#also they better make him canonly gay. he is already but even more so.

[listless-brainrot]

man i miss haru. that boy worked retail AND suppressed a huge part of his identity that both tied to and alienated him from his inner family and community but refused to let it die AND went sent to jail for it AND he’s gay. truly an incredible character i desperately hope he appears in the live action

[confused-bi-queer]

Simon’s problem with his sexuality

I don’t know how to analyze shit. My fucking oblivious ace ass. But. I just understood what the whole problem Simon has with his sexuality is! If you are as hopeless as me at understanding stuff, come along, I explain why Simon Snow struggles with his sexuality.

So, I was looking at this amazing art, from @krisrix , about that scene from AWTWB when they go for rats, where Simon is having his queer panic and when we know Agatha and him has sex and I didn’t actually understand why he was so worried. I understood the problem as it was wether he liked women and/or men or other genders and stuff like that, but it didn’t make sense. I’ve always thought about “attraction” as something aesthetically and/or physical pleasant, not sexual. My whole life. I’ve used so many wrong terms too. I didn’t understand why Simon was having such a hard time knowing whether he was attracted to Agatha or not, I didn’t see the problem.

A little unrelated, I was searching for the meaning of sexual attraction, what did it mean, how people feel it or how does it work (ace trait) and I somewhat understand it?? but not really, so, I asked to myself: “fuck this, I mean, what does that even mean?” and I realized Simon already asked that. And everything he had ever mentioned about his sexuality made sense to me.

I know everyone already knows this, but it was like a fucking realization!!

So, when Baz keeps asking him (why did it matter???? Simon already told him, he loved him, anyway) is he was gay or what he was and Simon was frustrated, and mentioned he had sex with Agatha and didn’t know if he was attracted to her, it was about whether he was attracted to her sexually!! My-, that’s why he had so much trouble.

Because, yeah, they had sex, but ace spec people can have sex and enjoy it and that doesn’t take the aceness away from them, they’re still in the ace spec. 

So, in WS we get the “Baz-only-sexual” thing from Simon, that’s where we get the first glimpse of Simon’s sexuality. Because we knew Simon was like attracted to Baz (it could’ve been just aesthetically, psycological or physical; they do have 7 years worth of enemy sexual tension, but it could have been just that) but it was never really specified as something sexual related. (i just assume something is aesthetical attraction unless they mention it’s sexual). 

I didn’t get that either. It didn’t sink in my head that Simon was sexually attracted to Baz and didn’t want to think about it at the end of CO (I’m guessing it was sexual on the prologue too, right?) because he had a lot on his plate and because he would have had the questioning moment he had in AWTWB on the ally hunting rats with Baz on CO and my boy was not ready to have that kind of pressure over himself.

Then, back to the AWTWB scene. Simon still doesn’t know about this “Baz-only-sexual” thing. He is attracted to Baz sexually (even I get that), we have a huge glimpse of that at the constant mentions of sex from Simon’s part (”He’s the most fuckable person alive”, the cock things, the foreplay he always cries in, the wanting to do more, “we sorta kinda had sex”, i mean, you know what stuff). But that’s one thing.

What about Agatha? What about women? Is it only Baz?

So. Sexuality. I didn’t have a class about this, I’m just writing this because I’ve been so fucking oblivious about the whole sexuality thing on these books because I never understood the concept (my ace trait). [i just want to mention i’m not trying to label Simon, just point out why he struggled with his sexuality]

So, Simon is sure about Baz. He has a point. So, there are plenty sexualities and it does not force anyone to pick a label, that’s why I love my Simon canonicaly (or canonly?) unlabeled.

So... women.

What the fuck does Simon feel sexually about them?

In WS we get that scene along with the “Baz-only-sexual” thing that there’s cleavage at the Renaissance Fair and that he doesn’t mind. But it could be physical (you see, this is why being me is hard, because i don’t see anything sexual if it’s not mentioned that way), so it doesn’t really mean anything.

Back to the rat scene on AWTWB.

Again, having sex means nothing. Ace people can  have sex, IT DOESN’T CHANGE THE SEXUALITY, that’s Simon problem. He enjoyed sex (”it was sex”), he did stuff with Agatha (so, what?), but was he attracted to her???? That’s the whole point of the problem, isn’t it??? Dating someone for so long and having sex with them is meaningless. it’s the same way people know they are bi (for example), and they haven’t dated the same gender, but still are attracted to it. It doesn’t matter the dating time.

It also doesn’t matter the person in discussion. Agatha is pretty. We know. Simon knows. Fucking Baz knows. But again... IT’S SOMETHING AESTHETICALLY PLEASANT. Agatha is like this conventionally beautiful person, and “trees bend towards her” and stuff, but was it to Simon’s sexual appealing? They had sex. He enjoyed it. He liked her. He thought he was going to MARRY her. But that’s meaningless. (this is just repeating Simon’s monologue, I’m making a point). He liked the confidence and feeling of knowing what happened next when Agatha was with him. Simon’s been manipulated into thinking in some way and doing stuff no one younger than 18, or like 25, should do. He didn’t have to think if he didn’t want to. He liked it. Being told what to do, be useful, fulfill his role, be someone. yeah, the mage was shit, and his magic was shit and didn’t help, the whole chosen one stuff was shit. But he wanted it. He liked helping (we know this at the beginning of AWTWB, with Dr. Wellbelove) and he’s always been into being the hero, the Golden Boy. That’s why he liked Agatha. It was one more thing that came with being the Chosen One. Going through the motions, right?

Simon has this “what does it even mean?” problem. EXACTLY. What the fuck does it even mean??? I do not mind Simon unlabeled, but I get that now. because I’m having the same problem figuring out the concept. what is sexual attraction? what does it mean being attracted to someone? does “attraction” is only about sex? what does it mean that someone is attractive? what does it mEaN????????

Simon doesn’t think. He doesn’t process stuff, doesn’t like it. Who the fuck looks at their own trauma and says “uh, i want to look at that stuff all over again and process it to feel better and be able to have sex with my vampire-mage-hot boyfriend?” no one. everyone wants to get better, but the thought of doing it, seems impossible. but you can get better. still. not the point.

the thing is...

it doesn’t matter or it doesn’t have to matter if Simon was or not sexually attracted to Agatha or if he is sexually attracted to women, or men in that matter. .

Simon loves, respects and desires Baz. that’s what matters. the “Baz-only-sexual” matters. 

“maybe that makes me gay. Or maybe that just makes me yours”

so, there you go. the very explanation of my boy’s sexuality for hopeless aces like me that didn’t get it.

[i-did]

Do you know when the racism and ableism accusations against Nora started? Because back when I was active in 2016/2017 and don't think they were a thing, or were very low-key. Was it something she said or are people just basing it off the things she wrote in the books?

From what I remember, the first time I heard the blanket statement of “Nora is racist/fetishizes gay men” blanket statement was early fall 2019 (which is so ironic for the fandom to say on so many levels lmao). There wasn’t a catalyst or anything, just she went offline 2016 and no new content was coming out and the aftg fandom is such an echo chamber that… an accidental smear campaign happened.

 Before then, I would see occasional “Nora used ableist slur” which… is funny (not that ableism isn’t serious) to me people care more about that than Seth saying the f-slur. IMO this is because with Seth, it clearly shows the character thinking it and not the author who is writing about what will be an end game mlm relationship. 

But anyways! Long story short, it's the fact that she’s an ace/aro woman who wrote a mlm book, and based off of the events in canon. There is no “Nora called me/someone else a slur” it’s “Nora wrote a book where slur(s) are used” and “the Moriyama’s are Japanese.”

Below I put my own opinion on these claims and go into more detail:

CW for discussions of: racism, ableism, mlm fetishization

Fetishization: (and mentions of sexism at the end)

To one question in the EC about her inspo for aftg she jokingly responded how she wanted to write about gay athletes. On other parts of your blog you could see she was a hockey fan and an overall sports fan (anime or otherwise) but I've seen this statement taken out of context and framed as “she's one of those BOYXBOY” shippers. Considering how… well-developed both Andrew and Neil’s relationship is, and it takes them until like the 3rd book and there is a whole complex ass plot going on around, you can see how that's just. Not really true. And considering the fandom is like… 85% women (queer women but still women) and I've gotten into a discussion with someone who is a woman and called Nora a fetishizer and was ignoring my opinions as a mlm, and I really just wanted to say “well what does that make you?” it's a very ironic high horse. She didn’t write 3 all 3 books to put Neil in lingerie pwp or crop-top fem-fatal fashion show, fandom did. 

Also, I talked to an ace/aro friend about this, and she talked to me about how AFTG spoke to her very much so as an ace/aro story. Neil is demisexual, Nora didn’t know of the word at the time of reading it, but she did get an anon asking if Neil was demi after, and she said “had to look it up, and yep, but he doesn't really think about it” (paraphrased). Obviously it would have been cool if andreil were canonly written as wlw by Nora instead, (which would have increased the amount of wlw rep and demi rep) but tbh I don’t think tumblr would have cared about it nearly as much and everyone would just call Neil a cold bitch–like people do with Nora’s other published book with a main character who's a woman. Plus they're her OC’s, not mine. 

The fact is that 50% of all LGBT+ rep in literature is mlm, mostly white mlm, and not written by mlm. I’m not going to hold her to a higher standard than everyone else, she already broke a shit ton of barriers in topics she discusses that otherwise get ignored. I’m grateful to these books for existing even if it's a mlm story written by a woman. I still will prioritize reading mlm written by mlm–and vice versa with wlw– in the way I prioritize reading stories about POC written by POC. But credit where credit is due, this is a very good story, and a very good demi story. 

Ableism:

To me, AFTG is a story about ableism and how we perceive some trauma survivors more worthy than others. Neil and the foxes using ableist language shows how people actually talk. Neil thinks shitty things about Andrew, like the others do too, and thinks he's “psycho”. The story ultimately deconstructs this idea and these perceptions of people. Wymack, someone who says the r-slur (which is still not known by the general population as a slur even in 2021 much less the early 2000s when the book was beginning to be written and what the timeline is based off of) is a character who understands Andrew better than most of the others do, and gives him the most sympathy and understanding despite using words like the m-slur and r-slur. Using these words isn't good, but it is how people talk, and this character talks. Wymack is a playful “name caller” especially when he’s mad, the foxes think Andrew is “crazy” and incapable of humanity and love because of it. They call his meds “antipsychotics” as an assumption and insult in a derogatory way, when really antipsychotics are a very helpful drug for some people who need them. Even Neil thinks these things about Andrew until he learns to care about him. All the foxes are hypocritical to am extent, as people in real life tend to be. Nora herself doesn’t use these or tweet them or something, her characters do to show aspects of their personality and opinions and how they change over time.

