#but yeah this position definitely escalated things a lot of times

[kacievvbbbb]

I’m just very obsessed with the idea that mihawk is useless in a weapon less fight like he cannot throw a punch or get out of a pin to save his life like one he can’t kick he’s done out for the count, and this is why Shanks ends most of their duels this way. Because he’s a filthy cheater and Mihawk is even worse off because it’s Shanks pining him and he has eaten a lot of dirt.

Shanks decides to teach him the art of fighting dirty cause he’s nice that way but also let’s just say that Shanks likes being in a pin a little too much

[dutifullyscreechingdragon]

Tim Stoker X Archival Assistant!reader

Summary: here you go, some headcanons for our Tim and how your relationship would start, enjoy:)

You first met Tim as an archival Assistant. Your first day on the job.

You were joining a bit later than all the others. You still had some things left to finish at your previous position at the Institute and you do not leave things half done.

Tim's first reaction to you was to flirt. To flirt shamelessly:

"Hey gorgeous, what brings you down to our dark, creepy archives?"

It only escalated from here

You were positively flustered (Tim can have that effect even on the most confident of people. No one stands a chance if Tim uses 100% of his charms)

And eventually, you were rescued by a laughing Sasha:

"Come on, Tim! Leave the girl alone! You don't want to scare away a new Archival Assistant"

"Me? I am positively delightful!" Tim put his had on the heart, pretending to be mortaly wounded by Sasha's statement.

"I can't imagine a universe where I'd be scaring away a girl... Especially this charming" he'd finish winking at you, prompting you to laugh lightly.

"So, an Archival Assistant, eh?" Tim continued in a suave tone

"Starting today, yeah" you replied.

"Alas, my prayers have been answered" Tim raised his arms toward the ceiling "I have been graced with seeing your pretty face each morning!"

His flirting didn't stop. In fact, it escalated exponentially over time

The next morning he would greet you with a pick up line. And then the next morning and the next...

He seemed to have an endless supply of them.

Somehow he managed to not repeat a single one.

Definitely uses cute nicknames on you: sweetheart, darling, babe.

Will sometimes try cringy ones just to get a rise out of you.

You knew Tim's reputation, so took all his flirting attempts with a grain of salt.

"You can't have me seriously believing that Tim, 'I can charm a copier if I put my mind to it' Stoker, actually has feelings for me" you laughed.

Sasha sighed. She has just finished listening to Tim's 'Why cant she believe I have feelings for her? I have been so open and genuine about them' rant.

Tim definitely tries distracting you from your work, preventing you from doing anything productive. Any chance he gets:

You were currently sitting at your desk, trying to find any trace online regarding the statement of the week. You were pulled out of your thoughts by wheels skidding on the floor. Looking up you saw Tim on a wheely chair, sliding up next to you.

"Did you know that..."

or another time:

Your peaceful work was interrupted by a paper airplane hitting the side of you head. You looked up and saw a grinning Tim Stoker. He waved at you and motioned for you to unfold the paper. Once you did, you saw a cutesy doodle of you and him holding hands and a bunch of hearts around. You simply raised an eyebrow and put the drawing aside.

Tim was, however, pleasantly surprised, seeing it taped to the side of you computer screen the next day.

Did I mention flirting? I feel like I should mention it again, for good measure. Flirting Lot's of flirting. Lot's of shameless flirting

Sasha definitely notices Tim's feelings for you. Almost instantly.

And she would tease him. Mercilessly. Relentlessly.

She would also take on the role of your biggest shipper. Whenever you and Tim talk, you better believe she is making heart shapes at both of you from a safe distance.

She also uses her amazing computer skills to make cute and embarrassing edits of you two.

Sasha is also, coincidentally, the most amazing wing-woman ever (probably because she had to take action after seeing you and Tim pine for each other relentlessly).

You would be sorting through the statements when she would approach you and ask sneakily:

"So, Tim took you out on a date, yet?"

"No" you'd say and add quietly "Unfortunately"

This wouldn't slip past Sasha's keen ears:

"Unfortunately? So you do want to go on a date with him!"

You'd splutter to deny it, only prompting her to laugh more.

"Maybe if you sent him some more... Positive feedback to his flirting attempts and maybe told him a simple 'yes' to his countless attempts to invite you out... Maybe then, you'd already be smooching and planning your wedding..." Sasha said pointedly and the added more wistfully "and maybe then I wouldn't have to listen to his rants about you"

After quite a restless night you decided to give it a shot. "Why not?" You reasoned. What's the worst thing that can happen? An awkward break up when he realises he doesn't like you that much and having to work with him for at least another year? You decided not to dwell on that much.

Obviously Tim was low-key surprised when instead of shutting down his flirting attempts you flirted back. He was even more surprised when you agreed to go on a date with him.

He nearly lost his composure, but once he finally processed what happened, he beamed at you and tripled his flirting.

Throughout the day he was very hyper and becoming a bit too much to his colleagues and you

But can you blame him? He finally got the green light form you. Of course he's going to rant about it to Sasha. Of course he is going to make small doodles on the margins of his paperwork that he is later to hand in to Jon.

Tim DEFINITELY took you kayaking on you first date:)

It's a great opportunity to flex his muscles and have great fun at the lake.

Chances are you ended up falling into the water:

You were rowing in perfect harmony while exchanging some quips back and forth. It was great. Until Tim said something along the lines of:

"Sure, you're right. Can't argue with that cuteness. You could probably say that the Earth is flat and I'd believe you" he briefly took his hand off the oar to ruffle your hair.

"Hey! If I ever tell you nonsense like that, I expect you to correct me" you turn to smack him with your oar. Tim ducks out of the way, making your kayak rock from side to side.

"Don't do that! We're gonna flip the boat" You say gripping the side of the kayak for balance.

Tim grins wickedly before shifting to the other side, making the kayak careen dangerously "Don't do what? This?" he suddenly goes to the other side.

"Yes! Don't-" you're cut off as the kayak predictably flipped over and you both ended up in the slightly chilly water.

Tim laughed. You prepared to give him an angry tirade, but couldn't help laughing with him.

You got out of the water at some point... Completely soaked through.

You pulled off your shirt and put it to dry, huddling in a blanket, which, by some miracle, wasn't completely wet.

"You sh-should take off your shirt to dry" you told Tim, chattering your teeth.

"Woah! If you wanted to see me shirtless, you didn't have to flip the kayak" Tim said, taking his shirt off "You could've just asked" he smirked at you. Prompting an eye roll.

"You do remember that you were the one who flipped it, right?" You deadpanned raising an eyebrow.

"Hmm...." He pretends to think "Maybe I wanted you to see me shirtless" Tim shrugged and said "Details"

You could only shake your head and laugh.

And of course the only logical solution was to cuddle. For warmth. And because it felt nice

Tim wrapped his arms around your torso and snuggled into your neck, while you fried some marshmallows for s'mores on a campfire.

When you came the next day holding hands, Sasha was extatic.

She might or might not have started planning your wedding.

A/n: anyway, that concludes the headcanons, I hope you like it:) I'm definitely writing headcanons for Dating!! Tim

[flightfoot]

You know, I was thinking about Revelator again, specifically Chat's line "you lied to me, too?" He sounded genuinely surprised, even hurt, at the realization she'd lie to him over something that's, unbeknownst to him, relatively small compared to the number and scale of things she's keeping from him (not just Monarch, but some unresolved lies from season 4 too, like her plan in Ephemeral). It also clicked for me that, oh yeah, he doesn't even know that Alya is the one who knows her identity/is Scarabella. Which is probably obvious, but I've definitely come across several fics where he knows she told her identity to Alya specifically, so this was kind of a reset to canon moment for me, lol.

