#baby calypso twins

[insane-thoughts-oftheday]

I have a hc that Ody makes wooden toys for his children, but unconsciously he makes toys that show his most traumatic moment in relation to children. Of course they are still toys but deep down it is something that can be related to some situation if he thinks about it.

like, Telemachus would get a wooden horse and a 108 army of men. Astyanax would get some kind of lego/wooden castle, a woman and a baby. The twins he had with Calypso would get boats, etc.

If they really are children in this au/hc they might not even notice and just play as if they were slowly gaining a mini kingdom.

[ev3rgreenxtrees]

Hey can u please do girl dad Matt fics and he has twin girls who are like 14 or 15 and when one gets a bf he realises that he’s getting old🤍

Idk if that makes any sense 😭

Time Flies By

-M.S

Synopsis; Matt and you have two beautiful girls together. He was now in his mid/early thirties, as you were, and your two girls were growing up, but Matt only realized when they both came home with new news.

Pairing; Dad!Matt Sturniolo X Mom!Fem Reader

Warnings: Cussing

You were laying down with Matt on your couch, cuddling into his side, when you heard the front door open and shut, signifying that your twin girls were home from school. Chris and Nick waddled into your vision, before your girls. The two had agreed to pick the girls up from school today, so it wasn’t anything that worried you.

“Okay, you two. Sit up.” Chris demanded, and your eyebrows furrowed as you turned to look at Matt, who seemed to have the same reaction as you had. You listened, however, becoming slightly worried. Had something happened with your girls?

You began searching the living room with your eyes, finding Nick escorting both seemingly nervous girls over. Had they gotten in trouble? Lilah, the older one was biting her lips. Something she only did when she was anxious. Olivia, however, looked calm. Confident, almost.

Lilah looked over at Olivia, who then nodded.

“I have a boyfriend.” Olivia smiles, and both your’s and Matt’s jaw dropped.

“I have a girlfriend..” Lilah mumbles. You and Matt couldn’t be more shocked.

“Yeah!” Chris giggles, jumping around as if he had just won the lottery. “Thats my girls!” He cheers. Causing both girls to smile.

“Um.. For how long?” Matt asks shyly- as if he wasn’t talking to his own children. Lilah speaks up first this time.

“A year.” She states. “For me. Not Liv.” She looks to Liv as Matt and your eyes widen.

“Today, actually. He asked me out today.” Liv hummed.

“Oh.” You hum. You were enthralled, but you were worried at the same time. You didn’t want either of your girls getting hurt, but you trusted them.

“C’mon! Show some enthusiasm!” Nick groans, gently shoving Matt’s shoulder.

“Holy fuck i’m old!” Matt laughs, breaking the tension. He stands up, to walk over to his girls, pulling them both into a reassuring hug.

“Why didn’t you tell us sooner, Lils?” He questioned, and she shrugged.

“I would’ve, but.. Since I have a girlfriend I was worried you wouldn’t accept me.” She hummed, and your heart broke. You hated that she felt like she couldn’t come to you. “But since Liv decided she wanted to tell you guys, I felt like I should, too.” Matt frowns.

“Aw, baby.” He coos. “You know i’ll love you, no matter what. I love all of you.” He smiles, ruffling Lilah’s hair.

“Yeah, yeah. We know.” She shakes her head.

Matt hums, looking back at you, who was still sitting on the couch.

“Y’know this makes us old now, right?” Matt smirks, and you fake gasp.

“I’ll never be old. How dare you, Matthew.” You place your hand on your heart while scoffing. You made your way to Matt, gently shoving him out of the way, hugging both girls, as he did earlier.

You wouldn’t lie, this did make you come to the realization of how old you two were getting, but it wasn’t anything you couldn’t handle. You were together, and you had both of your beautiful girls. You had an amazing family. Thats all you need.

『 ↳✧･ﾟ Finn yaps❕ ;

Im so sorry this ones so short😭 I felt like keeping it short and simple would be good for this concept, but if you want me to rewrite it and make it longer, i can! thank you for reading <3

˗ˏˋ꒰ 🍒 ꒱ I do NOT give permission for my work to be published on any other site, nor to be claimed as your own . However , reblogs , likes , and comments are much appreciated ! 🤍

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[manygeese]

CHAPTER 11 WHICH IM JUST NOW REALIZING I NEVER PUT OUT A TEASER FOR ‼️‼️‼️

Leo found it depressing that every choice he had made in his entire life brought him here: trying to make small talk with his one and only ex on a wooden swinging bench that got more uncomfortable by the second. Oh, and had he mentioned that it was fucking freezing?

He kept his eyes fixed on his swaying feet, unsure whether the dizziness was from the motion of his perch or his own nausea.

There were a million things he wanted to say to Calypso. Most of them started with “I’m sorry.”

I’m sorry for that one time I yelled at you for going to the arcade without me.

I’m sorry for bothering you with my Rubik’s cube while you were trying to focus.

I’m sorry for ignoring you all of spirit week even though you really wanted to wear matching outfits on twin day.

I’m sorry for being a bad boyfriend.

I’m sorry for being your boyfriend.

All he had to do was utter one of those phrases out loud, get it out of his cluttered head. But instead, he used the birdsong and the whistle of the wind as an excuse. Anything he said would be swept away with it anyways.

“I’m sorry,” someone said. It wasn’t Leo. He was too much of a coward to let those words out.

Leo cleared his captured throat. His voice came out choked as he coughed up the word “what?”

“I said I’m sorry.” Calypso clutched at where the fabric of her dress scrunched around her knees, bunching it up and letting it go again like a substitution for a breath.

He coughed. “You don’t have to.”

She knitted her cinnamon eyebrows together. “Aren’t you supposed to ask me for what?”

He was afraid he’d be disappointed if he did, but he did it anyway. “For what?”

“I suppose I’ll start with the small things. Do you remember when you lost your Rubik’s cube, back in junior year?”

“… yes.”

“I threw it away. I’m sorry.”

Leo let out a low whistle because it was either that or cry like a little baby. “Yikes.”

“I’m sorry for not listening to you whenever you talked about the robotics stuff you really liked. Sometimes, I would just use it as background noise. That was rude of me.”

“I’m sorry, too. For the record.” He tapped nervously on the armrest.

“For what?”

“Basically everything I did in college,” Leo said, making a pathetic attempt at a laugh. “I was such a loser back then.”

She forced a chuckle- Leo could tell, her smile was too square at the corners, like her lips were subconsciously drawn downwards even as they were pulled up- and knocked her shoulder against his. “Weren’t we all?”

“I was especially a loser. I’m sorry I never helped you with your theater projects. I’m sorry I didn’t listen to you practice the oboe. I’m sorry I never took you out as much as you would’ve liked. And one time, the day after we had our first big college fight, I got us both coffees with your cash and gave yours to some other kid on campus.”

“You told me you’d spilled it on your way to class,” Calypso murmured.

“Yeah. Have I mentioned I’m sorry?”

She snorted halfheartedly. “I think so.”

Silence settled over them, looming like a piano over a cartoon character’s head.

“I’m starting to think we just shouldn’t have gotten together in the first place,” Calypso admitted. She picked at her already chipped aqua nail polish.

“Well, you’d be right.”

“Just like that?” She laughed, but it came out strangled. “You’re not gonna even try to say otherwise?”

Leo met her eyes, only because he felt she deserved it. “I can’t lie to you, Cal, we were horrible for each other. To each other.”

“Why?”

