#but hyphenating it implies it's two | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

chaithetics · 1 year

Text

Porcelain and the Shark - The 80th

Pairing: Stewy Hosseini x f (Roy) reader

(reader has anxiety, no use of y/n, physical descriptions or other names but does have the nickname Porcelain/Porce - due to family viewing her that way not because of complexion)

Word count: 5K

Prompt: Logan’s birthday Oc!Roy and their two toddler kids, pregnant with the last one goes to the surprise party. Logan at this point while loves his daughter isn’t too thrilled with the fact that Stewy isn’t in the business or like open to help logan as “family,” so he’s kind of soured on Stewy. And while he loves his grandkids, he’s kind of not happy they’re Hosseini’s and y/n is one too, he’s pretty salty that even though it’s hyphenated she’s pretty okay with just being called Mrs. Hosseini at pre-school pickup. So the dinner is on and y/n is talking with her siblings and tending to the kids and Stewy shows up pretty late due to business, which also pisses Logan off because while he admires it, he also sees it as a slight to himself. Y/n stops it, gently but also pretty much uses her pregnancy and meek daughter rep to kind of disarm her dad’s explosion and barbs. (slight variation on some stuff)

Chapter/content warning: 18+ MINORS DNI, established relationship, implied spice but not really, soft Stewy, dad + husband Stewy, anxious reader, anxiety, mentions/references to drug use (not depicted though), mentions/allusions to childhood abuse, canonical Roy Roy family being Roys...

Authors note: This was one prompt of a few in a single ask so I haven't directly responded to it as it will be a little series of drabbles and to keep the other prompts in there so I don't forget. This is an anxious f (afab) Roy reader. Sorry for the slight delay in this, I ended up changing my mind about which fic I wanted to finish and post, it just made more sense dramaturgically... I hope you you all enjoy this and let me know what you think! Especially the lovely Nonnie that sent this in, I appreciate you!

****************

It’s the day of your father’s 80th birthday and you’re anxious to say the least. You’d always lived with anxiety that you’d struggled to hide but this anxiety was often worsened when your family was involved. Your family were dramatic, toxic, chaotic and abusive. You were wondering why you were even going, especially without Stewy but you reminded yourself that you had boundaries. It would be okay. Connor would be there and Stewy would come, he would just be running late.

You wouldn’t even say anything about how it was a surprise birthday party, you’d leave that to Roman, he would definitely bring it up. Everybody knew that Logan absolutely hated surprises but Marcia had chosen to ignore it. You knew it wouldn’t go well, there was always some drama and you were even more anxious because Stewy wouldn’t be there for the bulk of it. You’d just finished feeding your daughter Matilda and now your focus was turned to getting your three-year-old son, Jonathan, ready.

Jonathan’s giggle can now be heard from the bedroom, clearly coming from the ensuite. You walk into the large ensuite to see Jonathan sitting on the vanity swinging his legs as Stewy styles his hair. You immediately stop to watch the sweet scene, it calms the anxiety that had been growing as a dreadful ball in the pit of your stomach.

Jonathan is looking up at his father in awe with a large smile covering his whole face. Stewy’s face is pure concentration as his focus is solely on his son’s curls he’s easily putting into a style similar to his. You lean against the doorway and watch them, not saying a word as you don’t want to disturb this moment.

“Does it look just like yours?” Jonathan asks excitedly.

Stewy chuckles and while he still has concentration etched into every handsome feature he has a giant smile that’s directed at Jonathan. “Almost.”

You were absolutely in love with Stewy and were just in as much awe of him as you were when you first fell. His playful, teasing nature really shined when he was with his children. They were in mutual adoration of each other. But Stewy wasn’t a manchild, he could be serious. He was intelligent and always quick-witted, he was also soft and patient, the latter being a necessary skill for having spent so long around Roys.

“Mommy!” Jonathan calls out as he finally notices you. You walk over to where he sits. Stewy looks over his shoulder at you with a large smile and then his focus returns back to Jonathan.

“Hi, darling.” You smile at Jonathan, placing a hand gently on his back to ensure he’s securely sitting on the vanity as you give him a little tickle on the side. He giggles which makes Stewy’s smile grow. You lean over to softly kiss Stewy on the cheek, you feel his smile widen as his handsome beard tickles your lips and you let out a small laugh at that.

“You’re distracting me, baby.” He teases.

“I’m sorry, can’t let that happen now can we?”

“Sweetie-” Stewy winks at Jonathan and points at the young boy's dark curls as he continues. “This is my life’s work, my genes- these genes, Jonathan’s my masterpiece.” You giggle at that and Jonathan looks up at you both laughing.

“I want my hair like Dad’s!” Jonathan says as he points up, you nod. You love Stewy’s hair and it made your heart melt that Jonathan had inherited Stewy’s curls. Jonathan’s hair was normally tidy but wasn’t styled back how Stewy’s usually was, your precious son normally had looser, freer curls and you made a mental note to request Stewy doing the same more often.

“So not a silly mohawk?” You ask Jonathan moving your hands to gesture what you mean. Stewy chuckles at that and Jonathan looks up at you.

“No!” He says while giggling.

“That’s what I thought, I was just checking sweetie.” You say with a smile looking down at him. He smiles while Stewy finishes his hair. Stewy then picks him up, turning him around so Jonathan can look into the mirror.

“Happy with that buddy? You look pretty suave.” Stewy says with a smile. Jonathan excitedly nods and says thank you a few times. You can’t help but laugh at the young boy’s joy and how loving Stewy is with him, the complete opposite of what you had with your father.

Stewy then puts Jonathan down and Jonathan hugs you and walks off. Stewy smiles at you and you wrap your arms around the back of his neck and lean your head against his chest.

“Our genes really made a masterpiece.” Stewy says as he presses his lips against yours softly, you lean into the kiss more and it naturally deepens it. You bite his lip a little and moan into his mouth, his hands then come to wrap firmly around the back of your waist, pressing you into him more.

“Thank you for doing that.” You say as you put a hand through Stewy’s soft hair. “He looks pretty happy and-”

“Of course. But don’t thank me for being a parent, remember?” Stewy says as he presses another kiss to your forehead.

“I know. You should have your hair- curls out more often, you know?”

“Oh really?”

“Yes, it’s a formal request.” You say pressing a soft kiss to his jaw.

“Noted, I’ll raise that at the next hair board meeting.”

“I’d appreciate it.” You say with a smile, then your eyes scan to Stewy’s watch. “I guess it’s probably time for you to head off now sweetie.” You tilt your head to give his cheek another kiss.

“I’ll get there as soon as I can okay? It’ll be fine- Connor will be there and I love you, so there’s that as well.” Stewy says kissing your lips another time.

“I love you too.” You say giving him one last kiss before he heads off to work and you leave with the kids to survive another Roy family function.

**************************

Roman hums the Jaws theme song as he walks into the bathroom.

“Uh yes, I thought I smelt shit.” Roman’s voice cuts through as he sees you holding Matilda in one arm with a freshly changed diaper.

“Maybe it’s because you just walked into a bathroom?”

“Yeah, one with a baby that just took a shit.” Roman smirks.

“Rome.” You say tiredly.

He rolls his eyes with a small smirk and walks over, giving you a quick one-armed hug as he leans down to peck a kiss on Matilda’s forehead, he sniffs her head for a moment. He wouldn’t admit it to anyone but he loved doing that, it was calming and he’d take any chance he could to do so.

There were many things Roman wouldn’t admit, one of them being that you were secretly, probably his favourite. He wouldn’t hide it but he also wouldn’t loudly admit it in front of his father, that he genuinely loved being an uncle. Or that he found holding and sniffing his niece’s head calming. Shiv had looked down on you for embracing motherhood and it had perplexed Roman at first, he wouldn’t admit this but now he found a weird comfort in seeing you be so gentle and loving to Jonathan and Matilda. None of you had received that and while he was the Roy family court jester, he knew that he was glad that his beloved nephew and niece got that at least.

“So, where’s Jaws at? I don’t see any stranded penthouse swimmers?” Roman quips, pleased with himself at the joke.

“Stewy is working, he’ll come later.” You emphasise your husband’s name for the millionth time.

Earlier in the relationship your father had called Stewy a shark, as if it was a compliment but it had just made you severely uncomfortable. Now your siblings regularly joked about it and Roman very rarely used Stewy’s name, preferring the shark moniker. You loved your brother but you were sure nothing gave him a kick like the discomfort he got out of making his siblings victims to his antics.

“Does he not remember that there are several bathrooms here with impeccable surfaces for snorting his preferred angel dust?” Roman asks as he swipes his fingers alongside the basin, holding his finger up without a spec of dust on it as if to prove his point.

“Rome.” You say trying to ignore the growing anxiety.

“Right, must be some pretty good coke to fuck his memory up that much.” He proudly teases.

“God, stop please, Rome.” You scold him as gently as possible while starting to leave the bathroom with Matilda.

“Fine, fine, fine!” He sighs and then quickly perks up again as he asks with a smirk.“You heard about Ken?”

