#characters are usually an only child or they have the 1 older/younger sibling who's usually unimportant

[moonlayl]

The Stark and Hargreeves siblings have a special place in my heart because it’s so rare to find characters in western media that have more than two siblings, and even rarer where they’re all relevant to the plot and so widely different. 

[stellar-skyy]

OLDER SIBLING HCS: MONDSTADT EDITION. (PART ONE) - Platonic Jean, Rosaria, Lisa, Sucrose, Eula & reader

i. SUMMARY: Mondstadt characters with a younger sibling. ii. CONTENT WARNINGS: Implied death in Rosaria's part, mentions of food/eating in Jean's part. iii. NOTES: Fluff, slight angst, gn!reader, they/them pronouns used, 2.4k words. iv. A/N: i actually read rosaria's and eula's backstory for this, and wow... give my girls a break. i wanted to include everyone in here, before realizing how long it would get, so here is a part one for mondstadt girls! stay tuned for the rest of the nations (and maybe tell me who you want to see next?)

JEAN

Okay let’s be honest, while Jean is an amazing big sister while she’s there, she is rarely… there.

It isn’t out of a wilful neglect, it’s rather that as the Acting Grand Master, her schedule is so tightly packed that she barely has time to breathe, let alone taking time off for personal reasons.

When she does manage to squeeze in room for you, it is usually a short slot of time between her usual tasks. Kaeya, noticing how desperate she was in rearranging her schedule to spend time with her sibling, did her the favour of crossing off some of her tasks and handing them away to other Knights.

(When she found out it was Kaeya who was messing with her schedule, she gave him a stern talking-to. She was secretly pleased that she got to spend more time with you… even if it meant chasing down some poor subordinates to make sure her jobs actually got done properly.)

Windrise is the first place that Jean likes to take you. If it’s a warm day out, she’ll pack a picnic and spread it underneath the shade of the trees. There, she’ll tell you stories; about Vennessa, about the origins of the Gunnhildr Clan, about her own adventures during her early years as a knight.

Sometimes she will reminisce with you about when you were a kid, clinging to her arm. She’ll tell you about how as soon as you learned to walk, you would follow her around like a little duckling, one tiny fist clutching the hem of her jacket. When you got a little older, you joined her in her preparation to become a proper noble, sitting beside her in etiquette lessons and observing from the sidelines during her knightly training. Even if the lessons were painfully dull, she’d always try and keep you entertained with little games to pass the time—or as much as she could without your mother staring in disapproval.

By the time she’s done with her stories, the day would have already almost finished.

It’s pleasant; peaceful in the way that one can’t grasp the flow of time until hours have past and the two of you are curled up on a picnic blanket under a sky full of stars.

She takes you for meals at Good Hunter too, letting you order whatever is on the menu. If there isn’t anything there to your liking (or if you’re just not feeling up for it that day) she is quick to whisk you home and cook you something herself.

It’s calming for her, when she’s able to direct all her focus into one manageable task like putting together a meal. She likes pizza best—a simple, delicious meal that she can put together with minimal effort and something she can easily share with her sibling.

When the day ends, and she must go home, she’ll give you a tight hug and kiss the top of your head, with a promise that you’ll spend the day together again soon.

ROSARIA

No. 1 protective sister right here.

Like, good luck to anyone who even thinks of hurting you. Their graves are already dug by the time they turn your way.

She made a promise, after all: no matter what happened, she would protect you.

It was first made when she was only a young girl, holding an even younger child in her arms. She brought you closer, squeezing her eyes shut and whispering the words into your hair. You were far too young to realise what the words truly meant, but you would come to learn their meaning as you got a little bit older and the remote village you both called home was massacred.

The bandits that took her in were apprehensive about the tiny child clinging to her leg. After all, it’s one thing to teach a little girl how to become a crook, let alone a literal toddler. But Rosaria refused to part with you, baring her teeth and yelling and screaming at anyone who even dared to suggest leaving you behind.

Your role was their errand person, mostly. While Rosaria made sure you were seen as the smaller and feebler of the pair, letting you drift away to the shadows of the crew, she also passed on everything she learned: lockpicking, thievery, and most importantly combat.

The bandits taught her how to fight, and she taught you. It was a compromise; keeping their contact with you minimal while also teaching you the skills you needed to survive in your new life.

(Even if you rarely got to use your newfound skills. Anyone who even tried to cause you trouble were swiftly taken care of by Rosaria.)

In her eyes she was doing you a favour; if you were treated as weak and insignificant, they would forget about you. And if they forgot about you, they were less likely to hurt you.

It was a blessing from Lord Barbatos himself when the group of bandits was taken down by the Knights of Favonius, and you were both swept away from the life of bloodshed and carnage that you had spent your entire childhood surrounded by. When you faced the Grand Master, you were considered young enough and inexperienced enough to be pardoned, while Rosaria began rehabilitation via the Church of Favonius.

These days, your lives are far less hectic than your youth.

During her free time (or rather the time spent slacking off on her duties) Rosaria slips away from the Church and sweeps you away for a day of bonding. If you need more clothes, she’ll drag you to every store in Mondstadt looking for something that fits you just right. It’s a sweet gesture, even if she brutally critiques your fashion choices. It’s out of love, I swear.

She also likes to just sit quietly with you, comfortably existing next to each other.  

Rosaria isn’t big on affection, but whenever she knows you won’t see each other for a long period of time, she’ll embrace you tightly and murmur a promise into your hair just like when you were kids.

“No matter what, no one will ever hurt you.”

LISA

When it comes to her loved ones, Lisa is a big fan of pet names, particularly the overly sappy ones.

Sweetheart, cutie, love—no matter who it is, anyone who is close to Lisa has probably been called at least one term of endearment in their life.

But while she has a variety of names for her favourite people, she has a habit of mentally assigning each person a different nickname that is exclusive for them.

Jean is her darling. The traveller is her cutie. Razor is her sweetie. You’re the only one to end up with two names.

There’s her most frequent one, dear.

“Oh, would you pass me that book, dear?”

If she’s feeling particularly affectionate, she’ll switch it to precious.

“(Name), my precious, are you feeling alright?”

Either way, there’s always a light teasing and subtle edge of fondness to her words when she talks to you.  

Good luck if you ever try going to her for romantic advice. She may give the most wonderful, effective guidance in the world, but it will be accompanied with heavy teasing and not-so-subtle prompts to divulge more details about your love life.

Even if you’re not interested in romance, she still finds ways to tease you.

Rest assured that despite her tormenting, she knows when to step back. She’s always been perceptive of other’s emotions, so as soon as she notices you getting upset at her words, she is already smoothly shifting the conversation to something more comfortable.

When you’re tired, she’ll let you take a nap in the library, either resting your head on your arms at her desk or curled up on one of the couches in the library. After chuckling at you (and making a mental note to tease you later about falling asleep so abruptly), she will fetch a blanket and tuck it over your shoulders.

Archons help anyone who even tries to wake you up. The library patrons learned to fear the wrath of the librarian a long time ago, and anyone who dares to disturb your peace will face the pain of Electro.

You become slightly feared in general, if only by being so closely affiliated with such an intimidating woman. If Lisa manages to get you to help track down some books, it only takes one threat of calling her to get the person to panic and hurriedly accept the late fee.

Lisa is thoroughly pleased with your work when you return, and might even treat you to some Sticky Honey Roast from Good Hunter if you’re lucky.

Overall, Lisa is a great sister. She adores her sibling more than anything, and that is what counts.

SUCROSE

Sucrose is such a sweet big sister!

She’s not the best at comforting others, but she is an amazing listener. Come to her with any of your worries, and she’ll nod along and consider your words carefully, only interrupting to suggest a solution to whatever is going on in your life.

She’s also willing to just give you a hug while you work through whatever emotions that you’re dealing with.

Speaking of which, Sucrose is a 10/10 hugger.

She will squeeze you just the right amount and rub circles into your back while she murmurs comforting words. Hugging her feels so safe and warm, like in her arms you’re sheltered from anything that could hurt you.

If you show even the slightest interest in her work, she will be thrilled. It only takes one question, a simple ‘what are you doing?’ to get her to vibrate with excitement and ask eagerly if you want to hear about her work.

She gets very rambly in her explanations but give her a little patience and she’ll go through her process, step by step. She’s more than willing to have you observe her experiments, and even participate in them if you’re confident enough to.

Sucrose is very insistent on you taking good care of yourself. She knows the detrimental effects a lack of sleep can have on a person’s health, so she makes sure you get a good rest every night, and lightly scolds you for staying up too late. On nights when you can’t sleep, she’ll make you a soothing cup of tea, and tell you stories to lull you into a slumber.

When you were younger, she would tell you all kinds of stories. With just her words, she could weave epic tales and colourful worlds, all from her own imagination. As she grew older and began her interest in alchemy, she strove to create a wonderland of her own, and make the fairy tales you loved become a reality.

Her research still has a long way to go, but rest assured she will keep going, to make your stories a reality.

EULA

Just like Rosaria, Eula is the sister who would not let anything happen to her sibling.

She won’t stand for anyone acting snobbishly towards you for your Lawrence heritage. When it comes to herself, she doesn’t care what others have to say about her. She accepted their distrust of her a long time ago, and their words do not affect her anymore.

But her sibling? Her precious, innocent baby sibling? Who has never done anything wrong in their entire life? Who doesn’t deserve a single one of the hostile remarks that they face simply for their lineage.

That simply will not slide.

She knows what it is like to be a social pariah—she was forced to become one ever since she was born into an aristocratic family—but she despises the fact that you have to go through the same thing. It only fuels her desire for vengeance, seeing someone who she knows is a good person being ostracised for no reason. She can’t help but wonder, ‘Why wasn’t I enough? If you must make someone your martyr, then why couldn’t you have settled with only hating me? Why do you have to drag another innocent person into it?’

She is well aware that her demeanour causes others to distrust her more, but at least it makes you look more palatable in comparison. Maybe if they do see her as the worst of you both, they’ll see you as a perfectly respectable person, rather than simply a Lawrence. Besides, she doesn’t owe anyone any kindness, not when none was shown to her.

Other than being a bit overprotective, Eula also adores teaching her sibling new things.

It started with bladework—an essential skill, as she called it. According to her, everyone should have at least one weapon they’re proficient in, and for you she chose swords. Catalysts were always too finicky for her, she’d never been fond of long-distance weapons like bows, and both claymores and polearms were too heavy for you at that age, so swords were the best option.

Soon enough, you were as skilled in Favonius Bladework as any knight. She was rather proud of how quickly you picked up the skill.

The one thing she is most enthusiastic for you to learn is dancing. I think if you asked her to teach you, she would have trouble hiding just how excited she is.

Despite having an open distaste for aristocratic traditions, the Dance of Sacrifice is one that she will always cherish. It is the one custom that feels close to her, and one that she only shares with the most important of people.

So of course she will share it with you.

Eula may act aloof and cold most of the time, but if you surprise her with a hug, she will simply melt. Physical affection (affection in general, actually) wasn’t given freely in your house growing up, so whenever she gets it, Eula doesn’t quite know how to react, other than embracing you back tightly.

(That privilege of being able to come that close to her without asking is strictly only tolerated by you. Anyone else, and she would have sworn vengeance ten times over.)

reblogs and comments are appreciated! ♡

[moonlightdancer26]

I'd love to hear your thoughts about Percy! What is your opinion on him in general? Do you like how his character arc was handled by JKR? What are your thoughts on popular fandom takes about Percy (him being a terrible disgrace to the Weasley family for siding with the Ministry/Voldemort; him being a secret hero of the rebellion who deserved better; etc)? And your thoughts on Percy ships? Who, if anyone, do you ship him with?

I think he’s wicked awesome and way too hated, I will genuinely defend him with my life. If my family treated me that badly I’d tell them to fuck off too, he was literally so excluded from his family because he wasn’t some Quidditch-loving jock and actually preferred to study and stay indoors. And he got mocked consistently just because he wanted a bright future. Sure he may appear a bit stuck-up to those who don’t know him well, but his family?? Plus after he legitimately got the job of his dreams, his father’s immediate reaction was to tell him he didn’t actually earn it and that it was all just a ploy. I would actually be so hurt. Like sure Arthur did end up being right, BUT YOU COULD’VE SAID IT A BIT DIFFERENTLY?? A simple “you earned it anyway, son” or “I’m proud of you” would’ve sufficed, alongside an explanation of why Percy MIGHT have gotten the job. He went about it way too harshly, if I got shut down like that after getting the job I’ve been working for my whole life, I’d have done a lot worse.

And I totally get Percy’s resentment, he felt as though his father wasn’t reaching his full potential due to his proud showcase of Muggle-fangirling. And since he (Arthur) was basically the sole provider in a large family that lived in poverty, I can see why Percy would feel frustration towards his father. Plus why do people act as if Percy was always “so horrible” even before he “abandoned” his family? He literally went RUSHING to Ronald when he got out of the lake in GoF and refused to let go of him, and he loved Ginny to death. He was protective of his younger siblings and was pretty funny imo, it’s hard not to sympathise with him when he has siblings like Fred and George.