But anywho. To this day, I feel...frustrated? with the lack of a satisfying resolution (IMO) to the 'Ladybug is so stressed with her new role as guardian that her anxiety response leads her to tightly control all information and inadvertently push Chat out' plotline. She admits to making mistakes in Strikeback, and I did enjoy Chat's unwavering support in that moment, but the fact that he was then never given the space further explore potentially complicated emotions over, say, Rena Furtive's existence been hidden from him or Luka lurking in the sewers for an unexplained reason, still bothers me? It just feels so...unresolved. A temporary fix for something that deserves a more thorough exploration, explanation, and catharsis.

And when season 5 continued to not address these potential emotions, I settled on a mildly disappointing interpretation that Strikeback was supposed to serve as the resolution. I figured, reading between the lines, perhaps Chat moved on from his earlier frustrations (e.g., as per his words, how she never tells him anything) because felt reassured seeing how she regretted her behavior and was demonstrating more trust in him, by having him wield the rabbit miraculous and later take the lead as Mister Bug. He seemed content, calling them "the best partners in the world" (paraphrasing Determination here), so I was left with the sense that the season 4 secrets were now a non-issue, as disquieted as it made me feel at times. I.e. if he's happy I should be happy.

So...when they let him show discomfort at being lied to in Revelator, it gave me tentative hope again? That the writers might allow him to rightfully feel betrayed? And wrestle through that feeling? Maybe it's less that the season 4 secrets are a non-issue, and more...he wasn't aware of the ongoing secrets? And that it's a building plotline, escalating with the lie about Monarch, that will be further resolved?

So...do you have thoughts? Is my hope misplaced, or even inappropriate? I'm just not quite sure what to think, to be honest.

(All in all I really hope this doesn't come across as Marinette critical? That's not my intention here. I just would like the narrative to give him the space to feel angry and upset and betrayed, as anyone would in his position. So that they can work through it eventually, and let their relationship grow stronger in the end.)

((Also also. Love your fic Transcient btw. It's my number one to go to source for catharsis on Ephemeral. If canon never addresses what was, in my mind, a huge breach of trust that shouldn't be just hand waved away, I know I have your amazing work <3. So thank you))

Aw thank you! I'm really proud of Transcient, I think it's one of my best fics!

I think it's pretty likely that Adrien's going to find out about a lot of what Ladybug's lied and kept hidden from him. Being allowed to be properly upset about it... I kind of doubt it, at least for long. Then again, it'd be kind of weird if Alya was allowed to be more upset about Adrien being lied to, than Adrien himself was.

Like, Adrien and Marinette would definitely make up at the end, but I want him to make sure she's well aware of how she messed up first, and for her to make a clear effort not to repeat her mistakes in the future.

[blue-rose-soul]

Guilt-ridden he may be, but it wouldn't surprise me if Lucifer didn't still lose his temper with Alastor again. Kind of hard to switch up your knee-jerk reaction to someone even after you gain a new perspective.

And like, Alastor in the main branch is NOT making his efforts to reach out easy. Worse, he'd take every time Lucifer snaps at him as confirmation of his real character.

Raised Together might have fewer head-to-head shouting matches, just because Alastor has more positive memories of his father and could be willing to meet him half-way sometimes.

Kid!Alastor's are probably started by the tiny terror himself and Lucifer is, maybe, less likely to scream at a 10 year-old.

Nicaise and Charlie have their work cut out for them softening this slow-motion train wreck.

You know, that's a really good point. I've been going pretty heavy with the guilt because I think that would be Lucifer's biggest reaction, but you're absolutely right that it's not that easy to change how you see a person overnight. Alastor himself doesn't want the dynamic to change. His absolute refusal to make any concessions would definitely be aggravating to Lucifer. And as much as I love Lucifer being a silly little guy, he is a bit of a jerkass. While Alastor was being a tad bitchy when he first met Lucifer, Lucifer was the one who escalated into outright insults and then crossed the line into death threats. Something, interestingly, Alastor never did (likely because he knew he wouldn't be able to get away with it).

Like, chill dude. He called you short and said he was proud of your daughter.

So yeah. Alastor is being a stubborn ass about things, but he's not entirely unjustified.

In Raised Together they don't have that same level of vitriol, but things are rocky. Lucifer made an effort to be a good parent to Alastor as well as Charlie when they were growing up but he fell short in a lot of ways. Not that it was entirely his fault. He was struggling with his own mental health and the stresses of existence in Hell. But a lot of the time, Alastor felt like Lucifer took him in out of a sense of obligation, nothing more, and these feelings were exacerbated when Lucifer and Lilith parted ways and Lucifer pretty much stopped talking to his kids. Alastor's not a very forgiving person so when Charlie manages to sway Lucifer into supporting her hotel, Alastor's still got his guard up, just waiting for Lucifer to shut them out again.

Lucifer in the Kid Alastor AU honestly just looks ridiculous for picking on a child. Charlie has heard Alastor reiterate that he's not a child a million and a half times, yet she falls for it every time when Alastor runs to her in crocodile tears saying that Lucifer's 'picking on him.' And nearly every time it's a result of Alastor pestering Lucifer to begin with. Lucifer has actually made kid AU Alastor genuinely cry once, but not by being unkind to him or anything like that. It was after Lucifer found out that Alastor was his kid, and trying to build bridges. But the way he went about it was very demeaning and in resulted in Alastor bursting out in frustrated tears due to the limitations of his childlike body.

Someone get Nicaise and Charlie some migraine medication, they're gonna need it.

[seankayos]

Arcane Season 2 Part 2 thoughts and theories

Because holy shit this show has grabbed me and isn't letting go, cannot wait till next.

Also what the fuck, I need to process

So right off the bat the pacing is a lot faster, like I remember Season 1 was like being on a rollcoaster, this feels like jumping out of a plane. Exhilarating, but definitely an escalation. Still works though, at least so far.

I knew Isha was fated to die the second I saw her in the previews, she was just too damn cute and too damn close to Jinx for the writers to resist, and honestly I'm kind of OK with it? As interesting as Jinx essentially retiring to be a stay at home mum was I think I'd rather see her process grief from a position of love rather than trauma. Plus, you know, Isha wanted to be just like Jinx, and what's more Jinx than blowing up Vander?

Speaking of the most dysfunctional family anywhere in Zaun, Piltover or anywhere else, holy shit I loved Warwick in this, a genuinely terrifying werewolf that spat blood everywhere and yet made you feel genuine sorrow at his condition as well. Dude's been through it and then some.

Cait and Vi are still going strong through their divorce arc as I knew they would, with everything that's gone on these two are solidly locked in as the end game couple now. One more argument to let Vi finally get a win in (because seriously, for being the designated bruiser she can't win a fist fight for shit this season) before the much anticipated sex scene that they allegedly upped the rating for. Going off Vi spitting on Cait and then her wiping it across her mouth, shit's going to get freaky.

I've already reblogged something about Viktor but I just want to say I absolutely loved every part of the compound, but especially how understatedly creepy the whole thing was? Like, yeah, art nouveau cyber-magic hivemind hippies, fucking awesome, but none of feel like real people, at least compared to Zaun or Piltover. I think the flashes of them we get from Jayce's perspective of them as warped and broken puppets is accurate, they are peaceful because Viktor thinks that's what peace and cooperation look like, when in reality it's more like unquestioning obedience. Shame though, I really did love Viktor's whole mind quest to the soul of Vander, regardless of how badly it went.

As for Jayce, big theory time; this is a time travel plot now and we're seeing Jayce at the end of it. Those flashes we see are actually from some hypothetical bad future where Viktor expands his 'glorious evolution' to all of Piltover and Zaun and it all goes horribly wrong, hence why he looks so much older (even accounting for the.....roughly 4 months, I guess, time skip) and so incredibly haggard and traumatized. Dude's got a Mad Max shout out knee brace, you don't just get those unless you're from The Dark Future™. My guess is Viktor asked Jayce to go back and kill him, which is why he keeps repeating he won't fail and just kills Viktor with basically zero hesitation. Or, more accurately, kills the Hexcore, leaving Viktor alive(ish) to become something else. After all, from what I can tell from the League lore videos I watched a while back, VIktor used to be able to buy a Hexcore prototype that looked like the purple one we saw, but also had a normal Hexcore that provided different upgrades. He might start again down a different road that avoids the Bad Future but which makes him more of the explicit villain.

