#but i think i associate that song too strongly with one very specific ship

[offorestsongs]

ive spend a concerning amount of time today carefully analysing which Hozier song fits Lysander and Rook's relationship the best

[velvet-apricots]

Ansbach for character ask

favorite thing about them

His entire character is very interesting. When you think "murder cult" you think axe murderer levels of crazy. But he is alarmingly sane, well spoken, and reasonable. He is polite to everyone, even his enemies. You really get the vibe that he represents something very different from what we are shown. Like once the Dynasty was MORE than what it is now. One that could have been a real dynasty, but has degraded into a cult.

least favorite thing about them

WHY THE FUCK DID HE DIE? HE WAS STILL STANDING WHEN I BEAT THE FINAL BOSS ITS NOT FARE!!

Also not a fan of how fandom pits him against Gideon Ofnir.

favorite line

Miquella the Kind...is a monster. Pure and radiant, he wields love to shrive clean the hearts of men. There is nothing more terrifying.

(also litterally whenever he calls me Righteous Tarnished)

brOTP

Thiollier and Ansbach. They have such a nice little vibe. They both are afraid but are willing to fight for who they have devoted themselves to.

OTP

Adamah x Ansbach and Ansbach x Tarnished. Obviously I have a preference to m/f content, and thats what I seek first and foremost. There is almost nothing of that (or anything actually) though. But I have Adamah so I am not entirely without content, but it doesn't hit as nicely when you make it.

Kind of surprised there is so little Tarnished x Ansbach honestly. Nor is there any Ansbach x Reader? so many people are talking about how hot he is, and yet I don't SEE anyone doing anything with him. Super disappointing. U_U

nOTP

Don't have one with him. Not yet anyway. The ships I have seen I am utterly neutral about. I am very picky and feel very strongly so its only a matter of time XD

random headcanon

He has arthritis in both hands. Makes using his scythe hard in his old age, so thus he has taken up the rapier.

unpopular opinion

I have one but I won't say it cause its not about him specifically and I would be flayed alive for even saying it.

song i associate with them

I have a rather limited library of music i listen too but lets see.... Yeah okay this one kept popping up into my head. U_U

favorite picture of them

old men hunch meeting.

[good-wine-and-cheese]

getting back at you with 2, 5, 12 and 24 for Ochanomizu and (Kenzo) Tenma!

Omg that's cute the other half of the ships....

Character asks

Ochanomizu

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

Dude he's such a good dad. Whether it's PLUTO's hug or how sweet and supportive and protective he is in the 03 anime or the lengths he goes to in the manga supporting Atom he's just such a good parent!!! He's a sweetheart but he doesn't take shit lying down, he has such strong will and will fight for his kids.

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

So this is technically from Tenma's POV about Ochan but it's one that I do think of with respect to him a lot. Just on account that his smile is so powerful and yeah I too would yearn for that smile

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

I feel like he would be quick to forgive Tenma if he would only apologise. In my mind, despite how volatile things are with them, Ochan genuinely would be willing to start fresh if Tenma just asked. Hey babe I'm sorry will you take me back. like it would genuinely be that easy. He's making Tenma figure that out for himself though, otherwise it's not genuine.

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

Y'know I would say Kenzo in a lot of respects. They're both forces for such good, genius doctors in their own field, supportive adults (in my mind in a Tenma Swap AU Atom would end up with 2 of the best dads in the world LMAO)

In the interest of talking about some different guys: Picard from Star Trek the Next Generation! Is it partly because they are old men in their hair loss era? Maybe. But also again they are such egalitarian future-focused peaceful guys. Also Picard argued for robot rights in one of the best episodes of Star Trek period ("The Measure of a Man") so like they're the same guy basically is what I'm saying

Kenzo Tenma

2. Favorite canon thing about this character?

His ability to inspire good and see the best in people. Honestly going into Monster I thought it would be more #edgy and dark, but because we have this sweetheart doctor protagonist it's instead easily one of the most hopeful stories I've ever enjoyed, truly teaching the sanctity and beauty of all life. Tenma is such a beacon of hope and he's able to spread that wherever he goes.

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

Ah man, this was hard. A lot of the songs I associate with him are specifically Guriten-flavoured...but then I remembered this song. It's one that makes me think of Tenma's earliest struggle with figuring out who he wanted to be, and coming to terms that the hospital he worked at was just using him. It's unsure, it's hurt, but it ends with a hopeful step forward.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

He has very poor anger regulation sometimes. We only see it very briefly, but Tenma is deeply repressing negativity and when it does come out it's a little explosive. I especially feel like he has this sense he has to be "perfectly happy" all the time as a foreigner and is afraid to "look bad" as it would reflect worse on him, but as a result he has these meltdowns sometimes. It comes out more potently when he drinks, so he generally tries to avoid alcohol when around others.

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

Obligatory Ochan mention. But okay this is a bit of a weird one...Kaiji kind of?? Now Kaiji is a very different character, very scrappy very stupid very shithead. But it's the way that he has the ability to command such a powerful response from strangers and holds onto hope so strongly and cries and is so earnest...they are characters cut of a similar cloth despite how different they come off at first. Kaiji is just Tenma during his drunk era

[rune-chaser]

OC question time!

Are there any songs that you strongly associate with any of your OCs?

OC(s) of your choice has been given 50 of their world’s monies. What are they spending it on? (If their world has different tiers of money, i.e. gold and silver coins, go with the higher value currency)

Do any of your OCs have pets?

And finally, just anything you would like to share about them in general :)

1)

There are a few actually! I'll try and grab some from an array of folks!

Marin: You all know her I've shared I think Fight Song by The Stanfields before, as well as Bad Influence by P!nk SO I'm gonna share another one that inspired the Icon I made for her playlist after like 4 years of having no icon Pink Panther by Scene Queen: https://open.spotify.com/track/32ljWqOxw3ckyuaUc882F6?si=ce75c6f7bc8946be

Sunita: You also Know Her I'm actually gonna share a song for her that is very very early on in her playlist! the 4th one added, because it's a song that I so heavily associate it with her I have a very hard time putting it to other characters. I Found by Amber Run: https://open.spotify.com/track/5zT5cMnMKoyruPj13TQXGx?si=f408015ff7a64533

Lake: THE NARRATIVE'S (my) FAVORITE I like her so much and she is so special to me and I plan on putting her through the wringer because I love her. THAT BEING SAID! bet you'll get off on this by Xana: https://open.spotify.com/track/73RMaD9aBr66HauQdertbc?si=2528b5cdc9f948de

Lord Huron: They are the big bad of my dnd campaign! Based on The Most Dangerous Game! This song I actually thumbnailed a good 40 seconds of an animatic to hehe Go Get Your Gun by The Dear Hunter: https://open.spotify.com/track/3JdJIrVP3QBSA8L1RSdUho?si=012dfef3ff89487d

Alani: The Captain that got them all into the mess of my dnd campaign! She's the captain of the ship that sunk getting to Tiamat's Maw (where Lord Huron resides, not that anyone knew that at the time) And I just really like it for her : ) Save Ship, Harbored by The Crane Wives: https://open.spotify.com/track/7EX8XCuQF5YlozMjNedoez?si=33fa94bd896b4f90

AND THE REST UNDER A READ MORE CAUSE WE ALREADY GOT LONG

2) We'll go with Alani again! Since the Alazarian world is about the only story place I have the money really matters, Song of Blood may also but I haven't developed it enough to be mindful about it.

50 gold can sometimes be a drop in the bucket with things, so I'll go with Platinum! which would be a higher value of things. But that can go a LONG way when supplying for a ship! Food Rations and even pay for her crew! But she would more than likely use it for supplies to keep her crew happy and safe, And should she see that there is enough left over after that to distribute, well should she be so fortunate to have the extra, why not share it around and pay the crew a bit more?

3) Lyric does! Huron too by a technicality.

Lyric however is a ranger, so they have an animal companion! A Hunter's Griffon that they named Cross! He's a lil guy a bit larger than the average cat! He's a very good tracker as well and helps Lyric out a lot on scouting around home and other places!

Huron has a bunch of Hounds! if you've read the story there's hunting dogs and Huron has those too! Like, A lot. Too many I think but A LOT. She's curated what's been desired of her hunting dogs to bite bite kill kill or maybe just be really really fast! He also has Guard Drakes that are, by a technicality, pets.

4) Wildcard

I actually wanna talk about Song of Blood a bit because I'm currently taking a nail file to it. and trying to slap some clay on it to mold it to what I want.

