#dh real basically lol

[akkivee]

tbh i expected reijuto’s duet to be called ‘white and black’!!!!!!!! however tbqh i did not expect it to sound like that lol!!!!!

[missgryffin]

I’m one of those who grew up watching the films as my intro the the HP universe then got into the series later and discovered my love for Jily there. I couldn’t believe how the movies basically cut out and changed their dynamic, making it look like their first meeting was a peaceful one and that Lily was giving James heart eyes after him bumping into Snape and knocking off his books right in front of her, I was shook when canon was so opposite lol but I’m curious to know how it was for people who read the series in real time, what was that shift like before and after the release of OOTP??

Was the fanon interpretation of their relationship before SWM completely different or were people still writing Enemies to Lovers since it was a popular trope? Or was the ship not as active bc there was t much to go off of based on other character accounts? Once OOTP releases was there a shift in excitement/popularity for the ship? Were there marauder era fics unfinished now that there was more canon to go off of for their personalities ?

Ahaha omg the SWM movie scene was a TRAVESTY!!! Genuinely one of the top letdowns of the whole franchise. (Alongside the erasure of book!Ginny but that is a separate tangent.) I'm so so happy you went back and read the books!! Movie-only fandom genuinely pains me, I can't lie 😅

My recollection is that OotP is what really launched all of Marauders fandom. I mean maybe some was fic around after POA? But at least for me, I didn't get into it (or Jily) until after OotP, and it felt like a massive boom at the time. Regarding Jily specifically, I don't know if there was any fanon prior to OotP — my recollection is that OotP really set the tone, and then there was all sorts of fanon between OotP and DH, which gave us new information about Lily via the flashbacks that informed the dynamic of her relationships with James and Severus, and just helped flesh out more of her personality.

As for what fanon was and big fics back then, I honestly don't remember. I was pretty young and not involved in fandom so much as just going through waves of reading HP fanfic on FFN and other sites that no longer exist 😂 I do remember being into time travel AUs, like where the Golden Trio and teenage Marauders somehow end up teaming up for shenanigans, so that was definitely A Thing. And I did dabble in writing my own fic! I had some Golden Trio stuff, Marauders stuff, and Draco stuff back in the day (The Tom Felton crush was real lmao). None of it was ever posted anywhere, but I still have the binders I made 🥲

Tagging a few fandom friends who I know are OGs to see if they have more specific recollections / answers / recs to anon's Q's, but anyone please feel free to jump in! This is such a fun trip down memory lane. @all-things-jily @formerlympp @petals2fish @thejilyship @blitheringmcgonagall

[pangaeaseas]

redeeming qualities & love language for Narcissa (ask game, i forgot the numbers lol)

tks for the ask and sorry I'm getting around to it so late

Redeeming qualities: A lot of Narcissa's redeeming qualities are part of her toxic traits--used for good instead of evil lol. And one of them is her CAPACITY for goodness (which like, probably every human being has in some way) she has ideals that she holds strongly, even when it's a purely intellectual commitment. If she could actually take control of her own life and get over the forces that bring her to inertia, she could be a powerful force for good. ANd she does try, especially after the war. And then the flip side of her meanness is her kindness: just as she can be immensely cruel she can be immensely kind and without the expectation of reciprocation. Because she's very good at reading people and so she can use that power to be kind or to be cruel. Her perceptiveness! that's a neutral trait but it does give her that kindness. she's very socially and emotionally intelligent (except with those closest to her) and can read a room quickly. Which makes her really fun to hang out with! and if you get behind her emotional walls she will do a LOT for you and can be a really great friend. She also tends to seek out people who live out those ideals she doesn't keep to. She's funny, she's clever, she can make people feel good! and her pragmatism makes her very good to have on hand in a crisis, she keeps a cool head and handles shit. She also has a good sense of her own limits--she knows when she won't be helpful and to butt out. she has immense physical courage (see the whole lying to Voldemort incident). and there are some opinions she sticks to really strongly and WILL defend, even if they're often silly like 'the weird sisters are terrible'. She can be very passionate!

love language: dramatic gestures! she will write a song for you she will throw her body over ours to protect you she will buy you an expensive racing broom for your first month anniversary she will Make an unbreakable vow to save your life dueling way above her level when someone insults you etc etc. gift giving is also a huge part of this. basically she thinks the best way to express her feelings is these big huge moments and going to huge lengths--she doesn't casually say I love you and is not great at showing affection day to day. she basically thinks the best way to show her love for Draco is to buy him all of these fancy presents, for example. and her love for andromeda after she leaves is expressed through dramatic gestures like sending her a warning when the death eaters attack her during the Blood Traitor Offensive in the first war and in DH, and making her Draco's godmother, not through...actually reconnecting with her. because that would involve all those uncomfortabe emotions, and admitting she'd been wrong, and actually changing her life instead of taking a situation she doesn't like for granted.

she also expresses love through inside jokes and personal references and telling you her real opinion on things. if you have an inside joke with her it means she likes you.

[starshifter]

Y’all probably are here for my notes on Stelle and the writing, but ha! I have fooled you! This contains notes on giant glacier worms!!! (the normal notes are after that lol. I just wanna nerd for a bit. Lemme dh kinnie or whatever the kids are now calling it lol)

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Welcome to the notes on my giant, fucked up, scientifically impossible, super worm 💖💖💖

First up, I have based it on these four real life worms:

Alitta virens (sand worm) Mesenchytraeus solifugus (ice worm) Eulagisca gigantea (my favorite fucked up antarctic worm. It’s so ugly <3) Eunice aphroditois (bobbit worm)

Follow the links to see images if you wish to. Esp the fucked up antarctic worm💖

I did attempt some science though, because this is who I am.

The worms have two life stages: larva and adult.

The larva are born in the water column below the ice. They float around feeding on whatever they can find (including each other) until they grow additional body segments to assist with their next life stage. Then they will swim up to the ice. Not a lot of them make it to this stage. The ones that do are able to safely burrow up into the ice and escape most potential predators.

The worms that successfully burrow into the ice have reached the adult phase. The larva don’t have the jaws for burrowing or the antifreeze secretions to help keep them from freezing in place and provide additional help with tunneling. By this point, they will also have started growing their bristles. Their bristles help them propel themselves through the slick ice or water and also contain various sensory nodes so they get a degree of sensation across their body.

They do not possess eyes and instead rely on vibrations (as a sort of mixed sound and touch sensation) and chemoreceptors (smell, basically) to help them sense their surroundings.

The adult worms will continue growing throughout their life, which is quite long if nothing else eats them. Sizes of over 200 feet (61 meters) have been recorded.

