#but I won’t attack them for it yknow

[bittyfromquotev]

I figured out the feeling that I get when mutuals of a mutual block me.

I’m not mad or upset, just a tad confused and just like: oh :( anyway—

[tonyboneysblog]

MOTHER HEN: PART NINE

parings: hawks x mother!reader

wordcount: 2.8k

notes: IF TUMBLR KEEPS PLAYIN WITH THESE MENTIONS IM GOJNB TK LOZE IT AHHHHH- also I missed you cuties🥴

warnings: none!

summary: you, the mother of Fumikage Tokoyami, are just a simple nurse! Who caught the eye of a certain pro.

Truthfully, hawks was having an amazing day.

He could feel the peep in his step, and when he woke up he almost thought some upbeat pep song start playing because he felt like he was in a damn movie.

He almost skips over to Mirko when he sees her, big smile on his face.

Mirko looks over at him skeptically, “what’s got you in such a good mood?”

Hawks hums, “oh nothing, I was only kissed by a beautiful maiden last night around…I don’t know 12:47?”

Mirko smile suddenly drops as she looks towards hawks slowly.

Then she suddenly catches him in the most disgustingly tight hug, “you dirty dog- why didn’t you tell me immediately?!”

“It was spur of the moment?”

Mirko squeezes tighter, “I know for a fact you didn’t make the first move.”

Hawks chuckles and try’s to raise his hand in surrender.

“You know me, full of surprises”

Mirko drops his, “Alright since you won’t tell me the truth I’m going to his you terrible news”

Hawks raises his brows in curiosity, “and that is?”

Mirko sighs, “HPSC decided to call me since you apparently been AWOL all night…”

Hawks rolls his eyes, “what do they want with you, you don’t even work for them.”

“They wanted me to tell you that they needed your excellence immediately- something important apparently.” Mirko crossed her arms looking away from hawks.

Hawks hums, Mirko seems to be in deep thought but he doubts it about the “important” business that the HPSC wants with him.

Mirko pats hawks back, “you sure it was just a kiss last night, birdie?”

Hawks whips his head towards her, “w-what?! Of course I’m sure!”

“I mean- gone all night?” Mirko giggles- “was she really that-“

Hawks cuts Mirko off, “Stop talking.”

It’s not hawks fault he decided to have a good night sleep with his phone turned off.

And maybe on a different day then events would honestly even more romantic than you made.

But your son was also literally attacked by villains- hawks wouldn’t go all, “come on baby” after that.

Speaking of you and Fumikage, the two of your were in the same spot as yesterday.

U.A. had cancelled school for the week after the kids got attacked- even if they didn’t cancel you still wouldn’t allow Fumikage to go back.

You couldn’t tell if Fumikage was okay or messed up in the head. You’d assume they’d go over some type of mental check before they let Fumikage go frolic with hawks somewhere but it also U.A.

Sure it’s the best hero school- but maybe you should’ve made Fumikage go to Shiketesu instead.

Shiketesu kids don’t get attacked by villains almost everyday.

Fumikage was still sleeping next to you when you woke up on the couch, you were slowly hit with all the memories that happened the night before.

like kissing a pro hero.

moment of weakness? perchance.

You check your messages yet they aren’t any from him, he’s probably working anyways.

You called off for at least two days so you were able to keep an eye on Fumikage so you really don’t have an excuse to ignore a text from hawks if he sends one.

Well you’re a grown woman, face your “mistakes” Y/N!

pretty lady

good morning.

maybe it wasn’t a good idea to text hawks on the job- you don’t wanna distract-

bird boy

MORNING Y/N

we’ll nevermind.

pretty lady

so about last night, I’m

sorry for yknow.

bird boy

kissing me?

bird boy

do it again.

bird boy

wait

bird boy

shit how do I unsend messages

you start to giggle, well at least he doesn’t regret it? thought he doesn’t know how to use iMessage.

pretty lady

haha. It okay keep it there

bird boy

yes ma’am

bird boy

I’m abt to be in some meeting. ttyl?

pretty lady

what?

bird boy

ttyl?

bird boy

sorry forgot you were a fossil

not funny, not even Fumikage calls you a fossil.

Aside from spending more time with Fumikage, your day has been quite boring.

and technically you haven’t been spending time with Fumikage because he’s been asleep the whole time.

Your heart aches with worry, Fumikage never really told you about the events yesterday- just that shadow took control.

You didn’t watch too much either, nor call U.A. Because you could already tell the media was ripping them apart just from looking at your timeline.

you know deep down that Fumikage will return to U.A. no matter how worried or how much you hate it. It is his dream school, he worked hard to get in.

You feel as if there’s something deeper affecting Fumikage- deep down in your bones.

And yeah maybe you’re slightly worried for the boy who was kidnapped.

Yeah, no way U.A. is surviving this.

But all you could really do now is focus on Fumikage and his feelings.

the following days were calm, hawks texted you at night mostly about random things or just his small thoughts.

One time he’s asked you if the moon were a rock or planet, he said he got in an argument with Mirko about it.

sadly he didn’t win it.

Fumikage was lounging on the couch, he would be out training but you begged him to rest.

even better news is that the boy who got kidnapped was found, saw the whole thing on the news too.

All might fought the big bad, and he won.

You never had the best opinion on All might but it’s also the number one hero so you can hate him too much.

You personally like best jeanist the most but you’d never tell poor hawks that.

Fumikage suddenly jumps when there’s a knock of the door, you pat his head in an attempt to console him then go to answer the door.

Imagine your surprise when you see the former number one and Fumikages homeroom teacher standing there.

All might smiles slightly, “Evening Ms. Tokoyami.”

you send a smile back, “evening, what bring you two here?”

All Might fiddles with a loose stand on his arm sling, “we came to discuss a matter with you, about Fumikage.”

“Please, come in then.” You open the door more to allow them into your home.

Fumikage perks up at seeing his teacher, “Mr. Aizawa?”

It was weird to see his homeroom teacher look so…clean?

All might and Aizawa sit on the couch infront of you a Fumikage.

“So, what is it that you need to speak about?” You say calmly.

Aizawa speaks up first, explaining on how they wanted to put the hero course students into dorms as some type of better protection.

it made your blood boil.

“So, will you allow Fumikage to-“

“No, I will not.” You reply curtly.

You can hear All Might whisper a small, “well that’s a first.” to Aizawa.

The silence is akward to say the least.

Alll scratches the back of his head, “is there a specific reason?”

“Would you like me to say it allowed, or put it in an email.”

“Preferably aloud?”

You breathe in deeply, “I don’t even know if I want my son in your school anymore. You’ve destroyed all my trust in this school- and if you think your protecting the students then your just plan wrong because the villains have infiltrated the school not once, but twice. Honestly I can’t even comprehend other parents agreeing to this.”

Fumikage messes with his hands anxiously, slightly embarrassed.

“Ma’am, we understand-“

You cut him off, “I seriously doubt that you under my perspective, you’re not a woman nor are you a parent- let only a parent on your own.”

Again the room falls into a tense silence.

until Fumikage speaks up, quietly.

“I think I would enjoy the dorms…”

You look over to Fumikage, surprise evident on your face.

Fumikage doesn’t look at you, “and I like U.A. too- all my friends are there.”

“Alright, then you can go.” You stay with a small smile directed at Fumikage.

“W-what? But you said-“

You grab Fumikages hand softly, “I can’t control what you want or what you do Fumikage. I’m not gonna force you stay here, you are your own person Fumi.”

All might sighs in relief, until you start talking again.

“But I’m not gonna retract anything I said, your school sucks in my opinion.” You sigh.

All might chuckles, “understood.”

You stand up and open the door for them, signifying that you wouldn’t really like them there anymore.

“Have a good rest of your day, Ms. Tokoyami.” Aizawa says as they leave.

When you shut the door you could almost hear all might a Aizawa sighing, almost like they just encountered a near death experience.

Maybe you could’ve been slightly kinder?

No, no, they deserved it.

Suddenly your phone dings with a text, from hawks more specifically.

bird boy

could I come over?

pretty lady

sure, something wrong?

He never replied though, hawks doesn’t actually ever ask to come over though.

Fumikage and hawks seems to be on alright terms as well, you noticed they both got the same drink when hawks dropped him off.

maybe they’re bonding?

Fumikage starts to tug at your shirt, something he never grew out of, holding his phone to you.

It was open to a text thread, someone named shoji.

“Can I go hang out with him?”

You hum, “yes- but come home early, you know I worry more cause of these villains.”

Fumikage pecks your cheek then runs out the house quickly.

well he’s sure excited to hang out with someone.

About ten minutes after you hear hawks knocking at your door, and when you open he looks…tired? exhausted?

“Hey mama bird.” His voice calls tiredly.

You usher him in and close the door, “everything okay?”

Hawks melts into the couch with sigh, “yeah, just a rough day- where’s Fumikage?”

You sit next to him, “He went out with a friend, did you wanna see him?”

“Nah, better he isn’t.” He chuckles softly.

Should you be worried about that?

You rest your head onto the back of the couch, looking at hawks.

“Why’s that?”

“cause I wanted to see just you.” He closes his eyes, he look tireder by the minute.

You giggle, “You can’t see me, your eyes are closed.”

“Close enough.”

You admire hawks features softly, you notice small bumps and nicks in his skin which are always edited out in the magazine.

Your eyes linger on the small marks near his eyes, you’ve always wondered if it were makeup.

So you check.

Your thumb runs over the marks, making hawks eyes squint softly before opening them.

“What’re you doing?”, He says with a mischievous manner.

“Just checking if they’re real.”

“Did I disappoint?”

you smile fondly, “no, never.”

Hawks analyzes every detail your face holds, every mark.

His smile fades, his eyes look heavy.

He grabs your wrist softly, moving them away from his face.

He looks at you as if you hung the stars.

He leans in, you can feel his breath ghost over your lips.

He hands ,which were ungloved prior, intertwine with your as he leans in.

His lips capture your own, his slightly chapped most likely due to always being in the sky.

He leans in farther, like he needs your kiss to breath, to live.

He needs the comfort of your lips to feel better, he needs to remember the taste, the feel, the smell of you.

The way your lips perfectly mold together like clay.

He feels like he’s flying, no cares in the world expect for you.

Hawks can feel your warm hands slip near his torso, his stomach flutters with butterflies.

You hold onto him, lovingly.

hawks places his free hand into your hair, pushing you closer to his lips.

You can hear a small coo coming from hawks, wonder if he chirps.

He loves the sensation, the feeling you give him.

He wants to stay in your warmth forever, he doesn’t wanna go back to the HPSC, he doesn’t want to do this new mission,

He doesn’t want to sneak into the league.

he just wants you.

Hawks hold you closer, like you’ll disappear until you have to come up for air.

The two of you breathe heavily, slowly coming back down from your little kissing high.

“date me.” He says breathlessly.

You cup his face with your hand, “y-

“What the fuck.”

You and hawks looks towards to door quickly.

“is that the number three hero..?”

only to find your poor son Fumikage and another boy.

mortifying is the only way to describe this situation.

Fumikage turns around to the boy, covering his eyes in what seems to be disappoint.

In return, hawks covers his eyes and retreats into you, covering himself with his wings.

You start laughing, so hard that you can feel your very own six pack growing in.

The boy, which you assume is shoji, starts laughing with you, “hey Fumikage, I didn’t know your stepdad was the number three.”

You laugh even harder, while hawks and Fumikage retreat further.

Later, when the embarrassment and laughter cleared, the four of you sat down at the dining table.

“I didn’t think you’d come home so early Fumi?”

shoji looks at Fumikage, “Fumi?”

“Well mother. I had to come back because I forgot my wallet- I did t know I’d come back and see some…some- some harlot sucking face with my mom!” Fumikages voice grows in pitch with each word.

Hawks gasps, “h-harlot?! And it wasn’t sucking face we didn’t even use tongue!”

Suddenly the table erupts as you sit back and watch.

“Disgusting- you’re illiterate and you can’t keep your hands off my mother!”

“I thought we were bonding Fumikage- remember when you gave me that drink?”

Fumikage shrieks, “I SHOULD’VE LET YOU DIE OF DEHYDRATION.”

“I wasn’t even on the brink of dehydration?!” Hawks says confused.

The small spat continues as you look over towards shoji with an apologetic face.

It was the first time this kid met you and he saw you on a quite personal time…

Shoji throws you a small thumbs up, great kid already.

You can almost hear Fumikage start cawing at hawks.