Racism:

As for the racism, I've seen people talk about how racial minorities being antagonists is inherently bad, which I think lacks nuance but overall isn't a harmful statement or belief. However, Nora herself said she wrote in the yakuza instead of another gang or mob because she was inspired for AFTG by sports anime, (which often queer-bait for a variety of reasons). I haven’t seen a textual analysis acknowledging the racist undertones surrounding the Moriyama’s as the few characters of color who are also major antagonists, but instead just “Nora is racist”. Wymack having shitty flame tribal tattoo’s is just… a huge 90’s thing and a part of his character design. Her having a character with bad taste in tattoo trends doesn’t mean she's racist. There is the whole how Nicky is handled thing, but that's a whole thing on it’s own. The fandom… really will write Nicky being all “ai ai muy spicy, jaja imma hit on my white–not annoying like me–boyfriend in Spanish. With my booty hole out and open for him ofc.” and as a Mexican mlm I’m like … damn alright. 

I think there is merit to the fact that she writes white as the default* and unless otherwise stated a POC a character was written with the intent to be white is another valid criticism, as well as the fact that the cast is largely white, but everything Nora is accused of I've seen the fandom do worse. That goes to the debate of, is actively writing stereotypes for POC more harmful than no representation at all? And personally I prefer the lack of established race line that lets me ignore Nora’s canon intent of characters to be white and come up with my own HC’s over the fandoms depictions of “zen monk Renee with dark past” “black best friend Matt who got over drugs but is a puppy dog” “ex stripper black Dan who dates Matt” vague tokenism. I HC many of the upperclassmen as POC and do my best to actively give thought behind it and have their own arcs that also avoids the fandom colorism spectrum of “darkest characters we HC go to the back and fandom favorites are in the front and are the lightest.” 

*I however won't criticize her harsher or more than… everyone else who still largely does this in fanfiction regarding AFTG as well as literature in general. This isn't a Nora thing, it's a societal thing, and considering the books came out in like 2014 I'm not gonna hold her to a higher standard than the rest of the world. She's just someone who wrote her personal OC’s and self-published expecting no following. I don’t know her race and I’m not gonna hold her to a higher standard than everyone else just because. 

The criticisms I've seen have always been… ironic IMO, and clearly I have a lot of thoughts on it. I think most people say those things about Nora because they heard them, and it's the woke thing to say and do and don’t critically analyze their actions or anything, but just accept them. 

[austajunk]

Please PLEASE go into detail about how protective he is over Chiaki!! I literally am begging to finally hear someone else actually acknowledge their friendship/relationship especially after having to deal with a pretty toxic anti-bi/pan Nagito rper I was on a server with for a good part of a year! (Sorry went kinda ranty but hopefully my anguish is understandable!)

Oh my lord, you’re giving me a chance to shine with my fixations?! I can’t thank you enough! Now, please understand that this is based on my perception of the series as I’ve played through the second game twice. I’m pretty good when it comes to being the person who has unpopular opinions and ships and I know claiming that Nagito is bi/pan/Demi is probably one of them. But honestly, it comes from the desire to see this boy get as much love as possible. Because he sure needs it.

Ultimately, Nagito’s sexuality is never canonly specified, so I think whether gay, bisexual, Pansexual, or what have you, we’re all well within our rights to just have fun and see what we want to in a really flawed and relatable character. And that’s what makes it interesting.

That being said, let’s talk about Nagito and Chiaki. Friendship or romantic, I don’t think you can deny that Chiaki is at least special to Nagito in some way.

Upon replaying the second game, I’ve realized how protective Nagito actually is towards Chiaki interestingly enough.

In chapter 2, she leaves to go question Fuyuhiko but Nagito stops her and tells her not to let Fuyuhiko get rough with her. Every time Chiaki’s skills help them advance, he deeply praises her. Even after he’s stopped praising all the others (which he does mostly after Chapter one, hinting he does not like some of them as actual people). But for some reason, especially during the trials, Nagito is quick to jump in and mention how wonderful Chiaki is and compliment her (only to be usually cut off by someone when he starts to ramble).

It should also be noted that Chiaki and Nagito both share an appreciation for games. Nagito seems to like more luck-based games for obvious reasons, but he also mentions that like Chiaki, he likes the Twilight Syndrome series. Both of them similarly state that they felt Monokuma was butchering a favorite game of theirs.

They also both have an odd way of trying to cheer Hajime up and joke with him, the examples shown coincidentally beside one another. Chiaki says she’s gonna look for a dirty book, throwing Hajime off and Nagito “jokingly” tells Hajime to lick his boots and now to him, but Hajime is extremely put off when he claims it was a joke. These oddballs get each other in the weirdest of ways is what I’m saying. They’re both incredibly antisocial, but their hearts are reaching the same place too when they try to make an effort.

In chapter 4, when Chiaki teams up with Nagito and Kazuichi, then leaves because they’re both being clingy, Nagito quickly follows and chases after her to make sure she’s okay. Then he chastised her for running off, looking deeply concerned. Even after his attitude change, he will answer her more directly and not ignore her. When she tells him to be quiet, he politely obeys... or maybe it’s because he’s deep in thought about her motives as he mentions he was watching the trial carefully to decide on who the traitor is.

I may just be mentioning this because they’re my OTP, but if you know about their school time together and pay attention to Nagito’s Hope versus Chiaki’s Hope, I think it’s fascinating.

Okay, now let’s head into Danganronpa 3 territory. Now this is the part where I am the most shaky as I’m still trying to determine what I take canon from this series. The thing is, a friend who got me into the series informed me that the production was way rushed and that Kodaka never wanted to do the anime in the first place. But! That being said, Chiaki and Nagito have some great moments in this and the anthology comics along with it, so let’s get into some stuff.

First of all, Nagito warmly mentions that Chiaki being their class rep makes her the true Hope of their class. And you can tell he’s serious because as he’s saying it, he’s doing that thing where he’s staring at his hand desperately like he wants eat it. You know the look.

Moving on, it’s clear that aside from Chisa, Chiaki is the only one to value and treasure Nagito. And this makes sense. In her own dying words, she loves her classmates. They are the world to her. All of them. And of course, she loves Nagito too with all her heart. As evidenced as she cradled him protectively in her arms while he’s injured. At first when Chiaki and the others are determined to stand up to Junko and get their teacher back, Nagito pleads with Chiaki not to. That his luck could not overcome them. He knows they can’t win in this situation and I do think he was actually trying to talk Chiaki out of it. But of course, when Chiaki pushes back and says she wants to go anyways, he literally can’t help himself when it comes to wanting to see Hope shine. So he agrees and praises her again because of course he does.

Until it all leads to the Pain Train with Despair coming out on top. Chiaki is brutally slaughtered and we see something new from Nagito. He breaks down crying. Tears are streaming madly down his face as a forced and twisted smile appears on his lips. He even beseeches Chiaki’s name. “You understand right? You know you’re a stepping stone for Hope!” “What has been done to Nanami is unforgivable...” Nagito’s already trying to cope. To rationalize something horrible that he just witnessed in his mind. He’s trying to protect himself as he’s utterly being destroyed and breaking down like all of his classmates. Chiaki’s death literally shatters his mind. It’s a pretty well done scene even if I’m not a big fan of the brainwashing stuff. Not to mention, the way he says “You understand right, Nanami?” As if he’s begging for her forgiveness as he falls apart. It’s so very very tragic. And of course, when being made apart of the Neo World Program, his desire to see Chiaki once more, just one more time like his classmates, brings her back to him(and the other classmates) in AI form.

Honestly... it’s pretty beautiful. Chiaki is apart of Nagito in some way and is imprinted into his mind and heart. He longed to see her as much as everyone else. This person, who doesn’t seek out relationships because his luck either gets them killed or he finds their Hope to be too weak, has a connection with Chiaki like that. This is literally a person who believes his life is just a stepping stone for better and more worthy people, someone who knows their existence is a formality at this point. And still, he does have connections. There are people capable of caring about him and loving him and Chiaki was one of those people. And he wanted to see her again in the Neo World Program. Like Chiaki said, it’s no less than miracle.

But alas, this is getting rather long, isn’t it? Well in the D3 anthology, Nagito also is concerned when Chiaki avoids eating because of her hyperfixation on gaming. Chiaki skipping out on self care?! Not cool, Chiaki. And so he challenges her to a game to make sure she’ll eat lunch. Fucking protective as hell. And yes yes, the anthology isn’t canon... but that’s the thing about Danganronpa. The series is over. Any additional info and stuff added to it is meant to enrich the experience for the fandom, so it’s canon to me. What’s the fandom gonna do? Whine at me and tell me it isn’t? That Nagito wouldn’t do these things when official anthologies and content that’s sold for Danganronpa tells me he would? So... yeah.

Ultimately, whether you ship them or not, I think this fandom is missing out on the Komanami side of things and how good their relationship is when you really observe it. :3

[jjuzoir]

Homare Arisugawa General HCS

request: “Hi Sora! I never see any art/writing for my boy Homare from A3! (Maybe because his dialogue is so ridiculous.) Would you mind writing something for him?” from tlali

a/n: ahhh i don’t think i’ve ever taken so long in a request jdjdndnd but i just wanted to make it right because i love homare so much❕ he deserves everything and more i just HDHSJJA we need more homare love 🤬 his dialogue is hilarious and i feel like we need to appreciate his style more no more homare slander 🙅

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- He smells like earl gray tea. No one knows why since he uses unscented soaps, he says it’s probably because he spends most of his time drinking or around tea.

- He’s very particular about his hair, he uses very specific shampoos and conditioners that he will absolutely not share or change unless he notices his hair needs it. Talking about his hair, it’s naturally kind of dry so he uses a lot of hydrating products which leaves him with the softest, most fluffy hair ever. It’s like touching a cloud.

- One of his favorite gifts given to him is a tie given to him as a birthday gift by his members. Everyone pitched it, including Izumi, and Azuma picked it out. It’s black, much like his everyday tie, but it’s got a small embroidered snowflake.

- He’s got three main pairs of glasses; his everyday ones he keeps at hand when he goes out, his at home ones which are (according to him) less flattering, and his driving ones. Keep in mind he can’t drive, he doesn’t even own a car.

- He can speak french and latin, and he’s super loud about it too. He’ll sometimes slip in french phrases and no one will understand other than Chikage and it’s just a mess - Muku is always so amazed that he knows two other languages too and probably asks him to teach him sometime.

- Definitely has the prettiest handwriting when it comes to the roman alphabet, he writes in ink and with fancy pens that cost more than Banri’s tuition.

- Absolutely has a bunch of business cards printed out, each with its own quote made by him. Sakyo thought it was such a waste printing them until he realized that no matter how many Homare took when he went to run errands he always gave them all, to whom? No one knows.

- He’s very well respected in the literary community, which still shocks pretty much everyone. He gets stopped often by fans or people who’ve read his work, it happens at least once a day and Izumi really doesn’t… she doesn’t understand, poor girl.

- He’s not that good with phone calls, he’s not bad but he definitely prefers texting or just talking face to face. To him there’s just a certain level of discontent he doesn’t like that doesn’t exist in other mediums.

- His favorite shows are either comedies or heavy hitting detective shows, there is no inbetween. You’ll walk in on him watching a sitcom leave the room and walk in on a serial killer chase down.

- About his love for detective shows, his favorite pastime is trying to solve the mysteries with the main character. He’ll rewatch the episode so many times to try and pick up clues, he’ll take notes and come to a conclusion and he loves the feeling of getting it right.