Once in the ice, their diet expands. While the larva are omnivourous and feed on plankton, the adults gain an additional source of food through their burrowing. The ice itself. …Okay, not quite. What they’re actually feeding on is the plentiful number of ice worms burrowed into the glacier. It’s kinda like filter feeding with baleen whales. Except it’s a giant bristle worm through ice.

But that’s not all! These worms are also fantastic ambush predators because of how fast they move and their ability to hide in the ice! (Don’t talk to me about how glaciers are on land, not water. Everyone in this fic is using the wrong term because they are unaware there’s more ocean underneath them than land during this stretch of their journey.)

“But Des!” I hear you yelling. “It doesn’t make sense to have these worms use two separate hunting methods that both employ different strategies! Surely it should specialize in whatever strategy got it the most food?” And you’re right. It should. But this is my made up space worm, so I’m saying it gets to do both. Mostly because I needed a reason for it to attack Firefly and Stelle and opportunistic predator that will eat literally anything worked best for that. Filter feeders tend to be gentle giants. (To be honest, predators tend to be pretty chill too, but this one is hungry, so chill mode is turned firmly off.) And anyways, it’s more of an opportunistic ambush predation thing. They have to dip down to the water to breathe, so if there’s something nearby, they can grab it. They mainly feed by tunneling through the ice. They just are not picky worms and won’t pass up anything that might be edible. So they’ve kept some adaptations that help them snatch the occasional additional meal up.

To be quite honest, I originally wanted to find a way to work chemosynthesis into the giant ice worm (did you know there are bristle worms in the deep sea that live off of methane clathrate deposits? so fucking cool), but I just couldn’t reconcile it with the ambush predation. Those both need different methods of digestion and different bacteria living in symbiosis in the worm’s gut. So I scraped it even though it made me sad. Then I had the filter feeding idea (which tracks with the giant size as all the largest organisms in the ocean are filter feeders!) and decided to combine that instead with opportunistic ambush predation when they go back down into the ocean in order to breath.

Oh yeah, did I mention that they don’t breathe air? Nope, they get their oxygen needs met in the water, where they can directly absorb the oxygen better. They do get some oxygen in their burrowing, as they melt and crunch the ice, but it’s not enough to sustain them. Think of them a bit like reverse seabirds, diving into the ice to hunt while living and breathing in the water. Or uh. Reverse whales. That would make more sense, huh?

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Congrats, you survived worm notes!! Now you can have the normal ones lmao

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I feel like my writing style for Stelle POV is so different from Blade… The curse of trying to convey personality through prose… Hopefully, it isn’t too off putting to have all those sentence fragments in there…

The way I see it, the TB is pretty stiff and nonvocal while around strangers. Once they start feeling more comfortable though, they get really weird really fast. They have a lot of personality locked up under that blank face.

I think it’s accurate to compare the Trailblazer to a pet that’s always getting into things that it shouldn’t and then chewing on them.

Also they strike me as the type to be really stupid, right up until they pull something genius out of their hat. They’ll eat a bolt of fabric, completely fail to read a room before making a joke, and then turn around and win a logic debate. They’re a fascinating paradox to me. How does a brain like this even work? I doubt I’ve come close to accurately capturing it, but it was kinda fun to try. I don’t think I’ll do extended TB POV again tho. Once was enough of a struggle…

Also they’re like…weirdly detached in some ways? Like they don’t quite seem to realize that reality is reality. They can take things seriously, for sure, but they often don’t at the same time. Think of the time they fell into Penacony and were smiling as they fell until they realized they were going to crash land. It took them until just before the impact to even consider an impact was coming. Maybe it was just cause they were dreaming…but I dunno. Penacony seemed very similar to reality in a lot of ways. It’s odd, and I imagine it has to do with the Stellaron and its own reality bending ways. But it does make writing them a bit challenging…

Minor tweaks to Stelle’s characterization done after Amphoreus came out. I am still saying this is set before Amphoreus though. Mostly cause I don’t know what all is going to happen there lol. Good thing the Amphoreus mission happened and got me to go digging back through Stelle’s origins a bit. I was utterly blindsided about the complete memory loss over Blade straight up telling her that she used to run with the Stellaron Hunters. Turned out, I had completely forgotten that Kafka Spirit Whispered her to not think about her past. Whoops. Good thing I fixed that, huh? (damn you shitty memory…)

My friend’s comment on Stelle’s attempt at a pickup line was just “girl failure” and I laughed so hard y’all, so I’m sharing it lmao

Everyone realizes that Shingen Crash is just Genshin Impact, yeah? It’s always been a silly little headcanon of mine that that’s the gacha the TB plays on their phone. ….also it’s the only other gacha I know anything about lol Edit: so I have Silver Wolf now (I finally have all the Stellaron Hunters!!! Finally!!! Now I gotta e6 em somehow lmao rip), and they seem?? To be playing?? Star rail????? I can’t deal with the reality bending consequences of this, so I’m sticking with it being genshin. Fuck this

So I found myself faced with the question of what the fuck Firefly’s cape even was. I came to the conclusion that it was the burn off of a stable fusion reaction used to power her suit. I have no idea if that would work, but this is space opera, so maybe they have a way to do such things, idk.

Can everyone tell that I didn’t have Firefly when I wrote the first fic? I would have put her super special awesome battle mode into the Stellaron fight complete with her sick ass swords. All I had to go on was her boss fight and occasionally borrowing her from other people… Thank you Firefly for coming home this time around. Now I just have to get Silver Wolf and my collection will be complete… At least until they add Elio to the game (unless he’s actually that cat lol)

I’ve corrected Stelle’s texting habits. You’re welcome. Now she actually types like a person her age (I’m assuming young college age?) should ….would I get in legal trouble if I actually put the stickers into the fic? Like, I’m describing them and all, but what about just adding them? I can put their description into their display name for the screen readers

Is Stelle a robot fucker? Why are you even asking me this when the answer is obvious? Next question

More fantastic commentary from my friend: “she doesn’t even know the effervescence of snails” when Stelle was trying to think of something slow moving lmaoooo

Stelle strikes me as the “I take all of my emotions and bury them down deep and then deploy humor to cope” kind of person. As such, she has come to lean on her identity as the “funny one” to interact with the world and has crises if people don’t seem to find her funny, which in turn makes her try even harder to be funny. Also, it means she avoids dealing with the rougher emotions that she should be dealing with, like grief. She’s not ignoring Culseva’s death on purpose, this is just how she’s learned to function. I did touch on her form of grief a little bit, but as you saw, most of this fic she just avoids thinking about it, and when she does think about it, she shies away pretty quickly.

