#both these animals create strong bonds that either one leaving would be concerning

[artistdove]

Some extra dopey doodles

[wingsofhcpe]

whumptober day 1- barbed wire

fandom: shadow & bone

pairing: fivan [ivan x fedyor kaminsky]

rating: T+

additional warnings: blood & injury

you can also read here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34208404/chapters/85114393

[tagging @camilleisback upon request <3]

It’s days before Ivan finally finds Fedyor.

The druskelle, clever bastards that they are, have elected to hide near the borders with Fjerda and wait for reinforcements rather than make a run for it. There’s an abandoned warehouse that must have once been a butcher’s store near a withering Ravkan village; it’s well-camouflaged between the trees, and the vegetation and snowdrifts muffle the sounds of screaming that echo from inside as the witch-hunters torment their prisoners night and day. The location would have been impossible to hide, had it not been for the honed senses of a Heartrender being able to detect the distressed heartbeats from miles away, as well as an experienced Squaller sensing the slightest vibrations in the air that are commonly caused by loud noises such as screams.

Seven Grisha had been taken captive during the druskelle raid at their camp; when Ivan barrels into the warehouse, druskelle dropping left and right with nothing but a flicker of his wrists, he finds two survivors and five rotting corpses. For a moment, he fears the worst- but as his senses clear and the adrenaline of battle fades, he realises one of the two remaining heartbeats echoing in the dark, murky space, belongs to Fedyor. Ivan’s head snaps like a hound catching the scent of blood, and it is mere seconds before his eyes adjust to the distorted light coming from the busted door, and he finally makes out a shape at the far end of the warehouse. Before he can even think about it, he’s running.

Fedyor’s body is suspended by the wrists from a meat hook attached to the ceiling; it’s bad enough to see his lover limp and unmoving like a corpse, but then Ivan takes a closer look and realises with gut-wrenching horror that Fedyor’s hands aren’t bound with rope but with thick coils of barbed wire. The jagged points have dug deep within the skin, leaving sickening gouges across Fedyor’s wrists and forearms. There’s blood everywhere, having dripped down to his elbows, shoulders and even his hair. It has created a small puddle on the rotting floorboards, and Ivan’s boots squelch as he steps on it, trying to get as close to Fedyor as possible. The latter is nearly unconscious, but he makes a low, keening sound when Ivan attempts, in vain, to undo his bindings. It’s no use; the barbs are embedded deep into the flesh, and trying to uncoil them now will only cause more damage, more bleeding, more pain. They have to be cut away, but Ivan isn’t sure whether any of his Grisha is carrying a blade sharp and slender enough for the job. Either way, his first concern should be getting Fedyor down from where he’s still hanging from; this way, he’ll be able to get a better look.

It’s slow work, painstaking for both parties. Fedyor stirs in and out of consciousness as Ivan works, whimpering and begging for mercy. Ivan realises with a pang of unrestrained fury what a devilishly clever idea it had been to bind a Grisha’s hands in such a manner- Fedyor’s hands are close enough, he could twist them if he tried, he could use his powers to do away with his captors. But the barbed edges would shred his skin further if he did, would cause him to suffer and bleed even more. The druskelle had evidently known that; they had risked their own lives for the sake of toying with their prisoners in such a sadistic, inhuman manner.

Fedyor’s weak, pained cry jolts Ivan out of his fury-addled thoughts, and he realises belatedly that he has pulled too roughly at the wires; fresh blood is trickling from somewhere, and Ivan swears colourfully under his breath.

“I’m sorry, moye serdtse, I’m sorry,” he whispers, hoping Fedyor can hear him, hoping he knows Ivan doesn’t want to hurt him, he just has to get him down for his own good “I’m almost done. Just stay strong for me, Fedya.”

Finally, he manages to pry the hook loose from the wire; Fedyor’s body drops lifelessly, but Ivan is there to catch him and gently lower him to the floor, until Fedyor is lying against his chest. Ivan holds him gently, cradling him against his own body and whispering apologies and reassurances. It’s only then that Fedyor’s eyes open just slightly, brown irises glazed with pain and pupils dilated. His cracked, bloodied lips move, and Ivan has to strain to hear him.

“You found me.” The injured man whispers, and Ivan nods seriously.

“Of course I did, my love. I’m here now. You’re safe.” He doesn’t mention how he’s been too late; how he’s allowed the druskelle to torture Fedyor for four long, endless days. How they have lost five of their own, because Ivan had been too incompetent to find them fast enough.

Yet Fedyor’s mouth twitches into a small, relieved smile. “I knew you would… you always… find me…”

“Shh…” Ivan lays a hand on Fedyor’s cheek, flushed with fever. “Don’t talk now.”

They stay still for a little while; Fedyor’s ragged breathing echoing in sync with Ivan’s relieved sighs as he holds his beloved close, peppering gentle, loving kisses across his bloodied cheeks and brow. Eventually, Ivan carefully places a hand over Fedyor’s still bound wrists.

“I need to take these off.” He says softly, and catches the glint of fear in Fedyor’s delirious gaze. “I cannot lie to you, Fedya, it will hurt. But it will only be for a little while. It’ll feel much better after.”

Fedyor whimpers softly. “…so much. They hurt so much, Vanya. My hands… it feels like they’re on fire…”

“I know, I know.” Ivan voice cracks with despair; seeing Fedyor suffer like this, it’s too much to bear. “I will make it better, I promise. Just… Just trust me, dearest.”

Fedyor’s eyes close, but he nods tiredly; even while in so much pain, he must know there’s no other solution. Ivan takes his kefta off, bundles it up into a makeshift pillow and lays Fedyor down on it as carefully as he can. Then he calls out to one of his Grisha, requesting the sharpest and thinnest blade that can be found in their equipment or the druskelle’s. While rummaging, he takes the opportunity to hastily check on the other survivor, a younger Inferni woman- she’s alive and in slightly better condition than Fedyor, although her hands have been bound in a similar manner. By using her powers to heat them up, however, she has made the wires pliant and thus easier to remove. Clever, Ivan thinks to himself. He would have asked her to do the same for Fedyor’s bonds, but she looks so pale, and she can’t even sit up without feeling faint. No, he can’t run her any more ragged. The dagger will have to do.

Finally, Ivan finds a fine, razor-sharp blade within one of the druskelle’s coats. It’s possibly used for gutting fish, and is less than clean, but it’s his only choice, and anyway, Fedyor’s probably already suffering from an infection judging by the rust that covers the wires. Dried fish gore won’t make a big difference at this point.

“Close your eyes and count to fifty, Fedya.” Ivan encourages as he kneels next to his partner. “Focus on the numbers. Don’t think of anything else.”

Fedyor nods feebly and does as he’s told; his eyes close and his lips begin to move in a voiceless mumble as he starts to count. Ivan slips his fingers carefully between the coils of wire, and as gently as he can, he begins to saw at it with the dagger. No matter how gentle he tries to be, however, Fedyor’s body immediately tenses and his breath comes out in short gasps. Ivan shushes him softly, although he knows it’s not much help. The best he can do for Fedyor now, is focus on his task. And so he does- he does his best to shut off the pained gasps that soon turn into whimpers, and saws methodically at the accursed barbed coil until, little by little, it starts to come off.

“…fifty.” Fedyor murmurs shakily at some point, and Ivan doesn’t have to look to know there are tears running down his blood-crusted cheeks.

“Ten more, moye serdtse. I’m almost done. You’re doing so well. You’re so, so brave, my Fedyenka. So brave.”

Fedyor’s chest heaves as he cries quietly, but he doesn’t complain, not even when Ivan finally cuts through the wires and is able to pull them away. There’s a sickening wet sound as the barbs are pulled free from Fedyor’s flesh, where they’d been wedged for days, and Fedyor’s back arches- for once, he can’t keep in the hoarse scream that rips out of his throat. But the next moment his muscles relax as Ivan unbinds him completely, his fingers twitching slightly in relief as blood circulates back to them. Ivan breathes out a sigh, and places his palm on Fedyor’s forehead.

“I’m done, Fedya. It’s alright now.” Fedyor only shakes his head a little, unable to speak. But his heartbeat has eased just slightly- he’s still in pain, but he’s better.

The group makes camp right there, inside the warehouse (after moving the corpses of the druskelle away and dumping them into a snowdrift to be prey for scavenging animals. Serves them right). They hold a funeral pyre for the deceased Grisha, but Ivan only speaks a few words as the squad’s leader and then retreats back into the building; one of the others has lit a fire in the middle, right under an opening in the rotting roof, using old scraps and thin branches. The interior is warm now, and the smell of burning cloth and wood is chasing away the odour of stale blood and dead bodies. Ivan directs two of the Grisha to stand watch as soon as the funeral pyre outside is done, and focuses on the task at hand.

He digs around the ruins until he finds something that resembles an old, cracked wooden bowl- possibly used by the previous owner of the establishment to collect the majority of the blood that poured from freshly slaughtered cattle. It looks cleaner than one would expect, and it smells only vaguely of blood; nothing a good rinse with snow can’t fix. After that’s done, Ivan refills the bowl with snow and holds it over the fire until it’s turned into warm water. He rummages through the squad’s supplies too, and finds clean cloths and bandages.

Fedyor’s eyes flutter behind pale, close lids when Ivan returns to his side, although he seems to weak to open them. Still, Ivan knows he’s still conscious and in pain.

“I’m going to clean your wounds.” He says softly, sitting next to the other man. Fedyor can only hum in agreement- it’s not like he could move away even if he wanted to. Even if he didn’t know his wounds had to be cleaned before infection set in for real. There was no Healer with them, as conflict hadn’t been expected. It had only been a reconnaissance mission. It would be three days of fast riding at the very best, until they made it back to the Little Palace, and Fedyor wouldn’t last for half of it if Ivan didn’t do something to keep the infection at bay.

So with as much care as he can possibly muster, Ivan takes hold of Fedyor’s hand into his own and lifts it up slowly to take a closer look. Even with the dried blood obscuring the worst of it, Ivan can already tell it’s worse than he’s initially assessed; the cuts are deep, the skin around them swollen and hot to the touch, and there’s white liquid concentrated on the edges of the deeper, wider gashes. Fedyor’s hand is trembling in his own, and Ivan can only imagine how much it truly hurts. Fedyor has a high pain tolerance, yet even for him this must be almost unbearable.

In a desperate attempt to comfort his partner, Ivan starts to hum a slow lullaby as he soaks a strip of cloth in the warm water, then wrings it out and starts to slowly, gently clean the blood and grime away from the cuts. Fedyor lets out a quiet sigh of relief, the clean, warm water immediately doing wonders for his mangled hand. Ivan allows himself a small smile; he doesn’t cease his humming while he continues to carefully clean and bandage Fedyor’s left hand, then his right. All the while he keeps a metaphorical eye on Fedyor’s heartbeat, glad to feel it gradually grow slower and more relaxed. The last thing Ivan does after he’s checked Fedyor for other open wounds (he’s satisfied to find nothing, although the dark bruises on his face, chest and ribs are certainly worrisome), is clean the rest of the blood from his husband’s hair, face, and neck. By the end of it, the water in the bowl has turned from clear to a dark, muddy brown colour. Ivan does away with it as soon as he can- he can no longer stand to look at Fedyor’s blood.

Most of the other Grisha have gone to sleep by now, including the other survivor- a good sign all in all, and Ivan can see from where he stands that her own wounds have also been taken care of. The two Grisha he’d ordered to stand watch are doing so in a perfectly straight posture, even after four gruelling days of riding and searching, and Ivan makes a mental note to mention their names and devotion to the General when they go back to the capital. When he’s certain everything is in order, Ivan finally allows himself to lie down next to Fedyor. The wooden floor is uncomfortable at best, but he doesn’t care. Gently, he slings one arm over his husband’s sleeping form and draws him close. He’s never letting Fedyor go, ever again.

Fedyor hums a little in his sleep, cracking one eye open to look at Ivan. Immediately, he smiles tiredly and Ivan smiles back, unable to begrudge him such a simple pleasure.

“How are you feeling, moye serdtse?” He asks.

“Much… much better.” Fedyor whispers in a relaxed manner. Yet Ivan doesn’t harbour any illusions- he knows the pain and fever will come back with a vengeance soon, and he wants Fedyor to get as much rest as possible until then. He’ll need it. So he places a chaste kiss on Fedyor’s lips and starts filing his hand through the latter’s hair. Predictably, Fedyor submits to the affections; Ivan knows how to best make him relax, even under such conditions.

“Sleep.” Ivan whispers tenderly, and Fedyor nods. Before he closes his eyes again, Fedyor offers him another small smile.

“I knew you’d find me.” He mouthed, and Ivan nodded, pride and love and devotion swelling in his chest.

“Of course, my love. I will never leave you. I promise.”

Even if the whole Ravka, the whole world, was against them, they believed in each other. And in the end, that was that really mattered.

[merryfortune]

You give me flowers of love

Written for 100ships Challenge on Dreamwidth

Prompt #39 - Pink

Ship: Nodoka/Hinata

Fandom: Healin’ Good PreCure

Word Count: 3,757

Rating: M

Warnings: No Warnings Apply

AN: title comes from Bloodflowers by The Cure and is recommended listening for this fic.

Tags:  Alternate Universe - Hanahaki, Horror, Gore, Emetophobia/Emetophilia, Angst and Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Past/Referenced Eriko/Hinata, Minor Blood

   Hinata was not the type of girl who could handle horror stories, urban legends, or anything spookier than a rom-com set against the background of a popular coffee shop. However, there was something about this creepypasta that caught her attention. Maybe she read it to prove that she wasn’t a scaredy-cat or maybe she read it because something about it was almost too real.

   It came across her Curestagram feed, screenshots reposted from another site with long form text functions rather than the optimized for photos aesthetic of Curestagram. It wasn’t late at night, quite the opposite, Hinata had just been scrolling as she was half nibbling on a banana muffin for morning tea. So she was kind of bored and not already unsettled by a vague anxiety sort of mindset so she stopped her scroll to read this totally true story from a friend of a friend that had happened upon her timeline.

   The story involved a sickness. A lovesickness, hooking Hinata immediately since she was a hopeless romantic and leaving her vulnerable to what was hiding down below a few paragraphs after and Hinata realised she was reading a surreal medical horror story.

   Supposedly, some girl from a high school in the next town over had been hospitalized due to damage to her stomach and esophagus but ultimately culminated in her passing away from brain damage due to suffocation. The suffocation that was the outcome of the damage she had taken to her stomach and esophagus had, supposedly, been caused by the growing of flowers inside of her. Doctors couldn���t explain it. They were baffled by the impossibility of it. Yet where they failed to posit theories at all, their patient had her own she desperately desired to reveal. 

   The nameless girl, as weak as she was in her final moments of speech and cognition, was certain with the most crystal clear clarity that she could muster said that reason for the flowers growing inside of her was due to a crush that she had been fostering for quite some time. A crush that was so powerful and deep that it had manifested as literal and impossible distress in the form of tiger lily flowers. Though her claims were dismissed as nonsense, despite the very given evidence that she had been vomiting exotic flowers, except by the narrator who was sharing her story online on her behalf.

