#but I cannot include them on this list because nobody does it like them

[dr9com9ge-ix]

The 2nd bunch of sprunki designs c: More headcanons under the cut-

Also I may just tag this an an AU at this point (Also to maybe not step on any toes >-<; -) because man… Love coming up with the weird ass setting these guys are in which will probably be explained when I get to Mr. Sun’s design. But the short of it is they all live in an isolated little suburban town with a pretty small population (everyone knows each other to some extent.) and that there are other populations of Sprunkis and stuff such as large cities and rural villages.

OWAKCX

29 He/Him

- Was an accountant traveling to another city.

- Fell off a cliff near the town and sustained head and spinal injuries whilst on the phone. Vineria found him and took him into the town’s clinic to keep him from dying.

- Listed in the town’s documents as “OWAKCX” due to him unfortunately having difficulty speaking post-accident when asked what his name is. His speech has improved significantly since but has issues with volume control and a tic of making a loud startling sounds.

- His actual name is Ozwalt but accepted at this point that everyone calls him OWAKC. “Sure is a name” he says.

- Does not want to go back to the city he lives in due to how long he assumes he’s been gone. Most likely presumed dead.

- Clunkr and Garnold had made him his wheelchair. Said wheelchair can go very fast much to OWAKCX’s inital terror when first using it. Now he’s quite good at speeding across places (it took a bit.).

- Is a bit high strung and easily startled at times. Has bit someone in a panic before and apologized right after.

- Can get a bit snarky and sarcastic, joked about Raddy’s ability to hammer nails (Hits them too hard and they bend,) and got clocked in the head with the hammer he was using. He knows a bit better not to snark Raddy anymore.

- Lives with Vineria in her greenhouse/normal house, He helps her file her taxes and documents for free… Its repayment for literally saving his life. Everyone else has to pay him if they want him to do that for them, Mostly to keep his workload low and so nobody else asks.

- Chronically grits and grinds his teeth and shakes like a cold chihuahua even when under a blanket.

- Had an alt rock phase in high school that is slowly coming back…Not fashion wise but he is blasting it straight into his ears as he works.

Vineria

27 She/them

- Moved to the town because she wanted to have her own greenhouse to grow a variety of plants. Including weed

- Has gotten in trouble in her previous residence for seed bombing golf courses and smoking in her apartment.

- Very chill and laid back.

- Likes to climb trees and go on nature walks.

- Has tasted moss out of curiosity while watching over brud, has gone on record going “mhm not bad!” but tries to give him more normally edible plants.

- Naturally bald, used to just wear a beanie before her wigs.

- Found her first plant wig in the woods near town. Has been raising the same kinds of plants for her other plant wigs though the first one is her favorite and most worn.

- Helps out occasionally at the town clinic after she brought OWAKCX in, Mostly because she wanted to make sure she could check up on him while he recovered.

- Actually calls OWAKCX “Oz” instead as she knows his actual name.

- Has given plants and saplings to people as housewarming gifts.

brud

21 He/They

- Was once in foster care and a group home due to being abandoned, Had ran off when he had aged out of the system.

- Cannot feel pain, This had caused issues such as chewing his tongue to the point of it being a stub and scratching at himself without realizing he’s hurting himself. Has since been trying to be more careful and wears gloves and long sleeves over his hands to deter the picking and scratching.

- Can talk but not very clearly, Prefers to nod or shake his head or if really needed- To sign in sign language or write down what he wants to say. Also squeaks in excitement and whimpers when sad.

- Has terrible eyesight due to his eyes facing separate directions.

- Has a bucket over his sharp single horn to stop it from hurting other people and because he likes the bucket.

- Is a sort of permanent resident at the clinic due to his condition and tendency to get injured

- Hangs out with Simon the most out of the clinic staff. They’re besties.

- Likes earthy tastes which is why he eats moss sometimes.

- Gets mistaken for a child by newer residents.

- Loves to hug people and being hugged

Tunner

56 He/him

- The town’s sheriff who patrols around to help others, Likely gives new people tours. Did this as a hobby for a bit until he was officially given the role.

- Lives a bit farther in the outskirts, Likes his peace and quiet. This is also near Jevin and Sky’s caravan.

- Used to live in a desert town where he was a street performer who played the guitar and fended for himself until he could afford a gun and leave that place.

- Has an old horse named Cornbread who he rode into the town, she can be found grazing near his house.

- Very talkative, specifically loves telling stories about his adventures before he settled down though they tend to get long winded and embellished depending on whether or not he’s trying to make himself sound cooler/ Trying to impress someone. Jevin

- Has lost a tooth in a fight a long time ago and got a gold tooth to replace it. How he lost it in the fight changes every time he retells the story.

[the-maid-of-witchwood]

Do you have any headcanons for Pete, Ruth, and Richie?

Please share them so I can add them to my headcanons

Absolutely, just let me find the file labelled the three idiots or something...

Hey, I was right! It is called that!

Solo headcanons

Ruth:

Baby of the year group

Baby of her family in general - she has two older brothers who have moved out of Hatchetfield, she visits them over the summer

One lives in New York and sends her Broadway playbills

She and Richie are childhood friends

They have been glued to each other's sides since the first day of elementary

Was taller than Grace for entirety of first grade and thinks it's a bragging right

She's short but most of her height comes from her legs

She is insanely fast and was briefly part of the school's track team before dropping out

Being allergic to antiperspirant and doing a lot of running in the sweltering heat unfortunately leads to a lot of bullying

She really would like to take up track again

She also wants to join the cheer team, it was a big dream of hers in middle school

Her worst enemy is Caitlyn

Once set up a whole petition to have Caitlyn removed from a school show because she was ruining it with her terrible acting, but chickened out of actually going through with it

She also had a lot of plans to become the school's Cady and casually but brutally oust Steph from her post as queen bee, she again chickened out of it

She stole one of Gary Goldstein's business cards once (someone left it at the library) and rings him up whenever she wants to talk. He keeps hanging up on her though..

She spent all of junior year telling anyone who would listen that she had a boyfriend called Gary

Has submitted so many fanfics as creative writing assignments

They are all smut

Miss Mulberry no longer attempts to read them, just gives her a B and calls it a day. Ruth is aware of this because she always asks Miss Mulberry what she thought and never gets a specific answer; she thinks its funny

One of her first big crushes was Linda Monroe, after seeing her throw a Karen style fit at Starbucks over a barista getting her order wrong

Currently has a crush on every member of the football team and cheer team, including the coaches

Initially befriended Pete because she overheard someone say he did theatre after school and was then disappointed to learn he was not a musical theatre kid

Remained friends however because of Star Wars and Richie

She and Richie have a big solidarity for anime musicals

Her favourite show is Glee, flaws and all

Had a really big Disney channel phase

She hasn't grown out of it

She has a really impressive soprano that nobody but her shower, Richie and Pete have heard

Has applied for a job at Beanie's on multiple occasions but is never picked

Is actually really good at tap, or she would be if she got back into class

She also did gymnastics as a child and is concerningly flexible; she does a lot of circus tricks and cannot for the life of her sit still or normally, she has to be showing something off

She once convinced Richie to attempt an overnight challenge at the Starlight... it failed

She was really late in getting her period

True crime girlie

She bonds with Steph over it

Absolutely hopes to be on Buzzfeed Unsolved one day

Meant to be in the school choir - she got confident enough to add her name to the sign up list but has never actually showed up to one of the sessions

She does actually like being a lighting technician, she just hates the people she's doing it for and would like to have the option to be onstage occasionally

Really wants the opportunity to be a drag king

She has two guinea pigs, called Patti (LuPone) and Barbara (Streisand)

Richie:

He has two moms

He won't say it because gross, but he really loves and looks up to them

Richie and Trevor use to be friends in elementary and went around telling everyone they were brothers. They continued to do this until about eighth grade when they drifted apart

This is where the present day confusion of their relation to each other comes from

And why Max sometimes mistakes one for the other

Frank use to babysit him when he was younger as a way of making extra money for Toy Zone

As much as Grace has phenomenal attendance, his is appalling

He and Grace have always gotten along well. They ended up sat beside each other/paired up a lot in earlier years

Was friends with both Ruth and Pete before they befriended each other and takes pride in being the one that kinda got them together in that sense

The mispronunciation of his name is not limited to classmates bullying him, like the teachers struggle during registration and people outside of school do it all the time. Hence why he is so instinctive about correcting them

People (and by that, just his moms) only call him Richard when he misbehaves

The only exception to this is Grace but she has his permission to do so as the group's mom friend, so it doesn't really count

When Max isn't there, he has had some really nice moments with the rest of the football team. Or at least most of them. Okay, so maybe it's just Jason and Kyle

Personally has started 57 arguments with the Greenpeace girl

Yes, he's keeping track, he's petty

He isn't part of the school's swim team because nobody wants his nerd ass there but he absolutely should be

He did competitive swimming outside of school and was really fucking good at it - to the point everyone kinda lowkey knows about it

Hell, Max has come and congratulated him on winning once or twice

(What? He can appreciate good sports, it's not gay)

Richie became the mascot in the hopes it would make him cooler because Ryan is cool in High School Musical and the mascot and everyone loves him

High School Musical is how he realised he was gay because he thought Gabriella and Sharpay both sucked, and didn't understand why the boys didn't just get together

Ruth got him into Disney channel movies

The two joke that she turned him gay

He likes making fun of Pete's Disney knees for no particular reason

He's actually pretty good friends with Reese and PJ, ultimately getting them both into anime

He frequently crashes show rehearsals because one, if not both, of Ruth and Pete are there

He would be a part of the school show too, albeit only backstage, if they actually did a good musical (read as an anime musical)

He also doesn't really like the drama kids and doesn't hesitate to callout their poor treatment of Ruth or anything he considers bad acting, singing or dancing

He has been bitch slapped by Caitlyn subsequently - he said something bad about Josephine and she was not having it. He learnt his lesson, now never says anything to their faces and honestly respects the hell out of those guys because if someone said something bad about Ruth or Pete, his response would be to run away or film it

He has beef with Steph

Is really bad at maintaining his blue hair, so it fades real quick and patchy

Once messed up the colour and it somehow came out green

He is really into spiders

Wants a pet one but his moms won't let him. They do promise, however, to help buy things for it when he gets one of his own when he moves out. They just don't want it in their home

Lowkey is a huge hopeless romantic

Has gone as some variation of Hatsune Miku every year since he was thirteen

All of his fish are named after anime characters, except Smart Pete and Ruth Junior. Ruth is honoured by this, Pete is not

His first crush was Max

I already did solo head canons for Pete.

Ship head canons

Richie x Pete:

The two most awkward people getting together in the world

Seriously, the months of neither of them getting enough confidence to ask the other out was driving Ruth insane

She one day snapped, locked them in her bedroom at a sleepover and refused to let them out until they both confessed their feelings to each other. Which still took about six hours

She proudly acknowledges the fact she is the captain of this ship and that they wouldn't be anywhere without her

She uses it as an excuse to crash 99% of their dates

Pete and Richie are both really big media people

They love watching film and TV, even if it's something they have no particular interest in. They love judging and analysing it. And spending hours arguing with each other about their opinions

It's not often they actually agree with each other

They are the worst people to go to the cinema with or just watch something with

If Richie is out of town, Pete goes round to feed and care for his fish; he has keys

Richie is off so much it was important that Pete had his own set of keys to come check on his boyfriend

Richie goes to all of his orchestral performances and aggressively boos everyone but him, also calls out after every number asking when they're gonna do a Hatsune Miku song

Has been banned once or twice

Pete attempts teaching Richie to dance and Richie attempts teaching Pete to dive... they both go horribly wrong and it's honestly a miracle neither ended up in hospital

Somehow Pete still ends up without a partner at school because Ruth and Richie still pair up almost every time

Richie has stolen most of Pete's wardrobe by the time of their first year anniversary. He doesn't wear it, he just likes the feeling and the smell; it's a comfort thing

Pete had exactly two floral shirts of Richie's and it's because Richie ordered them too big

It may or may not have been purposeful

They pick Halloween costumes for each other from the other's interests and then bitterly complain about it all night

Steph: If you hate being Luke so much, why don't you just fucking change? I'm sick of you bitching about it.

