#and then you're like ooooh i could USE those shapes... in Ways....

[hotchs-big-hands]

oh oh oh!!! and if jack liked you!!! ooooooh my god that lady would have a fucking conniption frrrr. jack coming home from aaron and yours place all happy like "look mommy!! reader helped me draw this for you!!" and shes soooo angry because she hs to smile at jack and be like "oh wow honey thats amazing. that a really nice picture!" but her hands are shaking with rage.

or when he comes home from school one day and hes like "reader did my hair and helped me picj out my outfit for picture day today because daddy said i looked too messy" and shes pissed tf off bc she hates you and is trying to paint you as this evil bad influence meanwhile jack fucking LOVES YOUUUUU.

"reader makes her pancakes into heart shapes because she says the only way for boys to grow strong is with love" and now jack wont eat her pancakes if they arent heart shaped. jack has to make a family tree for school and he made his as HB - AH+R and includes your family since aaron only has sean and haley cracks and yells at him that "reader isnt his family. reader isnt aarons family. reader has no place in their family tree and he needs to accept that mommy and daddy are his only real family" and ooooh boy when aaron finds out hes fookin fumin babes. and she tries to accuse you of trying to replace her but aaron shuts that shit down like "youre the only woman in the world that could think your kid being loved and cared for is a bad thing. would you rather she abused him? she loves him and he love her. im going to marry that woman eventually so she has every right to be on that family tree and you need to get used to it."

and when he tells you what he said you literally do not let that man out of bed for hours like uuuggghh yesss hottie tottie defend my honor and tell off your ex? youve earned yourself 5 free orgasms for surree

😭😭😭😭😭 JACKKKKKKKK he's such a cutie I love himmmmmm!!!!!!! Haley yelling at him over the family tree is so fucking evil like she rly is the type to rather have her kid be hated and abused by his stepmother than be adored and loved.

Aaron finds out cuz Jack is crying in his room and the family tree has been ripped up. You tell Aaron that Jack wouldn't let you in the room, but it's killing you knowing he's so distraught abt smth. So Aaron sits with him on the bed and asks him what's going on? At first Jack is hesitant but then he full on wails abt what Haley said and Aaron sits quietly and tries not to show he's fucking abt to explode with anger. So he comforts him and says Jack can choose his family. It's entirely his choice and if he wants you in his life then that's okay.

So Jack cries even harder cuz now he's like well my family tree is ruined now :((( so yknow what Aaron does? Gets his office supplies and he and Jack make a new family tree. But Jack wants you to join in too! And so when you're called into the room it's hard not to cry when Jack says he wants you to help with the project 😭😭😭😭😭😭 the new one is on sturdy paper, and Aaron frames it so Jack can hang it on his wall 🥺🥺🥺🥺💖💖💖💖💖

As for the last bit? Aaron absolutely earned all those orgasms 🫣🫣🫣🫣

[missamyrisa2]

How do you think you’d handle a stubborn girl who doesn’t want to admit she’s ticklish let alone that she likes it and that it turns her on to no end?

Ooooh I loooove stubborn ticklyssssss

yes I'm calling tickle people ticklys now if you haven't noticed. Because inside, we're all ticklees to the tickles in some way shape or form~~

And the thing is, when I notice you're entrenching yourself and walling up your ticklishness I know you're trying to build a defense against verbal teases so I tend to start with the opposite. I'm gonna give you the near-silent treatment when you declare your nonticklishness as I work my craft. None of that "oh yeahhh?" or "we'll just see about that~". I'm going to be lightlyyyyy probing around you acting sooo nonchalant with my exploration. "Mmmh. Mmmmmmh." I muse, trailing my fingers along your arms. I don't need to say such things, my fingers and little expressions do it and your stubbornness only encourages me further. My nails gliding in your inner elbow, pausing to draw little tight circles. One hand breaks to wiggle upward, tracing the shape of your shoulder to your neck, the other lingering on your inner arm with my fingers pinched together for that combined featherlight touch up and down your muscle. "Ooooooh~" I murmur, whenever I see a little reaction. I know what it's doing to you, I'm finding spots, but I sound so barely engaged and I don't hover on a hot spot ~ not just yettttt

My fingers brush aside your hair delicately and I lean in to purse my lips along your neck. "Mmmmh" just a little spice to add to your fire. Because I'm watching your body language soooo closely. You know I am, and I know you are seeing me doing it but I won't acknowledge the growing heat between us. My fingers work down, tracing each rib carefully through your top. I start leaning you back ~ I know you won't resistttt I knowwww the tickles are getting to youuu and so is my nearnessss~ and give your top the little tug and toss, pulling the end down so it pops up and shows off that line of twitching sensitive skin. "Ahhhhh~" I sigh softly, as if we were just relaxing, not doing anything tickly for my tickly. I start rubbing my thumbnails on your sides, ever so carefully slowly and softlyyyyy just letting those nailtips rub and massage and liiiightly tickle and work you up. My eyes drift knowingly to your tummyyyy~

And I lean in to let my long soft hair brush against it. I gently fake you out, making like I'm going to drop and zerbert or kisssss~ but I just hmmmmm and continue lightly rubbing with my thumbs, letting my hairs wisp and tremble along your belly and navel. Oooh you could admit ittttt you could giggle and moan it outttt anyyy timeee but I know you're a stubborn girl. And I want you to be more stubborn yesss I want you to fight it and retreat so far because it's going to be sooo much more ticklehottttt when you finally break~ which is exactly whyyyy my little supple blush brush is coming out next to carefully swish along your waistline. Back and forth, not dusting, not being mean, just the lightest of sensual touches with my prettyyyy makeup brush~

Once I've got you nice and dizzyyy with that I put your arms up ~ I know you won't resistttt itttt ~ and start slowllyyyy working your top upppp up and up. "Mmmmmhmmmmm~" I nod with a smile, lifting the material slowlyyyy and blowing little puffs of air along your ribs and exposed chest. I keep going until I have your top tangling your arms and covering your eyes. Oooh yessss. Now you're in trouble. Now you're in the thick of ittttt ~ because with a little puff of air I taunt those underarms and your royal chest buttons. I might tickle themmmm I might teaseee and I know you're gonna take it you silly ticklegluttonnnn~

Sooo what's gonna do it my adorable flower? Maybe when I brush my lipssssss across your underarm. Or when my nail tip liiiightly taunts those stiffening chest buttonssss? Little puffs of air in your navel? More thumb rubbiesss on your sides and to your hips? Maybe it'll be my feather feather drawing along your ribsssss side to side ~ perhaps just my musing and little sounds and curious inflections while observing ever soooo close to you will do it.