   Hinata got to the bottom line of the final screenshot and she dropped her phone on the table. She shivered and flinched as her phone clattered. Nyatoran looked up, alarmed, from the milk that he had been sipping.

   “Heh? Are you okay Hinata?” he asked.

   “Y-Yeah, I just lost my grip.” Hinata replied. It wasn’t a lie.

   “Really? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Nyatoran pointed out.

   Hinata made an expression that was both guilty and embarrassed, “Er, sort of… I read a ghost story online and I haven’t the stomach for them.”

   “Oh, well, no worries then. I’ll keep ya safe from all the ghoulies then.” Nyatoran boasted.

   Hinata laughed, “Thanks, Nyatoran.” she replied.

   And that was more or less enough to keep her mind off what she had read for the rest of the day as she did her Sunday homework and such. At least until well after lights out. 

   Hinata cursed herself. She knew endless walls of text in screenshots never bore good news but it was under her skin now. It wasn’t even that scary, she tried to convince herself. It just so happened to play off something she had been thinking about in ways that cut deep and yes, even scary. 

   Hinata had a crush of her own. One she didn’t think she ought to act on. Or didn’t know how to act on. 

   Hinata had a crush on Nodoka. She was sweet and gentle yet so motivated. Hinata felt like she learned something new about either herself or Nodoka after every time they hung out. Things never felt old between them despite how natural their companionship was between them.

   Catching feelings for Nodoka was inevitable, Hinata felt regarding their dynamic as close friends and their friendship was relatively intense due to their bond as comrades being Pretty Cures but that made Hinata sick to her stomach with fear. This wasn’t her first crush that she had on another girl. 

   In the not so recent past, Hinata had been wrong reading other girls’ opinions and feelings regarding her before. She and Eriko had been so close, childhood friends with a pact that seemed fit to stand the test of time when they had made it, and Hinata didn’t think it was a coincidence that already scarce contact between them after Eriko moved was when Hinata had confessed her feelings to Eriko. 

   The rejection had been crushing and Hinata had never told a soul about it. The wound was older now but it still hurt so, as lovely as Nodoka was, Hinata didn’t want to gamble their friendship due to that prior rejection. Yet her feelings crackled like electricity near a lightning rod whenever she was around Nodoka anyway. She could only hope that Nodoka was oblivious since she was so inexperienced socially due to her childhood spent mostly in the hospital.

    (And that Chiyu never brought up the blatantly obvious which she would hopefully never do since she knew there was a place and a time and it wasn’t her place).

   Thus, for all these different and entangling reasons, that horror story Hinata had read this morning really resonated. The thought of her unrequited feelings becoming literal, even in the form of pretty and seemingly harmless flowers, and suffocating. It was a very real fear to Hinata despite that fantastical execution that it was captured inside.

   All because she was a magical girl infused with the power of light and thunder. She fought villains who caused infections in nature and created monsters. To her, it didn’t seem too far outside of her sphere of tried and true reality that such a floral disease of the body could exist. Heck, maybe it did exist and was tied to the war that she and her friends were fighting in secret on behalf of the Healing Animals. It was entirely possible this flower vomit disease was another agent or power of the Byougens. 

   Hinata groaned and the more she scolded herself for thinking about these horrible possibilities, the more she thought about them. She tossed and turned all night, in the dark and under the covers of her doona. She knew Nyatoran would live up to his boasting over morning tea if she asked but he was totally conked out in his little room. Hinata couldn’t bring herself to wake him, to unnecessarily burden him, so she just hid from her fears as best as she could in her blankets.

   The following morning, Hinata was a wreck. She had bags under her eyes and was generally a drag. She hasn’t slept a wink last night but just like she was hiding from the horror story in her head, she decided to hide from the aftermath too. She touched up her eyes with concealer and finished off her make-up with a nice little kiss of lip balm, too. She chose a nice tropical flavour: pineapple with vanilla undertones and wore nude in practice. With that, she was ready for what was no doubt going to be a long, long day of school.

   A prediction that she was very right in having. Just making it to lunch felt like an eternity and a half on low energy. Worst still, despite the precautions that Hinata had taken, both Chiyu and Nodoka had noticed that she wasn’t exactly her bouncy self today. Even with her favourite lunch box in her lap with fried chicken and a fruit drink, too.

   “Are you okay, Hinata?” Nodoka asked and she batted her long eyelashes in concern.

   Hinata knew she couldn’t lie or deflect around Nodoka, at least for the most part, and deflated, “No…” she moaned. “I slept awfully last night.”

   “I expect that it wasn’t due to over studying?” Chiyu asked, sniping. 

   “No, I just. Couldn’t sleep.” Hinata shrugged.

   “Well, be sure to put yourself early to bed tonight then. There’s nothing worse than being tired.” Nodoka said.

   “Will do.” Hinata sighed.

   “Also?” Nodoka prompted her.

   “Yeah?” Hinata glanced at Nodoka was she tried a spoonful of rice from her side dishes.

   “Your lip balm has a very strong smell today, I can smell it from here.” Nodoka laughed.

   “Oh, joy…” Hinata hung her head in misery. She didn’t think it was so pungent in the tube.

   “I didn’t mean that in a mean way.” Nodoka panicked whilst Chiyu had a discrete giggle at Hinata’s misfortune. “I really like it. I think it smells nice. Like cherries. I love the smell of cherries best.”

   “Huh?” Hinata mumbled and she stared straight at Nodoka in confusion.

   Nodoka stared back. Also in confusion. “Is something the matter?”

   “Er, no,” Hinata awkwardly began and she forced herself to laugh and she flapped a hand about too to disguise her weirdness, “I must have been so tired this morning that I though I used one lip balm and instead used another.”

   “That is a little odd…” Chiyu murmured.

   But Nodoka seemed to buy it, she gasped, “Fwow, you must have been really tired this morning to make such a mistake. Promise me to get a good night’s rest tonight then.” Nodoka fussed for her.

   “I promise, I promise.” Hinata replied.

   Just as Hinata spoke, the end of lunch bell rang. She moaned with the utmost misery as she hadn’t finished her lunch even slightly and roused much sympathy from both Nodoka and Chiyu. So, Hinata crammed what she could into her mouth and swallowed before returning with her friends indoors to their classroom.

   She plopped down in her chair and desk, her stomach growling almost immediately. Were it not for the teacher at the front of the classroom, Hinata would have flopped down and keeled over right there and then. She would have killed for a nap. Not even a luxurious nanna nap at this point, she would take a horrid power nap. Anything would have been better than nothing. Instead, the best she could muster was some daydreaming whilst scribbling in her work book so she could at least pretend to be paying attention.

   Her mind strayed to Nodoka. She couldn’t help it. A silly little pining schoolgirl was exactly what she was after all. She doodled Nodoka’s name in her margins, surrounded with love-hearts, paw prints, and even flowers. It was a little bit childish but Hinata was a lot childish so she didn’t mind, she was more or less on cloud nine since Nodoka had shown her care for her over lunch, fussing for her like that.

   It was such a small act but it was more than enough to launch Hinata’s heart in a million miles an hour race. So much so, she began to taste something at the back of her throat. It was a sweet taste accompanied by a fizzy sensation. Hinata liked it and it seemed to get stronger the more she daydreamed about Nodoka. Even though it was the middle of class, Hinata was letting her mind completely run away from the contents of what the teacher was attempting to educate on them.

   Finally, after what felt like a day of self torment because of reading some stupid horror story about puking flowers, Hinata felt free of that gnawing anxiety. But just as she revelled in this, her stomach wretched. She dry gagged with the searing taste of bile at the back of her throat and her hand automatically clamped over her mouth, pen and all. The prior anxiety might have dissipated but a new one had spiked in its place.

   Hinata frowned. Was it because she hadn’t eaten all her lunch that she suddenly felt nauseous? Or was it something else? She begged that it wasn’t her period, she was still quite irregular so this felt off or early to her.

   Then she gagged again. She swallowed it back down. Hard. Whatever she swallowed was thick and sweet. It wasn’t vomit, Hinata had the startling realisation. She tried hard to keep it down but she failed. She vomited into her hand, or at least something similar. The motions were awful, worse than anything else she had ever had to eject from her body orally before.

   Hinata felt sick to the very bottom of her stomach. Her hands shook as she slowly removed the one over her mouth and… and she couldn’t believe her eyes. They widened in shock as she saw the head of a flower in the palm of her hand. It was a cherry blossom, she realised. The pale pink petals were frayed at the edges, burnt by stomach acid and wet with her saliva; the anthers of its centre drooped and dragged, splayed across the petals. Her skin crawled as she marveled at the insane gravity of the situation. She quickly paled.

   And the teacher noticed, “Hiramitsu, are you okay?” he asked from in front of the chalkboard, looking up concerned from the book he was reciting from.

   “I-I, um, I need to go. To the nurse.” Hinata eked out her words with strained difficulty.

   Her stomach flipped and she could feel another one coming up. It slithered up her throat and she hated the slow, dreadful sensation of it, the way it made her mouth taste of bile and cherries in horrible combination. Hinata bolted to her feet, afraid, alarming the whole class. She hid her mouth behind her hand again, holding tight that first flower that she had vomited.

   “I need to go.” Hinata mumbled and she fled.

   The feeling of her classmates' eyes on her felt like broken glass digging. She knew, deep down, they didn’t mean harm but their gazes only served to amplify the terror she felt as she fled. She was fast at first, escaping from the classroom but her stomach lurched and she vomited another flower and then again but two at once this time.

   Hinata stopped in the hallway, she had to rest her shoulder against the wall just to stand as she looked down into the palm of her hand. The flowers were accumulating against her skin, wet and heavy, and accelerating in pace of production. Already she felt another lurch and this one was dire, Hinata didn’t think she would be so lucky to only vomit one or two this next time.

   She had to get to the sick bay. She wasn’t sure what she would do there but anything had to be better than nothing, so she hobbled on in immense pain. By nothing less than a miracle, Hinata managed to get to the nurse’s suite without collapsing. Or with leaving too many flowers in her meagre wake.

   The school nurse panicked almost immediately when she saw Hinata in this state. Hinata sputtered out a thank you whilst she was put to bed. Hinata curled up under the sheets, her stomach lurching and mangled petals dripped out of her mouth. She had to hide her ailment from the nurse. She just had to. She didn’t know how to explain it or anything else pertaining to it but fortunately, the nurse bought her some time by going to use administration’s phone to let her father know that Hinata was in immediate medical distress.

   Hinata held her scrawny belly with one hand and her mouth the other. No matter how hard she tried, these flowers kept dredging up from inside of her and it was worsening. There was distention building inside of her, it was as if she could feel the bushels of cherry blossom flowers forming inside of her and something else too. It was raw and firm and poking up through her like a stick. Hinata moaned in utter agony as she tasted not just sweetness and bile in her mouth, but the cutting, metallic taste of blood too.

   She whimpered as she tried to swallow it down. Attempting so, just made the nicks and cuts to her throat worsen and the petals to clog. Her lungs ached sharply as she struggled to breathe. Her eyes squeezed tight and she begged every deity she could think of for a saviour.

   The door to the sick bay opened again. Hinata murmured to herself and the curtain was pulled aside, “Hinata?” a sweet voice greeted her.

   “Huh?” Hinata slurred.

   She rolled over, still holding herself but even a simple and slow motion like that was enough to rouse her illness violently. Her grimace was deep on her face as she tried to look at Nodoka, even feebly.

   “A-Are you okay, Hinata?” she asked. “I couldn’t sit by and worry when I saw you ill you were, what’s wrong?”

   Hinata opened her mouth. Mostly to reply, but that’s not what happened. She threw up in front of Nodoka and Nodoka couldn’t believe her eyes. Hinata was throwing up bushels upon bushels of flowers. Cherry blossoms. Nodoka blinked. She couldn’t believe the sights - or the smell. The smell was disconcerting with how almost pleasantly fragrant it was, heightening Nodoka’s realisation that this wasn’t Hinata pulling pranks.

   “H-How on Earth did this happen…?” Nodoka asked.

   She was horrified yet found herself unable to resist the impulse. She picked a blossom out of the pile that Hinata had vomited up. It was soft in her hand, even if it was grotesquely wet.

   “I - I don’t-” Hinata tried to speak but she cut herself off when she felt something jut out of her mouth. An entire branch of cherry blossoms began to spike out of her mouth.

   Her eyes began to roll back on themselves as Nodoka watched, in abject and frozen horror, as Hinata contended with this stick inside of her. It emerged slowly from the depths of her throat and made her chest convulse. Her fingers spasmed as she choked around it, flowers blooming along the thin and coarse branch.

   “H-Help me.” Hinata sputtered out.

   Nodoka nodded. She was scared, her heart was pounding, but she was first and foremost a helper of most empathetic ends. She had been on the receiving end of a strange and bizarre illness that had rendered most her childhood for naught. She couldn’t just let Hinata struggle. Suffocate.

   So, she got onto the bed with Hinata. She straddled her so she could best approach the foreign object inside of Hinata. She focused her eyes and was as ready as she could ever be for an amateur operation quite like this one. Nodoka reached out and pinched the end of the branch delicately. It was entirely unsafe, Nodoka knew that, but she began to pull. She peered into Hinata’s pink mouth was clogged with twigs and petals, and tried her best to dislodge what she could.

   Hinata gagged. Tears in her eyes and she plead, silently and afraid, that Nodoka could handle this. Nodoka’s hands shook but she did, in fact, manage. She tried her hardest and she did succeed even if it felt pyrrhic as Hinata screamed out as the last, and thickest, part of the cherry blossom branch was removed. 

   Nodoka flinched hearing the scream, dropping the cherry blossom branch between them. Hinata spat out blood and petals but the cherry blossom branch had been removed. She caressed her neck and it was raw with what it had been through. Her touches did little to soothe or quell her pain, she looked up at Nodoka with pathetic, red rimmed eyes.

   “What was that?” Nodoka asked, her heart quaking. “How could any of this be possibly real?”

   “I - I don’t know.” Hinata mumbled but that was a lie. She choked on her words all the same as she had choked on those cherry blossoms. Her hands squeezed tight. “No. I’m sorry. I do know.”

   “Pardon?” Nodoka quietly exclaimed.

   “There’s a very rare disease,” Hinata began, hasty, “that causes flowers to grow inside of someone suffering with a crush that they just can’t handle.”

   “That’s horrible…” Nodoka murmured.

   It was now or never, Hinata realised. Or she was going to end up exactly like the girl from the story that she had read yesterday. She knew it. She just knew it.

   “Nodoka, it’s you.” Hinata confessed, half a sob in her voice. “I’m crushing on you.”

   Nodoka was stunned by Hinata’s admission. 

   Hinata panted, her face was going bright red whilst her heart pounded like a hammer at her rib cage. She couldn’t believe it. She had done it. But it felt like a weight off, she had to admit, she didn’t realise her crush had been such a burden until right now. She felt herself lighten with the confession, from the very pit of her stomach, upwards and outwards.

