#blindspot parallels

[nachosncheeze]

Blindspot Parallels - Outside Interests (1x17/3x19)

Bonus:

[agathas-megacoven]

I’m scared for my lil guy Mobius on the timelines all by himself. What if some non-Kang related big bad who has managed to evade the reformed TVA’s watch and wants to control a bunch of timelines puts 2 and 2 together, realises that Möbius was a key player in helping establish Loki at the centre of the Yggdrasil (that Loki cares deeply about Mobius and visa versa) and comes after him in the hopes to oust Loki? Part of me feels like Mobius could handle it but Mobius doesn’t have big scary dog privileges anymore girlies, what with Loki being tangled up at the Citadel and it worries me. Sylvie is a slippery lil sword wielding snake (affectionate) who’s entire childhood WAS self-preservation and survival, she’ll be fine. B15, O.B and Casey are all somewhat afforded better protection from within the TVA but what about Mobius? He’s just a lil mourning retiree trying to make a new life for himself. What if danger finds him? I trust B15 to have some sort of protection and emergency measures in place for him but what if it’s not enough?

[sharkjumpers]

And the FIRST ORDER on which LIFE AND SUCCESS EVER DEPENDS... LEAVE NOTHING LIVING.

[sbd-laytall]

Daredevil (2016) #10

Gilmore Girls 3x13

[werewolfpdfs]

sorry for thinking about the adrik and jon argument after kei leaving as if it’s my fault

[writingwithcolor]

Sri Lankan Fairies and Senegalese Goddesses: Mixing Mythology as a Mixed Creator

[Note: this archive ask was submitted before the Masterpost rules took effect in 2023. The ask has been abridged for clarity.]

@reydjarinkenobi asked:

Hi, I’m half Sri Lankan/half white Australian, second gen immigrant though my mum moved when she was a kid. My main character for my story is a mixed demigod/fae. [...] Her bio mum is essentially a Scottish/Sri Lankan fairy and her other bio mum (goddess) is a goddess of my own creation, Nettamaar, who’s name is derived from [...] Wolof words [...]. The community of mages that she presided over is from the South Eastern region of Senegal [...] In the beginning years of European imperialism, the goddess basically protected them through magic and by blessing a set of triplets effectively cutting them off from the outside world for a few centuries [...] I was unable to find a goddess that fit the story I wanted to tell [...] and also couldn’t find much information on the internet for local gods, which is why I have created my own. I know that the gods in Hinduism do sort of fit into [the story] but my Sri Lankan side is Christian and I don’t feel comfortable representing the Hindu gods in the way that I will be this goddess [...]. I wanted to know if any aspect of the community’s history is problematic as well as if I should continue looking further to try and find an African deity that matched my narrative needs? I was also worried that having a mixed main character who’s specifically half black would present problems as I can’t truly understand the black experience. I plan on getting mixed and black sensitivity readers once I finish my drafts [...] I do take jabs at white supremacy and imperialism and I I am planning to reflect my feelings of growing up not immersed in your own culture and feeling overwhelmed with what you don’t know when you get older [...]. I’m sorry for the long ask but I don’t really have anyone to talk to about writing and I’m quite worried about my story coming across as insensitive or problematic because of cultural history that I am not educated enough in.

Reconciliation Requires Research

First off: how close is this world’s history to our own, omitting the magic? If you’re aiming for it to be essentially parallel, I would keep in mind that Senegal was affected by the spread of Islam before the Europeans arrived, and most people there are Muslim, albeit with Wolof and other influences. 

About your Scottish/Sri Lankan fairy character: I’ll point you to this previous post on Magical humanoid worldbuilding, Desi fairies as well as this previous post on Characterization for South Asian-coded characters for some of our commentary on South Asian ‘fae’. Since she is also Scottish, the concept can tie back to the Celtic ideas of the fae.

However, reconciliation of both sides of her background can be tricky. Do you plan on including specific Sri Lankan mythos into her heritage? I would tread carefully with it, if you plan to do so. Not every polytheistic culture will have similar analogues that you can pull from.

To put it plainly, if you’re worried about not knowing enough of the cultural histories, seek out people who have those backgrounds and talk to them about it. Do your research thoroughly: find resources that come from those cultures and read carefully about the mythos that you plan to incorporate. Look for specificity when you reach out to sensitivity readers and try to find sources that go beyond a surface-level analysis of the cultures you’re looking to portray. 