Whatever crumbles your cookie, you are soooo getting my mostttt sassyyyy "Yeahhhhh that's what I thoughttttt~" when you finally break because then allll my pent up ticklerness is unleashing, and I'm pinning you down laying into allll those spotssss I found now. "Cooochie cooochie coooo stubborn girl I thought you weren't ticklisshhh I thought you weren't ticklish huhhh? What are you doing and what are you doiiiing? You're laughingggg! You're making such soundssss I thought you weren't tiiiicklishhh~!" I'll singsong while I pull you back and hold you down and bury my lipssss into your belly giving you endless raspberries while my fingers deftly wiggle and stroke and spider up your sides to your underarms getting you worked up so I can move up and make out with that ticklish neckkkk and skitter my nails alll over your midsection. "Tiickle tickle tiiiickle! You tell me alll about ittt nowwww mmhmmm let it allll outttt you love your tickles don't youuu naughtyyy thinggggg~"

Once I have you gaspyyy and weak, my feather is coming back outttt and you're losing those bottoms mmhmmm. "This is what you need darling this is what naughty ticklish stubborn girls getttt ~ we're gonna tickle alll that wickedness out of youuu oh yesss we are~" I tease at your undies, drawing my fingers along your butttonyyy area ~ "I knowww where you need it mosttt I know you have a ticklish spotttt riiiiight here!!" And with a teasing stroke my index finger starts liiightly scratching on that spot through the soft material. "Mmhmmm that feels goood doesn't itttt tickles riight here? Right on your girly pearlllll? Naughty naughtyyyy!" I taunt with my twirling feather at your ear as I work your button massaging it to get you up sooo close to the edge. "Awwww my stubborn cookie crumbler wants itttt sooo baddd huhhhh sheeee just soo neeeedyyyy~" I tease and start tugging your undies down slowly to expose your wanting girly area~

"Nooonooo noo ahhh ahh ah ah~! Naughty girls don't get to cum not yettt no noooo~" I taunt with my wagging tsk tsk finger as I lean in to inspect, making sure my soft hair is teasing your thighs. "Hmmm. Yep. Ticklish pearl. Riiight theree. Right there~" I murmur and draw my feather down your body, my other hand gently but firmly moving your legs to show off your wanting pearlyyy. "Now hold still girlyyyy this miiiight tiiiickle~!" I smirk and start tracing my feather tip up and down that swollen button. "Uhh huhhh yeahh! How much do you love your tickles mmmh? How often do you dream about being a ticklish helplesssss silllyyyy gaspy girl huhhh?" I interrogate while I work my feather tip up and down and up and down and side to side teasing and taunting your wanting button. "Ooh we've come so far from 'I'm not ticklish!' haven't weee?" I imitate you with a grin, my thumb rubbing your thigh and massaging your hip to ease you along the tickly edge, coaxing your button to maximum tickled teased arousal.

"Oooh you're just so sweeet darlinggg and I love stubborn chickadeesss sooo much I'm gonna give you something special oh yes I am ~ onlyyy the most special tickles for youuuu~" with a flash of blush I wrap my arms around your legs and grasp your hips as I lean in, making muah muah muahhhh pursing lips kissiesssss ~ going downnnnn and snickering before I proceed to make out with your ticklish pearlyyyyy~ onlyyy the lightest of softest teasing kissiesss and they dooo not stopppp ~ even when you get your sweeet sweet ticklegasmmm sparkliessss I hold you snug and give you allll my love and affection.

"Such a silllyyyy girl~~~"

[burthummels]

ok i changed my mind about drawing all the hair colours bc that's actually a lot of work that i don't have the energy for rn (silly art block and whatnot) and i don't wanna make u wait forever bc i'd forget etc etc i'm so sorry i'm a massive mess rn

ANYWAY i wanna preface this list by saying that i think black is a great colour on all of them! thinking specifically about that time jimin got compared to prince eric <3 and tae's recent pretty black curls (gone but never forgotten) but they all look good with black hair and i will not hear otherwise 😤

joon:

i think joon looks really good with light hair in general but i am particularly weak for grape!joon <3 his spring day/not today soft purple hair is everything to me

jin:

u are so so right about purple jin but may i offer u blond and pink jin as well! i think that almost platinum blond makes him look so ethereal and it very much fits the way his voice sounds to me. and shoutout to the pink for being so pretty on him

yoongi:

ok tbh i think black is his best colour however!! this ashy brown hair is super pretty

and shoutout to platinum blond agust d bc this was a Look he is so iconic for doing this

hobi:

i second the reddish brown tbh that is the colour i wish my hair was rn but i am realising very quickly that i can't pull it off quite like him ksfjhgkfd </3 anyway i also love whatever is going on with his hair in the spring day mv i think that should be an honourable mention

jimin:

jimin is a natural blond to me too tbh. especially when it looks all soft and fluffy i think he looks so cozy and gentle and huggable!! i'm also very weak for the pink tho like spring day jimin is everything to me and i was so happy when the pink made a comeback

tae:

tae looks good in literally every colours it's so unfair to the rest of us </3 out of the really bright colours my faves were red and blue tho! tae in the save me mv really imprinted on me in ways i can't describe dkfgjh and then when he had blue hair and jimin had pink hair 💞💞💞 looking so bright and colourful together i love them sm <33

but also!! this fluffy curly brown on him!!! when people were saying he looked like a poodle!! so so soft i fucking love it i want to play with his hair

jungkook:

i think i'm mainly used to seeing black/brown on him bc he had those colours for so long but! cherry kook or even just the red tips that i don't remember but found when i was looking up his red hair <3 idk there's just sth about this look that really hits to me

omg grape!joon how could i ever forget !!!! the sweetest angel anctually !!!! i love light hair on him :( it's just so !!! aah oh wowowow he's so my everything shaped and these pictures just prove it actually like i'd do anything for him

oh yes i am so glad you offered up blonde and pink jinnie !! he is so ethereal and soft and he just looks like he should be a prince somewhere like ,,,, he's so right when he calls himself worldwide handsome like he KNOWS he's so pretty and he's right

ASHY BROWN WITH THE HEADBAND LIKE I THINK IM GONNA SHORT CIRCUIUT !!!!!!! AND THEN PLATINUM AGUST D?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!!!! LIKE ARE U TRYING TO MAKE ME EXPLODE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOOOOOOOOOOD no yoongi just ,,,,,,, og i become insane any time i look at him actually like there is something inside of my body that just insantly gives me the feeling of wanting to bite on glass and scream like ,,,,,, GOD min yoongi

my best friend hobi my best friend !!!! the red hair !!!! ooooh that hobi is just has such a special place in my heart like idk i look at him and i am simply filled with joy and happiness and my saddness melts away (that's any hobi but red hair hobi just <333 baby boy) and yes !!!! the spring day hair w the red streaks !!! aaah he looks so cute in it 🥺 and his eyes look so pretty in that photo too and that choker of im 🥺🥺🥺