Honestly, I have so many hang ups about Stelle’s characterization. Writing this fic was somewhat of a nightmare. The first thing that really made me think that I’d gotten her character right was when she ate the wrapper. That’s a sign of a great character right there lmaooo. Like, look, I just assumed the non-food items, like toys, were something Stelle would just play with, not eat. Until we got the new area of the Express. And they let me dead ass eat that fabric experiment DH put in the fridge. Now I fully believe that the TB eats all the consumables. I don’t know how they aren’t dead. Clearly, being a Stellaron comes with some perks. Also! Stelle! You’re not allowed to judge people for what they eat when you are LITERALLY eating a WRAPPER!! WTF!!! (I also want it known that this was written before we had the option to make the TB literally eat soil. That just further supported my choices here)

Stelle is both the comedy device and full of so much untapped angst. Luckily, I—your local angst and humor connoisseur—am here to tap that ass. I mean it. Tap it. (is my ace ass even allowed to make this joke…?)

Someone asked me about bathroom usage on the main fic, so I have explicitly addressed this issue in this fic. You’re welcome, random commenter

Oh, I also want to call Stelle the fuck out for saying Firefly was cool for having “calculations” when I KNOW she would call DH a lame nerd for saying the exact same thing lmao

Okay, so I know I didn’t get into who the OCs in this fic were at all, but Sethre and Velthur were the other two OCs I came up with who were accompanying Himeko and March over to Suthi (the other planet) to negotiate for Huth’s sovereignty and also emergency aid in the face of their Stellaron Crisis. Sethre is the Rasna (mountain goat person) and Velthur is the Ziva (vampire bat person. Yes, you should just be picturing a katakan from witcher 3 or something similar. Once again, this planet system was originally designed for a witcher fic I never wrote lol). I did not give them personalities because I never actually did anything with them other than go, huh there’s probably people alongside March and Himeko. Wonder who they are?

DH blatantly lying about Blade because he’s making excuses for the murder attempts lol. Also getting called out for his crush on an old man lmao. Go Stelle go! Bully those idiots!

So there are two ways they let you interact with Kafka in game, either you hate her and want her to leave you alone, or you seem to miss her in some capacity and care about her. I tried to show that the Trailblazer was experiencing some degree of both of these emotions, but ultimately leaned in the direction of missing her. I just have a lot of thoughts and feeling and, most importantly, questions about these two and their relationship. I personally like to think that the SH operative who recruited Kafka was actually the Trailblazer and that’s who Elio was giving those orders to in Kafka’s final lore story. And from there they got really close as they went through a lot of life and death situations together before they recruited Firefly. The Trailblazer came to be a bit of a light to Kafka, who came to be a bit of guardian to them in turn. Which is why Kafka is willing to joke around with Stelle in a way she wouldn’t with anyone else :sob: And then something happened and the Trailblazer either died or chose to give up their life in pursuit of their wish. I could be completely wrong of course, but I like to think I’m not lol. But I’m not wrong that they have some sort of special bond! Kafka clearly cares about the Trailblazer!!!

Silver Wolf is only checking in on Firefly and Stelle rather than Blade because she does NOT want to know what going on with the boys. She just knows it’s either murder or sex and she wants no part in either. No, she’d rather chill with her old bestie, Stelle. Even if she’s third wheeling two people who aren’t dating again. She hadn’t missed that. She’s too ace for this (am I projecting on sw? Yes, and no one can stop me).

I like to believe that Stelle’s ‘reality is a game’ jokes are actually leftover from her friendship with Silver Wolf. SW was the one making those jokes and Stelle just absorbed them silently and started regurgitating them once she was reborn As such, firefly’s face that she couldn’t see was actually more along the lines of ‘god there’s two of them now,’ than anything else lol

Be honest with me, how obvious is it that I only had a plan for the first section of their glacier adventure and the worm fight and the rest was just me going ‘oh fuck I have so much empty space and nothing to fill it with because I’m hampered by the timeline I put out in the main fic for their relationship uhhh fuck ok time skip’

I feel like I sort of made Stelle a helpless princess for most of this fic…. It’s not what I was going for; Firefly is just OP. So I made sure to correct that in the worm fight. She’s a BAMF I swear

I was thinking of having them bring the ceiling down on the worm to defeat it, but honestly, predators aren’t likely to stay and fight if they get injured. That worm decided they were NOT worth the effort to eat and skedaddled. Good for it. I didn’t want to kill it anyways.

I like to think that Stelle finally figuring out what was going on with her emotions went a little something like this: Oh gee, I miss Firefly so much. She’s been gone for one hour and I think I’m moping about not seeing her pretty eyes anymore. I should talk to March. “Hey, March, scale of 1-10, how weird is it that I want to stare at Firefly’s eyes for forever?” “You have a crush on Firefly!?” “What? No, crushes are when you want to spend forever with a person and touch them lots and they give you butterflies and…. Fuck, I have a crush on Firefly. FUCK. What do I do now???” “Uhh, ask her out, duh. She’s totally into you.” And then Stelle asks her out over text after a few days of deliberation because Stelle remains a social disaster 🤦 Luckily, Firefly is also not great with normal, so she is perfectly fine with this lol

Also, since this didn’t really get covered in the main fic and Blade didn’t have all the facts, Firefly wasn’t always around in the Express because she needed to take the time to just sit in her armor to manage her condition. She didn’t want to wander around the Express as Sam though, so she stayed in her room for those times. Stelle and March would come hang out with her though, so she wasn’t completely alone there. I personally imagine that Sam holds Firefly in a sort of stasis condition, so her ELS doesn’t advance when she’s in it. But she can’t live in it constantly, and those bursts of being a normal person cut down on her lifespan. Of course, once ELS starts affecting you, being in the armor becomes extremely painful. So staying in there to prolong your life really sucks. It’s a shitty situation overall. Please cure Firefly faster Elio 😭😭 (Honestly, I did a lot of guesswork on how Firefly and her armor work… We really don’t have that many details. So I get to take creative liberties. Wahoo! My town now.)

I’m using the term AstralNet for their version of internet (I feel like maybe I heard this used before? But I can’t find evidence of it so??). It just sounds more appropriate for their universe. I’m sure it’s an IPC invention and just as shitty as our current version of the internet.

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Bonus content: have some cut scenes from the first draft I was really sad to lose

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In memoriam: one of my favorite scenes of the fic that did not survive edits after I looked up proper references of how Firefly flies (I thought it was the leg jets honestly rip me) 😭😭

“Piggyback ride!” Stelle immediately demanded, sticking her arms out like a child asking to be picked up.

“That is a good solution, yes[[ ….except her jets are actually on her back. She can’t fly if stelle is there. Damn it. My gay moment :singletear:]].” Firefly turned and crouched down in front of her.

Stelle gleefully hopped on her back and wrapped her legs around her middle. The section right above her waist was perfect for her bare legs—there were barely any of the more poky plates there. It was all smooth, black metal that burned pleasantly against her skin.

