He doesn’t fear much but he is afraid of the hospital, gelatinous cubes, and losing loved ones.

🥰Preferences😒

Loved food and drinks

He is a huge fan of junk food especially and he does also enjoy a lot of dairy. He loves a nice hearty meal. Some of his favourites meals are pizza (especially BBQ and ones with plenty of meaty toppings), burgers, burritos, nachos, pretty much anything with lots of cheese, roast meats and pies.

He enjoys some sweets too! He is nuts about chocolate and anything that is very chocolatey. He is also a big fan of doughnuts and pastries. He likes to drink soda and energy drinks. Overall his preferred diet may not look the healthiest.

His ultimate favourites are pizza, chocolate cake, fries covered in cheese, any sort of cheesy crisps like cheese puffs, any sort of cheesy snacks in general, fried griffin wings, roast ham, mountain doom drinks, Coca Cola and chocolate milkshakes.

Disliked/hated food and drinks

He is not a fan of anything that tastes bitter. He loved pretty much all chips and crisps but he isn’t a big fan of the ones that are vinegar flavoured. He dislikes most vegetables.

He especially hates meals that are nothing but vegetables, a warrior needs his protein he says! As for drinks he isn’t a huge fan of tea. He dislikes the taste of green tea.

Music

Barley LOVES rock and heavy metal! Electric guitar solos are his favourite. His loves a good rock opera as well.

Barley isn’t a fan of most pop songs. Occasionally he might find one he doesn’t mind though. He hates a song that is slow and quiet though. He NEEDS something he can bang his head to or play air guitar to.

Movies/shows

Barley of course loves ANY sort of adventure movie or series that has to do with olden days. He would be way into LOTR/Hobbit for example. He enjoys a lot of action but he does also secretly enjoy some romance because he is a softie (he won’t admit it though.).

He isn’t too fussy with genres but he isn’t a fan of anything that feels too sad. Because of that he may not be into post apocalyptic series (although he does enjoy the concepts of post apocalyptic) because he feels too bad for any of the characters that die. He can actually get shockingly emotional. He also doesn’t like ones that feel too slow, if not much is happening for a long while he gets bored easily, “where is the action?” He would say.

Books

Any classic old fairy tale or legend that was written back in the olden days. He likes stories about adventure but he doesn’t read much as he tends to be too busy with his other hobbies. He reads literally every QOY book or comic he can get his hands on though and always finds a way to make time for them! He also enjoys books that talk about history.

As for disliked books he doesn’t really have any so to say, he only focuses on the genres above and hasn’t tried any other. He thinks about trying out some more comics and even some manga someday though.

Style/clothes/furnishings

Barley obviously loves to rock an outfit that says “metal”. If a shirt has a print of a weapon or skull there is a high chance Barley will wear it. He isn’t too sure of wearing anything that might look a bit too cutesy though. He wants to look cool! The clothes he wears also has to be comfortable, he will never wear anything that isn’t.

He loves clothing and furniture with either a rocker’s vibe to it or something that looks old fashioned and mystical. He is not too fussed about colours but he does prefer darker colours over pastels, such as a dark blue, deep red or black. He loves to collect any old amour or weapons! He has grown quite the collection.

Barley is not a fan of a modern look or anything that is minimalist. One reason he dislikes a modern architecture is because it makes him feel like the world is drifting further and further away from its humble beginnings and as for minimalist he just finds it boring.

Activities

Barley loves all of his hobbies mentioned above but as for things he does not like to do, that would have to be a lot of chores. While he does love to draw and work on things to add to his game he actually isn’t into a lot of craft related activities. He enjoys colouring or things that are on paper but he doesn’t have the patience to sit still and knit or cross stitch. He is usually the type who is down for anything but he doesn’t do well in things that feel a bit too quiet, like yoga and meditation for example. He loves video games but he actually isn’t really into most cozy games as he personally gets bored from time to time, he loves the thrill of an adventure both in real life and in games! He isn’t a huge sports fan but he does enjoy playing some sport games from time to time, however he HATES fishing because he gets very impatient and bored.

📚Facts📚

Barley is a heavy sleeper, he can sleep through a hurricane! He also tends to be a night owl and can sleep in late at times. It is hard to wake him up!

As mentioned he loves to collect old amour and weapons, he has a huge collection now and he constantly wonders what adventures these old relics went on. He admires each and every one of them, even if some of them may be very rusty. He even gives them names just like he did with Guinevere!

He has an iron stomach, in both the sense he can handle gore and gross stuff shockingly well and he can eat slightly spoiled food or eat extreme amounts and be perfectly fine. Although he did have a few moments where he over did it. (It was mentioned in one of the Disney apps where he ate five buckets of fries and it didn’t end well). Regarding handling gross things or gore he can watch the most insane stuff, he can watch someone during an operation while snacking on cheese puffs just fine.

He actually secretly has a huge soft spot for animals, kids and cute things.

Barley doesn’t do a lot to take care of himself, he may avoid a shower every once in a while so he can focus on questing. On an average he showers once a day but it is not uncommon for him to miss just one day. This was implied in the movie as well.

Barley can sleep in his clothes just fine, he has even done that a few times if it’s been a long day.

Barley is a huge hugger and he gives the best hugs as well!

He may seem silly most of the time but he can be mature in other ways. While he seems impatient when it comes to what he is doing as of now he is very patient when it comes to others. Because of this he makes a great and understanding friend! He also tends to be very understanding and he never judges.

He has no fear of bugs, he just casually picks them up and lets them outside if they’re in the house. He has even held some huge spiders which always freaks out his family.

He isn’t the athletic type but he likes to go on walks, he takes his time and enjoys the scenery though, it’s not for exercise personally. He loves to explore new areas! He is very curious of the world around him and is thrilled to discover something new.

He actually knows how to play a lot of instruments and has studied music. He can read music notes as well.

When visiting a theme park he enjoys the extreme rides like roller coasters.

He is a huge fan of puns!

He loves riddles as well and likes to solve them and ask them. Although sometimes if you get it wrong multiple times he may drop a hint or two…usually in the form of ANOTHER riddle.

He is not only passionate about the past and preserving historical structures and relics, he often collects any litter he finds to help keep the streets clean enough. This is tied to his passion about the past as well, to keep the old kingdom clean of modern garbage. Sometimes he may find ways to repurpose the things he finds and has made some…bizarre things.

It’s not uncommon for Barley to help himself to a midnight snack. Depending on his mood sometimes he will snack on left overs from dinner or he might even make himself an ice cream sandwich.

He also has weird food habits. Some joke that he eats like a pregnant person at times! He gets cravings of things and they form into some bizarre combinations! He once made himself some toast and smothered it with ice cream for one example.

Barley is a big stress eater. He doesn’t normally get stressed though. (It was kind of implied in the movie when he tore through a bag of cheese puffs and went to get another snack when he got angry at Ian).

Barley is usually calm and cool but when he gets super angry he might punch at a few walls or posts. He has bruised his knuckles a few times when things got really rough.

Barley is the worst at lying, doesn’t matter what lie it is, what the circumstances are or who he may be lying too, he is just awful at it. (Was kind of implied in the movie as well at the beginning with Colt LOL)

Barley sometimes sings in the shower.

He has lots and lots of journals that are filled with his art, ideas and literature. He has so many scattered around him room and he probably has enough to make his own library. Sometimes he might just sit and doodle completely random things.

He is great at most mechanics related stuff but he struggles to understand a lot of computer related stuff.

Barley talks to himself when he gets nervous or impatient. So much so it can be like he has a conversation with himself at some stages.

He usually says whatever pops into his head. So sometimes he can be a little blunt and say things at a bad time. He rarely says things that are offensive though because he has a genuine and kind heart. The worst he may say is if someone is boring or a total buzzkill. (Usually towards Colt).

Barley will go out of his way to help a stranger in need. Like helping old people cross the road for example. If he sees a baby or kid crying he would usually try to make funny faces to make them laugh or cheer them up.

Barley has a FREAKISHLY good memory.

Barley may seem confident most of the time but if he gets a crush on someone he can actually be pretty shy about it to begin with. Basically he is all like: 😳🥺👉👈

🫂Relationships🫂

Ian

He obviously loves Ian a whole lot! They were very close when they were younger but when Ian went through puberty he sort of drifted from him for a moment before their big adventure took place. When his father died Barley was grieving heavily and Ian’s arrival helped him a whole lot! He is grateful to have him in his life and it’s all just one of the many reasons he loves him.

He feels a strong need to protect him no matter what! During school he would often go and check on Ian to make sure he was alright. When Barley graduated he has tried to sneak back into school just to make sure Ian was alright. This was also because Barley did have to deal with a few Aholes so he wanted to make sure Ian was ok. This of course embarrassed Ian greatly and a small argument did break out where Ian told him not to baby him anymore.

When Ian got his first facial hair Barley almost cried because his baby brother was growing up. He truely is like a brother AND father figure to him. It used to embarrass Ian as well because he made a huge deal out of it! “Did ya hear that? His little voice is breaking” “ugh….”

Barley has tried to play a few pranks on Ian before, usually by hiding behind a door and jumping out to scare him! It works every time. Although his main intention is to train him to be more alert and to have fun while doing it. It’s part of him lightly shaping him into being a warrior. He has gotten into trouble when Ian complained to Laurel though when his pranks went a bit too far, (not harmful at all! Just annoying and startling.).

