#but then something big happens in the world and they end up fostering a kid who was orphaned and just fall in love with them

[quasieli]

I have once again fallen into a trap of my own making*

*making the future children of DND characters that will not be making an appearance in the campaign until prob the last session (if at all)

[deathscastle]

reverse robin

Damian’s is the first but the 2nd oldest;

I like to believe that when Bruce had taken in Damian he actually had no idea if he was ever his and Talias kid. He feels too awkward to ask for a DNA test now.

He wears a shit ton of insanely high quality traditional clothing.

Damian is nightwing but he doesn’t fight in a spandex but rather outfits closer to league uniform (he switched sides not styles) also uses a samurai no escrima sticks.

y’know how Bruce and dick fight and it ends with getting kicked out in og!universe leading to dick leading the titans and becoming nightwing; that happens again but instead of Bruce kicking Damian back he blurts out something implying he’d be better off if Damian returned to the league. And Damian (insanely hurt be this) does. He decides he’ll become nightwing after seeing superman for the first time in a year or two.

he’s off putting, and still DC’s most creative insulter btw

Jon is his only friend- he travels between metropolis and his and Dami’s appartment in blud.

his pain comes from being the heir to the bat rather than the oldest in this and how will he maintain the family :-/

he got angry at Tim being Robin because he was Bruce’s perfect child (that Bruce chose instead of being forced upon) and took the one connection with Bruce he thought was unique to them

also stays away from the rest of the hero community as much as possible.

Stephanie brown is the 2nd to show up but she’s younger than Damian (and a few months younger than Tim)

She’s gravitating and pulling the same shit on her dad and stays on the outside of Bruce’s duo but she figures out their identities pretty quickly. This kinda shuts them up into them listening to her abt her dad. (I’m meshing together multiple DC timelines cus I’m just as confused a stage writers so I’ve given up)

her dad is gonna be the mixture of the one comic where he get his hands on the lazauraus stone that he used to torture Steph with if she got puzzles and detective clues wrong and the ones where he tries to keep Steph and her mom isolated and forces Steph to drop out which leads her to just being available whenever. Since she doesn’t want to help she’ll just be in the cave whenever with new info for missions which kinda freaks Bruce out.

she gets close to Damian and they’re relationship is the exact same as their comic counterparts as I am a firm believer that Stephanie’s EQ is higher than Damian’s.

Bruce ends up adopting her after black mask kills her brown in jail. This happens after Duke comes along btw. (He kills a blond(e) in every universe) (Her mom goes into a psych ward in another city)

btw she becomes oracle same way but also adding in a medical element aswell

the JL has no idea who she is but she def digitally babysits dukes and Tim team, Damian and Jon’s antics, Jason’s insane ideas and dick (like literally babysits him in the tower)

Duke Thomas the oldest comes in next

he gets fostered by Bruce for the same reason again

you see Duke had the whole ‘we are Robin’ thing going on in og!world; he’s a natural leader, who brings outcasts or those who are being overshadowed despite their efforts together to protect unreached communities. What I’m getting at is that he’s the perfect TITANS founder and leader candidate; he also has the whole thing about how the JL respect him a shit ton

yeah basically has the entire new gen looking up to him

in his civilian persona he’s also extremely charming not in a flirty way but boy next door type of vibe he’s a cutey

He’s the big brother who you go to for hugs and the minimum teasing fine that comes along with it

eveyone believes he’s perfect but he just knows better than to commit shenanigans in Gotham and just does them in san Fransisco instead.

him and Damian had insane beef at the start as in physical fights beef and Steph was his saviour in that house. Like he is so dead serious about this.

he use escrima sticks btw

[1thesewordsaremyown1]

I've been going back and forth over whether what we've seen in spoilers is actually going to happen or of its a fake out. Read below the cut for spoilers/speculation/ramblings.

I still maintain that with what we know and what we've seen in the show (eg. Tim with post-Shannon regret showing that he doesn't like killing off major characters, the fact that the show loves to do dramatic twists, etc) that narratively it is likely that Bobby doesn't actually die. Not to mention, if they wanted it to be this big shock, they did a piss poor effort of keeping it quiet. And we know they are capable of keeping things quiet - if it wasn't for buddie "journalists" with screeners who couldn't help themselves from leaking spoilers to their fans and then said fans unable to keep their mouths shut, we never would have expected Tommy to return in 8x11.

But on the other hand, Peter has said in the past that while he loves being on the show, he doesn't expect to be there forever. We don't know what's going on with him behind the scenes - for all we know, he's had enough, and he wants to leave. I guess we'll find out by the end of the season if it sticks.

The thing is, I'm torn about whether I want it to be real or a fake out. I like Bobby, I love the Bobby and Buck dynamic, especially, and I would be so sad to see him go. But on the other hand, this could very well be the kick in the pants that this show has been needing.

Think of all the potential new story lines we could have if Bobby is truly gone, especially in regards to all the characters' careers. Hen, for instance - would she step up as Captain? What would that be like for her, not only being Captain full time, but having to fill some pretty impressive shoes?

And Buck, in the instances where Hen might need someone in the Acting Captain role (say if she was sick or injured), would he decide to step up? He once said he would like to be Captain one day - would the show finally remember that and get him to start seriously thinking about it? He's certainly shown good leadership qualities this season, it would be a natural progression.

What about Chim? Next season he'll have two small kids to think about. With first the loss of his (foster) brother all those years ago and now his friend/Captain, would he start re-evaluating his life? Maybe a story line where he starts freaking out and starts being overly cautious because he doesn't want to leave two small kids without a father.

If Eddie comes back and Hen moves up, would Eddie take on the medic role full time? And if so, would Ravi stay in Eddie's place? If Eddie doesn't come back, could Ravi do what TK did in Lonestar and rethink what he wants in his career and decides he might actually want to move over into the paramedic side of things? Either way, we'd get to keep Ravi as a main.

And that's the other thing. With no Bobby and potentially no Eddie if he stays in Texas, the budget is suddenly open to bring in new mains for the show. New mains = new back stories to explore, new interactions with the existing mains, and new stories to tell. We could finally move on from the stagnant recycling of storylines and get something fresh. I mean, sure, there's always the possibility they could do some of these things without killing Bobby off (new stories/characters), but they've been reluctant to do so so far, so I'm not exactly holding out hope. Peter, especially, being one of the stars of the show, would cost a lot of money to keep. If he goes, that money could go a long way into bringing in more characters. I especially noticed it from season 7, but the gradual decrease in supporting characters in 911 has really been a detriment, because they really fleshed out the show, made the world of 911 seem bigger, more fleshed out, and not so insular among only the 118. Carla, for example, was a great supporting role that just disappeared and has made me on more than one occasion miss her presence.

Personally, I'd love it if we got both Ravi and Tommy as mains. Now, I'm not expecting Tommy to suddenly transfer back to the 118, but you don't have to be with the 118 to be a main. Michael wasn't. Chris isn't. Nor do you need to be in every episode (again, like Chris). They could have Tommy and the 217 liaise occasionally on calls (I wouldn't expect too many helicopter rescues as they're expensive, but the 217 do ground ops as well). They could actually focus on Buck and Tommy's relationship properly this time and on Tommy's past (Buck somehow meets Tommy's father for starters). Hell, maybe get back into the closeness of the firefam within the show by having some sort of hijinks with Tommy, like him babysitting Jee and baby boy Han while the 118 are on shift or something. There's all sorts of possibilities.

So yeah, that's the dilemma. Keep a beloved character and potentially continue on with the same old, same old that's been plaguing the show for a few seasons now, or lose him and open the show up to a whole realm of possibility. Like I said, I'm torn.

[cupcakefactory]

Under the adjutants thumb - chapter 6

Welcome to chapter 6~ :Dd

Summary: Colonel Caleb, a star in the making and someone the fleet was very glad to have their hands has been watching from the shadows, but what happens when he thinks the girl he knows isn't being pushed enough?

WC: 1256

MASTERLIST FOR UTAT

Warnings: General Caleb Warnings (yay this will be here every chapter now LOL), stalking

AN// Under the adjutants thumb is a passion project dedicated to my grandfather, a man who kept my silly ideas and passions alive. Thank you for the many hours of ramblings you listened too. I love and miss you 07/01/25

Caleb Xia was never one to back down or hold off when he wanted something, as a kid in the orphanage he was always the first to steal the candies he and Athena favoured and he always ate his share of them on the first day – never saving any for the rest of the week, something she found amusing.  When he was adopted and received an allowance, he would always rush to the model shop in the main square to buy the new flight models they would introduce on their rotating stock – they would still be there the next day, but because Caleb could do it, he did. This fact didn’t change into adulthood either. Caleb wanted to pass the Aviation with straight As, so he did; he graduated top of his class, and was expected to be the next big shot in the DAA. Everyone expected great things from him.