She hooked her chin over the top of Firefly’s helmet. She had to crunch up a little bit to fit, but it wasn’t too bad—she just draped herself forward a bit more. Firefly’s giant shoulder things made excellent hand grips too. It was like Firefly was made to give piggyback rides.

“Onward!” she called, raising one fist towards the sky. She considered summoning her lance for a second, just to really complete the picture. Maybe if March had been there to get a photo. Could she convince Firefly to do this again after they took care of the Stellaron? Maybe she could get Mr. Yang and Dan Heng to do the same and they could try jousting. That would be awesome.

Firefly stood up smoothly, giving no sign that she noticed Stelle’s weight on her back. That was hot. Not in a weird way. Just—strong people were hot. Yeah. March agreed with her. Dan Heng probably did too, he just was too cowardly to admit it.

Stelle drummed her fingers along Firefly’s shoulder things as they started down the crack in the ice, enjoying the little bursts of heat through her gloves She hoped Firefly was right about finding a way out. There weren’t any signs of an opening in the ceiling— annoyingly, since the split ran so far up—but maybe they would get lucky further in.

Another RIP to an immature joke that got cut once I realized that her leg was more of a vent with maybe some stabilizing secondary capabilities than her main source of flight

Firefly settled more comfortably on the ground. “The ice seems stable again. Perhaps this would be a good time to do a bit more work on my thruster.”

“Heh, thruster,” Stelle muttered under her breath.

“I didn’t catch that.”

“No, nothing! Let’s do some puzzles!”

[mako-doodles101]

Yo got any of your own bootheng/henghill hcs to share with the class? 👀

WAH- HELLO YES I DO???? WHDBNE

BUT BEFORE ANYTHING

(these headcanons are all purely platonic cause I genuinely prefer to think of them like that ngl :))

N E WAYS BOOTHILL AND DAN HENG HCS:

Yes I know I made a whole art about how boothill carries dh whenever he could but like lemme emphasize that this is only a Boothill Privilege™

Dh showing him something in his book: "so you see bla bla bla-"

Boothill who couldn't be bothered to kneel to Dan Heng's level: *scoops him up*

Dan heng:....

Dan Heng: you know you could hold the book if you want

Boothill: nah

Dan Heng: ...fine

On the other hand Dan Heng would absolutely deck any other person who tries to carry him in anyway shape or form (caelus he is looking at you)

Alright listen Boothill used to be a dad and Dan Heng grew up in the shackling prison with no contact whatsoever so what I am saying is boothill found out Dan Heng likes dad jokes and uses that knowledge WHENEVER

*boothill and Dan Heng investigating something and boothill sees stairs*

Boothill: Ya know.... I never trust stairs....

Dan Heng: ....what?

Boothill: ....cause they're always up to something

Dan Heng:

Dan Heng: *snort*-

It makes boothill always proud whenever he can pull one if these

Boothill actually knows a lot about machines and stuff (cause... Y'know) and sometimes yaps about them to Dan Heng

Dan Heng actually took interest in this sunject and records whatever boothil says if it wasn't already recorded in the data bank

(Dan Heng fell asleep once hile boothill was talking about them but only because he was too sleep deprived and hasn't slept in days and boothill is nice company)

(boothill wasn't mad, in fact he was quite pleased the guy finally slept he looked dead on his feet)

After boothill leaves Dan Heng sometimes even goes to welt to ask him about stuff he doesn't understand concerning machines and welt happily explains them which causes some bonding moments cause found family stuff is my JAM u-u

Boothill knows how to play a lot of instruments (guitar/ harmonica/ ukulele/ etc-) (i don't know most instruments forgive me 😔)

He taught Dan Heng how to play ukulele at some point

Whenever boothill visits he just grabs Dan Heng and leaves and no one is phased at this point

*boothill visiting the express and tb greets him*

Tb: are you gonna stay here for a while?

Boothill: I'd love yo, mate but I gotta get something real quick from the express and then maybe I'll stay for a whole

Boothill: *gets into the parlor car*

Boothill: *gets into the archives and rumages a bit*

Boothill: *gets out of the archives with Dan Heng on his shoulders like a sack of potatoes* Well, I'll be right back!

Tb, hemiko and welt who got used to this: sure!

Pompom, also used to this: BRING HIM BEFORE DINNER!

March, who still DIDN'T get used to this: .....

March doesn't get payed enough for this

Dan Heng actually doesn't KNOW a lot of swear words (he knows the basics lol) so sometimes boothill says a swear that doesn't fit into what Dan heng knows so he goes the data bank to look up for what boothill meant

Hemiko found out about this one day and she gave boothill A Discussion™ about how to not use so much colorful language around the others

Boothill shudders everytime he remembers said Discussion™

Aight I think that's actually all I have for now teehee~

[aliennazero]

Thinking about why Kishibe and Yoshida Hirofumi is likely to be blood related (father-son) and not just senior/junior because of these small interractions.

I don't think Captain "I am the best devil hunterᕦ⁠(⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠益⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕤ" Kishibe would let a random emokid1125 he met in a high-risk mission to basically call him an "old boomer" even as a joke.

I'm certain there's familiarity between them.

That's why Kishibe is sure about Yoshida's ability and competence when it comes to devil hunting, to have the potential to be better than him. Even though this comment also can be seen as chit-chat convos between them to make the situation more relaxed.

(Let's be real the entire casts have been through a lot in this arc in the span of like 4 hours—I also like the interpretation of this scene to be played as distraction for Yoshida because he need to kill a lot of "doll people" in the background to prevent more people turning into another dolls—IMO his character is actually kind of altruistic like Kishibe but it's a topic for another discussion).

That's why they talk more "casually" when there's only them two. They have so much trust in each other to talk about their distrust towards Makima and do commentary to the whole chaotic situations. Octopus Devil also seems okay with Kishibe and that's why it let him sit down on top of it just like Yoshida.

That kind of interractions doesn't make sense if it's truly the first time they met each other. Especially for the latter reasonings.

"They could just be senior/junior then. There's no need for them to be blood related. We had seen Kishibe put trust on his disciples like Himeno, Aki, even Denji and Power. So why it can't be the same case for Yoshida?"

Because Yoshida start his Devil Hunter career as private Devil Hunter, he join Public Safety later on after International Assassin Arc and before part 2. Meanwhile Kishibe is from Public Safety since the start, and one of his job is to train PS's new recruits.

Public Safety and Private DH is a different work environment. It makes no sense for Kishibe to spend time with this random private devil hunter if not because they're already related in some way.

++ Oh, another thing of why them being only senior/junior didn't make sense is because of this.

They talked about school here, very family-type of chit-chat.

