#could use it as a makeshift cat toy for his nephews/nieces

[neriyon]

All answers are purely from what I headcanon things to be like, and probably hold close to zero actual lore relevance (but I thought to throw in my two cents as a miqo player):

I'd say no? I go with "ears are fur, hair is hair", but again, no idea if that has ever been addressed in canon. They can have patterns not present in their hair tho (some hairstyles have darker ear tips, and I think at least one has these little dark spots in the ears), which I'd count towards the two having different types of hair.

I go with their tales being your avarage cat tails, so yes to wrapping around things (or people) + and swishing them around. Many of the emotes have your tail moving (happy swishes on /joy, sticks straight up in many of the fearful ones), so I kinda see it as them using it to express a lot of emotions, like real cats. Iirc lore mentions something about them using their tails for balance too, so moving them at will seems logical?

This one is probably very different from player to player, but my hc is that miqos don't shed that much. Somehow getting tons of cat fur on your white healing robes seems like a hassle (lol), but I wouldn't scoff at other miqo players who feel like their kitties should shed tons. That could possibly tie that into their personal grooming habits - for example Hawu'li spends a loooot of time making sure his tail is nice and fluffy, so maybe someone doing the same might shed less over furniture/clothes/whatever than someone who prefers to leave their fur be and let the nature take care of it?

Again, probably something people have different hcs about. I happen to like the idea of their tails being somewhat sensitive around the base (so you can surprise them by petting there), but also able to take some beating. Like an overly curious baby-miqo pulling and/or biting it. Nothing quite like play hunting mama's (or some other poor soul's) tail when you are feeling playful.

Did a quick check on wiki since I could've sworn miqo hearing has been called "good", but could not find any mention of it so ehh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I assume it's not super bad at least, so I guess somewhere above hyur but below whatever races do have their hearing praised in offical stuff.

Some Miqo'te questions for... reasons...

Is miqo'te head hair and ear fur the same thing? Or are they completely different textures/types of hair?

How much control do miqo'te have over their tails? Obviously cats don't have prehensile tails like monkeys, so presumably they can't pick things up or manipulate things with their tails in that way, but can they wrap them around things or swish them at will?

Do they molt? Or does the hair on their ears and tail fall out in the same way as human hair? Is there any seasonal impact on their level of shedding?

How sensitive are their tails? Presumably they can feel them being stroked, but are they quite robust? I daresay pulling on them would not be good (as well as being very rude), but I imagine baby miqo'te probably pull on and even inquisitively chew on each others tails in play?

Is miqo'te hearing better or worse than human (Hyur) hearing? I suspect it's probably better than Roegadyn or Au Ra hearing, but worse than Elezen or Lalafells, but that's purely a guess.

Share with me your lore knowledge and your headcanons and ideas that have literally just randomly occurred to you.

[weeb-writor]

Babysitting Aizawa’s 6... no 10 Nieces and Nephews

Hey There! Today we have the second part to the Aizawa fic I posted a few days ago! It can act as a stand alone so don't worry if you haven't read the first one! Ill try to post it here but I'm new at this. Also isn't much Shouta x you in this, just domestic fluff! More a set up for the loving in the next work, I hope you'll still read it anyway. Reader is neutral and I hope you all enjoy!

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Aizawa Shouta x Reader

Aizawa’s mom goes into the hospital for an emergency surgery and all his siblings turn to you to watch their kids, but you don't remember there names let alone their kids.

Words: 2610

Part One  Part Two  Part Three  Part Four  Part Five

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You look a bit of mess currently. You were sitting at home in your pj’s with about 20 pictures scattered around you and 20 pieces of paper. You looked like one of those crazy conspiracies theorists. When in reality you were only trying to learn your boyfriend's family’s names and likes, in preparation for Christmas of course. It was not going so well all you could remember was Saika was the eldest sister but which sister was she exactly? You looked between the two pictures on the table. None of the Aizawa’s age so that didn’t give away and you couldn’t remember if she had the long hair or the bob. 

“God help me.” You mumbled with a sigh as you threw your head back. By some great miracle a phone call pulled you from the task. Surprised to see it was Aizawa you picked it up with a smile.

“Hey baby.” He said

“What’s up love? Aren’t you in class?” You said a tiny bit concerned.

“Should be but my mom’s going in for some emergency surgery, so me and my family are going up there.” 

“Oh, are you alright?? Do you want me to come?” You rushed out to him

“No, and I’m fine. It’s a fairly low risk surgery from what I’m told. There is of course something you could do for me.” He said lowly

“And that would be?” 