The piano came crashing down. If it had actually been a cartoon, Leo reasoned, his head would be popping out of the lid and he’d have piano keys instead of teeth. Maybe Calypso would have taken the opportunity to scurry away, leaving a silhouette of herself in whichever brick wall she decided to escape through, but he had no such luck.

Calypso’s eyes never left his, acting like jackhammers boring into his skull. Her question was repeated in their roundness: why?

“Cal…” he started, just to keep up the illusion that he was actually going to answer her, “it wasn’t your fault.”

“Just tell me. Why would we never have worked?”

He took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to hop over the porch railing and abscond into the corn fields, never to be seen again. “I’m gay.”

Calypso’s eyes widened impossibly further. Her mouth stayed mercifully shut for a moment before it uttered the words “so many things make sense now.”

Leo couldn’t help but snort at her response. “Oh yeah? Like what?”

“You always acted weird when we had gym with Percy, for starters.”

“Oh my (god,)” Leo groaned as he buried his face in his hands, “I was so obvious, wasn’t I?”

Calypso chuckled. “Yeah, you were. And there was also Frank. Was that fake flirting… was it actually…?”

“I can’t tell you what teenage me was thinking, but I can tell you it wasn’t entirely straight.”

She hummed, voice lilting with humor and melancholy. Her eyes moved off to the horizon, though Leo’s stayed fixed to her face, reading it (or at least trying to) like a manual.

Step One: get together with a girl of literally anybody’s dreams in 7th grade.

Step Two: spend the rest of your middle school, high school, and college years with each other.

Step Three: fight. A lot. Which leads to a messy breakup, and it’s like, this whole entire thing.

Step Four: don’t speak to each other for three years.

Step Five: tell her you’re gay and make her realize that she wasted a decade on you.

“I know I’ve said it a lot, but I’m sorry, Cal,” Leo whispered. “You deserved somebody who loved you romantically. You still do. And I couldn’t give you that, but I got us into this mess anyway, and here we are ten years later with one toxic relationship under our belts and not much else.”

“I’m honestly not sure I even wanted a relationship,” Calypso said. “I think that… my father may have pressured me into it when I didn’t want it or need it.”

Leo nodded.

“I don’t want one now, either. What does that say about me? Am I… am I going to be alone forever?” She turned towards him. The sunlight caught her eyes, making them glint like glossy pearls with tears not yet shed.

“Cal, no,” Leo said gently, somewhere between a whimper and a sigh. He shook his head and placed a cautious hand on her shoulder. “No. You’re not gonna be alone. You, you’re a wonderful person. You’re so passionate and you always know what you want and you’re really smart. There are people out there that are gonna love that, whether it be romantic or not. There are people out there that will love you however you want them to.

“I… I couldn’t do that for you. We couldn’t give each other what we wanted from that type of relationship, if we wanted one at all. And that’s okay. We’re not kids anymore, nobody can pressure you into anything.

“And, if it makes you feel any better,” he offered, “I still want to be friends.”

Had those words really just left his mouth? And had he meant it?

Calypso gave him a watery smile. “Do you mean that?”

Leo found himself returning it. “Yeah. Yeah, I do.”

She tackled him in a hug, nearly knocking them both off the porch with the force of it. They laughed and the sound was familiar. It came from sunny summer days spent playing video games, and chilly walks from class to class when fall came around, and sharing an umbrella when the frigid winter rain hit, and goofing around at the spring dance. It was a bit of his childhood coming back to him.

She practically performed the heimlich on him, the way she was squeezing him like a stress toy. He threw his arms around her neck and patted her awkwardly as he tried not to turn too red (between all the laughing and back breaking hugs, it was sure to be a failure). “God, I missed you, Cal.”

“I missed you, too.”

~*~

They sat there for hours, talking about interests both shared and not so shared. She would talk about her travels in Greece, he would chat about his students, she would explain what she learned about music, he would describe all the projects he’d made. Eventually, the subject turned from work to social life, from social life to friends, and from friends to love. Leo wasn’t quite sure how he felt discussing his (mostly nonexistent) love life with his ex, but with an old friend? Yeah. Yeah, he could do that.

“There was this one girl in Greece, Echo. I wanted to be her friend for the longest time, I’m not even kidding you. I found out the bar she usually went to on Friday nights, and yeah I know that sounds creepy but I just had my friend Zoë tell me. So it wasn’t that weird. Anyways, I got up to talk to her, right? And turns out, she’s mute, and I didn’t know sign language yet, so we ended up having a written conversation on her receipt. And at the end, she gave it to me, and it had her number on the back!” Calypso giggled, and he couldn’t help but giggle with her. What else could he do? That was one hell of a meet cute.

“Are you two still friends?” He asked.

“Oh, yeah. It’s kind of easier, we communicated mostly by text anyways because she doesn’t like using paper a whole lot. She’s toying with the idea of spending summer here, actually.”

Leo hummed acknowledgingly.

“What about you? Any pretty ladi- uh, handsome guys around here?”

He snorted, but that didn’t keep him from blushing hard. “Nice save,” he deflected.

Calypso got a smug look on her face. “Oh, yeah. There’s a handsome guy alright. You look like a tomato.”

“Fine. There’s a handsome guy.”

Calypso squealed and kicked her feet. “Tell me everything.”

“You want to know all of it? There hasn’t even been that much.”

“I mean, you listened to me about Echo, so consider it payback. Now tell me.”

“Ugh, fine,” he sighed. “Um, Frank and Hazel moved away a few months back, so Piper had to find a new farmhand to replace the guy. Um. And his name is Jason. He’s a big buff blonde dude.”

“Is that your type?”

“I don’t know! Maybe? I think my type is just man.”

“No way. You had a crush on Percy, captain of the swim team and known athlete, and probably Frank, too, and he’s literally the strongest person I’ve ever met. And now Jason? Who, when you describe him, the first words that come to mind are ‘big’ and ‘buff’? You have a type, and it’s men who could throw you like a football.”

“Oh my god! Shut up! Never psychoanalyze me again!”

“That wasn’t psychoanalysis, my good man, but simple observation.”

“You’re such a nerd.”

“And you aren’t?”

Leo decided not to dignify that comment with a response, half out of offense and half out of seeing Jason appear from over the crest of the hill. “Oh my god, oh my god, shut up, he’s coming. If you say one word about this to him I will kill you.”

“My lips are sealed.”

Leo squirmed in his seat, trying to fix his posture and look natural at the same time. “Does my hair look good?”

Calypso snorted, which caused her to wheeze, which caused her to cackle. “No, no, I’m not laughing at you, you’re just…” she trailed off when Jason came into earshot. “You haven’t changed a bit.”

“I sure hope I have, actually,” he retorted. Jason was coming up the path. Should he stop him and have a chat? Could he trust Calypso not to embarrass him? “I was pretty fucking annoying back then.”

“I didn’t mean it that way. You’ve changed, of course, but you’re still the same guy, just more you, if that makes sense.” Calypso left him with that, opting to turn around and face the porch stairs with a polite smile prepared. Before he could protest, she waved Jason over and offered him a hand. “Hi, you must be Jason! I’m Calypso, Leo’s friend.”

“I believe he’s mentioned you before,” Jason said, tone even, hand shaking hers calmly. He met Leo’s eyes and held the contact with a soft expression and gently sloped brows- concern. It was probably something else, though, but a boy could dream.

Calypso continued, her eyes screwed shut with the intensity of her smile. “It’s been so nice seeing him again after all these years. He’s so funny, don’t you agree?”

Jason smiled. “Certainly.” His eyes drifted back to Leo and the smile turned slightly mischievous. Wait, was that a wink? Did he just wink at Leo?

Leo was going to be sick.