~ Abhaya

I see you are drawing on Gaelic lore for your storytelling. Abhaya has given you good links to discussions we’ve had at WWC and the potential blindspots in assuming, relative to monotheistic religions like Christianity, that all polytheistic and pluralistic lore is similar to Gaelic folklore. Fae are one kind of folklore. There are many others. Consider:

Is it compatible? Are Fae compatible with the Senegalese folklore you are utilizing? 

Is it specific? What ethnic/religious groups in Senegal are you drawing from? 

Is it suitable? Are there more appropriate cultures for the type of lore you wish to create?

Remember, Senegalese is a national designation, not an ethnic one, and certainly not a designation that will inform you with respect to religious traditions. But more importantly:

...Research Requires Reconciliation

My question is why choose Senegal when your own heritage offers so much room for exploration? This isn’t to say I believe a half Sri-Lankan person shouldn’t utilize Senegalese folklore in their coding or vice-versa, but, to put it bluntly, you don’t seem very comfortable with your heritage. Religions can change, but not everything cultural changes when this happens. I think your relationship with your mother’s side’s culture offers valuable insight to how to tackle the above, and I’ll explain why.  

I myself am biracial and bicultural, and I had to know a lot about my own background before I was confident using other cultures in my writing. I had to understand my own identity—what elements from my background I wished to prioritize and what I wished to jettison. Only then was I able to think about how my work would resonate with a person from the relevant background, what to be mindful of, and where my blindspots would interfere. 

I echo Abhaya’s recommendation for much, much more research, but also include my own personal recommendation for greater self-exploration. I strongly believe the better one knows oneself, the better they can create. It is presumptuous for me to assume, but your ask’s phrasing, the outlined plot and its themes all convey a lack of confidence in your mixed identity that may interfere with confidence when researching and world-building. I’m not saying give up on this story, but if anxiety on respectful representation is a large barrier for you at the moment, this story may be a good candidate for a personal project to keep to yourself until you feel more ready.

(See similar asker concerns here: Running Commentary: What is “ok to do” in Mixed-Culture Supernatural Fiction, here: Representing Biracial Black South American Experiences and here: Am I fetishizing my Japanese character?)

- Marika.

Start More Freely with Easy Mode

Question: Why not make a complete high-fantasy universe, with no need of establishing clear real-world parallels in the text? It gives you plenty of leg room to incorporate pluralistic, multicultural mythos + folklore into the same story without excessive sweating about historically accurate worldbuilding.

It's not a *foolproof* method; even subtly coded multicultural fantasy societies like Avatar or the Grishaverse exhibit certain harmful tropes. I also don't know if you are aiming for low vs high fantasy, or the degree of your reliance on real world culture / religion / identity cues.

But don't you think it's far easier for this fantasy project to not have the additional burden of historical accuracy in the worldbuilding? Not only because I agree with Mod Marika that perhaps you seem hesitant about the identity aspect, but because your WIP idea can include themes of othering and cultural belonging (and yes, even jabs at supremacist institutions) in an original fantasy universe too. I don't think I would mind if I saw a couple of cultural markers of a Mughal Era India-inspired society without getting a full rundown of their agricultural practices, social conventions and tax systems, lol.

Mod Abhaya has provided a few good resources about what *not* to do when drawing heavily from cultural coding. With that at hand, I don't think your project should be a problem if you simply make it an alternate universe like Etheria (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power), Inys (The Priory of the Orange Tree) or Earthsea (the Earthsea series, Ursula K. Le Guin). Mind you, we can trace the analogues to each universe, but there is a lot of freedom to maneuver as you wish when incorporating identities in original fantasy. And of course, multiple sensitivity readers are a must! Wishing you the best for the project.

- Mod Mimi

[scrupulosity-comics]

hey is racism one of your obsessions? also white and ocd. if it is, how u cope with it? i'm really afraid all the time to hurt my loved ones who are black people, and they're the majority of my loved ones. and how do u identify whats racism from whats an intrusive thought?

Most of my race-related OCD is abstract stuff like “if I move out of my parents’ house and try to live my own life outside of their control, I will have to find somewhere I can afford to pay rent, which will probably mean moving into a low-income neighborhood, which would mean inadvertently helping to gentrify the community, which would gradually push the original residents out of their homes and disrupt community ties and support systems and creating housing insecurity, so therefore I can’t move out or move on”.

