#emotional manpulation

[safely-in-vhagars-belly]

Chains of Bones: DARK!GODAEMOND X READER

Tags: DARK AEMOND, GREEK MYTHOLOGY INSPIRED AU

🔷Summary: You are a servant working for the goddess Rhaenyra and the God Daemon. You are tasked with protecting the flowers and one day, you find yourself captured by rhaenyra's greatest enemy: Aemond.

🔷Author's note: Dark af.

WARNINGS: Misogny, (no kidding) emotional manpulation, dubcon, body betrayl, vaginal sex (f recv) oral sex (f recev) rough sex, mentions of loss of virginty, emotional gaslighting and gore, blood, and a lot of...BONES.

This is a dead dove

Do not eat it.

(a+ warning)

wordcount:4044 (wow what a nice number)

AU.

Daemon Targaryen’s pov (3th person)

Daemon has never been a patient soul. He is known for his terrible temper, mood swings and violence tendencies whenever he is made to wait. One time he beheaded a servant for not delivering his sword on time. And Daermon will never be a patient soul.

He sits on the dragonstone throne, legs crossed and anxiously eyeing the golden hourglass where more and more sands gather at the bottom. He sighs, displeased. Waiting makes him feel powerless, and being powerless makes him dangerous. The King of the Dragons has never been very forgiving. Not even his wife, the Goddess of the Realms and Lights could teach him that virtue. Nothing would. Not his children, nothing.

Finally, the big stone doors are pushed open. Daemon rises, at long last. He stares right into a empty hallway. He takes out his sword, and carefully approaches the door making sure to watch his back at the same time. When he reaches the doors, he can feel a feint, tiny brush of air as if someone slipped just past him.

And when he turns around, there is a tall, pale, black clothed creature sitting on his throne, arms crossed over the arm seats, wearing a crown made of bones. The creature chuckles at Daemon’s scowl. ‘’My favorite uncle. Please sheath your sword. I don’t wish to harm you.’’ The man says. 

Daemon knows how well a duel would end, with them both being immortal beings driven by devine powers. It would be a dumb waste of time to even try to kill Aemond Targaryen. Not when he is wearing the bone crown and still embodies the King of the Underworld. So with great displeasure, Daemon does as he is told. For once. 

Pleased, Aemond sinks back further in the big chair, dramatically sighing as he takes in the paintings on the ceiling. Tales of old Valyria and the doom are written up there and he lets out a chuckle as Daemon’s blood pressure only rises and rises. ‘’Am I late?’’ The smirk betrays that he has watched Daemons squirming and impatient pacing for some time. ‘’My apologies. It was a hell of a ride to get here.’’ 

Daemon rolls his eyes at the overused poor joke. ‘’We know you’ve been troubled with traveling lately.’’ It is true. As King of the Underworld, Aemond cannot leave Hell unattended for too long. It is one of the pesky burdens that comes with the bone crown. Aemond seems to think this a burden too, as he quickly avoids Daemon’s eyes, suddenly looking quite human and even alone.

Aemond pushes himself up from the chair, his tone changing from calm and cheerful to a barely concealed threat. ‘’All thanks to your wife, and your devilspawn. You should’ve had them all whipped or beaten. You are too soft with your little girls.’’ Daemon hides a smirk, barely containing his pride that his daughters of all people got the better of Aemond. He would not beat anyone. He rewarded them. ‘’No matter. There is nothing more they can do to hurt me.’’ He is worried. Aemond does not forgive nor forget.

A silence follows as Aemond slowly approaches Daemon, his good eye staring at the sword, Darksister. It never has left Daemon’s side. Not once. ‘’You look good, Aemond. More…like you used to be.’’ Daemon’s voice is a soft whisper that becomes only softer once he realizes how much more human Aemond looks. No more black and blue bruises under his eyes, no more blood used as make up or bone necklaces and skin cloaks. No. Aemond looks different. Almost like the nephew, Daemon lost so long ago.

Aemond smiles, but its not sincere. Its the smile of the devil, of the darkness that hides deep within him. “Ah, you see, Uncle I have fallen in love.” He proclaims, as he takes a goblet of wine, that he magically made appear on a side table near the throne. There is one for Daemon too. Aemond gestures, inviting Daemon to drink with him.

It would be too good to be true for Daemon. Drinking with his nephew, like they used to. It feels like a trap. Aemond rolls his eye at Daemon’s suspicion. ‘’What good would poisoning you even do to me? I already got all I wanted. All the power I desire.’’ A lie. But one Daemon wants to believe. His wife holds the final piece of power Aemond wants, the Crown of Light. But he can’t have that. Rhaenyra would never willingly hand it over. 

Daemon is so caught up in staring at the wine that he only hears Aemond’s words so much later. Love? He breaks his stare, looking at his nephew instead. It would explain Aemond’s change of wardrobe, of his mysterious sudden visit and his cheeks that seem to have a tiny bit of color. It is love. Daemon just never assumed he was capable of love. Not anymore. 

And that gives Daemon hope.

Because if Aemond can love, he can be defeated. He can lose the crown and become a mortal once more. Easy as that.

Daemon puts his goblet down, his eyes sparkling with joy and curiosity. "Truly? Such wondrous news. I am glad for you. Tell me, who is the lovely lady?” Whoever captured the heart of Aemond had to be a special girl. A very special girl. 

Aemond shrugs in a way that tells Daemon nothing at all and takes another sip of the wine. When he is finished, he licks off his lips. “She makes me very happy. That's all you need to know. I want your permission to take her with me to the underworld. I want her to become my queen and the mother of my children. She will be treated as a goddess and worshiped as she deserves.” It is up to Daemon. Aemond cannot drag any souls to the Underworld. Not without Daemon’s or Rhaenyra’s consent. He needs their power to open the portal. He would otherwise not get anyone back to hell.

“Well, your happiness is important to me. If you are certain, you may take her with you when you go home.” Daemon says, a bit too careless. A bit too stupid. The moment those words are spoken, Aemond cracks his neck, a smirk spreading on his lips, wider than it should. He begins to chuckle, throws his goblet over his shoulder and takes off, sprinting to the big stone doors. 

Daemon watches him disappear, but before he leaves, he can hear Aemond’s words.  “Thank you, Uncle. I am sure to invite you to our wedding.”

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You are sitting on your knees, attending the flowers of a dark, black rose. The roses have sprouted out of the ground as mushrooms in fall lately, and the Queen told you to watch them whenever that happened. The flowers are blooming now. You just need to wait on Queen Rhaenyra to return to tell her the good news. 