What no one expected was for him to disappear in the middle of the night, no note, no warning, and no trace. He never applied for the DAA, never looked back at what could have been as he joined the Fleet – for Caleb had decided as a mere child that he wanted the girl with eyes that shone like the sky, Caleb wanted the girl who offered him a hand when the world had never felt so lonely, Caleb wanted the girl who didn’t want him. The last time he had seen Athena face to face and with her knowledge, she was telling him to do whatever he wanted and not to involve her, and so, in true fashion, he did just that.  He joined the Farspace fleet the same day she had walked off, working there as he studied like every other Cadet.

When he graduated, he was the fleet's prodigy – someone they had never expected to have come across, let alone volunteer to join them. He was a miracle to them, someone whose brain was as fast as his hands and someone with an Evol that had more power than any that had been seen in a long while. No one knew why he had joined the fleet; it didn’t matter, he was powerful and that was all they cared about – that was the only fact that mattered.

She was also strong, but her power lay more in her emotional control than physical strength. An ex-foster kid who aged out of the system instead of being adopted knew more than anyone how to control their outburst, how to bite their tongue when things got hard. She was quiet and worked in a way that others could admire – all her work was always done without fault, and any loose ends were cleaned up before being submitted. She didn’t take bullshit from anyone, so, when two years after their talented Xia graduated and joined them officially she followed suit the future for the Farspace fleet looked brighter than ever before.

It had been 4 years since his graduation when he was promoted to Colonel, he had worked hard and deserved it – or at least that is what everyone said, if anyone thought differently, they just kept quiet. The workload was more than he had ever had as a general soldier; he had the responsibility of the fleet on his shoulders. If something went wrong in the Deepspace tunnel or with the organisation, it was his responsibility to fix it was his life was in the balance, and Caleb wouldn’t be lying if he didn’t admit that the idea was daunting.  

His days suddenly felt longer, meetings, interrogations, training the rookies – it all took time away from his everyday life, away from the reason he had joined the fleet. He knew Athena had gotten in too, he had been in the back during her graduation from the aviation academy, he had watched her be given her official uniform with the other new graduates at the fleet's feast – he saw as her eyes shined with pride when she wore her new hat for the first time. It was as if she finally found her purpose, she seemed the happiest she had been since they were kids, so Caleb made sure to keep his distance, no matter how badly it hurt his heart. he did as she requested; he stayed away.

Athena only knew of the new colonel through the gossip of the other soldiers, how the woman spoke of his good looks, most of which she could guess was an exaggeration – how could a man be crafted by the gods when he was just a boring man, for heaven's sake? The men spoke more of his physical strength, rumours that he could lift two grown men flew around the cafeteria, earning whispers in a strange type of fear that made them want to know more.  There was one thing every party could agree on, though: the new colonel was terrifying. When dealing with his duties, he wouldn’t hesitate to shoot someone if they moved out of place, and he always seemed to have eyes on the back of his head.

Whatever his deal was, and whoever he was, wasn’t important to do the work assigned to her, and knowing this just meant Athena could avoid the figure in whatever way possible. She didn’t care for fawning over him, no one could be that handsome anyway – if he got in her way, that was when she would care about him.

And got in her way, he did.

Caleb had worked out quite quickly that doing his new job alone would be challenging, and he really did try to leave her alone, but it felt almost insulting to him that someone with her intellect would be nothing more than a patrolling officer. He watched her closely over the years, always keeping her out of trouble, always keeping any of her admirers away – he told himself it was so she could focus on work, if her work made her this happy, he had to protect it after all. She was quick on her feet, good with paperwork, good with interrogations, and knew the Deepspace tunnel almost as well as the senior officers.

She would make the perfect adjutant to him.

He sat back in his chair as he read over her information one more time, making sure not to miss anything, smiling when he saw how far she had come from the small girl under the apple tree. Life had finally given her the break she always wanted, and now Caleb was going to make sure she got the best of the best by his side. He only looked up when the door opened and she walked in, saluting slightly before gulping when she saw his face.

“Officer Miller.. Welcome”

She managed a polite nod, eyes hostile but a forced smile on her lips – he hated that look on her, hated how seeing him made her angry. He missed the bright smiles, the joking, the laughter – he missed it all, and he wasn’t sure where it all went. He stood and motioned to the front of his desk, watching as she walked forward. He was her colonel after all – one wrong move and she knew she could be in trouble.

“Good.. now, let me make this simple-“

A contract was placed on the table with a smile she didn’t quite recognise on his lips.

“You’re going to be my adjutant.”

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Pyrrha Dve hasn't ever been a perfect woman, let alone a perfect person. Her mid-twenties weren't exactly spent at her best.

She had a few nasty habits, and a decent enough job to fuel them. Smoking, womanizing, and of course, drinking.

That last one was how she ended up at this hospital, sitting there all uncomfortably in the middle of the night. Fidgeting with her big hands, unable to fully sit still but lacking anything actionable to do.

She had, remarkably, fallen asleep at some point. The nurses kept telling her she could go home, they'd handle it, and she just kept staying.

What was she supposed to do? Leave the kid? Not an option.

It's gotta be morning by now. Caught in this in between place, with all the beeping and the noise. She can't even remember finding the kid, not really.

She just remembered showing up at the hospital with the kid.

She couldn't take it anymore, she finally flagged down a nurse, and asked, "how's the kid doing?" The nurse, who had started her shift at some point recently, judging by the significantly reduced bags under her eyes, was infinitely patient.

Once she knew what Pyrrha was talking about, she happily led her to the infant. Same as before, same as when she found her... Just, more tubes. Tubes and wires connected to the little baby.

"She's a little trooper. Aren't you sweetie?" The nurse asks, and the little baby coos. Pyrrha stared at the infant, at her dark skin, at her little tuft of red hair, at her golden eyes.

"What's with all the hardware?"

"Heart and oxygen monitors," explains the nurse, letting the baby grab one of her fingers as she talks, "We've also got her on TPN, that's total parent nutrition by the way." She added before Pyrrha could ask, "Just making sure that she's okay. God damn though, I can't believe someone would leave her in a box on the side of the road."

"Is that what happened?"

"That's what you told us, yes." The nurse confirmed. The baby gurgled, looking around at this strange world and clearly finding her tiny self utterly perplexed by it.

"Jesus." Pyrrha said. The baby looked her way, then smiled and reached, though she lacked the fine motor skills to properly do so.

Pyrrha offered a finger, and the baby grabbed one. Something happened then, to Pyrrha Dve, something involving her heart, and that heart collapsing in on itself.

"What..." Her words were thick and slow to roll off the tongue, "What happens now?" The nurse grabs a clipboard and starts writing.

"Well, now CPS gets involved. They try and find her parents, though something tells me they won't succeed there."

"bahhh." The baby added, rather unhelpfully for poor Pyrrha's heart.

"And when they can't find her birth parents, she's going to go into foster care." The nurse continued. Pyrrha straightened her posture at that.

"And, if I wanted... I mean, is me... an option?" As if expecting it, the nurse brandished a piece of paper with a phone number and some basic instructions written on it.

"Give them a call, they can get you all the literature. You'll have to be evaluated of course, but, I think she likes you."

Pyrrha looked back at the baby, the baby whose birth parents abandoned her. Left her to literally die. Pyrrha's never been so glad that Mercy convinced her to walk home rather than take a cab, by way of stealing the cab with Augustine and driving off without her.

"Hey kiddo." Pyrrha tried, and found it not unpleasant to say. "Uh, you got a good grip."

"Ahhh." Said the baby.

"Yeah," Pyrrha said, trying not to choke on how fucking precious this little life is, and how close it was to being snuffed out. "Me too."

Pyrrha Dve was going to make some changes, she decided it then and there. She was going to make some calls, she was going to get her act together.

She was gonna be a mom, the best mom she could be. And it all started by nearly tripping over a cardboard box on the side of the highway.

[juxtaposed-nerd]

aapi heritage month headcanons pt. 3 !!!

just in time for s3 of dndads, let’s get into it! this one will probs be a lot but so much has happened in the past year 😭

- taylor LOVES chinese new year, he looks forward to it every year as the favorite (only) child and he eats all the dumplings he could ever eat and gets tons of red envelopes

- cassandra and morgan become best friends/mother-daughter relationship vibes post-doodler, like they are the most badass and cool women in the world and i do think taylor grows to love morgan so much and even though his relationships with nick/glenn are strained, at least he has the best mom and grandma

- as a voice actor for anime/cartoons i think cassandra really did fall in love w the art of anime and i’d love for her to guest at a con (make her the j michael tatum of her world PLEASE) and taylor gets a free ticket to weeb out as much as he wants <3

- in my heart glenn is trying his best, like he really wants that closeness (haha) and i think now post-doodler it's like literally what started as a father/son duo of him and nick now is genuinely a huge (kinda fucked up) family that is trying to mend itself and i do think it starts with chinese takeout !!!