I think that’s just part of a larger existential terror that I can only ever make the world worse by living in it—a net harm to the universe, molecule by misspent molecule.

I have been letting this ask sit in my inbox for weeks now because I’m convinced that anything I say will be destructive. What if my answer enables or excuses racism? What if my answer fuels the anguish of the mentally ill?

The rational and compassionate part of my mind insists that your loved ones (and mine!) understand that you (and I) are white, and have likely dealt with white peoples all their lives, and are capable of judging for themselves whether you are good to them and deserving of their intimacy. It is impossible to go through life without hurting and being hurt by people you care about—always you will have blindspots and miscommunications and competing needs. That’s just part of the curse of consciousness and being a social species. We all get a little blood on our hands eventually, one way or another… friendship involves knowing this, accepting this, and committing to avoid it and then, that failed, to make things right.

Again: your friends know you’re white. They have reason to expect the best of you or they wouldn’t be your friends. They choose to have you in their lives; trust them to trust you, and to recognize the difference between a beloved friend struggling with a treacherous and unkind brain and doing their best in an inescapably racist society, and a racist who whose bigotry makes them unworthy of their time and affection.

I do think racism obsessions are a particularly difficult manifestation of OCD to cope with because they’re hard to discuss at all without feeling like you’re implicitly asking for absolution. With other types of OCD, it’s common to seek reassurance that what you’re obsessively afraid of isn’t true—but what feels more racist than asking someone to reassure you that you’re not racist…? LMAO.

They say the “cure” to OCD, such as it is, is just to learn how to embrace the existential horror of uncertainty. Tall fucking order. Hell on Earth! But in a bizarre way I have found the rhetoric that “everyone is unconsciously and incurably racist” to be unexpectedly helpful… there is no total psychological purging and mental purification we can undergo, no amount of ritual self-flagellation that will drive the demons out, no pristine state we can aspire to and hate ourselves for soiling. Only mundane everyday commitments to compassion and empathy and solidarity and cleaning up our messes. But even then, a thought isn’t a mess. A thought I’d not a thing that happened or a choice you made. It doesn’t represent an alternate timeline branching off into a parallel universe where you have acted on it and hurt people.

Earlier this year I was playing a video game—during my lunch break I got to wondering what happened if you failed a skill check that I had passed in my own playthough, so I looked up a clip on YouTube and was so triggered by the answer (the player character calls his companion a racial slur in the heat of the moment, without meaning to, even if you’ve played him as a committed anti-racist) that I immediately spiraled and was close to throwing up in the broom closet, and when I got home I opened my own save and tried to make the player character kill himself as catharsis. It was an incredibly unreasonable guilt response to a completely fictional scenario that I hadn’t even gotten in my own playthrough, but in retrospect it was a safe way to explore fear of my own internalized racism hurting somebody and what might happen if my intrusive thoughts came true. It sucked and it was terrible and I was angry at myself for being crazy about it, but it ended up being a small dose of exposure therapy and practice at not repenting for nonexistent through self-abuse.

I dunno. This has been a long uncomfortably personal ramble but I hope it’s helpful. I don’t know if your friends know you have OCD (or how it manifests) and I don’t know whether telling them would help. But allowing yourself to trust others to trust you is far more useful than beating yourself up for thoughts you don’t want. I have on occasion warned people that I am cautious about doing certain things with them—particularly drinking—because there is a risk that I may spiral and show symptoms humiliating and uncomfortable to both of us, and I don’t want to put them in a position where they witness or feel like they have to help me manage the white guilt elements of my disorder. These conversations have usually gone well, and the mutual understanding to boundaries takes some of the tension out, which seems to reduce the triggers. It’s messy and awkward and maybe it limits who is willing to be friends with me, but IMHO it’s better than surprising someone.

As for determining whether something is an intrusive thought or actual racism, I guess my answer is: does it matter? Would you manage them differently? Intrusive thoughts may be an evil voice in your brain, but racism is an evil voice in society’s brain.

[aparticularbandit]

"i wanted to play someone whose flame of hope would never extinguish."

