#anya: connections

[anya-snow]

MASTERLIST OF WANTED CONNECTIONS

OOC Note: Below you'll find a list of connections I'd love to have for my characters. These connections can be filled by existing characters within the rp, or new ones! Please don't hesitate to reach out if anything interests you. Nothing here is set in stone, all is open for discussion and fun plotting.

For YUAN ANYA ( Read more about her )

YUAN FAMILY: One or two relatives from the YiTish region of Wan. If they're cousins, Anya only has male cousins back in Wan. The WC could be other members of the extended family. Any FC filling this connection must have Chinese heritage.

Helpful links: Yi Ti lore | WC for YiTish people in the North

For CALLA LEFFORD ( Read more about her )

FIRST LOVE/CONFIDANT: Age 31 - 36. Suggested FCs are Chris Evans, Oscar Isaac, Diego Luna, Charlie Cox, Jon Bernthal. You're encouraged to contact me. This character would most likely be from the Westerlands or Westerlands-allied regions. This character's story is entirely utp, I don't have any pre-established headcanons, just that they were each other's first love but ultimately things didn't work out (Maybe his mother didn't approve of Calla's capricious nature? Perhaps Calla's mom, Lanna, didn't approve of him. We can brainstorm). What's important is that they're still close to this day (There could've been some distance during the Dance, but they've found their way back). They're refreshingly honest with each other and have a way of understanding the other, which is something Calla doesn't have with anyone else. He wouldn't have neglected her/shamed her after the disastrous end of her marriage to Garland Hightower.

CHILDHOOD FRIEND: Age 28 - 33. I would love for Calla to have a close friend that she’s known all her life. Could be a friendship that has endured through to their adulthood, or had suffered because of time and distance. Since Calla was little, she was outspoken, capricious, and stubborn af; so this girl could be someone that marches at the same speed or someone with a calmer nature who helps to ground Calla a bit. Anyway, I’d just love a friendly bond, female friendships, and sorority between women is lovely and I want more of it, please. Taken connection → Alayne Farman

For DEIMOS VELARYON ( Read more about him )

YOUNGER BROTHER: Age 27 - 28. Captain of a ship within the Velaryon fleet. The Velaryons siblings can butt heads because they all have strong personalities, but ultimately I think they're there for each other when it counts. Deimos can be stern and callous, but everything he does is for the good of the family and what he believes is in his siblings' best interests. I would love to keep exploring more sibling dynamics with this new brother! Suggested FCs are Freddy Carter, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bradley James, Paddy Gibson, Aneurin Barnard.

Helpful links: Velaryon family

For DAERON DONDARRION ( Read more about him )

CLOSE FRIEND: Age 31 - 35. A Stormlander, just like Daeron. These two would have been friends for years now, maybe not keeping in touch at all times, but always easing back into a sort of "found family" vibe. I'm open to any and all ideas, to explore what brings them together as friends and what makes them clash. I just want him to have a bro since his literal bros are dead and gone. Taken connection → Magnus Wylde

YOUNGER SISTER: Age 26 - 31. Suggested FCs are Blanca Suárez, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Ana de Armas, Isis Valverde, Alba Galocha, or any Spanish FC/FC with Hispanic heritage. Sibling dynamics are my weakness, so it would be amazing to have this lady in the game. She's the youngest Dondarrion and is a lady-in-waiting to Queen Caerella. Daeron is protective of her since she's the only sibling he has left, which can lead to some ride-or-die vibes or perhaps even her feeling smothered by his big bro protectiveness. There's a lot to unpack in terms of the family and what they've been through with the deaths of the oldest brothers and their mom. It would be interesting to explore what her stance was/is about that. Also, as a woman of Blackhaven (heavily inspired by Basque heritage and as well as the calé people), a woman has a very important role within the family structure. There are beliefs about their virtue and whatnot, sure, but they're very equal in standing to men, especially as wives (once they marry), so she wasn't raised to become anyone's shadow.