When they were kids they played a lot! We have seen them go swimming, bike riding and play pillow fights! They often used to make their own pillow forts and watch tv together while snuggled up inside. Barley tried to play swords with Ian using sticks but Laurel quickly banned them from playing that game in fear of them accidentally hurting one another.

Barley actually used to get lots of nightmares about losing his dad when he was little and sometimes he has nightmares about his mother and Ian getting sick the same way Wilden was. He always goes into Ian’s room and watches him sleep for a while to make sure he is ok.

Laurel

Laurel loves Barley but is often frustrated with his recklessness, habits and the immature side of him. She can be strict with him but it is ultimately out of love, like “Look for a job!”, “Clean your room!”, etc.

Even though Barley is an adult she will still ground him sometimes. She says she has that power for as long as he lives under her roof. There have been a few times where poor Barley had his Quests of Yore campaign closed down earlier and she hides the box away somewhere for a while. A lot of Barley’s Quests of Yore friends think she is pretty scary.

It was hard losing her husband but it was also hard being a single mother. Because she had to work so hard it wasn’t uncommon for her to get home late from work. When Barley got a little older he used to help cook dinner when she got very tired of busy. Although he did used to make a huge mess of the kitchen, still Laurel couldn’t complain if it meant she didn’t have to worry about dinner so much. Barley is weirdly mature in some ways and immature in other ways.

Barley wasn’t able to spend lots and lots of time with his mother during childhood since she had to work twice as hard as a single parent. It is also part of why Barley was extra close with Ian because he was always there to play with.

When Laurel got stressed Barley used to try and cheer her up by telling jokes or making funny faces to try to make her laugh. It worked almost every time!

Colt

They aren’t exactly on the best of terms. Colt does care for Barley though since he is his stepson but Barley still cannot see him as his dad. For a while he felt angry because he saw him as a cheap replacement and had trouble understanding why Laurel suddenly wanted to start seeing someone else after so long. That feeling faded over time but he still isn’t fond of Colt.

Laurel and Colt met when Barley got arrested for one of his protests. He was completely baffled when his mother and the police officer started dating! After all he was like an enemy to him!

Colt tends to scold Barley a fair bit but he does still try to make an effort. Usually they still don’t see eye to eye though.

Barley was worried about Laurel getting her heart broken so he broke into Colt’s office at one stage to snoop through all of his stuff to find any sort of evidence. He found nothing that could prove he had any ill intentions though.

Sometimes Colt will start talking about something and it would be hard to make him stop. He hits Barley with a whole lot of “When I was your age” stories that tend to be very boring and they are often tied to some even more boring lecture as well.

Colt wants to be a good enough stepfather but has no idea how. He once asked Barley if he was interested in anyone and needed advice about that sort of stuff or if he had any questions. It was the hardest Barley has ever cringed in his WHOLE life!

Barley will sometimes stick his tongue at Colt when he or Laurel are not looking.

Manticore (Corey)

Barley is a HUGE fan of her and looks up to her a whole lot. He tends to be a big fanboy when it comes to her.

He sees her the way many others see celebrities and was actually a bit nervous when first getting to know his idol. He is always respectful around her but the first few months…perhaps even years…he has been a bit over the top. He would kneel before her constantly and always talk so formally even though they are technically friends now. Corey feels like she should tell him to just act natural but has no idea how too.

Barley frequently asks her to share some of her stories, as politely as possible of course. When she speaks he always watches her with a sparkle in his eyes, like an excited kid.

Barley usually says how she is like the coolest person in the world. Ian being in close second (which Ian always denies).

Barley did actually go to her tavern when he was only five years old. Laurel had an important meeting and lunch was being held there but she couldn’t find any babysitters at the time so she took her kids along. She had to do this more than once. Ian has no memory of being there but Barley absorbed every moment of it! The tavern was actually different back then, it looked more like how it did by the end of the movie but empty and worn down. Barley ended up wondering off for a moment and examined some of her old weapons and treasures. The manticore finds him and tells him a few stories about her adventures as he looked through her stuff. She seemed sad as no one else seemed interested anymore but was thrilled to see Barley showing interest and had to share her tales. Barley asked many questions about her old stuff and she was overjoyed to tell him everything! This is where his love for history and adventure began to grow. Laurel panicked when she realised Barley wondered off and Corey happily led him back to his mother who scolded him for wondering. The memory is a bit hazy now but Barley still holds onto that. Since it has been many years though Corey didn’t remember Laurel at all and she was just another customer at the time, since Barley grew up it was hard to recognise him. At some stage when Barley got a bit more comfortable around his hero he did tell her about it and asked if she remembered, this jogged her memory and her, Laurel and Barley had a good laugh over it whilst Ian stood there clueless as he was far too young to remember much about that day.

He felt sick when he saw the dramatic changes to her tavern halfway into the movie, with the gift shop and games and such. He felt as if his childhood was ruined in some ways! He hid it pretty well though. In the end he actually helped her come up with the idea of sharing her stories with her customers as an attraction like how we see in the end of the movie.

Shrub Rosehammer (a friend of his that was briefly mentioned in the movie and some books)

Shrub is a troll friend of his who is briefly mentioned. They both love quests of yore and play it together.

They met in kindergarten and had been good friends since. Barley was alone after just recently losing his dad. Most of the other kids ignored him as he sat alone but Shrub was concerned and asked if he wanted to play. Barley was a bit taken aback at first as he was still grieving but he was also surprised how someone at his school actually said something to him. Because of that he took the offer and they played during lunch break and their friendship grew from there.

Barley is like the wild card of the duo. Wild Shrub can get into mischief on rare occasions but he still isn’t nearly as chaotic as Barley and does try to avoid breaking some rules. He was what Barley would call a lawful good.

When Barley got himself into trouble Shrub would just chuckle a little, not in a mean spirited way but because he knew what was coming. Barley is so unpredictable that he has become predictable.

Barley is a lot more passionate and will go on rants about how old facilities of their ancient past are being torn down. Shrub just listens and lets him blow off steam. He would say “I agree that it sucks, but there’s nothing we could do.”. He didn’t really help Barley with that stuff in the sense of joining in on the protest. BUT he was somewhat supportive in the sense he would be like “Yeah that’s sucks. Hey man, did you wanna grab something to eat? I’m sure a doughnut or something will make you feel better.”

🏫History🏫

Childhood

Barley has an old teddy bear his father gave him before he died. It’s his most treasured possession and he still sleeps with it to this very day.

Barley would have had a lonely childhood if it wasn’t for Ian and a few friends he did have in school. He would sometimes feel upset about his father and felt robbed of his parents but just having Ian helped a whole lot.

He had to be independent pretty quickly. Laurel would often call for babysitters when needed but there have been a few times when they couldn’t get one and Barley had to take charge. Laurel was very stern about the rules of safety and repeated them to Barley literally thousands of times each and every time she goes out. She wanted to imprint them into his brain. Ironically though they were put into Ian’s head and he was often the one who reminded Barley not to do certain things.

Barley used to injure himself CONSTANTLY as a kid. He still does to this day but not nearly as much.

Barley was a super hyper kid who just wanted to play ALL the time, Laurel used to wonder how he never seems to get tired. Usually he would be bouncing around and then all of a sudden he will crash and fall into a deep sleep. There were no in between moments back then, his energy levels were just like a switch!

When Barley was little he wanted to be a knight but got his dreams crushed quickly by a teacher who told him there are no knights anymore.

High school years

Barley actually used to get bad pimples around the age of 13 to 16.

He had been picked on a little bit in school but it was nothing ever TOO extreme, mostly some name calling here and there. Although he still did get his feelings hurt from time to time. He used to do what he can to stand up for others who were being picked on. On rare occasions he did end up in a few fist fights against bullies.

Barley is incredibly intelligent! Although he struggles in subjects he has little to no interest in. His best subject was obviously history!

He used to struggle with chemistry, which he had insisted was just updated potion brewing…he used to get quite experimental with that sort of stuff and it usually would not go too well. He would also often complain about the “unnecessary modern equipment” that just felt like it made things far more complicated than need be.

Barley used to try and explore every single inch of the school to try to find any hidden secrets, it did used to be an ancient castle after all. He would make note of anything he felt was interesting or perhaps even a potential key to a hidden chamber.

Barley would sneak lots and lots of snacks into school. He always had lots of gum and it used to drive some of the teachers crazy!

💙thanks so much for reading! I plan to do other characters in the future as well! At some stage. This took so long to make.💙

[hangon-silvergirl]

What is your favourite fanon chracterisation of Chrissy?

Hi! Thanks for the ask, anon. Gird your loins for a spiel as I am apparently unable to stop myself from writing dissertations when people ask me questions here. 😇

(Send me 'What's Your Favorite...?' Asks, and I will almost definitely write you a rambling dissertation too...!)

Before you dive on into my inanities I want to preface this by saying that I can't possibly pick one Chrissy in fanon because there are many of her across the universes, and there is a lot of wonderful in all that. My Hellcheer north star is that Chrissy Cunningham looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you and Eddie Munson looks he he could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll, and that's about as much of a summation as I can manage.

When I started digging into the ST4 fandom, I was really focused on Eddie more than anything; I wasn't necessarily looking for a ship to hyperfixate on (but when does a neurodivergent person ever, haaaaaaaaa), but then I wandered into the Hellcheer aO3 tag. The first fic I ever read was BeeLove's oh it's not real (if you don't feel it), and given it was my gateway drug into this community it's fair to say that it shaped my own HCs of Chrissy.