[rescue-ram]

Why The Joker Is Wild Hits Different

I was thinking about this last month when I wrote 'The Time Has Come For Us To Say Sayonara', and I'm feeling motivated to write up my thoughts tonight. I'm going to list my reasons why this episode in particular rubs people the wrong way roughly in order of importance.

1) Timing This is the most obvious reason but it bears mentioning. Because yeah, the episode where Hawkeye's friends team up to drive him crazy in the same season that ends with Hawkeye having a serious Mental Health Crisis definitely changes the impression this episode leaves, especially in rewatches. I've seen theories that it was intentional foreshadowing, as well as that it was meant to be a lighthearted throwback episode that's just squiffy in execution; both seem plausible. But regardless, I think the timing increases negative feelings towards this episode among people for whom it doesn't land.

2) The Pranks Are Lame This might seem petty or subjective, but the more I thought about it the more important it seemed. Because MASH has a lot of pranks, and the ones people remember and like the most are the most outrageous ones- there are a lot of creative set ups, and some opportunities for great prop or physical comedy. But the pranks in TJIW all happen off screen, for punchline reasons, and with the possible exception of Klinger blowing himself up are all very tame and unremarkable. The "victims" reactions are not particularly hilarious either. This means there's little entertainment value in the pranks themselves, so all of the focus stays on Hawkeye's reactions, and his reactions are "increasingly irrational intense distress" which obviously some people will find very difficult or upsetting to watch.

3) No Back And Forth Other "prank war" episodes are just that- a war. There's retaliation and escalation and often a final twist to the conflict that keeps the action moving. Hawkeye never gets to retaliate or take the upper hand until the very very end of the episode- he's not even really fighting for it. He's consistently put in a reactive and vulnerable position throughout the episode, so it feels targeted in a way that's usually reserved for characters we're meant to dislike and not empathize with- but Hawkeye is our charismatic protagonist, we're constantly invited to empathize with him! So seeing him get picked on and not fight back kind of sucks for a lot of people, especially if, in putting yourself in his shoes, you would find this an insanely upsetting scenario to find yourself in.

4) No A-Plot Other "prank war" episodes are usually paired with a much more serious dramatic story line. Even "April Fools", one of the silliest, has the characters seriously thinking they're all about to be court-martialed. "An Eye for a Tooth" has Mulcahy fighting for a promotion, "Bottoms Up" has Margaret reckoning with her friend's alcoholism- even "The Smell of Music", which has one of the meanest things they do to Charles, has an A-Plot where Potter tries to help a suicidal soldier. The pranks are a welcome break in tension, and the more serious subject matter means they don't get as closely analyzed by the audience- they are straight up comedic relief. But in TJIW, there is no other plot- our focus stays, relentlessly, on Hawkeye losing it. There's no break from the tension, and as already established the weak pranks mean they don't provide that release in themselves. It is very easy to get stuck stewing in Hawkeye's distress.

5) Bad Casus Belli I really think, if Hawkeye had been the one to issue the bet- "Yeah, I said your prank was stupid and I'll say it again, Trap and I coulda pranked all of you in 24 hours or less and you'd've never seen it coming"- that A LOT of this episode's problems would decrease. His come-uppance would at least feel earned- Hawkeye has hubris, gets punished, punchline. But that isn't what happens!! BJ is exhausted and in a bad mood. He takes it out on Hawkeye in a petty destructive prank. Hawkeye is annoyed, and BJ gets mad at him for being annoyed, and then cold bloodedly manipulates him into a bet he fully intends to cheat, in order to punish him for... not finding having his boot ruined funny? For talking about Trapper? There's no explanation given for why the other characters go along with it, especially a character like Mulcahy who not only participates, but is gleeful about it to an extent that's kinda OOC. Hawkeye's punishment feels more like the sort of thing dealt out to Frank, who we expected to deserve it because he was so consistently awful. Why does Hawkeye, our loveable hardworking part-time prankster full-time doctor, deserve to get humiliated? It's charitable to say it's a lack of inciting incident causing problems- to be uncharitable, we'd have to say the inciting incident is BJ taking out his temper on Hawkeye in an honestly pretty cruel way. I say cruel especially given his reaction to seeing Hawkeye lose it in the ward was to make it worse by deliberately feeding Hawkeye's paranoia after Klinger's prank. If you are not a fan which finds BJ's fits of "evil genius" funny in themselves then yeah, the unearned targeting feels infuriating.

[inactivehazbinagereblog]

Baby Charlie's Tantrums, Meltdowns, and General Fussiness

Charlie's emotions bubble up to the surface very easily when she's regressed. Some of those are very positive feelings! Like how much she loves her friends, how safe Vaggie and Daddy make her feel, or how much she loves the hotel. Even things that usually just make her giggle will be absolutely hysterical to Baby Charlie!

The flip side to that is her more negative feelings (anxiety, abandonment, frustration, a bit of self loathing) are equally magnified when regressed. She's quick to feel swallowed up by her big feelings, particularly things from her bigger headspace that she's bottled up. She doesn't always handle this well.

Charlie can be very easy to trigger when regressed. Stress from her bottled-up emotions boil over with little things, like being asked to stop playtime, being asked to take a nap, actually missing her nap, accidents, pull up changes...yeah. The list goes on. Small things get blown up with big feelings.

She can DEFINITELY whine. Lots of "But Charrie don't wanna...!" Or "I no go, no!" Oh she loves that word no. No, no, no! Vaggie thinks sometimes it just feels good for Charlie to have a little independence when regressed. But not everything is a choice, like eating, being clean, and resting. So she can't always honor that "no" depending on the situation.

Tantrums aren't all that rare either. Charlie usually escalates to tantrums if she's been VERY stressed in her big headspace (which is often). She does a lot of crying, laying on the ground, and kicking the air. She also uses her demon shriek to her advantage, but it doesn't spook Vaggie or Daddy that much anymore. It's rare, but she's also been known to hit and kick others on her worst days. Those little hoof feet are no joke when she's upset.

Vaggie has VERY low tolerance for it all. She's very no-nonsense. Vaggie only makes Charlie do things that she knows are important, so if Vaggie says it, she means it. She is soft spoken but VERY firm on what needs to be done. And if Charlie continues to refuse, Vaggie simply turns off the TV, takes away any toys, and waits for Charlie to cry it out before getting tired and agreeing to listen.

Lucifer is a pushover. Just...through and through. Charlie just has to cry a little and give puppy dog eyes to get her way with him. Vaggie is definitely annoyed by this.

After a big tantrum, Baby Charlie needs a cuddle and a nap. Even if she's gotten what she wanted, or did what Vaggie/Daddy needed her to, she'll still need time to recuperate from her mind and body being so overwhelmed. Vaggie and Daddy never EVER say no to that. They're always ready to comfort Char Char after working through some big feelings. She does well with being rocked, being sang to, and sucking on her pacifier to help her soothe.

[ryuichirou]

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Anonymous asked:

I would like to give my two cents on the Azul being jealous of Ruggie situation. Sorry in advance for my ramblings!