“My siblings need someone to watch their gremlins and I had the perfect person in mind.” He said with a light chuckle. You knew right away who this mysterious person was. Part of you wanted to say no because it was a lot of young kids but the other part of you knew you were gonna say yes.  Even if he didnt say so, Aizawa was worried and he didn’t need to be stuck watching the kids, none of them did.

“Yes, of course! Tell your siblings to bring them to my place. I got a few toys from babysitting years ago.” You said getting up to get ready.

“You're a lifesaver.” He said fondly

“Says the hero, I love you babe, everything is gonna be fine and of course be safe.” You told him

“Love you more, kitty cat. You’ll be great, see you when I get home.” He said hanging up. Well now you were panicking. How many kids were there again? What about their parents? You couldn’t even remember their names. How are you supposed to greet them? Holy shit what did you get yourself into is all you could think as you rushed to clean your house. You were barely finished when the first knock came, you opened the door with a small smile.

“L/N!” A tall black haired man said. He looked like Shouta no doubt but he had an undercut and was taller.

“Please call me Y/N.” You smiled at him.

“Aww, you're too sweet! Seriously, how did Shouta end up with you?! Anyway, This is Haru and Jun, they are gonna be good little boys for you, right?” He paused as the boys nodded. “Thank you so much we should all be back to pick the kids at 10!” He said as he started to leave. You waved him off and showed the boys in.

“Alright! So I’ve got a few toys and I think i've got all the cartoon channels. I want to make sure we get all your cousins here first before we do something really fun.” You said to the little boys who immediately went to sit on your couch and watch the cartoons that were playing. You let out a huge sigh of relief. It was done prematurely as a knock at the door was heard. You opened it to reveal his two sisters which was which you didn't know.

“L/N you sweet little lifesaver! This is the rest of them except Rei, Daisuke, and Maki. They all walk together from school, we let them know to come here so don't worry about walking to go get them. Also, only two of them are still in diapers so you should be fine! Thank you so much, love.” The shorter one rushed out before she left, pulling her sister with her. You looked done at the baby that had somehow got into your hands.  Alright this one was obviously in diapers, the one grasping on to your pant leg barely standing up was probably the other one in diapers. Okay you were now surrounded by um.. 6 six kids, maybe more you weren't sure. 

“Okay, now that we're all here, wanna play a game? It's really fun I promise.” You said with a cute little smile but you were lying. You only wanted them to introduce themselves and say who their parents were. You had no idea how to make it fun.

“What kind of game?” A little girl asked, wait you knew this one! She was the only young girl when you first met all the siblings, it was Nozomi, right?

“A umm…. A… A scavenger hunt! Yeah! We're all gonna introduce ourselves and then get into groups by who your Mama's and Papa’s are and see who can find all the treasures first! Whoever wins gets a super cool prize.” You said hoping they didn't ask too many questions about the game you just made up. Which they didn't they all were giggling and saying incoherent things excited to play.

“We’ll go first since we're the oldest. Im Haru.” The tallest one with his hair pulled back into a ponytail said. “I is Jun! Our papa is Shiori! Can we play now??” The cute little blonde one said. Okay 2 down, Tall and hair pulled back is Haru, Small and blonde is Jun, they are both Shiori kids. 

“Oh us next, us next! I'm Tetsuya, that's Umi, my lil sister, and Yukio is the one on your pants. My mama is Shizumi!” The boy said. He was a cute pudgy boy with black hair that covered his eyes. Umi, the little girl had her dark blue hair in two pigtails on top of her head.  Lastly the little boy holding on to your pants also had black hair but it was super curly.

“L/N, Oni-chans at school and Taiyo is too small.” Nozomi said with teary eyes. Okay so the one in your hand is Taiyo, another one of Saika kids. Okay you got this. You made it through all 7 kids, you would worry about the 3 at school later.

“Its alright me and you can be a team okay?” You said as she beamed up at you nodding. Alright with that you went to place the sleeping Taiyo on your bed. You left the door open so you could hear if he started to cry or moved around too much. You took a sheet and made a makeshift sling for… Yukio, right! 

“Okay so there are 3 hidden treasures around the house! One is a pink treasure chest filled with jewelry and prizes. The other is a huge blue fluffy whale, be careful it may bite! Lastly, there are 2 little lions wandering sound, we gotta catch. I'm gonna get you guys nets of course! First one to get all of these things and show me them gets a super cool prize!” You said as they erupted into cute tiny roars!