You try to break up the fight, “Alright— calm down…”

Fumikage sits down and crosses his arms as hawks deflates back into the chair.

“Fumikage..I apologize for kissing on the couch…I’ll take it to my room next time.”

Fumikage squawks, “mom!”

You can see hawks ears go red, his wings puffing.

Fumikage points at him accusatorially, “I know what you’re thinking you…you- you womanizer!”

Hawks gasps dramatically, “I-I’m no womanizer- I happen to like your momma!”

“Point at him too dark shadow!” Dark shadow comes out chanting “womanizer” while pointing at hawks.

Shoji decides to join in as-well…and maybe you too.

hawks sighs in defeat, Fumikage cheers victoriously with shadow.

You expect him to start jumping up and down with shadow as well.

“Shoji- remove the criminal from my home!”

Shoji chuckles, “not doing that..”

You stand up and lead hawks out of the house, you can hear Fumikage and Shoji laughing.

Hawks sits down on the stairs, you sit with.

Hawks sighs, “Not a womanizer.”

You giggle softly, patting his head.

Hawks stays quiet for a minutes wu til speaking up, “so, what’s your answer?”

“To what?”

His ears turn pink, “…d-dating me.”

“I’m surprised that’s even a question.”

“Is that a yes?”

You nod softly, smiling at hawks.

Hawks smiles with you, “can I kiss you again?”

“I’m afraid you won’t be able to stop.”

Hawks wraps his arms around you, “maybe, is that such a problem?”

“Maybe?”

Hawks leans in to kiss you softly, but you pull away.

“Why were you so upset when you came over?” You say while starting to rub soft circles on his hips.

“Not upset anymore.”

You sigh, “You don’t wanna tell me?”

“It’s not that…I just can’t tell you.” Hawks rests his head on your shoulder.

“Jus’ stressed out.”

You crane your head to kiss his temple, “would you like to spend the night?”

Hawks lets out a small laugh, “Fumikage wouldn’t like that.”

“He’ll get over it.” You push away from hawks slowly.

He laughs and follows you in the house, you point towards your bedroom then leave hawks to see Fumikage.

Hawks wanders into your room, it’s nice he thinks.

He removes most of his hero clothes until he realizes he doesn’t have another pair.

You won’t mind if he stole some of your wardrobe, right?

After done telling Fumikage goodnight, who was about to leave to walk Shoji home, you walk into your room to find hawks in your clothes.

how cute?

You make your way to the bed, welcoming its new found comfort.

Hawks seems to be sleeping until he snuggles into your neck, wrapping his arms and wings around you.

Looks like you won’t need a blanket at least?

hawks tries to sleep quickly, big day tomorrow.

infiltrating and gathering information on the league.

he hopes to god you don’t get hurt somehow.

would you be mad at what he’s doing? Or would you clean the blood of his hands.

would you spit on his face or kiss him until he couldn’t breath.

he’s scared for the answer.

Yet he continues to fall farther into you.

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[zylian]

big fan of people breaking rules and actually using it to better their lives like the whole illegal enchants just being stored away cause it might be exposed therefore them being so cautious is so unnecessary when that’s no way to live yknow

now here’s ‘expert on how to just live a little’ subz showing up and just using illegal enchants to make his life a bit more lively as he bow punches pillagers

i feel like the way they’re acting is as if parrots still owner with his iron fist ruling and fast acting cause rn there’s like owner, co owner and than spoke back end who all can be convinced to give leeway and aren’t as fast in acting with a hard hat

thinking about the consequences of subz having a punch 2 bow again since s5 him and that bow made him not die whenever planet jumped him, good times

I hope subz trips like a cartoon and is the one who gets caught with it since he won’t care but than anyone storing illegal enchants gets a heart attack in the background and starts worrying if the owners start looking into the loop holes

I feel like I’ll get roped back into Ls if someone gets caught with it live and than minute gets a heart attack and yknow actually cares about the multiple very exploitable issues

rn waiting for everything to blow up in everyone’s faces or sb drops a vid showing his heart collection and everyone’s just :0

,_,

[erumai-maadu]

part 2 to this post of analyzing everything we see of Tenten from the show and data books to help me get a consistent character for her!

this one is gonna go over moments from all the post-series filler arcs she’s in from naruto original, or her genin years. this will also include the three genin-era fillers from Shippuden that she's in, up to the second chunin exams arc. These are all anime-only fillers, so these can be as canon or non-canon as you’d like them to be. We get quite a few moments where Tenten feels OOC to me (because yknow. filler), and I’ll point these out.

Some of these episodes aren't particularly important for Tenten's character, but I'll go through them anyway bc all that she ever gets is crumbs anyway. If you ever wanna do a Tenten rewatch of the show, these are some good filler arcs to watch.

I’ll be going in chronological order of the show’s (terrible and unclear) timeline. Unless specified to be from shippuden, the episode numbers I’m referencing are from the original series.

Jounin Leader! (Shippuden 360)

This is one episode of a long set of flashback episodes to Kakashi’s past, so this is more focused on him angsting than on Team Gai, but we get a few moments here. This one is about Kakashi and Gai’s time as a jounin sensei, and gives us more insight into Team Gai's first year as genin.

We get to see Team Gai’s “bell test” which is them just fighting Gai and showing him their determination. We get a few moments of Tenten using pure taijutsu, which is cool!

This isn’t about Tenten but I have to say it anyway. Gai is such a good sensei.

Just one scene earlier, we watch Kakashi brutally beat up three 12 year olds, and then we see Gai with his kids and he barely even touches them during their fight. He’s pretty much entirely on the defense, just redirecting blows and making space for himself. His most injurious attack is a kick that creates enough wind to blow them back several feet.

He really just wears them down and pushes them to their limit stamina-wise to see if they continue to fight. And they do! And he’s so excited by it!! it’s so cute, I love Gai so fucking much.

They take a little break after they all pass, and end up talking about Kakashi, who failed his team back to the Academy. It’s Tenten who brings this up, going “Good thing we didn’t get that other sensei that everyone talks about.” and looks around like she’s about to share some shady gossip. I love her sm, little busybody. She’s the one that tells her teammates all the tea in that scene, and they’re just sitting there like omg whattttttt :0

I think this dynamic absolutely continues on forever, with Tenten keeping her boys up to date on all the gossip and goings-on throughout the years.

Then we skip forward a bit to the chunin exams for that year, where Gai asks his team if they want to participate. Lee says no, because he believes he isn’t ready. Gai asks Neji, who also says no, and Tenten. She says that they’ll all train hard, and then take the exams again next year, together.

Their bond is so cute to me, and Gai clearly agrees because this drives him to youthful tears and he’s seen bragging to Asuma and Kurenai that he’s so lucky to have students like them.

Anyway, clearly some development happened with their bond during their first year as genin, and now Tenten doesn’t want to leave either of them behind or take the exam without them. She’s grown to care for them a lot in that first year. Neither want to leave Lee behind, even if Neji won’t admit it, and I love that sm. Team Gai forever 😭😭😭

The Neji Chronicles (Shippuden 192)

I already went over most of the Tenten moments in this episode in my last post, but a few more small details.

When Neji mentions that "perhaps I've made too many blind assumptions about the way things are", Tenten looks more relieved than surprised by this. It feels like something her, Lee, and Gai have been telling Neji for a while. I think Naruto was the push Neji needed to actually listen to/internalize everything that his teammates have already been saying to him.

Tenten actually looks annoyed to have Kiba along, probably because he was talking shit about Neji literally five seconds earlier and she yelled at him for that, but she accepts it because she knows they need the numbers.

She tells Neji to go ahead without her, and gives him a little wink, which is important to me bc Tenten is so cute! I love her sm

This episode also ends with the iconic ending 15 of Team Gai sparring with Naruto.

Deploy! Team Tenten! (Shippuden 184)

This episode takes place after the Konoha Crush arc. Tenten, Neji, and Naruto are sent out on a mission to get ninja tool supplies for the village from a research laboratory. This also my all-time favorite episode of Naruto.

Gai picks Tenten to lead the mission, and she's immediately surprised. Gai admits that he would usually pick Neji, but she's better suited for it on this mission.

We get a lot of Naruto and Tenten being cute asf in this episode, I love their sibling-like bond so much. She makes fun of him like I do with my brother, saying that he's lame, and when he tries to say maybe Neji should lead the team instead they start fighting.

Neji tells them to lay it off because it's just a D-rank mission, and then once she says let's get going Naruto's immediately back on board. Peak siblings.

I headcanon that Tenten and Naruto knew each other from the orphanage, and that's why they act this close with each other.

Through this whole episode, Tenten is more excited about new ninja tools than the actual mission, which is why I think her interest in weapons has been there for much longer than Shippuden 237 implies. She can immediately tell that all of the inventions he shows them are kind of useless, which isn't hard but again, shows that she knows weaponry very well.

She's also rather... I wouldn’t say rude, but not particularly well-mannered wth Io. At least in the english dub, she speaks fairly casually, and ends up yelling at him quite a lot. This goes with the first headcanon from this post from @tentenismybitch that Tenten isn't quite as well-mannered as Lee or Neji because nobody ever taught her that at the Konoha orphanage. It's not quite as bad as Naruto, but it's actually pretty close to that level of informality so. I'm sure she picked some stuff up from Gai during her first year as genin and that's why she's a little bit better than Naruto, but still a bit abrasive and not perfectly well-mannered.

She explains Team Gai's usual formation to Naruto, which is Neji, Lee, and Gai doing close combat with Tenten backing them up from a distance. This makes good use of Tenten's pinpoint aim, and to me, also shows that she has very good eyesight, like 20/10 vision (I'm a glasses wearer this is stuff I think abt sometimes LOL). She expresses a desire to fight on the front lines herself instead of always being backup.

Tenten can tell that Io and his apprentice have a passion for invention, which I think she also recognizes so well because she feels the same.

When they go through the trap that Io's set up, Tenten hands it off to Neji first, and he fails, and only then she says she's got it and gets through easily. This is really just supposed to show that even Neji can't do it but she can. I interpret this as a moment of Tenten's insecurity, reflexively leaving it to Neji because she underestimates herself ever since her fight with Temari.

She instantly recognizes the quality of the tools Io kept hidden, again showing how much of an expert she is with weapons. She also admits that getting through that trap was easy for her.

She relegates herself to support when the rogue ninja attack. When Neji gets knocked back, she quickly covers him by throwing some Fuma shuriken to put them on the defense and giving Neji some time to get up and recover. A good insight into Team Gai's usual formation and battle strategy.

Tenten figures out how to use Jidanda very quickly, and even Io comments on how well she uses it even though she's only seen it for maybe 30 seconds before starting to use it. He lets her take all the other tools she wants, and she seems a little disappointed, but takes Neji and Naruto's compliments.

Ah, My Hero Lady Tsunade! (Shippuden 237)

This episode is a full recap of Tenten’s genin years all the way up to Lee's surgery, so in a chronological sense it can fit anywhere before the second chunin exams arc. I’m just putting it here with the other shippuden genin era episodes.

This episode is pretty much entirely focused on Tenten and her self-worth, and while I talked about it a lot in the previous post, there’s a few more details I wanna go into.

In the opening scene, Tenten is shown on a playground listening to other girls talk but she doesn't really join in on the conversation. Interesting to me, since she grows up to be someone very personable and friendly, even with people she doesn't know well, so why is she different in this scene? We also don't see her with any sort of parental figure, implying that she likely doesn't have one.

So we move on from early childhood to her first year as a genin, and Tenten is shown to be the least physically strong of her teammates, lagging behind and struggling with most of the exercises they do. I will actually accept this because her main skill is accuracy and precision, not doing 1,000 pushups or running 500 laps. Every time they're doing the pushups or pull ups or whatever she's lagging behind after they get to like 1,100 so honestly she's not even doing bad at all.

When Gai tells her that Tsunade inherited the talents of the first Hokage, Tenten immediately asks him "are you saying talent is more important than determination?" This seems to be a real sore point for her throughout the episode, as she brings it up again and again. Again, she puts herself in with Lee in terms of talent, implying that she doesn't have any.

Clearly she underestimates herself, because even when she was trying to learn medical ninjutsu, she makes it up to the lecture of high-level medical ninjutsu, implying that she did make it past the lower levels! She fails to do the Mystical Palm Technique, but even Tsunade herself says it's hard to master in a different episode with Sakura. Tenten just doesn't have the fine-tuned level of chakra control to do higher levels.