- sidenote i think the close/foster/swifts etc are a great example of how freddie has subverted asian stereotypes fr and also how a family stuck in an absent/neglectful cycle has the ability to come together again

- the mending includes hermie too, hermie definitely deserves something more in his life and the chance get to be a kid w a home in the form of a big family w his bio dads (his normal parents are invited too) (and i also love the idea of normal being like 'grandpa henry! this is the guy!' and hermie being an honorary oak would be so cute 😭)

- hermie went and saw joy ride (2023) bc it was marketed as a comedy and came out bawling his eyes out from that one scene y’all adoptees know what im talking about

- tbh thinking about taylor's closeness w his mom and francis's w kimon wan literally asian moms are holding this show together

- the farnsworth’s are thai and german and they came to peachyville at a young age to give their newborn son a better life very starting nuclear family vibes, ed definitely learned thai for her, and now their son is a bowling champ!

- francis farnsworth and taylor swift are lowkey the spectrum of asian upbringing where it's like midwest asians vs socal asians 😳🤭 they live in different worlds

- kimon wan is an immigrant mom just trying to raise her family and her damn son wont stop being a loser 🤦‍♀️ literally milf w a shotgun (ed is a lucky man FR) (sorry anthony burch)

- when francis is having a really tough day then kimon wan will leave a plate of cut up fruit at his door so he knows he's still supported

- luo's golden wok is the first and only chinese restaurant in peachyville and they have to have the best pepper steak ever im calling it now

- tony collette would love and hate both jodie and glenn i think for different reasons but instead of calling them formosans he’d call them orientals 💀

- also tony collette is 0.0001% asian (chinese) and tyrus luo either DEFINITELY knows which is why he puts up w all the bullshit tony does or tony is determined to make sure that tyrus NEVER finds out ever

- they have a 'throwback' silent movie night at the drive-in and they show a meryl streep film and literally everyone falls in love w him 🥰

- billion millions was a crazy rich asian and he was an icon

- once again they mean the world to me! might end up posting more at some point who knows lol

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checkout past headcanons: 2022! 2023!

[chupacabrafritz]

How was the time when B knocked A out and Roger grounded them?

Well... I'm going to over explain, because that's my nature.

I've been thinking about this for a few days (since I received the question), and Beyond probably had to go to Roger because A didn't look well (he probably was unresponsive), and ended up hospitalized.

After Roger found out A was okay and came back from the hospital, he grounded them both.

It doesn't sound very funny because it isn't.

But hey, ha ha, it's my favorite kind of comedy, something that in tone might seem funny is actually super messed up or tragic.

It's like taking Looney Tunes-level jokes to a more realistic (but not entirely) setting. I like it because it makes you think about what we're actually laughing at, and at the same time, it makes real life seem less horrible, even if just for a while.

Returning to the topic of the wammy kids, I like to portray them as a group of children and adolescents who wander through life, lost and sad, with almost no adult supervision and almost no emotional guidance beyond setting extremely high expectations and punishing them for "bad behavior." There's no real concept of family, no emotional support, and no valuable learning lessons beyond academics. And considering they were selected for their intellectual abilities I assume they were already children of a considerable age when they entered, and not babies (which would be even worse I think) so they probably have their own prior trauma before this program. At best, only the trauma of being orphaned (which is no small thing).

L had Watari(who is a whole mess for another day…), but they have the rancid old Roger, a guy who hates children, who probably wants to spend as little time with them as possible and who does not care about the children individually, and while it's not his direct job to raise them, I don't see him fostering a personalized environment that builds them up as individuals either.

I actually think it would be impossible to build them as individuals if what you want is a group of depersonalized lab rat children who have been put through the meat grinder of identity to fit the mold of the concept of "L, the greatest detective in the world."

Their identity and emotional needs are not met, not only because they are neglectful, but because the goal of the experiment is to prevent them from doing so. You don't want them to develop their selves; you want them to adapt to a series of imposed characteristics.

So no matter how much superhuman intelligence they might have, a child is a child. And without guidance and love, a child doesn't make the best decisions, and rarely becomes the best version of themselves.

I like to approach this indirectly, in a comedic way to make it less dense. And what we see are the results of these strange mental processes.

For example, A's problem in this situation was insomnia resulting from his depression. Now, L doesn't sleep either, so insomnia isn't a problem for the experiment's criteria. So nothing is done to address this; he's just told to learn to live with it. But of course, no one can live like that, so the solution is to ask Beyond to knock him out.

This all sounds fucked up, but having a group of orphaned, depersonalized children who have been stripped of their identity and prevented from finding a family, subjected to grind culture and required to be the best of the best… IS FUCKED UP.

Perhaps my perception or representation of the Wammy's House may be a bit exaggerated or overly pessimistic (personally, considering what happens in canon, I don't think so), but in reality, it can't be more exaggerated than seeing the Wammy's House as one big, happy, found family. At worst, both perceptions are wrong or fabricated, which in itself isn't a bad thing; fandom is about having fun and expressing yourself artistically. And really, my comics shouldn't be taken so seriously. It's about laughing at silly jokes or ridiculous situations, after all.

And I really don't like making stories that are too faithful to the canon; you always have to assume that my Death Note comics take place in one or more alternate universes, where I modify the events as I see fit or take from the canon only the part that interests me.

But anyway, I wanted to explain a little bit about where all that came from.

Also, this occurred to me while I was having trouble sleeping, so I guess beyond the specific situation of the story, it might be easy to relate with "someone knock me out because I can't take it anymore" except they decided to take it literally.

[macsimagines]

Yandere!Kisaki Tetta Headcanons

Ok so I feel like I'm dying of thirst for good Yandere!Kisaki content when there is a literal sea and plethora of other Yandere Tokyo Rev stuff! I mean, c'mon guys we obviously love the Yandere stuff and we have an actual YANDERE in the series.

This is final timeline Kisaki because I think he's fully accepted he doesn't have Hina.

PT 2: https://www.tumblr.com/macsimagines/722700210896355328/the-kisaki-yandere-post-was-so-good-i-need-to?source=share

WARNING: Themes of Manipulation, Dubcon, possible murder drug use, and Babytrapping

The start

First and foremost, he adores you. Literally worships the ground you walk on. Thanks to Takemitchy's influence you're his whole world.

Takemitchy set you two up, kinda. He made sure to keep Kisaki on a positive path and to surround the younger boy with supportive people and you just happened to be one of them.

It was pretty apparent with how genuine and kind you were that young Kisaki was pretty much almost smitten with you so Takemitchy, not thinking this could have any consequences, fostered those feelings and helped Kisaki along.

It wasn't his fault, really. He figured if he could get Kisaki to fall in love with someone else and have that person return those feelings then he could ensure that everyone could be happy!

Best of all you return those feelings. You put his mind at ease because you confess first, and Kisaki is floored that he doesn't have to plan to get you. You're just giving yourself to him. no one is happier about this than Takemitchy

What Takemitchy forgot was just how obsessed Kisaki could get. And Obsessed doesn't even begin to cover it.

Happy Life

Kisaki covets every piece of information, latches on to the tiniest details and makes sure to use them when he has to.

You mention something offhand once about pretty flowers are, and now Kisaki makes sure (Months later) that you two have tickets to go see an exclusive flower garden.

Remember telling Kisaki about an exotic type of food you got have as a kid and loooooved? Well now you two are at date in a fancy restaurant being served that same meal with the highest quality ingredients.

Hey, you know that one terrible teacher you mentioned that would always single you out in class? Well guess who just got arrested?

Its easy to play off at first. He's just a super great boyfriend.

Kisaki loves you with all his heart. He makes time for you, always treats you well and keeps you out of any trouble.

When things start to take a dive into bad territory is when highschool is about to end. Kisaki starts to talk about marriage...

Red Flags

You're completely floored by how sudden that is. Aren't you two too young? Isn't he about to enter into university? What about all your future plans?

Kisaki has an answer for everything. He tells you he knows he's gonna make it big, and that you two will be happy and comfortable for the rest of your lives. He just wants to make sure he has the most important things taken care of and this is biggest step.

You try to hold off on it. Come up with every excuse you can to not go through with it, but he doesn't give you much room for argument.