The Queen warned you to never wander into the garden too far, as the other flowers have terrible effects on mortals. Flowers that could make you sleep forever, or turn you into a toad or straight up kill you. A pity. You always liked flowers. But you like living more. So you stay, patiently waiting for the Queen. 

The clouds begin to gather as the wind picks up in a strange way that feel too cold for spring, and too brute. It feels like winter itself, wrapping around you, making you shiver as you glance around. There is nothing there. You tell yourself so, at least.

The wind continues blowing, and you watch as the petals of the black roses fall, gathering on a pile on the ground. You take a step back, just for safety.  The petals fall on the ground, rise up, and form a circling whirlwind of black, rose petals. And eventually, someone appears in the middle of all the petals. A figure with a skin pale as bones, hair as white as the moon wearing a black cloak, covered in symbols you do not understand. 

He looks at you, staring at you as if studying you. You do the same. You take in his terrifying crown, wondering if its made of real bones. You also stare at his nails that have dark, black unnatural ends, where dark magic is clearly gathering ready to be used.  ‘’Careful, Petal. It is dangerous at night.’’ He says, smiling at you. You are well aware. It is why you go home whenever it gets dark.

Confident, you laugh.

‘’It is midday, sir.’’ You say, and look up to prove your point. Only to be met with a dark canvas where no star shines, where no moon shimmers. Just absolute darkness. 

‘’How-’’ You stutter, quickly shutting yourself up.

‘’Mhm.’’ He smirks, pleased with your confusion. ‘’I can do so many more tricks.’’ He says, approaching you carefully. He snaps his fingers, and in his left hand there is now a beautiful black rose. He sniffs it briefly, before extending it to you, as if to give it. You are careful with accepting. You know all magic comes with a price. Dark magic, the most of all.

‘’I should go back to the palace.’’ You say, refusing to accept the rose. The man chuckles, snaps his fingers again, and you feel a soft breeze near your face. You feel your hair, and notice that he put something in it. Likely the rose. 

‘’Gevie.’’ The man mutters, staring at you. You know it is a compliment. Prince Daemon calls his wife, Queen Rhaenyra this regularly. You know well what it means. It should flatter you. But it only scares you. Terrifies you. Because why does that man know the tongue of the Gods?

You don’t re-announce your departure, you just run this time. You feel your feet stop under your legs, and you fall on the stones, scratching your knees and hands on the beautiful mosaic tiles. The man kneels down besides you, staring at your hands. ‘’My poor Petal, let me help you. That wasn’t my intention.’’ He waves his hands over your knees, and you watch as the wounds heal under his touch. You yank your legs away, terrified. 

He smiles, calmly. ‘’Well, now that we both understand our positions, I think it is time to make preparations.’’ You don’t speak to him, your mind wandering as you wonder what he could possibly mean. He begins to ramble a bit, you aren’t paying attention. You hear him praise your beauty and your intelligence. At the end he grabs your chin, and gives you a kiss on your lips. Shocked, you pull away. 

‘’What do you think you are doing?’’ You yell, in fury. The man backs away, hurt and confusion written in his good eye. You can tell he isn’t used to rejection. Or any of this. His compliments felt sincere but insecure. He is not used to courting anyone.

‘’Claiming my price?’’ He asks, a bit dumbfounded and a bit dry.

Fury burns inside of you. ‘’Your price?!’’ You give him a push against his chest, creating more distance. ‘’I am not sure who you think you are…’’

That causes him to wake up. He smirks, and claps his hands. Darkness spreads further as you back away, terrified. ‘’Let me introduce myself, Petal.’’ Roots deep from the earth, grab your feet, chaining you to the earth as the man smiles.

You somehow know just who he is when you look at your feet. No tree roots are holding you. But skeleton arms. Bones. ‘’I am the King of the Underworld, Lord of Death, bringer of Doom, friend of depression. I am Aemond, I am everything mortals fear.’’ He will kill you. He will tear your soul out.

To hurt Rhaenyra and Daemon.

‘’But you, my love, my Petal…’’ He whispers, touching your face gently. You expect him to take your eye or your sight away. To feel blood and next to feel the sweet embrace of death. But you only feel a soft, kiss on your head.

Aemond smiles, and you realize he kissed you again. ‘’It was predicted, long ago, that you wouldn’t be frightened, Petal. I must say, I never believed in that. Until now. You have already proved to me that the prophecy is no lie. You make my heart beat again. You Petal, are very dear to me.’’ He puts your free hand on his heart, and you are shocked when your hand sinks away in his chest, proving there is no heart. Just a hole.

You open your mouth, screaming.

‘’Queen Rhaenyra!’’ You hope she comes to save you.

He is very quick to silence you.

‘’Petal!’’ He groans, slamming a hand on your mouth. ‘’No. Bad. I don’t want her here.’’ He says, chuckling to hide how truly scared he is of her. ‘’I don’t want the Queen here. If you prove to be obedient, I might invite her to our wedding. But I don’t want her ruining what I worked so hard for.’’ What work? 

Aemond takes in your chained down feet and your trembling body. He leans in, kissing you on your lips, before moving to your neck, and your shoulders. ‘’My Petal.’’ He proclaims, as if stating a claim over you and your body. You stubbornly try to break free again. He grins. ‘’No, I won’t let you go, until I have what I want.’’ He wants you.

You feel strange sensations and unfamiliar desires battle deep inside of you as his lips gently suck on your skin, pulling your dress more and more down and open. He takes in your breasts, gasping hungrily as if he’s been without food for days. He begins to kiss your breasts, gently touching them with his long fingers. His nails scratch over your mortal skin, and it slightly burns.

You must stop him. ‘’My lady is powerful. If I were you I  won’t do this again or continue.’’ Your voice is pitched, driven by the desire as your head becomes lightheaded.

Aemond scowls, displeased as he stops touching you. “Daemon gave you away to me. He said my happiness is very important to him.” He says. Somehow hearing that Daemon sold you to this monster, breaks your heart. When you lost your own family you had hoped they would take you in. But they betrayed you. Same as your own family. You sob. 

‘’Rhaenyr-’’ Your voice suddenly stops. Aemond smiles, kissing you again. and again. and again.

“Sh, my lovely petal. I will speak, you'll be silent and hear what I have to say. For your own sake.” He whispers kissing your cheeks. Tears break free as you whimper, trying to find your You only fight harder. He chuckles, pleased with this development. “Stop it or I'll take away your free will too, my little petal.” he whispers but his voice is as cold as his eyes. You obey, crying silently. 