I do disregard this sometimes, outright saying that she can't do any kind of medical ninjutsu because it really sets her apart from every other girl in the series and feels more right for her.

Tenten learns she's good at the summoning technique when Gai has her try to summon a weapon from a scroll to test if she's suited for summoning an animal. This inspires Tenten later after she fails to be like Tsunade to pursue becoming a weapons' specialist. Again, I tend to disregard this because I prefer the idea of her having always had an interest in weaponry, for various reasons.

Either way, Lee's determination to get stronger at what he's good at, taijutsu, inspires her to start working on seals and weapon summoning. She makes her own summoning scrolls, and clearly learns it all from books, which is really cool!

Given that she's described as a research enthusiast, this fits really well. She probably spends a lot of time at the library, and does a lot of her learning on her own by trial and error.

Again, because Gai doesn't have expertise in this, I think he sees her interest and gets her higher-level books from the library, talks to people for her, and helps her in any way he can since he can't directly train her on this.

Lee calling what she can do amazing, and calling her a ninja tool specialist makes her so happy, it's really cute how much she relies on him and how much it means to her that he admires her.

After his injury, when Tsunade tells him to give up on being a ninja, you can see Tenten's admiration for her kind of go down, which I think is fair. The image of Tsunade she made up for herself is very different than the reality, and when that illusion is shattered, Tsunade isn’t really much of an idol to her anymore.

She stands on the same roof that they first met on with Gai and Neji and starts crying, saying "so it means determination means nothing. so if you don't have talent, then..." and Gai stops her, tells her to trust Lee's resolve, and her own. Gai clearly recognizes that when Tenten talks about Lee, she's talking about herself as well, and that she clearly doesn't believe in her own strength. He does everything he can to uplift her.

"Trust Lee's resolve, and your own. It got you this far, and it will take you even further." This means so much to Tenten, and it makes her start to cry.

We flash back to the present, where Lee is stuck underwater, and Tenten jumps in to save him, saying "you never give up Lee, that's why I promised myself that I would never lose you, and I was able to give it my all too!"

Tenten and Lee's bond means SO MUCH to me. The two non-geniuses of Team Gai, they clearly rely on one another so much, and take inspiration from one another to push themselves further. Tenten equates herself with Lee a lot, especially in terms of how much they have to work to keep up with Neji, and I think it's really important how deep her and Lee's bond is as a result.

The Third Super Beast (Episode 195 - 196)

This arc is cool! It focuses on Lee and Gai's bond, as Gai takes on a new student who knows taijiutsu a little too well for a rookie genin. I think (??) this arc takes place before the other fillers, simply because Lee seems to still be fresh post-surgery, still not quite able to be on active duty and not able to train fully, so i'm putting this arc here in the timeline.

Naruto gets out of a medical exam (iconic Tsunade line of "you're not sick, just stupid"), and Tenten is waiting outside with Neji. She asks how it went, and he tells her he's all good, to which Neji responds snippily and walks off.

Naruto asks her what's wrong, and Tenten just rolls her eyes and tells him Neji's just "in one of his moods". She sounds annoyed herself, and I'm 100% sure Neji was being bitchy to her too. She isn't afraid to call him out for being moody, but she does give him a bit of leeway in not saying it to his face.

Given that Tenten is observant and good with people, I think during their first year as genin, she recognizes that Neji’s whole thing with fate and all comes from something deeper. Maybe not immediately clocking it as trauma, but at least understanding that there is a serious reason why he’s being Like That, so she’s a bit more lenient with him when he’s in a MoodTM or talking down on people.

She doesn’t let him walk all over her—she’s got more self respect than that—but she is a bit more forgiving than most. And this doesn’t go unnoticed by Neji. We see him being far kinder to her than anyone else, and letting her in on things he doesn’t normally share, and I think this is where it comes from.

All this to say: this is another of those moments. Neji is in a mood, and Tenten lets it go because she understands there’s something else going on there.

They bring in Lee for his exam, and he comes out looking sad because Tsunade told him to chill out on the training or else he risks permanently injuring himself. Tenten and Naruto see him looking all sad, and Naruto fully misunderstands Tenten saying that his diagnosis must have been very grim to mean he's going to die soon. In his defense, Tenten also doesn't correct him on this. I think it's because she thinks it'll be funny. Very sibling-coded.

Naruto and Tenten run to the training hall where Gai has introduced his temporary new student Yagura to Lee and is about to make them spar. They spar, and Yagura is as good as Lee is, and nearly breaks his ankle with a move that ends the spar.

Naruto asks Lee why he's trying to train, and "didn't the hospital say your condition was grim, very grim?" and when he looks to Tenten to verify this, she goes "well, they didn't exactly say that..." LMFAOOO what a little shit.

Then they all go to ichiraku with Neji to fill him in on the gossip, with Lee outside listening to them, and they all start talking him up, saying that they owe him a lot and that he's amazing, which is so stinkin' cute. They love him so much. Neji even admits that hard work and perseverance can mean more than natural talent.

Tenten does concede that if he pushes too hard, he might risk permanent injury and that would be impossible to recover from, and Naruto immediately yells at her for being negative all the time and calls her "the voice of doom" which made me laugh for no good reason.

But we can tell that Tenten generally seems to be a bit... I hesitate to say pessimistic outright, but she's very realistic and down-to-earth. She's not a constant damper on the mood, but she does cut in and remind us that yes, Lee's situation is pretty precarious because his injuries are severe, his surgery was life-threatening, and that's something to keep in mind.

It seems like a perfect in-between to Neji and Lee, where Neji is a major pessimist, and Tenten is optimistic enough to balance that out, but also real enough to balance out Lee's wild dreaming and overboard optimism. She warms Neji up and cools Lee down to bring them to equilibrium.

Tenten says she has a lot to thank Lee for, and the thing she immediately think about is... Gai trying to give them all those green training suits. She really respects Gai but she definitely still thinks he's lame, especially when she's a genin, and thanks Lee for taking the brunt of his attention and enthusiasm so her and Neji don't have to also become Green Beasts.

Yagura goes on a mission with Gai after shit-talking Lee, but he turns out to be an imposter so Tsunade has to get a team to go after him and Gai, and everyone please look at Tenten's ninja registration photo. She's so cute I love her so much. What a diva

After this we see Tenten fighting alongside Naruto, Neji, and Lee to save Gai.

As soon as Neji tells them that the enemies have Gai trapped in a structure infused with their chakra, Tenten is quick to start attacking the jutsu users, which seems to actually stop them from attacking Gai within the structure.

Neji also tells them the training dummies they're using to attack are controlled by seals on the back of their heads, and removing them will disable them. Tenten fires out kunai with perfect accuracy and just shreds a ton of the seal papers on the dummies, disabling many of them in a single attack. And then goes "Man, that was too easy!" Cocky ass mf, I love herrrrrrr.

Given that this is so soon after her fight with Temari, she's probably working slowly to regain her confidence, so it's nice to see her feeling good about herself!

We spend the rest of this episode with Lee and Gai and focus on their bond. Naruto even comments on how Gai and Lee have a really good bond, and that he wishes he had something like that with his teacher too. It's a super cute arc, and I really like it.

Curry Of Life Arc (Episode 152 - 157)

This arc is my favorite of the post-series fillers.

Gai gets deeply upset that his students have to go with Naruto on the mission and begs Tsunade to let them go alone, which I think is so funny. this is the iconic "why can't it just be my students who are beloved by all the world" line.

After Naruto embarrasses all of them and Neji pisses Tsunade off, Tenten leaves her office after telling Tsunade "Sorry about them! They have no manners, ahah", which is funny coming from her, given her behavior for the rest of this episode.

Tenten disses Gai, and Lee gets mad that Tenten thinks Gai's information might be wrong, and I just paused here and thought this screenshot was funny.

Tenten says that Raiga burying people alive is the worst thing she's ever heard, which fits with my headcanon that she's a little claustrophobic. It's not debilitating, but she gets a little uncomfortable in tight spaces and has trouble staying in them for extended periods.

Through this whole mission, and honestly a lot of the filler arc missions, Tenten follows Neji's orders in a way Lee and Naruto don't. Like him, she's a little more calculating and takes her decisions based on logic more than her morality, like a shinobi is supposed to. She’s always the one to get Lee and Naruto to try and see Neji’s viewpoint when they question his decisions, explaining the logic to them.

She's also the first one to notice that Neji is on edge when he spots Raiga for the first time, and immediately asks him what's wrong.

After Raiga is killed, they leave Ranmaru tied up in a cabin and go back to the town. When they get ambushed by the rest of his gang, Tenten gives them this look as they're about to fight, which I think is so cool.

She seems to like a challenging battle where she can really test her skills, and she's the first of the group to attack once they go on the offensive, clearly excited to fight.

Once they come back for Ranmaru, he tells them he has no reason to be alive, and Tenten immediately starts shitting on him. She says that everyone ought to be able to live on their own, at least the basics, and that she can't stand weak, indecisive people. Even as he tells everyone his tragic backstory, Tenten is the only one who reacts with barely any sympathy.

I like to think this mentality comes from her being an orphan. She's had to do these things on her own since forever, and she doesn't like people like Ranmaru or Haku who rely entirely on another person as their reason to live. She hasn't really had anyone to rely on like that until Team Gai, so to her, being able to live on your own without needing anyone is a basic skill.

Her disliking weak and indecisive people also explains why her self esteem is so low after losing to Temari. She felt so weak and useless in that fight, and she hates herself for it.

When they're back at the Curry Of Life shop, Neji sends Tenten back by herself to check on Karashi and Ranmaru. When Karashi comes back and tells Neji that Tenten slipped and fell off the cliff, Neji is the only one that knows immediately that it's a lie. He trusts her skills, and knows damn well that Tenten isn't clumsy like that, no matter what anyone says.

There's an awesome fight scene between Tenten and Raiga, where she very nearly overwhelms him, quickly binding him with her chained sickle and flinging a scroll's worth of weapons at him with one hand. She fights very smart, switching to a wooden staff after getting struck by lightning through her chains, and also noting she still can't hold her staff up too high because of the storm.

She flings dirt into Raiga's eyes, and even manages to disarm him of one of his swords by catching it with her staff and throwing it away, all in one movement. She gets knocked out after getting her staff broken and blasted with lightning, but overall, she handles herself with great skill in this fight.

Tenten is also weirdly uninjured for having been struck by lightning thrice during this fight, which fits with my headcanons of her having lightning-natured chakra.

Once she wakes up again, Tenten grabs Ranmaru, who passed out after bringing back Raiga, and brings him to a safe place. She takes care of Ranmaru and tries to nurse him to health. When Ranmaru says that he'd rather die, Tenten tells him that she won't let him get off that easily, and that he has to live and take responsibility for all the people he killed.

She's not completely lacking of sympathy for him though, because when Ranmaru starts coughing and looking worse for wear, Tenten stops yelling at him, and wraps him in a blanket to head to the Curry Of Life Shop, and takes him there through the rain. Even in the shop, she expresses her determination to save Ranmaru, and sits there taking care of him while Grandma makes the curry of life.

She coerces him to eat by saying that if he feels nothing after seeing Karashi and Grandma work so hard to make him the curry, then he's a "horrible human being" LOLL. She really does not like this kid. But it's her expressing all of these things to him that finally gets him to eat, and know what it is to feel alive. Even though she yelled at him more than anything else, it's her strong morals and worldviews that move him.

Just like we saw in the Forest Of Death, Tenten's medical care when it comes to Lee seems to be "shake him really hard and yell at him until he wakes up".

Her medical care for Naruto is to put a plateful of curry in his mouth, force him to chew it, and call him an idiot for passing out. And then she calls him a dumbass when he says he thought she fell down a cliff.

And then with Neji, she gets annoyed and tells him to get up and get going, feeds him like four spoons of spicy curry, and kills him immediately. I love her so much.

She really has great bedside manner LOL. Another reason why I think people see her as unfit for medical ninjutsu + more proof for those headcanons on her being a little bit rude because of her upbringing.

This arc is really fun overall and I think it's a good rewatch for some cool Tenten scenes.

Academy Student Leading Mission (Episode 158)

Tenten is in this one (1) frame of this episode, but it’s important to me because look at her using the Dynamic Entry!!!! We don’t get a lot of Tenten Taijutsu moments and this is one, so I just needed everyone to see her using her dad's sensei's move.

The Appearance of Strange Visitors (Episode 161)

This episode is really funny actually, and it features Tenten, Sakura, and Tsunade being absolute little shits, which is always a treat. This is just a very brief Tenten moment. Two people come into the village disguised and Lee and Gai, but nobody is fooled... except for Naruto.