The way I've written Chrissy's POV in Marigold is my own interpretation, and she is the basis for all of my Chrissys, though of course I adjust as appropriate for the narrative I'm spinning.

SO, the tl;dr here is: IDK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think one of the things that lends so much to Hellcheer as a ship is the fact that, however we're imaging Chrissy, there is SO MUCH that we don't know about her! There are a lot of different ways to approach the crux of her character, and I would say that they are all valid, even if they might not be everyone's HC or cup of tea. Maybe she's timid, maybe she's a BAMF. Maybe her mother and Jason are massive abusers, maybe she actually loves Jason (or did) and her mother is just casually cruel. Maybe Chrissy has a lot of control in her life, maybe she has very little. Maybe she's conditioned, or maybe she takes no shit. Maybe she's a naïve Christian baby who can't say shit, or maybe she's a closet sailor. Maybe she's obsessed with pop music, maybe she's secretly into Bikini Kill. Maybe she's a virginal and inexperienced angel, or maybe she's a closet deviant. Maybe it's a little bit of all of it, whirling around in a centrifuge, splicing out bits for the narrative-at-hand. THE BEST PART is that it can all work effectively, because we're building everything off of a single episode of television.

Everything after The Hellfire Club is inference on our part as viewers, or things that the cast has suggested in Q&As post-show; it's all nuance, and interpretation, and based largely on the acting choices made by Grace, Mason, and Joe. So, honestly, I have gobbled up Hellcheer media like a starving, rabid gremlin for the last six months, and I have seen a plethora of interpretations of her character, and so so SO many of them have resonated with me. As long as that essence of the Chrissy we were shown--"Me?"--is still there, and recognizable, well then that works for me.

[most-mistreated-characters]

We can confirm Papyrus for most mistreated just by the sheer fact that you, poll runner, put him up against Hunter in the first round (pensive emoji) To be fair to him (and us, the Papyrus enjoyers) he put up a hell of a fight. The difference in Hunter and Papyrus' fandom experience is night and day. Hunter is beloved. Hunter is celebrated. People HC he is neurodivergent and it is used to elevate him.

Papyrus, intentionally or not, is written like he's neurodivergent and the fandom took one look at him and for the last nearly 8 years has decided he need to be murdered to further his brother's angst-overfilled storylines, or that he's too stupid to live and is taken advantage of, or that people aren't allowed to swear around him or telling him his poorly cooked spaghetti is bad because otherwise Sans Will Kill You. Like as someone who reads Papyrus/reader inserts, it drives me fucking nuts, it's ALL reverse harems focused on Sans. The ones that don't are shit like. Fucking. Sans threatens to kill you if you even date Papyrus. Sans threatens you with his eyes from across the room if you dare even THINK to suggest Papyrus' spaghetti could be improved.

A trope I have seen on more than one occasion is these shitty reverse harem fics tagging it for Papyrus/reader romance and then they have Papyrus say he's ace and he just fucking ceases to exist. Horrortale Papyrus is meant to be the same as UT Papyrus but he gets a different ending that goes wrong. On at least one occasion in these terrible fics where Papyrus says "I'm Ace" and then ne does the peace sign and fades away, horror Papyrus is also there and even though the FIC ACKNOWLEDGED THEY SHOULD BE THE SAME, THEY SAID HORROR PAPYRUS WASN'T ACE "ANYMORE" which just proves people put often make classic Papyrus ace to kick him out of the big kids romance room, which as an ace person pisses me off.

One of my favorite fics ever involves the world being reset after the reader develops a relationship with him and suddenly it's a murder run and reader remembers Papyrus exists so they go into the mountain and are helping SANS FIGHT FRISK???? And there's like one fucking chapter left and we don't even get to see the reader rebuild their relationship with Papyrus after the reset, it's just "That was fun NOW TIME FOR SANS GLOWY MURDER EYE WEEEEE"

And that's one of my favorites. One of the most popular fics in the fandom is literally Papyrus being tortured by Flowey to make him "less innocent" so he can get into the royal guard.

I did a count of all the major endings in UT and out of roughly 18 major endings 9 of them involve Papyrus being dead or very sad (two sad, 7 dead)

Papyrus deserves to return.

no need to blame me. i do not hate papyrus so much that i put him against a character in the first round i knew he would lose to. dont know what you're getting at here but see what i did was put some unpopular fandom characters against popular fandom characters and some popular fandom characters against other popular fandom characters. so undertale, popular, against the owl house, also popular. im not an undertale fan so i knew nothing about papyrus, i also new nothing about hunter. i knew "popular fandoms" and put em against each other. sorry bud. root for papyrus in the redemptions.

[butterflyeffectiveless]

not tagging, rant

saying that someone is ableist because they have a different interpretation of Toffee is kind of unfair

: some look at his character from the standpoint of him being an experienced war veteran with resentment issues, and taking into consideration that he literally lives for centuries which could affect his worldview and personality in ways human people could not be.

plus Toffee is a fictional character, whose story was not explored in canon, so any indication that he is the way he is because of him being autistic , although Valid, could be 80% self-projection rather than canon interpretation.

Saying that you headcanon him as autistic and headcanon his behavior, ideas and gestures as autistic traits is valid and interesting and you have all the right to do so, but perception of other interpretations of his character as ableist is deeply misplaced. 

Being a sociopath is by definition a result of the character’s unhealthy environment and influence that rewired said character’s views and behavioral patterns, so headcanoning Toffee as a sociopath can be valid too.  Just because someone perceives Toffee as sociopathic or violent (being a sociopath and violent are two different things though) , it doesn’t mean they are being ableist. 

There Are cases when people mistakenly assume a person is awful or emotionless when in reality they show autistic traits, but Toffee is Not one of those cases. When people start talking about a character who was written as autistic, that they are evil or that their behavior is awful, they are being ableist. But in Toffee’s case, his character was not explored, his environment was not explored. He did not explicitly show traits that were written to be neurodivergent. (To be fair, Toffe is incredibly charming and can get around people, which is something that autistic people usually struggle with due to struggle to communicate. In fact, he is rather good at emoting.)

When you talk about Toffee as a character who is autistic and people saying he is not when he shows traits simialr to autism, you most likely talk about an alternative interpretation of him. When people talk about Toffee as a bloodthirsty merciless man, they are talking about Another interpretation of him. Both yours and their interpretations have the right to exist.

Im Not saying that autistic people who see themselves in him are bad. Im not saying that they are wrong to headcanon him as autistic. Im Not saying that people being uset at how they are treated due to their neurodivergency is invalid. All of that is valid.

I just ask people not to accuse others of being ableist because they headcanon him as someone awful. It’s lovely that you are being passionate about Toffee but in your passion you tend to blend canon with fanon interpretations and wrongly assume things about people who see your favorite character differently.

Im Not saying Toffee can’t be autistic. Toffee can be autistic, because autistic traits vary from person to person. I do see why they hc Toffee as autistic.

But , Toffee may also be not autistic for same reasons. Because autistic traits vary. He may even have other type of neurodivergency. 

And, when people say he’s an awful  person (monster), they could also be self-projecting. They could be projecting their trauma. And, saying someone is awful and cold blooded killer because of murdering is actually a valid point, its not ableist.

[lunaticsandidiots]

What would adrian be like with s/o that has asd/ADHD?? 💜

!!!!!! THIS TOPIC WAS MADE FOR ME BECAUSE I GOT THE 2 FOR 1 SPECIAL BABY !!!!!!

adrian with a neurodivergent s/o…

alright so, i feel like i say this in every single HC i write but i headcanon as adrian as neurodivergent (i mean, it’s been confirmed-ish from james gunn himself so).

i don’t know if he’d have a formal diagnosis or whether he’s just rawdogging it (shoutout to my buddies who r out here freestyling it rn i see u and im proud of u <3).

BUT when he met you, he’d be enraptured.

‘they’re…. they’re just like me… THEY’RE JUST LIKE ME FR!!!’.

if you’re not one to mask, he’d be instantly drawn to your bluntness, so relieved he doesn’t have to struggle to try and read you. all he wants to do is be around you.

if you’re like me and you don’t really have a ‘coherent’ train of thought (aka you speedrun through 15 seemingly unrelated topics in a minute), he’d be able to follow along just fine, maybe even finding it stimulating (and again relieving that he doesn’t need to force himself to focus on (1) singular topic for a billion years like everyone else wants to).

i think this is one of the rare occasions he might have A Thought™, mildly concerned as to why he feels SO comfortable around you (answer: its because he doesn’t have to mask in order for you to take him seriously).

you guys would definitely pick up each other’s stims, communicating half the time through random noises or quotes from tv shows that one of you picked up somewhere.

and if one of you did something cool on a mission, the rest of the gang would watch on in confusion (and amusement) as you both start doing his flappy arms.

(these ones)

i think the hardest parts would be the no-spoon days and the meltdowns, and that’d come down to how the other was feeling in the moment (and how well you knew each other).

in saying that, if you usually just need space to calm down, his inability to coddle people might actually work in your favour (we saw how he comforted chris). you definitely wouldn’t need to worry about him trying to hold you or asking you to explain.

i don’t think he’d be very… proactive about fixing whatever caused the meltdown, but if you’re able to choke out a few words regarding the issue (ie. the musics too loud), he’d be throwing the speaker out the window and smashing it to smithereens with a baseball bat in the blink of an eye. ‘it upset you, so it needs to go.’

your love language would definitely be info dumping about your special interests to each other.

adrian’s very particular about his interests, but even if yours wasn’t something he’d normally be interested in at all, i feel like just seeing the pure joy and passion in your eyes as you talk about your thing would make him want to hear all about it, asking questions to watch you talk more and surprising you with little gifts related to it.