Azul puts a lot work into getting Jamil to like him, so I think it would hurt his pride to see someone else succeed without even meaning to. He is offering a way better deal than Ruggie, so why would Jamil refuse to accept his friendship? He may be a calculating bastard, but is Ruggie really that different, sucking up to people all the time for his personal gain? Surely Azul is simply not trying hard enough. Or maybe he just hasn't found the right approach yet. Kind of like that vignette where he lost a game of chance against Idia and as a solution he decided to get better at rolling the dice, instead of accepting that there are simply some things that he cannot control. And I agree that Jamil would get the brunt of it. If this is a game, he is both the opponent and the goal

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Yeah, I agree with you, Anon! I feel like this is where Azul’s mind would immediately go to. He’ll have a horribly hard time accepting the fact that Ruggie is, in fact, better than him in Jamil’s mind, and just like you said, this is something that Azul can’t control. And frankly, the fact that Azul would want and try to control it is going to just make him look worse, because this is exactly the thing that Jamil doesn’t like about him. Oh, the irony……

Azul would spend so much time sitting in silence with an angry expression trying to figure out just what is it that he’s lacking but Ruggie, who is OBJECTIVELY WORSE IN EVERY ASPECT, miraculously has. Oh, they’re probably just trying to piss him off..!

Anonymous asked:

For suspicious and questionable things for Neige to do what about him collecting Vil's things

Oh Vil left a water bottle here? Mine now

Vil lent me this chapstick I'm going to use it and it will be like an indirect kiss

Maybe Vil wore a hat and Neige pulls out the hairs that were in it as part of his collection

He could probably escalate to breaking into Vil's house just to get some more things he's touched

He probably has a shrine dedicated to Vil complete with pictures of Vil that aren't from the public press shots meaning Neige followed Vil around and took those pictures

Ohhh, look at this stalker boy collecting things from his favourite idol~ That would definitely be a fun twist. I wonder what his dwarf friends think about this collection of his, even though the Vil shrine is definitely supposed to be a special hidden secret thing lol

Poor Vil not realising where his yoga pants are… don’t worry, Vil, Neige is definitely going to cherish them and love them <3

(I wonder if he’s going to stumble upon Rook at some point, because there is no way Neige would stalk Vil and Rook wouldn’t notice it at some point. He knows. He just allows it to continue happening…)

Anonymous asked:

"Illia's out there hunting' sets a mental image that she just has a collection of bras from everyone, including Trein's granny bra and Idia is wide eyed finding out about it

(related to this nyo!twst reply)

Oh god this playful grandma… Someone needs to stop her, she’s out of control!!

Too bad Idia doesn’t wear a bra and can’t add anything to the collection lol

Anonymous asked:

Epel seeing that Jack and Ortho are close to Vil. It made Epel so jealous on how Jack in which he has a crush on is more close to Vil while Ortho is a fellow freshmen gang friend that seems more close to Vil.

Jack and Ortho both have energies of that one classmate that your overly strict mom really likes and acts sweet with lol I think about it a lot and abuse this joke tremendously.

Vil, stop stealing your underclassman’s men!! I wonder how Epel feels about Vil and Jack being childhood friends…

Anonymous asked:

Azuide wedding where Idia's best man is Ortho (OBVIOUSLY!) but it would be hilarious if the tweels fighting over to be Azul's best man since they want that position...but deep down wanted to be petty and mess around towards Azul which can anger Azul.

Also think of Oruvil in their wedding. Idia being Ortho's best man (although Idia is too nervous about this) and Vil with Rook. (And knowing Rook, he wants to be with them in their honeymoon)

Ortho is definitely best man, but he’s also the flower girl, the ring bearer boy, the father, and a lot of other things… he’s so excited, he couldn’t stop taking roles for himself!!

The tweels would definitely give Azul a headache with the fact that both of them apparently want to be best man lol Azul’s already super nervous about this whole thing, he spent so much time preparing everything and checking everything 1000 times over, and now at the very last minute (!!! THEY SEEMED FINE WITH IT BEFORE!!!) Floyd goes “hey, how come Jade’s your best man, that’s super unfair”. Azul’s face at that moment was absolutely priceless.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: no matter who Vil marries, Rook is always going to be there by his side, so there is no way he’s not with them in their honeymoon lol It’s just a matter of whether he’s open about it or not.

Anonymous asked:

QUESTION

What do ya think Sebemalle's favorite position in bed?

Sebek would find anything other than a missionary to be absolutely unacceptably disrespectful to his liege, because t-taking him from b-behind sounds just…!! Appalling!! (And way too hot for Sebek to even consider) But Malleus wouldn’t find doggie insulting at all. In fact, when he’s in the mood to get his tail stimulated and his horns played with, doggie is a much better option.

In general, Malleus likes hugging, kissing and being in full body contact with the person he has sex with, so his usual go-to is missionary. But the tail thing + the fact that Sebek looks so amusingly shocked when Malleus rolls on his stomach makes him consider doing it in the doggie position more often.

(I also talked about everyone’s favourite positions in this post~ I can’t believe we have a post about this topic lol)

Anonymous asked:

not a request, (sorry if it comes off like that!) but have you ever made sebek x lilia art?

Please, read my pinned. We don’t ship them. If you’re talking about them not as a ship, I believe I haven’t drawn them together without Malleus being present as well.

[wastrelwoods]

to be fair i actually like the way that pterry positions police work - that there IS value in theory in a force that works to bring justice and uphold laws designed to protect people, and if police were good people who truly wanted justice then that would be fine, but also unflinchingly pointing out how easy it is for cops to be corrupt and/or arms of the government and how individual coppers' prejudices can affect their policing if not dealt with? like night watch especially with the original gang and with cable street and then with carcer easily becoming police - feels like pterry was saying 'ACAB, but they don't HAVE to be, but it takes root reform and a top-down permanent commitment to genuine people-focused policing to make them a force for good'

HI yeah sorry i waited to chew on this for a while i'm thinkin it over bc i am still always of two minds. pterry's take on policing is very reform-minded and explicitly trying to call out widespread corruption and violence in direct deconstruction of almost every other traditional form of the police procedural. and also having vimes and his police literally break from their intended role as a tool of the state to try to hold the state equally as accountable as people with less power is very narratively good! the idea that runs through the books of one man who is so committed to justice that he can reform the whole institution from the inside is compelling! and it is also very much an unrealistic fantasy and the kind of empty promise cities throw millions of dollars away for in sensitivity training and uber-militarization hoping that the problems with policing always sort themselves out with the right polish

as an abolitionist i don't agree that police work is an essential service and that police need to exist to provide justice, or that people would tear themselves apart without police and states and laws to hold them in check. but. that premise is something it would be very hard to make a procedural without. i think i like the watch best when they function the least like Police and are striving to provide more nuanced nonviolent community support, and de-escalate, and actually protect and serve people, and i like that sections like the start of night watch where every department in the city is involved in a genre-typical tense manhunt and shootout with A Psychopath Serial Killer (tm) are very, very rare

carcer isn't like most watch series criminals in being either a person driven to breaking the law by rough circumstances or a corrupt person in power, when we meet him he's just knee-jerk murdering young off-duty officers to keep from being caught for undescribed other random murders. carcer is just the sort of character who exists to be as terrible as possible with no particular motivation in order to make vimes' inner narration about how badly he wants to get a chance to kill this man without due process something that is sympathetic as much as it is harrowing. definitely the type of character most copaganda pieces use as an antagonist, and i like that the watch books don't resort to that the rest of the time. AND i also love that being just a guy who loves to do indiscriminate violence for the hell of it lands him a job as a cop in the past THAT is a great deconstruction. i also love the final conclusion being that even people who are this brand of cartoonishly evil and too dangerous to safely apprehend can't just be murdered in the street on the judgement of a good guy with a weapon. tho of course he is just hauled off and killed by the state anyway with more due process and paperwork involved. which is a little bit of an undercut of the idea but the ethics of capital punishment is sort of a different beast and not rly the focus ANYWAY

TLDR my hesitation is that a lot of the premise of police reform in the watch books is the kind of thing that demonstrably doesn't work irl re: promoting change from the inside but if you gotta have a book about good cops i do appreciate the ways pterry dug in and grappled with that

[tauforged]

Your darvo and clem vision is so right and your Brain is so huge and may I perchance trouble you for some headcanons on one or the other or both of em

YOU SENT THIS AT THE BEST POSSIBLE TIME i was just typing up some long ass rambly summary of what i think theyve both got going on since i havent really elaborated in detail on here i dnt think but i drafted it cuz i wasnt sure anyone cared. hang on this is gonna be a long one buckle up

- darvo’s time in the corpus was tumultuous and nerve wracking. he had started off genuinely trying, he really had! but nothing he ever accomplished seemed to be good enough for his father and he started to get bitter and frustrated, so he started screwing things up on purpose.