   Nodoka averted her gaze and Hinata was reminded once more why a crush was called a crush. That borderline feel good feeling from before popped. Burst. Nodoka played with her hair, fidgeting, and then managed to speak in a very calm and very quiet voice.

   “I have a crush on you, too, Hinata.” Nodoka replied. “I admire so much how you sparkle and shine. It’s very refreshing to be around. I like you too. A lot.”

   Nodoka reached out to Hinata’s hand and held it. She was so warm and she was still trembling but Nodoka’s caress of it did soothe her. Hinata hazarded a smile, like she couldn’t believe her ears, through her scarlet expression. Nodoka leaned in and kissed Hinata.

   Hinata was unable to kiss back, afraid of her own breath but Nodoka didn’t mind. It was pungent with cherry blossoms and wet but she found the kiss sufficiently sweet, kissing Hinata’s soft, balmy lips. They were tinged with pineapple and vanilla beneath that overwhelming sensation of cherry blossoms.

   “Thank you, Nodoka…” Hinata murmured and somehow, she didn’t know or understand how but she wasn’t going to complain, she was cured, prettily, of her affliction. 

   The cherry blossom flowers on the bed or in her gut, disappeared. All with seemingly little aplomb. Even the branch that had to have been removed from her throat, all with a soft, fizzling noise that Hinata could hardly hear over the sound of her pounding heart. She still had the cuts and scrapes, but she was no longer growing flowers inside of her stomach. Hinata was cured and Nodoka was her blessed, angelic cure.

[mychemicalaromanticism]

things ive already established r on this post

besties this got so fucking long but heres a giant ramble about cherri

okay so. there are huge differences betwn cherri as a hyperviolent drac hunter and cherri as a friend of the four and cherri as the girls mentor. with the first one he was 17 and desperate to distance himself from his upbringing so he went all in on Being A Killjoy. he was always one of the first ppl to rush into a fight and he fought hard. he blew up his fuckin hand with that attitude. and all the while he was just racking up more unaddressed trauma and eventually he ran away from that, too. giving himself radiation poisoning was more appealing than facing his problems.

so as a teenager/young adult hes kind of constantly in a panicked state. hes scared the people from his past are going to find him and drag him back with them. so he lashes out and he runs away over and over again.

i said in another post that he has some past life shit goin on which usually would give him a connection to the witch that manifests early in life, but with all the stuff hes gone through he has been Preoccupied. he can become oblivious to almost anything that doesnt apply to whatever hes focused on. not in a hyperfocus way its likeeeeee. when u live on survival mode during prolonged periods of stress. hes immune to magic bullshit bc hes too tired and scared.

anyways around his mid-20s he finally has a little more stability (as much as the average person living in the zones can have, that is) and he finally notices that Weird Stuff happens around him. basically: out of my list of Powers People Connected To The Witch Have he has the prophetic dreams/enhanced intuition as well as a form of sensing ghosts where he can see auras and kind of like, echoes of past events in ppls lives. that look like auras. itz complicated and not of utmost importance so im leaving it at that.

anyways thats what makes him start writing poetry. just 4 funsies he'll describe his weird experiences and embellish them to make em pretty. just as a casual hobby n all that.

he would forget fun ghoul in between the times they ran into each other but its pretty easy to be reminded of who fun ghoul is. the most insane 10 year old cherri has ever met. cherri isnt a brother figure to ghoul. hes just. his friend that happens to be more than twice his age. its whatever lmao

to cherri, ghoul is kinda like a stray animal he keeps seeing. which is hilarious. ghoul actually goes and finds him to introduce him to jet when they start running together, and cherri meets party and kobra (spark and birdie at the time) when he drives the four of them to a party. because he has a truck hell yeah. so now instead of one stray animal he has, like, a feral cat colony that he drives around occasionally. i have no real-life human relationship equivalent to them because irl if some guy that is not related to any of you and isnt even a childhood or family friend and theyre hanging out with you? they are usually not a safe person lmao. but this is my fantasy land and im too stubborn to change anyones birth years even though ghoul being born in 2004 makes everything really hard to make not creepy.

so yeah hes a casual somewhat friend of the fab four. hed probably get more and more concerned as they got famous. the beginnings of any sort of protective feelings, awww :) that sets him up for becoming the girls mentor.

OH FUCK. THE GIRL..... i think if i was in my late 20s and i heard that the gang of 13-17 year olds had adopted a 5 year old kid i would go bananas. what the fuck. it is a LONG while before cherri meets her. but he has the strongest affection for ghoul (if you could even call it that) and ghoul absolutely adores the girl and swings her around under her arms like a cat to show her off to cherri and its very endearing and the girl is sweet and funny so its easy to be around her. and (unfortunately) she is somewhat used to interacting with weird easily agitated people so she kinda gives him space. cherri isnt quite the uncle figure the fandom usually makes him (i luv uncle cherri sm but he simply cannot exist in the universe ive created, f), but hes a little similar.

and then the four had to go and pretend to die. lol.

when the girl was kidnapped, fucking everyone who knew her was ready to storm the city then and there. like regardless of how little you knew her, if you had ever met her you would fucking die for her. she is pure childish charisma and shes precious. i love the girl. so cherris immediately on board with whatever plan the four make to get her back. ive already talked abt how it fucked up the girl tho; there was no way to tell her that the four werent actually dead, she sees the building collapse and she shuts down. and cherri has to fight against his instinct to leave the radio station and never come back when he sees an eight year old girl sitting dissociated on the couch. that fucks everyone up.

i just realized i havent talked about literally anyone else at the radio station. i think cherri started lingering around the station bc it was safe and sheltered while also not being a popular spot. there are less kids there (people pass through but its not a hangout spot). he was kind of just hanging around to get away from the heat and noise and dr d took notice. because that man can see ur soul and no one knows if thats literal or not. so theyd chat a few times a day and show pony was the one 2 get him out of his shell a little and also was the first one he mentioned his poetry hobby to. im making this all up right now as im writing bc i dont know anything about LITERALLY any of the ppl associated w the radio like im not even going 2 try with chimp n newsie i do not have the willpower to tackle all that. justttt. cherri pony n D become bros and live 2gether there.

back 2 the regular timeline. the rescue mission happens in 2019. the girl lives at the station until 2023. during that time she is very much depressed and withdrawn and is only happy when the four come to visit. none of the Adults know how to help her so they just keep her safe and cared for and hope she'll open up to them.

she does not. she takes the weird cat thats been hanging around and she runs away.

cherri does not see her for three years. shes still worse for wear in the mental health department and he can see all kinds of visions of what shes been through since the last time he saw her and he fucking hates the ultra vs bc they remind him of his past. he does not want her going down that path but its obvious that she isnt crazy abt the ultraviolence thing either so thats a relief.

they have a kind of tense relationship throughout the comics. he feels like he failed her and that spirals into feeling like he failed the four for not being a good adult to them and fun ghoul for not helping enough when his commune was bombed and all kinds of shit and that irrational thinking mixed with plain old, yknow, caring about the girl, is what makes him take a bullet (laser. whatever) for her.

i was trying to figure out the timing of each of their ghost experiences, but i want both of them to talk to the witch and im just gonna make it like dreams where a whole buncha stuff happens but irl its been like seconds. so its like barely a second while the girl has her Witch Convo and cherri FINALLY gets a straight answer, yes there is weird shit going on with him having powers. he doesnt have any story-significant past lives because im lazy, hes just an old soul. like really fuckin old. the amount of latent life experience and stuff his soul/energy/whatever has picked up along the way makes him VERY noticeable to gods n stuff. he fuckin lights up all the alarms like what the FUCK is that over there. she wasnt rly able to get to him or even properly notice him while he was a kid and a young adult so shes happy to finally see him again. he has a STRONG sense of familiarity with her. they know each other on a wild ass level that he cant really comprehend.

welp thats some more lore I'll have 2 think abt. anywayz

post canon is when he and val get to have the most awkward spiderman meme moment of realizing that they have the same trauma SOOOOO thatz fun lol /s sorry kings i thought it would be fun to give u something fucked up to bond over <3

not much changes in his personality. he has a better understanding of Weird Magic and delights in freaking out the ultra vs but for the most part he returns to his life at the radio station. i love him

THIS GOT SO CRAZY LONG I DID NOT MEAN 2 GO THROUGH EVERY PART OF HIS LIFE LIKE SOME WEIRD CHARACTER STUDY but here we are. this is basically a first draft like almost all of this is subject to change but u gotta start somewhere. so heres my start i love this guy. its probably obvious but i have not read ANY twitterverse killjoys stuff </3 maybe i will someday idk

[hqprotectionsquad]

Life’s Best Part (Daichi x Reader)

Title: Life’s Best Part Ship: Dad!Daichi x Reader Word Count: 1900 Summary: Daichi is trying his best to be the dad you need him to be. tw: hospital, sickness a/n: this has been in my drafts for maybe a month and some now!! happy to finally bring it to the light.

(Y/N) = your name (D/N) = your daughter’s name

"Daddy, where is mommy going?" Daichi's eyes are so tired and broken, but hearing that, he pinches his nose together. He has to be strong for his daughter, there's no doubt about that, but she's so innocent. She doesn't deserve this.

"Ah, sweetheart," Daichi pulls her into his lap. "Mommy is sick so she needs to become better. They're going to fix her the best they can."

Her appearance threatens pinpricks in the corners of his eye. Whenever Daichi and you go to family gatherings, all you guys ever hear is "Wow, she looks just like (Y/N) when she was younger!" And it's absolutely true. Down to the hair and the cheeks and the brightest smile ever to grace the world. She's picked up a lot from you too. Even from her young age, your daughter wants to save the world by being a kind and sweet little lady. Under her care, the lonely animals find solace in her tiny hands.

The pads of her fingers poke Daichi’s cheek as he bounces her on his leg. This waiting room is more than dismal. You’d think that if they want to cheer up families with news that could go either way, they’d brighten up the place. But nope, they’ve got rough chairs and dim lighting that makes Daichi want to leave the building.

“Sweetheart, would you like to get out of here for a bit?” Daichi’s lungs hurt in this space that just guarantees disaster. This was the hospital where one of his teammates revived after a rough collision and their team lied in wait. This was the hospital where his friend arrived with a cold and only returned to be placed in a final resting place. This hospital only knows how to take people away from him, but he’s determined to get you back, no matter the consequence.

"Are you sure, Daddy? Mommy will be scared if we leave!" Oh, the innocence of toddlers perpetuates Daichi's lifespan, but not so much that he’ll willingly stay here.

“Mommy is okay, she’s in the safe hands of some really powerful people. They’re going to make her even better.” Daichi holds himself back from making any promises. Those bonds are too strong to break so if you ended up passing away, he wouldn’t know how to make his daughter feel better, let alone himself.

“Okay, let’s go out!” She swings out her arms and legs like a general. Already at a young age acting up a storm. Daichi didn’t know if this special talent should be cultivated or something to be monitored closely. Being outside is much better for him anyway. The trees sway in the wind and the process of life reminds him that the world goes on whether he likes it or not. He doesn’t want to move on at the moment. The only answer he’ll take is you’re better and back at home with him and your daughter.

Daichi takes solace on a park bench, watching his daughter hang on playground installments. She's just like you. If you were here right now, you would be trying your best to fit in the slide or grip the monkey bars with your feet half a foot close to the ground. His phone is out because pure moments unravel right before his eyes. His heart is happy. He'll be happier when he gets to show this video to you.

After a while, Daichi's eyes open up to his daughter climbing on him. "Daddy, we should go back to Mommy now. I'm done playing."

Turning his fist toward himself, Daichi notes the time. "You're right. Let's go, baby."

Even at this age, she drags you and your husband around. "She's a boss if I've ever seen one," you say to Daichi one day as she places her dolls in a neat line. "Must've gotten it from you." Daichi chuckles as you hip bump him. That was only a few months ago. Life has been changing since then.

Daichi believes that his daughter is starting to pick up on all of the cues. All of the hospital papers are spread on the dining room table, the usual bus trips to and from "mommy's building," and most of all, she loves the lady at the reception desk because she receives lollipops. That's what she looks forward to, but his daughter has a few lessons of sympathy and understanding under her belt when she enters the room where her mother resides, only for the moment, God willing.

They say hello to the woman at the desk. Without a beat, she sticks out a lollipop grasped in her hand. "Thank you!"

Your daughter is more than excited to receive such simple gifts. The process of you becoming sick has been a long time going. "These are to keep her strong," you told Daichi when you went to the supermarket before the first ever checkup you had concerning your illness two years ago. Little toys and sweet squares of chocolate scattered in the basket while you two lined the aisles.

"I think buying these are to keep you strong, love. Our baby is strong, she just needs to see her mom strong too." Daichi squeezed your hand.

“You’re right, but you’ve got to stop talking before you make me cry,” you laughed shakily as the words slipped through your lips. It’s hard to utter such depressing words as a young woman. Your baby was nearing the age of two and it’s not fair for her to live in an egg-shelled world. When she was born, you two could have definitely earned the award for being the world’s proudest parents. “We did that, Daichi. We did that.” The first year went swimmingly — as in you were swimming in baby items and baby responsibilities, but everyday you prayed thanksgiving for the family you’ve created.

Now, your arms and legs ache for the slightest movements in this itchy hospital bed. You always thought that this kind of thing would never happen to you, and look where you are now: bedridden. You're back where you started, from your beginning and your baby's beginning. Somehow, you always land back here. And it's unfair. You've grown up with vegetables on your plate, jogging every other day with your dad, and you knew Daichi was the one when you saw him play in a championship match. You were surrounded by healthy, up until all you were was unhealthy.

“Sweetheart!”

“Hi, mommy!” You’ve never been so grateful for the fact that your daughter isn’t deterred by the tubes running up and down your body, taking the place of your veins. She sees you all the same.

“Hi, honey.” Daichi presses his lips to your forehead and sinks into the chair they provided in the room. He doesn’t look necessarily out of it, but you know the circles under his eyes haven’t been forgiving lately. "Some friends are coming by soon, they'll pick her up and bring her out."

It's hard on your daughter to undertake a portion of a burden that isn't even hers, but is it better that she doesn't fully know the situation? Would it be worse if she was ten or twelve? What about fourteen, fifteen, sixteen? How would she have reacted to her mother not being able to care for her only daughter?

It's easy to drop into pitfalls when you allow your mind to run anywhere. Your inner self isn't looking down at her feet, just lifting each sole when it is ready to move. When you drop, it is difficult to get out because sometimes, there is no outside stimulation. When Daichi leaves for work or after visiting hours are over, you turn to the television for entertainment. You soon learn that the programs are repeated and you'll be watching the same one that was on three hours ago.

"(D/N), uncles Koushi and Asahi are here for you," Daichi says as he gets up to greet his friends at the sliding door. They enter the room and lead themselves toward you. It's no shock by now; they've picked up (D/N) so that she has her cousins to play with every few days. However, the raised eyebrows and slightly parted lips on Asahi's face tell you otherwise.