THINKING ABOUT ZERXUS ILEREZ AND MAKOTO NAEGI.

thinking about zerxus ilerez and makoto naegi.

thinking about zerxus as a redemption paladin to the extreme.

thinking about zerxus and the understanding that everyone can be redeemed but not realizing that doesn't mean he can redeem everyone.

thinking about makoto naegi inviting junko to leave with them after the killing game.

thinking about defeat equals friendship and makoto's hope used as a source of redemption for the remnants.

thinking about zerxus ilerez and how he ended up.

thinking about zerxus ilerez and makoto naegi.

[gl1tchr]

Literally though and that’s what I worry in reeves verse with joker and riddler. Joker is just gonna get the “better treatment” which feels so unfair…?

Like obviously Batman has reasons to hate this riddler lol…but I hope he has a moment of clarity or something, he understands (maybe not consciously) the riddler and his motives, hell their parallels are endless

I hope it’ll evolve into Batman feeling guilty almost for basically creating riddler? I think in general he would, but specifically thinking in terms of “I’m sorry Edward”

Oh friend while I understand you, you Misunderstand me - I LIKE that Batman has that blindspot. It makes him a layered character. You're supposed to be BETTER, believe in GOOD and CHANGE, but for this man you don't? Why do you hold such contempt for this man in particular? And Ohhh how much better than hits in Reevesverse because Edward has DIRECTLY impacted his life in so many ways. I think Battinson will TRY to be better and treat Edward the same way he treats other criminals, with the expectation that they can heal and change, but I don't think he will ever be able to completely quell his contempt for Edward. I think he DOES see the parallels, I think he saw them well before like Joker said he did. And I think that's the thing that often *disgusts* Batman - Riddler is so much like him and is enrages him because he has the drive and ability to be good but doesn't, so even when he does try to get better, Batman still has this anger that he hurt so many people for so long, for what? So NOW you can decide to be good? You're too smart for that. You could've decided a LONG time ago. I LIKE Bruce having that blind rage, it makes him so interesting

[all-pacas]

In houseswapped, who initiates the angry closet sessions? I'd assume cameron because of her exhibitionism, but chase is the miserable bastard in this au. And what precedes it? Cameron nagging chase about his legs? or a case? or a fight?

Fairly even split, I think. The urgency/exhibitionism is from Cameron, but I think they're both like we need to do this right now, before he/she/I can regret it. It's a twenty minute drive to either of their houses; that's much too long, and anyway, if you ask someone over to your place, you're admitting you want them, right? Easier to kind of… pretend it's all spur of the moment and accidental.

Cameron's also in a bad timeline: I think she took the breakup worse, even if they were never married. After all, in the original timeline, she can scapegoat House and probably even Dibala himself (if only he'd never shown up at the hospital) for ending their relationship: here? She can't really blame the dude who stabbed Chase, since he was having a psychotic break. Chase himself openly blamed her for the breakup, and it was really down to you pity broken people and I'm broken now; in a real way he blames her for being herself, for her compassion and genuine care (and, yes, pity too) at the worst moment of his life. So Cameron had finally been willing to put herself out there and try again, and got told you're the reason I'm miserable.

It's been a few years since that — to match the Stacy parallels, let's say five. That immediate anger has faded, they've sort of… gotten very used to pretending things are okay. But it absolutely fucked Cameron up, too. She still cares but now always has a voice in the back of her head going your caring is a weapon. So Chase actually has to initiate a lot. They don't do the House and Cuddy thing of bickering to flirt, they just… start finding excuses to be in proximity. Chase lingers in the ER even though he's been taken care of. Cameron starts referring weak cases she really doesn't need a second pair of eyes on. Chase has a bad pain day and feels needy; Cameron loses a patient and feels self loathing. They make out in a closet and don't talk about it.

(Cameron does nag him all the time about his legs/back, but it's. He needs the nagging. He's not addicted to pain killers, he's lowkey afraid of turning into his mother, he is severely under-medicating and is also fucked up and needy enough that he kind of wants someone to bully him into resting, passive-aggressively forcing people to prove they care. Cameron is good at this. Foreman does it too. Wilson and Cuddy eventually get in on the act, but House probably has a self-imposed blindspot where this is all concerned, and thinks Chase is doing just fine and that that's pretty badass of him.)

[nachosncheeze]

Blindspot Parallels - Talk Her Down (3x11/3x20)

Does this feel like where you belong?

[light-me-on-pyre]

love the sass from dean this episode. Love when a whumpee can be cuffed to the table with the threat of pain and death hanging over them and still be a self riotous asshole. Where's his paper clip tho. He should be sewing those into the hem of his clothes by now.