Richie: Uh, why are you still dressed as the Virgin Mary?

Steph:

Steph: Touché.

Bonus! Richie x Pete (but Pete's also dating Lautity):

Pete was cautious about it at first, but quickly got very comfortable with it and doesn't know how he managed beforehand

Definitely started as Pete with the girls, he got with Richie further down the line

Richie and Steph still hate each other

However, they would give the other their kidney because they know Pete loves them, but they aren't getting their phone charger

Richie gets on a lot better with Grace and is confident enough to be somewhat flirtatious/suggestive to her, usually just as a way to fluster Pete but flustering Grace herself and pissing Steph off is an added bonus

He and Steph should not allowed to play games of any kind together, they get too competitive

They aren't allowed to sit beside each other either

The bedroom dynamic is just Richie and Steph fighting the other over a pillow while Grace prays for her sanity in the corner and Pete just tries to watch Star Wars in peace

They have some of the best dates in Hatchetfield

Richie has the nerd knowledge of Pete's interests, Steph has the money to afford insane shit, and Grace has the care and attention to detail to make sure everything runs smoothly

Definitely have to put up with a lot of dumb remarks from Ted

Pete is just so loved

Ruth x Pete:

The only time he successfully convinces Ruth to audition for shows

She has attempted to make out with him onstage on several separate occasions

Casually arguing with Kevin and Caitlyn backstage

The biggest fucking Star Wars fans

Like, this is their whole relationship in a nutshell

Most of their dates, gifts and conversations end up referencing Star Wars in some way, shape or form

I can't see them lasting beyond college, but they had a good run and broke off pretty mutually

They remain close friends

Ruth x Richie:

Friends with benefits

The two wanted to know what any and every kind of physical intimacy was like and they aren't getting any younger, so...

Not attracted to each other by any means

Richie isn't a physical person at all, but Ruth is and she is the only person he allows to get so close to him

They have practice date nights with each other... which don't really differ that much to when they hangout normally, beyond them maybe dressing up a little

Always do couples costumes together, in spite of not being a couple

They are each other's biggest wingman and believe they will personally matchmake the other's relationship

[midnightactual]

PSA: Respect is Minding Your Own Damn Business

Let's have a little chat about what basic respect actually is. Now, this isn't contemporarily political, so don't run away screaming into the night just yet. Stick with me. I know it's hard in the age of TikTok and doomscrolling, but stick with me. Tim Walz articulated a pretty good idea of respect not even a year ago:

[...] because in Minnesota, we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn't make those same choices for ourselves, we've got a golden rule: mind your own damn business.

This applies anywhere and everywhere in this world you happen to find yourself. I know, I know, it's the zeitgeist to look at this or that and say it's problematic, that it's triggering, that it's whatever. I'm not going to lecture you about the abject failure of purity culture to do anything besides divide people, make the perfect the enemy of the good, and give those who actually are the devout enemies of inclusivity and cosmopolitanism all the ammunition they could ever dream of. I'd be here all day if I was going to do that, and it still wouldn't be enough.

Instead, I want to ignore the forest for the dirt, and focus on some basic concepts that seem to have been forgotten both here and more generally in society:

Just because you like something doesn't make it good.

Just because you don't like something doesn't make it bad.

Liking good things doesn't make you a good person.

Liking bad things doesn't make you a bad person.

Being nice does not mean being kind.

Being kind does not mean being nice.

Someone engaging with problematic material does not mean they are problematic.

Someone not engaging with problematic material does not mean they aren't problematic.

Unless something actually presents a real, tangible physical, emotional, or psychological danger to others with intent to harm or exploit, it is not your business to point it out or "warn" others. It is also not your personal decision as to what constitutes real, tangible danger. You are not an authority. You do not have credentials. You are not held accountable by the public. You were not voted for by the public or appointed by representatives. It's not your business.

I could go on. I think you ought to begin to understand: respect is leaving people well enough alone if they're not hurtin' nobody, and "hurtin' nobody" doesn't include things like "they said a thing I disagree with" or "they said something that was true but it hurt my feelings". That's free speech. Now, I could have a whole entire diversion here about how free speech cannot survive including hate speech—and how hate speech can be much more than advocating for harm, and can include the normalization of hateful actors—but we're not talking about that because we're taking baby steps here.

It is okay for you (or someone else!) to like bad things, even openly, and doing so doesn't make you (or them!) a bad person. Now, hold on, I'm not defending pedophiles or rapists or racists or misogynists or whatever else here, let alone saying they have a right to promote their viewpoints. Don't get it twisted. Those are not simply bad things, and you know I'm not talking about those kinds of matters when I talk about it being okay to like bad things. You know exactly what I'm actually talking about.

You know what I'm talking about includes acknowledging those listed things actually do exist and happen, and that censoring ourselves about their existence or happening doesn't make them go away. You know that what I am advocating for includes being able to discuss the existence of such things (and much more) in a mature, adult way, that is respectful and sophisticated, especially within art. I am not talking about fetishizing it, glorifying it, or whatever else.

You know that in an age where people are self-censoring and saying "unalived" instead of "killed" and "unalived themselves" instead of "committed suicide", and it's considered "cringe", that all this has gone too far. You know that in an age of book bans and government censorship, all this has gone too far and been weaponized by the worst people you know of.

So, let's do something about it. But first, let's go over some examples, because this has been highly theoretical so far.

A piece of fiction that includes infidelity as part of its structure is not in fact promoting or glamorizing or normalizing infidelity. Even if it was, with characters openly saying things like, "Infidelity is amazing!" protesting that particular piece of fiction would not change the rate of infidelity in the real world. To complain about the media would, in fact, be avoidant of the issue—pretending one is doing something while actually doing nothing. This is usually called "ragebait" these days.

I think guns are fascinating machines, even if they are only machines made to put holes in things (usually people). I sometimes watch videos about guns. I sometimes talk about guns. I sometimes think about guns. I have never owned a gun in my life. I have never even handled a real gun—the closest I've gotten was an airsoft M4. Do you see the separation between thinking about a subject, engaging with a subject, supporting a subject, promoting a subject, and actively utilizing a subject? Even someone who owns guns and promotes gun ownership is probably not regularly shooting people with them.

My main muse, Yoruichi, is the tropenamer for the TVTropes entry "Ambiguously Brown". She's right there on the page. I have seen people in the wild make statements like, "If you think Yoruichi is brown and not black, you're a racist." We could argue back and forth all day on her ethnicity, but the truth is it doesn't matter. If it mattered it would've been stated. Some possibilities are perhaps more likely than others, but she can be whatever you want to imagine her to be. Likewise, some people think she was in the form of a cat for a century; some dubiously canon sources promote that idea, and some people run with it. I'm not one of them. I've stated my opposition to that take here, in my own personal space, but do you know what I've never done? Gone and jumped down the throat of someone who took up and propagated that idea with a public callout wherein I trash them as a racist and a misogynist who actually secretly hates Yoruichi and wants to tear her down and dehumanize her. I haven't done that because that would be insane to do in like 99.99% of cases, and the remaining 0.01% would almost certainly be "ragebait".

Now that I'm finally talking about muses, let's really dial in on roleplaying.

I don't go police what other people do with Yoruichi because even if I do style myself an expert on her (let's be real: the expert on her) I don't have any authority to tell other people what to think about her. I can present my ideas and other people can take them or leave them, but that's on them, not on me. It's not my business to tell others what to think, how, why, when, where, or to whom. It's only my business to state my opinion in my space. My opinion might be informed by facts and evidence, or it might simply be my opinion. My opinion might be as close to factually correct as could be, or it might be as far away as could be—and even if I had all the facts on my side, roleplaying is a transformative activity where people can do what they want.

It would be wrong of me to go out and hit other people with my opinions like a cudgel. It would also be equally wrong of other people to come here and attack me for my opinions. This is why being a hater or an anti is stupid: content doesn't just flash into your mind unbidden. You usually have to go out and look for it, and even if it comes to you, you have to choose to look at it or read it, and then you almost always have the option to block, unfollow, say you don't want to see the post, or simply exercise some self-control and choose to ignore it.

The only time you reasonably ought to say something if you see content you don't care to see is if something has been said which is factually untrue, and even then you're not Snopes: it's not your job to be public fact-checker. In the case of roleplaying, this occurring is even less likely.

So, your opinions! It's okay if you don't like something! You can make your dislike known in your space. You should, in fact. It's your responsibility to establish your boundaries and to curate the content that you see. That's entirely on you. Whatever you have to do to make your space comfortable for you? Go right ahead! No one can complain.

The moment you step outside your space though, all bets are off. If you put one toe over the threshold in order to tell someone else to not make certain kinds of content, not do certain things, not talk about certain things? You're in the wrong. You're the problematic one. You're the bad guy—yes, the bad guy—because what you are trying to do is censor other people for the sake of your own comfort.

What gives you the right? What could ever give you the right? Nothing. You're not entitled to be the Thoughtpolice for any reason whatsoever, unless as long-ago specified there is some real, tangible danger occurring.

When you act like you're the one who gets to decide what is and isn't acceptable for people to put forward, you're fundamentally being a disrespectful asshole. You're inherently acting like you're the adult, and the stupid children over there need to be yelled at to stop doing whatever—or else.

When this happens in real life, we call it "being a Karen". Well, don't be a Karen here either. Nobody wants it. If you can't articulate a real, tangible danger, keep your mouth shut and stay in your lane, because that's the fundamental basis of respect. You know as much too, which is why everybody and their mother writes some variant on "muse does not equal mun" in their rules.

If you can't adhere to that most basic definition of respect, you don't belong here.

[fmajorenthusiast]

Rocky Horror characters are going on a road trip (your choice in destination). Who's driving, who's in charge of the music, and who has packed everything needed, with emergency provisions?

XQEJQDXJQXRIRQCI OMG I L0VE IT SM YESSSSSS

(Also- I'm imagining the most big-ass van in the world w wheelchair accessibility for them all to be in 1 car bc I'm most excited about that!!!!)

Frank: Frank INSISTS on calling shotgun, but not driving, and he also bitches CHRONICALLY when someone chooses to put on music that he doesn't like!!! He tries to put his feet up and then when everybody (obviously) forces him to stop and put them down, because A, that's not safe, and B, they're going to get pulled over and they know DAMN WELL that he will NOT pay for that ticket! he bitches AGAIN because "it really hurts to wear seven inch heels in a car, you know!" like anybody forced him to wear them in the first place!!!! He also asks a few times, because nobody responds the first few times, why they didn't rent a party bus! Thankfully, Magenta has a wit to match his own and is able to tell him to shut the fuck up and recognize that a trip to New York doesn't give the budget for that and that while he's on Earth, he can rest assured that he's no prince to these people! At all!!! And he might just need to hear it!! But Frank does provide his charming wit as well and helps everyone make it through the trip in a great way, too!!!

Brad: Words cannot describe how much fun I am having imagining Brad being trapped in a metal box with these people!!! He doesn't really provide a whole lot because of that fear!!! His two MASSIVE comforts are Janet being the driver and Doctor Scott being right there!!!! He'll do a good job in starting conversations, but he's not good at starting conversations that last a long time because his conversation starters don't actually go very far most of the time!!! He'll be like, "Say! I'm really looking forward to seeing the Starry Night! What are you all looking forward to?" And he'd get a good answer from everyone, but there's not too many places to go after that!!! He's afraid to bring any movies or music or podcasts or anything because he has no idea what these people like!!! He goes with the flow, though! And he has a great time as much as he can!!!

