#bonus under the cut bc i couldn't decide which one

[front-facing-pokemon]

[arach-tinilith]

Okay I got inspired by @majorasnightmare and decided I should really talk about Naadja's family and upbringing. CW for typical drow violence/torture/infanticide under the cut

Also bonus naady

Siblings - I've talked about her brother, Arazai. He's an Arachnomancer/warlock and the eldest child. 

When Naadja was born she was actually a twin but she was born in secret as her mother wanted to protect the twins. For good reason, because Arazai did sacrifice one to Lolth to gain her favour. (He was a terrible fighter and was hoping to get stronger through Lolth) 

He didn't know they were twins because they were kept in separate chambers with different wet nurses. So imagine his surprise when he kills an infant and the next day Prae'anelle is walking around with a baby strapped to her chest.

His class is also an integral part of his character that shaped the relationship between himself and Naadja. He was taught to be an Arachnomancer just as Naadja was made to be a Priestess. Both have secondary classes with Arazai as a warlock and Naadja as a sorceress. Arazai keeps his pact secret, obviously. Naadja did find out about it, though and uses it as blackmail often bc he's casting eldritch blasts and calling them magic missiles to get a good grade in Spider Wizard. Which she thinks is unfathomably lame.

This is what he looks like 👎 ^

Naadja's mother - Her relationship with her mother is… rough. Big disclaimer here, I looked high and low for lore on Prae'anelle Duskryn. (I looked on wiki a couple times) and I came up empty handed. So if you see my wildly mischaracterizing her, my bad. BUT what I've gathered is that she's cruel, cold, and extremely calculating. 

I'd like to think in their childhood years, Arazai and Naadja were sort of pitted against one another by Prae'anelle. She'd only praise one if the other had failed. Failure was punished severely through acts of scarification, excruciating healing, and meticulous bone-setting. 

This led to decades of sabotage between the siblings. More often than not, Arazai was failing which made it especially traumatic whenever Naadja did. She can't handle failure, or really anything less than perfection. She gets a full body response to making a misstep and shuts down when such a moment occurs. It's something she's constantly trying to unlearn but she feels every failure, past and present, lingering just under her skin where the scars would have been. 

Arazai, however, realized the game was rigged pretty early on. His mother never forgave him for sacrificing her child. She wasn't his to offer to Lolth, it was pure selfishness. A trait she'd normally praise had it not been used against her. So she often punished Arazai, praising Naadja in turn, and creating a rift between her children. 

Naadja's father - unknown. She does have a paternal figure, his name is Jys’avin. He's the weapon master of house Duskryn. He taught Naadja how to fight in melee, specifically with rapier. He was the only adult Naadja could trust during her upbringing.

Jys'avin saw Naadja as a spoiled brat in her younger years, he's the one who taught her to hide her motives and not announce her wants and desires. Mostly because it irritated the shit out of him but it was important that she knew that voicing her wants gave others an advantage over her. He often turned a blind eye to her abuse, though he stepped in when Arazai made attempts to brutalize her after a particularly bad training session. Jys'avin couldn't stand up to Prae'anelle but he could protect Naadja from Arazai. And made it a priority that she be able to protect herself. 

Friends - Naadja had a riding lizard that she called Abbil. She used the word often in raising her, it just became her name. As a child she'd paint her claws and try to put robes on Abbil. She was a very tolerant lizard. Naadja was pretty devastated when she left Abbil behind. 

As far as any “friends” go, Naadja was not raised to interact with children her age. The first time she met others her age was when she went to Arach Tinilith. So to be clear, the first time she met anyone her age was at a boarding school where she knew absolutely no one. Her initial reaction was to manipulate her peers into hating everyone else so they had to like her. And yeah by golly it worked she's got a pretty poisonous tongue and it was easy for her to turn people against each other bc they knew NOTHING about her so it was easy for her to step into any role while they already had beef with each other anyway.

[autisticlancemcclain]

fic rec friday 44

hello and welcome to fic rec friday! where, on friday, i rec five of my favourite fics.

Block, Punch, Dodge by @chasing-the-sterek

"You're not bad," Keith says. "I'm going to take that as a compliment and not think about the implication that you thought I was going to be terrible," Lance shoots back, eyes tracking Keith's hand when it twitches towards his hip. /// In which Lance is a secret badass, Keith is surprisingly not as emotionally constipated as normal and everyone cheats at least little bit.