Love the omen of death spirit that dont kill directly. Hope we see more of those.

I can't believe he cask of ammotialldio'd her.

Weird the police don't know the dad's dead even though he died in a hospital. I know hospitals don't report everything but deaths would get some kind of memo I'd think? Also that Dean was there with an active warrant and no cops came in the week or however long s2ep1 lasted.

Always love when an episode shows cops accurately (corrupt and liars)

Im also realizing there's something tasty about one way glass cops have in interrogation rooms. Being seen and talked about but not seeing or hearing out. Little details that add to a scene ya know?

I just started watching Supernatural because why not and

The shape shifter episode?

The shape shifter episode.

The entire episode was giving me whumpflies. The premise is a shapeshifter turns into the husbands and boyfriends of the women he tortures and kills and the real guys take the fall for it. And I just

The situation from the women's prospective. The "please don't hurt me any more" to the real husband.

Imagining a whumper who tortures like this but doesn't kill. The victims testimony means the real guy goes to jail for sure even when no cameras. How does he convince her it wasn't really him? Even if it ends with a reveal and exoneration like the episode, how can she trust him? How does he grapple with the fact she believes, with good reason if emotion driven, that he's capable of that?

I just

Oooooh I see why people like this show.

[quidfree]

Theos relationship with pippa is so hilarious and funny to me I lofe it so much, when he goes from being a grumpy pessimistic guy to 'we just touched legs this is the best day of my life' meanwhile in descriptions of her he compares her hands to Boris - showstopping

Pippa is so long suffering idk how she puts up with him

they have such an interesting, deeply sad and touching relationship. the trauma they went through and the strange coincidence linking them makes them more to each other than almost anyone could be, but because of that trauma they're also both really fucked up people and their relationship suffers greatly for it.

theo is in love with pippa and deeply loves her as a friend, but he also can't see or treat her as a real person in the way he sees boris (despite the fact he also has boris on a pedestal)- she's too tied up in that day at the met / dead mom / pubescent wet dreams / death of innocence for theo to ever be normal about it. it's harder to know what pippa thinks (and she's certainly not thrilled he's obsessed with her), but she obviously shares both theo's great affection and complicated trauma feelings about it. it's just harder on her because pippa is one of theo's blindspots but the same is not true in reverse.

what i also find interesting is they're both performing normalcy but in different ways at the outset of adultverse- theo by going through the motions and pippa by locking onto the mundane. their biggest incompatibility (as partners, friends, etc) is that she's more self-aware than he is. it's not that pippa is so above it all, it's that she's aware of her own fragility, the chasm she could sink into, the fact being with theo would put her in that place of child feeling. theo on the other hand thinks being with pippa would fix all of his problems, the way he doesn't think about e.g. boris even though part of him also believes this about boris a little (theo's stunted child brain again- as you say, it all overlaps and parallels, even marrying kitsey which is really marrying the barbours which is really marrying a home and a life of his choosing).

[selamat-linting]

My year of rest and relaxation is pretty good though. i read it a couple of years ago and a lot of it stuck with me. the narrator's mom described as a fish, not only its her internalized sexism at play its a parallel to her who is currently doing the same thing. sleeping to pass the year, living moment to moment, try not to remember or be cognizant of anything. she is such a terrible, privileged person and she's so deeply alienated from everything. its compelling. i feel sad for her. i do wonder that since the book is set pre-9/11 its a commentary from otessa on how the nostalgic past has always been a rotting facade all along, that even the privileged class of society is simply trucking along trying to find joy from Product! Advertisement! Mind numbing ways to spend time because you made yourself unable to care for anything outside of your self-centered bubble!

Another bit that stuck with me was the final chapter of the narrator seeing her friend jump from the towers. Here she is, alive, wide awake, jumping to the unknown. That really sums up the point of the book. Sleeping is dying, the narrator has a beating heart but she was (or is still) dead because she is avoiding to acknowledge the change of her life from adulthood and loss of her parents. Living is facing the unknown, and all this time she is dead because she's stuck in the shitty art scene filled with purposeless trust fund babies, sleeping and drugging her way through life. Her friend is alive, and the narrator will always see her as a part of the living, because her last act is bravely risking it all in hopes she won't burn to death.