He genuinely deserved so much better, he was constantly shut down for his accomplishments and cared so much for his siblings despite their mocking, plus he still came back to apologise to them and then proceeded to see his baby brother die in front of him????? How could you hate him after DH?? I don’t think he’s a disgrace to his family at all, sure he was shitty to Molly but, with what he must’ve been going through at the time, I get it. And any resentment he felt towards his family was completely and utterly justified. Plus he literally apologised, so even if you disagree with what I’m saying and think he’s scum or whatever, he legit still apologised to them? He still redeemed himself? Whatever he’s supposedly done that you hate him for, he redeemed himself for it. And I feel like people forget how young Percy was when all this happened? He’s only like 4 years older than Harry and was still 18/19 when all the family drama occurred, and he held a huge responsibility in the ministry. And having grown up as the lone middle child with the burden of knowing his family isn’t respected much must’ve had a tremendous influence on someone as ambitious as Perce. People should really see things from his perspective sometimes. Imo the only genuinely shitty things he’s done is 1. his treatment of Molly 2. his letter to Ron about Harry (but even then, I completely understand why Percy said what he said), anything other than that is usually just exaggerated by his haters.

One character he’s always reminded me of is Alex Dunphy from Modern Family (*tries to summon Modern Family fans*), she was also the odd one out in her family because she was super studious and introverted. And she had a desperate need to prove herself and was very ambitious, much like Perce. Her meltdowns and extreme studying was treated as a joke to the viewers and her sister Haley constantly made fun of her for it. She reminds me a lot of him tbh, which is why I love both characters so much.

lol this was supposed to be a quick short ask explaining why I love him and who I ship him with, and it resulted in a whole rant 😭 that’s usually how I get whenever his name gets brought up. Also Nonnie, I ship Percy with Oliver :D and I think he and Penelope Clearwater really deserved more screentime, they were such a delightful couple imo.

And thanks for the ask btw, I missed talking about him!!

[mistyaffection]

Black Dragon’s Relationship Headcanon’s ( Gen 1)

Characters: Shinichiro Sano, Wakasa Imaushi, Keizo Arashi (Benkei), Takeomi Akashi

♡ Shinnichiro Sano ♡

When it comes to relationship’s Shin is the most honest and sweetest person to ever date.

You think after being rejected 20 times, he would get a clue on how to be better in relationships?

Nah the boy is nervous as hell because you’re his first girlfriend, and he wants to make sure y’all relationship lasts a life time

Shin would usually ask Benkei and waka for dating advice, the last time he tried to ask Taekomi he got himself s hard slap on the face.

Mikey, Emma and Izana are now you’re unofficial little brothers and sister.

When ever you’re with Shin one off the 3 would at least crash you’re date. Majority off the time it’s Mikey and Izana who are all ways fighting.

“That’s enough you two! Do y’all have to do this when ever I go on the date”

Before you can even say anything Shin is chasing after the two.

Emma on the other hand and ask you questions about life and stuff, being surrounded, by boys a lot I fell like she would definitely need a person who is an older sister figure .

Despite shin being nicknamed the weak king by his peers. Boy will turn into madness if someone where to ever hurt you. I mean did you see how he punched a concrete wall.

Similar to Taekomi Shin would always wanna pay for you’re stuff, but unlike Taekomi he doesn’t mind you paying just know that you’re next date is gonna be twice as much as you payed

Shin loves spoiling you after all you are his first love after all

You had to tell to stop with the daily flowers because you had no room in your apartment to store it.

So instead shin tries to get you flowers every 2 weeks that way you’re house stays looking fresh.

His friends seems to like having you around because not only are you shin first girlfriend, but you’re also there commander’s significant.

Shin wanted to teach you some self defense and let’s just you learn well, but now Wakasa has blackmail on Shin of you kicking his ass during a sparing match

♡ Wakasa Imaushi ♡

Despite being Black dragons pretty boy, our man’s Wakasa is a short king.

Mans get mistaken as a child, and sometimes get carded when ever he go’s out with you or his friends.

Shin joked to him that if his partner where to where hells around him, he would look more like there younger sibling than there boyfriend. ( if you’re taller than him, just know that you have you’re own personal teddy bear now)

Wakasa kicked Shin in the groined for it.

He may or may not have read up on articles how to look taller, or how to look good with his significant in every photo.

His wardrobe consists of dark neutral colors. He has good posture, and all ways opts for sneakers, since he owns a gym.

While Wakasa might keep his wardrobe beat and tight he isn’t to shy to, try on matching outfits with his significant other.

Last time y’all two decided to try on, uniforms to do cute photos at the theme park. Due to Wakasa height you can say he took advantage of the student discount they gave him.

You often hang out with both Benkei and Wakasa around there gym.

If a guy where to ever approach you randomly in the gym just know that, you’re boyfriend is gonna be restrained by Benkei because you can’t attack you’re costumers.

But that doesn’t mean Benkei is gonna let it slide, he’s gonna help out Wakasa get back at the guy who decided it was okay to hit on you.

Let’s say the wakasa got him at the back of the parking lot outside the gym when no one was around.

When it comes to you wearing Wakasa clothes the fell a bit lose but, it also fits you well.

Y’all two may or may not have tried to wear each others clothes for the day.

When it comes to you’re relationship Wakasa is a chill guy, he doesn’t mind paying and he doesn’t mind you paying.

Ask him if he wants to do sheet masks with you. He would gladly do them with you in a heart beat. He wouldn’t mind you doing his nails or trying out new hairstyles on his long luscious hair.

At the end of the day he just wants you happy.

♡ Keizo Arashi (Benkei) ♡

Benkei is the embodiment of homebody, he enjoy’s his time relaxing and working out.

If he where to be in a relationship just know that he’s the type of guy that would not mind lazy dates that includes watching movies and doing sheet mask.

He may be a gym rat but sometimes gym rats needs their rest.

Y’all two had movie night and you decided to watch a horror movie. Benkei being the good boyfriend agree to you’re choices.

But after 30 minutes into the movie you saw right through him and decided to watch a light hearted movie, to get his mind off it.

A similar incident happened to you guys at the theme park, and let’s say both of you where escorted out of the park, because Benkei punched a haunted house worker due to flight and fright.

His friends like having you around, and you enjoy being around with them as well.

All though both Wakasa and Benkei where Rivals before. Wakasa doesn’t mind helping you out with Benkei same go’s for Shin

Benkei is a big guy, I fell like he will be the type to give great hugs! Like who doesn’t wants a tall buff man hugging him.

When ever he lends you his clothes, they tend to swallow you whole and make you look small compared to him. ( he does this on purpose he thinks you look cute in his clothes)

Benkei likes spoiling you weather it’s buying you stuff or cooking you meals. Although Benkei eats health a lot he tends to make healthy versions of you’re fav junk food for you

He teaches you how to fight, because he knows that there will be times he won’t be able to protect you. So it’s better to have you prepare.

While you where out shopping someone decide to mug you. Benkei was about to step in until he sawed you flung the mugger down the metro stair case.

He was so proud of you! But he also hated that he couldn’t get back at the guy as well. Oh well all that ends well.

♡ Takeomi Akashi ♡

When it comes to dating Taekomi he can sometimes come of as person who is to self absorb.

His friends try to warn him, about his behavior but he tends to not listen and thinks that there wrong.

He thinks he’s being a gentlemen, but he’s clearly not. He acts sexiest saying things like “That’s not girlish of you”

Despite his sexist attitude he’s extremely prideful and prefers, to pay for his partner stuff saying that a man should all ways try to provide for his significant other.

Since he’s so prideful you decided to take this ad advantage just to mess with him, or get back at him.

“Isn’t it a man’s job to take out the trash, mow the lawn or provide matinees work and fix things”

Taekomi regrets his pride getting to him at times, because now he has to do what you saw or he will look like a wuss in front of Senju and sanzu.

“As a big brother I mean he has to set perfect examples for them right” you jokingly say to both Waka and Benkei who are clearly enjoying watching Taekomi suffer from his sexist antics.

While you’re dating to Taekomi you become an unofficial older sister to Senju. ( please I fell like this girl needs a girl best friend)

All though sanzu might not be in the picture, you fell bad for what happened to him and wish that they where still close.

Taekomi thinks that he wears the pants in the relationship because he tries to do stuff, that a man supposed to quote on quote do.

But in fact it’s you who wear the pants in the relationship, you’re not shy to approach problems and solve it hand on hand. You’re both feminine and masculine.

You put Taekomi in his place and if he where to act up, just know that his friends and siblings have front row seats to watch him fail.

Sanzu secretly loves the fact you put his older brother in his place he wishes that he became close to you, but since he had to be with Mikey you knew that was not possible.

At the end off the day Taekomi may or may not change due to you’re influence on him.

Notes: Since I wrote down headcanon’s for our favorite black dragon members. I taught it was fair, I do a relationship Headcanon’s for them as well!

Tag list: @benkeibear ( Since Benkei is you’re fav I know I had to tag you! Also thanks for making the heart divider, it really made this post look neat and pretty) @mynewblackdress ( Since you write for Shin a lot I taught why not tag you as well )

[atherflame-theconcubus]

Can I watch as you show off your ocs Simba style?

Haven’t drawn any of the OCs I wanna talk about in a while, but I’ll talk about some of my oldest OC

Elizabeth

She is one of my first ever OCs, and though I usually give her the title of the first ever one she’s more like the first one I ever made public knowledge. She is the daughter of the eyeasaur from one night at flumpty’s 2, and was created when I was in sixth grade. Technically speaking, she is one of the first characters I made that has more of an original concept. (she isn’t just a rip off of the Fnaf band, a stolen character, or me or my friends as Minecraft characters.) when I first drew her, she had a more simplistic style, matching my art style back, then, which was mainly a circle head, circle body, circle feet, two black legs, squiggly, long neck, and a long squiggly tail (both of our eyes were either on the same side of her face, or only one was on the side of her face when I was drawing her from the side)��� her initial design, had her sport just plain dark red skin with olive green eyes. My first design of her was when I was in eighth or ninth grade, where I gave her a more crocodile like snout, better drawn feet, a slimmer body, ram horns, a scorpion stinger at the end of her tail, and hair for some reason. She also went through a personality 180, going from a shy character who really doesn’t like fights and would cry easily, to a manipulative Hunter, that’s trying to get the guard like the rest of the cast.

Next step are my Undertale OCs

Carol

In her first iteration Carol (& her younger sister Arisen) we’re initially just two humans that had magic with different shades of green hair, they were meant to just be one note characters for a two part art I drew where Carol, for some reason had bone magic, but it turned out to be a prank murder (Ivy was portrayed as dead in the first drawing/part of the slideshow) the next time I drew her, Carol ended up, taking Ivy’s shade of bright green and adopting the soul of kindness. These traits ended up remaining a staple for Carol, Arisen, and a later on added sibling. In her initial existence, she was technically an adopted child of gaster and biological older sister to Betty and frisk. (all three of these plot points with the sisters have been scrapped) in eighth grade when I decide to do some redesign of them I ended up turning them into half bath monsters and gave the two sisters wolf ears while the third sister was given rabbit ears. (I also made 6 1/2 angel OCs, which would later be repurposed for the forest of the Mystic as royalty for it.)

At some point during eighth or ninth grade, I did many extra sketches of Carol and Harrison at the bottom of a paper in a notebook sketching out their original designs, the current ones at the time, and what I thought would be their future designs, which were much taller and still human like.

This ended up not being the case as right now, the three sisters are more monster, like, on top of that instead of two being wolf monsters and being a monster, their mixes of the two. Carol throughout all this has still kept her bright, green, color, palette, and has kept kindness as a motive of hers)

As for the attack pattern, Carol has, it’s mainly plant based magic (flowers & vines)

ARISEN

She’s actually the whole reason my YouTube channel name ended up going through a name Renaissance because initially her name was not only the name of my first ever Sona (basically a Minecraft princess version of me that represented the element of air for the dragon mounts mod) but was also my YouTube channel name idea at the time. As mentioned in Carol‘s section, her name was originally Ivy and she initially had a bright green color palette while Carol had dark green. This ended up getting changed as I gave her a light blue color, palette reminiscent of patient. Back then she had more of a kindness like personality. She ended up going through the same changes. Carol went through though the half demon six I mentioned in Carol‘s segment we’re initially planned to be monsters that weren’t underground and we’re her best friends. During this friendship time is when she was also given a twin sister, crimson. Arisen is the only one that can understand what crimson is trying to say, without speaking through twin telepathy.

Another fun fact that I’m gonna get into a bit later on if I ever get into talking about the story for these three as of currently, arisen ended up getting associated with the alternate universes. It was a whole convoluted plot that started in sixth grade, which involved Carol and Arisen being able to turn into Fnaf animatronics (this ability and initial draft of the AU story arc have been scrapped for quite a few reasons)

Arisen has wind themed magic, the originally it was the Temmie paw attack.