NATURAL BLONDE JIMIN STANS RISE !!!!!!!! yes when it's soft and fluffy !!!!! oh it's perfect and i jsut wanna give him all the hugs !!! and you're sosososososo correct about pink jimin like that is also just a precious huggable angel sorry and i think i'd love to see a pink!jimin comeback again i think it would bring world peace

the fact that tae just...... looks good in everything... im sick to my stomach.... how is it FAIR !!! OH BLUE AND PINK JIMIN !!!! MY COTTON CANDY TWINS !!!!! THEY JUST !!!! OH THEY JUST LOOK SO PERFECT TOGETHER !!!! (maybe they're more jollyrancher colored but it doesn't have the same ring) but oh tae in the save me mv is imprinted in my mind and i will rewatch it jsut for himsdkfjhlsd but poodle!tae !!! oh what a sweet boy !! that live where jk was just putting forks in his hair sdjkfhaldskfh

OH JUNGKOOK MY SWEET BABY STAR CANDY JUNGKOOK WHO IWOULD LITERALLY DO ANYTHING FOR !!!!! i look at him and i am instintaniously the heart eyes emoji like i can't help it that just who i am and jungkook is my babygirl that's how the world is !!!! but yes the reeeeed cherry !!!! it's so good !!! i love when you can still see his roots but there's color there i think that's the best way to do color for his hair !!!! oh it's just <33333 wow,,,,, im looking at those photos and im simply just here to be a in love w jungkook like i think that's what im put on this planet for (also soobin behind jk in the first photo made me giggle a little sdjhfakld)

!!!! spring day bangtan is just something that can be so personal and so full of love and emotion like.... wow.... !!!

[lizzieraindrops]

ooooh yes, I love the concept of them as inverses! especially when in overgrown Aperture you have all this greenery moving chaotically into a regular ordered space, whereas as you said, the Vex came to the Garden afterward! the angles of their architecture have literally grown into it as the Garden has grown into them organically, except this time it's the greenery that has the master plan. the end result is both of these spaces kind of meet in the middle in a fascinating hybrid of indomitable, sprawling overgrowth paired with crisp, shining technological futurism. there has to be a name for that particular vibe, but it don't know what it is. it's not the popular image of solarpunk, because the tone is Completely different. not hopeful and synergistic, but rather more uncaring or even hostile.

which is why i'm fascinated by the framing of both as a taunt - that's such a cool way of conceptualizing it that i never would have thought of. you get the very clear sense in both spaces that this is not a space that is For you - you're just interloping in someone/something else's world, and you will be harmed if you don't play by its rules. probably even if you do.

which is particularly interesting in aperture's case - i find the greened spaces much more comforting and familiar, but on its own an overgrowth of potato greens doesn't really make for much more of a human-sustaining environment than the rest of aperture, even if it looks friendlier. like you said, it really reinforces the image of a place that's been lost and run-down and decayed before glados cleans it up. which is equally fascinating when you get to old Aperture, because it echoes all those same themes of decay and loss and transformation in a totally different way!

huh. now that i think of it, i might even argue that the way Portal uses this kind of imagery as a metaphor for all the unresolved buried trauma that Aperture holds, and the way things have grown twisted and strange from it with so much time, could apply to the Garden as well. i've been working on a theory that the Black Garden is some sort of expression of the pain of the split between the Winnower and Gardener. it's almost like an image of a Light-ruled world created by the Darkness - especially taking into account that bit from Unveiling:

Your new rule will only make great false cysts of horror full of things that should not exist that cannot withstand existence that will suffer and scream as their rich blisters fill with effluent and rot around them, and when they pop they will blight the whole garden.

that's how the Garden behaves! it grows without bound, into your very flesh and mind, like Uldren and the strawberry legionary, creating horrible twisted things that shouldn't be and can't quite exist in the rest of reality anymore.

not to mention, there's a round, Traveler-shaped hole in the middle of the Garden where the Black Heart used to be. (what does that have to do with "your pale heart holds the key" a;sldkfja;ldskgd;f)

anyway, idk, portal is So destiny. somehow playing through portal for the first time recently was Integral to my connecting the dots to understanding destiny as a story about grief in ways i still can't fully explain but this is definitely some of them.

portal overgrown aperture [handshake] destiny black garden. thoughts?

ooooo interesting!!! i think theyre definitely linked but i think that theyre like. inverses in a way. the overgrowth at the beginning of portal 2 has 2 very very specific meanings: it's the absence of glados (as soon as she's brough back online, it starts receeding more and more. the difference of her main chamber when you first find her and shes deactivated vs. when you get back there to swap her with wheatly) and also as like. representative of freedom being unreachable (in the last cutscene in p1 you get out and it's still a parking lot, glados taunting you with the deer and the false nature, even the bit at the very beginning of p2 where you're supposed to stare at the nature painting, it's the sort of idea of 'the outside is so so close and youll never actually get there'). it's also the sort of generalized use of overgrown spaces of time passing, decay, abandonded environments, etc - but showing glados' absence and the fact youre still stuck here is imo it's main purpose

the garden is, notably, not a space that was abandonded and then overgrown - the garden is not replacing or subsuming the vex architecture there, but is symbiotic with the vex and their architecture (it's very important to me that the vex came to the garden later, they adapted to it and not the other way around). it's also a garden - a specifically cultivated and designed space! the overgrowth at aperture shows glados' lack of control of the facilty, but the garden, for all it's incomprehensibility, is a controlled space. if anything, in this aspect a lot of the other overgrown places in destiny (especially in d1, but the european dead zone especially comes to mind with the fragment of the traveler hanging over you...) are more in line with the overgrown parts of aperture

i think their similarity is the way that the overgrowth and plants are, in some way, a bit of a taunt! in aperture it's that you're sooooo close to freedom but can't make it - these plants have to come from somewhere, right? you have to be close to the surface, right? (even when you get waaaaaay down to the old facilities here are always little reminders - the bird that takes glados, the potato plant with it's massive roots...). in the garden, the taunt is that it's completely and utterly unlike you. the sort of core 'this is a place of life, you do not belong here' bit, the garden as antithetical to the traveler becuase it can be alive. but both are in fact meant to be a bit of a dig yk!!! its fun

[will-o-the-witch]

When you're considering working with spirits, I highly, highly discourage seeking out the most vivid, intense experiences you can. This is for ones' own mental safety.

Not mental safety as in "ooooh you're not powerful enough yet" or "oooh you're not going to like what you see," but "hey this could easily fuck up your grasp on reality in a way that's difficult to recover from."

Naturally everyone wants to see the "hard evidence" of spirits, catching them on photo, hearing voices, receiving visions, something reaching out and touching you, etc. Everyone wants to see inanimate objects move and other "impossible" acts. But if this is the baseline for how we define spirit behavior and only strive for more and more it's going to unravel us pretty quickly.

Historically speaking, most spirit work has nothing to do with this. It mostly involves either warding/scaring them away for safety or paying your respects to them in some fashion. You might talk to the latter and and ask for guidance or help, but nothing is expected to manifest right in front of you. If we only treat these Grand Experiences as the most valid, we're skipping over a lot more meaningful work.

