#also yeah i hc Scar as earth

[stargazostli]

the winners, everybody

im so funny

[cuteiemonster]

hi there I absolutely love your pony (and 1 goat) designs they are all amazing

I’m just curious, why did you decide to draw Grian as an Earth Pony, rather than a Pegasus when he’s often associated with flight?

Was it a thing where the fanon stuff was an after thought or was your drawing not cooperating with you at all? (As fellow artist I do understand that occurrence)

or just something else entirely?

it originally stemmed from me not usually drawing grian as an avian most of the time that quickly devolved into " hehe the irony of one of his parents being a unicorn, the other being a pegasus, and he just got the short end of the stick " was too funny for me to pass up

[crazylittlejester]

Hey hey hey you should talk about your blorbos

YOURE SO RIGHT MAJOR THANKS FOR ENABLING ME >:)

I’ve talked a lot about Wars today I think so I’ll yap about Time because he is ALSO my special guy and I like yapping

(All of this is gonna be my headcanons/interpretations/how I write him, also my bad for spelling mistakes or if this is incoherent)

I feel like Time is a very complicated character who isn’t either the perfect stoic leader nor the crazy little gremlin, but something perfectly in between. I don’t think leading comes naturally to him at all, he’s doing an okay job, I mean no one’s died so far /j and his age and life experience makes him more likely to be listened to and respected, but I don’t think he’s perfect leader material. He’s a bit awkward and unsure, and yeah he’s got just as much information as the rest of ‘em do so he’s not really at an advantage. I wouldn’t say he’s COMPLETELY in over his head but I’m sure he’s had more than a few moments where he’s had to pinch the bridge of his nose and ask himself how on earth he wound up in this position. He’s not TRYING to be the group dad, but some of the younger ones kinda view him that way because he really does care about them all and he’s a safe person to go to

I’ve definitely yapped about this before but I hc he definitely gets overstimulated by the others sometimes. Him vs Wind and their polar opposite sensory issues is a fun thing to mess with in writing because I know Wind is the kid who struggles to sit still and everything is going so so fast for him all the time, it’s all very go go go go go and when he’s moving and yapping at light speed past Time who’s going through the mental equivalent of realizing the wheels on your bike are going faster than the pedals and you need to break or you’ll crash, it doesn’t end very well. Time is autistic to me, and while I think he’s higher support needs than say, Warriors, because he was a bit quiet and weird as a kid he just kinda got written off as odd and different and in HIS mind he thinks society overwhelms him so much because he grew up in the woods where any time he got overstimulated he could just walk off and get some space. Nature is comforting to him it helps him calm down so he can regulate himself again so if you stuck him in a city for long periods of time he wouldn’t do too hot. Also with him being autistic I think his facial expressions and voice can be quite flat at times. It takes more EXTREME emotions before you can see/hear them from him

I also hc that since he was a growing kid putting those masks on all the time and changing his body around so much it SERIOUSLY took a toll on him and his body is fairly loosely held together. He has a lot of chronic pain and very easily dislocates his hips and shoulders

ALSO I DUNNO WHAT THE ACTUAL THING WITH HIS EYE IS, BUT I HC HIS WHITE EYE IS GLASS. It’s not just that he can’t see out of it, it ain’t there. And the scar on his face is pretty deep and makes it difficult at times to move that side

THANKS FOR ENABLING MEEEE

[mysteriouswolf]

ayup

itsa you, Mysterious!

I'm gonna ask you some questions. you! are free to answer all of these questions, or some (or none, but I don't think that's gonna happen). if you don't want to answer a question, that's okay! all I ask is that you put something like n/a where the answer to that question would be :)

idk if I've asked you this, but what's ur favorite life series?

When did you start watching HC, and what season of Life did you start on?

are you into EPIC the musical?

what is your opinion on red velvet cake? I made some today and it looked rly good and also we made cream cheese frosting but the frosting had about a zillion tons of powdered sugar and it looked like my phone and I had done crack together

what is your time zone, if youre amicable to sharing

are you a blob shaped person, a person shaped blob, or a blob shaped blob? (person shaped people do exist, but you and I are Tumblr users. we're not without the blob)

Also do you think I'm a blob shaped person, person shaped blob, or blob shaped blob.

what is your favorite way to eat chicken (if you eat chicken)

do you wear glasses

what is your favorite school subject. opinion on science

what is your favorite time o' day

what is your favorite music album

favorite way to consume potats.

one of your favorite fanfics (if you read fics)

are your nails painted? if so what colors? (my left pointer, middle, and ring fingers are silver. all my other fingers are normal)

did you know that you're loved?

did you know that your hair and nails seem to grow after you die because the rest of your body is decaying faster?

what is your favorite animal?

my brain is currently a string of "chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken" and now it's "chicken chicken chicken chicken" but in Halsey's voice. and also there's a different radio station that's just repeating the last refrain of Guilty As Sin? doesn't go very well with the "chicken chicken chicken CHICKEN"

as I am currently falling asleep on my phone, it is time for me to go to bed

I leave you with one last thing

You are. my fire--

no seriously tho

you're awesome. don't let anyone tell you different :)

signing into orbit,

Royal :)

(I wrote this all last night and apparently never pressed the ask button lol)

ROYALLLL HELLOOOO :3

(also you so know that later at some point you're getting a random list of questions too)

Fav. life series: Definitely Double Life- I'm a Grian main, and usually with life series I also watch Scar, Pearl, Scott, Joel, and now Gem. But I absolutely ADORE literally every pair in that series. I mean, the divorce quartet, Desert Duo, The Ranchers, Boat Boys, SO MUCH ICONIC STUFF HAPPENED THERE AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

When did you start watching Hermitcraft? I started watching it at the beginning of season six, watching Grian!! Hermitcraft was the first ever minecraft stuff I ever watched on YT acutally- and I've watched the life series since the very beginning as well.

EPIC the musical? RAHHHH I WILL LISTEN TO IT I PROMISE AKFNEANUIJ. My friends keep begging me and I WILL I just haven't had the time yet- I'm a major Greek mytholgy nerd tho so I will probably like it lol

Red Velvet cake? Uhm- I wouldn't suggest doing crack with your phone, but yeah it's okay. It just tastes the same as chocolate to me, and chocolate's my favorite so I guess it's also my favorite...? I've only had it like twice. Also, I don't like frosting/icing cause Bad Texture™

Time Zone? My time zone is EST :P

I am a person shaped blob. I am not a person. Just blob in a skin suit.

You are also person shaped blob. But like, leaning more on the blob side than person-looking side.

Fav. way to eat chicken? CHIVETTA'S (I love chicken sm)

Glasses? Yea, I do wear glasses! Rn they're blue and black. Fun fact, my eyesight is so bad that I'm *technically* legally blind.

Fav. subject? ELA

Opinion on Science? I enjoy science a lot- espcically doing labs and expirments. And space and rocks. But not like. most of earth science. like weather and plate tectonics and junk. that's boring. I LOVE bio though.

Fav. time of day? Nighttime. Like, right around 10pm-2am specifically. It's so pretty outside, and it's cool out during the summer

Fav. music album? Okay this is hard I CANT CHOOSE JUST ONE- probably the Lemon Boy album by Cavetown, Paramore. By Paramore. (I don't understand why bands name albums after themselves) and rn I've been listening to the album Grief Chapter by Mother Mother until I suck every single bit of dopamine out of it.