LANCE SANCHEZ KEITH GYEONG RIGHTS ALL DAY EVERY DAY ALL THE FUCKING TIME NEVER ENDING. this is actually one of the first vld klance fic every posted!! a national treasure fr. poweful younger sibling lance my love and light. he is badass and annoying and i love him so bad

2. Tongue Tied by WinterAndLittleBrunettes

Lance and Keith have been dating for a couple months, but have kept their new status under wraps from their families until they were sure this relationship was worth something. Now that they've found that, they decide to tell Lance's family together at the monthly family dinner. But, things don't exactly go as planned.

i will forever and always be obsessed with the secret relationship trope. always always. and its BETTER when its revealed and then the mcclains are like FUCK yeah keith is our BOY finally you make a good decision!!! iconique

3. Secrets and Lavender by VertigoReader101

Lance rolled his eyes. “Not like you know anything about love, Pidge podge.” “And you do?” Pidge questioned. Lance’s eyes subconsciously glanced over to Keith who was stubbornly looking straight ahead, but you could tell he was listening closely. “I’d like to think so.” ````````````````````` Or five times Lance was jealous but couldn't say anything and the one time that he punches someone in the face.

i will ALWAYS love this fic!! the way they love each other so fiercely but they don't trust the world with them yet!!! like!! but they want to. they want to be out and proud but there is patience that needs to work its way through them and their relationship. the way lavender is woven so so intricately through the entire fic...crying and screaming

4. Frilly Apron by @ficletsandthelike

Pidge just wanted some food goo, but disgustingly sweet secret dates might be even better.

more secret relationship bc truly who is going to stop me. also, we as a fandom have failed in implementing a pidge and keith rivalry. this fic is so dorky and funny

5. Rough Cut by zenstrike

The war effort makes demands of everyone. or, that time the paladins are forced to go on a hunt for a diamond and Lance makes everything a little more difficult for Keith.

I WILL ALWAYS BE SO SO OBSESSED WITH ZENSTRIKE. for starters they have written probably one of my favourite klance series of all times. they are the MASTERS of klance being knowing and quietly loving and right on the precipice of falling again and again and again. this fic in particular is so fucking funny and comes with the added bonus of allura losing her whole entire shit at the dumbass mission they're sent on lol

that’s it for today!! i’ll see y’all back next friday for the next fic rec post!!!

[wannabe-cartoonist-blog]

finally drawing everybody's animal form after like 4 years into this au. randomly, I started with Touou. (plus bonus hanamiya bc i don't feel like coming up with the rest of kirisaki)

See more art from the AU | read the series (kagakuro main pairing)

Explanation on selections under the cut! plus some fun animal facts!!

Aomine: black jaguar/panther. this is was an easy one, considering its a canon comparison (it's his Animal Instinct). that being said, it really does fit him! a rather lethargic creature, he's often napping in the sun or found lounging around on any free surface, but you sure don't want to get on his bad side.

Momoi: I have an agenda which is to include Momoi as a GoM any chance I get, so I very well couldn't have her as the only non-shifter in the Teiko pack now could I? That being said, it was super hard to place her, but after a little research, I decided to pick a species that highlighted her intelligence (a parrot) and then picked a subspecies that matched her aesthetically. therefore, we have the galah (aka a pink cockatoo). she's a friendly and vocal little bird and can often be seen perching on Kuroko and/or Aomine when shifted.

Sakurai: a more recent epiphany, originally I thought he was going to remain a non-shifter. but after getting a really dumb idea, I decided to double-check to see if there were any creatures that both matched my idea and fit sakurai aesthetically/characteristically. the idea? to check to see what animals consume mushrooms as part of their diet. lo and behold, one such species is the hedgehog, which I happen to think aesthetically matches sakurai pretty perfectly. it was like a little epiphany. sakurai and hedgehogs are both small and round but a little prickly. perfection.