More importantly though, nothing is above the laws of physics. Actively seeking to break the laws of physics (moving/levitating objects, shape-shifting, physically changing dimensions or having spirits visually/physically manifest) can shred your ability to process the material world around you. You can't always find qualified research to back up what you'd like to hear, but there will always be some speculative pseudoscience ready to "prove" it for you. You can ALWAYS rationalize how something "could" happen, which becomes how it DOES happen. Once you've mastered the art it can can validate every delusion, every paranoia, every hallucination, every self-doubt, every ludicrous idea, with nothing solid to grab onto.

Mastering those leaps of logic, it's no wonder folks have zero trouble believing the earth is flat, amethyst cures cancer, vaccines cause autism, the government is secretly controlled by alien lizard people, you get it.

Let yourself draw a line of what you DON'T believe in. It's healthy.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

ace: "DEUCE! my man! my brother! i'm here for revenge! this is payback for those birthday punches from you and floyd-senpai!" deuce: "come at me, bro! SUMMON CAULDRON!" ace: "don't hide behind your cauldron! take me on like a man instead of running away like a coward!" deuce: "you're on! BET THE LIMIT!"

[Referring to this imagine!]

***Spoilers for chapter 5!***

Deuce had a huge bite of cauldron cake lodged in his mouth when Ace made the sudden declaration of war--the sneak! Waiting until Riddle left for the washroom to attack! The first blow came upon his arm, knocking the fork out of his hand. When the second blow came, Deuce managed to catch it with his (now freed) hand.

“Ace, what the hell are you doing?!” 

“Payback!!”

“Huh?!”

“What was it that you said on my birthday, Juice? Birthday punches, equal to how old you are, plus one for good luck? I’m just keeping old traditions alive!” Ace cracked his knuckles. “Now prepare yourself!!”

“Tch!” Deuce hastily set down the remains of his cake, his body tensing for an oncoming brawl. “This is... This isn’t our space! We shouldn’t be fighting in Raven-san’s--”

Ace brought his fist back and swung--

--and missed, stumbling a few paces forward and bumping into a table. But he was quick on his feet, and even quicker with his reflexes. He corrected his footing and spun to glare at Deuce.

“Oi, oi, what was all that junk you said about being a man and taking it?!”

“I’m not gonna...” Deuce froze, his eyes honing in on something that had rolled onto the ground. A single deep-fried, soft-boiled egg, ruined. Inedible.

Newfound rage seeped through his veins.

“Alright, that’s it. You want a fight? I’ll give you a fight.” Deuce produced his magical pen from his breast pocket and aimed it at his friend.

“Ooooh, playing dirty now?” Ace smirked.

“Mmm? Kani-chan and Saba-chan are fighting? Eheheh! Sounds fuuun! I wanna join, I wanna join!”

“YOU STAY OUT OF THIS, FLOYD!!” the duo shouted in unison, sending deadly glares his way.

“Eeeeh, how boring~ Weeeeell, I guess watching a battle’s not so bad, either.”

“Do your worst,” Ace challenged, returning his attention to Deuce. “I bet I could get all my hits in before you pull the right spell out.”

“You’re on.”

Ace flew at him, fist raised. Magic swirled in the air above him. Warm, crackling--like sparks gathering, preparing to form lighting and strike. A blazing fire waiting to happen.

Deuce took a deep breath, then exhaled. He could see it now, in his mind’s eye. The shape of his soul, stretching out before a sea of darkness.

“Summon Cauldron!!”

“Wha--OOF!!

Ace found himself pinned under the suffocating weight of a heavy iron cauldron. His torso was pressed hard against the attic flooring, crushing his chest and impeding his breathing. He flailed for a few seconds before crying out in annoyance.

(In the background, Floyd was cackling with laughter. It sounded even more out of place than usual, since it was set against the Chicken Dance.)

"Don't hide behind your cauldron! Take me on like a man instead of running away like a coward!"

“Sorry, but that’s how it has to be,” Deuce sighed, tucking his magical pen away. “I already told you, we can’t be fighting in someone else’s house. If you want to come for me... Come for me after the party, and I’ll gladly take you on.”

“Ngggh...!! This isn’t over, not yet!”

“It is.” Deuce folded his arms and granted his friend a stern look. “Reflect on your actions a little.”

He turned to grab his cake and resume eating it. A forkful was mere centimeters away from his mouth before--

A strong gust of wind abruptly kicked up, sending the cake splattering into the wall. Deuce blinked, staring at his unfinished slice. Slowly, he craned his head to face Ace, who had crawled out from under the cauldron.

Pointing his own magical pen at Deuce.

“I told you, it isn’t over til the fat cat sings.”

“... Are you talking about Grim or Lucius?”

“It’s just a saying, dummy! I don’t mean it literally!!” Ace vigorously shook his head. “Anyway...!! Put’m up, cuz I’m coming for you!!”

“Yeah? Bring it, then.” Deuce’s eyes hardened--sharpening like the pointed tip of a spade. “You wasted not one, but two foods today... You attacked me while I had my guard down... You disrespected the rules of someone else’s house... That’s unforgiveable!”

The air was thick, laced with tension.

Deuce moved first, intent on striking back.

“Bet the Lim--”

“Ohhhhkay, time out, time out!!” Trey called, stepping inbetween the Heartslabyul first years. Deuce and Ace stopped dead in their tracks at the sight of their senpai. “That’s enough of that. None of us are here today to punch each other. We’re supposed to celebrate, so both of you, settle down.”

“But he--”

“I don’t want to hear excuses.” Trey frowned, folding his arms. “Deuce, you know better. And Ace, don’t go starting things. You know Riddle wouldn’t like that.”

“Yes, sir...” Deuce hung his head in shame--but Ace was still fired up and ready to protest.

“It’s just some harmless fun! What’s the big deal? It’s not like Riddle’s gonna know, he’s off at the washroom probably getting stuck in the toilet or something.”

“... Who exactly is getting stuck in the toilet?”

“... The Dorm Leader’s standing right behind me, isn’t he?”

“Yup.” Deuce nodded.

“Yes,” Trey added. “Er, welcome back, Riddle.”

“Ahah! It’s Kingyo-chan! Kingyo-chan’s back!”

“... Well, crap.” 

“Ace.” Riddle’s voice was low and menacing--a sharp contrast to his cute face.

“Y-Yeah, Dorm Leader?”

Riddle’s expression contorted with rage, his face turning as crimson as his hair. “OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!”

[transmalewife]

You’ve quite rightfully criticized TCW in the past. Had you been in charge of the series, what would you have changed? If it’s too hard to list them all or such, try 3-5 examples.

ooooh ok this is such a cool ask. I'm gonna try to keep it general, because you're right, if i go into specific plot points we'll be here all night.

