#because they're some dots i'm not sure yet Lmao

[uu-tella]

Chapter 224 is out!

Tella had 4 (5?) appearances

[thankskenpenders]

MORE behind the scenes Sonic info and other tidbits from the BumbleKast as I continue to get caught up. These range from September 2022 to early December. (This means there are spoilers for Frontiers in here.)

They're doing episodes even more often now, so I've got a lot to catch up on and I'm sure most of y'all do too!

1. The IDW comics are, in fact, canon to the games now. Ian was a little coy when first asked about it, saying he "would not argue against it" if people said the IDW comics were canon to the games now. "I have made it clear that the comics follow the lead of the games, so… as long as there's no contradictions anywhere, we're good." So, yeah, come on. The comics are canon.

2. Ian apparently pitched another idea for incorporating Sticks into the IDW series last year that was once again shot down, although he says this only makes him want to dig his heels in and try harder. (I'm assuming most of you are already aware of her shout out in Frontiers, confirming she's out there, somewhere...)

3. If Surge was a streamer, Ian thinks she would just grief people on Fortnite

4. On the October 7th, 2022 show, Ian says there is a behind-the-scenes answer for how the depiction of Silver's future in '06 can fit together with Rivals and Rush... but he can't talk about it right now.

It's hard to convey his tone through text, so just imagine he's saying all this with a big, defeated shrug:

"Here's the thing. Working on something else, I actually did get a straight answer, and it was... frustratingly simple. And, it's like, 'That works. [sigh] Okay!' No, I can't get into it - that's all private work stuff - but maybe it'll come to light eventually. But... there is an answer. And it works. And I kinda feel dumb for not thinking of it."

I honestly have no idea what this could be if it's something Ian hadn't considered, because he has talked about popular theories and readings before, such as the reading that Blaze was transported to the Sol Dimension at the end of '06. Maybe we'll hear about it in the comics, since Silver and Blaze are both back right now, or maybe they'll be the subject of a TailsTube episode.

5. Froggy is not sentient in any way he really is just a frog

6. Unrelated to Sonic, Ian was asked "who is best pony" and he said Fluttershy. My longest yeah boy ever dot jpeg

7. With Surge and Kit originally being pitched as purely synthetic beings before Sega suggested they be cyborgs instead, Ian says they would've struggled with whether or not they're even real, as opposed to the end product where they struggle with not knowing who they were before Starline modified them

8. When the female cast of Archie Sonic stopped getting drawn so busty all the time that was, in fact, a very specific editorial mandate from someone at Archie. Sega, on the other hand, has never cared.

9. Now that we're back to Classic and Modern being part of one nebulous timeline and the divide being more of a branding thing, Ian explicitly confirmed that the Classic-themed IDW Sonic comics are set in the past of the mainline IDW Sonic comics. They're set sometime after the events of Mania, and before all the Modern stuff. Just don't think too hard about it

But hey! If it's any consolation, this now means all the Classic characters like Mighty, Nack, and Honey are out there off-screen in the world of the regular comics, even if the casts are remaining separate for branding reasons for now. It also means Shadow is out there being held in a pod in a maximum security off-shore military prison during the events of all the lighthearted Classic comics lmao

10. Ian reiterates yet again that he's still pushing to try and get the Freedom Fighters back in some capacity where he can (as are others). He also says that he's pushing for them to return as a group rather than requesting individual members because he believes that's the best shot at getting any of them through Sega's approval process.

(I can't remember when the last time this came up was, but Ian has also implied that he thinks their best shot is to return as Classic characters since their one game appearance is Spinball.)

11. Ian outright confirms that the forward-looking character arcs in Frontiers are reflective of what he would like to see out of the main cast moving forward in the games. Not surprising since that's, like... the whole point of those arcs! But nice that he wants it to only be the beginning.

Ian does also say, however, that he's not guaranteed to return as the writer for future games since he's still a freelancer, but to editorialize here, I don't see why they wouldn't want him back for the next project.

