#brotp ask meme

[amazingmsme]

I’ve seen people do some of the other lords in black/human ships, so for the ask game please do Paul and Pokey it’s my guilty pleasure.

opt ask game with Paulkotho?

They’re so special to me 💙

1. Who’s more ticklish?

I think it’s safe to say Paul takes the cake on this one

2. What kind of tickles are they sensitive to?

Paul is much more sensitive to lighter tickles, but rough tickles work best on Pokey

3. Which role (lee/ler) does each of them hold?

Pokey is definitely more often the ler. Paul is just so lee coded

4. How did they discover each others’ ticklishness?

Pokey found out once he FINALLY managed to turn Paul. & Paul found out while trying to fend Pokey off & he managed to grab him & tried to push him away & Pokey freaked out (whether it’s normal Paul, or if he’s some stage of infected is up to y’all, but for me half infected!paul x pokey is godtier if only I knew how to go about writing it)

5. Who’s more likely to instigate a tickle fight?

Pokey is surprisingly sweet & silly for what seems to be one of the more stern & serious lords. But he very much is obsessed with all aspects of the voice, but he’s grown a particular fondness for the sound of laughter. Specifically screaming, helpless laughter

6. How often do they tickle each other?

It depends on their moods, but maybe every few days

7. Who’s the least likely to ask for tickles?

Pokey would NEVER stoop that low are you fucking serious?

[celestialprompt]

⭒⭑⭒— 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭: nsfw edition, part 1

send me a pairing and i'll answer: which one is more vocal? which one is heavy on aftercare? which one suggests using toys? which one suggests recording? which one gets shy asking for what they want? which one is more likely to initiate morning sex? which one likes to use music to set the mood? which one prefers handcuffs and which one prefers rope? which one prefers slow and sensual, and which prefers it rough? which one loves sneaking off at events for a spicy moment? which one secretly keeps a list of things to try that the other finds by accident?

[rays-of-fire-and-ice]

For the fic meme: Shinji and Momo (platonic), 'It's Official'

Send a character/ship and a title for 5 sentences of a fic

AN: I imagine this would take places decades after the main story, when Momo and Toshiro are adults.

It's Official

"So, it's really official, huh?"

"Yes, sir," Momo says, her hands fidgeting under her captain's solemn gaze, "I'll start packing my things next week, and Hitsugaya-kun will be there to help with moving them."

Shinji continues to stare at her for a long moment, but before Momo can speak again, he gives an exaggerated sniff and whips his head to the side. Then, as if he were a proud father, "My daughter is really moving out, and into a place with her boyfriend no less!"

"Honestly, sir," Momo says, rolling her eyes with a fond smile.

[shinsources-archived]

[redstringraven]

TMNT’s 40th anniversary ask game ~ May I ask for number 22) , 26) and 35) ? Lots of love <3

TuT!!!! THANK u, cherry. loves of love to you, too 💜✨

(please excuse that this ask is visually a bit more of a mess. i wrote too much again for tumblr to be chill with my usual formatting. why am i like this.)

TMNT's 40th anniversary ask game!

22.) what is your favorite kind of pizza?

terrible news, everyone: i'm a pro-pineapple bitch. you may block and unfollow me now; i forgive you for being incorrect (/lh). i tend to be pescatarian if i can help it (i'm flexible due to money, and also i hate inconveniencing others especially if i'm a guest), so i prefer pizza without meats. i'm happy to eat any kind of veggie combination with the exception of banana peppers. never liked those for some reason. i also really like mushroom and eggs as pizza toppings. i'm kind of just an egg fiend in general; i love the taste of a well-made egg.

26.) what is one of your favorite pieces of TMNT fan art?

these things keep asking for one, but i'm gonna continue responding with however many i feel like. because it's not my dad. the scarf, by @hamsterandturtlesoup weakness is a sickness and a virtue, by @tatortart various candid illustrations by richard chen vis dev by kellan jett

35.) which character relationships are your favorite to write/draw?

...since we're both OC people, i'm gonna take this as an opportunity to gush about canon and OC relationships: two of my favorite brotps. because they're character relationships i adore writing with all my heart and soul.

mikey, gwyn & ash i mentioned previously that @plantdonutwrites (jenn) writes for mikey in our RPs, so i consulted her for mikey's perspective on this brot3. i will paraphrase her answer in this paragraph:

