#dielle's wish

[ask-obt]

Do you think Damini could have been a good parent in an au?

Anonymous asked: ooo more au talk please! love hearing about aus

// Damini being a good parent probably would've completely changed the trajectory of her relationship with Mateo and Dielle... So lets explore that! In this AU Damini stays with Mateo out of love, and happily welcomes the addition of Dielle into their family unit. Assuming everyone here is pretty well adjusted, I can imagine they'd have another kid after Dielle. We'll call this theoretical child "Dielle 2" to avoid confusion. While Damini has a good relationship with Dielle, I like to imagine Dielle 2 ends up being a Zeraora, just to spice things up. And to continue spicing things up, let's say Damini gets sick and has a hard time keeping up with her kids, a la Disney mom. Both Dielle and Dielle 2 feel out of place in their family, the former being "too powerful" for a Meowth, and the latter feeling "too weak" for a Zeraora. Their parents don't hold it against them, but the family unit gets a lot of strange stares from folks around town. This probably gets to Mateo eventually, and he ends up leaving a sick Damini alone to raise their two kids on her own. The stress soon gets to her, and she passes away... leaving Dielle to care for Dielle 2 all on her own. It's a struggle as Dielle 2 is trying to come into her own, but Dielle is just overbearing as an older sister. It eventually comes to a head as Dielle 2 runs away from home... and Dielle is left searching for her sibling when she decides to join Team Maelstrom in an effort to find them.

[vaugarde]

i know in OBT, damini is clearly the worse parent because she didn't even attempt to raise dielle and clearly sees her as a failure, and she wouldn't have been a good parent even if she stayed.... but damn it, the deviantart comments are so annoying about mateo that i'm this close to stanning her anyways. very epic of her to subvert gender roles by being the deadbeat dad. hashtag feminist icon.

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WEBCOMIC DIRECTORY

Half the reason I created this tournament is so I could find new webcomics to read, and I know a bunch of you are following it for the same reason.

So: Here is a directory of every webcomic that was submitted!

Please note that this list is Very Long, so (1) I have not read most of these webcomics and can't vouch for their content, and (2) I have not tested any of these links, but I can fix any errors if you point them out.

Comics are listed in alphabetical order, with the featured couple(s) or poly ship(s) in parentheses. Broken into two parts because Tumblr only allows 100 links per post and there are 140 comics.

180° Angel (Sam and Lilith)

2 Slices (Ruka and Rio)

A Week in Warrigilla (Hazel and Willie)

A&H Club (Adrian and Hildegard)

Alice and the Nightmare (Edith and Quinn)

Alien Heart (Ivy and Rosa)

Always Human (Sunati and Austen)

Balderdash (Georgie and Afia)

Band vs Band (Honey Hart and Turpentine)

Blindsprings (Ember and Irelia)

Boyfriends (Jock, Prep, Nerd, and Goth)

Bugtopia (Arachne and Scarlet)

Burn Away (Abella and Edie)

Charity Case (Sylvia and Jerry)

Circuits and Veins (Ai and Aki)

Console Her (Claudia and Ava)

Cucumber Quest (Almond and Peridot; Piano and Ametrine)

Cursed Princess Club (Nell and Jolie)

Dame Daffodil (Charo and Alesea)

Daughter of the Lilies (Lyra and Margot)

Dead Winter (Lizzie and Alice)

Dicebox (Griffin and Molly)

Dirt Creek Runs Red with Blood (Ines and Sarepia)

Dom&Mor (Dominique and Morgan)

Dresden Codak (Kimiko and Elith)

Drop-Out (Lola and Sugar)

Dumbing of Age (Becky and Dina; Jennifer/Billie and Ruth)

El Goonish Shive (Ellen and Nanase; Catalina and Rhoda; Diane and Lucy)

Eldritch Darling (Ina and CJ)

Encore! (Quinn and Hana)

Ennui Go (Izzy, Darcy, and Tanya)

Errant (Sarin and Jules)

Facing the Sun (Aarya and Liza)

Finding Wonderland (Alex and Lucky)