“Yes, of course, I did.” You knew, everyone did. You walk past Roman as you leave the bathroom to then walk back to where you’d left Jonathan with Connor.

“And…?”

“I’ll leave the snark to you and Shiv.” You say while cooing at Tillie, giving her your full attention.

Roman scoffs but continues to follow you and then he sees Grace and heads over to talk to her. You let him be, glad for a bit of respite from his antics as you see Connor. Who is without a doubt, the safest space of a person in your father’s penthouse.

“Hey, sweetie.” Connor says smiling at you. “Let me take her?” He offers softly. You nod and place your young daughter gently into his arms, he looks down smiling at her.

“Oh she’s gorgeous, you’re so small and cute Tillie. She reminds me of you when you use to sleep as a baby. Just wow.” He looks at you and smiles. “How are you doing?”

“I’m okay.” You scratch your eyebrow. You were so nervous about being here without Stewy “It’s just been weird, having to change my medication during pregnancy and we’ve changed it again now. It’ll take a little longer to kick in is all.”

“Hey, it’s okay, that’s okay. You can spend more time at the ranch, yeah? With or without the kids.” He gives you a large loving smile, it’s genuine. One of the only genuine parts of today. “It’s always nice having you around, you know that right?” You smile and nod at him. You felt out of place often in your family but Connor never did that to you.

Connor could be described in many ways, he was eccentric, to say the least, but he was also kind and loving. He’d spent most of his life being more of a father to you than Logan had and Connor was without a doubt, a better one. Your elder brother sits down with Tillie still in his arms and you pick up Jonathan. Kissing his head of soft curls that impressively resemble his father’s. You sit across from Connor with Jonathan on your lap as you both listen to him excitedly repeat what Marcia had told him about lunch and surprising his grandfather.

“Uncle Roro!” Jonathan says excitedly as he sees Roman come over.

“Hey Jonathan, caused any trouble yet? If Uncle Ken comes, I don’t think anyone would’ve given him a wet willy today so you need to get onto that.” Roman casually suggests to the young boy with his signature grin.

“You’re such a bad role model.” You say as you roll your eyes at your older brother, pressing another kiss to the top of Jonathan’s head as he giggles and Roman smirks as he shrugs at you.

“At least I’m not the one that’s you know-” He mimes the act of snorting something, you all know what the insinuation is. Jonathan has no idea what’s going on and just looks at his uncle with a large innocent, smile.

“Roman!” You practically shout as you gently place your hands over Jonathan’s eyes. Roman just starts giggling like a child which just makes the confused but happy young boy giggle as well. Connor rolls his eyes and gives Roman that gentle parent but not impressed older brother look.

Jonathan immediately goes over to Roman who quickly picks him up. It shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone that Roman was good with kids as he often acted like one but it still was, he and Connor were the best in your family with Jonathan. Roman had a big soft spot for his youngest nephew and Connor was a natural with all kids. But Connor’s no surprise, he was the father that Logan never was. The one you all cried to, who’d been the only one to do the fishing and camping trips that the Roy kids ever went on.

Roman holds Jonathan for a little bit and then Jonathan comes back to you when Shiv and Tom arrive, Roman leaves to talk to them while you stay seated, bouncing your son on your knee as he keeps talking but then he gets up when he sees Marcia coming over, wanting to talk more about his grandpa’s surprise with her. You didn’t mind Marcia, you knew that wasn’t the case for all your siblings though but she was always polite with you and kind to your children.

Connor gets up as he becomes thirsty, so you sit down on the floor with Tillie and watch her as she crawls a little around the space. You were almost always ignored by your siblings at these family events, Connor would consistently talk to you but that was because you were both outsiders and it was not in his nature to be cruel, it wasn’t in his nature but to be anything but kind to you.

Other than that, there would normally be some teasing from Roman, which you’d already endured so it was safe to say you’d probably hit the quota for Roy sibling interactions for the day. If Kendall came there would possibly be a brief chat, probably a question asking where Stewy was, you wouldn’t expect much conversation from him with everything going on. Lastly, Shiv had not acknowledged you. But that was nothing new. It was typical, during lunch she’d maybe say something pointed that sub in for a form of acknowledgement but that would be it.

Tillie looks up at you and starts laughing as you play a little game of peek-a-boo. You can’t help but feel soothed when seeing her chubby cheeks crease with her large smile and the big brown eyes that match Stewy’s shine at you. You then hear Marcia telling everyone to get into their places for your father’s surprise. You pick Tillie up and stand behind Connor holding her, giving her a few kisses as you sway with her.

Tillie laughs when Logan comes through with the cousin that you haven’t seen or heard of in years. Your father acknowledges Connor first and your heart breaks when you see Connor’s face fall when Logan completely ignores his gift and moves his attention to Shiv.

“Oh, hello darling.” Logan says somewhat softer than his usual, naturally irritated tone as his sight turns to you, looking down briefly at Matilda who you’re still holding. He gives you both a quick hug.

“Happy birthday Dad.”

“Where’s Stewy?” He questions as he looks at you pulling back from the hug, his voice more serious.

“He’s working-” You begin to say before your father cuts you off again.

“Is he coming?”

“Yes. He’s just running a bit late with work. Sorry, Dad.”

“No, it’s ah-fine. It’s fine Porce.” He says before Kendall then comes into the penthouse grabbing everyone’s attention.

They start talking business again so you go back to where you were before and Tillie crawls around while Jonathan eagerly follows his younger sister, sweetly talking to her. After a few minutes, your father calls out that he wants to chat with all of his children, and you feel your heartbeat quicken at that. You look over at your siblings who start heading over to the room, Connor looks at you expectantly waiting for you to join them.

“I need to go and feed Matilda so that I can sit with Jonathan when lunch is ready. Sorry. Just update me later or send a text.” You answer, your opinion wouldn’t matter, it would go how it always does, whatever Kendall, Roman and Shiv wanted. Connor and Kendall nod and head in, Shiv rolls her eyes at your excuse. You decide to head off before Roman has the chance to make an inappropriate comment.

Marcia had been kind enough to have quickly put some equipment into the penthouse to make these functions a bit easier. One of the spare rooms now had a cot in it for Tillie and a good chair for you to feed her in. You make your way to this room carrying Tillie and Jonathan following behind. You feed Tillie while Jonathan sits at the desk and draws. Eventually, the youngest of your children falls asleep after being fed and you put her into the cot.

You head to the dining room with Jonathan, holding his small hand. Connor comes over to check in which you appreciate and you end up sitting next to him at the table with Jonathan on your lap. The conversation goes how it always does. You notice that something seems wrong with Kendall though. You look at Connor and he whispers in your ear what had been revealed during the private conversation of your father with your siblings that you had missed. You sigh at the revelation and feel the ball of dread coming back to haunt you at that. It was only going to get more tense.

About halfway through lunch Stewy finally comes.

He immediately makes eye contact with you and smiles, which you gladly return. He leans down to greet Marcia and kiss her on the cheek, Marcia and Stewy had always genuinely gotten along. Maybe it was another reason why Shiv didn’t like Marcia, she was polite with Tom but genuinely got along well with Rava and Stewy. He then stands by your chair, with a hand on your shoulder, he rubs a few circles comfortingly there as he presses a kiss to the top of your head and then one to Jonathan’s as well.

“Well, look who decided to show up. Where the fuck have you been?” Logan directs at Stewy. Stewy flashes Logan a large smile and dryly chuckles as he nods. You sigh out as

“Happy birthday Sir Roy. Sorry about that, you know how it-”

“Right.” Logan says immediately cutting Stewy off as he narrows his eyes a little at your husband.

You feel yourself freeze up a little at your father’s acknowledgement of Stewy. There’s always a looming intensity when in your father’s presence and even if you were in one of his houses, around your siblings when Logan wasn’t around it was still a shadow hiding the sunlight of freedom and comfort.

But the intensity of your world of a father feels more engulfing right now. You look up at Stewy who has a smirk on his face as he looks at Logan. Your father doesn’t look impressed but he doesn’t say anything more.

Your father had a strong disdain for pretty much all of his children’s partners, Grace was like a mild version of Rome in terms of humour and personality, and your father had always made it abundantly clear that he thought something was wrong with Roman. Rava and Logan embodied what the other thought was disturbing, Logan had a way of believing that Kendall and Rava’s marital situation and every issue was her fault and that applied to everything relating to Sophie and Iverson and you knew for a fact she was a good, present, patient and loving mother and had embodied that as a partner with Kendall as well.

Shiv was the golden child, the favourite. It made sense with that in mind that your father had never approved of any partner she’d had, he openly viewed Tom as beneath Shiv. Logan seemed to go between amused and irritated at Tom’s incessant desire to be liked and to gain Logan’s approval.

Your father also had a complicated history regarding his opinion of Stewy. Stewy’s place in the world made your father view him as still not an equal but not anywhere near as beneath you all as he did with Tom. Logan had initially somewhat approved of the union, he felt that with Stewy’s personality, career and work ethic, it would balance out and protect your timid nature. Your father had always viewed you as extremely fragile, hence the nickname Porcelain and Porce.