- In the same spirit as the statement above, absolutely got Tsumugi and Sakyo hooked on some of his favorites and they hang out to talk about the latest episodes and the overarching mystery. The conversations can tend to get kind of heavy very quick, more than once Muku thought they were investigating a real crime and almost fainted.

- He looks like he’s probably allergic to wool sweaters, they make his skin itch and he always needs to use a shirt underneath them - so he tends to buy those expensive anti-allergic ones that need to be washed in a very specific way that could probably pay Tsuzuru’s whole college debt and it takes a lot of restraint from the playwright not to steal one and sell in the black market.

- Talking about Tsuzuru, he often gives him writing advice. Said advice tends to be very useful, like keeping a pen and notebook on him in case anything comes to mind during the day or writing daily to help ease him into a style, etc. Homare genuinely wants him to bloom into a writer and is willing to beta-read anything Minagi needs, be it a script or a sleep deprived rambling about the gay subtext in Nocturnity.

- Arisugawa sets himself reading goals each month, he likes to read at least one book. He prefers poetry books or classic english literature, but he also likes to read romance books or really bizarre dystopian novels.

- Has read more books than most people in the company and can give very detailed recommendations if you give him like a day.

- Sings operas in the shower, unless stopped he will keep going until the second act. Surprisingly good falsetto, but one time Tenma thought it was a Banshee for a second and almost cried into Juza’s chest.

- He’s not only an overly emotional drunk but also a loud drunk, he’s already quite loud but when he’s downed half a bottle of wine and a shot of vodka he’s louder than the Summer Troupe combined. Because of this, Izumi tends to restrict his alcohol intake when they’re at the dorm.

- I can see him being very big into musicals, not all musicals but a very specific niche; classic horror novels turned into musicals. He’s a very big fan of both the German and Korean versions of Dracula, his favorite song is probably “Zu Ende” or the Korean version of “It’s Over”. He also likes the Frankenstein musical too, but overall he finds Junsu’s Dracula more interesting thus his preference.

- He will talk your ear off if you mention any musical though, be it a classic like Phantom or something newer like Heathers.

- A very big fan of Ghibli movies, he told me so himself today. He really likes Spirited Away though, it’s a movie he’s watched so many times but he’s still completely enamoured by it; he probably has made the Winter Troupe watch it at least once and Hisoka definitely knows the beginning of the movie by heart now.

- Homare is also really good at drawing, not like Kazunari but he’s probably the second best. He learned by analyzing and looking at artists he admired and picking up on their techniques. A true Renaissance Man™️.

- I feel like he’d also have a bunch of skills that are kind of, useless? He can probably carve wood and make candles, he also took a course in glass blowing probably. Arisugawa just wants to try everything at least once, his motto is probably to explore and learn as much as possible, not just about art but the world (he can be surprisingly smart if you have a dictionary at hand).

- Very observant, just in general. Which can be both good and bad, it’s good because it helps him understand the situation in ways others might not but it leads to him to sometimes overthinking things and behaving in manners which may annoy or hurt others.

- He also has a hard time trying to react to social cues, as seen in game, with certain people. While he’s worked it out with the Winter troupe and the Mankai company he still struggles when it comes to new people.

- Will make little tunes he sings in the shower that kind of become a little daily song, each day there’s a new one he’ll hum.

- He also canonly makes music and he makes contemporary electro-pop, you cannot change my mind. He probably also mixes opera and classical music into his tunes, which can go from 1 minute to 10, so you end up with a very cool mix of orchestra and techno-pop - it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but he’s probably got his own niche group.

- Now, into more romantic HCs...

- He’s a good flirt, a very good flirt. They may sound weird looking back at it, but his pickup lines work and they work well.

- He knows when to stop pursuing someone too. He senses even a bit of discomfort and he’s backing away, won’t ask anything. Very big on consent and unless stated absolutely explicitly he’ll keep his distance.

- A true gentleman, please - he’ll never let his dates pay, always open the doors for them, will even do the “walk on the inside of the sidewalk” when he’s walking you home.

- His favorite dates tend to be ones where you get to know more about each other, not always necessarily by talking though. Being able to go into a bookstore and look at the books, seeing the ones you pick, what you pick at a cafe or restaurant, it all helps him draw a better picture of who you are and he likes to think it helps you get to know him better too.

- He’s very in tune with his S/O’s feelings but is afraid of overstepping any boundaries which may lead to some miscommunication at the beginning of the relationship. But it’s workable and it wouldn’t be that big an issue in the long run as long as his partner is willing to help him understand them.

- Not big on PDA, thinks certain things should remain inside - not to say he wouldn’t talk for hours about his partner to anyone who listens but things like kissing or hugs tend to be behind closed doors. He’s okay with hand holding and maybe a kiss on the cheek though!

- Likes wearing matching outfits with his S/O, thinks it shows how they’re “one in spirit, heart, and mind” and will not stop pointing it out to the point even married couples feel single as they hear him ramble on about the subtle coordination in your color schemes to create a perfect contrast.

- Notices the smallest things like how much sugar you like in your drinks, the telltale signs of when you’re lying or uncomfortable, how you act when you’re too cold or too hot, and learns it by heart.

- Homare is also the kind of boyfriend who’d confront the waiter if they get your order wrong, he’s not ashamed of it either.

- He kind of just wants to make sure you’re doing well and happy, he’s a gentleman.

- Damn… I love him so much

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Tokyo Onmouji Review

Warning: Don’t play this if you are under 18 years 

Spoiler are separated 

I knew about the game for a long time already but never played it because I didn’t like the art, so it was on my “someday to play” list. But looking back I should have judge it that hard because this experience turned out so much better than expect and I’m happy I could even enjoy it fully translated, it’s been a long time since I played a bl game in English. The game has been out for a few days, and I only saw 3 people talk about it and I wonder why? We get a new BL game every 100 years, so I expected more people to play it. And now that I’m finished with it, I sure hope people will play it because it’s a great game.

Description:

It is the year 2014 in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo, Japan. The capital, having remained largely unscathed by major air raids for the duration of World War II, has settled into an enthralling blend of the remnants of the old days and the developments of the new over time. Although the country should be at peace, lately it has been afflicted by horrifying incidents of assaults by ayakashi—supernatural creatures and spirits—against humans. Though previously banned at the close of the war, the practice of the onmyoji—masters of spirits and divination—has been approved once again in order to combat the ongoing supernatural threat. With hollow souls roaming the streets of Tokyo freely, the world is on the brink of collapsing into chaos. While it has been discovered that most of these malicious spirits were once human, the dark truth behind the origin of these disturbing transformations has yet to reveal itself. Only by resolving these strange incidents in this metropolis of turbulent, clashing emotions will the answers eventually be made clear... Or will they? (vndb)

Story:

I got in without any expectation because my last game experiences were not that great. And I was truly surprised the game was a lot of fun and I never got bored. The game follows the typical blvn pattern with common route + route of the love interest. The difference is, that the common route consists of 4 weeks in which the MC can do different jobs which you can choose. Each job is connected to a character and the route you will play depends on the boy you spent most time with. The routes themself have 2 chapters each. What I liked about the common route is that even though each job had a different story they were still connected in a way to a character that is later brought up in their route. Some of the jobs were really interesting too, some dragged a little, but it was still fun to play them. I was really surprised that all routes were good written, and even if I didn’t like a character in the beginning his route turned out way better than expected. Some chapters were better than others, but I never thought something was boring or rushed. The writer clearly knows how to write human emotions and a good story. Also did I mentioned the game has cool animations? some other Stuff: -to many bad ends omg, but at least most had no cg - all BE are either death ends or just porn - To much cannibalism - there is no “guys don’t kiss other guys” because Rei is gay power bottom, Basara is horny for his master 24/7, Yotsuya and Rei already have a physical relationship, Meguro doesn’t care, Kamiosaki is already in love with Rei

Character:

Rei being badass 

Tengenjibashi Rei The main character, working as an onmyouji he is far away from being the bl game mc 101. I already heard that he is canonly gay and it really did show. You can’t step on him because he will step on you first, I was surprised how he sometimes was a little bitch and full of sass. He is rather lazy but is good in what he does, he is a strong character and would often end up protecting the love interest himself. He makes no secret about his one-night stand with men and is probably the most horny MC in a bl game I ever saw, going as far as too tie up the love interest himself and do whatever he likes, clearly a strong power bottom. What I didn’t expect was his strong empathy for humans and ayakashi. He often doesn’t get rid of them and always tries to understand the ayakashi’s side too, to a point where his hobby is drawing his experience with ayakashi on a sliding door. The reason why he never had a relationship is because he is scared of losing the person he likes, but it was easy for him to fall for the love interest exactly because of this strong empathy. Also, his family is a piece of shit.

Meguro entering the room and already setting his position as best boy 

Meguro Masato First guy I played because: Short black hair I’m easy don’t judge. He is a onmyouji too who kills ayakashi without a second thought. From his introduction he seems mean, and Rei called him an ass but I always thought that there is more to his character and turns out I was completely right. He went straight in my S-rank husband list. What a good man he is. He and Rei had great chemistry and he has such a kind and loving personality. My absolute favourite love interest in the game.

Basara trying to fuck his master AGAIN Basara Rei’s shikigami. Who loves him very much and always tries to get him into bed. Annoying. I have nothing else to say about him. He has no real route only and ending after the common route, that end with them fucking. For some reason he has the most H-scenes in the game and all he does it trying to fuck Rei no matter what Rei is doing or how he feels. He felt just like a big fanservice end nothing more.

Yotsuya being Yotstuya flirting with Rei

Yotsuya The leader of the ayakashi in Shinjuku, he took a liking to Rei. This guy needs to stop whispering, because I can’t hear him. I fully expected him to be an asshole because he had ~the vibes~ but he was surprisingly nice in his route and to Rei too. Even apologized for the mistakes he made, we also got to learn about his past. There was a part in his route that drag a little but nothing too bad. Personally, he was not the type I would go for and I didn’t end up vibing with this pairing but it was still nice.

“Haha what if I told you I like you, joke...or is it?”

Kamioskai Suguru Rei’s friend and fellow onmyouji, who he had knowns since high school. Ah the good childhood friend to lovers story I don’t like lol. That turned out actually pretty good thanks to the hilarious love and family drama in the route, it was so dramatic I could not my stop myself from laughing at a point, but like in a positive way it was still really interesting plot-wise even better than yotsuya’s. The second chapter felt a little weaker than the first chapter in comparison but it was also not that long. His personality was not bad for childhood friends he is a mom friend and worried about Rei but also is worried about hurting him because of things he done in the past.

Musik: Not bad at all, I was vibing with the battle song. One bg track annoyed me because it sounded like the dmmd sexy time track. Not fun.

Art: I mentioned before I didn’t touch the game for a long time because of the art but it was actually not bad at all, some cg were really good and not all sprites looked that bad. My complains would be:

-that the eyes of them were too far apart making them sometimes look like a fish -Rei’s bitch face still looks weird to me -Kamiosaki looks high when he has his eyes half closed -Yotsuya looks more like an ass when his eyes are half closed too -some cgs had weird anatomy -Rei’s hair looks like it’s glued to his head sometimes

But all in all, nothing to bad and I’m don’t judge the art style that hard nowadays anyway, the game is a little older so I don’t expect perfect quality like you would from a new game today.