"all his life, mikey's been used to only having his bros as company; they're family in a way that puts the rest of us to shame. but as they grew older they met all sorts of people, some became an extension of that family. raph has casey or maybe angel when he wants to dip for a bit. don has leatherhead or the professor (bree, too), and leo has usagi even if he's not 'as regular' (and min-ji, too). his brothers have their separate circles of friends, but, against all odds, mikey doesn't seem to have that (at least not until cassia shoved her foot in the loneliness door). then he bonded with gwyn and ash... but then they left. he realized that it wasn't just that they didn't treat him like 'the annoying brother who tags along' but because they'd actually become friends, and they were friends who didn't humor him. they liked the comics he talked about, they love klunk, and they're interested in his art and ideas. it meant a lot to him to have that--to know what it was like--and when they weren't around, he really felt the difference. in an odd way they helped him become a more empathetic person, too."

it's harder to answer in ash's perspective because she has a lot less agency than gwyn and, because gwyn's paranoid/won't let ash out of her own hands much less her line of sight, ash doesn't get a lot of one-on-one time with mikey. she's interacted with him a LOT more than she's interacted with most people--which absofuckinglutely means something--but since she does consider herself 'dead' and is at peace with the possibility she'll be a literal shapeshifting weapon for the rest of her sentience, i think a lot of his meaning to her (right now) is very rooted in what he means for gwyn. THAT being said.

mikey is gwyn's first real friend. like. ever. in all the time she's been alive. very much in the same way that the brothers only had each other for most of their lives, gwyn only ever had ash. her community considered her a parasite and an omen, so she was essentially outcast. gwyn grew up feeling she wasn't wanted, had to earn any love she received, and when ash died and became trapped in the weapon, all that transpired and followed afterward re-enforced that. i haven't talked about darach a lot--deliberately--but know that he's a masterful manipulator in more ways than one. if ch'rell was brute force and intimidation, darach is more like the pot you put a frog in and slowly turn up the heat. you don't realize you're being boiled alive until it's too late. thanks to his influence, gwyn's been tricked, back-stabbed, cornered, and watched people suffer 'because of her' countless times. when i said she was paranoid, i wasn't really being hyperbolic. she has SEVERE trust issues. ...then came mikey. someone who, unknowingly, had already given them a taste of his character.

gwyn and ash had heard of mikey's rematch with kluh during their travels--that the match was made mortal, that mikey had not only won but had spared kluh's life when he had every reason not to. darach wouldn't approach someone like him, they figured. and as time passed, mikey continued to not just be open and kind with them, but again and again he's emphasized to gwyn that they just... CARE. to quote him "we don't keep you guys around for any benefits other than being able to know you". which, in so many ways, is unheard of for gwyn. she still struggles to believe him sometimes, but she trusts him. mikey is her first and best friend, he's someone she admires, and he's proven time and time again that ash isn't the only person capable of loving her, and that she's worthy of that love by just being herself. i had to spend a lot of this answer on exposition because OC, but... i earnestly can't emphasize enough how much mikey's come to mean to gwyn. he asked her not to leave again without them, and she promised she wouldn't. that promise to him has kept her from running away and isolating. even though she's terrified--for herself, for ash, for them--she trusts him. writing them makes me so happy. it's been such a delight to see their relationship evolve and the influences they've had on each other and their worldviews. i love this brot3 so goshdang much.

min-ji & raph min-ji belongs to jenn and, oh my god, i love her relationship with raph so, SO much. when we rp, jenn's obviously writing for min, and i write for raph.

again! consulted jenn! her answer paraphrased below:

"raph's pretty much the first assertive person in her life that had her back early on? her home life is complex; her family DOES love her but sometimes that love can veer controlling and toxic (responsibilities/obligations). raph was a type of personality she'd never been around before, and he cared about her well-being in a way that was unconditional. hanging out with him more helped her become more assertive and in touch with parts of herself she was forced to suppress to be more palatable to her family. she's found that being angry about something that happened to her, or something that was said to her, doesn't make her bad or a burden. raph doesn't expect her to shy away from her flaws or nuances. he lets her be a person."

as for raph's end, it's kind of hard to put into words. but i love that min-ji has become one of the very few people he will allow himself moments of vulnerability around. like. instead of it just happening, he makes the choice to let a wall or six down. they've created a mutual safe space between each other.

i think this has cultivated from a lot of things. min was much more timid when they met--raph even made a bit of a point, initially, to not interact with her so much because she was skittish and on-edge thanks to surrounding events. but through the events of our writing, he's watched her grow in self-confidence, be more open, and allow herself to 'take up' more space. she's also survived two major threats to her life, now, both of which have scarred her physically and emotionally, yet she persists and continues to extend kindness to people who, in his opinion, don't deserve it. but that's HER business (while he makes his feelings known, he stays out of it unless she signals him otherwise). she may not be a fighter in a literal sense, but he sees her as an equal. like, he's still protective of her in dangerous situations since she's not trained to fight--obviously--but... i dunno, i guess it's more like "i've been through shit; you've been through shit; if i say things look bad right now, you won't like it but you also won't give up". he doesn't feel a pull to coddle her if things are looking grim, i guess is what i'm trying to say?; he'll shoot straight with her because he knows she IS a fighter. even if she doesn't fight. does THAT make sense?