He seems to soften at this, awkwardly patting your back. “There is no reason for sadness. You'll be coming with me. You'll become the Queen of the Underworld. All your wishes will come true and all your enemies will watch you triumph. You'll wear the finest silks and the heaviest crowns, entrusted with the rarest gems. You'll be my queen.”

You don’t want to become his Queen.

‘’Mine.’’ He whispers as he kisses your breasts, softly biting on your nipples, causing you to cry out in pain. He chuckles, the pain of you likely arousing him further. ‘’I am the God of everything that's forbidden, Petal. I can feel your desires, sense your lust to take you in this garden, to take and to take until there's nothing left for me to take.” You moan as he begins to push your final layer of clothing down too, inserting his long fingers inside of you. 

You whimper wordlessly. He smiles, undressing himself too. He picks you up by your hips, planting you easily on the stone bench, with your back to his front.  “I am your Queen.” You say, unsure where your sentence is going.

Aemond laughs in response, pushing a finger deep inside of you. “Not yet.  And I have been waiting for this for some time. I have certain plans that will be upheld. And besides…” He bends you as some animal, on your knees ready to be taken. You are once again feeling his fingers, and feel his lips leave kisses on your back. 

You feel trapped.

You begin to whimper again. He kisses you, but his kisses only burn.

“Shh. My love. I've waited so long. And here you are.” he cups your breasts feeling every inch of your skin. “Mine, wet and warm. You'll feel as a delight. I want you to know, Petal. It'll hurt. But that's part of the fun. I'll teach you. How to please me…and yourself.” He promises you as you briefly battle against his strong arms.

“I love you, Petal.” He whispers, before slamming himself inside of you, grabbing you by the hips and taking you on the garden bench. Your cries echo through the night and the garden as pleasure builds, blinding you for a moment. Aemond lets out a deep moan, close to a groan. 

You cry out, trying to escape.

Aemond chuckles and takes you again letting out a sigh. “You will not be going anywhere. Be a good sweet girl and take what I'm giving you.” He whispers. ‘’You like it too, Petal. You are going to like it so much.’’ You know you shouldn’t. Your whimpers increase as well as his moans. 

The taking becomes aggressive and almost painful, as Aemond’s hunger for you grows. You look back, taking in his silver blonde hair and the crown that is still standing perfectly still on his head. You reach out, to touch his face. He bends you back on the bench, taking you again and again. You cry out, the stones muffling your cries and moans. You hear him chuckle, moan and groan in delight, and finally you hear him scream your name. You freeze up, terrified. You never told anyone that. Your real name. Aemond simply lifts you from the bench, inspecting you with a grin. ‘’Your turn, little Petal.’’ He looks at the bloodied bench. He puts you back on your knees, and this time you are being the one catered to. He kisses you much gentler and tries to not bite you anymore. He is allowing you to touch his hips. But not much more than that. Whenever you try to touch his face, or to kiss him, he recoils, clearly annoyed with your attempts. You are new to this. Maybe that is it. But you aren’t an idiot, and deep down you know Aemond is hiding something.

The moans escape your mouth at some point, pleasure taking hold of you and blocking your anger. Aemond grins, satisfied as you begin to carefully move your back against his front, begging for it slightly. He likes that, touches your legs slightly, rewarding you with a soft kiss that makes you shiver. He pats your legs. Aemond chuckles. “It's good, hm?”

You nod. ‘’Y-yes.’’

He smiles. ‘’I will make you finish, Petal. But I need you to do something first for me.’’ You are curious and worried. You are quickly taken again, to block out the question. To make you stop wondering and worrying.

‘’What?’’ You ask.

‘’I need you to hold my crown. For a moment.’’ Aemond says, surprising you. You reach out to his crown, carefully feeling the bones. Nothing happens. Or, nothing you can see. But something has shifted.

You let go of the crown as Aemond touches your back, rubbing it gently for you and kisses you between your legs. ‘’Now it’s time to give you your reward.’’ You brace yourself as Aemond this time forces you on your back, and spreads your legs. You embrace him, as he violently fucks you on the bench, giving you it his all. He builds and builds your pleasure until finally you implode, crying out. He smiles, and you feel relief and satisfaction. He stops.  You are bleeding and a sore mess when he is finished. He is a god, after all. 

You sit up, catching your breath as you stare at your ruined dress. Aemond snaps his fingers, and the next moment you are dressed in a beautiful white lace gown. He smiles, admiring his own magic on your skin. ‘’There. That is fit for a Queen. Not those rags you were put in earlier.’’ He declares, feeling your forehead with the back of his hand. He is taking your temperature. Why? He studies your face carefully too.

‘’A Queen needs a crown, don’t you agree?’’ You say, eying the bone crown on his head. You heard the legends. You know what it does. It would make you the new King of the Underworld. Aemond chuckles, condensing as if he caught you in a lie.

You expect him to take your eye or to kill you in a whim. But he does something unspeakable instead. He boops your nose. ‘’Alas, my powers are limited in this world.  But I assure you, your coronation is one of the most important things on my mind.’’ You don’t doubt that it is. It sounds as if he somehow has your whole life planned out with him.

‘’I would much rather stay here.’’ You say, clearly. ‘’This was fun but …I am a servant.’’ You hope it's embarrassing for him to love someone so lowly.

Aemond shrugs. ‘’You can still be my servant, if you are into serving. You will just be wearing a crown and making all your enemies bow.’’ He gives you a final chance to join him willingly. You step away.

He shrugs once more, and snaps his fingers, opening a vortex of pure darkness under your feet. The darkness sweeps you away and you know exactly where you are going. The Underworld.

You end up in the throne room, laying on the tiles and deeply in pain. A hand helps you stand, and you look at Aemond’s smug face. He doesn’t seem that charming anymore. You sit up, still wearing the gown he gave you. ‘’My love for you is true, Petal. In time, you will see that. But I don’t want Daemon coming back on his agreement.’’ He tells you, and you are shocked that he even tells you this at all.

‘’Why would Daemon come back on his deal?’’ You ask.

He smiles, avoiding the question. ‘’You are as clever as you are beautiful. One day, you’ll figure it out. But for now, I have many enemies. I don’t want them stealing you away from me.’’

‘’Like you stole me?’’ You reply.

‘’Don’t hurt me, Petal.’’ He dramatically clutches at his chest, and his hand vanishes through the fabric inside of the skin. You roll your eyes, but also can’t help the smile that creeps on your lips.