Potats? Potats. Love them so much. Best food. So many amazing creations. Probably mashed potats, but I love baked potats too--

Fav. Fanfics? That's also so hard man- my favorite used to be like this Divergent High School AU that was never finished but I would check back every day when I was in 7th grade because I loved it so much, but currently it's either @insomnya777's bfop au or Leave Me Be which was a Grian fanfic THAT WAS SO SAD AND ANGSTY on wattpad (look I started reading fanfic there and its got good stories. dont come at me. i love ao3 too) by Hollie_is_cool

Nails painted? I used to get my nails painted a lot but I would always pick the polish off the day after so I stopped

Did you know that you're loved? I actually think I do. I still struggle with believing it sometimes, but yeah. Yeah, I do. And it's amazing <3

I...also did not know that. That's weird. But also cool.

Fav. animal? WOLFIESSSSSS or FOXIESSSSS!!! Wolves because they're just silly lil guys like foxes but they also represent my personality a lot- and I'm not talking lone wolf. I'm talking about the way wolves actually act. How wolves are pack animals, and need to be looked after but also care for their packs so so much, and have lifelong partners. How wolves are incredibly intelligent and are protective of the ones they love, and how they feel lost when they're alone. It is not a wolf's natural state to be alone.

CHICKENCHICKENCHICKENCHICKENCHICKEN

hehe I love how you do the signing into orbit thing it's genuinely so cool akrgjirsdh- also, I want you to know that you're so fucking incredible too, Royal, and I hope you know that you're loved so much too- I was so excited to get home today so I could type a proper response to this lol I love your random questions and just genuine care and love for the people you know. It's amazing :3333

ALSO SIDE NOTE OUR SCHOOL DID THAT TOO WITH THE LIL PLASTIC DUCKS BEFORE??? BUT IN THE CHORUS ROOM?? And our chorus teacher did a complete 180 and made them his lol

[mcd-incorrect-quotes]

anyways hcs of the mc&d inheritors no one asked for (based on mainly all that glisters nd acidverse :D) picrew used here!

starting off w iris :^] details: - lip scar bc her ass is always sent out into the field for "experience is the best educator" purposes - lots of black bc embracing the darkeness - she gets the highest cheekbones out of all the cast because i've always imagined percivale with the most outrageously sharp cheekbones - also she takes after papa percy even in looks :D - stars bc shes the star of this goddamn show SHE HAS HER OWN TAG !! FOR TALES !! MOST PROMINENT MCD FIGURE OUTTA THE INHERITORS !!! <3333 i love her shes the whole reason for this blog

next is robert!! :P details: - did you know ruprecht basically hops into different bodies to avoid death? i just felt like that it probably fucked with his magic genetics or smth a lot and all his kids have this very much uncanny feeling to them naturally - matching coat w his boyfriend hehe - he was made to be the unsettling white man i dont know what else to say

last but not least SKITTER!! :3

details: - he got weird ass eyes because travelling thru the Ways a lot as a normal ass (okay kinda normal) human has definitely messed with him - he gets his curls from his mamaaaaa - scar is bc you can't convince me he hasn't avoided getting into shit while travelling - there really needs to be more skitter shit going on like hes so interesting as a concept and he feels so underutilised like hear me out!! hes most likely the most down to earth mc&d inheritor due to hi [gets escorted out whilist im rambling to save this for another post] - a bit of 6'o clock shadow bc why not. robert loves it - speaking about robby he gifted skitter the fancy ass necklace hes wearing

anyways yeah these r my hcs for them :^] thoughts and opinions gamers

[lunarosewood23]

FFXIVWrite2024 Prompt 9: Lend an Ear

Amasar swears he’s fine. Rukia is struggling to believe him. FT a brief mention of @inkblood-mistrieu's Mingxia.

Note: A HC of mine is that bc Magnai's axe model is the Titan axe and the lore attached to it, it has an earth elemental tilt.