like i said, it's hard to put into words. but i think it's a combination of min-ji's emotional strength and kindness as a person, as well as the fact she's not an immediate family member, that make it easier for him to let those barriers down around her and have severely needed moments of vulnerability where he doesn't dismiss pain or fear or anything else he might be feeling. he knows min would never lash out at him, physically, emotionally, or however else. min-ji is kind, and she's strong, and she's safe. he trusts her, values and respects her judgment and input. much in the same way his presence lets her feel like a person, she's extended that grace to him. just in a different way. i love getting to write interactions between them. there's always something warm and comforting in their exchanges, light-hearted or more melancholic. it's nice. the love is very much there.

[aurumacadicus]

If you're still doing 5 headcanon stuff (if not feel free to ignore): Platonic Tony x Rhodey, with werewolf family?

Love this idea <3

Jim was pretty sure that he was paired with Tony for the dorms specifically because they were the only two werewolves entering the student population that year. Two werewolves would know the ins and outs of being around other werewolves already, so no learning curve for a human roommate. It was stupid. They were from different packs. They could have attacked each other on sight. Their packs could have had a feud, and the humans wouldn't have known about it. But, it was also the eighties. That type of ignorance was sort of par for the course back then. Tony hadn't noticed Jim was a werewolf too, had simply walked in and said, "This is my bed, I'm gonna roll all over it now so it smells like me," and then accidentally wedged himself between the bed and the wall and whined until Jim had rescued him, and well. That had sort of been that.

Tony is orphaned. Jim grabs him by the scruff after the funeral and drags him home with him. "This is ours now," he tells his mama. Mama gives Tony a slow up-and-down, then says, "Well, he's the only other person with taste in this house," and that's that. ("What the hell is that supposed to mean?" she's asked later, and she scowls and reminds everyone that Tony is the only other person who prefers sweet potato pie to pumpkin and now she doesn't have to worry about her pies molding before she can finish them.) They quickly find out that Tony's quirks that they've brushed off as 'eccentric rich person' are actually coping mechanisms because his parents were not very good werewolves. Boarding school had not been Tony's choice, and he'd only started college early because once home, he didn't know how to live with other werewolves. It was why he'd been so careless about rooming with Jim in the dorms. He didn't know he was supposed to be on the defensive around another werewolf. It's dangerous. Other wolves can and will take advantage of his guard being down all the time. He's still a pup, in some ways. Others, he's aged beyond his years. Jim hears his mama and dad whispering some nights about how the Starks ruined him, how they stunted him and made him grow too soon as the same time, how they can try and fix some of what's happened to him but he's always going to be at least a little bit broken. Jim remembers that, when Tony dons a suit and smiles sharp and wide, baring his teeth when other werewolves would hide them. He plays human and werewolf in a way that Jim can't even begin to comprehend. (Doesn't want to.) And he does it well. (It breaks their hearts.)

Tony seems to realize that he's... Different. Jim and the rest of his family try their hardest to convince him that they don't care, that they love him in spite of that, that he's still part of the pack and just because his instincts got all messed up doesn't mean he's a bad person. But it's not enough. Probably wouldn't have been enough even if they'd taken him in earlier, gotten a head start on fixing his frayed edges. He starts sharing less of his life, carefully covering his face so he doesn't smile when a werewolf wouldn't and set the family on edge. Visits less, and times them with Jim's so he never visits alone. "I think the war ruined my parents," Tony says, and Jim turns to look at him, frowning. Tony is staring out the window as Happy drives them to a banquet. Normally they take the drive to pep each other up for the absolute torture of glad-handing, but Tony had been conspicuously quiet, and Jim hadn't wanted to push him. "Okay?" Jim replies carefully. Tony doesn't respond for a moment, but when he finally does, he still can't make eye contact with him. "Mom's pack was scattered by the war. Lots of her male relatives died. The rest moved wherever they could to keep their kids safe. Supplies were scarce, so smaller groups were preferred. Mom left so that she wouldn't be a burden. Dad, well... he didn't talk about his parents much. He only had one picture of them. And then the war, and Captain America, and the nuclear bomb... I think I wouldn't have had a chance to be normal even if I hadn't gotten sent off to boarding school." He's probably right, Jim thinks, but doesn't say so. All he can see is the kid who wedged himself between his bed and his wall and whined until he got him free. "Yeah, well, that's their loss," he says, and Tony offers him a wide smile that a normal werewolf wouldn't have. He smiles back, because he's known Tony long enough to know that his bared teeth are not a threat. Knows it puts Tony at ease that he'll bare his teeth back.

