#but since their default is charlie she also hates charlie by association

[nerd-at-sea5]

nat: hey lot, how’d you come up with ‘lottie’ anyway? isn’t the default nickname for charlotte ‘charlie’

lottie: nat. baby. darling. sweetheart. love of my life. call me charlie and i will dump you and quite literally never speak to you again

nat: 😳

taissa: it’s what her parents call her.

nat, van and jackie: o h. damn relatable.

[natexxmorgan]

( BEN BARNS + CISMALE ) —  Have you seen NATHANIEL MORGAN ? This THIRTY-FOUR year old is a COO OF A LUXURY REAL ESTATE FIRM who resides in MANHATTAN. HE has been living in NYC for ONE WEEK, and is known to be DETERMINED and PERSUASIVE, but can also be CALCULATING and DISTANT, if you cross them.  People tend to associate them with THREE PIECE SUITS and VINTAGE WATCHES.

Hi friends! This is Nate –– he’s the last of the Morgan clan to come to NYC. I would love all the plots and connections. Let me know if you wanna figure anything out!

General: 

Nathaniel aka Nate 

34 years old, 

Birthday: May 4th

Hometown: London

Father: Edward

Mother: Claire 

Sister: Mila  – gets along well with his sister 

Half-Brother: Elias – doesn’t hate his brother but resents him because Elias has hated him their entire lives since he was their father’s “golden” son

Education: Architecture Undergrad and Business Masters at Oxford 

Job: COO of  Morgan Estates & Development

Growing up:

Never felt like he could do much to help Elias because he was even younger than him, so Nate did his best to avoid upsetting their dad when it came to himself and Mila.

Did his best to excel and keep his dad’s favor – the thing he’s chased his entire life to maintain. 

He and Elias never got along growing up, though Nate always wanted to be friends with his brother, a notion he let go of early on. 

Adult years:

Went to Oxford for Architecture and a masters of Business

Met his long-time girlfriend-turned-fiance-turned-ex-fiance

They broke up 5 years ago because she could see his father for who Edward was and didn’t want that type of negative energy/volatile energy in her life/potentially their kids if they had any.

After, Nate just focused on work and views working in their father’s business as a way to make sure none of Edward’s shitty friends takes over and also tempers his dad even to this day.

He lowkey working with Edward will keep his dad’s focus off Elias in New York. 

Has embraced a bit of an asshole persona to get shit done and keep his dad happy. He stays because he’s good at what he does and actually thinks he can sway the company into an even better direction. Kinda does it in a rich asshole way – you know, fancy million dollar galas to raise money for underserved community centers etc to help the “little people” vibe (intention is there, execution is always a bit off)

Has no issues being a dick to get shit done but his assholerly is usually directly correlated to work and getting what he wants. It’s a tool, not necessarily a default setting. 

He loves his dad but it’s complicated because he doesn’t know what it says about himself that he loves someone he knows is a monster and truly not a good person.

Headcanons:

Works out daily bc basic hoe.

Has a great dane named Charlie.

Has suffered with generalized anxiety since he was a kid, likely stemming from fear of their father lashing out at him like he did Elias and also from the pressure of performing to meet Edward’s standards. Manages it now with medication but still would lash out if he feels an anxiety attack coming on. 

Collects vintage watches.

Has kept the ring his fiancé gave back to him.

Speaks Mandarin Chinese, French, Portuguese and Italian.

Has thought about striking out on his own to start an architecture firm or even working for one but hasn’t had the courage to leave the family business. 

Has binders and notebooks full of new building ideas. 

more tbd

Connections:

Drinking Buddies – from New York or London or elsewhere – he’s traveled a lot so they could’ve met anywhere.

Best Friend – have known each other for years – how they met/when can be tbd.

Ex-Fiance – would need to discuss fully, likely a from-scratch connection but willing to work on it if an established character fits.