(all subconscious btw, i cant see him actively thinking ‘oh they like this thing, i can be thoughtful about it by doing xyz!’, i think he’d just be so fucking obsessed with seeing you so excited about something that he’d do anything he could to see it again).

also, don’t expect him to bring any sort of order or organisation to the table. it might make things hard at times - if the both of you were struggling a little more at the same time, there might be the potential for miscommunications or meltdowns because of something broken, forgotten or lost.

but he always says exactly what’s on his mind, that’s one thing he can do, so you’re always going to get a straight forward answer from him, and i feel like he’d appreciate the fact that you’re more inclined to be the same way.

[danganronpa-imagine-headcanon]

Hi um I was wondering if I could get TeruTeru, Twogami, and Togami HCs with an s/o who is neurodivergent? Like an s/o who stims or always thinks logically even if its a joke, or or something like that. i'm not good at explaining things, so sorry!!!

Hey anon! You sure can :D This was cool to write, so thanks for sending in the request! I myself am not neurodivergent, so if I made any mistakes or you want this re-written, don’t be afraid to let me know! I hope you have a nice day :)

-Mod Kirumi

Teruteru, Twogami, and Togami with a neurodivergent S/o!

Teruteru Hanamura

•The fact that you are neurodivergent doesn’t really bother Teruteru— he loves you for how you are!

•He finds it adorable how logically you think— so he’s always sure to clarify when he’s joking about certain things

•He’d hate for you to think he was serious about something and get uncomfortable!

•However, he does find it amusing when he says something jokingly, and you go to correct him or explain the said thing further

•Then he would make another statement, causing you to logically explain that as well

•Honestly, it’s just an excuse for him to hear your voice— he thinks you’re adorable

•If a certain texture of food bothered you, he’d make sure he changed it up!

•He’d be sure the food he made for you didn’t bother you in any sort of way

•Teruteru would get you stimming toys if that would help you at all!

•He always has one handy on him— so if you needed one, he could pull it out of his pocket and hand it over to you, allowing you to mess around with it

•It just fills him with joy whenever he sees you doing your happy stims— he knows you’re fulfilled, and only then will he finally be content

•If you started getting a sensory overload at any given time, Teruteru would ask if you wanted to go, and find a way to pull you away from the situation

•After that, he’ll do anything he can to reduce sensory things around you

•So, as a whole, Teruteru doesn’t really mind that you’re neurodivergent, however, if you needed him to mak any adjustments to the way he does things or speaks to you, then he would!

•Your comfort and happiness is his first priority

•So, if you ever need anything, just let him know

•He’ll always be there to help you!

Byakuya Twogami

•Byakuya nodded when you explained to him that you were neurodivergent

•He then asked if there was anything he could do to help you, or make you feel more at ease

•If there was anything, you could tell him!

•He’s sure to use tone indicators when he talks to you through text— he knows that texting is different than talking in person in more ways than one, and he would hate for something he said to you to be taken the wrong way

•So he tries to always use tone indicators!

•When you happy stimmed, it always planted a small smile on his face— he couldn’t help it! He saw you happy, therefore, he was happy as well

•If you had any items or stim toys that you needed to have sometimes, he wouldn’t really say much about it

•If it was helping you get stimulation or calm you down, then it’s a good thing

•Byakuya also tended to be logical in his thinking, so he didn’t mind that too much either

•The two of you are the kinds of people that respond to jokes with explanations, so he definitely gets why you do that

•Overall, Byakuya tries to be patient and kind towards you— helping you if you didn’t understand or if you were over/understimulated

•He understands that your brain simply works differently than others, and he would be happy to accomodate to any of your needs

•Because he loves you— and while he certainly takes care to make sure that you are happy, your neurodivergency doesn’t change much to him

•Because you’re still you, you’re still the same person he’s always known

•Loving, kind, sweet, pretty

•He loves you as a person

•You really do mean a lot to him

Byakuya Togami

•Byakuya, when he found out you were neurodivergent, thanked you for telling him and asked if there was any way he could help you

•Then, he went on about his day

•He doesn’t mean to be insensitive— He’s just difficult at articulating his feelings, he truly does try and make things easier for you, subtly

•If you wanted any stim toys, there are immediately some on the table beside your bed, no questions asked

•He would try to communicate with you— and buy you any object that could help you in some way shape or form

•Sometimes, though, he understands that money can’t do everything— if you’re in a situation where you’re stressed, or there are too many sensory things around you, he would pull you aside with your permission and take you somewhere less stress-inducing

•He’s not the best at this— but he’s certainly going to try for you!

•Byakuya doesn’t show it, but it always gives him a flicker of happiness throughout his chest when he sees you happy stimming in general

•The stimming isn’t bothersome to him— he finds it kind of adorable

•As if he’d make that known, though!

•It doesn’t bother him either when you think logically even about jokes— he considers himself assertive and maybe takes things a little too seriously sometimes

•So he understands!

•If you ever brought up tone indicators, he would look them over and begin using them if that was what you wanted

•He’s pretty dry and formal when he uses texts, so he would hate for something to come off the wrong way

•So he would use tone indicators through text if that was what you wanted him to do!

•So, overall— Byakuya’s definitely new to this, and he’s not always going to know what he’s doing

•But try to let him know and communicate what you need— he’ll do his best to help you and make sure you’re happy and safe

•Because, really, that’s all he wants for you

•He’s come to love you as a person, and you bet he’s going to do anything to make you comfortable and content!

[oh-wow-its-wordgirl]

Becky for the character ask meme? X3

AW HECK YEAH HERE WE GO

Why I like them-

Because she’s adorable!! And also is just a really well-written character! She loves the city and wants to help people but she’s also Ten Years Old and gets frustrated when she doesn’t get to live her life! Also I relate to her a lot lol... so many people in the show are absolutely neurodivergent, and the whole show is basically just “a superhero whose gimmick is infodumping about her hyperfixation on words”

Why I don’t-

I’ll be honest I don’t think there’s a single thing about Becky I dislike. I mean sure she has times where she’s selfish or shortsighted but these all make for great character moments and are completely understandable for a kid in her position.

Favorite episode (scene if movie)-

Oh boy this is hard lol... I’m always a sucker for the scene in rise of miss power right after she drops sally back off at home 🥺 that legit made me cry. The subtle validation her mom gave to Becky by comparing her to Wordgirl, even if she didn’t know exactly what she was doing... it’s just so sweet. And don’t even get me STARTED on bunny lovers!! Outside of specials though, I think my favorite Becky episode is “the straw that broke Two-Brains’ back”! We really get to see her frustration about always being relied upon. Also we know from kid math’s episode that she usually just pretends to lose in the first half of most episodes to build tension, but I genuinely believe she was trying the best she could to stop Two-Brains cause she was just so angry!

Favorite season/movie-

It’s such an episodic show, I don’t think there’s one season that can be my favorite. I will say that I think they absolutely perfected her personality a few seasons in.

Favorite line-

TOO MANY MAN! But I have to say I’m partial to “YOU’RE about to be incarcerated :D!”

Favorite outfit-

Might seem a little basic, but I honestly really just like the Wordgirl outfit! A lot of the other ones she wears are just goofy lol. But the wg color scheme is super nice and it being a simple one-piece is just really cute ngl. Also I love the headcanon (supported by ROMP) that Huggy made it and that’s adorable.

OTP-

Oh no I can’t choose! I have been focusing a lot on Becktoria lately, but Vibecky has been something I latched onto in like episode 5. But also I just,, really like Scecky for some reason? Like their whole dynamic is super interesting. She had a crush on him when his entire goal was to basically ruin her career, and she kinda lost it right before he learned her secret and gave that up. (And I headcanon thats when he gets a crush on her) so them getting together any time after that is really sweet to me

Brotp-

Oh her and TJ for sure!! They have the perfect sibling interaction and bicker a lot but it’s so obvious that they do really care about each other! Oh but also her and Bob.. monkey dad. How can you not love that. But ALSO Narrator! His inclusion on its own is just super hilarious but their interactions are adorable! But ALSO ALSO her and BUTCHER’S FRIENDSHIP IS SUPER UNDERRATED!! I really like that he usually comes up when she’s having family issues and is always super kind and understanding when she vents to him about them!

Headcanon-

I think she’s Nonbinary and Bi! But aside from lgbt hcs, I think she started being a hero when she was around 8 years old. And also I think she was SUPER excited when she found out she had a younger brother! She absolutely was the one who taught TJ to read and speak (idk how good at it she was she was still very very young and probably had a short temper lol) I also think she has like a group at school where mostly kids with disorders like dyslexia can come to her so she can either help or read to them. Also On more of a serious note, I feel like she had a point where she was really suspicious about her birth parents. Of course the Botsfords are her real family, but she would absolutely feel a little insecure about not knowing how much her bio family cared about her. The fact that they let a baby wander off on its own long enough to get off the planet is. Not that good a sign.