2D ANIMATION. this is both the biggest and the most personal taste one on the list. like, yeah i get 3d animation wasn't what it is now, but ratatouille was made a year earlier than tcw movie and it looks amazing. I know the budget was astronomically bigger for ratatouille, but what happened is later, when tcw series started having huge budgets, they were still beholden to the hideous style they started with, and it took them over a decade to crawl their way out of it. Like yeah, 2003 clone wars looks like it was made on a budget of some change production found in their pockets and calling in a few favors, and the animation was clearly wonky, oversimplified and reused as many frames as they could get away with, and then some, but the look is vibrant, striking, interesting. the fights are choppy, but dynamic nonetheless. In tcw they were, i assume, aiming for some sort of realism, but were forced to simplify the shapes and ended up smack dab in the middle of uncanny valley. stylization is not the enemy. bright colors and exagerrated movement in animation are not the enemy, they are the tools unique to the medium, that should be embraced, not avoided. this indecision between realism: detailed wrinkles on everyone's faces that just make them look a decade older than they should be, the dark, muted colour palette and the drab settings, with the horizon always masked by fog because they couldn't afford to render backgrounds, the choppy, awkward movements of limbs of realistic lenght bound by the laws of physics and not of film (none of these cool stretchy frames that trick your eye into thinking the movement is more elastic) makes the end product look like one of those music videos shot in the sims 2, but instead it's in a weird video game you'd get on a cd with your physics texbook in 2012.

related to the above but i desperately need a paragraph break: just the look in general. the show seems utterly uninterested in changing things from the source material, unless when it's exagerrating racist or sexist stereotypes or making everything more drab and boring to make their jobs easier and cheaper. they gave aayla pixar mom hips. they made padme ugly and her outfits boring, and that not easy to do. don't even get me started on ahsoka's tube top, it should get it's own point on this list. it's almost offensive to see someone take the functionally limitless medium of animation and treat it like a cage or burden instead of using it to make things more visually interesting and striking. 2003 clone wars did that, and 2d animation would have helped with if not solved it. you know how long it takes to draw a billion stories high skyscraper or massive temple? not much longer than any other background. do you know how long it takes to render it in 3d? impossibly long and expensive. same with fur or dangling earings or capes or anything that would have made the costumes, and therefore character design, more varied.

ok, i'm done with that hopefully. now, for the story. start before anakin's knighting. I get they wanted to introduce ahsoka in the movie, and i'm fine with that, but some of the season 1 episodes happen before she became anakin's padawan anyway, so they could have gone back to that. I guess what they wanted to do is sort of a follow up to the 2003 series, but since that ends right as rots begins it doesn't work either. there were always gonna be inconsistencies with the movies and all earlier media. it's star wars, it's at it's best when it can sell you the inconsistencies because you appreciate they make the story better. the prequels have plenty of things in them that don't fully click with the originals, and that's fine, because it's more important that the story holds on it's own than to make it fit every single offhand line from the original trilogy. In fact, clone wars is at its best when retelling a story we know from a different perspective (siege of mandalore and rots) so a tight, self contained 3 episode ark of anakin's knighting would have been a wonderful start to season 1. maybe told from the clones' pov to add a new layer to it, establish that this is their show too, and show us outsiders witnessing jedi rituals and adjusting to being led by a general who's barely more than a learner. and it would get rid of that cake eating and having it too quality of trying to show anakin's slow descent into darkness but also have disonnected random non chronological adventures in space.

speaking of which, get rid of non chronological structure of the first few seasons all together. does nothing but make things confusing. I get that this was before the age of streaming sites, but you can have an overarching plot without every single episode being vital to understanding it. rebels did it right. they even tested the waters with the non chronological shorts first. i guess sometimes people do learn from their mistakes. anyway they must have at least some long term plot ideas when starting tcw, because they obviously knew they had to get rid of ahsoka at some point. yoda even says they will on screen in the movie. so they should have just mapped out important character beats leading up to that, and to rots, and shoved filler between them, making sure that the filler still progresses the character's relationships to get them to that point, instead of just coming up with cool concepts for episodes then going oooh shit time to send ahsoka away. that said, that arc is still one of the best foreshadowed ones, presumably because they knew it had to happen from the get go. like sure, we might only see ahsoka's and barriss' relationship built over like 3 episodes beforehand, but that's still more buildup than almost anything else in the show gets, and it does establish a few important things about barriss that lead to her fall. how the way she has been taught to understand the code makes her own life and safety meaningless etc. I'd love some more focus on the council making morally dubious decisions and concessions to the senate earlier, the way we saw (a bit) later, in season 6, to establish firmly that this isn't normal or something they'd usually do, but that giving ahsoka up to be tried by a senate is a sign of corruption and fear on their part. also would love any weight put on the fact that palpatine was ready to give her the death penalty, would love to see him weasel his way out of this one in a conversation with anakin, would be a great way to show both the depth of his manipulation and control over anakin and how much power he had to do whatever he wanted.

also, cut like half the episodes. like i know in this dream world where i wrote tcw, theres no bad episodes to cut, but still. this show was way too long and they clearly didn't know what to do with the time they had. Even the episodes i love most drag at times, and I'd much rather see 12 episode seasons that are full of interesting plot than have to crawl through dozens of hours of television and potentially miss the one interesting plot point in an episode because i looked away. this may be a good moment to reiterate that i know this was made to be aired once a week and not binge watched, and for kids, but like. i admit i dont know much about how watching tv works, because i've never had to work around air times, as a child i got all my media nicely torrented onto blank cd's with the title written in sharpie. but there are, and always have been tv shows, even cartoons, with overarching season-, or even series-long plots, and people made do with reruns and shit. having a brighter, cartoonish visual style would already go a long way towards making the show more accessible for the youngest viewers than it is, and older kids would appreciate having something to look forward to next week, a mystery to solve, a plot waiting to be resolved. there's this weird dissonance between the visual gritty realism, the constant violence and extremely heavy topics suggesting the show is aimed towards older kids or even teens, while the sheer contempt for the audience's ability to understand complex plot, the almost compulsive need this show has to dumb itself down, fall back on cheap jokes and cool lightsaber tricks and ships wouldn't be out of place in something made for toddlers.

something i think could bridge the gap, and something this show desperately needs either way, is scenes of characters just hanging out. like, i get this takes place during a war, and you have to keep the stakes high but i'm not asking for a full episode of ahsoka on leave at the temple doing chores and homework, i want random scenes here and there of her growing, learning. A single scene of anakin actually actively teaching ahsoka something instead of her just child soldiering along. fuck knows they have a lot of bullshit to cut to make time for it. We could have gotten an actual look into jedi training, because both obi wan in tpm and anakin in aotc are adults on the brink of knighting, luke is obviously trained in unusual circumstances and other than that all we see is children. imagine if we got anakin trying to teach ahsoka something at the temple the way he was taught, but they're called away on a mission halfway through to show how much the war has disturbed the order's usual functioning. them trying to find time between battles to train together, ahsoka struggling to keep up or not knowing basic things because she was taken out of lessons early to go fight a war. "oh it's too dark, it's for kids" shut up. atla had a school episode. or even anakin, ahsoka, obi-wan, and padme, dear lord please padme. actually.