One-Night Stands – simple & uncomplicated

Flings – simple & uncomplicated but a little more consistent for a period of time

Personal Assistant – helps him get shit done

more tbd

[meaveeshrim]

A VERY DESCRIPTIVE PROFILE OF YOUR MUSE.

tagged by:  @tximidity​ tagging: @demonmoonrui​, @fiibbing​ (for Utsuho), @agalere​ (for anyone), @exorcistalice​, @voiicxless​, @lotusdelusion​

repost with the information of your muse, including headcanons,  etc.if you fail to achieve some of the facts, add some others  of your own!

NAME.  Charlotte Mary Hampel

NICKNAME(S).  Char, Charlie (if you call her this she will punch you, but yes it’s technically an option)

TITLE(S).  Exorcist? I guess?

AGE. 24 is the default

SPECIES. Human

GENDER. Female

ALIGNMENT. Chaotic Good (probably, I don’t totally understand these)

INTERESTS.  Languages, meeting new people, getting married

PROFESSION. Exorcist

BODY TYPE.  Well-built and muscular (strong muscular, not bodybuilder muscular). On the shorter side.

EYES.  Brown and wide, really light up when she’s in a good mood (less so when she’s in a pretending-to-be-good-mood, only people who are around her a lot can tell the difference though). Her eyelashes are thick.

HAIR. A light brown, can look reddish when the sun is reflecting off of it. It is typical middle-eastern hair, so it’s thick, wavy, and there’s a lot of it. She’ll usually tie it up one way or another so it’s not in the way. She also has to shave her legs quite often to keep the hair level on them down.

SKIN. Tan and a middle-shade of brown. Would have been considered light-skinned where she grew up in Panama, but around Europeans would seem dark. Her hands and feet and elbows are calloused from her regular exercise activities.

FACE. Soft and round cheekbones which are more noticeably defined when she smiles. Her eyebrows are naturally thick.

HEIGHT. 160 cm (5′4″)

VOICE. Higher than would probably be expected for someone as burly as her, but not by general standards. When she’s excited she gets a sing-songy tone. Notably, she will also speak in the accent of the language she’s speaking (English accent when speaking English, Italian when Italian, Chinese when Chinese, etc.), especially in languages she’s more fluent in.

COMPANIONS. Charlotte could count the people she actually considers friends on one hand. Most people are coworkers or acquaintances, even if she knows them really well and/or spends a lot of time with them. This is because she’ll only call herself someone’s friend after the other person has specified it.

ANTAGONISTS.  It’s very hard to get Charlotte to dislike someone. She has a distaste for people who are mean, but it has to get pretty extreme before her feelings turn to genuine hate. So far, there was one Kanda (no longer active) who got to this point, as well as Mikumiku Seu. (Sullivan Walsh in DGM verse is also quite possibly going to get there, for different reasons.)

BELONGINGS. She is a bit of a hoarder. The smallest things she is able to put sentimental value on. So her room is very full. One of the most notable items is a pair of rings which she’d almost used to propose to someone.

COLOURS.  Blues, browns, and dark greens are the ones associated most with her. Of these, she likes navy green probably most.

FRUITS. Papaya and Plantains (the latter especially if they’re salted and fried). She’ll also 100% just eat a plain lemon.

DRINKS. She’ll drink cranberry juice if she’s looking for something other than water or milk.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES? She’ll drink pretty much anything there, leaning towards plain hard alcohol since she doesn’t mind extremely bitter tastes.

SMOKES? She probably has (both cigarettes and.. possibly other things), but doesn’t do anything regularly.

DRUGS?  Again, probably has tried a handful of things, but won’t go out of her way for it.

DRIVERS LICENSE? Nah. She prefers public transportation to driving.

[cupidsbower]

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola. ~Alan Rickman

Supernatural 12x08 LOTUS, and 12x09 First Blood.

Okay, I’m just gonna be right up front with this -- I’m not a huge fan of either of these episodes. I thought maybe the slight feeling of meh I felt for 12x08 was just end-of-year tiredness, so I held off on the review and had a holiday. But I found 12x08 similarly meh, and also sexist and racist which needless to say I’m not keen on.