[dayvan]

crashing the tulpar into the asteroid that turns you into a dog ft. lil curlydog fanart by @rdhndrd

some design notes under the cut

Curly: Husky mix, maybe GShep? (mush, captain, mush!!!) Anya: Silken Windsprite (or long-medium haired sighthound mix) Daisuke: seen at least 2 different instances of people drawing him as a Papillon and i agree wholeheartedly Swansea: XL Bully/Cane corso Jimmy: badly socialized German Pointer mix

also ciarans fanart is based on this

[dykedvonte]

I haven’t really talked about Jimmy’s hallucinated version of Polle but I do subscribe to the idea that that is the closest thing to Anya’s true thoughts and feelings along with the representation of the hypothetical baby.

Text color, the whole horse attraction and monsters based on pregnancy/female anatomy, it joking about calling Jimmy old man? It’s both Jimmy purposely trying to ignore Anya and what he did but also not being able to cause he knows, in the back of his mind it all links back to her. But the closet thing he can accept about it is that it fostered something that would be undoubtedly linked to him.

It’s not exactly Anya and it’s not exactly the child. It’s his manifestation of all the things he would’ve failed doing for it and have already failed to take responsibility for. He failed as a decent person, a captain and he would’ve failed as a father which are all things Anya would subtly acknowledge throughout the game in little ways.

It specifically being Polle, the mascot to the Pony Express is more likely a call back to how the pony express is used to mean things that were never going to make it or were rearing for an end. It’s all symbolic and it’s all in Jimmy’s head because he refuses to acknowledge the real person and events his subconscious is basing it on.

[greghatecrimes]

House M.D. & Hands

5x24 "Both Sides Now", 4x15 "House's Head", 4x16 "Wilson's Heart", 3x15 "Half Wit", 1x11 "Detox", 1x21 "Three Stories", 5x20 "Simple Explanation", 8x19 "The C Word"

[20mbiez]

me realizing that even if the crash never happened and everyone managed to survive, there was still a very real possibility that anya would have had to give birth. on the ship. in space. with her abuser.

- "How many days of transport do we have left?" - "Around 237 days. Just under-" - "8 months."

she knew. she fucking knew.

[aweirddreadfulterror]

Sucks having the biggest tits on the Tulpar V_V

I try to be serious, but then i sillyed TuT

[ang3lv0mit333]

“We’ll fix this.”

“I’ll fix this”

[twixfamily]

i know this is supposed to be kinda sad but im sorry it is truly one of the funniest moments in the manga so far. like yeah she can read minds so she knew he was there and understands that he cares in his own special way but imagine saying this to any other child.

“sorry i didn’t pick you up.” “no problem… hey btw do you think parents who did pick their kids up love them more?” “yeah probably lol”

and then he wondered why she would ask him something like that… immediately after he apologized for not being there to take her home… category 10 cringefail twilight moment tbh

[bochedogmeat]

So. Ive been kind of turning this au around in my head like a rotisserie chicken bc i obviously want to keep as many details as possible consistent with canon, but also that is kind of impossible given the massive leaps in technology between mouthwashing’s distant future and. Well. 1917. So what happens is that i figure their platoon is being court-martial’d for something (maybe cowardice/refusal to follow orders? For getting stuck up in the mountain bunker?) and Jimmy suggests blowing up the bunker theyre in so that they would have solid evidence that it wasnt their fault. Curly, still reeling, agrees, not thinking it would go anywhere, but Jimmy nabs the explosives from swansea and goes through with it anyways.

…more ramblings below v

Jimmy, in this au, was aware that Anya is trans before they were even stationed together, and becomes aware that Curly may be an invert (which, historically, means that he is not only queer, but adopts the ‘woman’s role’. This phenomena of inverts being treated more harshly than their more ‘manly’ counterparts is supported by history! Fun fact) while on the Ypres frontline. He is resentful towards Curly because how can a supposed invert, someone whom he has been taught is less than half of the man Jimmy himself is, be such a well-loved leader and well-rounded man? Why is Jimmy so drawn to him? Why does he still respect and even love this ‘man’? What does that say about his own masculinity?

The cognitive dissonance is too much for his weak, spiteful, hateful little pea brain and he feels like he is losing what little control he had over his own masculinity and understanding of the social world to begin with. This leads him to assault anya and, added with the stress of a court-martial, blow the bunker up.