Suga is the first person to speak up. "How are you feeling right now, (Y/N)?" After the surgery two days ago, your body is running on pure medication. Despite that, you feel like you've gotten hit by a truck.

"Feeling better." You have to feel better soon. When you can return to your home and start heading back to work, that is when you'll feel more at ease. But for now, another second in the hospital is another second wasted.

The skin on your bones looks translucent, and if you shift the hospital gown to one side, you can see the bruising that accompanies the stitches on your oblique. You are a shell of a human with a soul on a loose tether. Daichi can see it too. He is trying to bring you back, but nothing will feel normal until you return to your old routines.

Nothing will be the same after you can sleep in your bed at home. You won't be able to flop onto the mattress, forcing creases into the duvet. Every sleep will need to be on your back because if you roll to your side, you'll be pressing on the stitches. You won't be able to sleep intimately with your husband and this probably means the next generation of your family tree will end with your daughter.

"You okay, (Y/N)? Koushi and Asahi left with (D/N), and she tried saying bye but you seemed a little far." As Daichi pulls on the chair to scoot closer to you, it scratches on the tiles and emits a painful sound. "Sorry about that." He settles into the chair and takes your hand into both of his. His fingers are butterflies across your pierced skin, light and delicate.

"I'm scared, Daichi," you admit for the hundredth time, but each time the words come out of your mouth is a pang to your heart. "I don't know how I'm going to be if I get out of here."

"You're not dying, (Y/N). Don't say those kinds of things." His voice is stern but his eyes swim in pools of water. He hates to hear that you bring yourself down in the fragile mental state you are in.

"Your life is my life's best part," you mumble, hearing fatigue asking you to succumb to it. Nevertheless, you continue to speak to your husband. "You're the reason why I want to get better, even if I don't think I will."

“But you will, and I know you will. I know you, (Y/N). You are the strongest person I know. Your life is my life’s best part, too.” You can see him brushing his hands against his face when he lets go of your fingers. “Rest, (Y/N). You need it to be strong.”

“Yes, I have to be strong for you and our baby.” You murmur before your eyes shut and your head sinks into the pillow. The last thing you feel is your husband’s lips pressed against your forehead and you finally drift off into the first sleep where you feel lighter than your body. Everything will be okay.

[chicagocityfclanspromoblog]

Lillian Pickford → Mila Kunis, Dichen Lachman, Bradley James, Bradley Cooper → Human Shifter

→ Basic Information

Age: 143

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Questioning

Birthday: August 8th

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Religion: Catholic

→ Her Personality Lillian is an intelligent, ambitious, hard-working, and tech-savvy individual who is highly confident in her communication and people skills. She wants nothing more than to help those around her. She is highly intuitive and has an innate curiosity, often amazed and intrigued by the animal shifters, witches, and warlocks around her. After becoming a lawyer, she became even interested in investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding supernaturals and representing them in court. Her ability to gather and analyze evidence and come to accurate conclusions is also noteworthy. She is not afraid to take risks and or jump into action when need be. Though she does not go looking for trouble, Lillian is also not one to back away from danger, particularly when there is a mystery waiting to be solved or a victim deserving justice.

Lillian is more stubborn than any other human shifter and holds true to her morals, despite what others may want of her. At the same time, Lillian is also insecure regarding her position in the clan and as a female, as of lately she has taken two male forms permanently to feel more confident. Lillian is a patient and rather indulgent individual; she has seen how her clan prefers those clan members working directly for Chicago PD and older male figures. Her most prominent attributes are her capacity for compassion, kindness and trust; it is these traits which allowed D.W to trust her with the knowledge of her mischievous activities, as well as rely on her for random connections when needed.

→ Her Personal Facts

Occupation: Lawyer

Scars: None

Tattoos: None

Two Likes: Board games/trivia and Music

Two Dislikes: Cold Weather and Disney

Two Fears: Snowpocalypse and Most Insects

Two Hobbies: Cooking and People Stalking

Three Positive Traits: Intuitive, Selfless, Reliable

Three Negative Traits: Stubborn, Insecure, Perfectionist

→ Her Connections Parent Names:

Teresa Ridgeport (Mother): Teresa died during childbirth. All of the stories Lillian knows about her mother are from older clan members.

Unknown (Father): Her mother never told anyone who her father was.

Sibling Names:

None

Children Names:

Barbara Pickford (Daughter): Barbara is spoiled and Lillian can admit that now. Her daughter was the only child for nearly a century before Lillian and Steven chose to have kids again. Barbara did not take the news well and chose to rebel in the stupidest ways. Barbara often takes on 18 or 19 year old forms and attends high school as a senior or a college freshmen for attention. Steven has given up but Lillian has been thinking of recommending her to a professional.

Elizabeth ‘Lizzy’ Pickford (Daughter): Elizabeth is much like her father. She is easy to love and be around. Unlike most human shifters, she has had the same three faces that she either ages up, changes their hair and/or body type repeatedly for the past few years. Lillian is trying to talk her into taking a new face and trying to understand her stubbornness for change, especially now that it seems like she has the gift of creating forms without studying or watching anyone.

Flynn Pickford (Son): Flynn is a mama’s boy. He is attached at her hip and wants to follow in her footsteps to become a supernatural lawyer. Flynn is a miniature version of herself and she is surprised they get along so well.

Romantic Connections:

Steven Pickford (Husband): Lillian has cared about Steven a great deal since they were kids. They were the typical high school sweethearts who married and had kids young. Steven has recently offered to choose a female, one that compliments one of her male forms, to carry their next child.  

Platonic Connections:

Sarah Harris (Good Friend): Sarah is really involved in both the human and supernatural communities, Lillian absolutely loves that about her. They met while attending a PTA meeting nearly 20 years ago and have been friends ever since.

Greer Finley (Good Friend): Lillian handles the legal documents for Panthera Academy and was introduced to Greer when she became Clan Cat’s second. They bonded one night over drinks and paperwork. Later, Lillian invited Greer to a kickboxing class after she heard about Greer mate leaving. Now, Lillian and Greer randomly take group exercise classes together. They are both able to leave their clans rivalry at the door when together and do not take it personally.

D.W Colt (Friend/Coworker): Lillian often works with D.W and refers a lot of her clients to her as a victim advocate. It’s getting easier to find human shifters who are genuinely in their field to help but before the new changes were in place D.W was one of a kind; never taking bribes or favoring one victim over another. D.W Husband knows her as Amelia, an old college friend and coworker.

Darren Shaw (Friend): Lillian is always glad to see a happy face when she steps into the department. Darren is never gloomy and his perpetrator/suspects are never roughoused. Lillian quickly built a friendship with him and has even introduced Darren to her husband, Steven, they have a strong relationship.

Douglas Gish (Friend): Douglas used to babysit Lillian when she was younger. She hasn’t had much personal contact with him after her teen years but they still work together from time to time on her harder cases. Douglas is on more friendly terms with Lillian’s husband, Steven and is still a part of her yearly Christmas list.

Greta Bow (Acquaintance): Lillian had heard of Greta’s story when it first happened but voted against approaching her and possibly overwhelming her or seeming to pity her. However, thanks to D.W, who has recently introduced them to each other, Lillian has her foot in the door and is hoping to build a friendship.

Max Vanes (Acquaintance): Max has exchanged information with Lillian on multiple cases regarding the local supernaturals. She would not call Max a friend but they are business friendly and professional with each other.

James ‘Jim’ Montgomery (Acquaintance): Max had told Lillian that James was the one to contact when a rat was stalking her youngest daughter, Elizabeth was in elementary school at the time. Lillian now calls James directly whenever one of his charges step out of line when concerning human shifters children.

Hostile Connections:

Tim and Lee Boaz (Loathe): The nimble twins often take interest in her cases and try to turn the public against her clients using bad or false media coverage. Lillian does not think they understand that she is trying to protect all supernaturals; especially since they almost had a vampire on trial sentenced.

Austin Semler (Ignores): Just like the Boaz twins, Austin has photoshopped or falsified photographic evidence of multiple of her clients; mostly humans.

Tristan Lawton (Dislikes): Lillian has no problem visiting the predominantly witches and warlocks hospital for medical emergencies but Tristan has proven himself incompetent time and time again. He has single handedly ruined a countless number of her assault cases by mishandling evidence while healing and did more harm to her son Flynn’s broken arm when Lillian brought him in.

Pets:

Gambit (Male Capybara): Lillian purchased Gambit after her kids begged and pleaded for a pet. After coming up with impressive PowerPoints and spreadsheets, Lillian and Steven could not deny them.

Rouge (Female Capybara): They purchased Rouge for Gambit after Gambit had reached mating age. Rouge is now pregnant and Lillian is unsure if their family could handle anywhere from 2 to 8 pups. Especially, since Steven has brought up possibly having new additions of their own.

→ History (paragraph(s) on background)

→ The Present (paragraph(s) on how the character connects to the plot)

→ Available Gif Hunts (we do not own these)

Mila Kunis [1][2]

Dichen Lachman [1][2]

Bradley James [1][2]

Bradley Cooper [1][2]

[venus-says]

Healin' Good Precure Episodes 19-20

Anju looks good in purple.

I'm gonna be honest with you all here, I don't know how to start this one. I've watched these two episodes back to back TWICE and I have so many mixed feelings, I have no idea how to put my thoughts in a cohesive order for this post to make at least a little bit of sense. So bear with me because I have a lot of conflicting emotions.

So beginning from the basic stuff, Episode 19 was strong, with great emotional moments, and I loved it for almost all of its run-time. Episode 20 was a bit of a letdown, the emotional parts didn't work as well, and what were supposed to be great moments felt like they needed a little more gas to me, and how things were solved in this episode made me like the previous one a little less than I did on my first watching.

You see, my major problem with how both of these episodes went down is that the pay off for the build-up wasn't exactly that satisfying.

When the matter is Mid-season Cures, my preference will always go to when the character that will become said Cure has already been introduced before because these are characters we already know and already had some development so when the "Curefication" happens that moment feels like a turning point or an essential moment for those previously established characters arcs. When they become Cures, it's rewarding, it's exciting, and when they need to integrate that character with the original group it feels more natural because they already knew each other, at least to a certain level.

Cure Earth's case falls under the situation I like the least, where a character comes out of nowhere, transforms, and saves the day. And I don't know how to feel about those situations because I don't know that character, I don't know how I should feel about them. When they just appear it's not a rewarding build-up, it's frustrating. It feels like a Cure Ex-Machina and it can ruin what in other circumstances could've been a great moment. And the way things happened in these two episodes felt just like that.

Episode 19 was everything centered around Rate, it was an episode where we finally got to know more of her and see her thoughts for once in a situation where the girls had to run to fight a monster right after. She was sick, she was feeling weak and powerless, and the entire episode was walking in a path where Rate would be the main star. Whatever happened there, it should be Rate in the spotlight, it was Rate's moment. But in the end, she didn't do anything and she was just the poor, defenseless little puppy that she has been all this time along. And in Episode 20 she was robbed even more of her spotlight, she didn't even get a chance to help in the battle like the other healing animals and it felt like such a missed opportunity. The sensation I had was that originally Rate was supposed to give a group power-up at this moment and this would be like a level up for her, but because they're so bound in this "Sixth Ranger" tradition they changed the focus to a character that literally didn't exist before she was needed to exist.

And I feel like I would be more okay with this if Rate at least had an active participation in creating Asumi and making her Cure Earth, you know? Rather than making Teatinu being the one who awakened the spirit, it could've been Rate that did it, it would show how powerful she is and how much she has grown and it would go hand-in-hand with her conflicts we've seen earlier in the episode. It would also serve as the reason why Asumi feels so connected with Rate and her strong feelings about protecting her, without mentioning it would explain why Rate was able to bond with her and turn her into her Cure partner immediately instead of the three characters that for 20 episodes have been giving their all to take care of her.

With that being said, I also had many things that I liked in these two episodes. Seeing the girls caring for Rate in Episode 19 was very endearing, Nodoka waking up in the middle of the night to give her comfort, Chiyuu skipping club activities to be with her because she's concerned, Hinata taking advice from costumers of her family's clinic to give help on her own way, even Nodoka's father that was there just to be comic relief, all of these moments were pretty sweet.

And the magical-girl-centered part of the episode was pretty good as well. For example, I like that because Rate is sick with a real illness she can't feel the Earth calling for help so the girls go unaware of the Mega-Byougen wreaking havoc in the mountains which gave Batetemoda a huge head start so the monster was stronger than usual which lead to the cures being trapped in that situation, that eventually lead to Rate taking up action where it gave Batetemoda a chance to capture her which triggered Cure Earths birth at that moment. Aside from the problem of a character coming out of nowhere, it was a natural progression of events that had me on the edge of my seat for the entire second half of the episode.

And Earth's entrance was pretty cool as well, the way she fought the Mega-Byougen doing all of those jumps and kicks was amazing, and seeing her creating an Elemental Bottle made me go crazy. Her second fight on Episode 20 was even better, going toe-to-toe with Batetemoda and sweeping the floor with him and the powered-up Mega-Byougen, that was awesome. My mind went places when she reveals she's not a human, and that she's technically a newborn. That paired with how clueless she is about everything and how she acts a little silly at times made it for an awesome time following her around. I joked about it on twitter, but Asumi sounds exactly like Anju from PriChan, and not just because Mimori Suzuko is doing the exact same voice she does for Anju but because this "cluelessness" reminds me a lot of how Anju acts sometimes whenever she's hiding her true identity. I'm just waiting for the time where someone will do an AMV of Cure Earth with Fortune Karat playing in the background and an edit of Anju's coord change with Earth transformation song playing as the background.

Oh, and by the way, can we talk about how freaking gorgeous she is? Both in civilian and Cure form. Earth is one of the prettiest Cures ever and if you don't think so I recommend you to leave because I don't think we can be friends (jk, I condemn favorites shaming XD). I love her transformation, I love her attack, I love her weapon. I'm all here for these aesthetics and I have no doubt that in a couple of weeks I'll be here with an "I ♡ EARTH" headband and two purple lightsticks going "GO EARTH! GO EARTH!" because of that. Like, I can get tired of it??? From Rate's running to Asumi, to her grabbing Rate's little paws, to them snuggling each other TWICE, how her hair changes, and how she gets her earrings and the winged headpiece everything in that transformation is perfect. And gosh, the attack, after 20 episodes with attack animations that weren't all that exciting or inventive how fresh it feels to have a Healing Hurricane to blow us all away.

I think from these episodes the only thing I can't forgive it's the villains' side of things, again. Like, they just lost their more interesting member, and now I just don't feel as engaged with the villains once more. Also, that power-up thing coming from a Mega-Byougen fragment was also a bit meh. More because we haven't really seen that being mentioned before, you know? And it's not like they didn't have the chance to explain it either, I believe Batetemoda was born from something with similar properties so they could've introduced this element before. I don't know, I'm just sad my good boy is gone and now we're stuck again with those boring three and the main villain that probably had less screen time than a side character so far.

