#but they hate their common enemy(the white star) more so they reluctantly work together

[youngyoo-apologist]

Average OG Cale and Choi Han argument , sparks are flying, who is winning this time?!

[levisblackbabe]

Headcanons of Aot boys with a black gf

Characters: Eren Jeager , Armin Arlert, Levi Ackerman, Connie Springer and Jean Kirstein x fem black reader (separate)

Genre: Mostly fluff, slight angst, deffo crack, (everyone is +18)

Warnings: Language, a bit toxic, slightly suggestive

Wc: 1500+ (Each character is about 300-400 words)

Eren Jeager (The lowkey Toxic one)

· Lowkey scared of y/n because she reminds him of Levi when she is angry, and he knows she will beat his ass if necessary

· Started out as friends but he has always liked y/n

· He initially asked you out as a dare and you only found out after 6 weeks where you broke up 😐

· This legit started the cycle of breaking and getting back together (he never cheated though just a lil bit toxic)

· He is very possessive and controlling which also lead to your break ups

· Even though you have your ups and down he is mostly a good boyfriend

· He plays basketball so every time he is practising on his own, he asks you to be there for rebounds (in reality he just wants you near him baso 24/7)

· Loves your smell so he steals those items might be your lotion, hair products or perfume

· Loves your natural hair and just touches it without permission after a couple times you just gave up telling him off

· He was confused on why you changed your hair so often

· When you guys first started dating you came with box braids rather then your usual bun and he deadass thought you were somebody else 💀he was so confused on why this stranger was touching him up (this mf loyal cuz he was ready to punch you)

· He was soooo scared of meeting your parents (had to call Armin to ask for advice)

· Your family at first didn’t like him cuz of the constant breaking up but they grew to tolerate him (however your older brother doesn’t)

· Loves taking pictures of you during facetime, golden hour or whenever and saves them in a folder (simp)

· Loves your cooking soo much that he goes collect tubber ware of food worth a week and stocks up his fridge

· He loves when you speak to him in another language so he pisses you off so you can cuss him out in your native tongue

· He barely calls your name its either babe or some cringey name like bubbs or something (however if you hear your full name leave his month rip)

Armin Artlet (The simp)

· SHY BAE that’s it

· He was your English tutor and has always had a crush on you

· He wanted to ask you out on a date, but he shy and thought you won’t like white boys

· You asked him instead cuz you fell for his ocean blue eyes (I mean who wouldn’t)

· In the beginning you had to take the initiative a lot cuz he wanted to respect your boundaries but after a while he grew comfortable and took the lead

· He LOVES your natural hair and knows your wash day schedule, so he always offers to help anyway possible

· He was absolutely scared of meeting your family cuz once again he white 😐 however everyone loved him

· He most definitely invited to the family reunion

· Your aunts adore him and they always talking about you as a baby to him

· He always doing late night ft calls with you, and he WON’T hang up cuz he wants to see your face when you wake up

· Armin is a giver, so he always offers to buy thigs for your and just buy gifts at least once a week

· He also loves cooking for and with you (once you had a cooking competition and technically, he is a better cook, but he let you win)

· He likes sending random pictures of things you like and remind him of you

· He happily takes pictures of you (photographer Armin)

· You guys have a pet turtle called Mickey 🐢

· His nicknames for you are beautiful, pretty and stuff like that

· Just overall fluff

Levi Ackerman (the co-worker)

· You guys have been co-workers for 2 years actually

· You thought he hated you but in reality, he does he just acts stingy towards cuz he is Levi 😐 (some serious enemies to lovers vibe)

· He didn’t confess and never would have but due to a drunken Hange letting it slip during a hang out with your co-workers you found out

· He deadass ignored you for a week like if he saw you, he would turn into Houdini and disappear

· However, you once caught him distracted and forced him to talk to you

· Reluctantly so he spoke the truth and asked you out (thought he seemed angry about it)

· Now you guys have happily been dating

· Everyone in your office finds you lucky cuz Levi is the finest man in the office heck the world (if he was real, I would leave my bf 😭)

· He actually has a 5-year-old daughter (DILF! Levi) and told you why he never said anything about his feeling was because you know single dad and shiz