Localization: I would like to say a big thank you for Moonchime Localization for releasing the game in English, they did an amazing job with it. I’m fully satisfied with the translation of the game. There was nothing that bother me and no cringy words I had to read unlike some other company likes to do looking at you jast I could fully enjoy reading it. There was a bug in Meguro’s bonus story and they released a patch fixing this problem only few days after release, that’s how I expect a good customer service to be. I will continue to fully support them in the future and I hope everyone else will to and not just download the game illegally somewhere remember with supporting localization we will get even more great bl game in English

Conclusion:  Play the game it’s fun for Meguro <3 Rei is a good change if you sick of the no homo Tsundere protagonist, or just want something not too serious and dark. I was fully surprised how much I enjoyed it and can only recommend it to anyone who is a fan of bl. .

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Spoiler Part 

Meguro: I did expected Meguro to turn out more kind than we were shown in the beginning but I didn’t expect him to turn out to be such a husband. Rei and him started out as having a rival relationship because Meguro does his work different from Rei. Later we find out why Meguro hates ayakashi: His sister was captured by one and now he want to save her, for this he ask Rei to help him, even accepting his condition to stop killing ayakashi, and man this guy took this promise seriously. Because he killed ayakashi without even thinking about it, he is now hated by a lot of them, meaning they want to see him dead. When he was attacked by them, he didn’t fight back or killed him because he promised Rei not to do so. When Rei found out about it, he was shocked how far Meguro would go to keep his promise. To make sure Meguro is save he cast secretly a spell on him so he would be save, which later saves his live when he gets attacked again. The next day when Meguro visits him at home and finds Rei still sleeping, he tries to wake him up, but Rei who is still very sleepy sees him and says how happy he is that Meguro is save, which makes Meguro go all doki doki but he decides just to let him sleep. While working together to fulfil Meguro’s request they both act all domestic and cute with each other, taking naps on each other and Meguro making Rei delicious food because Basara lets him only eat plain food because they are poor apparently. When they finally succeed with it, it turns out his sister who now lives in the other world is married and has children and because time works different in the world is now in her 50s. She tells him that she is glad that he found her, but she doesn’t want to go back because of her life here. Accepting this Meguro returns to the world. Now that Rei did his work, there is no reason for them to see each other, few days later Meguro visits him to pay him for his work, but you guessed it, our boy is now all depressed because his only propose in life was for him to find his sister why this sounds strangely familiar? Rei calls him a coward for giving up on life and they start fighting, only to end up having passionate angry sex lol. Later Rei get a new request from a client who turns out to be a 10 year old boy, to save Meguro from Yotsuya’s clan because they want to kill him for all the shit he did before. Taking this seriously Rei accepts and rushed to Yotsuya to talk to him. They make a promise that if Rei manages to seal the snake on Yotsuya’s chest he will forget about the thing with Meguro. When Rei talks about it with Megero, he tells him that he doesn’t care if he dies, Rei not accepting that of course thinks about how he can help him and comes up with an idea to summon some ayakashi that can help him. After he collects all the stuff, he needs for it they all (even Meguro) meet up at his home to perform this ritual, but get attacked by Yotsuya’s subjects, who want to kill Meguro. After they both get badly hurt Meguro tells him that he doesn’t care and he should just let them die, but Rei gets angry and doesn’t want to accepted that. He tells him that he will protect him and if he has no reason to live, Rei will become his reason to live. Yes king Together they manage to win the fight and find out how Rei can fulfil Yotsuya’s wish. Rei rushed to Yotsuya, later followed by Meguro after he wakes up again (he passed out before from his injuries). Together they fight and manage to seal the snake. Here we find out that the child who asked Rei to protect Meguro is actually the child of his sister who died in the other world. Yotsuya being amused by this situation promises not to go after Meguro again. Meguro totally falls in love with his new nephew. After that he casually confesses to Rei and Rei does it too. The route ends with Meguro telling Rei to stop sleeping with other men and finally become his lover, which turns out Rei already did.

They both had a really strong chemistry through the whole route and both fell for each other really early with Rei even trying to deny his feeling to himself. What I like about them too is how strong and protective Rei was, breaking the stupid trope that the “top” is the strong manly part (I love it when they break top/bottom roles) I’m also weak for character who are protective of their family and Meguro was so cute with his nephew, he lets him always stay with him and is really protective of him. After he found out that his father died too, he thinks about adopting him, he is really such a dad, cute. This wasn’t supposed to be a summary…but I got carried away because Meguro is just so great <3

Meguro being the cutest dad and cuddling with his nephew 

Basara: He had only 1 choice after the common route where you could decide if he should fuck Rei in his small version or his big version, which was only shown last minute in the common route, that is like some 3m big dude. If you choose small they end up doing the dirty in the bath if you choose big, he will destroy Rei with his child-arm-like dick bonus if you got the reference . And for some reason he talks all different like some alpha top shit, I skipped the whole scene but the short dialogue I saw he told Rei how he want to “fuck him until he gets pregnant”…..ehm yeah no. The only reason he is not on my trash pile is because he does care about Rei and protects him.

Yotsuya: The whole route is about how Yotsuya cursed some onmyouji with a curse that will kill him and some of his relatives, well too bad that he is related to Rei meaning he accidently cursed Rei too, and Rei is basically dying 90% of the route. Good thing Yotsuya is very aware how much he fucked up and is doing his best to save Rei. The antagonist in the route was hella annoying, some weird dude who eats bones. My complain about the route is that it sometimes drag on got too long and they could done a better job with trying to save Rei, in some parts I thought he would just die any minute.

Kamiosaki: Biggest family drama in the route. Rei has to travel home because his absolute shitty trash family need him for some shit and Kamiosaki follows him (with his private helicopter) because he totally not crushing on Rei since they were in high school. At home he finds out that his family thinks he slept with his brother’s wife, because their child, who is the heir to their family business didn’t show any onmyouji skills yet despite being already only 10 years old. Of course it’s not true and Rei’s family is big trash because they treat the poor child like some object and not as a human, he can’t even choose what to do with his own life, and they want Rei to get married to have a heir if the child won’t show any power in the future. After Kamiosaki and Rei get the child away from the family and spent a little time with him they learn that he does have onmyouji power, he is just scared of using them because of some dark shadow that lives in their house. Later this dark shadow possesses Kamiosaki and lets him attack Rei, but Rei manages to get Kamiosaki to his sense (if not you get the most gruesome Bad end in the game). Also Kamiosaki confessed his feelings for Rei under the influence of this thing because it tricked him into thinking that Rei already knows. After they free themselves from it, they learn that Rei’s shitty family is now possessed too and they are looking for his nephew. After finding the child they fight the dark spirit and free the family. All ends well with Rei and Kamiosaki going back home, but not befre Rei give his family a lesson how they should not treat the child like shit and give him his own choice. The final of the drama starts here, because after Kamiosaki (under the possession) treated Rei so bad he is holding himself back now from being too close to him, even if Rei already knows about his feeling which is fine with him (he even tells him how much he likes him a few times, but he is so sure that Rei doesn’t like him because he sleeps around. (Which is totally not true because Rei liked him already when they were babies in high school) Kamiosaki pulls the “it’s better if we don’t see each other for a while” card and runs dramatically away, followed by Rei who catches him and tell him how he want them to be lover bla bla and they get together yay. The second chapter starts with Rei being super frustrated because they have been dating 1 month already and Kamiosaki still didn’t lay his hand on Rei. So totally desperate now he even wonder if he is attractive poor guy lol but decided if Kamiosaki doesn’t do anything today to him he will pin him down himself, but the plan gets interrupted because suddenly Kamiosaki has to go to a marriage interview, that was supposed to be for his brother but his brother noped himself out, but if he returns he gets the free card out of it. The women in the family of the girl are all possessed by some kind of spirit that lets all men in their family die and marrying an onmyouji is supposed to help or some shit. At the interview the girl arrives with the creepy spirit behind her that looks like some skeleton with long hair, that attacks kamiosaki later but he gets saved by Rei. They decide to try to find a way to lift this curse from her bla bla and find a way, after organizing another meet with the girl they try to exorcise it but get stopped by the girl herself. Weird ass twist but it turns out the girl and the creepy spirit are in love lol and she want to stay with him. Rei has an idea and suggest to trying to turn the spirit into an ayakashi, which they accept, happy end. Oh and there is the scene in between were Rei and Kamiosaki fight and Rei gets all pissed and says that he doesn’t understand why Kamiosaki is not touching him, and Kamiosaki tells him that he is scared because of what he had done before and wants Rei to wait a little, and Rei is like “nope” and uses onmouji power to paralyze him, ties him up on the bed and just does whatever he wants hahaha full power bottom Rei (Kamiosaki is fine with it don’t worry) also there is this cute extra were Rei and Kamiosaki have to act out a wedding with Rei in a full wedding dress to catch some stalker, which was really funny. Consider normal friend to lover stories are boring (for me) this was actually really interesting with all the family drama going on.

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Trigger warning: Canon sexual assault in detail (Sexual Coercion)

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INDEX

Index

Intro

Overview

Manipulation

Fear of saying no

Sexual Coercion and signs 

Breaking down the script

Conclusion

Goodbyes

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INTRO

In season 3, episode 5- Blaine sexually assaults Kurt. Just going to pop the bubble like that, there’s no easy way to approach it because this isn't an easy topic. Many people try to argue with this fact, though, Blaine canonly sexually assaulted Kurt. I’m going to break it down, tell you my research, the specifics of what went down, and a lot more. So if you’re already hesitant- whether because this is triggering, or because you don’t want to accept that your favorite character, shockingly, did something bad (as if there wasn’t the longest list on earth with all the other things he’s done.) I suggest you click off this post. Anyways, I’m just going to get into it now, so just stick with me.

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OVERVIEW

The car scene at Scandals, was sexual assault. Kurt said no when Blaine insisted on them to ‘just do it’ right then and there, but Blaine ignored his decline and continued to forcefully grab him, as well grope him and kiss him many, many more times. Kurt had to free himself from the backseat since Blaine wasn’t letting go any time soon. Afterwards, Blaine proceeds to act like the small poor victim who had his feelings hurt because big mean Kurt didn’t want to play with him and lose his virginity in the backseat of his car. Especially after Blaine spent the whole night letting Sebastian dance or more so, grind, up against him.

Blaine didn’t even apologize to Kurt, yet had no problem apologizing to Rachel for ‘letting her down’ for not being able to play a good enough Tony since Kurt wouldn’t have sex with him. In fact, Kurt was the one apologizing about the whole dilemma, “ I’m sorry too. I wanted to be your gay bar superstar but try as I might, I’m still just a silly romantic.” Kurt is basically apologizing to Blaine for not having sex with him and losing his virginity, even though he knew he wasn’t ready. All Blaine gave Kurt was, “I was drunk.”