Imayoshi: another character who remained status-less for a long time. however, upon re-watching the series I concluded that Imyaoshi is very snake-like in his expressions. after i decided that, I simply googled black breeds of snakes. eastern rat snakes are non-venomous and are therefor constrictors, who wrap around and squeeze their prey. a slow, drawn out sort of style of killing, which I think matches his conniving, slightly sadistic nature quite well. they are cute little things though and rather non-aggressive towards humans.

Hanamiya: a canon comparison (the spider's web), so he was a character who always had a second-skin when I came up with the au. however, it would be damn right goofy to just have a normal spider try to be threatening in my mind, so I tried to come up with other variants than a simple black widow/whatever the animators drew for the Spider's Web sequence. in the fic, I wrote him to be a goliath birdeater tarantula, the biggest species of arachnid, but upon reflection, I decided that it was quite important to me to keep him as a spider, that way webs would still come into play. so, I sacrificed size and looked into other, more threatening-looking and acting spiders that also spun webs and then I learned about the funnel web spider, a species native to Australia (of course). technically, they more so build spider web nests, as opposed to traditional, airborne webs, but they're fascinating little creatures. look at a close up of them too, quite frightening! they also have some of the biggest fangs relative to their body size amongst their species. they also do threatening little dances where they fan out their limbs and also have venom. their venom is extremely toxic, and can cause severe drops in blood pressure, comas, or in extreme cases, organ failure and death; so if you ever encounter one, be extremely cautious, as they are very aggressive/territorial (I personally hope to never encounter one in my life-time; though they are funnily sassy-seeming in the videos I've seen). males are typically smaller than the females, but I decided to make Hanamiya an exception and have him be on the larger side (the whole species ranges from 1cm-5cm typically) but the largest male on record was 7.9cm (a little over 3 inches)!!

[itsgonnagetinspiringsoon]

ok so i know i've literally never posted abt sanders sides before on this blog (i haven't been keeping up for a few years) but i've been tumbling down a waterslide lined with my old hyperfixations for the last few hours and ended up creating D&D au character designs for the core four sides using heroforge. images and descriptions under the cut if you're interested ❤ bonus points if you can guess what classes they are (this is EXTREMELY self-indulgent so pls forgive the ranting abt them, they're very important to me ok)

First up we have Roman! my beloved. one of my first questions when starting his design was how can i make him look as cunty as possible? the answer: heeled boots and winged eyeliner (It's a little tricky to see but he's got gold metallic eyeliner). I ADORE Roman's colour pallet so i kept it as close to accurate as i could, making white the base colour and accentuating it with the gold armor and the dramatic red shoulder cape as my stand-in for his sash. he's wielding a katana OF COURSE how could he not be. he's slaying ⚔ 🐉 and slaying 💅💋

moving on:

Patton. my baby, my honey, my ragtime gal. i decided to make his hair a little longer than roman's bc i thought it made him look softer and more approachable. it was UNBELIEVABLY hard to find something that sort of replaced his cardigan without looking too chunky but i did like this kind of loose tattered mantle, so i went with that. kept the sky blue shirt and gray cardigan/shawl, but gave him more greyish blue pants so they didn't blend into the shirt too much. glasses are round instead of square bc again i thought they made him look friendlier than the square ones. freckles bc i personally think freckles are very cute and patton is very cute so he got freckles. no shoes he's travelling the realms like the gods intended. the dad vibes are strong i want him to give me a hug 🥺

next up:

logan is quite possibly my favourite side so i really wanted to get his design right. the MOST important thing was giving him his iconic necktie, which ended up being pretty much the same color as his canon design. i couldn't give the tie specifically a pattern, so i made his vest stripy like his tie is in the show and i think it looks really good. his glasses are the more classic nerd ones which is perfect for him and i gave him black eyeliner bc i thought it made him look more serious. i added the coat for more of a d&d look (it doesn't make sense to traverse planes wearing a vest and tie) i think it gives him an extra bit of style that i love.

and last but not least:

the Anxious BoiTM himself (i've only had him for five minutes seven years but if anything happened to him etc etc). virgil's was one of the easiest designs aesthetically and hardest mechanically (you'll never guess what class he is guys i took some BIG swings). I knew i wanted him in black and purple (obviously) and i knew i wanted to give him the iconic purple hair dye and eyeshadow. i almost said screw the genre and put him in a zippered hoodie but i do think that a cloak and cowl would suit him very well (good for hiding in) and i found a combo that looked equally cosy and spooky. a bow is good for attacking long range and keeping out of danger (appropriate for anxiety, i thought) and the mask looks intimidating but actually helps him with sensory overload (with the cowl and mask on he's basically in a mini sensory deprivation bubble). an eyebrow ring bc he's edgy idk why honestly i thought it looked cool.