“Oh, and so smart, right? I mean, back in college, he could attend three math classes the entire year and still pass with an A,” Calypso flattered.

“No, nope, that’s not true, she’s exaggerating,” Leo interjected. “And besides, I had a shit grade in language arts so it didn’t matter anyway.”

“He’s just trying to stay humble. He was the star of the robotics club at our high school-”

“Cal, please-”

“And the computer science teachers adored him-”

“Oh my god-”

“He had the math grades worthy of valedictorian-”

“Cal-”

“You should have seen him in shop class-”

“Cal!”

“As much as I’d like to continue, it seems someone-” she shot a pointed yet fond look over to him, but he didn’t notice, as he was covering his face in his hands in an effort to conceal the redness- “doesn’t appreciate it. Long story short, I was lucky to have met him. I’m sure you feel the same.”

“I do.” Jason breathed. Okay, so maybe Leo was hallucinating, but that was definitely a blush on Jason’s cheeks, right?

“Well, I’ll let you go now. I’ve held you up long enough, haven’t I? It was nice to meet you.”

“Likewise,” Jason chirped, heading into the farmhouse and, god, he actually winked.

He froze for a second after Jason shut the door, and he’d like to say he recovered himself quickly, but he didn’t. “What the fuck was that,” he managed.

“That, my good man, is called wingmanning.”

“No the fuck it is not.”

“Well, sure, if you wanna get into the nitty gritty, it’s wingwomaning, but same difference. Now, I’m going to have to head out soon if I want to get to family dinner on time, but can I give you some advice?”

“…fine.”

She grabbed him by the shoulder and turned him fully towards her. “You need to ask him out. He’s smitten with you. He will say yes.”

“…how do you know that?”

“How can you watch so many romcoms and not realize the signs that someone’s in love? Did you seriously not see him look at you? Or hear him, for that matter? Listen, Leo, I want you to be happy. Just ask him out, okay? For me.”

“…fine.”

Calypso smiled brilliantly and waved goodbye and headed for the gate. She looked happier now. Her grin was less restrained, and so was her hair. It was in a low ponytail instead of that tight braid she always used to have. She looked more like Calypso.

“Cal?” He called, moving to lean on the porch railing.

“Yeah?” She shouted back.

“Come back for dinner sometime, will you?”

Her smile got a few watts brighter. It made his own smile widen. “Of course.”

Now that he had reconciled with Calypso, there was only one problem left to solve:

Ask Jason out. Huh, it sounded easier when put into words. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad after all.

@katiefromcabin7 @iwannascreameurekaa @froglyberrys @justlikearat @existential-life-crisis @jasonisntboring @poppitron360 @erosjournal @ihatenotreading @reggie-the-dyke

[marauders-bs]

The Rosiers, the Blacks

i'm gonna put a cut here becuase this is long af lmao

also istg that this is happy and fluffy and shit it's a kidfic

Historically, there was only one thing that Rita, Alice, James, Lily, Barty, and Remus could agree on, and it was that there was nothing better than seeing their spouses with their kids.

Of course, Barty and Evan had never had kids. Privately, Alice had been sort of thankful for that, as two homicidal maniacs raising a child probably wasn't a good idea. But Bella and Rita had done a good job with Venus, so far. She was a good kid, and Cissa loved her.

"How the hell did I get this lucky," James murmured, looking out the window where Regulus was laughing in the snow, wide-eyed Estrella and Cherie Potter-Black standing where a snowcastle had been.

"Same," Lily agreed, gazing at Pandora, who was patiently teaching Harry and Luna how to make a snowman.

Rita had her camera out, and she was taking picture after picture of the snowball fight between Venus, Neptune, Ceres, and Bella. Of course, it was the Skeeter-Blacks against Bella, but she was holding her own better than Alice expected.

Andromeda and Evan were running around with Elio, Celeste, Cressida, Pollux and Castor (Andy's adoptive kids), the five clearly trying to shove snow down Evan's jacket.

And Cissa. Merlin, the woman she was. Both Neville and Draco were burying her deep in the snow, and Alice knew she had to be freezing, but her head was tipped back and she was laughing, and Alice agreed with James: how did she get this lucky?

Alice hefted Calypso higher onto her hip, their little baby babbling in the way that says she wants food or her twin sister, Vega. She'd start hot chocolate while she was in the kitchen. Remus may kill them all if anyone gets sick a week before new years.

[phaselock-and-load]

One of the many tragedies of how badly BL3's writing utterly *wasted* the Calypso twins is that Troy will never canonically come across an abandoned baby jabber and go: "Well, this is my son".

[technicallymaximumkitty]

playlists

I made playlist for hazbin hotel characters

charlie, vaggie, alastor, angel dust, husk, niffty, sir pentious (bonus adam)