It becomes clear to Kisaki that you're not going to relent, so he decides that he needs to change his plans a bit. So a few nights after graduation on a surprise trip he planned for you two he takes action.

The Scheme

He's been planning this night for a few months now actually. He made sure to switch out your birth control, and he's been slipping vitamins into your food to boost your fertility.

The guy is dedicated because he's even done research on how to boost sperm count lol. He's eating better and he's working out more because he read that will definitely help.

This freak even tracked your cycle to know when you're gonna be ovulating

Most frustrating of all, he's been abstaining from any kind of sexual activity, saying he wants to focus on school and exams.

But that's all bullshit because he doesn't hesitate to start some heavy makeout and petting sessions just to cut it off short and leaving you wanting more.

It wasn't easy for him, he's addicted to that sweet body of yours, but its all worth it for how you're grinding down on his fingers..

Baby

He dicks you down within an inch of your life.

You two are so committed to each other and you've been together so long that he knows everything that drives you crazy. He knows where to kiss you, where to bite you, how to touch you to make you breathless.

The aphrodisiac he slipped you is also helping make this very easy. He's barely touched you and you're practically drowning the fingers he's got buried in your sweet pussy.

You're begging so cutely too, just crying about how bad you want him already, but Kisaki is meticulous he can't cave in just yet.

He eats like a man that's starving, spending so much time licking you and sucking that clit his jaw actually aches.

When he feels you've been fingered and licked until your practically braindead does he pull out the condoms. He poked holes in them of course. He was just planning on telling you they ripped, and giving you the Plan B he had prepared (Dont worry its a fake)

But you shock him

"Its ok, Tetta," you tell him with tears running down your cheeks, and your hands spreading your thighs wide for him, presenting yourself like a present, "J-just for tonight. I wanna feel you..."

He loses it. He planned on keeping his cool for you and taking it nice and slow for his sweet girl, but hearing you tell him he didn't need to wear a condom was like you were signing up to have his baby.

And trust me, you're getting knocked up with the way he's hammering into your cervix. Your pussy is gripping onto him and sucking him back every time he thrusts.

Of course you're just babbling at this point telling him he's perfect and how good his big dick feels in your gummy walls. The guy was always on the big side, but taking every inch raw? It's too much.

Your whole body is basically telling him you want to get pregnant and why wouldn't it? You guys are soulmates? Your destined to have his kids.

It doesn't take long for you, you're overstimulated to all hell, and soon you're gripping onto him for deal life when you cum, practically milking him for all he's worth.

And he's cumming thick ropes into your womb, filling you up and keeping his cock stuffed in your hole to make sure it takes.

Aftercare, Afterwards

Kisaki is the king of aftercare, idc who wants to say this is OOC I'll die on this hill, and he feels so bad for everything when he see you're puffy eyes and wrecked body.

He doesn't feel bad about anything else though. You two are written in the stars, if he had to push things along that's just the natural order.

But he does feel like an ass when he notices how your body is shaking from the over stimulation and how you're barely conscious from his onslaught.

His touches are gentle when he kisses you and wipes you down. He's so soft with your over sensitive body and he's soothing all the places he left bruises.

You can hear him whispering about how much he loves you and adores you when you're drifting in and out of conciousness. You can't even tell him how much you love him back with how raw you throat feels from all the moaning you were doing.

Kisaki can tell you're trying to say something but he just smiles and reassures you that its fine. Try to rest for now, he'll take care of everything.

And for some unexplainable reason, you feel as thought he means that in more ways than one.

[greatwyrmgold]

Been thinking about Ai Hoshino (Oshi no Ko) and Kenzie Martin (Ward).

They're both girls from abusive households (including one incident where their parents put a hazardous substance in their food). Both are desperate to love and be loved, and contort their personalities around whatever they think other people would want from them. This involves a lot of fake smiles and false personas and a deeply flawed understanding of how interpersonal relationships are supposed to work, inhibited by disorders that were probably not diagnosed by anyone except fans. Both of them end up in industries where their talents can be exploited, which caused more problems.

The second-most-obvious difference between them is their age. (The first most obvious is Kenzie's tinker powers.) Ai is, what, 12 when she becomes an idol and 16 in chapter 1? Something like that? Kenzie became a parahuman at age 8 and she's 11 by the time Ward starts. By the end of her story, Kenzie might be as old as Ai was at the start of hers.

Kenzie also arguably has more supportive adults in her life. First her foster dads, later Breakthrough, probably some PRT staff in between. Unfortunately, where Ai tries to avoid potential problems, Kenzie has no social boundaries, which tends to sabotage any healthy relationships she wants to develop. (The iconic example being what happened with the foster dads, of course. She didn't know better and didn't have the intuition to realize she was missing something important.)

Ai's inhibitions are stronger, for better and for worse. This lets her function in society, but also means she isn't quite sure whether she loves her kids or not until the last minutes of her life. Where Kenzie dives into her relationships headfirst, Ai keeps a bit of distance between her and the people around her.

If circumstances allowed Kenzie to try and latch onto Ai, her response would probably be—to quote @aihoshiino—"free daughter??? Free daughter for Hoshino Ai????" Which could be good for both of them, they have complimentary needs and trauma...but the same was true of Ai and Hikaru, and we all saw how that ended.

I suspect Kenzie would find Ai weirdly cold. Sooner or later, I think Kenzie would pick up on that distance Ai keeps from people and start to worry. Ai doesn't have much use for Kenzie's cameras, so what does Ai get out of their relationship? Meanwhile, Kenzie's competent acting skills and advanced technology let her hide her emotions really effectively; sooner or later, Ai would notice that Kenzie is always energetic and helpful, and realize that she has no way of figuring out how Kenzie actually feels about anything. Not that either of them would actually voice these concerns. Neither of them is going to do anything that might drive someone away.

And that's before we consider whether Kenzie would get jealous of the twins (or whether Ruby would get jealous of Kenzie), or problems encroaching on them from their jobs as idol and superhero, or the plots of OnK and Ward.

Considerations about how to make characters in two very different worlds and timelines (and continents) interact are below the cut.

Let's start with time.

Wildbow's pretty good about his timelines and the fandom is great at putting the dates together. Kenzie was born in 2003, got powers in 2011, spent a few years in the Wards, and joined the therapy group that would become Breakthrough in 2015 (before her 12th birthday). And she participated in the big Worm spoiler in 2013 to some degree. (Houndstooth agrees that she "actually really helped".)

If I understand the OnK timeline, the twins were born around 2009, when Ai was 16. That means Ai was born around 1993, which would put her in first grade when the Kyushu incident happened, which would be as good an excuse as any to put her on the same continent as Kenzie. However, I'm pretty sure Ai gets murdered in 2013.

I'm more inclined to adjust OnK's timey-wimey line than Worm's detailed chronology. If we move the twins' births up to 2011 and Kenzie met Ai right after the big spoiler, Ai's murder would be scheduled either right before or towards the beginning of Ward's plot, which feels right.

That would put the start of Ai's career around 2007, her birth to 1995, and her family's refugee-ing to preschool. Leviathan's tsunamis and their aftershocks might be some of Ai's first memories, which I don't think is relevant to this scenario but it is sad. Anyways, it also means that Kenzie meets the twins when walking and talking isn't that suspicious. That reduces the chance of the Hoshino-Martin drama getting diverted by Kenzie's cameras catching magic babies doing un-baby-like things, which is good.

[snkts]

how does logan think about himself as a father?

OKAY WHEN I TELL YOU I WAS SO EXCITED FOR THIS. Let me start off by saying that Logan really, really wants to be a father. It's something he's dreamed of for a long time. We know this because, aside from how he just generally acts, in nearly every multiverse variation where he gets to settle down and have kids, he quits being a hero altogether and lives the white picket fence life. He wants a family.

He just doesn't get it the way he wants.

So, for the sake of this, I'm going to be focusing on the 'big three' of his bio kids - Akihiro, Laura, and Gabby - his foster daughter Amiko, and his relationship with the students. Those are the ones I consider canon.

Let's start with Akihiro, Logan's firstborn and the only son of the main family. Logan had this kid the 'old fashioned way' with his wife, Itsu. He smiled when she told him she was pregnant. He was happy. They wanted that baby.

And then Logan lost that baby.

Itsu was murdered, and he lost the baby, and it broke him for a long time. He grieved. He grieved his wife, his child, and all the moments they would never get together.

And then he gets his son back. Sort of. Because when Akihiro comes into Logan's life, he's already an adult - Logan missed out on a lot of firsts. First word, first smile, first steps, first tooth, first... First everything. Logan missed all of it. and Akihiro fucking hated him. It was based on a lie, sure, but it didn't matter, because that lie was true to Aki. And that tore Logan apart. He did everything he could to try to get through to his boy, and it didn't work. But Logan kept trying until it wasn't an option anymore.