He snaps his fingers, and a thin necklace made out of bones appears around your neck, weighing you down in ways that almost make you stumble to your knees. He smiles as you stumble, fall to your knees and try to tear the necklace off your neck. ‘’See this as your crown, until I know I can trust you. I don’t trust many people, Petal. So, you have one chance with me. Don’t ruin it. Or I will have to add your lovely bones to my collection.’’ Your face is cupped again and Aemond kisses your lips again, this time freed of all bounds that you had in the upper world. He devours and kisses you at the same time, taking pieces of your soul. You try to fight it and to stop it, but after a while you notice you hunger for him, and even pull him back by the collar of his shirt  when he tries to leave. He smiles as an answer. ‘’Welcome home, my Queen.’’ He leaves after that, leaving you alone in the castle.

You try to break the necklace again, and again. And when that does not work, you break into tears and sobs and begin to scream, trying to either free or choke yourself. Eventually, you black out.

A/N USELESS WORLD BUILDING IS HERE

Hello.

As with any fic so tied heavily to lore,

I like to tell you a bit more about the world. So the world is Greek mythology inspired but its also really tied in with demonic things like demons and stuff. ( as i didnt read greek mythology as a kid because and youre gonna laugh ''EW THOSE PEOPLE DID INCEST'' WELL BELLY GUESS WHAT?! XDD'' It is also inspired by OUAT (Once upon a time)’s magic system. (Magic comes with a price, dearie eheheheh) It basically was a unhinged mix of it all. I liked assigning the targaryens with like new goddess thingies because Daemon being the god of dragons it just sounded fun. I wanted him and aemond to have a closer relationship because I think thats great when it all goes to hell:) literally. and the roses. theres a beauty and the beast reference in there too, i feel it. ‘’what of the bones?’’ oh, those. ehm…i dont really know where they came from, and suddenly there were a lot xD when i sat down and edited the fic, Aemond didnt had that power ,..and now he does xD so . xD okay enough rambling bye bye. Let me know what you think. This was my first god aemond Fic xD

[sycamorality]

https://www.tumblr.com/nom-de-plume-system/763020521696788480/i-am-neurodivergent-and-i-used-to-be-a-minor?source=share

literally have that guy blocked + while the pansear screenshots regarding someone injuring themself were faked, pansear still has a history of..

unwarranted venting on public servers constantly

unwarranted venting in dms with people constantly

putting focus on themself even when situations at hand are not about them

following that point, making themself out to be the victim in the situation when they clearly are not

emotional manpulation + guilt tripping due to the venting

(that and it's kind of wildly innappropriate to heavily vent in a server full of people that you don't really know, yeah?)

there's probably something i'm forgetting to add. shrug. i mean i could comment on the parasociality that kinda makes all of this worse but i'm not getting into that

i understand struggling mentally but unloading all your trauma and struggles on minors (and other people in general when they don't know you that well) and victimising yourself and being weirdly two-faced is not a way to deal with it when you have a therapist. so still not a great person. fuck off thank you

[doodlegirl1998]

I think I finally realize why the writing in BNKA always puts me off in some way, something I've been saying for a while but never got a chance to go into detail.

The writing in BNKA feels like narrative manipulation.

I've come to this conclusion after seeing how the fandom reacts to certain moments and compare them to earlier scenes. And that was when it all clicked for me to come up with this word.

With how the unholy three started out (Bakugou, Aizawa, and Endeavor) then seeing their personalities and how others view them take a complete 180 to view them in a better light, that's what I'm referring to as narrative manpulation.

With Bakugou starting out as a bully and supposedly "changing" so others can say "Wow what a great guy he is!" And praise him to the moon and back... it's literally middle school all over again for him.

With Aizawa coming across as unfair and uncaring only for the narrative to prove he's right every time and have others treat him like he's japanese Einstein.

And with Endeavor starting off as a horrible person and the main conflict for Shoto to overcome... only for his family to welcome him back with open arms and say "We're all to blame for what happened!" just to lift some of it off of him and make him seem like he meant well.

The one common thing about these three is Hori having them express negative emotions and crying and the fandom eats it all up. Claiming that they've gone through development and that they really do care and are more than what we were led to believe. And then have them act the exact same way like nothing happened.

And that my friend... is narrative manipulation.

Hi @theloganator101 👋,

100%.

All of the writing in MHA is narrative manipulation but especially with those three.

Bakugou, Aizawa and Endeavour have narrative manipulation, their own in-universe simps, characters not reacting to them as they should and retcons to soften them and make them more palatable to the audience.

Bakugou and Endeavour are easy and extreme examples so I'll begin with Aizawa first.

With Aizawa, this has worked so well that you rarely see people critical of him and only those who have fully and critically looked at him in canon without #Dadzawa colouring their perception.

His students should dislike / hate or at the very least be wary of him. A teacher who sleeps all the time, pulls "logical ruses" lies and expels on a whim would realistically cause the mental health of his students to plummet. Yet all of 1A (including Izu who he seems to very much dislike) love him for some reason...

He's praised as logical, "harsh but effective" yet his fellow teachers should HATE him. Through the amount of students he's expelled I've heard some people theorising that he has expelled OTHER teachers students. Imagine how angry you would be as a teacher to find one of your students careers destroyed because a fellow teacher expelled them for a bullshit reason. Not only that but logically Aizawa's expulsions would have destroyed lives, destroyed careers before they fully lifted off the ground even made villians.

*There's also the fact that he's not shown to be a great friend in canon either, yet Aizawa is surrounded by Shirakumo, Yamada or Kayama who aren't offput from his behaviour. And even has a respect from All Might (despite the fact that Aizawa has been shown to dislike him.)

* - I'm not blaming Aizawa for being depressed or low key here. That's understandable. However friendship is about give and take. We don't see Aizawa being supportive back to his friends, we see them support him only. And when there's an opportunity to show Aizawa being supportive like to Mic after Midnight's death, Hori doesn't take it. Hori instead makes Aizawa shut Mic up. Additionally, when you like someone and are friends with them - you make the effort to show you like their company, you like being around them, you engage with them. Aizawa acts annoyed by his friends most of the time he's with them on screen, like he's grudgingly tolerating them at best.

Then there's Bakugou who is praised as the second coming of Christ, who lost nothing for suicide baiting a quirkless kid (our MC) and abusing him for ten years! Instead Izuku still calls him "Kacchan" 🤮, Bkg has made friends who are staunchly "anti bully" in Mina and Kirishima (who look stupid or hypocrites for being friends with this POS), Aizawa even praises and favours him for some reason despite Bkg's power being astonishingly one note and Bkg having so much of an awful attitude for heroics the villians thought he was a good recruit. 😬 Bakugou is the worst written character I have seen in a long time - a true Gary Stu.