❤️ Charlie ❤️

❤️ Humility, gorillaz 

❤️ Lights, ellie goulding 

❤️ Gateway to the stars, skeleton staff

❤️ Cry baby, melody martinez  

❤️ Sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows, Lesley gore 

❤️ KK bubblegum, animal crossing 

❤️ Charlie’s inferno, the handsome devil 

❤️ The exorcist, calypso 

❤️ Space unicorns, parry gripp 

❤️ Out of my league, fitz and the tantrums 

❤️ Heathens, 21 pilots 

❤️ Devil town, cavetown 

❤️ Rat, penelope scott 

💜 Vaggie 💜

💜 Saint benard, lincoln 

💜 Angel with a shotgun, the cab 

💜 I wouldn't mind, he is we

💜 Hell’s coming with me, poor man’s poison 

💜 Mary on a cross, ghost

💜 Notion, the rare occasion 

💜 Butch 4 butch, rio romeo 

💜 Training wheels, melody martinez 

💜 All the good girls go to hell, billie eilish 

💜 Soku eye, gorillaz

💜 Spear of justice, toby fox 

💜 Roar, katy perry 

💜 Raincoat, studio killers 

🧡 Alastor 🧡

🧡 Twisted, missio 

🧡 All eyes on me, or3o 

🧡 Our love is god, heathers musical 

🧡 Animals, maroon 5

🧡 Dismemberment song, blue kid

🧡 Animal cannibal, karen skladany 

🧡 We'll meet again, vera lynn 

🧡 Terry's taxidermy, teddy hyde 

🧡 Christmas kids, roar

🧡 Arms tonite, mother mother

🧡 The hunting song, tom lehrer

🧡 Necromancing dancing, bear ghost 

🧡 Happy face, jagwar twin 

🩷 Angel Dust 🩷

🩷 Epoch, the living tombstones

🩷 Say amen (saturday night) panic! At the disco

🩷 Bad romance, lady gaga

🩷 Candy store, heathers musical

🩷 Grrrls, aviva

🩷 Take a hint, victorious cast 

🩷 Bubble gum bit*h, marina and the diamonds

🩷 Baby hotline, jack starbur 

🩷 Weak, AJR

🩷 Bad habits, steve lacy

🩷 Vending machine of love, the stupendium 

🩷 Front street, will wood and the tapeworms

🩷 Control, halsey 

🤎 Husk 🤎

🤎 Let me down slowly, alec benjamin 

🤎 Dirty harry, gorillaz

🤎 Ghosting, mother mother

🤎 Hand me my shovel i am going in, will wood and the tapeworms

🤎 The good, the bad and the dirty, panic! At the disco

🤎 The gambler, kenny rogers

🤎 Let's get this over with, they might be giants 

🤎 Cats, dogs, and rats, rare americans

🤎 Your gonna go far kid, the offsrping

🤎 Pardon me, he is we

🤎 Coffee, jack starbur 

🤎 Look who’s inside again, bo burham 

🤎 Tennessee whiskey, chris stapleton 

🤍 Niffty 🤍

🤍 Girlfriend, hemlock spring 

🤍 Body, mother mother

🤍 Bill waterson, lemon demon

🤍 The masochism tango, tom lehrer

🤍 The red means i love you, madds buckley 

🤍 Cell block tango, Chicago musical

🤍 Runs in the family, amanda palmer 

🤍 Killer queen, queen 

🤍 Hello kitty, avril lavigne 

🤍 Pretty little psycho, theexorcist 

🤍 Cannibal, kesha 

🤍 Barbie girl, aqua 

🤍 Curses, crane wives 

💛 Sir Pentious 💛

💛 Love like you, steven universe 

💛 Give and take, poor man’s poison

💛 Oh klahoma, jack starbar 

💛 I’ll rust with you, steam powered giraffe 

💛 Mr blue sky, electric light orchestra 

💛 Hidden in the sand, tally hall

💛 Egg and soldiers, cosmo sheldrake 

💛 Rhinestone eyes, gorillaz 

💛 Man made objects, lemon demon 

💛 Under my skin, jukebox ghost 

💛 Bang!, AJR

💛 Secrets, one republic 

💛 Savior of the skies, the cog is dead

🩵 Adam 🩵

🩵 Main character, will wood and the tapeworms

🩵 Stick it to the man, school of rock

🩵 Eighth wonder, lemon demon 

🩵 Verbatim, mother mother 

🩵 They’re only human, death note musical 

🩵 American idiot, green day

🩵 5/4, gorillaz 

🩵 Punk tactics, joey valance and brae 

🩵 Kiss me son of god, they might be giants 

🩵 DONTTRUSTME, 3OH!3

🩵 blood//water, grandson

🩵 Another way out, hollywood undead

🩵 Modern day cain, I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME

[meekmedea]

House Herz

Ever wonder about Cleopatra's family before she met Hector Dovecote? Well, ponder no more!

House Motto: Cor Aut Mors - Heart or Death

Amongst polite society, House Herz is best known as an avid patron of the arts. A great number of art collectors and curators make up their house members and it's unsurprising to see their name in a museum wing, art gallery or even auction houses.

In other circles however.... their name holds a different meaning. For a price, they can fetch whatever you desire. Should it be money, information, or even a life.

Quick Note:

This focuses primarily on the main line of House Herz.

Siblings are presented eldest to youngest, from left to right.

Mentions of death - some more unsettling than others (ie. carved hearts, dismemberment, child death.)

Pre-Dark Days

Note: Hector is alive at this current time-point.

TBOSAS-era

Fun Facts!

In Romulus' generation, his father named his sons after the mythological founders. His daughters were named after Roman Empresses (that suffered damnatio memoriae - Valeria Messalina and for Statilia Messalina).

Both Endymion and Clemensia are the youngest of their generations.

Areia had twins (Circe and Calypso), their father is unknown and nobody is in a rush to look for him. She also took in Prometheus when he was a baby. Was he kidnapped? Nobody knows.

Romulus-centric facts:

Prior to his ascension as head of his house, he was arranged to marry the then-current Head of House Phibbs, who was thrice his age.

Not wanting that life, he tried to run away with his first love (a Whimsiwick from a cadet branch). Unfortunately, his sister caught them and they were stopped from escaping. For his audacity, his family had him punished – his lover was tortured to death and he was forced to watch his lover's heart carved out of their chest.

Had his son, Alexander, with a man whose name remains forever hidden from everyone else. Rumoured to have been his first love.

Romulus picked his own name upon ascending as Head of House Herz.

Married Levana Cardew after helping her get rid of her wretch of a husband. Adopted Cleopatra a few years afterwards.

Deaths in the family:

Romulus is alleged to have killed his way to become head of the family. He is also rumoured to have killed Levana's first husband.

Pre-Dark Days

Mr. Herz - in a gambling den fight, someone stabbed him. While the stab itself was unfatal, the blade was coated in poison.

Valeria - an ex-lover killed her, carving out her heart for display.

Cadmus - he and his spouse unexpectedly passed when the pufferfish they were sampling was improperly prepared.

Creusa & Jason - Cadmus' children were lost in a house fire that same night Cadmus and his spouse perished.

Deukalion - drowned while yachting in 4.

Medus - caught in a gang territorial dispute. They found his head in an alleyway, but the rest of him was never recovered.

With the deaths of his father and his siblings, Messalina Romulus Herz was the only one left of the main branch to succeed as head of his house.

closer to TBOSAS era

Bellona's husband died during the Dark Days - thought to be torn apart by a pack of wild dogs. His body was found partially consumed and an arm was missing.