· After 6 weeks you met his babygirl and she is the cutest she loves you considering she never had much of a mother figure in her life

· His daughter is mixed so he knows how to deal with natural hair thanks to YouTube, so he sometimes helps with yours (such a good dad)

· But now that you are here you offer to do any protective styles and give him tips

· Levi isn’t very open, but he expresses his love to you with physical touch, acts of service or gifts

· However, he speaks very softly to his daughter he seems different

· Due to his love language being touch he loves petting your hair (only when you have protective styles) and putting his head on it ( he is tall in my head okay)

· He loves having you in close proximity to you and just somehow touching you

· Him and your dad really hit it off because they both have daughters

· Your aunts are lowkey infatuated with him

· Loves making breakfast for you but due to your busy schedule he just buys your coffee in the morning

· He will never tell you, but he has trouble falling asleep but when you sleepover he actually has a full nights rest (he has silk sheets just for you)

· He might seem closed off, but you know he loves you due to the little things

Connie Springer (the bestfriend)

a/n I just want to say Connie will be of Hispanic heritage for the sake of this headcanon also because all the fanfics I read about him he is portrayed as Hispanic I just write him like this however this isn’t to offend anyone or play onto stereotypes.

· You guys have been besties since freshman year high school

· You hooked up freshman year of college and been dating ever since

· Nothing really changed in your dynamic other than the fact yall kiss and do the deed

· Like you legit call each other insults though Connie likes calling slime and bubbs

· You jokingly calling each other baby mama and baby daddy (manifesting kids but whatever)

· Speaking of kids, you have plushies that you call kids and rotate them around (they are from your arcade date)

· Loves being on call with you when he is playing because it helps calm him down and not break his tv (anger issues much)

· HYPEMAN if you are looking fine asf he will hype you up so much and offer to take pictures for the gram

· You have a joint TikTok account where you reaching 10k and just do dumb couple stuff its cringey but cute (Same goes for your joint spam account where you guys just do silly things together)

· He always asks to do your hair which you repetitively deny keeping in mind last time you let him he nearly ripped off half your scalp

· Late nights drives happen a lot so you can vent and have a heart to heart under the stars, you guys also just vibe to the music and might spend hours in silence looking at the city lights and dancing

· If you fall asleep on him or in the drive back he becomes really cute and soft and just says you are beautiful and that he loves you in Spanish (ugh my heart)

· He only speaks Spanish when he wants to be cute and knows you won’t understand

· Your family have always liked him so when you guys started dating everyone was like ‘FINALLY’ (same with his family)

· Some type of kid’s movie marathon once a month cuz being a child is great

· Its just overall jokes

Jean Kirstein (Mr Doesn’t Give Up)

· Kept asking you out for a year until you gave in, he was so excited he kissed you straightaway

· He was so nervous in your first date, but he was a gentleman opening doors etc (whoever said chivalry was dead 🤨)

· Nearly said I love you on the first date considering he has liked you for a year, but he held it in

· However, he did get a kiss goodnight on the cheek (he was grinning like a fool)

· Loves the fact that you change your hair so much and so often that he happily gives recommendations and offers to help you out

· He is the overprotective type of boyfriend so he was reluctant on you meeting his friends especially Eren, but you reassured him that you wouldn’t be swayed (still icky about you hanging with Eren though)

· He adores playing pc games with you and you have a little family in Sims4 which is cute

· He now has a skincare routine because you introduced him to it (he said he didn’t need one cuz he has a ‘handsome face’ but he secretly started one lol

· He also steals your body lotion and legit smells like you (smh)

· His wrist always has a silk crunchie in case you need it, and, in his car, he has a bag with essentials for you such as pads, edge control, etc

· He calls you cute pet names but also the occasional insults as a joke

· He is lowkey rich, so he happily spoils you to fancy dinners and more

· He also likes going back to the basics so picnic dates in the spring and summer are common he says he cooks them but in reality, it’s his mum

· Your mum absolutely adores him cuz he is a ‘charmer’

· He likes facetiming you when he is working out so he can show up, but you just ignore him and continue doing what you are doing

· Like Eren he has a folder filled of mugs of you

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[fyeahfantasticfour]

What are your thoughts on Reed's role in the Civil War comic?