Flowers For the Arsonist (Lucia and Paige)

Four Leaf (Carla and Lina)

Gals (Croix, Sam, Lux, and Charlotte)

Ghoul Crush (Sison and Laguna)

Girly (Otra and Winter)

Glitterlaced (Goldie and Luck)

Go Get a Roomie (Roomie and Lillian)

Guide to the Land of Monsters (Arnatuk and Tove)

Gunnerkrigg Court (Kat and Paz; Zimmy and Gamma)

Hard Lacquer (Claire and Robin; Claire and Petra)

Heartstopper (Darcy and Tara)

Heir's Game (Sevilia and Ilianna)

Her Tale of Shim Chong (Shim Chong and Madam Jang)

High Class Homos (Sapphia and Odette; Sapphia and Marla)

Homestuck (Rose and Kanaya; Calliope and Roxy; Vriska and Meenah; Vriska and Terezi)

How to Be a Werewolf (Marin and Marisa)

I Love Amy (Amy and Bibi)

I Want to Be a Cute Anime Girl (Cheryl and Delilah)

I'm the Villainess but the Heroine's Trying to Capture Me (Nelly and Nancy)

In My Heart (Wantanabe Yuki and Sasaki Mari)

Isadora (Isaline and Theodora)

It's Okay to Like Girls (Sophie and Olivia)

Kidd Commander (Phineas and Agatha)

Kill Six Billion Demons (Allison and Ciocie Cioelle)

Kiss It Goodbye (Aruka and Yukimi)

Lady of the Shard (Radiant Goddess and Acolyte; Radiant Goddess and Old God)

Lesbiampires (Daphne and Veronika)

Lore Olympus (Athena and Hestia)

Mage & Demon Queen (Malori and Velverosa)

Matchmaker (Kimmy and Marlowe)

Missing Monday (Foyle and Monday)

Monsters and Girls (Lili and Sera)

Motherlover (Imogen and Alex)

Moving In (Jackie and Riley)

Muted (Camille, Nyra, and Dendro)

My Dragon Girlfriend (Dani and Christie; Callie and Olive)

My Sweet Archenemy (Mad Spade and Miss Sunshine)

My Wish Is to Fall In Love Until You Die (Shiina and Mimi; Seiran and Ari)

Namesake (Selva and Alice)

Nano List (Chacha and Zavi)

Never Satisfied (Neith and Isra)

Nevermore (Lenore and Annabel Lee)

Night Owls and Summer Skies (Emma and Vivian)

Not So Shoujo Love Story (Rei and Hanna)

Octopus Pie (Jane and Marigold)

Offbeat (Beau and Julie)

On a Sunbeam (Mia and Grace; Alma and Char)

On Borrowed Time (Rune and Dielle)

Osora (Celia and Catalina)

Remaining links in part two!

[carmold]

it's been 6 weeks and i don't jhave the dielles wish book yet 😔😔😔

just a normal bestie thing

... In other news, it's time for another print run! Want to hold OBT in the physical realm with your own two hands? Have a copy so when the heat death of the internet incinerates all PMD fanfics, you have proof that you didn't hallucinate the whole thing? Pre-orders have opened for Dielle's Wish and Dungeons & Damages! Both listings also come with a digital PDF so you can poke around while waiting for your order to cook on the presses. Pre-orders for this first wave end on June 16th, but if you miss 'em this time around, there'll be another wave of prints in the coming weeks after! And yes, international shipping, though more expensive than the books themselves, is available :)

Books for the main story are not up for pre-orders at this time, but will have their own print run (hopefully) before the end of the year.

[woo-led]

Just bought and read Dielle's Wish. It was very emotional and gorgeous! Well done, and I'll be looking out for more special episodes in the future!

totally late to this, but aaaa thanks so much!! I have another special episode in the works that I’m hoping to release after chapter 7!