Also to Rukia's dismay, Magnai and her are related. He ran her off because she's poly, and the fighting between them was going to dangerous blows.

~~~

“Ama please tell me what happened?” Rukia pleaded with her best friend and sworn brother.

“I’m fine Ru, promise!”

“Amasar I know something happened.” She told him as she crossed her arms. “I haven't seen you in twelve years and when I do you have a scar going from shoulder to hip that I know came from Magnai’s axe, you’re in the company of our local aether surgeon, recently recovered from your lungs petrifying...”

Amasar sighed as he flopped on the bed and let out a breath.

“I was stupid.”

“What?”

“What happened, Ru, was that I was stupid.”

“What do you mean Ama? How were you stupid?” Rukia questioned as she sat down next to him.

He sighed. “I was angry, Ru. I was furious that Magnai ran you off. I tried to take revenge on your behalf in the first Naadam Magnai fought in and I failed. He landed this blow right as your father took the Ovoo.” He explained as he brought a hand to the scar.

“I stayed long enough to recover, and I left. I didn't have anyone else after you left.”

“Brother...” Rukia murmured, tears stinging in her big brown eyes. “That still doesn't explain why you didn't get a hold of Daidukul. If nothing else than to let him know you were alive.”

“You know the ways of the Buduga, sister. If I said a word of my condition to anyone it would've been seen as weakness, and the Khan likely would've had me killed.” Amasar reminded her gently. “Besides I'm alright now, thanks to the good doctor taking care of your partners.”

Rukia sighed as she hugged him. “You've been gone for nine summers, so you may not know, but Daidukul is Khan now. And he sent me and Mingxia looking for you. He's worried about you brother. So if nothing else go see him and let him know you're alive.”

“I will Ru, promise.” He promised as he hugged back.

“And Amasar?”

“Yeah?”

“You know I'm always willing to lend an ear if you need to talk. You are my brother and I love you and it hurts to see you hurt. Okay?”

Amasar smiled and kissed the top of her head. “I love you too Ru. I know.”

[convexicalcrow]

i also saw you mention vex false? please go on about her. i also hc false as vexy

Yeah! Vex False! :D I got the idea back when I was watching through s5 and saw her helping out with the prank on Xisuma. I just didn't really know what to do with the idea though. I liked it, but how to make it work?

I, and I think a few others, decided that as an honorary Vex, she's protected by Vex magic, and maybe that's why Scar had such a hard time killing her when he was trying to collect her head for the King. (I'm lore-ing around the projectile protection on her armour shush. XD) But it does also feed into Scar's difficulty with Cub too. Killing his own kind, as Scar has repeatedly said he can't do, is going against his deal, against what he promised to the Vex. So ofc Vex magic makes it Difficult to kill them. The fact that they're players I think complicates it a little enough to allow him to actually kill them, but it's not going to be easy.

And then skulk Cub came along, and in the fic I wrote about that, I decided to include Vex False (along with Vex Joe and Vex Bdubs). bc I felt that tied in nicely to the canon, but also finally I could do something with Vex False lol. :D

At the end of that fic, she ends up with some memory loss, but it's more scattergun than a block, and she forgets she's a Vex. Which is why I had to come up with how she became a Vex in the first place lol.

I'm going down the Area 77 route, and having Cub bring her into the ranks of the Vex between him moving into the motel and before the UFO on the diner is confiscated, bc I can see that being a good cover for Scar to take False back to A77 for interrogation and ask her why she's a Vex now bc ofc he can tell and she can't hide that from him. Cub does it kind of out of spite bc he likes having a partner to work with, and also he trusts False bc honourary Vex, so. That's how she comes on board. But she's more independent and does her own thing more than join the ConVex and further those plans.

I'm also considering her as somehow hired (through possession/coersion idk idk) by A77, even if she never really remembers what she does when she's called on to work for them. It would explain her worrying about being fired when the tour around A77 with Ren and Grian goes wrong and they're caught. Why on earth would she worry about being fired if she is the Mayor of Falsewell and basically in charge of everything? It's just something that's stuck in my head since I watched her A77 eps. >_>

And also thinking about the current False lore, her being employed by A77 would give her access to their technology and perhaps that's where she learned all about cloning herself and making e!False. bc I'm still not convinced they are simply 'siblings' as hc!False claims lol, tho I am still sitting with that lore and deciding where to take it at the moment, so nothing about that is entirely set in stone for me, just ideas I'm pondering.

[masschase]

“#gooh is in my top 5 “i question writing this into my hc” things gonna be honest” i would honestly LOVE to know what things you hesitate to include in your canon? one thing i really love and respect about your work is your dedication to sticking to the actual canon so i’m super curious to hear what things you actually don’t consider part of it. or at least the ones you go back and forth on.

OK firstly, thank you, that means a lot to me 😊

There probably isn't anything that isn't a part of it at all unless I forgot about it which does happen pretty often! Things I go back and forth on is definitely the best description of it.  Like, almost all have led me to write some moments I really like and yeah I am proud of making the canon (at least the bits I didn't forget!) fit, but I feel like when I started writing I didn't even think about just *not* sticking to canon. This list is not ordered or exhaustive, it's just the stuff I could think of off the top of my head.

1. GOOH. This is actually a kind of minor one, bc the pros outweigh the cons massively but it's been on my mind today bc of the chapter I've been writing.

Pros: a very sweet Matt/Boss moment and Matt/Boss/Johnny friendship moment after they return from hell, throwing in Jezebel as a character, and obviously the new planet ending is sort of essential to my "they tried to save the earth but couldn't so now they need somewhere new" thing. Plenty of smaller jokes and again some other good parts that factor in.

Cons: so this is actually stuff that just canonises monotheistic religious views that my characters wouldn't normally hold that makes me feel... weird... idk. I feel like they have enough time between GOOH and my fanfic to process that but I was thinking about it today and it bothered me. GOOH also canonizes Matt and Asha sleeping together in some capacity... ok that's not so bad, it adds some depth to the storyline and stops them having unresolved sexual/romantic tension as implied in SRIV. But at times I worry I'm portraying one or both of them as pretty dickish.

2. All SRIV romance options

Pros: I mean, Casey probably would fuck all her friends if it was the only option. And I hc SRIV as taking place over 2-3 months. After that time-travel ONSs were an option. And her whole one time rule has its place in the plot.

Cons: Kind of forces everyone into bi/pan/other mspec apart from Ben and Keith. I would have highly considered making Pierce gay. Maybe Asha would've got thrown token straight lol. Plus who says everyone (again, except Ben, who... seemed like he would say yes to whatever she was about to ask... and Keith) would fuck her? Seems a tad Mary-Sueish. 🤔 Also doesn't gel well with her and Johnny having a primarily brother/sister relationship but I think I've mostly explained that with her having a false romantic epiphany and the fact that he struggles to connect 'hot 30ishyo woman who I massively respect' with 'that kid i knew back in Stilwater' after the 6 year gap. Plus... romance options aren't really true canon, I definitely could have left some out! But considering I did use them all, I could've said better things about the Casey/Pierce time bc that was a culmination of a lot of UST.

3. Cyrus Temple plastic surgery disguise thing.

Pros: definitive 'end date' for Casey getting plastic surgery for scars etc.; it put her off. One amusing joke.

Cons: Idk I just hate it hate it hate it. I think because a lot of game mechanics are easily explainable e.g. forgive&forget and notoriety wipe being bribes, an advanced alien race COULD have time travel etc. whereas this is something that's pretty batshit by SR3 standards but mostly at the expense of like two moments I COULD'VE JUST NOT MENTIONED IT. So if this list was in order I suspect this would be #1 😂

4. The destruction of Earth; or more specifically that they don't/can't undo the destruction of Earth despite having time travel.

Pros: I mean it's inkeeping with the Saints for me. Some people do just die and don't come back. The idea that the new planet thing is moving on from something irretrievable. A new beginning.

Cons: It just feels like a cop out using the 'oh they have time travel but can't use it to save the world bc that's a paradox' thing?

5. Matt and Casey's age gap.

Pros: The millenial/zoomer dynamic, parallels being drawn i.e. joining/creating gangs at 15, Casey being 24 when they met and Matt being 24 when the story begins. I guess relationships where the woman is older are also underepresented compared to the reverse, and being able to give Matt a "coma years don't count" line.