But as time went on he had somewhat soured on your beloved husband, this was due to a few different factors that your father was open about. Stewy was a great networker, and would rarely turn down a chance to talk about work or find out work tea from others but he had viewed Waystar as a family matter that didn’t concern him, he didn’t jump at the chance to try and win your father over or do business favours for him which Logan disliked.

Logan had problematic opinions of Iverson and Sophie because of their parentage, he had a weird relationship with your children. He was kinder to them than what you remember him ever being with you and your siblings but you’d read that that wasn’t rare in abusive families. They were favoured as your nieces and nephews as your children had been biological but Logan did have issues with them being Hosseinis and you practically being one as well. As a healthier life and family unit had been created with Stewy and you were around your father less your father blamed that on Stewy. He’d gone from thinking Stewy was a good, protective force to that he was a shark that had manipulated his sweet, mild-mannered daughter.

You softly squeeze Stewy’s hand as his gaze looks down at you, he squeezes your hand back softly and sits down next to you. Roman hums the Jaws theme as Stewy does but you all completely ignore him as Roman then whispers something to Shiv. Jonathan moves from your lap and climbs over to Stewy’s with a few giggles. You laugh a little and tuck a looser curl that was moved during the commotion to behind Jonathan’s ear, Connor notices and smiles.

Stewy wraps one arm around Jonathan and bounces him on his knee and his free hand holds your hand that’s on the table.

“Where’s Tillie?” Stewy asks.

“Sleeping upstairs!” Jonathan quickly says and Stewy nods, as he looks around the room. His gaze lands on Kendall and he notices something is off, he then looks at you to see if you’ve noticed.

You give Stewy a small nod and then lean over, placing a hand on his shoulder as you quietly whisper into his ear what Connor had revealed to you earlier in the meal. Stewy’s doe eyes widen slightly but noticeably and his dark eyebrows quickly raise and then he glances over at Kendall and your father for a second. Jonathan then begins to talk to Stewy who attentively listens as Jonathan tells him about his day so far and how the surprise went.

You hear somebody say something about the game and you want to leave now. It was never fun, everyone was cruelly competitive and even layered up, and the weather wasn’t super pleasant. It wouldn’t be good for 2 young children. You quickly excuse yourself with the excuse that you’re going to check on Matilda. Stewy watches you carefully and Marcia gives you a tight-lipped smile as you walk off.

Stewy looks at Connor who nods and then Stewy leaves to follow you. But is then questioned by Kendall who goes over to him and both men leave the dining room.

“She knows about the papers right? Did she tell you about the papers?” Kendall immediately asks as soon as they’re out of earshot.

“Are you okay man?” Stewy stops walking as he asks Kendall.

“Something’s off-he’s unwell, acting strange.”

“Are you okay?”

“You know Roy etiquette, don’t ask questions like that on what should’ve been Coronation Day. So?”

“Connor told her, she mentioned it a few minutes ago.”

“She won’t sign, will she? I know she likes Marcy but she won’t sign, right? You can talk her out of it?” Kendall asks looking at him.

“We haven’t talked about it yet. Any advice I give will be Kendall-less by the way.” Stewy quickly responds and Kendall rolls his eyes at that.

“So what, my sister’s tamed you into the good little husband that only barks when asked to or something?” Kendall asks.

“Oh yes, The Taming of the Stew. The best modern Shakespeare adaptation to date. Your sister should get a Tony for that one or something.” Stewy smugly quips back, as he bites for a second at the top of his thumbnail before walking off to the spare room where Marcia keeps the cot. Kendall scoffs and walks back.

“Hey, you okay?” Stewy asks after closing the door behind him and walking over so that he can wrap his arms around you as you both stand by the cot watching your perfect little daughter sleep, completely undisturbed and untouched by the drama downstairs.

“If you think of a convincing reason for us to not go to the game and we leave. I’ll marry you.” You say softly and place your arms over his, making him hold you a bit tighter.

“If memory serves correctly, we’re already married. Happily, I believe.” He chuckles a little and presses a kiss to your shoulder. “So we’re already overachieving frankly.”

“Well, I’ll marry you again. Let you put another bun in the oven-” You start as you sway a little in his arms looking at Tillie.

“Don’t make dangerous promises like that here.” Stewy says, pressing a few kisses to the side of your neck and you let out a small laugh at how his beard tickles. “They were starting to get ready to leave, I’m sure it won’t be too much of a big deal. Especially if your dad thinks you’ll sign Marcy on.”

“Does he think that? Did he say something else?” You anxiously ask turning to face Stewy now.

“Probably. You and Marcia get on better than the others. Kendall asked me to talk you out of it.” You do feel sorry for Kendall over what happened today but you roll your eyes at that and rub your brow.

“Yeah, I think we should go.” Stewy nods at that and you carefully lift Tillie out of the cot and start to get her ready before the three of you head downstairs.

“Porce, are you not coming?” Logan asks as he sees the three of you.

“No, sorry Dad. Tillie had a bug not too long ago and with the wind and that I don’t want to risk it again even with her being bundled up. I think I’m getting a headache anyway Dad. I’m sorry.”

Logan looks at you, his unimpressed gaze softens a little but not by much. You’d had chronic headaches throughout your life, especially your adolescence and you don’t use it as an excuse often so he takes it a bit seriously.

“Well-” He starts.

“It was really nice to see you, Dad, the kids had fun. I’ll bring them back later when maybe things are a bit more quiet later in the week?” You ask, somewhat anxiously.

He’s giving you that look like you are fragile. He has a particular softness for you and Shiv because of his misogyny and the feminity you share, even if Shiv tries to adopt masculinity and fit into a never-ending game of trying to win the patriarchy. But you know he views you as weaker.

“Of course. You heard about the papers?”

“Yes, Dad. We’ll look at them when we have a bit more time and my head’s better. Okay?” He nods and then his gaze moves to Stewy. Logan begins to believe that the headache is something for Stewy’s sake and not because you genuinely don’t want to spend another minute here.

“Show up late and fuck off early, the family man?” Logan asks Stewy, who just sighs. It’s not the first time Stewy has been on the receiving end of Logan’s disdain and he knows it won’t be the last. “Your commitment to your work is admirable, it’s great- sure! Except when it’s fucking over my daughter and family.”

His voice isn’t super loud but the tone is strong and commanding. Connor looks over as he holds Jonathan, walking back a bit so Jonathan won’t hear anything. Shiv’s eyes widen and she watches the scene play out like an eagle waiting to swoop on its prey.

“Logan you know that’s not the-” Stewy says in his best diplomatic son-in-law voice.

“Oh, fu-”

“Dad, please?” You timidly cut in, your widened, doe-eyed gaze flicking between him and Stewy. You look sad and Logan can see it.

Shiv rolls her eyes at this, of course, you cut in with the timid, youngest daughter bullshit she thinks. Logan grunts and nods, ignoring Stewy as he tells you to rest up. You get Jonathan from Connor and say some succinct and painfully tense goodbyes to the rest of your family as you and Stewy leave.

As you’re in the car with Stewy and your children, you rest your head against his shoulder and sigh. The tight ball of dreadful anxiety dissipates with each mere mile away from that penthouse you get. Stewy rubs your arm softly and places a few gentle kisses on the top of your head.

“So, is afternoon naptime, practice babymaking number 3 time as well? 2 for 1 type of deal?” Stewy whispers with a small smile as he gives you another gentle kiss. You let out a little laugh at that and roll your eyes playfully.

245 notes · View notes

tea-and-finalfantasy · 10 months

Text

oh my god like i know their names are in fuck-all order bc it's just a mess of aesthetics with some things done bc they're entertaining (kuai liang's name meaning above showing preference for a name that sounds "cool" in general and for the sub-zero reference) but i just. how does any of this work

like unless i'm missing something crucial here (which i could be), i'm really confused. someone say smtn if i'm missing something

ok so bi-han's name is obv his whole first name bc it's hyphenated but kuai liang, despite parts being referred to as the first name or last name, is also his whole first name despite being ??? non-hyphenated and made up of a first name and last name

bc we wouldn't be referring to bi-han by first name alone if we were always stating kuai liang's first and last OR we wouldn't call him kuai liang if one part was his last name/we'd just use the first

but on the other hand going by the info above, kuai is his first name and liang is his last name. when ppl (ex. smoke, kenshi) refer to him as kuai liang, it's done in western order of first name then last name (kuai liang) rather than in the chinese order of last name then first name (liang kuai)--similar to how we call kenshi "kenshi takahashi" in western order of first then family, not calling him "takahashi kenshi" in the japanese order of family than first

but that means bi-han's last name is liang and only we refer to kuai liang as his full name all of the time??? like. unlikely/not true but why is this set up like this. at least fucking hyphenate it if it's his whole name--which is probably is--even though it's like. that's a first name AND last name

like pretend we have two brothers named Mike and John Smith, referred to as such

somehow, both of those names are presented as their first names--making one guy named John Smith as his whole first name--OR we're calling one man Mike and omitting his last name, Smith, while referring to his brother as John Smith

so it's Mike (Smith) and John Smith

or it's Mike and John-Smith (John-Smith then having a last name to go with his combo first-name-last-name first name)

like unless there's an additional naming convention i don't know about, this is what it fucking sounds like????

