#ask the orchid

[inkblackorchid]

We know how akiza gets jealous of sherry talking about Yusei but does Yusei ever get jealous of akiza talking to a guy ?

Good question tbh! The thing is, canon does actually give us something a tiny bit like an inverse scenario of the Sherry scene with Yusei—that being when Aki ties Lyndon's (the son of the boys' landlady Zora, who only shows up in one episode) tie for him before he goes to talk to his mum. And in that scene, when Lyndon gets a bit too forward/familiar with Aki, we see Yusei grab him by his shoulder and pull him backwards a bit.

(Why yes, I do have a screenshot for every damned thing under the sun in this show, why do you ask?)

And like, just going off of canon here, Yusei doesn't look too pleased for someone to be all touchy with Aki here. Mind you though, neither does she, so you can read this as jealous, but you don't have to. Personally, I read it as protective—he's trying to get Lyndon out of Aki's personal space because he's making her uncomfortable. Yusei doesn't seem the jealous type to me, and even if he were, I don't think he'd express it in your typical rom-com "do you like him more than me" or sabotaging-someone-else kind of way. (Might be worth noting that we also never see an instance of anything like this from him in canon.) But also, that's me talking. The scene above certainly allows for a jealous interpretation if you're into it. I'm just not. I prefer to view Yusei as protective, in that he would certainly try to get some distance between Aki and a guy who's bothering her, but wouldn't feel ignored or threatened by her talking to someone else.

[ask-crk-legendswap]

since we got the dynamic between the ancients, what are the beasts like with eachother?

...well

[deadhaven]

Especially the lies.

[i-give-you-a-fish]

Can I get the purplest fish you have please?

The one and only

You get an Orchid Dottyback

Pseudochromis fridmani

[milo-media]

could you pretty please draw orchid mantis Mumbo!! /nf

Hes just my lurantis gijinka atp

[kiruyeen]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

How about purple’s mom? :3

fun fact, cherry trees are considered to be at their prettiest when the flowers are in decay (when they are actively dying). thats why theyre often depicted with falling petals.

fortunately, the minecraft cherry trees are evergreen. or, well, everpink :]

[missholoska]

Not to be gossipy or anything, but for Swap Sans and Swap Toriel, what attracted you to each other? How do you live in the present? What do you plan to do in the future? 💜💙

[ask-october-fox]

You all are so kind for checking in on me, even when I have only been back for a couple of days! Now how about I return the favor, and you tell me about your goings on, hm?

[poppyflavour]

Hi!

You can decide not to answer if you don't want to, and I won't absolutely judge anything, but what kind of relationship you see for the Hollow Heads?

Just curious

Tl;dr: Hollow heads are all siblings

Sorry if you meant it feelings-wise, but I used this ask to explore and put on paper some of my interpretation and story/world building

[inkblackorchid]

Had a general faithshipping thought pop into my head and figured the best thing to do with it was to yeet it into your ask box:

Between Yusei and Aki, who do you think would have an easier time adjusting to being parents? Each of them has unique trauma with their own parents, and by the end of the series they’ve made peace with it, but I could see the news that they are about to become parents bringing up old pains and worries

I personally see Aki being more outwardly nervous at first but getting reassured fairly quickly (it helps she’s a doctor and friends with other doctors) while Yusei’s outwardly perfect dad material and fully ready but internally is agonizing over how to be a father since he had no example growing up and it’s not until he’s holding his kid that he’s convinced he can do this

But I’m curious what you think

Faithshipping thoughts are always welcome, haha.

Interesting question! While I can see your reasoning and agree with certain parts of it, I see Aki and Yusei a bit different in this scenario, though. For me, I think it'd be Yusei who would have an easier time adjusting to being a parent—and the "why", ironically, comes down to role models. You're correct to say that Yusei's dad wasn't around to model fatherhood for Yusei, but the thing is, Yusei did have a positive role model when it comes to parenthood in general: Martha, who, based on everything canon tells us, seems to have been an excellent guardian. Jack, Crow and Yusei all have fond memories of her, visit her every once in a while, take her advice to heart when she gives it, and, most importantly, feel safe turning to her when shit hits the fan. All of that checks out as a great parental figure for me. So while Yusei may not have had his dad look up to, he does have an idea of what raising a child properly entails.