12. On the subject of Amy's characterization in Frontiers, Ian personally pins her general seriousness mostly on the fact that she's the companion for the first island, where the mysterious and somber tone Sega wanted for the story is being established and Sonic is still trying to figure out what to do. He says that she'd probably have been more bubbly if she was interacting with Sonic on the second or third island, after he starts to get his bearings. I hoped this was the reason why she felt a little dry compared to Knuckles and Tails, so it's nice to hear this isn't the new direction for Amy or anything.

13. While "officially" Sage's name is just an anagram of Sega and a reference to her wisdom, Ian seems to be cheekily implying that it's also a nod to the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo. Hell yeah.

14. When asked to clear up some Frontiers lore from the Egg Memos, Ian explicitly confirmed that some of the Ancients left the Starfall Islands and went on to devolve into the Chao as we know them today over the course of tens of thousands of years. He says, however, that this doesn't mean that Ancients and Chao are literally the same species, comparing it to the difference between humans and australopithecus. But yes, they're related.

[minevn]

How would these cuties react to MC inviting them to an amusement park hangout together? (btw Aki is my fave..She is so wifey and so cute ♡;w; ♡)

AN AKI ENJOYER!! YAY I'm so happy my girl is gettin some lovin she deserves! (Sorry for my inactivity, I needed a short break) cw: emetophobia(fear of throw up) in Aki's

Minato: He's never been to the amusement park. He'd accept, one because it's you and two because he's curious. I think the crowds of people would definitely overwhelm him and he's pretty much clinging to you. He's also so worries about losing you in the crowd, he needs to be touching you at all times. The rides were fun, but he enjoyed watching you have fun more.

Haruto: Your families would take you two to the amusement park all the time. Afterall, where you go, Haruto needs to follow. He really enjoys the nostalgic factor amusement parks have! He's a very nostalgic lover if you couldn't tell LMAO! Despite this, I think there are other places he would prefer to take you out on a date, but of course whatever you want Haruto also wants and its not like he MINDS the amusement park!

Jun: Jun likes amusement parks. Maybe not her go to place for a date, she'd rather do something relaxing yet fun with you and amusement parks are more thrilling. I think her favorite things in amusement parks would be the yummy food like dippin' dots and funnel cake(I'm hungy now) and the water park sections. Overall I think she'd still be happy and excited to go, she just loves being around you!

Hoshi: HOSHI ADORES AMUSEMENT PARKS!! They are his go to place if he wants to have fun! In his route its actually a place he drags you to the most so you can loosen up. He also prefers it when its dark out so he can see all the pretty lights. He just loves everything about amusement parks, the food, the atmosphere, the rides, everything! Anyways, he'll accept it in a heartbeat!

Habiki: Unlike his younger twin, I don't think Habiki would really be that big of a fan. He doesn't enjoy the atmosphere, its too loud and crowded for him, not that stuff like that makes me nervous, he just finds it annoying LOL! He does enjoy the food though and the water parks aren't all that bad either since it's one of the more calming places. He'll accept the date, but I don't think he could handle it for super long. He'll feel bad afterwards if you're upset with him and steal Hoshi's clown costume, trying to cheer you up, except he's awful at it, but that in itself kind of cheers you up cause he looks so dumb.

Kage: Used to be dragged out on the amusement park trips all the time as a kid, and he hated it. They enjoyed seeing you happy though. They still don't really like amusement parks, too many crowds of people and its so loud(The only loud thing he likes is his music) It's a bit better at night though, the lights are kind of soothing to him surprisingly. I think it'll take some convincing for him to go, but he'll go on the conditions that you go sometime later in the day.

Kei: Kei accepts. He doesn't really have any thoughts on the amusement park though. He's not a super huge fan of the atmosphere, unless it's dark out, much like Hoshi he likes the pretty lights and thinks your look stunning with the lights shining on you. He feels more positive about the rides, like he thinks they're mostly okay to fun. He enjoys seeing your reactions to the rides more though. He's REALLY good at winning those prize games, by the end on the night you have as many prizes as you want, he'll makes sure to get every prize in the amusement park if that's what you want(Even if they belong to someone/ hj) The food is pretty good and he loves learning about your favorites, he'll even learn to make them for you. Overall, he's indifferent to amusement parks, he just likes seeing you happy.