Cons: Idk just on a personal level obviously I'd just prefer them NOT to have a 7.5 year gap. I make it clear that she wasn't ever attracted to him until he was 22 and that the spaceship changes things in terms of life stages but still.

Bonus of some things that were my own decision that I go back and forth on: the name Casey Clark at times (there is a whole thing of 'bc she is secretly a nerd like Matt/Kinzie but she's an analog nerd' but still), Matt being (at least based on his own history) heteroromantic (ok supports split model of attraction but at the same time... Matt to me reads as a canonically bisexual character which we don't often get, why not make him bi/panromantic too?), Casey and Johnny's brother/sister thing in general (idk if that was trying too hard to make them platonic bc generally I rather like GatBoss), writing in accents, not giving enough focus to the secondary pairings esp the more visibly queer ones all bc I originally wanted to keep secondary pairings up in the air for the reader, Casey's SR3 look at times, POSTING HER NAME ALL OVER FUCKING TUMBLR. I could go on 😅

This all seems more negative than I'm meaning it to be bc I put pros first. I love working in the canon and the way plot points have blossomed from it. In fact I put something at the end of my last chapter about how things for this often just fall into place and just leave me 😲.

I will probably make a second list at some point when I think of more 😅

[diioss-art]

Do you have any hcs for your au with banished Valtor? Love your art btw.

Aaaksjfjfjd tysm!!

And oughh dude I have so many I'm basically doing a season 4 rewrite (I was potentially thinking of making it into a comic once I figure out more details)

Sorry for the unparagraphed mess ^^'

So basically instead of the winx killing Valtor at the end of s3 they'd capture him and faragonda or bloom would take away his powers and exile him, powerless, to earth where he becomes a bookshop owner in gardenia. His actual magical powers r gone but he still has all the knowledge of the spells he stole during s3 so he's taken himself to studying magic and the history of magix in hopes of someday regaining power. Also his pride was so deeply scarred from being defeated that he becomes a bit of a recluse and holes himself up in his bookshop. He is deeply humiliated by the fact that he has to live among powerless humans.

I'm thinking that instead of Faragonda telling the winx about believix Valtor is the one who is in possession of the book by which the winx discover the existence of believix. The winx need to go to find the book to help them defeat the wizards of the black circle so tecna looks up where they can find it and and finds a bookshop specialised in magical/occult texts (wonder who owns it wink wink). They show up and the place is deserted so and very cluttered so Stella decides to just start looking through all the stuff. Obviously the wizards show up to try and stop their plan and they have a big magical fight inside this tiny bookshop, wrecking the place. Then the very pissed off owner comes out from the back and oh em gee it's Valtor. Everyone's pretty shocked for a minute, but once Valtor figures out whats going on he offers to make a deal w/ ogron to help him defeat the winx since he's fought them before etc etc. in exchange for helping him get his powers back.

However, ogron is not particularly keen on the plan and is like 'lol why would we even want u on on our team when you got beaten by some fairies and you don't even have any powers ur weak etc. etc.' This pisses Valtor properly off so he tries to attack them but, obviously, manages nothing. Meanwhile the winx take advantage of the distraction to sneak attack the wizards, managing to shoo the wizards off. Once they've cooled off from the battle, Valtor swallow his pride and offers to help out the winx, as long as they let him get the finishing blow on Ogron. No one really trusts him but they desperately need believix so they have to accept.

From this point on the winx form a begrudging alliance w/ Valtor. Also Ogron and Valtor have a kind of 'I'm the better dark wizard, I promise dude just wait until I get my powers back' rivalry going on.

And yeah that's basically my starting idea, I may change some bits, and I want to develop the rest of the wizards more, but this is what I have so far.

[them0rtal]

Lauren and Kate go ( i do dare )

u devil /lh

anyways there'll be uh. heavy lauren and kate bias here but it's okay lmao

LAUREN

Full name: Lauren Belle Woods; quite a fancy choice but hey it flows

No set DOB, but I can see either Aries or Taurus. Aries is more the lean I'm feeling

Lauren's household dynamic is a little more down-to-earth meshed with conservative. She was raised by her grandmother with no apparent contact to her bio parents. There also is an absent father figure here, as is with this whole trio (not intentionally- it just kinda happened lol)

She cuts her own hair to save on expenses, but it's usually just a trim or thinning. Her hair rarely goes past her shoulders, and if it does it's been a rough season.

She has a romantic interest in afabs, but because of her upbringing ends up with amabs more frequently.

Stoner. Don't ask me why, but she feels like the mellow person at a party and ends up with wallflowers.

With this, she probably had the heaviest scene phase out of the trio.

Doesn't really come around to Kate's that often anymore, but she did still attend Beth's funeral out of respect.

Probably has her life most put together out of the three of them: She's got a degree in interior design from an out of town college, can make ends meet on her own, and she plans on settling down.. eventually.

That doesn't dismiss the sights she sees out of the corner of her eyes, though.

She's currently a stable meds taker, with only one prescription, but she finds each week that goes by it doesn't really help?

Despite having things put together, she'd rather stay in Oakside for nostalgia sake.

Stubborn, but she's also the friend to walk behind the group on the sidewalk.

KATE

Full name: Katherine Elizabeth Hayes (cough u see the naming trend)

She's a gemini. May 23.

Obviously Kate grew up with their mother, but she was borne of an affair Beth had with one of the Oakside figureheads; Kate doesn't really know who the father is, as Beth won't budge on it.

Her relationship with her mom is decent enough around the house, but it is still a strain on both ends. They just butt heads a little too much.

So.. Mommy issues + fatherless activity = she/they bisexual???

Especially when it comes to C.R. Kate doesn't see the red flags when staring dead on at the flagpole.

Probably went to school for something athletic or bio. Either way, they would've gotten as far away from Oakside as possible with a scholarship through softball.

Yeah. Softball. Pretty buff lady,,,

Unlike Lauren and C.R., Kate is a loudhouse. She oversteps a lot of rules and doesn't care too much of others' opinions.

She's just vibing bro!

Their friends probably bailed them out at least once or twice.

Cool older sibling energy

Yellow is definitely her color. Along with purple.

Her and Charlie are related! It's very distant, but there is overlap, and it explains why their kin struggles with that Thing.

Kate's a little dense with Lauren's feelings. She won't really see their best friend as anything more than platonic.

I see a lot of people talking about her being in her teens? Completely valid, but Kate (along with the other two) are in like their mid-20's. Hell, Lauren has a job and Kate lives solo.

She'll drive to town every once in a while, but it's really for them to get away from that Thing's influence long enough.

Kate is the source of things here; not directly, but they did kinda reignite it in her youth.

They have a couple of diagnoses, but she prefers to keep each to themself.

Kate has burn scars. I do not and will not take any criticism on this.

Probably would've been a Doc Martens person.

TLDR? CEO of dumbass.

i need more words to express these two in full; i just love afabs,,,

(sidenote i have an older post on kate hc's, but i don't really find myself attached to them as much? link is still here if you're interested, though)

[kaligraphy]

1, 8, 15 for the Zutara asks, please! 💖

hi angel!!!! thank you for the ask!💖

i already answered 1 and it can be found here!

8. How have your opinions on A:TLA changed since you entered the fandom?

i don't think all that much except for: yeah Book 3 was a mess for many, many reasons. i think more than anything, fandom has kind of confirmed many of my opinions on ATLA (like how for all of its greatness, there are parts of the show that are clearly a part of its time and should not be praised) and maintaining your little circle of friends (which applies to all fandoms honestly. just stay in your lane and have fun! don't ruin the experience for yourself or others!)

15. What do you think would have happened if Katara and Zuko hadn’t been interrupted in the Catacombs?

i think it would have taken a similar path like Kaatiba's like rum on the fire. i think if they hadn't gotten interrupted, Zuko and Katara would have talked more in-depth of their trauma and grief. in some way or another, like how Katara opened up about how the Fire Nation had taken her mother from her and basically making herself vulnerable to someone she previously regarded as the enemy, Zuko would eventually make himself more vulnerable about the loss of his own mother. finally being able to talk about his mother with someone who deeply understands that same pain might force Zuko to think about where his loyalties should really lie because if the Fire Nation really is trying to spread good and civilization, why did he see countless Earth Kingdom people suffering in their dwindling villages, refugees trying to escape the violence, and a Water Tribe girl, who is so powerful and strong, break down in tears because of what the war had taken from her?