in the asian localizations, it's liu (family name) kang (first name) (so kang liu in western order) but CANONICALLY in the west, it's liu (first name) kang (family name) (so liu kang in western order)

kung lao's name is tied to his family name and history but raiden, his best friend who is surely close enough to him to just use his first name, uses the whole thing when addressing him? all the time? to the point where it'd make sense as a full first name but it isn't it seems if his family name is mentioned to be important and relevant to his character?

like i guess we do so with liu kang for the most part, the using the whole name all the time (sans johnny's liu almighty joke kinda settling it as liu as his first name), but are we doing this with kuai liang as well then???

also raiden straight up has no last name and is chinese despite the name being japanese (another form of raijin, goes w the raijin/fujin reference, is pronounced rai-din--like rai-jin--but... we don't in canon i guess?)

so like. kung lao calls raiden by his first name only AND it's all we have for him anyways (johnny cage, kenshi takahashi, kung lao which may or may not be his first name and family name?, and raiden no last name) but raiden calls kung lao by his whole name and not just the first? when they're besties and should be able to be on a first name basis if kung lao's name is a first name and a last name?

but then we get scenes where johnny and kenshi are called just. johnny or kenshi bc we're calling them by their first names but kung lao is always kung lao and kuai liang is always kuai liang...

so we're either calling them by their whole government names every time (which also implies bi-han has liang as his last name which could be interesting if it wasn't used bc he'd forsaken it BUT THAT'S NOT THE CASE)

or these men have firstnamelastname + omitted last name. john-smith johnson. doug-lindholm stevenson. if tomas's name was tomas-vrbada (first name) + (something for the last name despite there being a last name now included in the first name)

are we seeing how weird this is if i'm not in fact missing something here

bc even if this was the structure of names or how you'd refer to someone, it doesn't even apply to everyone of the same culture in game so i don't ??? i don't understand. there's not even continuity between characters? if liu kang is (first name + last name) but kuai liang is (first name only)

like. i get that some names are snappier when u say the whole thing even when u don't need to. johnny cage for example. and i know i shouldn't expect coherence from a series that, again, just throws asian stuff in here if it looks cool or sounds cool but i am so confused LOL

#mortal kombat #mk1 #genuinely someone help #using a few name tags to see if anyone else has an answer #kuai liang #kung lao #liu kang

23 notes · View notes

fire-for-you · 1 year

Text

5 times gabby didn't realize kelly and matt were dating (and 1 time she did) - FINAL PART

|-<3-|

pairing - m. casey x k. severide

rating - teen and up (unrequited love, implied sexual content, hurt/comfort, minor violence, kidnapping, happy ending)

word count - 2,745

summary - for part six: andddd the final chapter. what could possibly be the next adventure for this duo? is Gabby still clueless or will she finally come around?

a/n: we do a little 'napping. time to pick on matt!

|-<3-|

"Hey, sweetheart." Kelly purrs, flopping on the couch and throwing an arm around his boyfriend.

Matt slowly looks up from his paperwork; his eyebrows furrowed together in a blatant show of judgment. "Alright, what is happening. The last time you called me that, you had accidentally bought a car."

Kelly smiles a little wider. "Do you want to go out for dinner tonight?"

The Captain sets his files down beside him and shifts his body to face Kelly. "Yeah, could be fun. Should we go to Molly's or maybe that one trivia bar? I could call Brett-"

"No, let's go somewhere new, just us." The other starts to play with the hair at the base of Matt's neck. "Maybe a fancy, romantic dinner? Think about it, the last few months have been consumed by my injury. When's the last time we had fun?"

Matt pauses. "Well, two weeks ago, we had some wine, and I think you were pretty happy about it." He glances down casually and squeezes the hand suddenly on the brunette's thigh.

Kelly hums, remembering. "Mmm, yeah. I would still like to go out. What do you think?" He pulls Matt onto his lap, linking their fingers together.

"Sure, sounds fun. Where do you wanna go, exactly?"

"Oh, no, it's going to be a surprise. Gotta keep you guessing."

Matt smirks, pressing closer. "Okay. Then you better be ready for heart-racing, bed-breaking, ecstasy-type- fun." He delivered each hyphenated phrase with a sultry breath and an inch forward.

Kelly just looked at him. "Jesus, Matt. I don't know if we'll make it that far. You are really sexy when you wanna be, did you know that?"

The blonde laughed, pulling his partner in for a suave kiss.

Matt slipped off the taller's lap, grabbing his files to place them on the kitchen island.

"I'm gonna change quick. After that, I have to pick up something from a friend, and then I'll come back to pick you up. 'Kay? Dress nice." Kelly spoke, already walking towards their bedroom.

Matt nodded his acknowledgment before burying himself into the paperwork again.

A bell dinged as Kelly entered the jewelry store, glancing around for his favorite attendant. "Ah, Mr. Severide. I was wondering when you were going to come back. Have you finally decided?"

He sighed in relief. "Kenny. Yes, I have. The light silver band, did you hold it for me?"

"Against my better judgment, yes. I just like you, Mr. Severide."

Severide grinned. "Kenny, stop. I'm practically an engaged man."

Kenny smiled back. "Let me get that ring for you, sir."

Hours later, after a fancy, romantic dinner, with expensive champagne and delicious food, Kelly and Matt are walking down a well-lit path close to the loft. The blonde is cuddling his partner's arm, their hands locked at Kelly's side.

"Mmm, I missed this," Matt says, tightening his grip slightly.

"Missed what?"

"Just us. It's been crazy these past few months with your injury and work. It felt like any time we wanted to be alone, there was this third person in the room, making it awkward."

"Let me guess, the sprained ankle? I couldn't walk for days." Kelly smirked down at Matt.

"Ugh, whatever."

Kelly stopped in the middle of a clearing, a quiet road a few feet away. He put a knuckle under Matt's chin, tilting it a little. "No, I know what you mean. I felt the same way. But we got over it, right? We're here now-"

They heard screeching up the street, like tires leaving marks on the asphalt. Matt left Kelly's grasp and walked forward, more into the light of a street lamp. The noise continued to get closer. Suddenly, the vehicle came into sight, a white van.

Matt shrugged and turned away from the street. When it came to an aggressive halt, two men slammed open the side door to step down from it.

"Matt!" Kelly immediately started rushing forward, but the men in black hoodies and ski masks already had their hands on Matt, pulling him into the van.

The blonde started to fight against them, but the taller pulled out a cloth and put it over his face. His eyes started drooping as the door closed behind them.

"Go, go!" The vehicle took off, barrelling down the street as Kelly ran behind it.

"Matt!!"

"I'm sorry, what?" Boden asked.

"Matt got kidnapped! Right in front of me! I didn't even get to fight the dogs that took him." Severide started to break down. "He's gone, he's gone. My whole world is gone." Wet streaks began to run down his face.

Boden sat him down on a nearby bench in Voight's office. "Alright, Kelly. Deep breaths. Why don't you start over?"

Severide sniffed. "I wanted to propose tonight." He looked up with watery eyes. "We went out to this fancy restaurant and had a romantic dinner. It was perfect. And then we were walking in the park near our apartment-" A fresh wave of tears cut the man off as he sobbed quietly.

"Severide, we can't find Casey unless you give us all the details." Voight reminded him.

Jay offered him a tissue box before leaning against the desk.

Severide recovered somewhat and continued. "We heard this screeching up the street, and then this white van came into view." He paused, closing his eyes. "And they took him. Two guys, average build. Ski masks and everything. They even had chloroform. I, um, got a partial license plate." He pulled out a scrap of paper and handed it to Jay. It was four symbols long. 5B7I

"Thank you, Severide."

Voight spoke up. "Was there anything unusual about them - tattoos, did they speak, stuff like that?"

"I was a little busy watching my boyfriend get kidnapped." Severide snapped.

"Just trying to get it while it's fresh in your mind," Jay said gently before laying a hand on Voight's forearm, shooting him a disapproving look. The Seargent mouthed a 'What' back.

"No, I told you everything I noticed."

"Okay, thank you again, Severide. This should be good information to get started with. Chief Boden, why don't you take him for a cup of coffee?"

Boden sighed. "Yeah, come on, Kelly." He put a hand on his lieutenant's shoulder, ready to pick him up off the bench.

"No."

"Kelly?" Boden questioned.

"I'm not going anywhere while my Matt is still out there. You're gonna let me help you, or I'm gonna help myself." Severide stared Voight in the eye as he stood.

The Sergeant sighed. "Look. I don't want to step on your toes, but this isn't exactly your area of expertise."

"I know, but. Just- let me help. Because if I don't find Matt, if I don't get him back-" Severide started to choke up again. "My life will be over. I won't-"

Voight didn't say anything for a few seconds. "Fine."