Yani: Has never been to an amusement park before. They're REALLY excited to go! Of course going with you only boosts the excitement! Doesn't ACTUALLY get scared of the heights or the idea of a ride malfunctioning, but they'll pretend they are just so they could hold and squeeze you tightly, and you'll give them comfort. Really enjoys the amusement park! The rides were super fun and the food was pretty good, of course going with you to the amusement park for her first time makes it a favorite of hers. Enjoys the games but is REALLY bad at them LMAO, if there's something you want he'll just steal it for you and threatens the person if they try to get it back or something. Will end up getting urges to go to the amusement park at 3am but ofc its closed, but she won't stop bothering you so you always have to promise to go tomorrow. What have you done?

Aki: Also used to go to the amusement park with you and Jun often(Jun used to beg to stay home when he was younger though, despite wanting to see you, Jun really hated amusements parks, they've grown on her significantly). She always really enjoyed the thrill of the rides. Makes it a tradition to always ride the largest rollercoasters. Also always LOVES getting food with you, but you'll either have to wait to eat till after you're done all the rides or you'll have to do something less extreme, Aki is prone to throwing up after eating and then going on a ride. She's also one of those people that pass out on the slingshot, finds it so funny afterwards though.

[futurequibblerjournalist]

Lol dingus is such a good word!!!! I'll be mega short w this bc I have a lot of other curiosities for you but

1 why do you think Igor went from laughing off Sev's 'ooh shut up meathead" stuff to being intimidated? Or whatever you think it was in Gob,,, and um

2 I saw you post Miss Macdonald and I was wondering if you had any rambles abt her :3

Anyway ur my fav lol UMMM bye bye :)

-🍃

Dingus is!!! MWAH!!! Also ahhhhh your fav [insert Debbie Ryan hair tucking emoji]

I think the change was that Severus finally had that upper hand on Igor that he'd wanted(??) but never quite managed because Igor would just laugh it off. Not even in a malicious way just in a sort of "you're so silly" sort of way. Their dynamic changed. Severus went from being a person he trusted to a person he still trusted but also to one he'd deliberately betrayed to save his own skin! That does something to a weirdly sexual pseudo friendship lmao. I'm not sure if I'm explaining this in exactly the right way but they're just jvnfjbngjb they're so complicated for a bunch of losers honestly

MISSS MARY MACDONALD!!!! The way I literally clapped my hands together and kicked my feet!! Yes I have rambles about her oh my gooood

I don't think about her as much as I should but urgh,, the woman that she is alright??

Mary was born Mary Aileen Macdonald in December 1959 in Scotland to muggle parents. She's the older sister of Michael Macdonald who was born four years after she was. She got her first name from her nan on her mum's side and her middle name from her nan on her dad's side. Growing up her dad was a greengrocer and she wanted to be one just like him. I feel like they could have had an English Cocker Spaniel when Mary was growing up though that might just be based off of the fact that I think that's an animal that represents her well

She was born with vitiligo and is mixed (Caribbean descent on her mother's side and Scottish on her dad's.) She's undoubtedly the prettiest girl in all of Gryffindor and she's known to be a bit boy crazy. I know some people hate this headcanon for her because female characters shouldn't revolve around male characters and I completely agree which is why that's not all she is!!! My girl Mary just falls in love easily and she always throws herself into her relationships. She's definitely got a bit of an insecurity about being loved for her body rather than her mind.

She is cherry!!! She owns that cherry red colour, she looks gorgeous in it and idk there's just something so cherry about her. She definitely wears cherry chapstick!! Those really cheap ones that smell lowkey super fake lol. Idk if cherry shampoo is a thing but if it is she's totally got it. I think Mary is a midsize queen and she rocks a fairly soft aesthetic that ends up looking a bit edgy because of all the red. She is the number one stealer of boyfriend hoodies/jumpers/jackets etc

During her time at Hogwarts she was sorted into Gryffindor and shared a dorm room with Marlene and Lily. I think she was a pretty average student. She wanted to be better but also she didn't want to devote more time than necessary to boring stuff like school lol. I do think she did really well in divination tho. She dotted all her i's with hearts and she made both M's in Mary and Macdonald into hearts (I made a little doodle to illustrate lol this is from the yearbook thing and I need to correct the D)