Aki, meanwhile, is a whole different can of worms. I stand by the firm belief that Aki's parents love her and want the best for her, but canon shows us that both of them were mediocre at best at showing it, and that might still be generous. (Granted, Setsuko barely gets enough of a personality for us to tell whether or not she was a capable mother. But the fact that she worries about her husband and not her daughter first in every flashback we see of the Izayoi family, even the one where Hideo hits Aki, and that Aki condems her and Hideo both when confronted with them during the DS arc says something, I think.) Point is, I would argue that between Aki and Yusei, Aki is the one who doesn't really have a frame of reference for what good parenting is. She knows what you shouldn't do, but that doesn't translate into knowing what will work. And the thing is—and I know this because I have seen it in real life—not having a good role model when it comes to parenting can make you very insecure about how to be a parent and sometimes even about whether you should be a parent in the first place.

All this is a rather long-winded way of saying that while Aki and Yusei arguably both have plenty of baggage surrounding parenthood and would approach the idea of becoming parents with no shortage of well-hidden anxiety, I think Aki would be the one who'd have more trouble adjusting because she would never stop questioning whether she's doing her job right. Given her history with her own parents, I think there would be few thoughts more painful to her than her relationship with her own kids turning out like the one she had with Hideo and Setsuko as a teenager. Yusei, meanwhile, I could see turning to and being reassured by Martha (and by Crow, who, let's be real, has a good deal of experience with children himself before canon even ends) when he doesn't know what to do. So while I agree with you that he'd have his troubles with the idea of parenthood, too, I don't think they would be quite as persistent as Aki's.

[ask-crk-legendswap]

What's up with Luminous Cream's closed eyes? Can he see?

What about Blighted Orchid? What's your take on Pure Vanilla's eyesight in general? LOVE the AU by the way, I ADORE your designs & art style!!

there's a reason he's the beast of revelation

[vonbabbitt]

I just wanna ask who in the tetro student cast has the best & the worst handwriting? (Best being legible and worst being unable to read most of it)

sasaki has the best (hard academic practice) and kamimura has the worst (bad motor function)

[i-give-you-a-fish]

May I have the brightest coloured fish you have?

This living purple highlighter

You get an Orchid Dottyback

Pseudochromis fridmani

Or, as @lostinalem puts it

[necrotic-nephilim]

JayTim

“So, like… Do you want to fuck me up or do you want to fuck me?”

“Can’t it be both?”

you're SO real for this. this is absolutely them. have like. a VERY short ficlet, this is only 1.3k but i loved the thought so. enjoy anyway <3

Tim still hadn't figured Jason Todd out.

For every time he thought he understood Jason, the rug was yanked out from under Tim's feet by Jason upping the ante. One day he was fighting Tim for no reason at all, the next he was crashing Tim's patrol just to talk. Which was Jason's way of saying he would beg for Tim's attention until they inevitably came to blows again.

And this time, as Jason pinned Tim against a rough brick wall and held him a solid foot above the ground to force Tim to look Jason in the eyes, Tim had no idea which end of the spectrum he was going to get.

"So like..." Tim groaned, trying to breathe in. He was pretty sure the slam against the wall was enough to bruise his ribs. His face was already bloody from the previous fight Jason crashed and he had to blink to keep blood out of his eyes. Maybe it was the blood loss, maybe it was his ever-thinning patience running out, but Tim had the brazen idea to say the question that always sat in the back of his head. "Do you want to fuck me up or do you want to fuck me?"

The question was a joke. Mostly, at least. Something to throw Jason off his balance and it worked wonders. Jason wasn't wearing his helmet, giving Tim the glorious view of Jason's expression shifting as he leaned back, eyes going wide and jaw falling slack. The feral smirk Jason always wore around Tim was gone, replaced by surprised, parted lips.

Tim waffled back and forth on if he actually believed Jason wanted to fuck him. It'd been a crude joke from Stephanie the first time when Tim ranted to her about yet another run-in with Jason. He hadn't taken it seriously at the time.

But the longer the question sat in Tim's psyche, the more he really wondered.

It was the closest he had to a reasonable explanation for any of this. Though, expecting reasonable explanations for anything Jason did might've been Tim's first mistake.

Jason managed to regain his composure by sucking in a breath through his teeth. His eyes narrowed and he leaned in as close as he could get to Tim's face without them physically touching. Just when Tim was completely positive Jason was going to rip Tim's jugular out with his teeth for the implication, Jason smirked again.

"Can't it be both?" He whispered, voice dropping an octave.

Tim swallowed.

Great corner he'd backed himself into with that one.

What response was he expecting out of Jason for either answer?

"I don't think that's how love stories work," Tim found his voice, even if it barely sounded like his own, breaking on a few words. "Courting comes with roses, I think. Not punches."