Tony is kidnapped in Afghanistan, and Jim finds him walking the sands after a successful escape, pausing every few yards to let out dry howl, lips cracked and a hole glowing in his chest. Jim gnashes his teeth furiously as he listens to the doctors explain that they can't do more to help. How he's only alive because he's a werewolf, and the technology simply wasn't there to keep him from bleeding to death if they tried to surgically remove the shrapnel. Gnashes his teeth when Tony destroys one of his fighter jets, almost kills one of his pilots and then saves him, buys him a new jet in recompense. Gnashes his teeth when he learns Obadiah was behind Tony's kidnapping, almost killed him again, almost killed Pepper and would have done so without remorse. Gnashes his teeth was Tony finally admits he's dying from palladium poisoning from the reactor. Gnashes his teeth when Tony joins some stupid secret boy band called the Avengers, and he's working with Captain America, who told Tony to his face that he knew men who were worth ten of him, and Natasha, who had betrayed his trust and stabbed him in the neck, and other people Jim doesn't know so doesn't trust or like them. Gnashes his teeth when he realizes that they're all broken just like Tony, and are able to relate to him in ways that Jim will never be able to, because he grew up in a loving family and literally no one else did. Tony is still the only one who smiles though. Jim can see it puts the rest of the Avengers on edge, the way he bares his teeth without thinking about it. Human in ways they can't be. Werewolf in ways they can't, either. Jim bares his teeth back at him, and Tony throws his head back and laughs as the rest of the Avengers back away, anxious and confused.

"So are you dating again, or?" Jim asks, picking through a bowl of puppy chow. He likes the ones with more peanut butter than chocolate. He doesn't mention he can see the Avengers turning toward them in interest even as they desperately try to pretend to mind their own business. "Pepper mentioned you going out on a date finally." Tony shrugs. "Yeah, I thought I might put myself back out there. I don't know. Just feels discouraging that I can't keep a girlfriend. Or boyfriend," he adds belatedly. "'s 'cause you're weird," Jim offers helpfully. "Yeah," Tony sighs. At least he's self-aware. "Anyway, I'm gonna go menace the rest of your team," Jim adds, popping the last few bites of puppy chow he'd dug out into his mouth. "Gotta show 'em who's boss, after all." "Okay, but if you make Bruce Hulk out, you have to clean up the mess," Tony replies, and Jim salutes him before he goes over to bare his teeth at the rest of the Avengers until they scramble out of his way nervously. He finds it flattering that most of them can't meet his eyes. Bruce even sort of grabs someone's shirt and puts it over his head, as if physically blocking his gaze away would help. Jim crunches a mouthful of puppy chow next to his ear in response. He wants everyone to be certain that if they did anything to hurt Tony, they'd have not just him, but the rest of his family there to make them pay for it. Also a couple of them had looked way too interested in the fact Tony was dating again.

[exlibrisfangirl]

🎶 Ten Songs I've Had on Repeat Lately 🎶

Tagged by my Enabler Extraordinaire @angel-in-a-big-blue-box 🫶🏻

In no particular order:

“Mmmbop 2.0” - Hanson <3

“All My Life” - Wayno

“ENOUGH” - Nahko and Medicine for the People

“The Call” - SVRCINA

“Let 'Em Go” - Matt Hansen

“if i were a fish” - corook, feat. Olivia Barton

“8 billion people” - Kiran + Nivi

“Walls” - Natalie Taylor

“Mariana Trench” - Gabrielle Aplin

“Little Girl Gone” - CHINCHILLA

Tagging (no pressure): @msmischief101 @alphadiablo29 @shieldmaidenofsherwood @skinnyscottishbloke @derpylittlenico @englishgradinrepair @dreamersscape @magic-multicolored-miracle @beaconfeels @takadasaiko @sterekxhale @woozapooza @ardricael @greyhavenisback

[lyokowarrior-yumiishiyama]

Stumble for Jeremie, of course c:<

Stumble/Catch Meme | @wisperwords

Send "Stumble" for your severely injured muse to fall into my muse's arms. Send "Catch" for the reverse

❀;; --- "Jeremie?!" The girl shouted around the Factory. He hadn't answered his phone, no one could get a hold of him. He'd said he was going to his room, but Odd and Ulrich had already checked there. Empty.

They searched the forest, Aelita searched Kadic, and Yumi moved to the Factory.

"Jeremie?! Where are you?!"

Footsteps echoed through the Factory and immediately Yumi took off in the direction she had heard it. Danger be damned, if that was Jeremie, she needed to know. XANA had attacked and Jeremie had been nowhere to be found.