- as a callback to the first appearance of the concept art that eventually became his design being that of a system boss, his actual “””real””” name was arn etina, and he was originally a proxy engineer before his dad decided to be a cunt and force him into politics because he needed someone to inherit the chairman position.

- another nod to his design being used for the old boss portrait, he actually did some work on the ambulas project wayyy back before glast’s animo system was even considered to have any combat applications, when the proxies were instead piloted remotely by actual engineers. he was one of em, and he worked his ass off - but he didn’t think weaponry was the best use of the technology. he thought ambulas had more potential in search-and-rescue, resource acquisition, and other stuff that involved environments too dangerous to send corpus crews into. while the remotely-piloted ambulas models were definitely impressive, they were outclassed by leaps and bounds by the tenno, who made very short work of any they encountered. thus, the project was technically considered a ‘failure’ and was scrapped against his wishes, despite him being adamant that he could prove it useful if he just had more time. he never got over this. to this day he’s just as furious about what’s become of ambulas as glast is, honestly, though he doesn't let on because his previous identity is a very close-kept secret for several reasons.

- shortly after alad’s first exile from the board, darv was scooted into the freshly-vacated ‘grineer-corpus relations’ position - partially in the hopes that a ‘proper board seat’ would help get him back into line, and partially as retaliation for his perceived “failures” on the ambulas project, and life in general. historically, grineer-corpus relations has been where you end up when you’re on the shit list, as it’s regarded to be an unpleasant job (mostly due to the fact that you’re often in close contact with grineer. yeah. corpus moment)

- despite hating anything and everything politics on principle, he actually doesn’t mind this all that much, and starts to really enjoy it when he realizes that he can use this position to screw with the board’s war profiteering bullshit. on paper, his job is to negotiate and de-escalate potential conflict — most who have held the position just use it to try and instigate in order to serve their own interests. he actually puts in the effort and does his job properly, part out of spite and part because he genuinely doesn’t see the point of wasting time money resources and lives fighting over nothing, and this pisses a LOT of people off.

- there's really no way to sugarcoat it - frohd is an abusive manipulative piece of shit. he takes out all of his frustrations on people who can't fight back - mostly his subordinates, but ESPECIALLY his son. im sparing the detail because i know it can be a trigger for a lot of people (myself included) but he really beats the hell out of the poor guy, and it only gets worse as time goes on and he starts pushing back and trying to stand up for himself. there are a few incidents that leave permanent injuries/scars that he tries his best to cover up to this day

- as if that's not enough, frohd is getting really fed up with this whole groneer-corpus relations position backfiring and making him look bad, so he puts his foot down and starts actively vetoing almost everything darv tries to accomplish in an attempt to intimidate him into backing down. there’s a lot of tension. his negotiations are sabotaged on more than one occasion, sometimes resulting in casualties. to add insult to injury, an attempt is made on his life during some sort of event or something i don’t really remember. he gets shot and the bullet barely grazes his skull. he’s mostly alright but shaken up BAD. he’s convinced that his father put out a hit on him.

- eventually snaps and decides to make a run for it, sneaking out of the medbay wing he was in and stealing the first ship he could get his hands on and just gunning it, not even in any particular direction, just trying to get as far away as possible. the ship is shot down in grineer airspace and he crashes. though no body is ever recovered, it's assumed he couldn't possibly have survived and thus arn etina is legally dead from this point onwards.

clem on the other hand starts off as just... kind of a nobody. runt of his batch, only barely managed to scrape by without being culled and really only made it at all because his superiors in the barracks he was stationed to happened to have a bit of a soft spot for the new guys and wanted to give him a chance. while he's more than capable, he's mostly nonverbal which makes it a bit hard to communicate with him , as well as a bit unpredictable - he's suspected to be defective because he keeps going off and doing his own thing because it 'makes more sense'. but rather than being put down they manage to have him redirected off to an unarmed base somewhere on uhh. god, it's been so long i forget where on the star chart i had him stationed. whatever. irrelevant. point is, this place pretty much existed solely to acclimate freshly de-tubed grineer and get them trained up with as many of the basics as possible before shipping them off to their actual stations. he likes it there! it's bittersweet, because almost everyone he meets isn't there for very long before leaving and they never come back, but because the structure is designated non-combat, they're not subject to as strict regulations and he and the rest of the "security detail" he's been assigned to can kinda just chill in between routine patrols and occasionally checking on things that fall out of orbit in the general facility.

at one point, there's some looming conflict with a corpus settlement on a nearby moon who insist theyre too close for comfort and risk retaliation if they dont relocate their base - but clem's superiors aren't too worried. they've dealt with the corpus before - this has been an ongoing problem ever since they set up a mining operation on that moon, but the corpus negotiator this time around is a decent guy and seems to think this is just as ridiculous as they do, so they're sure he'll take their side again and help get this resolved. except, they get to the meeting point and he's not there. they're informed that the previous head of grineer-corpus relations has "resigned, effective immediately" and that as a result, any offers he's made them are no longer valid and they're essentially at square one. there's a lot of bullshit back-and-forth, but everyone on the grineer side of things is PISSED that the corpus negotiator seemingly flaked out on them for no reason, while the corpus are now refusing to budge where they're at. they don't even have a proper interpreter, and they're getting nowhere.

TLDR negotiations fail and their base is now under threat of attack. despite being non-combat and having almost no weapons, they're ordered to fight back rather than retreat, despite insistence that the tube-fresh in the base won't stand a chance, half of them barely know how to handle a gun, and most of the armed security are there because they've got injuries or cloning defects that make them ineligible for combat deployment anyway - this, of course, includes clem. he's determined to stick around to fight anyway, but one of the higher-ups, one of the guys who managed to put in a good word for him and get him off the kill list, he pulls him aside and tells him to get the fuck out and take as many of the new guys as he can with him. he's a little confused, as that would be directly disobeying the queens' orders for him to stay put, but he trusts this guy and does as he's told.

clem and the handful of new recruits he manage to squirrel out of harm's way are the only survivors. not long after they get out, corpus craft swoop in and basically bomb the place out. he tries to go back in for his brothers, but by the time he makes it in, there's nothing left but rubble and bodies.

the grineer cut their losses. the handful of survivors are gathered up and shipped off to various other barracks in that corner of the system - an attack like this can't possibly go unpunished, and they need all the boots on the ground they can get. clem is shuffled around to another security detail elsewhere, though it's made fairly clear that this is his last chance to 'make himself useful', and if he goes against orders even once he's going right back into the vats with the other rejects. by this point, he honestly doesn't even care. he's disillusioned with the empire and to be frank, the only thing that motivates him to keep moving at all is thinking about the fact that the only reason that everything came crashing down around him was that one corpus bastard who backed out of negotiations at the last second. that's the only reason he's bothering to fight - he doesnt care about the queens anymore, he can't bring himself to become attached to anyone else at this new barracks, not after what just happened -- he just wants to give the corpus hell.

this is where we start to get into around the part that one little bit of writing starts off -- hes bitter and jaded and out for blood, and when they get word that a corpus ship's come down not too far out and they're sending a detail out to secure the wreck, he jumps on it-- but when he does finally find himself face-to-face with the pilot, for whatever reason, he can't fucking pull the trigger. there's something inside him that refuses to hate the poor bastard, stumbling around practically bleeding out and all but begging to be put out of his misery before he's recaptured. so, against his better judgement, he helps him. grabs him and runs, tries to wrap him up as best he can with whatever he can find. doesn't even know why he's doing this, but it just feels like the right thing to do. there's no going back now, anyway - no way in hell he's not getting executed if he shows his face again. they're in this together now, whether they like it or not.