Crimson

The new edition of the sisters, when she was created, some parts of carol & arisen we’re already scrapped (they weren’t related to anyone at that point) she initially was the rabbit sister of the group and was based around determination. I actually tried to make her hair look more crimson, so she is the only one of the sisters that had grey purple fades in her hair (which was dark red)

Despite being more rabbit themed, she actually had anger issues, which arisen & carol were able to calm her down from. When I made her, she was also my first ever mute character, and that trait has continued on. As of right now, she is just like Carol and Arisen physical design wise, except her color palette is primarily red, and she still is the more rabbit looking up the trio (she also has lop ears, as opposed to her original straight years to differentiate her from her sisters, even more) I’m still trying to figure out her magic right now, but for right now it’s a combination of illusions (which mainly work with her mind so she can speak through illusions, though she chooses not to because she finds it easier to sign)

[kousaka-ayumu]

Hokori Shroud/Cure Skull

Nicknames: Shroud-san(2nd years, 3rd years(Floyd, Rook and Idia)), Hokori-chan(Yuri, Mizuko, Sonomi, Fuyumi, Seiza), Hokori(1st years, Farah, Hoseki, Kiko, Idia), Nee-chan(Ortho), Child of Afterlife(Malleus), Princesse de la Résurrection(Rook), Clownfish(Floyd)

Age: 16

Height: 153cm

DOB: 6/13

Twisted from: Hercules/Heracles(Disney's Hercules), Maho(D4DJ), Airi(Project Sekai)

Species: Human

Homeland: Island of Woe

Family:

Unnamed parents

Idia Shroud(Older brother)

Ortho Shroud(Younger brother)

Class: 1-B(No.7)

Dorm: Ignihyde

Club: Gaming Club

Hobby: Gaming and DJ

Likes: Composing music, playing rhythm games, video games in general.

Dislikes: Losing full combo, Idia staying up all night.

Favorite food: Candy and anything sweet.

Least favorite food: Vegetables

Favorite drink: Chocolate milk

Pet peeve: getting competitive

"A first year of Ignihyde, Moonlight Bloom's residential DJ and Idia's younger sister, if you are planning a party and ended up having her as the DJ, she's here to light up the party!"

Appearance:

Unlike her brothers Hokori doesn't have fire hair, instead she has short blue hair that ties up in twintails with a strand of white streak and yellow eyes.

As Cure Skull her hair became white and is ties to a side ponytail and her eyes became pastel yellow.

Background:

She was raised on the Island of Woe alongside her older brother Idia and younger brother Ortho. From a young age she was considered a prodigy in gaming, rhythm games in general.

And out of all the Shrouds she's the only one who wasn't cursed meaning she doesn't have to close proximity to blot in order to survive.

She usually spent the whole time with her brothers. Influenced by the video games they would play, the 3 of them dreamed of becoming heroes and going on adventures together in the outside world.

One day an accident happened when the 3 of them attempted to escape the island by shutting down the security system, an unknown person launched an attack, causing a overblot phantom to attack the siblings with only Idia and Hokori surviving.

For the next 2 years she heard him working tirelessly to recreate Ortho in the form of a AI robot, but only that but she watches him shutting himself away from others.

Personality:

Hokori is a strong and opened-minded girl who is competitive with rhythm games, if you want to compete with her then you are asking for a death wish.

In general she is very worrying about her brother Idia, she usually brushing off her own problems by playing rhythm games and hanging out with the now AI robot Ortho.

Unique Magic: Rising The Dead!

It allows her to summons the people who died, the limit is that she can only summon it one time.

Trivia:

She had a stash of magical girl mangas, light novels and CDs in her room.

She started to learn to DJ after watching a music anime.

She never have a confront character before, but now she has one through a romance anime.

She has a staff with skull details as her signature weapon.

What do you guys think about her?

@zexal-club @yukii0nna @liviavanrouge @queen-of-twisted @yumeko2sevilla @writing-heiress @marrondrawsalot @childofwitches @achy-boo

[hearttohaato]

Encanto OC Event Week 2

Part 2: Tomás Herrera & Others

(Part 1 Here)

The second half of my OC relationship info post - this'll include some info about Tomás's bonds with my other OCs, as well as those background OCs' relationships with each other and canon characters.

@encanto-extended-edition

Tomás in regards to his natal family:

Tomás is the youngest in a family of four, born to Lucía and Horacio Herrera.

Lucía was a schoolteacher and volunteer in the town library, who passed away when Tomás was still a child. Tomás loved and admired his mother, considering her to have been a saint in life. The memories he has of her are fond ones, recalling her as being a kind woman without a bad word to say about anyone. He thinks highly of her optimism and humility, and her ability to make anyone feel understood and listened to.

Lucía as well as Tomás's older brother, Mateo, are both canonically deceased as per the events of the story the Herrera family is introduced in. This leaves Tomás and his father as the last living of their family within the Encanto.

Horacio used to be a mason, having to retire early due to weakness in his legs. Between this and the loss of his parents, his wife, and eventually his oldest son, Horacio sometimes thinks he's cursed - but his one silver lining is his remaining son, Tomás. Horacio has zero qualms about being openly affectionate with Tomás both physically and verbally, and though he's a little oblivious at times, he only wants the best for his boy. Tomás in turn is a loyal and protective son to Horacio, willing to put up with a little embarrassment if it makes his father happy. It doesn't matter how old Tomás gets, he'll always be his papá's conejito.

Art by cringecanto (right)

It's a bit self-indulgent of me, but I'm of the mind that when Tomás marries into the family, Casita springs up a small in-law suite for Horacio so he won't have to spend his days in an empty house. I also am of the mind that in their youth Horacio and Bruno were quite friendly with each other, due to both more or less being underdogs with not a lot of friends between them.

Horacio likely approached Bruno before his wife's passing, just on the off chance he saw her make a miraculous recovery. That isn't what he saw, of course. But though devastated, Horacio accepted the result with as much grace as he could and didn't blame Bruno or his visions for the bad news.

They ended up losing touch when Bruno became more withdrawn and eventually "left", but upon Bruno's return to society their friendship ends up picking right back up where it left off. When Tomás marries into the family and Horacio tags along, he and Bruno spend a good amount of their time having tea and playing cards as old men tend to do.

The rest under the cut to spare the poor dashboards out there!

The Patch:

The Patch, or El Parche, is the group name I use to refer to Camilo's small group of older friends, including Tomás (as introduced in the previous post). They're childhood friends; as a unit and individually they're all well-liked young men within their peers and the community as a whole, decently popular in different ways. They initially were meant to be unnamed background characters whose designs were pulled from random Encantownies, but I accidentally got attached to them and now they all have proper designs and development. Such is my life.--

Cristián Vargas, Rafael Molina, Santiago Torres, Tomás Herrera

Santiago (22) is the oldest not only of the friend group but of his own siblings, of which he's got 6 younger sisters and brothers. He's the designated 'mom friend' by nature, easily slotting into leadership positions and able to keep a handle on multiple goings-on at once. That said he very much is a mother hen type, a bit fussy and prone to scolding his siblings and friends (usually Rafael) whenever they start steering towards bad decisions.

Tomás and Santi are usually on the same page when it comes to caution and forethought, contrasting with Rafa and Cris's more go-with-the-flow attitudes. Santi's compassionate nature makes it easy for him to pick up on what Tomás is feeling without him voicing it, taking it upon himself to either make decisions based on what Tomás would most prefer or urging the others to do so instead. Tomás appreciates Santi looking out for him, feeling it alleviates pressure off of his own shoulders when he's unsure of what to do.

Rafael (21) is the most boisterous of all of them, the beacon of activity and extroversion to balance out his more subdued companions. He's a risk-taker and extremely liberal-minded about topics that usually wouldn't be openly bragged out, often leading to Santi urging him to keep it down (which will inevitably be ignored or expanded upon specifically to make Santi flustered).

His loud and brash personality clashes with Tomás's reserved ways, but the two have a unique bond despite the expected incompatibility; Rafael is not at all discouraged by Tomás's quietness and Tomás isn't put off by Rafael's brazenness. They both think the other is easy to communicate with - Tomás never has to guess what Rafa's feelings are and Rafa likes Tomás's predilection for being a listening ear.

Cristián (20) is far old enough now to have an identity and social circle separate to those of his twin brother César, but when he was a young child he used to be very shy and hesitant to leave his brother's side. When Santi and Rafa became his friends it was the first time he felt comfortable with something (or someone) that was more or less his own - so when his new friends started chatting with Tomás he felt a little threatened. Fears of abandonment were unfounded though, as not only did his friends not dump him in favor of the New Kid, but he very quickly realized why they liked Tomás and ended up getting attached to him too.

As adults they have similar mellow temperaments and get along quite nicely, though Cris's vastly improved self-assurance has made him a lot more laidback and unflappable than the more organized and prim Tomás. Tomás admires Cris's ability to be both steadfast and considerate, unwavering in what he believes in but knowing when to handle situations with delicateness and care.

When Camilo entered the picture and turned the Patch into a five-man-band, all four of the older members collectively decided that he was more or less their joint little brother. Santiago attempts to provide Camilo with proper advice and look out for him in ways an older brother should, which often means trying to make sure Rafael keeps his crude language in check around him. Rafael usually does not, taking a completely different approach to being and older brother and totally enabling Camilo's mischievous nature. Cristián is somewhere in the middle, oftentimes siding with Santi or Rafa purely based on what he think would have the most entertaining result.

Beyond this though Cris is a unique source of understanding for Camilo, as Cris is the only other person he knows who doesn't experience romantic attraction for anyone and has no interest in dating. He could have asked Bruno, of course, but solidarity feels a little better coming from someone close to his own age rather than his quirky hermit uncle.--

Cris, Santi and Rafa are the older brothers to Cecilia, Alejandra and Juancho (the town kids) respectively.

Other relationships to Encantownies include:

Santi and Alejandra have five other siblings, and José (the tall fellow Camilo shifts into near the start of the movie) is their tío. Osvaldo is a tío to Rafael and Juancho, as well as their teenaged sister. Cris's parents are seen bringing Cecilia into Casita before Antonio's ceremony, and his twin brother César is the young man who asks Luisa to help upright his leaning house.

Other OCs:

Claudia Reyes (19) is the young lady with the drum seen during The Family Madrigal, whose family owns the music shop they're playing in front of. Beside her are her brother-in-law on the left and her father on the right.

She's Rafael's long-time girlfriend, on his same wavelength of open-mindedness and free spirit. They've been in a strange will-they-won't-they situation since they were teenagers, with Rafael playing it off like they're not all that serious and just messing around. Everyone knows Rafa's totally full of it and is head over heels for her though, including Claudia who's more or less just waiting for him to finally get around to proposing. They're going to have at least 4 kids together.

She knows the rest of the Patch more or less as her boyfriend's friends, but there's still rapport between them and Claudia's more than welcome to hang with the boys whenever she wants. On top of that, she's also Luisa's good friend who oftentimes will suggest Luisa try out outrageous things in an effort to push her out of her comfort zone.

The town librarian, usually referred to as the Maestro, is an enigmatic yet helpful figure in town whose mission in life is the sharing of knowledge. They can be considered everyone's friend, though like Horacio they have a kinship with Bruno that goes back quite a few years. All perfectly platonic, mind you! Additionally, given Lucía's history of volunteering in the library, the Maestro also is on good terms with the Herrera family and still keeps in touch with Horacio pretty regularly.

And I think those are the most notable relationships to get into for now! Up next will be the AU posts, and... boy, do I have a lot of those. 🫠

[winfleure]

i feel like no face w/ the way i'm hungry for more threads 😭 sm*utfishin' & face/shipchasin' here! u know da drill folks! also as a general psa, i'm not dropping any rps i've got so far, i just want more rps 😭

i’m a 25+F tumblr/discord rper currently interested in mxm, fxf & mxf (but it's muse dependent) potentially dark, mature rps on D*SCORD only!

formatting is v familiar to my last post but the content changed a bit so do take a look!!

please message me on d*scord (eboyzoro) if you're interested in the plots/faces/pairings!