more padme. that's it

yeah so the main characters (hey remember the main characters of star wars? yeah padme was one of them at some point.) and rex, and cody too, because they should have been main characters, having conversations about what happened, or even shown avoiding them, struggling to deal with the horror and trauma of their daily lives and grasping at any respite they can find. the worst part is other characters do that. like there are lighter, shenanigans-driven episodes or scenes (the fucking droids arc the fucking droids fucking about on a planet arc the fucking no words spoken no stakes no plot arc don't get me started) there are even deeper conversations had, arcs focused on developing relationships rather than plot, they're just almost never between the main characters. Ahsoka hangs out with chewbacca, with steela gerrera, with old librarian, with aayla, with padme even. obi-wan hangs out with hondo. all 3po and jar jar ever do is hang out. (not with each other but i would actually like to see that episode instead of an hour and a half of r2 and 3 droids and a general we don't know doing bullshit) but it seems like the show is almost afraid to establish something deeper between the main characters, or address the shit they've been through because then they'd have to remember it later. so the episodes with the most important characters, the ones we care most about, tend to usually be high-stakes battles with little time for character or interpersonal growth, but because of the way the show is structured the battles are all separate events that don't usually build to a linear plot either. so at some point every episode starts to feel like pointless filler when everything goes back to the status quo. and unfortunately monster battle of the week doesn't really work sandwiched between two already established movies, because once in a while they have to bash you over the head with a major, earth shattering plot point and there was absolutely no build up either politically or emotionally.

3-5 things you said... well, ok let's do a tldr

1. make it look interesting. 2. get rid of ahsoka's tube top 3. give the characters emotions and growth

[shortyisweird9]

'Lonely ghost serie'

Chek and heartache- part III

Tw⚠️:swearing, referring of dark themes such as suicide attempt and mental illness.

The morning rays hit your eyes gently, tangible by their warmth,as you forced yourself from another dream of nothing but blank.

You groaned as your cat,Didi, comes running towards you: purring, meowing and chirping in pure happiness. You knew the reason she does this; your previous cat, Martha or Dildo- your roommate Sergiu called her that because of her dickish attitude with him- used to do this everytime so the little one, Didi, just followed her mother's lead.

Everytime she does that is like a small needle stabs at your heart especially when just 2 weeks passed since Martha died of old age- the black cat was adopted when she was senior, abused and malnourished, your heart knew you couldn't leave her to be laid to rest like a nothing. You adopted her, she bit you and you petted her, she hissed you hugged her, you did everything you could think of to show love even brush her fur with a wet toothbrush end to mimic sweet kisses coming from her mom. The cat soon realized that and started living again. Cautious of your other 3 roommates, cuddly with you.

Anyway, you got sidetracked with reminiscing. You heard your friends in the kitchen, Sabrina throwing away the take out boxes and Sergiu preparing some tea, probably to calm his stomach after all the spicy curry he ate last night.

You fixed the oversized white t-shirt and pull the marine blue shorts out of your bottoms, Didi already waiting you by the door.

You all, Sabrina,Sergiu,Ace and you, live in a quaint apartment, turned from campus housing, right next to one of the malls of the city. It had two small bathrooms, a living room , three petite bedrooms ,a tiny kitchen, a rounded balcony and a hallway. It was much smaller than your family home but it was in a central zone where your family home was outside the city's boundaries. You chose it not only because you wanted to spare your family from driving you to university but also because you needed your freedom, your space. Your parents were very understanding of that.

-Y/n e trează? ( "Is Y/n awake?") Ace asked as he sipped on his black cofee.

Without, he would pretty much be a grumpy hedgehog with spiky tealish mohawk. And who wouldn't love that?

-Nu încă, ah! Uite-o! ("Not yet,ah! There she is") Sabrina exclaimed, getting up to hug you and leaving the smoking tea cup by the window.

"Hello." You said ,voice grungy and eyes shut from the light.

You felt the warm hands of your Arabic friend on your face filled with moles and couple of marks from recently popped pimples, you let yourself be engrossed into it ,the touch starvation you carry like a cross chosing for you.

You hear her laugh, she always had a pretty laugh and a prettier smile . She was the beauty of the group, with big puffy sand yellow curls, brown skin with red undertones and black eyes who glow in pure happiness. She was stunning and a sweetheart with an obsession on the colour red and butterflies.

"Someone is needy." Ace teased.

"Shut up or I will staple those hair triangles on your scalp. "

You wanted to say something better but Sabrina then started massaging your lower face in a circular manner with her thumb. You knew you couldn't do anything anymore except melt.

-Anyway ,unde e Sergiu? ("Anyway, where is Sergiu?")

-Ți-o făcut ceai, cane e pervaz. S-o dus până sus să o ajute pe Florentina.("He made you tea, the cup is on the windowsill. He went upstairs to help Florentina.") He said, taking another sip of his cup.

-Ooooh, Florentina. You two began as Ace shook his head in amusement.

You and Sabrina were known to be ruthless in your teasing of the guitarist with long brown locks and beard.

Florentina was a crush of his, a freshman in the University of Arts who played the violin beautifully. Small,with olive skin, long red hair keept in a 1960s hairstyle and green petite with a triangular shaped face. She was a sweetie with a love for fantasy book ,autumn and ferrets.

-Oh, yeah?

-Dup, iubitul ei se mută cu ea. ("Yup, her boyfriend moves in with her")

-Oh.

Ace sucked in his lip ,his face filled with disappointment just like theirs now.

-That sucks.

-Numai spune,Sabrina.("You don't say,Sabrina")

Just then, the door clicked shut. Sergiu is back, this will be awkward.

-Ce vă uitați așa la mine?("Why are you looking at me like that?")

Neither of them could properly looked into the warm brown eyes of the man whose glow seemed to fade a bit, Sergiu was a stubborn man who shut his feelings deep inside, only through his song you could tell he was suffering. Just like you, I suppose.

-Am auzit...("We heard...")

You bit your lips as your long fingers played with each other, twisting and tugging while your nerves grew. Last thing you wanted was another fight where you all force the man to open up. He had suicidal tendencies, sometimes he came too close to actually do it but you were there and you needed to be there now too, even if he doesn't like being taking care of.

Sergiu rolled his eyes at you, his heart hurt from how rigid your posture was, eyes were worried about him but also scared, teeth grinding themselves not out of anger but out of care and fear.

He knew you hated arguments and shouts with dying passion. You always cried when someone raised their voice in less than friendly manner, you hated this reaction of complete terror, you hated looking weak but now you hated letting your friend burn himself because of an unfortunate love triangle. So you swallowed your nerves and braved on, it's about him ,not you.