i also think they would have their moment with the spirit water but since they're not being interrupted, it's a toss-up over whether Katara actually tries to use it or not. either it would be similar to Kaatiba's fic where Zuko refuses and acknowledges that the scar will always be a part of him and it will serve as a reminder for why he changed instead of being a mark of shame, or Katara tries to heal his scar but it doesn't work (my personal hc is that for all of its special properties, the spirit water just can't heal a scar, especially one so old. at best, it might alleviate some of the chronic pain)

Send me zutara asks!

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For those of you who made it through my laughably incoherent ethabaster think piece, here’s some hc’s, you’ve earned them:

- Ethan has sole possession of their one shared brain cell. Alabaster is not allowed to even look at it. This is because they used to have two but Al broke the good one trying to blow up something (probably Percy).

- If Al finds out Ethan left without some form of magical protection i.e. a sigil, a crystal, ground eggshells, he will be pretty much vibrating with nerves until Ethan gets back so he can give him a once-over.

- Alabaster’s from a very witchy family who all worship Hecate for many reasons that differ depending on which estranged relative you ask and they all kinda saw Al as the first coming of witch Christ so he had a lot of expectations at a very young age.

- Ethan knows this and tries to lift as much Titan army business off his shoulders as possible.

- He accidentally lifts too much off to the point where he is drowning in work and is now the one in need of saving. But does he tell anyone that if he looks at one more stack of demands from his mile long list of bosses he’s going to cry for five hours? Of course not don’t be ridiculous.

- Alabaster immediately hated Percy as soon as he heard the guys name but due to the arena stuff and telling Thalia not to k*ll him Ethan actually held a bit of respect for Percy which annoyed Al to no end.

-This was until the not-so-peaceful peace talk in tlo when Percy starts shit talking Nemesis and Ethan just internally goes “actually the witch bitch was right this guy sucks ass”

-However, under no circumstances will Ethan ever tell this to Alabaster; not because he values his pride (he has none) but because he knows the life of a demigod is short and he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his very short one hearing Al rub that one thing in his face for every single second of it.

- And I mean Every. Single. Second.

- So yeah he takes that to the grave and doesn’t even tell anyone in the underworld in case they tell Al when he dies and he doesn’t want to spend the rest of his afterlife with Al being a dumbass. (also yes Ethan got into Elysium, fuck you)

- (Actually I have another idea about where Ethan went post-life but that’s so far from canon it’s more of an AU than a headcanon so we’re gonna leave that out for now)

- Al thought he was the one in charge of the Hecate kids because he was the most powerful and the highest ranking in the army but he was Not. That was Ethan. The Hecate kids thought Ethan was their unofficial adopted baby brother but little did they know he was the mum the whole time.

- Ethan is the only thing standing between them and starving to death. He also does the younger kids hair and gives everyone with long hair super intricate braids that stay out of their faces during “field work”. Al thinks this is more of him trying to take the weight off his shoulders but Ethan knows that if he doesn’t do this shit no one will so he kinda has to. Not that he doesn’t like doing it. being helpful is his love language.

 - Because of their powers over the mist the Hecate kids of the army were notorious pranksters who were usually at war with the Hermes kids (wars usually declared by Al because he rolled a zero on self restraint) but none of them prank Ethan because “nooooo you can’t do him he babey 🥺”

- Ethan has simply decided that what the magic prank wizards don’t know can’t hurt them and just turns to his blind side whenever he sees them sneaking off the ship to get Micky D’s in the middle of the night to stay on their good sides.

- Speaking of the ship, Ethan thinks it’s the dumbest thing in the world that one of their most powerful demigod enemies is the son of a sea god and he actually has a pretty decent relationship with said sea god and their main base of operations aside from mt Othrys is a fucking BOAT. He tells Al all about his worries for the ship and while Al assures him that nothing that bad could happen he always makes sure that the ship always has the least amount of demigods on board at all times just in case.

- It takes all the strength Ethan has not to yell “TOLD YOU SO” at him when the ship blows up.

- Al probably either wears basic white boy clothes or typical witchy stuff (like moons and shit) depending his mood meanwhile Ethan found out about leather and just goes for it.  

- Every grunge/punk/emo/eboy/teachwear bitch aspires to be him and because he aint about all that “gender roles” bs he definitely goes about wearing cool egirl stuff too. Not just slightly feminine shaped jumpers but all the plaid skirts, fishnets and lace trimmed dresses he can steal afford and Al, despite his more basic fashion taste is here for it. You’ve never seen someone more supportive of their pals fits, get you a hypeman like Al. You deserve it. (Ethan is also not afraid to walk around in a full pastel gamer girl fit)

- (Also Al hyping up one Ethans fits in front of a Titan is the reason they were allowed to start wearing army fatigues instead of the whole ancient Greek armour on occasion)

- Ethan appreciates Al’s enthusiasm but he also kinda doesn’t get it. And he definitely doesn't do that “yeah you’re right I DO look good” thing because he just doesn’t know how. He’d always been a little self-conscious about getting a big head but then he found out about Nemesis and hubris and all that fun stuff, looked at his meager pile of self worth and said “ yep, this has to go”

- Al almost starts crying when he finds out and pretty much makes it mission to be such a good hype man that Ethan has no choice but to think of himself as a Pretty Cool Dude via absorbing the hype through diffusion. It kinda starts working but then Ethan [REDACTED] in tlo so we’ll never know what could’ve been.

- To nick a hc from someone ( hi @chromarozee-spam) contrary to his taste in clothes Ethan does ballet (he was a punk AND did ballet, what more can I say?) and while Al tries to support his hobbies he is genuinely afraid both for and of him. “For” because “holy fuck that looks painful are you okay?”. And “of” because “are you sure those are bones inside you because I don’t think bones are supposed do that?!”.

- Ethan tries to assure him that no his spine is not made of rubber, broken bones or otherworldly materials so can he stop bothering him during practice please?

- This does not stop Al from making a million protection wards and constantly asking his deck if Ethan is indeed a Being of this Good Green Earth.

- Eventually his cards pretty much just tell him that he is friends with one bendy heck of a boi and he needs to fucking get over it so he kinda just,, ,,,,, , does.

- Again with the hc thieving (this time from @altorringtons) Al learning to use a two-handed broadsword so he can guard Ethan’s blind side and back in a fight *soft noises* just them trying so hard to keep each other alive because they love each other and they care about each other!

- They also sleep in the same bed whenever they get the chance (fully clothed ya nasties, they’re kids) and they just hug each other soooo tight because they just need to know they’re alright cos they always get pretty banged up in fights against campers or just monsters that are too much like wild animals to recruit. (What? Me? Projecting my desire to be intimately held by the closest person I have to family with their arms wrapped not tight enough to make me uncomfortable but tight enough to make me feel loved? Never! What on earth are you talking about?)

- Because Al is super stubborn and prideful whenever they have an argument Al can’t really bring himself to say he’s sorry so when he’s ready to apologise he just climbs into bed on Ethan’s blind side and cuddles him because he knows Ethan is super worried about getting attacked on his blind side so it’s like he has a guard or a shield.

- Ethan on the other hand just calls him a Rock Boy in a derogatory way until he gets over himself and apologizes but he really does love the fact that Al knows that about him and accommodates that.

- The thing they fight about most is how “heroic” the titan army is. Kronos’ brainwashing worked on Al like a charm and he fully believes that they are the rebellion and camp is the empire. Ethan on the other hand wasn’t at camp long enough for Kronos or Luke to really do anything but it doesn’t matter because Ethan really doesn’t give a shit if he’s on the “evil side” cos he just wants respect and he’s willing to do what it takes without a second thought of how people see him. If he thinks he’s doing the right thing but on the wrong side he can live with that but Al needs to feel like all of his side is on the moral high ground because that’s what Kronos drilled into his brain.

- Ethan knows that Al delusional when it comes to the non-existent heroics of the army but eventually he just decides to let Al believe the titans lies because that’s easier for him even if it hurts Ethan to see him being manipulated like that.