You will never catch me arguing that what Reed did was in any way right, because it wasn’t. He was given quite a lot of extenuating reasons (i.e., supporting the SHRA was the only way to stave off planet-wide extinction), but I still think it was an immoral choice, more so when you look at the sociohistorical context and realize that the SHRA was really the Patriot Act, Stamford 9/11, the Negative Zone prison Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. Nothing justifies that kind of authoritarian, fascist violation of human rights, and it is even more galling when it is done in the name of the safety and security of the American people. What I would argue very vehemently is that a person who behaves the way Reed did during Civil War is so unlike Reed that he is a wholly different character, which is why I find it so infuriating that people who have read him in that and nothing else think it’s what he’s always like, when it’s not. His behavior throughout Civil War flies in the face of over fifty years of canon. When I read everything he says, everything he does in Civil War or in the related spin-off comics, I do not at all recognize the man I have come to know and love in well over 600 issues of Fantastic Four comics. Reed’s simply not like that. Sue even tells Reed at one point in the main FF title, “You’re not Reed,” and, no, he isn’t. So I don’t know who Mark Millar and co. thought they were writing, but it sure as hell wasn’t Reed. They warped Reed’s character virtually beyond recognition to suit their plot – but of course, if that’s the only comic you know Reed from….you don’t have the context to be able to see that. And that’s why Civil War!Reed has come to be the defining Reed in an Avengers-dominated Marvel fandom that largely doesn’t bother to read FF comics…even though, again, Reed isn’t like that at all. 

I think Civil War has, first of all, largely been responsible for that truly mystifying take that holds that science matters more to Reed than his family, which is not something anyone would ever argue if they looked only at FF comics. Reed’s boundless love for his family just spills off of every page. But the way he behaves in Civil War, I can see how people would miss that. Reed chooses the government and the SHRA over his family every chance he gets in Civil War, which is terribly OOC. If given a choice between his family and anything anyone could ever want -- wealth, immortality, even godhood -- Reed will always choose his family. But in Civil War -- for the first and only time ever -- he doesn’t. 

Cut for length.

Sue, the love of his life, his soulmate, who he loves more than his own life, leaves him, and he chooses the government; Ben, his very best friend for over two decades, who he canonically loves as much as he loves his wife, leaves him, and he keeps working for the government; Johnny, Reed’s surrogate son, goes with her, and Reed chooses the government. Johnny is hospitalized and Reed doesn’t drop everything to be there for his wife and his brother and seems fairly indifferent about Johnny and Sue’s wellbeing. That is not the Reed I know. As Sue has said, Reed is always, always there when it matters. When Sue was going through a difficult first pregnancy, the doctors actually had to tell Reed to go get some rest because he refused to leave the hospital. When Franklin was badly hurt by Annihilus, Reed was so shaken by Franklin’s hospitalization that he and Sue moved to the suburbs under assumed names so Franklin would be safer. When Reed discovered that Franklin was worried about his powers, he and Sue actually quit the team so they could focus completely on their son. When Franklin was tossed into Hell by Doom and badly traumatized, Reed was right there, holding Sue’s hand and comforting Franklin while they talked to psychiatrists. So we know how Reed acts when his family’s hurt – he tends to hover, obsess, worry, beat himself up for not protecting them, and take it very, very seriously. The Reed I know would have refused to leave the hospital until Johnny woke up. He would have been too worried about Johnny and Sue and too busy blaming himself for what happened to Johnny to even consider doing anything else.