Until Akihiro threatened all of his students' lives, and refused to back down. Logan talked to his older self, the one from a distant future, and he just confirmed what Logan was afraid to accept. If he didn't kill his son, it would never stop. Either his son died, or his students died, and the latter helped trigger the end of the world.

He made his choice. He killed his son. And it killed a part of him too. Ever since he found out Akihiro was alive, Logan wanted nothing more than to be in his life, and now he just ended it. He mourned, and he grieved, and he wondered if there would ever be anything he could do to be able to look at his reflection and not be utterly disgusted. He didn't think so.

And then on Krakoa, he gets his son back. And it almost feels like a second chance, even if Logan is starting several laps behind. He wanted to do everything he could to be the dad he thought Aki deserved. Logan is happy to be his father. It's what he always wanted. He might have tried too hard, or been too eager, given how much he felt he had to make up for, and maybe it wasn't going to be as easy or as fast as he'd hoped, but he was grateful for all of it.

Then there's Laura. The first of his kids he meets. There's a fact of their relationship that I can't say nicely: He didn't consent to her being born. He didn't ask for her. He didn't even know she existed until she was at least a teenager. His DNA was taken against his will and without his complete knowledge as part of Weapon X, which is by far the worst torture he has ever experienced. And not only that, they did the same procedure to her that they did to him - but at least he was an adult. Like Akihiro, the first time they meet, she's trying to kill Logan. She blames him for everything that happened to her. Unlike her half-brother, she does eventually listen to Logan, and they do eventually work together - but that doesn't mean things go swimmingly at first. Also like her brother, Laura doesn't know how to be a family. Since he meets her first, Logan doesn't really know how to feel about a kid so much like him. And she, more than any of the rest of his brood, is exactly like him. That's another problem, because Logan struggles with his self-image and accepting what he is, and then there's her.

It's hard to hate himself when she's his mirror.

Still, they have a lot to figure out. And he has a lot of soul-searching to do to, in regards to his own traumas and memories. On bad days it can hit him hard - and he wants to be sure it doesn't blow back on her, even if he's not always successful.

Overall, he likes to think they're fairly close. Of all his kids, he thinks he understands her the best, seeing as their experiences with Weapon X were nearly identical. Their powers are almost a match, too. There's a reason he picks her as his successor to the Wolverine title.

Also, she's in charge of her siblings when he's gone.

Then there's Gabby. His baby. Out of all of his kids, he connects with her fastest. It helps that she actually wants a family. Akihiro and Laura wanted revenge, and they were angry. Gabby, in spite of the horrors she faced, has a happier disposition. She wants to be a kid. She wants to do normal family things like road trips and hang-outs. He doesn't have to chase her down for any of that - if anything, she does the chasing. It's refreshing. She reminds him a lot of Kitty and Jubilee, so while she can confuse him at times, he's raised firecrackers before. Gabby is, really, the glue that holds them all together. Her siblings love her too, and it helps Logan in ways he can't even begin to put into words. She reminds him a lot of Jubilee, honestly, and maybe Kitty when she was younger - kids he has experience raising. He'll never compare her to them, and he knows fully well she has plenty of her own trauma he'll have to help her with, but it was a nice crash course for what kind of energy to expect from her.

She also definitely has Youngest Child privilege. Logan has a hard time saying no to her, and a hard time making her upset. This is why they now have a pet wolverine that is literally just a wolverine. It makes her happy.

Lastly, I want to mention Amiko. He adopted her on the fly after finding her with her dying mother in Japan, when the X-Men were handling a monster attack. He gave her mother his word he's raise her daughter as his own so she could die peacefully. His original plan was to leave her with Mariko, and visit when he could. This was going to be perfect - he wouldn't have to take her from her home country, she'd be spoiled rotten and safe, and he could technically keep his word without dragging her into mutant business. And then Mariko dies.

It's been a long, messy road to get where they are, and it destroyed whatever negligible faith Logan had in the foster system of Japan, but she's in a relatively stable home now. That doesn't mean they have a perfect relationship. Logan's life as a hero - and his status as a mutant - means he's missed out on a lot of things with her. In spite of it all, she's somehow turned out almost exactly like him.

It's hard to adequately describe how Logan feels about her in relation to his other kids. She's his daughter, and he loves her. She's a good kid, and he's proud of her. But she's not a mutant - and while that doesn't change how Logan cares about her per se, it does change how they relate to each other. Problems and social issues - and in some cases, even diseases - that impact Logan won't hurt her, and he's grateful for that, but, yeah - it alters their ability to connect. This difference also means that, as long as he's an X-Man, he can never live with her - and that he had a very hard time staying in touch during Krakoa. She's also one of his last ties to Mariko. It both helps and is painful to share that grief with someone, and she's just a kid - but sometimes they visit her grave together. He also feels obligated to her in a different way than he does to his other kids. For his bio kids, well, they're his kith and kin. His students, he bonds with them and loves them, sure, and we'll get to that. But for Amiko, he made a promise to her dying mother to take care of her. That's a heavy thing to him.

Alright, the students. The kids Logan never knew he wanted. Yeah, he cares about them. A lot. He didn't know if he would, at first. He didn't think he was cut out to be a teacher. Just look at him - he's rude, he's aggressive, he smokes, he drinks. He swears like a mad sailor. He's a mess. He wasn't the kind of person he thought you'd want shaping your kids. But he found himself falling into the role, and it worked. He worked. He was happy, and still is, when he gets to teach them. Some of them he bonds with more than others. He has his favourites, like all teachers do. But all of them, even if they're not his kids, they're his kids. That's just how it is. He can give them a hard time, he can sometimes be pretty strict, but this is because he cares about them - the world isn't kind to mutant kids, and he wants them able to survive anything, be it evil mutants, the sentinels, or government agencies. He'd do damn near anything for them. They're his students, his pack, his kids.

Don't fucking touch them.

So that's out of the way! I also want to talk about Logan's influences for his fatherhood experience and perception.

First is, of course, his beloved dad, John Howlett, Sr. Logan idealized his dad. John was the only adult that baby James genuinely felt wanted him around. His grandfather and mother hated him and their own way, Thomas was a monster but we'll get to that, and everyone else was part of the staff. It didn't stop him from bonding with his housekeeper more than his mother, but as far as male adults went, John was everything to him. He really thought his dad had no flaws. John took care of him. He made time for him. He would visit James and read to him. He went out of the way to make James happy, and treated everyone with kindness and respect. James wanted to be just like him.

And then he died.

Worse than that, he was murdered, and while James didn't see the gunshot, he heard it, and he watched his dad bleed out on the floor. The stress of the moment activated his mutation for the first time, and all the animal wanted to do was maul the person who took his father from him.

It's worth noting that, until John died, James had no idea they weren't related. I'd like to say that it doesn't change anything for him, but it does, because of who he's actually related to. Logan constantly worries he's going to turn out like his biological father, rather than John - but I'll touch on that more in a moment.

When Logan thinks of a good dad, he thinks of John. That's who he wants to be like. It's an impossible standard. He knows, too, when he's older, that there's a lot he didn't know about his dad. He only saw the good side, didn't get enough time with him to learn his dad's complexities, and he'll never get that chance now. He misses him dearly. He knows he can never live up to the standard John set - or rather, John's memory would set, but he tries his best. Sometimes, he can't help but think that his dad would be disappointed in him, and that hurts. Other times, he wishes he could ask him for advice one last time. If you ask him, he will tell you John was his dad, his father; if he gets to raise a son, he names them after John.

His blood father is Thomas Logan. And James-Logan hates Thomas. Thomas is a monster. He was abusive physically and verbally, he smiled as often as he was sober (which was never), he was misogynistic and violent, and, oh yeah, he killed Logan's dad and tried to kidnap his mother. That doesn't help. He ruined Logan's life. That's not an exaggeration. Without him, things wouldn't have been perfect, but Logan would've grown up in a massive castle and inherited a crazy fortune and, most importantly, grown up with an adult that loved him.

Thomas is one of the many invisible scars that Logan carries with him. Well, that's not entirely true - Logan is his spitting image. There might be a few differences, a few things he got from his mom, but he looks scarily like Thomas. He always felt a bit uncomfortable looking in the mirror, but he doesn't know why until he gets his memories back.

So, firstly, he wonders how much he's like his biological father. This eats at him. It's especially worse after he meets Thomas in hell, and Thomas makes the comment about how similar they are. Logan doesn't want to hurt his kids. He doesn't think he's good for them - just the opposite - but he doesn't want to hurt them. He doesn't want them to cower or flinch away from him, he doesn't want them to be afraid of him, he doesn't want them to hate him. He doesn't want them to think he's a monster - but he sees his own personal boogeyman every time he looks in the mirror.