Later, Kishibe offers Yoshida a cigarette, then followed by forgetting about his school grade and his age (which sounded very absent father jokes btw, and to make it even better Yoshida didn't laugh at it but rather seems irritated to the point he directly called Kishibe an idiot [馬鹿 baka] LMAO).

If Kishibe and Yoshida really are just senior/junior, Yoshida won't call him by "anta" (which is a ruder version of "anata" that means you) but rather he would call him master like any other of Kishibe's students/subordinate. But nooo, he didn't hold back from showing his rudeness in front of Kishibe. He's such a little btch of a son lol, I love him.

TLDR; Kishibe and Yoshida are so deadbeat dad and his neglected emo son coded❤️ I guarantee you'll have easier times convincing other people about this than otherwise, tbh.

Anyway sorry for being insane again, I need to to let this out from my brain.

[joannerowling]

I'm in the process of rereading OOtP and gods, I forgot how <i>funny</i> it is. I mean, sure, the book is really dark and full of emotions, but despite that there is still so much humour(just like the other 6, but here I feel like it's much more needed given all the darkness-and speaking of that, honestly I think it's the darkest in the series, I know people often say DH is the darkest, but tbh I'd say OOtP is darker but that's a story for another day lol)

Also I'd say it's the best in the series, although my personal favourite is HBP.

I agree with your analysis, DH is dark but it ends on a high note and is pretty action packed, and has a general feeling of being a spiritual journey against a specific enemy who represents "evil"; meanwhile the despair in OotP feels much more real and raw, all-encompassing and harder to beat because it's a fight against the stupidity and casual cruelty of ordinary people who refuse to listen to what Harry's saying because it's uncomfortable, despite all he's done to prove himself (saving the school like three times at this point!!). And what Harry gains - people finally accepting that Voldemort is back and he's not a compulsive liar - pales in comparaison to what he's lost to get there. Plus the fact that Harry's still a kid and he's so insecure and guilt-ridden by the end, whereas Harry in DH feels like a near-adult who has a lot more confidence.

Which means, yeah, the humour is especially sharp in OotP because it comes a lot from the narration or characters themselves highlighting how ineffectual the Ministry is acting. Like, Fudge being utterly convinced that Dumbledore is out to get his job - infuriating, but also pretty funny! Similarly, the extremes to which Umbridge is willing to go to in order to stop the DA makes her look completely insane. And how the whole school (including maybe the building?) basically becomes The Résistance™ via quiet support or malicious compliance.

Then there are all the characters who have a more detached or pragmatic approach to the situation and bring a bit of levity to it, like Mundingus, or Phineas. Or the weird allyships of circumstances. I love the moment where Hermione asks Harry to meet her with Skeeter and Luna and he's like "what the hell is going on right now??" (I think Hermione's insanity ramping up in OotP deserves its own post tbh she's absolutely hilarious and brillant in this one.)

Also this gem after the boys fail their Divination exam:

RIP the running gag of Harry and Ron trying to figure out the mysteries of the future.

[gojoidyll]

Jing yuan is a such a Mr steal yo girl to bladie. In every fic lmao 💀

Bby blade so sweet and fluffy. He doesn’t deserve heartbreak!! He fell first and I think y/n also likes him…

Though what would Jing yuan do now? Another headcannon, he’s a 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 sub that could probably go for hours at a time (rip y/n)

Right now does jy have an interest in y/n? Maybe he wants to wife her up…👀 I wouldn’t mind 😳

So it’s interview time!

If you were to put all 3 love interests in bite into a room, who would come out crying first (out of pocket Ik)

Dh vs bladie vs jy who would win?

Is Pom Pom gonna be in the story since the astral express train is? Imagine a rabbit being the conductor

Is there gonna be an explanation on why the zombie apocalypse started?

Villain Jing yuan that’s a sub between the sheets? 🫣🫣

Idk why, I think I smell a poly ending for this one…

I think bite is more bladie focused. blade happy ending!??? I think I’m coping too harddd

Do I smell a Jing yuan vs Bladie scene??

I wonder when dhil’s gonna show up…

End of the interview!!

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Update on my real life shenanigans, I’ve been learning how to cook!! Made 伊面 (longevity noodles) for the first time!! A teensy weensy bit soggy but not offensive to the taste. So it’s a win in my book.

Me On my way to be the next Gordon Ramsey.

Have a good day!!

Blade deserves the world (but I'm angry at him for being e1 when he should have let castorice come home first-)

But anyway, you'll just have to wait and see what jy does haha but he doesn't love her rn if that's what you're asking, he's just curious to meet her ^-^ since Blade has an interest in her.

jy would win. And dh will come out first... I would say he wouldnt be crying but he's definitely frustrated for losing.

Pom pom will make an appearance, but not in the way you think XD

There will definitely be an explanation, but that won't happen immediately. It's a little down the road in the story line ^-^"

sub villain jy is definitely tempting to write 🫣

No poly ending sadly </3

I will tell you now ... Blade doesn't get a happy ending in this 😭 sorry, but his route is angst. (But anything can change in the story, much like how my emperor fic did lol)

There will be a scene like that (jy vs blade)

yeah ... his appearance might come soon. Probably in the next few chapters depending how I write the scenes haha

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That's so cool !!! I don't know how to cook well, just the basic microwave and oven stuff lol XD (and maybe pancakes here and there)

[seriousbrat]

previous anon is so correct. I've always thought sirius and snape were parallels, two sides of the same coin-ish, they even have the same hair. and both carry the guilt of indirectly causing jily's death

also yes yes to james <and lily> being "fill in the blanks" characters & ofc I want more but I get why rowling wrote them that way and why she thought that it'd be sufficient, for the most part it is. but I like how they make people creative, to extrapolate andcome up with analysis that can fit into what is known and make it make sense and it's such a cool way to interact with the books/fandom, hp as a series is easy to digest and has a rich world and memorable characters and came out in the perfect time so it'll always be popular but the fact that fans are able to explore canon this way & it's not even absurd is so so cool and facinating to me, it's what kept the online community alive.

So i kinda went on a tangent there but also to simply put about the snape vs james thing it's also just kinda like tribalism or being a fan of a sports team or our society's tendency to be engage in "love" triangles. team peeta and team gale still exists to this day lol there has to be a bad/good or it's just not worth it for some ppl djdjd

when i try to explain this discourse to my friends <harry's dead dad vs harry's mean teacher> they look at me like im crazy

Agreed with all of this! I think ship wars have long been a feature of fandom spaces haha and it is quite a lot like sports rivalries akehgkj. Truly the opium of the masses. Tbh I might complain but I truly think it was much worse in the livejournal days with Hinny vs Harmonie and all that. Like those were the trenches and it was life or death.