Unpopular Opinion-

There needs to be way more content of her, Scoops, and Violet just hanging out! I’m a sucker for friend group shenanigans and I adore their little interactions. High five sandwich is like one of the best episodes just cause they goof around

A wish-

That we get a reboot someday 😔 I know it’s unnecessary and the show ran for a really long time but I need more daughter. But in universe, a way for Steven to directly communicate with her while not being affected by Squeaky! She misses him so much and deserves more time with him...

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen-

Any scenario of her losing touch with the villains or her friends as she gets older makes me genuinely distressed. They belong together.

5 words to best describe them-

Plucky, powerful, childish, considerate, overexerted

My nickname for them-

Beck, darling, or baby lol. Also sometimes I pronounce WG like “wug”. and occasionally Wordkid when I’m rlly thinking bout her being nonbinary, but also I just think it’s cute to say.

[mariaiscrafting]

What if I’m Latino and want to draw sapnap as Latino as well? Is neurodivegent headcanons for the dream team okay but this isn’t?

I’ll admit, the lines are blurred with Dream SMP characters because they are both characters and representative of real people. If you want, I can talk about the various levels of Problematic™ that are involved in this question, and since I’m bored and procrastinating, let’s get into it:

First off, there is, actually a history of Tumblr fanartists in particular drawing traditionally white characters as POC and getting backlash for it, so honestly, I’m not totally agains the practice. Frankly, drawing classic characters as POC when they haven’t really been confirmed as any race - just assumed to be the default of white - isn’t a bad thing. One such example is Hermione, who many fanartists have depicted as black, with curly hair or an afro. Because Hermione’s character and story are not intrinsically tied to any particular cultural or explicit details that would make it logically flawed to hc her as non-white, there’s really nothing wrong with this.

This is different from the opposite because it is a way for non-white audiencemembers to drive home the point that non-white Americans/Europeans are, in many ways, just like their white counterparts. That is to say, whether Hermione is black or white doesn’t change who she is; she can be a white English lady or a black English lady, but being black doesn’t necessarily mean she would act any differently or be a totally different person. It is a means to combat the assumption that any American/European character whose culture isn’t explictly brought up by the creator of a work is white.

This isn’t the same as the opposite - portraying POC characters as white - because the latter is a form of whitewashing. When you portray assumed-white characters as POC, you are not erasing anything from that character, while portraying POC characters as white erases their culture, the visibility of that ethnic group/race, and any details the creator of the content might have included in their story about that character. That’s why films are criticized for casting white actors to play POC characters, and artists are criticized for lightening character’s skin tones or erasing physical features of theirs that can be attributed to their ethnic/racial identity.

Now the question with portraying Sapnap as Latino is, is this wrong, exactly? I’d like to preface by saying that everything I’ve said about portraying Sapnap as Latino has been purely my opinion. At the end of the day, I’m not an expert on racial theory or art; I’m just a poli sci major who’s taken a couple courses on racism and has talked and learned a bit about POC in media. You can come to whatever conclusions you like, at the end of the day, and portray him however you like, love.

As I see it, there are several reasons portraying Sapnap as Latino is Problematic™. First off, Sapnap and other white members of the Dream SMP already have problems with recognizing POC and the implications of POC within the SMP. Sapnap has actually answered a donation before by saying that he’s not 100% white because he’s part-Greek, completely unironically and without recognizing why him saying that was wrong. Imo, this indicates a lack of understanding for what it really means to be a POC in Western countries that so many white people exhibit. Being a person of color in Western Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, etc., means functioning within a society where you have to battle with yourself everyday your own, multiple, and seemingly contradictory identities. It means functioning within a society where you have to navigate the crossroads of oppression within you must survive. White people who falsely claim that they aren’t white like this simply don’t understand or are even aware of exactly what it means to be shaped by the oppression of being a person of color. They believe that being a person of color, beyond occassionally experiencing explicit racism, is just a label and a tie to one’s ancestry, when it’s much more beyond that. And the thing is, Sapnap can’t claim that label because he simply hasn’t gone through the lived experience of a POC in the United States. And that’s fine. It’s fine to be white, and to just be a little ignorant to your whiteness. I’m not attacking Sapnap by pointing this all out, I’m just stating facts.

Secondly, this would mean that a 100% white person is essentially playing the role of a Latino character, which is already a far-too common practice in film and TV showmaking. Then again, I will admit that a counter-argument can be made here, in that, headcanons are not actually canon to the Dream SMP plot. For example, Ranboo has told his audience he’s fine with viewers headcanon’ing his character as nonbinary, even though Ranboo himself is cisgender. This is an ambiguous aspect of his character that can be manipulated however the viewers like since there has been nothing within the canon to refute it, so far. However, it would be a different matter entirely if Ranboo, a cisgender man, attempted to write his character as a nonbinary person and then act out that nonbinary character himself. That would actually be unjust and kinda fucked. Now, along a similar vein, one could argue that audiencemembers headcanon’ing Sapnap as Latino isn’t really a bad thing since it isn’t Sapnap himself trying to portray what he believes a Latino character would be like. So I get the potential counter-argument there.

Thirdly, my main problem with this whole drawing Sapnap as Latino ordeal is the hypocrisy of it all. Far too often within this fandom, I see fanartists and writers erase Quackity’s ethnic identity, whitewashing him in their art or completely disregarding his race in their work. And while one could argue that the lack of focus in this fandom on Skeppy can be explained by his infrequent streams and departure from the SMP lore, Ponk is rarely drawn or written about, and he streams regularly and always has something going on with his character, in side plots or otherwise. I just find it lowkey absurd that this fandom thirsts for a Latino character so bad that it has to portray Sapnap, who is played by a white actor, as Latino, when there are other POC whose identities are either disregarded or the characters as a whole ignored.

Fourth, my main question, at the end of the day, is, why are we not advocating for more POC in the SMP? Why headcanon characters as POC, when they could literally just make an effort to uplift more POC CCs, who are highly marginalized within the streamer and Youtube communities? I’m Latinx too, mate, and I’d fucking love more POC characters to fall in love with, but Sapnap isn’t the one to fill that hole.

Regarding other sorts of headcanons and how those relate to headcanon’ing characters as different races: my thoughts on this are way too complicated, at the moment. But to sum it up as concisely as possible: a) I am not neurodivergent, as far as I know, so I cannot do the subject nearly as much justice as a neurodivergent person could; b) my thoughts still kinda align with the same thought process as race - that it’s useful to hc characters as neurodivergent because it helps to break stigmas that ND people are so vastly different from neurotypical people that traditionally-assumed neurotypical people couldn’t possibly actually be ND; c) I would still advocate for more ND representation in the SMP, rather than try to warp the neurotypical people’s characters to fit into that yearn for representation that I so desire; d) there actually are ND people on the SMP - a couple of people with ADHD, as far as I know - who do exhibit ND characteristics in their characters/lore, as well, so frankly, why not give those characters ND hc’s?

Anyways, this was so much longer than I wanted it to be and I still don’t know if I fully articulated my take on the subject properly. It’s really just too complicated a subject to be applied to Dream SMP fanart, so my conclusion is: Imma diss people for drawing Sapnap as Latino when Quackity is RIGHT THERE, and you can draw him however the hell you like. At the end of the day, we’re both just people obsessing over block men, and there’s no significant harm  that will come from either of our opinions or your artwork. I hope this was a satisfying answer, and seriously, thank you for getting me to write this all out because it actually made me realize that I’m not as fully against the idea as I thought I was <3

[feliciamontagues]

adhd father brown hcs??? sign me tf up!

Okay, so I’ve had most of these thoughts/interpretations for awhile but I was not expecting to morph into such a ginormous post

A few caveats before we begin.

1) Obviously due to the period drama setting, Father Brown would likely never be officially diagnosed as having ADHD, as the disorder as we know it today only started to be seriously studied in the 1970s.  Furthermore as I mentioned before, I head canon him as having either the “primarily inattentive” (what used to be called/separately diagnosed as ADD) or the “combined”  subtype of ADHD , which  statistically  fly under the radar more  than those with more “hyperactive” symptoms. 

2) I don’t think he is intentionally written and/or performed as ADHD-coded and I don’t expect canon will ever  “confirm this.” A LOT of character types/ tropes in fiction have developed around characters that display neurodiverse  symptoms that may not be immediately obvious to neurotypical content producers or consumers. In particular the “brilliant-but-lazy” and/or “charmingly eccentric” character shows up frequently in detective fiction.  (Other examples: Hercule Poirot is pretty regularly interpreted as having OCD and Sherlock Holmes as having ADHD and/or autism spectrum disorder). 

3) There’s a bit of discourse about the word “neurodiverse” and who should be “allowed” to claim it. Some people consider it a term that should be exclusively used to describe  people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, most experts believe that “neurodiversity” encompasses a much wider umbrella that also includes ADHD, OCD, Tourettes/tics, dyslexia, PTSD, various sensory and processing disorders, and more in addition to ASD. 

For the purpose of this, we will be using the word in the broader, more inclusive sense that includes ADHD and other similar disorders.  We will also be using terms such as “special interest,” “hyperfixation,” “comfort object,”  “stim/stimming” , etc that are more commonly associated with ASD--but that are also present in many individuals with ADHD. 

Now to the main event. (below the cut because it’s really long.) Also feel free to comment or add to this post.