All she could do was think the worse happened.

And apparently it had.

Jeremie's form came into view, limping, holding onto the wall for support. Yumi nearly stopped dead in her tracks when she finally saw him. He was hurt. Bleeding. And not just from any cut. He was seriously hurt.

"Jeremie!" she shrieked in fear as she took off twice as fast as before. Being the fastest runner in Kadic paid off when she found herself by his side in no time. Her arms were outstretched just in time to catch him as his strength finally gave out and he collapsed into her arms.

"What happened?!" Panic was setting in. He was pale - well paler than usual. A trail of blood followed him. Yumi felt herself getting sick but forced herself to swallow it down. The priority was Jeremie.

She heard him try to say something, XANA perhaps? Yumi felt her chest tighten when she realized they were not alone. Quickly she turned her head in the direction Jeremie had come from and her eyes went wide.

A gigantic robot? Hadn't XANA already tried this before?!

"Come on Jer, we gotta go!" she called out, though there was no way he could help much. He was on the verge of passing out. "Hang on, we'll get to the elevator. We'll be fine!"

Was she speaking to calm him down? Or herself?

"I've got you!"

She took off as fast as she could.

[novemberhope]

Niara and Ace BroTP Questions

who steals french fries off the other’s plate: Ace is always hungry, so he steals Niara's (and everyone elses french fries)

who jokingly moves in for the kiss when someone asks if they’re a couple: Niara and then she would burst out laughing

who has to bust or bail the other out of jail: uh literally Niara...

who gives the other advice/comfort about dating issues: both each other, idk if it would be helpful advice though

who shamelessly cheats at games by reaching over to cover the other’s eyes: I can see both doing that tbh

who immediately calls dibs on the top bunk: Ace

who starts and who wins the pillow fights: both on occasion

who says “your pants would look better on their floor” to the other’s potential crush: Ace, because I don't think Niara could come up with that and for sure she could not deliver it with a straight face

[hyliascommonwealth]

((Okay I am so unbelievably curious to see what you have to say about Oliver. 👀💕))

Sexuality Headcanon: I see him as being homosexual, in the way that a homosexual neighborhood mom adopts every queer child within a 14 block radius. He’s got the pins, the flags, and so so proud! Monogamous, he’s very VERY devoted to the one he loves, and it would take no less than the world ending to jeopardize that loyalty.

Gender Headcanon: He/him fluid

A ship I have with said character: can’t help but ship him with Arthur, your muses just have such great chemistry! Plus i see those simping hours

A BROTP I have with said character: I’ve enjoyed a lot for interactions I’ve seen with Oliver! I think it’s a tie for Alfred and Francis? They just seem to mesh well in a playful way while still feeling well flushed out and comfortable

A NOTP I have with said character: hmm, i can’t say i have one as of yet? Honestly he’s got such a vibe i think it would be hard to find a real NOTP for me

A random headcanon: I’m not sure if it has any basis in reality, but i feel like he loves to teach others how to bake, and might do weekly baking lessons at any given senior center / community He just seems so patient and bubbly, I love to imagine him just gladly teaching those who are disadvantaged how to bake?? It just vibes so hard in my brainspace.

General Opinion over said character: I have only had Oliver for 15 minutes and if anything happened to him i would kill everyone in this room and then myself. He’s so smol! But he’s also got a great wit and sass! Like, he’s such a well balanced muse, i love how you portray him!! It is always a pleasure to see how he interacts with those around him. There’s just a really powerful charm, and warmth to him, like even when he seems a bit exasperated, there’s no sense that he’s going to snap, or break over it, but like he’s genuinely considering what brought any given encounter to this point.

[amazingmsme]

otp ask game with bad apple?

How did they discover each others’ ticklishness?

( Wiley and Wiggly)

2. & 3. For the otp thing with wilbur & wiggly? :3

Y’all really love the evil gays, huh 💚

1. Who’s more ticklish?

Mr. Tickle Me Wiggly himself. I mean come on it’s in his name!

2. What kind of tickles are they sensitive to?

They’re both weaker to rougher tickles

3. Which role (lee/ler) does each of them hold?

They’re both pretty even switches, but Wiggly is more lee just because of that damn doll. Like every time I’m like weeeelllll maybe & then I remember literally everything about the Wiggly jingle & I can’t bring myself to it. Canonical lee

4. How did they discover each others’ ticklishness?

Wilbur found out in the doll making phase when the name first popped up. Wiggly found out immediately after when he got his revenge

5. Who’s more likely to instigate a tickle fight?

Wiggly cause he can be standing 10 feet away & get you with his tentacles.