She may also be following in her Aunt Cleopatra's footsteps. Currently on her third marriage. 

~~~~~

If interested in Cleopatra and the Dovecotes - more lore HERE

[smidgen-of-hotboy]

Our Angel of Brahma, pt. v

Sorry not sorry.

@ceaseless-watchers-special-girl @ananxiousgenz @the-private-eye @demonic-panini @gwenlena

SOUND: COMMS BEEPS. RECORDING BEGINS. (MUFFLED SNIFFLING) BAIRD (REVOLUTIONARY): It’s been– ten years. A decade. And I thought I was over it by now. I thought I was past this. I– I didn’t even cry this much last year over my dad. Fucking hell… I didn’t even cry over my mom!  SOUND: FIST BANGING AGAINST TABLE. BAIRD (REVOLUTIONARY): I love my mom. I love her so much, but I forgot about what she did for me. I forgot about feeling sad for her… (BIG SNIFFLE) We have not seen our Angel of Brahma, for fifteen years. It has been fifteen years, and I am still waiting for my mom to come home. I am still waiting to bury my dead.  It’s been ten years, and I’m still waiting to bury you, Charlie. There’s nothing left of your old life. I tried looking for something, anything, but I kept coming up empty-handed. I miss your Mom’s cooking, and I miss your Dad’s jokes. I miss your baby sister’s chubby little cheeks, and I miss– (BAIRD COUGHS) I miss singing for you. I’m still singing but what good is it if the only person I wanted to let hear me isn’t around? Can’t be here?  SOUND: KNOCKING ON DOOR. HINGES CREAK. HUSHED VOICE.  BAIRD (REVOLUTIONARY): Get out! SOUND: METAL CAN HITTING DOOR. DOOR SLAMMING SHUT.  (BAIRD HUFFING) BAIRD (REVOLUTIONARY): Fuck. Iris is going to kill me later. Heh– maybe it’s for the best… You wouldn’t want me talking like that.  (BAIRD CLEARING HIS THROAT) Last week on Brahma: Josie’s girls saved up enough creds from doing their little odd jobs around the block to barter for chocolate from a Constable. Josie found out, and she was livid. The girls gave me their chocolate and wished me a happy birthday.  This week on Brahma: I have not celebrated my birthday in ten years. I forgot I even had one. It has been ten years since we lost you, Charlie. Josie’s girls are grounded for another week. Talia is counting on me to help organize the next community meeting. We’ve heard rumors from the Constables about expansion plans to New Kinshasa. But we’ve also heard rumors that they’ve caught the Angel. I don’t wanna believe it, but…  (BAIRD SIGHS) I’m not going to.  I miss you, Charlie. I miss my mom and dad. I miss Hank’s dog. I miss Mrs. Darius… And I miss you. There’s so much I miss but if I could have just one more day with you, one more adventure, one last kiss, one final goodbye– I’d give up anything in a heartbeat. I’d lose my voice if it meant you would scream at me again like I was sixteen, trying to get involved with Talia in the revolution with our “book club”.  (SNORT) If only you could see me now… I gotta go, Charlie. Promise me you’ll be waiting for me on the other side. SOUND: COMMS BEEPS. RECORDING ENDS.

(CALYPSO HICCUPS AND BLOWS HER NOSE)

- Baird was 16 when he started his “book club” with Talia. Their first “reading” was Fahrenheit 451. There are no libraries left on Brahma (TRUE). Baird mentions a “community meeting”. The book club was a cover up (and Charlie got mad? Why?) 

- He was 16 when Josie’s twins were born (SIDE NOTE: they would be about 10 at the time of recording). 16 when Hank’s dog died and Mrs. Darius was diagnosed with radiation poisoning. 

- 16+10= 26? Baird is/about 26(?) at time of recording

- 26-15= 11? Baird was/about 11(?) when Peter Nureyev threatened the G.A.S., and Baird’s mom “vanished” overnight

- 26-1= 25-10= 15, Baird was/about 15(?) when Dad was beaten, taken, and presumably killed by the Constables? 

- Who is Iris? Another neighbor/community member? Why would they come into the place Baird’s at so nonchalantly? 

- CHOCOLATE AGAIN! It likely did come from New Kinshasa back when Baird agreed to sing for Charlie. 

- Baird didn’t expect to have such big emotions over Charlie. What did happen to Charlie? Presumably dead? Why? Did they both get caught up in the revolution? Must be what happened to Baird’s parents now happening to them. What happened to Charlie’s family? Also presumably dead? (SIDE NOTE: Frannie says there’s a way to trace older recordings, but it would take her a long time and cost me more creds than I have right now. Is it worth it? She also did not like me mentioning Dark Matters. Something about her friend getting caught up in that mess 3 to 4 years ago because she became a pirate?? Unclear what this means. But she did say that if I waited a bit I would get a nice juicy email with all the information about every single Baird in the galaxy, all I needed to give her was a rough age range.)

[beikonsims]

After the party finished and the guests left, Oberon joined his wife in her artistic corner to create some items for sale. He maxed out his fascination for nature and figured out he might as well get into arts and crafts as his next hyperfixation.

Only their peaceful time was interrupted later, when Titania went into labour. Both of them realized they had no experience with births whatsoever, since all of their children were adopted so far.

As an unexpected turn of events, one baby turned out to be twins. Titania couldn't stop chirping about "double blessing", while Oberon was just wondering if the medicine his wife took wasn't too strong. Either way, the two seemingly healthy girls were named Calpernia and Calypso.

[handsome-jacks-bottom-bitch]

Alright, let's talk about Easter in November, and by Easter, I mean easter eggs. The Borderlands franchise is chalk full of them, some obvious, some not. I'm gonna go over some of my personal favorites. Note, I'm not gonna go over EVERY easter egg, as that would take all day, so instead, I'll include the others in some future posts.

First easter egg I want to tell you about is in Borderlands 3. It's real easy to find, as it's a whole quest. Ever watch the best movie of all time, The Room, created by the best mind of anyone's generation, Tommy Wiseau? No? What are you doing with your life?

Well, regardless if your cultured or not, Tommy Wiseau makes a special appearance in his own quest "Buff Film Buff", located in Devils Razor. This quest becomes available once you've completed the main story quest "Blood Drive". The whole quest entails you helping Tommy Wiseau, or "Buff", get his film on the big screen for all to see, instead of the Calypso Twins propaganda videos.

Next easter egg is a smaller, more obscure one, but I still thoroughly enjoyed stumbling across it. In Borderlands 2, in the head hunter dlc "T.K. Bahas Bloody Harvest", you can come across a fun egg to classic horror films "The Blair Witch Project", "The Ring" and "Poltergeist". Scattered about the map are three televisions to find, and upon approaching them, little scenes will pop up referencing the films. They can be found in hidden, off the map areas.

You ever watch a movie and at the end, you sort of just sit there and think "what the hell did any of that mean?" Well, that was me watching Stanley Kubricks "2001: A Space Odyssey". So, imagine my confusion when I stumbled upon the all infamous monolith in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. If you head to Stantons Liver, search out the cave to the east of the map. It'll be chalk full of torks, so you'll know it when you see it. There will be a little opening towards the back of the cave. Hop in and follow the path, until you find it. The monolith. There will be some enemies in the area, so take them out, and then touch the monolith. You'll touch it about three times, each time taking you to a little area referencing different scenes from the film. At the end, you'll be greeted with a weapons chest, and that all too weird baby in space.

This particular easter egg is probably one the most known ones, but it's also one of my favorites. It first showed up in Borderlands 1, and even made a comeback in Borderlands 2, offering a little challenge if you go find it. I'm of course, talking about the hidden Claptrap of Fyrestone. In the town of Fyrestone, you can climb up onto a little fence when you first enter. Make it up to see onto the cliff, and you can find a green Claptrap unit waving and greeting you. Fast forward to Borderlands 2. Return to Fyrestone and follow the same path, however this time, you can approach the unit. Unfortunately, due to Jack destroying the product line, the Claptrap unit is now dead. However approaching it will reward you the challenge "Hey! Over here!" for 5 badass points. There's also a red chest waiting for you!

Those are just some of my favorites, but I don't want to make this post *too* long, as I could write all day. I'll make posts about other easter eggs in the future. In the meantime, I'm working on a thesis of sorts as to why Handsome Jack isn't as terrible as he may seem, and also a detailed telling of his entire backstory, working through all the plot inconsistencies that have shown up throughout the games.

