#ash’s ask me anything

[silverhallow]

I like to think that Ben commissions Henry Granville to paint a portrait of him & Sophie once they've married.

Ben would ask but Sophie wants Benedict to do it.

They compromise.

Benedict will do Sophie’s portrait if she allows Henry to do their wedding one.

[good-girl-ash]

I wake up tied to a chair and in a room with nothing other than a TV playing a beautiful spiral. I don't remember how I got here and it doesn't matter as I lose myself in the spiral. Its all I can look at while I'm in here for hours as it slowly reshapes my mind. Teaching me my purpose as a good girl who exists to serve. I hear a door open and I know it's you my owner.

[bixels]

(weird question sorry) Can I ship Ash with Noora? I think it would make an interesting dynamic as a couple

Oh they're endgame.

[cartooncadet666]

my brain: draw it

me: why

my brain: just draw it

me: ok

lol

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[txyzfabi]

Anton (Riize) lockscreens !

Ser for salvar, segue e curta !

[ashlovesrescuebots]

RBA Cody redesign because he needs justice 💔

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

ballister on a date with is bf but he is in a red dress like the one scorpia wears in that one episode of shera

Never watched She-Ra, so I had to google it. Is this what you were talking about?

Yep, he would slay

[ashthewaterghoul]

🎃 and 👻 for the WIP ask game, please and thank you 🖤🖤🖤

Seestor!!! (I always read your name in Nihil's voice for some reason lol) Thank you for the ask! :D

🎃Do you have any favourite brainstorming techniques? How do you like to gather ideas for your wip?

I like to try and plan and stuff but a lot of it is what I make up as I go along. Like, take Even The Brightest Stars Burn Out, I knew that Phantom was going to go through the ringer with their mental health, and I knew they were going to have a suic*de attempt (cheery ik) but getting there was a lot of making stuff up. Like the whole dreamshifting ability that made them see Dew's nightmare then accidentally claw their neck and visit the afterlife for a sec. All just kinda made up as I wrote it lol.

Sometimes I get ideas from hcs I come up with, sometimes it's other people's stuff and I do always try to credit where I can!!

👻Can you tease some wip ideas that have been haunting you/something you want to write in the future?

Ehhhh, got some very angsty ideas for mine and @bloodysyren 's fic A Cosmic Collision, Dew's not going to be having a good time at all for a while lol

But there will be some sassy Rain so at least there's that? 😂

Also, got a plan for the 'Mountain finding an abandoned kit who turns out to be Phantom and he raises them' fic, just need to actually start writing it. (I'm not obsessed with Phantom, what are you talking about?)

[bonefall]

As a big sibling with a lil sib with epilepsy, when they read TBC they Honestly thought if they got struck with lightning reciting the lord's prayer they'd be cured like Shadowsight is from their epilepsy. I had a discussion with them on how that's not how it works, but ge was so upset they took it away from Shadowsight that he hasn't picked the books back up and has stated that 'he hopes Ashfur wins and starts a new religion.,'

I do not even know how to respond to this besides saying that your little sibling is 100% right to be pissed and I now also hope Ashfur wins and starts a new religion.

[stupidrant]

Did you miss the part where Kratos being "white" is based on the fact that he was damned to carry the literal ashes of his first wife and daughter as atonement. It's not like Angrboda's blatant white-washing mod. There's an actual backstory.

I clearly previously pointed out he was gonna be painted white regardless. I wonder why i would say that in the first place 😩

[silverhallow]

I saw "ask me anything" & a question popped up in my head before I saw the "about any of my WIP" but let's roll with it anyway 😂

Imagine you're on a road trip, the car breaks down, you guys are in the middle of nowhere & there's no phone connection (because you're in the middle of nowhere!) which Bridgerton characters would you want to have with you then & there?

Could be the book version of the characters or from any of your AUs

Sophie.

She’s calm in any situation and let’s be honest only her and Kate would be the ones to know how to fix the bloody car.

[good-girl-ash]

"Use me, please?" I beg after weeks you've spent conditioning me to be your perfect toy.

[arenabreadandbiscuits]

I know Alot of people agree that Alastor had an Abusive father and a loving mother. But what about Vox. What's your headcanon for his childhood parents.

In my headcanon they Abandoned him either as a baby or as a child. Hence why he has major abandonment issues

I was definitely gonna say Vox probably didn't have parents or something along that sort. Poor baby, I'm thinking like I need to look into when he was born again but considering he comes from an old time period imagine it being something like neglect. Parents were too busy to actually play and be around him and if that was the case I can also see Vox being sent to different relatives so they could deal with him. Hm imagine this as well, Vox was abandoned because of something with his face.

I've heard people say that his form contributed to how he died but consider it being something else like Vox was born with some sort of deformity, he grew up quite alone because of it.. grew a deep bond with TV because it gave him comfort like those kids that sit cross legged super close to the TV and they can't seem to pull away, something like that.

He got into the wrong crowd, seen some things and became a product of his environment which is probably why he'd later lead himself into working with Valentino because old habits can and do die hard.

I can totally roll with the idea of him being abandoned from a young age, like in reality it had nothing to do with Vox but he was made into believing so. I feel like if that's somewhat the case not only does it explain him working as he does in Hell, why he has those abandonment issues, and why in the face of the public he's more than willing to put on a fake smile and act like it's all okay.

Most people in Hell are dumb so he's not worried about it.

I think I mentioned this in another post but in case I haven't Vox we have now is really just a shell of the old Vox we had before.