ABT ME !

i’m VI ! twenty5+ & s/her ! i’m looking for twenty1+ (prefer twenty3+) rpers on D*SCORD (eboyzoro) ! i prefer chatting / being friends ooc as i’m a yapper (obvs we don’t need to talk 24/7 but my muse / interest dies down if there’s dry/short responses sawry yall TT) ! headcanons, character development and worldbuilding is also highly encouraged! activity is relaxed / low activity (hours to weeks) so it's usually snail mail on my end bc life responsibilities & general neurodivergency! my writing style is rapidfire/lazy lit to adv lit (novella is energy dependent), present/past tense & 3rd person, i can volley back & forth but it’s energy dependent, my wc range is 50-300+ words. i rp original characters & i'm open to canons & crossovers. also open to animanga faces as long as they have a real face counterpart! check my pinned for no-gos! as for ns//fw, it's not required but encouraged to double up! sawry fren but i don't want to be used for only my dom and/or top characters 😭

PLOT IDEAS I WANT TO DO RN:

* if applicable, age gaps should be legal and ages should be at least 22/23+!!

tutor/babysitter x tutee/babysat child all grown up!

best friend’s relative x sibling’s best friend (ex. best friend’s brother x younger/older sibling, father's best friend x son, etc.)

stalker/killer x celebrity (or! yandere trope x classmates/friends to lovers)

uni teacher x uni teacher / rivals ! (or! uni professor x student)

toxic dynamic!! like on & off, flirting w/ others, hatesex, cheating?? but we can see!! obviously not all bad, like there's good moments too but i want angst hehe

anything band/musician/celeb based

anything supernatural/fantasy based

also i'm fine of any dynamic (strangers to lovers, friends to lovers, etc. but i'm always down for any plot (dark or light themed) that features a enemies/rivals to lovers dynamic)

FACES I WANT TO RP AS/AGAINST:

bts jungkook (open to rping as / against this face — mxm, bottom position)

mackenyu (open to rping as / against this face — mxm, bottom position)

txt hueningkai (open to rping as / against this face — mxm, bottom position)

svt seokmin (open to rping as / against this face — mxm, bottom position)

PAIRINGS I'D LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN: the ships and faces listed below are all pairings i'd like to see happen! italics + bold is who i’m rly interested to play !! face 1 / face 2 / etc. = face alts. for the ship. open to suggestions too but i do have a preference for said pairings!

xolo mariduena / colin ford / jacob elordi x bts jungkook

olliemuhl x bts jungkook

alex fitzalan x bts jungkook

archie madekwe / michael cimeno x bts jungkook

bill skarsgard x bts jungkook

andy biersack x bts jungkook

olliemuhl x mackenyu

alex fitzalan / drew starkey x mackenyu

taz skylar x mackenyu

tbz kevin / tbz chanhee x mackenyu

andy biersack x mackenyu

drew starkey x txt hueningkai

nct jisung / nct haechan x txt hueningkai

aron piper x txt hueningkai

tbz sunwoo / xdh jooyeon x txt hueningkai

andy biersack x txt hueningkai

svt jeonghan x svt seokmin

nct jaehyun / astro eunwoo x svt seokmin

josha stradowski x svt seokmin

wolfgang novogratz / rudy pankow x svt seokmin

+ any 30s/40s males for any age gap plots x jungkook/mackenyu/hueningkai/seokmin (see bullet point for suggestions)

manny jacinto, lee pace, sen mitsuji, hayden christiansen, freddy stroma, theo james, manish dayal, shah rukh khan, ok taecyeon, gong yoo, eric dane, idris elba, dwayne johnson, shahid kapoor, colin firth, joe manganiello, oscar isaac, chase crawford, cody fern, winston duke, michael trevino, alexander skarsgard, zane holtz, michael b. jordan, akshay kumar, jeremy strong, glen powell

[theverumproject]

An Interview with Luce Balton (Verum)

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7]

Year: 2093 (The Robotic Era)

Friends and Family + Childhood

Friends and Family

Is their family big or small? Who does it consist of?

The family I grew up with is mostly dead. Not everybody wants to live forever. But it wasn't really a big or small one. Had a mother a father and a brother. Some grandparents and some aunties and uncles. Only my brother is left, we're still close. Now, Dethra and Bluctro are my family.

What is their perception of family?

There's the family that you are born in. And there's also the family that you can choose. 

Do they have siblings? Older or younger?

Adam is my older brother. He's the one who taught me about Quantum physics.

Describe their best friend.

My best friends are Dethra and Bluctro. 

Bluctro is protective, trying to keep me and Dethra safe from afar. He's the more serious of the two and provides great advice. He's always very gentle and loving… and romantic… Sometimes we dance together…slowly.

Dethra is the chaotic one. He is always joking or messing around. He is great in combat, so intimidating and strong. He is a little dirty minded, but very charming. He definitely knows how to seduce! But he's also a gentle giant. he absolutely loves animals and children.

Ideal best friend?

I couldn't wish for anybody better.

Do they have any pets?

No we don't. We wouldn't wanna leave it alone for too long. 

Who are their natural allies?

Robots and AI usually always support us. We are fighting for them after all. 

Who are their surprising allies?

It does surprise us sometimes, when we do something not so nice, but some people still seem to agree! 

Childhood

What was your character like as a baby? 

Pretty sure I was just a normal baby. Sometimes I screamed, sometimes I didn't let my parents sleep, sometimes I shat in the diapers. 

As a child?

I was a very curious child. Loved science from the beginning. I think I never was much trouble either. I always did what my loving parents said. never had a rebellious phase either. Of course I would get mad at them sometimes, but that's normal and probably never lasted more than an hour. Before he went to university, I would spend a lot of time with Adam. Oh how I missed him.

Did they grow up rich or poor?

My family was rather rich, but not snobby. 

Did they grow up nurtured or neglected?

I had a great childhood! Couldn't have wished for a better family. But I didn't really have the possibilities to develop my social skills. 

What is the most offensive thing they ever said?

I would rather not say. Sometimes the internet gets very mad at things you did like a hundred years ago. 

What is their greatest achievement?

Running this company and the secret one.

What was their first kiss like?

It was on the day Bluctro stepped into his body for the first time. After I woke up, he told me to close my eyes. A few moments later I felt him pull me into his lap. I opened my eyes and we cuddled for a few moments and then he kissed me. It was the kind of kiss that I did not expect of him. He was… hungry. 

What is the worst thing they did to someone they loved?

Like any couple, we also had our fair share of fights. But they never lasted long, still regretted some things afterwards though. I don't wanna hurt them…

What are their ambitions?

I want to help the world. May it be with medicine, food production, helping the climate or… you know

What advice would they give their younger self?

Don't be afraid of the world. 

What smells remind them of their childhood?

The smell of the basement. I spent a lot of time there.

What was their childhood ambition?

Learn, learn, learn, learn and learn to become a scientist. 

What is their best childhood memory?

Helping my father out in the basement, interacting with the AIs, building more or less stupid robots with him.

What is their worst childhood memory?

When Adam had to leave, that made me very sad for a long while. I still saw him sometimes, but not every day anymore. 

Did they have an imaginary childhood friend?

Doesn't every child? Mine were usually robots. 

When was the last time they were crushed with disappointment?

On our missions, not everything goes always right. People on our side get killed too. We had such a case last month again. As their leader, I take the blame for their death.

What past act are they most proud of?

Improving others peoples lives, giving them a new chance to live much longer and healthier. I'd say Mechanicus, my company, is really the work of my life.

Has anyone ever saved their life?

Bluctro and Dethra have saved my life many times.

Strongest childhood memory?

The early days. When I knew nothing about computer science. And then a new world opened up to me. It all blew me away. 

Masterpost

[forever-eternal]

Hello 👋 have some refs and the rules of one of my Undertale AU’s, Fated Souls.

Rules of Fated Souls:

•The four are the fallen humans. The Monsters only need one SOUL.

•Quena is trying to keep her family safe, as the adult and oldest sibling

•She hadn’t planned on coming back up. If it was just her, she would’ve gladly given her SOUL.

•But, she’s not the only one. Her baby siblings are here. She’s getting them out, no matter what.

•Riley is the second oldest, the older twin, but she’s only 10. She’s scared and just wants her big sister.

•She’ll do her best to be brave, because Quena’s always been brave for them.

•Emily is the younger twin, she’s incredibly shy. She’ll speak up when someone says something bad about her family, but she prefers to avoid confrontation.

•She wants to do whats right.

•Nicolas, Nicki, is the youngest. The only brother. He’s afraid, so, so afraid.

•Despite his fear, he was taught to be kind.

•They MUST complete at least 1 (one) of each run

•Usually forced to do more than one of Neutral and Genocide

•Quena is the one usually in charge of the Encounters. Unless she dies, of course.

•If its a Pacifist, whoever died comes back at the next SAVE. If its Neutral or Genocide, they don’t come back until the next RESET. In Genocide, there is a chance they don’t come back until the next Universe.

•Once FATE is satisfied with their amount of runs, the next RESET drops them in a new Universe

•The only reason they know they’re not dreaming is the items they collect or things they write down not vanishing each RESET. Quena keeps a journal of it all, the pages never seem to end.

•They are Not having a Good Time, but they’re pretending every thing is fine in the happier timelines

•It doesn’t always stay that way

This AU can be jokes and memes, but there’s a lot of violence, suicidal ideation, and self-sacrifice—especially from Quena. You think she’d let anything happen to them?

CHARACTER INFO:

Quena:

•Oldest Child

•Main SOUL trait is Patience, with Perseverance, Justice, and Determination woven in

•College Student for Mechanical and Computer Engineering.

•Good at Math on the fly, rarely ever needs to write equations down.

•Strained relationship with Mother, less said about Father the better.

•Father was neglectful and abusive, her Mom was trapped doing everything. Quena pretty much raised her siblings in a house with two parents.

•Depressed with Self-Harmful Habits and Tendencies.

•Jumped as a way of suicide, mixed feelings about surviving

•Several Timelines and Universes where she commits to the act, almost always followed by a RESET

•Genocide affects her mental state heavily.

•Carries around a knife, first to figure out how to turn her SOUL into a physical weapon

•First item she grabbed in the Underground was a backpack capable of carrying anything. Often uses it to carry siblings in more dangerous universes, or if they need to get somewhere fast.

•Self sacrifice to the extreme, mental state gets worse in bad runs if one of her siblings dies.

•Also willing to throw herself in front of Innocent Monsters in Violent Universes

•The One Who Does Phone Calls

•”Excuse Me, they asked for no pickles.”

•Jokes self-deprecatingly to hide her depression

•Family, Friends, anyone else with that brand? She’s your biggest hype-man. No low self-esteem in her house (that’s her job)

•Will rarely resort to violence in front of her siblings, but will if necessary

•Can actually be incredibly scary if she wants to be. Doesn’t usually want to be.

•Gives the best hugs, very comforting. Perfect pressure and warmth, like a shield against everything wrong in the world.

•Does not remember the last time she slept.

•Calls everyone ‘buddy’ and ‘pal’. Does she know you? No idea!

•Probably has at least one fractured bone at all times. Does not care at all.

•The ‘Big Sister Ever’ Energy

She remembers e v e r y t h i n g

Riley:

•The Older Twin

•Main SOUL Trait is Bravery, but also small bits of Perseverance and Justice

•Acts all tough, but still just a child

•A blunt, sarcastic sweetheart tbh

•Does NOT like strangers. No matter how old they are or if they’re a Monster or a Human.

•Rarely ever without Emily, but Quena is her favorite sibling.

•Watching Quena fight Monsters, with seemingly no regards to her own safety, upsets her.

•Watching Quena die, or any of them die, is worse

•Calls Quena ‘Mom’ as a joke but also sorta means it sometimes

•The type of person to run up as someone raises their arm and just grab it, like a monkey bar

•Also has a knife, but smaller.

•She hates being alone in any capacity after the few runs where Emily and Quena both died, leaving just her and Nicolas.

•Quena had to piggyback her most of the next Pacifist run, and Emily held her hand, but neither minded.

•She wants to be strong, so she can protect her family for once— Like Quena always has.

•Cannot sleep without someone close by.

•Very careful about keeping her bones in tact, doesn’t always work.

•Remembers faces easily. Names mean little

Emily

•The Younger Twin

•Main SOUL Trait is Integrity, with small bits of Kindness and Justice

•Doesn’t enjoy talking to people, or having people look at her.

•Usually hides from confrontation.

•Will freeze up if someone tries to confront her, especially if they’re angry in any way (she does not enjoy Fell verses)

•Never seen without Riley, but Nicolas is her favorite.

•Also has separation anxiety, gets nightmares on the rare instance they’re able to pause and sleep

•The RESETS scare her

•What if, one day, one of them dies and then they can’t RESET?

•It’s a big fear of hers.

•Carries colorful bandaids for everyone

•Very polite, will hang from someones arm while Riley swings from the other.

•Great at remembering names! Not so much at faces…

Nicolas

•The Youngest!

•A SOUL of Kindness, with a little bit of Perseverance

•He just wants to play games!

•Sometimes the Monsters are scary though, and he’d rather hide.

•Will hide in the Backpack.

•His mind has blocked out most of the trauma from all the RESETS and Universe Hopping.

•They all know it won’t be blocked forever, but for now they’ll let him be happy.

•He wants to be friends! He wants to make friends!

•Sometimes, they don’t want to be friends with him.

•Sometimes, he doesn’t want to be friends either.

•Can remember a few names and a few faces, doesn’t always pay attention.

[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

@ckfemslashnetwork

COBRA KAI SAPPHIC SUMMER WEEK 1 GOLDEN

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HEY YALL

So uh. Remember that 10-minute All Too Well YasMoon fic that I’ve been teasing for well over a year now ???

WELL

LO AND BEHOLD!!! A few months ago, I started writing more than just lil ficlets and started creating this bad boy in FULL!!! So for cksapphicsummer, I’m posting a proper preview because a) fall color is a big thing here and it kinda accidentally fits the “Golden” prompt perfectly and b) god. I’m so proud of this funky little snippet. I’ve had so much fun working on this angstfic and I HAD to share my progress with someone. Writing the out-of-order slow burn of Moon becoming a simp who’s in way over her head has been fantastic tbh.

Also she only gets a mention here, but I had WAY too much fun creating Rosalie, Yasmine’s older (and to most everyone’s mind much cooler) influencer sister. Actually might end up including her in unrelated YasMoon fics too, because god, am I a sucker for sibling character foils :O Also it’s not fair that only Sam gets to have a sibling!!! Like give the other kids siblings!!!