So that's basically it! As i said before if you can guess their respective classes i'll give you a cookie (🍪). since i can't draw, heroforge is usually my go-to for character creation and i have to recommend it (i think i talk abt this site a lot but 🤷‍♀️) it's so helpful for non-artist types like myself.

I hope you enjoyed! please leave comments if you liked they feed me (if you didn't like it, please just move on and don't let me know, i'm doing this for fun and i don't want any negativity please ❤) @thatsthat24 hope you like ��

[reverse-moon]

Intruality shippers of Tumblr! I come with an offering!

Imagine, please:

Intruality Coffee Shop/Bakery AU... But with enemies to friends to lovers trope!

Allow me to give context:

Patton ends up being left a bakery by someone who really liked him at his old job. Remus decides to run a Coffee Shop because of the fact that he had friends who have really specific coffee tastes and no place ever gets the orders exactly right.

Patton (at the beginning of being the bakery's new owner) had no clue how to bake, so the employees are teaching him stuff and helping him and his friends are his taste testers to see if he got a recipe down right. Remus had a raccoon with a business degree helping him, a friend who he's like 89% sure is cold-blooded spreading the word and a caffeine addict who's tasting every single fucking brew he makes to make it the best ever.

Remus buys the empty shop across the street from where the Bakery is. And quickly the two businesses become rivals because almost every single customer loves both. A lot of regulars go to the bakery to order food and then go to the coffee shop while the bakery is making their order to get a drink to go with their food.

Remus thinks the owner of the bakery is so stupid, childish, and way too sweet (he's gonna ruin his money intake if he keeps giving kids free food) and just overall hates Patton. Patton thinks Remus is loud, obnoxious, kinda scary and just a bad businessman in general.

One day, during a super dangerous situation (they're like shopping and there's a fire or someones waving a gun around idk), they end up having to work together to end the danger/save people. They learn sides that you can't see without really trying to that day.

After that, Remus and Patton have a healthy respect for each other, and send their closest friend to snoop on the other one. (Roman was asked by both Patton and Remus to snoop, but he was like "I'm not fanning the flames of your fucking enemies to friends trope life" to them both and stayed the hell out of it.) Patton sends Logan and Remus sends Virgil and like it's really basic stuff the "spys" find out.

So naturally, they wanna fucking get to know each other more. I mean, they saved lives together- And their friends have also brought up that their regulars often get things from both shops when ordering from one. So Remus approaches Patton with "listen, you really fucking make me wanna know you better and we share so many regulars who order my drinks with your food, so why not make it easier on the customers and just combine our businesses?" And Patton's all "I don't see why not if customers really like both our things together!" so Remus and Patton join their businesses and remodel the bakery and all that fun stuff.

Remus is learning how passionate Patton is about learning new things, and how he lights up the days of anyone who walks in. Patton sees that Remus is good at helping people figure out what they want to have and is way more talkative to the customers which keep them laughing. You know, the normal shit.

Anyway, they start to fall for each other and are trying to ignore said feelings because "we're just business partners, that's it" and ROman is seeing the damn romance so he goes on schemes to get the two to realize and confess (eventually getting the help of Emile, Logan, Virgil, Janus and Remy) bc my GOD IS IT PAINFUL TO WATCH.

Eventually, they confess and live happily ever after bc they have really good friends, a really good partner and a booming business. :D

Bonus scene under the cut-off, but like. Doesn't that sound super cool? I think so.

Remus sitting with Patton in the cosy little apartment that Patton owns during winter, his special cocoa recipe in hand asking how Patton decided to go into the baking profession and how he got to own the bakery. Patton casually going: "Oh, a really nice old lady willed it to me. I couldn't back at all at first, so the employees helped me out and now I'm a super good baker with a really cool bakery!"