Tbh I think the fact that a love triangle elicits such strong emotional reactions from an audience is the reason they're so often included in fiction. Buffy ended in 2003 and yet the Angel vs Spike war rages on. (which I also don't fully understand. those are both my freaks and I love them.) Team Edward vs Team Jacob was so huge that I remember girls in my high school running around in tshirts that declared them as one or the other-- which is basically the same as wearing a real madrid or barça shirt in the end. Like to be honest you WANT people to be talking and debating your story and characters, you want emotional investment, and a love triangle is a pretty easy-- if arguably cheap-- way of achieving that.

So it's pretty unsurprising that after DH once Snape's story and the Lily love triangle was revealed (and Hinny vs Harmonie conclusively resolved) people naturally flocked to one corner or the other. Despite liking Snape initially when I read DH, I myself eventually settled on Team James because it really did feel like you couldn't be a fan of both. There are several anti-snape posts of mine from that time that occasionally still get notes (although it was fun to argue against myself here) anyway obviously nowadays I don't see it the same way.

but I like how they make people creative, to extrapolate andcome up with analysis that can fit into what is known and make it make sense

I love this too! Honestly I legitimately really enjoy gathering scraps of information and analysing it and building something from it, it's what's fun for me haha. Kind of like a puzzle. Not just for James and Lily but I also had a lot of fun developing the minor Death Eater characters in this post. But I can totally understand why people prefer to focus on more established characters-- and to a lesser extent I can also kind of understand why people prefer to just ignore canon and invent their own characters lmao.

It does irritate me a bit when people try to claim there's no information at all, since if there's no information then what am I doing on this blog haha. But that's beside the point. Like you I think that James and Lily are developed enough for their purposes as dead people in the narrative lol, and that there's enough there to go on anyway. I will say I think it's likely that they are very much developed in jkr's head, since she strikes me as a writer who has a very clear idea of even her most minor characters-- this is reflected in her writing when even someone like Nott sr with his single line of dialogue feels quite real, you know?

And I completely think the fact that so much about the Marauders era is left up in the air is what's made the fandom so popular for so long. It's a mystery to resolve in a way haha

[crehador]

I need thoughts on Rosho. Always looking to hear more about my boy. <-(totally not, like, harnessing the inner Sasara and/or Iwasaki with comments like this, yeesh)

ROSHOOOOOO beloved rosho!!! 🥰🥰🥰

favorite thing about them: i'll never get over the reveal that glasses off rosho is samatoki like ads;lkfj;alkdsjf SORRY i know this is more a sasaro thing than a rosho thing but like the fact that sasara rebounded from rosho with a guy who looked like him...... effervescent. okay on a more serious note. the fact that even with his stage fright rosho is performing again gets me emotional every goddamn time. lov and support u lil buddy......... oh and fall down drunk rosho is also lol. lmao. effervescent, again

favorite line: SO BACK ON MY LIVES NONSENSE for me it's gotta be the own stage moment (i think 6th live?) where he crouched down and sasara came over to him and patted him on the back like 🥺 sasaro real sasaro forever

brOTP: based on absolutely nothing but the glasses i want to see him get along with jyuto lmao i feel like genuinely they could vibe, potentially, but also i think the more people that realize sasara pathetically rebounded from rosho with a guy who looked like him, the better. it's just too funny

OTP: so sasaro of course. like i think hifudo still kings of "basically canon" in hpmi to me, but sasaro is REALLY CLOSE as well. i do also enjoy dh ot3 immensely if only because it's so fucking funny to me, the idea of ichiro's dad hooking up with his ex's ex like 😭😭😭 it's incredible ichiro hasn't had his villain origin story yet considering his estranged father somehow wormed his way into his polycule. anyway. the answer is sasaro but dh ot3 too

nOTP: honestly don't know if i have one. i think i don't have notps in general (besides what i said in my ichiro answers) because like. who wouldn't want rosho really

random headcanon: again based on nothing except that i want him to be even more similar to samatoki, i like to imagine rosho knows how to shoot a gun. and he's really good at it too lol

unpopular opinion: based solely on the fact that he let rei hypnotize him that one time (leading to arb high school au thank u so much rosho even if it wasn't your dream in the end) i can see rosho being into kind of hokey medicines like. he sees a chiropractor maybe lmao

favorite picture of them: i mean.........

[wyrmguardsecrets]

lol I'll be honest with you and tell you why most people just use the visage forms for dracthyr 1) No tmog, what a disaster. Every dracthyr basically blends together except for color and whether you're naked or not 2) Just ugly models that don't feel coherent with the game's artstyle, lanky and thin and overly tall not-dragons, armor would help with this but see point 1. You can tell that it was designed by furries because aside from the fact a furry did design and model it, they kept choosing really garish and ugly visage forms to show off in the previews, choosing extremely clashing color schemes you usually see in furry designs and fursuits (you know exactly what I'm talking about) 3) 2 years in and dracthyr have a pretty awful rep at this point. The lore is so thin and unengaging like a lot of DF and there's no real defined or desired power fantasy like you had for DKs or DHs, so many people go overboard being super overpowered and amazing at all magic while also having the personality and maturity of a 14 year old Redditor. Blizz failed on this fantasy so bad that like half of dracthyr RPers just pretend to be actual dragons instead and dragon RP is a known quantity. If you want to be taken seriously better to just use the form that may have a small chance of signalling you're normal

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[psych---ologically-deranged]

2x09 bounty hunters!

SF, CH, KK, AB, JRr, & DH, that is a lot of people. Six. I won't be able to keep track.

"half pounder" lol

SF "also a fantastic gardener"

(nice car)

"I'm Lindsay Sloan. Not the actress, the network" -Dule Hill 1987 /j

Baby shawn has shawnvision!

Jamocha almond fudge??? THAT'S THAT BLUE ICE CREAM? I would have thought it was fake.

Lol hair

Calls him shawn?

andy "subtle" berman

Why are they talking about hot cream shaves in the psych office circa 1925, what is going on in this commentary, but I haven't seen that deleted scene. The "great north" called & asked NOT to do it in the barbershop as was initially scripted, they asked for it to be .. in the psych office. full face of cream, matching stubble levels, can it be just a gilette, shawn sleeping gus shaving himself, what abt a quatro those are new right, can they be eating shaved ices?

Main requirement for casting: good hair

JRr: We'll just get a women's large

costume shop: bounty hunter costume

Already in s2 they are deconstructing hand to head & they've already abandoned the big song & dance ritual from channeling the cat channeling gus

That's just egg whites on the flat top. Never trust a skinny chef Me: there is no such thing as a canadian accent, we (excluding east coasters who sound very gaelic) sound just like typical americans (by which I mean not east-coast new york, & not southern cowboy)

*jumps on the car*

First & last time they use greenscreen for the car.