Janet: Janet is UNANIMOUSLY voted as the driver!!!! Herself included!!! She's the only person that everybody else feels safe with as the driver!!! Brad would usually be safe, but in this instance, his anxiety is running so high that not everybody feels comfortable with it anymore!!!! Janet is a great conversationalist while driving and she loves to hear everyone's opinions on everything!!! She feels a whole safer on this trip since she's the one driving!!! She'd be scared out of her MIND (and so would everybody else for that matter!!!) If it were anybody else, but this way she can just enjoy the chaos!!! She honestly thinks that everyone in this car is hilarious and, she'll never admit it, but that does include Brad in this situation!!! She thinks it's so cute how scared he is, but she loves that he trusts her!!! All in all, Janet is the driver who loves to talk with everyone, and it's amazing!!!

Riff Raff: Riff Raff takes it upon himself to be the one in charge of getting everyone meals, drinks (non-alcoholic for a road trip,) snacks, and entertainment!!! He makes the rounds before he goes to the store and gets orders from everybody, and then silently judges them himself! He's just looking at his list like, "Ok, so we have raisins, pretzels, cheese sticks, cheeze-its, Hershey's, jello, vanilla milkshake, Chuppa lollipops, potato chips, tostitos, and... I'll add on popcorn. *sighs* everyone, except for raisins, better share with everyone." Then he comes up with entertainment that he thinks everyone will like!!! Of course, everyone usually takes over and shows everyone their own things and that part of the commitment isn't usually giving much!!! But it's ok!!! Riff enjoys himself!!! He sometimes wishes he'd get more of a thank you besides "pass me a sandwhich, would ya? Thanks for making them!" But it's ok!!! He's having a good time!!

Magenta: Magenta, in exchange for Riff needing to be the one to prepare the preparation-required food, is on the job of "keeping everybody civil and humane throughout the trip!!" Basically, it's her primary job to shut arguments down if they start up and to keep people from bitching or panicking about anything unresolvable! Basically, there's ten people in a car, and that list partially includes Frank, a set of twins, two couples, and a nephew and uncle in it. Some kind of fight is BOUND to break out at some point!!! Her job is to be the master of shutting that down in a way that keeps the mood lighthearted and upbeat!!! And it works REALLY well!!!! Brad was the one to suggest the idea of a control system and Magenta stepped in and BOOM!!! The amount of fights she has to break up depends on the trip, but her longest court session was 6 minutes total!!! She is incredibly valuable and it's AMAZING

Columbia: Columbia is what we like to call a car-ride chatterbox!!!! She is VERY talkative during car rides and she's so vibrant and upbeat!!! She talks so much and has such a good time!!! Columbia genuinely ADORES road trips as she loves to have excuses to talk with people and watch shows and whatnot!!! The only ways to get Columbia to (happily) shut up for any length of time is if someone else talks or turns on music (which might not count since they'll all sing along) or a movie/TV show!!! Which is, either fortunately or unfortunately depending on who you are, a strategy that people will use in a fully intentional way sometimes!! SOMETIMES!!! Sometimes Janet just wants to prop up her phone for everyone and turn on Downton Abbey!!! Columbia is a GREAT time in the car!!!! She really is!!!

Rocky: Since he can't do much, Rocky's main job is to pack all of his necessities (everyone packs their own) and then run around and make sure that everyone else has packed theirs!!! He's on provision duty mainly (until the end when Doctor Scott FULLY takes over!!!) Just, "Magenta!!! Did you pack your clothes???" "FUCK! Tzhank you Rocky!!!" He feels so important it's ADORABLE!!! The rule is that the first person that Rocky ACTUALLY has to correct is the one to give him his own provision later!!!! Though it usually also winds up being Doctor Scott (he's really the one who's secretly in charge!!!) Once on the road, Rocky's main job is to entertain himself!!! He can't really enjoy a lot of the adult conversations, but he sure can enjoy his coloring book! (Due to his perfect body, he doesn't get carsick, and EVERYONE is jealous!!!) Rocky has a good time!!!

Eddie: Eddie... should not be expected to pull his own weight!!! Like, sure, he'll pack when asked but then Columbia and Doctor Scott FULLY have to drill him on what he's packed to ensure that he hasn't forgotten anything!!! If the group is lucky, Eddie knows where they're going in advance, but there is FULLY a non-zero chance that Eddie discovers the destination whilst on the way!!! Sure, they discuss it a lot prior, but Eddie doesn't often choose to listen!!!! He WOULD listen if he knew what they were talking about, but alas he does not!!! Once the point of "figuring out what the hell is going on" has been passed, then Eddie always takes time to play some heavy metal on his playlist for everybody!!! It doesn't last anywhere near the whole trip because not everyone gets that excited about it!!! A lot of them do though and most of them like it for a while!!! Eddie has a good time once he's figured out what's going on!!!

Doctor Scott: Doctor Scott is DEFINITELY the emergency master on road trips!!! He actually has a first aid kit packed!!! Packed and filled and he knows how to use it!!! He always makes provisions after Rocky goes through as well!!!! He also ensures that Janet's got her GPS set up just right!!! He's always making sure that these wild kids are under control!!! Once on the road, he has his "tune in and tune out" strategy! There are only so many conversations that they have in the car that he can actually be a part of!!! He's simply too old for some of them!!! If Frank suggests the topic, he can hardly be a part of it!! He's not interested in talking about the wild stuff!!! He does however love hearing about everyone's life and how they've been doing!!! And he gets a lot of time to do that and in general he has a really good time in the car!!!

The Criminologist: Ok so he is here for the purpose of documenting the trip and analyzing these people in an environment like this!!! He's here because they like having a fan and he seems pretty damn fun to be around!!! He writes down EVERYTHING and fills up multiple notebooks worth of info and that is kinda scary but he promises to forward it all to everybody before he writes anything down!!!! And he does!!! He also takes lots of pictures and calls everything really fascinating!!! He gets a share in the snacks and he gets invited into conversations!!!! It takes all of his willpower to not once take it in an interview-esque direction but he LOVES having a chance to talk to these people so much and he has such a great time!!! It's really amazing!!!

[pico-farad]

I absolutely love your Vrains analyses and I honestly can't wait for you to reach season 3.

I was wondering what you thought of the character of Spectre? Out of the whole cast, he's the one I really can't pinpoint how I feel about. (Beside the obvious fact that this kid needs therapy, I know they all do, but THIS ONE REALLY DOES.)

To be honest... Spectre is just really funny to me LMAO

My guy was raised by a tree. As a BABY. No food, no water, no body heat. There's probably ants crawling all over him. The tree scares away wolves who try to eat him, because they're probably like Oh shit, did that tree just fucking move???

This is peak Yugioh. Who put this Giving Tree-ass backstory into a hard sci-fi card game anime? Give them a raise. Where is Spectre's tree mom going on the Yugioh parent tier list?

Besides the funniness of staying connected to tree mom through card games, I like his Sunavalon deck. The Spectre vs. Lightning duel fucking ruled. From a gameplay perspective, it's one of the best in all of Yugioh. The reverse extra link? Stealing Judgment Arrows? This duel goes incredibly hard for no reason and definitely made me like Spectre more.

So yeah, those are my prevailing thoughts on Spectre, he's just not very important in my mind. If I were to take a more in-depth look at him, though...

I actually disagree with the premise that all of the kids need therapy, but I especially disagree that Spectre especially needs therapy. It's pretty explicit in the text, that Spectre is better off because of the Lost Incident.

Yusaku: If you endured the same hell as me-- Spectre: Hell? What do you mean? Am I different? I guess so, from your point of view Spectre: I grew up in an orphanage. I lacked the ability to mingle with others. Even among people, I was always bored and alone. That's when that incident occurred. Finally, I was entertained. Yusaku: The Lost Incident entertained you? Spectre: Yes, I enjoyed it. Even if I could go home, loneliness and boredom awaited me. Nobody would talk to me. Nobody cared about me. But it was different in that room. Someone was testing me. Someone expected big things from me. When I realized that, I felt the will to live for the first time. Spectre: You probably can't understand. Because if the incident hurt you, you must have led a happy life before. Yusaku: You don't hate the Knights of Hanoi? Spectre: Hate? Revolver-sama gave me a place to belong. Am I strange? But I think you're stranger, loudly proclaiming your sense of justice. Yusaku: Due to that incident, time has stopped moving for me. Spectre: But due to that incident, it started moving for me.

Spectre is characterized as someone who's fundamentally different from other people (maybe because he was RAISED BY A TREE), and this is the case long before getting kidnapped. He's not crazy because of the Lost Incident, and he might not even be crazy at all. He has what he wants, he's happy, he's just happy in a way that normal people, including the audience, cannot understand.

In the above conversation, Spectre is very aware of how he is strange to others, questioning multiple times, "Am I different?" "Am I strange?" Despite being unlike others, he has the capacity to understand how others think and live, and because of that, how they see him. He's actually very discerning, in general, about the perspectives of others; this is how he's able to manipulate Aoi in their duel, and how he easily recognizes Lightning's secret.

Because that's one way of coping with a world of people very different from you -- getting very good at understanding people who would not put forth the same energy to try and understand you. That's what happens in that conversation with Yusaku. Spectre is able to recognize that he is strange to Yusaku, and why. Even though to him, Yusaku is the one who's strange. But he doesn't say that either of them is "right," just that they have different perspectives.

Now, is all of that what the Vrains writers were thinking when they made him?

Uh, maybe I'm just cold and dead inside, but I think they mostly just wanted to make their antagonist seem like a crazy psycho who believes he was raised by a tree and enjoyed getting kidnapped.

Because if I were writing a story about a character who feels alienated by what other people consider normal, I don't think I would have gone the route of, "Some people actually enjoy trauma! It makes them feel important!" I mean, you could incorporate that into a story about how different people experience trauma differently, but, I dunno, these would not be my first choices if I was trying to write a nuanced character exploration.

I also would not go the route of dedicating his entire life to Revolver, and if I did, I would actually develop their relationship.

I wish Revolver had more of a relationship with the Knights of Hanoi in general, which could have actually fleshed out his character. All of them, including Spectre, are just loyal yes-men who do whatever he says. Any scene with them may as well be Revolver monologuing by himself, because they don't bring anything of their own to the table. It just makes both Revolver and the Knights less interesting to me. 

There's various other areas in which Spectre could have been better utilized too. Like I said in the Aoi post, it would have been interesting if they actually built on the themes explored in that duel, and had some recurring interactions. I also would have liked to see him actually interact with Earth, and his actual perspective on the Ignis and the AI vs. humans conflict. 

To be honest though, not every character in Yugioh has to be a main character. So while all these things may be interesting to explore in theory, I think Spectre is mostly fine the way he is in canon: funny tree man.

[beansmack2021]

Okay, but let's consider something even funnier:

Reader is this fucked up little feral goblin creature, similar to Nifty, except you CANNOT leave them be to their own devices, otherwise they WILL cause CHAOS worse than extermination does.

