#also i send her flowers

[tbh-entp]

ENTP: i wanted flowers for my bday, so i bought flowers for my bday

INTJ: oh.... that's sad

ENTP: mom, how else am I gonna get flowers?

INTJ: someone else always buys my flowers

ENTP: right. that's mE, and DAD

[lazylittledragon]

Hey so I'm the goober that's writing the Baldur's Skate fanfic. When thinking about the worldbuilding I had a question. What do you imagine Drizzt is doing? (I like to think he's an Olympic speedskater but 🤷🏼)

tHIS IS THE BEST QUESTION EVER

i really like the idea of him being a figure skater bc the books always describe him as lithe and graceful (and that swordfighting is like dancing to him 🥺🥺). and also astarion being obsessed with him would make even more sense akfdhdfj

also this is basically the equivalent of being at your community theatre and then meryl streep shows up

[bunnithechubs]

don't worry reina's dad is blocked on her socials because she's that out of pocket.

[moldy-flowers]

Sakura and her comically oversized axes

[lillymakesart]

my new OC: cempaka!

she is based on the story/universe that my friend @haydardotjpg's OCs indra and yuwei exist in! pls go checkout haydar's art he is amazing!! his ocs can be found more easily on his ig but if you're lazy this is his oc indra (cempaka's one-sided love interest) and yuwei (indra's fated lover)

also, cempaka means "magnolia" in malay!! (she gets a flower name bc my name is lilly which is also flower c:)

bonus first iteration under the cut!

i accidentally had "poinsettia" flower in mind when i did this iteration instead of an actual magnolia, hence the color scheme. but yeah, this is as self-insert as it gets LOL like she's literally MEEEEEE but still very different and i love her as she is <3

[eshithepetty]

It's me and the couple other mp100 girlies who are also mcyt girlies against the world

[resident-cake-anon]

happy (late) birthday to my adoptive cool older cousin @marzipanny !!

+ oh that’s gore, that’s gore of my cake anon /ref

[justablah56]

hmmmmmmmm hey guys what if I crocheted a bunch of roses and sent them to my friend for valentines day.... hmmmmmmm

[lexisology]

thinking about alekav shoujo some more

[sapphire-weapon]

Leon getting into a relationship with Ashley would be one of the greatest things in the world to ever happen to him if he took up her offer.

She is the ray of sunlight that cuts through his dark nights, she's salvation for a damned man, and someone who is careful and attentive to his sensitive heart.

I honestly feel that Ashley is the only one who could give him the clearest cut path to getting back to himself. To where he can leave himself unarmed and drop his defenses, and be okay with that again.

Capcom has a golden opportunity to make this happen if they make good on Ashley's interest in becoming an agent, herself, wanting to be Leon's partner.

Imagine how bright a future Leon would have if he allowed himself to be happy with someone who's all in it for him.

I agree with you 100% until the agent part.

I don't think Ashley will become an agent, and I don't think she should, either. Even ignoring the inherent tragedy that exists when a non-violent person turns to violence, if she heads down that road, at some point, the truth about Leon is going to come out -- and once she finds out that he's doing this all against his will, she won't want anything to do with it.

If anything, I see her being stricken by Sherry's story and the tragedy of the found family that never was, and I see Ashley turning to civil service, instead. It might be too late to reunite Sherry and Leon in a meaningful way, but she can work towards making sure that situation never happens again.

But I also don't think that she was serious about wanting to become an agent in the first place. I think she was just spitballing ideas for ways that she and Leon can continue a relationship once this mission is over. And when he's less than enthused with -- and even kind of bothered by -- her suggestion, she lets it drop immediately without a fight with a "you're no fun."

What I do actually think could happen is that, at some point in the probably near future after President Graham resigns, Ashley reaches out to Leon in an attempt to join the fight against bioterrorism -- and he'd probably set her up to meet with Claire. Even though Claire and Leon are traveling down different paths in this fight, and sometimes their objectives clash with one another (see: the ending of Infinite Darkness), he recognizes the work that she's doing as being vital -- and, most importantly, it's non-violent work (though, Claire, being a Redfield, puts herself in dangerous situations anyway but that's beside the point lmao).

Of course, this is all just theoretical "what-ifs" assuming that the remakes are a completely new timeline and will do something different from the storyline of OG canon -- which, they won't, because they're just remakes and not a separate series, and Capcom is still building onto the OG story. We know, of course, that Ashley just falls away from the story and out of Leon's life, and that's the end of it. And it'd be weird to bring her back into the story out of nowhere after being completely absent from it for 11 years canonically (Death Island takes places in 2015). She's not Rebecca Chambers or Barry Burton; she's not a main character that they'd be willing to bring back suddenly after a long absence. (We'll see Billy Coen show up again before Ashley Graham makes another appearance.) So we'll very likely never see her again, and none of this matters anyway. But it's still fun to think about.