Causing Remus to be like "you got willed a bakery... but couldn't bake?!" And Patton's like "yeah, I took care of the old lady and she thought everything I made was from scratch so she willed it to me."

Then Patton asking about how Remus got the coffee shop and Remus just saying "Virgil, Janus and Remys never got their orders filled right at the places we went to, so out of spite to those places I made my own. Virgil, Janus and Remy never get a wrong order now"

And Patton's just laughing because Remus said it was out of spite, but it was clear that he did it so his friends didn't have to get wrong orders ever again, and that's super fucking sweet.

[ravencrossffxiv]

Truth Syrum: So if you had to choose anyone aside from your husband who would you pick? (Bonus points if Haurchefant is in the room. >:3c)

((Nonny this is so fucking mean I hope you know. Also this is obviously LbR post 5.3, in which Raven and Mingxia receive their past lives memories at the end of 5.0, and the utter mind-fuckery that is. Trigger/content warnings of trauma, technically character death, mentions of blood...there’s a lot. Going under a cut bc again, this is long and has some pretty heavy content here.))

"Oh by the Fury why in the seven hells would anyone ask that?!" Raven shouts as she threw her tomephone across the room before hiding her face in a pillow and screaming in mortification.

Haurchefant, who had set aside a tray of a light meal and a warm drink, caught the tomephone almost reflexively. He blinked before giving a small laugh. "Oh dear heart, why are you so embarrassed? After all, did I not tease you for your gazing of the Vii on the First?"

He knew a political rival had slipped a truth serum in Raven’s drink and nearly caused a ruckus at a gala in the Vault. And while Aymeric had dealt with him, he was a little annoyed he didn't get to feed the bastard some of his teeth.

He may let his Fray have some fun later, but right now he was more concerned on making sure his wife was alright.

"The idea of being with or considering anyone else is revolting. I am a very happily married woman who loves her husband and the idea of straying from him makes me feel so disgusting..." She states, but then clarifies "Mind you, I know polyamory is a thing and I am very happy to see people in those relationships make it work, it's just not for me."

Haurchefant smiled as he leaned in and kissed her. "I love you too my wife. And I know your heart, intimately. I know you would never stray." He set the tray down on the bed and settled in behind her, her back to his chest. They ate in a comfortable silence and after the dishes had been cleared from the bed he got a slightly dangerous thought in his head. "Amethyst?"

"Yes love?"

He was quiet for a second, trying to think of the best way to say this before ultimately taking her hands to link their aether. "Would it help to think of this as though this was your other life? The one in which I did not survive?"

He felt her tense for a moment before she started to fidget and play with his hands. "I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse. The idea of you gone..."

"I know. Forgive me for upsetting you my heart. I-" He starts as he holds her tightly against him.

She shook her head. "I know love. I just... It's really hard to think of that because what happened in that life..." She says before looking down at his stomach and tracing the scar there over his shirt, doing her damndest to block the image of blood dripping from his mouth and the light of his eyes fading. "I mean, what better way to break a Warrior of Light than to kill the one they love in a way that they can't save them?"

"Raven..." He breathed as he pulled her tight against him. She held him just as tight and stayed there for several moments, reorienting herself with the fact that this was not that life, yet in those moments she found clarity in the answer to the question on her tomephone.

"Huh..." She muses once she gathered herself. "That was weirdly helpful."

He blinked as she grabbed the tomephone and began typing. "My heart?"

"I think she decided to talk to me, kind of. Or talk to me through my inner dragon in a sense. Which is weird because technically she is me but not really? Anyway, she told me her feelings towards someone she considered long term even though she still felt like she couldn't give them one hundred percent of her commitment, because she was still mourning. And I think they would've understood that, even if she never actually pursued them."

"May I see? I won't judge. Truly I don't think I could." He asked, fully ready to accept if she didn't want to share.

She hesitated for a second before she nodded as she rolled to where her back was to his chest and he could look over her shoulder. "I don’t mind sharing. I trust you. Though I still want to clarify that this is NOT this life. I am with you and I love you. Nothing is going to happen."

He smiled and kissed her cheek, he knew that she loved him and that he was her first choice, and that whoever might be the ones her previous life considered didn't really matter in the long run. "Tis as I said, I know your heart intimately. I know you would never stray to another. I love you."