it takes them a while to get their bearings and come up with a way to get off planet - they'd both heard that defectors would retreat to the tenno relays, the only real neutral zones out there, but they've both seen their fair share of tenno and aren't entirely thrilled to be at their mercy if they can help it. it's sort of a begrudging allyship at first - though its helped by the fact that theyve got a lot in common. at some point, theyre going over their sob stories, and neither of them really make the connection as to how closely connected they really are - clem never had a chance to meet that old negotiator, and thus would never recognize him as the man right in front of him. darv was barely conscious with a nasty head injury when their meeting was meant to happen, and someone else was assigned to the job to cover for him. he was pissed, of course, when he finally came to and found out what a mess they'd made of it while he was out of commission, but when the attempts on his life didn't stop he decided he had to choose his battles and eventually dropped it altogether, as it wasn't a hill he was ready to die on just yet.

when they do finally get the hell out of there, there's a moment where they're both sort of expected to part ways, yknow, go off to their respective factions' syndicates and settle in, but darv cannot fucking STAND the perrin sequence, he really cant. not only does he think theyre boring killjoys, but he's reached a point where being around that much corpus tech genuinely makes him anxious as fuck, it's too close to home and he doesn't like it one bit. clem fits right in with the steel meridian, they welcome him with open arms and he really does feel as close to home as he could get, but there's just something missing and he can't put a finger on it. he keeps wondering about that corpus weirdo, what he ended up doing and if he's still around or moved to a different relay. eventually, neither of them can take it much longer and both try to seek eachother out, and they're basically inseparable from that point on.

honestly, i personally feel like darv would be a lot more inclined to align with the meridian of any syndicate - i think it would be funny if he was just There. no corpus allowed, but we'll make an exception for this guy because clem really likes him and we just can't say no to clem. i guess he's alright. yeah okay he's technically an agent, but -- no yeah he covered up some of his old corpus tattoos with the insignia, pretty cool huh? yeah i dunno where clem found this guy but hes a weird one. hes funny though like obviously hes kind of stupid i mean hes corpus but we like him anyway. i guess he and glast have beef, i dunno why but he's not allowed on perrin property anymore so cressa just decided to let him chill here because it makes them really fucking mad and she loves it. i guess he's a decent shot too but like that's not too impressive, it's more relevant to us that he still can't fucking handle grineer alcohol after who knows how many years hanging around here and he always coughs and splutters like a little bitch every time and its fucking hilarious. oh hes a wanted criminal??? siiiiick. anyway were gonna go set shit on fire to see what explodes -- yeah of course hes gonna be there. what did he do before defecting? i dunno man he used to be an engineer or whatever i think, he doesnt talk about it much, but he can hotwire a dargyn in about thirty seconds and he helped us build a claymore roomba the other day for a prank so he's cool in my book bro

i havent eaten all day so i need to stop typing now but i hope you understand my vision. its so important to me and i care them so much thankyou change da world my final message goodbye

[mmikmmik2]

Across the Spider-Verse was great. My favorite secondary character is Pavitr, he was hilarious and his unique web-slinging was so fun to watch. I like how he was set up as a potential hubris kind of thing, with him being the new guy and playfully gloating about how being Spider-Man is easy, and instead that got subverted.

I haven’t read any Scarlet Spider comics but I have read detailed synopses of the Clone Saga and I think some of his clangst (clone angst) actually sounded interesting, so I’m pretty fond of Ben Reilly and it was fun to see him (or whatever version of him). I’m guessing from some of the absurd wannabe-edgy shit that happened in the Clone Saga, plus the general time at which it was released, that Ben’s dialogue in ATSV was probably a pretty spot-on parody. Did y’all know that, iirc, Mayday actually originated from the Clone Saga? Yeah, the writers were cowards and walked it back, but that’s where spider-baby started.

Miguel was a real piece of shit for treating Miles and Gwen like that. I would give Gwen a lot of slack for All Of That (although obviously Miles was fully justified in being upset with her) because she’s a homeless trans teenager - there is a power imbalance and implicit coercion in her relationship with the people offering her conditional room and board that is not present in most of the other spider-people being there. Hobie definitely picked up on that dynamic. I think maybe Spider-Byte, with her implied not-so-great home life, was in a bit of a similar position.

Super hyped for Miles’s stuff in the next movie. He’s stood his ground against his enemies, his friends, his own family, and the allegedly-immutable laws of the universe - of course the only way to escalate is to face himself. He’s definitely gonna have to talk it out with his other self, clearly this isn’t going to be a villain he can punch in the face and leave webbed up against a lamppost. Miles has learned and grown so much, but how can he pass any of that on to a version of himself that probably hasn’t had the things he has (or at least hasn’t had them in a way he can feel good about) - feeling understood, seizing agency over his life, feeling proud and accomplished? Then again, Miles doesn’t know there are other spider-people coming to back him up and his friends haven’t all abandoned him, so maybe he’s miserable enough to connect on that level… rip…

[bisluthq]

again, on reflection, yes. I don’t know why I thought otherwise. I suppose because when he laid it all out, he sounded so reasonable but… what actually about that story is reasonable? He twists, twists, twists stuff. I’m feeling kind of a little dumb for not recognizing that.

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Oh babe please don't feel dumb!

Eloquent people can fuck with us because they sound convincing - look at jd Vance - dude is fucked but a great speaker.

Also, I'm not taking his side DEFINITELY NOT, but I can see how *I* would be like 'fuck Linda, I think the sun shines out of your ass because I'm in love with you, how come she can't see it? What a twat! Doesn't she want you to do well? She's endorsed you before so why not now?' - i'm pretending someone pulled a Linda on the person I love most in this scenario and I would be sad. BUT I have also pulled a Linda before because someone I was only sort of friends with at that point applied for a position where I worked and dropped my name in the interview so the boss asked if I thought he should hire her and how would she fit in with the group (it was a small company, maybe 8 people at this time) and I was like 'um so we haven't spoken much lately, I'm not able to vouch for who she is now... But we were always very different in our attitude to school, I'm not sure if that's her attitude to work though' and I was extremely professional and she had stolen a laptop from a previous job and bragged about it on fucking Facebook. That's different to Linda tho because I was screaming NOOOOOOOO in my head and my boss saw that lmao. But I think if you thought her response was fair, and expressed it then he didn't need to escalate it to 'fuck Linda' or whatever. And it seems you're actually very rational and reasonable and can see the logical reason for it, instead of taking it like a personal attack which I guess some people might.

But yeah like don't feel dumb because you would've thought he was coming from a place of good intentions and meaning well. Any isolation is a red flag for me which is why I asked yesterday but definitely no need to feel dumb! And it sucks, but it's good you can see that he twists things because whether you get together or you eventually get with someone new, you will notice it next time.

My therapist had a covert way of making me see that every time I saw someone I thought was amazing (because we used to have an amazing relationship but she's been in her toxic era for a few years)I always went downhill. So when I said I saw her, my therapist asked 'and have you noticed your anxiety and insecurities spike like usual, or are we doing enough to protect you with the coping skills?' and I was like surprised Pikachu BUT SHE WAS RIGHT! I had never made the connection because I truly love this person (family ugh) and she had been amazing for years but then 'i guess she had a bad day and took it out on me because she did...' but it was EVERY TIME. FOR OVER A YEAR before my therapist pointed it out, because I still saw her in a good light and I KNOW she wouldn't WANT to hurt me, but then slowly I saw her for the person she is NOW. I still believe she wants the best for me, but I'm very low contact with her and call her out when she does certain things now....