…ironically, despite how spoiled she seems to be, Yasmine is one of the few Cobra Kai kids who doesn’t give off huge Only Child vibes XD Like idk. Idk. So much of Her Whole Deal strikes me as Bratty Overcompensating Younger Sister behavior XD

@karatecaulfield BIG pspsps, here’s a preview from A Big Fic coming up!!!

Preview under the cut!!! Enjoy :3

CW for some pretty crude language, and a character shouting a slur basically for shock value. But it’s one that applies to said character, so…I guess it’s reclaiming?

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“You can travel the world But nothing comes close to the golden coast”

They were belting the lyrics as Yasmine swerved down mountain roads, rounding bends at what couldn’t possibly be a safe speed. It was times like these she thought she was invincible—away from the suffocating smog, under an endless blue sky, surrounded by fresh mountain air, free from the rest of the world’s expectations. Moon couldn’t tame her if she tried.

“Once you party with us, you’ll be falling in love…”

Moon glanced at Yasmine, and the words melted in her mouth. She burst out laughing.

Yasmine was never that unperturbed. She was all confidence and composure and power, holding onto her throne with tooth and manicured nail. Now she was just a silly, dancing teenager, shimmying back and forth and rocking her head from side to side like some kind of puzzled bird. One arm flailing about like the tube men outside of car dealerships while the other drifted on and off the steering wheel to lazily make turns.

She was grinning like she left all her inhibitions in LA.

“California girls, we’re unforgettable Daisy dukes, bikinis on top Sunkist skin so hot we’ll melt your popsicle”

Yasmine affectionately jabbed Moon’s tanned arm. Moon took a moment to be grateful the very ever-present spray-tan responsible was probably also hiding her blush.

“California girls, we’re undeniable Fine, fresh, fierce, we’ve got it on lock West Coast represent, now put your hands up!”

Yasmine did exactly that, whooping for several seconds. Moon worried they were going to hit the guardrail.

West Valley High’s queen bee self-corrected at the last possible moment, just like always. She grabbed the wheel and they made the turn.

There was something so exhilarating about her when she was like this. When she wasn’t projecting an image that didn’t match what was inside. Her voice was off-key and her movements were the opposite of graceful and every bit of control she usually gripped onto with iron strength flew out the window and into the alpine air.

And somehow, it felt like it used to when Moon finally came home after a long, shitty day of middle school, surrounded by stuck-up classmates and scornful, apathetic teachers. It felt like relief.

The song ended, and an ad came on from that annoying kick-the-competition auto dealer guy. As Yasmine complained for the seventh time about her parents not getting Spotify Premium, Moon looked out the window.

The road to Big Bear had more fall color than she’d ever seen. Only 20 miles outside of LA, and it was a whole different world—cherry reds and fiery oranges and sunset golds mixed into the deep green of impossibly tall pine trees.

It was all so foreign to her, always immersed in year-round flowers and greenery and subtropics. It seemed like something out of a Sunday morning dream, or a good shrooms trip. Strange—unnatural, perhaps—but tranquil all the same.

The aspen trees quaked in a sudden breeze. Several golden leaves peeled off their branches, glinting blindingly in the sunlight as they drifted to the ground.

Moon couldn’t quite explain it, but something felt just right. The energy…it was somehow perfectly aligned, all the stars and moons and planets in position for her to be driving off on a wilderness adventure with Yasmine Pyne.

The universe itself was humming in concord, like everything else that came before and after revolved around that moment.

Like it was the beginning of something too immense to see.

“What’re you gawking at?” Yasmine’s voice had a teasing snicker in it. “Have you never been to the mountains before?”

Moon shrugged. “Not since I was little. We only ever drove up here in the summer, though.”

“God, you should see your face.” There was a note of derision in Yasmine’s voice, but Moon barely noticed. “You look like you popped an E tablet or something.”

“Sorry, it’s just…” Moon smiled, shaking her head. “The trees are so beautiful. They’re reminding me of the healing crystals I still need to buy.”

“Um, what? Where is the connection there?”

Moon turned. The bridge of Yasmine’s nose was scrunched against her eyebrows, the way it always did when she was completely perplexed.

 “The colors, Yas.” Moon couldn’t help but laugh. “The leaves look like citrine. Or…” Her gaze strayed back out the window. “Empowering jasper. Or harmonizing tiger’s eye. Or vitality ruby. There’s so many hues!”

“You are so weird, girl.”

Yasmine laughed, but there was no disdain in it this time. It was an affectionate kind of amused—amusement at Moon’s expense, perhaps, but with an underlying fondness that caught her off-guard.

Moon looked at the autumn trees zipping by, fiery shades gleaming almost as brightly as gemstones in the alpine sun. She started to shift them in her mind, imagining clusters of leaves as giant, glimmering jewels instead. A whole forest of ruby and citrine and jasper and tiger’s eye and topaz and carnelian, polished stones budding from the ends of delicate white branches. A beautiful, serene place, quiet and peaceful. A place of healing. No sound save birdsong and babbling creeks.

She wondered how much more vivid the image would be with caps.

“I’d actually love to trip out here,” she admitted. “It’d be like…the most spiritual thing ever. I feel like there’s a certain kind of ‘oneness with the universe’ around these trees, you know?”

“What, and then wander off the side of a cliff because you’ve convinced yourself you can fly? No thanks.”

Moon sniggered. Yasmine couldn’t sugarcoat something if she tried.

She didn’t pull punches when it came to teasing out the worst-case scenario and she never hesitated when deciding that’s what would inevitably happen.

A wooden sign post flitted past. Moon pressed her palm into the window glass, eyes widening.

A trailhead.

“Let’s go for a hike!”

The words spouted from Moon before she could stop them. She blinked, wholly unsure where the sudden determination came from.

Yasmine spluttered, uncharacteristically lost for words.

“Please,” Moon added plaintively. “Just a short one?”

“Why?” Yasmine demanded, finally finding her voice.

Moon bit her lip, staring at the dashboard.

“I’ve never been.”

“You’ve never been hiking in Big Bear.”

Yasmine scoffed, punctuating the statement with a smack to the steering wheel.

“Nope.” Moon chuckled nervously, hoping this wasn’t something Yasmine decided was worthy of giving her shit about.

Her friend only snorted in disbelief. “You haven’t been hiking up here,” she said again. “Aren’t your parents like…tree-hugging mega-hippies or something? Seems like they’d be all about that meditative outdoorsy shit.”

Moon laughed, shaking her head. “Well, they’re more like…smoke-a-bunch-of-stuff-in-a-sweat-lodge-and-see-the-entire-pagan-pantheon kind of hippies. Not really the one-with-nature kind of hippies.”

“But you are, huh?”

Yasmine raised her eyebrows, and Moon’s cheeks grew hot.

“I don’t know. I guess so. Nature calms me down when I’m stressed. Helps unblock my root chakra when it gets a little clogged.”

They passed a particularly beautiful grove of red maple trees, and Moon sucked in her breath.

“If we could just…stop and take a little walk somewhere…”

“Mooooon.” Yasmine dragged her name into a whine. “I’m wearing designer boots. If I get too much dirt on them, my mom will skin me alive and use my eviscerated corpse to make another pair.”

“Oh my god.” Moon snickered. “Don’t be so dramatic. Your mom is nice! She’s not going to flip out over a little dust.”

“You don’t know her,” Yasmine grumbled.

“I’ll take the blame if she gets mad. Promise.” Moon gave her friend her most pleading look. “I’ll say…I don’t know. I got you really high and we ran around in the dirt or something. But mountain trails aren’t usually that dirty! At least I don’t think.”

Yasmine whimpered, glancing from the car clock out the window and back again.

At the next trailhead, Yasmine slammed the brakes. Moon yelped, lurching forward as the range rover screeched to a stop in a pullover surrounded by soaring pines and gold-tinged scrub bushes.

“Oh, fuck it. Rosalie’s not expecting us until 4 anyways.”

Moon smiled at her lap. She got the feeling Yasmine could have fought her harder.

***

“Tell me a secret.”

“What?” Moon’s sandals dug into the trail, grinding her to a halt.

“Tell me a secret.” Yasmine turned, hair backlit by mountain sunshine. “Come on. If you’re going to insist we trek out into the middle of buttfuck nowhere, you’d better have some juicy gossip for where absolutely no one can hear us.”

She leaped onto a nearby boulder with surprising grace, boots deftly clinging to the gaps in a way that suggested she hadn’t always been as averse to physical exertion as she was now.

“DICK AND BALLS!” Moon was completely unprepared for her friend to cup her mouth and shout at the top of her lungs. “MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING SHITHEADS! GODDAMN PUSSY-EATING DYKES! I’LL PISS IN YOUR MOUTH!”

The forest only answered Yasmine’s abundance of profanity with wind, songbird calls, and one or two annoyed crows. Not another human soul to be heard.

“See?” Yasmine turned, her grin conniving. “No one’s going to hear any of this shit besides us. You can literally say anything you want out here. It’d be a waste not to spill some tea.”

She spread her arms, and for a moment, she looked like a bird. An elegant, dainty little yellow warbler, about to take flight or break into song.

“No one can fuck with us out here!” she crowed. For a moment, Moon felt almost as free as her.

Moon laughed, shaking her head. She hadn’t known what to expect from the blonde girl in the yellow designer sundress, making snide comments in her math class, but these unrestrained dramatics were definitely not it.

“So come on, then.” Yasmine scaled down the rock as easily as she’d climbed it. “Tell me something scandalous, Moon.”

Moon frowned, quickening her pace to catch up. “Why?”

“Because. Maybe I want to get to know the girl I’m hauling up into the mountains to see my sister, huh?”

“We don’t need deep, dark secrets for that, do we?”

“Not technically, but I’m bored of all the other shit.” Yasmine groaned. “‘Where’d you go to middle school, did you grow up here, do you have any brothers or sisters,’ blah blah blah. We covered all the small talk crap when we ditched for brunch. I want something more interesting.”

Moon’s cheeks grow hot. “I don’t know if I’m hiding anything that interesting.”

“Oh, bullshit.” Yasmine turned, gray-green eyes boring into Moon. The blonde started walking backwards just in front of her friend, maintaining very intense and very judgmental eye contact the entire time. “Everyone’s got a little dirt on them, Moon. You just have to scrape it up.”

Feeling a sudden rush of bravery (perhaps the empowering jasper-colored leaves were to blame), Moon crossed her arms and returned Yasmine’s smirk. “And why should I give you my dirt?”

“Because.” Those stormy irises had a cunning gleam in them. “What’s a few secrets between best friends?”

“Best friends!” Moon laughed in surprise. “We barely know each other. And I’m your—well, I mean.” She found herself stumbling over her words. “What about everyone else at the table? Your middle school crew?”

“Oh, well.” Yasmine rolled her eyes dismissively. “Jenna, Harper, Aubrey—they’re all fake as fuck. Dumb sluts are using me to get a taste of what it’s like at the top. I know the knives come out whenever my back’s turned.” Her lips curled into a sneer. “It’s whatever, honestly. I’d just as soon get rid of them as soon as they stop making us look good. But you…”

For the first time in a while, the scornful look dropped completely.

“You’re different, Moon. You’re…real. Not basic and boring like every other bitch that follows me around.”

If Moon’s cheeks weren’t on fire before, they certainly were now.

“You really mean that?”

“Yeah, duh. I wouldn’t take you out here if you weren’t worlds better than all the other losers at our trash-ass school. Now…”

The genuine look that briefly shone through morphed into a smirk. Mood wondered if she’d imagined it.

Yasmine leaned forward, smirk widening. Without warning she grabbed both of Moon’s hands, tangling their fingers together as she continued to effortlessly saunter backwards. “Tell me a secret, Moon.”

“I…”

Moon could feel what was hovering just behind her lips. The words threatening to tangle with the mountain air and wash over Yasmine like a cold breeze, causing her hands to jerk away and her face to twist in that oh-so-familiar disgust.

I’m not normal.

It was something in the way that all through elementary school—and all through the turbulent tides of middle school, too—her eyes weren’t only drawn by soccer players showing off at recess, or the track stars who could run more gym class laps than anyone. Boys who dripped confidence like sweat and gleamed like fresh-minted coins, the names inside the hearts every girl doodled.

Just as often she found herself drawn to the ballet dancers and the child beauty pageant winners and the sirenlike voices of the girls in choir. Often as not, her mind was on billowing hair and purple nails and the scent of fruit shampoo as much as the testosterone and cologne of the ever-boisterous boys.

And it was a fascination that went beyond friendship. Moon knew that much.

She was able to join in with the other girls, gushing about the guys they liked and making bets on who would ask who to the next dance. But there was always half of it left unsaid.

She’d never told a soul. Not her easygoing parents. Not her middle school gang. No one. It was an anomaly that belonged to her and her alone.

And Moon wasn’t about to drive away her newest friend, in all her power and mystique and sheer magnetic energy.

Yasmine must’ve seen the gears turning behind her eyes. She groaned, yanking especially hard on Moon’s hands with an exaggerated eyeroll.

“Oh, fine. I’ll go first if you’re not gonna spill.”

Moon raised her eyebrows. “That was an option?”