And, being the feral little creature that they are, they get distracted easily. So the Hell folks just have to find ways to keep their attention, like throwing shiny rocks at them, or jingling a bell. Heck, maybe they even make Husker wear a collar with a bell so they could keep reader at bay

If you wanna know what inspired this, I came across a clip on YouTube that was titled "Markiplier jingles you" and I found it hilariously funny. So yeah XD

Hazbin Hotel with Reader Crazier Than Niffty

I couldn't think of an actual storyline for this, so here's a list of scenarios

• Nobody really knew where you came from. It was like you spawned in and suddenly started living at the hotel

• You were tiny, almost as tiny as Niffty, and twice as insane

• You didn't really care about killing the bugs that ran around. In fact, sometimes you were the one to release them

• You were a big fan of pulling "pranks", but those pranks usually included nearly burning the hotel down

• You're just about the only person willing to push Niffty down the stairs when she asks

• Alastor didn't really offer you a deal, you just asked if you could work for him

• He agreed, but didn't realize that working for him meant he'd never get rid of you

• You put googly eyes on everything. EVERYTHING

• You tried biting Vaggie's wings when they grew back. She kicked you across the room

• You never pay attention, something shiny always catching your eye

• You really like little noises, though

• Alastor decided to put a bell on Husk

• He wore a collar anyway, and bells were just shiny little things that made nice noises. The plan was foolproof

• You did try to steal the bell on occasion (Husk didn't appreciate you scaling him to grab it)

• You're useful when it comes to eavesdropping (you really like hiding in the vents. It's the only time you're quiet)

• You weren't very helpful, but Angel liked having you around because at least you were funny

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

Dangancember 2024 - Danganronpa Top 24 Class Trials: Number 17 Danganronpa Another Case 2

//Oh man...

//I'm gonna get in trouble, aren't I?

//Also wow, Yuki is staring REAL hard at Ayame's boobs in that image, isn't he?

//Alright, but forget that...

//I understand that this case is very popular. And believe me when I say that this is is a really good trial to me as well, and I really did enjoy it.

//What you have to understand is that we're in the area of the list where we're talking about the trials that I actually think are decent, and I have more positives to say about them than negatives. But with that said, I still have some negatives, and personally speaking, I think that this trial is kind of overrated.

//Something I notice is that opinions on the trials in the DR series are usually pretty common across the games. Most people, myself included, universally agree that the Case 3's are generally bad why the Case 4's are some of the most spectacular mysteries in the series.

//With Case 2, it's more of a dice roll. I definitely like Kizuna and Ayame's case WAY better than I like Mahiru and Peko's or Kokoro and Emma's, but FAR FAAAR less than I like Ryoma and Kirumi's and Chihiro and Mondo's.

//My biggest issue I think is generally the same big issue I had with 2-2 and A2-2. Especially considering the trial has some very similar story beats and moments.

//As I mentioned with 2-2, the pacing was awful, because the mystery itself is so simple in practice, but it gets derailed on pointless tangents and only around 30% of the trial itself is dedicated to the mystery. This is kind of the same, though not nearly as bad.

//The entire first half of the trial is trying to figure out the logistics and order of events with the case, and ultimately, it's concluded that Akane Taira is the culprit. Then the next quarter of the trial is trying to figure out how she did it, only for that to conclude in being a red herring.

//Then the rest of the trial immediately shifts focus onto Ayame Hatano being Kizuna's killer, and I feel like we didn't dedicate nearly enough time to her and her interruptions in the case. We kind of just said, "she did this, this is where things don't add up, KICK HER!"

//Makes a weird case when the vast majority of the trial is talking about everything that Akane did, and how Kizuna ended up dying, and only a small fraction of it is dedicated to the ACTUAL crime and how things played out.

//There's also the fact that it didn't need to be this long and drawn out, because considering Ayame's motive for killing Kizuna, she could have deflected the blame away from Akane at any time. And yes, I know that Ayame did have her own agenda behind her actions, but the general point of why she did was she did was to save Akane. To not see her jump to her defence.

//Besides that, there are a few other issues I have with this trial. I think the main one of those issues is the fact that the "decisive evidence" just really ISN'T decisive whatsoever.

//The wiretrap is the best example, because the way it was handled in this was kind of dumb. Not only does Ayame's use of it backfire massively because she literally cannot tell front from back, but the assumption that she even used it in the first place is covered far too quickly.

//It just feels like something that's immediately noticeable, and I immediately questioned it. But the fact that nobody brought it up until the end of the case made me second-guess myself the whole time.

//It's ultimately kind of disappointing to me that I had an idea about something that I thought might not be correct, until I find out the only reason it wasn't covered is because everyone in this game is a dumbass for some reason. Especially since it's not IMPOSSIBLE that she could have accidentally hit the back of her leg through some means, and with it being the evidence that ultimately nails Ayame as the killer...doesn't feel right...

//Still, despite the fact that you don't have to rack your brain too much in order to cover all the points this trial makes, the mystery itself ends up being decent on most fronts. So I can't complain too much about it.

//My other issues mainly stem from the characterizations. There are some standout character moments here, but there are a few things that I do take issue with.

//The big one...is Kizuna.

//Kizuna is essentially Hiyoko but somehow worse. She spent most of her screen time bullying other students, and she's also guilty of pimping herself and her friends out to people, literally tries to RAPE Yuki during her last FTE, and in this case, tried to convince Akane to assist in killing Yuki because he allegedly knew the identity of the Mastermind. Something that, while an interesting twist in retrospect, was fairly groundless.

//Then she tried to kill her when she refused because she knew too much. She also confessed that she had been prepared to kill someone since day two.

//It devolves to the point that at the conclusion of the trial, nobody is upset with Ayame for taking her life. I know this might mostly be because Ayame did it with mostly noble intentions, and Kizuna was the asshole victim, but it still feels like Kizuna got absolutely wasted here.

//The most redeemable thing Kizuna does in the entire time she's in the Killing Game is she writes "Maid" in her blood after she is stabbed by Akane so that the others know she killed her, but alters the message to "Maid X" meaning "Not the maid," after Ayame shows up to complete the task.

//But then she dies, and any kind of decent character arc or development she had was cut short.

//A case can be made for Hiyoko in that despite still being rude to people, before she died, she was showing genuine growth, and a desire to move on, mainly through how she was trying to learn to tie her kimono without Mahiru's help. But the way Kizuna is handled here makes it seem like she's developing, only to rip that away from her at the end, and make the claim that "Oh yeah, she was always this evil bitch."

//Hiyoko wasn't evil, she just grew up in the wrong environment, and as she got older and more mature through the killing game, it was shown by her growing out of it. Meanwhile it really does just feel like LINUJ was trying to reinforce the fact that Kizuna won't, and cannot, change, no matter the terrible situation she's in.

//LINUJ does this A LOT! Especially in SDRA2. And I HATE it.

//In Chapter 1, she is introduced as a typical Cruel cheerleader who hides behind a vivacious façade. However, in Chapter 2, Yuki and Akane overhear her sobbing about how lonely she truly is, and they encourage the other students to embrace her into their friend group, which she accepts with tears. She cries when she confesses that men have only ever seen her for her appearance, and seems to connect with Yuki after he persuades her not to rape him, if you follow all of her free-time events.

//Only later, she tells Akane that the entire incident was a ruse to win their trust so she may kill Yuki, whom she (rightly, might I add) believes to be the mastermind. When Akane tries to stop her, she easily turns the knife on her.

//It just bothers me that there are so many accounts of Kizuna showing remorse for her past, a genuineness in her character, and on SEVERAL OCCASSIONS at that, only for the game to ultimately decide that she's a jerk to the soul with no redeemable qualities, and then rips everything away from her so that a bad taste is left in your mouth.

//I don't know, I just don't like it. I'm not really sure what else I'm supposed to say. Like, I get why LINUJ sees the world this way, but he has proven he's capable of writing characters who do bad things, but grow and feel remorseful for them.

//Akane and Ayame both go through that in this chapter and they are the best examples.

//Speaking of which, let's talk about the latter next.

//To her credit, I think Ayame is one of the best killer's in the original Another game, if not, THE best. For me, it's a toss-up between her, and another character who we'll get to later.

//What actually happened with this case is Ayame found Kizuna's almost dead body after Akane accidentally stabbed her, and even if she had hurried to get help, Kizuna would have very certainly died from her stomach wound by the time she returned, and Akane would have become the Blackened as a result. In light of this, she believed that turning into the Blackened herself was the only way to stop Akane from doing so.

//Which, surprisingly, is something that we've NEVER gotten before. Despite how easy it could be, the original Danganronpa series, even to this day, doesn't have a single case where someone took the fall for someone else to stop them from being executed.

//The closest we've gotten to this up until this point is Chapter 2 of Danganronpa 2 where Peko killed Mahiru. It's widely accepted that the reason she did it was so Fuyuhiko didn't have to become the Blackened himself.

//However, with Peko, not only did she not deal the killing blow after Fuyuhiko already attacked Mahiru, but she mainly did it as part of her duty to be Fuyuhiko's tool. Which isn't to say she didn't genuinely care about Fuyuhiko as a person; but what I mean is that in Peko's mind, her duty to serve as his weapon against his enemies would have come first.

//And unlike Ayame, Peko really thought out the consequences, and acted completely selflessly. Because Peko did not care about herself enough to try and beat the odds.

//In the case of Ayame, her actions to kill Kizuna and stop Akane from being executed were driven by genuine friendship, and not wanting her to die. She knew that the liklihood of her beating the trial wasn't that high given the united forces against her, and she would have been content losing her life so long as she got to save Akane's.

//But what I also like about this case and Ayame's motives is that even she herself admits that her actions weren't entirely selfless. Rei rightly points out to her at the conclusion of the case that if she really wanted to save Akane, there would be no need for the trial, because in the case that she won it, Akane would have been executed anyway.

//And Ayame affirms this and accepts the responsibility for that. She just retains the consistent honesty that she's known for, and doesn't try to play up her actions as heroic or noble, because she herself DID have a desire to escape from the academy, and she IS selfish to an extent.

//As well as the fact that another reason is because she wanted to be sure that she had done the right thing, and that Akane really had stabbed Kizuna on accident.

//It's one of the saddest deaths in the entire game, especially given how Akane desperately tries to say everything that's on her mind in Ayame's final moments so she can be sent off with them.

//What's even better is that Akane turning out to be the Mastermind doesn't change any of this for me. The fact that she forgot her memories before the end of Case 5 and ended up forming this genuine bond with Ayame is wholesome as hell.

//As well as the fact that she admits in her final moments that it's Ayame's kindness that really helped her switch sides.

//Which I think is an interesting and underrated parallel of Akane's relationship with Utsuro. The reason why Akane sweared fealty to Utsuro is because he was the one who saved her life from an extremely shitty situation.

//You could argue that Ayame did the same thing here. So Akane developed a similar devotion to her late friend, and ultimately decided she didn't want to waste the second chance she got.

//Kind of the complete reverse of what I was just talking about with Kizuna's arc being betrayed in place of just keeping her a terrible person. Akane was a terrible person who did a lot of wrong, but I like that just as it can take one bad day to turn a reasonable person into a morally questionable individual, the reverse is true. One act of kindness can change an entire world view and reshape people.

//It's kind of the main message of Danganronpa. That Hope and Despair are equally as strong as each other, and you will find traces of one in places where the other might thrive. Akane's character arc throughout most of Another revolves around this singular point with Ayame, and it pans out spectacularly.

//So yeah, I can find no fault with Ayame honestly. She's just generally a really great character in this case, and has a lasting impact that spans the rest of the game, which is more than Mitch and Kinji can say, or deserve. I think it takes a lot of emotional maturity to be able to do the things she did and make the claims, as well as willingly accept that her actions weren't as noble as they might come across.

//Speaking of emotional maturity, Tsurugi has fucking none of that.

//I eluded to this in the previous post about the case that came before this one, but for me, this is the point where I REALLY started to fall out of love with Tsurugi.

//I get that he's supposed to be the antagonist character, but Byakuya, Nagito, and Kokichi, while definitely antagonistic, never reached these levels of evil in terms of their antics. Byakuya definitely told someone to off themselves once or twice at some point, but he never said it in a serious context.