Also, Civil War is the first time in fifty years that Ben, Johnny, and Sue have all turned their backs on Reed. Normally, they are endlessly loyal. Normally, they would follow him to Hell if he asked them to – and, in fact, they have. Reed would care that his family had abandoned him. It would destroy him. Make him unable to function. It makes absolutely no sense for Reed as a character to have behaved as he did, because Reed’s chief motivation is his love for his family and it always has been. Everything he does is because of them. Everything. The fact that Millar and co. didn’t understand that Reed’s family matters more to him than anything is sign enough for me that their characterization of Reed is deplorable. It’s like writing Wonder Woman and having her care not at all about women, or Magneto and having him be indifferent to mutants. It does not make any sense at all for Reed. Straczynski’s idea that Reed did what he did to protect his family – sacrificing himself and his principles in order to keep them safe (although in the main Civil War comic, he’s written as oddly enthusiastic about the pro-SHRA side’s projects, and just no – Reed (as he’s characterized in FF comics) participating extremely reluctantly and hating everything he was forced to do I can maybe see, but being excited about any of it? No) – is slightly more believable, but I still don’t buy that Reed, after having been called out by Sue the way he was, wouldn’t have listened to and trusted her. Because he nearly always listens to Sue and he respects her opinion more than he does anyone else’s. They’re equal partners. Certainly the idea that he’d trust and care about Tony’s opinion more than Sue’s is a risible one at best (not that he doesn’t like Tony, but the length and depth of his friendship with Tony pales in comparison to his all-consuming love for Sue – Reed and Tony simply haven’t been through everything Sue and Reed have together, which includes the death of their daughter). And the fact that Sue alone left him – for only the second time in a fifty-year marriage – would have had a much larger effect on him than was depicted. In the 1970s, when Sue first left him, Reed pined for her constantly and refused to leave the Baxter Building in the vain hope that she’d call, he couldn’t focus on work, or sleep, or eat, science and all of his projects were meaningless to him without Sue, but you expect me to believe that a second separation – particularly one that was potentially permanent – had such a small effect on him? Reed should have been a mess, depressed, hopeless, and entirely unable to function. His whole reason for existing left him. He wouldn’t have cared about anything besides Sue and when she would be back and what he could do to get her back. 

Reed siding with the SHRA and helping the government discriminate against aliens, mutants, Inhumans, and other metahumans like him also makes no sense at all for him as a character and, furthermore, goes against everything he and the FF have ever stood for, ever fought for. And that’s because the FF have always been about looking to the future and making the world a better place for everyone, which means rising above petty hatreds. Reed especially has a lengthy history of fighting to protect the civil rights and autonomy of nonhumans – particularly the Inhumans – from the government and the military. The story told in Fantastic Four v3 #51-54, for instance, is a perfect counterpoint to Civil War. Reed, when faced with humanity’s petty fear of the Other, actually behaves like himself and defends them from the government, the military, the masses. He very bravely stands up in front of the United Nations – when everyone else in the world was against him – and he tells them all that what they are doing is wrong. Specifically, he says, “What is being contemplated here is unthinkable! Yes, there are vicious, evil aliens – just as there are vicious, evil humans. There is no black or white.” When the defense system he set up for Earth is used offensively by the military to destroy an alien spaceship, Reed is openly furious at the military because his technology was misused for the purposes of murdering aliens and lectures a group of four-star generals on the evils of xenophobia. “Do you know what every extreme group has in common, general?” he asks them. “From the Nazis to the Taliban to the Ku Klux Klan? An obsession with purity. An unwavering belief that everything would be perfect if everyone was exactly like them. Don’t draw lines in the sand, gentlemen – not when it’s quicksand.” Reed has a lengthy history of defending the civil rights of nonhumans – he singlehandedly stopped the SHRA from getting passed during Simonson’s run in the 1990s by pointing out that it would be impossible to genetically differentiate between mutants, metahumans, Inhumans, and regular humans who carried those genetic markers. He knew it was a troubling law and he prevented its passage. Even before that, Reed originally fought behind enemy lines as a spy with the Italian underground during WWII – he knows full well the abuses totalitarian governments are capable of because he saw them firsthand and put his life on the line to stop them. So it’s just galling to see Sue having to lecture Reed about the dangers of fascism and totalitarianism when he, as a character, has demonstrated that he knows that very well so many times, when that knowledge is a pivotal motivation for him as a character, and when he has a lengthy history of fighting against those same governmental abuses. It’s like watching someone lecture Cap about the dangers of Nazism. I mean. He knows. Given his history, Reed should be the one making that speech. Hell, Reed has made that speech several times. It’s just all a flagrant misinterpretation of his character that, worse yet, makes no sense.