Specifically I wanna talk about this guy a tad : ) It's Naomi's dad!!!! When it wants to walk around looking a lil more human, because it's dragon form is a bit more fucked up. Series of images below of the most recent pass at its design : )

[marshbarks]

sorry for such a random question, but i’m so curious if you have any like… playlist? or songs? you associate the characters with? (feel free to skip if too personal!)

no worries mariposa !!! idm answering :3

i have playlists that i've curated, for myself and my interpretations of characters/ships, and also some that i've just started that i'm working on getting songs for! everything's on spoofy bc i'm simple.

first off, adrian has been helping me make a list for my building blocks au, which i listen to all the time and fucks me up forever every single time. every song fits the whole au so perfectly and thematically and sometimes i think about stan and being the only golden retriever scared he won't get into heaven and i cry.

i actually have multiple stan lists, but they have a shit ton of overlap, they're more for like.. when i'm feeling a specific sorta way about him. there's my dog, my bad friend (not really), and my best friend. these lists are all combinations of songs about him, for him, and for the people he loves. he feels so strongly that its really hard to separate those emotions out much further!

EXCEPT. his feelings for wendy are SO specific on their own that i have recently started to try and make a stan/wendy list ♥ it is also probably going to have a ton of overlap with the other stan lists but. its fun to have big lists and then go "ok but categorizing into smaller ones"

i have a list for kenny but i'm really... REALLY picky about kenny songs so its practically empty

my cartman list! this one is a mess genre-wise but i'm in music for him for the lyrics, mostly! branching off him, here's my kyle/cartman list because i'm mentally ill.

i also have a list for my runaways au, but it really doesn't have much bc i'm so picky about overall au lists so the two songs there are just thematic!

random bonus, i have a list for firkle i'm starting to curate! very slow going.

i PLAN to make more lists, like i need to revive one of my old aus (called begin again) and start making a list for that bc that one is FUn and i MISS IT A LOT AND I LOVE MUSIC ;0;

i typically don't advertise my playlists/name them directly after the character/ships just bc i don't really want people putting my taste under scrutiny. but this is my home and i can do whatever i want :3

[ryuichirou]

Replies

More replies~ Not a lot today…

Anonymous asked:

In that vegan powers fanart, i really thought the corn was something else,,,

Don’t worry, Anon, I’m sure that that corn (and all the other vegetables in Todd’s super vegan form) are multifunctional!

Anonymous asked:

“Ortho is a top because he is MEEEEEEEEE and I want to fuck Idia hence he is a bottom” this made me think how i often wonder if i kin Idia because i relate to him in many things, but especially and more often on how i think his brother is hot

(the quote is from this post, and it sounds absolutely batshit insane out of context omfg 😭)

Anon!! I didn’t expect that punchline LOL preach!! The most relatable thing about the Shrouds is how crazy they are for each other, I agree. Absolutely shameless.

In all honesty, the role of relatability (for the characters in general or the feelings they have for other characters) plays a role in shipping, even though a lot of times it’s a subconscious thing. It’s not always the case, of course.

Anonymous asked:

Baby by Charli XCX gives major Azul vibes, just saying…

I always knew Azul was a dangerous femme fatale…

Anonymous asked:

After I played book 6 of twisted wonderland, I was listening to Self-Love by Coi Leray on repeat to torment myself. Are there any song that you relate to Idia?

What a way to torment yourself, that’s too emotionally cruel :( Sad post-book-6 vibes…

I don’t really have any specific song that I strongly relate to him, but I catch myself thinking “heh it’s Idia” sometimes. One example of a song with this type of association would be “Ghosts” from the game Night in the Woods.

You're still here

I think I'm fine

I found the stars

But I lost my mind

Where do we go

If we're not together?

Everything sucks

Forever. 💪😔

Anonymous asked:

If post chapter 5 Epel was sent back to the beginning of the school year, do you think he would try and mess with Vil a bit?

“Mess” as in “hint on what’s going to happen”? I’m not sure if I understood you correctly, sorry.

It depends on whether or not Epel knows the rules of the time travel and that even a minor change could affect the events of the future in a very drastic way; and knowing Epel, he probably doesn’t lol So I think it depends on whether he feels like being a little brat that day. He’d still get his ass kicked, though.

Anonymous asked:

Here's a pairing I stumbled across while looking for fics to read - Crewel x Vil's dad. Thoughts? Opinions?

You know what? It could be possible; I can picture Crewel knowing some high profile people, so he could meet Eric at some event. They could have nice potential. But since we don’t really know much about Vil’s dad, I can’t really dive any deeper into that.

But Eric intrigues me very much, it’s a shame we haven’t seen a lot of him :(

Anonymous asked:

I could see Phoenix and crew expecting Riddle to be condescending towards Trucy since he does real magic while Trucy does stage magic, but instead he really enjoys Trucy's shows. If Ace is part of the Wright Anything Agency,  he'll be like "Oh yeah, we were in the same dorm in school and he acted just like this whenever I did simple card tricks for him. 😈" which results in Ace getting collared.

(this is related to the idea of Riddle being an Ace Attorney Prosecutor and Ace being an attorney in the same au)

Don’t ruin his stoic unbreakable image, Ace!! Well, I guess it was already ruined by Riddle loving Trucy’s magic tricks lol This is honestly very sweet. I really like this side of Riddle, and of course it would be Trucy’s tricks that would make it show. Wait, doesn’t she have some underwear tricks? I’m not sure if Riddle is ready for these ones.

+ Damn, Riddle can collar people in this universe too? That shouldn’t be surprising to be honest… Considering all the other mystical and magical stuff this franchise has…

[bi-biscuit]

Hi, remember that ask meme I reblogged where I got one ask? I wanna answer more, so I'm just going to answer the ones I want to answer.

1. What’s the first audio drama you ever listened to?

Life With LEO(h)!!

2. What’s a song you associate really strongly with a specific show?

High Tide Rising by Fox with WTNV because it was the weather in episode... 47? I think? And it's my favorite weather.

4. What’s your favourite completed show?

In Strange Woods!!

6. What’s your favourite audio drama ship?

Mark Bryant and Oliver Ritz. From The Bright Sessions. I think about them so much. I have so many feelings about these two. <3 My beloved. <3 Cecil Gershwin Palmer and Carlos Dave Robles the Scientist are a close second.

7. What’s your favourite piece of music from any show?

I have to choose Details because it was my most listened song for the past two years. HOWEVER.

In Strange Woods has to be here too.

10. Recommend a show!

Brimstone Valley Mall and Life With LEO(h)!! Very different shows. Both very good!!

11. What are you currently listening to?

I already answered this because this one I was actually asked. Welcome to Night Vale, Life With LEO(h) and new development, drum rolllll, Ethics Town.

14. Which audio drama world would you most want to live in?

My first impulse was to say WTNV but... Maybe not fkshrke

Gonna go with... The Bright Sessions.

16. What’s a role you heard an actor you know in, but almost didn’t recognise them?

Christopher Trindade as Carpasinus in Brimstone Valley Mall. He voices three characters in that show (Damien, Trent, Carpasinus) and I recognised him doing the other two voices cause I've heard his voice a lot (Detroit Evolution hyperfixation) but I did not realise he voiced Carpasinus until it was said so in the credits. Also took me a bit to realize he voiced Trent but that one I did catch.

22. Which episode of any audio drama do you think you’ve listened to most?

I have to make multiple choices again here.

[overwatch-does-stuff]

Torb and/or Rein for the character ask? Would love to hear your opinions!

For this ask game! This post turned out really really long so I'm putting it beneath the cut for the sake of the mobile users.