That answer just seemed to stroke the fire in Jason's eyes. His smirk grew into a deadly grin. "Didn't know you were a romantic. Do you want roses, Drake?" Jason tilted his head, then shrugged. "I can do roses. Can't promise I'll pull the punches, though. Call it a compromise."

Did Tim want roses?

Or, better question: did he want Jason?

That was something Tim had been dancing around since he seriously considered the possibility of Jason wanting him. Tim shut it down every time he thought about it. He didn't like where his mind wandered.

The mental images he dreamed up would probably make Bruce go into early retirement.

But Tim's heart was beating too fast, now. And his answers were too slow. His only protection was that Jason couldn't see Tim's eyes under his mask. He couldn't see how Tim's gaze kept drifting down ti Jason's lips.

"More of an orchids guy," Tim artfully dodged the real question.

Or maybe, he answered it in his own indirect way.

"Orchids, then." Jason nodded in a way that made Tim wonder if he'd accidentally just shook hands with the devil. "They'll be red just for you, Red Robin." He put force into the way he said Tim's name, looking him up and down. "You look cute in my suit, by the way. But I think you'd get your point across better if you just wrote 'property of Red Hood' on your forehead."

"That is not why I'm Red Robin and you know it-"

Jason cut Tim off by abruptly dropping him, then punching Tim hard in the gut. Tim groaned and doubled over, accidentally resting his head on Jason's shoulder. Before Tim could pull away from the compromising position, Jason grabbed Tim's shoulder and held him there, going in for another punch, this time to Tim's ribs.

It knocked the wind out of Tim's lungs. He gritted his teeth and ignored the groan that broke free from his throat.

"Told you I was keeping the punches," Jason said with utter nonchalance. "If you ask me, fucking you up and fucking you can be the same thing. You're just not thinking big enough."

Tim bit back a swear. "Think I'm a masochist or something?"

Jason dared to laugh. "I know it." He grabbed Tim's jaw with the same hand that was just punching Tim and tilted it up. He leaned down and for a second Tim froze. Instead of a proper kiss though, Jason just brushed his lips against Tim's cheek.

Tim tried to ignore the feeling in his chest that was disturbingly close to disappointment.

"See you around, Red," Jason hummed. Then he let TIm go. "Here's a gift for the road." A short shive was slammed into Tim's hip. Dangerously close to Tim's crotch. As close as Jason could've gotten without cutting Tim's dick off, even.

Tim swore. He grabbed the hilt of the blade and pulled it out. The wound was so shallow he wasn't even sure if it would need stitches. His suit was thick enough to have protected him from the brunt of it. Blood was still trickling out of the wound and sharp pain danced through his veins, reminding him exactly what he'd gotten himself into.

When he looked up, Jason was gone.

The feeling in his chest was definitely disappointment. Tim sighed and slipped Jason's shiv into his belt. He could think about this later.

When Tim got home hours later, he was sore and tired. He went through the motions of stripping his armor, showering, and tending his wounds so robotically that he barely noticed his surroundings. Tim was seconds from faceplanting his bed before he froze.

In the center of Tim's ivory sheets, right on display, was a bundle of red orchids.

Or more appropriately, once-white orchids that were now dripping with crimson shades that had already stained Tim's bedding beyond repair.

When Tim carefully picked the orchids up, they were still with a liquid he knew far too well.

Blood.

A note was tied to the flowers and Tim stared at the sloppy scroll.

hard to find orchids this time of year so I had to improvise. can't say i'm not courting you now. and don't worry, it's not mine. -J

The blood not being Jason's just made Tim more worried about whose it was. Someone who was probably long dead now.

Tim's stomach should've churned over that. He should throw the orchids away. He should get a sample of the blood for a DNA test.

Instead of any of those things, Tim found himself smiling. He carefully carried the orchids over to his kitchen. To preserve them, he put the flowers in his freezer while he thought about how he would handle Jason's inevitable next confrontation. Somehow, Tim found himself humming a love song he didn't know the lyrics to.

If TIm had gotten himself into this game, he wasn't going to let Jason be the only one playing it.

He had punches to throw too.

[cuppajj]

silly question but what if one of saint vanilla cookie's orchids were consumed?

Listen here. Do not do that. Absolutely not do that. You actually do not want to eat a saint orchid. You know what cyanide is? Don’t eat a saint orchid. Let’s just say that captured Lambs do that if they want to take secrets to the grave.

[prince-liest]

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