A blind spot the narrator has though, was in matters of race. She was especially dismissive to the brown men who worked at the shop near her apartment. The narrator did get badly treated by men in a lot of occasions, but I wonder if this (edit: by this i mean the men in the shops acting too friendly to her, not the guys who used her for affairs and such) is a case of unreliable narration. There is also this part where she, a white woman, was locked in a room for the rest of the year, taken care of by some guy who uses her as a muse. The paintings he made showed her wearing a kimono, in a japanese inspired art style, posing in ways she can't remember doing. I feel like that should be discussed more. I feel like I'm stumbling upon something I should understand but couldn't when I read that. What do you mean? Am I reading too much into the blindspot of an author or is this an intentional writing choice?

All in all, this is a sad girl book where nothing happens, the narrator is super navel-gazey and everything is excessively a spesific type of usamerican. But I like the character study. It's a fascinating piece of writing

[portsinastorm]

Watching Truth or Dare (an episode I've avoided even after multiple rewatches of Criminal Minds) and I swear to God, I'm shocked that after S12's Sick Day (which was honestly one of JJ's best episodes and a great episode to watch if you don't ship Will and JJ and want to know what makes them a great fit for each other), they decided to even go in this direction. JJ was rolling her eyes at Spencer over multiple seasons just during his infodumps, you cannot make me believe that she's been in love with that man all this time, when they didn't even tell us how she felt after they went to the football game.

(If anything, the way they fight during S7 when Emily comes back should have been a clue how incompatible they would be.)

And then she even looks put upon when she holds Will's hand while Emily gives her twin flames speech.

This is just... character assassination within the logic they've set up.

If Will isn't it for JJ, they should have split them up during the S7 finale (the man has been proposing to her since the season 3 finale in canon, at some point the writing's on the wall if she's let like three years pass them by without saying yes or giving him a definite answer). Up until that point, it's been clear that JJ has issues committing. But they didn't. The next opportunity for splitting them up would have been in S10 and that could have been as a result of what JJ suffered in Season 9 in the 200th episode. It may have been cliche, but they've had the job come between Hotch and Haley before, and drawing that parallel would have given Hotch the opportunity to give JJ advice and share his wisdom. But they didn't.

And then they did this to JJ and Will's relationship.

Look, anyone who follows my blog knows I love Jemily and knows that in my heart, they're endgame. I also believe that good stories have good story logic. There was no reason to even make this confession happen. JJ has been established as one of the best covert operatives in the BAU, the woman can lie if she needs to.

In fact, it would've been better if the confession was in fact a lie, because it just strengthens JJ's character as someone who would not hesitate to do something morally grey for the greater good. It's core to her character--if it would save even just one person, she'd do it. It also would've highlighted the fact that in the BAU, their close friendships with each other means they're sometimes each other's blindspots, which opens more doors story and character-wise than making JJ and Spence some form of star-crossed lovers.

Also, the show making them seem like twin flames? No, they've been brother and sister long before Reid's S12 storyline.

Not to mention what they've done to Will in the first season Criminal Minds: Evolution (technically season 16). At some point, just take the man out of his misery and get him out of the picture (divorce) if they don't think he's the one for JJ.

[moe-broey]

what are your hcs for kiran

OHH..... I DO really like thinking of Kiran as their own character, too, despite being a stand-in for the player. I don't have a ton of complex thoughts about them, I Do tend to just absorb other people's hcs for them LMFAO (LIKE. I AM SOOO intrigued by your analysis of them being all luck. Mid maxed to hell LMFAO)

I also really adore @hulloitsdani 's portrayal of Kiran... solidifying them as silly strange somewhat off-putting individual, for me!

I really like to think they contain just. So much. World's smartest dumbass. Guy who does fuck all but is still somehow extremely perfectionistic. I like to think they're impulsive, and they have the luck to make it work. Chill individual who has Something. Going on. That makes people uneasy. More than the seemingly lacking a face.

I also very much like to hc that Kiran covers Alfonse's blindspots, in personality -- and Alfonse covers Kiran's. This IS essentially canon but you do have to extrapolate a bit since Kiran is a silent protag in FEH!

I like to think canon Kiran exists in a universe parallel to my summoner OC's. One thing I've been rotating in my brain actually is the Spring paralogue featuring bunny Alfonse and Sharena, who are with a different summoner -- I have a mental image of that summoner being Moe. Like two ships passing in the night.....