Moving on to Lord Ogun. This is a weird one. Ogun isn't Logan's dad or father in any sense of the term - but Logan latched on to him like he was. He wasn't Logan's first mentor. Not even his first mentor on the Samurai art. But something about him made Logan latch onto him like a duckling, and that something was grooming. Ogun groomed the shit out of Logan, and it took him a long, long time to realize that was the case. Logan desperately wants to be wanted, and Ogun made him feel that way. He gave Logan the paternal approval he desperately craved. He validated Logan in ways that weren't always healthy, but he was also a source of stability and a person Logan could call home. He was consistent and knowledgeable and Logan looked up to him so, so much. And then Logan found out that Ogun didn't actually give a shit about him. He just wanted Logan's healing factor and body. He was full on planning to possess him and destroy Logan's consciousness to get it. Logan the person didn't matter; only what his powers could do. Not only did this play in to Logan's insecurities, it also shattered his faith in the idea of family - at least for a time. His pack instinct will always come back, but he had a lot of doubts about whether he deserved or could ever fit in with a family.

Last one I want to touch on before I wrap this up is Charles. This is a tough one, because his characterization varies wildly based on the writer, but it is important, because he's the closest thing to a father figure Logan has after Weapon X - yes, even though Logan is centuries older. Charles reminds Logan a lot of John. He's smart, composed, poised, he uses his wealth to help people, he's the patriarch, and he gave Logan a chance when nobody else did. (This is especially true with Evolution Logan and Charles and Logan-Logan and Charles, but I'll spare you that rant for now.) Logan really looks up to Charles in that sense. He wants to take care of him, he wants his approval. With his dad long since dead and gone, Charles is one of the more present role models Logan has for what fatherhood should be like. It's one of the many reasons Logan is stupidly loyal to Charles - it feels like a do-over of what he had with his dad. He doesn't want to lose that again.

So! Overall, Logan is very conflicted about what it means for him to be a father. He's always struggled with his self-image, and that doesn't change here. He worries constantly about being 'good enough', or even just 'good for them', without having a concrete idea of what that is - and always thinking he comes up short. He doesn't really know how to be a dad, and knows his role models in the area have been.... Lacking. He worries that he's just going to end up hurting his kids, because that's a running theme for his life, unfortunately - that, or someone else will hurt them for their connection with him. He's also got it in his head that the only thing people value him for - the only thing he's good at - is being a weapon and an animal, which isn't great for raising kids. He has a strained relationship with his kids and it's not by choice, or his fault, but it's happened. He desperately wants to take care of them and have them in his life, but worries he doesn't deserve them.

He's a mess.

[syndrossi]

I know it's not that kind of story, but I do wonder what Daemon's response would be to the twins being attached to a parental figure that wasn’t him. Like their childhood caretaker who still looked after them even now. Other than the obvious dynasty ending jealousy. It's not as likely to have happened given Jon and Rhaegar not being normal kids, but I still think about it.

Oooh, I love this, let's see...

Least jealousy-inducing would have to be smallfolk caretakers. That would be someone like Perra, who was their nurse at the Gates of the Moon. I think any parent of noble birth would expect some level of fondness toward a nurse, provided she wasn't a terrible person. She loses points for being from the Vale, but at least she provided some stability/comfort for his boys, and it's not like she's a real parent like him. He would probably find a way to reward her in some way, even, so long as she stays out of their lives going forward, since Daemon really does want a clean break from the Vale for the boys.

Next up would be Lady Lynda, aka the closest thing in Resonant we have to at least one of the boys feeling some level of attachment. Neither Jon nor Rhaegar have spoken of her to Daemon yet, though they'll broach the topic eventually. I think this would be one step above the nurse in terms of jealousy, but because she's fulfilling a more maternal role, Daemon doesn't feel as threatened. His primary emotion would be something between gratitude (that someone cared for his children) and jealousy (she got to hug them when they were small and Rhaegar misses her). Again, he'd rather she play no role in their lives going forward, but he won't forbid the boys from seeing her. Depending on how furious he feels about Allard and how insecure he himself is, he might privately threaten/tell her to extricate herself from their lives.

Allard is a big jump in jealousy, in a world where he took an active, caring role in their upbringing that fostered a parental bond. Not only is there some noble (an upjumped bastard) usurping Daemon's position as father, it's a Royce, one of the very people who kidnapped his children from him and kept them for eight years (realistically, only 6 years for Allard). Literally any father figure being important to the boys is near world-ending levels of insecurity, jealousy, and angst for Daemon. Especially if Jon and/or Rhaegar express feelings of homesickness for the Vale/Gates of the Moon. Daemon pretty much would view their feelings of love toward Allard as malicious conditioning/outright theft and want to tear Allard down to prove him unworthy of their love. His constant digs at Rhea to Rhaegar, where he reminds him that she didn't love him enough or like he thought she did? 1000x worse here. There is no "live and let live" for Daemon. He wants the man ruined, reviled, and forgotten. No matter how much he cared for Jon and Rhaegar, it was not enough, and certainly not enough to forgive the stolen years.

Rhea is the obvious final candidate, in a scenario where she lives and plays an even greater role in their upbringing. She was the architect of his children being stolen, she kept all of those milestones for herself, and she stole their love from him too while making him the villain. But if he shows any resentment for it, he only proves her right. He can't destroy her like he wants, either. It's probably a cold war of passive-aggressive behavior, with Daemon trying to outcompete her for their love. He wants them to forget about her entirely, and he'll use whatever he has at his disposal to achieve that. If she still lives, he should be able to secure his annulment, so perhaps he rushes into marriage to provide an alternative mother option (if he's worried that "mere" relatives like Rhaenyra aren't enough). There's a level of misery in his children that would give him pause, though--like, if his vendetta is causing obvious distress/harm for an extended time, he will back off and try to find another way. But in his heart, he wants House Royce utterly destroyed.

[novelmonger]

Back at the beginning of this year, I made a silly New Year's resolution to watch a movie made in the year I was born. I had a few possibilities in mind, but just the other day, I happened across a movie I saw when I was a kid and mostly forgot about, but it's been on my mind lately as I've been thinking about one of my original stories. Then what do you know? I discover that it came out the year I was born! At least according to IMdB, which only has release dates for Australia and the Netherlands, which is a different year than what it says on YouTube, where I'm watching it, but whatever, we're counting it!

It's a TV movie (I assume?) called On Our Own, about four siblings who have recently been orphaned and run away because they're afraid of being split up if they're sent to foster homes. I know it's been at least a small unconscious inspiration for my superpowered siblings story (though a much bigger inspiration for that story was Escape to Witch Mountain, since that's about orphans who have supernatural powers), so I was curious to watch it again with an adult's eyes.

So without further ado, here are some thoughts I had while watching:

How is it that this movie, which I must have seen on TV one time when I was 6 or 8 or something, maybe at my grandparents' house (or it might have been from the library or something), still feels so familiar, like a movie I grew up watching over and over again? Like, if you'd asked me before I started watching how the movie begins, I probably couldn't have told you, but as soon as the first shot of an ambulance driving through the streets came on, I was like, "YES! OF COURSE! I REMEMBER THIS!"

Wow, the acting is terrible in this XD Not just the kids, who can be somewhat excused for lack of experience, but none of the adults are that great either ^^'

Even though these siblings are two boys and two girls, while my story is about one brother and three sisters, I can definitely see an influence on my characters and how they interact. Particularly in the older two siblings, who end up kind of having to be de facto parents to their much younger siblings.

I get that this is a movie intended for kids to watch and understand, so the writing is pretty blunt, but yikes, the adults have no tact when discussing the kids' future and how they'll have to be split up, never see their dog again, etc.

When escaping the orphanage, Kate hands Mitch the suitcase, and he accidentally drops it to the ground several stories below. Then he immediately turns and says, "Okay, hand me Lori." I snorted XD

I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the way they filmed the scenery shots of city streets and highways that just feels very low-budget. Even though they probably had to use a helicopter for some of them.

Uh...is every song on this soundtrack with vocals from Kidz Bop or something? <_<

The most unrealistic thing in this whole movie may be that Mitch can drive a stick-shift Volkswagen beetle across two states with only the very occasional issue when he's only driven in the parking lot one time before -_- (Not to mention that that tiny car has enough gas to get them as far as they go before having to get more.)