Torbjorn (my beloved):

a song that reminds me of them What I've Done by Linkin Park. Something about the more industrial sound and the themes of regret really hits different. If you want my really weird one, When They Come For Me by Linkin Park as well. I can't really explain this one as well. . . I know this song is literally about a rapper's journey but the kinda vibe of working hard to get better and rejecting what people expect you to be? That's what I associate. I'm worried I'm going to be mocked relentlessly for this one, because most people simplify Torb's character down to "haha funny dwarf man" but fail to mention the part where he's fiercely independent and is dealing with a lot on his plate. Okay and finally! Burn It Down by Linkin Park. This one is self explanatory, it gives me big Omnic Crisis vibes and the chorus is almost word-for-word his typical catch phrase.

what they smell like There's a very specific scent that I'll try to describe. There are chemicals used to get gun powder and other gook off of guns, and they have a very astringent, oily scent to them. No matter how many times you wash your hands, the smell always lingers. I imagine it lingers on him too.

an otp Him and his wife!!!

a notp Pretty much any other ship with him. I'm not really a shipper in general and I dislike breaking up canon ships.

favorite platonic/familial relationships Brigitte- I like to think he's a good dad. I like their relationship a lot, where they're obviously very close but he respects her enough to let her go her own way with things. I like the themes of legacy that surround them, the almost love-hate relationship Torbjorn has with her becoming an engineer like him, the almost love-hate relationship Brigitte has for joining an industry that already has her father's name plastered all over it. It's fascinating. Reinhardt- bubbly optimistic loud man is best friends with the grumpy pessimistic quieter man? A character dynamic made in heaven. Bastion- I thought I had already made a post where I outlined my thoughts on Torbjorn and Bastion, but I can't seem to find it. In short, not only are they the "cute dad robot child" combo, but Bastion also represents so much for Torb. Bastion is a walking reminder of the Crisis that he helped cause- the violence, the trauma, and most importantly, the legacy. Bastion is Torbjorn's redemption: if the most destructive robot he ever built can choose non-violence then maybe the Omnics can be a force of good after all. He hates Bastion but he needs them. And Bastion, looking for their own redemption and purpose, needs him too.

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with Literally everything to do with the "haha funny dwarf man" side of the fanbase. I guarantee you, if Torbjorn was a normal height and typically attractive man he'd be one of the most beloved characters in the fandom but because he's short he's a joke. It makes me so mad!!

the position they sleep in Flat on his back, all sprawled out. Alternatively, I think he likes being the big spoon with his wife.

a crossover au i’d love to see them in Probably Transformers Prime. He'd be best freaking buds with Ratchet!

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn My favorite skin? Honestly, his classic skin is extremely iconic. . . but if I had to pick another it'd be Santaclad. It's literally flawless. Now for Reinhardt:

a song that reminds me of them Whenever I hear Reinhardt's name I immediately think of Sabaton. The entire band embodies his whole vibe- epic power metal telling and embellishing war stories of the past. I know this is stereotypical and often used as a joke pick, but I seriously do associate The Last Stand with him. It's a story from the time frame of the crusaders, although it follows a much more noble group of defenders- just like the Overwatch Crusaders. There's also a lot of overt religiousness in this song and while I don't headcanon Rein as religious, he does believe strongly in faith and the strength of spirit.

what they smell like It would be nice to think that he smells good, but honestly. . . I don't see him using any sort of cologne or anything. Like yeah, he showers, but he's so active that I bet he's always sort of sweaty. He smells very masculine in that sense.

an otp I don't really ship him with anyone because I headcanon him as aro/ace.

a notp I just. . . I don't like shipping him with Ana, purely because I think their platonic relationship is 100x better

favorite platonic/familial relationships Ana- I have a lot of thoughts on this one. . . I feel like these two would be the type to use the phrase "my better half" platonically. There's a contrast between them, yes, with Ana being the quieter and more responsible and Reinhardt more energetic and outspoken, but their differences cover each other's weaknesses. Both care so deeply about the ones they love and would do anything to protect them. Both of them are dealing with the fallout of Overwatch in almost the exact same way as well, and I think it would be good if they met up sometime in canon and coped together- except for the fact that she left him behind to begin with. It's that friendship with that hint of tragedy that really gets me. Brigitte- Platonic mentor/mentee relationship???? Reinhardt being godfather status????? How could you not. How could you not adore them. Bastion- They're not friends. The dev teaser for OW2 made that one very clear. But. . . their interplay is going to be interesting as hell. It always has been. They're two old soldiers with a sizable and frankly quite understandable chip on their shoulder. Will they reconcile, will they heal? There's a part of Rein (and Bastion as well) that wishes to befriend everyone he meets. Will it be able to overcome the trauma between them?

a headcanon that is popular in the fandom but that i disagree with This is fanon but instead canon but- some of Michael Chu's short stories imply that Ana and Jack don't like Reinhardt and that is. Not Correct. They're all friends because I said so.

the position they sleep in I think he sleeps on his side or his stomach, but never on his back. I also imagine he cuddles- be it a person or a pillow.

a crossover au i’d love to see them in Knight Rider, simply because he adores David Hasslehoff so much.

my favorite outfit they’ve ever worn I'm an absolute sucker for power armor, and Reinhardt's classic crusader armor is peak power armor design.

[toast-the-unknowing]

8 Songs, 8 Tags

Tagged by @cheeeryos, thanks!

1. your favorite song at the moment 

Kalamazoo by The Show Ponies. It’s on the fic playlist I’m listening to a lot lately and it’s probably the one that I am going the most :D :D :D when it comes on.

2. a song you associate with a favorite character or ship

I don’t tend to make these associations too strongly, I feel like the ones I have are obvious at this point. I know I’ve said before that Change of Time by Josh Ritter is my Adam/Ronan theme. Raise the Roof by Carbon Leaf used to be a very Gansey song to me but looking at it now it feels more Ronan? I suppose when Raven King was top of mind, Gansey’s desperation and mortality felt a little more pressing. Funny how associations change.

3. a song that could be about you

I have no idea how anyone ever answers questions like this. Pinch Me by The Barenaked Ladies is a whole-ass mood, though.

4. a song you think is overrated 

Most ‘80s radio hits? Too out of touch to know what’s highly rated these days. I remember being really frustrated with fun. back when they were a big deal but I do not think they are still a big deal anymore.

5. a good song that reminds you of a specific memory

(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To by Weezer. June of 2013, I was working part-time, so I’d often go jogging in the early afternoon in the rich neighborhood that bordered on my not so rich neighborhood. I was starting up a flirtation with a guy who would become my boyfriend and would then become my ex, but who at the time was just a friend of a friend I had a lot of silly daydreams about. Often I had silly daydreams about him while jogging, because the alternative was to really experience the fact that I was jogging, and fuck no. 

I’m sure I had other songs on my workout playlist, but this is the one I remember, and it’s also the one that for whatever reason I haven’t listened to much since then, so it’s the one that really strongly calls to mind booty shorts and Beverlywood and being infatuated. It used to be a happy memory, and then it used to be a guilty hurtful memory, and now it’s...bittersweet. I don’t know. Maybe I could add this song back into rotation.

6. the last song you listened to

The Middle by Trampled by Turtles. This one’s gone and got itself fixed in my mind to my current Major WIP; its lyrical relevance to said WIP is dubious, but every time it comes on I’m like “yeah!”, so it’s still on the playlist.

7. a song that makes you laugh

I just remembered the time I was driving with my sister and her best friend and She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby came on and neither of them had ever heard it before and they both got progressively more and more “what the FUCK even IS this song?!” the longer it played, while I tried to chime in on all the little Science!s but mostly was just laughing too hard.

8. a song you want your mutuals to listen to

I am team Never Take The Aux Cable in a group setting so my instinct at telling someone else what to listen to is “that’s too much responsibility, I gotta find a way out of this.” I will go with Take Me Back by Sarah Jarosz because that is the most recent song I added to my likes on Spotify. It is also on the wip playlist so Rule of Threes has now been satisfied.

tagging @sashahilbert @two-of-swords-621 @neveronceintoit @kieranfae @the-apocrypha @talldecafcappuccino @uncertainglobalfuture @eameseames

[ficklefandom]

Neo

NEO

favorite thing about them

I like being able to play around with her characterization, but I love how unhinged Neo is. yes girl drug your babysitter who cares?? ruin your life over that man. steal that magic item from a genocidal demi-god and play dangerous games with a overpowered magic lady. drive that truck through a wall. crash that airship straight into the mech. WHAT IS IT WITH NEO AND VEHICULAR CRIMES?

like I love that roman holiday told us, yeah sure neo's going to more extremes for revenge, but she was always just like that

least favorite thing about them

uhh I really don't think there's anything canonical about Neo that I dislike?

ACTUALLY as far as not fandom related, I suppose I don't like the timeline for Roman Holiday—I think that they got way too close way too fast. I imagined Roman and Neo's relationship being one founded on years of careful trust, not half a school year and some late night hang outs.

favorite line

"Your boss won't stay dead... but you will without this"

fucking amazing. I love u so much keep being a bitch

brOTP

On some end I'm obligated to say Roman and Neo as the deadly duo, but TBH also I love Neo and Mercury interactions, though I don't see a lot of them! I imagine them as very antagonistic to each other, but in a very escalating-pranks kinda way, even if they end up hurting each other sometimes.