The last thing Casey remembers was seeing Kelly's face as he ran towards the Captain. He shook awake with the moment still imprinted on the whites of his eyes and was greeted by a dim room. He was sitting on a metal chair facing a blacked-out window. Pulling on his wrists made ropes tighten against Casey's arms. He groaned in frustration when the same happened with his legs.

"Hello?" He called out. "You're not scaring me! I like being tied up!" Which was untrue, but they didn't need to know that.

A man with unkempt hair and a 5'clock shadow emerged from the semi-darkness. "So, you're Kelly's new boyfriend."

Casey's eyes narrowed slightly. "I'm sorry, who are you?"

"Eric Sutton. Kelly never mentioned me?" Eric's sinister smile drooped slightly.

"Was he supposed to?"

"We dated for almost two years. I imagine it would have come up." Casey analyzed the man, noticing the imprint of a switchblade in his left pocket. "My hair used to be lighter, if that helps."

"Nothing comes to mind."

Eric sighs, disappointed. "Well, it doesn't matter. You will have to remember me after this."

"What are you gonna- " Casey is cut off by a powerful punch to his jaw. He tastes copper as another fist is driven into his stomach. Tears spring to the blonde's eyes as the chair tips to the right and falls. Eric starts kicking him in the gut, barely missing his crotch.

"See how Kelly likes you now." The man says before Casey blacks out.

"Okay, first, who would kidnap Matt and why? Does he have any enemies who might want him dead?" Voight asked Severide.

"Well, it's Matt; he has a tendency to rub people the wrong way." Severide took a drink of coffee, accenting the shaking in his hands. "He thought he had a stalker, though. Said a couple of times earlier this week he would see an unmarked white van outside before it drove away."

Jay's ears perked up. "Yeah, Matt called me and asked me to look into that. I hadn't gotten anywhere."

Voight nodded solemnly. "Did we get a hit on the license plate yet?" He asked his partner.

A small ding answered the Seargent's question. "Registered to a Simon Towers. Two priors: attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault. Ooo, and he had a partner for both of them: James Towers." Jay looked at the man standing over him.

"Brothers." He scoffed.

"Address is in West Englewood."

"Let's go."

"Alright, Boden, Severide, stay in the car; we'll be right back." The brunette said, glancing in the rearview mirror as he and Voight exited the vehicle.

The officers pulled their guns and stood on opposite sides of the doorway.

"On my count, one, two, three."

Jay kicked open the front door, immediately scanning the first room with his gun raised. "Clear." He called. Voight entered then, moving forward into what looked like a kitchen. They cleared the entire first floor and were making their way up the stairs when they heard a thump. On the right side of the house, garbage cans were kicked over as whoever fell was trying to flee. Jay made it out a side door and gave chase.

"Hey!" He shouted. Severide, much closer to the running man, flung open his door, whacking one of the brothers flat on his ass. Jay just got over to the felon as Voight exited the house, leading a man in handcuffs.

Casey spits out more blood, watching Eric take his phone from his pocket. "What do you want? Money?"

Eric laughs. "No, honey, I just want to see Kelly suffer. Should we call him? What's your password?"

"I think you broke my arm." The Captain says.

"Oh, don't be such a baby." Eric faces the phone to Casey's face. It unlocks with a quiet click. "Wow, didn't expect that to work. Alright, Kelly, Kelly." He scrolls through the other's contact list, pressing the video call button when he finds Kelly.

Kelly blinks twice when he sees Casey's profile picture pop up on his phone.

"Who's that?" Boden asks.

"It's Casey; he's trying to video call me."

"I'm gonna get Voight."

The Chief comes back with Voight and Jay before Severide answers the phone. The Seargent instructs Severide to face away from the inside of the station and not to talk like anyone else is there.

"Matt, baby, are you okay?" Severide says, practically hysterical.

"Hi, Kelly." Eric appears on the screen, grinning wide.

"Eric? What the hell? Where is Matt?" Severide starts to ball one of his fists.

"Oh, he's right here, sweetheart." Eric turns the phone, snuggling up against Casey so the firefighter can see them both. "Remember when you broke up with me, and I said if you ever find another boyfriend, I'll kill him?"

Casey's eyes widen as he struggles against the tape across his mouth. "I really don't."

"Well, guess what I'm going to do." He pulls out his switchblade and playfully drags it across the blonde's throat before the call ends.

"No!" Severide exclaims, putting his head in his hands.

Voight storms back to the interrogation room and slams his fists on the table. "Where is your boss?!" He yells. The brothers - with fear in their eyes - start to talk quickly.

He re-enters the large room and grabs hold of Severide's shoulder, dragging him to the car as the others follow. Jay calls for backup on the drive as the sirens blare out. Soon enough, they are pulling up to an abandoned building.

Voight instructs the other officers to go around the back as they surround the property. He looks to Severide, who is leaning against the car. "Stay back, okay?"

Positioning himself on the side of the doorway, the man holds up his radio. "On my count, one, two, three." The Sergeant enters the building with the others and raises his gun. Severide is a few steps behind him. Within minutes, after maneuvering many empty rooms, the pair stumbles upon a large room.

Eric stands over Casey with his knife raised. "Eric Sutton!" Jay calls. "Put the knife down!"

"Now, why would I do that?" He brings his arm down just as a shot rings out. Casey falls with Eric, landing in his pooling blood. Still strapped to the chair, he can't move away from the liquid soaking into the blonde's clothes. The wound on his neck from the other's knife starts to leak as Kelly runs up to Matt. Matt's eyes slip closed as he feels Kelly's fingers on his face.

"Well, Matt. We have to stop meeting like this." Doctor Halstead said, fixing Matt's IV drip as he slowly opened his eyes.

Matt blinked blurrily, looking around the room for Kelly. "Where's-"

"Severide? He went out for some ice. I'm sure he'll be back soon." Doctor Halstead smiled.

"How long have I been here?" Matt asked, sitting up on the bed.

"Few hours. Broken arm and a few cuts and bruises. Plus a black eye. Severide was really worried about you."

"Thank you, Doctor." He left, giving Matt a little wave.

Eventually, Kelly came back and almost dropped his ice cup as he saw the Captain's weak smile. "Matt! You're awake!"

"Hey, baby."

Kelly rushed forward and dragged him into a long kiss. He pulled back reluctantly, pressing their foreheads together. "I thought I lost you."

"I'm here."

"I thought I was never gonna see you again; I thought I was never going to kiss you again; I thought I lost you." Tears sprung from Kelly's eyes.

"I'm here, Kelly. I'm not going anywhere." Matt reassured him, eyes boring into his own, green on green. "Kiss me."

The brunette did as Matt pulled him onto the bed, and they laid together, sharing soft kisses.

Minutes later, the firehouse got there - minus Gabby and Sylvie, giving Matt hugs and clutching their hearts in relief.

As the crews got caught up in their talking, Severide cleared his throat. "Uh, Matt. I have something to ask, and I think this is the best time, in front of the house. In front of our family." Kelly glanced at Boden, and he nodded.

Matt tilted his head slightly.

Gabby and Sylvie finally snuck in as everyone's eyes were on Kelly and Matt.

The lieutenant took his partner's hand. "We've had a lot of scary experiences lately, and I just can't stand not having my forever on your finger anymore."

"Kelly. What are you doing?" Matt asked, his voice breaking.

Kelly laughed slightly, pulling out a box from his jacket pocket. Everyone gasped.

"What's happening?" Gabby whispered to her friend. Sylvie shushed her.

Severide popped the ring box open. "Matthew Casey, you are the air I breathe, the food I eat, the water I drink. Yours are the lips I kiss; yours is the body I worship." The house groaned at that. Kelly rolled his eyes before continuing. "Yours are the eyes I adore. Matt, you are everything to me. Will you-"

"Yes, yes, Kelly Severide, yes! I'll marry the hell out of you." Kelly grinned and roughly kissed his new fiance.

"When did this become a thing?" Gabby asked Sylvie, pulling her back from the group flocking the couple.

"Severide and Casey have been dating for months. How did you not know this? They told everyone at once."

"I must not have been there. I- are you serious?"

"Yes? They just got engaged, do you need any more proof?" Sylvie sassed, going up to congratulate her friends.

"I love you," Kelly sweetly whispered before kissing his partner again.

"I know," Matt whispered back.

you can also read this story here

|-<3-|

masterlist & other such things

|-<3-|

Chicago Fire masterlist

|-<3-|

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

#kelly severide #matt casey #kelly severide x matt casey #matt casey x kelly severide #sevasey #gabby dawson #chicago fire #part six #final part #fire-for-you

27 notes · View notes

captainofthetidesbreath · 11 months

Note

📂 (for whatever character/ship you like!)

send me a 📂 (or, just "folder") to hear about a WIP I love but am probably never going to finish writing or an idea I think about a writing lot but am probably never going to get around to

As a vocal proponent of Fjord as Marquis of Nicodranas, I think a lot about a fic that's formatted as transcripts and copies of the statements, letters, and interviews surrounding his nomination, consideration, and selection to the position.