Okay, wait wait wait. They only have $9 to get them where they need to go, and Mitch comes out of the gas station with this big brown paper bag full of food that cost $8? Like...yeah, he said he didn't get Twinkies or plastic cups, but...wait, how much is that in today-dollars? *calculates* $19.32 Okaaaayyy....

Yay, obviously over-dubbed little girl who sounds completely out of place and not like it's actually Lori at all.

"Of all the turkeys in the world, how'd I get hung up with this hamster going all the way to Arizona?" - What kind of line is that??? XD

Also, like...these are police chasing the kids, right? Yet they're like, "Oh no, we only have a ZIP Code from a torn envelope [at least, that's where I'm assuming they got it from], and all we know is that there's someone they call "Uncle Jack." But we don't know what his last name is! There is absolutely no way that the police could look up public records and find out what their mother's maiden name was and see if there's somebody at that ZIP Code named Jack who also has that last name!"

Random non-sequitur moment #125: "Hey, look at this old old bottle!" *no one responds and it never goes anywhere*

Okay, like the one thing I remember from this movie is Mitch falling asleep at the wheel. Guess that made a huge impression on me, like a cautionary tale. But why did he keep driving so far until he hit a cactus??? Ever heard of brakes, kid?!

Wow, watching this as an adult really drives home how completely helpless these kids are. I'm sure when I watched this movie as a kid, Mitch and Kate seemed so old and responsible and capable. But now, watching Kate break down because they have no money and no food, and with the car crashed and not starting, all I can think is how young they all look.

This framing story with the grandma making a cake or whatever and getting the whole story told to her on the phone is completely unnecessary, but funny in a very stereotypical sort of way XD (But yikes, I don't wanna see her phone bill at the end of this!) And lol, she doesn't even take her burning cake out of the oven, just turns it down and leaves it in there!

This movie feels like its message is "As long as you're desperate, anything is excusable." Just judging from the triumphant "we're gonna make it!" music that plays every time they steal a vehicle -_- Aaaand not thirty seconds later, he runs into a conveniently placed...stick? that conveniently stabs the car and makes in unusable. Because that's a thing that often happens.

And then Travis puts a quarter in a slot machine and wins the jackpot??? What are you trying to convey to impressionable kids, movie?!

HOLEY SLICES OF BREAD, THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY! Two bullies come after the kids, trying to steal their winnings, Mitch threatens to throw a rock at them with the most unconvincing threat in the world, then they're scuffling around like these two guys couldn't take all four of them with their hands behind their backs, it's intercut jarringly with Peggy driving up in a truck full of sheep...and then out of nowhere, she pulls out a gun?!?!?

*pointing gun* "I know how to use this!" Uh...yeah, real convincing. Still, can't blame those guys for backing away slowly from the crazy lady with the wild eyes.

Oh, okay, it wasn't a real gun. I was about to get upset about gun safety when she just tossed it onto the ground at a kid's feet.

And...the car is magically fixed now? They just drive off no problem? Okay, who cares about continuity anyway?

OH MY GOODNESS LORI IS ADORABLE :3

Oh, okay, the car is not perfectly fine. But it sure took a long time for the smoking engine to become a problem again.

What a cascade of revelations one after another. Jack isn't really their uncle (so I guess it wouldn't have worked for the police to look up their mother's maiden name after all), he's got a...girlfriend? with a son, and their father is in prison. I wonder what for? Will we ever find out?

That was the most awkward little fist-fight ever. It was like...sluggish? No tension, no sense of danger. Like...oh noooo, he grabbed the carrot. Oh nooooo, he splashed some water on him. And then Travis has to be super gross and grab horse manure and throw it at him. Just...why?

"If I wasn't bleeding all over the place, I'd clean your plow!" Is that a thing people say??? XD

"Tell you the truth, it's something I've been wanting to do for quite some time." Okay, I had to play it back like three times, but I finally realized that Jack is saying he wanted to bust his girlfriend's kid's nose and throw manure at him. Uh...okay then ._.

Aha, the bus! This is the other part of the movie I actually remember, where Mitch somehow knows how to drive a whole freaking bus when he's supposedly never driven before.

Why is the guy selling bus tickets giving me such creepy vibes??? <_<

*Four children drive off in a bus* Peggy: "Oh no." Super convincing, lady.

Really? The police are too slow to catch them, even when they stop the bus so Travis can hop out and get their dog, because the policeman accidentally got into the back seat instead of the driver's seat? Literally when would that ever happen??? And then they just drive right through a stack of...banana crates? I don't even know what those were. And then he doesn't even notice there's a one-lane bridge ahead and ends up in the creek. The kid is better at this than you, Mr. Detective!

Police cars swiftly gaining on them from behind, a roadblock ahead, a freaking prop plane touches down right in front of them, and what is Mitch's response? An eyeroll.

Oh, okay, now he's crying. Poor kid has had a rough day or two.

Whoa, attack of the over-dubbed Mitch whose voice suddenly got a lot deeper!

"I'm a real strong worker, you'll see!" *Uncle Jack gives him a blank stare* A+ acting all around, fellas.

Wow. The police explain how, legally, they can't just let the kids stay with someone who's not a relative in a completely different state, but then he says, "Come to my house and have some barbecue and we'll work this out." AND THEY GO FOR IT. Did the people who wrote this script know the first thing about how laws work?

Oh, okay. They did have to go back to LA and get it worked out in the court. And Mitch and Kate had to do community service to make up for all the laws they broke.

"They must have had a pretty bad example from their alcoholic father." Okay, movie, sheesh, you don't have to yell in our ears that alcoholism is bad. We get the picture.

Why on earth did I remember the last scene so clearly? As soon as the grandma starts putting the little decorations on the cake, it was like I remembered every single word everyone said. "Because I'm a grandma!"

Huh. A weirdly long stretch of black screen after the credits are done, but the music isn't quite finished. Usually you just fade out at that point, you know.... (I'm not exaggerating when I say there's like a whole verse and chorus left after the credits where you're just staring at nothing.)

Well, all in all, this was a fun trip down memory lane. I'm glad I managed to track it down again, and see some of the ingredients in the idea soup for my own story of four siblings running away. But...it's not a very good movie, all things considered XD

[det-loki]

Do you think in the posion and wine series Detective Loki and reader have a kid after Maggie?

you have no idea how much I love this question!! thank you!

here I go, rambling on:

to be completely honest, I really don't know. I've gone back and forth on it heavily. On one side, yes. I would love for them to have that opportunity again and have it be something beautiful and healing. for them to be parents, they would be the best. their child would grow up hearing about their big sister Maggie in heaven who ptects them, they would have such a stable, healthy, safe life with their parents because their parents went through absolute hell and have grown, learned and evolved from those hellish experiences. they would finally get their happy ending.

opposite to that, and a path I lean into heavier, no, I don't think so. I think they've closed that chapter of their lives and have no interest in revisting that. despite their growth, the loss of their daughter and the Birch case was extremely traumatic and in many ways, they've only just begun working through those traumas, or atleast acknowledging them. I think loki and reader get stuck in their heads about themselves and their lives and genuinely cannot see past their traumas, therefore they think that there's absolutely no way they can bring a child into this world. it's just simply not in the cards. it would be cruel to their child, in their minds.

Also, I think for them to have another child, major career changes would have to happen. Loki quits working as a detective. Which is essentially his entire identity. He believes it's his only redeeming quality, the only good he'll ever do or be a part of in his life.

What career change he would make, I'm not sure. Possibly something in a counseling role, perhaps something in the foster care/social work realm. As for reader, a therapist position maybe. They would also move away from Conyers. I think this is absolutely imperative for them to even consider having another child. Settle down into the suburban quiet life, which absolutely feels foreign to them, but I think they'd eventually acclimate and have the potential to have a beautiful life, an absolute 180° to every bad thing they've always known.

What I am certain about, is that Loki and reader deserve to have their happy ending in whatever way that looks like for them. Peace, acceptance, and steadiness. I hope they get that one day (I want to write it...so take that as you will :) )

[alpaca-clouds]

A Better Children's Education

Okay, as I promised, I am going to talk a bit about education today. Both in what goes wrong, as well as how things could actually do right. And I am going to start with the earliest time that we in some way or form start to encounter the education system: Kindergarten and Primary School.

This is probably the hardest to talk about, though, because out of all parts of school this is the part that differs the most around the world. While a lot of Asian countries do a lot of some early education in Kindergarten over here in Germany, there is not a lot of education happening in Kindergarten. (Admittedly I do not know how Kindergarten works in the US.)

Primary School meanwhile has always to create the basis for everything that is going to happen afterwards. Basic math, basic writing and reading, also a lot of general education about your country and culture.

Another big thing that varies in schools around the world is whether or not primary schools already use grading. In Germany the first and second grade in general are not graded, but with few exceptions everything afterwards is.