OTP

Spicecream. I love the FUCK outta that. Though I very strongly prefer pre-Fall spicecream, where they're not both dealing so much with trauma in ways that're directly incompatible with each out and Roman's death isn't in the mix.

nOTP

TBH I don't really care for many Neo ships besides Spicecream, but... I hate Silent Knight, my beloathed...

random headcanon

Neo has texture issues that make her a very picky eater. Her favorite texture as far as food is creamy, which makes ice cream and mac-n-cheese favorites for her. She can't stand the texture of meat, especially well cooked red meat and grainy poultry, but she'll eat fish, especially if it's incorporated into something else.

unpopular opinion

I think it's kind of hard to have an "unpopular opinion" with Neo since her fanbase is so varied—there's so many different ways people characterize and interpret her.

The only thing I can really think of is perhaps how I characterize her? I view her as someone who's overly emotional and very unstable, but not in a uwu baby way, but like someone who's very mentally unwell LOL. Mentally ill icon <3 girl get help —where I feel like the more common characterization is either her being emotionally disconnected or very emotionally shallow and childlike

song i associate with them

I generally don't associate music with characters, but I do like Paralyzed by Aviators for Neo—specifically Neo vs Cinder fight dynamic.

favorite picture of them

ANY SCREENSHOT FROM V8C5 BUT HERE'S SOME FAVS. literally like what is her fucking STANCE at any given moment. also i LOVE her facial expressions so much she's sooo funny

I KNOW SOME OF THESE ARE MEMES OF MINE BUT THOSE WERE THE IMAGES I HAD SAVED AND I DIDNT WANNA GO REWATCH THE EPISODES FOR THOSE PICS

i think my top 2 favs are the one where she's being blasted into the airship (seen below—I LITERALLY LAUGH SO FUCKING HARD EVERY TIME I SEE IT)

and this one... it has everything... the stance.. the expression.... old women....

[propheticfire]

Dogma for the character ask thing! Oh, and Viren too if you want xP

Aaaaah thank you! I would LOVE to talk about both of my boys! :D :D

DOGMA: favorite thing about them I have to go with the meaning I assigned to his symbol on the clone trooper tattoo I got: his conviction. He’s so committed to being the best soldier he can be, and yeah at first that led him to follow his orders pretty strictly, but when he finally saw how flawed those were, he stepped up and chose to think for himself. ...also he’s gorgeous and his tattoo is so great. least favorite thing about them I guess being a tightass? Lol. But since I love him it’s also kind of endearing. favorite line I really love the way he hisses out, “We have to tell [the general]. If we know what they’re up to, and we keep our mouths shut, then we’ll be complicit in their insubordination. Do you really want to be court-martialed?” brOTP Dogma & Tup is kind of the default answer for this. But maybe also Dogma & Echo? I like to think that if they’d met, they’d end up good friends. OTP Dogma/happiness, lol. But actually, probably Dogma/Fives? I’ve built a little AU around it; you can read some of it on AO3. I’ll get back to writing it eventually, I promise. nOTP I don’t really know that I have a nOTP, so much as there’s just one ship that I don’t particularly jive with, and it’s Dogma/Mace Windu. There’s nothing wrong with it, and I fully support people who ship it, but I tend to skip over that content when I run across it. random headcanon Dogma will make a big show of not liking spicy food, but secretly he wishes he could enjoy it. unpopular opinion I honestly don’t know what opinions about Dogma are popular or unpopular. I suppose, I think he’s more competent and less shiny than some parts of the fandom believe. I don’t know if that counts. song i associate with them I have a whole playlist, actually, from kind of an AU where Dogma learns how to play music as part of his therapy in prison after Umbara. It’s basically just most of the Smoke+Mirrors album from Imagine Dragons. But more specifically, their song Release. favorite picture of them This one might be cheating because it was run through the FaceApp filter to make it look younger, but that’s why I love it. Makes him look more the age that he’s supposed to be.

VIREN: favorite thing about them Viren is the most badass motherfucker on the show. And I don’t just mean because he can use powerful magic, or because he’s got decent fighting skills and hella stamina. He is absolutely willing to throw down and put his life on the line for what he believes in. He’s all in. ...also he’s really hot good god. least favorite thing about them The way he straight up gaslit his son. That was really not cool. favorite line Everything this man says is gold, so I can’t possibly choose a favorite. I do like when he says to Runaan, ”What a beautiful challenge you’ve given me.” Not for its profundity or significance out of context, but because he says it so smoothly it’s so very Viren. brOTP Viren doesn’t...have any bros. :(( But actually, Viren & Amaya. Their friendship would consist almost entirely of sass and badassery, but there would be some gentle moments. I wish they could be friends again. OTP Virrow! There’s something about Viren/Harrow that just really pulls at my heartstrings. I ship Viren with so many people, lol, and I love all the different things you can explore with each ship, but virrow is my favorite. nOTP idk, maybe Viren/Ezran? idk how many people even ship that (and I always support people’s right to ship what they want), but that’s not really my thing. random headcanon Viren is fluent in so many languages, some of which you’ve never even heard of. unpopular opinion Viren has done nothing wrong in his life ever. ...but to be serious, I guess it depends what part of the fandom you’re in, what constitutes an unpopular opinion. As a Viren fan, most of what I think is unpopular to a good chunk of the fans. Outside of canon, I guess I have two unpopular opinions: 1. Viren’s not exclusively or even primarily a sub or a bottom 2. I’m gonna come clean on this one. There’s a fandom art trend going around right now of hobo timeskip Viren. And all the art is super great! I love and support all the artists. But most timeskip Virens have grown out the mustachy bit of his beard, and dear god I just wanna shave it off please get rid of it I hate it. I want his chinstrap beard back. song i associate with them I don’t really listen to a lot of music these days, so I don’t strongly associate Viren with a particular song. But there’s this awesome animatic type thing that @artaline did, to a song from a musical about Jafar(?) that’s pretty badass, so I guess that one. favorite picture of them There are so many great pictures of Viren it’s hard to choose, but I have to go with this one, since it’s the first one I ever screencapped and posted on tumblr declaring my love for him.

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

My Friend Emmett Kelly

Summary: Eddie pulled away and looked off into that bright orange sky. “I miss them.” He frowned as he started walking up to a dead freight car. Mike followed and accepted the helping hand of his friend when it was apparently came time to hop inside and sat at the edge. “I miss them and I couldn’t even remember them a few days ago.”

{IT happened but these 3 idiots meet-up before the 2nd showdown w/ Pennywise. They’re about 28 in this story}

By the way, just in case you don't know: Emmett Kelly was a circus performer, who created the clown character "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Depression era :)

{She doesn’t care but I dedicate this to the #1 Emmett Kelly fan @m-o-o-n-thatspellsblog ;) !!}

Words: 5,184

Ship: Reddie, 

“No one wants to ride and train when they can just jump in a Ford and go.”

The Hitchhiker came and went through the bloodied recesses of Edward Kaspbrak’s mind often. He would repeat old time-y sentiments that were not necessarily blatant horror, sentences Eddie could take as calmly as a pill only a little too thick to swallow on the first try. But they were the kind of words that ripped another stringy clot of skin from the wound that the first had created.

Sometimes,The Hitchhiker would open his mouth to a gentle ‘O’ and out would pour the sounds of an old radio trying to tune itself to a station. Static would salt out of his painted lips before landing on something like Roger Miller singing ‘King of The Road’.

“Third boxcar, midnight train, destination Bangor, Maine Old worn-out suits and shoes I don't pay no union dues...”

Though The Hitchhiker hadn’t started doing that until he tunneled his way out of Eddie’s mind and bled into the real world. But there was also the likely possibility that Eddie had manifested the character into the air by building him a subconscious bridge.

The train-yard in Derry, Maine was the first place that he saw his little friend slinking around a plain of existence that Eddie hadn’t made-up.

It was late-afternoon with the company of a low-hanging sun and nice screeches coming from under the wheels of great long freight trains. Passenger trains long since halted their run in the town. But the freights were loaded with goods to bring into places to the north and to the south. His favorites used to be the ones which had gleaming Fords and Chevies because it had been a real dream of his childhood to own a car like those.

His little hitchhiking friend must have known of this affection for the yard because that afternoon, when he was back in his hometown to watch over his sick mother, the sad man was just sitting on a paused freight.

His eyebrows frozen in what looked to be an upward quiver and lived under a flat little brown hat. A shadow of paint took over his chin like a beard and made the white around his lips truly stand out. But most notably, a ball of red sat in place of his nose.