//In the midst of her complete and total mental breakdown over Ayame's execution, he icily orders Akane to kill herself, for no reason other than that he alone believes she still counts as a murderer because she accidentally stabbed Kizuna.

//Again. ACCIDENTALLY!

//Let me tell you all a little bit about the way court legislations work, my friends. Most jurisdictions allow the use of force, including lethal force, if you have a reasonable belief that your life or someone else's life is in imminent danger. The force used must generally be proportional to the threat. For example, using lethal force against a non-lethal threat may not be justified.

//But this was a lethal threat. Kizuna was straight-up trying to kill Akane here.

//Accidentally killing someone in self-defense might not automatically lead to prison, but the outcome will depend on how the law views your actions.

//But even with all this, coupled with the fact that Akane DIDN'T ACTUALLY kill Kizuna, is completely irrelevant to Tsurugi. And for the entire rest of the game, no matter how nice she is to him, he remains vindictive towards her for the entire game from this point forward.

//Even though she did essentially nothing wrong.

//And while that does make Tsurugi an interesting antagonist in this game, it makes me absolutely despise him as a character.

//Even though his accusations against her aren't entirely false, this is still a terrible situation. Despite his declaration that he is willing to collaborate with the other students on Kanata and Kakeru's murder trial in the very next chapter, he singles out Akane to explain he still views her as an attempted murderer.

//He does NOT let her get over it for the rest of the game. The only other character who does that is Kokichi, but he does that out of childish immaturity and a desire to get under people's skin. Tsurugi doing this is petty, and it makes me absolutely loathe him.

//It's in the same vein as why I hate Haiji Towa. Haiji's actions are pretty realistic given the situation that he's in, and I don't think he's a poorly written character at all. It's just that said writing makes them out to be so detestable that I can barely stand to be in his presence.

//I'd normally appreciate a 180 like this in a normal narrative, but this felt way too fast for me.

//And yeah, before anyone says it, I do know that there are no manslaughter laws in the killing game, and that these laws can be kind of complicated. If you kill someone in self-defence, you still become the blackened, because that's basically what happened with Leon, kind of.

//But the fact that Tsurugi complies himself to this bothers me.

//However, that's mostly all my negatives out of the way, and everything else I have to say about this case is actually pretty stellar. The primary reason why it's not higher is because of the reasons that I've just discussed, plus I have a lot more positive things to say about the cases going forward than I do this one.

//Personally though, I think the biggest selling point for this trial for me is something that I normally recognize Fanganronpa's over, and one of the key selling points for any fan-related work:

//Originality.

//Look, if we can be completely frank about something, as much as LINUJ does get creative with his cases later, SDRA2 is the one that really branches out in terms of mysteries, while A1 plays it kind of safe by sticking to the same formula as the first and second games.

//Look at all the other trials, and you'll see what I mean:

//A-1 is the same as 1-1: The murder is committed by the sports jock, and he uses his talent to assist in his cover up of the crime. He also has the most brutal execution right out of the gate.

//A-3 is the same as 1-3: The murderer is a typically reserved and mature individual who throws all of that to the wayside when they start to become cornerned. They also kill two people, and suffer a similarly religious-themed and passive execution that quickly turns intense and silly.

//A-4 is the same as 2-4: The murder arises during the height of tension among the students and involves them trapped inside a specific area of the Killing Game with very limited resources. It's also the point where they are most at each others' throats, and somebody makes a sacrifice in order to rescue them, either by killing themselves, or agreeing to commit a murder with another person.

//A-5 is the same as 1-5: It's a murder and plot actually committed by the mastermind, but framed by another student as a means of taking back control of the Killing Game and dividing the students again. The student that they try to pin the blame on also somehow manages to escape their execution. Albeit Mikako's way of doing so is a lot more tragic than Makoto's.

//And A-6 is the same as 2-6: The main cast of characters are revealed to be part of a larger conglomerate that they forgot about upon their memories being erased, and the Killing Game itself is revealed to be the prelude to a much bigger event. The main character is also revealed to not only be the true mastermind behind the killing game, and also found to be an entirely different person than anyone, even themselves, believed, but they also possess an unholy superpower of talent that makes them near unstoppable, despite their preconcieved normalcy among the cast.

//A-2 is the only trial that doesn't share almost anything in common with the originaly Danganronpa games. As I mentioned already, the closest point of commonality is how Peko and Fuyuhiko's situation slightly mirrors Akane and Ayame's, but even then, that's a stretch, and almost a completely different situation besides a few things.

//There's also the way that Ayame disguises her motives by pretending to be evil, like Peko did, but that lasts like...4 seconds, in comparison to Peko's half an hour, smh.

//It feels detached from anything that we've seen before in Trigger Happy Havoc and Goodbye Despair, and really stands on its own legs as a case on the same level as the franchise has shown.

//What is most impressive is that this originality in the writing of the case is only the simple grounds upon which the rest of the mystery is built. After all, most of SDRA2's cases are fairly original, but that originality doesn't make them good (see A2-2). The case takes it and runs with it in good ways.

//For one, I like that the case shows the truth that eyewitness testimony and personal accounts of a case alone are nowhere near substantial enough to solve a case on its own, either by misconstruing a situation, or just straight up lying about what was seen.

//It's a hurdle that I feel most Danganronpa cases fail to jump, but this one does.

//Pun...not intended.

//I also really like the plot twist this chapter, and what ultimately drove Kizuna to single out Yuki especially, in that he apparently knows who the Mastermind is. We later find out that it's Yuki himself...kind of...but it's an interesting twist that sets the game apart from what is known in DR1, and the way it turns the others opinion of him on its head is pretty tense and engaging.

//But in general, I think this case is just all around super solid. It's just that compared to the other Chapter 2's in the Danganronpa series, this one is the middle ground. It's a compelling mystery that stands on its own merits, but it's not engaging enough to breach the top 10.

//I'm very sorry, because I understand that this trial is particularly popular among the audience.

[moomeecore]

so nobody asked but ive been working on fixing up the hair of the ponies in my mlp collection and as a result have been inspired to look for more, and somewhere along the way i arrived upon the opinion that hasbro did NOT fully utilize their market w the ponies they made - specifically with brushables! bc like, the 3" brushables are The g4 toy, right? The default, the basic. so you'd assume they'd make one for all the characters that are particularly popular, right? no. they didn't pay enough attention or something, and so here is my list of ponies that SHOULD have had 3" brushables and i personally think they missed a huge opportunity by not doing that (esp since they made so many toy-exclusive ponies ugh.) yes i told you nobody asked . anyway

carrot top: this is a big one, bc she might not have been the most popular background pony, but she was one people latched onto early bc of her unique design, and people would have absolutley bought toys for her. theres litterally a fanmade song JUST about carrot top. also, perhaps more importantly, her color scheme is cute and she's perfect for a toy, especially if they went the extra mile and gave her extra curly hair (which they probably wouldnt tbh). all the carrot top fan made brushables look super cool - her design translates well

roseluck: again, she was one of the earliest background ponies that fans started to get attached to. theres also the subset of dr. whooves fans who think of roseluck as the equialent of rose from doctor who, and that's a whole group of people who have extra intrest in the character

minuette: she has a unique design that would stand out, is another early established background pony - and in later seasons she even got a proper episode role! as an 11 year old child i started using colgate toothpaste because people made jokes about how minuette was the color of colgate toothpaste. if she had that much grip on my mind as a child im sure she did for plenty of others.

amythest star: again, she got a proper episode role eventually, so why is there no brushable for her? especially since she has such a cute purple color pallete. it would probably translate great into a toy

moondancer: cannot beleive they didn't take this oppurtunity honestly. she has such a good color scheme for a toy, first of all. but also the version of her in fim has a cute little sweater and glasses they could sell as accessories. and theyd have extra interest from collectors and nostalgic individuals because she was also in g1. people would be posting pics of their g1 and g4 moondancers together. thats the world we'd live in. it would be 0.00001% better.

cloudkicker and flitter: first off, they could have sold them as a pair that go together, and it would have been so cute. second off, they have such distinct designs its wild that they weren't singled out as brushable potentials. also the toys they did make of them weren't even good so they owe us.

lotus blossom: she has a cute name and color scheme and is a notable background pony and she even has pink! but! ok i lied she does have a brushable but ONLY a ponymania one. and yes some of the ponymania designs were good, but MOST of them were ass, include lotus blossom's. and like, the thing with weird decals on ponies is you can wipe them off or paint over them. but for ponymania lotus blossom, she's got decals around her eyes. so it would be such a pain in the ass. they should just have a normal one noone should have to deal with that . it's even on both eyes!! as featured below

fleur de lis: hasbro loved making fake toy-only alicorns, and they're obsessed with making the ponies pink. so why tf didnt they make a toy for the white and pink unicorn with a princess body type. thats like a show-compliant way for them to do their favorite things. shes girly shes pretty shes tall shes pink. why does she not have a brushable. they could have litterally just re-used a cadence mold!

sugar belle: so ik a lot of ppl dropped off the show within the span of seasons 4-6 (i did too for a while), but know that sugar belle ends up becoming a very much reoccuring character. she marries big mac. shes part of the apple family now. and no, she dosen't have a goddamn brushable doll. applejack voice what in the hay

surprise: idk if they are allowed to call her that but the white and yellow wonderbolt is called "suprise" by fans because of the obvious resemblance to g1 surprise (who hasbro i think lost the rights to??? somehow????) making a toy of her could be a sneaky way to pander to g1 fans, which would go over SUPER well with multi-gen collectors and also be good nostolgia bait. the only issue is they'd prooobably give her a wonderbolts outfit painted on like they did with spitfire and A. painted on outfits on mlp dolls almost universally look like shit B. g1 suprise was not a wonderbolt, bc those didnt exist yet. so if the wonderbolts attire was non-removable it would break the immersion of a g1 tie-in. they could just, you know, not paint on her outfit or not give her one but i think that might be too big of an ask for hasbro since they loooove painting ugly designs on mlp brushables

sunshine smiles and moonlight raven: so obviously, these two would be sold as a pair. they arent very popular but i think their designs are so universally good that both collectors and children would like them.

florina tart: again she's not super popular but i think her design would translate well. also they gave her her own blind bag mold, so i assume if she was considered marketable enough for that, then they could have done well with brushables of her. also her general aesthetic opens the door for cute accessories.