DH: He took all my money KK: You take all my money. Tim too. CH: Who is the better poker player lou diamond phillips or W earl brown? DH: wearl Brown JRr: He's a talker, it's part of his game

tinkerbell shawnvision

SF: I worked a jungle cruise boat at disneyland for eight years

SF: Once again, continuing the theme Me: that Henry wears purple? SF: that Henry calls at the worst time possible

go stunt actors

So hard to swim with shoes on

Nah KK is right abt the clothes

It's fun when they are commenting on what's onscreen but it's also fun when they are completely off topic but it's also fun when they stop talking to just watch the show for a bit

KK: Whenever an andy berman episode comes in, chris henze always emails him a picture of edward scissorhands just to know what's in store for this episode

CH: It's fun!

FRIENDLY INDIANS WAS PLAYING IN THE BIKER BAR?

AB: By the way, not every man who looks like a man in this bar is a man, & not everyone who looks like a woman in this bar is a woman Me: Yeah they're a bunch of rock music loving bikers at a bar at who knows what time of day Me: ...Trans rights

"Pisces"

*chooses the thumb to the the first in counting from one to three* *my hoh ass knows basic asl*

First experience in upside-down harnesses (btw how is shawn's shirt still up) "How was it?" "I have a new appreciation for scenes shot upside-down" KK: I remember Andy called in & said John wanted to film this whole scene upside down before they turned over

DH: But it aligns the spine nice

KK: That's all real sweat by the way

KK: That vest we got from the costume shop. James, you WEAR that vest AB I think: That guy was a woman. (The one with the vest I think? In that case, congrats on the gender)

I feel like shawn, as someone with a bike, could be able to make himself blend in.

Gus: Like that couple from open water DH: *doesn't get the reference*

I would have LOVED that shot of the car going by without the car going by

There would also have been a shot of the cops coming to henry bc they found his boat

Another purple shirt

The camp song in the end credits is great. ily andy cohen. SF: We want to broadcast it AC: *horrified*

"I <3 coins"

& look at his hair

*actually ate the steak*

Tancana's actor had a band. "He's too good a singer for this role" DH: You don't need to be a good singer to be in a band. Just look at the friendly indians SF: That's fine dule, but season three episode one: "I'm in a polka dot dress? What?"

"I wasn't even TRYING to get involved

*after touching a dead body*

the wink

whose idea was the wedding march?

SF: Between James & Andy & I there is an obsession with hair on this show that is unrivalled

the bounty hunter walk

KK: I love it when they're like "They should totally kiss they should totally kiss!" & Steve has got this grin on his face like "I'm gonna get them close" & Andy Berman just makes it so hilarious

They're all commenting on the kiss & the chemitry & how well it played onscreen & I love it

AB: If you listen closer you could hear me laugh off camera

samee "hmm" as psy vs psy

"She likes me" "I'm frustrated"

ML learned how to do this

TIKIHAMA

Lalalalala & then the view!

[akkivee]

it was dotsuitare hompo day on division study guide!!!!!!!!! in a separate segment from the one i’m posting about, we learned that in tragic transistor, sasara makes a total of 9 bad puns in the song and including the three other dh centric songs he’s in, he makes another nine bad puns bring sasara’s bad pun total to 18 and that’s a pretty good indicator of how this entire episode went lmao it was pretty chaotic:

similar to how mtc’s episode went, because the seiyuu were having a grand time making jokes with each other and running kinda overtime, they pulled the traits by 2-2-1 lol

iwasaki-san first pulled ‘fur coat’ and ‘mysterious’ which are obviously rei traits lmao

iwasaki-san charted fur coat so high because, in true sasara fashion, took an innocuous comment that kawanishi-san said about sasara’s suit to make a joke using an obscure ref that ONLY kawanishi-san understood lol and had kawanishi-san silent wheezing for a good minute 

‘former delinquent’ and ‘trauma’ were pulled together next and given a 2 and 5 respectively, sasara used to follow samatoki around in their mcd days and trauma comes from the damage sasara took when rosho broke up with him

lol and for ‘art of conversation’ iwasaki-san starts to chart it off the charts, but kawanishi-san without even directly looking at him, tells him, “don’t you draw that line over the parameter” LOL and kuroda-san cheekily adds to ‘make sure you follow the rules~” and the face iwasaki-san made when he realised his joke had been found out LOL so he brought that point down to earth

so kawanishi-san’s first pull was ‘liar’ and ‘stage fright’ and this is very important as to why rosho’s liar trait is so high

kawanishi-san tried to say, in the most convoluted manner i have ever seen, that rosho has nothing to be afraid of lmao

‘straightman’ and ‘gaudy taste’ were pulled next. a straightman (tsukkomi) is the assigned role in mankai skits to be reactionary to the stupid jokes (boke) that their partner tells which is definitely why rosho’s is so high lol

as for ‘gaudy taste,’ rosho wore gaudy suits in his comedy days like sasara but that’s not his sense of fashion. however, his thug wear was still kinda 😬 hence the 3 lol

similar to how we found out how many bad jokes sasara has told in his songs, there was also a spotlight on rosho’s brand of very difficult and hard to understand humor, so while that may be the case for rosho, he still very much so is corny so it averaged out lol

lol kuroda-san pulled ‘quitting smoking’ and ‘serious’ for his, a sasara trait and a rosho one

iwasaki-san asks kuroda-san how many cigarettes does he think rei smokes in a day and kuroda-san answered, ‘a pack a day’ and abema helpfully supplied that’s 10 cigarettes a day LOL hence the fat 0

for ‘serious,’ kuroda-san had initially gave a ‘5′ for, saying that rei is slippery and sus but he’s still a pretty serious guy. iawasaki-san then says, ‘so the he’s actually around a three for that huh??’ and kuroda-san was like he’s right and changed it lol

it’s unpictured but all of them actually screwed up their charts lol and kuroda-san accidently flipped the numbers. in his haste to fix it, he fumbled and dropped his chart and then blamed it all on kawanishi-san, who messed up his chart before him LOL

‘has side hustles’ was a rosho one actually but rei do be hustlin on the side too lol

ohhhh and so for ‘gullible,’ kuroda-san thinks that rei himself probably got scammed in the past which has given him something to base his scammer personality and profession off of 🤔

[toomuchracket]

How are older (daddy) Matty and his dirty hit assistant gf doing? How did things progress after the lana del Rey night?