"I love you too." She said with a smile as he watched her type.

Well this is a very odd question. I hope you know my husband is sitting in bed with me and laughing over this whole ordeal. But I guess I'll indulge in this.

I think my best choice would be Lyna. She's brilliant and strong, incredibly competent, no-nonsense, and she's also utterly gorgeous. I hate that I had such a high level of gay panic when I met her.

"Oh by the Fury you have a type!"

"Shut up you."

"I'm teasing dear heart. Did you forget that Lyna and I were really close friends while I was stuck on the First?"

"You were also petty as all hells and told her about the Source without the Exarch's say."

"Hey he pissed me off, and plus that's kinda how I earned Lyna's trust as quickly as I did. That and when we got shoehorned into a very uncomfortable blind date by her men I wouldn't shut up about you."

Raven laughed. "Okay fair enough."

"Plus I teased you when you were respectfully looking at the Viis in Fanow. Which by the way were you still curious about that? I could still fantasia-"

"No. I'm good."

He pouted and she lightly swatted him in the chest. "Not that I don't think you'd look lovely and beautiful, just..."

"Too soon for the sort?"

"Kinda..."

He smiled and kissed her cheek. "As you wish dear heart.”

[okaybutlikeimagine]

what would happen if maybe billy got el's powers for a day, but couldn't control it. hopper would literally die from how much he broke by accident

Ohmygod dude Hopper would lose his fucking mind bc he can barely handle a 14 yr old who was taught she had powers, imagine him then having to handle a 17 yr old who gets them randomly, is taught nothing about them, AND is already pretty emotionally unstable???? It’d be absolute PANDEMONIUM and i love this dearly.

So i have absolutely no clue how this would happen (maybe cue some of those fan theories about Billy having powers all along/having to leave Cali bc he’s actually an experiment and fucked something up big time/becomes a Winter Soldier bc of the gov) but this is just a One Day Thing and i’m gonna not explain it

ANYWAY Billy wakes up sweating fucking buckets. Like… our boy is a mess and flipping his shit bc his head hurts like hell and he doesn’t know what’s happening but suddenly he wants this blanket off of him so he tries to struggle out of it but it gets tangled around his feet and he just wants. It. off. And in a second it goes hurtling across the room and he just stares at it like: …………………… Hm.

Bc like… It's just a BLANKET it's not that big of a deal… Except he goes to grab his mug off the top shelf and he reaches for it drowsily and he can't even get a finger on it from where he is but somehow it fucking falls and shatters and a piece of it hits Billy and he cusses harshly

Hop wakes up at the sound, worried someone's hurt when he sees Billy examining his hand.

"What's up kid? What happened?"

"I broke my stupid mug." He grumbles, rubbing at his hand

It's Hop who puts them up there bc that's just where he's always kept his mugs. When he puts them away he forgets to put Billy's lower bc it's just a force of habit at this point. Billy's not short, but Hop’s got a good few inches on him for sure, and the highest shelf is just out of Billy's reach.

"Told ya to grab a chair if you can't reach em." Hop mumbles, walking over to the kitchen.

"I don't need to stand on a chair, I was just reaching for them-" and Billy gestures up to them and flips his hand in the air and all of the mugs fling themselves from the cabinet and come crashing to the ground.

And Billy and Hop are spooked, Hop grabbing Billy and pulling him away from the cabinet as the porcelain shatters on the ground. Billy looks at the cabinet terrified and it closes with a slam

"El??" Hop asks 

and they both look to her door and see a drowsy, mumbly El walk out, rubbing sleep from her eyes and asking "whasthat noise?"

"Did you knock the mugs down?"

And El is confused as all hell and shaking her head like: "I was asleep."

Hop and Billy share a scared look.

And now think about Billy FREAKING. OUT. Looking at the cabinets like: what???? And thinking about how he was able to open them but he thinks too hard and they all fly open and he looks at them like: did I…. Pull the mugs down??

And upon thinking about it, the plates start flying out and smashing on the counter and table and Hop pulls Billy and El behind him and tries to block them and El is like shaking trying to use her powers to get them to stop.