- Due to Ethan not giving a shit on the humanity of his bosses he gets punished a lot more often and a lot more violently than Al because they know that Ethan already knows they don’t care about him so they don’t have to sugar coat him but Al still believes that they’re heroes and his mindset needs to stay like that to keep him obedient.

- Also because I am  a Cruel Person By Nature I hc Ethan’s mortal family (which usually just consists of his dad) as meeting a not very pg13 end at the hands of a monster who wanted to nible on Ethan a tad which pretty much scarred him for life.

- SO, at the end of the battle of Man Hats Are In when Al looks around and sees that his whole family (that joined the titans) are dead! oh no! How sad! At least he knows someone whose been through the same thing so they understand each other and can help each other through this tough time together right? SIKE!

- so yeah Al learns Ethan d-worded in the worst possible way at the worst possible time and just looses it from grief. Loosing his family was bad enough but finding out he lost the one person he thought he would be able to confide in and heal with immediately after just really rubs salt in the wound.

- When the survivors start re-grouping to find someplace to hide until the gods forget about them Al just wanders off because it’s all he can do to not break down on the spot.

- He’s just wandering in a daze for a while and most people just assume he’s high but he snaps out of it and gets into anger mode when Lamia starts attacking him because he finally has something to do and occupy himself with even though it’s hard not to think about his sibling especially when Lamia keeps talking like they never would have died if she’d been in charge which is why she should totally just kill him and lead their siblings instead.

- His desire to have something to keep his mind off his family and Ethan is the first thing he thinks about when Claymore re-alives and immediately starts talking about doing research (yeah because that’s what you need after a long stressful day of fighting monsters and literally dying).

- Ethan keeps trying to cross the veil and help, even if he just sends Al a pleasant dream to help him sleep but contrary to what you might think from the name, the veil is really hard to cross so Ethan just has to bite his nails and watch his friend suffer.

- It gets easier to watch after Al and Claymore pretty much adopt each other because at least he has someone but they do still get into pretty scary situations.

- When they were both premortem they got paired up for a lot of missions for the titan army and they usually just tried to pretend they were on a fun road trip around America when they could and make fun of mortal shit together.

- At one point they were in a motel and the last people accidentally left behind one of Claymore’s books about death and they found it the funniest thing ever. Between a pair of in which one of their mum’s regularly goes to the underworld and one has been there himself they find mortal ideas of the afterlife to be very amusing.

- Alabaster has decided he would not like to share this with the class (Claymore) thank you very much.

- Also when they’re doing their road tripping Ethan knows all the best places to crash, the cheapest food places and the local gangs don’t bother them because between running away from camp and joining the army he just wandered around a lot.

- Like he’d just hop on a random train, take a nap and figure it out when he wakes up; he made a lot of friends this way too as well as his taste in clothes cos he didn’t have a lot of money so he’d just DIY some second hand punk shit. Al thinks he’s the Gandalf of the demigod world because he just knows everyone who might help them and everywhere they could spend the night. He definitely tells his siblings about Ethan being the closest thing they have to a wandering wizard and they fucking love it.

- Also because Nemesis tends to not have a lot of kids Ethan was the only one of hers in the army and Al felt really bad for him because his sibling were his favourite part about the army so he tried to include Ethan in as much as possible with his siblings.

- As an unexpected result Ethan ended up with a small army of super powered children to sick on the people who keep making jabs about him loosing in the arena battle.

- Al sometimes thinks he’s given him too much power but also he will fuck a bitch up if they make fun of his pals so he sees where his siblings are coming from and yeah those bitches had it coming. He also has a copy of bitchcraft.

- Ethan’s dad was the type to play “Stay With Me” by Miki Matsubara on repeat for hours and Ethan would probably enjoy the song but he’s heard it so often that now it makes his ears bleed and Al sometimes tortures him with for fun until Ethan starts throwing shit.

- To steal another hc from @chromarozee-spam Ethan has a thing for cats and one time Al accidentally gave himself mistform cat-ears and Ethan could not stop touching them. Ethan was just craning his head back uncontrollably grinning so much his face hurt. Al can’t bring himself to be upset because Ethan rarely ever smiles since he joined the army.

- Al saw Ethan crying over one of those video’s where people put their hoodies on backwards and put their cat in the hood so he made a mist cat and bought him a hoodie. Ethan of course started crying again but it was happy tears instead.

- Ethan is fucking tiny while Al is almost a foot taller than him. He wouldn’t mind so much if Al didn’t exhaust every opportunity to rub it in his face so he just starts climbing all over shit (especially tall buildings) half to give Al heart attacks and half so he can be like “Sorry? What was that? I’m so high up I can’t hear you. Can you speak up a little? Maybe get a ladder? Or taller?”

- Also I don’t know why but I hc Al as Texan. Ethan gets told about this “Alabaster C. Torrington” guy who knows latin, incantations and other magical knowledge and expects some fancy British guy so when they meet and Al speaks Ethan gets whiplash so hard he fuckin chokes.

- Al is also very casual and Ethan is pretty professional so when he meets this magic general with a straight back and the first thing that comes out of this assholes mouth is some “Howdy y’all!!” bullshit he just dies on the spot.

- Also because Al is texan he is very sensitive to the cold (I’m about 80% sure that Texas is one of the Warm states) so when he has to do stuff in cold places like the labyrinth or new york (idk about that one to but in every film I’ve seen that’s set in NY it’s raining for about 90% of the time) he complains about being freezing all the time until Ethan helpfully reminds him that he can literally make fire out of nothing, surely he can find a way to warm himself up.

- Ethan is also sensitive to the cold because he’s basically malnourished but he’s been like that for a while and thinks it’s normal so he sucks it up until Al notices he’s always cold. Ethan tells him it’s fine but Al is basically a walking electric blanket so whenever Al cuddles him to keep him warm Ethan can’t help but melt because he’s so fucking warm and soft and have you noticed I crave intimacy?

- Ethan started studying Greek myths vigorously since he found out he was a demigod and when he died he kept an eye and an ear out for Al because even though he wouldn’t be able to do anything it still reassures him to know what’s going on, HOWEVER, he was almost filled with enough malice to rip through the barrier between the living and the dead purely to beat an ass when he hears Al’s little “I don’t bother reading about worthless monsters like you!” jab.

- Ethan is very jumpy and fidgety to the point where Al is genuinely concerned and while Ethan assures Al that nothing’s wrong Al is still suspicious. Ethan probably would have told Al about it if it was because of anything but Kronos but seeing that it mostly is, he doesn’t because Ethan feels like Al will just take Kronos’ word over his and he’ll loose the only person he trusts in the army.

- Al doesn’t find out about it until way after the war when Kronos’ brainwashing starts to come undone because by then his mindset is a lot less biased in the titans favour so he can see things that he just unconsciously ignored before and is able to put two and two together. When he does boy is it a trip.

- Ethan is really bad at talking about feelings and stuff so whenever Al gets upset over something and Ethan has no idea how to talk to him he’ll just get him some rocks. One time Ethan found out about those heart shaped valentine boxes that are normally filled with chocolates but people put crystals in them and that just became his go-to for when Al was especially upset. 

- Al is only slightly better at talking about stuff but he can still get Ethan to open up to him which is good because Ethan isn’t very materialistic so it’s hard to make him feel better by buying him things and because someone needs to get Ethan to express himself in an emotionally healthy way.

- Also because of this they just can’t tell each other they love each other. Like they’ll barely whisper it when the other is asleep because they’re just so bad at talking about feelings. It wasn’t that much of an issue until after the war and Ethan gets k-worded and Al is left alone and sobbing over all the times he never told his loved ones how much they meant to him.

- But because this is a headcanon list; fuck that, Al saved Ethan with some sort of magic bullshit and they talk about how much they love each other all the time now because they can’t stand the thought of one of them dying having never been told how much they are loved.