[jackieparty]

top 10 favorite star wars characters atm

luke skywalker and ahsoka tano

cannot decide between literally me irl and my childhood favorite. also their relationships to anakin both kill me and thats whats at the heart of star wars, so i thought it would only be fair they tie (plus its my list, eat my ass)

2. hera syndulla

ghost crew mother turned military leader. she's one of the few female characters we get to see with high military status and we get to see her growth up to that position. she loses so much but she always keeps going because its whats right. also best pilot in the galaxy is hera syndulla argue with a wall

3. alexsandr kallus

BEST REDEMPTION ARC IN ALL OF STAR WARS FIGHT ME ON THIS SUCK MY DICK AND BALLS also he's voiced by david oyelowo and that man has such an attractive voice. i fully believe that the fandom would not have accepted kallus's redemption arc w any other va bc the subtlety david oyelowo puts into that performance is fucking insane

4. commander cody // cc-2224

favorite of the clones. to be fair he is everything that a clone is supposed to be which can be boring to some people, but i find it really interesting. his armor is by far my favorite armor in the show too which does contribute to him being up so high, sorry im a sucker for good character design

5. din djarin

father #1 on the list. pedro pascal bedroom voice, need i say more, but i will. hes such a morally gray character in the beginning but hes also so funny. bro asked luke skywalker if he was a jedi. din is the definition of main character who really wishes he wasn't one. also themes of religion and the intensity of different denominations of it is so interesting esp within star wars

6. hunter // cc-9901

father #2 on the list. his fighting style is one of my favorites in star wars, even though we mostly see that from him in his episodes in clone wars. also favorite clone design in terms of how he differentiates himself from the other clones aka not his armor

7. omega

child of father #2 on the list, but she's also so luke/ezra coded. she can make friends with everyone, including hounds, regardless of the shitty hand of cards she's been dealt. also she gambles and is a child which is hilarious

8. artoo

the character ever. if he were an organic being he would have the saddest story in star wars, besides obi-wan shhh. he's there for everything and even when c3po is reprogrammed to work for the empire during rebels, artoo isnt, showing how useful that lil mf is. also anyone that stands up to chopper is so brave in my book

9. torra doza (from resistance)

this is such a random pick, especially bc i dont really like the sequels and this show comes right before them, but i just remember her being such a good character. design again is a big thing in this, but she's also a super talented pilot which i love. she's optimistic and bubbly, which isnt my favorite thing in a character, but i like how she was done so she has to be on here. sorry i feel like nobody knows who she is

10. lando calrissian

is this bc donald glover plays young lando? uh....neways lando did NOTHING WRONG. he gave up han because he had to protect his people and he ultimately makes up for doing that anyways. also charismatic and so so so sexy (all versions of him) what an iconic star wars character

[pitchforksraised]

Could i perhaps.... Hear those headcanons.... Looks at you with big eyes kicks my feet etc

giggles,,,, headcanon list under the cut :3:3:3

ok so uh

idk where to start sooooo. shrug we ball

he/it/they, currently warming up to more gendered language (as he isn’t really all that used to it from viewing himself more as a something than a someone)

agender + ace, possibly cupioro but I’m honestly not sure. either way he can’t feel romantic attraction

at first the government kinda just sent him out to watch stuff but got bored and was like “lmao what if we gave it weapons and told it to kill criminals”. and then they did that

he was built to be adaptive to his surroundings and that was it but the government is shit at programming apparently and they ended up making him entirely adapting which does include emotions, wants and interests

even then, his emotional range is. very small. he barely feels, but he can still feel yknow. to add onto that he can’t feel empathy and remorse and other emotions like that because those are really complex

he’s still slowly changing as time progresses and he’s VERY different from what he was like when he was first created

moving on with interests, he actually figured out about some of his music interests from Badware (even if he isn’t a big fan of them and never will be). they legit kinda just played an arsonists get all the girls song (canonical that he likes that band btw) on accident and he was like “…hey that’s neat”

I like to imagine that he likes Laufey and Type O Negative too. maybe like 2 Femtanyl songs but nothing more

swapping topics, Killdroid thinks and speaks in a very to-the-point way and it’s very clear when you first meet him. talks like he’s in a business email lmfao /silly

he doesn’t like it when you call the way he speaks ‘formal’ even if it is at times

his favorite map is temple when nobody’s around. if you see him there he’ll typically just be strolling around or replaying memories in his head

unrelated headcanon but civilians’ faces are censored to him. he cannot see faces if anybody but his ally’s own

as for people, you’ll often see him hanging around badware but he’d really like to see artful more often. the language barrier isn’t an issue to him since he has the capability to understand any and all documented language and he views artful as a pretty nice guy to be around

sometimes he’ll ask him to do a magic trick for fun and stuff

aaaand yeah that’s all I shall list, I prolly have more somewhere in my head but this is all from the top of it sooooo. :3 enjoy

[georgegraphys]

Butchering this nonsense up

This person said "Motorsports Marketing" and talks 0 marketing aspects about motorsports at all 😭😭

"Mercedes thinks they are Ferrari"

"Mercedes don't really have the brand loyalty"

Went on for +2 minutes yapping about brand loyalty when the concept went over her head LMFAOOO

Let's be real here. ⭐ big brands sponsors : Petronas, IWC Schaffhausen, SAP, HPE, and more are gained through MB's connection with the companies. There are certain parts where an individual plays its part but it's not the key. Sponsors are not like fans. You cannot downplay the concept of sponsors to just "oh they're here for a certain individual" (I don't hate but this goes for everyone including George Russell). Why am I saying that? Because sponsors are putting stakes in said company, they are putting money in the company. That money is an investment and they are not just 1 dollar or 10 dollars. It involves MILLIONS of dollars. Tenths. Hundreds. These sponsors are not babies, they know the company they're going to invest in and they won't just be there just because "someone's popular! let's sponsor it". If you're a 'marketing person' and you have this mindset, go back to marketing class and don't forget to take PR classes as well.

I do not deny the fact that most of Mercedes' fanbase are made up of one type of fan but to suggest that the company does not have a brand loyalty or simply that their value will drop by the end of someone leaving is simply ridiculous. If we're talking about a fraud paper company, yes. But we're talking here about Mercedes. MERCEDES. Their brand value, brand loyalty will not fall or suffer as hard as these people exaggerate. It is ridiculous.

About the "they are pushing more of George Russell", Lewis Hamilton got involved in Mercedes AMG campaigns as well ever since he announced his departure (AMG launch in China, AMG uncovered, Concept car release in Monaco) and more main sponsors promotional content (SAP, Puma, Tommy Hilfiger, IWC Schaffhausen). We all know Lewis doesn't do the type of tiktok contents George do but that doesn't mean he is sidelined. He does his own portion of PR work that is suited to what he usually does and what he likes to do. Saying that "Mercedes did blah blah so fans can like George more" is stupid. A) A driver is leaving in 2025, why wouldn't they push their other driver more? B) George Russell has done a lot of PR work since 2022 and 2023 (I did research about it for my paper and I got the list) so stop bullshitting if you do no research and know nothing.

"The (PR) transition has been rough" There is no the overexaggerated transition like this person mentioned. George and Lewis both had their own PR promotional styles and directions in which Mercedes divides them equally based on their personal image. This has been done since 2022, 2023.

This person acts like a driver can't leave their team and a team will crumble without said driver. They overexaggerate things that are not real? Like? Okay drivers come and go. And Lewis did have such closeness with the Mercedes brand for a decade but that doesn't mean they could not recover from it once Lewis left. They can.

"They are not even performing well. They don't have a good car (as a reason for their brand loyalty to not grow)" This person clearly doesn't know that Mercedes generates the record highest revenue of F1 with $500M in that W14.

"Fanbase that will go over to Ferrari" Again. This. Is. Mercedes. Stop acting like we're a nobody. "I literally have no solution for Mercedes" Skill issue. Go back studying and working to get more experience. "I don't know what I would do if I were them other than begging at the doorstep to change his mind" If this is your mindset to work in the marketing department, you will not survive. This literally shows the fact that you have 0 crisis management skills. A long 2:14 minute of overexaggeration and stupidity

[beausoleil1789]

SPOILERS!!!

This show is my childhood, I’ve rewatched it multiple times since I was a little kid. Here’s my thoughts on the reboot.

So the king of the hill intro has been shared and the trailer got leaked !!

Ive waited almost 2 decades I tell ya what.

But I just wanna comment on the little details. I’m so happy to see GH make an appearance, I had been wondering if he’d show up. But what about Gracie? It’s been shared that Luanne and Lucky moved away, but I can’t see Gracie being written off.

We also know that Boomhauer has a child. But as for Gracie and GH we’ve only gotten that small clip of GH. I really hope we get to see more of them, especially Gracie, according to the IMDB, we WILL be seeing her, but I’m not sure how accurate this is. I wonder if Gracie takes Bobby’s place?

I have reason to think this because all the actors show one episode listed, including hanks VA. So it’s likely they’ve only been updated for one episode. Maybe there will be a Gracie - GH - ‘boomhauers kid’ trio like Bobby - Connie - Joseph.

But it looks like Nancy is cheating on dale again. I wonder how that will be written into the show? And does dale know? I know this is an ongoing theory but with a reboot we may get our answers finally. I’m a firm believer that dale knows, but he doesn’t acknowledge it as he would lose his wife and son. At the end of the day he doesn’t have to work, he has a hot wife and a son he cares for. But it would be hard to ignore the elephant in the room as Joesph grows up. Part of me wonders if dale is okay with Nancy doing this again as the show progresses into the reboot. And if it IS acknowledged, how does Joseph feel? Does he start to see John as a dad, or does he love dale as his dad regardless? It’s clearly shown in the show that Joseph and Dale have a father-son bond that John cannot force himself into no matter how hard he tries, but with the knowledge that dale isn’t his real dad, I wonder if Joseph takes it well. A part of me wants to believe he would still see dale the same way, and see John the same way.

Also, Minh and Kahn divorced. I wonder if John has anything to do with it. I also wonder if it has to do with Kahn’s bipolar, which is… really depressing actually.

Bobby has a dog! His name is Cesar, which we see from the storyboards! He apparently has an inverted.. you know what. LOL but Bobby has his own dog, which I think is super cute, and Hank seems to be a big fan of him. I’m so excited to see more of his dog. And it’s confirmed he and Connie are together, which I have mixed feelings about but I’m overall happy with this.

But we learn though the storyboard that Kahn lives with bill… OMG. What a twist? This is hilarious, and I’m excited to see this dynamic.

We see from the trailer that Peggy has picked up cussing and is retired. I wonder if Hank does this too?

It’s rumored that they moved from Saudi Arabia. Which is starting to look more and more true. It’s very out of character for Hank to want to leave Texas, much less America. I wonder if this has to do with Buck, which is the ONLY way I could see Hank doing this as he never says no to what buck asks him to do. It is also rumored the move has to do with work which futhers my suspicions. I don’t remember where this comes from but I heard Jo-Jack might be the new manager.

Anyway. I have nobody to talk to about this so I thought I’d just ramble lol.

[ink-flavored]

everything under preferences & emotions for the jumbo ask game? :3

woagh a beeg one

so my heart always wants to talk about Pride and Justice, literally all the time, for any reason. but i also want to shove Harlan and Yvonne in everyone's faces, as the new kids on the block. so to satisfy my extremely indulgent urges, i'm going to split this list in half and answer 5 for each couple.

Pride & Justice

🔥 Give us a list of general likes and dislikes, such as colors, textures, music, weather and other stuff!

Okay for Justice this is easy. He likes books and analyzing books (especially romance, especially in his book club), basically any animal (including humans), bright colors (yellow, light green, soft blues, lotta pastels in his wardrobe), soft textures, fruity scents (like in lotion and shampoo and stuff), his favorite season is spring, he likes overcast skies, and he'll listen to just about any music but has an affinity for classical and Lo-Fi Hip-Hop Beats To Study/Relax To.

On the other hand, Pride is so repressed that he does not allow himself to enjoy things for a hot minute because he's afraid of looking Weak and Vulnerable for Experiencing Joy. He'll admit to enjoying weed, alcohol, shoplifting, and inciting violence, but that's about it. Eventually, he comes to enjoy the punk scenes Ollie frequents and trips and falls into emo stuff (he also listens to pop-y club music when he's not at the club, but won't admit it), he can tortuously admit his favorite color is maroon, he obsesses over telenovelas with Sofia, he loves watching bad movies on purpose to make fun of them, he likes rain and snow, and his favorite texture is "Justice's clothes."

🍊 What is your OC’s favorite meal? Snack? Dessert? Drink? Any reasons behind this besides liking how it tastes? What is your OC’s most hated food? Stuff they can’t stand to eat or drink?

Justice is partial to breakfast food in general, but simply cannot resist the opportunity to eat French toast when it's available. It's the first thing he perfected while learning to cook for the first time, so it's special in that way too.

Pride doesn't cook much (or rather, doesn't cook anything recognizable as human food), so his favorite things are made by other people or store bought. In general, he likes tart, sweet-and-sour flavors because it reminds him what his sin tastes like, and Ollie's weed brownies for exactly the reason you're thinking.