LOTUS

I thought having Lucifer possess the President was a fantastic concept, and I loved all the scenes with Lucifer acting that part -- they had some lovely resonances with current US politics that didn’t come over as trying to hard. I loved the nephilim plotline too, and look forward to seeing where it goes. Typical that a man-shaped being should take credit for creating life -- I laughed a lot at Lucifer’s hubris on that. He didn’t fall far from the tree, so to speak. That whole attitude fits in well with the gender themes that have been developing since Amara’s return. It also reaffirms my suspicions that Toni’s child is not-quite-human, and I hope that plot thread is picked up again soon too.

I was less thrilled with the stock-standard, “I can’t abort my baby,” thingo. I really wish an American show would go somewhere new with that and actually consider the option of abortion with some seriousness that doesn’t automatically default to it being unthinkable, even if the choice is then made not to. The default of “I can’t” is just so useless as a storytelling device. Why bother to have a nephilim plot and not actually wring all the drama out of it? (I know why, I’m just tired of it.) Anyway, this plot still has potential to rise above that moment of church-sanctioned sexism, so I’m in wait-and-see mode.

I also really liked the potential of the Winchesters ending up in government hands, given their history and the records that must still exist. But more on that when I get to First Blood.

There wasn’t much else I really liked. I suspect we’re seeing the consequences of so many new writers on the show this season, combined with Supernatural’s comparatively small budget. But the final act of the episode just felt off to me in subtle ways -- the action felt lackluster, there were too few agents checking things out, I didn’t buy the convenient timing of the arrest, or the splitting up of the team when it wasn’t really required. Little things in themselves, but they all added up -- a stronger writer could have masked them better. Meh. It had potential to be good, but it was just a bit wishy-washy instead.

First Blood

I will admit, I was pretty damn excited by this episode’s title. There’s so much media and political history associated with the Rambo movies, and so many ways they could have been invoked in the episode to excellent effect.

For a start, the very first film, First Blood itself, is about post-traumatic stress disorder in a combat vet, social isolation and poverty as a result of that, persecution at the hands of biased and totalitarian authorities, and the toll of toxic masculinity. It’s rich stuff, and a surprisingly good film all things considered. There’s a reason it spawned big-budget sequels, and the character of Rambo was co-opted in the Reagan era as a kind of masculine fantasy ideal.

There’s a strong resonance between all these things and the ongoing themes in Supernatural. Hence my excitement.

Sadly, though, the allusions to First Blood stayed at a pretty superficial level. Yes, we had persecution at the hands of totalitarian authorities, and we had Sam and Dean taking out a squad of soldiers in a forest. But... ugh, I don’t even really know where to start.

Okay, lets start with the taking soliders out thing. It’s meant to show us that Sam and Dean are actually hardened soldiers too, who have been fighting in a war since their twenties, and against opponents who hit far harder than any human soldier. Not only that, they have consistently won despite the odds being against them. It was on point that Crowley reminded us that he’s the only villain who has ever taken them seriously, and that everyone who doesn’t ends up dust. The Winchesters are scary, and the version we viewers see is the “fluffy” insider perspective, so it’s easy to forget just how hard-core they are.

It really isn’t out of the realms of possibility for Sam and Dean to take out a squad of special ops agents, and even to do it without actively trying to kill any of them, and for them to be chillingly efficient as they go about it. But as with the last episode, these agents came across more as Keystone Cops than what they are meant to be -- the cream of America’s secret ops working directly for the President. Are Sam and Dean hardened soldiers who can take on demons and angels and punch well above their weight, and so are far more competent than special ops agents once their paths do cross? Or are they just lucky to be fighting poorly trained also-rans? Mixed messages, show, very mixed messages.

I think I was so frustrated by this, because the episode didn’t start off quite so obviously making the agents ridiculous -- the “sit and stew in isolation” thing was genuinely solid, and made me wonder how long before the Winchesters cracked. So to fritter that tension away on a pretty ordinary action scene just felt unsatisfying. I was expecting something a bit closer -- uncomfortably so -- to Dean’s action sequences in Purgatory. That would have really rammed the message home that the Winchesters are serious business.

But that’s actually small potatoes as gripes go -- some writers just aren’t that great at action. It happens.