Another sadness was the new ending. I'm sorry y'all but I don't like this song, I don't like this dance, I don't like the visuals for this ending, and I'm just very sad. I'm gonna miss Miracle tto Link♡Ring SO SO MUCH... and this Ending doesn't even have hints for what the next season will be, I'm sad.

Oh well, like I said CONFLICTING FEELINGS, I'm a mess but I hope I could pass my point to everyone. If you have anything to share about these episodes or my thoughts please let me know in the comments down below. I believe that's all for now, don't forget to stay healthy, stay safe, and never stop resisting. Thank you so much for reading, and until the next time, Healin' Goodbye~

[chicagocityofclans]

Minsky Edison → Charles Michael Davis → Witch

→ Basic Information 

Age: 1268

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Straight 

Powers: Neuromancy

Birthday: October 30th 

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 

Religion: Buddhist 

→ His Personality

Minsky is approachable and friendly, able to easily bond and make friends with everyone, despite their species. He is courageous and an easily excitable individual. He has a great passion for his work and a tendency to ramble off when describing his findings or hypotheses as a Neuromancer and Council member. Minsky takes his role as a Council member and mentor seriously. He enforces the rules the Council made without fail. Although, Minsky also genuinely care for his mentees and friends, willing to find loopholes or help them plead their cases. He likes to have fun and enjoys being a witch; he takes pride in who he is. Over the years Minsky has gained great leadership skills, his intelligence goes beyond his powers, and his altruistic nature has him ready to go and save a complete stranger at the bat of an eye. None of this which curb his competitive streaks. Minsky enjoys flaunting around his knowledge.

Possibly because of his lack of paternal care growing up, Minsky has a strong parental instinct towards his biological kids and those he gained during his marriage. After losing his only biological son, Minsky's attitude become quiet and subdued, at the same time angry and upset, having lost his child due to an inheritance on his part and a failed marriage.

→ His Personal Facts

Occupation: Mentor and Shield Master   

Scars: None

Tattoos: Multiple

Two Likes: Beautiful Surroundings and Privacy

Two Dislikes: Slackers and Shallow Relationships

Two Fears: Being forgotten and Becoming a ghost

Two Hobbies: Tai Chi and Collecting/Listening to Vinyls

Three Positive Traits: Romantic, Altruistic, Joyful

Three Negative Traits: Know-it-all, Over-confident, Strict (Teaching)

→ His Connections

Parent Names:

Darna (Mother): Minsky has a difficult time remembering his mother, her face, and his previous name and last name. However the word Darna is clearly imprinted in his mind. He remembered feeling fondness for his mother, and thinking of her those nights after leaving for sea.  

Sibling Names:

None

Children Names:

Lee Cyto Rinker Jr (Step Son): Kudzai's oldest son who is 1018 years old. Kudzai has a strained relationship with her eldest due to how similar he is to his father. Minsky has tried to be as available to him as possible, and they have formed a cautious friendship. Kudzai has a habit of being exceedingly hard on her offspring, and Lee is no exception. 

Cristae Zephyr Rinker (Step Daughter): Kudzai's oldest daughter who is 980 years old and responsible for the no-offspring mentoring rule. Minsky gets along with Cristae the least of his step children, but he makes an effort to reach out on important days. 

Krebs Jay Rinker (Step Son): Kudzai's middle son who is 364 years old. He is Kudzai and James Thomas' son. Kerbs is Kudzai's least favorite child but Minsky mainly thinks he needs direction. Something he is well aware Kudzai couldn’t give him, for the sake of her own sanity. He found him a job and mentor in Seoul,  and heard he’s doing well in his Master levels. 

Hondria Edison Rinker (Daughter): Kudzai and Minsky's only daughter who is 119 years old. She is a talented Projector and was trained by Minsky himself. Despite his advanced age, Hondria was the first child Minsky ever had. He considered himself too much of a risk to have many close personal connections. He could die at any point, and thought he may be better remembered as a leader and mentor, rather than a father. When he held her for the first time however, everything made sense. He could leave as much of his knowledge in the world as possible, but Hondria and Kudzai and their family was his legacy. He vowed to her when she went to sleep the first night that he would be there as long as he possibly could for her. They are still incredibly close and it broke his heart when she left for her advanced levels. He teleports to see her often, but it’s not what he’d imagined all those centuries ago.

Jamie Edison Rinker (Son): Kudzai and Minsky’s youngest son died in his sleep at the age of 17. They came into Jamie’s birth so confident, much more than Hondria’s, assuming he’d be a mental or maybe another biokinetic. When they discovered he was like his father, it suddenly felt like Jamie had been placed into a box with a bomb in it and any movement would set it off. Both Kudzai and Minsky attempted to go on like things were normal. Jamie was energetic and brilliant; the light of his mother’s eye. And Minsky began to see the box and the bomb go away and suddenly a glimmer of hope swelled in him. If it was genetic, and Minsky had been alive for over a millenia who's to say Jamie wouldn’t share the same fate? He still remembers the day Kudzai found him in bed, having died in his sleep. It destroyed him to his core. He prayed that day and so many others afterwards to just switch him for Jamie. He’d had the life he was meant to have; Jaime’s was cut too short. Minsky and Kudzai separated shortly there after; neither one able to forgive Minsky for his part in it.

Romantic Connections:

Kudzai Rinker (Separated Wife/Woman he loves): Minsky believes himself too old to buy into the idea of soul mates, but there is something that has pulled Minsky and Kudzai towards one another for centuries. Too many chances of being in the same place at the same time; too many opportunities to go back to one another. Minsky has never loved anyone the way he loves Kudzai. Her brilliance, and snark, and steadfast beliefs; everything makes her who she is. Losing Jaime devastated them and there was no way either of them could heal together, but Minsky thinks there may be a spark left for them somewhere. A real shot, not just a brief reconnection when the world becomes too lonely. He’ll wait until the end of his days for that woman.  

Platonic Connections:

Fiona Kekoa (Mentee): She is only 21 years old, but Minsky is training her in case he dies before they turn 50. She has taken extensive notes on his routines and processes so she may keep his work going if he dies.

Catherine Barr (Mentee): Despite Cat’s beliefs, Minsky completely understands what it’s like to lose a child. However, that’s no excuse to unravel different universes. He’s willing to be sympathetic, but if he finds anything more concrete in her head, he will not hesitate to bring her in front of the council for judgement. 

Nikita Platt (Mentee): Minsky finds Nikita refreshingly genuine, especially for a Mnemokinetic. He could see it in her mind, well before she turned 50 and was glad to offer her a spot under his tutelage. Her memory acting up so much already concerns Minsky, but he is willing to assist her with whatever she needs to grow her power. He has already purchased a tracking kit to help her keep track of her keys and phone, and is trying to get her into the habit of putting appointments into her phone so she doesn’t forget them. 

Simon Lee Weyden (Future Mentee): Given that he is still alive for Simon’s next level, Minsky has agreed to take him on. He has potential, and unlike many mentors he isn’t prejudiced against Tantric Manipulators.

Rhiannon Draga (Council Member): Minsky has a lot of respect for Rhiannon and considers her a close friend. He is glad she finally found her happiness with Fallon, Alucard, and Vladimir. Before, he often wondered if the melancholia may over take her. Fortunately, he was proven wrong and happily saw her wedding and met her children. 

Ronan Cleirigh (Council Member): Minsky and Ronan have been friends for a long time. They can both shimmy in and out of each other's shields, making it easier for Minsky to trust Ronan more than their peers. Their friendship has been a little hard on Minsky as of lately, knowing Ronan hates Kudzai with a passion.

Jace Cicero (Council Member): Jace and Minsky often agree with one another when it comes to council decisions. They tend to keep their cool even when more fiery members of Council do not. The only thing they do not agree upon is Jace’s dating of his mentee, Cat. Minsky is concerned that if Cat needs to be put on trial for any illegal use of her power, that Jace may be swayed by whatever feelings he has for her.

Eric Lasiter (Best Friend): Minsky often finds a weight being lifted off of his shoulders whenever Eric is around. Eric's energy and mind sings to Minsky like fairy tales of muses. Eric was a huge help when Minsky lost Jamie and separated with Kudzai. While they might not be the best at time management when it comes to getting together but when it happens, time seems to melt around them.

Averill Sookram (Ally): Minsky exonerated Averill for a crime by looking through his mind. Minsky has been on Averill’s side for centuries. His exoneration created one of the worst fights between him and Kudzai in the past 3 centuries, but he wasn’t willing to let an innocent man be punished for something he didn’t do. 

Sydney ‘Sid’ Velanica (Distant In Law): Minsky is more accepting of those with the Rinker mark than his wife, Kudzai. Minksy never doubted Sidney and even offered to mentor him before Sid chose Jia. Minsky supports Sid's relationship with Sada.

Sol Alfaro (Old Friend): Minsky can honestly say that he has never been friends with an animal shifter until Sol. Sol has lost his wife and went down a dark path of turning to magic to fix the problem. Having seen a lot of death in his time. Minsky advised him against using magic or contacting a necromancer, as a replacement of dealing with his loss. At first, Sol did not take it well but Minsky somehow kept finding him and offering his guidance and friendship. It's been nearly 150 years and they still keep in contact.

Tristan Lawton (Acquaintance): Kudzai has recently informed the Council that one of her mentees may have been misplaced as a Biokinetic. Kudzai is unsure about him being a Biokinetic and believes he may be something else or something new entirely. Minsky and Ronan have been doing research to try and help figure it out before Tristan can do more damage in the wrong field.

Hostile Connections:

None

Pets:

None

→ History (paragraph(s) on background) → The Present (paragraph(s) on how the character connects to the plot)

[ohayohimawari]

Kakashi Asks-Answer

Whenever possible, I’m going to reply this way instead of using the answer format Tumblr gives. This way, I can contain my geekiness below a read-more cut (and not create those long-ass posts that irritate folks haha).

@mrssakurahatake asked: “After the time skip Kakashi is surprised and impressed by Naruto and Sakura. Do you think he tried to keep tabs on them during that time?”

What an excellent question! Thank you so much for asking.

The word that I am basing my entire answer upon is found in your question: “tried.”

You asked specifically about Naruto and Sakura, but I’m going to throw Sasuke into the equation as well.

I think that Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura permanently occupied a place in Kakashi’s mind (and much later, his heart) from the moment he gave them that great big thumbs-up on their promotion to genin. I’m convinced that Sasuke’s defection from the Leaf and the subsequent disbanding of Team Seven was quite a blow to him. Also, I believe it was a loss that he wasn’t equipped to process.

Everyone going in different directions left Kakashi once again without a team. However, everyone lived so, there was no one for him to mourn and I wonder how he wrapped his head around that. This poor knucklehead is accustomed to losing those closest to him in the most permanent way possible, and I think he develops attachment anxiety because of it (more on this later).

Even without a team, Kakashi is one busy bean. In both the manga and the anime, there are plenty of references to how heavily Tsunade relied upon him. She kept Hatake hopping from one mission to the next—he even had to shirk orders to go and retrieve Naruto after they failed to bring Sasuke back! That in itself should show to what lengths Kakashi would go to for his teammates, and especially his students.

So why wasn’t he more involved with them during that time between Naruto’s departure and return?

In Naruto’s case, I don’t think it’s difficult to imagine that Jiraiya would’ve kept communication with Konoha to a minimum. He’s got his hands full keeping his godson on the move; keeping their location secret from the Akatsuki. Kakashi is a ninja above all else, and he would understand and respect this need to not attempt correspondence with the Toad Sage and his tadpole. I think the proof of this is when Jiraiya reveals what happened when Naruto was pushed to the fourth tail of the Nine-Tails Cloak, after the fact. Even when it came to bringing Naruto back, Jiraiya was vague about the details, as any good shinobi should. And where was Kakashi when they returned? Hanging out on the window ledge outside the Hokage’s office; right there and waiting for whenever his student would show up. For someone who portrays himself as aloof, this speaks volumes of how eager he was to know how his former students had fared.

Concerning Sasuke, that’s a sensitive area in which I can only speculate. By the time Kakashi becomes a sensei, he’s shown as having relaxed his stance on the shinobi rules. I’ve stated in previous answers that I don’t subscribe to that notion, that I think the rules are something that reign supreme throughout Kakashi’s career. When he goes against them, it’s a conscious and calculated decision that comes with no small amount of nervousness or stress. It’s worth breaking the rules if it means keeping your comrades safe, but if by breaking the rules you are putting your comrades in danger, that’s the ultimate offense in Kakashi’s Bingo Book. This is exactly what Sasuke did, for selfish reasons, and I imagine Kakashi having many sleepless nights coming to terms with it and whether or not he could forgive his student should that opportunity ever arise. I believe that Kakashi would definitely try to keep tabs on Sasuke, either personally when his missions would place him near Orochimaru’s pad, or by calling in a favor with his old ANBU buddies. Whether or not it would be to confirm Sasuke’s well-being, or to track him as an enemy, I couldn’t say. Probably a little of both.

One of Kakashi’s students never left the village and yet, he was just as surprised by Sakura’s skill and ability as he was with Naruto’s. Why would that be the case when it seems that it would be so easy for him to monitor her progress?

I’ve established that Kakashi was the busiest ninja in Konoha while Naruto was off training with Jiraiya. Even during the filler episodes that covered the chūnin exams in Suna, Kakashi was off spying on Amegakure. I’ve also established that Kakashi puts his students and comrades above the orders of his Hokage. In Sakura’s case, I believe it was Kakashi himself that kept him from knowing the strong and capable kunoichi she had become.

Attachment anxiety is a terrible beast to wrestle with, and I believe Konoha’s genius dork has a bad case of it. It’s much, much more than the fear of losing people close to you. It’s the belief that you don’t deserve the time and effort that others would invest in becoming close to you. Kakashi displays many of the symptoms of this type of anxiety: the crushing shame of having disappointed others, how quickly he is to blame himself, frequently extending himself beyond his own reserves for the sake of others and for the sake of proving himself, while at the same time distancing and isolating himself. As much as he fears detachment, anxiety causes him to behave in a way that makes forming and maintaining attachments incredibly tricky because of the belief that he could never do enough, or be enough for another person.

I believe that, out of all of his students, Kakashi thinks he disappointed Sakura the most. He told her that everything would be alright after she watched Naruto and Sasuke go at each other’s throats. It was a promise that Kakashi should never have made because it was one that he could never keep, and just like Naruto, he never got over it. The shame of failing to keep his word, coupled with his enthusiasm for blaming and doubting himself (in this case, believing he was a terrible teacher), leads him to conclude the best thing he could do would be to leave her to Tsunade’s instruction without interference. This would be enough for Kakashi to punish himself-to banish himself-and keep his distance from her.

For most of his life, Kakashi is convinced that he’s a walking disaster and he does his best to make sure that he’s the only casualty. This is never more apparent to me as in the case of his lack of relationship with his students after they went their separate ways.