Yasmine scoffed. “I mean, if you’re just going to stand there looking constipated…”

Moon couldn’t find a response.

Which probably made her look even more constipated.

“I don’t actually wake up like this.” Yasmine grinned mischievously, giving those flawless yellow locks of hers a graceful flip. “And it’s not Maybelline, either. I have to wake up at 5 fucking o’clock every morning to straighten this bitch. But better that than go to school looking like a fucking hobo.”

Moon laughed.

“So you don’t wake up with perfect hair? That’s not very scandalous.” Yasmine gasped, sounding half offended. “It is if you’re someone with my rep!”

“Well, if it’s that important to you…” Moon sniggered. “I won’t tell anyone. But for what it’s worth, I think the other kids would be impressed you put so much time into looking perfect.”

“Oh, no way. They need to think it’s like…an inherent part of my personality that I’m flawless and untouchable. Otherwise they might start getting ideas about replacing me if they style their hair for long enough.”

She had to laugh again.

“I don’t think you need to worry. The entire school knows they could never hold a torch to you.”

For a moment, uncertainty flickered through those stormcloud eyes.

Like the fear of being dethroned was greater than Yasmine let on.

“Damn right,” she said, smug expression returning. She tugged Moon’s hands again, bringing the girls close enough that Moon could smell traces of the strawberry-and-nutella crepes she had for breakfast.

“Your turn,” she purred.

“Um…”

Moon paused, pushing thoughts of her unspoken strangeness away. Yasmine didn’t need to know that.

“I’m worried that people think I’m kind of stupid,” she said instead.

Yasmine looked genuinely thrown off for a moment.

“What do you mean?”

Her expression turned…not serious exactly, but more thoughtful and curious than Moon was used to. None of its usual smugness.

“My friends from middle school, they—they all went to these private Ivy League prep schools. I, uh…I think some of their parents bribed their way in, but some of them were genuinely just that smart. Either way, my parents weren’t willing to pull strings to get me in. They’re really, um…‘go with the flow’ in a way that they, like, don’t like to exert a lot of effort on anything they don’t need to. Which includes keeping me with my friends, I guess.”

Moon took a breath, almost hoping Yasmine would interrupt.

Yasmine didn’t. Only waited with uncharacteristic patience for her to finish.

“I told them at 8th grade continuation I didn’t make it into Harvard-Westlake. They, um…they looked at me like I was some kind of reject. And they started talking about all the things they were gonna do in high school.” Moon winced at the memory. “Kelsey was gonna learn Latin. Rachel was gonna get into Hollywood. Tess was gonna figure out how to become like…some political diplomat or something. And I guess it was just like…we’d been together through the thick and thin of everything, and suddenly I was some dumb bimbo who wasn’t even worthy of licking the dirt they stepped on. And after that night, I never heard from any of them again.”

Yasmine’s only response was a curled lip. “Ew.”

Moon’s stomach sank. “You think I’m also…?”

Yasmine’s scowl deepened. “No, your stupid friends. They sound like a load of self-righteous bitches.” She scoffed. “Girl, you’re well-rid of them. You stuck around and they’d try to make you into a fucking lame loser nerd just like them. Who the fuck uses Latin in their day-to-day existence, anyways?!”

Moon found herself laughing.

“Yeah, I guess Kelsey was always kind of prissy that way.”

“Half the shit they teach in high school doesn’t matter in the real world, anyways.” Yasmine rolled her eyes. “And yeah, even at prep schools, too. Take all the acting classes and political science you want, but if you don’t know someone important in the industry, you’re not getting shit. The world runs on nepotism, so…your old bitches are going to get fucked over so bad.”

Something about Yasmine’s overconfident scorn soothed her. No one who spoke that surely could be wrong…right?

Moon chuckled. “Is it bad that I kind of hope they do?”

“Nah. Would serve the dumb fucks right.” Yasmine’s smirk returned—bigger than any she’d worn all afternoon. “I should be thanking them, really. They ditched by far the coolest person in their group, and now I get you all to myself.”

Moon only hoped Yasmine didn’t see how red her own cheeks were turning.

“For the record, though…”

Yasmine seemed to search her face, expression suddenly unreadable.

“I don’t think you’re stupid. I mean…not that it matters anyways, because pretty people get jobs more than smart people do, but being good at the crap they teach in school doesn’t mean anything. Being able to read people, knowing who you can open up to and who’s a damn snake, figuring out how to talk people into giving you what you want…that’s what matters. And you’ve got more intuition than anyone I’ve met in a long time.”

Well, if having intuition was what mattered…

Moon only hoped she was reading Yasmine right.

***

Some random author’s notes, in no particular order:

Love that Yasmine is canonically a terrible driver. Like she accidentally kick-started the entire plot because her dumb ass was texting and driving and rammed right tf into Johnny Lawrence’s car. I have every reason to believe she’s this bad of a driver in every situation 💛 Absolute trash queen 👑

Writing S1 Yasmine is so much fun because she’s SO unapologetically shitty, like. You can have her say the most deranged shit and it’s completely in character??? Delightfully challenging to figure out how fucking anyone could fall inconsolably head-over-heels for her, especially someone as naturally good-natured as Moon!!! Like she was simping—I know it in my soul—but how the FUCK did that happen???

Also no I absolutely do not count Demetri’s “feelings” as falling inconsolably head-over-heels for her—mans was faking being straight to get Miguel not to abandon him and then felt he had to Commit To The Bit. I WILL die on this hill btw.

On a related note, though!!! I’ve probably watched the S1 Yasmine scenes DOZENS of times for this fic (not a single fucking one without her girlfriend btw), and after a while you start to pick up on some like…unexpected softness you didn’t notice before? Like she seems genuinely pleased Sam is enjoying throwing her party! She plays wingwoman and sets Sam up with Kyler! (Granted, there could have been ulterior motives here—namely distracting Sam so she doesn’t notice That Gay Shit going on between her two new best friends—but the act in of itself didn’t seem malicious.) She’s a tad overprotective of Moon when she believes Sam has been talking crap, and tells Sam to get the hell out of Moon’s car!!! She genuinely looks hurt when Moon chooses Hawk and Co. over her!!! Like it’s few and far between, but she definitely seems to care about her friends on some level, even at her worst. With that in mind, it’s a lot easier to write Moon getting smitten with her!

Adding onto this—rewatching the S1 Yasmine clips, it’s kind of striking how often she refers to herself and Moon as a unit, especially during the 1x05 car scene with Sam. “Kyler told us what you said.” “You think you’re better than us.” “We know what went down.” She says “Moon, let’s go” when about to ditch the beach party instead of just storming off because of course she’s not leaving without Moon (who she chose to stay with over going with Kyler btw!). She doesn’t even consider it a possibility until Moon outright says it. Not only is this a cool parallel to a thing S1 Demetri also does (I.e. frequently uses “we” to speak for both him and Eli from a place of misguided-ish overprotectiveness and the confidence that “I know what’s best for both of us as a unit”), but this is something a lot of long-term couples I know irl tend to do!!! When I talk about movies with my roommate, he tends to say “we (I.e. him and his fiancé) did/didn’t like it.” When my married friend thanked me for catsitting, he said “we really appreciate it.” Point being that even at her absolute worst, Yasmine is never actually just thinking about herself—she’s thinking about herself and Moon, right up until Moon chooses to ditch her! Anyways yeah these girls were a Thing sorry. If they have a tendency that immediately calls to mind my married and engaged friends, that’s. A little gay???

Also worth noting that Yasmine only really breaks from Moon in 1x09, and then as SOON as she appears again in S3, she’s once again glued to Moon’s hip. Girl literally cannot stay away from Moon akfssrfuhbi

But all that aside!!! S1 Yasmine genuinely sucks so bad. Like GIRL. You fat-shamed a girl for no fucking reason. You verbally eviscerated an ugly sweater kid just minding his business and probably jump-started his Evil Journey tbh. You slut-shamed your ex-friend all over the internet after she almost got sexually assaulted. You cut off your closest friend and fuck buddy because she dared to ask you to stop being horrid. What in the actual hell is wrong with you. I am horrified and fascinated. I want to study Yasmine like a bug.

And I am, via this fic!!! God, am I having a blast with it. Fully intend to continue delving into why she’s the actual fucking worst and giving her the nuance the showrunners never bothered with 💛

I spent like 3 hours researching “prep schools” in the San Fernando Valley, and watched a whole-ass tour video for Harvard-Westlake to determine what Moon’s shitty (or shittier) ex-friends went off to study that made her feel inadequate. Please be proud of me for doing a deep dive into this weird niche topic to make my weird niche pairing fic feel authentic XD

Deadass role-playing as an Uber-wealthy Encino parent looking for a good, respectable high school for their spoiled 8th grader was. An incredibly bizarre experience. I do not want kids, I could not afford them even if I did, and I do not have anything anywhere close to a rich suburban husband to discuss a kid’s school options with. I guess this is the essence of trying to explore lived experiences that will never belong to you???

I legitimately do think Moon is smarter than she comes off as (Demetri wouldn’t fuck with her otherwise!) and is somewhat insecure about being seen as “dumb” because she’s bubbly, hyperfemme, conflict-averse, and in touch with her spirituality. I don’t think she likes admitting this, though—she doesn’t like “burdening” others with her own demons!

Considering Yasmine’s “natural” hairstyle in S3 appears to be more wavy, girl probably spent an ungodly amount of time and effort straightening her hair in season 1. Like yeah, she was mean at, but can you blame her??? Bitch was probably running on like 4 hours of sleep a night!

Jenna, Harper, and Aubrey are some of the extras at the Rich Girls Table! I’ve mentioned in other posts, but I’ve always kind of wondered about them, and What Their Deal Was that they’re only sometimes worthy of hanging out with Yasmine XD Git hyped to see more of them in this and other planned YasMoon fics!!!

Continuing to love looking into crystals/spirituality/incense/other kinds of Wiccan-adjacent things I think Moon would be into! As a woman of science, I’m not sure if I buy into that, but I do think it’s genuinely fascinating and fun to explore and research! There’s a lot of pretty cool and interesting belief systems out there to explore when you go in without obsessing over whether something’s 100% true or false and whatnot.

Yes, Californians really do get that hyped about seasons. I would know—I moved there after growing up in the Midwest, and seeing Californians get hyped about seeing snow or massive amounts of fall foliage for the first time is just about the most pure thing ever ;_____; But it’s definitely not out of the question for Moon to get that pumped about fall color aksssdtchh

I kind of love the idea of Moon always knowing she was bisexual, but not building the confidence to proudly tell it to the world until Piper helped her to 💗💜💙

Bitches be holding other bitches’ hands on an isolated hiking trail and think that’s a Straight and Normal thing to do. Like come on. We all know what you are, Yasmine.

Can’t give y’all an exact posting estimate for the whole fic, but I’m not giving up on it anytime soon (having WAY too much fun with this angst to do that!!!) and will try to get the rest of it done as soon as I can!!! Hoping ideally by sometime this coming winter :3

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It's Unpopular Opinion Time with Uncle Al!

TTS Proshipping

I'ma gonna make some people mad, but here I go.

Most of the optional ships I have seen/read/heard of for Varian that are not Hugo or maybe Nuru, though to me she reads incredibly lesbian, are really huge proships. I am, of course, talking about cannon characters (You wanna ship him with an OC, go ahead. I don't have to approve but I can remember being young and wishing I had an OC to give my favorite boy-things). For the most part, the characters that are available to him are of a significant age-gap and power-gap, and that's not a good thing.

I feel like it needs to be remembered that so many of these women/men being shipped with him (though in the lists I've seen that don't include Hugo, the only guy they really offer is Eugene, so still a huge proship) are adults. Which is point number 1. No matter who that person is- Cassandra, Rapunzel, Eugene, whoever- going after the 14 year old, even after a gap of time to allow him to age, would be considered grooming.

Why? Well, largely because of just the three I named, they met him as a child (yes, fourteen year olds still count as children in the eyes of the law) and he had sort of a hero-worship attitude for them at first. He had a full on crush on Cass, respected Raps for being a princess and also the fact that she really thinks his alchemy is cool- which seems to be rare in his world-, and Eugene was probably his first gay crush. That puts them in a position to use that respect he has for them in their favor to gain his interest.

So, Cassarian/Cassandrian has a woman literally almost ten years older than him coming back and getting into a relationship with a person she knows had a crush on her when he was a child makes dating him in the future abusive. The reason for this is because she is leveraging this information to get a relationship based on a child’s feelings, which is super creepy. If this was a male YouTuber and a fan, you wouldn’t be shipping this.

Rapunzel is a princess, and knew she was when she met him, so she gets the Cass rundown plus the fact that the power balance between them is insane. Let not even mention the fact that those two are so high in the sibling vibes category that it makes it an extra step of creepy. And is anyone actually shipping Eugene with him? I kind of feel like that’s a fake ship that angry people use as an example of why we shouldn’t have gays in kids’ shows.

The second point is that most of the other characters that end up on those lists are either small children- like 10-12, and he’s 14-16. I don’t know if you know this, but Varian is kind of an exception to the rule, when it comes to 16 year olds hanging out with younger kids. He’s still learning to friend, which is how he ends up with such a diverse group of friends.