I do think that you can make a case for a direct correlation between Ashley disappearing from Leon's life and his gradual descent into a bottle of Jack Daniels, though. Everyone in the RE universe is so wrapped up in their own bullshit that they don't take the time to check in with each other the way they probably should. The only two people who stay close to each other and take care of one another are Chris and Jill, and that's because of the partnership they'd already had before everything went to shit.

But let's take a look at Leon's "partners" throughout the years: Ada, Hunnigan, Luis, Krauser, Ashley, and Helena. Luis and Krauser are self-explanatory lmao you can't be in someone's life if you're dead (and also fucking insane, in Krauser's case). Helena and Leon work in two separate branches of federal law enforcement, so their partnership is over after RE6 ends. Leon and Hunnigan seem to have a relationship that's so professional that I'd be willing to bet they've only met in person a handful of times. Ada is... Ada. That's a whole fuckin can of worms we won't go into as much as I'd like to go off on a rant about how Damnation confirming that he fucked her at some point prior to that movie is the most egregious act of self-harm he ever engaged in and absolutely sped up his downward spiral into full-blown alcoholism.

And then there's Ashley. The only person on this list who could have theoretically stayed in Leon's life after their ordeal together, because there really is nothing tangible actually keeping them apart, but... doesn't. And there is absolutely nothing in her character that indicates that she was the one who pulled away from him. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that she fought like hell to try to stay in his life. But he pushed her away. And, because it's Leon, he probably didn't do it maliciously; it was probably done out of a sense of professionalism paired with an unconscious self-destructive reaction tendency born from a lifetime of trauma.

But, even in OG? Leon's interactions with Ashley are the most "normal" he seems to feel and act after RE2. After RE4, he's never that warm, playful, or expressive again. Leon becomes more and more emotionally closed off until, eventually, Chris Redfield is screaming at his drunk ass in an empty bar in the middle of the day because he's too hammered to properly follow a conversation, and the only emotions he ever shows outwardly anymore are frustration and sorrow.

Ashley was an anchor to reality for him. She was arguably the first and only one since Sherry to make him feel like he was actually a person and not just a sophisticated weapon in the US's arsenal to be pulled out and used when necessary until broken.

And that probably scared the shit out of him. For multiple reasons. So he pushed her away, and that was the end of that. (It was an unfortunate side effect from the dramatic change he underwent between RE2 and RE4.)

But imagine a version of events where he didn't do that -- where he was brave enough to be vulnerable enough to actually keep her in his life. Do you really think he still would've developed a drinking habit that eventually turned into a full-blown problem? Because I don't. Sometimes, all it takes is just that one person -- that one person who loves you, that one person who inspires you to keep going. And Ashley believed in him more than anyone. He would've kept his head above water for her sake, and he'd have been better off for it.

I honestly believe, especially after RE4make, that Ashley was/could've been the love of Leon's life, but he was just too fucking scared and up his own asshole in his misery to even think to give it a chance. She brings out the best in him in ways that literally no one else does in the entire rest of the series. And they have a relationship unlike any other that Leon has with anyone else -- it's one that was built on a foundation of explicit trust and only grew from there.

Leon and Ashley trust each other on the same level that Chris and Jill do. Maybe even more. They had to, in order to make it out of Spain that unnamed European country alive. And, at no point ever, is that trust ever tarnished, damaged, or betrayed. To even just call them "partners" feels like an understatement. In remake, by the end of the game, they're two parts of the same machine working in tandem towards the same goal.

He would've kept lifting her up, and she would've kept him honest if they'd stayed in contact after RE4. And, having her to come home to, he would've been able to breathe a little easier between missions. The weight wouldn't feel as crushing. She'd be a constant reminder that he wasn't a complete failure, and that there are still things in this world worth fighting for. There was a potential for happiness there that he threw away, because he simply couldn't see it at the time.

Because, here's the thing. By the time of Vendetta, Leon has become so beaten down and mired in his own failures that he's started to believe that his only legacy is death. But that's not true. Ashley is his legacy. Everything she does, and everything she is, and every act that she performs to make the world a better place (and you gotta believe she's actively doing her part), is only possible because of him. And he loses sight of that, the same way he lost sight of it with Sherry (do nOT GET ME STARTED ON HIM FUCKING ADMITTING HE HADN'T TALKED TO HER IN AT LEAST 3 YEARS BY THE START OF RE6 ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME LEON).

And, don't get me wrong. I get why he did it. I understand why he wanted to pull away from Ashley, especially right after returning home -- but to not go back to her -- to purposefully make the conscious decision to keep her out of his life? Is to also purposefully leave the "What're you, my mother?"/"I knew you'd be fine if you landed on your butt" part of him behind.

I've long since said that Leon never actually truly escaped Raccoon City -- that some part of him did bleed to death in the sewers after being shot and was left there forever. And I think that's true for his relationship with Ashley, too. Cutting her out of his life also forced him to cut a piece of himself off in order to create that break, and she's still carrying it with her.