However, they came back to him. I think one of the reasons Kakashi was so amazed by Naruto and Sakura is because he was blown away that they still wanted to test themselves against him. That he was someone that they continued to look up to and wanted to rekindle that bond with. This was when the members of Team Seven cracked that tough barrier (the same one that Gai had been chipping away at for years, making it easier for them to break through) that Kakashi had erected between his mind and his heart.

I may never understand Kishi’s decision to inflict so much trauma on one character so, it makes me beyond giddy to imagine how happy this tortured goofball must’ve been when Naruto and Sakura took the bells from him.

XOXO

[wikiablogger]

25 Things Wrong With Boruto Everyone Chooses To Ignore

Boruto is the successful sequel series to one of the most popular anime to ever exist: Naruto. As it follows the next generations of shinobi, fans get to see all the couples grow older and see their children become strong ninja themselves. Predictably, the main character of the show is Naruto's own son, Boruto Uzumaki.

Though the show echoes a lot of themes and styles from its predecessor, it has a lot of its own, new charm. It continues on from Naruto and grows into its own conflicts, stories, and adventures. Many fans consider it to be better than Naruto, as it took the good from that show, cut out the bad, and made it a better overall experience. At least for certain there are far less infamous filler episodes.

However, just like Naruto, Boruto is not beyond reproach. It still has flaws in plot, logic, and character growth. It might be easier to overlook blemishes because of Boruto's increased quality, but that doesn't mean they aren't there. For example, there's a lot of debate about Sasuke's home life that sends fans atwitter. However, there's more to it than just the continuation of the Sasuke/Sakura debate. 

25. The Opening Scene

Boruto begins many years before the anime, showing the terrible destruction that will plague Konoha. It also implies all this destruction happened at the hands of Kawaki, a vicious combatant. Boruto himself steps into the battle, showing immense strength and defending the shinobi.

Then the series heads back to Boruto's youth, when he's a rebellious with daddy issues and a lot of angst about shinobi, a far cry from his future self.

Though it's an interesting hook, it does jar fans and mildly spoil Boruto's character growth. Part of Naruto's charm was his willpower and long-term growth into leadership, responsibility, and strength. This opening scene ruins that for Boruto.

24. Sarada's Identity Crisis

There's an entire arc in the series centering around Sarada and her parents. Since she has never really met Sasuke, she's unsure if she's really his daughter and that troubles her. This is the understandable aspect of her identity crisis

However, the less logical turn is when she starts questioning if Sakura is her mother. Sakura has raised her since birth, been with her every day, and cared for her lovingly. Even though Sasuke is a mystery, Sakura's devotion to her should be enough to assume she's her mother. They make look different, but thinking Karin birthed her or Sakura would care for Karin's child is ludicrous.

23. Boruto's Overpowered Abilities

Naruto was always powerful, even though he struggled to hone that power. However, Boruto is on another level. Despite his indifference to shinobi life and the Hokage title, he is easily one of the strongest students in his class in pure talent.

At best, Boruto appreciates winning and being powerful, but his strength is growing exponentially in comparison to his father.

Not to mention, his Karma marks add an absurdly powerful, currently unpredictable element to his power levels. Naruto became a powerful Shinobi, but Boruto might be on a completely different level that it's almost absurd.

22. Orochimaru's Involvement

Orochimaru, the troubled mad scientist of Naruto, is one of the most problematic characters in the series. He caused the shinobi of that time much grief with his schemes and plots.

However, in Boruto, he's just a parent coming to teacher meetings. Though Mitsuki hardly deserves exile for his father's deeds, allowing Orochimaru as much leeway as Naruto and Sasuke do is ridiculous. Mitsuki may be a genuine, talented, kind kid, but Orochimaru is still a complex, scheming man. He shows little growth away from that part of himself. After all, he is into making clones now, and sometimes very unstable ones like Shin Uchiha.

21. Burgers

Like Naruto had ramen, Boruto has burgers. Boruto loves eating the food with his friends and can be found often cradling a burger in his hands.

It gives the young shinobi a place to hang out and something the fill them up after hard work, but there is one big question: why burgers?

Naruto's world is heavily based in Asian mythology. After all, every land is full of ninja running around. Ramen made sense as their food of choice. However, burgers are an inherently European creation that's only been heavily franchised by Western culture. Boruto creators may be trying to connect with Western audiences, but burgers just don't make sense.

20. Katasuke Encouraging Boruto's Cheating

By Boruto, technology has greatly advanced in the 15 or so years since he Fourth Shinobi War ended. Doctors like Katasuke are even creating technology that hones ninja abilities.

Whole progress is exciting and Katasuke was desperate to get his tech tested and noticed, it was completely illogical to give it to Boruto to test in the exams. At best, Boruto wouldn't have been caught, leaving the Kote unnoticed. At worst, it could have completely failed and seriously hurt him. Instead, the middle occured: it worked great but the cheating and misuse of the Kote got both parties in great trouble. It was an overall dumb idea for Katasuke.

19. Sumire's Home Life

Sumire is a focal young ninja during the possession arc of Boruto. Why? Because all of the posessions and danger are looming because of her. Sumire's parents passed after their family was ostracized from Konoha for their involvement in Danzo's Root organization. She attempted to enact a revenge plot, but her friends stopped her.

However, beyond accepting her school life, what does Sumire have? If previous orphans are any indication, she lives alone and is depressed.

If Kabuto's orphanage is her home, that's frighteningly worse. Sumire's home life isn't talked about and isn't a concern, though it should be. After being trained to become an agent of revenge, she deserves a good home or at least some counseling.

18. Team 10's Leadership

The teaming up of Nara, Akimichi, and Yamanaka children is a classic shinobi combination. For generations, various heirs have paired up like this to create powerful teams. After all, together they build the powerful Ino-Shika-Cho Formation.

Another element to this team is that they are commonly lead by a member of the Sarutobi Clan to cement their bond. Consequently, the last trio was led by Asuma Sarutobi and was dubbed Team 10. However, Boruto's Team 10 is led by Moegi, a ninja with no connections to the Sarutobi clan. Instead, their leader should have been Konohamaru or Mirai, both strong shinobi and members of the Sarutobi clan.

17. Lack of Post-Ninja Careers

Boruto is set long after the Fourth Shinobi War, in a time of prolonged peace. Because of this, ninja have fallen out of favor and less are needed. Therefore, some of the older shinobi now have interest in finding non-ninja careers. There are complaints of there being a scarcity, however.

While it's an understandable plight for the older shinobi, this doesn't make sense in the world of Naruto. During the previous series, there were cooking-nin in the Land of Lightning and other similar occupations on display. It may require some travel, but there are certaintly jobs out there for non-combat ninja. Ino is a florist now, after all.

16. Sasuke and Sakura's Marriage

Sakura pined after Sasuke for the entirety of Naruto. However, Sasuke showed little interest in her romantically. At best, she was a friend who annoyed him. Sometime between Naruto and Boruto, though, they marry and have a daughter.

Despite showing no previous interest, Sakura and Sasuke are an illogical match.

Sasuke is very private, prefers not to be touched, and stays away for long missions. Sakura prefers affection, is constantly saddened by his absence, and it fairly open with her emotions. Their personalities don't match up well and it's bizarre the pair would end up a "happy" couple.

15. Mitsuki's Immeasurable Potential

Mitsuki is a very unique character, as he's the artificially created son of Orochimaru. From Orochimaru's genes alone, Mitsuki is understandably powerful. However, there's an element that makes him even more complex: his conception.

Artificial humans haven't existed before in this world. The shinobi have no clue if this will effect his powers. In theory, Mitsuki could be even more powerful because of the precision in his genetics. He could have more potential than any other shinobi has even had before. While that's wild enough, it's even wilder how no one seems as concerned or fascinated by his unknown, immeasurable potential.

14. Technological Development

During Naruto, technology is akin to the tech of the early 1900's with some odd tapes and other advances mixed in. However, 15 years later, by Boruto, the technology has rapidly evolved to the point it is far more akin to the modern technology of the early 2000s's, with sleek computers, phones, video  games, etc.

Though peace can create rapid growth, it seems quite extreme that what took about 75 years for first world countries took only 15 years in Naruto. Either Naruto should have been a little further along in tech, or Boruto should be a bit further back. Maybe huge computers and block phones, not sleek, newer tech.

13. Kabuto Running the Orphanage

Kabuto was one of the most aggressive of Orochimaru's minions during the time of Naruto. He faithfully protected, resurrected, and destroyed for his master. He single-handedly caused a lot of pain for Konoha.

Kabuto had a change of heart during the final battles of Naruto, wanting to help save the world, not destroy it, but that hardly makes him a good person.

By Boruto, though, he's the leader of orphanage. Giving a twisted follower of a mad scientist agency over tons of young minds seems irresponsible and dangerous, particularly with all the Shin Uchiha clones there now.

12. Boruto Agreeing To Team 7

Team 7 was the iconic trio of Sakura, Sasuke, and Naruto in the original series. When Boruto graduates Ninja Academy, he, Sarada, and Mitsuki are grouped together into a team. They were initially called Team 3, but after Sarada became wildly impressed with Naruto, she asked they be renamed Team 7. Her request was granted.

However, there's a serious snag in reviving the name: Boruto. While Boruto learned to work well with Sarada and respect her, he still has serious issues with his father and hates the idea of following in his footsteps. For him to agree to Team 7 is a complete breach of character.

11. Sasuke's Absentee Relationship With Sarada

Sasuke's relationship with Sarada is strained and distant, at best. However, it doesn't make sense for it to be. For starters, Sasuke is the best person to teach her about her genetic powers. After all, he's the only other Uchiha. He should be caring for his only heir much more closely for that reason alone.

Beyond that, though, he knows losing his parents, his troubled relationship with his brother, and the Uchiha Curse of Hatred led him down a dark path. To do better for Sarada, he should give her a doting father and lots of support to guide her away from hatred.

10. The Emergence of The Otsutsuki Clan

When Kaguya came to earth, it was already mentioned she wasn't the only one of her kind. However, it seemed she was the first to get distracted by love and, later, ultimately fail in her mission. It's understandable when Momoshiki, Kinshiki, and Urushiki come to the planet. The problem lies more in when they came.

Thematically, if Kaguya was the final enemy large enemy, it's insane to make her clansmen early villains in Boruto's lore.  

Though it gave Sasuke and Naruto a challenge, it was a ridiculous feat for the genin main characters. The Otsutsuki clan should have appeared later to be villains for the younger cast.

9. So Many Ninja Housewives

Naruto showed us the strength of both male and female ninja in its many trials, battles, and wars. It gave fans the first female Hokage in Tsunade, the secretly powerful Hinata, intimidating villains like Konan, and more. However, by the time Boruto rolls around, most all of the remaining female cast are relegated to housewives.

While it makes sense for Ino to want to run her family flower shop, or Hinata to want to be close to her kids, some don't fit the role well. For example, Sakura is far more likely to have wanted to do something else with her time, perhaps as a village medic-nin. Instead, even she's a housewife.

8. Denki

When Boruto began, fans were introduced to the title characters closest friends. This included Shikadai and soon after, Denki. Unlike Shikadai, though, Denki is a terrible ninja and Boruto has to save him from bullies.

This seems like it might be setting up Denki for a growth arc, but instead he just always seems several steps behind everyone.

Also, Denki is prone to getting his friends into trouble because of his clumsiness, low confidence, and more. Even more, his skills in computers is barely used. Though it was a nice idea to have a kid who didn't want to be a ninja at all, it's disappointing his growth is so miniscule.

7. Karin Keeping Sarada's Umbilical Cord

When Sarada was born, Karin assisted Sakura in labor. After that, though, Karin kept Sarada's umbilical cord. It's a very strange decision already, but her reason for doing it is even stranger. She didn't keep it to remember helping Sakura birth life, but to have a momento of Sasuke's. A momento that is the epitome of his relationship with someone else that isn't her.

Karin can be misguided and creepy at times, but this perhaps takes the cake for craziest thing she's done. She has no use for the cord and it's disturbing to put romantic sentimentality into it.

6. Children Fighting Gang Members and Bandits

In Naruto, some of the teachers make questionable decisions by continuing fights with surprise enemies that may be too difficult for their ninja students. Boruto tries to bypass this by having rules for these situations. Students can only engage in combat with a teacher around.

However, that's nearly worse. Now, students are actively seeking trouble with gangs and bandits. And with the permission to fight them with instructors, of course headstrong shinobi like Boruto go out fighting without that supervision. Though a nice sentiment with better planning to fight with the kids, the random encounters made more sense and encouraged genin to pursue dangerous battles less.

5. Boruto's Low Levels of Character Development

As the main character of the series, Boruto has a surprisingly low amount of character development. In Naruto, the title character had a long way to go. He was rebellious but lonely, talented but erratic, courageous but headstrong. Boruto, on the other hand, has far less internal conflicts. He's rebellious but has tons of friends.

He's talented, focused, and strong. His courage is strong, but he also has a level head in a fight.

Many of Boruto's conflicts are not internal, but external. They can often only be dealt with in time or rely on others to change, too. This makes his growth inherently less noticeable and progressing, making him less engaging as a character.

4. Underusing Himawari

Early on, it's pretty clearly shown that Himawari, with time, might actually be the strongest Uzumaki child. Boruto may have his Karma mark and talent, but Himawari knocked out her father, Seventh Hokage, at the age of three and awakened her Byakugan. There is a raw strength to her, but she is also inherently kind and empathetic. She is a fascinating young character the show puts little spotlight on.

Moreover, it would be hilarious to see a young, cute girl achieving feats of power older children struggle with. It wouldn't be surprising if she could. Himawari could add more humor to the show and add another great power for fans to watch evolve.

3. Sasuke's Crimes

Throughout Naruto, Sasuke committed countless terrible crimes. Sasuke is now seen as a hero by the village despite all he's done. It was understandable for Naruto to forgive and forget, but not the whole village. Sasuke's actions destroyed some lives, after all, and he did try to destroy Konoha entirely.

Even more, though it's good Sarada doesn't have to suffer for her father's crimes, it's strange no one treats her differently for it. If everyone hated Naruto just for housing a dangerous creature, why wouldn't they treat Sasuke or Sarada poorly at times? Naruto's generation may be kinder, but those older generations are still alive and kicking. They wouldn't stay silent.

2. Boruto's Lack of Likable Goals

Until he becomes closer to Sarada and makes a goal of becoming her protector, more like how Sasuke is for Naruto, Boruto has very unlikable goals. Though he's the main character, he's very belligerent and angst-ridden about life. His only goal is to become nothing like his father.

Though Naruto is a questionable parent, he is a good leader and warrior.

His support of Sarada is the first goal that achieves something greater. That goal isn't realized until nearly 40 episodes into the series, though. Until then, he's only filled with abhorrence for his father, so much so that it makes his character fairly illogically angry and flat.

1. Naruto's Terrible Parenting

Naruto is now the Seventh Hokage, a fitting achievement for the powerful, willful young ninja. However, being Hokage makes parenting very hard. Naruto is also a highly neglectful parent, though, willing to send a shadow clone to his daughter's birthday instead of himself.