Idk I am not trying to tell you to do one thing or the other, but I can understand a lot of perspectives and I do feel like shit for "letting" my family member treat me the way she did for so long and not even realise it wasn't ok, but don't feel dumb. And obviously I can't judge his intentions on Linda or the others - he sounds like a cunt about money though. But this is where you can look at the whole picture and tiny details and decide if there was any alterior motive or like what his intentions were in these scenarios. Idk I'm rambling, sorry.

but you see, I know Linda always gives me glowing reviews and even this recruiter said she did. She just said she has no idea how I am with LITTLE children. Which she doesn’t. And she knows I’m childfree by choice and she knows I avoid friends with little babies/children unless the children are with babysitters. So I think she thought I might NOT be good at a job with small children (for 10-12 hours at a time) involved. But she did also tell them I’m amazing. I think Linda did actually what she believes, and I kind of believe too, a very ethical and moral thing.

stolen laptop girl sounds crazy haha so you were right to say what you said too.

Love the rest of the story and love you.

we all deserve better because WE ARE AWESOME.

🩷🩵💚

[fabdante]

Might just be thinking this because of the Netflix DMC anime coming out soon and because the song is awesome, but:

DMC reboot twins and Kat and "Afterlife" by Evanescence. Idk where to really go with this, but I feel like you could?? Like, just. The vibes. Character parallels and such. *chews on this*

*rolls it over to you*

I do want to say it is completely wild to me that they got Evanescence to make a song for the anime, it's wild asdfghjkl Amy Lee knows what Devil May Cry is now, that's crazy

But yeah I mean you could apply the song to the reboot trio if you wanted. It feels like you could fit it into the vibe of the like ending of the game, like from approximately like mission 12 to the end where I think the whole situation get's a lot more real to everyone.

I've posited before in I think my Kat and Vergil things list that the Order is a resistance group and thus I think everyone was aware of the likelihood that they all might die for this cause and were willing to, but were woefully unprepared for the reality of that situation when it comes to them. What we se Vergil and Kat doing during this part of the game is the result of that harsh reality coming down upon them and coping with that. It's become real, essentially. Which I think sets the stage for what I want to say here asdfghj

But I do think in the reboot, if we would like, there is this element of not being able to go back and the realization of the like...consequences of their actions as we move from 12 to the end of the game.

Like the first time we see this is in the raid of the Order. Kat realizing her friends are dead because Mundus was looking for her and the twins. Vergil making a break for the server rooms in a last ditch effort to destroy the information he has because he doesn't want Mundus to have it, who knows what he'll do with it. The three of them reacting to the fact Kat has to be left behind and will very likely die like most if not all of the other humans in Order compound (though she ultimately doesn't). We've gone from...for lack of better words, more light hearted plans going the way everyone wants, revolution to like the reality hitting hard. They are trying to take down a system that is going to fight tooth and nail to remain.

This is something the game tries to grapple with on and off for the rest of the game. Such as Vergil's continued escalations because the way he seems to be dealing with this reality is pushing back with as much force as he can because to him the ends justify the means. There is nothing more for him to loose, so it doesn't matter to him how many more people die, he thinks it is justified to get rid of Mundus and thinks himself ready to deal with all that blood. Dante has the opposite ideology, his reaction to the reality of the deaths on their hands is to lesson that death and destruction. Kat is somewhat more in line with Vergil though, the plan must be completed though her proposition (which the boys ultimately go with) is the path that would net them the least amount of casualties. Because Kat believes the Order is doing the right thing, and has been this whole time.

There is of course the level of Vergil's deception which I think I touch on my theory of that here, where I posit my girlfriends theory that Vergil might not have gone into this planning to take over. He might have decided as the plan clunks on in the early game that something has to happen after Mundus, and due to a mixture of events and what not, that perhaps that something should be him taking over to rule. So that's an undercurrent to these ending missions, Vergil's growing plan to take over after they usurp Mundus (perhaps also fueling his escalations, because he is of mind that he will just fix this once he is king, even though he can't really...bring people back to life).

There's a really good scene the definitive edition added where Dante and Vergil actually have a little debate across these lines. Dante is uncomfortable with the amount of people that died in the wake of the trade after Vergil shot Lilith (something he does without consulting Dante or Kat). Vergil, however, insists it had to be done. That these deaths are worth it for what he perceives to be the greater good of mankind. To further cement the fact this is where the twins are at mentally as we go through these last missions, something that only cements further as the missions continue.

The song to me, if we apply it to the reboot, I think echoes this aspect of the games story. Like when the song begins there's a lot more hesitation in our narrator. They start afraid of the violence around them but as the song goes they become more firm in whatever they believe, they seem to become more sure. Whatever they are doing they seem firm in their decisions enough that if they die for it, they're fine with that. If they die, they die, leave the judgement for after that. They believe firmly in what they are doing and why.

But there's also elements of being haunted by whatever is happening if they don't die, which I think is the situation we'd end up in the post game of the reboot. Because at the end of the day, by himself, Vergil has to deal with all the blood on his hands. Kat has to deal with the fact all her friends are likely dead and Vergil is gone (she also doesn't know if he is dead). Dante has to grapple with the fact that this isn't over for him, he said he was going to protect humanity and now he has to figure out how to do that while he's also grappling with the fact he's part of what led to all of this happening. Like he can pass the blame to Vergil I guess but he still did what Vergil asked.

It just strikes me as a song that is very much about the old saying, 'only god can judge me now'. Which feels apt for the situation we see evolve and end up with in the reboot.

That's my take on it anyway if we apply Afterlife to the reboot.

[st-peculiar]

13, 14, 17, 20 for Hellström 1, 6, 13, 17, 20 for Locke 3, 13, 14, 20 for Ruona if you'd like to answer any of these for the ask game :)

Hellström:

13) I don’t have one for him yet but I plan on looking for some! I already sort of answered how I think he sounds in a reply to a post you made about an ask for Hellström, so I’ll link that after I post this in a reblog

14) specifically this quote from Jeff Buckley’s journal:

Idk it has that certain brand of misery that I associate with Hellström.

17) did you know that Ossian (his first name) means “stag”? I feel there’s something to say about his character based off that but I haven’t quite decoded it yet. I also get tidal wave vibes when I think of him sometimes, and a color I associate with him is a dark teal.

As for “design” (as to:a is more of an audio drama kind of thing), there isn’t much. I imagine he’s got a very rectangular shape to him I feel? Boxy features. He also looks a bit older than he actually is as well.

20) extra: he has a huge problem with escapism as a coping method, and becomes a huge issue with him later on in the plot. Because of his position as Engineering Chief, he’s supposed to be relied upon by his officers; but as things escalate more and more, he becomes exponentially more distant from the crew, more unattainable and definitely lashes out when he’s in these states if people try to get a hold of him. It even goes as far as people becoming steadily more suspicious of him as time goes on, thinking he’s hiding something from the crew because of his behavior. While not particularly liked in the first place, many become hostile as this suspicion spreads. Yeah. Not a good time

Locke:

1) I really wanted to experiment with psychological shit and Locke just. Popped into my head one day. I wanted someone in the cast of characters to be the outlier among outliers, someone who’s experiences are on a completely different scale from the others, becoming a point of conflict for both him and everyone around him because no one really understands what’s been done to him. Completely without his knowledge that he’s been disgustingly wronged in the first place too. Something like that

6) honestly, I don’t really get a vision of physical appearances for my characters until later on. I conceptualize their place in the story and personality and relationships with others first, and a physical appearance bubbles up along the way. I also take his regional origin into account as well when thinking of appearance, what’s the most common/uncommon in the area when it comes to attributes, any ancestry, things of that nature. The rest is just fun stuff, like the thing about him refusing to tie his hair back and using a bandana instead. I also take health-related factors into account as well. Locke was already pale because of his origins, and it started to become more of a sickly pale, “haven’t seen the sunlight” pale as time goes on. Doesn’t get good sleep either, so he has dark circles around his eyes. Almost always has a migraine, so he just looks angry half the time because he’s dealing with that. Again, not doing too hot at all.