[princessmeepa]

I am going to pick the voice actors for my gods, RS’ dream cast for her LO live action is just for points and not even there to play the roles and she only picks her celebrity crush Mads to be Christian blue I know. So I am going to pick the voice actors who can fit my characters perfectly and here they are. So let’s start with the goddesses. Ok let’s gooo!

Note: some of the characters have the same voice actresses and who voiced their characters from the same anime, because I want to fit some of the voices, who can fit my characters.

Alecto: Avalon Penrose, who voiced Megaera from Hades.

Aglaea: Reba Buhr, who voiced Aphrodite from Record of Ragnarok.

Amphitrite: Michelle Rojas, who voiced Wendy from Show by Rock.

Aphrodite: Dorothy Elias-Fahn, who voiced Komi Shuuko from Komi can’t communicate.

Athena: Erika Harlacher, who voiced Kyoko Kirigiri from Danganronpa (the game).

Ariadne: Michelle Ruff, who voiced Katherine McBride from Catherine.

Artemis: Carli Mosier, who voiced Saeko Tanaka from Haikyū!!

Atropos: Mara Junot, who voiced Lisa from Genshin Impact.

Calliope: Natalie Hoover, who voiced Tsukino from Show by Rock.

Calypso: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voices Swim from One Punch Man

Chloris: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voiced Rin from Catherine: Full Body

Cleo: Lauren Landa, who voiced Sailor Neptune / Michiru Kaioh from Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars.

Clotho: Kayli Mills, who voiced Runa Yomozuki from Kakegurui.

Daphne: Ashly Burch, who voiced Sasha Braus from Attack on Titan.

Demeter: Heather Masters, who voiced Circus Baby from FNAF.

Echo: Stephanie Sheh, who voiced Sailor Moon / Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon or Luci Christian who voiced Duck/Princess Tutu from Princess Tutu.

Eos: Krystal LePort, who voiced Brooke from HuniePop 2.

Eris: Michelle Ruff, who voiced Kirari Momobami from Kakegurui.

Eurydice: Erica Mendez, who voiced Retsuko from Aggretsuko.

Gaia: Same thing with Demeter, but with a cute and girly Greek accent.

Hebe: Anairis Quinones, who voiced Goll from Record of Ragnarok.

Hecate: Alexis Tipton, who voiced Chuchu from Show by Rock.

Hedone: Laura Bailey, who voiced Catherine from Catherine.

Hera: Erin Fitzgerald, who voiced Eudial from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.

Hestia: Jamie Marchi, who voiced Panty from Panty and Stocking.

Iris: Brittney Karbowski, who voiced Ryou Fujibayashi from Clannad.

Lachesis: Erica Lindbeck, who voiced Sayaka Igarashi in Kakegurui.

Leto: Casey Mongillo, who voiced Nene Onemine from Komi Can't Communicate.

Leuce: Dorothy Fahn, who voiced Sumika Warakubami / Kawaru Natari from Kakegurui

Libya: Kira Buckland, who voiced Princess Aurora Sya Lis Goodereste in Sleepy Princess from the Demon Castle.

Maia: Cherami Leigh, who voiced Kaede Otori from Komi Can't Communicate.

Marakria: Monica Rial, who voiced Moa in Show from Rock (if that’s possible)

Medea: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voiced Rumia Uru from Kakegurui.

Megaera: Emi Lo, who voiced Suma in Demon Slayer.

Melinoe: Kira Buckland, who voiced Mary Saotome from Kakegurui Twin and Kakegurui.

Metis: Laura Post, who voiced Brunhilde in Record of Ragnarok.

The other 6 Muses: Bryn Apprill.

Nyx: Hellena Taylor, who voiced Bayonetta from the Bayonetta games, but with sexy a Greek accent.

Pasithea: Bridget Hoffman, who voiced Nia Teppelin from Gurren Lagann.

Peitho: Kayli Mills, who voiced Emilia in Re:ZERO.

Persephone: Maggie Flecknoe, who voiced Yui Komori in Diabolik Lovers.

Perse: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voice Rem in Re:ZERO

Psyche: Erika Harlacher, who voiced Yumeko Jabami from Kakegurui

Rhea: Elizabeth Maxwell, who voiced Rosaria from Genshin Impact.

Selene: Shannon Chan, who voiced Misa Amane from Death Note.

Semele: Brenna Larsen, who voiced Navia from Genshin Impact.

Thetis: Kate Higgins, who voiced Sailor Mercury/ Ami Mizuno from Sailor Moon.

Tisiphone: Sarah Williams, who voiced Midari Ikishima from Kakegurui

Urania: Anairis Quinones, who voiced Hinatsuru in Demon Slayer.

And for the Mortal women:

Andromeda: Bryn Apprill, who voiced Krista Lenz / Historia Reiss from Attack on Titan.

Cassandra: Erica Lindbeck, who voiced Daki from Demon Slayer.

Helen of Troy: Cristina Vee, who voiced Sailor Mars / Rei Hino.

Phaedra: Juliet Simmons, who voiced Inaho Yamato from Kakegurui

Penelope: Abby Trott, who voiced Inui from Aggretsuko.

What do you guys think?

[thecoochiefairy]

𝖓𝖊𝖜 𝖘𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖒

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧.

𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄.

“WHERE THE FUCK IS SIN AND PHEME?”

Despite the bodies that lounge around the furniture in the room, their concern is far from relaxed. Aries’ family stares at him as they await for an answer. He’d spent the last couple of hours trying to figure that out himself. The chaos of everything that happened in the middle of Cloud’s room resulted in both women disappearing, if being honest he wasn’t sure how to answer this question.

“I don’t know, I been tryna’ mind link her but she’s not answering.”

“She can’t be alone right now, there’s a possibility she could transition and cause an entire massacre in the wrong setting,” Adonis reminds.

“She’s with Pheme, she’s fine.”

“So…what happened again?” Aria looks in between the two awkward stares at one another, taking another sip of her wine as she’d only been observing this conversation.

“Mariah and that lil’ half white girl was….” She raises her body up as she wants someone to finish what she’s saying.

“Two manning’ Cloud,” Calypso and Jupiter finish.

“Would it still be two manning’ if it’s women?” She questions.

“Wouldn’t it be two woman-ning?” Adonis then asks her.

“Is that what really matters to y’all right now?” Aries raises his eyebrows at his unserious family members.

“Well no, I’m just wondering why Cloud would do all that knowing that it would’ve ended badly,” Aria shrugs, taking another sip of the dark red liquid.

“Trauma response, maybe,” Adonis mutters.

“Poor baby. I just wish he would have talked to someone,” Aria sighs.

“Now hold up,” Jupiter interrupts, “What we not finna’ do is cue the violins entirely. I am not connecting him being assaulted to having sex with someone he’s aware Sin despises—plus, a snitch— all in one.”

“Don’t forget Mariah,” Calypso points out.

“Exactly, let’s not forget Mariah—who was supposed to be her friend. Sounds like Cloud was tryna’ get his lick back.”

“Lick back? For what?” Their mother frowns.

“Hello?” Jupiter then points to Aries standing in front of him, Aries then crossing his arms as he now wants to end this uncomfortable conversation.

“It wasn’t like that,” he argues, adjusting the chain on his neck to distract himself.

“That’s fine if you didn’t holla’ at Sin with ill intentions. I know you didn’t, we just saying,” Jupiter responds.

“So what now?” Aria pulls the conversation back to a bigger issue, wondering how they’d move forward with everything that’s happened.

“Imma’ go talk to Cloud,” Aries announces.

“For fuckin’ what?” Calypso sits up, “He ain’t your friend! I know you not finna’ go apologize.”

“Not about this, Calypso. I just think he needs a friend right now, don’t be like that.”

Calypso sucks his teeth, cringing as he suddenly felt a palm swipe across the back of his head. Jupiter snaps, “He’s being an adult you dweeb. You should take notes.”

His twin brother roles his eyes as he mutters, “I enjoyed this conversation more when it was messy.”

                                            _

HE MENTALLY PREPARED THAT THIS WOULD BE AWKWARD. His ears feel as though he’s underwater as he tunes out the incessant giggling that fires around him, watching as furry paws stumble against the grass. They’re not nearly as excited as the bodies that chase them around, even louder giggles surrounding the miniature animals as the coven’s children play their own version of “tag.”

“How the hell do they move so fast?” Blue comes beside Aries, pressing his hands on his knees as he attempts to catch his breath.

“Mr. Aries, tag!” A small voice calls, Aries looking down to see the familiar little girl, Beauty. Her blue eyes beam as she presses her finger against his side, her entire body disappearing before he can react to the intrusion. Both men see her then reappear on the other side. She shouts as the pups are finally able to catch up to her, running over to playfully attack. It entertained Aries to see the children enjoy themselves despite being distracted.

“You talked to Sin?” Blue inquires.

“If she wanted to be found, she’d be here.”

“Ouch. Don’t be getting all uptight with me, asswipe,” Blue insults.

Aries looks over to him, realizing his tone of voice. “My bad, just a lot of shit on my mind.”