So to drive them away, Tsunade, Tenten, and Sakura assign them missions to get them to go away. Tenten is the first one to take a crack at them, and we see her coming out of an apartment building to talk to them. She's also wearing her green outfit instead of her usual pink one!

Character-wise this episode isn't anything to write home about, but it's confirming that this green outfit is her "casual" clothes, while the pink is her ninja clothes, and that might be her apartment??

In the shot of her apartment from Shippuden 237 (and later in the RTN filler), we don't see any relatives, and she seems to be by herself in the apartment, much like Naruto. I think this is evidence for her being an orphan, living by herself after making genin.

This also raises the possibility that she met Naruto and/or Lee there when she was young.

Cursed Warrior Extermination Arc (Episode 162 - 167)

This arc feels like it should not be this long for some reason, there's just always some dumb bullshit going on. Either way there's not any noteworthy moments here, there’s just one thing I want to mention.

This arc features Neji, Tenten, and Naruto out on a mission to the Land Of Birds to stop The Cursed Warrior, who’s been haunting the land. After encountering the Warrior once and fighting it, they regroup and discuss who could be dressing up as it, and decide to come meet Lord Sagi, the feudal lord of the land to see if he knows anything and will tell them.

Tenten sees him and immediately calls him "a cutie" and "totally her type" so... her type is quiet and refined pretty boys?

Real quick, Tenten's type being "cool people" also speaks to how she wants to be perceived as well. Her embarrassment toward Lee and Gai's antics, her general refusal to participate in them unless one of them forces her to, it all shows that she really wants people to see her as cool and competent. This is also shown with the people that she admires or finds cute. Sasuke, Kakashi, and Sagi here, who is shown to be somewhat similar to Sasuke in personality and motivations, all have a similar disposition.

Tenten doesn't try to emulate the cold personality type they have, she still acts like her usual personable and open self. She just wants to be perceived the way she and others see them. People look up to and admire Sasuke and Kakashi and Tsunade, and that's what Tenten wants too. To be admired and respected. She wants to be "cool".

In the end, the feudal lord turns out to be Sagi's sister pretending to be him, so actually a woman, and Tenten doesn't take back the fact that she called Sagi cute soooo... personally for me? Bi Tenten confirmed. thank u naruto filler.

Star Guard Arc (Episode 178 - 183)

I won't lie, this arc is barely interesting the first time you're watching it, and any rewatch gets super boring quick. They sing this one song so many times and for like 2 mins at a time too. I skipped so much of this on 2x because it's so slow, and with very minor Tenten moments.

Anyway so it's Team Gai + Naruto going to the Hidden Star Village because they called for help from the Leaf Village and Tsunade sends them out. They meet a boy called Sumaru who wants to be the village's Hoshikage and make their village great again or smth idk and they're supposed to be guarding a star that some mysterious ninja keeps trying to steal.

There’s not a lot of big Tenten character moments here, this arc really just has her on screen and doing stuff so it’s here.

Lee and Tenten get assigned by Neji to keep an eye on the village leader's men, and it's Tenten who keeps Lee from confronting them directly, as Lee feels there's no honor it in. Tenten has to keep yelling at him to just be quiet and follow along, and Lee is reluctant to do it but listens to her anyway, which is also a testament to their bond and his trust in her, if Lee is willing to put aside his principles if Tenten really insists that this is what they have to do for the mission.

Tenten also just seems to be very good at convincing Lee to go along with her ideas in general.

We have a really silly scene of Tenten and Lee literally just hiding under a barrel with a peephole as a disguise, and Lee questions if this is really the way of the ninja.

There’s not really many big Tenten character moments here that I could gather.

Konoha Plans Recapture Arc (Episode 197 - 201)

I really love this arc! It's a fun one all around and it's one of the few where we get to see all of the k11 working together. It keeps the tension up all throughout, and has a good mystery element to it.

We don't see Tenten until midway through the episode, when Shikmaru is ordered to form a group to find the stolen blueprints. Team Gai + Hinata all go to each of the construction sites to check if the spy Genno had left any traps there, but find nothing. They reconvene in a dango shop and Tenten quickly notices that the only places Genno went to are restaurants around town.

Team Gai + Shino and Kiba then get assigned to go check the site of Genno's "death", and Tenten notices and points out that some trees are burned on both sides, which isn't normal unless the explosions came from multiple places, not one like originally suspected.

She analyzes the positions of the burns on the trees and determines that a ring of bombs on the outer trees was set off first, and then the one in the center, and that if he'd timed the explosions right, he could have made it seem like one blast.

When they find the escape tunnel Genno used after the explosion, Tenten also recognizes that the construction of the tunnel allows for it to collapse on itself.

Clearly she has a knowledge of traps and other such things, and is crafty. The vibes are giving engineer tbh. I really like this detail! I think from what we've been shown of Tenten as this smart and observant character that likes weapons and tinkering, traps and escape tunnels seem right up her alley. When Team Gai sets up camp she's probably the one putting up traps and stuff around the perimeter.

This also plays into her strategic mindset, and I think in any kind of ambush missions she gets, she does the same, setting up traps and escape routes. She's exacting and detailed in her work, and likely self-learned all of this from books or other sources, since Gai's expertise is not in this.

When they find the first paper bomb, Tenten is the one to disarm it, once again showing her expertise in not just weapons, but also paper bombs and the like.

This is also the arc that we see Tenten using this sick fucking bow. It has a scope on it and can shoot 4 arrows. I feel like it's kind of hard to reload?? but I'm sure there's some cool ninja way they do it so.

Menma Memory Arc (Episode 213 - 215)

Tenten doesn't appear until the second episode of this arc, where her and Neji are assigned on a mission with Naruto to take this guy Menma to the Land of Rice Paddies to help him regain his memories.

There's not too much notable here, since this arc focuses more on Naruto and Menma than Neji and Tenten, but there's a few things.

Tenten's observant nature is really put on display in these two episodes, as a lot of the time, she's the first one to point out surrounding details to the others. At one point, when the enemy is in a tree observing them with a spyglass in a tree, Tenten notices the glare of the sun off the glass and warns everyone that the enemy is there. To me, this also supports my idea that Tenten has really good eyesight.

This episode, like many, also shows Tenten having to physically get Naruto to be quiet. She does this with Lee as well. I think it's kind of funny that it's always her having to quiet down the two impulsive and loudmouthed ones, and she always does a pretty good job at it, appealing to their sense and somehow managing to talk them down.

This once again shows that not only is Tenten physically strong enough to restrain Lee and Naruto physically, but also shows her people skills and how well she can convince the two of them to chill out.

Suna Support Mission (Episode 216 - 220)

Tenten only gets one scene in this last arc of the original series, and it's in the very last episode, complaining that she was literally the only member of the Konoha 11 to not go on the mission.

I adore this scene too because we get to see Tenten sparring with Lee using pure taijutsu! And she wins! Another instance of her using the Dynamic entry!

Chunin Exams 2: Electric Boogaloo (Shippuden 396 - 413)

This arc is some of the best Team Gai content we get from this show, since it focuses on on them primarily for a lot of it. I'm not going to summarize every single thing that happens but I'll go over the major Tenten character moments.

During the written exam, Sakura mentions this test would be with Naruto here because he'd just score a 0. Tenten says things would be easier for their team if Lee were as dumb as that. So Lee is not completely stupid, as we well know, and Tenten knows that well.

Lee tells them they should try to arrive first, and Tenten tells him there's no advantage to that. Tenten tends to be laid back, so unlike Lee, she doesn't like exerting more effort than she has to, as we see during some training flashbacks later in the arc. She doesn't want to do anything that won't directly benefit her, and she's... a bit lazy LOL.

Still, they end up going at full speed anyway, which is absolutely because Lee and Neji are both competitive little shits and made Tenten go along with them at top speed. I bet she spent the whole trip complaining.

Lee says that they've never been to the Sand Village before, so I think they actually haven't taken any missions there as genin. This actually is accurate because in the Gaara rescue arc, they also don't go to the Sand, they head for the Waterfall Village in between. Neji says he went there once on an errand for the Hyuuga.

During the dinner scene, Tenten makes fun of Kiba when he calls the shinobi from the Sand "mean-looking", telling him that he's also pretty mean-looking. I think it's cute that she teases all of the other konoha 11 like this, especially Naruto and Kiba.

When one of Shira's teammates mentions a cactus, Tenten also realizes that it was the cactus flowers that caused the genjutsu they were put under. I have a headcanon that Tenten studies genjutsu, or at least has a passing interest in it and that's also why she gets stuck in the Road To Ninja world instead of the full genjutsu during the war. I'll elaborate on this when we get to that arc.

Tenten pulls out this giant ladder from a scroll to get her team out of the sand waterfall pit. We're shown at various points that Tenten is a bit of a hoarder. She has everything in her scrolls, from cooking items to tents to giant metal shelters. Any item that's vaguely useful to her, she'll just toss into a scroll. But she clearly has some kind of organizational system because she knows exactly which scroll and which seal every item is in. Likely, she organizes everything by scroll—so a weapons’ scroll, a food scroll, a camp setup scroll, and so on.

During Lee and Shira's battle, Neji is seen explaining all of the intricacies of their taijiutsu to Tenten. We also see in a flashback that he does this for Tenten all throughout their training, whenever Lee and Gai are sparring or when Gai is explaining a technique to Lee. It’s very cute that he does this, keeping Tenten up to speed with the rest of them. This is also an indication that while Tenten is still fairly knowledgable in taijutsu (since she knows enough to ask Neji follow-up questions), it's not her main focus and is more like something she relies on in a pinch.

After this we spend two episodes with Team 8 before going back to Team Gai and their encounter with Ajisai. Tenten pulls out dinner from a scroll, which like I mentioned before, she's a hoarder and a packer. What's interesting to me is that she has food stroed in there, which means you can store food in storage scrolls. I wonder how good it stays in there. If an item needs to be refrigerated, would that change the seal? Much to consider.

Tenten gets irritated at Lee calling her convenient, because she feels that it makes her seem like a tool that's convenient for her team, rather than him saying her technique is convenient.

She storms off, and during her training flashback, we see her and Gai training with nunchucks. I absolutely think Gai was the one that taught her nunchucks, since it was one of the few weapons that he has a lot of expertise with, so he helped her out there. It made him very happy to be able to teach her something new rather than having to just give her resources and letting her figure it out.

Gai calls her convenient in the flashback and she has the same reaction, telling him not to talk to her as if she's some kind of tool. To his credit, he really didn't mean it that way, but it still irritates her. This is another sore point for her, clearly. It directly goes against her want to be seen as cool and admired, since it makes her seem like just a utility, a bag to pull out whatever they need in the moment, and she wants to be admired for her skills, not dismissed as a convenient thing to have around.

There's a funny moment after Tenten's flashback when Lee calls to her and tells her dinner is ready. She asks if the okunomiyaki turned out okay, and Lee looks nervous and says "I have my doubts about them..." which made me laugh.

When they start to fight Ajisai and her team, Tenten immediately picks Ajisai as her opponent after seeing she uses the same jutsu as her. She clearly still has a competitive spirit, even if it's not as strong as Lee or Gai's.

There's a flashback to her training with Gai, and Tenten doesn't seem to progress very far in the span of two years, especially compared to Neji and Lee.

Even after two years, she says she still struggles with chakra control and that her chakra level isn't very high. Plus she seems to not know that she has skill with the Summoning Technique, which is directly contradicted by Shippuden 237 where she's introduced to it in her early genin days and told directly by Gai that she has the skill for it.

I find this inaccurate and reject it.

Tenten is shown to be a quick learner, an enthusiast for research, and deeply upset over her loss to Temari. There's no way she hasn't spent nearly every day in the past two years honing her skills in more complex fuinjutsu, weapons, and other space-time ninjutsu in an effort to beat Temari, and also prove to herself that she isn't weak.

And about her chakra level not being high enough for summoning an ocean, I think Tenten has much larger chakra reserves than average. That's why her chakra control isn't very good (like naruto) and she can use the Treasured Tools. So it doesn't make sense to me that her chakra level is too low for what she does in the show or that she has to work to increase it.

I think her training with Gai is more about chakra control than about increasing her chakra. She hones her control so she can do more complex seals and can control how much water or fire she releases from her scrolls. To this end, Gai has Neji help her, since he has good chakra control. I think Gai also makes Tenten train with Sakura, though Tenten is slightly reluctant at first, and that’s how they grow to be eventual friends.