Which is already the first thing that goes wrong. I am not going to reiterate all the stuff that Zoe Bee has talked about in her video on why grading is a scam. It should just be said: Grading can never be fair, it discourages kids from llearning and it mostly does more harm then good. This is true for everyone, but the harm is bigger, the younger the kids in question are.

The biggest issue, though, is that especially Primary School is basically just training kids already into the school mindset. Sit still for a long while, listen to the teacher, and start already working in a way. (Basically already starting to train them up to be workers.) But this is not in the nature of children - and it also actually not the best, most productive way for children to learn.

See, here is the thing: Basically everything that kids learn in primary school, children would easily learn on their own. Because children are naturally curious and want to learn, if only they are encourages to be curious.

Of course, this is not just something that is going to be fostered in school, but has to be fostered by society and especially the family, which makes it hard to control for. But still, the best way for kids to learn is in small groups, cooperatively and through being given the ability to ask questions - something that school settings usually discourage.

Yes, this needs more adults to take care off the children and teach them, but technically it would be worth it, if it meant fostering the curiousity of children.

Oh, and there is another big issue with primary schools and I think it is something that any marginalized person has run into before: A lot of the general education stuff in primary school gets dumbed down to a point where it ends up outright wrong. This happens partly because people think kids are too dumb for stuff - or for political reasons (examples are for example some patriotic myths in the US, or earliest sex ed often only featuring dya cis hetero stuff).

[sparkedblaze]

*chanting quietly* modern au! modern au! modern au! modern au! (maybe some katherine stuff?)

I need everyone to remain calm as I try to work through these like 50+ asks (idk if there's actually 50, it just feels like a lot)

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Kath in the modern au!!

I haven't thought much past the basics, so here have some stream of consciousness ideas that will come to me as I type (probably)

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So, I don't know if/where/when I posted the basic stuff I had written for her, Sarah, Bill, and Darcy. So, here that is:

Katherine

Advocate within the gay community. They regularly picket and protest and refuse to back down even under threat of being canceled or arrested or their channels and socials being deleted. They. Don’t. Back. Down. Gay News: Joint youtube channel with Sarah, Bill, and Darcy. They each write on different news in the LGBT community, and essentially have a news cast (except it isn’t lame and boring like normal news channels. They make it fun and interesting) They do skits and challenges to deliver the news.

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It started as just LGBT, but then it branches into more and more, because there's so much bad happening in the world, and it all needs to be talked about.

Katherine is the main point of contact if anyone wants to do like a partnership or anything, any kind of business transaction with the channel has to go through her first (it almost always goes through all four of them anyway, Katherine just likes knowing where and when everything is happening).

They start off just doing silly skits about some of the ridiculous things going on in their city. It soon expands to all of New York, then to the United States, and eventually they go international.

She, Sarah, Bill, and Darcy split the cost of rent for a two bedroom house. Could she, Bill, and Darcy have used their fathers' legacies (tbd, but they're still higher class and well off) to afford something bigger? Something flashy and telling? Yes, they could have. But, Katherine is the kind of person to want to make it on her own. She wants to blaze her own path through the world.

Katherine writes most of their stories and scripts. She's the one up late into the night at her desk with a tea (Sarah made her stop drinking coffee that late) typing away at her computer.

If you're curious, Bill and Darcy do their website and merch design (when they become popular enough for merch) and Sarah does their costuming.

Katherine meets Jack and The Gang™ when they're younger. Her father was doing some charity work at the biggest orphanage in the city, The Refuge. Katherine started writing about the experiences she'd hear from the kids. That's what made her a journalist. She would hear all these horror stories from the kids in there, and never saw anything done about it.

She was a part of their school paper with Bill and Darcy, and they became close. Even more so when Sarah and her brother joined. Sarah insisted it was because David needed extracurriculars and refused to come alone, and this was the only one they could agree on. She neglects to mention that she'd seen the redhead around and needed an excuse to talk to her.

They raise money for different things. If there's nothing big happening, they'll raise for the underfunded foster system. They raise for Palestine. They raise to help LGBT adults to move to safer states, and LGBT youths to have resources and travel to access those resources.

They have a segment at the end of every episode for happy news only. Their viewers send in some good news they got that week. About anything. Something as small as "I brushed my teeth today" or as big as "I came out to my family and it went really well"

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This is all I can think of for now I hope you enjoy ily mwah

[legionaberrations]

Hello! Same anon that asked about your Julie headcanons. Firstly I adore your take on her, it's so unique and well thought out, it's just so cool!

Got another question for you mun too. What are the main differences between your legion and canon legion? From the general stuff to the angsty stuff (I didn't ask for angsty headcanons before... So I'm changing that lol).

((The main Main difference is probably that my cast of them is pretty young. Dbd Legion's ages are incredibly inconsistent and in various forms of lore they're all 18, or they're all in their 20s, or they're all still in high school... So casting them as ranging from 16-19 instead of all being closely the same age/in the same grade is pretty unique from the other canons.

On an individual level, going in FJSJ order:

Frank - I don't think he's actually very different from canon, I just think I've thought through the... implications of his life a lot more than BHVR themselves have. Like when it comes to the foster/adoption system it can take quite a bit for a kid to be Permanently taken from their family with no visitation given - when that happens there's often a very good reason for it, like extreme neglect and abuse. The fact that he was removed from his parents at such a young age has some pretty dire implications on the level of abuse he was subjected to at a young age. Going from foster home to foster home itself can also be fairly traumatizing. I have a lot of thoughts about his fear that he's unlovable, that there's something so fundamentally wrong with him that everyone wants to leave him or force him to go eventually, and how that probably influences his interactions with his friends. Like an impulse that if he doesn't "drag them down" to his level and make them as "bad" as him that they'll eventually realize he's bad and leave him, too. It's kind of canon to the comics but I do think he sneaks out a lot and rarely sleeps at home just because his adoptive father is such a dick. If he hadn't gone to the Entity I think he could've been a librarian. :)

Julie - (Shorter since I already did a whole post on her). My version of her has a slightly more strained relationship with her parents than the one we see in the official comic, though we know little about her relationship with her parents in the "mainline" canon. We know Julie has a lot of friends and is probably the most "social" of the Legion - I think it's very interesting to think about how that conflicts with her very antisocial nature and how she probably parties to drown out the boredom/misery she feels in suburbia. I think that if Julie Hadn't gone to the Entity she probably would've excelled as a journalist or a horror writer.

Susie - The comics haven't quite touched on Susie's relationship with her parents very much yet but I do have the thought that she's got a Very bad relationship with her parents. There's the Christmas sweater skin that talks about them fighting a lot - I think her parents have a very volatile relationship themselves and I think that they take it out on Susie quite a bit. I think that Susie is probably on the lower end of the economic bracket along with Joey or at the very least that her parents are pretty financially controlling. My Susie of course also has a big crush on Laurie. I think the comic accidentally implies she has a crush on Julie too. Legion's going to become a mess of feelings... And is fat, which I think she would be if BHVR weren't cowards. My headcanon is that Susie and Jeff were kinda-sorta friends, which is a little bit canon to the comics, though they try to play up the crush angle. There are a couple skins that imply/talk about her being bullied and I think that's something she probably dealt with a fair amount growing up and is part of why she feels a like very strong urge to lash back at the world. I think if she hadn't gone to the Entity she would've been a comic artist or animator.

Joey - Joey is a really interesting character to me because I think he's probably the most "well adjusted" of the group. Without the influence of peer pressure he probably never would've fallen into any of this stuff but it's sad that he's treated as a criminal anyways because of racial biases. He has to deal with the isolation of working a lot and never getting the acknowledgement for it. I think there's a lot of dissatisfaction he feels with life in general and that's part of why he's so susceptible to like being able to exert any kind of will/power on the world by helping create Legion. He has a theoretically good relationship with his mom but also feels a lot of pressure not to let her down and feels like he can't share his feelings with her without disappointing her. I think it's very interesting that he's kind of the functional/practical brain of the group and thinks of how to keep them all safe - like in the comics where he suggests covering their faces to avoid being identified. And I think it's really notable that he's the only member of Legion who wears proper gloves and paints around his eyes. He's very conscious of the danger of being identified... The biggest difference in my Joey with other canons is probably that he isn't involved in sports/being a mascot at all, and also instead of the implicit crush on Susie I have him crushing on both Frank and Julie lol. If he didn't go to the Entity I think Joey would've been a fashion or costume designer. He has a lot of interesting skins related to making outfits or dressing up, so I think it's fun to explore that side of his interests and personality. I wonder if that's why the comic artist decided to make him a mascot...))