Most importantly, I conceptualize it as a window into the politics and state of life in Nicodranas, in the Coast, the circumstances of the impeachment of Marquis Uludan, imagining how Nicodranas figured in the changing political landscape of Wildemount, what its place is in the Concord as the buttress against the Empire, the relationships of the marquises in the Concord, Fjord's status as someone half-orcish and what that means for him as Marquis, what the cultural and social anxieties of Nicodranas are at this time, and glimpses at business and demographics. Basically this being an administrative document of letters and verbal statements and transcript of an interview, but a picture of a transitional moment, for Fjord and Nicodranas and perhaps the Concord and Wildemount, and what Fjord's place in that is even indirectly.

Also it would be a fun exercise in form, including for implying what isn't officially on the record, a la:

Marq. ATRITH Fjord Stone. This is your name correct? Mr. STONE LAVORRE It is most properly Stone Lavorre. Two surnames, no hyphen. But, it’s just Stone when doing business, so that is also correct. Marq. ATRITH Alamads, please. I know you don’t appreciate such finer points, but I do. Your clarification is welcomed, captain.

#Critical Role things

18 notes · View notes

wordsandrobots · 1 year

Text

IBO reference notes on . . . mobile suit designations

And now for some deeply useless observations on how mobile suits are labeled in Iron-Blooded Orphans.

(I’m purely looking at this ‘in fiction’; I know most of these are in fact in-jokes based on the mecha designers’ names.)

Starting with the titular Gundam frames, these are each designated ASW-G-XX, where XX is a number between 01 and 72 (or literally XX for Vidar). We have no canonical explanation for what ‘ASW’ means, but all other types of mobile suit have a similar letter string in their codes. I personally favour the idea it references the manufacturer, and that each frame family represents the work of a different group, but there’s nothing backing that up.

Interestingly, the mobile armours are *not* given identification codes. Given that they bear the same symbol as the Gundams on key components, however, we might suppose that using ASW-A or something like that would make sense, in a ‘underlining the obvious connection’ fashion. (Well, now I’ve said that, this might only apply to Hashmal and Harael; Ananel and Nemamiah look distinct enough to have come from different manufacturers.)

Valkyrja frames, meanwhile, follow a slightly more impenetrable logic:

V03-0907 Oltlinde

V04-0630 Waltraute

V07-0126 Sigrún

V08-1228 Grimgerde

We can presumably add V0_-0526 Helmwige, based on the V08Re-0526 Helmwige Reincar (AKA the Grimgerde in new clothes), although we don’t know what its prefix number is supposed to be.

Graze frame codes, by contrast, run thus:

EB-05s Schwalbe Graze

EB-06 Graze

EB-06j Graze Ground Type

EB-06N Graze Stachel

EB-06Q Graze Schild

EB-06r Graze Ritter

EB-06rs Graze Ritter Commander Type

EB-06s Graze Commander Type

EB-06t Graze Trainer Type

I don’t know if the capitalisation is meant to be meaningful. I would assume not since there’s nothing particularly special about the Stachel and Schild that would make them stand out from the pack (they’re basically different equipment sets on a standard Graze. The Schwalbe is the prototype for the frame, and is numbered straight on from the Geirail, EB-04. Currently, no model has been designated EB-07 but based on the above, we can assume it was the prototype for the Reginlaze.

The AEB-06L Hloekk Graze has a modified numbering convention, presumably because it is a modified Graze. But I’m not sure what to do with the EB-AX2 Graze Ein. It’s not really a custom (more on which later), nor does it have a proper place in this lineage, though design elements would be incorporated into the Reginlaze Julia. It’s just this weird outlier monster prototype thing.

Regardless, the two mainline Reginlaze variants follow the same schema as Grazes:

EB-08 Reginlaze

EB-08s Reginlaze Commander Type

Moving out of Gjallarhorn, the standard configuration for the Hexa frame has two versions,

IPP-0032 Gilda

IPP-0032S Gilda SAU

Which are basically the same thing with differing load-outs. We see IPP-0032 in the context of construction models hijacked for the purposes of insurrection, and the IPP-0032S fielded by the SAU military. Then we get:

IPP-18875 Enzo

IPP-66305 Hugo

The Hugo is the most prominent Hexa in IBO proper, since ‘suits of this type are used by the Dawn Horizon Corps and JPT Trust. An Enzo, meanwhile, shows up as Range’s first machine in IBO:Urdr Hunt - and I’m saying ‘an Enzo’ because while the descriptions implies it’s fairly rare/unique, the numbering suggests it’s a type rather than a custom model.

This assumption is based on the pattern that continues with the Rodi frames, where standard mass-production models have simple ‘letter string hyphen alphanumerical’ codes:

UGY-R38 Spinner Rodi

UGY-R41 Man Rodi

UGY-R41 Landman Rodi

UGY-R45 Garm Rodi

No code has been given for the Monkey Rodis used by 598′s human debris crew, though they appear to be another Man Rodi variant. Perhaps oddly, there is no distinction between Man and Landman Rodis. Most other equipment swaps see some update to the numbering, leaving this an oddity. Then again, why would Tekkadan have bothered registering them under a new classification when they redid the legs?

Then we have the Teiwaz/Io frame mobile suits:

STH-05 Hyakuren

STH-05R Rouei

STH-14s Hyakuri

STH-16 Shiden

STH-20 Hekija

All of this essentially leaves us with two ‘genres’ of base mobile suit IDs: mass production types that have a consistent form like (ABC)-(ABC123), and lines of unique ‘suits where each is identified individually: ASW-G-XX, V0X-(1234).

Conclusions? Not many, but I would propose the machine specific codes for the mass-production types (that is, say, Crank Zent’s particular Graze) might follow the Valkyrja form of ID in having an addition numerical string. There’s no obvious reason for the Valkyrjas to be numbered so precisely since the implication in various materials is that there’s only nine of them, but if it is in fact following common practice (Ahab reactor number, maybe?) we might infer a more precise machine code running ‘ EB-06-0505′ or ‘IPP-18875-7007′.

What we don’t have to infer is the convention for custom models based on mass-production ‘suits, which is usually to append a string including the letter ‘c’ to the end of the ID. Thus we have:

EB-06/tc Graze Custom

EB-06/tc2 Ryusei-Go

EB-06/tc3 Ryusei-Go (repaired)

STH-16/tc Shiden Custom (Ryusei-Go III/Riden-Go)

STH-16/tc2 Orga's Shiden (The King’s Throne)

EB-08jjc Reginlaze Julia

MPM02/AC Triaina

STH-05/AC Amida's Hyakuren

UGY-R41/H Hakuri Rodi

EB-06/T2C Regal Lily

STH-14/T2C Kallisto

UGY-R41/T2C Labrys

To take these in sets -- ‘tc’ obviously stands for ‘Tekkadan Custom’. We have one based on Crank’s Graze getting up to ‘tc3′ before being retired in favour of a customised Shiden, and the King’s Throne as the second Shdien custom commissioned for Tekkadan.

The Julia is a ‘Julieta Juris Custom’. Given this is something being produced by the R&D division, we could label it a prototype ala the Graze Ein, but since the Julia is decidedly built with Julieta in mind, custom is the better term.

I didn’t include the Triaina previously because we only ever see one of them and it’s labelled the same way as Amida’s Hyakuren (AC), which we know is ‘custom built’ in the sense of being a pseudo-prototype made with better materials. So this might be a case of a limited run rather than unique unit.

The Hakuri Rodis are scrap-heap Man Rodis with cobbled-together armour (literally Brewers’ cast-offs found in a debris zone). It’s not surprising they break the pattern.

Tanto Tempo’s customs (T2C) make a pattern of labelling by organisation. Descriptions confirm the Labrys are customised by Tanto Tempo, so they’re not a sub-type in their own right, just a made-to-order variant of the Landman Rodi. Curiously, the Kallisto suggests the existence of a STH-14 model as distinct from the STH-14s Hyakuri. Or the ‘s’ just got dropped when Gianmarco ripped off the backpack.

From all of this, we might therefore conclude that the EB-04jc4 Geirail Scharfrichter is also a custom model. Its profile describes it as a sister machine to the normal Geirail, but it being unique to the mercenary company Mossa employs feels more sensible than it being some kind of standard variant (honestly, I usually forget it even exists).

Finally, there’s the matter of customised Gundams. These don’t generally see an addition to the number codes when they are updated, which might reflect an expectation they will be reconfigured semi-regularly (Kimaris certainly came with a lot of optional extras and it’s Dantalion’s whole gimmick). But nevertheless, common practice appears to be to add extra words to the name:

ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus

ASW-G-08 Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex

ASW-G-11 Gundam Gusion Rebake

ASW-G-11 Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City

ASW-G-29 Gundam Astaroth Rinascimento

Gundam Hajiroboshi Alector

ASW-G-47 Gundam Vual Yuhana

ASW-G-66 Gundam Kimaris Trooper

ASW-G-66 Gundam Kimaris Vidar

Going back to V08Re-0526 Helmwige Reincar, we see this applied here as well, so theoretically, were there another line of individually IDed mobile suits, the same thing would apply to that.