6. How often do they tickle each other?

Literally all the time! They’re such a handsy couple, so it happens a lot whether they mean to or not (they always mean to even if they say otherwise)

7. Who’s the least likely to ask for tickles?

You’d fucking think it would be the eldritch abomination, but no he surprisingly will hint when he’s in the mood. I mean, dude made it his whole brand so idk how embarrassed he can be. Wilbur is so stubborn tho & refuses to ask

[celestialprompt]

⭒⭑⭒— 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭: nsfw edition, part 2

send me a pairing and i'll answer: which one struggles more with asking for what they want? which one likes to test the other by teasing them in public? which one prefers taking things slow? which one enjoys taking the lead and which one prefers to follow? which one is more likely to initiate shower sex? which one is into leaving marks? which one likes teasing with words and which prefers physical tease? which one accidentally tears the sheets (again)? which one is secretly into praise kink? which one loves making the other beg? which one suggests using toys? which one gets shy when picking out toys together?

[rays-of-fire-and-ice]

Shinji and Ikkaku for the Character bingo? :)

Character bingo

Shinji

THIS MAN! THIS BEAUTIFUL, DUMB, AMAZING MAN. It took me many years, but I have come to. Love. This. Man. One minute he's being beaten up by a girl who's basically half his height and writes everything backwards 'just because', and then the next he's a grinning badass ready to throw down with Aizen and has one of the most OP bankai in all of BLEACH...and then he goes off and gets a questionable fringe haircut (probably believing he's setting some new trend).

Like a lot of characters in the series, there's an unsaid depth to Shinji and you just end up wanting to find out more about him. When you realise the story is over though, you end up turning to fanon, and that's where you can get some awesome headcanons and theories about why Shinji turned out the way he did, what his relationships with others are like, and what he truly thinks about certain things (like Aizen).

When you sit down to think about his backstory, I don't know about you, but I just want to give the guy a hug. He thought he could keep an eye on Aizen before he did anything to endanger someone, but he ended up getting played and actually brought Aizen to the exact spot he needed to be to enact his plans. He was then thrown out of his home world, became the pseudo leader of the people he feels responsible for getting into this mess, and had to learn about human culture and find a way to live in the World of the Living. All the while he's likely blaming himself for what happened, seething about Aizen, and having to deal with a Hollow's voice trying to get him to go full carnage.

But then you see him turn all of this into a means to understand someone who had gone through a very similar experience: Momo. While Shinji had been blinded by his suspicion of Aizen, Momo was blinded by admiration for Aizen. Regardless, this use of of a blind spot and the betrayal she felt is something Shinji can most certainly relate to. So he does what no one else was doing at the time: letting her talk about Aizen. Its stated in Death Save the Strawberry that he never prevented her from talking about Aizen, and he would casually bring up Aizen in a conversation if he so happened to come up. It's in talking about Aizen and in telling her that her friends aren't leaving her behind but are waiting for her that he helps Momo recover from her trauma. He helps her back up on her feet, to become the lieutenant she once was, but with a much healthier dynamic with her captain. She's now more assertive with her feelings, expressing annoyance and exasperation towards her captain, but also able to laugh with him and know that he truly has her back. She retains some of her prior qualities (such as her willingness to throw herself into dangerous battles when her captain is harmed, like with Bambietta), but Shinji helped her develop and grow, and he saw a kindred spirit in her, and that probably helped him get back into his role as captain and motivate him to do right by the division. Hell, he apparently calls her his 'daughter' in We Do Knot Always Love You!! Who else does he think of in that way?! You can just SENSE the dynamic between these two, it was absolutely ingenious on Kubo's part to put these two together!

I love speculating on what his life was like in the World of the Living for 110 years, on his dynamic with Momo and his subordinates and the other captains, on his interests and how he runs the division...I JUST LOVE THIS MAN!

Ikkaku

To be honest, I just couldn't pick a suitable box for Ikkaku! XD I like the guy, he has his great moments (mainly with Ichigo and Yumichika) and I think he's one of the more unique character designs. His lucky dance is in my top 5 funny moments of BLEACH, and every now and then when I need a pick-me-up, I go watch a clip of the dance. However, he isn't oen of my favourites, so I don't think about him too often.

As for why I have 'genuinely. what the fuck'? Simply because of the filler episode where he makes these faces:

I cannot for the love of my think of any other BLEACH episode that has character pull faces as creepy and crazy as this. Also, the heck is happening with his hands in the final shot?