Father Brown & ADHD (head canons, symptoms, and interpretations)

He is absent-minded and easily distracted, especially when it comes to mundane day-to-day tasks.  I can’t even begin to count the number of times Mrs. M has to remind him to eat, sleep, clean, have something repaired,  and/or do paperwork And it’s pretty strongly implied that the squad’s interventions (and especially Mrs. M) are just about the only thing keeping him on task.

Special mention has to go to the time where he just straight-up LEFT MASS in the middle of his homily, because he’d suddenly thought of a potential lead for the case and needed to investigate it immediately.  (”The Jackdaw’s Revenge”)

Another special mention has to go to the sizable pile of overdue library books that he’s supposedly “been meaning to take back for ages” but kept forgetting. In this same scene, Mrs. M specifically refers to him as a “hoarder.”  (“The Lepidopterist's Companion”)

He is fairly observant when hyperfocusing and tends to notice details and inconsistencies that others might not. He’s also very good at making surprising and unexpected “bigger picture” connections. He’s also more likely to consider multiple possible theories at once rather than focusing on the most likely, obvious one (as the inspectors do). 

His permanent special interests are mysteries and theology. Interestingly, his theology interest extends beyond Christianity/Catholicism--as he is also very knowledgeable and curious about several other religions/denominations/ways of practicing faith, as well as atheism and more generalized spirituality. He was even willing to give Kalon’s “so -obviously-a-cult-and-not-even-a-cool-one” organization a fair shake at first. 

In addition to his permanent special interests, he is also very curious in general about a lot of  different things and will often develop brief-but-strong interests in something pertaining to the case of the week. 

He stims primarily by riding his bike everywhere. The fact he loves his bike enough to name it (”Bucephalus” after Alexander the Great’s horse) suggests that it may also be a comfort object for him.

His other major stims are eating (more about that later) and touching his umbrella.

Speaking of his umbrella, a decent case could be made for it as a comfort object.” Father Brown takes it with him whenever he needs to leave St. Mary’s/the presbytery, even on occasions where he’s unlikely to encounter rain. The few times he is separated from his umbrella we are meant to see this a really big deal.  His lending Flambeau his umbrella in “The Judgement of Man” is presented as a gesture of true kindness and friendship. When Father B. is forced to leave his umbrella behind in “The Whistle in the Dark,” Bunty immediately buys him a new one. 

His two biggest vices are his tendency to overeat (especially his love for sweet things) and his interest in listening to the horse races. Fortunately, neither of these things has become a big problem as of yet (especially as he’s content to listen to the races without betting on them and has Mrs. M to stop him from eating too much sugary treats). However, it is worth noting that people with ADHD are especially susceptible to overeating,  gambling, and other addiction problems, as they are constantly seeking stimulation.

His relationship with Rejection Sensitivity is  somewhat unique. Because he has such a strong support system, he seems to handle personal rejection fairly well. However, his RSD  still manifests in terms of redeeming others. He seems to hold himself personally accountable for every soul he is unable to save.  This may explain why he is so tenacious when trying to getting people to confess and repent their wrongdoing. We see this particularly strongly with Katharine Corven (which was always a lost cause) and with Flambeau (who he’s had much more success). 

Father Brown  quickly forms strong bonds with other characters who are canonically identified as being neurodivergent.  Examples of this include: Lucia Galloway (dyslexia) from “The Face of Death,”  Jeremy (brain alterations  due to a childhood automobile accident)  and Sarah Mulgrew (ambiguous disorder but shows possible signs of PTSD and autism )  from “The Maddest of All,” and Arthur Malmont (ambiguous disorder but possibly autism and/or another developmental disorder) from “The Labyrinth of the Minotaur.” 

In “The Maddest of All,” Father Brown is admitted to a mental institution as he is showing signs of “impulse-control disorder.” While he is largely exaggerating his symptoms so that he can be admitted and investigate, it makes sense for him to simply exaggerate symptoms and tendencies that already exist rather than completely “fake” a different type of disorder entirely. During his evaluation with the doctor, he even admits to overeating and kleptomanic tendencies--both habits  that Fr. Brown partakes on a fairly regular basis even when he isn’t “faking.” (Granted the kleptomania is usually just clues for a case or deserts left unattended, but it’s still worth commenting on). 

[midoriyaizukustan-inactive]

If you're up to it- Tokoyami and Momo for the character ask?

yess ofc man thank u so much sobs im honored ur interested :,^)

thank u for asking,,

tokoyami:

favorite thing about them

hmmm he has the whole edgy vibe but hes v friendly despite it he’s not an ass at all

least favorite thing about them

idk if theres rlly anything i dislike abt him,,maybe i think the edgy aes is tiring but that’s more on hori’s design than him so eh

favorite line

“what a mad banquet of darkness” what a fucking dork. poetic bird

brOTP

tokodeku,,,,tokotsu,,,tokoyami/satou,,,tokouda,,,

OTP

HHH TOKOSHOJI,,IT’S CUTE,,also him and uraraka would be rlly interesting,,,im just saying,,

nOTP

uhh idk most ships ive seen him in r v cute i have no issues. just so long as nothing’s gross then im cool me thinks

random headcanon

bro loves poetry,,ik this is a popular hc but i love it. he’s like wirt from over the garden wall, reads poetry nd memorizes it and then also writes his own. i bet that’s why he was so embarrassed ppl went into his room; he was scared theyd find his Stash of poetry

unpopular opinion

the edgy aesthetic he has is tiring,,i dont mind him being an oddball or anything but like all black all dark and the like,, its just eh. he can be off and like against the norm without being like emo abt it. let him celebrate his weirdness

song i associate with them

anything hozier bro would LOVE his lyrics

favorite picture of them

A WHOLE DUDE,,

yaoyorozu:

favorite thing about them

eeee i rlly like her demeanor,,she’s polite and kind and always willing to help her friends out. she seemed kinda stiff at first but once she got used to her classmates she became v loving and caring. it’s so cute

least favorite thing about them

idk,,,ig how she brushes some stuff off (like m*neta’s bullshit). i wish she’d stand up for herself or others

favorite line

either when she said iida was the best during the battle training bc hee,,,iida appreciation,,or “worst comes to worst u guys will need backup, which is why im coming too” during the whole kamino arc cause i love how determined she’s grown,,,she Knows she’s good enough to back up the bois and shes not asking permission,,i love her

brOTP

todomomo, momoji (yaomomo and ojiro), momokami, and momokouda (CAN U IMAGINE THEM BUILDING UP THEIR CONFIDENCES TOGETHER,,,)

OTP

literally her and All of the girls in class 1-a plus kendou, iimomo, and midorozu

nOTP

idk if it’s really a notp bc it’s more i dislike the shippers than the ship itself, but romantic todomomo aint for me. also where tf did b-akumo=mo come from what the hell

random headcanon

she is,,neurodivergent. idk im kinda thinkin she has a mild form of adhd and anxiety

unpopular opinion

it’s not so much i hate that she’s showing so much skin in her hero costume but the fact that it’s not even efficient. if ur gonna be a pervert then at least have it make sense jesus fucking christ hori

song i associate with them

ohh @themusicalbookworm​ made a rlly good song abt her that u can find here: https://midoriyaizukustan.tumblr.com/post/190212724533/themusicalbookworm-i-have-no-preface-for-this

but if that doesnt count bc it was explicitly written for her tho, then probs smth from mother mother’s o my heart album

favorite picture of them

SHE IS A BABY,,

[hermitmoss]

Oh!  Hello, Anon, and thank you Avery for referring Anon to me!!

I don’t have ND aus, exactly, for RA.  However, I have a bunch of headcanons (mostly Autistic)! There’s a bunch of evidence that I’ve gleaned from the different books, so I’ll mostly be listing that here, but feel free to ask me to expand on or elaborate anything in this post :)

Halt is Autistic (these are where most of my hcs are lol, he’s my Main Man)

He doesn’t have/use many facial expressions other people understand and recognize.  His facial expressions are largely based on eyebrow movements, not movements of the yes and mouth.  This is something of a rarer autistic trait, but it’s certainly an autistic trait.  In fact, when he smiles it’s usually to intimidate somebody, or to signify fondness to Will or Horace, and it’s often described as “wolf-like”.  I think he has to create his smiles manually instead of it coming to him instinctively, and he peels back his lips deliberately when he wants to smile.  When he’s angry, it’s harder for him to make it look realistic.

He doesn’t talk a lot.  He is often described as “taciturn” or “soft-spoken”.  In fact, my personal belief is that he is semi-verbal.  Indeed, in Tournament at Gorlan, he actually goes nonverbal briefly, in a high-stress situation (attempting to talk to Pauline, in the presence of an Araluen noble) and Crowley ends up speaking for him.

He doesn’t display affection verbally.  Throughout the books, he uses touch, gesture and acts of kindness in the place of verbal praise and declarations of affection.  There are several instances where Will notes that he understands what Halt means purely because he knows him well.

He’s known for not being “diplomatic”.  He doesn’t enjoy dancing around the truth, and prefers to just say what he thinks.

He cuts his own hair.  This might not be in the formal lists of Autistic traits, but come on.  We all know going to get it cut is the kind of hell only an NT could devise.

He has trouble making friends - all of his friends “latch onto” him, and not vice versa.

He doesn’t understand why he should follow rules unless the rules make sense. 

He is extremely loyal - the most loyal character in the series, I’d argue.  He gave up his adopted country to attempt to rescue Will, who might well have been dead already by the time of his banishment, for all he knew.