[volfoss]

i think honestly what irritates me about yoshidas work SO much is that people will tell you that banana fish is THE gay manga (ignoring the many things that came before it and were more groundbreaking, ie MW literally having on screen (or like. on panel but still.) gay sex in it and that came out like a decade before BF did) when there really isn't barely any gay rep outside of the pedophiles and the one time ash drops the f slur. like im sorry but somehow yasha, a work she wrote in 1996, has more gay rep in it but also has the same issues.

i truly do not get how people can enjoy banana fish with the rampant racism every 2 pages or the rampant sexual assault plotlines (on women and ash bc he is just... written like how yoshida writes women lmao) that are handled IMPOSSIBLY bad and sincerely i hoped yasha would be better because it had been like a decade or so between works. and then it proceeds to continue with the heres our blonde genius protagonist who everyone is weird as fuck to and will sexually harrass and everyone finds it a VERY funny joke to point out how feminine he is when theres barely any women in the work (if you exclude the ones that are being raped/killed/creepy to minors. which to be fair yasha has toned down the sa a LOT) and that its funny that hes kind of gay except not really!! and its just absurd to me how it just persists in all of her stuff because she is not an author that handles gay stuff well. like the scene in banana fish where ash is completely ok getting gang raped and did it solely to get into the hospital when its been SHOWN that he has a lot of trauma with that. and then right after his friend makes a joke at ash's expense about that. like sincerely and genuinely is this what we are hyping up as the old retro gay manga. go read some tezuka and stop reading shit that the most the main characters do is share a kiss in a nonromantic sense and is obsessed w making every gay person be evil!!

[sandiavolo]

Can you share even a little spoiler about Ash Navi? I can't help but wonder if Trr'ong is the only human in the clan? And where do they get exopacks for him? Oh and does his name have a deeper translation? Of course, I understand if you prefer not to share it for now haha

Ash Na'vi lore *Slight Spoiler*

As opposed to the norm of the typical Na'vi, my Ash Na'vi do not have a single shred of belief in Eywa. Constant years of hardship have cultivated a distance between the Ash People and the Great Mother. Rather, they refuse to believe she is more than just an idea that the others parade in their faces. While this is known by most other clans, it is uncertain just what exaclty they derive their beliefs (or non-belief) from, only that they have thrown away the love the Great Mother wished to dispose onto them when she first created them. The Metka'yina especially play with the idea that they worship fire b/c they are drawn to it; a torrent of fire is a personification of the pain and suffering the entire clan itself can bring.

They do however, believe in something called "Kelku te Tsawke", or "House of the Sun". I will be delving into this much further and with more details in a separate post, but for now, think of it as essentially being a form of Valhalla.

Spider/Trr'ong Lore

Spider is indeed the first, and only, skyperson to ever wander into the hands of the Ash Na'vi. Believe it or not, this doesn't mean they do not know humans exist, or of their differences to Na'vi. But since his arrival, all the Ash Na'vi have pushed themselves to become familiar with Spider's uniquq attributes and characteristics. They do so to ensure he is comfortable and never in any danger on the alien planet. Some, like Trr'ong's siblings and young children, personally love his extra finger and toe.

There is actually a deeper story to how Trr'ong was able to survive amongst the Ash Na'vi, given his limitations. It involves a much deeper history between the isle that the Ash People reside on, and even involves the RDA. I've actually been working on a special interlude chapter and post that dives into this. It is called "Project Vesuvius", so be on the lookout for that!

In the Na'vi dialect, "trr'ong" means "dawn/sunrise". And yes, there is a much deeper reason behind the name choice than just it sounding nice. The sunrise symbolizes many things, such as birth, resurrection, and the new begininning of all kinds. It is not just the name of an Ash Na'vi. It is the new ending for "Spider", and a new beginning for "Trr'ong". Both of them being the same person, yet having completely different lives. For me, this was a new opportunity at life for him.

I am so sorry for the very late reply 🙏 It has been such a creatively challenging few weeks for me, and the last chapter really took a lot out of me. I'm planning on making up for it with special posts, ft. stories about Ash Na'vi culture and important events. But thank you so much for the ask, and I hope you have a great day 💙

[kinokoshoujoart]

Which other characters do you feel have been most misrepresented or poorly localised apart from Rock/Romeo?

most of the characters would be localized differently if DS/cute had been localized by xseed hmmm

(a lot of bachelorette heart events exclusive to the boy version are probably worse, given that the boy version can get downright incomprehensible more often than the girl version, but i’m not going through the hell of restarting the english version of DS for yet another time given that it’s Save File Corruption Speedrunner)

i need to preface this by saying i’m only trying to call this an Interesting and Unfortunate Change but….

one big example that comes to mind is Ain / Kai and his “too touchy-feely?” first heart event….. is not about that in japanese and since it’s not quite equivalent it gets a real sense of unintentional Bad in english

in the japanese version of the event, Ain brings up the fact that he just calls you your name, without the honorific -san. omitting that definitely makes him come off as overfamiliar (whole ass trope about new couples getting flustered over being called their first name with no honorific for the first time), but Ain is Not From Here and overall speaks in the casual, friendly way he’s used to.

he asks you if you’re uncomfortable with him using your name like that

obviously the correct choice is to say you don’t mind at all and everything is fine. BUT if you tell him it’s too much…. he apologizes and tries saying your name with -san… but he realizes he just can’t do it, because “after all, aya is just aya (or whatever your name is). which is kinda weird, but it would require all his normal dialogue lines to be rewritten, so i guess we need to return to the status quo…whatever…

obviously this presents a conundrum in the english version, since honorific speech isn’t used in english the same way it is in japanese. so the event has to be about something slightly different…

the solution natume came up with was to have it be about him patting you on the back

you can probably already see the problem with this but let’s look at it anyway

i mean that’s kinda… odd, but hey, on the bright side, there’s no need for them to return to the status quo so surely he’ll stop if you ask him to..?

yea okay man haha…i don’t think i will…….