Thanks for sending these in! :D

[jade-lop]

Brotp ask, Horobi and Ikazuchi, 5 and 6 ☺️

5. Horobi would give a handmade thoughtful gift. Ikazuchi’s gift contained a forgotten in-joke that only Ikazuchi now remembered…

6. Horobi and Ikazuchi were both a responsible driver, so they switched. Ikazuchi was in-charge of the music. It was all classical music. Horobi prepared the snacks. He made them himself.

[bxrn-thc-pxgcs]

🥖 -you know

Levi jumped at the sudden impact, ducking his head slightly before looking around. He paused with a sigh, rubbing his eyes and laughing softly. "Uh, wow. Okay. Bread. Sure." Looking over at Astrid, he gave her a sarcastic salute. "Anyway, fair enough for not really registering. Ellen's message was very garbled and it took me five minutes of staring at it to decrypt it."

[beencaughts]

@prxttylittle

Luna couldn’t recall a time she ever had a full conversation with Nick Keller. They’d known each other for years, hung out together all the time, but she still couldn’t remember ever just speaking to him ��� not about Cass or Prince or even some other superficial topic like what liquor to buy for the next party he threw — but to him, as a person or as her friend. They didn’t have much in common besides their friends and lack of parental supervision. Or at least that had been the case before Cass and Prince decided to give them one more thing to have in common. 

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Luna hadn’t spoken to her friends in weeks, if she felt like she could even still call them that. She had so much resentment towards them for driving Prince away that, at times, it blinded her to her own fault in the situation. At the time, she had been so focused on being a good friend that it made her lose sight of being a good girlfriend. Now, she had neither. Luna focused her attention on school and work. If she wasn’t busy with one, she was doing the other. It had become a bit exhausting, but it was much better than having any downtime to focus on how fucked her life had gotten. 

“Desi, you have to clean the—what are they called in English? El mejillón?” Luna racked her brain trying to remember the word but gave up after a minute. “Whatever they’re called, you have to clean those before you put them in the paella. It will be disgusting now, but I bet you’re still gonna eat it,” She giggled. Luna and her brother were on FaceTime. It’d been a while since she spoke with him, and since her flat had become so empty, the homesickness was hitting her a little harder than usual. They made plans a few days ago to make her favorite Spanish food together. It was nice to talk to him. Before moving to London, Desi was the person she was closest to because they were only 11 months apart in age, and she was missing that bond these days. She opened her mouth to speak until she was interrupted by a knock on her door. Luna raised a brow, not having been expecting any guests. Wiping her hands clean with a dish towel, she picked up her phone and moved towards the door. Her brother asked who it was and she shrugged. “Either I’ll have to call you back, or you’ll have to call 999.” Luna looked through the peephole and rolled her eyes. “I’ll call you back.” Her brother started to protest, but she hung up on him as she opened the door to find Nick Keller on the other side. 

That day Luna was so annoyed that he’d come over, but she never did give her brother that call back. She and Nick talked for hours, sharing her paella as she explained her disappearing act and how she hadn’t been doing too well. He must’ve pitied her because, after that, Nick would start showing up at Luna’s door a couple times a week. She welcomed the company since she still wasn’t speaking to Matt and Panda, and the other two people in her life didn’t have much of a physical presence anymore. Sometimes Luna would make them dinner, and other times they’d just have tea and chat, but one thing they never did was talk about Prince and Cassie. Nick would tell her about what dumb thing Matt did that day, and she would talk about work and school, but they never addressed the elephant in the room. That was, until one day, Nick took the leap and asked how Cass was doing. Luna was caught off guard by his question because they’d been talking about when she planned on speaking to their other friends again. “Oh, um, she’s good. She started working at this cafe recently, and she won’t shut up about it because it’s like some dream she’s always had in her head.” He seemed content with the answer, a small smile on his face, although his features showed a hint of sadness. “You’re lucky you get to ask, y’know.” Somehow, Luna figured her words would cheer him up a bit. He looked up at her. “I know it sucks that she didn’t say goodbye and that you’re not the person she still talks to, but I think you’re really lucky for being able to know if she’s doing okay.” He shakes his head but returns to their previous conversation to avoid delving deeper into the topic. They decided she’d go home with him today to make up with Panda and Matt, but that’s the last time they talk about Prince and Cass until a few weeks later.

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Luna would have days where she would be reminded of Prince, be sad for five minutes, and move on with her day. Other times, not so much, and today was a not-so-much day. She’d already cut her hair in a dramatic move to erase a part of her that Prince liked, but there were still so many things in her flat that reminded her of him. Luna wanted to get rid of it all, starting with her bedroom. Every picture was thrown into the bottom drawer of her desk, and she tossed her sheets in the bin and replaced them with some that he never laid in. The biggest task left was her closet.