“Okay here are your nets! May the best team win!” You smiled at them as they took off. You felt a little bad for the Aizawa cats you had just set up to be chased but something told you they wouldn't mind. They were always so attention hungry this would probably please them.

“Okay then, lets go Nozomi!” You said grasping the young girl's hand. You knew where everything was of course so you just followed her around. Only helping her when you heard kids getting close to the hiding spots or helping her try to catch the cat. You guys had been playing for about an hour now, only needing to catch the cats who caught onto the game and were running for their lives.

“Kitty cat c’mere!” Jun said as he chased the gray cat around.

“Yeah! We jus wanna win.” Haru said following his brother. You laughed as the cat gently pawed at boys. Now that you were thinking about it there were so many boys in this family. Only 5 girls out of all these boys, Aizawa’s genes were strong for boys. You didn't get long to think before you saw a flash and heard a camera click. You turned to see 3 older children one with a camera.

“Oh man, Uncle Shouta is gonna be so happy.” The girl said with a smile. She looked to be about 12 and was blonde, if you had to guess she was Jun and Harus’s older sister. There were two boys next her one was probably the oldest of all the kids.

“Sorry for letting ourselves in, we were just knocking for a while and you didn't answer.” The older one said as they bowed.

“No no it's quite alright! Sorry for not answering, my hands are a little full!” You said as you had Taiyo still slung around your back and Umi squirming in your hands. 

“Yeah, we can see that!”

“Daisuke! Rei! We gotta catch the kitties so I can win a prize.” Nozomi said, rushing off to her brothers. You made a mental note of who was who.

“Oh no problem! Uncle sho’s cats are easy to catch.” Rei said and he was right, you just had to know how. He went over to the counter and got the cat treats and sprinkled a few on the floor. The cats came running and began eating as fast as they could. He then took the blanket/net and put it over the 2 cats and picked them up, they compiled so easily it was almost comical.

“Oh! Yay! I wins right?? I get the prize!” She said dancing around you.

“Yes you do! I should go get dinner ready but you can pick anything you want to take home.” You said booping her nose. She did a little gig before taking off like she knew what wanted.

“Alright, who wants to help with dinner!” You called to the kids you roared with agreement, racing to the kitchen

“Oh you three would you mind helping and introducing yourselves?” You asked as you took out a few different ingredients.

“Oh yeah! No problem! Im Daisuke, the eldest of all the Aizawa’s cousins. First year in high school actually! This is my little brother Rei, he is a middle schooler. Then the girl snapping pictures is Maki-chan she’s the closest to my age! Oh, Saika is my mom and uncle Shiori is Maki’s dad. What can we do to help out.” He said with a smile.

“I think they said introduce yourself but whatever.” Maki mumbled kind of chest fallen. You only laughed and pointed out what they could do while you helped the kids and before long boom, dinner was done. You might have to convince Aizawa to have kids soon cause they were actually helpful. You all set the table and sat down to eat, almost forgetting about Nozomi.

“Can I have this!” She rushed to you holding a black cat plushie that had red eyes. Aizawa had given it to you when he went on a mission that pulled him from home for a month. You gave a small smile to her.

“Of course! I said you could have anything you wanted, I meant it. Let's eat right now then you can go snuggle and lay down.” You said moving to pick her up and help her to the table. Your table of course wasn't big enough so the big kids were in the living room, the younger kids ate with you and the babies you fed first were now napping. You let out a breath, it was 7:30. They should be done by 10:00 at the latest and the younger kids would be asleep by 8:30, so you could say you had this in the bag. Dinner was peaceful to your surprise and now you were all washing up and laying down on the makeshift beds you made in the living room. Maki was taking pictures as you had put all the younger children into your shirts, it was quite a sight to behold.

“Alright everyone lay down!” You yelled as you grabbed the youngest and began rocking him back and forth. 

“We is ready” Umi said as she snuggled into her blankets

“Ready for what?” You asked cautiously.

“When we visit uncle Sho’ta he tells us ‘tories at nighty time.” Tetsuya slurred to you.