I haven't thought too much about what either of them dislike, so I'm pulling these out of my ass. Pride thinks yogurt is the weirdest, grossest food in the world, and Justice really doesn't understand the appeal of avocados.

🍑 Where is your OC’s favorite place to relax or calm down? Recount a story of their time spent in this place! What makes it so special to them? Is there anywhere your OC hates to go to? Anywhere that stresses them out or have negative memories of?

For a while, Purgatory was Pride's escape. Nobody cares about Purgatory, nobody would ever look for him there, so it's where he went to cool off after another fight with Lust or to escape someone he pissed off. Relatedly, Hell is his least favorite place (shock, gasp).

On Earth, he kinda just goes to his room and curls up in his blanket nest when upset. Sometimes he will accompany this with extremely loud sadboy music. If he's just chilling though, he'll sit in the most space-taking position on the couch possible and watch Epic Fail compilations or something. Bonus points if Justice is there and he can invite himself into his lap.

Justice likes to sit on the balcony and be quiet, either with a book or nothing. It's his Thinking Spot, where he goes to brain it all out. It's important to him because he never really... had a place for that in Heaven. Everything he did was strictly regulated and controlled, so all his "relaxing" had to be done during his designated "relax" time, which he """shockingly"""" didn't get a ton of.

He hasn't been on Earth long enough to have negative associations with any particular place, but his memories of Heaven have been quite tainted by his recent rejection. He both wants to go back desperately, and hates that he wants to at all.

🧡 Who is your OC’s favorite person? Why is this person the top of their list and have they actually met them (an idol or role model or celeb can be someone’s favorite after all!). Who does your OC absolutely hate, the one person who they’d sell to Satan for one corn chip? Why do they loathe this person so?

Pride's favorite person is HIM!

In seriousness, Pride has himself on a pedestal because literally nobody gave a shit about him up until the events of the story happened. It was/is a coping mechanism, a survival technique, a way to rationalize all his actions away as Correct, because if he was ever wrong then that meant that everyone who had ever hurt him was right. As he grows, he begins to unlearn this way of thinking, but he never really lets go of that core idea. Pride is the most important person in the world to Pride, because he has to be. When nobody else is around, he has to truly, genuinely, earnestly love himself, not just to cope, but to like... be happy. But since he's not alone, and does have people who love him, Justice is his favorite non-him person for both character development reasons and extremely gay reasons.

As for his least favorite people, that could honestly fill a book. He is so bitter. God for obvious reasons, Lust for being abusive, Lucifer for lying about being better than God, but his hatred for Envy is I think the most interesting. In real life, the emotions of envy and (unhealthy) pride are very closely linked - people who have an unhealthy relationship with their pride are often envious of other people. Pride hates Envy because she's the concept of everything he can't admit to himself (he's envious of angels and humans who are happy, loved, and have God's affection), and Envy hates him right back for flaunting his confidence/dismissal of her sin as a concept at her and showing what she thinks she needs to be happy (and no longer envious). They're catty as fuck.

Justice loves Pride (for gay reasons and character reasons), but it's an extremely close race, maybe even a tie, for his sister Kindness. She's the reason for a lot of who he is, they intentionally modeled their human bodies so they would look related. Kindness really helped shape his understanding of how God's justice and God's kindness work together to create the Perfect Wholesome World of Heaven and is a big reason he believes what he does. Obviously when Heaven turned out to not be so wonderful and wholesome, he still took those ideals with him to Earth. One of his core philosophies is that justice should be guided by kindness, not the other way around, and she helped teach him that.

His personal antagonist in the book is Honesty, and he loathes her for extremely good reasons. She was his direct superior in Heaven, and made his life very difficult once he started suggesting that maybe Purgatory isn't the best way to do things. He has been under her thumb for ages, and him leaving Heaven was basically the excuse she was looking for to brand him a traitor. Justice does not wish death on anyone, but he's very close saying some very mean words about Honesty.

📙 What kind of subjects (of conversation, of discussion, in school or whatever) does your OC find interesting or engaging or that they can talk for hours about? What kind of stuff do they just find fun? What things bore your OC to tears and they couldn’t care less about? Why?

Justice LOOOOVES Blorbo From His Books. Pick up any book in his collection, he'll have hours of conversation at the ready. Even the trashy pulpy ones - ESPECIALLY the pulpy ones tbh. He's also a rules lawyer by definition of embodying God's justice, so he also enjoys having a friendly argument of semantics and creating the most busted TTRPG characters you've ever seen based on nothing but technicalities.

What Justice does not like talking about is... arguments for the sake of arguing? I guess? He doesn't like getting into fights, he just likes talking about rules, so anyone coming at him with like... real Stakes in the topic at hand with Furious Rebuttals immediately turns him off. He's just playing toys. Why are you so mad.

As previously mentioned, Pride doesn't really allow himself to enjoy things for a while, and even when he does, he doesn't like the idea of talking for hours about stuff. When he gets into art and starts painting, he doesn't really talk about it as much as he just... does it all the time, here's a picture. He'd rather show, not tell, and let the art speak for itself. Even with his bad movies and telenovelas, he doesn't have much to say other than "they're so fuckin hilarious, this one's my favorite, we should watch it Right Now, No Take Backs."

Pride finds SO many things boring actually. Don't talk about sports, don't talk about anything with numbers, don't bring up PROBLEMS in the NEWS??? It better be FUNNY or SEXY or VIOLENT or he is not listening to you.

Harlan & Yvonne

😊 What can make your OC smile even when they’re feeling down? What cheers them up and makes everything feel better for them? Is your OC generally a happy person and do they enjoy making others smile? What about your OC makes others happy?

Harlan is definitely a happy guy by default, especially after starting magic HRT. He lives a very party-heavy college lifestyle around a lot of other party people, so he's very rarely in a situation where thinking about his problems is in the forefront of his mind.

Music pretty reliably makes him happy, and just being in a situation where there are lots of people having a good time also makes him want to have a good time, which is where the parties come in. The infectious energy and the drinking games and whatever party potions everyone is passing around, all that is where he wants to be, with the people he wants to be with.

Harlan is also very good at being your personal hype man? He will simply not let his friends get away with self-depreciation, and give you compliments until you agree that they're true.

Yvonne is a more subdued kind of happy. She's consistently homesick for her herd, but does her best to keep in touch and explore her big city lifestyle in Athendrolyn and make a new "herd" for herself.

When she's particularly homesick, she'll either go on a long walk/trot along the beach or the forest trails, or if the weather's bad, curl up with a warm drink and a blanket and watch nostalgic movies from her foalhood.

Her social battery for people she hasn't integrated into her "new herd" is drained quite quickly, but if she's mentally made you part of that group, you're basically family to her. She'll drop anything for her herd, no matter the situation, and is all around a very compassionate and loyal friend.

⭐ What is your OC afraid of? Any crippling phobias or some such? How do they act when scared and what helps them calm down? Does anyone ever find your OC scary? Why?

Yvonne is a centaur, so she has crippling horse anxiety. Which is to say, she's afraid of most things! When she was living with her herd, it was mitigated by being in a herd and having a community and a leader to follow, but when she moved away for access to magic HRT, it got worse. She's particularly afraid of unexpected loud noises, sudden movements, and can get pretty overwhelmed in flashy environments like parties or concerts. She definitely leans on the "flight" half of fight or flight, and will look for any escape route possible. Depending on what's causing the episode, just being in a quiet room with someone she trusts for a few minutes can be enormously helpful, but the most reliable way for her to not be anxious is for people to announce when they're coming into a room, explain whatever that noise just was, and not go to parties.

As for being scary, Yvonne is a Clydesdale, so I wouldn't put it past people to find her intimidating, but usually once she opens her mouth all that is put to rest. She's very friendly!

Harlan isn't a particularly anxious person, but does avoid the ocean whenever possible. He's terrified of the sea and most deep water in general. He can swim, he just doesn't like doing it, and it's pretty easy for him to be calm by not going near deep water👍ever 👍

He's not scary either, nor would he ever want to seem scary.

🍋 Does your OC act petty and jealous easily? What sort of things make them feel like this and do they experience guilt for getting so worked up? How do they deal with these emotions when they get them? If your OC doesn’t feel like this often, why not?

Harlan is definitely very petty. One thing that happens in the short story is that his friends tease him about making up Yvonne (because they'd never met her/seen a picture of her), and once she shows up he takes EVERY OPPORTUNITY to rub their noses in the fact that HHHIISSS girlfriend is here, and his REALLY AWESOME GIRLFRIEND is right there, and wow did he mention they're DATINGGGGG??????

He really hates being underestimated, or being made a fool of, which is why he reacts so strongly to things like that. He doesn't like feeling like he's second best, so if he feels like that's happening (even if it isn't), he asserts his "authority" basically with any straw he can grasp. Sometimes this is easy, like when Yvonne turns out to be real and not fake, but other times it's just... unrelated or insulting or made up. He's not good at impulse control, so usually he has to be told to knock it off.

Yvonne is not very petty or jealous because in general very calm and not very confrontational. She can be a little insecure, too, so in instances where she is feeling jealous, it's more internal, and she doesn't act on it.

When she does feel it bad enough, she can shut down and be kind of closed off. Usually someone can help talk her back out of it, and Harlan is especially good at this because he likes to hype her up at every opportunity.

📀 How easy is it to shock your OC? To confuse them? To lie to them, to manipulate them? How are they with feelings of trust? Can your OC be trusted?

Yvonne grew up pretty sheltered in a rural area with only other centaurs, so she's pretty out of her depth when she moves to Athendrolyn with its dozens of different creatures and customs and traditions. The culture shock made her pretty susceptible to being tricked, both in non-serious ways and worse ways, but she's definitely more vigilant now. She's very trusting, even after those unfortunate incidents, and will generally give people the benefit of the doubt.

Harlan is much quicker to call bullshit, but also quicker to go "yooooo no wayyyyy," about something that personally piques his interest, whether or not it's true. He tends to trust people unless they have a known history of being untrustworthy, and his fraternity (or whatever I'm calling it in this fictional world) can definitely spread news, true or false, faster than anyone can possibly outrun it, so if he's trusting someone he knows he can trust, but they got their info from someone else who got it from someone else etc... yeah.

On his end, Harlan is a pretty straightforward guy, but he does fib a liiiittle bit on occasion to seem cooler. It's why his friends jumped to "your girlfriend isn't even real" in the first place. It's more dramatic than the things he's done in the past, but it's also not not something he would do.

💛 In general, how in control of their emotions is your OC? Do they have a good hold on them or do their emotions control them, not the other way around? What do you think is the reason behind this and is your OC ever concerned about their lack of or good control?

As previously mentioned, Harlan doesn't have the greatest impulse control, and will act on how he feels before he thinks through what he's actually doing. He really feels the need to prove himself among his peers and seem cool and interesting, and the party lifestyle that encourages impulsive actions ddddoesn't help? much?

He knows he has this problem, and does try to catch himself, but it's a process after acting impulsively for so long. Yvonne being a stable, calm presence in his life has tremendously helped him.

Yvonne isn't impulsive at all, kind of the opposite. She has a lot of anxiety, and that prevents basically any impulsive action, which can cause her feelings to rule her life in a different way. She can be closed off and wary of things that aren't already in her comfort zone, especially growing up so sheltered.

She actually didn't realize how closed off she'd gotten until she met and started hanging out with Harlan, and has been slowly trying to increase her tolerance of out-of-comfort-zone experience since.

[send me something from the jumbo ask game]

[realcatalina]

More mystery with portraits of Hasburgs

These two paintings are located in different museums, but are believed to be once a part. Currently they are labelled currently as Philip of Austria and Margaret of Austria, 1483, by Master of Legend of Magdalene.