From Tournament at Gorlan:  “When Halt was in a bad mood, he always paid careful attention to his grammar.”

Will is ADHD

He has a “butterfly mind,” and it’s discussed in some detail in the books!  His mind leaps from one thing to another very quickly.

Horace is Autistic and has a learning disorder

He takes things literally.

He is very honest, is taken aback by the idea of deception, and often believes people when they’re lying (such as when Halt lies to him about some girls in Gallica being couriers).

This isn’t really based on much except for how he’s written in comparison to more “book-smart” characters, but I definitely interpret him as having some degree of mild intellectual impairment and/or a learning disorder.

He didn’t know what “enigmatic” meant, and developed his own definition based on the information Halt gave him.

George is Autistic

He has speech difficulties (stammers) unless he has a script prepared for the situation, or he’s infodumping.

He needs things to be precise.

Arald is Autistic

He can’t tell whether people have understood his jokes or not.

Erak is Autistic

He doesn’t understand subtlety, either as a concept or as to how he might use it.

He doesn’t suspect that Halt may have an ulterior motive in asking to borrow his helmet.

He misses the cues from Halt, and presumably his men, that he’s not doing well at horseriding.

Malcolm is Autistic, and a lot of his people are neurodivergent too

The “eccentric genius” stereotype is founded upon neurotypical societal perspectives of autistic people.

Has an entire village of disabled outcasts?????

Eccentric.  Genius.  Eccentric genius.

Other Autistic characters include Ranger “no sense of humor” Norman, Lord Orman, Martin, and Xander.

Hi! As someone who is in this fandom and just started to read the fanfictions, I wanted to ask you a question. Is there a Neurodivergent(autistic etc) AU for RA? I love seeing those representations as an autistic person, and I thought I could ask you about it! Btw, I LOVE the way you write (it's so smooth and characters are not out of character). Keep up the great work!!!

hi love!! this was SO NICE to find in my inbox, you are just too cute and sweet and i 😭 do not deserve

i’ll be honest, i don’t know of many! i believe my friend Braigwen (@exlibrisastra?) might’ve mentioned an austistic headcanon at one point, but i have the memory of a goldfish and can’t be entirely sure. if there have been others, they should feel free to add onto this post so you can find it easily, nonny!

also i’ll say this again--you are literally too sweet i’m gonna cry alksdjfasdf love you!!

[adhd-ahamilton]

Joy To The World, 1, 4 and 5!

Hoo boy, so many questions!!! I hope you’re prepared for the deluge that’s gonna result...~ I’ll answer these tonight and finish the ones in the other messages tomorrow morning!

1. What inspired you to write the fic this way?

So. Over the last five or so years I’ve been writing fic, in all but the second year, I’ve written a special Christmas-related fic for Christmas. (And I did two the first year, so.) Christmas is a really important holiday to me and I really love Christmas-related stuff (the cheesier and sillier the better), so it became kind of a tradition. But this year, I was at a little bit of a loss. I knew I wanted to write Lams, because that’s my big thing right now. But how would I write Christmas Lams? Did they even properly ‘celebrate’ Christmas during that time period?? Or should I just go for an AU?

I researched it, and thankfully it turns out that the 18th century is around when people did start to celebrate Christmas in the modern sense (and it’s also when carols really started to come about, which is great because per tradition all my Christmas fic are titled after a carol), but that was just the beginning of the issue. When exactly would it be set? Valley Forge? But, uh... I highly doubted they would be really doing all that much at that point. But I couldn’t really think of any time outside of Lams AU that they’d be together. (And then I found out afterwards that Ham wasn’t even there for Christmas 1777, so, welp.) And I really couldn’t think of any kind of actual plot. I could have done a kind of meditation on their relationships to religion, but I didn’t know that much about which specific form of Christianity they belonged to, and I thought it was something that could be and HAD been done much better by other people. (Plus that’s not really my fave kind of fic to write to begin with.)

So, it wasn’t really working out that well. But still, I really kept trying. Through November, my working plan became almost set in stone: I’d do a combined historical and modern AU fic, switching back and forth between scenes, comparing themes (supply lists in VF compared with finding money for food over Christmas break in modern AU), sorta casually looking at the differences. When I gave it up, it was partly out of lack of interest in the themes, but my conscious reason was ‘I just don’t really care about modern AU Lams.’

...which came to the crux of the problem all along: I’m not really an AU person. Or rather, I’m very not an AU person. I’ve written very few AUs in my time, and almost all of them were historical AUs - certainly not modern day ones, and definitely not school AUs. I don’t have any, like, moral opposition - I can fully appreciate the transformative potential of full-setting AUs and find very interesting the interdependent communities that develop around AU-heavy fandoms as they essentially create their own accepted canons - but I just...don’t tend to like them. I’m very analytical!! The idea of just...MAKING UP not just one character or setting but basically a whole story just always seemed simultaneously too easy and too hard to me!!! Plus, I like to write really interesting and unusual things and try new styles, and one of the most basic points of interests for me in writing is asking what makes these characters and relationships unique, based on their precise personalities and backstories and combinations of traits. None of that lends well to full-setting AUs.

But. As I was mulling this terrible problem over, as usual, I was also running over in my head all kinds of various different characterisation ideas. This time, I was thinking about how it was interesting that Hamilton always seemed to be written in opposition to Henry Laurens, when IRL it seems they had a pretty decent acquaintanceship. And I was thinking about it, and I really started to think that, actually, someone in Hamilton’s point of view - who was constantly abandoned by his father, and desperate for his attention, and incredibly ambitious despite the circumstances of his birth - would be one of the WORST people to understand that an overly-controlling, overly-interested father who expects extremely highly of his son could be a negative influence. Which also added to another thought I’d been having. I always liked one quote from Chernow, that Laurens must have seen in Hamilton what a man who makes himself can do, and it always made me think that Hamilton must have been the same way - that he must have seen in Laurens the man he had always aimed to be. So, Laurens grew up in a good family, acknowledged and promoted by said family, with plenty of money and a great deal of opportunity. To Hamilton... yeah, it’d definitely be hard for him to see the problems with that. (And, you know, there IS a lot of privilege there!! It’s just, y’know, that mental illness doesn’t always listen to that.) But, those thoughts were kinda moot, because I really couldn’t think of any way to contrast these different experiences with fathers in historical verse.

And that’s when it came to me. What if I did a modern AU where Hamilton came down to visit the Laurens family for Christmas?

I didn’t have the time (or, really, the interest) to develop a full-on world for everyone, and a uni AU just seemed to be the most appropriate for this one, anyway. And it also did have a bit of appeal: it always kinda bugged me that in the AUs I read, Hamilton and Laurens never seemed to be studying law, even though that’s historically what they did do. As a law grad, I figured I might as well be the one to write it. (Though law in Australia is p different from in the US - there’s no separate law school, we just study it straight out of high school like anything else - but whatever.) And once I was doing THAT, it was hard for me to escape the fact that, in the real world, studying law hadn’t...exactly always been the best experience for me. Given that Laurens didn’t really want to study it either, it seemed appropriate to lean on those experiences a bit.

Aaand that’s where we really get to the meat of the inspiration behind it, heh. Which is to say: this is possibly the most autobiographical thing I’ve ever written...? I’ll say outright that a lot of it WAS entirely invented - my relationship with my family is nothing like John’s was in this, at all. But my anxieties over studying, and my worries about the future and what a career in law would lead to... yeah, that came from me haha. Because, to get kind of personal about it... well, I graduated July 2015. And in the time since then, I have been employed for about 2.5? months, total. The job scene here, in general and especially for law grads, is just that bad. (And, uh, there was a fair bit of personal fault in my lack of preparation for after I’d graduate? But, seriously, I was really anxious already...) And ever since then - particularly 2016 to the present - I’ve also had a lot of anxiety and depression and stuff going on. At the time I wrote the fic, it was in a position of leaning worse rather than better. So...I honestly don’t know if there was ever, like, a dispassionate fic in there safely cordoned off from my own projections, but if there was, it didn’t last long.

So, I got the idea, and wrote it all up pretty quickly in early December, just kinda ridin’ that catharsis of getting all that stuff out. (And it turned out to be even more relevant than I thought, as ‘trying to enjoy Christmas like you usually do when you’re really not happy’ also ended up a very autobiographical theme.) And that’s how it happened!

As for one or two other things:

I really really didn’t wanna get too into politics in the fic lmao. I don’t feel comfortable with more than the broadest strokes of Hamilton’s beliefs (I’m gonna GET THERE but Im still well rev-verse in Chernow) and I always feel uncomfortable about portraying historical figure in any better light than they deserve when it comes to specific matters. But I also wanted to have Laurens and Hamilton at least as POC because I also think it’s important to increase racial diversity in fanfic in the rare cases that we really get a clear choice. So, I tried to kinda portray that without really getting detailed about any activist stuff or whatever. Which is why in Ham’s argument with Henry he’s really not siding with anyone, he’s just an economics wonk who gets mad when people on both sides of the political aisle don’t make sure their numbers add up, lol. That was my best compromise. (And Philly kinda nudged me when I still got too far off-course;; haha!)