Once it's done they sit Billy down on the couch and ask how he feels and he's like: "pretty freaked out, thanks!!" all sarcastically

El grabs him a glass of water and Billy looks at it realizing how thirsty he is and upon that though the water shoots up out of the glass and towards Billy and splashes him in the face and freaks Billy out. so he gets pissed at the glass which then pulls itself out of el's hand and onto the ground and she jumps and Billy freaks out and wants to hug something so a pillow hits his face but not without nearly knocking over a picture frame on the way over that El has to stop from hitting the floor

And poor, nervous Billy is sitting there hugging his pillow and looking at them w/ fear like: “I hate this, make it stop. Powers seem cool till you have them I don't fucking want them anymore."

And he's sitting there shaking and he thinks about how he's kind of hungry and in a second the fridge opens and the jam flies out and smashes against the wall and knocks down a vase and some picture frames and a loaf of bread hits Hop in the side of the face and nearly knocks down a lamp in the process and Hop???? Hop is about to have a panic attack or something bc whattheactualfuck how do I deal with this?????

Hard cut to Billy being sat outside on the steps to the house, arms crossed and face pouting as he watches the branches on the tree sway under his will. El comes out and sits next to him and pats him on the shoulder and is like: “Maybe I can… teach you?”

So they sit out there and Billy tries to bring branches and leaves to them and yeah, maybe a branch flies through the window and breaks it but hey, he gets better at it!! And when he gets thirsty he decides to will a glass over to his hand and it takes a little bit but he does it! And him and El are so excited and they walk into the cabin to get some water but they find Hop w/ one hand over his face just in exhaustion bc he's standing in the middle of broken lamps and plates and glasses.

So Billy gets sent outside again. With his glass of water, of course.

And the next day, when Billy wakes up w/ no powers but to a cabin that looks like practically a war zone, Hop and Billy go down to the store to pick up a bunch more plates and mugs and glasses and picture frames. And a new lamp. And Billy never ever ever thinks about having powers again.

{Bonus: Billy sitting outside and just wanting to see Steve so badly and then an hour or so later Steve walks up to their house sans car but + fear in his eyes like: "my feet wouldn't let me stop."}

[frankenfic]

prompt #4

fandom(s): avatar: the last airbender and boku no hero academia

main character: todoroki shōto, and sorta zuko

other characters: all atla characters except zuko (it'll be explained), and also i'm combining zuko and todoroki's moms into one super mom.

setting: atla universe, with some changes to "zuko's" backstory.

basically i love zuko and todoroki and while i was watching bnha amvs i was thinking about them when i got the sudden thought—what if we replaced zuko in the atla universe with todoroki, and kept todoroki's waterbending ice ability??!?!?

basically, i imagined todoroki as zuko wandering the earth kingdom or whatever while pretending to just be an ordinary waterbender.

like, maybe zuko/todoroki's mom secretly had some waterbending ancestry and by some miracle (curse) zukoroki ended up with both firebending and waterbending.

like, he's still got the same thing where he grew to resent his father for what he did to him and his mother and refuses to use his left side firebend bc he doesn't want to be like his father and shit. except now with the bonus of banishment?

the hard part is figuring out which parts of either of the backstories to keep. for example: who gave him the scar? his mother? or his father?

idea: they both did. now, bear with me here—what i'm thinking, is maybe we keep the incident with todoroki's mom burning him with boiling water from a teapot (maybe iroh's there, idk—or, maybe that's why he always gets so angry when uncle tries to offer him tea, bc everytime he sees it or smells it it triggers his fucking ptsd of the person he trusted most in the world betraying him and causing him unimaginable pain, but like no one knows that bc it was kept so hush-hush that only zuko, ozai, super-mom, and maybe azula know) bc he reminds her of his father—

oh my god sorry for the intermission but what if she burned azula instead bc she's so much more like ozai and then ozai burned zuko bc he's too much like his mother and then we just have both of the royal fire children with burned and scarred faces, one with a burn from boiling hot water and the other from a searing roaring flame and just...both each have burns from one of their parents oh my gOD the ANGST

—and for a couple of years he goes around the palace with this horrible burn and people always stare bc like...that's the crown prince and shit. and idk ozai's probably not happy with it, but the point is:

when it comes to the agni kai, ozai decides to be extra cruel and burns zukoroki in the same spot his super-mum did, except harder and hotter so the burn is ever larger and more painful, so much so that it even reaches his ear and he can no longer open his eye all the way and his eyesight is probably damaged and maybe his hearing as well and—

and then he gets banished and he decides, you know what. fuck it.