“Talk to me then, I’m a great listener,” Blue bats his eyelashes.

Before Aries can reply, a familiar scent catches his nose and he turns around to see Cloud standing behind him. He has a look on his face that reads hesitance, as if he expects the worst out of this meetup.

“Uh—Elijah said you wanted to talk?” Cloud says, shoving his hands into his pockets uncomfortably.

“Am I in the twilight zone? What episode did I miss?” Blue blurts, his eyes wide and chaotic.

Aries wants to uppercut his best friend. Had he not had that title, he probably would’ve. Instead he only coughs, communicating in his thoughts as he says, ‘Go away, please?”

“Oh! Aight, bet,” Blue shakes his head quickly, “C’mon pups and lil’ witchy babies, let’s go to the green house!”

Material shreds in front of Aries and Cloud as Blue drops onto his knees. His limbs lengthen out, fur replacing his smooth skin as claws dig into the green grass. A color of brown comes up from beneath his paws that now sink into the dirt. Arrays of howls sing into the sky as the animals take off, following behind his large frame.

“You smoke?” Aries asks, turning around as he begins walking into the forest where the houses are.

“Uh…yeah?” Cloud hesitates.

Aries gestures for him to follow, Cloud slowly walking behind as they make their way over to his place. Cloud is unsure of what this conversation is supposed to be about, but if it’s anything regarding confrontation, he planned to cut it short.

Aries ignores the eyes of his twin brothers as they yell at one another while playing the game, silence then cutting sharply as they both watch the two walk upstairs towards Aries’ room. They go past his actual bedroom that plays soft music, going out onto the patio. Aries leans himself on the railing as he reaches for the blunt behind his ear. He scoops the lighter from his pocket as the joint sits between his lips, lightning the end to ignite the object.

“You said you wanted to speak,” Cloud reminds, trying to figure out what’s going on.

Aries nods his head as he inhales the smoke encompassing his lungs, traveling back out his nose as he removes the blunt from his lips and reaches it out to Cloud.

He slowly takes it from his hand, unable to hold back as he asks, “Is it laced?”

Aries eyes drop lowly. “Now why the hell would I lace myself? C’mon, I come in peace. I bought this shit off your friend when I asked where you were.”

“Elijah don’t even smoke like that.”

“Exactly why he gave it to me.”

“Cause it’s laced?”

“‘Cause my plug is all the way in New Orleans, and you worry too much. You done interrogating?”

Cloud looks down at his hand. He then takes the blunt from his fingers as he begins to smoke, still keeping his guard up nonetheless.

“So what did you want?”

“Just wanted to check on you, ask how you’re feeling,” Aries admits.

“Like shit. But I don’t know why you’d think I would choose you as someone to confide in,” Cloud replies coyly.

“I don’t expect you to do anything. But considering you standing here smoking with me, you can’t despise me that much. Nor would you have agreed to talk. So whatever you want to say, I won’t be mad at.”

Cloud watches as smoke fills the space in between them. With everything going on in his head, he could almost scream at the thought of revealing all of his feelings. It’d been so long since someone had asked him whether he was okay or not, or more so him even answering the question. This was the last person he planned to confide in, but he figured it was no worse than talking to anyone else.

“Do you even like her? Seriously,” he allows that intrusive thought to succeed through his lips.

Aries doesn’t expect that to be his first question. He halts, crossing his arms as he takes a deep breath before he asks, “You want me to be honest?”

“I’m not asking you to lie.”

He sighs, “I like Sin…a lot. But right now we’re in this weird ass limbo because of everything going on. She’s been tryna’ keep her mind off of y’all’s issue, but I can tell how much she cares about you.”

“…Okay,” Cloud exhales.

Silence goes between the two as they both try to find the next thing to say, Aries then clearing the atmosphere as he then asks, “Do you still have feelings for her?”

“I…I’ve always felt like I had to like Sin. That’s just the way it’s been,” he admits.

“That doesn’t sound very genuine.”

Cloud rolls his lips in. He’d never actually admitted that to anyone, and now hearing himself say it out loud felt foreign against his tongue. He continues, “Sybil has always had a specific way of running things, including me and Sin’s relationship. She’s…she’s what I know.”

“But is that what you want?” Aries inquires.

Cloud squints his eyes at the question. He grills, “Is this some type of reverse psychology shit? Is this your plot against me to think I don’t actually like her?”

Aries smacks his lips, shoving the blunt back towards him as he commands, “Bro, hit this shit. I’m literally just tryna’ talk to you. Chill.”

Cloud slowly takes it into his hand. He doesn’t feel the need to apologize for his assumption, but he does realize that he’s being somewhat dramatic.

“I just want to be able to do my own thing without feeling like someone else has a plan for me. Or that I have to be with someone in order to fulfill that plan. Sometimes I can be a lil’ emotional—“

“A little?” Aries cuts off.

“I liked you better when ya’ ass was being Dr. Phil.”

Aries shrugs, “Continue.”

It’s as if all his emotions are now on a billboard for everyone to see, yet it’s only one other person standing in front of him. This person doesn’t laugh, budge, or make him feel as though his opinion doesn’t matter. It almost made him feel at ease. Or maybe it was just the weed talking.

“I’m enjoying this… ‘being single’ thing. I just want to explore my options and explore who I am as a person.”

Aries nods his head in agreement, about to respond before Cloud then continues, “And…if Sin is happy with you and she makes you happy…I guess I’m content with that.”

Cloud watches as Aries raises his eyebrows. He then presses, “Please say something before I change my good heartedness.”

“Uh—right, fasho. But this isn’t about Sin right now, this is about you. Are you comfortable enough to talk about what happened in Oseidon?”

Cloud cringes at the memory. It’s been a while since he’d been able to remind himself of what happened without wanting to completely shut down. He suddenly remembered what it felt like being constricted, no one able to help him. It was something he wouldn’t wish on an enemy.

“It was traumatizing. I think it’s what’s led me to wanting to be in control of my decisions and my own body. But besides that, I’ve been doing things like focusing more on school, spending more time with my friends. It’s kept me from being down in my emotions…I think once I feel back to normal, I will mend things with Sin.”

“I encourage that, she misses you. I can tell you miss her as well.”

“I do,” Cloud agrees.

The silence between the two returns. Cloud doesn’t feel like anything has seriously changed between them, but he does feel a respect that he wouldn’t expect to have given him. To be able to put all of their bullshit aside and talk to him as if they’d known each other for years. It made him happy knowing that Aries was now someone important to Sin’s life. He wouldn’t admit that though.

“So…should we hug now—“

“No,” Aries quickly shakes his head.

“Okay,” Cloud just as quickly answers. He ashes the blunt in between his fingers on the patio’s railing before he concludes, “Imma’ head back to Elijah. He’s having a panic attack since he heard Sin and Pheme disappeared. You heard from them by chance?”

“I know just as much as you do, nothing. But if I hear from them I’ll let you know.”

“Okay.”

He turns towards the door of the patio, standing there for a brief second before he turns to Aries and teases, “You sure about not wanting that hug?”

“Get the fuck off of my porch, Cloud.”

[gaymars97]

Yknow what fuck it we ball

I think it’s about time I ramble about how I think sirens born with their powers should be different from the rest (below the cut)

How do folks born as siren come to be?

You see, born sirens happen when the previous owner of the power dies without choosing anyone as a successor and there’s no one anywhere near who is “suitable” for the power.

In that case, what the power does instead is it travels to a forming embryo. It will then have a major impact on the development of the future baby, making it have strange features seen on no other human.

Such sirens can also be called “full sirens”, as the power has always been part of them.

Also, the mothers of such sirens get a fraction of power as well, though it’s very limited.

So far, known full sirens are commandant Steele, Maya and the Calypso twins.

What special traits are we talking about?

There’s a few things.

- The most noticeable one is probably the tattoos. Full sirens are born with tattoos present on both sides of their body. Also, unlike the classic google map cursor heart tattoo, full sirens have a different heart tattoo which’s appearance depends on the power.