Eddie recognized the familiarity of the man in an instant. For he...was what Eddie had begun to associate with patterned, fuzzy memories that sometimes came back into his head. They were never complete nor useful, just sentences that could be a mighty pain to that first wound. But the man on the freight was the image they were almost always voiced from.

In an old worn out suit, lived an Emmett Kelly looking clown who sometimes appeared to Eddie in passing thought. Of course, he was never quite sure why he’d first began to associate a clown with old childhood memories but it never much bothered him until he set foot back into Derry.

And in that moment, as he sat on the train with a clutched fist around a small sack, the Kelly lookalike seemed so real.

The man turned to Eddie and spoke one of those charmed little sentences but this time, he had his very own voice because there was the absence of him being trapped in Eddie’s own internal narrative. “No one wants to ride and train when they can just jump in a Ford and go.”

That had been his mother. Sonia. Eddie was sure that she had once said something of that sort to him when he asked about the trains that ran through town. It was a plain sort of comment she’d thrown into her little story but nonetheless, it had pained the boy in that childhood memory who adored trains for whatever odd reason. 

Emmett, Eddie supposed he could refer to him as such, reached out a hand which poked out from the boxcar. Eddie flinched in some sort of sweaty fear but calmed slightly when he realized he had only been pointing to a crate sitting in the cinders. 

Eddie was sort of paralyzed with either fear or shock but decided to take a peek when Emmett covered his eyes in a playful manner. As if to say ‘Hey! I’ll look away, if you want’!

So Eddie tipped his body and took a small, gentle peek into the crate that was clicking around and caught sight of something eerily familiar. Slithering and crawling inside were 4 lobsters. Printed across the side of the box in faded yellow paint were the words; ‘Take em’ home to yer mum’. 

“Oh, Fuck off” He shook his head and stepped back to his original spot. His memories of the early days had begun to clear up ever since he returned to Derry some days ago and if he recalled right, this had once happened to him before...in a different way. 

When he glanced back to the train, Emmett had disappeared altogether. 

                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Four days later, Eddie decided to sort out all the closets and his old bedroom for any hidden treasures or shit to just jog his memory. He ran into an old looking photo-book and some old books he decided to bring to the library because he doubted his mother would ever miss them. 

Plus, it was a good excuse to leave the old home. So Eddie took a nice mid-afternoon stroll through Derry with the small box of books under his arm. 

He went through the train-yard, walking along track 4 and browsing that old photo-book. He glanced up every few minutes but never once did he catch a glimpse of his Hitchhiker Emmett. 

It was strange...that kind of fear that his little Hitchhiker caused him now. Bouncing from mind to reality like that and something about clowns absolutely terrified him lately. A fear that, he again didn’t notice until returning to Derry. 

The air smelled strongly of dark brown perfume and mild touches of wet autumn leaves as Eddie moved back towards the main street. He found the library in mere seconds and attempted to balance the box and the photo-book underneath it as he took the stairs and strolled inside. 

His forearms itched, that dirty itch, when he set the box onto the main counter. Which felt like bugs had crawled under his skin and were now making themselves comfortable.

“You wanna donate these or-...?” 

Eddie glanced up when the man didn’t finish his sentence and found a nice looking dude looking completely wrecked with shock. 

Little Emmett Kelly was back in his mind, opening his mouth and tuning it specifically to a song...“Like the pine trees linin' the windin' road I've got a name, I've got a name...”

“Mike-...Mike Hanlon?” Eddie heard himself say out-loud before he truly could place him. But when the man smiled back at him, wide and lovingly, he found his place and Emmett smiled too before the image left his mind. 

“Eddie Kaspbrak!” Mike reached out for a hug that felt amazingly soft. Eddie melted into him like butter...and kinda like a man about to breakdown and cry. But the long lost pal just tightened his arms around him and sighed with something like relief and pride. 

‘Long lost pal...that reminds me of a song...’ Eddie paused to think. ‘Something another friend used to sing-’

Emmett reappeared in his mind’s eye for a brief second and used his magic mouth-radio to play just what he was looking for. 

“If you'll be my bodyguard I can be your long lost pal I can call you Betty And Betty, when you call me, you can call me Al...”

Eddie nodded to himself and pulled away from Mike even though he desperately didn’t want to move an inch. 

The man before him was so obviously placed now that Eddie couldn’t believe he’d forgotten. He was just as charming, handsome and grounded as he was in their childhood days. Michael Hanlon. 1 of 7.  : : : : :

Before Eddie could stop himself and maybe be polite enough to leave Mike to his work, he had begged him to come walking with him. He hadn’t felt that deeply connected to anyone in many years so he planned to enjoy it while he had the time. It sucked that the catch-up had to take place in Derry, of all places, but it was a town that would live in each of them for as long as they lived even if they forgot for a while. ‘How fucked was that?’

That photo-book now curled up in his fist. He took Mike back by the train-yard and the two strolled down track 4 while the sun bathed them both in colors deserving of Summer even though it was mid-fall. 

“And I suppose...once you leave, you’ll memory will fade again.” Mike finished his long story of their fucking shitty childhood nightmare which seemed to drag Eddie down like the thick filmy sweat that use to coat his body after a long summers day in the Barrens, the one that made him realize that day was over. 

“I’ve been seeing a clown-...”

Mike snapped his eyes directly to Eddie’s, they were filled with dreaded fear. 

“No-...It’s not like that...” Eddie couldn’t really explain himself because he wasn’t sure if it really made sense out-loud. “It’s this character that I sorta created a few years back, the angel and devil on my shoulder or something.” Eddie scratched behind his ear and Mike hopped off the rail and strolled closer.

“When memories pop into my brain or weird shit that I can’t place, it speaks through him in my head. Which is fucked-up I guess but I didn’t really give a shit about it before. I just thought it was something I did, y’know? He was a train-hopper kinda...dude. Which I always liked but now...”

Mike pulled Eddie’s sleeve just to let him know he was safe to speak. 

“Mike, he scares the shit outta me. Not because he’s doing anything scary. But when I got to Derry and started feeling things the way I used to...Clowns just didn’t fucking sit right with me-” 

Eddie broke into a loud laugh which Mike had to join in because their lives were too fucking weird. 

“One time, I was driving this client of mine, right?” Eddie bumped their arms together and laughed. “And my little Hitchhiker popped into my brain when a really good song was on-...‘Roll Me Away’ Bob Seger, I think...-and in a clear impression of Richie Tozier, which I now recognize and can place as I’m telling you this, he said ‘Life is just what happens in between long drives.’.”

Eddie sighed like he couldn’t believe his own words. “That’s what Emmett does. He repeats things like that to me...like a moment’s reminder not strong enough for me to keep remembering but strong enough to deepen a wound I didn’t know I had.” 

His eyes were watery when he turned back to Mike, which he didn’t realize was breaking Mike’s heart a little. “Emmett?”

“Oh, That’s what I call him. Because he isn’t a Bozo kinda clown...looks more like an Emmett Kelly, you know him?” Eddie asked and suddenly pulled out an inhaler to suck on which sent Mike back some years ago. “Anyway, I think Richie told me that once when I got my license and drove him to a K-Mart one town over.” Eddie giggled. 

Mike smiled with a touch of sadness that now broke Eddie’s heart. “If there’s anything I learn from staying here in Derry, Eddie, it’s that you can’t live your todays being scared to wake up for the tomorrows.” Mike gently put his arm around him and squeezed. “It’s not a good way to live and...” He looked to him with warm eyes. 

“If there’s no reason to, don’t start convincing yourself to be scared of your Hitchhiker. We all got our angels and devils on our old shoulders. And don’t let the memories of...IT...-” Mike hesitated before he said that “Overwhelm you. No use in giving it a thought unless there should come a day when we have to.” Mike added that with a look of sorrow but found the joy to smile again. 

“I should live by those words, Mike.” Eddie shook his finger and repeated them in his head, like a mantra. ‘You can’t live your todays being scared to wake up for the tomorrows.’ 

He thought upon all those horrible nights spent wide awake and being scared of how many times he might lose his breath the next day. Clutching his inhaler like an anxiety filled mess. 

Eddie didn’t notice he’d been anxiously clasping and unclasping his hands until Mike held out his arms for a hug. He fell into Mike’s grip as if the number of years hadn’t actually passed and they were still teenagers who saw each other everyday. Mike rubbed his hand in a circle on his back. “We have to be there for each other...”