As someone who knows Reed’s character extremely well, let me say also that the idea that Reed would side with the U.S. government’s draconian laws because he believes that everyone has a responsibility to follow the law even when it’s wrong is absurd. This is a man who broke into a military base and stole a rocket ship because he thought the government’s decision to pull funding from his project was misguided. Not morally wrong, mind you, just misguided and short-sighted. This is a man who was himself taken to a top-secret military base in the dead of night and detained indefinitely by a government fearful of his powers, and who witnessed the unceremonious execution of another superpowered detainee in that same prison, and then began behaving in a way that was as innocuous and unthreatening as possible as a survival tactic. Because he knew that the government posed a very real threat to him and his family. He even says in Fantastic Four v3 #60 that he knew that he had doomed his family, the three people he loved most in all the world, to being “fated to be freaks…lab specimens or worse…” and that he turned them into celebrities to give them the best life possible given the circumstances. He also told Tony Stark once, in Iron Man Annual v1 #8, that if the government ever tried to take his incredibly powerful mutant son away, he would fight to the death to stop them. Immediately prior to the Civil War, the government did try to take Franklin and Valeria away, and in Fantastic Four Vol 5, they succeeded in taking all of Reed and Sue’s children away. That all means that Reed’s very aware that the government poses a threat to his and his family’s well-being and their ability to continue as a family. He knows how very dangerous the government is to people like him because he has been on the receiving end of that mistreatment. Reed has also just blatantly broken the laws more times than I can count. In his first-ever appearance? Broke onto a military base and stole a rocket ship. Second? Broke out of a military base, set it on fire, and stole a helicopter. And it’s not like all of that illegal activity dates back to the 1960s. Two years before Civil War I, Reed disregarded both the U.S. and the U.N.’s orders, invaded and took over an entire country, and afterward only narrowly avoided being charged with treason by bribing the government. He also, during this time period, broke onto a military base and stole Ben’s dead body back. That was swiftly followed in Straczynski’s run – only about five issues before the onset of Civil War – with Reed deliberately sabotaging a top-secret military project, which culminated in a high-speed chase as Reed escaped, fled back to New York, and openly defied the military’s orders to turn himself in by launching himself into space in a rocket ship. Reed, throughout his history, hasn’t just defied the law – he’s openly flaunted his defiance. So Reed isn’t a stickler for the law and he simply never has been. He knows it can be violent, devastating, and harmful, particularly to people like him and his family. 

But also? An unquestioning allegiance to science without a thought for the ethical ramifications is just very unlike Reed, who has always cared about people more than science – in fact, I’d argue that he cares about science because it lets him help people and make the world better. I think Straczynski’s better than the main Civil War comic about hammering home the point that Reed fixates on the numbers to keep himself from thinking too hard about the awful things he’s doing to his friends…but I don’t think doing them at all is very like Reed. It’s not as though Reed’s frightened of defying the U.S. government – he invaded and conquered an entire country against their explicit orders, after all. But also, Reed is compassionate to a fault – as Cap points out in the first Secret Wars, Reed is renown throughout the superhero community for his compassion. Everyone turns to Reed for help because he never turns away anyone who needs help. To think that he could, for any reason, turn his back on anyone’s pain and suffering makes no sense for him as a character. This is a man who helps supervillains who are hurt or in trouble, just on principle, because he swore an oath to help all mankind and that includes them. This is a man who once saved Galactus’ life just because he couldn’t, in good conscience, stand by and let another living being die -- and was later put on trial for it in an intergalactic court of law. He’s saved the life of Namor, who he doesn’t particularly like, so many times – and that includes the time he was challenged by Doom to save Namor’s life in 24 hours or Namor would permanently become Doom’s slave, and when Reed failed he flew all the way to Latveria to rescue Namor, just because Namor came to him for help and he couldn’t, in good conscience, abandon him. Even Ben thought Reed was going overboard helping Namor. But Reed believes he’s responsible for the well-being of everyone around him, he’s got a big heart, he’s extremely moral, and he has a very exacting conscience. If he fails someone? He’ll feel guilty about it the rest of his life.

Really, I could go on with this -- I haven’t even touched on the awful mischaracterization of Reed and Sue’s relationship (that sadly is also what everyone thinks they’re always like when it isn’t at all) -- but I think that’s enough for now.