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[moonscape]

we're talking about people still dickriding for mateo despite everything dielle's wish implied about him in emery's server rn and it's damaging me. "ohhh he's just heartbroken because he's a sad divorce man. sure he neglected and abandoned his daughter and is implied to have hit her but won't somebody think about mateo's broken heart because his bitch of a wife left him!!!!!" and like. if this is how people view dielle's parents i am fucking TERRIFIED at the response to my mara and alastor. like damini absolutely sucks and she's just as guilty of abandoning dielle but holy shit demonizing her to hell and back while being like ohhhh poow wittle mateo :(((( is insane.

mara sucks shit too but i just know people will accuse her of causing all of the problems and ignore the nuance of her being a victim too, meanwhile alastor will just be received with "he's just under a lot of pressure of being famous! it's okay for him to neglect his kids and take his stress out in his wife! she's the wife and the mother so she's supposed to be the emotionally mature one!!" *ignores the fact that mara carries the team by being the only one capable of mega evolution (though for ajax they are still very capable without it)* *ignores the fact that she's mega evolving without a reliable anchor, which is not only dangerous but also incredibly painful* *ignores the fact that mara is basically raising two kids by herself with some help from ajax but after she and ajax have a falling out she really is on her own* *ignores the fact that she was cut off from her family as a support network* *ignores the fact that this all ultimately leads to her death so she never gets the opportunity to really be happy ever again*

wow it really is true that a trope just becomes infinitely better when it's given to a female character. i love damini's deadbeat mom swag but can't stand mateo for being a deadbeat dad (they are parents to the same child)

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LOUIS MARIN is NINETEEN and is a SOPHOMORE who is a UNIVERSITY STUDENT. He is OPEN.

♫ Stubborn - Keyshia Cole ♫

WHY AM I SO STUBBORN WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE

Louis can be very stubborn because he honestly believes that he knows what is right. His sense of self-security is something most people admire, but some do take it the wrong way. He just needs to feel in control of his life and his love, which is difficult for him sometimes. He sees it as a sort of dependency, though he would never admit that to anyone else. His parents were together for his entire childhood, but he wished that they hadn’t been. They tried so hard to stay together and put up a good front for him and his younger sister but they saw right through it and it hurt them more than a divorce could have.

NOW LOOK WHAT I’VE DONE

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PERSONALITY

✔ Decisive, Adventurous, Entertaining

✘ Stubborn, Arrogant, Envious

LAST TEXTS

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PUZZLE PIECE

➳ Louis noticed a change in Robin’s behavior in the weeks leading to her disappearance.

CONNECTIONS

❤ Dielle Lavere - Louis actually met Dielle in a bar just off of campus. They started talking and hit it off immediately, exchanging numbers. They’ve been texting a little since but haven’t seen each other around campus.

❤ Gabriella Torres -  Louis bumped into Gabrielle in the dorm building, sending her books flying everywhere. She wasn’t impressed and he didn’t apologise, they don’t really know much about each other.

❤ Alexis Fitzgerald -  Louis hasn’t really spoken to Alexis much, maybe a couple conversations here and there, but he noticed her talking about someone on the phone and seemed very upset. He keeps meaning to make sure she’s okay but it seems like an intrusion.

SUGGESTED FACECLAIMS

★ Justice Smith

★ Jordan Fisher

★ Jacob Artist

[ask-obt]

@The Author: Can I ask what the reaction was of Mateo's friends of him just disappearing and leaving his kid in the main/canon timeline? The Tyranitar at least is a dad, but the previous answer implies he was about as good of being one as Mateo was. Did his action shock them into being better parents? Did they resent him for abandoning them too without even thinking about Dielle? Do they just not care?

// while it'd be nice to think that they had any strong reactions, I think at most they'd be sitting at the bar and be like "hey, you hear he skipped town?" and then crack a joke and move on to other topics. they hung out with him, but I don't think any of the bar crew were particularly emotionally vulnerable with one another. but maybe, just maybe, when one of them returned during a quiet evening, they peeked into their kid's room as they slept. and maybe something briefly stirred in their chest.