his mom's gone, ozai's an asshole, his face burns, he can't see or hear right, and ozai still never found out he could waterbend. so.

todozuko is done with the fire nation. he's had fucking enough. he's decided he doesn't wanna go back, and no uncle i'm never changing my mind.

what would happen if i found the avatar? well i'd help him if if meant defeating my father—and go ahead, tell everyone how much of a traitor i am, i don't care. i'm already banished anyway.

you...what? you're—proud of me?? uncle, what—

and so zhōto and iroh end up traveling together (and maybe the crew, too? idk) zhōto eventually works up the courage to tell iroh about his waterbending and at first he's really terrified about uncle's reaction but

uncle looks at him like he's a fucking miracle or something, he looks at him with wonder and amazement and—

come, zhouto!!!! where are we going???? to get waterbending scrolls, of course!!!!! pick your jaw off the ground, there's no time to waste!!!! think about everything you're going to learn, everything you should've been taught years ago!!!! you're going to be a master waterbender, i just know it!!!!!!

and bc they never ditched the ship or told the fire nation of their treachery (for conviences sake) it's surprisingly easy for them to obtain waterbending scrolls—

—and also the only person who knew about his waterbending before iroh was his mother who he accidentally bent in front of and who, immediately realizing her own "tainted" bloodline was the cause, swore zhouto to secrecy and made him promise to never use it—

—and so zhōto and iroh secretly practice waterbending below deck in their rooms, and they keep practicing with it until they feel they're "ready," and then—with the help of their now loyal-to-the-death-crew (they at some point came to the unanimous decision that zhōto is way better than ozai, and he's surprisingly not a spoilered brat—bc unlike original-zuko he already despises his father and consciously makes an effort to be different) who go along with some made up lie that zhōto and iroh both died—

maybe zhōto fell in artic water during a storm and iroh jumped in to save him against the captain's warnings and refused to return to safety until he found zhōto, but before he could a wave cracked zhōto's head against the boat and he went under and iroh dived and dived and dived into colder and colder water until he was so so cold and he couldn't hold his breath any longer but the surface was too far away and he was too tired from the cold in his bones to swim and with his body empty of its last bit of air he just—

sank.

and so with a cover in place, zhōto and iroh said a tearful goodbye to their deathly loyal crew and then set off to live their new lives.

then skip foward a few years and they run into the fucking avatar and friends and wait shit is that—

—not long into his banishment, just after zhōto confessed to iroh about his waterbending, they set sail for the southern water tribe, figuring that it would be a good start for their search for waterbending scrolls, since the north would be too much of a risk and they figure: there's no waterbenders in the southern tribe anyway not after what we did to them so it's not like they need the scrolls...besides, we were gunna give them back as soon as we're done with them so if any waterbender babies end up being born we'll have returned the scrolls before they're even old enough to need them—

—but alas, when they make port they are told by a very angry boy about zhōto's age—

(i'm aging him down a year or two bc shōta was only like 14 in bnha while zuko was 16 i think in atla, about one year older than sokka—so he's about 11-12 when this happens, and katara and sokka are 11 and 12 respectively)

—that the fire nation burned any scrolls they had, when they killed his mother—

(oof)

—and so, to the great surprise of all the villagers present, and all who hear about it after, they leave immediately without harming or threatening anyone, without even searching any of the (huts? igloos?) for potentially hidden scrolls. they just...leave.

and the scarred one—the one with the golden trim on his collar who the other men defer to as if he's in charge—

—which is ridiculous, he's so tiny, he can't be much older than sokka, how could he be their leader, shouldn't it be that old guy—

—actually thanks sokka for his assistance before apologizing for taking up his time, and then leaves. what the fuck—

—then cut to three years later and now that boy (sokka of the southern water tribe, son of the chief, he had introduced himself as) and his sister (katara of the southern water tribe, daughter of the chief) were apparently traveling with the AVATAR. and that girl, katara? she's a waterbender. a fucking waterbender.

what the fu—