Hamilton has ADHD because: again, I wanted to actually officially write up neurodivergent characters into fic when I had the option of being specific (my Ham is always neurodivergent but obv I can’t explicitly write that into the text of historical verse), and it’s ADHD because......well, I could write a really long thing about that alone lmfao. And I feel like I kind of should in some ways because I know that a lot of people aren’t rly familiar with how ADHD tends to actually, like, feel, for real-life people, and if you aren’t then I KNOW this must sound like a really arbitrary or misguided HC. And I’d really love to write it up and expand education and all, but. It’s also something that hits really close and personal for me and, as someone who can be anxious for days straight over opening entirely innocuous tumblr messages... I just DK I could do it, atm;;;;; Someday I will though, I hope!!! (Tho I will say that I’m totally for all neurodivergent Ham HCs and that honestly my Classic Ham is also influenced by BD and BPD things so I’m p flexible about it.) (Actually I guess I CAN say that my HCs for Ham all involve disorders with extreme moods and mood swings and stuff and ADHD in its lesser known symptoms can absolutely include that, esp with Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria, so yeah. That’s basically the large part of my reason for that headcanon right there lol.)

4. What's your favorite line of dialogue? 

HM OH MAN, I’m not sure!!! Lemme skim it again real quick.

In terms of sheer characterisation efficiency, I always liked the idea of Henry Laurens’ introductory sentence being to complain about John not calling often enough. It’s just such a perfect combination of a) genuinely cares about his son and wants to hear from him, and b) is an asshole who has no idea whatsoever of the pressure he’s putting on his son without offering any concurrent praise or reassurance. 

...so yeah I think I’ll leave it at that actually, since this thing is long enough already lol.

5. What part was hardest to write?

I was sitting here trying hard to remember if I really had trouble writing any part of the draft because there was one bit where I stalled briefly but it wasn’t really that bad and I couldn’t even really remember it and apart from that it was super smooth...until I remembered that editing counts as writing. And hoo fucking boy.

I was lucky enough to be able to have my fic beta-ed by Philly! Which I’m super grateful for and the fic is undoubtedly better for it! But it was a really difficult process for me because of my anxiety. And I needed to do it rather quickly, because of course I had to have it finished before Christmas, and my family actually was going away for Christmas where we wouldn’t have internet access.

So I get through almost all of the fic. It’s finally almost done. And then right at the end there’s a bit where Alex and John quickly exchange gifts on Christmas morning. Super short scene. And Philly pointed out that, actually, wouldn’t the rest of the family be taken-aback at them exchanging gifts without them?

And I kind of read that and sat back and. that was right. That was 100% correct. So like. What do I do??? Do I involve the other characters? But the original scene was like, three lines. and I don’t wanna have to write a whole new scene lmao. Do I take it out? But in a earlier scene, I’d had John express a worry that the present he’d gotten for Alex was awful and he really regretted it, and I kinda liked that in this final scene we see that actually he’d just forgotten WHY he’d bought it (he’d remembered Alex saying something about it), and I thought that was a nice thing about how anxiety can really fuck with even your memory and stuff bc in the end there genuinely was no reason to worry. It wasn’t necessary to the fic, but it only came about in the writing - I’m pretty sure the outline was just like ‘and then they exchange gifts or somethign??? IDK’ - and I didn’t want to get rid of it again. But then how do I justify them exchanging gifts alone??? 

And so that’s how I ended up just sitting there mournfully or pacing back and forth like p LEASE just SAVE ME, just GIVE ME AN OPTION, I have a HOLIDAY TO PACK FOR and THINGS TO DO and I just want this damn fic to be EDITED and DONE ALREADY. I came up with soo many possibilities, none of which satisfied me,lmao. and eventually after wayyyyyy too long of trying to figure it out I settled on something that seemed mostly plausible and then just. wrote it in and skimmed the rest of the fic and posted it lmao.

Which, honestly, is pretty typical proceedings. I tend to have the general ideas come pretty easily to me, and the actual writing is normally pretty smooth - it’s usually the editing where I start rocking back and forth and cursing myself for ever trying to write :’) (Luckily, at that point I’m close enough to the end that I can usually force it through...!!)

[dreamled-archive]

i wonder if i’ll ever get to write cool and serious stuff on this blog! i know it seems like it goes against mio as a character but i really don’t think a character’s personality should act as a limiting factor in regards to what sort of plots a writer can take on. conflict breeds strong development, right? cue long and rambling train of thought.

the thing is that, as much as i have no trouble writing a character like mio, i’m not the best at writing plain, old casual stuff or even fluffy stuff (i really have to be very invested in the characters’ bond or relationship for that and, as it stands, mio has very few properly established bonds)! there’s a reason my other muses are a former soldier and a spy! and there’s a reason they’re both science fantasy muses! writing slice of life stuff is fun too but i like big plotlines and adventures and characters being thrown out of their comfort zones! i’ve written a lot of typical ‘hi! i’m mio! nice to meet you! :D’ threads and i kinda just wanna go...deeper than that?? mio is a serious and complex character, i can assure you, but i’ve never had any threads that have presented me with any reason or opportunity to prove that! i don’t know if it’s because people don’t take mio (and most female muses, especially the cheery, happy-go-lucky type) seriously or if it’s just a bad coincidence. 

i wanna be really clear that neither mio’s personality nor the bright, colourful aesthetic i’ve chosen for this blog are direct reflections on what i want to write or things that should restrict me as a writer!! i’ve noticed that, along with the rpc becoming increasingly fixated on narrower and narrower aesthetic trends (to the point that most popular blogs look near enough identical and everyone else tries to emulate that) and, honestly, that’s fine. it’s not harming anyone (setting aside how inaccessible a lot of these themes are). however, people have gotten to a point where they base their whole understanding of a character on it. you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, right? isn’t this the same deal?

granted, i am aware that people with ‘darker’ aesthetics will still end up with a lot of casual threads and that’s based on my own experience with kael’s blog. that might be a case of ‘you’re an oc and i don’t know what to do with you’, i’m not sure. i won’t fault people for that, however, nor am i going to act as though i’m any good at starters. still, the fact remains that i’ve never really gotten the sense people have wanted to write anything serious or plot-driven with me on this blog, in contrast to kael where i do have a lot of casual threads and often more at once that i can handle but i still have plotlines and people who have expressed interest in writing them. the best i’ve got in terms of serious plotlines is somebody wanted to write some bullshitty corruption ship with me and i promptly ended that discussion out of discomfort. 

(hey, serious =/= dark or edgy. every time i’ve said ‘hey, i want to write a serious plot’, people show up wanting ‘dark’ stuff and, honestly, i don’t mind darker elements in the least but i have no interest at all in people wanting to ‘soil’ or ‘taint’ mio. never mind that she isn’t supposed to be super innocent?? i’ve never said that. please take your ‘sweet and innocent, untainted virgin who needs to be ruined by an angry man uwu’ trope and get out of my site asap? i do not want to write any unhealthy or toxic ships on this blog nor do i want to pair mio off with your edgy boy. man, she’s like....bi...with a pretty strong femme preference....i want cute gfs get away from me)

anyway, returning to my main point, it troubles me that people refuse to take mio --- and characters like mio --- seriously because they’re a certain kind of character or they don’t slot into the tropes tumblr has decided is okay for original characters (these being overwhelmingly straight, white tropes based around the kind of angst that often sensationalises, fetishises and appropriates mental illness and with the tropes being even narrower for female characters). i just find it baffling that i can see the same tropes and archetypes being run into the ground for characters who are visually and aesthetically very similar while most original characters who exist outside of that are looked over, ignored or underestimated/undervalued, all the while people continue to say that they’re picky about original characters on the grounds that most of them are too boring or generic. 

now, i’m not bashing any writers here. i’m simply criticising the attitudes of tumblr as a whole. the roleplay community is very narrow-minded, in my opinion, and this isn’t a new problem. it’s simply a problem that has gained more visibility. you only have to see which muses gain traction to see what people are getting at. lgbt muses rarely get much attention unless they’re men and, even then, they’re often written by straight women who fetishise homosexual relationships. muses of colours are frequently ignored too. i won’t go into much detail here as i’m white and i don’t feel it’s my place to do so but the fact that muses of colours, especially woc, are constantly undermined is impossible to ignore. and, to build on my point about the appropriation of mental illness for angst purposes --- what’s with people doing that and then getting pissy as soon as characters act mentally ill or otherwise neurodivergent outside of angst? i can’t tell you how many times i’ve seen people use ptsd as angst fodder, only to pass kael off as a jerk for,,,acting like he has ptsd,,,fuckin wild huh

i know there are people who are thinking ‘maybe you’re taking it the wrong way and it’s not about your muse being an oc or being female or being whatever else’ and people have used this argument on me before. ‘maybe people not being interested is your own fault for communicating well enough’. honestly, i don’t know how better to communicate my feelings at this point. how many times over do i have to complain that i don’t feel as though people don’t take mio seriously? i don’t think my ability to communicate is the problem here (although, being an aspie, i won’t claim it’s not something that trips me up a lot, even as an rper). if you don’t trust me, i’ll just say one more thing and leave it at that; how come kael, my male oc (who still doesn’t get taken as seriously as i’d like and doesn’t fit into tumblr’s good old oc tropes), gets hc questions about heavy topics like trust and fear and his perceptions on the world as a whole/his emotional experiences while mio gets questions about very little besides food. (not that the question or the asker is flawed but, ignoring that i can’t write headcanons about food to save myself bc i find it to be a boring topic, the difference in attitude is pretty clear, almost as though people don’t think mio is complex enough to have emotional depth,,,,interesting,,,)