And finally we have Endeavour, the child abusing POS himself who gets a tragic backstory that none of us wanted to see (his father dying as a kid), we have blame shifting on to Rei and Touya with their respective insanity (also now blame shifted on to Rei's incestous fam by some fans) and some even saying "Endeav had Touya's best interests at heart all along" which truly makes me scoff. If Endeav had Touya's best interests he would have taught Touya to cool himself off, he would have found another interest for them to bond over and sent him to therapy. Not ignoring his spiralling son until he died then got saved by All For One.

In addition, Rei's entire character being used as an "Endeav is not that bad" mouth piece makes me sick, Endeavour broke this woman, physically, emotionally and sexually (depending on your reading but she didn't look consenting to Natsuo and Shoto's births) abused her. So this choice with her character doesn't even make sense, she couldn't even see Shoto, she burnt her child because he looked like Endeav! Why doesn't she loathe this man like she should?! It is sick. It's even sicker of Hori to make her say "We are all responsible for what happened." Like that isn't the most delusional and victim blaming shit to say to your children who couldn't have done squat against their hero father.

Then there's Shoto and his story being overshadowed again by his abusive father, his friendship with Izuku being made about forgiving said abusive father. Shoto deserved so much better than this.

TLDR - the victims of the story should have been allowed to show the impact of their abuse / teaching malpractice that they have dealt with.

Aizawa should have resigned his teaching job (that he didn't even want in the first place) and got therapy as well trying his best to make it up to all those whose lives he ruined.

Bakugou should have been expelled for being an abusive asshole and being too dumb to hide it.

Endeavour should have had the Todofam HATE his guts and no one in his corner coddling him when he cries about Dabi then later Dabi should have finished him off instead of sprouting ice randomly.

[imthepunchlord]

Thinking about those fox powers also reminded me of my ideas for the peacock. The first is how I could alter the canon power. So, along with the basics of removing the sentient life aspect, I would also make it more summoner-like. So, the user would use their own emotions, the emotions of those around them, and even the emotions that have seeped into the places they are in to create sentimonsters (no amok or item). The sentimonsters would generally be more animal-like, and the powers they have are more minor and depend on the creature. The user can control the creatures mentally and with hand movements. The user can probably make multiple at a time (both the same creature and different ones), but making too many can overwhelm the user and split their focus too far. Basically, it would be like what Maria Renard from Castlevania: Nocturne can do (https://youtu.be/xCFvixsZFhc?si=4OnHNv7A5taaOuKo)

Some other ideas for alternative powers are: stunning people with their beauty, delving into the mind of a target to discover their secrets by making direct eye contact with a target, absorbing negative energy to empower themself, scrying, seeing into the future (and if paired with the snake the snake could see into the past), and wind manpulation

Man, Peafowl and Rabbit really are the top two I want changed power wise.

On the topic of Peafowl's canon power, changed or not, I really should've been a power tied to Ladybug. Whether making sentient life to animated puppets, that's heavily ted to Creation.

Peafowl I stand should've had something different, something that should've changed up the status quo as it felt too similar/an extension of Butterfly. And it is a little funny that you have Mayura moving about when when she's a little more designed to be hidden away than even HM himself.

But yeah, a lot you brought up would work. They are iconic symbols of beauty and I also thought of a power of charming with their appearance, maybe even able to charm people to do as they ask. Mind reading, scrying, and foresight all make sense given the major eye motif peacocks have, Vision is one of their more iconic aspects and would've made more sense for Duusu's concept. Air/wind manipulation I'm the most iffy on, there is the fan to work off of, but that power may better work for a more aerodynamic bird like Falcon or Eagle. Peacocks I don't really associate with flight, and I don't know how good a flyer they are, especially with those long tails.

Other possibilities to add:

Healing/purification/rejuvenation, as the latter is an iconic symbol of it, as well as rebirth. Peacocks are associated with taking in evil/corruption and purifying it into beauty, eating venomous snakes to bring out the color of their feathers.

Peacocks also could've had a time power, even Snake's time resetting power could've worked. Mayura is a peacock that stands upon a snake and represents a cycle of time.

Peacocks are also tied to truth, and there's the idiom True Blue to work off of.

They're also tied to guardianship, royalty, luxury, and invulnerability. So they could've been related to fortune and wealth or being more defense.

They're tied to spirituality so could've done something related to spirits, or astral projection.

It's one of those animals that has a lot of possibilities in terms of powers, so the route they went is disappointing, kinda lazy, and convoluted a lot. It's also a little funny as I have read up that peacocks are tied to absolute goodness, being incorruptible; yet it's Miraculous is broken and misused (and maybe still? Idk if Felix is a good guy or not).

Also, idk about you guys, but since I've done various research on other animals and their myth, folklore, symbolism, and idioms, Ladybug I found to be kinda boring as a major lead animal to focus on and set up to be important. Why couldn't it follow a more interesting animals, we could've had Peafowl!Marinette instead. That also could've better worked off her interest in fashion too.

[yanderecookierunkingdom]

Hey there! I'm a bit new to this blog but i just want to say i LOVE the six becomes five story and sparkling joy cookie! Before I give my ask I wanted to know if you were planning to do sparkling joy and mystic flour’s reunion once the next chapter for beast yeast comes out on CRK? 

Ok so I wanted to know how would the beast cookies react to an alternative reality where Sparkling Joy become corrupted while the rest of them stayed pure (maybe the ancient cookies reactions as well)

I imagined it could either way with Alternative Sparkling Joy either being a chaotic beast or a calm and powerful one. For the first one, her counterpart would do something like the butterfly effect by causing disasters and deaths with a flap of their wings. I see her becoming something like Junko Enoshima from Danganronpa with her being the embodiment of Despair with the whole danganronpa ideology behind it saying that hope is also why despair exists. While normal sparkling joy has her emotions and sanity in check the evil version would have multiple personality disorder much like Junko Enoshima with the different personalities being based off her friends cause in this reality she alone as the only corrupted cookie, so she comforts herself being being delusion and pretending they agree with her by acting like them. She would also have this weird obsession with despair as feeling joy towards causing it and feeling like Junko.

For her calm corrupted au I see them as something like Circe from the epic musical, beautiful, manpulative, and enchanting. While compassion is used to help others this au can have her represent manipulation as a facade of being kind to help herself. She would view cookies as tools for her to use rather than meaningless things to be destroyed like the rest of the beasts. She would take pleasure if cookies did her bidding while not really knowing they were under her control. She could curse cookies into turning them into animals (because she is an animal too?)  like circe or trap them in lust related obsessions (I think she would curse the not-turned-beasts in this au). Maybe she could even represent lust or pity? 