[ask-obt]

Now that Dielle's Wish has concluded with its public updates, I can post this! I'll preface this by saying that I don't think there's any canon conclusion on what happened to Mateo during Dielle's Wish- I think a huge part of the story is that Dielle never gets closure on what her dad was thinking, whether it be him telling her he hates her, to him telling her he loves her but can't take care of her, she'll just never know. There are other intentionally unknown elements in the story as well- whether that rock was Jirachi's cocoon, whether they even heard her wish if it was them, or if it was all a fairytale. I left all of these elements ambiguous on purpose, because there are a lot of things in life we never truly get a conclusion to.

That said, I do have my own headcanons! I don't think these are necessarily true to the story, so don't go quoting this post at anyone who has different theories because this is also just a theory. But I like to think the crystal perhaps was Jirachi (perhaps not a literal pokemon- just a magic rock with intense psychic abilities), and it sort of... amplified certain thoughts Mateo was already grappling with. I know that in the Jirachi Wishmaker movie Jirachi was implied to not actually be able to grant wishes, it just had immense psychic powers- which I think is a fun idea! Perhaps, if Mateo had thoughts about coming to terms with Dielle resembling Damini, a different thought could have been amplified instead...

There is one thing I can say for certain though, and it's that we probably won't see Mateo again in the comic. Or at least, I don't plan to. Perhaps Jirachi will send me psychic brainwaves to change my mind? I guess we'll find out together!

(I just like rotating stuff related to Dielle's Wish around my head haha, if y'all have AU questions feel free to send em! I have like, a million different scenarios I've thought about)

[ask-obt]

How did Damini know, that Dielle would end up being a Meowth and not a Zeraora? She left before Dielle even hatched. Also is it likely that Dielle has halfsiblings? I could imagine Damini being despaired enough to try with other Pokemon in hopes of getting a Zeraora-Child at some point. Or did she just gave up after the incident with Mateo?

Dielle: Before a pokemon hatches, their eggshell usually indicates what's inside. Whatever my egg looked like, I guess it was obvious I was going to be a Meowth...

Dielle: But... I guess I never really thought about having half-siblings. I guess both mom and dad could've gone off to have other kids, couldn't they? Mom could meet another pokemon that was the same species as her, and dad could've had a partner and had a "normal" kid together. Maybe that way they'd both get what they wanted in the end...

// Dielle never saw her own eggshell, but it had little Meowth coins on it! which also look like hashbrown patties, yum yum

[ask-obt]

You mentioned it in the tags and I am very curious what a better Mateo parent AU would be like! Love to hear your rambles.

// I got so so so many asks for this, very exciting!

So I think to start, a better parent Mateo AU would not mean he's more well-adjusted to begin with- if he were, he either would've maintained a relationship with Damini in a more healthy way, or wouldn't have gotten together with her in the first place. I think he'd still have a rocky start with Dielle, still leaving her alone for long periods of time while out drinking with his friends. Instead of being "not depressed", a better arc for him is learning to build a support net for himself. And I think this would begin by hearing from his Tyranitar friend that there's a parenting group in town. Maybe this Tyranitar is heckling the idea of it (I like to think he's a dad as well), and Mateo gets thinking...

He's nervous about the idea, but joins the parenting class. He probably doesn't bring Dielle to the first session because of his Damini hangups, but quickly gets over it when he sees other parents have brought their kids and feels a little embarrassed that he's the odd one out. The only other participants there that don't have a kid with them are Moxie and Charlotte- they're volunteers at this parenting group and help keep kids occupied during parts of the sessions that require more focus from parents. He strikes up a conversation with them, and it turns out they're excited to be parents themselves someday, but they want to be fully prepared before they start trying for a kid. Mateo is self-conscious about the lack of planning involved with Dielle, but is reassured that even coming to the parenting group was a huge step. He feels better after this interaction, and brings Dielle to future sessions.

From here I can imagine some pretty wholesome interactions with Mateo and the rest of the parents. As he gets more involved with the group, he finds himself visiting the bar less and less... much to the dismay of his bar buddies. Things come to a head when he visits the bar one night and the Tyranitar says he's gone soft, and that parenting is his only personality trait now. Mateo snaps back by saying that at least he's a dad to his kid, and not a stranger who only comes home to sleep between bar visits. He cuts ties with his bar friends after this.