I think she's got a complex relationship with her sexuality. I'm kinda liking the idea of asexual Mary ngl. She's over sexualised by her peers and yet she didn't want one bit of it. She falls in love easily but why does everyone think that means she sleeps around?? She's extremely sex-positive and like,, wants sex for girls to be liberated and stigma-free and all that despite her asexuality and I think part of that comes from how people assume things about her and have no problem slutshaming her but they'd never do it to a guy like Sirius who actually slept around a tonne!! At some point, I'll do a fic or something deep-diving into Mary and her relationship with wanting love without it being connected to sex. Might be my first full-on MaryLily fic, who knows, I think they're cute sometimes

Speaking of Mary and girls I think she's so different with crushes on girls than on boys. With boys she's super out there, flirting, touching, batting her lashes etc but with girls she's much more shy and it's much more confusing for her but she's so sweet about it jnvjfnbjg

Just like how she loves loudly she laughs loudly. Her nose scrunches when she laughs. She makes sure all her friends get gifts from her at Christmas, even if it's just a small keychain or something from her dad's shop.

She spends ages getting ready in the morning and she spends ages in the bathroom in general making sure she smells nice, looks nice, the whole shebang. She loves to paint nails and she will offer to pierce your ears with nothing but an ice cube, a needle and a dream lmaooo

I think she was big into photography and she would run around with her muggle camera (that she put stickers and little sticky gems and stuff all over) taking pictures of everyone. Her patronus is a lamb because Mary had a little lamb!!!!

I don't think her dream of becoming a greengrocer stuck around tbh lol. I think she wanted to do something that could help other people and my Mary-as-a-healer dreams are out there but also my girl does not have the grades and she spent SO LONG sobbing in the girl's dorms when she found out she wouldn't be able to become a healer because of her lacking grades. I'm not sure what she ends up doing instead but I'd be so curious if anyone out there has any ideas!!

There's also the fact that Bruce Mulciber Jr and Edmund Avery Jr canonically assaulted her at some point during her time at school (at a time Severus and Lily were still talking so I'm thinking this went down in their fifth year) so there's also just,, that whole can of worms to look into. Igor Karkarov mentions that Mulciber (thought this could both be Junior and Senior) specialised in the Imperius curse though I doubt he'd have gotten away with assaulting anyone with the Imperius curse without being expelled; it just kinda tells you something about the stuff he's capable of/willing to do. I also believe it's actively Mulciber who attacks her and Edmund is more of a bystander?? I'm not entirely sure but that's how I understood it. I wouldn't be surprised if Edmund was the brain behind the whole thing though and cursed her to hang and dangle somewhere embarrassing by having her touch insert object someone would be likely to pick up off the floor or something like that

anyways that was my long ass starter ramble on the lovely Miss Macdonald now have a moodboard jngjbngjb

[end3rf0x]

Meet Accimer, The Schedule Keeper!

Knock Knock, Cha Ching, How Do! Salutations and Hello, People of Tumblr! I uhh...dont exactly know my way around this place just yet, but I'm more than happy to learn! If you've seen me or heard of me before, its likely from the likes of the beloved Dysfunk and they're animation of Moon saying, "Periodt." as I was the voice of Moon in said animation! But that's besides the point, as I've come here today to share with you all my special lad, my Daycare Attendant OC, Accimer!

Accimer is a Daycare Attendant Animatronic who is in charge of maintaining a daily schedule for all the goings on in the daycare! He uses his pocket watch that is attached to his waist via a tether cable to see which kids are due for pick up at what times, and from there he takes them to the pick up area right on time, at the dot! He is also in charge of things like making sure Nap Time happens not a minute sooner than it should, and ends not a minute later than scheduled for.