Hope you mind me rambling lol, Have a good day and stay hydrated!

Yes, I do plan on continuing Six becomes Five once I've played through all of Episode Three! It's already giving me a lot of content..

And your ideas are amazing! I really have nothing to add, other than the Beasts would probably be devastated no matter what route happens with Sparkling Joy Cookie.

[stonedpiece]

derek really though he could just walk in and use the memory of ellis grey to convince webber to give him 1 million for alzheimers research. dr. webber is the king of emotional manpulation, you are not going to break him

[himbos-hotline]

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[tagging people so they ask me questions about him]

Name:

Jayden Gray Orton

Nickname:

Jay [most common name], Jay-Jay, Jaybird, Jayhausen, Jaybud, Scamp, Gremlin, Jayden, Darlin', Angel, Buttercup, Sweetheart,

Born:

Novemeber 29th, 1993

Pronouns:

He/She/They/Ze [no real prefrence]

From:

Chicago Illinois

Hair Color:

Ginger

Eye Color:

Green/Blue

Height:

5 foot tall

Weight:

132 lbs

Small Bio:

Adopted by Willow and James Orton when he was two, she grows up a pretty normal girl in the normal household of girls do girl things and boys do boys things. She does ballroom dancing as a child and grows up with a passion for musical theatre and acting as well as medicine. He grows up wanting to be an actor until an unfortunate accident renders her hard of hearing/deaf [she uses the terms interchangably] which means that he now has hearing aids. He forgoes the desire to act to become a doctor instead, facianted by how people can just mend and heal like nothing bad happened.

At age thirteen her parents send her off to Blackpool, to an old friend William Regal who is going to teach Jay the art of wrestling as a way for her to get his extra energy out [plottwist its medicated/undiagnosed hyperactive ADHD] but Regal takes thsi little 13 year old from Chicago under his wings and trains him all the art of wrestling, Jay realises that she has a passon for death matches and hardcore wrestling, and shes damn fucking good at it.

Up on the main roster, Jay struggles because theyre not allowed to do anything apart from a few high flying moveis and years go by where Jay just isnt happy in her position, made worse by coles call up. So this is when Jericho starts slowly manpulating and selling Jay on the idea of joining the JAS and AEW and so she shows up with the rest of the JAS. They start treating Jay at first like a princess a gloruos little angel who can do their dirtywork until she starts to loose matches and the JAS start getting annoyed and agrivated and start bullying them - cue wrestlers weekly standing up for this little new kid who keeps being picked on. Jay ends up doing a diving headbutt during a amtch with Kris Stratlander and cracks their head on both a steel chair and a ring anvas- he's concussed instatnyl nad really doesnt remember how she got backstage [the best friends and kris helped him there and wheeler looked after them and took her back to the JAS lockerroom]

Jay has their therapy rabbit Hemlock [yes, like the poision] there and shes chatting away to the rabit when he starts to completely like zone our and dissocate. This is where he meets kenny someone who treats them and calms him down and whene Jay first registers that theres someone else in the room she panics instantly cuz the JAS trained her to not show emotions especially those who are like sad or guilty emotions. Jay states that she doesnt know who kenny is, because theybve only really kinda seen him around and not spoken to him and Kenny sticks his hand out and goes "Kenny omega, now you know me!" and when jay introsduces themselve as "Jayden Orton" Kenny smiles and "nice to meet ya jay"

and everything kinda just snaps int place. Jay! Nobody had ever called them Jay before, like the bird and everything nice and kind. And thats a boys name, Jay wouldnt mind being a boy. Jay

she likes it.

so yeah Kenny provides an entire gender crisis. Jay snaps out of dissocation and switches for a panic attack which kenny helps and explains that "oh my partner has these sometimes, he really doesnt like to be alone sometimes.are you going to be okay?- Oh! you two should meet youd really like him! he's really kind, and cute."

Kenny in intensily queer around Jay and considering that shes never really been exposed to outwardly queer people and openly gender-queer people her mind goes all scrambled in a good way.

Some other things happen,. jay leaves the JAS, spends a lot of time lurking in dark corrdiors meeting more firneds. She keeps finding kenny and acddientally meets hanger when kenny is like inches away from getting him on his knees. The two of them make instant friends. The go dancing and to bars and Jay assumes that because she likes the name Jay, he cant be a girl- so he has to be a boy.

Adam cole worms his way back into Jays life as a foe and then someone that their boyrioends are fucking and then cole realises that shes trans femme and Jay realises that hes not a trans man but infact genderqueer. Jay and coles trans journeys are linked and ill go more uinto that if anyone else really wants to hear about it.

In the end Jay starts dating wheeler, kenny and both adams. wheeler is only dating jay. Kenny and the adams are all dating one another. The polycule is all disgustingly in love and adore each other.

Regal scoops up his now grandchild [as well as granddaughter/grandson- regardless os how jay feels regal will always be their grandpa] as the newest member of the BCC where she can finally have a family thats forged in blood and ocmbat as well as kindness and love. Mox gives them his ADHD meds sometimes.

Favorite Wrestlers Growing Up:

Sabu, Mick Foley, Bob Orton Senior, Shawn Micheals

First Wrestling Crush:

Debuts/Years In Wrestling:

15th December 2006: He has his first match in a house show in a backyard wrestling comapny [13 years old]

28 November 2008: Offical Debut in All Star Wrestling [A day before her 15th birthday]

9th December 2010: Her offical CZW debut [17 years old]

2012- 2013: Travels back to Chicago to go to medical school [A year of medical school at Pritzker School of Medicine] and doesn't return to wretling after a mental breakdown

7 December 2014: Returns to wrestling in 4 Front Wrestling [21 years old]

18 June 2018: Debute in NXT UK [25 years old]

28 August 2018: Offical debute with NXT [25 years old] Reconnects with Adam Cole [25 years old]

20 March 2019: The start of her and Coles mixed tag team, they gel very quickly since being friends before- they start fucking around literally, theres feelings involved [26 years old]

1 July 2019: The end of her and Cole's mix tax team partnership (off-screen) [26 years old]

29 November 2019: Called up to the main roster and debuts on raw [27 years old- just turned]

10 Feburary 2022: Offically walks out of WWE and quits over a multitude of issues- Just quits in the middle of the ring MJF style [28 years old]

9 March 2022: Offical debuts as part of the JAS, it quickly turns sour as shes the only girl there and they target her for "not being strong enough" [28 years old]

20 July 2022 : Offically gets kicked out of the JAS by being attacked, saved by the BCC becoming an un-offical member [28 years old]

2 August 2022: Becomes a BCC member offically [28 years old]

29 March 2023: Slowly starting to pull away from the BCC after they start attacking her boyfriends, still offically a member of the Blackpool Combat Club [29 years old]

Wrestling Style:

Hardcore/Deathmatch/high-flyer

Who is Like Family to Her?:

Jon Moxley, Matt and Nick Jackson [brothers] Excalibur [father figure] Dax Harwood/Cash Wheeler [uncles] Renee Paquette/RJ City [Aunts] Tony Schiavone [grandpa] William Regal [legal guardian/Grandpa] Taz [uncle] Hook [cousin] Kota Ibushi [Self assigned step father- called her son in Japaneese]

Who has she known the longest?