Sergiu wanted to protect you all from this negativity, especially you and Ace. You had a big event to organise , Ace's sex reassignment surgery is coming up soon. You both have your own problems to dwell ,you didn't need to have him as one too.

However somewhere in his head, a voice telling him that he was wrong ,that voice that took the shape of you in the night of July.

You were crying, your grey hoodie wet from the rain as you cling desperately to him, not daring to move.

He was the reason why you crying, why you yelled profanities our of worry for what he was about to do. He...He tried to throw himself off a bridge ,the same bridge you two first shared your kiss.

That dark episode still irked your minds in the darker moments, late in the night nothing but your mind to keep you company and that's torture in itself.

You thought you could help him, change whatever hurts him and make it go away. That was your biggest mistake, you can't change a person that's not your duty , your duty was to support them through tough times and help them see the light at the end of the dark tunnel. A duty you solemnly swore to uphold even if he didn't liked you to. There's no fucking way you let him do that again,not if you can be there for him. Like he was always there for you, your big guardian with a guitar that spews flames in shape of songs.

-Y/n..

-Te rog, Sergiu. Nu ascunde. ("Please, Sergiu. Don't hide.")

Your eyes were desperate for him to talk it out in any shape or form. They implore for him to vent, to not hid between fake lies like " I am okay" or "I'm fine."

-Bine,bine. Tu ești șefa. ("Fine,fine. You're the boss.")

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They talked and talked and cried and laughed and cried again. A never ending circle of venting ,small earthquakes which instead of fracturing the friendship , it onlyakes it stronger as it should.

-Te simți mai bine?("You feeling better?") Your voice ran timidly on the top of your apartment building, watching over the brutalist styled architecture.

-Un pic, doare știi dar asta îmi arată cât de îndrăgostit sunt de ea. Iubirea adevărată pentru mine nu se referă doar la a iubi doar dacă te iubește reciproc, nu , să iubești fără să forțezi persoană să te iubească înapoi. Să îi porți de grijă, să o protejezi, să o ajuți fără să fi un egoist, fără să te aștepți să fi iubit înapoi. ("A little, it hurts you know but this shows how much I love her. True love for me doesn't mean to love just so they will love you back, no, to love someone without forcing them to love you back. To care for them, to protect them, to help them without being an egotistic, to love without expecting to be loved back.")

-Poetic.

He laughed at that , starring at the setting sun ,his lit cigar forgotten fumed between his painted fingers. His hair blown gently by the wind , he looked like a masterpiece.

-Scuze..pentru tot.("Sorry...for everything. ")

-N-ai de ce. Mi-ai făcut chec până la urmă așa că balanța eternă este restabilită.("You don't have a reason to be. You made me chek in the end and thus the eternal balance is restored.") You joked, munching quietly on the piece of cake, his jacket keeping you warm.

-Haha. Cine ar fi crezut că checul are fi o gustare bună când îți dai vent.("Haha. Who would have thought that chek will be a good snack when you vent.")

Indeed, who would have thought of that but one who cried in the sore days filled with heart ache.

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Hey,guys!💖

Hope you like the third part of the serie, I wanted to focus on "your life" and your friends backgrounds this time. The translations are not 100% word to word but enought to give you context.

Anyway, I hope you like it. Stay safe!

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[halvatir]

Hello mizu! Its okay if you're too busy/don't want to do it but could you do the more detailed character ask for flanel and randel? Curious anon here, have a good day!

hey there anon, hoping you’re having a good day too ( ᐛ )و - are you talking about this ask??? i’m not sure what you’re talking about but bless these kinds of tumblr blogs, here u go

btw the likes/dislikes are in reference to my interpretations for them, the fav/least fav moment are in reference in-game since y’know… these guys don’t exactly have ‘moments’ minus… idk, whoever the devs decide to feature in the updates (゜▽゜;)

flamel (… flanel lol i thought u were referring to another chara)

what i like about them: perfectly self-aware of himself: knows what his strengths + capabilities are and also his weaknesses + flaws, along with his morals + ideals + character. nope, any form of psychological bullshit won’t work on him. he’s absolutely aware of what he’s capable of doing and he’s not in denial about his shortcomings at all… what he does with that knowledge and what he plans to do about it is more of the question.

what i dislike about them: while flamel has a condescending air about him, he actually does not look down on people and he acknowledges others’ capabilities + character, even if they’re better than his own. that’s the problem: he knows or at least he has a general idea of a person’s capabilities + character, and what he dislikes the most is if it is not put to good use. without mercy, he can really say stinging observations about one’s failures and fears straight to their faces - the worst part is? it hurts, bc it’s true. he’s insensitive, but you can’t exactly deny his words either.

favorite moment: when i get his card lol bc i really like his card art??? not the mvp + biochemist one, the regular one - like… daMN??? i dig, he probably has the best regular card among the bio mobs imo

least favorite moment: ??? have u fought this fucker in-game??? no??? lucky u then, cecil’s still the queen bitch but mAN is flamel also a pain to fight, the last time i played ended up with my party dying partially bc of him and his clones

a situation with this character that i want to see explored more: not exactly a situation but his backstory??? or okay, something with his family - i know he’s nicholas flamel’s son but what about his mom? or what if: his parents announce that he’s about to have a sibling like??? what, i’m like around my 20s already then u tell me i’m gonna be an older bro i am questioning ur nightly activities??? cue a much needed slap from his mom lol

an interesting au for this character: lol i’d probably like to see flamel in a soulmate au where he feels the same emotions his partner does like wow he’s really irritated at it at first bc really why is this person so damned emotional / feel so much but eventually he’s able to compartmentalize his partner’s emotions from his own and he also takes note of the emotions his partner experiences in a journal daily, complete with time frames/lines??? that’s sort of sweet??? it also becomes a habit for him to look at the journal at the end of the day and think of reasons why his partner may have felt this way at each of the recorded times??? what’s funny tho is that despite the fact that he’s been taking note of his partner’s emotions for so long (probably middle school up to college?), he’s never gotten the urge to discover who his soulmate is, or to try find said person. sorry soulmate, you’re the one who’s gonna take initiative.

a crossover: top of my head, probably a fullmetal alchemist one lol - he’s probably some big shot alchemist then surprise surprise, one of his transmutation attempts fucked up him up pretty badly leading him to the gate of truth. he wakes up feeling ‘empty’ only to figure out that somehow his parts of him have taken the form of homonculi… and not just any kind of homonculi - they introduce themselves as a part of him, the sins in him that has made him the man he was today. they even call him father and take different human forms (lol, aka they take the form of his floormates, take a pick who represents each sin) - the revelation is in his travels tho while he’s trying to get to the homonculi, is that flamel himself embodies a sin, the seventh sin that completes all of them (try guessing what, lol). ooooh, this could probably be good if i actually fix this but yeah, there u go, it goes somewhere along those lines.