And it's kind of a problem. Because at least the boy doesn't look like early work of this artist at all! Not even remotely close.

So other artists have been suggested instead, and for example the girl's has been most recently labelled as by Pierre Coustain.

Which doesn't make any sense either. Because while this was court artist in Burgundy, he specialized in making coat of arms and flags, sculptures etc. Like we can speculate on Pierre Coustain's involvement in these portraits(figures by Pieter van Coninxloo):

But only about the coats of arms. This guy wasn't portraitist.

...And you know me, I am nitpicker. I my motto is:

Never trust period label...because often times they are added centuries later.

So of course I checked the labels. On first glance, they seem as very genuine. This form of letters was around in 15 and 16th century.

...So I needed some help reading it, but luckily on wikipedia it was in description of paintings.

Girl's:

Gedaen Int Jaer ons here 1483 tsinen v en Jaerre/FAT LAN M.IIII.C.IIII.XX ET TROIS QUE LORS AUOIT TROIS ANS ET TROIS MOIS)

This was created in 1483 and she is 3 years and 3 months old.

(Very specific...oddly so.)

Gedaen Int Jaer ons here 1483 tsinen v en Jaerre / Fat Lan m. III c. IIII xx. z trois ou ve. an de son eage.

Once again it says year 1483, but that Philip is 3 or 5 years old.

Like how does nobody question this? You cannot be specific to month with girl, and not know how old the boy was!

Unless the label is not original at all! And likely not even done in 15th century. Because at those days, labels weren't really popular. They took off mainly in 16th century. And given the amount of mistakes I doubt Margaret nor Philip were even alive when this occured.

Because have they been, somebody would take greater care in getting it correct!

(And, If the text is from much later it is damn well-made.)

So if text is untrust-worthy, the dating of 1483 is also untrust-worthy, and then we cannot even be sure it is Philip or Margaret!

And though the boy doesn't fit Master of Legend's early work, he damn sure looks very alike to his late work! (1510-1527)

But then these kids cannot be royals from Netherlands. This is not its fashion from 16th century. We have portraits of Philip's kids raised in Netherlands, we know what they wore.

And while, yes the girl's hat looks bit like 1460-1470s male hats worn in netherlands, girls didn't wore this I checked. And given Netherlands were already back then northern capital of painters. It's very unlikely it wouldn't appear in art of that time from that country.

So possibly these are foreign royalty. But whom?

Well, artist started working around 1480/1490 and stopped about 1527. (Assuming we have correct artist.)

And the boy wears order of golden fleece around his neck. And clearly he is not adult. List of knights of Order of Golden fleece is on wikipedia and it includes when people got it and their birth year.

So finding people who got it before age of 15 in corrrect timeframe wasn't that hard.

Six candidates:

Philip of Austria (who it is currently identified as)

Henry VIII

Charles V

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor

Louis II, King of Bohemia and Hungary

Philibert of Chalon

But at age of 14 and 13, Henry VIII and Philibert are simply too old...to be depicted here. And Louis II's sister was older than he. And we know what Charles and his sisters raised in Netherlands wore.

Thus if not Philip and Margaret, the only other valiable option is Ferdinand and Catherine of Austria.

(if the list of candidates was complete...)

And it just so happens that if you put correct dimensions to these(in cm), and put them in order of birth, they don't look so weird...

Potentially this might have once been full set of siblings.

Done firstly around 1507(first four)

and rest after 1515, when Ferdinand became the member of the order.

...And if we compare what the girl wears with spanish fashion, then at least in examples from 1490s similiar hats were popular(not as much raised, but we always see them on adults. Maybe then the raise is not so high, and traluscent veils of this kind even much later(those are with cofia de tranzado)...this shape of neckline, also very popular in Spain at least around turn of the century.

In my research into iberian fashion, i didn't go that much into fashion after 1505(not in debt) and it's not ideal that I point to examples about 20 years prior to when I think it might be.

But it is a possibility, and would explain the resemblence.

...

However then we have to assume 2 more possibilities.

A) the list of knights of order of fleece was not complete...and we're missing candidates...and then once again, where does the fashion point us?...Spain in case of girl...

B) But what if the boy and girl don't belong together?

What if they just had same background(popular in Burgundian/Netherlandish court from 1450? to about 1507)

and same dimensions(by chance, or they were later cut to make them same dimensions)?

(C)what if both options? L)ist wasn't complete and boy and girl don't belong together?

Well, the boys who got orders of golden fleeces as kids were usually royalty, with whom Hasburgs had friendly relationship.

Only other option already not covered, would be either Christian II of Denmark-but he was made member in 1519-so he is on the list, as adult...

or John, Prince of Asturias and Girona. He married Margaret of Austria, in 1497 and died that same year. And Joanna married Philip of Austria in 1496.

We know Margaret's portraits were created in early to mid 1490s, likely to be sent to Spain, and probably Philip's also.

But what if Spanish send reply? And Hasburgs send their own painter, to paint Spanish royal children? That would also explain resemblence to Joanna's children. Because boy would have to be her brother, and girl Joanna herself.

Again, the boy seems to be later work of the master, but it was a workshop. It is possible one of its member simply became more prominent later in workshop's lifetime and it happened to be him who was sent to paint the boy.

And i cannot get further than this. Dendrology would be helpful here.

However as these portraits have year upon them, the institutions who own them think they have the correct date already. We can only hope they decide to test it anyway.

[gracelesslady23]

Jilypad Week Day 4: Favorite type of story that you like to Read and/or Write for this ship?

There are so many types of stories that I love to read or would love to read / write in the future… so I made a list! Under the cut because this got long.

@jilypadweek

Established Jily falling for Sirius and trying to lure him into their bed/ relationship by any means necessary as an absolutely top tier fic plot that I cannot get enough of. Not only does it have James and Lily giving Sirius the love and attention and wooing he absolutely deserves, BUT Sirius can also be having major crisis at the same time. Sirius freaking out because he is already dealing with an inappropriate crush on his best friend, but now he’s also developing an EVEN MORE inappropriate crush on his best friend’s wife is just such a good time!! And it can include so many of my favourite tropes from the misunderstandings and mutual pining and obviousness. Wedding Jitters by @siriuslystarbucks has this kind of plot and its amazing! Maybe even my fav jilypad fic of all time.

Hot jilypad smut is always a winner. All three of them are far too attractive. Some favs in this catagory are Shh by penknife and Dark-haired men by julestales, Royalty by @jmagnabo92

Jilypad being brilliant, ruthless, capable and far too protective and loyal to each other during the war is another catagory of fics I love. These are two of my faves The Rule of Three by Ahida and Le Mot Vagabond by ironicallyinternational (both WIPs but moving toward  jilypad).

The three of them raising Harry together. I love the wholesomeness of this trope. But also love Pen’s metas on the three of them just being the hottest parents ever (which I want to link to but now can't find 😭😭 why is tumblr's search function like this 😭). And if raising Harry is paired with Jily trying to get Sirius into bed / a relationship with them (like type 1) then all the better!

(this turned into a bit of an unintentional list if my fav jilypad fics - I feel like they are always getting lost in my bookmarks so yay for a useful reference tool! Also I missed a whole bunch I am sure and there are probably another bunch I am yet to discover :))

And now onto the types of (or more ideas for) stories I would like to write or (preferably given my too long list of WIPs and lack of time) encourage someone to write so I can read haha:

I really want an atmospheric slow burn jily to jilypad story where the war takes a particularly nasty turn and to protect Harry, the three adults take Harry into hiding in the middle of nowhere. All they have is each other, they’re living off the land because they can’t be spotted even by muggles and maybe they aren’t allowed to use magic in case its traced. And by all rights they should be bored out of their minds, but they are just so grateful that they are all still alive. And Sirius, James and Lily just get closer and closer and the tension just builds and builds until suddenly it just snaps.

I’ve also fallen in love with war fic idea kind inspired by the Pearl Harbour movie (and also very much inspired by the Care of Magical Shippers podcast episode on Lilypad). James and Lily are together but James gets captured by death eaters and everybody think he's dead. Sirius and Lily lean on each other, grieving together, protecting each other and helping each other move on... then *things* happen between them. And they are riddled with guilt but James is dead, right? and surely he'd want them to be happy. But then James turns up alive! And everyone is drowning in guilt and feelings, both Sirius and James try to step out of the way of the other, because they love eo so much and want the other to be happy (even if it means they end up alone without either of the people they love). And Lily can't bring herself to make a decision because she loves them both so much. Everything is a big tangled mess until they release that nobody has to step aside as all three of them love each other, and its all gooey and happy in the end!

I know there are more too but I'm running out of time and this is way more than I expected to write so this will do :)

[wellofhavoc]

Gurofriend evidence stuff:

Conspiracy theories, mass scale accusations, and 9 specific accusations of rape, child rape and cat-murder with zero evidence.

There is no conceivable way every single person they’ve reblogged including random anons personally IRL raped them and have stalked them for 10 years and are all literal sexual abusers.

The weird conspiracy theory is that like half of all humanity are pedophiles, I THINK? And fiction they like is a “textbook” on how to stop it (“gooner” = “porn addict”)

1. https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725402589896851456/there-are-two-subspecies-within-humanity

2. https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725863975932346368/give-the-gooner-psyops-a-rest

3. https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725589979579006976/how-are-you-going-to-get-rid-of-the-pedos-by-being

(also accusing an anon AND everyone they reblog from of having “personally raped” them IRL and stalked them for 10+ years)

3. https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725383015053836288/oooh-no-everybody-does-jensen-have-a-tumblr-i

“Satanic panic & alt right pedophilic conspiracies are all real”: https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725374834723389440/what-if-both-of-these-things-were-true-and

“I can tell rapists from vibes alone” (Ie nobody they’re accusing is based on evidence): https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725942283649925120/ppl-acccusing-you-of-calling-innocent-strangers

More personal accusations, including anons bc those obviously cannot have evidence:

They’ve been anon’d by people begging them to stop accusing strangers bc it’s triggering to C/SA victims and they called THAT person a rapist: https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725847968234733568/please-stop-calling-random-strangers-rapists-and

There was this @ someone else who asked them to cool it: https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725558801702535168/hi-its-very-obvious-that-youre-going-through

More accusations just from whoever they happen to reblog from, so nonspecific they’re v clearly based on nothing:

https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725735707155513344/why-are-the-serial-cat-killer-rape-spacebattlers

https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725594448668557312/any-other-catgirls-youre-a-big-fan-of

(Calling a trans woman a groomer and sex freak, classy!) https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725593561789349888/hey-where-is-that-gc-can-you-point-me-to-it-silly

https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725559099530608640/you-are-not-sorry-clearly-because-no-rape-victim

“Literally everyone I don’t like is probably a creep & should die” stuff: https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725376882894340096/nope-lets-expand-that-target-list-there-are

Comments of this post are absolutely insane (like 10+ including death threats/suicide baiting etc, directed at post OP and 2 people in the notes): https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725407673534775296/sure-thanks-for-playing-bye-bye

“I can tell if someone is a rapist from their fanfic”: https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725997512133050368/httpswwwtumblrcomgurofriend72555188844096716

https://www.tumblr.com/gurofriend/725589979579006976/how-are-you-going-to-get-rid-of-the-pedos-by-being

Just posting this publicly having gone through it- Hope everyone else is staying safe. If anyone knows Gurofriend personally, maybe check on them and see if they're okay- Didn't know about them prior to this mess, but from a brief search, I can see they have a lot of friends in the Utena community and seem to have a history of lifting its members up but now they seem to be using the source material (along with those of other fictional works with similar themes) as some kind of justification and base for "trolling" random people who come across their posts.