“I was drunk,” is never an apology nor an excuse to sexually assault your s/o. Blaine only apologized for the fact of being drunk, not the fact that he sexually assaulted Kurt, as if he would’ve done the same as sober, that being drunk was the only problem. Kurt didn’t want it, he said ‘no’ and ‘stop’-  no matter how drunk Blaine may have been, Kurt kept making verbal and physical signs he didn’t want anything Blaine tried pressing him to do. NO MEANS NO.

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MANIPULATION 

At the end of the day, they still lost their virginity to each other. Kurt is under the impression that Blaine wanted to have sex because he loved him and felt ready to do it, which wasn’t the case. Yes, Blaine might’ve been ready and in love with Kurt, but this was mainly to make his play performance better. Kurt never found this out. Which means he had sex with Blaine under false pretense, also meaning that Blaine manipulated Kurt into having sex. 

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AFRAID OF SAYING NO

I’ll also like to point out the fact that Kurt apologizing to Blaine and trying to call him back at first (when Blaine said he was going to walk home) practically means he’s scared of saying no to Blaine. If he knew he wasn’t doing anything wrong, he would’ve not apologized and called Blaine back (obviously already wrecked.) He could’ve been scared to say no, thinking that Blaine would do that again (especially after the first time he was sexually assaulted by Karofsky, which I will discuss in another post) or because he was worried he’d break up with him to go with someone like Sebastian.

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SEXUAL COERCION AND SIGNS

The type of sexual assault that Blaine acted on was something called sexual coercion, which also falls into the broad terms of sexual harassment, though, in more specfic terms, it was sexual coercion. By Google definition, “Sexual Coercion: can vary from someone verbally egging you on to someone actually forcing you to have contact with them. It can be verbal and emotional, in forms that makes you feel pressure, guilt, or shame.” There are many ways someone can make their partner feels these things, though the ones that apply here are;

‘Make you feel threatened or afraid if you say no.’

‘Badger you, yell, or hold you down.’

‘React negatively (with sadness, anger, or resentment) if you say no or don’t immediately agree,’

‘Continue to pressure you after you say no.’

I’ve covered the first one of Kurt being afraid so I’m going to break down the rest. ‘Badger you, yell, or hold you down.’ Blaine didn’t raise his voice, slurring around his words a bit as he was drunk, or at least not fully sober (later on we see Blaine a lot more sober than what he showed earlier in the car). Though, he did badger Kurt and- didn’t hold him down, but kept a tight grasp on him the whole time. Badgering someone is continuously bugging someone about it, which Blaine repeatedly tried to convince Kurt into doing the deed, this is like sexual misconduct. Sexual misconduct can be aggressive ‘come-ons’ and pleading, which is exactly what Blaine did. Blaine also had kept a tight grasp on either Kurt’s hands, wrists, forearms, face, or jaw constantly as Kurt tried multiple times to pull away. 

At one part, Blaine cupped Kurt’s jaw and dragged him down lower, tugging at him as he moved upward and kissed at his neck and cheek- while of course Kurt kept saying ‘no’ and ‘stop it,’ which was where Blaine started to get more forceful. When he ranted off on knowing what Kurt actually wanted (which he ignored, blowing out the, 'you're comfortable, so I can be comfortable' speech out of the water,' he tightly grabbed Kurt’s forearms and cupped his face- multiple times during his rant, you see Kurt attempting to pull away. It was constant and constant signs that Kurt didn’t want this and Blaine knew, which caused him to pull him closer and held him tighter. 

Next is, 'React negatively (with sadness, anger, or resentment) if you say no or don’t immediately agree.' Blaine had the audacity to put the blame upon Kurt, right before leaving going, "I’m sorry if I’m trying to be spontaneous and fun." Clearly meaning, 'why couldn't YOU be more spontaneous and fun.' Plus, when Kurt finally managed to pull away and step outside of the car, he firmly states why he isn't ready- tears in his eyes and pain in his voice as he yells, wanting it to get through Blaine's head. Blaine doesn't apologize, but again, tries to turn the things, "Why are you yelling at me?" Like there was no reason and he was completely innocent. He tried turning everything around like he was the victim while Kurt was the bad guy. 

The last one is, ‘Continue to pressure you after you say no,' which Blaine, no question about it, did. When Blaine started with all of, grasping at Kurt and keeping him down, Kurt just simply tried pulling away- thinking Blaine wouldn't be so strong and that he could easily escape. Though when Blaine's grip wasn't clearing up, Kurt finally firmly verbally says 'no' and repeatedly says it. Blaine continues to not let go, which Kurt got louder and now pleading for Blaine to let go as Blaine tried to convince Kurt that it would be perfect right now. He kept saying, “I want you,” as if expecting Kurt to say it back, ignoring the signs of disagreement. Each time he kept saying it, it was as if Blaine was expecting to get what he wanted no matter what. Even with Kurt not wanting it. 

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BREAKING DOWN THE SCRIPT

I'm going to show the more bigger points of the whole scene and break it down, so there will be a few scenes I don't mention because they weren't so powerful for me to mention or I already said the same in another part and if I were to breakdown everything, we would be here for hours. 

BLAINE: Kiss me. Kiss me.

(Blaine’s leaning in, wrapping his arms around Kurt, trying to kiss him.)

KURT:  Oh, no, no, no, no… 

(Kurt shakes his head and puts his hands on Blaine’s shoulders, keeping him away.)

BLAINE: Kiss me. (Blaine moves his head closer, close to kissing at Kurt’s neck.)

Everything is alright there for now, Blaine keeps insisting to be kissed and it's innocent enough since Blaine isn't forcing him anything, he's just trying to kiss him himself and trying to get Kurt to join in, everything is okay for now.

[BLAINE forcefully grabs Kurt’s arms and pulls him inside, pulling him over himself.]

KURT: Woah, wait! Okay… oh, oh, oh- 

(Blaine immediately wraps his arms around Kurt’s waist, keeping him down.)

KURT: All right, Blaine, all right. Cold hand, cold hand! 

(Blaine keeps a grip around Kurt’s waist, kissing his neck. (probably slipping his hands into Kurt’s shirt causing him to say ‘cold hands’) Kurt struggles in Blaine’s grasp, trying to pull away.)

BLAINE: Come on, come on. Hey, Kurt, let’s just do it. (Blaine grips at Kurt’s hands/wrists, keeping him close.)

This is where things start to become slowly not okay. Blaine starts to become more forceful Though it isn't fully not okay since Kurt hasn't made signs of disagreement, verbally or physically (besides the squirming but that to the blind eye could seem like just adjusting to a more comfortable position).

BLAINE: I… I want you. 

(Kurt tries to move his head back and pulls his arm back, managing to get Blaine to let go.)

KURT: No, no. 

(Blaine wraps his hand, cupping Kurt’s neck and pulls him in.)

BLAINE: I want you so bad. 

(Blaine forcefully grasps Kurt’s head, pulling him down to meet his head. Blaine moves his head and starts kissing Kurt’s cheek and neck again.)

KURT: No. Blaine, no just… stop it. 

(Kurt yanks his head back and puts his hands on Blaine’s shoulder, pushing him away.) 

Here's it's bad, here it's sexual assault. Kurt said 'no' and kept pulling away more clearly now, but Blaine kept on pulling him back and stating, 'I want you,' even after Kurt said 'no' and 'stop it.'

BLAINE: Hey, listen, I know you wanted to do it in a field of lilacs with Sting playing in the background and all that, but who cares where we are? 

(Blaine grips Kurt’s arm (one cupping his face still), not letting him move as he rambled.)

KURT: I-.. 

(Kurt makes an effort to pull away, clearly uncomfortable and scared.)

BLAINE: It’s about us, right?

(Blaine still grabs at Kurt’s arms.)

Blaine is more forceful, gripping Kurt tightly to make sure he doesn't move or escape, and by now he knows what he is doing and isn't letting Kurt get away. As well, the persistence of, "It's about us, right?" Asking that like he was expecting Kurt to simply agree.

KURT: Right, it’s about us. (Kurt finally manages to untangle himself, pulling away quickly so Blaine couldn’t grab him.)

KURT: Which is why I don’t want to do it on a night that you spent half of dancing with another guy and that you're sober enough to remember it the next day! (Kurt has tears in his eyes as he keeps his distance from Blaine, fear in his voice.)

BLAINE: Why are you yelling at me? (Blaine is glaring at Kurt.)

KURT: Because I have never felt less like being intimate with someone and either you can’t tell or you just don’t care! (Kurt’s yelling to try to get his point across to Blaine, still teary eyed and scared.)

Kurt didn't need to pull away and get out of his car, Blaine should've stopped. If you have to put distance between you and the person that tried to do something to you, you're clearly not feeling safe to stick around with them. His eyes are glassy while he yells at Blaine, uncomfortable and scared. When Blaine glared at Kurt, it was as if he wanted Kurt to feel bad and like he was innocent.

[BLAINE rolls his eyes and leaves]

KURT: Where are you going? (Kurt’s voice is straining.)

BLAINE: I’m sorry if I’m trying to be spontaneous and fun. (Blaine tries to blame Kurt, glaring at him.) 

BLAINE: I think i’m just going to walk home. (Blaine seems a lot more stable and seems to be soberish, so he probably knew what he was doing.)

Kurt seems to start regret stopping it, scared of what Blaine is going to do. He shouldn't at all regret saying no, because he was clearly not ready for it. Blaine again tries to blame Kurt, wanting him to be spontaneous and fun. He always seems a lot more sober since he is holding himself right, not slurring his words, and able to walk away without stumbling like how he was walking out of Scandals. If he is sober enough for this, he should know what he was doing moments ago.

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CONCLUSION

The end, Blaine sexually assaulted Kurt. There is no way around it, there is no defending his actions. You can accept them, you can't defend them, you can keep following him, or maybe start to realize he might not be who you think he is. I've got the facts and research and all of that, right here. Blaine sexually assaulted Kurt, used a stupid excuse which isn't one, and had him do the apologizing. This isn't okay, stop brushing it off your shoulders.

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GOODBYE

I'm glad you stuck around to read this all, I hope you all have a fabulous rest of your day/evening/night. I may do more of these if people like them,

Alex.

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Craig's turn for the ask thingy.

How I feel about the character

Craig is my favorite character (Tweek is a close 2nd) I love how different he is from the other characters. How he likes routines and boring things. How he tries to stay as far away from the 'main four' as possible yet still has a rivary/friendship kind of mindset with them. Pandemic/Pandemic 2 are actually my favorite episodes because of Craig. I love his 'bad boy' rebel attitude how he doesnt give a damn what anyone else thinks about him, how he stays true to himself like in Panademic 2 he just walked away from the main 4 cause he was just so done with their bullshit .

I even dont mind that he is actually a bully because it just adds to his bad boy reputation and who doesnt love a bad boy.

mostly I love how being with Tweek changed him. He was already a pretty interesting as a character but was kind of one dimensional and then he ends up with Tweek and this guy who doesnt care about anything suddenly cares about someone and it's just so sweet. It's not like he changed completely he just changed for Tweek.

He also reminds me a lot of my Husband (has alot of the same personality traits/characteristics) so I am probably pretty bias towards Craig being the best character.