And there you have it. I have no idea why I thought this was something I should write about but I did.

Other reference posts include:

IBO reference notes on … Gjallarhorn (Part 1)

IBO reference notes on … Gjallarhorn (Part 2)

IBO reference notes on … Gjallarhorn (corrigendum) [mainly covering my inability to recognise mythical wolves]

IBO reference notes on … three key Yamagi scenes

IBO reference notes on … three key Shino scenes

IBO reference notes on … three key Eugene scenes

IBO reference notes on … three key Ride scenes

IBO reference notes on … the tone of the setting

IBO reference notes on … character parallels and counterpoints

IBO reference notes on … a perfect villain

IBO reference notes on … Iron-Blooded Orphans: Gekko

IBO reference notes on … an act of unspeakable cruelty

IBO reference notes on … original(ish) characters [this one is mainly fanfic]

IBO reference notes on … Kudelia’s decisions

IBO reference notes on … assorted head-canons

IBO reference notes on … actual, proper original characters [explicit fanfic – as in, actually fanfic. None of them have turned up in the smut yet]

IBO reference notes on … the aesthetics of the mobile frame

#Gundam Iron-blooded Orphans #gundam ibo #Tekketsu no Orphans #g tekketsu #reference #notes #Mobile suits

10 notes · View notes

ao3feed-irondadspiderson · 6 months

Text

Somethin' Stupid

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54662653 by Shrimp_Child “She’ll survive,” MJ said determinedly. Peter felt a buzz in the back of his neck, like it was detecting a lie. Or something that wouldn’t come true. Or: Peter Parker sees Ben Reilly, Kaine Parker & Teresa Parker as his kids, even though two of them are his clones and one's his sister, and when Norman Osborn decides to push his luck, he pays dearly. English is not my first language & I've mashed all the Marvel universes together into.. this thing. (Forewarning: If you're here for the field trip, it's really short, mainly used to push the narrative further & provide more understanding for what's going on in the story.) Words: 2843, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel 616, Marvel Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Categories: Other Characters: Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Michelle Jones (Marvel), Teresa Parker, Tony Stark Relationships: Peter Parker & Teresa Parker, Michelle Jones & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker & Tony Stark Additional Tags: not really there but written with intent of Harry Osborn/Peter Parker, also not really there but written with the intent are, Gay Peter Parker, Lesbian Michelle Jones (Marvel), and now onto the actual tags, Dead Kaine Parker, Dead Ben Reilly, Dark Peter Parker, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, BAMF Peter Parker, Trans Peter Parker, Peter Parker's Field Trip to Stark Industries, Avengers Compound, Peter Parker Lives at the Avengers Compound, Parental Peter Parker, Peter Parker is an Empath, he can smell emotions, Peter Parker Acts Like a Spider, Ben Reilly Acts Like A Spider, Kaine Parker Acts Like A Spider, Teresa Parker Acts Like A Spider, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Romani Peter Parker, i don't know why but it's stuck with me and it's what you're getting, Mentioned Norman Osborn, Norman Osborn created Ben and Kaine, Insane Norman Osborn, Bad Parent Norman Osborn, Breaking the Fourth Wall, Peter Parker Breaking the Fourth Wall, it's mild but still there, Trans Teresa Parker, Immortal Peter Parker, Dead Gwen Stacy, Curly Haired-Peter Parker, i'm talking 2B or 2A, Past Character Death, No Romance, Angst, Peter Parker Whump, Whump, Protective Peter Parker, Teen Peter Parker, Supportive Mary Jane Watson, Hurt Harry Osborn, Peter Parker-centric, My First Work in This Fandom, its not talked about but, Peter Parker Has Spider Legs, coming out of his back, Ben Reilly is Scarlet-Spider, Kaine Parker is Sable-Spider, Teresa Parker is Soot-Spider, Peter Parker is Spider-Man, yes i put hyphens in all their names, make them match!!! read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/54662653

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #iron dad and spider son #spider son #iron dad #peter parker #tony stark

3 notes · View notes

myshredda · 2 years

Note

It's a bit weird to remember the guys have stuff they do outside the show,, it makes them feel that more alive,, but it also hurts so much more when you know they're eventually going to experience some sort of pain :')))- 🍄

Yeah there's a ton of backstory that's only vaugly hinted at in canon and it sends me into a fit of hysterics whenever I think about it, like Red and Duck have both attended university, as there's photographs of their graduations hung up in the house.

Red has a whole race of people that look like him, but his 'family photo' is only a family in a very broad sense, no mention of parents or siblings, the only one that got a shout out was Red assuming one of the taller ones was an uncle (which was a family member that Lily and Todney mentioned to him only 'moments' before), also it's implied that his peers really don't like him in both the youtube series AND the channel 4 series.

Duck doesn't have a family, his imagined family in his song is literally just him. He won a tournament (maybe) and he's interested in sports and the military, and in his customized area of the car he posts a picture of him winning a race, a picture of his shredder in a heart (lmao) and a picture of the goose version of James Bond + two male birds just hanging out which is like 👀

Yellow is incredibly interesting because his backstory has the most speculation like, why doesn't he live with Roy? Why does Roy stalk the trio and directly operate their torture? Yellow is very talented in both painting and playing the trumpet, who taught him to do that? His maiden name is Rat Eyes, he has a hyphenated name, his last name is Gribbleston.

There's several photos around the house depicting scenes of the trio hanging out together, like a beach vacation or just generally always being together, even their missing posters in the youtube series was a picture of them all in a group. How long have they known each other? How long have they lived together? Why is the world populated by Red's peers "real" but the DHMIS made up of felt and crafts? What did Red and Duck go to college for? Why is Red naked in his graduation photos but wears clothes at work? Why do they share money but not food?

#mushroom anon #the hints of backstory make me insane #my askbox

17 notes · View notes

pricechecktranslations · 1 year

Note

oooooh ! I bet you make the pun clearer with a hyphen between their first and middle names? it'd still keep them separate but make it clearer that they're meant to be read together

Maybe, but I worry that might imply it's a two-part first name rather than first and middle name.

#i'll sleep on it #i mean it wouldn't be the first mothy pun that didn't translate well it's just it's a really clever one #so i'd like it to work #though idk if mothy intends to have their full name show up elsewhere or if it's just a one-off gag

6 notes · View notes

fideidefenswhore · 2 years

Text

@theladyelizabeth

I read the first two and I'm ashamed to say I liked them before I did like ... even slightly deeper than surface level research on Henry's wives lol.

oh, well, you’ll get no judgement from me, i read the lady elizabeth before i knew what was up re: w/eir, and as for these, i’ve at least skimmed most because they’re one of the few avail at my library...

it’s interesting to contrast how sex is portrayed, like this is one of the instances where you can absolutely judge books by their titles/covers. the c/oa and j/ane novels are always fade to black, sexual desire obliquely referenced but not made manifest (tbqh, catherine’s teenage crush on fray diego is as spicy as it gets, jane is...deeply offended and shocked by the quote about henry’s [lack of] virility in the trial of may 1536 because she’s like ‘that’s not true’,f ahitughfrdjsl;f...) the AB novel if you remember, is fairly sexually explicit but honestly more in the period before marriage than during (there’s no SA, at least not of anne in the novel, but one scene of extreme dubious consent that’s borderline prior to marriage, during betrothal, another than constitues sexual harassment in the form of a forced kiss, before betrothal) and w/eir seemed fairly obsessed with crafting scenes where anne is sexually humiliated in other aspects. the k/atheryn howard novel is extremely sexually explicit; i haven’t read all six but probably the most of all.

the author’s notes are another interesting point of contrast. w/eir spends pages defending her choice to portray anne as fully conscious and in complete excruciating pain after her execution for an entire paragraph/s (?) by citing some study on deaths by guillotine in the 19th century (was anne killed by guillotine? no? apparently that’s irrelevant); she spends pages in the A/N of the katheryn howard defending henry, insisting he didn’t want katheryn die because he sent her to syon first, as if he could not have completely prevented her execution, and ultimately did not.

maybe she has learned her lesson from the (limited...limited, for how egregious and voyeuristic and orgasmically schadenfreude it was) criticism that creative choice in novel 2 received, because the closing line of the KH novel is better than the tudors’ version, and at least, implies that she felt no pain, and died instantly, because the novel ends on the hyphen of her prayers:

‘God have mercy on my soul,’ she prayed aloud. ‘Good people, I beg you pray for me! God have mercy —’

not for them, the welcoming embrace of angels that c/oa receives, of course, but then, i would never expect that from w/eir.

and the jane novel...omg, i have talked about it before, but i am just entirely flummoxed by the attempt, as she has called it, to create a sympathetic character of jane, because it failed so spectacularly. like, i am a hater, and i will fully admit that, but i did read the novel with an open mind and it is just like continually being slapped in the face with what planet does this woman live on, lol...

as the title goes, she is ‘haunted’, and there’s this scene where she visits a place that henry norris and AB had a conversation that she remembers from when she was a lady-in-waiting. somehow she is convinced by the spirits of the place, or whatever, that they were both entirely innocent of all accusations, and she is...comforted by this? she’s comforted by the recognition/realization that (at the very least) two innocent people were falsely accused and wrongly put to death, rather than horrified by that. it’s...so much.