otp: none, actually. 

other ships: kathryne // trentini

brotp: randel // alphoccio

notp: lady tanee hahAHAHA jk no seriously idk just ignore my first entry pls it was supposed to be a joke… maybe…

assortment of headcanons

surprise bitch, he’s the best chef in the biolabs but he ain’t gonna cook for anybody but himself - the only time he isn’t hung up on precise measurements + time is when he’s cooking

has a pair of reading glasses, uses them often and keeps them stored away neatly in his desk complete with a wipe - he always makes sure there’s adequate lighting + his reading glasses are present when he reads stuff, he sure cares for his eyes a lot

he… surprisingly follows a lot of good health practices - he always takes 15 - 20 min break if he’s been doing something for a straight hour (patrol + battles are exempted), drinks 8 glasses of water daily, sleeps early, etc.

his hands are always gloved - takes ‘em off only when he’s about to sleep. his right hand is pristine but his left hand has a strangely shaped burn mark that runs diagonally across his palm - it looks old.

he looks prim and proper but honestly his room is nuts - what’s more confusing is that he isn’t bothered by his room’s state at all + he knows exactly where his stuff is when he needs it, like… dude… how do u even know where to find ur shit in a warzone called ur room, teach me ur ways master

randel (oooh this is new)

what i like about them: he’s a very resolute yet flexible person: definitely not the type of person who’d go second-guessing on his decisions or would waver in times of crisis, but he’s not also the person who’d insist on pushing on with the initial goal/objective when difficulties or contradictions arise - he takes in the present situation + other factors & encountered facts and weighs them against the supposed goal/objective. from there he determines what he thinks would be the best course of action to take, and it takes him only a short time to do so even under pressure.

what i dislike about them: true to his class, he’s too self-sacrificing??? which is like… dude c’mon it’s probably an honor for the crusader line to die in the act of protecting others but still if u die, who’s going to protect those who can’t protect themselves? like yeah, he understands that too but he’s more inclined to believe that it’s better for him to be left behind/sacrificed/die in exchange for the lives of the majority. well - it’s either he’s that self-sacrificing or sadly, when weighed against the lives of the people he must protect, he doesn’t place that much value on his own life.

favorite moment: the feel when u don’t get his attention, seriously. pls let me sneak about ur floor in peace - i swear i went to church so pls stop with the grand + holy crosses

least favorite moment: fighting him is torture bc if rms data is right, 478,745 hp, man - he has the longest hp out of his floormates… and that’s just a regular randel… the paladin one has 3,870,000 and the mvp one a whopping 6,870,000… since his life is that fucking long, say goodbye to trying not to be mobbed by the other ghosts bc ur still busy trying to kill him, damn

a situation with this character that i want to see explored more: same like flamel, knowing his backstory would be A+ but… hmm, maybe something way back like his origins story or something, the story of why and what made him decide to be a swordsman/crusader. y’know, that’s if we’re assuming that he’s not from a family line of swordsmen/crusaders or something. idk, sometimes the thing is with characters who are in line with a faith/ideal is that i’m interested in what made them devote their lives to that certain faith/ideal in the first place.

an interesting au for this character: oooh, just… idk, a modern au where he suddenly ends up taking care of the bio2 kids who are orphans. he’s never mentioned it to anyone, not even to the people of his workplace who happen to be his friends/co-workers like for 4 years already. therein lies the problem: his friends on separate occasions have seen him with at least 2 or 1 of the kids. they all know randel isn’t married. the hair colors (cenia and laurell) + other features don’t match up. some distinctly heard a kid call him dad/daddy/father (see: wickebine, armaia, the rest respectively). conclusion: it’s either a) he’s babysitting as a part time job bc goddamn rekenber’s a cheap son of a bitch that won’t give him a raise, b) those kids are his cousins or something and are probably so fond of him that they see him as a father figure, or c) illegitimate chiLDREN FROM SOME ONE NIGHT STANDS ALRIIIGHT SCANDAL IN THE OFFICE. chaos ensues even before poor randel has a chance to explain himself.

a crossover: lol, idk… a shingeki one maybe where randel’s probably the head of the survey corps, watching over our fated trio (probably flamel/celia/chen for his floor, bio2&3′s are a mix&match). for some time, the trio don’t see him but strangely enough when the trio get old enough to join the corps, they discover that randel is considered a scum and a traitor to humanity by all three army regiments (survey, garrison, & military) which is strange bc randel is very well known and respected by humanity within the walls, wow. when the trio get deeper into his case, it turns out that randel vehemently fought against a group of scientists that were looking for human subjects for the ‘sake of saving humanity by using present resources’ - the three of them were seen as part of those potential resources and were eyed upon by the scientists were they were already young, along with other people from different parts of the walls (the other bio mobs). what happened to randel, however, is left in the air… was he even still alive, or had something important happened leading him to be branded as the traitor of humanity? politics, religion, science, drama, and titans (removers maybe lol) ensue.

otp: again, no solid one.

other ships: ????? surprising revelation is that i don’t exactly ship randel romantically, wow even i just discovered that now

brotp: his floormates - although honestly i think that one way or another, randel could be on everyone’s good side once they just get around to talking, probably

notp: zealotus oKAAAAY no seriously pls make me stop placing random mobs in this section

assortment of headcanons:

very, very religiously open + tolerant. he shows a lot of interest on other faiths and is knowledgeable even of various religious practices asides from his own. of course, he’s still steadfastly loyal to what he believes in first and foremost, but he feels no need to impart his beliefs to those who don’t / are reluctant to believe. he isn’t the type you’d see to be preaching about his faith either, that is unless you ask.

in line with the hc above, his tolerance also extends to people and their character + personalities, but he isn’t too tolerant to the point that he’d rationalize questionable actions + motives. he may have the patience of a saint, but no one’s so sure if they want to see him snap / test his patience to see what makes him tick. throwing bullshit about his faith doesn’t work on him, actually.

he’s pretty crafty - he pretty much taught himself other ways to help people, from practical stuff like sewing to more complicated stuff like woodwork + metal works, wow. he’s basically the ideal useful guy in survival crises… minus the fact that he can’t cook that well lol

he has the worst drinking tolerance among the bio3 + bio4 residents - the sign that he’s drunk is when his face shows more expression than usual + his posture breaks (the paladin randel card art lol). nobody knows bc damn son, he has a pretty good poker face and he can hold it for a really long time

... the only reason he grew his hair long is bc of a promise to his mother. he vowed that if ever he was to fall in love (and it was reciprocated) / find the person he would devote his life to, that would be the only time he would cut his hair, and his mother would do the honors... but... yeah... wow, i made myself feel sad

this was a lot of fun - thanks a lot for the ask anon, and i welcome your curiosity anytime! (　＾∇＾) i’m always in for a distraction from work lol