And if he'd just pick up the phone and fucking call her, she might bring that little piece of him back with her. And maybe, for the first time in a long time, he'd remember how to take a moment and breathe and laugh at some dumb bullshit, and it'd allow him to see a world and a life outside of the constant horror show of bioterrorism. Maybe he'd remember what it was like to actually feel sexy, and maybe he'd start to feel like a person again. And maybe -- just maybe -- he'd finally see that "home" isn't the country that he slavishly (literally) serves to thanklessly protect -- but that it's a person, and her name is Ashley Graham.

[devotioncrater]

got a crush on one of my best friends (at the time) and it was mutual (i found out through another friend) but when i gave her flowers she ignored me for weeks, then lied to me that she didn't feel the same way, told that other friend she liked me but the flowers had "killed her vibe" and she hasn't even looked at my face (it's been more than a year and we crossed paths quite often)

btw she's a lesbian and an evangelical christian which i feel had something to do with... that whole thing

[princessmacedon]

Porcelain clinks as he sets his cup against its matching saucer. Steam curls skyward in playful wisps. Laslow watches for a moment before returning his attention to Maria.

"Thank you again for all your help, Lady Maria. Your unfailing kindness and thoughtfulness were invaluable." He only wishes he could have done more to prevent her capture.

"How's your tea? I'm quite partial to the peppermint blend."

This is how she might have wished to come to know her professor: through a peaceful, everyday scene at the Academy.

She would not trade it for knowing him in Nahan, however — no, selfish though it might be, she would much rather keep both these memories, and with them the proof she saw then and sees now of his kindness.

“Hee hee… it’s tasty! I love trying new blends — and there are so many here in Fódlan!”

The warmth of the cup seeps through even the lightest touch, and Maria thinks then that this sort of thing suits the (assistant) professor far better than any sword. Not for a lack of talent, but for an abundance of gentleness like unto what she had seen on that horrible cart, with the children, with Daria— her fingers twitch just barely, curling closer ‘round the cup— and even with her own wounds. His poor sleeves, in tatters! And she must have seemed downright morose for her standards.

“I like to make snacks to go with tea,” Maria continues, and something in the back of her mind sings of forgotten friends; she gently sets them to the side for the now, and places instead a small box upon the table. “But, hee hee… I’m not sure if these will pair well with peppermint, though.” She lifts the lid, revealing as many cookies as can fit in the container while still fitting prettily — shortbread rounds decorated with pansies, and a sprinkling of sugar on top like unto stars.

“Don’t worry! They’re edible, heeheehee. And pretty yummy, too!” If she was allowed to say that about her own baking (she hoped she was). “I made them for you, Professor, so you can have them all.”

A smile, effulgent at first, then small, but soft in the waning.

“I wanted to say thank you for everything you did in Nahan.” She had wanted to do more for him than watch him bleed from the other side of the stage; fingers splay against the table top, threaded only at their tips. “More specifically… hmm… that I saw your kindness in everything you did, Professor. And it was dazzling, hee hee! And… I appreciate you, really, truly.”

Her hands push forward with the force of the grin she bares now, all pearly whites and eyes crinkling at the corners. “If I ever try to learn how to use a sword, I’ll make sure to pick your class! After all… you’re really cool!”

[quietlyblooms]

finally pops in, thinking about how it doesn’t matter what universe it is — chiyo will always dream of being an artist/mangaka! and it’s always something she regrets not pursuing more bc it really does make her happiest to create. it’s always something she struggles to pursue bc it’s purely for herself and not others. in verses like mha or jjk, it’s a dream she places on the back burner for the sake of young people/society; in her main verse, she tries to get a teaching degree to make her parents happy before dropping out. but man does she agonize over that decision first.

chiyo has a problem with acting in her own self interest, with making decisions that might harm or disappoint others. which is a little funny bc closing herself off — her biggest conflict — is entirely in her own self interest. she’s selfless yet selfish. brave in one situation and terrified in the other. and am i sad about it?? yeah, but also i just love this silly, complicated woman so damn much!!

[bowl-of-fruit-loops]

making a team comp of childe, kaeya, (electro) lumine, and qiqi. calling it “intimidating siblings have claimed the zombie kid as their little sister.”

[aromantic-dana-cardinal]

HI. The character bingo. Idk who your blorbos are but Dana Cardinal? (assuming based on the url lol)

dana my beloved <33

i used to be more into her character but i need to relisten to the sandstorm episodes and maybe that will make me (not) normal about her again.

[moonchild-in-blue]

Thank you so much for the tag bb 🥺

Floriography is such a dear interest of mine, it's been a little while since I dove into it! 🌷

Eglantine: I wound to heal

This thang read me inside and out 🙃 literally shut up

Free tag for anyone who sees this! Go do it!

Have you ever wondered what flower from Victorian flower language you are? I have! I have a quiz about it! (my credentials are that I have a spreadsheet of over 600 flower meanings)