I think her aptitude for summoning implies that she could also summon animals if she could get along with one long enough to sign a contract. Personally, I think she should get bears.

The flashback ends with Tenten falling off of a cliff that her and Gai were climbing as training, and then she wakes up in the tunnel. We actually never see what happens after she falls which is really weird.

While Tenten walks with Ajisai, she finds her unresponsive to her small talk and giving her attitude, and points it out directly to her. She doesn't take attitude from Ajisai but is still kind, and doesn't raise her voice or start arguing for the sake of it. She very calmly lays out a logical counterpoint, still sounding pretty friendly, and still jokes around with Ajisai when she's done.

I feel like this is also a fairly good insight into how she used to deal with Neji before the chunin exams.

Once again showcasing her observant nature and situational awareness, she hears the ants coming well before Ajisai does. Tenten also gets grossed out by the dead ant, which is fairly consistent with the rest of the show. Tenten is shown getting uncomfortable when she sees bugs or just anything traditionally "icky". Not human blood and guts tho. She's funny for that.

She also asks Ajisai for advice with the summoning jutsu, which I still reject that she needs to, and gets disappointed when she doesn't have any. She sighs and says "I guess it's just sheer talent," looking visibly upset. Even after two years, this insecurity hasn't fully gone away.

Tenten is also visibly insecure when Ajisai starts sealing the rocks into her papers, and when Ajisai asks her to help, Tenten says she can't, because... she doesn't have the chakra for it, I think?? That or she's not confident enough in herself to be able to do it. But then one flashback later she summons an ocean??? How does this work oh my god.

Anyway, we get a flashback to Team Gai at a restaurant when he asked his students if they want to participate in the second chunin exams. Neji and Lee say a very confident yes, and Tenten goes along with them but looks upset. Gai asks if something is wrong, and Tenten asks if she's gotten stronger since the last exams. Gai says she should have, and Tenten says that it seems like she has nothing to show for it. Neji and Lee immediately turn to look at her and both seem shocked at this.

I actually really like this moment because in accordance with my headcanons from earlier, Tenten has very much improved in the past two years, but due to her insecurities, and specifically her insecurities surrounding the chunin exams, she doesn’t see it.

Lee and Neji are shocked because they can’t believe that Tenten thinks she hasn’t improved over the past two years. And they know best, because they’re the ones who have been training and going on missions with her. This is cute to me, a “I wish you could see yourself the way I see you” moment.

I headcanon that whenever Tenten has these moments of insecurity after the first chunin exams, Lee and Neji both encourage her in their own ways and help bring up her confidence.

Gai tells her that “hard work and determination will never betray you” which really seems to be Team Gai’s second motto, right after “stronger than we were yesterday”.

When they're waiting out the sandstorm in Tenten's little shelter, Tenten looks a bit uncomfortable the whole time, again supporting my headcanon that she's a little bit claustrophobic.

Once the jinchuriki are attacked, the focus goes to Neji and his strategic knowledge to show why he gets double promoted to jounin.

At Neji’s request, Tenten pulls a scroll out of what looks like either a waist holster inside her shirt, or her bra since she reaches into her shirt to grab it, and gives Neji a chakra blade, which he uses to cut into Fu's cocoon.

The chunin exams end after the third round is canceled, and everyone in the k11 gets promoted to chunin, with Neji getting a double promotion to jounin. Lee thanks his teammates, and Tenten says "Our three man squad is forever, right?" and SP clearly hates me specifically because they zoom in on Neji and have him say "yes I certainly hope so" and that's just plain rude when we all know he died literally one arc ago in shippuden.

Now one thing I want to mention here that always stood out to me about Tenten. We never get any backstory for her the way we do with any other character. The most we get of her childhood is a single scene of her declaring when she's young that she wants to be like Tsunade. Almost every other character shares pieces of their backstory with others. Not Tenten though.

I think this shows Tenten to be a very private person. Neji's told her everything about his clan and she talks about his backstory at times, or talks about Lee's, but neither of them ever mention hers. She doesn't talk to others about her past or her motivations. She keeps her goals and hopes to herself. I don't think she's cold about it, but she probably redirects conversations about herself when they come up.

I think eventually, she begins to share stuff with her teammates, but at first, I think she keeps quiet about her backstory, no matter how mundane or interesting it could be in comparison.

Anyway, this wraps up Tenten's genin years! Next we move on to her chunin years in Shippuden!

[cyncerity]

Just finished your new storeshifter au and, if I may add to the angst train, how long did it take for Sapnap to eat in the same place as his partners?

I'd assume he would have some trauma surrounding eating/chewing/swallowing near people after everything that happened with Bad and I would bet that sudden change in behavior would be extremely worrying to Karl and Quackity

ANON YOURE A GENIUS

yes absolutely, it takes a long while for Sapnap to get used to eating around people again after the Bad incident. Hell, he’d probably have a hard time eating. I think he’d play it off to Karl and Quackity as just wanting to eat by himself but then he’d go off and just…not eat.

also i can imagine this happening in the middle period between the fiancés leaving after the Bad incident and them finding the store, so they’re just traversing through the dangerous woods. Yknow, probably the least favorable place to be starving yourself given that you need energy to walk and fight off threats.

(tw for a little talk of fatal vore and digestion here, nothing canon just intrusive thoughts)

I can imagine that Sapnap has a hard time with swallowing anything for a while. He won’t drink anything warm cause it reminds him of his dad’s body heat when he swallowed him. He won’t chew anything because all of a sudden he’s back to the forest in that fight with that bird and it’s his dad that’s getting crunched in his teeth. God forbid he try eating any sort of animal; the first time he tried to eat meat after the incident it wasn’t fully cooked and the blood in his mouth sent him into the worst panic attack of his life.

Worse yet, when he does have a full stomach, the sounds of him digesting his food make him want to sob. Countless times after the incident he had tried to force himself to eat. After all, he was the only one of his trio who could fight, he had to get over himself and stay strong for them. But every time, he’d dream of a scenario where he hadn’t been lucid enough to let his dad out, where he had died within him, and they only sounds he’d woken up to were the gurgles of his own stomach and he couldn’t handle that.

He survives solely on water for as long as a living being can. Karl and Quackity notice him getting weaker, but he pushes off every attempt they make to comfort him. He doesn’t deserve to be comforted. He’s a monster.

Eventually he passes out and Quackity and Karl give him a very stern talking to, and he’s no longer allowed to wander off while they eat cause they want to make sure he’s eating too.

He has a breakdown when they make soup one night because now that he’s with them, instead of it being just his dad, it’s his boyfriends, too. He can almost feel them struggling and screaming, and the warm, full feeling in his stomach when he swallows only makes it worse. He won’t tell them why he can’t eat. They can’t figure it out, but eventually they find things he’ll eat by ruling out what he won’t. Nothing crunchy, nothing warm, no meat. Karl and Quackity begin to stock up on any berries they find, honey when they can come across it, and whatever roots they can easily grind into a smoothie-like mixture just to keep something in his stomach.

It takes a while for him to get over himself, and he probably still can’t properly eat some things, and he regresses a ton when he eats one of his fiancés for the first time (still trying to figure out how that happens but i’ll write it eventually), but after a while of Q and Karl being ok with it and getting more comfortable, he starts to feel better about himself.

[itspkuwu]

💛🌼Daisy Appreciation Post🌼💛

Alright. I’ve had it.

Now, it’s not Bowser x Luigi that’s the problem for me. Even tho I don’t ship it at all. Its the fact that ever since that so call paring exploded on to the internet, Daisy has pretty much been kicked to the curb and even hated by some people. And I won’t have it. I simply will NOT have it! 😤

People say that Princess Peach turned into a complete girl boss in the Mario movie and really enjoyed it. Well, that EXACTLY how Daisy is in the games! We’re basically just seeing Daisy’s personality within a different princess.

I know she’s only in the competition games and not really games with a story line (besides for her debut game of course) But I think that was done to get the point across that Daisy is an absolute tomboy who won’t let anybody put her down. Although I would LOVE to see her in a storyline game. MAKE IT HAPPEN NINTENDO. And with the other princesses, she DOES have a purpose. Think of it like the human body. Peach is the heart Rosalina is the brain And Daisy is the muscle.

And speaking of Peach, in the games, Daisy is clearly better at running her kingdom since Bowser hardly ever attacks there. That, or Bowser is just into blonde girls. Now, I’m not hating on any Bowser x Luigi fans. However, this is specifically a post not just to support Daisy, But also for Luigi x Daisy shippers… so uh…

Also notice how Luigi and Daisy are a little more touchy feely while Peach seems to be kinda resistant towards Mario?

Y’know. Just saying. Here’s more proof of them being a cute couple, but in video form. (not mine)

Again, this isn’t a hate post. I’m just gushing over a ship a like. Bowser x Luigi fans have a right to gush, and me, a Daisy x Luigi fan, also have that right.

And in case you’re wondering, the reason I don’t ship Bowser and Luigi is because of the moments they have WITH context.

When the trailer dropped, we had little to no context about what was going on.

But when the movie released and showed us what was actually happening… Bowser is clearly only doing the mustache twirl thing to intimidate Luigi.

Not to mention that Bowser attempts to sacrifice Luigi in Peach’s honor.

And uh… I don’t remember Bowser writing a tear jerker piano piece dedicated to the green plumber.

It’s all about the context people.

Conclusion: Princess Daisy doesn’t suck. Luigi x Daisy still has potential. And Daisy hate is very unnecessary to me. If you love Daisy too, share this post! 💛🌼 Also, she’s in smash.

SMASH ISN’T JUST FOR ANYBODY YKNOW. EVEN IF THEY’RE AN EHCO.

I mean, unless you’re Piranha Plant, but that’s another story :/

[cloudninetonine]

I just had the foulest idea for angst,

OKAY THIS IS LIKE JUST A LIL I WANNA EXPLAIN OR WRITE IT FOWN BEFORE I FORGET

Like imagine something wrong and blah blah blah chain have to go to some ceremony and stuff, so listen there’s like a pillar to hang up prayers , let’s just say legend was gonna have to make a speech for the sake of this, of course guide had to stay back because were kinda unrelated to what’s happening but them realising somethings wrong and coming running, something evil planned by the guards or some higher ups or whatever, and guides sprinting as fast as their legs can (I figured. We’re in bad shape Bcs of the way you write guide) they make it to the entrance and beg to be let in saying it’s an emergency, guard refusing and stuff, guide figuring out the guards in on it and calling him out, the guard gets provoked and attacks guide with a weapon of whatever, let’s say a bat of some sort, guide begs through tears and allat, some rich dude vouches for guide to be let in, the guard agrees when guide says they’ll take the blame and say they snuck in so he won’t get in trouble as bargain ,they let guide in, guide rushes Down , the pillars supports crack! (Its a metal pillar btw, it was planted by some evil Ppl IDK) cue ppl staring dumbfoundedly at guide being a mess, swollen cheek from being hit with something dull, bleeding nose , scratches from hitting the Ground , blood running Down their forehead , they leap at Legend and harshly shove him out of the Way, his face morphs into confusion and horror, (bcs one, why are you all beat up, 2 what are you doing??) hes harshly shoved out the Way yknow yknow?!?!? Guide sighs in relief, though that reliefs short lived as the metal pillar falls onto Them with a sickening crack, blood splattering from under the metal, a pause as the horror sets in, blood slowly seeping out from beneath the metal as ivory stains the previously pristine White floors , cue hyrule screaming :3 , i feel like they would all be horrified , who wouldnt seeing their friend get crushed under a ton of metal? Steel? Whatever , okay i had to ramble, phew might make a fic about this

RAAAA

BOO THIS IS FUCKING DJQJFJJSD 😭😭😭 HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME? /lh

IMAGINE THE HORROR ON EVERYONES FACE AT THE GUTS AMD GORE SPREAD ALL OVER THE AREA I KNOW THESE MEN WORLDS ARE COLLAPSING

[gaysonlyocean]

my friend told me about the shit going down in rat hq but she won’t elaborate please, I left after tmc ended and the server died I need to know what the heck happened

yeah ofc!!

do not harass anyone involved if you work out who they are i cant believe i have to say this

so after all of that it was repurposed to a general server cause yknow a lot of people made friends and wanted to reclaim the things they had made

this was fine until a couple months ago where a small ground of people who shall remain unnamed to stop drama started causing issues

at first it was a few uncomfortable comments that felt like glorifying and romanticising self harm that got swept under the rug but then the person doing that added a friend to the server who started making really sexual jokes and upsetting a lot of people

this friend was banned and the person who added them was kicked

a few days later one person in this group made a big post in general and as i said at the time they did have legitimate problems to talk about with how something they did when tmc was a thing a year ago went uncredited but they did it in a really hostile and awful way by straight up accusing people of theft and racism

a few people attempted to damage control going "hey this is a legitimate grievance and we understand but you cant go about it like this" but this was treated like it was a attack on them

someone else then joined their side about how the other person was kicked saying it was because we were switching up on them instead of the reality of making everyone uncomfortable

these two people were then banned and a couple of their friends left too, apparently they made a few bitter posts on tumblr but idk

since then everythings been great though, its still active and were all still having fun! its just a weird incident that happened a bit ago

[tastybluesprite]

Training Session

So I finally wrote a fic for them lol. I’ve added Lego Monkie Kid to my fandom list but I haven’t seen anything after the end of season 2 yet so no spoilers pliz haha… anyway, I hope you enjoy!!!