“Oh, okay then…. Um. Once upon a time there was a pretty Pink cat, who lived in a kingdom full of all kinds of cats. One day he got curious and left the safety of his kingdom. He went into a forest and everything was fine until he bumped into a big huge black wolf. He wanted to run back into the safety of his kingdom but the icy glare of the wolf kept him still. The wolf slowly opened its jaws…. Showing off its rows of bone crushing smile. The pink cat thought it was over for him until the Wolf smiled at him. ‘Your a little far from home, huh? Its okay I get lost sometimes! I can take you home.’ The wolf said, her tail starting to wag. The cat didn't know what made him say yes but he did. He continued to say yes time and time again, long after they had become friends. He said yes so many times to the cat he thought he might run out of yes’s to give. But when the wolf asked him to leave the safety of his kingdom behind and run around the world with him, though it frightened him. He said yes again without hesitation. And that's how the pretty pink cat learned to fly.” You said, it was a cheesy story with no real plot but it worked. You looked around to see everyone sleeping even the bigger kids. You let out a breath you didn't know you were holding. You looked at the lot one more time before you went to work on something you had been meaning to all day. You continued to work on it even as 10 o’clock hit and you said goodbye to the kids one by one. Only stopping when a familiar set of hands wrapped around your waist. 

“What’s this, kitty?” Aizawa asked as he kissed your neck sweetly.

“Ahh, nothing much! Just a family tree with pictures and the things about your family.” You said as you stated proudly at your work.

“Oh that's sweet. I saw the pictures Maki took and that you let Nozomi have your cat, I know it was special to you.” He said nuzzling further into your chest.

“It's fine, I told her she could have anything and to be honest, I'm wrapped around every single last one of them’s thumb and I would do anything for them so it really was nothing.” You said playing with his hands.

“God, I love you, how did I end up with you? I mean god I just love you. Let's get in bed. I wanna cuddle you, Right. Now.” He said turning you around and picking you up.

“Yes, sir.” You said clinging to him like a koala.

“Oh and babe, you got Shizumi and Saika mixed up.” He said into your hair.

“GOD DAMMIT”

[renfys]

Breaking Out (Of Our Cot)

Spot the toddler

Snappy is officially sleeping in his big bed. And it really is a bit bed. My little croc is a little kid, genetics and well, he started off little, so being in a single bed really emphasises it.

It’s going well so far. The bed frame is actually my nephew’s old bed (he’s fifteen now an definitely outgrown it). I forget where the mattress is from. We’ve had it for a little while because my niece and nephew stay over a lot (well, my nephew less so nowadays), and it was actually Poppy’s bed in Poppy’s room. Since the move, this means she’s moving rooms too but we’ll make the spare room nice for her and even move the chicks that are currently living in there.

Nap Time Tests

We never intended to move him into his bed quite so soon, we were working up to it in fact. Bethend started putting him down for his naps in his bed, and he did well. We expected him to immediately get out of bed when we left him to cry at the door (we close the door for naps and bedtime to stop cats getting in). However, he cries a little (not every day) and then goes asleep cause deep down in his toddler brain he knows he’s tired.

When he wakes up he either cries for us or sits on his bed and talks to himself, his friends or reads a book.

The First Night

The first time he slept in a bed was actually at my aunt’s. He fell asleep in the bed and was pretty settled so she took him for the night instead of driving him back to ours. He was fine, had some pillows to make a makeshift bumper and woke up at his usual time.

The first time he slept in his bed at home was accidental. I was at my writing group and bethend could only get him to settle by lying with him in the bed. He finally fell to sleep there and we decided to leave him instead of trying ot move him and risk waking him.

He was fine.

The next morning he got up and come running into our room very happy to be able to do so, so we just kinda went with it. We weren’t ready. We had a duvet set my mum got him but no actual single duvet. My mum got him one of those as well eventually. For the first week, he was sleeping with a double duvet – this was before the heatwave.

I love hearing him come running into the room (unless it’s 5 am). Some days if we’re burrowed under the quilt he says ‘mummy hiding‘. Which is probably the case on the odd day he gets up too early. Mostly he gets up around seven/half seven.

He’s been the same to get to sleep as he was when he was in the cot, better actually I think. And he doesn’t actually get out of bed when he’s upset or doesn’t want to sleep.

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

“Helping.”

As with most things when it comes to toddlers (and life if I’m honest), we were doing really well and then he fell out of bed. Okay, so it wasn’t a big issue. He didn’t hurt himself, he doesn’t have a bedside table or anything by his bed right now. He spent the rest of the night in bed with us and the next night went to bed as normal.

With a new bumper.

Bethend made it out of some wood we have and an old skirt. Works well considering how much he moves around in his sleep.

The real problem is the over the last couple of days he’s not been getting out of bed to come and find us. He just sits in bed yelling for us and saying ‘eisiau mynd lawer�� – want to go down (stairs). I don’t know why he’s been like this, or why he doesn’t want to come into our room. It’s annoying cause it means getting up as soon as he’s awake, rather than let him play in our room with the toys and books we have in there.

It could all change again in another few days though, and it all went much easier than I had anticipated.

Next: potty training…

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