My biggest gripe for this episode came at the end. It was obvious from early on that Sam and Dean had made a deal. Okay, fine. I could have gone with that as an interesting complication. I was even interested to see the escalation of Mary throwing her hat in the ring of Winchester-self-sacrifice. We’ve all been expecting developments along those lines, so some foreshadowing here for a greater test later on was expected.

Mind you, I would have been super-astoundingly angry if they had fridged Mary again in this episode -- frothing at the mouth angry -- giving up the show angry. Her place in the myth-arc is too central to end her return in such a light-weight way. I’d honestly prefer if they never fridge her again, but at the very least, she deserves an actualised death that’s about her, and not her sons.

Like I say, I could have been interested in this set-up -- the complication of another deal, made in full knowledge of the price, and Mary showing us that Winchester self-sacrificial streak that has caused so much harm. But instead I’m just disappointed and cross. What the fuckety fuck are the writers thinking with this whole Billie and Castiel bullshit?

Let’s consider the best possible light first. Sam had his demon-blood arc, and Dean had his Mark of Cain arc, and a lot has been made of Castiel being a Winchester, so yes, alright. I guess. His previous dark-side path was made for the right reasons, as Raphael was about the re-start the apocalypse, and the Leviathan thing wasn’t really an active choice on his part. So there’s an argument to be made that Billie’ death is Castiel’s first blood, as it’s a murder for personal gain, instead of being the best of a bad lot of choices. In the best possible light, this is the first step of Castiel’s demon arc, and within the show we’ve learned that kind of path can really only be stopped and redeemed by love. It’s also an escalation of the plotline about Castiel’s post-traumatic stress disorder and isolation, which I’ve been waiting for. The show has never really dealt with the fact that angels run on faith, and Castiel is an angel who has not only rebelled against Heaven for Humanity, but has lost faith in his father. I’m as keen as the next person to see it acknowledged that he has an unhealthy dependence on his faith in Dean as a result. There are potentially good things being set up by this development, if it means we’re going to delve more into Castiel as a character.

But! But. But but butbutbut...

It felt like a cheat. Tell me it didn’t. You can’t right? It felt like the writer had written themselves into a corner and decided shock value was the best way out of it. I know, they thought to themselves, I’ll have Castiel murder someone because he’s feeling unloved! I bet they sniggered, deus ex machina, as they wrote the stabbing.

Ugh. I hate that kind of writing.

And if it were any other secondary character but Billie I might still be okay with it. But it was Billie, so I’m not. Billie offered the Winchesters a straight-up deal that they asked for. It’s been pretty clearly established ever since she was introduced that she’s a neutral supernatural force -- not someone like Zachariah who played fast and loose with the rules, or a demon like Ruby with her own covert agenda. Yes, her bailiwick is death, and that’s intrinsically scary, and she made no secret of being irritated by the Winchesters cheating it, either. But she was a straight-dealer despite that. SHE DID NOT DESERVE TO BE STABBED IN THE BACK.

Which isn’t even getting into the fact that she was a recurring black woman character. Killing her in such a way was just as shitty as Charlie’s death, and for many of the same kinds of reasons.

Even if they revive her (they fucking better) and bring her back pissed off and an antagonist, it won’t really make up for yet another black woman being killed off for plot convenience. Ugh.

UGH.

I’m also not really all that keen on this as a path for Castiel, despite my best-case reading above. It just feels like more of the same-old, instead of finding a new story to tell. :(

In short, I haven’t yet hit my NOPE limit with this move, but the show has some brownie points to earn in the next few eps in order to keep my interest. It’s officially on notice.

Not fridging any more women or other minorities would be a fucking good start.

Previously:

The Ministry of Information vs Wayward Sons Carrying On (12x01)

My, my, how can I resist you? (12x02) and follow-up about Bohemian Raphsody

So what am I so afraid of? (I think I love you) (12x03)

I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy Down in my heart (Where?) (12x04) and a follow-up about the codependency and about Dean’s self-flagellation and issues with space

There can be only one! (12x05), and a follow-up conversation with elizabethrobertajones on Freud vs Schwartz.

They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes (12x06)  

Presenting the Immaculate Heart Reunion Tour (12x07)