Warnings: This is a tickle fic so if that makes you uncomfortable don’t read. Also this is platonic!

Summery: MK finds out an interesting detail about the all powerful Monkie King

It was another day of training for MK. He and the Monkie King, were going at it in a duel.

“Yknow- bud-” Monkie King said through grunts as he tried blocking his mentees attacks. “You’re- really- getting- better- at this-“

If MK wasn’t so focused on trying not to get taken down for the millionth time, he would’ve glowed with pride at those words. He strived to improve, and to hear the person he looks up to most acknowledge his efforts, really meant a lot to him.

MK made to trip the god mid step as they fought, but the diety wasn’t gonna go down so easily.

Taking notice of this trick move, he dodged it and caught the Monkie Kids arm, pulling him down so he landed on his back with a loud “oof.”

“Euughh… that didn’t work out too well…” MK muttered sheepishly. Sun Wukong grinned endearingly at the kid. “Sorry bud! I was just too fast.” He grinned down at him.

“Can we try again? I know I can take you down!” MK insisted energetically.

Monkie King rolled his eyes light heartedly at his relentlessness, but he obliged nonetheless.

Back at it again, they swung, kicked, dodged…

At one point, MK missed his aim and ended up grazing his fingers against his teachers side. He didn’t expect the small, just barely audible squeak that escaped from the Monkie Kings mouth, as he jumped back instinctively.

MK had a momentary shocked look on his face, which slowly turned into a smirk that could rival the trickster deity.

“You’re ticklish? Since when!?” The student demanded, amusement filling his voice.

“N-no I’m not!” Monkie King exclaimed in defense. However MK couldn’t help but noticed how quick the reply was, as well as how slightly higher pitched his voice became.

“If that’s the case you won’t mind me doing this then?”

“B-bud what are you- NO!” He suddenly yelped out as MK tackled/shoved him with newfound motivated strength. He then wished he got away when he had the chance.

MK began poking up and down his teachers side and The Monkie King sealed his lips tight to keep the giggles down as he struggled against the kids grip.

MK then began digging in more forcefully and Monkie King had no choice but to give in.

“W-wahahait!!!” He burst out through his newly released giggles.

Monkie Kid beamed. It’s not like he never heard Sun Wukongs laugh before, as the god did it plenty. But not like this. It was more uncontrollable, carefree, and even a little childish (but in a good way).

“What happened to not being ticklish then? Your laughing doesn’t sound like ‘not ticklish.’” MK teased, now going further up to his ribs. Monkie King let out a squeal and was sent into belly laughter as his struggling intensified.

MK noticed that when he went to his ribs, the god had tightly jammed his arms to his side.

This inspired a realization.

He then tried pushing farther up, forcing his hands through, until…

“NAHAHA WAHAHAHIHIT!!!” The god absolutely exploded with cackles, kicking his legs wildly as he failed at trying to pull away desperately.

“Ahah! Found a weak spot!” MK declared, honing in on his underarms.

Monkie King was nothing but a puddle of laughter and squeals. He realized that he would not be able to pull MKs arms away, nor that he’d be able to make him stop due to how weakened he was. As much as his dignity protested, he had no choice but to surrender as he lay limp.

I mean, it��s not like the tickling would kill him (he can never die after all!) but the sensations were really getting to him. He wasn’t able to take it anymore. The tingly sensations were just torture!”

“YOHOHOU WIHIHIN STOHOHOHOPPP!!!”

MK, seeing he was being serious, figured he probably should.

He stopped tickling and got off the Monkie King. It took a moment for him to recover and stand up.

“Lohooks like I finally got to take you down!” MK exclaimed.

“Yeah yeah don’t get too cocky about it…” Monkie King said, still slightly flushed.

“Why not? I said I’d take out down and I did! It’s not my fault you’re ticklish…”

Monkie King snapped. “Ok then. What about you my dear mentee… would you so happen to be ticklish as well?”

The rest of the training time was now full of MKs laughter. Let’s just say he learned his lesson.

[chainera]

Possible Script For “What Happens When The Earth Collides With The Sun?” (Aka Earth Alone P3) And Onwards

WARNING: SUICIDE ATTEMPT AND A PANIC ATTACK! Proceed with caution.

Earth stares at the sun’s bright surface as if he was in a trance. He’s in Mercury’s orbit now, and he slowly edges closer, his oceans slowly boiling and the continents on his surface burning up. 

—

Moon: “Where is he—

Mercury - notices a blue dot near the sun: “Wait, is that him?!”

Moon: “WHAT?! What is he doing there—,” the Moon’s eyes widen as he realizes what’s happening. “Oh crap, oh crap— Earth, NO—!!”

The moon speeds towards the Earth, Mercury following easily, as he’s the fastest planet.

Mercury: “Gah— Moon, what’s happening?!”

Moon: “Earth— he’s gonna— he wants to collide with the Sun! He wants to—“

Tears drip down the Moon’s panicked face, and Mercury jolts in horror, realizing the implications. The two of them begin to run at max speed, but it’s no use. The Earth is too far away.

Then, a red dot joins the blue one. 

Earth is moving closer and closer. He’s quite slow, as there was some part of him begging him not to do it, but the majority just wanted it to all end. The miserable voices in his head far drowned out the reasonable ones, yelling that he brought nothing but pain, that it would be better if he just wasn’t there in the first place.

—

Venus, talking out loud to himself: “Hm, where’s that pipsqueak, usually I would’ve passed by him by now…”

Then Venus looks up and sees a burning Earth, dangerously close to the Sun.

Venus: “What the—

Venus flies in front of the Earth, blocking him  before he can go into the Sun. The back surface of Venus burns up a bit, and he grunts, but ignores it.

Venus: “Earth, what the hell are you doing here?! You’re- you’re literally burning up!”

Earth: “Wha- so are you! Just- just move out of the way!” 

Venus, incredulous: “Earth, if I let you do collide into the Sun, you’ll die. I thought you had common sense!”

Earth, defensive: “Why do you care? You’re not my friend anymore!”

Venus: “It’s called having decency, which you clearly lack! If you do whatever you’re doing, you can say goodbye to your life and the life that’s on you!”

Earth, snapping: “I. DON’T. CARE! You out of all the others should know this! None of you deserve me, alright! All I’ve done is take and take a-and hurt you all and it would just be better if I just died—,”

The Earth breaks down, sobbing. Venus stares at him in shock and horror.

The Moon and Mercury return, out of breath from the running.

Venus: “What… Mercury, Earth’s moon, what. Just. Happened.”

Moon: “I— I don’t know… thank  the universe that you saw him in time. Hey— hey Earth…”

Earth sighs quietly, eyes dull and filled to the brim with tears: “…”

Moon, gently: “How— how back we step back from the Sun, alright?”

Earth looks up emptily: “…”

The moon flies back, and Earth reluctantly follows. The other planets do as well.

Moon: “Listen, Earth, everyone makes mistakes, yknow? Just because you made a few bad decisions doesn’t mean we want you gone. The solar system would never be the same if you were.”

Earth: “…stop lying.”

Venus: “He’s telling the truth, yknow.”

Earth: “…”

Mercury: “I… I’m gonna go get Mars. Maybe he can do something.”

Mercury leaves.

—

Mars: “…Y’know what I think you need? I think you need a talk with Jupiter.”

Mercury: “But won’t that affect the Earthlings?”

Moon, squinting at Earth’s surface:“Somehow they’re still alive. I’m pretty sure they can handle this. Besides, Earth needs this.”

Earth: “…whatever. I don’t care anymore.”

Venus: “That’s um… alright.”

Mars eyes the asteroid belt and shivers, but sighs: “I’ll accompany you through…”

Mars, under his breath: “Hopefully we don’t encounter Ceres there.”

Moon: “I’ll come with!”

The three of them head in.

Mercury: “You think they’ll be fine?”

Venus: “…hopefully.”

—

Mars, the Earth, and the Moon are in the asteroid belt. Awkward silence fills the air, but then the Moon suddenly stops as he remembers something.

Moon: “Crap— I forgot about Ganymede and—,”

Mars: “What’s Jupiter’s moons got to do with this?”

Moon: “I—“

*The Moon looks at Earth’s depressed eyes, before sighing.*

Moon: “We’ll talk about this later. I don’t think they’ll try anything anyway.”

—

Io, coughs: “HOLY— I see Earth guys!”

Ganymede: “Earth! Let’s jump em!”

Phobos and Deimos: “YEAH!!”

Europa: “Not so fast. Mars and… Earth’s moon is with him as well. It’s too risky.”

Ganymede, hissing: “Traitor.”

Titan: “Hey… it might just be me, but there’s… something off about Earth. He looks… really depressed.”

Callisto: “…yeah, you’re right.”

Ganymede: “Hey, get your head in the game! Just because Earth’s a little sad doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve what we’re gonna do to him.”

Titan: “…yeah… you’re right. Since we can’t stop them now, Earth’s moon is probably gonna tell one of the gas giants. We should come up with a new strategy…”

—

The Earth, Mars, and the Moon pass the asteroid belt without any incident. They meet Jupiter, who notices them.

Jupiter: “Oh hey guys!… huh. Earth… you okay? And why have you crossed the asteroid belt? We could’ve just talked through it.”

Earth: “…”

Mars: “…we need to talk. Long term. Earth… Earth tried to collide into the Sun.”

Jupiter: “…what?”

Moon: “He tried to kill himself.”

Jupiter’s eyes widen in surprise. “Why?”

Earth: “Because— because all I’ve done is caused problems and- and—

Mars: “Hey, sh. Calm down.”

Earth: “…”

Moon: “He… he thinks that we’d be better off without him. Which is wrong, and we’re really worried he might try and- and do it again.”

Jupiter: “…I see. Hey, Earth, you’re not just a burden you know?”

Earth: “Yeah right.”

Jupiter: “If you were just a burden, than why would they try and save you?”

Earth: “…they’re wrong. They- they’ll regret it. If- if I do it than they’ll realize that I’m right.”

Jupiter: “…you know that we love you.”

Earth: “…what?”

Jupiter: “Cmon, it’s so obvious.  Throughout every argument, the moon still stayed with you. Mars laughed with you as you two played cards, there’s fondness in Venus’s voice whenever he calls you a reckless idiot, I’m always open to informing you about things, and even Mercury enjoys your company from time to time…”

A slight blush appears on Earth (OUT OF EMBARRASSMENT, OBVIOUSLY 😭 - wait can planets even blush—) as he looks at Jupiter and then behind himself at Mars and the Moon, who both nod.

Earth: “B-but— I don’t deserve to be loved…”

Jupiter: “Well, then work towards deserving it. Don’t run away, no one will be happy if you do. You can change, Earth. We believe in you.”

Earth: “…this is really sappy, yknow?”

Regardless, a smile slowly appears on Earth’s face.

(The ending was way too wholesome but uh yeah 💃🏻)

[moonfurthetemmie]

I am legally required to inflict more Supernova on everyone

So I’ve played around with them in the Final Girl Finch ending, and implied some stuff about the Delusional ending.

I also said that Fester would be collateral damage and not survive to watch how all this ends, but I’m going to play with Supernova in Red Sky and a liiittle but more in Delusional

So firstly, Delusional

While I didn’t say anything specifically, the fact that Delusion’s got hearts spinning around his head when he sees Slash (exaggeration) isn’t really changing his goals. The only difference is that now he needs to make absolutely sure that Slash is part of the world he’s trying to build. And Byte, probably. He doesn’t know much about her personally but Pluto and Slash care about her a lot so obviously she needs to stay. But he was planning to try to keep her around anyways for Pluto; he just has extra reason to now.