Eddie pulled away and looked off into that bright orange sky. “I miss them.” He frowned as he started walking up to a dead freight car. Mike followed and accepted the helping hand of his friend when it was apparently came time to hop inside and sat at the edge. “I miss them and I couldn’t even remember them a few days ago.” 

Mike watched with a tilted chin as Eddie paced the length of the old boxcar in that nervous way he had always approached stress with. It brought a little light into the car, Mike thought. He could only be what the situation handed him in moments like this, where he was pretty vulnerable. And the situation tossed him a memory of joy so he smiled at his friend who’d been young once too despite the speed in which they’d all had to grow up in. “I can’t imagine how you’ve been feeling. Considering you didn’t forget.” Eddie dropped his shoulders and sat back down. 

Mike shrugged like it was no big deal but there was a bit of pain behind his kind eyes that gave him away. 

“I mean...at least we got to forget all that shit and have the luxury of not being aware we had any trauma. What the others made of it, I don’t know but...” He waved his hand out into the air but let it fall. “Well...who’s there for you?” 

Mike’s lips trembled which was strange to see. “I don’t if either of those two options is great, Eddie.” He rolled his lips together when his friend raised his brow. “Remembering our trauma for the six of you is extremely exhausting. But also...forgetting trauma leaves room to pick up unhealthy habits again...” 

Eddie clutched his inhaler and blinked back some stress tears. He looked off towards the middle of the train-yard and found his little hitchhiker in the distant boney and dead grass. Emmett was shaking what looked like his very own inhaler except when he went to suck on it, water squirted out and drenched his face. He frowned and made brief eye-contact before tossing the thing deep into the field, looking betrayed.

‘Yeah’...Eddie decided the Hitchhiker was nothing to be scared of. 

                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside. That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive...”  Bruce Springsteen lyrics. That’s what Emmett tuned his good ol’ mouth radio to in Eddie’s dream last night. 

He wasn’t entirely sure what he was aiming for with that but decided it’d be best not to think too hard about it. Instead, Eddie made his mother some breakfast and tried not to self-diagnose the itchy spot on his arm as eczema. 

The bushel of pink-painted roses covering the delicate plate was covered in scrambled eggs and a side of bacon made just for Sonia. 

They say the older you get, the harder it is to forgive & forget. Fixing up moist yellow scrambled eggs...for a mother only surviving on the given notion that her son was too much of a victim to say no...-Eddie was finding that saying to be true. He plopped the mess of food onto the table in front of his mom and remembered something simple. 

Upstairs & and on his wooden bedroom window-sill there was a small carving. Eddie smiled to himself and took of for his room, no matter how his mom complained that they needed to spend actual time together. He just had to see if it was what he thought it was...

Kneeling down, he dragged his finger against the wood he couldn’t see until he felt the markings. He dipped himself to take a peek & found that it was still there, of course. ‘BADLANDS’

The song in which those Bruce Springsteen lyrics had come from. “Holy shit.” Eddie mumbled to himself and slapped the window-sill in pure shock. He laughed to himself, a deep sort of chuckle that may have sounded a little crazy.

Richie Damn Tozier. The memory was getting a little clearer now. 

Fourteen year old Tozier had carved that into the weak wood with the butter knife Eddie had used to spread butter onto his toast that morning. 

The Hitchhiker spoke in Richie’s voice as he reappeared in Eddie’s mind- “I’m tellin’ ya, Eds. You gotta listen to the song, there’s this part that reminds me of you. Listen-....” Emmett paused and instead of continuing with young memory version of Richie reading out the lyrics, he tuned that good ol’ mouth radio and sounded out that specific part. 

“You wake up in the night With a fear so real You spend your life waiting For a moment that just don't come Well don't waste your time waiting” 

Bruce sang out lyrics that eerily reminded Eddie of what Mike had said a few days ago; ‘You can’t live your todays being scared to wake up for the tomorrows.’ 

He really couldn’t blame Richie for associating that lyric with him. Eddie smiled to himself and dragged his thumb across the carving once more before standing. The dork had carved the title in so Eddie wouldn’t forget to listen to it. 

His heart skipped a beat or two and he tried to wrap himself in that happy memory. 

: : : : : : : :

A call came in through Eddie’s cell when the man was showering some two days later and was answered by his loving mother. Sonia picked it up without a moments hesitation because she had as much of a right as her son, after all she had paid for his living for around 17 years. 

“-Is Eddie there, Mrs. Kaspbrak? I have an important message.” 

She paused and glanced up the stairs to listen for a stop in the running water but it was still going off and probably splashing onto the tile because her boy always left a mess in there. “Michael Hanlon, right?” 

“Yes, Ma’am.” 

A small snort escaped her lips because it felt very much like the past when those rowdy kids would ask for him to come play. “What is so important? Don’t you know Eddie is here to take care of his sick mother? Is that not more of an emergency-?”

Sonia was cut off not by Mike but by Eddie who’d suddenly burst down the stairs and snatched the phone out of her hand. “Mike? Sorry, it’s me.” He spared a look to Sonia, who only shook her head and left to lay across the couch in the other room.  “What is it?”

“Nothing bad, actually. I think there’s someone down at the library you’ll want to see again.” 

                         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“ED’S!”

“Richie fucking Tozier, what on earth blew you into town?” Eddie jogged towards the main desk and threw his friends a warm grin. 

“More like who on earth blew me into town!” Richie broke into that little chuckle he used to do whenever he was being a little shit. Mike and Eddie only tossed each other annoyed looks and waited for an actual response. “-Yeah, nobody did...ha...Not funny, huh?” He swiped his curled knuckle under his nose and shook his head.  

Mike rolled his eyes fondly and thumped their arms together to urge Richie to spill. “Um, yeah I-” Richie awkwardly began and ran his palms down the legs of his jeans. “I’m just visiting my parents for the weekend. Wentworth is being a little asshole, say’s he wants to redo the living room.” Richie shrugged. “So ma called me to try and y’know, talk him outta it...distract him - which is my talent after all -” He broke for laughter. 

“But my ulterior motive, you ask?” Richie waved his arms and smugly grinned. 

“Oh, tell us!” Mike chirped happily from behind the desk. 

“I want to try and convince ol’ Went to hand over all his old or vintage luggage and suitcases to me, y’know?” He leaned back onto the desk and shrugged. “He’s got tons of nice junk perfect for me stuff my shit into. I just gotta get him to make the big journey to our storage unit place.” He grinned madly. 

“What did you pack your stuff into to get here if you are without that necessity?” Eddie narrowed his eyes and came to stand against the desk, to Mike’s left and Richie to his right. 

Richie waggled his finger and clicked his tongue. “A garbage bag-” 

“Jesus, Richie-”

“What it wasn’t a used garbage bag, Eddie. I have some class.” 

“Yeah, you’re the picture of class. Just drop the C & the L.” Eddie shook his head and feigned his attention elsewhere which always used to annoy his friend. A few seconds of silence passed them. 

“Oh, I’m the ass?”

“Congratulations, you figured out the joke!” Eddie playfully clicked his own tongue and pretended he was more interested in the books stacked just next to his elbow. Richie reached over and smacked his other arm off the counter.

“Don’t start with me Kaspbrak, I can so pick up where we left off back in fifth grade & you stole my Twinkie!” Richie was now trying to smother his laughter and playfully swatting Eddie’s hands.

But his friend paused for a second and turned to Mike. “So, you remember that?” Eddie turned back to Richie. “What else are you remembering?” 

“Oh, the killer fucking clown? Yeah, no - Mike helped catch me up to speed.” Richie stuck his finger out to point at him and laughed but it was not at all happy. It was bitter and miserable which could strike any Loser’s Club member with fear. The three men went quiet again, which the library was probably thankful for. The sour change in the mood easily took them over and kept them from enjoying the nice reunion. “Anyway, why are you in town?” Richie gently tapped Eddie’s hand. 

The strong smell of his mothers perfume suddenly filled Eddie’s nose as he let himself frown. “My mom is sick.” His throat suddenly tightened and he knew it was because the anxiety was trying to worm it’s way into his body again, the subject commonly triggered it. He dragged his pointer finger around in small circles against the cold counter. “It’s nothing serious, I mean I know that but...you know Sonia.” He sighed.

“Boy, do I know your mom!” Richie automatically fell into a joke but realized his mistake when Mike thumped his palm onto the back of his head. 