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I love your hc about kevin being bisexual aromantic and the part about his relationship with thea! I like hows it not just a "they lived happily ever after" situation, it feels more realistic. You also mentioned how you have some ideas for seth? I'd love to hear them!

Yeah! I'm not super into happily ever afters, I men to an extent sure, but for me they're so unrealistic that it pulls me out. I like how in aftg the happily ever after is that neil gets to live and hes with andrew and just has to pay a shit ton of money but we know that doesnt matter to him. Outside of context that doesn't seem very happily ever after, and I like it. It seems achievable and realistic while still romantic.

I think Kevin loves thea and thea loves Kevin, but out of habit and as partners with shared truama more than anything to do with the person themselves. Thea might not even love kevin romantically and he doesn't love her romantically but they don't really know that. And you don't need to know that because you don't need it. They fight and everything and have struggles but don't ever split up imo.

Okay seth ideas:

I have a lot of ideas for seth, I headcanon his mom was Vietnamese and his dad was white. He grew up with a racist dad who instilled toxic masculinity into him especially as an Asian man and then his dad dipped leaving him with insecurity of not being manly enough as well as abandonment issues. His mom worked a lot a lot a lot a lot to keep them afloat, he had a lot of brothers and the hierarchy was enforced with rough housing, the 2 oldest brothers suddenly parents. None of the kids ever got Vietnamese names legally because the dad wouldn't want them to have "funny sounding names" but the mom occasionally called them pet names, seth was hoping after the dad dipped at least their mom would finally be able to teach them more Vietnamese to close the barrier between them, her finally being able to speak in the language she was most comfortable in, but she was too busy and communication was always simple and shallow.

The whole EC deal with seth, the same family who left him giving him bigger abandonment issues etc etc

What seth looks like in my mind:

Obviosly he looks half Vietnamese half white, but he's a skinny lanky guy with a tooth gap he used to stick dumdum lolipop stick in between when he was little, he's got ashy medium brown hair, its dark when grown out but lightens a bit in the sun, he is one of those people with a lot of moles and freckles he got from his father. He used to be the guy who wore fake tapers and skate shoes, basket ball shorts, and a monster energy drink snap back. He starts to just wear tee shirts and jeans and takes out the fake tapers. He's got nobby knees and elbows he bangs on things and he swears everytime.

If Seth Lived:

Him and allison would have broken up a few more times until one really explosive fight and she says "I can't do this anymore" and he says "I know" and she says "I'm not going to leave you" and he says nothing.

She realizes staying friends with your ex was a promise she couldn't quite keep as much as she wanted to. They drift apart. He relapses but this time Kevin finds him. He's out the rest of the season for rehab, getting his degree online and Wymack pleads with them to let him keep scholarship. They cut him off. Wymack pays for what he can before seth can say no, and just drops off a bunch of applications for scholarships and says "I'm not letting you quit." And someone doesn't leave him.

He becomes a social worker. He actually really loves it. He reconnects with 2 out of his ~7 brothers. One of them died and he didn't even know, and he wishes for a second it was him instead, before remembering that they haven't talked in at least 10 years.

He becomes less homophobic but will still say anything to make someone hurt if he hates them, but he becomes less explosive and more worn out. The second hand trauma from being a social worker weighs on him and kne of his coworkers opens up about talking to someone. Their job doesn't cover therapy. He goes to AA and NA meetings. He's not relapsing, but its free therapy and he knows if he feels tempted he could get a sponsor.

He beats the shit out of someone outside one of the meetings who was trying to sell to the people coming out (he runs away and doesn't get caught,)

He goes on a dating website half assed at around 40 years old.

He meets a woman who is also on there half assed. She's very blunt and it reminds him of allison, but she's no frills and they come from the same type of world. He can relate to her and they don't have screaming matches that start with him refusing to take a gift of a 1200 dollar dress shirt when his from Ross is just fine.

5th date in he tells her he's sober and she says "why don't you think we've never gone to a bar?" And he realizes she's sober too.

10th date she says "i know this was fun, but I have a son and I can't be casual anymore. You have to be in or out."

And he thinks about it. And they talk about it. And he says he's in.

Its years of dating until the mom decides its steady enough to meet the son. He's 12 and says "you're not my new dad" and seth laughs, and the kid is confused, because he was trying to say something that would hurt.

His girlfriend becomes his fiance after she gets pregnant, not just because of the baby but because they've been dating for 6 years now and its been serious. Its a miscarriage and its hard, but they get though it.

Seth gets really close with the son even if he came in later into his life, he recognizes a lot of himself in the kid. He's never like a father to the kid, and seth isn't sure he knows what it means to love someone like a son, but he knows its pretty close and he tries to be the opposite of his dad.

They stay lower middle class their whole lives, her working her way up from grocery self stocker job she had at 16 to store manager just over time, him a social worker, in a cheaper town with not a lot to do, but they have a book shelf were they watch movies.

He turns on a game sometimes and quietly thinks to himself "what the fuck" about the one year of college exy he was benched the most possible drama happens. He'll say "I went to college with that kid" and she'll say "who? Scar face? Isn't he like famous or something?" And he'll say "yeah. He is"

She doesn't tell him he has to do anything he doesnt want to do, but she finds out he's been invited to multiple fox reunions where some of the attendees are rich as fuck athletes and says "i want them to pay for my meal" and so they go. They go in their Walmart dress clothes and they don't feel bad, they think rich people are stupid to spend so much when 20$ is enough for a shirt. Their son is in high school and can watch the house by himself.

Seth sticks to Matt, and then remembers that Dan was always more down to earth and his wife loves dan. Doesn't like the others so much besides Wymack and Matt a bit.

Its the only one they go to, but it reminds him to keep up with the man who had helped him out so much and he stays in contact with Wymack. He feels bad for drifting off but they talk. About once every few months, but its more than before.

Okay I'm ending it about here lol

[philosophicalrocketeer]

hello i am curious about your characters inspired by twrp

[vibrates] YEEHAW HELL YEAH DUDE HERE THEY ARE

this is elicius! he’s a neutral good storm demon (genasi) ranger for a campaign set in a world where hell merged with earth 18 years ago! he definitely keeps an air of cool and mysterious about him (i came up w his design while listening to majesty by ghost on loop!) but he’s a fuckin GOOFBALL once you get to know him! he’s mute and communicates through sign, and tends to wear his mask everywhere. highlights of his include:

singing (signing) Once In A Lifetime as well as Lemon Demon to himself while alone on a train

eating an omelette with his hands like it was a burrito

later powering aforementioned train by himself with a combination of soul + lightning magic and overexerting himself so much that he ended up with lichtenberg scars up both arms

reuniting with his two still living siblings after four years of him having fucked off to The Wilderness to cope with the grief of losing their parents and youngest sibling

sailing through a storm on an airship fighting a giant celestial serpent with the rest of the party, getting struck by lightning, and redirecting it to cast lightning arrow at the serpent

after rescuing lucifer, fallen angel and the king of hell (and boyfriend of our paladin), from where he’d been imprisoned for the last 5,000 years, offered him the cup of instant ramen he’d bought and kept since the start of the campaign in case he was hungry

so that’s my boy!! his campaign is all done so i’m not currently playing him anymore, but i took a lot of his personality from how i used to write phobos, as well as him wearing a mask most of the time and him being mute (this was before phobos started streaming). elicius is quiet and sweet and goofy and i love him very much!! you’ll have to scroll past the first few rows, but if you’d like to see all the other art i drew of him, check out my art insta!

and THIS is mads hayburne!! she’s a bass-playing mechanic turned mech pilot agent for a secret organization in the lancer campaign my friend is currently running (which we’re actually doing as a podcast, The Nibiru Rapture, so if this sounds cool, give it a listen!) since this campaign’s still in progress, she doesn’t have as many highlights, but here’s some stuff that’s happened so far:

flirted with and successfully obtained the number of an enemy pilot half on accident