All the people I ship romantically with the character:

Tweek Tweak! I only ship creek with creek. The fact that Tweek is the only one who is able to bring out Craig's softer side is partly why I love his character and it just doesnt feel like he would be like that with any other relatiobship.. Plus I adore the way these two take care of eachother, how even when they were fighting and broken up in the fractured but whole everything was still only about them. Anyone else notice how their eye colors in the in ultimate basically reflect eachother showing they only have eyes for eachother.

They also have such a healthy relationship and being together makes them better characters especially Craig.

My non romantic OTP with the character

Craig's gang. I just love the dynamics of their entire gang and would love to see a eposide devoted to their friendship (with added creek)

I also love the idea of a platonic friendship between Craig and Thomas . Thomas is such a interesting character so I would love to see them bring Thomas back, and yeah even though I dont ship it, Thomas was totally Craig's first crush so having Thomas back in the series would bring about interesting dynamics as well. Aka Jealous Tweek would be adorable.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don't think he is a bad boy at all and it's just a mask for him not being able to express his emotions. He likes routine and keeping things boring. I also think he was actually gay before Tweek x Craig.

I also think he actually needs Tweek more then Tweek needs him. The reason I think this is because giving the fact that Tweek is the only one he let's his walls down for.

Oh I guess some people dont like the fact he is gay, so let's just say he is canonly gay.

One thing I wish had/ would happen with this character in canon.

As I mentioned before I want Craig and his gang eposides. I want it friendship based with a little bit of creek.

Creek: I want Craig to sing to Tweek,maybe they are fighting or he is dorky and romantic whatever the reason I want to see him in the hallway serenading Tweek and having Tweek be all embarrassed.

[fieldbears]

Washed-Up Stucky MNF/Fic Writer Provides Endgame Opinions

I’m going to try to tackle this linearly, at least to begin with:

I am very much Team Bored With MCU Hawkeye, but I want to give sincere props for the cold open, which I think accomplished several things simultaneously: recapped the consequences of the last film (since, hey, it’s been a fuckin while), set the tone, and began Clint’s narrative arc.

That said, jesus, I’m still irritated by the shoe-horned family to begin with. First they were invented for convenience and narrative stakes, and then their final, ultimate reason for existence was to be temporarily fridged. Take a moment to imagine a world where Clint was the circus runaway loner he was supposed to be, who only had his coworkers as found family, who either responded to The Snap by throwing himself harder into his teamwork work OR went rogue because his sense of justice and agency was so fucking destroyed by what happened. He didn’t need a blood family to have the arc he had. And he didn’t even need the arc he had. But this is a bitchfest about a choice made many years ago, not made in this final movie.

The first third of that movie was rough. The whole thing had the narrative flow of “A Series of Related Short Stories Played One After the Other”, but the first third seems to be Failing To Establish the New World and then Clumsily Establishing The Emerging Situation.

The establishing shots and scenes to show the audience what The Snap’s consequences were worldwide were... lacking. It’s dark? No more baseball? People are relying on natural light instead of interior lighting, but this is also happening at Avengers HQ, where they clearly still have power and internet access to work their tech, so... was it just an aesthetic choice? I feel like the film tried to spend time showing us what the consequences were for the average New Yorker, but instead we get a weird Canonly Gay Russo Character who gave a good performance that tells us about the human loss but not about the mechanics of this new world. We get the ‘no baseball’ shot and all we get afterward are ‘people miss the missing people’. But restaurants still exist? Businesses are functioning? (Wouldn’t New York run kind of smoother if it wasn’t overpopulated?) I feel like we were invited to start thinking about how this dystopia works, but were never given answers. (There are so many interpretations of how things could go wrong if certain people just disappeared, and their knowledge/access were suddenly unavailable, and none of it was explored, even briefly, outside of establishing shots.)

The Garden Planet - it’s discovery, the traveling to it, the fight there - lacked emotional grounding in a way I find hard to explain. The audience was excited for Brie Larson being a fucking boss, and the quick execution of the grab-him-and-cut-his-arm-off plan was satisfying, but the twist and subsequent letdown was just a weird beat after a slog to get there, after waiting on a deep letdown beat from the last movie.

Last thing about flow and emotional beats, because I want to move on to character analysis, and this is a huge one for me: Clint’s fight in Tokyo and Steve’s fight with himself were some of the biggest missed opportunities in the entire film.

Not counting the football field brawl at the end, which I don’t count as a real fight scene, these are the two major fight scenes of the entire film and as far as I can tell, there was no effort made to make these showpieces. They went to the trouble of bringing Clint to Bladerunner Central, and pit him against the last bastion of aesthetic-obsessed mafia in the world. The panning camera in the interior as Hawkeye fought goons brushed past lazy fight scenes that only showed who was winning, not the brutality that Clint was supposedly falling into, not the grit of this new awful world, just... shapeless dark bodies getting thrown through windows? And on top of that, they could have made up (or picked from canon) any Big Bad to pit him against outside in the street, and we get an Orientalist sword fight that could have fit in nicely on a CW superhero show, and some of the most unnecessary exposition dialogue I have ever heard. Someone bothered to weave Clint’s arc in earlier, with Rhodey explaining to Natasha that Clint’s gone International and also Worryingly Dark. Why the fuck do we have the ‘I’ll give you anything you want’ line, on the rotten cherry on top of ‘stop being mean to the yakuza, we didn’t start it’? You already covered his motivations with the cold open.

And while Steve’s fight ended in a FABULOUSLY HEARTBREAKING WAY, the fight itself was nothing - you can pick little character details out like how they both ditched their shields almost immediately, and it was funny that Then-Steve mistook Now-Steve for Loki in the first place, but it was still a completely lost opportunity to get one true superhero battle in this three-hour slog. Both Steves could have gotten up and carried out the rest of the narrative after a decent brawl, but instead they fall a great distance after some blocked shots and it... was nothing? Missed opportunity for some cool shit.

Okay, skipping to character assessments now:

Clint’s character has been mishandled from the beginning and this seemed to be the “better late than never” eleventh hour arc. Except the end of the arc is unclear - it made sense for him to fall apart after losing his Shoehorn Family, but how did Natasha’s choice to fall do anything but fridge someone else, with more agency this time? It makes Natasha noble, which she already was, and it made her win against Clint, which I appreciate, but Natasha didn’t need salvation through death and Clint learns nothing by getting them back, just experiences relief.

Bruce. I want to say, first, that I love Hulk in a Cardigan. Cardihulk can stay. I want fanart, I want t-shirts, give me all of it. But Bruce’s explanation of “I scienced it so I could get the best of both worlds” only gives us half of the acceptance that Banner’s character is already working towards. As we saw most explicitly in Ragnarok, the Hulk isn’t just a physical form, he has his own separate consciousness, originally defined by rage but revealed to be more complicated. Bruce merging into Cardihulk seems to have... erased Hulk’s separate consciousness without merging it into himself? If there had been some acknowledgement of a second voice still within him that shot out opinions or demands for certain menu items in the diner, this would have been a much cleaner end to his arc, which has been equally messy between actor and narrative shifts.

Speaking of Ragnarok... it’s time! Are you ready? Have you read articles about the Gambit Gambit too? Are you fucking depressed that a fat suit was used for comedy gags in the year of our lord 2019? Because I was. The Russos seemed to... not struggle with what progress Ragnarok had put onto Bruce and Thor’s characters, but reject it. This movie’s Thor was anxious for laughs, was desperate for easy answers to a a feeling of lost heroism, and it didn’t feel like a familiar character. The time-travel scene with his mother wrapped it up very elegantly, and was well performed, but that scene didn’t need to follow a series of “chunky drunk in sweatpants” jokes to show us that Thor was struggling. Everyone in the film is fucking holding on by their fingernails, but only one is played for cheap laughs.

At least we get the bisexual Asgard lady king we deserved.

Tony got the right death. He got a hero’s death and Pepper’s last lines of “you can rest now” were exactly the right lines to wrap up an arc characterized by fear and a desire to protect and control at any cost. I knew the MCU was never going to really acknowledge that Tony’s The Problem, even with lines like ‘you should have let me do the fascist robot thing, that was gonna work fine’ thrown around pretty much as soon as he touches down on earth again.

I’m not sure if there’s much to say about Natasha. It was fitting that she was running HQ, that she was struggling, that she was rejecting emotional help from Steve but clearly still close with him. Seeing her break down after hearing the report on Clint felt right after, I think, being told by several directors (or making the personal acting choice? idk) to just be as flat and as decolletagey as possible. And again, while I feel like she would be self-sacrificing on that cliffisde if given the opportunity, and that she would win, the narrative choice to place her there and have that be her end didn’t really give her anything she didn’t already have. She had nothing to prove.

I have a hard time really laying out my thoughts on Steve without launching into the pregnant absence of Bucky, but I’m going to try. Chris Evans did a good job being the emotional heart of a really fractured story with a lot of conflicting pieces. Seeing him lead a talk therapy session after The Snap seemed very out of character for him until one realizes that Sam isn’t there to lead it himself. His scene offering help to Natasha was another good scene between them proving that not every m/f relationship has to be sexual to be interesting or add to the plot. His leadership speech during the Stupid Fucking Slow-Mo Heroes’ Walk to the platform was well done and makes me think of what could have been for the MCU, if they’d ever just let them be a cohesive found-family team for twenty minutes and let them fight some doom-bots or something. Fuck. Imagine.

Something weirdly satisfying about the deceitful ‘hail hydra’ line in the elevator. Yes? Yes.

The hammer scene was satisfying to me without being too gratuitous, but I’ll acknowledge that some people weren’t into it. Having paid more attention to Steve’s arc than most, I’ll argue that he earned it several times over.

His ending - that is, the secret life he alludes to but doesn’t explicitly reveal to Sam - is earned too. I’ve read at least one thing saying that Steve’s arc was all about him learning to let go, but that’s... never what Steve does. Not at the end of any arc, of any comic story, does Steve let go. Not of his principles, not of the people he loves, he is always “Thinking... Thinking About Bucky!” and getting in fights he can’t necessarily win. So I don’t think his final ending is ever Learning to Let Go. I think it’s fair that it’s Just Once, Just This One Time, Getting What You Want And Getting To Enjoy It.

And now I’m backtracking to Bucky. I’ve read one article already that theorizes that Steve’s arc, which was highly prioritized, included literally as little direct interaction with Bucky as possible because... the MCU? the Russos? Marvel?...  is aware that Steve/Bucky is the most popular same-sex ship in the MCU. And that’s tiresome as fuck but I think there’s some truth to it. I wonder if, like in Civil War, we’ll hear later from the actors that a lot of contextual one-on-one scenes were shot and then mysteriously cut from the final edit.

I will say that in my head, Bucky is relaxed when Steve goes back in time for the final time, and lets Sam goes to talk with Steve one-on-one at the bench, because Bucky is not worried if Steve will come back, and does not feel a need to check on Steve on the bench. Because, like Peggy, Bucky has been getting secret visits too. Maybe as far back as during his time in Wakanda, but certainly since the final fight with Thanos. Bucky was calm because he already knew. He didn’t miss Steve because Steve hadn’t given him an opportunity to do so.