“She’s really laying the guilt on thick this time.” The misery was clear in his voice and he was kind of embarrassed. “Telling me to move back because she’s very weak-” He rolled his eyes “Your father was sick, Eddie-bear. I took care of him just as I took care of you. I’m sure you’re grateful for that, aren’t you?” He mocked her voice and shook his head. 

“Eddie-” Both Richie and Mike started, knowing exactly where this was going. The panic on the man’s face was clear and sad. 

“I sure as shit don’t want to come back here, guys. Jesus, I hate to think about living here with her again but...” Eddie was finally having the mental breakdown he’d been pushing since just before he left New York. “What if it kills her? Fuck, my leaving again could really upset her and-”

“Hey, hey, hey-” Richie Tozier’s hear shattered into a million pieces and he clasped his hands around his friends arms to calm him. “Ed’s, you said it yourself, she’s not seriously sick. I hate to say it...y’know what? Maybe I don’t...but I hate your mom!” Richie let go to wave his arms and a few people stared when he laughed. Mike gave them a charming grin and laid his gentle hands on both pals. “She manipulates you. It’s all she’s done since we were kids, man.”

Eddie blinked a few times and shook his head. “I know...I know that-...” he shrugged. “But she’s my mom. Shouldn’t that mean something?”

That broke something in Richie. The boy he’d grown up...loving with the entirety of his thirteen year old soul (not that he’d speak a word of that memory), was absolutely wrecked. “It should, yeah-” Richie nodded. “And that’s why it’s so fucking shitty that she treats you like that, Eds. ”

Mike nodded. “You shouldn’t have to sacrifice your happiness and well-being for your mother. That’s not a good relationship.” He spoke in a more reserved and mature tone than Richie but seemed to be in agreement. 

Eddie slowly nodded and leaned away from their grips. His mind somehow went back to the train-yard and all the childish thoughts of traveling he’d used to express to himself there. Dreams of being a wanderer who didn’t get worked up from simple messes. No, he went wherever the trains took him. He couldn’t imagine having that sort of lifestyle because he was nowhere near the type of person who could handle it. He could barely ask to bum a ride off a co-worker, let alone hitchhike. 

Emmett returned to his mind’s eye, as he so often did these days, but this time he carried a garbage bag as if it were filled with extra clothes. Next to a deserted road, he stuck his thumb out. It was the kind of uncertainty that Eddie couldn’t even entertain at the moment but used to admire as a silly kid. 

Mike took the moments where Eddie was in deep thought to admire the way Richie was so blatantly staring at the nervous man. The wonderful thing was that Mike didn’t need to piece it together like his friends did, he just remembered the way those two drifted together. He wondered if Eddie’s little Emmett friend would help him remember that. “Why don’t you two take a walk? I gotta finish my shift and you have some catching up to do.” 

Eddie shook himself out of thought and smiled. “I could use the distraction.” 

Richie playfully smacked his arm and started ushering him away. “See ya later, Mikey!” He blew several kisses and tried to hide the small blush on his face from the touching. 

Mike had to laugh. 

                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“So why do you want to steal Went’s luggage?” Eddie asked after several minutes of silence which had succeeded Rich’s story about his old gig as a radio DJ for the collage that ate all of his money. 

“Oh, I’m thinking of moving out to L.A.” He nodded. “New York just isn’t my place and I don’t-”

Eddie stopped walking and was overcome with the giggles. “We were in the same city, dude. I’ve been living in New York!” 

Richie let his mouth hang open for a bit. “I wonder if we ever crossed paths.”

“New York is a huge city, Rich. I doubt it.” Eddie shrugged and started up the stroll again. “It’s not like Derry when we were just a bike ride away.”

Richie looked back at Eddie, a pace or so behind him, and was struck with how much he’d grown. Jesus, Richie's world had pretty much revolved around walking him home from school and earning his laughter. And now...Well, there was no school to chase him away from. They were both grown-ups...

“Badlands?” Eddie interrupted his thoughts with a strange sort of laugh. 

“Huh-?”

“You were whistling. You used to do that all the time when you were nervous. Badlands by Springsteen.” Eddie smacked his arm like there was a joke between them but Richie didn’t get it. “Un-fucking-believable.” 

“Ed’s, let me in on the joke or I’ll kick you in the shin.” He pushed up his glasses and pretended to kick out his leg. 

Eddie looked off in thought again like he was debating something but he soon settled on an answer. “It’s just...you carved that song title on my window-sill, remember? So I would listen to it? I found the carving.”

“Ohhhhh, Well, did you listen to it?” he grinned. 

Eddie rolled his eyes but nodded. They kept on walking that natural stride towards the Kaspbrak household while the sky faded into a cloudless blue. 

They hadn’t had a childhood innocence since about thirteen but the simplicity of being young and stupid was to be grieved just the same. Sweaty days of summer spent climbing trees, riding bikes like no damn car was ever a desire...and falling out of trees. All of that was behind them and Richie would be lying if he said he didn’t want just a taste of that kind of joy now. What was the adult equivalent of that nice itch you got after rolling down grass hills all day? ‘Is there a dirty joke to be made there?’ Richie paused. 

“We’re gonna forget each other again soon.”

“What a downer, Eds.” Richie frowned. 

Eddie stopped at the steps of his home and twirled around. And there, sitting on a neighbors porch a few houses away, was his Hitchhiking buddy. Emmett's head was hanging so low that he couldn’t spy his quivering brows or the tired and lonesome frown. He waited for the clown to repeat something or...do something at all but he just sat there on Mr. Walsh’s steps. Dejected and lonely. Longing for something?

‘Fuck’. Eddie realized that maybe he, himself, was the one feeling dejected and lonely. Emmett was a manifestation of his own thoughts and feelings, wasn’t he? And he knew damn well what he was longing for. 

So, with a little skip step, Eddie bounced closer to Richie and fell into his arms.

Richie made an exaggerated ‘oof’ sound but instantly returned the embrace and even rested his head atop the shorter mans. “I’d really like to kiss ya, Eds.” 

The man pulled back and stared at this friend who he’d forgotten and felt all the sentimental love shit that a person could feel. “Do it then, Dick.” 

Richie moved in and kissed him gently. 

And Emmett bled back into Eddie’s mind and away from the real world.  

[anarkhebringer]

Lukas (Fire Emblem Echoes) for the ask game?

Favorite thing about them: There’s so much, it’s REALLY hard to choose a specific, though at the top of my head I LOVE his sass. He’s WAY sassier than he seems to be, and how he’s the kind that just gives you a detached smile as he politely sasses makes it all even BETTER. He’ll tell you “then perish” and say “please and thank you” at the end, and smile and wave as you do said perishing.

Least favorite thing about them: Not really a thing about Lukas specifically, but his fanbase. In general he has a really gatekeeper-filled fanbase. The “You either accept that he’s aroace or you’re PROBLEMATIC AND OPPRESSING ALL ACE PEOPLE” thing pushed is at a VERY toxic degree. At least it WAS, though I’m not so sure if it’s as strongly pushed anymore since Echoes has fallen out of popularity, and I haven’t dared to peek into that cesspool of the fandom for a few months. Being aspec myself...this behavior annoys me too much to dig into it often...

Favorite line: “A battle between god and mortal? How exhilarating to me.”

BrOTP: Lukas and Alm. Lukas is a mom friend that’d be the Dedue to Alm’s Dimitri in terms of “Please do not eat the weeds.”

OTP: Literally the ONLY ships I have for him in Echoes are Lukas/Python, Lukas/Forsyth, and Lukas/Python/Forsyth, so...yeah.

nOTP: Lukas with pretty much anyone else aside from Python and/or Forsyth jdiwnjfkd

Random headcanon: He has an artistic side to him, one that he indulges in during his free time when not reading. When not reading, he writes or draws, though his writing is what he feels he’s better at and indulges in more often.

Unpopular opinion: His character as a whole is far too complex to say he’s only ace-coded and FOR SURE aroace. His problem with emotions as a whole nulls that fiercely fought-for headcanon a tad. Plus, you can be asexual AND gay. He has MANY traits that're easily ace-coded, gay-coded, AND NT-coded, some separately, some interchangeable. Me personally, I mainly headcanon him as ace and gay, AND autistic, but I also headcanon him as aroace too, so I am NOT dismissing that headcanon one bit. I personally love it and think it fits him well.

Song I associate with them: Hmmm...I’ve never actually thought about this one outside of AU stuff, so sadly I don’t have one.

Favorite picture of them: ...This is Lukas, I’ll take anything I can get LOL

[captainderyn]

The whole couple’s ask for Em and Risha because why not?