someone else also said (He would HATE this) but more daddy Matty when u can pls! I read the first one on my lunch break and I am a changed woman

you guys are good! i think your relationship has gotten a bit more serious, especially since matty stepped down from his creative director role at dh and there's less of a potential conflict-of-interest thing around you guys (although, techically, because you're jamie's assistant there wasn't really a weird "oh my boss is taking advantage of me" thing at all. and let's be real, you're the one keeping that company running by making sure jamie knows what's happening, so you probably outranked matty anyway lol). but anyway, you and matty are going on holidays together just the two of you, you're spending a lot of time at each other's houses - he has a drawer for his stuff in your bedroom, and you've got a section in his wardrobe for yours - and he's plucking up the courage to admit to you that he's in love with you :')) basically, the relationship is going extremely well.

in terms of the d word, you've both agreed that it's not a thing you'll necessarily use all the time - i think given the age gap, and matty's hatred of being cliché lol, it's something that you reserve for especially sexy occasions, times when you're feeling especially raunchy and just want it to be a bit more... not rough, as such, but more of a definite dom/sub vibe than usual. like, sometimes matty will instigate sex and say to you "d'you want to be daddy's good girl tonight?", and you'll know he's feeling the need to be a bit more clearly in control - generally, you're down for this when he is.

the last time it was said, though, it was you instigating. you'd been feeling quite needy all day, and i think you were sent a bit over the edge by the sight of matty in your bedroom wearing a fancy suit but looking slightly undone. and you just kinda sidled up to him while he was doing his cufflinks, and whispered "looking good, daddy" in his ear, smirking when you heard his breath hitch. and i think matty just gently grabbed your jaw and went "you're feeling needy, yeah, princess? what do you want?", and you nodded and said "want to get on my knees" and matty was like "jesus christ... alright then, baby, get on your knees for daddy, then". so you did, and started undoing matty's belt while he played with your hair - he was hard as soon as you called him daddy, let's be honest - and looked up at him for approval to pull down his boxers, and the obedience genuinely made matty almost lose it then and there, like he was fighting to keep control when he said "good girl. take me out, you know what to do". and you did as he asked, taking his cock in your hand before letting some of your spit fall onto his tip and working it down his length a few times, matty watching you the whole time and moaning quietly. and then you looked up at him again and went "can i take you in my mouth now, daddy?" and matty was like "please, princess, need you to suck me off", and he could actually feel his heart grow as you smiled so excitedly before you kissed his tip and wrapped your lips around his cock. and you were so good, taking him as deep in your throat as you could, using your hands to work on the sections you couldn't suck, moaning around him as he threaded his hand into your hair and gently controlled your pace; matty was LOUD, groaning at how good your mouth felt on his cock, praising you like "so good, SO good for daddy, princess. taking my cock so perfectly, good girl, gonna make me cum. you want that - want me to cum in that pretty mouth?", and you looked at him a bit teary and just whined what was clearly "please" around him, and the feeling of it on his cock genuinely sent matty over the edge and made him cum in your mouth with possibly THE sexiest groan you'd ever heard. and you kept him in your mouth until you were sure he was finished, proudly opening it to show him all his cum on your tongue before swallowing - that earned you another groan and a "fucking perfect girl", matty stroking your hair as you both panted and recovered for a second. and then i think he pulled you up off your (sore) knees to kiss you and say "such a good girl for daddy, princess, as always. gonna let me return the favour?" - and that's the story of how you guys were two hours late to george's birthday party lol <3

[disneyhighau]

Here's your ticket to dumping info on that AU! Additionally, two actual questions; how often do you think they actually fuse, and how does it hinder regular day-to-day stuff?

Having extravagant walking/flying/floating giants around semi-occassionally must be a real pain on traffic 💀

I have had this ask hoarded in my box and since some guys are cleaning out my vents i have no acess to my computer rn so...

Fusion au!

*me leaping out of my hole with content that caters to me specifically

All of it under cut cause its a lot

So the entire au is pretty much set in the DH world and im ashamed to say ive invested too much brain power to it.

But the way it comes about is Skully and Zazu are kind of a thing and just starting to come into their feelings and one day Skully buys them a pair of matching braclets he finds. He thinks its a totally normal present to get your platonic?/romantic??? pal, bud, cherished person, guy you hang out with a lot.

Until Timon tells him its pretty much a friendship braclet and actually really dumb. So Skully gets all self conscious and tries to take it back but Zazu lets him know he actually likes it and is still wearing it. They have a heart to heart and that triggers the braclets and makes them fuse for the first time.

yeah so its totally ripping off the relationship parallels in SU but in this the jewelry is whats needed for it to work. Where they came from is a mystery but something something legends say they contain bits of the gods powers in the jewels and the gods gifted them to their followers so that they could use them in times of need. They need more than 1 person to work cause no single person could handle that power.

So thats why i reason all the fusions designs look like gods or famous mythical figures. But really i just think its cool to make things reference something else.

But anyway. They fuse and freak a little but as soon as they figure out they can fly theyre all "Lets just keep this between us."

Then Monsters start showing up cause they have to fight something lol and more jewelry pops up and more friends fuse.

For your question, they dont fuse often at first, only occasionally in the dead of night so that people won't freak out about the giant bird man spotted in the woods. Until one day students spot him and confront him about it. After the first monster fight they're crazy about him and through the students the othwr teachers find out and are put in fusion related situations cause they either borrow the bird's braclets or find their own. But otherwise, no one fuses unless its an emergency. Zazu and Skully eventually do it anytime they want tho cause they like it so much

I have a Mulan and Peter fusion based on Sun Wukong and a Peacock and Sarabi fusion based on Anansi i need to draw but basically the more they fuse, the more powerful and self aware Peacock gets until hes basically his own person coming into Zazu and Skullys dreams telling them about the impending world destruction unless they fix it lol

[joannerowling]

One stance that I will not budge from even at gunpoint is that Romione has way more chemistry than Hinny

No hate to Hinny I swear. I love it because it's so stable and dramaless. Like they're just THERE for each other.

But Romione? We've seen them in literally every book. They're so entertaining I freaking love it. They're hilarious. Comedy gold so many times.

Hinny is dramaless and Romione is so dramatic. When I get sick of one, the other sustains me. Symbiotic relationships

Hey, i agree! it's not really a matter of chemistry (i mean we're talking about paper-made characters not real people lol), it's that narratively they're just more entertaining – my opinion ofc, other people may feel different and prefer a more casual vibe. To be fair, Harry and Ginny have some drama, but the drama is very adolescent and comical and mostly contained in HBP ("oh no, she's already with another guy who is objectively quite cool!"). And then in DH they have to split up for "it's not you, it's my enemy" reasons and Ginny's reaction to that is basically the opposite of drama, she takes it stoically. With Ron and Hermione the tension is in the clash of personalities and how they learn to get over themselves to become better partners, some aspects of that are very adolescent but others are universal and can appeal to adults. And since it's a subplot that happens off Harry's perspective as much as in, it doesn't take over the whole story, which makes it more digestible for people who don't like too much romance in their non-Romance genre books.