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[nyxabird]

The problem with Zeroken’s design

I feel like rambling today, so. Let’s talk about Disgaea 5. Or more importantly, let’s talk about one of Disgaea 5′s characters, Zeroken. Now, I love Zeroken. Anyone who’s seen me stream know I love Zeroken. I go to massive efforts to make him a strong little boy and despite his flaws, I think he tends to be an adorable and charming character. But there is one major, meta flaw in Zeroken and that’s in his design.

Now, I want to say, I like Zeroken’s design. I think he’s cute! And I think his appearance fits well with his personality. The problem is that his design is flawed; it commits a sin of media called “informed attribute”.

For those who don’t know, an informed attribute is something about a character that is told to us through outside sources and that isn’t actually in the actual series the character is in. For instance, a lot of anime will say that a female character is a tough fighter, but every time you see her, she doesn’t actually have any strength and she’s constantly in trouble. It, essentially, is just saying “oh yeah this character is actually this” even though there’s no evidence of it. A lot of the time, informed attributes feel like they’re tacked on for the developers to get brownie points, but that’s not related to this subject, so I won’t discuss it.

So let’s get back to Zeroken. What’s his informed attribute, you may ask? It’s his race. So first, here is a picture of the kid.

I want you to look at that and think about it. What race do you think he is? For me, I always thought he was just a humanoid demon like about 50% of the classes in Disgaea 5. Like the Warrior or Gunner or Sage or Lady Samurai or any of those. And that seems right, right?

Nope.

He’s a werewolf.

Did any of you who heard of him actually guess that? Did you have any idea he was a werewolf, or intended to be one? I bet most of you didn’t, because of the people I knew (one who’s played D5 since it came out) had no idea either. So how do we know he’s a werewolf?

Because his intro trailer said so. Something I’d never even heard of, and neither had they, until they went browsing in the wiki one day.

The only “hints” to this in-game are his Overload (Superluminal Wolf) and the fact that some of his moves (in Japanese, at least) have voice clips of him howling. And that’s not even remotely an actual hint, because that could just as easily be his theme. Non-werewolf/-wolf characters have used wolf references or howling, so it’s not even remotely a hint to the fact he’s meant to be a werewolf.

Even his design doesn’t hint towards it at all. There is nothing distinct about his design that hints he’s anything but a humanoid demon. There is nothing in the game that is actual proof/a hint that he’s like that, except some throw-away lines (such as Seraphina calling him a dog) that aren’t evidence on their own, because it’s just as often used against non-wolf-related people too.

I really think this was just a huge error in his design that NISA did, a mistake that was made that no one actually bothered to think about being a mistake when they really know how to do better.

Why do I know they know how to do better? Because they’ve done it before.

This is Fenrich, from Disgaea 4, who is in fact a werewolf. Could you tell? I bet so, because the tail gives it away really fast. Even if you wouldn’t immediately label it as a “wolf”, you still can see, at a glance, that he’s not Yet Another Humanoid Demon. More than that, some of his skills make it even clearer that he’s a werewolf; he has skills that have him running on all fours, for instance. Even if the game didn’t tell you what Fenrich is, you could guess from the evidence in the game.

And Zeroken doesn’t have that. And why? There’s no reason for that. There is no reason that Zeroken doesn’t have anything that really hints towards his nature. It was as simple as giving him a tail, really, because the game had already established that race as looking like that. And you can argue game canons/timelines/AUs as much as you want, but races/classes in general stay the same/use the same depiction; some do change, such as the Armor Knight changing genders, but overall it’s fairly consistent.

I have no idea why they failed on the most basic part of Zeroken’s design. There’s some theories that his hair is meant to resemble a tail, but I honestly think that design in general is a bad design and just a way people get themselves out of having to depict stuff with tails. It’s a cowardly design decision to me, especially because it’ll never be able to tell you what they are at a glance, failing that aspect of their design. (I also think it looks incredibly crappy and stupid, but that’s a personal feeling of mine)

In general, whenever I or my friends write or do anything with Zeroken, we’ll add in his tail, and just hand-wave it as having been cut off during the Lost invasion and regrown somehow after the war. Because quite frankly, NISA (or whoever designed him) failed. They just failed, flat out, on making his design clear that he isn’t just yet another human-looking demon and is actually one of the beast folk. The rest of the design is good, as I’ve said before, and I really like it... but no matter how much I like it, it is a failure in informing us what he is.

Magnus and Usalia are easy to tell what they are from the start. Seraphina is a bit harder, but you could reasonably figure out what she is from the evidence. Christo’s whole arc is about trying to hide what he actually is. Killia’s design is also problematic in this way, but he actually has hints to him being a beast folk (the claw-hands that are clearly not gloves, the scales on his chest), so even if we don’t know what he is, we know he’s something different, not just a humanoid demon, though there’s no hints as to what he is in-game. (Dragonewt, by the way. Killia’s a dragonewt) Killia is more complicated, though, so I won’t get into that unless someone actually wants me to discuss my feelings on that one.

Zeroken has nothing. Every “hint” could just be as easily as applied to a normal humanoid with a wolf theme. And it’s incredibly disappointing

I guess my point is “NISA, you were fucking cowards by not giving him some aspect that made it clear what he was.” And it doesn’t even have to be a tail. When I (and I’m sure other people) talk about this, we’re not just inherently wanting what people usually call the “clean and cute” sort of things (though why they call it that/what’s wrong with ears/tail as a distinction, I don’t know). We just want something to be clear. Ears, tails, claws, even fur in distinct places. Something, anything, that shows you that there’s something else here besides another “human”.

You can’t just say “oh btw this person is this” when it comes to major aspects like their race. You have to show us. You have to give us evidence. “Informed attribute” is okay when it isn’t a part of the series they’re in (such as telling us a horror protagonist is gay) or wouldn’t have come up canonly, but things like their goddamn race? Or like trying to talk about sexualities in a romance game? Just... no.

If you’re going to design something, put effort into the design and actually show us. “Show, don’t tell” is the rule of visual media, and unfortunately for poor Zeroken, NISA failed him hard on that front. I have really strong feelings about this sort of thing, this thing of making beast characters have no actual traits whatsoever so they look totally human, and it really needs to stop.

[blacklilyqueen]

Hiiiiiii :) I love your Next Generation Aesthetic and was wondering if you could share some of your next gen headcanons with us?

Thank you so much😘 ofcourse  I’ll share some of my headcanons with you :) I’ll do them oneby one and go from oldest to youngest. Oh and sorry it turned out so long

Teddy:

He was born on 13th April, the day after the full moon

When he was a baby/toddler he used to change his hair depending on whatever mood he would happen to be in

Molly and Arthur always saw Teddy as their first grandchild

Even though he lives with Andromeda, he still spends a lot of time with the Potter’s or at the burrow

Because he often changed his appearance without even noticing, he couldn’t go to a normal kindergarten/preschool 

This lead to Victoire being his first real friend

“Why does Vicky call Bill ‘Dad’, but I’m not calling you ‘Dad’, Harry?”

He’s four when he asks this and it’s the first time someone tells him

He cried, he felt sad, but he still didn’t understand completely, because how could a four-year-old understand that

But he wasn’t alone

He had his grandma, Harry and Ginny

And they loved him

From this day on he always made three cards each Mother’s Day: One for his grandma, one for Ginny and one for the woman who loved him so much that she died for him

When he was six and James Sirius was born he had a little bother

He was nervous when he left to go to Hogwarts

Would he be a Gryffindor like his dad and his expanded family?

A Hufflepuff like his mother and his grandfather?

A Slytherin like his grandmother?

Or the first Ravenclaw in the family?

It didn’t take long for the sorting hat to put Teddy into Hufflepuff

And it that moment his hair turned bubble gum pink

For his 13th birthday Harry gave Teddy the Marauder’s Map

When people met Teddy as a teenager it didn’t take long for them to realize that the word ‘Hufflepunk’ existed because of this boy

Is just as clumsy as his mother (Oh wait that’s canon)

He was 15 when he realized that he had fallen in love with Victoire

He was 16 when he told her

He was 17 when Bill found out and was glad that he knew how to disapparate by the time

When he left Hogwarts (with excellent grades) he became a healer at St. Mungo’s

Victoire:

Looks like a mini version of her mum

Followed Teddy around everywhere when they were little

Hide and seek champion

Is one of the few Weasley’s that would rather die than sitting on a broom

Teddy mocks her about this sometimes

“You don’t like flying either!”

“Yes, but I didn’t scream that I would die, when I was only two feet off the ground.”

She was the first Weasley to get sorted into Ravenclaw

Perfect and Head Girl

Speaks perfect French, but likes to hoax people

“Can you say something in French?”

“Tu es un abruti.”

“What does that mean?”

“You’re really beautiful.”

Looks like an innocent little girl, but if you make her angry you better run

Wears a different flower in her hair everyday

On Halloween she however always wears lilies

After the other girls were old enough to understand the meaning behind this, they started doing this too 

Fred II:

If you think that his name is everything he shares with his uncle you’re terribly wrong

Is in the same year as James Sirius and this is a combination Hogwarts was not prepared for

Proud Gryffindor

Is the only student to never be pranked by Peeves

George never tells him why, because the memory still hurts

Is one of the Gryffindor beaters since his second year

After he finished school “Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes” finally becames “Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes” again

Once created a potion that jumped out of the cauldron and disappeared through the wall

No one knows how that happened

Molly II:

Is also in Fred and Sirius year

The sorting hat was already confused after he had to sort a James Potter and Fred Weasley again, but when he heard Neville calling out “Molly Weasley”, he thought they were making fun of him

He however realized that this one was different after he sorted her into Ravenclaw after 14 minutes

Perfect and Head Girl

She is a rather quiet girl

But if she wants something she will do anything to get it and is a lot like her father in this point

Even though Molly isn’t as big of a prankster as her two cousins she still helps them often

When Percy got a letter from McGonagall telling him that Molly got a detention, he couldn’t believe what he just read

Molly was also the one who figured out how to add new things to the Marauder’s Map, like the Room of Requirement

Molly still is one of the kindest people you would ever met and has a heart out of pure gold

James Sirius:

Just like Fred II this boy lives up to the legacy of his name givers

And with his messy black hair and his brown eyes he looks a lot like his grandfather

Each year on Harry’s birthday James rendered Ginny’s poem

Is one of the Gryffindor beaters

Became team captain in his fourth year

There were some protests once, because at one point the Quidditch team was Potter and Weasley only

Is extremely good at charms

Teddy gave him the Marauder’s Map at the beginning of James’ third year

Is always super protective when it comes to his siblings and cousins

One time he and Fred had to sort out old detention slips, when he had THE idea

The two of them spend days counting how many pranks the marauders and Fred and George pulled throughout their time at Hogwarts

After they counted all of them together they had a new goal

They would beat them and pull more pranks then all of them together

In their seventh year they were worried that they wouldn’t be able to beat them

But they did

Their last prank was after their N.E.W.T.s

And it was the ultimate prank

This was also the only day McGonagall truly thought about retiring

Lucy:

Other than her sister Lucy hates her red hair

She started dying it when she was 14 and changed its colour all the time

At first because she thought it was cool, later to annoy her dad

Even through blood status wasn’t important to her, she was still kind of proud that she and Molly were the only pureblood Weasley kids

Is super curious

Often eavesdrops on other people

Loves gossip

Is one of the chaser on the Gryffindor Quidditch team

Super smart and loves playing chess

Likes to be alone sometimes, but still can’t be too long without her two best friends/cousins

Great at Divination

Dominique:

Was born on the first May which lead to problems between her and Victoire, because they both hated to have their birthdays so close together

Rebel heart

The only thing she has in common with her sister is her blond hair and that she will kick your ass

Amazing artist

Like really, that girl has some talent

Wears black 99.9% of the time

She, Lucy and Roxanne share a dorm in the Gryffindor tower

When it comes to friendships between the Weasley kids, theirs is the strongest

These three are the gossip queens of Hogwarts

Kind of hoped that she would be sorted into Slytherin, but knew that she belonged into Gryffindor

Refuses to speak French, when people ask her to

Gryffindor Chaser

Roxanne:

Loves that she has naturally red hair and dark skin

Is an awesome singer and loves music more than anything

She is the other chaser of the Gryffindor Quidditch team

Always wears a choker necklace

Ripped jeans

Is gay and has a crush on this cute Hufflepuff girl in her year

Sassy as hell

Shares the love of her grandfather for Muggle things (she prefers the old ones)

Lucy and Dominique are the only ones who are allowed to call her Roxy

Leader of the “Pluto is a planet” society at Hogwarts

Activist, literally will start a demonstration if she really wants something

Scorpius Hyperion:

Really quiet

Sometimes hates it to be a pureblood, because of the prejudices

Loves his father AND HIS MOTHER, WHO IS STILL ALIVE AND LIVES HAPPILY WITH DRACO!!!!!!!!!

Will never feel ashamed for his father and will defend him every time someone tries to talk bullshit about the Malfoys

Is totally gay for Albus

Reads a lot, spends more time with books than with people

Only person whose character was good in Cursed Child

Is Narcissa’s “little prince"

Had a happy childhood

Is always welcome at the burrow and at Potter’s

Does not give a f*** about whether someone is a pureblood, half blood, or muggle born thing

Slytherin Perfect

Rose:

Of all the Weasley’s Rose is the best at Quidditch

She’s a keeper

Is the only one who got into the team in her first year

Became captain after James graduated

Is super smart like her mom

But will procrastinate for as long as possible

Oh, what was that? You were insulting someone I like? Let me just PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE!

Biggest Scorbus shipper of all time

Looks like Hermione, but with red hair

Is super close with her dad

Ron was the one who thought her how to be a perfect keeper

But sometimes she asks Ginny or Angelina for Quidditch advice

Albus:

The hat actually wasn’t sure whether to put Albus into Gryffindor or Slytherin

He wanted to be in Slytherin

Doesn’t play Quidditch, but loves to watch

When its Gryffindor vs. Slytherin he will cheer for his house, but won’t boo on his family

Loves his little baby sister and his idiot brother ;)

Is totally gay for Scorpius

Also rather quiet

Smart, he knows what he’s doing and always thinks before acting

Once found Snape’s portrait at Hogwarts and talked with him all night

Oh, and just a reminder that Neville is canonly Albus’ godfather

Louis:

Went to Beauxbaton till his fourth year

He came back, because he wanted to be with his family after all

Is the only other Wotter Slytherin

Is a poet

When he lived in France he used to write many long letters to his family

Needs his time alone

Knew he wanted to be an author when he was 13

Published his first book with 19

Is the only person to publish a Harry Potter biography

Well at least the only authorised person

There is this one book written by Rita Skeeter, but that’s a different story

Lorcan and Lysander:

Identical twins

Lorcan is still older

Lorcan is a Ravenclaw like his mom

Lysander is a Hufflepuff like his dad

Newt always told them stories about his creatures when they were little

The two of them love to listen to their great-grandfather

They also love grandpa Xeno’s stories about all these weird magical beings no one ever saw

Are full of love and will offer help to anyone who needs it

The two of them, Lily and Hugo were always seen together at Hogwarts

When Louis came to Hogwarts he joined them

Do the Quidditch commentary in turns (sometimes together)

Hugo:

Is really shy

Will let Lily or Rose do the talking most of the time

Has probably read more books than his mother when she was his age

Doesn’t play Quidditch, but loves to box

Great at Transfiguration

Thinks a lot about becoming an Animagus

Even though he is one of the youngest Weasley’s he still acts like some big brother forwards younger students

Is a Perfect

Lily Luna:

Has Lily’s eyes (I don’t give a f*** about canon when it comes to this)

Luna is her godmother

Is Harry’s little princess especially when she was younger

Could do anything and he just couldn’t be mad at her

Puppy eyes

This scene  could happen at Potter’s

Loves her whole family, but if she had to pick a favourite it would be Teddy

He’s also the only one she will listen to

When she was young she was the cutest little girl you could imagine

Is the seeker of the Gryffindor team

After she joined the team it was all Potter and Weasley

From all three potter kids she is the one who is the closest to Harry’s personality

She really loved being like her dad until she was older

She didn’t like people comparing her to him

She didn’t like only being “The Chosen One’s daughter”

She just couldn’t stand that people were seeing her just as his daughter and nothing else

“The new Gryffindor seeker is Harry Potter’s daughter, just like her father.”

“The best student in DADA is Harry Potter’s daughter, just like her father.”

And even when she did something that had nothing to do with him she was still just his daughter

“The new member of the Gobstone club is Harry Potter’s daughter.”

She even just joined, because she wanted to be NOT like him

That was when her rebel phase began

At some point she even stopped to talk to Harry (even though she knew it wasn’t his fault) and it broke his heart

And this was worse than James or Fred or Dominique or anyone else

She learned to deal with it in her sixth year (people also started to see as an own person)

But the relationship between her and Harry was still tensed

Even after she started to talk to him again

In her last year she found an old motorbike

When she asked Harry why he had a motorbike, but never used it, he started to explain that is was Sirius

For some reason they bounded over this moment

Lily was the only person with who Harry talked about Sirius after the war

Like really talked, not just a little bit

He gave it to her after she graduated and it was the best present she ever got

The only thing that was left from her rebel phase was the fact that she still refused to use Expelliarmus even though she became an Auror

She only used it one time again, after some dark wizard tried to kill Harry and she was the only one to notice it fast enough and disarm him

[ixnova]

Discourse already on Villainous needs to stop.

all these people shitting on villainous for stupid reasons like

“the people working on it are problematic!!”

“The desgins look like deviantart ocs”

Rant under cut.

1. The creator is apparently not problematic at all, they have 1 story board artists who apparently was a “pedophile” but need I remind you aged up characters and not taking interest in actual child porn and being able to tell between reality and fiction is NOT pedophilia.

Plus this person also issued a formal apology and its trying to change, cause really back then they just used to make really offensive jokes if anything?? Give them a break people can fucking change, the world won’t get better if you don’t forgive and forget.

2. Y’all edgy fucks really gonna complain that Markiplier is in the show? The man’s trying to presume acting over gaming if the various shorts he releases on his channel is anything to go by, and honestly, hes a really nice dude? What the fuck is there not to like about Markiplier other than you people just can’t have nice things? This is awesome.

3. FLASHY OR STYLIZED CHARACTER DESIGNS ARE NOT A BAD THING. IT’S A FUCKING CARTOON, THE DEVIANTART OC STYLE FITS. FUCKING DEAL WITH IT YOU SHITBAGS.

Personally the art style and character design is right up my alley, consider the fact some people like these kinds of desgins? also just because you don’t like the art style doesn’t mean its a bad show. Steven universe has gone down the shitter lately with character desgin and art, but the storyline is still pretty fucking good and y’all wont complain about that show?

Need I remind you Villainous is being produced by the same company that produces SU.

4. You gotta give them fucking credit, they did really good with the humor and even the desgins tbh, “Well, Black Hat is edgy and cool and some people will find him hot and fawn over him.. OH I KNOW LET’S CANONLY MAKE A FUCKING FAN GIRL FOR HIM, BEAT THE FUCKERS TO IT, FUCK YOUR MARY SUE, OUR MARY SUE IS CANON.”

LIKE THAT’S FUCKING HALRIOUS IMO?

And on top of that if we had more than shorts, Dementica will probably actually develop a character and personality?

5. “The fandom is so cringey-”

What fandom isn’t cringey?

6. “The animation is terrible I can’t watch this-”

I honestly don’t know how the animation is terrible? Can you do better, can you? Apparently this shit is done in traditional animation (unsure if its paper or the traditional digital, but im gonna assume digital traditional.) so this show looks fucking great actually? It’s smooth, its curvy, and the characters aren’t stiff looking like new cartoons that use that 2D rigging thing and reuse assets to animate. I had to use that shit in animation class and I fucking hated it cause it was so stiff, I prefer traditional frame by frame animation.

7. The shipping oh god the shipping already. THERE’S ONLY 3 CHARACTERS TO SHIP WITH, you could consider Black Hat and Dementica canon I guess the same way Sonic and Amy is “canon” in the Sonic series, and then there’s the only gay ship with Dr. Flug and BH.

Let people ship what they want, don’t start shipping wars people jesus. 

“But Black hat is abusive!”

He’s a cartoon villian, he’s going to be abusive to some extent to show he’s evil, and its done for comedic effect, if you’re going to complain about “shipping abusive relationships-” it doesn’t work here because of the nature of a cartoon. He’s not actually meant to be abusive even though it comes off as that because of the style of how cartoons operate and how the classic villian/mean guy operates, He’s meant to be scary, in charge, “don’t over step your bounds” and intimidating. like “do what I say or else-” because he’s a fucking villian.

He’s not actually hardcore an abuser because of cartoon logic, deal with it. IF you try to make cartoons realistic, well then have fun with all the terrible shit in other cartoons.

Also, I bet your ass if they make this a full show they will have the classic episode where his “friends” get in trouble and he saves them/is protective over them against a greater force, and although he wont admit it you can just tell he’s gonna be that cheesy character that actually cares for his friends and misses them when they are not around, no matter how many times he says he hates them.

8. DON’T BYCOTT THIS SHOW BECAUSE OF STUPID SHIT LIKE “PROBLEMATIC PEOPLE” WORKING ON IT OR “BAD CHARACTER DESGINS” AND DON’T YOU DARE TELL OTHER PEOPLE NOT TO WATCH IT JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE IT, BECAUSE THIS IS ALSO ONE OF THE FIRST FULLY MEXICAN ANIMATED SHOWS CN IS ENDOURCING, AND YOU’RE REALLY GONNA FUCKING LET PETTY SHIT LIKE THAT RUIN THIS SHOWS CHANCE TO GIVE MEXICAN ANIMATION A GOOD NAME? YOU’RE REALLY GONNA CLOSE THE FUCKING DOOR ON OTHER ANIMATORS AND BEING STUCK WITH THE CLASSIC WHITE WASHING TM IN SHIT, BECAUSE OF THESE PETTY LITTLE THINGS?

WOW.

rant over.