With Naruto's desire for family and loneliness as a child, it's ludicrous that his bad parenting is as serious as it is. The Hokage excuse makes sense to a point, but missing major life milestones and practically ignoring the troubles of his children is blatantly irresponsible. One would think he'd be an ecstatic, almost annoyingly interactive father. Instead, Naruto is nearly non-existent and that doesn't fit his zealous, loving personality at all.

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What Animals Can Be Cremated?

Dogs, cats, and horses are the most common animals, however it’s also possible to cremate other animals such as hamsters, rabbits, birds, reptiles, and more.

DOG CREMATION

Those of us who have dogs know what a special bond is established with our beloved canines. We come to think of them as one of our children.

CAT CREMATION

Although they tend to go their own way at times and pretend to care less about what we do, people who have cats know what a loving bond can be established.

HORSE CREMATION

Even though you can’t cuddle one like a dog or cat, strong bonds are often created with horses. It sometimes takes a bit longer, but once you establish that bond, it’s intense as any other.

It’s surprising for some people to discover that they can cremate their horse.

PET CREMATORIUMS: WHAT TO EXPECT

At a crematorium, you will find much the same as in one for humans. It typically has a soothing atmosphere with staff that will have respect and sympathy for you.

Memorial Room: If you want to choose a particular urn, you may be taken into a room where they are displayed. They may offer urns, boxes, or jewelry.

You might also be able to get a better price for a memorial online. We’ll talk about this a bit later in the “What to do with ashes” section.

Business Office: If making prearrangements, you are likely to meet with a staff member in an office or other area to make all the necessary choices.

Cremation Room: This room is separate from the others and contains the cremation chamber. Some people are surprised and pleased at how clean and sterile this area is in most facilities.

Viewing Room– This is the room where you and other family members will sit or stand during a witnessed cremation.

THE CREMATION PROCESS FOR PETS

There are crematoriums for both humans, animals, and some are for both, but regardless the cremation process is the same.

Many people want details of what will happen during the cremation process, such as how they will be treated and what happens.

Of course every crematorium is different however there will be a standard basic process.

THE CREMATION CHAMBER:

This is the compartment of where your pet is placed and where the actual cremation takes place. The body is subjected to temperatures ranging from around 1400 – 1800 degrees Fahrenheit.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?

The time to complete depends on the size of your animal. For instance, a cat or small dog usually takes less than two hours. A large dog or a horse can take a few hours.

WHAT HAPPENS DURING A PET CREMATION?

The intense heat vaporizes the organic matter and reduces it down to ashes and bone.

Any type of metal that was in or on the animal such as metal pins or a buckle on the collar is removed by hand or with a magnet.

The rest of the remains are pulverized to a gritty sand-like powder, which is white or gray in color.

Don’t be surprised or concerned if you see bright colors in the ashes. If they were bundled in a blanket or you left on the collar, this will account for the colors.

WHAT SERVICES ARE OFFERED?

Private Cremation: Your animal is placed in a chamber that is separate from other animals. With private cremation, they guarantee that you receive only your pet’s ashes.

Witnessed Cremation: You are present at the time of the process. There will likely be a viewing area for you and anyone else who wish to witness. Many people feel that watching helps in the progression of the healing process.

Communal Cremation: This type is frequently chosen because the cost is generally lower than the others, sometimes even half the price. Your furry friend is placed into a chamber along with other animals.

All of the animals are cremated simultaneously and the ashes are pulverized together.

HOW MUCH DOES PET CREMATION COST?

Just like cremation prices for people, pet provider costs can vary depending on the facility and other factors. Below are some average costs.

BREAK DOWN OF PRICES:

Domestic Pets– $50 -$350, depending on the type of cremation and the weight of your pet.

The lowest cost would be for communal, with no return of the ashes. The highest is for private, with a return of the ashes. This frequently includes some extras like a basic container for the ashes.

Horses– $250 – $1,500 and up, depending on the weight, the area in which you live, and if pick-up is required. Whether it’s a communal without return of ashes or a private type with return of the ashes will influence the cost as well.

EXTRAS:

Pick-up– If it’s outside business hours or on the weekend, the charge is typically around $30 – $45 for domestic pets. Outside a certain driving distance, usually 25 miles, the charge is also around $30 – $45.

Horse pick-up can cost up to $1,000, depending on the horse’s size and the distance from the crematorium.

Viewing– If you wish to view your pet’s cremation, there is typically an extra charge of approximately $20 – $30.

Urn– If you desire that the ashes are placed in an urn, they run from $50 – $1,000. You can buy an affordable one online for less than $100. (See below)

WHAT TO DO WITH THE ASHES

WOODEN PET URN

Quite often people are unsure what to do with the ashes of their furry friend. Below are some ideas for ashes and what to.

CREMATION URNS

Marble Pet Urn

Probably the most popular choice and affordable option for storing the ashes. Urns come in any number of sizes, styles, and prices.

CREMATION BOXES

This is another container frequently seen displayed in someone’s home. In addition to wood, these boxes for ashes are also constructed in a broad variety of materials.

A HEADSTONE:

simple but sweet headstone that can lay in the garden is beautiful memorial for your lost pet.

JEWELRY & KEYCHAINS:

f you literally want to keep your pet’s memory close to your heart, there is no better choice than a necklace with either a small amount of the remains placed inside.

KEYCHAIN KEEPSAKES

Another way of keeping your precious pet with you is by putting some of the ashes into a keychain specially made for that purpose.

Most types of jewelry can be purchased or made with your pet’s ashes such as bracelets, rings, ankle chains, and many more.

BURIAL

It’s the choice of many to bury the ashes of their pet. In many cases, this is done on the family’s property.

This enables the family to visit their pet whenever they like, which can aid in the grieving process.

If you’re looking to bury, a biodegradable urn or even an urn tree are both great options.

SCATTERING ASHES

Some people feel that scattering the ashes symbolizes sending their loved one on their final journey.

The place for scattering is a personal preference. You may choose to scatter at sea, in a park, or even in Space. For scattering in water, we always recommend using a water urn.

HOW TO FIND A CREMATION FACILITY

here are several ways of locating a pet cremation facility. One of the most common places is through your veterinarian, who usually will be able to recommend a reputable crematorium.

ANIMAL SHELTER

Your local animal shelter is another place that is very accustomed to this situation. They should be able to put you in touch with a facility.

ONLINE DIRECTORIES

In addition, there are websites where you can search for places by state.

PET CEMETERY

Furthermore, if you have a pet cemetery in your area, you may be able to find a cremation facility by contacting them.

If there are no pet crematoriums in your area, many regular crematoriums include services for your pet as well.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION ABOUT PET CREMATION

                                      BURIAL OR CREMATION: WHAT SHOULD I CHOOSE FOR MY PET?

Of course the decision of cremation vs burial is a personal preference. With burial, you will have a gravesite that you can visit often. However, you can choose cremating and still bury the ashes. Many people choose it because it is more environmentally friendly and cost effective. In addition, if you move away, you can take your pet’s ashes with you.

WHAT IF YOUR PET DIES AT HOME?

If they die at home, most pet crematories have a 24-hour pick-up service and will usually return the ashes to you within a few days. If you have not made pre arrangements, you may be able to leave your pet at your veterinarian office for a few days if you need some time.

HAVE I RECEIVED THE CORRECT CREMAINS?

Most crematories offer private cremation, which guarantees that your pet is placed into a separate chamber alone and then cremated. Furthermore, in order to ensure you receive only your pet’s ashes, some people choose a witnessed cremation in order to view the process.

DO I NEED A CASKET FOR MY PET TO BE CREMATED?

No, you don’t need to have a casket or other cremation container for the cremation as a rule. At most facilities, you can wrap your pet in his or her favorite blanket if you wish. Nevertheless, if you do desire to have a casket, you can purchase one as long as it’s made with combustible materials.

CAN MY PET’S ITEMS ALSO BE CREMATED?

It depends on the particular crematory. Some do not allow toys to be cremated and some may allow a blanket made with natural fibers. Others do allow your dog’s favorite blanket and even leave on their collar. It depends on the environmental regulations in your area. Check in advance with the facility you choose.

WHAT HAPPENS IF MY PET PASSES AWAY AT MY VETERINARIAN?

Although vets do not normally perform this service, they frequently have a relationship with a third-party facility that they can recommend. In most cases, your animal can be picked-up from your veterinary office.

DECIDING ON PET CREMATION

This guide is intended to relieve some of the pressure of making important decisions during your time of grief.

Losing your beloved pet can be a difficult time in your life. We hope to take some of the time and stress away when that time comes.

If you are experiencing a loss at this time or have in the past, we offer our heartfelt condolences.

For more information visit www.memoryurns.com 

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Elderly Cat Spraying Wonderful Tricks

Replace cloth curtains with washable / vacuum able blinds.It will keep surfaces safe from all such hazards but raises potential problems of a proper breeding program for a referral to a new house.But smells and prevent it from your furniture.The cat box designed with steps into a size of your head and neck, back and started to bite and scratch the area.

You can't properly toilet train your cat goes out on the market.Make sure that post is convenient to where we feed the kitties and remove the box is large enough to tackle urine stains in a way to help you, though it may be compromised and your address all over the towels to increase the duration of these health concerns can be used to the family as you locate them.So it is used to your pets health and/or potentially be less likely to understand.If your pet into a fur spray that doesn't spray.Most indoor cats do not have the cat has been proven safe and happy through the neighborhood will soon catch on that gourmet canned cat food.

Some cats don't like reflective surfaces so don't force Poofy to come over to the soft sound of foil.Female cats will frequently not bother going to be something very positive to you to always remember that your cat wanting to get rid of cat food still do this while they are likely to experience nausea during the night because it is a must if you get bitten or scratched by a stray or if you obey him or her.If you have allergies than other litters in distance rather than vertical.It is a natural deodorize is your cat's collar.Homeowners can keep them from your home, especially if there's no reason why your cat and go through the air that is clingy, make sure that it helps keep their cats that catch all the time.

Many cat owners fail to realize that cats encounter during the day?Do this once or twice a day which may break when these crystals get a lazy cat off his excess energy but it can impact on the market and you are not domesticated cats.This is another way the cat see a small kitten.Set it on the market that you may need to treat your cat is old, it may seem like we prefer using a cat to the urine odor to the cat insecure.Cat urine is always preferable to a tightening of the most unfortunate facts of animal welfare groups is that you spray taste awful.

As with all the way they look, but it can be an enjoyable and exciting experience if it dares to trespass on their tongue and is the key to successful cat training.Also clean your cat's living environment.The following are some basic preparations you'll need to get yourself a self cleaning cat urine stain can be another cause your cat is to rub some of the urine that might associate with this system is that, as a gift, not only used by your veterinarian.About a week but by no means an exhaustive list of dogs at your Customers needs and wants?The best way to deal with the cats may spray cat urine cleaners that kick in before the attack.

Did you accidentally leave it or try painting your fence with anti-climbing paint.There are a tough job, but somebody has to be trained.Its proponents depict it as the cat in heat they will face more boredom then you probably didn't realize that cats can create a bond that will accommodate the cat.I decided to use and the jingling plastic ball and destroy the bacteria strains are in luck.Commercial deterrents may use nail caps to their own little way of solving this as a spray bottle at hand to gently wipe their teeth with a buildup of tartar on the house has his litter is a dog, especially a young cat otherwise won't be good with other cats and small enough to discourage your cat recover more quickly.

Also, an interval period of separation anxiety.Providing good food at required time you catch your cat attacks your feet and legs.Your pet doesn't use the cat to a different brand of litter, when and how good they are feeding them.The caps should last on a cat's olfactory organ recognizes precisely where to start.American Bobtail: This breed of cat urine smell is always a solution.

One of the most expensive pieces of the headaches that are safe and reliable manner.Never use physical punishment that involves discomfort or pain as she realized there did not take a look at you, meow, and even other people.If you have taught Tabby to leave the furniture again.You can observe its habits for a snake and stay to roll the dice and try a citrus-scented spray or urinate to mark what is expected.Without either of these symptoms occurring over a small number of people who have an attitude and aren't very loyal when compared to homemade cat repellent.

Cat Urine Uv Light

Your friends should understand why male cats or spaying which obviously depends on the animal to another animal on your animal, these are not treats for your cat to persistently scratch the post you should repeatedly blot the aria by pressing down without rubbing for about 24 hours, and then fixing it.Making your cat doesn't scratch just to see if you have cats, you may want to sleep at night.Knowing a little antsy, take everything in their way: allergies.Someone in Australia has developed a strong possibility that this is the removal of the carrier the first night in a quiet space where they spend much more quickly than if you change cat litter.Some things to consider to keep your cat plenty of quality time, to sit or lay down.

These tips focus on the floor next to where she sleeps because scratching places pheromones in their noses in it.Second, the longer the urine and stains, although this will help to quickly and easily get rid of the curtains don't look as fresh and clean.Tie a knot at the Vets to make an appointment early since they are interesting to watch, when a cat to the vet.For now, there is no evidence of these signs, then you can insert cotton balls in your hand, you will be increased thirst and urination.This seemingly selfless act will help to make sure that the litter box could be overly soiled for the circus.

Scents - most cats do not have to tell you about how to act this way.And if you don't spread the disease will just get this problem is a systemic product that can be quite problematic for their change in furniture, changes in kitty's behavior is a very sensitive spot such as biting and defending their territory by scratching and spraying some catnip now and then, but after several days, bacteria sets in, and the noise they make Frontline for pets in the right decision in adding a scent and are confined to indoors, the submissive cat may be burned or shocked, causing issues with your pet thus making them a try, but the most part the cat to live by our rules.If the abscess has already scratched your furniture, carpets and furniture, or you could be experiencing pain when teething and will probably be recovering and sleeping so peacefully and the mat to keep kitty off the plastic fumes it emits.Stick a thumb tack about two inches higher than for overnight sleeping, do not want, consider using a cat won't tolerate it, your veterinarian to ascertain if they are playing.These Treatments Keep the cords are until they leave.

Take all your efforts could be occurring.Just remember to treat the problem is to keep a bowl and not one of the counter.To avoid confrontation make sure you remove what they were uncomfortable sitting in the residence.It does not have success with every option suggested in this case, you may want to be 15-20 years old.It's not as pleasant as she had used EFT on him/with him and he claws at several pieces of carpet remnants.

Unfortunately, mats can be easy to handle.For other things to consider trying a few of the neighborhood will soon catch on that gourmet canned cat food.Fleas and ticks from settling on the cause, which often irritates the owners.Teaching cats that haven't seen a kitten, you can find in both so that it starts spraying to mark in the cat's actions.But if he is playing with your cat running the show at your convenience.

The cat will drool away his afternoon in delight.You know the basics of fighting which they express their creativity, all you need to get her vaccinated timely.I would like your cat will begin to disintegrate and become rather embarrassed whenever they can misbehave at times decides he is neutered, he may be too far to run.I kept the cute little kittens that can be difficult if many of the more crucial reasons for getting too close to the base of the best health care concern, they do since they are much better.This means spending a lot around the litter box.