#theladyelizabeth #replies #her view on katheryn howard seems to have progressed past the pretty gross things she wrote about her in the 90s at least...#like she mentioned her intercessions and generosity and loyalty to her family #maybe she came to develop a more positive view of katheryn over AB ; i mean i wish such a popular mainstay in tudor stuff did not have SUCH #a dim view of AB because it permeates but. i will take what i can get lol #gore tw/#death tw/#having read w/eir's interviews on anne like. knowing she hates her just makes her choices in the novel SO transparent #i actually kind of liked g lawrence's kh novel better...? that's probably very controversial but oh well #she actually pities henry . because she has warmth and he doesn't . she pities him to have to live the rest of his life as himself /#with himself; essentially #as per an earlier interview w/eir initially had a very dim view of jane s/eymour as well so maybe it's that.....?#but most of all she hates jane b/oleyn

6 notes · View notes

kuiperblog · 2 months

Text

Patrick McKenzie and Byrne Hobart on names

Another week, another episode of the excellent new podcast "Complex Systems."

As so often happens in podcast discussions, one of the more interesting nuggets came from a side tangent almost completely unrelated to the episode topic:

Patrick McKenzie: My funny anecdote about names is that, way back in the day when Japan was going through a similar process of needing to bureaucratize and come up with relatively persistent identities for the purposes of the state, the nobles had two names; the peasants largely had one.

So the noble names were flowery and poetic, and then for the peasant names you ended up with names which were often reflective of the area in which they lived, much like English names – Underhill, for example. Guess what? Someone was once under the hill.

These are some of the most common names in Japan – Tanaka, “in the middle of the rice field.” If you meet someone named Tanaka-san in the present day, it implies that at least one ancestor of theirs was 1) not in the social class that had a nice flowery name comparing them to e.g. a hawk, and 2) was presumably living in the middle of the rice patties.

Byrne Hobart: This is an area where Google has decayed slightly, since they do seem to weight clickthroughs pretty highly on search results: it used to be many years ago that if you Googled name origins you got something pretty reasonable. Now they're all really flattering. You can't really find an unflattering name unless the name is literally a foreign word that has a negative connotation.

Hobart now – I don't remember what it is, something like “Mighty impressive warrior” or whatever – but when I first googled it and looked up the origin of the last name it was, “it just means Bart's Hill.”

I guess Bart was somehow a really impressive guy in seventh century England or something, such that even after he was gone they still remembered which hill was his – and he was just a cool enough guy that you would name yourself after not even Bart, but his Hill.

It is interesting to trace a lot of those last names – then you have the obvious career-based ones. I suppose over time we will eventually start running out of last names, and we'll have to start coming up with ways to invent new ones.

---

On the subject of "coming up with ways to invent new [last names]," one couple who has been charting this territory is the pairing of Zach and Kelly Weinersmith. You might know Zach Weinersmith as the creator of the comic SMBC (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)

Kelly Weinersmith has been his co-creator for several recent projects, including books like Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything, and in their joint genetic ventures, Ada and Ben.

Anyway, prior to becoming Zach and Kelly Weinersmith, they were Zach Weiner and Kelly Smith. (Other couples have combined their surnames with hyphenation, but I applaud the Weinersmiths for charting new territory with concatenation.)

#patio11 #patrick mckenzie #byrne hobart #complex systems #smbc

1 note · View note

gazette-change-of-name · 11 months

Text

What sort of name can you choose?

## Conditions for Changing Names

- You are allowed to change any piece of your name, including first name, center name, and last name.

- You can add or eliminate names and change the spelling.

- There are no particular lawful limitations on what name you can pick.

- However, changing your name to avoid paying a debt or committing fraud is illegal.

- You also have to choose a name that official bodies will accept, such as HM Passport Office.

## Unacceptable Names

- Deed poll applications with names chosen to commit fraud or promote hatred are refused.

- Names with symbols or punctuation marks other than hyphens or apostrophes are not accepted.

- Names longer than 300 characters, including spaces, are refused.

- Child applications with demeaning names may be rejected.

## Inadvisable Names

- Unpronounceable, extremely long, and vulgar names are likely to cause problems.

- Names chosen for commercial reasons, bets, or frivolous purposes are not recommended.

- Trade-marked names may require written consent from the trademark holder.

- Names containing only a first name or titles may be refused.

## Restrictions on Passport Applications

- HM Passport Office has further restrictions on names printed on passports.

- Names with diacritical marks are transliterated.

- Numerals are not printed, but numbers on birth certificates are written alphabetically.

- Vulgar or offensive names are not accepted, including those with religious connotations or swear words.

- Trademarked names require written consent from the trademark owner.

- Unusual names are subject to approval based on additional evidence of usage.

## Types of 'unusual' or frivolous name changes

- Combination of names that make up a phrase or saying not considered a name will be rejected

- Provision of additional documentary evidence can result in the name being shown as an observation

## Presumed titles and honors

- Changing the first name to imply having a title requires additional documentary evidence

- Changing surname to imply having a post-nominal title requires additional documentary evidence

## Accepted supporting documents

- Two supporting documents from List A are required

- At least one supporting document from List B is required

## Name change for commercial gain

- Name change for purely commercial reasons is rejected

- Proving intention to use the name for all purposes is necessary

## Linked applications

- Linked applications from groups of people or family members require individual proof of name change intention

- Bet or humorous reasons for name change are considered linked applications

## Single names

- Being known by a single name is legally acceptable

- Skepticism may arise when applying for a passport with a single name

## Name length restrictions

- No legal limit on name length, but a limit of 300 characters (including spaces) is imposed for the full name

- Forename and surname length limits may vary for different organizations

Deed Poll

A deed poll is a legal document that serves as an official and binding declaration of a person's intention to change their name, gender identity, or other personal details. It is a formal and recognized way to undertake such changes, often used in cases of name changes after marriage, gender transitions, or simply for personal preference. Deed polls are typically signed in the presence of witnesses and may require notarization to ensure their validity. Once executed, a deed poll provides a clear and legally recognized record of the individual's new identity or name, which can be used for various purposes such as updating identification documents, bank accounts, and official records.

Deed poll/affidavit as per annexure 'e' passport

An affidavit as per Annexure 'E' passport is a crucial legal document used in the context of obtaining a passport when there is a discrepancy or change in personal information, such as name or date of birth. In cases where an individual's name has been changed through a formal legal process like a deed poll, this affidavit becomes essential. The affidavit serves as a sworn statement made by the applicant, confirming the authenticity of the information provided and the legality of the name change through a deed poll. This document is typically notarized to ensure its validity and is submitted along with the passport application to demonstrate the accuracy of the updated personal details. It plays a pivotal role in the passport issuance process by providing the necessary legal verification of changes made through a deed poll.

Deed poll online

Deed poll online services have become a convenient and accessible way for individuals to officially change their names or other personal details. In today's digital age, many people opt for the ease and efficiency of deed poll online platforms to streamline the name-changing process. These services often offer step-by-step guidance, templates, and legal information, making it simpler for individuals to create and execute their deed poll documents from the comfort of their own homes. While using deed poll online services, it's crucial to ensure the website or service is reputable and compliant with legal requirements to ensure the validity of the document. This approach to deed polls offers a modern solution for those seeking to update their personal information in a hassle-free manner.

Deed poll India

In India, a deed poll is a legally recognized document used primarily for changing one's name or other personal details. Individuals who wish to modify their names, surnames, or other identifying information can do so through the formal process of a deed poll. This legal instrument ensures that the change is officially acknowledged and can be used to update various official records and identification documents. Deed poll India services may vary by region and local regulations, but they generally require the individual to draft and sign the deed poll in the presence of witnesses or notaries. It serves as a crucial tool for those who desire a change in their personal information while adhering to legal procedures in the Indian context.

Deed poll name change

A deed poll name change is a legal process that individuals undertake to officially alter their name. This procedure is particularly common when someone wishes to adopt a new name for personal, cultural, religious, or other reasons. Deed poll name changes are typically conducted through a formal document known as a deed poll, which serves as a legal declaration of intent. This document is often signed in the presence of witnesses or notaries to ensure its validity. Once the deed poll name change is executed, it provides the individual with a recognized and legally binding record of their new name, which can then be used to update identification documents, records, and official records, enabling them to fully embrace their chosen identity.

After finding out what sort of name you can choose, you have to make a name change gazette online for changing your name.

Ready To Start Fresh With A New Name?

Let Us Handle The Paperwork And Guide You Throughout Process.

Apply Now for Gazette

0 notes