Going back to the original otp for my 1000 post, thanks for asking about these two nerds! @delavairesslegacy

I’m putting it mostly under a cut because it’s a lot of questions lmao.

For the couple:

1. What drew your character to their LI and vice versa?

For Emeldir it was her wit and just general attitude that drew him to her. He was intrigued and a little curious as to who Risha was and why she acted the way she did and he fell head over heels in the process of trying to figure her out. As for Risha, I’m going to have to say it was probably his willingness to go out of his way to help people even if it didn’t benefit him that drew her to him (even if it pisses her off sometimes, it is still what made her look at him outside of her imagined ‘oh he must just be a typical smuggler).

2. What was the first moment that they knew they were in love with their LI?

For Risha she didn’t realize she was in love with Emeldir until he stood by her through her wild goose chase of a quest to get her father out of carbonite, minimum questions asked after she expressed that she’d rather not reveal everything and then she found she couldn’t kill him. 

For Emeldir…god, I’m not sure. When he found himself missing her when they were separated between jobs, whhe found himself worrying about losing her when jobs start going bad. 

3. When they are having a fight, what is it about and how do they deal with it?

If they’re fighting (outside of the occasional normal life spats)  it probably has something to do with him putting aside a job to help people (whether that’s putting himself in unnecessary danger, losing a reward on a job they worked hard on just to help people, ect) and after things get heated they usually have to take some time away from each other to cool off before Emeldir usually tries to handle the problem less heatedly. 

4. Their favorite physical feature on each other?Is Emeldir’s accent a physical feature? No? Okay, well it’s probably his eyes for Risha. There’s something very intense about them and once she learns how to read him they’re her own secret window into his thoughts. 

For Emeldir…I don’t have an answer. Just *hand waving* Risha. 

5. How do they comfort each other when they are sad?

By just being near each other, talking if they want to. Emeldir tries his damndest to make Risha smile with his wealth of bad puns and terrible humor, but when that doesn’t work he’ll just gather her into his arms if she wants the contact. 

Risha runs her fingers through Emeldir’s hair if they’re close, there’s something soothing about it for both of them and any sort of contact seems to be comforting. 

If they aren’t stuck on their ship or somewhere absolutely gross they’ll go out somewhere, even if its just to walk. 

6. Who is the big spoon?

Emeldir, without question. 

7. Favorite date activity?

When they’re home on Coruscant they really like wandering the city, just looking for stuff to do or even just city/people watching. When they’re stuck on their ship or on the Alliance base it’s binging on their favorite holovids/holo shows. 

8. What are their most prominent memories of each other?

Going off of my own personal canon, Emeldir’s most prominent memory of Risha was originally a vivid memory of a night when both of them were on the bridge where he first saw the woman beneath the mask she wears. Now, I think it’s a just as vivid memory of when he saw her address the Alliance when he was first rescued from carbonite, where he saw how powerful she was and how much had changed. 

For Risha I think her most prominent memory of Emeldir if asked before KotFE was when they were with each other on Coruscant once, at night in the lights when he was just talking about things before smuggling. When they were both just people, no jobs, no overhanging galactic crisis, just them. Now her most vivid memory is caught between his goodbye to her before leaving for Marr’s ship and the last moments she got with him–just his voice–before Marr’s ship went up in flames. Not nearly as nice. 

9. How open are they with their feelings?

Emeldir is very open, he’s an open book no matter what. That changes a bit after KotFE but he’s still very open with Risha. Risha…isn’t nearly as open. It takes her awhile to warm up enough to Emeldir to really open that door to her feelings. 

10. Do they have pet names for each other?

Emeldir calls Risha ‘Rish’ affectionately but he doesn’t really have a pet name for her otherwise. 

Likewise, Risha calls him Deryn on a regular basis but that’s not really a pet name either….so I’d say no. 

11. Do they have any inside jokes?They have a lot of inside jokes regarding things they went through throughout the smuggler storyline, obscure references to crazy things that happened on planets that will have them both wheezing. No one else gets it, but they do. 

12. Do they have similar goals? If they clash, how do they deal?

Yes and no. Throughout their core story, they both want Skaavak taken care of. They both want the subsequential galactic conflicts resolved. They’re big goals usually aline fairly similarly. However its the way they go about getting to those goals or goals along the way they tend to clash on. Differences in ideas about how things should be dealt with and all. They deal with a bit of arguing over some things, but mostly try to give a little for each others goals. As long as it isn’t largely against the others beliefs they’ll usually help each other. 

13. How do they react to being away from each other?They’re pretty good at being away from each other, they try and holo each other on the regular and still try to talk to each other but both are quite good at focusing on whatever task they have to do. 

Being away from each other in the timeskip, being forced apart is quite another story that I can sum up with one word; “badly”. After that, they’re both a little more nervous being away from each other but cope in similar ways. 

14. Is there anything they associate with each other?

Emeldir associates, or more so can’t be on the Phoenix without thinking strongly of Risha. 

There are certain songs/types of music that Risha associates with Emeldir, especially (the star wars equivalent of) violin music as Emeldit played often at home and on his ship. 

15. Does their view of themselves differ from their partner’s view?

16. Jealous at all?

A little bit. Emeldir (unlike his in game self) isn’t a huge flirt outside of jokingly flirting with Risha so there’s not much jealousy to pop up there. There’s a little bit of jealousy for Rineld when that whole mess crops up, which Emeldir aggressively shoves away because he told himself he isn’t going to let his own feelings force Risha’s choice, but that mostly stems from him wondering if he’s not enough for Risha, that if he just doesn’t have the right standing to give her what she wants from life. 

17. Their ways of expressing their love.

Through the little things, what they say, the little actions they do. Maybe some more grand shows of their love on important days like their anniversary but usually small things that just the other will understand is what they do. 

18. Is there any way they disappoint each other?

Yes, there are ways they could disappoint each other and it stems largely from doing something awful by their own standards obviously, but even on a smaller scale breaking each other’s trust. 

19. Describe how they communicate

Surprisingly well for two people in the smuggling business. They’re pretty good–once they learn to trust each other and learn after a few mistakes–at approaching each other calm and collected if they have a problem instead of letting it fester. On the day to day though they banter and sass each other so much that it makes you wonder if they actually like each other. 

20. Did either person change at all, to be with their partner?

They didn’t actively change to make the other like them more. Over time they change as people though, as they get older. 

For the creator

21. Personally, do you think they are a good couple?

I’m a little biased, but yes I do. I think they fit really well together, even with Emeldir being drastically different than the in-game smuggler. 

22. From the outside looking in, what is their dynamic like?

Two sarcastic individuals that you never would think would work together snarking their way through the galaxy. Looking deeper their dynamic is that of two people who know each other as well as themselves and it’s like they’re too halves of a whole. 

23. Did you tailor your OC for the other in the romance?

In a way following the in-game romance did kind of tailor Emeldir to fit a certain type but that’s changed so much that no, not anymore. The Emeldir I have now wasn’t specifically chosen trait wise for Risha. 

24. Is there any moment that happens between them that you know happens and just makes you melt?

There are a lot of moments between them that I know happens that makes me melt lmao. But one that always gets me (which is funny, because I WROTE IT) is when Emeldir proposes to Risha. Because he doesn’t even outwrite propose he dances around the question on a whim and it’s surprisingly sweet.

25. Share any headcanons about their relationship.

Isn’t it funny how you have a ton of headcanons but when you’re asked to talk about them on command you just go blank? Just me? Anyways, 

26. How important is the romance in your OC’s overall story?

It isn’t the most important thing in his story, but come the latter half of his story Emeldir and Risha become each other’s rocks, the one consistent thing in their lives. 

27. What makes you excited about their relationship?

Their entire dynamic and the fact that they have such a great banter whenever I write them. They just click so well. 

28. Is there any similarities to your OC and LI’s relationship to one you have had IRL?

I don’t have a relationship IRL so no, I’m just setting my own standards impossibly high with fictional characters. 

29. What are your favorite moments that happen between them?

Besides when Emeldir not-quite-proposes? Well, I love their whole dynamic of commanding the Alliance together as well as my au where they basically stage a take over of the Republic Senate from Saresh. Basically, their dynamic and the way they compliment each other as a whole is my favorite thing. 

30. How does their love change as they get older?

It gets softer, not nearly as intense in the way it was when they were potentially in mortal peril every other week. 

31. Share anything you would like about the couple!

Well, Emeldir is 6′4 so continuing my trend of height differences…there is a height difference. And I love it.