She made it easy for him to leave, she thought to herself. He couldn’t have had much to pack because she found shirt after shirt in her closet. Each one having memories attached to it— him waking her up with coffee in the morning, her secretly stealing it from their trip to Paris because she wanted something to remember it by, him managing to finally convince Luna to skip her uni classes. They didn’t leave her bed once that day. Luna tried to push through the task, but she was spiraling. Her mind was filled with him. She still loved him. She missed him. 

Abandoning her closet, she went to her living room for another distraction. She only got as far as picking up the remote before her tears blinded her vision and a sob clawed its way out. Luna heard the front door open, but she didn’t care enough to lift her head to see who it was. She stopped caring about a lot of things lately like locking the door. It was something she’d always nag at Cass about, but there wasn’t anything in her flat that she cared for anymore, herself included. There was no point. She knew whoever it was didn’t mean her any harm when they asked what was wrong, and she immediately recognized that it was Nick.

She laughed bitterly, finally lifting her head to look at her friend. “What’s always wrong. The reason you even come over here in the first place. We weren’t friends, Nick, let’s be real here, but you come over and look at me with your sad fucking eyes because we had to break each other’s hearts when we had to tell each other that the people we love left us without saying a word, but we sit here and drink tea all the fucking time and pretend that’s not the only reason we’re even talking.” Nick wasn’t put-off by her outburst because he comes and sits next to her, wrapping an arm around her shoulder and encouraging her to rest her head on his, which she does. The pair sit in silence for a while, Luna’s sniffling being the only noise in the room before she speaks up again.

“I never needed him to love me as much as I loved him. I only needed him to love me enough.” Nick asks enough for what? “I don’t know — enough to not leave me. Enough to say fucking goodbye…..enough to take me with him just — enough. Why couldn’t he give me enough?” 

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After that, they stop pretending like their shared fucked up love lives aren’t what’s making them hang out, and they start talking about it more. Nick tells her how much Cass hurt him, and she talks about how much Prince hurt her. Luna tries to reassure him of things without giving too much away. It was honestly nice for Luna to have someone to speak to that understood what she was going through, but it sucked he could never provide her enough back.

One day, he speaks up about his and Prince’s night at the bar the night before he broke up with her. Luna chuckles. “I knew he was going to break up with me that night, Nick.” Nick’s eyes grow wide. He asks if it’s because Prince said something but she shakes her head. “I knew he was going to break up with me because every time I saw him the last few months he was here, I knew he was always so close to doing it. I don’t know why he stayed with me so long. Maybe to torture me and make me feel as bad as he did.” 

“Why did you stay so long then?” 

Luna shrugs. “I guess the same reason why you stayed around for Cass.” 

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Nick and Luna had been hanging out in her bed, staring up at the ceiling as they once again bonded over the trauma Cass and Prince caused them. “A while ago, his mum was here," Luna didn't know why she was bringing this up, but she just thought of the moment and had to share. "But she left and we had this whole thing where I told him that I’d be his person who stays, always.” She said the last word of her sentence with sadness. “I promised I’d never leave him, so I just-“ Luna paused, taking a deep breath to control the aching in her chest that her words were causing. “I just wonder if he realized I needed a person who stays too.” Luna reminds herself of what she told Prince about people who leave— they do it because they're selfish, and there's something wrong with them. It had nothing to do with the people they left. She still believed the former half, but she was struggling with not taking it so personally. Her eyes move from the ceiling to Nick's face. "Do you blame yourself for Cass leaving?" He says no because he doesn't even know why she left. Luna's voice is in a whisper when she asks her next question. "Do you blame yourself for her not saying goodbye, then?" Nick is quiet for a beat, but he eventually says no to that too. He repeats the question back to her. She nods her head.

“Nick, I don’t even think them leaving is the issue.” Nick is confused and looks at her, but she refocuses her gaze on the ceiling. “They never asked us to go with them. They left everything behind and we weren’t special enough to be exceptions.” Luna briefly considered how much her comment might sting for Nick because Cass did have an exception, and she was laying right next to him. At least when Prince left, he decided no one was worth speaking to anymore, including the person he trusted enough to tell that he was leaving. Luna rolls over and rests her head on his chest and he welcomes it. “How could we be so in love with people who just viewed us as the same as everyone else?” Nick lightens the mood by joking about them hooking up. Luna laughs and pushes him away, and they joke about why they’d never.

"I like talking to you, Nick, seriously." They gaze at each other, smiles on their faces. "I'm sorry I told Cass that you're like a stale piece of bread, and I don't know why she hangs out with you." They both laugh before he pushes her off of her bed. She hits the floor with a thud. "Okay, I accept that I deserved that," Luna groaned as she stood up. That doesn't stop her from punching him in the arm, though. "So what's for dinner, Keller?"

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