Now, something to note about Accimer is that his construction was....flawed, shall we say. You see, when originally being produced in Le Factory as it were, the good folks over at Fazbear Entertainment responsible for creating the new animatronics had a bit of an oopsie and mixed up the blueprints for the new schedule maintainer robot with old, scrapped blueprints for a robot of the same purpose. Not realizing their error, the construction crew just went along with it and made Accimer. It was shortly after starting that they had realized their error, however, as many parts of Accimer's body and design are very crude and hodge podged together. Many parts of his body are constructed from S.T.A.F.F bot parts that have been welded together or taken apart in order to form certain parts of his body, including his Hands, Feet (which cannot normally be seen thanks to his boots, but I assure you they are there), and his Shoulders. After a long and very cumbersome construction process, the only thing left to give Accimer was a face plate of some kind. This is when an Executive discovered what was going on and chewed out the construction crew for following the wrong blueprints. Once the lecture was over, one of the crew asked, "What do we do about the face?" to which the angry Executive said, "I dont know! That thing is going in the daycare, right? Just put a moon on it or something for all I care! Meanwhile, I'm going to make some calls to the company to keep us all from getting fired. Oh, and you're all most certainly going to face reprecutions from this mistake. Expected a docked paycheck in the mail next time we pay your sorry asses!"

There's plenty more to his story that goes far more into detail about his creation, of which I am not willing to go into right because uhh... *looks at clock that reads 3:18am*...well, I think it best for my sanity LMAO. That being said, however, you can read his full story here!

Dont worry, there is still something very important about him that I will go over in this post. I wont leave ya too high and dry! You see, Accimer has what I have dubbed, "Animatronic Insomnia." The reason he has this is because of a constant and ever present lack of power at any given time. Unlike the other Daycare Animatronics with functioning charging stations that actually, ya know, charge them at night, Accimer's charging station is in a state of disarray. Old, faded paint that's been chipped away with the passage of time, half of the lights dont work properly and or at all, and the ones that do are about as bright as a Gas Station LED light. This busted up, sorry excuse for a charging station doesn't do Accimer any favors in trying to charge. In fact, he has to fight with it every single night in order to get the damn thing to actually work and depending on how long it takes for him to get the thing to charge him determines how much battery we will get for the day ahead of him. Sometimes he gets lucky and can get it to work within about 25 minutes or so, other times it takes a full hour and a half before it finally kicks on and functions properly. As a result, he can either get up to 75 or even 80 percent or be left with a meesely 37 to as low at 29 percent battery. He's unfortunately never experienced the pure bliss of 100% battery, but he's thankfully never felt the pain of 0% either. Just a mixed amount of real high and real low, babyyyy

Alright then I think that about does it! If you'd like to know more about Accimer, then feel free to ask me! Id love to answer some questions about my special lad! In addition, I'd urge you to check out the attached Google Doc, as there are tons of other details and story beats that I left out of this post that I'm sure would interest anyone wanting to know more! One other small little detail I'd like to throw in is that Accimer exists in the same world as @notdysfunk 's Callisto and @ilsole 's Myrtus! In fact, Myrtus and Accimer are like brothers! They get along quite well and that little fact makes me happy :)

Now that that's out of the way, Father is tired and shall see his happy ass to bed. Hope you like my lad! Oh, and here, have some AU designs too, because you deserve them! Included are Mermaid AU wherein he's a Mermaid/Leviathan type creature inspired by the Sea Dragon Leviathan of Subnautica fame, as well as a Mandela Catalouge AU with his Alternate Form! I do apologize for the camera quality btw, I have to use my selfie camera on my phone because my actual camera is like MAD broken. Its a long story

Welp, that's gonna do it for me. I've been your host, and this has been one lengthy ass Tumblr post. Hope you enjoyed! Goodnight, Tristate Area!

-Ender

[kulliare]

How do you think the bear timeline works? I thought Carmy was in NY the whole time pre-s1, but then he was in Copenhagen and in 2×06 I don't think he'd been to New York yet (..is that what the conversation w Michelle was about..) idk. I'm making it up in my head as I go along

i'm not sure dude-- tbh part of me is thinking that the writers are winging this part rather than having a fully planned out backstory? there was the slight retcon of only a few people knowing michael was doing drugs this season i think (as shown by 2x06 but i don't 100% remember how it went because i was so stressed), so i think they're mainly focused on the emotive aspects rather than having a timeline that makes 100% sense.. as someone who also is bad with time and cares about the broad strokes of things i don't really mind (i had to fact check a timeline the other day and it was so bad lmao)

i think someone way back in s1 times made a rough timeline of what kind of happened, but they also noted it doesn't quite make sense or something because of michael's death? either way, s2 does throw a few wrenches in guesses for the timeline-- carmy definitely spent some time in copenhagen, at least a few months-- with luca, i think you can connect a few dots to realize the chef luca was talking about was carmy, especially with the photo in chef terry's hallway showing them both being in the kitchen at the same time, which means carmy did spend some time in chicago in fancy restaurants rather than just heading fast to nyc, or maybe moved back and forth. but i doubt that option because donna was like i had to BEG you to come home?