- They tend to be very tall (except for Tyreen she’s still a tiny motherfucker)

- Their hair colour is naturally the colour of their power (looks at Maya hey now you dont have to spend so much on hair dye!)

- Their pointed ears tend to be longer than the avg siren ears

- Their eyes are really special: sclera is black, irises are often multicoloured to really fit the power (example: Maya’s irises have the colour scheme of the phaselock bubble) and their pupils can adapt to the dark to a cat’s extent

- Fangs fangs fangs!! Their teeth are sharp and they have vampire like fangs

- They overall have more ease with their abilities, as they were born with them and it’s a part of them.

- They can read eridian writings with enough practice

- They can see past sirens and know who will be the next ones.

- When a full siren looses a limb, their tattoos will form a new limb by simply following the pattern of the missing limb as if it was there, but theres just. The tattoos. Idk if yall get what i mean. It works as a limb, its just a magic one!

- Im still thinking about this and the idea pf slapping a reference to mythology sirens into this. Yknow, either by slapping feathers or feathers AND wings on em. We get silly!!

- And other possible ideas im putting in the could be born siren traits! Claws! Eridium smoke breath! Coloured skeleton! Who knows, I’m experimenting!

Anyways that was my ted talk of full sirens. If you have any more ideas on that feel free to share em!! This idea is still much a wip!!🍿

[liaromancewriter]

Hey! Loved your fics. Am already halfway through your Maxenna ones already 💕 Would love your HC using prompts from 35 OTP questions: 10. What’s each member flirting style? 13. What was the most surprising thing they learned about one another once they started dating?21. What articles of clothing do they "borrow" from one another? 29. How likely are they to have fur babies? How many and what kind? 33. What is their sex life like? 35. Choose one song that perfectly describes their relationship :D

Hi Nonny! I'm so glad you're enjoying my fics, especially Maxenna. I'm so sorry for taking so long to reply. It's been a busy few months, and I've been in a bit of a brain fog. Here goes.

From this OTP Ask list.

10. What’s each member's flirting style?

Ethan: Unintentional flirt but I suppose Subtle Flirting is the closest. He has a dry wit, which can be appealing to some (aka Cassie). When he puts his mind to it, he is very successful, but he also doesn't have the patience for it.

Sienna: She's a mix of Sincere and Polite flirting. She pays attention, active listening, eye contact and compliments. She's all about building deeper connection, but Max brings out her playful side.

Cassie and Max: The twins are very flirty and always have been. It just comes naturally to them (and often gets them into trouble). Their styles are a mix of playful, physical and witty.

13. What was the most surprising thing they learned about one another once they started dating?

Ethan was surprised by how much Cassie treasured her alone time and quiet time. He always assumed she was an extrovert who needed people around her. But she likes the balance and is happy to stay home and read or watch TV. Cassie was surprised that Ethan enjoys cuddling on the couch (or in bed) and feeling connected physically. Physical touch is one of his love languages.

Max and Sienna knew each other extraordinarily well before they started dating because they had been friends for so many years. As such, there weren't any major surprises. Still, Sienna was surprised by how serious he could be, and seeing him in his world was eye-opening. Max was equally surprised by her stubbornness.

21. What articles of clothing do they "borrow" from one another?

Cassie often borrows Ethan's old tee shirts and refuses to give them back. He thinks she looks better in them anyway. Sienna tends to sleep in Max's shirts when he's traveling. She also borrows his old college hoodies when she's chilling at home.

29. How likely are they to have fur babies? How many and what kind?

Cassie wasn't allowed to have pets for the longest time because they would run away. But one day, in the distant future, she'll have Watson (who technically belongs to her children). You can read about that here.

Max gets Sienna a Westie for her birthday, which she named Bailey. I did a text fics/edit about that here. Bailey is the sweetest dog. I haven't decided if they will have more pets. They have four kids and busy careers/lives. But I hc that Amelia (the third child) likes animals and will convince her parents to get her a cat.

33. What is their sex life like?

I've answered a few asks about this, so I'm linking the main post here about both pairing's sex life.

35. Choose one song that perfectly describes their relationship.

It's so hard to pick one song! My mind is blanking now, so here's a post about their songs.

These are the songs I listen to the most to put me in the mood for their relationship when I'm writing their fics:

Ethan & Cassie:

Labyrinth - Taylor Swift

Sanctuary - Serena Ryder

The Only One - James Blunt

Maxenna:

Me and You - Jake Bugg

Eyes on You - Chase Rice

Unforgettable - Thomas Rhett

Thanks for the ask!

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[kitsumidori]

Remember when I mentioned a code monkey that created Moss's AI? Well here she is!

Technic/25/♀️

Technic was originally a programmer for Tediore, specifically she's tasked with making simple ai's for their weapons. However, she'd rather be making more advanced ai's, ones that can grow and develop instead of having "kill the enemy" as their only thought, this leads her to develop Moss in secretly.

One day, she suffered a mental breakdown and desperately wanted out. After (constantly) hearing the C.O.V's propaganda and seeing her other coworkers quitting and joining the cult, she decided to do the same (except the cult part) and go into the vault hunter business along with Moss

Weapons on hand

Deluxe Baby Maker++: Was actually a gift from a coworker who ended up as her only friend. Tech hopes he is doing well.

Premium Frozen Polybius: She actually stole it from a Tediore warehouse shortly before she left

Engulfing Vicious Oger: Found it on the outskirts of nowhere. Oddly enough, it showed up after one of the twins was defeated

Popular Bitch: Like with the Oger, Tech found it in the middle of nowhere, and like the Oger, it showed up when the other twin was defeated.

Mics

Despite her main inspiration being the C.O.V's propaganda, she detest the cult and there so called "gods"

It didn't help that she intentionally put a huge target on her after one of the C.O.V's live stream. She kicked Troy's ass in a video game, called their videos "amiture-ish and hard to watch" and signed off with calling the twins "false gods"

Hates Troy with a passion after hearing that he tried to leach Maya, but he was stopped before he could do some lasting damage.

(She later found out that she's right and that the Calypso's were never siren's but are vault touched)

She is actually part of a galaxy wide fan club called the Follower of the Blight Phoenix. Her arm tattoo is her show off loyalty

Despite the name, the fan club actually focuses on the 6 vault hunters that took down and killed Handsome Jack

Once she got to meet them, she claimed up and nervously shouted that she'll do anything for them. Polish and enhance their weapons, get them refreshments, she'll even babysit Maya and Krieg's kids for them.

Terrible at socializing. Besides that coworker and Moss, she can barely hold or start a conversation with anyone.

Found this weird alien "mask" after first arriving at Pandora, she thought it was cool and kept it since.

Technic is not her real name, it's a name she goes by on online forums but has used it as a fake name when she became a vault hunter.

[v-tired-queer]

✨️ Fem!Keith age 18 -> fem!Keith age 28! ✨️

At age 18:

Hurled into space against her will (*glares at Lance*)

Doesn't know what to do with her hair so she just keeps it down

Goes back and forth between Resting Bitch Face and Resting Mildy Confused Face

Secretly pinning for Shiro (read: secret to no one but Shiro; they're both oblivious sapphics stuck in a never ending loop of "she's my best friend, she's just being nice, there's no way she likes me likes me" but everyone else knows and it's driving them all insane)

At age 28:

Space has become her second home, where she feels like she can fully be herself

Has learned how to style her hair thanks to Lance, Allura, and Kolivan (who showed her how to do traditional Galra styles for different occasions)

Tired but loving life

More than happily married to Shiro and raising twins, Atlas and Calypso (who the whole team spoils, but the moms don't mind--it's nice to know that their babies are well loved and have a family to be a part of) 💕