I’ve seen Vex in these lists, and she barely wanted anything to do with the main group, and Varian’s villain schtick wasn’t who he really was. We all have a villain arc as people, and seldom is it the person we long to be or would be on purpose if given the choice. Usually, like Varian, we end up pretty ashamed of that part of our lives. But the characters listed that don’t know him probably wouldn’t want that kind of a relationship with him, nor would they be likely to hold similar desires and ideals- this kind of thing can be a deal breaker in relationships.

This said, we also kind of need to talk about leaving Hugo off the list. Is this because he’s from a program that was denied by Disney? Possibly, but it needs to be said. If you want to post about partners for Varian, you need to state “out of the canon characters” because, honey, there are so many non-canon choices. Hugo is just the one that the writers chose. Which is kind of important too, since they built him. They know Varian better than we do.

Being anti about gay ships but fine with straight proships is a rant for another day. But I got to a point with Cassarian that I just needed to point out the genuine nope surrounding it.

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so you want to know the lore, huh?

(part 1 of ???)

there will be discussions of things like abuse, child abuse, child neglect, domestic abuse, child murder, homicide, self-harm, and torture; these are all mentioned briefly and not further elaborated on, but are still integral parts of the 80s universe, ESPECIALLY with Chuck. you have been warned.

I have my own universes comprised of ONLY my characters, but let's start with the gang I share with Ben first.

it's the same cast of characters (minus a few side characters essentially) for what I call the Sane/Modern and 80s universes.

the 80s universe is split into two subsections: a story where Elijah is the main killer we focus on and Jack died young, and a story where Jack is the main killer and Elijah died young. I'll go into further detail about the differences between the two in a later post with Ben's help, but all you need to know right now is that I'm usually talking about the story where Jack is the serial killer, aka Jack's universe, because the two main characters (Edgar and Jack) both belong to me. here's the rundown on Jack's universe:

Jack has a total of 15 murder victims that we focus on, them being his twin Eli, his little sister Maddison, his older sister Hannah, his father, Olivia, Leah, Beth, Owen, Alexa, Mason, Jiang, Jun, Noah, Dew, and his son Sal

11/15 are ghosts that possess the home Edgar lives in because that was Jack's dumping grounds for the bodies

Edgar's home used to be Jack's childhood home that Jack burnt down (that's how he got the burn scars and extreme fear of fire)

Eddie and Jack met when Eddie was 18 and Jack was 16, 2 years after Eddie came from France to America

Jack is a very very very abusive partner to Eddie (and later Dew, who dies because she had a son without him knowing)

Isaac, the only biological family of Jack's that isn't dead, was traumatized by the death of the rest of his family and subsequently seeing Jack's (15) half-burned body and dead stare in the hospital

Isaac (8) went on to be raised by his dad alone, Jack's step-dad

Jack disappears after this incident and goes under a new name, Chuck Young

Edgar finds out about the whole murder thing sometime before Isaac and Noah pop up

Isaac and Noah enter Eddie's life and red flags go off in their head when they see Jack and Eddie together

Jack eventually disappears (which is normal for him) and doesn't return for years, leaving Eddie to slowly start to rebuild after the trauma and fall in love with Isaac and Noah, believing that Jack's dead

Isaac and Noah find out about the ghosts, Isaac is horribly confused and upset and joyful to see his sisters again

Isaac and Noah proceed to become father figures to the ghosts as they get closer and closer with Eddie

Jack murders Dew and Sal and returns to Eddie's home, where he ends up killing Noah in an altercation

Isaac, terrified of his brother, flees

Edgar is forced to pick up the pieces and deal with Jack for the next several years

Eddie eventually kills Jack in "self-defense" and has a breakdown immediately after

Isaac returns since Jack has been killed

the ghosts slowly fade away and move on

story ends when Edgar dies

the modern universe is predicated on the concept of "what if Jack and Elijah were normal people and didn't commit serial killings?" the 80s universe is definitely the more fleshed out of the two, given it's been worked on for nearly a decade now. here's the rundown of the sane universe:

set in the modern era

primarily follows the Robinson-Nhat family (which I call the Le Family because of Jack, Eli, Hannah, Mads, and Isaac's mother's maiden name; Maddie and Isaac are full siblings to each other but half-siblings to the other 3)

nobody is dead!!

everybody is younger and has birthdates to match

Isaac and Edgar are usually best friends

Elijah is less "school shooter" and more "edgy young adult who thinks listening to MCR makes him unique"

here's a helpful guide to illustrate the differences (and similiarities) between Modern Jack and 80s Jack!

Jack is less "extreme sadist who commits prolonged torture for his enjoyment and actively searched for new ways to kill" and more "dude who robs people and loves his family"

is more of a sandbox for ideas than anything super story-based

a big theme of Jack's story in both cases is the cycle of abuse. modern him fights to stop it, and 80s him eventually ends up so, so much worse than his father ever was.

that concludes part 1.

link to part 2

[anx1oustig3r]

6, 23, 36 for Braith

1, 15, 39, 41 for Sorrel

BONUS

B, F, G for Scath and Delia

WHEW A LONG ONE

BRAITH

6: Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?

She definitely thinks they SHOULD be flexible. Given how the laws have greatly harmed her family, she doesn’t have a lot of respect for hard laws that only benefit those in power or of status. If she had her way she would bend every law in the way of fairness rather than who can cough up the most cash.

23: How does envy manifest itself in them (they take what they want, they become resentful, etc)? 

Braith is a nice girl, but she can get very mean and nasty when she gets jealous. The best example is with her family. She has two much younger brothers who are twins and they get a lot of preferential treatment (biggest portion at dinner, prioritised clothing etc.) and because of this she tends to treat them very harsh. She insults them, fights with them and just very openly acts like she wishes they were never born.

NOW THERE IS A DEEPER REASON FOR THIS BUT IT’S A SPOILER SO IM KEEPING MY MOUTH SHUT FOR THE MOMENT.

36: Do they actively seek romance, or do they wait for it to fall into their lap? 

She actively seeks romance. She’s very much a shoot your shot kind of person and is actually a big romantic if you catch her eye. Now she can often be way too forward which has made people uncomfortable but she doesn’t really care. She thinks sitting around and waiting is boring and won’t accomplish anything.

SORREL

1: What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?

About ten minutes. Sorrel’s a bit of a fidgety fae and likes constantly having tasks or something to do. Boredom makes them slightly dangerous and may make them lash out. That’s why, in spite of the horrible pay and hellish conditions, they’re grateful for their job helping drive and deliver coal from Iron Fog. They get to be productive, help the people in their community and make a bit of coin for small things.

15: How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?

They’re much more of a thinker. They speak slowly and precisely, choosing words carefully like it’s a puzzle. It’s like they believe their conversation partner is going to try and outwit them. It’s a mindset that’s unusual for a peasant in Revtel.

39: How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people? 

Very difficult. Sorrel is unnervingly observant and if they catch a flaw or personal weakness, it will always be at the back of their mind. Not even in a malicious way. They don’t even like that this is something they focus on, but it was drilled into their head ever since they were a child.

41: How do they feel about children? 

Very neutral. They have younger siblings who get on their last nerve and tend to avoid younger children because of that, but they find older children to be really entertaining. They enjoy delivering coal around where the local gang of hooligans live because they always get very excited to hear about Iron Fog and all the machines.

SCATH AND DELIA

B) What inspired you to create them?

OH BOY so. It actually started with our AU when I was trying to figure out how to fit Mireska’s lore into that modern setting. Knowing that her family were shady in the lore, I ended up doing research into drug cartels and such. For Scath I took inspiration from drug lords while Delia actually was inspired by accounts of their hitmen and body guards. Then their dynamic and relationship with Mireska was inspired a lot by Butterscotch and Beatrice from Bojack Horseman. (Delia in particular was heavily inspired by Beatrice AND SOMETIMES IM SCARED I MAY HAVE JUST RIPPED IT OFF BUT)

F) What do you feel when you think of your OC (pride, excitement, frustration, etc)?

I get excited. It’s been really fun to write characters that are just, genuinely pretty terrible people. With Delia she’s done some bad, hypocritical and downright cruel things but the circumstances in her life have just, never given her a chance so of course she’s bitter, but that doesn’t excuse her taking it out on her daughter and leaving her family in the dirt because she was too proud to go back to them. While Scath is a complete monster, I love how it stems from this desperation for control and a deeply buried longing for love and admiration that he’s doing all the wrong things to acquire.

They are two horrible, fucked up people who need to divorce and get therapy and leave their daughter alone and I love them.

G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most?

For Scath it’s everything. Okay in seriousness I think it’s his refusal to take any accountability and admit when something’s his fault. I think so much of the tragedy in Sunbreeze could have been avoided if he just let go of his ego and apologised to his wife and child.

With Delia it’s her shaky principles. She knew the Sunbreeze family was bad and they had hurt her parents, but she still ended up sleeping with Scath and chose him over her family and her best friend who was the reason she even had the job as his bodyguard in the first place.

[thebroccolination]

Someone on twt was saying how MekBalloon were terrible for each other and together. Idk if it's just me, or because I love the establishment and and the "of course" of them, but (regardless of the show's direction and production and etc) I always thought they were such a great couple. Like their personalities and their story together and the implication that they worked it out at the end... I just love them a lot. (They didn't talk about the kiss so it didn't happen).

MEKBALLOON.

It’s been a long time since I saw Once Upon a Time, so forgive me for doing this from memory but!

So I think you and I are on the same page, Anon. I love MekBalloon, and I think they had great potential, and I was really excited for their episode because “one of us is closeted and one of us wishes we could be openly affectionate” is one of my favorite premises for queer stories. (Partially why SOTUS S and Dark Blue Kiss are still in my top five.)

I don’t agree that they’re terrible for each other, but that’s less because I think they’re healthy and more because I think we don’t know enough about them to judge in any direction, which is the writing’s fault. 👀

Most Thai BL series don’t seem to be passion projects. BL is a profit-generating machine right now, so of course it’s gonna be rare for all the elements of loving detail, abundant production window, and generous budget to overlap. Of the series that are passion projects, many are likely to struggle with at least one major issue. Maybe the casting isn’t right, the script wasn’t tightly edited, or the production just didn’t have the budget for thorough workshops that would really nail the characters and their chemistry. There’s usually at least one big problem that prevents it from feeling like a stand-alone hit. Not Me didn’t have the script editing it deserved, so it lost sight of several plot elements it needed to deliver on its ambitious premise; Dark Blue Kiss has a high barrier of entry for new fans, and it doesn’t stand on its own particularly well; The Eclipse lost its deliberate pacing and threw way too much at the audience all at once toward the end; etc. (I love all three of those, to be clear! My special adoration of PeteKao, SunMork, DanYok, and AyanAkk is well documented.)

Off the top of my head, there’s only a vanishingly few series that I’d point to and say, “That was well-crafted all around, and I’d recommend that to a new person.” Those are: My School President, I Told Sunset About You, SOTUS, aaand Triage. (Until We Meet Again and Between Us are my favorites from a character standpoint, but SWS is a li’l studio and they’ve struggled with a lot of production aspects—BU more than UWMA.)

My School President comes across as a well-developed, smart series in which most of the characters were given considerable thought and the actors were given time to explore and connect with them.

Until We Meet Again gave me the same impression, which is why it’s so much fun to write fic for them; the characters are fantastic and nuanced.

I’ll never shut up about SOTUS if I start praising it.

Same with Triage.

Where 7Project fell completely apart for me was where most series fall apart for me: 1) the writing, and 2) the lack of character depth. (So, y’know, 90% of what it needed to reach beyond the actors’ core fanbase.)

I really liked MekBalloon, but I’m pretty sure most of my affection came from finding BounPrem generally charismatic and fun to watch. I think they were profoundly underserved as actors by their episode, especially Boun.

Balloon is the oldest child burdened with his father’s expectations and is terrified of coming out, but he manages to remain a dependable older brother who loves and protects his younger siblings, one of whom is also gay and struggling with bullying.

Mek is…kind, I guess? Wants to be in open relationship with his boyfriend. Has been patient with Balloon’s circumstances for years. He doesn’t have a family, but we don’t know when or how he lost them. That lets us know that his boyfriend is all he has, but the narrative doesn’t seem to sympathize very much with him. And yes, the kiss was weird. I still remember as the episode was airing, the SWS cast and director were on Twitter going, “OH NOOOO??? DON’T MURDER BOUUUUN TEEHEE,” so to this day I’m pretty sure they just threw that in for shock value and there was zero character motivation for it. I vaguely remember New tweeting something like, “Cheating is always bad even when you’re hurt.” So I guess that’s the reason? Mek’s feelings were hurt by Balloon reminding him that his parents are dead, so he kissed someone else. Like, they easily could have made that conversation something like, “It’s difficult being in a same-sex relationship when society pressures you to be closeted. Being with a woman would be easier, but I’ve never been with a woman.” Or something like that. Anything but the half-baked nothing they actually gave us.

I promise I like MekBalloon, Anon! I just have a lot of opinions, and 7Project was so underwhelming that hardly anyone talks about it anymore, so: word vomit.