Adam Cole

Who would she like to meet in the business?

So many death match wrestlers

Hobbies:

archery, music [plays the eletric guitar], axe/knife throwing, smoking, gymnastics, singing, scrapbooking, collecting pull tabs

If she couldn’t wrestle anymore, she would:

Hed get into a dangerous job something that would more then likely get him hurt, or work with kids.

Languages known:

Fluent in French, Knows very little Japaneese

Secrets of Hers:

He secretly feels guilty that he got called to the main roster in WWE and Cole didn't reall. Shes always seen her as the better wrestler.

Phobias:

Dentiophobia: Phobia of the dentists Eremophobia: Fear of abadoment Atelophobia: Phobia of letting people down

Number of Tattoos:

A lot over 20 a few important ones: - A crown on the back of her left knee for Cole - A bird and stingway to represent the bucks on their right shoulder blade/back - A cactus on his neck for Hangman - 'Tomorrow belongs to me' on her right ribs - An off/switch behind her right ear - a snake on her wrist for Regal - An omega sign/golden star on his right fingers [middle and index] for kenny and kota - a 'mom' tattoo for claudio [got as a joke] on her left shoulder - barbed wire around his left ankle for mox [it was her first tattoo when she was 16] - a little heart on her wrist just over her pulsepoint for wheeler - a collection of doodles across his right knee and across around that area just because

Number of Piercings:

Erl piercing, Ears peircing, nipples peircing, double lip rings

Any History of Broken Bones:

a broken nose during an bump gone wrong, a broken arm in third grade, a dislocated ankle when he was 18         

Any Injuries from Wrestling:

A broken nose, concussion, knocked crooked teeth, facial injurys leaving behind scars [All of these in a bump that went wrong that traumatised Cole- Jay doesn't remember it] splitting her head open during AEW, broken arm, glass embedded in arms, dislocated ankle

Wrestlers She Has Dated/Been in a Relationship with at Some point in her career:

Rhea Ripley [During her time in NXT UK to just before dating adam cole]

Adam Cole [during their mix-tag team]

Wheeler Yuta [during her time out the JAS-present]

Wheeler Yuta, Kenny Omega, Hangman Page, Adam Cole [Current ship]

[im-just-a-mississippi-girl]

okay so I have braincells now and thinking more about don callis and being the invisible hand. He really acts like a parent whose wants his kids to go into like med school or become famous. And I THINKL on commentary when the elite lost, one of the commentary teams went "Callis has thrown his mic down" and hes so prone to bouts of violence [that and hitting matt] that somewhere on wendesday were at least going to see callis become more manpuitive and I dont think Kenny is going to be his target

I honestly think hes gonnna go after Matty again like he did before. Because Matts always be the more emotional one out of the bucks [at least afer he lets everything bottle up and fester and then like explode] like what we saw in the kenny/hangman vs the bucks match. It was Matt who seemed to explode and just need to be the one to hurt people, because he was hurtng. So hes more prone to being manpulated and exposed. And Callis has always seemed to be the one to pick on the small gaps of emotions. Plus Matt was the one to eat the pin [ if im remembering correctly] and so callis preying on matt being the failure of the elite.

I think its ultimeately gonna be the breakdown of the elite [or at least, the elite as we know it[ because Callis either makes Kenny pick between him and the bucks or success and the bucks. Because why should the god of pro wrestling have to lower himself for two people who couldnt even kick out of a pin?

Oooooohh!!!!! I’m loving and hating this thought! I think you might be onto something!

You’re totally right with Matt being the more emotional one. Like you mentioned, we’ve seen Matt take his emotions (especially bad) out on others.

I do believe you’re right on the idea that Don would make Kenny choose between him and the bucks or success and the bucks. It makes sense for him to do that and Don making Matt out to be the weak one because of not kicking out of pins or what have you would definitely be the way to go in tearing down the elite or something of the sort.

I’m actually happy you brought up the hangman/Kenny vs the bucks match because when you think about the story between the bucks, Kenny and hangman, Matt’s been the one to not be able to move on (if I’m remembering correctly). Like Nick gave hangman a fist bump or shook his hand (I can’t remember which) but Matt couldn’t bring himself to do it because he’s still hurt but we have seen Matt attempt to talk to hangman.

Okay, I got off track but back to the original topic.

Don going after Matt makes so much sense and so does forcing Kenny to choose.

My question is (I guess it depends on how things play out) what’s Kenny’s decision? Will he stick with his best friends who have been through through so much with him or does he stick with “family” and success? Like how will the events be presented to Kenny, if they even are shown to him? Will have to go off words alone to make this decision?

[mmriesoftvat]

"Father I am honored you have returned so soon back to Fontaine following the recent events and requested me." A slight bow to the Knave. Wriothesley had kept up the facade well when he gotten her letter that she was coming back to Fontaine and wanted to meet. A quick jaunt to the overworld would alarm anyone in the fortress so he won't be suspect.

"Do you have a new assignment for me?" ( HoH Wrio @allxgene )

Everything is settled, and people are starting to get back to their lives. As much as Arlecchino would like to get back to business, settling right back into her role as Father, she thinks they both deprived themselves for far too long.

Arlecchino is not one to give into emotion very much. She's far too attached to being ruthless and logical, even treading that line between manpulative and villainous. However, what people DON'T notice about her is her soft spot for her children.

"No orders, not right now," she says to Wriothesley. It's a relief to see him completely unharmed after everything that took place during the ordeal. Moving closer to him, she takes his arms first and inspects them for any cuts in the fabric, before lifting one hand to smooth hair out of his face.

"We're not working right now," she says. "It's just us now."