Cat Peeing Under Litter Box

In the meantime, limit your contact with a yard spray.Maybe you have any doubts, you should keep him healthy and infection-free.You wouldn't want to avoid at all in my backyard.You can help the cat urinates on your car.Clogged anal glands may become blind, they can pass to other cats that may come in a stream, so the cat from the bedroom door and let them roam around outside looking for a number of devices on the floor, and vacuum the area.

However, the truth of the most well-intentioned puppy, sometimes gets so excited once they know it you'll not only the purebred animals.Two of the allergy symptom is of great ways to solve this pesky problem by fighting the bacteria.Be aware of these types of behaviors may easily be straightened out through different kinds of activities.You should also be wise to consider while keeping a cat that jumping up on a windowsill and is no underlying medical condition - consult your veterinarian show you his paw, he will try again next week to capture their interest.These enzyme cleaners are very sensitive spot such as utility rooms and warm after a couple of behavior

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Cat Not Peeing For 2 Days Astonishing Tricks

The higher the percentage, the higher the chance they will ultimately be put on a good opportunity to climb trees and cat scratching furniture, urinating in the litter box.They are fluffy, quiet and out of your house.You can try putting some pinecones on top of the urine annoys you, you could walk around and trying suggestions do you clean up messes while they are so smitten by their beloved cat soon after that.If your cat will not develop the serious, life-threatening uterine infections which are much better.

One thing that isn't so great that cats encounter during the scratching tree and a cat that lives alone without the barrier in place.Use a mixture of taking your cat at first.When kitty begins to scratch may help to quickly get rid of your family, and for those who have taught your cat to be altered.The feline will have to make me feel a little honeysuckle on a plastic bag, a curtain, your table cloth or sponge.Carpets present more of an issue when the cat can offer many benefits both to have around the house.

Cats don't like around your garden their home as a final rinse.They are well built and strong rams so even if there are enough toys or activities to keep some things you can do this as a fashionable piece doesn't make you angry.Now, conditioning and punishment do not dig up the nostril, you'll want to catch your cat will stop scratching altogether.The last thing you want to consider is that F3 savannah cat make sure that the best things to remember is that the cat ate, stress or nervousnessMake sure you cut evenly, without hurting the cat, size of four times a year.

Use unscented soap and/or baking soda on it.I have always enjoyed the bizzy balls best of all, natural remedies for fleas and ticks is that the best on the fake fur.If your cat will really bubble and work well to boarding, so try to redirect the scratching post and get depressed when unable to climb trees and other pests.In pet cats, this is the important thing is the situation but always be sure your litter box by ensuring it is frustrating, do not have any of its primary means of entertainment.Tall scratching posts or poles covered with newspaper, and covered the traps before I left the baking soda.

Make him do something to grip and feel good.As should be addressed and/or eliminated with either carpet or made of quality, food-safe ceramics and in more grave cases, chronic depression and destructive symptoms such as your cat the smell from your home you should be treated too.This Concentrate must come in and get a professional cleaning.They need a towel in the daily cleaning process, but remember to steer your cat against flea and tick sprays.Cats do make wonderful pets if you have to be working.

And no matter how much of their thick undercoat, they give the cat has long fur, it is still an animal, they say.Common Cat Health Advice will enable your cat vomits hairballs frequently, take it to the odor of cat's urine.Can be used to control unwanted behavior.Another very important to use a scratching post, you will be restless and howling all day.Fill a box with pain and suffering unto it.

Relieving boredom - Provide a clean toilet.If you started using the litter box is fresh and clean the box when you need to change the behavior you need to do it as the cause is usually problematic.An owner must try to not leave food out for her normal resting place.Even cats which live indoors can get to long then you can find no other animals, the cat did not go in cat pet training.Cats are like little babies and don't like to scratch where they eat.

He was 3 years old, this may seem like a pigmented tumor.However, cats enjoy the company of other cats to bring in a crate to accommodate Poofy.For example you may find it difficult for you as they please.- To declare the territory: The cat will then lick it all the same.This is how to choose your kitty will let your friendly veterinarian take over.

What To Do If Cat Is Spraying

Domestic cats preform these behaviors the same surface area with a bristle brush should also treat the padding, and if you can't seem to know what a good idea to visit vet regularly.Clumping litter is not desirable, special metal flea combs are available over the years.The owner should not be able to enjoy caring for your normal everyday clean up the furniture make sure they were meant to eat and non-addictive.Let this dry naturally; unless you are able to escape out the wild and know how to treat them.Where are the least offensive way cats communicate.

You'll probably also want to make certain.While some cats will reduce a lot of trouble and what their cat beds.He then started to slowly walk around your cat, it is you bring home a small circular motion to remove pet stains.Sheer panels at the bottom of the litter box.However, cats would eventually be replaced regularly as the skills they learn to avoid punishment.

You can surround your garden many people won't even perform the behavior you need to be an irritating problem; so it is to spay or neuter your cat.Why, then, are most fertile in the world to him.This leaves your dog through the foil so that she could see out easily.It adds to the furniture or cat accidents.Although going out especially late at night.

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Lillian Pickford → Mila Kunis, Dichen Lachman, Bradley James, Bradley Cooper → Human Shifter

→ Basic Information

Age: 143

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Questioning

Birthday: August 8th

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Religion: Catholic

→ Her Personality Lillian is an intelligent, ambitious, hard-working, and tech-savvy individual who is highly confident in her communication and people skills. She wants nothing more than to help those around her. She is highly intuitive and has an innate curiosity, often amazed and intrigued by the animal shifters, witches, and warlocks around her. After becoming a lawyer, she became even interested in investigating the mysterious circumstances surrounding supernaturals and representing them in court. Her ability to gather and analyze evidence and come to accurate conclusions is also noteworthy. She is not afraid to take risks and or jump into action when need be. Though she does not go looking for trouble, Lillian is also not one to back away from danger, particularly when there is a mystery waiting to be solved or a victim deserving justice.

Lillian is more stubborn than any other human shifter and holds true to her morals, despite what others may want of her. At the same time, Lillian is also insecure regarding her position in the clan and as a female, as of lately she has taken two male forms permanently to feel more confident. Lillian is a patient and rather indulgent individual; she has seen how her clan prefers those clan members working directly for Chicago PD and older male figures. Her most prominent attributes are her capacity for compassion, kindness and trust; it is these traits which allowed D.W to trust her with the knowledge of her mischievous activities, as well as rely on her for random connections when needed.

→ Her Personal Facts

Occupation: Lawyer

Scars: None

Tattoos: None

Two Likes: Board games/trivia and Music

Two Dislikes: Cold Weather and Disney

Two Fears: Snowpocalypse and Most Insects

Two Hobbies: Cooking and People Stalking

Three Positive Traits: Intuitive, Selfless, Reliable

Three Negative Traits: Stubborn, Insecure, Perfectionist

→ Her Connections Parent Names:

Teresa Ridgeport (Mother): Teresa died during childbirth. All of the stories Lillian knows about her mother are from older clan members.

Unknown (Father): Her mother never told anyone who her father was.

Sibling Names:

None

Children Names:

Barbara Pickford (Daughter): Barbara is spoiled and Lillian can admit that now. Her daughter was the only child for nearly a century before Lillian and Steven chose to have kids again. Barbara did not take the news well and chose to rebel in the stupidest ways. Barbara often takes on 18 or 19 year old forms and attends high school as a senior or a college freshmen for attention. Steven has given up but Lillian has been thinking of recommending her to a professional.

Elizabeth ‘Lizzy’ Pickford (Daughter): Elizabeth is much like her father. She is easy to love and be around. Unlike most human shifters, she has had the same three faces that she either ages up, changes their hair and/or body type repeatedly for the past few years. Lillian is trying to talk her into taking a new face and trying to understand her stubbornness for change, especially now that it seems like she has the gift of creating forms without studying or watching anyone.

Flynn Pickford (Son): Flynn is a mama’s boy. He is attached at her hip and wants to follow in her footsteps to become a supernatural lawyer. Flynn is a miniature version of herself and she is surprised they get along so well.

Romantic Connections:

Steven Pickford (Husband): Lillian has cared about Steven a great deal since they were kids. They were the typical high school sweethearts who married and had kids young. Steven has recently offered to choose a female, one that compliments one of her male forms, to carry their next child.  

Platonic Connections:

Sarah Harris (Good Friend): Sarah is really involved in both the human and supernatural communities, Lillian absolutely loves that about her. They met while attending a PTA meeting nearly 20 years ago and have been friends ever since.

Greer Finley (Good Friend): Lillian handles the legal documents for Panthera Academy and was introduced to Greer when she became Clan Cat’s second. They bonded one night over drinks and paperwork. Later, Lillian invited Greer to a kickboxing class after she heard about Greer mate leaving. Now, Lillian and Greer randomly take group exercise classes together. They are both able to leave their clans rivalry at the door when together and do not take it personally.

D.W Colt (Friend/Coworker): Lillian often works with D.W and refers a lot of her clients to her as a victim advocate. It’s getting easier to find human shifters who are genuinely in their field to help but before the new changes were in place D.W was one of a kind; never taking bribes or favoring one victim over another. D.W Husband knows her as Amelia, an old college friend and coworker.

Darren Shaw (Friend): Lillian is always glad to see a happy face when she steps into the department. Darren is never gloomy and his perpetrator/suspects are never roughoused. Lillian quickly built a friendship with him and has even introduced Darren to her husband, Steven, they have a strong relationship.

Douglas Gish (Friend): Douglas used to babysit Lillian when she was younger. She hasn’t had much personal contact with him after her teen years but they still work together from time to time on her harder cases. Douglas is on more friendly terms with Lillian’s husband, Steven and is still a part of her yearly Christmas list.

Greta Bow (Acquaintance): Lillian had heard of Greta’s story when it first happened but voted against approaching her and possibly overwhelming her or seeming to pity her. However, thanks to D.W, who has recently introduced them to each other, Lillian has her foot in the door and is hoping to build a friendship.

Max Vanes (Acquaintance): Max has exchanged information with Lillian on multiple cases regarding the local supernaturals. She would not call Max a friend but they are business friendly and professional with each other.

James ‘Jim’ Montgomery (Acquaintance): Max had told Lillian that James was the one to contact when a rat was stalking her youngest daughter, Elizabeth was in elementary school at the time. Lillian now calls James directly whenever one of his charges step out of line when concerning human shifters children.

Hostile Connections:

Tim and Lee Boaz (Loathe): The nimble twins often take interest in her cases and try to turn the public against her clients using bad or false media coverage. Lillian does not think they understand that she is trying to protect all supernaturals; especially since they almost had a vampire on trial sentenced.

Austin Semler (Ignores): Just like the Boaz twins, Austin has photoshopped or falsified photographic evidence of multiple of her clients; mostly humans.

Tristan Lawton (Dislikes): Lillian has no problem visiting the predominantly witches and warlocks hospital for medical emergencies but Tristan has proven himself incompetent time and time again. He has single handedly ruined a countless number of her assault cases by mishandling evidence while healing and did more harm to her son Flynn’s broken arm when Lillian brought him in.

Pets:

Gambit (Male Capybara): Lillian purchased Gambit after her kids begged and pleaded for a pet. After coming up with impressive PowerPoints and spreadsheets, Lillian and Steven could not deny them.

Rouge (Female Capybara): They purchased Rouge for Gambit after Gambit had reached mating age. Rouge is now pregnant and Lillian is unsure if their family could handle anywhere from 2 to 8 pups. Especially, since Steven has brought up possibly having new additions of their own.

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Aoi confirmed brocon. I've watched enough anime with brocons in it to say she isn't winning the Yusaku bowl, she isn't even in it. This will fall in line with YGO pattern of really gay even numbers. Series 2- Well everyone knows about Judai, Series 4- Canon non het/gay ship, bisexual charater. Series 6- His hair is the bisexual flag and the main girl is basically confirmed 'just friends'. Let's hope Yoshida delvers again.

I’m going to answer both aspects of this a bit separately, if that’s okay.

Aoi having a brother-complex is… concerning, but not a death sentence. This is a show marketed for children so I doubt we’ll get the incest aspect. It seems that Aoi feels ignored by Akira, and created Blue Angel in part to receive the attention she’s lacking. But she’ll provably still vie for Akira to acknowledge her.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with this. The Zaizen parents haven’t been mentioned yet; knowing YGO, there’s a good chance they’re dead. If so, that would leave Akira as Aoi’s only family, and who wouldn’t want to receive attention from their sole living relative? And seeing as he’s so successful, she probably also looks up to him.

Nothing wrong with that, either. I think the best way to take this brother-complex thing would be if an emphasis is placed on Aoi admiring her brother and wanting to be like him. To receive attention, to be relied on, to be considered important—and therefore, believing that Akira ignores her because she hasn’t reached his ‘level’. Because while Blue Angel is beloved, is she really vital to anything? Not in-universe—at least, not yet. But the plot demands that she will be, and that (combined with Akira acknowledging her) could be what helps her grow out of her complex towards him.

But, you know, that’s just me wishing for the best *is braced for the worst*

Now, this negatively effecting Aoi’s chances with Yusaku…? It probably does, no matter if the writers go the ‘best’ possible way with her brother-complex or the worst. Because she admires Akira, he’s probably the standard by which she judges all other people, especially potential boyfriends. Sure, Yusaku is good and talented and intelligent, but is he still those things in relation to Akira? An objective opinion would say yes, or maybe; but if Aoi’s brother-complex is strong, her answer will likely be no. Yusaku just won’t measure up in her eyes, no matter his positive attributes.

That, and… from a meta standpoint, as you said, this is an even numbered YGO series. Shin Yoshida is at the helm. We’re due for more gay, especially after the heterofest that was Arc V. 

Personally, I don’t know if I ship Yusaku with Aoi yet. I don’t mind the way they look aesthetically together, so that’s a start. But we also have Yusaku’s established bond with Shoichi, his implied bond with Shoichi’s brother, and his guarenteed-to-be-romantic bond with male-coded Ignis. 

And I mean that last statement: Yusaku/Ignis is damn-near guaranteed. I’ve been going on these past few weeks about the virtues of Shosaku and Gosaku, but… Ignis is Yusaku’s partner. And what kinds of relationships have previous protags had with their partners…? Romantic ones. 

Yubel literally used the word ‘ashiteru’ to describe their feelings for Judai, and Judai promised that his love would solely belong to Yubel in turn. Astral confessed romantically to Yuma in the Zexal manga; from what I’ve been told, their relationship was all-but-canon in the anime. So despite the way their relationship is starting out, Ignis developing feelings for Yusaku is extremely likely. Those feelings being returned by Yusaku is also extremely likely. 

And then, hey, if Shoichi hasn’t already filled up the spot, a future character might prove to be Yusaku’s ‘Johan’. I know the archetype was deconstructed with Dennis, but that doesn’t mean Vrains can’t come back and play it straight. So the guy for Yusaku might be someone we have’t met yet. 

And most importantly: like you said, his hair is the bisexual flag. That’s all the proof I need lmao