13) no voice claim for him either 😭 I don’t even know what he sounds like to me either not gonna lie

17) the Roman god Janus is something I thought of when coming up with his story. Janus is the GOF of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. Janus is practically the embodiment of the necessity of choice and the opposite spectrums of existence (beginning and end) at once. He’s depicted with two faces or heads a lot of the time, which is why in the first place k thought of him when thinking of Locke. Locke has dissociative identity disorder (DID) which causes the presence of multiple “personalities” or “alters” in a single person, which can also cause gaps in memory and seemingly unpredictable mood swings. His mental disorder made him vulnerable, which was used against him before signing onto the Arke mission. I tied this into Janus because of his deal with duality—and the fact that later on in the mission, Locke also gets his head majorly fucked with by the aliens and really scrambles him.

I also mentioned once associating Locke with the purple Janus flower:

It’s very pretty

20) extra: this is mainly for people who aren’t familiar with Locke, but he had a little sister! They were very close until Locke was kicked out of his home. During his childhood, he had almost solely raised himself and his sister, working some odd jobs with local businesses to make a little extra money until he was legally allowed to get a job. Their guardians didn’t do anything at all really for them, being out of the house most the time. I imagine he developed DID during his adolescence in a response to the neglect he experienced, while also having the pressures for caring for his sister weighing on top of him as well. It definitely fucked him up.

But he loves his sister a lot. They were everything the other had, probably borderline codependent because of it. Locke has a little tattoo on his arm of a doodle that his sister did, getting it just after he got kicked out on an impulse.

KC:

3) her role for sure! I really wanted to make a character who was an alchemist for the mission. It’s such an out-there occupation in the modern day and age so I really wanted to play around with it. As alchemy is considered a pseudoscience, really no one ever took her seriously in her professional life, no one ever believing her either by extension. This is the same case for most of the crew on the Arke. They don’t really know why she’s here, what her actual role is in the mission, and very disbelieving of what she said she does.

This develops further into no one listening to her when she has a concern over one thing or another. She is incredibly intelligent and observational, but her social ineptitude overshadows it greatly, and it definitely effects how people perceive her. She isn’t taken seriously im until way further on when people start realizing that she’s right about a lot of the things they’re running into on the mission.

13) same deal with the other two 😭 one day I will find voice claims for my characters

14) not really a quote but I HEAVILY associate her with this word:

Like. Hello that’s her whole thing.

20) extra: she is most comfortable in small, cramped spaces. She likes being surrounded by things. Bigger rooms, especially ones with loads of people, freak her out.

She’s also very tall. Not sure how tall exactly, but quite above the average. Very lanky, sort of like if a fox had the body structure of a ferret or weasel.

Thank you for the ask!!!

[children-of-the-red-queen]

Emma/Moon: he is honest and kind. and she needs it considering what else is going on. and he bakes her cookies and she draws them together and then they slow dance to classical music and everyone else sits next to them and plays card games because they're not invested (sometimes Tracey pulls someone else in tho)

Emma/Tanc: well you know them. they like to confide into each other and be a positive emotional influence. Tanc drags Emma on amusement park rides and to running through the city streets and Emma gets Tanc to try tea and knitting and reads books to him when they're going to sleep

Emma/Dag: umm. autistic conversations where bird facts are exchanged for marine life facts. then parallel play or reading. also sometimes they go swimming together

Emma/Tracey: Tracey doesn't know how to express love so she acted competitively towards Emma as first but it backfired soo hard and now all they do is cuddle and listen to their favourite music together. which started to overlap a lot. also Tracey loves to quote around her because she always gets them

(what the fuck is happening to this polycule)

Lysander/Moon: sometimes they talk about fashion together and then Moon learned to sew and it escalated from there. in their free time they play cricket together

Lysander/Tanc: they are reliable friends. but also I think Tanc should have a bad influence on Sander and pull him into deserted corridors to .. um .. competitively play card games, that's what they do in public so that's definitely the thing they do

Lysander/Dag: complain about the rest of the polycule as if they were kids they were raising. then start mentioning the other. then make up fake stories about their past as if they were an old married couple. then when no one is looking punch

Lysander/Tracey: when the polycule was still developing they were kinda worried they would steal each other's partners but then they realised they were fine and started just hanging around each other doing stupid housekeeping tasks and now they have cooked and cleaned together so often they can't imagine doing it without the other

Lysander/Emma: you expected both of them to have half that much knowledge about history and politics because this is simply abnormal someone get them to stop

I swear I'm running out of dynamics and I forgot half their character traits but yeah. grand Tancentric polycule. please don't ask me to add Lauren or Charlie or Joshua or Olivia we would never stop m Literally. If we reach that point I'm drawing a graph and making only half of them involved with each other unlike the complete versions above

What the fuck is happening here though

ummmm sweaty Tancred was "twelve or thirteen" and that means he's 13 and Emma was "around 10" which means she's 9 so if u ship them the cops are already on their way u pdf pedophile

[finniestoncrane]

dano riddler x reader both being virgins but too afraid to confess it to eachother so its just awkward virgin sex 👀

Intertwined

Dano!Riddler x GN!Reader, word count: 500 ok that's adorable, i hope i wrote this as the clumsiest, accurate, virginity losing sex possible 💚 and it's also just a lil informal sort of headcanon/fic crossover (also also just because this is now like the fifth prompt i've had with this, virginity is a made-up social construct and there is no worth to be derived from it, you do you, "lose it" or don't) request info • prompt list • send me a request • kofi minors DNI!! 🔞 cw for nsfw stuff: virginity, normal sex, so much awkwardness

look, eddie is so awkward and sweet, it makes sense that he would gravitate towards someone similar. why wouldn’t he? and there's no way he would tell you he was a virgin, he's bogged down on societal views of that sort of thing. it's not the commanding, terrifying, confident vibes he's trying to give off as the riddler. and as cute as he is, you can sense there's something lurking underneath. the last thing you want is to be anything less than his equal. so if he's gonna act confident and experienced, then you are too.

you make out a lot, it's never really gone any further, but this week, the lead up to halloween, has been a lot different. he's more...passionate, hands wandering and grabbing, biting and pulling and squeezing, his kisses aggressive and heated. so it makes sense that it would naturally escalate to the point where you're both shirtless on the sofa, your legs across his, hands running up the length of them, round the side to your ass, face buried into your neck.

there's no words said but the way you both look at each other, you know where it's going. quietly, nervously, you walk to the bedroom together, lying down and facing each other for a few minutes, some kissing, some touching, taking each other's pants off underneath the sheets. with hands finding the other's body, the sheets are pushed down a bit, exposing flesh to the cold of the room, heated by adrenaline and arousal, sneaking glances at one another in between ferocious kisses.

we have established he is packing heat, so when he unleashes it in front of you and you're face to face with it, it's a bit daunting. he's embarrassed at first, thinking there's something wrong ("is it not...big enough? does it looks weird?") but you have to just kind of tell him to be gentle, because he's huge and you've never had...someone that big before (or anyone at all for that matter).

he's spurred on by the compliment, and by your lies about who you've been with, giving it "oh yeah, some people have had problems before, but i can definitely be slow and gentle" but as he positions himself at you, lubed up and ready to go, there's a fair bit of hesitation before he gently eases himself in. but then it's wild.

nothing feels as good as this moment, and he's desperate to keep it going as long as he can, but you clenched around him, moaning under him, fingers digging into his chubby little frame, it's more than he can bear. he's in and out in under five minutes but my god it is five minutes of absolute bliss, and to be honest, given it's your first go, more than that might have been too much.

eddie is collapsing next to you, spread out for heat dissipation like a dog on a hot day, panting and smiling wider than you've ever seen before. he might accidentally let it slip that this was his first time. "that was perfect, better than i ever imagined sex would be to be honest". followed by intense blushing and muttering before you squeeze his hand and say "same".