After some time I think Mateo "graduates" from the parenting program, but still keeps in touch with the friends he made to arrange playdates for Dielle and the other kids. Since he stopped visiting the bar, he has to find a way to make money that isn't gambling, and maybe takes up a retail-type job in town. His life is harder than it used to be, but it's also more fulfilling when he finds how much happier Dielle is. He still keeps in touch with Moxie and Charlotte especially, and soon finds out they're having their own egg together! When Inigo is born, he and Dielle grow up as childhood friends instead of siblings like the main story.

I imagine Dielle visits the dojo often in this AU, and is likely working there a la how she was originally written in OBT's script (pre-Dielle's Wish). Pretty much everything involving meeting Team Maelstrom is exactly the same, she just has Mateo in the picture now.

[ask-obt]

just finished reading dielle's wish and saw your post about it...wdym by mateo coming to terms with dielle resembling damini? and also another thought about an au: what would have happened if damini had stayed?

// a lot of Dielle's Wish tries to show events (through what dielle sees) rather than explaining directly through words how characters are feeling. while dielle going to meet jirachi may be considered the climax by some, I feel like the emotional climax of the comic comes after this comment from our tyranitar buddy!

where mateo's immediate response is to leave,

and then recount to dielle the ways in which she's like her mother (ie: her hurting him and leaving a lasting impression)

which going back into my own personal theory/headcanon territory (how he behaves is left intentionally ambiguous since he never actually opens up to dielle/the audience, so once again don't quote this post to try proving other theories wrong), I think he gives dielle a bland childhood because excitement, either derived from happiness or anger, can result in dielle expressing herself with discharges, on purpose or by accident. every action he takes is to control her, but not in a way that directly puts himself to blame. and in some ways he isn't wrong- we get a glimpse of that in the main comic as dielle recounts a bad memory she had with inigo and moxie while she talks with rune in the cafe in chapter 4.

mateo could never control damini, which in his eyes, he was punished for when she left him. when dielle leaves, it's not just a reminder that she looks like her mother- but that she can act like her too. and if she can act like her mother and work against his wishes, what else can she do?

(note: I don't think he literally had this thought process and introspection, I think he was just purely working off of instinct)

so if mateo was willing to accept dielle as her whole self instead of repressing the parts he rejected (the zeraora part, or more specifically parts of her that resembled her mother), perhaps things could have worked out differently for their parent/child relationship.

this post is already long so I'll save the "what if damini stayed" au post for another one! I got a few asks about that one already, so I'll lump it in there!

[ask-obt]

Inigo, do you think of Dielle as a sister figure or an acquaintance figure?

Inigo: Sister, obviously. She never wanted to call Ma or Mama by anything other than their names, but she calls me her "baby brother" all the time.

Mama told me once that her and Ma adopting Dielle is what gave them the confidence to start trying for me, so... I guess I have Dielle to thank for me existing.

[ask-obt]

Team maelstrom, what did you wish you could tell Malachi before he became a rudimentary rock type?

Dielle: I'm not sure if now's the time for jokes like that... I'm still a little shaky from the adrenaline.

[ask-obt]

Question for the entire cast: If you could tell your past self one thing, what would it be?

Rune: Don't get amnesia.

... Do you think that'd do the trick?

Dielle: Aw, I'd say that our wish came true!

Inigo: I'd tell him, "don't read the comic. It sucks and you'll just get mad."

Yohann: Nothing to tell my past self. I prefer moving forward.

Eilwyn: Do NOT try and eat that big crab... because it'll pinch you.

Guildmaster: Oh, oh, I'd tell myself to memorize more cool songs!!

Keaton: I'd tell myself to write to mother more often.

Julius: Oh boy, I'd tell myself not to waste my time on that one rugged Druddigon- he is a BAD kisser, and even worse with... Well, I shan't say.

Requiem: I'd tell myself to have a bit more confidence in my abilities!

Malachi: ... "Go."