If he tries brainwash any of them though he’s going to have to do all three of them. Because they’re going to be pissed, and they’re too close to try to do one at a time.

Which means…slash. Slash is getting brainwashed.

And unless something catastrophic happens, she won’t even notice.

But this does also mean it’s much more likely that the Horror Squad will “reform” and join Delusion to help him deal with certain people.

On the bright side, she’s gotten over how pissed she is about liking him? So it’s slightly better?? But mainly just for Delusion.

…oh yeah Hunter still died. slash sees him near byte and in .5 seconds he’s bleeding out on the ground. Byte survives at the cost of one (1) Hunter

yknow they might show Gouge their maze. Tiny detail but they’re going to get to hang out with her more, and all four are going to decide they’re going to be besties.

Also Gouge is told the same lie as everyone else about them reforming, but she takes one look at the squad and calls bullshit. Not in front of anyone who might be very alarmed about it, though.

Anyways gouge is part of the squad. She gets to see the maze. She thinks they’re a bunch of morons for how they themed it, but she does very much like the concept. Every once in a while they decide to have a little fun with their targets and throw them in the maze. Gouge is absolutely terrifying because she just. Walks towards you. Summons her brush. Staring you dead in the eyes.

She’s chase you, for sure. But she’s not so enamored with the thrill of the chase as she is your terror. She wants to see the fear in your eyes when she comes for you.

And you even if you don’t know what she’s actually like, something in the way she’s looking at you tells you that you won’t get the mercy of a swift death.

Sorry I didn’t mean to go off on a Gouge rant. Continuing on to Red Sky Supernova

Fester avoids being collateral damage and manages to recruit the Horror Squad to help them “confront” Delusion. They say something about knocking him down a peg and they are all pretty sure they’ve got something worse in mind than what they’re implying, but they don’t know yet that this 15-year-old is ACTUALLY possessed. They think they’ve just got some funky magic or something. They could keep them in line if they tried to go too far.

Slash thinks she can use this to get Delusion to agree to HER way of making things work. But also they all DO want to knock him down a peg, and Fester’s plan is oddly clever for someone their age.

TL;DR: they cannot keep the demon in line. Delusion and Pluto die. Fester takes over the whole universe and begins their plans to expand.

If Slash doesn’t immediately get herself killed by attacking Fester in a fit of fury, it’s just a matter of time. He had no idea any of them cared about Delusion.

There were some thoughts about Delusion and Pluto being stuck there as ghosts at one point. If they are, Pluto absolutely tells Delusion everything and swears they had no idea Fester was actually going to kill him.

Delusion fortunately believes him. They follow Byte and Slash around and try to get their attention. Slash do NOT GET YOURSELF KILLED

If Slash gets herself killed right away shes DEFINITELY sticking around as a ghost and making Fester’s life as miserable as she can.

On the bright side, she can (maybe) talk to Pluto and Delusion.

On the down side, byte’s all alone. And oh she’s furious. Ohh she’s furious.

50/50 chance she manages to banish him back to hell or just also gets herself killed.

Buuut if she does get killed they’ll at least all be able to cause Fester problems together

like there’s no Good answers here but oh boy are there tasty angst answers

Slash dying and having to face Delusion after she and her friends just got him killed. Oh she’s gonna be so fucked up. This isn’t what she wanted. God, this isn’t what she wanted.

I don’t know if Delusion would be more upset at her if she survives or dies. But I think, while he and Slash have had a history of absolutely despising each other, I don’t think he could take the idea of Pluto wanting to hurt him seriously. Other people, yeah, but not him. So. Slash has that immunity. Because Pluto sure as hell wouldn’t agree to killing him, and if Pluto wasn’t coming, the other two wouldn’t either.

He could 100% believe it if Fester told them they could keep Pluto from dying when they kill Delusion. But Pluto still wouldn’t agree to that. He has trouble imagining Slash would, but it’s much more plausible than Pluto.

but…soft ghosts? Delusion trying to tell her he forgives her as she breaks down over getting two of the three people she loves killed. Slash refusing to let either of them get near Fester, even though they’re dead, because if Fester’s a demon who knows what they could do to ghosts?

pluto and delusion taking turn third wheeling because they’re both very very important to her, just in slightly different ways, and sometimes she and Pluto are being too chaotic for Delusion or Delusion is being sappy with her and Pluto pretends to gag.

Gouge is so confused when she sees them. Mainly the fact that Delusion and Slash are genuinely just chilling with each other. Hardly any animosity. Absolutely not what she would’ve expected.

All the ghosts follow the remaining Horror Squad member(s) around tho. Trying to keep most of the demons at bay, though they can’t do much but look and act threatening.

[guzmabuglord]

Yo!!! I heard you like bug types!! I was thinking about finding a bug type to adopt and raise, as I think it'd be a good experience!

Got any advice for care tips or suggestions in general? Sorry if that's not your kinda jam, I'm just nervous asking anybody else and you seem cool so!!

i fuckin LOVE bug types. I’m THE bug type guy. happy to help— you’re gonna love em too, trust me.

I ain’t no professor— all of my shit’s just off personal experience. just what worked for my guys, yknow? So fit any of this to whatever your bugs prefer. Anythin your pokemon are sayin outweighs whatever another trainer or a manual says. That goes for any pokemon, course. Cut it so you don’t feel too bombarded.

Bug types grow FAST, first of all. Most of them do anyway. Some of em evolve late, but most evolve pretty quick— and even if they don’t, they’ll eat like they’re evolvin any day now. Stock up on food for em, you’ll need it, and always be sure to have extra. they can get into a lil trouble if they’re hungry, and ya don’t wanna be runnin out to the nearest Pokemart at 3 in the mornin. Well, you’ll do that anyway. but ya wanna minimize the amount of times, yeah?

Try not to touch antennae. They’re hella sensitive on most any bug that’s got em, and it can send em into a panic if they ain’t prepared. if they really trust ya, they’ll extend them out to ya, or bump their head into you lightly. Still wouldn’t advise touchin em even if they do. Depends on the pokemon, though— my Golisopod’s cool with me doin it, but that’s also cuz we’ve been pals for so long. Other guys will let you pet their antennae after just a lil while. Some other guys won’t ever want you touchin em at all. Depends. Just read their body language and you’ll be alright.

Careful bout toxins and shit even if they ain’t a bug-poison type. Lotta bugs still have poison filled claws or stingers even if it ain’t their typing. If they’re usin them, they’re prolly more scared of you than you’re scared of em. They won’t attack less you’re doin something real wrong though.

Make sure your flying, rock, and fire types are kept at a safe distance at first, too. They needa be gradually introduced. Attacks from them, even if it’s during playin or roughhousin, can really fuck up a bug type. Just exercise proper caution, yknow?

It’s a real fun experience. Keep me updated on whateved bug type ya get 💯💯

[nsfwitchy2]

Hi Witchy!

About the girlwithdogs channel: as channels grow it's inevitable that the creator behind it becomes less realistic. Sucks for groomers to give the public false expectations but it's kind of inevitable. Lots of channels start out as little niche passion projects and then . . . I could write a whole ass paper about the Youtuber phenomenon, but I just submitted my own paper and have zero interest in writing for another three months. And honestly, probably somebody else already has written about it better than I can.

You said you didn't want to go off because you're at work, but can you tell us more about grooming cats when you can? I love how little work having my boy is but now you're saying I should shave him? Like, his fur????

Thanks and love xx

Ps. More Adam, please!!!

I mean yeah that makes sense, and like I said I haven’t seen her newer stuff and I probably won’t lol - but it seemed like I would be doing the grooming community kind of a disservice if I didn’t mention the general opinion of her that I’ve seen, yknow? I think a lot of YouTubers become less realistic as their channels grow, it happens all the time.

But yeah it does suck, especially because, tbh, the average US citizen at the very least knows like…. NOTHING about pet grooming? Like, if I asked the average person they would say it’s where you give pets a hair cut, but most people don’t… know anything past that, and often times don’t even factor in what that means.

Your question for example, which I am using to segway here and I don’t mean this in any shameful way. But I have like… never advocated to have anybody shave their cat unless it was medically necessary. Ever. Because unless it is medically necessary - DO N O T SHAVE YOUR FUCKING CAT!!!! Your cats fur is necessary for protecting their skin, regulating their temperature, and for sensory input. There is also a VERY solid chance it will not grow back, or it won’t grow back correctly and may leave bald patches. I have only ever advocated for shaving cats who medically needed to be shaved - such as the cat who bit me, who is highly aggressive when being brushed. Which basically means his owners cannot brush him or he will attack them. Long haired cats specifically N E E D to be brushed, or their fur will mat and this can become painful and dangerous.

Now I will say - there are people who get cats shaved for reasons that aren’t medically necessary. We usually try to educate them on why that’s bad, but at the end of the day they are paying for a service so we still have to do it if they want us to. It usually isn’t fun though, for us or the cat. They don’t really like being shaved.

What you CAN do with your cat though, and what I personally suggest you do, is regularly brush and bathe them. Or get them bathed lol, we have equipment you guys don’t lol.

Brushing your cat keeps them from getting matted - which like I said, is painful and can be dangerous. Matting is when the fur knots together in clumps, and overtime it can eventually grow into one big clump - called pelting. Matted and pelted fur is VERY tight and pulls on the animals skin, which causes irritation. It basically makes them super hot, super itchy, and super dirty because it traps dirt and dander and makes it hard for them to regulate their body temperature. This can cause things like mat rash - which can become inflamed and infected. Mats CAN be brushed out before they become too bad, but once they do it is only recommended to remove them through shaving and never cutting. This process is fairly dangerous since the closer the mats are to the skin, the closer the cut - and since matted and pelted animals are usually pretty uncomfortable, they can be pretty irritable and restless and even aggressive. To be honest - while long haired cats specifically NEED to be brushed, you should also brush short haired cats as well because they can become impacted if you don’t. You mentioned Adam so I’ll use him as my example here XD

Adam sheds like crazy. Like…. Adam sheds an ABSURD amount of hair. However he does not need regular brushing because he is regularly maintained through Beatle grooming him, his own grooming, and our regular petting and snuggling. However if I were ever to pet Adam and start noticing lumps and clumps in his fur, that would signal to me that I need to start brushing him - because his shedded fur isn’t being removed as efficiently as it was before and is starting to clump and become impacted. Which can also, you guessed it, lead to matting!!

Bathing your cat just keeps them clean and soft!! Contrary to popular belief, cats do not bathe themselves - they just brush themselves to some degree. Bathing cats can help with dandruff, dry skin and skin irritation. It’s also necessary for hairless cats to remove excess body oils, as well as older cats or long haired cats who may not be able to clean themselves thoroughly with their tongue. I have seen some NASTY cats, let me say, who definitely needed a good bath.

There is also a high chance that if you DO take your cat to a pet groomer, they will cut their nails. I do wanna say now that this is fine - we do this for our safety and it does not hurt the cat in any way. I clip Beatles nails because he likes to rip up the walls and door frames.

Mmmm aside from that I guess the only thing I can think of to talk about is nail caps lmao. They’re not great - don’t use them. It’s like putting acrylics on a cat, the glue erodes and damages their nails after a while. They also can’t retract their claws in nail caps either, which can lead to stress - I say that from experience because we got nail caps for Beatle and he got so stressed he began to eat his fur off :/

We offer nail caps at the salon too, but it’s like shaving - all we can do is advocate on the animals behalf, at the end of the day though they’re paying us for a service so we still have to do it.

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TEDTalk I guess and giving me an excuse to flaunt my cat grooming knowledge XD

I won’t lie it really is one of my favorite parts of my job, cat grooming is very fascinating despite the occasional safety hazards - though tbh any job that involves working up close and personal with animals has its dangers so 🤷‍♀️

But yes yes, here is an Adam for you XD

And a bonus Beatle as well!! My snuggly baby boys 💞🥺

[mewintheflesh-2]

Speaking of putting The Fuckers™️ in places they shouldn’t be. I’ve been thinking and developing for like since June on putting the core 4 into Undertale. GB, Mikey, and Nikey all wake up in the first patch of buttercups together, much to Mikey and Nikey’s dismay. But Fuse is nowhere to be seen. Hmmmmmm. They begin to venture through the underground, Toriel being very surprised to find three adults instead of the usual one child. She’s a little standoffish towards them at first but warms up a little to their company. She doesn’t feel the need to guide them through the ruins obviously, since they’re, yknow, adults. This does lead to Mikey and GB almost being impaled through the feet. Nikey stopped them before they could though.