I figure they give Curly what little chloroform they have in the medical kit to keep him asleep until they run out/it starts making him too sick and are forced to start giving him soothing syrup and gin in large doses. Anya and Curly had something of a mutual understanding/budding friendship before the incident, both having had a sense about the other, which makes Curly’s subsequent inaction suck all the more. He understands Anya better than anyone else there, so why didnt he do anything? Anya doesn’t understand, and she never gets to ask. She still takes extreme care in tending his wounds though, and will often go to his bedside and tell him stories/play cards with him (and by that i mean play cards by herself and narrate her strat)

I also figure the whole thing happens over a matter of days as opposed to months because. You know. 1917. But anyways. If anyone wants to talk about this w me/add on to it, any musings are more than welcome!! I love queer and ww1 history :) see tags for more tidbits❤️

[jamethinks]

Hc of the day: Anya is epileptic. if she uses her powers too much it would trigger a seizure. the first time it happened it spooked the living fuck out of Twilight and he harassed the hell out of the hospital and even stressed WISE out to figure out what was wrong. Thankfully by then Handler was already investigating it so was able to pinpoint the cause before Twilight spent a million dollars on his medical mystery of a daughter. In order to prevent further seizures, Handler got her custom made earrings that refract telepathic information to reduce the amount she gets and then got her noise cancelling headphones to fully block out the signals so when she is in crowds or around towers and stuff she doesn't go crazy.

[sirenc0re]

ive been thinking alot about how anya acts with curly pre-crash vs how she is post-crash with jimmy. and of course her shift in demeanor has a lot to do with the doomed situation she's in. this hopeless scenario where she has so little choice past day to day actions without being able to change her inevitable future. she's playful and laid back and a little sarcastic etc etc but she cant afford to be herself. except when she has to lie through to teeth when around jimmy because she knows first hand how dangerous he is. and perhaps the only one besides curly before daisuke's death depending on how you want to interpret her talk with swansea

she knows how unstable jimmy is and i think she had to have had an idea of that before telling him about her pregnancy for her to pretty quickly come to the (correct) conclusion that he was dangerous and couldnt be trusted with even knowing where the gun case was.

im losing the plot. what i want to say, as ive seen many people point out, is that anya isn't the forever meek and weak lady she's made out to be. she's certainly a sad and doomed woman (SLAYYY) but she clearly had so much life in her that the audience can only get a glimpse at because they're seeing the world through jimmy's eyes. but to that point, she also clearly went through something horrible at the hands of jimmy and i don't think it diminishes her character to say that there is some truth in that "meekness." that her personality would shift and that she would try to accommodate the biggest threat on the ship to her (and the entire ship.) sure, some of it is to her advantage, like suggesting jimmy do things that would help out everyone, but i think a lot of it does stem from fear and i think it makes her character so varied to see how she would wilt in jimmy's presence. i think it makes her choice at the end more poignant. her finally speaking her mind and saying what she means instead of being afraid

[morsobaby]

OPAL x MOUTHWASHING

Jimmy - "I feel terrible for all the-.. I feel terrible.. But I forgive you. I forgive each and every one of you. Every night. It's a virtuous cycle // mama needs a little girl to land on. Mama needs a little girl to fall in her arms <-[About Anya]" (Virtuous cycle)

Curly - "Won't you tell me, why it sounds so easy to breathe, on TV // all these salesmen, they want my soul Claire, they fight over me like dogs" (Easy to breathe)

Anya - "We see you, Opal, your troubles are miles away! We see you, Opal! And in our eyes you'll stayyyy" (Opal)

[ayalaatreides]

Dune but make it Mad Max. Mad Max but make it Dune. Do you see my vision? Do you understand?

[wylansvanhendriks]

musical!dmitry isn’t as good as his movie counterpart to YOU. i get him though.

[schmaltzydoodles]

mischievous littol Ivy sketch

Guess who's hyperfixating on Lackadaisy again

Just wanted to draw a lil Ivy. Ingenue has me appreciating Lackadaisy's animation quality once more. y'all are magic, truly!

Ivy and Viktor's dynamic was so CUTE ACK <3 (willing to bet it's because she reminds him of his daughter-= coUGH what?)

🌸 Steal my art and I'll steal y'alls kneecaps <3 good day and night to you all🌸

[local-lamppost]

I think Twilight watching Spy Wars with Anya, and also reading ahead in the comic like a true professional, is one of my favorite details in the series. As a professional he hates it, but Loid is invested.

Not even getting into when he made a Spy Wars cartoon with Franky for Anya.