hotboxed a hotel room and stayed up all night with a team member eating pizza and playing horror games on her paradove (retro gameboy-adjacent handheld console we made up) while on a mission

ridden on top of and jumped between mechs during a mech race

(backstory) got kicked out of the anticapitalist synth-funk band Seventh ReSynthesis she’d helped found bc the drummer convinced everyone else to do a heel-turn and accept a record deal with a major corporation and Mads was the only one who refused. she is very angry about this

recently came into possession of the mysterious possibly eldritch mech Chalkydri (a pegasus mech in lancer’s terms) that has been giving her cryptic visions and can do Absolutely Batshit Insane things in combat

if it’s not already obvious, i took most of mads’ inspiration from meouch! she’s v laid back and friendly, cheeky, and casual no matter who she’s talking to. and her being a bass player, of course. there’s also a few of my old in-universe hcs for meouch that i gave to her as well, such as having a badass grandma as her only immediate living relative, and being a decent (though in her case pro) mechanic.

i’m having a little more difficulty playing her as her personality doesn’t come as naturally to me, but she’s still being tons of fun to play and i’m very excited for the next few sessions, bc her old band has recently shown up again!

[makotokyoqoku-archived]

habib hassan hcs!!!

palestinian-american; 16 years old. only child. parents are immigrants. arab christian. gay.

biokinesis (biological manipulation) & geokinesis (earth manipulation; think cornelia hale from w.i.t.c.h); I decided not to make him have magic-based powers bc I Hated it and how orientalist it is to give an arab magic powers ://

got adopted by midnighter & apollo when he was 15.

the jock of the family. nothing against his family but he just isnt goth-punk like them, he likes to listen to indie rock tho.

hes got curly hair; wears ear piercings; thick eyebrows.

he got the scar on his cheek from a nasty fight he got into.

nice and polite but will absolutely get into a fight if he has to. dont test him.

wants to become a botanist!! habib helps apollo w his many gardens.

also yes he absolutely does take after apollo bc nice polite and just generally pleasant characters are not boring.

went to a school with jenny q and as the older one he was responsible for her so whenever she got into a fight he is the one called to the principal's office and gets to explain (excuse) her actions to the teachers.

bc of how ligntskinned he is, he burns easily in the sun. as if the freckles arent enough.

definitely just as chaotic as the rest of the family hes just more lowkey about it bc of how nice he is,,,, he gets away w everything. also the funniest member of the family.

neutral good, which contrasts his family's extreme chaotic good morality; hes the backbone of the authority who comes up with alternate solutions to their chaos. he constantly butt heads with jack hawksmoor bc of that.

his powers reflect on his body; he constantly smells like fresh air and fragrant herbs (lavender, rosemary, basil, etc) and sometimes like rain too, theres two birthmarks on his body (veins-like on his wrist, an olive tree on his chest near his heart). hes constantly warm and gets even warmer/hotter when he uses his powers.

he looks up to superman a lot. "what would superman do?" is kinda his motto at this point.

speaking of: habib is friends with kon and the rest of the teen titans and is kinda sorta in the team (he shows up whenever he can, basically). hes also friends with cullen row, harper row's/bluebird's gay brother; the two met when midnighter worked w the batfam to track harper down and habib just. kept cullen company in the meantime.

since hes still 16 and thus not majoring in botany like he wants to, he decided to learn about plants by helping apollo take care of the garden in their home. it's free and with his powers he have an innate understanding of nature itself. habib isnt so sure about his biokinesis on the other hand tho,,, he doesnt know how to use it. did I make him a support character? yes and what about it.

very bendy!!! hes naturally double-jointed.

voted most likely to lie his way out of problems. remember what I said about him being lowkey chaotic? yeah…

you wouldnt believe it but hes actually an introvert and not extrovert.

favourite animated movie is anastasia. he'd absolutely sing the arabic version of once upon a december any & every chance he gets.

neat-freak but he wasnt always like that,,, he just became one after he got adopted.

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📂 for Lunya since no one else ships it?

Oh boy do I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about Lunya. A. LOT.

And I probably already babbled about all of them but I just love them so much, you know? That’s an actual OTP where I’m like ‘with some build up….and some healing time thrown in-between….this actually could work out in canon’

So yeah, tua producers, if you’re out there, hire me. I’ll build this ship out of the ashes you left behind with that Season One Finale.

For instance I am convinced that Luther always, always included Vanya on family matters. Luther is so hell bound on protecting his family and he’s one of the sibs who actually genuinely sees all of them as his siblings (except maybe Allison lmao) and he keeps including Vanya in decisions that are about them as a family and not the superhero team (Grace, for example).

So most of their childhood was probably him knocking on her door like “Hey Vanya, we’re gonna sneak out and eat donuts until we puke-, well, until I puke. Wanna come?”

Or “Vanya, are you coming to Ben’s room tonight? We’ll stay up ‘til midnight for our birthday!”

Or even “Vanya come quick, Klaus and Diego have a breath holding contest and I think Klaus is gonna pass out soon! Let’s see how long it takes until he remembers Diego can hold his breath forever.”

But I am also convinced that he never gets an actual answer from her, Vanya pointedly ignoring him until he falters and goes “Well….okay then. Tell me when you change your mind.” and runs back to the others.

Because she thinks he isn’t doing it because he wants to have her there but because he feels somehow indebted to include her - being Number One and everything.

And even if he wants her there, the others surely don’t.

(I see Vanya as standing in her own way a lot of the time because she’s afraid she’s gonna get shut out again the moment she dares to hope).

Still, Luther never stops trying. Never.

“C’mon Luther, we’re gonna be late! She’s gonna say no anyway, she always says no!”

And still he will run up to her room, jacket hanging off one shoulder and shoes still untied.

“You gonna sneak to the cinema with us? They’re showing a horror movie!”

This goes on until he comes up to her room one day to see her packing.

“What’s going on?” - “I’m leaving for college.”

And that’s it. No other explanation. No real goodbye.

(Luther still hugs her, even though she freezes up when he presses his nose into her hair. This is his little sister after all, he has to react somehow).

“Well….take care of yourself. Call, if there’s anything…..when you need something. From Me. Or someone else. Or Me.”

And Vanya nods, eyes shifting to the side and they both know she’s not gonna call.

They don’t see each other for at least 11 years. Luther misses her like he misses everyone, like he misses the old times. Like he misses earth.

But being back isn’t better either because it all ends in chaos and betrayal between those two and there’s a lot of hurt there, hurt they haven’t even acknowledged yet.

There’s a fight at one point, a few weeks after the planned apocalypse, on their second try. A month after they’ve already experienced the apocalypse but who can keep track at this point?

And there’s screaming on Vanya’s part, a lot of it, and some plates flying without hands throwing them but there isn’t any white bleeding into Vanya’s eyes so Luther feels safe enough just letting her rant.

“You have no idea what I’ve been through! Always Dad’s favourite-” - “Wait, you think I was Dad’s favourite?”

They both thought the other was Reggie’s favourite.

“You always spent so much time with Dad, you were always so close to him….”

“You had so much free time. You could do whatever you wanted to, could have any hobby you wanted…”

“You were allowed on missions and you were allowed to talk to the press and you called the shots as Number One….”

“You never had to train a day in your life, no lifting weights until you passed out….”

“I always thought Dad loved you…” - “I always thought Dad loved you.”

And by the end of it they realize that neither of them were their Father’s favourite. That both of them had a horrible time but while Vanya was always outspoken about it, Luther only now realizes that maybe he had been abused too.

Basically all my Lunya ideas, hcs and wips involve slow burn and a lot of hurt/comfort, with those two realizing how similar they are.

I leave you with an image that didn’t leave my head all day:

Vanya slowly - deliberately - kissing the self harm scars on Luther’s arms, the ones that happened when Luther got too frustrated in his own skin, got tired of trying to rip away the fur and leather only for it to grow back and just wanted to hurt, to make it last at least this once.

Vanya holding his arms as he presents them to her, wrists up, and her leaning down to trail the lines of red with her lips as Luther watches with wide eyes. Gently draws one arm back so he can reach out and tug a strand of hair behind Vanya’s ear, can trace her cheek with his fingertips as she keeps kissing his skin.