that's a good point about michelle's conversation. it did confuse me a bit because i was going into it thinking that carmy already had a place there. and donna mentioned she had to beg him to come. and carmy was already like 'would it kill you to respond' so i also thought he's already in nyc, but i think it's still a bit inconclusive.... my initial thought was that michelle was offering a place where he could be with others who weren't insane for a bit lol. but idk. if that was what michelle was offering i doubt carmy would've taken her up on it because he's so determined to be so self reliant it's detrimental to himself

[tuiyla]

i think that lesbian hating babies anon was for real 😂 coz they sent the same ask to another naya blog and they asked a followup question about it. they just seem like a very young person who doesn't know a lot of things yet.

Well damn. You know I didn't really know what to make of it but I've given the benefit of the doubt far too many times and it was just such a random thing.

Not a crime to be young of course but man I'm sure there was a better phrasing than "do all lesbians hate babies" lmao. For the record, I for one freaking love kids.

I can only guess that the whole hating babies thing comes from some misogynistic propaganda. Not saying that's what that anon perpetuates because if they're genuinely asking questions I say good for them, but it's also sort of strange to ask them of Glee-related blogs on tumblr dot com. I hope someone irl can answer those questions as well.

[travelling-on-the-octopath]

Okay so I am lost about something. Erwin belittles Claude as a poor ruler for his stunt with the Great Bridge regarding Ferdinand's forces. And Claude - and others - will berate the decision to continue onto Imperial territory to push back against the Empire, because of Almyra attacking while they were doing so not being accounted for.

But. Like. If Claude hadn't done those two things, then the Empire... would have attacked them while they were fighting back against Almyra. At least, that's implied going by what Erwin says: "I imagine [the Empire has] reconsidered their plans following the last battle. It was foolish of them to start a war on two fronts in the first place, it would be even greater folly yet to continue after witnessing the might of the Alliance." With Judith responding: "Hold on. Are you saying the reason you volunteered to defend the Great Bridge is because you figured it wouldn't be attacked?"

But the Empire never would have known about the Alliance's might if Claude had just fortified the Bridge and gone on the defensive like Erwin and others wanted him to. And without the fight against Bergliez - where the Alliance had given him both moral and pragmatic reasons not to follow them into the Alliance - he would have likely just... invaded the Alliance? Since there'd be literally nothing stopping him now?

And that battle with Bergliez: damn near flawless, even with Jeralt and Byleth muckin' things up a bit. The plan with the Bridge: exactly as planned. Capturing Ferdinand: not a complete success, but the Empire's still without an important commander nonetheless and lost a sizable amount of troops. The invasion with Shahid: unexpected at the moment, but Claude always had Nader in his corner and expected Shahid to attack at some point, and that battle also went down without much issue (uhh I mean besides the whole forced fratricide and the emotional turmoil that is that lmao but you get what I mean).

But Claude's still doubtful, nobody really trusts Claude still, people are wondering why the Empire didn't attack them while they were retreating (maybe it's because y'all beat their asses?? Or that y'all ran through their breadbasket and so made fighting impossible without ensuring further starvation in Adrestia??) and it's like holy fuckin' shit somebody needs to grow some goddamn confidence already. Seeing all of this success the Alliance is getting - even when unexpected shit flies their way, they adapt just fine around it - being contrasted with pretty much everyone still twiddlin' their thumbs and being so unsure of themselves is just... weird?