What I’m saying is that they weren’t fully formed characters, so I can’t really shovel too deep. They don’t have enough internal consistency for one thing. Like, Balloon goes from “huh where’s my sister” to “YOU DON’T EVEN HAVE A FAMILY YOU FILTHY ORPHAN” and??? What are we meant to take away from that? It’s clearly framed as a shock to Mek, but Mek didn’t say or do anything to trigger a response like that. Balloon’s under pressure from closeting himself, so why is his trigger his missing sister and not, like, Mek cuddling him while their friends are approaching? There were so many opportunities to make this an evocative story and I’m gently screaming at whoever edited this (assuming it was edited, which it might not have been).

That all said! I wrote two fics about them because they absolutely had potential! I think ultimately the premise of a couple struggling with closeting and BounPrem’s legendary chemistry was enough to hold it above water. BounPrem deserve a bonus every time they agree to act in anything. ✨

I realize that was pretty rant-y, Anon, my apologies! Granted, I haven’t seen it in a while, so I’m probably overly focused on what I remember not working about it. I’d love to hear what you love about them, if you’d like to share!

[voidselfshipp]

self insert asks: 1,2,5 and 7 for your valorant self insert? :3

Hi shallow!!! Thank you so much for the ask!!!! Ill answer n2 after the cut since ive written it out in fic form.

>only mutuals allowed to reblog.

1. what are the basics of your self insert? name, date of birth, height, etc.?

Name: Jerico Lazaro Castro.

Age: 20

Codename: Ranger.

Clasification: Radiant.

Date of birth:14/9/ 2022 (Valorant takes place in the near future so...)

Height: 5'6.

Place of birth: Buenos Aires,Argentina.

Gender: Genderfluid (he/they/she/xe)

Orientation: Bisexual.

Family: Wei Ling Yi (Sage,adoptive mother). Biological siblings from biological family. Agent Clove (adopted younger sibling)

->They'd be added after the release of KAY/O and before the release of Chamber.

5. does your self insert have any special powers or abilities?

They are a geomancer,they can speak with animals and grow plants! They can partially shape shift by taking on attributes of other animals. They also have a few wild/exotic pets they use un cannon,which have become "Radianized" by being exposed to their powers so much.

7. would any other characters (besides your f/o) have a crush on your self insert?

Its a bit of a tricky question because I selfshipp with half the ensamble of Valorant. But id say that Viper would have a romantic crush on my s/I,and Jett would have a platonic crush.

2. when in canon does your self insert come in? do you have a scene in mind for your entrance?

Ive written out the scene as a fic!!. Just a quick few things. Cw: mentions of abusive household,implided romance with Cypher and Brim who are way older than me/my s/I.

Also! Vieja can be a term of endearment for Argentine moms. Heres the fic:

Spring had settled on the streets of Buenos Aires. Jacarandas and Ceibo trees in full Bloom as the heavy trunks of the silk floss tree doubled over a little and just about to burst with the silken seeds that usually grow within it.

Sage,Brimstone and Cypher where here to pick up a possible New agent for the protocol. One their healer knew quite well,actually.

Wei Ling still remembered what she had said to her good friend and leader of the protocol,Liam, about this agent.

She had entered his Office with this desicive glint in her eyes and firmly said "Brimstone,I Thought about this possible New threat after Kay/o's arrival. And I think we're going to need a few more Agents if this Omega Earth theory is right ...I happen to have a candidate if youre so inclined"

Liam had the vague inkling where this was going"Who are you proposing..?"

"My child"

--I Feel bad for picking them up today...--Sage sighed,scratching the back of her neck as she walks with her companions down the path of the Bosques of Palermo, a Giant green space In the middle of the capital of the buenos aire's province.

--Well,you are going to offer them this spot on the day of their birthday...--Liam added,patting his friend's back with understanding-- there really was no other time?

"No" thought cypher whom had already gathered all the information there was to know about Sage's kid. Hes had it ever since he joined the protocol "theyre Busy with university afterwards"

--Sadly,No.--Wei Ling shook her head as she spoke-- Maybe I shouldntve said anything,Will the protocol allow them to continue their carreer?

--Online classes should suffice--Cypher perked up-- We shouldnt take away vestiges of their normal life,it would make a mess of their head,specially Someone so young. How old are they turning?

--Twenty -- she answered

--Christ --Breathed out Brimstone as he looked at the ground.--i already have enough with Phoenix,Yoru and Jett.

--I promise you,Jerico is a very well behaved person. --The healer said,putting her hands on the pockets of her sage green sweater-- if anything they'll be a calming force for the other agents.

--Ill take your word on it.

--You can trust me,Ive known them for a while now.

Liam looked at the lushness around him. He wondered if this early setting in of spring had anything to do with Jerico. He knew they were a radiant,but he didnt know much else. He mightve seen a picture once or twice but thats about It.

--I guess I should know this if we're going through with the recruitment--Liam began--Cypher must already know that,being how he is. But how did you end up with a kid?

Sage sighed loudly, the circumstances that brought her wonderful kid to her were an unpleseant memory-- Back before the protocol,the monastery had planned a peregrination here to Argentina. An odd place, at least when I heard about it.

A gentle wind passed through them,the air cold and bringing the faintest scent of sunflowers.

--When we got here I was told we were going to help with the less fortunate here. That my powers would help...-- She continued, noticing the scent and smiling all relaxed. Clearly it brought her comfort for a personal reason-- I noticed this young girl,couldnt be more than fifteen. She was caked in dirt and Grime,and she was starving and hurt on her knee.

--That was Jerico? --Brimstone asked,surprised-- you make it sound like she ran away..

--She did--Sage confirmed-- She...had a really bad family-- the rage on her tone made it sound like "really bad" didnt even begin to cover it-- When I healed her,she said "youre like me", and told me she was a radiant too. I honestly dont remember what came over me but I took her In. Then..stuff happened with the monastery and the protocol found me. Ive been giving some of my money to them to Keep living here,I didnt want them to lose their original culture.

Liam wasnt sure how to react,other than-- You sound very happy to have them. Im..im sure its just the same on their side.

Wei Ling grinned-- yeah,within the first year of me adopting them,they called me mom. I remember I couldve cried that day...I actually think I did.

Brimstone chuckled-- You two are adorable.

Cypher had kept quiet,knowing well the struggles of parenthood. They round a corner as they walk and see a Giant pond before them and on the edge of it, few meters away, were a Group of youngsters enjoying warm drinks and snacks and laughing.

--thats them,im guessing-- The moroccan Man said,pointing at the Group discreetly.

--Yeah,thats them. -- she agreed,watching how all around the Group a few sunflowers grew alongside lillies of the Valley,forget-me-nots and even a few lotusi near the water.

All the while,the Group of youngesters were blissfully unaware of their onlookers. Jerico was enjoying brewing some mate as one of their buddies recalls a story of their childhood.

They hand over the mate and one of their other pals say-- hey,isnt that your mom?--He pointed at the three people to their left.

--Yeah,Guess she came to say hi-- They answered,leaning Back to get a better look since the rest of their Friends were kind of blocking their field of view.

--Seem's we've been spotted--Said cypher with a smile in his voice-- All yours,Mamma Bear.

Sage snorted and shook her head a little before waving.

--¡Vieja!--Jerico called out with a grin,waving at her too and taking her in and her companions.

Their mother wore a cream,fuzzy and oversized turtleneck underneath a pretty sage green sweater with black jeans and comfy shoes. She hears her hair up with a sun hair clip and a few chains around her neck and sun pendant.

--Little dragon!--she answered,seeing her kid excuse themself and her heart warms up her kids Friends smile all happy for Jer.

She meets them half way and brings them in for a tight hug. She smells the scent of sunflowers and green Apple and nuzzles closer. She hasnt seen them for months now.

--What a wonderful surprise!!!--Jer said,gently pulling away a little.

--Couldnt miss my little one's twentieth birthday-- She answered,patting their waist.

--Thank you for coming--They smile-- Do you want some mate? Snacks? -- they look behind her and see two men.

A tall,buff Man with american face features. He wears a red flannel and black jeans with dress shoes and a watch on his left arm. He has a thick bear and a crew cut with white hairs on the sides. In their eyes,hes quite handsome.

Then, Next to him is a thinner Man,face hidden by the heavy hood of his white jacket. Black jeans too and comfortable though stylish shoes. One hand is in his pockets as the other twirls a blue circlet of some kind,they can see the faint shine of blue within the hood like theres just two,weak beacons in there. His air of mystery already feels so alluring.

--Whoooose the company?--They followed up,which made their mom look down at the ground.

--friends from work-- She answered-- I came here to say hi,yes but I also need to tell you something. Walk with me?

Jerico could see the seriousness in her eyes. They knew their mother wouldnt involve her work if it wasnt important,seeing as she wouldnt even tell them much of what she did.

--Yeah,yeah of course ma. Let me tell my Friends

--I need to do the same,go ahead.

After quickly informing their companions of their scapade, mother and child walk down the red tiled path. Sage explains with stuttering words and a heavy feeling of guilt about the insanity going on in her job.

Jerico has to take a moment to process things, but they know their mom wouldnt lie about stuff this big.

Spotted light spills past lush treetops And the wind pushes by frivolously. Theres a brief silence filled with the chatter and life around them.

--I wouldntve asked if it wasnt important. Im sorry to do it today of all days but-

--Vieja,its fine-- they promised,taking her hand-- alr-....Alright. ill help you,of course I will. But what about my classes? My Friends?

--You can continue them online. Ill make sure of that-- she promised-- And you can come visit on breaks just like I do.

--Alright then,Im in.

--Thank you,Thank you so much.

--Anything for you,mom. And...for the world,it seems.

Sage smiled and pressed a kiss to the side of her kids head-- the world,and me, are so lucky to have you.-- she gets a shy giggle in return and dismissive hand gesture. But they know she means it.

Eventually they loop back to the other two valorant agents and Wei Ling introduces her kid to her co-workers.

Both men stare at a young person,female features,Brown and gold hair tied up in a bun with a shaven Back of the neck. Tall,Slender, greyish green eyes and decked out in a punk attire with fishnets, maximalist battle vest,a striped yellow and black skirt with a ripped up croptop and covered in necklaces. One of them is a matching sun pendant, and a well detailed dragonfly

--This is Liam,Our leader. His Codename's Brimstone-- she pointed to the flannel wearing man-- Brim,This is Jerico, my kid.

--Your mom only sings praises about you--He answered,trying to be polite and not stare into their pretty green eyes so much. He shakes their hand.

--Of course she does

--Well,i havent spoken much about you..--Sage admitted,sheepishly-- not out of shame,just for your safety.-- her kid shrugged and she relaxed-- And this...is Cypher.

--Just Cypher? No human name?-- they couldnt help the slight sass and the quirk of their brow.

--I do have one-- says the moroccan Man, is that smirk in his voice?--But thats classified. -- he offered his hand and they took It, a gentle and firm shake.

--I must warn you,Cypher Is an information broker.-- Sage said with dismay

Jerico seems to understand almost instantly--Oh!..oh --they groaned,rubbing their eyes-- Really? The people you work with,Mom.

--Im sorry...

--I promise I keep the information to myself--He sounded apologetic, knowing well that the person infront of them was just a normal youngster. He knows how kind of disturbing and worrying it can be..

--Sure -- they answered with a slight but totally comprehensible suspicion--Well I aint got nothing to hide so.. Just really,Keep it to yourself.

--He does-- promised Sage.

--Im quite a fan of your art,By the way--Cypher offered as an olive branch. He likes their spunk and sass. He cant help but smile as his chest warms up-- Specially your compositions and colors

The mysterious and hot sounding Man likes their art? Damn...what a birthday gift.

--Thanks...--They say with a slight blush-- I uh put a lot of effort in it.

--I can tell, youre quite talented.

What a beautiful smile they have. It could outshine the sun-- thanks!

--Well,I believe we'll let you continue on your birthday-- Sage added-- Is it okay to wait in your appartment?

Jerico nodded--Sure,Just...yknow privacy?

--Of course. Ill make sure your room is out of limits-- their mom answered.

--Alright! Cool. -- they smile and press their cheek against their moms and makes a kissing sound,--See ya then.

They do they same with the two men,having to stand on the tip of their toes for it and off they return to their Friends. Liam feels his face burn a little and even Cypher seems just a little bashful.

--A greeting I suppose?--Asked the information broker.

--Yeah...--Snickered the healer-- You get used to it,I promise. Cmon now..--Though her gaze lingers on the sight of her kid all smiles and laughs.

She hated to drop this on their birthday but it seemed to have little Effect. Thats good.

A few hours later they enter Jerico's appartment, quite normal with white walls and a nice flooring. Though its more of a maximalist's and nerd's dream house. Cypher is unbothered by it as he already knew his co-worker's kid had a love for well.. everything.

Brimstone does look surprised and inspects the kitchen/livingroom area but daring not to tread any further. Sage ends up talking a bit more about her child, and after a quick text asking for permission and gaining the okay she makes some snacks and drinks.

Eventually Jerico returns,late at night mind you but they return. They get fully caught up with the protocol.

And in just a few weeks they find themselves upon the Valorant Protocol's base with a New life and a New purpose to follow.