Oh yeah, about their “route”. It’s pacifist obviously, but Nikey at first had to be held back from killing a few (a lot) of monsters just for being “in my way.”.

They exit the ruins and meet sans who is just his usual self, a little bit thrown off by there being, again, three adult men instead of the usual child. Sans is just like. “Timeline fuckery? Maybe.” (Maybe) but they continue with their walk through the forest, eventually meeting Papyrus. Which is just like. Instant besties with everyone except Nikey.

Nikey takes note of his more quote unquote “naive” nature (just according to his observations. He’s just making assumptions.) and attempts to form sort of the same relationship/a relationship akin to Papyrus’ relationship with Flowey, but sans has a little “friendly chat” with him, which leads him to begrudgingly lay his hands off of Papyrus.

(GB and Mikey end up going on the date with Papyrus, but Nikey stays behind them to explore and try to gain any information he can on where he is and how he got there. He ends up getting the wrong number song call and sees a strange figure in the corner of his eye. But when he looks at it directly to see what it is, it’s gone.)

They continue past Snowdin into Waterfall and “meet” Undyne as she tries to hunt them down. She fails, as all three of them are quite experienced in battle and dodging attacks and such. Especially GB.

They end up stopping by Temmie Village, which Nikey promptly has to pry the other two away because they refuse to leave. “The Temmie’s are adorable though! You just don’t know how to have fun.” “Maybe. But what I do know is that you idiots will let us all starve here rather than leave your… weird dogs behind and get on with trying to find a way out of here.”

Nikey ends up taking the reigns on the fight with Undyne, which keeps getting interrupted because GB and Mikey won’t stop running away, which Undyne will NOT let happen, and so she keeps chasing after them until they’re all in battle with her, and then GB and Mikey run away again which Nikey is VERY annoyed by because he want to FIGHT HER GODDAMMIT.

Nikey ends up running after her every time she tries to catch the other two, so he’s behind her when she collapses out from heat exhaustion. GB ends up being the one to pour the water on her because Mikey will not drop his whole “I hate Magma and Aqua” shtick. SPEAKING OF WHICH. This bitch HATES Hotland!!!! He refuses to take off his jacket even when he’s literally about to pass out so GB has to convince him to take it off. It takes like an entire hour. Nikey however willingly does so, draping his coat over his shoulders (see Commander Kamado).

Anyways I’m getting off track. Kind of. ???

They all end up going on the date with Undyne, which Nikey takes the reins on once again, Undyne and him constantly bouncing off of eachother in terms of quips and just general shenanigans.

Nikey ends up softening up a little after befriending Undyne, which the other two don’t hesitate to playfully poke fun at him for. Nikey is frustrated with this and threatens to throw them into Hotlands lava ocean if they don’t be quiet.

When they get to the lab, they see someone familiar emerge from the True Lab with Alphys. Fuse. Interesting. They dont really have time to get Fuse to explain himself to them, as Mettaton is now set off and on their trail. Which. BY THE WAY. GB and Mikey absolutely ADORE. Nikey’s a fan of his antics as well but is very annoyed he keeps interrupting their journey as they try to escape.

Anyways, when Mettaton EX is revealed and that entire battle starts, Mikey takes literally all the reins on it and is just KILLING IT. Literally makes the ratings multiply by 5 by just being there and fucking slaying. Mikey ends up being sad that the battle has to end due to Mettaton, well, yknow, and is very concerned for his robot friend. Alphys reassures him it’s okay and Mettaton can be fixed… maybe. Which is good enough for him

Right after this is right about the time they end up receiving the phone call from Undyne asking them to deliver her confession letter to Alphys. Which they do, and the date is very cute :)

Of course the good feelings don’t last for long in their case, as it comes time for them to venture into Alphys’ true lab. Which surprise surprise! Fuse is there :)

Turns out, he’d been manipulating Alphys to his advantage, so that she would let him experiment on the amalgams for himself. The experiments weren’t just limited to fusions though, oh no, they got much worse. There were a few times Fuse almost got Alphys backed into a corner to let him try to fuse her with another monster just to see if it would work, but she always seemed to escape by the skin of her teeth.

Anyways. Shit happens in the lab. Fuse tries to kill everyone except for him, but he ends up being restrained and stopped before he can execute his plans. GB, Mikey, and Nikey take Fuse off of Alphys’ hands and apologise like a million times for his actions. Alphys insists it’s fine but… yeah no it’s not fine. Girlie needs therapy more than ever.

They end up having to tie Fuse up with a rope and drag him along that way. They also have to put rope around his mouth because he will not. Stop. Saying the weirdest and most creepy shit in the world.

They venture through the core, where Fuse tries to kick all of them into the cores void pit like five times before he gives up. Oughhhhh I’m losing steam >:(

The entire fight with Asriel plays out, and Asriel takes form as his child-self.

Turns out, fuse has been slowly chipping away at the ropes binding him the entire time he was in them. He breaks free.

Fuse ends up attacking Asriel when he’s in his child form, and taking all of the souls, absorbing them into his body. Unfortunately for literally everyone else, this turns him into a god. I’m not sure how the fight for the souls would play out, but just know that they fuck up Fuse’s shit and nearly kill him. Yay!

A few minutes after the barrier is broken, they end up being sent back home, to which everyone is like “Was that a dream I swear it wasn’t. GB and Mikey end up getting on FaceTime and being like “DUDE DO YOU REMEMBER-“ and the other’s like “YEAH HOLY SHIT.”

Nikey waits a few days to confirm it with the other two because he’s not sure if it happened or not, and it’s be rather embarrassing if he just walked up to Mikey like they were acquaintances if literally that entire ordeal didn’t really happen. Luckily for him, it did. This ends up in Mikey and Nikey being on… okay terms for the most part.

Fuse however is just like :)

God I want to incorporate Gaster into this more but immmmmm tired oshaondisjdkssjkssjskn

[obstinaterixatrix]

I’m quarantining this separately because I want to keep personal feelings and reactions separate from the info posts I’m rb’ing, and I’m not looking for input, but man. the destruction of palestine is indefensible (has always been) and it’s so frustrating to see people just fall for (or just perpetuate) propaganda for genocide. and in general, like, iraq? vietnam? warmongering is basically the same cycle of the same bullshit driven by the same motives, profit/power/paranoia. the second you stop engaging in hypotheticals and engage in the facts of the situation, there are no ambiguities or grey areas in mass death.

it’s also frustrating to see people outside of the conflict engage with it by making it about their own feelings to an overwhelming degree. I think grief is natural and compassion needs to be centered, anger is understandable, but folks on the outside come across as self-centered when their anger is based on their own grudges. it’s like making a situation personal that’s not yours to take, yknow. It dilutes the conflict.

Personal feelings aside, I don’t think trying to shame or attack other people is productive, it’s a distraction from productive work or conversation. it’s a matter of stonewalling people who won’t change their minds and making your own stance clear. it’s a matter of providing information and resources to people who have the capacity for understanding. it’s a matter of donating to trustworthy organizations when relevant and participating in collective action where possible. it’s a matter of having a stance that cannot be diluted. it’s just so pointless to argue in good faith with people who aren’t willing to engage in a good faith conversation. like I’m not saying the people who aren’t taking a solid stance in support of palestine don’t matter, but the individuals don’t matter to me, they’re operating in their own capacity and that’s largely irrelevant. (and in some cases, it’s understandable why some people might not have the capacity to engage.) what’s relevant is putting as much pressure on the people in power as possible. and pathos is important in terms of the pathos that needs to be felt for palestine, but pathos is useless rhetoric against an oppressive power. pathos is for connecting allies, when it comes to oppressive powers it’s about cornering them. anyone else’s feelings are their own to deal with. outside of those personal feelings, engage with reality or get out of the way. anyway, that’s all the feelings I want to quarantine.

[bejeweled-wahlberg]

Phineas Flynn’s Panic Attack(Story)

Mentions of: Panic Attacks,GAD(Generalized Anxiety Disorder) Su!d!3 Mentioned and Fainting,Homophobia

Characters used: Phineas Flynn, Jonathan Knight-Rodriguez(NKOTB), Marissa Kratt, Harley Rodriguez

Note from me: Ik this isn’t the regular content I post on here but this story is actually based off of the real events that happend to me and I’ve experienced before and so I wanted to have phineas that similar experience and you guys can understand with the story-BW Aka Trin

It was just a regular day at school phineas was just walking around talking to his friends and then Marissa Told Phineas about how people are bullying him for having Two Dads Harley and Jon in which Phineas doesn’t like homophobia and supports the LGBTQ+ community in which phineas said to Marissa that the people who make fun of his 2 dads are jealous and so him and his friends walked into class for the pop quiz that phineas has been studying for 5 Days Now until then the pressure of how the people who made fun of his two dads online got into his head phineas started sweating and asked Mrs.Jenkins to go use the bathroom until then phineas sees Henry playing with the water and ferb writing some notes about how to kill Jordan Knight aka Phineas’ Uncle even tho that won’t even happen, Phineas went to the sink told Henry and ferb hi and all three of the boys started talking Henry said “Also there’s plans that my uncle Paul is gonna give the kotnb aka us OUR OWN BURGER!” “Awesome” Ferb Says Happy “uh-yeah th-that’s cool” phineas says while shaking in which his anxiety starts to happen “uhh phineas are you okay?” Henry asked in his concernd voice until then phineas started to faint he was already pale and Henry and ferb started to yell phineas’ name to wake him up and Henry told ferb to get Nurse Biffany(Buford’s mom BTW) and so biffany called phineas’ Dads to come to the school to take him home and on the way to the farm that Harley and Jon own Jon Asked Phineas a question “Phineas are you having like anxiety attacks or anything?” “W-what n-no dad I-I’m not I’m fine” phineas says with a fake smile “Well incase if it happens just come talk to either me or your dad” Harley said to phineas “A-Alright Bubba” phineas said

Few minutes later

Marissa(who lives with Jon,Harley and phineas so that phineas can have some company) came home from school in which she knew about what happend to phineas and checked up on phineas in his room making sure he was okay

Until dinner

Jon said phineas’ Name 12 times but phineas didn’t answer “maybe he’s asleep babe” Harley told Jon “yknow I’m gonna check on him” jon told harley and so jon walked into phineas room and saw phineas crying and asked him “Son what’s wrong?” Until then jon saw the writing that phineas wrote on the wall saying “You Have Gay Dads That’s Weird” “Hey Look Red Hair Has Gay Dads and One of them is a new kid HAHAHA” “dude get a mom not another dad” in which that made jon upset for a bit until he saw phineas scars on his arm and phineas was crying saying “I don’t wanna Live in this world anymore” until that’s when Jon Stopped him phineas dropped the knife and his dad hugged him and said “Don’t Leave me Son” until then Harley and Marissa Came upstairs to see phineas crying on Jon’s chest and Jon was comforting his son that he recently gotten to known and Harley plus Marissa joined too to help but they both realized that Jon and Phineas needed Father and son time

Aftermath

Jon grabbed some rubbing alcohol to put it on phineas’ arm that he cut from a knife and wrapped it up in a bandage and phineas explained his dad and bubba about what’s been going on and Marissa apologized to phineas about telling him the bullying and homophobia towards his Dad and Bubba, and That’s when They heard a knock on the door and Jon opened the door to see Henry,Donnie,Sunny,Joey,Trin,Danny and Ferb putting Jordan into a headlock for a about a minute until ferb stopped and let go “We heard what happend Jon” Jordan said and so everyone walked in and phineas walked down stairs to see his friends and uncle here “phineas we are here for you” sunny said “Yeah well except for Baby Donnie” Henry said in which Everyone laughed including Donnie cause that was his nickname that his mom gave him(RIP alma btw)

Next day:

When phineas went back to school the same people who made fun of his dads said homophobic slurs towards phineas and phineas actually told them “You need to calm down and Shade never Made Anybody Less Gay”(Taylor swift reference)

Reminder from Henry:

Don’t make fun of your friends or family well you can make fun of my uncle mark hehehe no don’t really do that but incase if you are having anxiety problems talk to an adult or your school counselor or maybe listen to some of rayes(aka Taylor swift’s) Songs and look up some quotes from Donnie wahlberg aka my foster dad now if you excuse me I gotta Stop ferb from killing Jordan

From Your Chickenity friend, Henry Hart