Like, cockiness will get them killed sure, but they're acting like nothing ever goes their way when just about everything goes about as well as they can go given the circumstances. It makes the idea that Claude siding with the Empire on GW was a decision ~made in distress and desperation~ that I've seen some try to explain his decisions as seem... completely unwarranted, because he was doing about as well as he could've done fighting them. Am I just missing something? Would love to know lmao cuz the dots just aren't connecting for me 😂

I'm gonna let you in on a secret: I've stopped trying to connect the dots. This game doesn't know what it's doing with itself. The Alliance was doing . . . pretty good for a country who's kinda known for their crap military. It's like. The plots that make sense for him to concoct? The ones you mentioned (Gloucester and Myrddin, Bergliez, Nader)? People were upset that they weren't in the know, but . . . they went off without a hitch. It's literally when Claude does an about-face and allies with the Empire out of fucking nowhere that his plans get more messy for his character, then outright messy in-fucking-general. It's like . . . you're right! Things were going well for them! Like, if I'm not mistaken, exactly what was happening in the background of Azure Gleam. But then they change it for no reason. Which I cannot comprehend. Because. Because things were going pretty well

[sehnsuchts-trunken]

I’m sure you saw this coming, but I dare you to write a Lucio x Asra drabble

Is it cursed and horrible? Yeah, absolutely. Do I still wanna see what you can make of it? Hell yeah

okay, okay, first of all CURSED. HORRIBLE. YES TO THAT. NO TO WRITING IT LMAO PLEASE LAURIE THATS TERRIFYING

how about some,,,, hypothetical headcanons telling their story instead. that. that sounds like a fair deal in which my part doesn't involve vomiting.

Let's just be very clear about this first of all: When they hooked up, they were drunk out of their wits. Both of them. I have no clue about ages at all here (I could start guessing but for the purpose of this, I'm just gonna quickly say that they definitely both were adults at this point and what people over twenty do is not any of y'alls business) nor the timeline but for the sake of it let's go with "Lucio is count already but Nadia isn't countess yet"

Lucio holding one of his famous victory parties, whole city celebrating, guests all over the palace and the streets and basically everywhere Lucio goes. And he's tipsy already, too tipsy to call it tipsy, and marching through the crowds with a little sway in his steps and a proud grin on his face, when he bumps into a really cute guy.

That really cute guy has kind of lost Julian in the midst of all of these people and has been trying his best to find his way back to his friend for an hour. But even with the help of magic, he doesn't get much further. The crowds don't part for him the way they do for Lucio - he's stuck. And there's a quite handsome, quite drunk Count Luico bumping into him, absolutely ruining another "find Julian" mission. The magic thread loosens and breaks and, well, Asra kind of gives up. Julian would find his way to a tavern and then back home by himself in the morning.

The fact that they're both not too bad at flirting can be yeeted out of the window. Because Lucio is drunk, and that he still makes sense at this point is a hilarious coincidence, and the first thing he does after pampering Asra and finding out who that handsome stranger with the white hair is, is buy him a drink.

Asra does refuse. Or tries to. But Lucio is the Count, even if he weren't that handsome and weren't doing his best to flirt and didn't get a grin on his face and just the slightest blush whenever Asra talked back..... he couldn't have. He was used to Julian being flustered. Not confidence like this.

So they kind of,,,, manage to hook up. At Asra's shop. Not at the palace, no, and Lucio complains about that, but there's this beautiful man with him and he's so drunk he can barely stand and he's got Asra drunk to the point that he's clinging to Lucio and hell he's got many other days to complain too, not tonight.

Which does mean that Lucio woke up in the shop. In Asra's bed. With a tight asleep Asra in his arms and the worst headache he's ever had. And he's really confused. And proud! But he's heard of Asra. Even if yesterday his drunk brain couldn't possibly connect the dots, it does now. And it's really, really, really heartbreaking that he can barely remember anything that happened yesterday.

So instead of staying, Lucio gets up. And gets dressed. And leaves the shop before Asra can wake up with a headache as well, and perfect recollection of the day before. You want to guess now why that magician hates the count so much?

okay so I know this is basically implying that when they first met they hooked up and all the plot later is based on it. and honestly? possible. like it's never explained why the fuck Lucio and Asra know each other, and I guess you could say that Lucio just needed his magic for a job and that's how they met but? kinda? sounds dumb? so I'm going with this it's officially canon now. in hindsight less cursed than it appeared tbh. could've been worse.