[furiousgoldfish]

Thank you SO much for this blog, it’s seriously helped me a ton <333

I’m sorry if you’ve answered stuff like this before, I couldn’t really find it, but I’m just… conflicted I guess?

Both of my parents were abused growing up, my dad was more “textbook” and he knew it and my mom thinks hers was perfect even though she was forced to grow up early and went through a lot of traumatic things, both in her childhood and due to my dad. They both abuse my siblings and I, and I thought my mom at least was realizing and accepting it, but on Christmas I realized that she just learned how to deflect and ignore us in more subtle ways.

I just… she refuses therapy for herself bc she thinks it’s a waste of time and that there’s no point if she already messed us up, and I’m happy that she allows us to do therapy, but I’m *so* frustrated. (And I won’t even dare bring up the topic of abuse with my dad)

I don’t know what to feel about my parents. I want to cut contact but I feel so bad for them because they put so much time and energy into us only for it to not work out. They’re both so toxic and I can’t have an opinion that goes against either of them otherwise I’m being too much or being manipulated by someone that disagrees. (They mostly bad talk each other but my mom is convinced my elder siblings manipulated me bc I wasn’t on her side when she was being super close minded and pretty bigoted to us, and she started sending mixed signals abt how I should feel about my dad, smth my dad does with me as well when it comes to my mom)

I just feel bad for them and it’s making me confused about my feelings and their manipulation sure isn’t helping. Idk. They’ve caused me pain in different ways literally all my life and have affected my relationships with others negatively but I feel like I can’t show that bc they spent over a decade, even two raising me and my siblings. It’s like a waste and I don’t want them to feel like failures even if they did fail.

At this point I’m rambling, sorry, and it’s fine if you don’t feel like answering! Thank you for taking the time to read <333 Once again, I love this blog so much!

I am so sorry, it sounds like no matter how you try to figure out what is happening, you are stopped by this compulsion to put your parent's feeling first, to think of their lives and their effort from raising you. It must be very confusing and hard to find your way out of this situation where you get hurt, but leaving feels too forbidden or inconsiderate or ungrateful.

Raising kids is something people do when they want to help another human being grow. It's not done to ensure debt, gratitude, unconditional love, future services, or someone to keep stuck at home. If your parents expect you to forever be of service, then they shouldn't have raised a kid, but hired a maid. It's not on you if they completely mis-purposed raising a kid into 'raising a little servant who isn't allowed to leave even if they're abused and at most we will allow therapy but the abuse will never stop'. That is a ridiculous expectation of you!

It also sounds like they spent a great amount of raising you on just abusing you, then covering up abuse, then pretending they didn't know they were hurting you. I don't think they deserve that much credit if they couldn't even raise you healthily – it's you who will forever suffer the consequences of their neglect, lack of care, deflecting abuse, not being interested in therapy, or flatly being dangerous if abuse is ever brought up. Your parents sound dangerous. You don't owe anyone to spend your life in contact with dangerous people.

Their attitude towards you also doesn't show love 'oh it's too late i've already messed you up', or finding ways to deflect and ignore you, that is the attitude of people who don't care what you're going thru. They're invested to control your opinions and their perception of you, but never how you're feeling, if you're okay, if you need more care and kindness than this. If they raised you with the same or worse attitude, you don't have to give them any credit. You were 'raised' on abuse and grooming. You missed out on the actual experience of a healthy, happy childhood. They took from you a lot more than they gave. They act all entitled and like you should feel bad for them, but it's them who deserve to feel ashamed.

I don't want to put any pressure on you, it's okay to do whatever you feel the most comfortable with, but all the guilt, and debt you feel about being raised, needs to come off of your shoulders. You ddn't cause that, you didn't do anything to cause getting born to people who would hold it against you. You deserve to choose freely.

[dothehokeypokey]

im just saying when diane is upset she goes to see Bojack for comfort  .and im suppose to think that it would be a horribly toxic relationship they could never work through i just don’t see ..   

tho i dont care if its that healthy either i just find their friendship adorable 

[malewifeklaviergavin]

Don't talk to me or my three (3) Pearl Fey centered aus ever again.

[theseourbodiesrp]

"Please don't be mad.." for John! (Or any toxic ship we have lol)

"Mad at ya? Why would i be mad, Sophie?"

His voice is dangerous and quiet. he fixes her with a stare.

"Should be mad at m'self, for thinkin you're ever gonna learn anythin. Guess you really are just a pretty face."

[yellowbluemoonshine]

Hi I really love your Fruits Basket analysis, could you do one for Shigure too please?

Wow, nice timing, anon. I was planning to write it :))). Thank you for compliment btw. It makes me really happy. Though, i didnt plan to getting in deep but i will since you asked me. Shigure is not really a character i really enjoy and i cant make long deep analysis for him, the way i did for Akito and Tohru because he is not that deep but anyway lets analysis him.

It wasnt shown openly in main story but Shigure doesnt have good relationship with his family. In manga notes, it says he dislikes them. And the fact that how less we see them in Shigure’s life, there is probably emotional neglect which explains where his obsessive personality came from. Also we saw his parents tell him to greet family head, they probably care about this more than what their own son wants, its not hard to imagine them as utilitarian.

Though, Shigure isnt the only one who has this kind of problem. Ayame wasnt worthy for his family cause he is born as ‘snake’ and wasnt usefull tool for his family. This is why Ayame become overdramatic,ignorant, self centered and loud. This is his way of rebelling, his way of saying 'i am here’ cause his parents neglects him. Hatori’s father is very strict and he was used as tool since he has power to erase people’s memories, this is why he is used to obey, this is where his balanced personality came from.

He is introvert, manpulator but really bad at understanding people’s feelings. He also likes reading books so no wonder, he became author. His books might for to distance himself from others and reality.

They are the first zodiacs who was aware of many things, compared to younger zodiacs. One chose to ignore, one chose to obey, one chose to rebel. Shigure is observant character, his toxic behavours comes from this environment too. How he chose to play mind games. This is his way of handling things. He acts like he doesnt care anything, he looks at his book but silently observe whats going on. He must’ve been realized that they are all tools, maybe he questioned why they even exist at first place, like; whats the meaning of life for him?

And eventually Akito was born, we dont know the details of dream but we know how it effected them deeply. And again, Ayame, Hatori, Shigure gave different reactions to newborn god. Ayame completely ignored that child and ran away from her as much as possible. Hatori obeyed, accepted the sitution, like always. Shigure became obsessive over her.

And Shigure started to define his whole existence, his whole meaning of life as that thing. Like, if he has that thing, his emptiness will be over. To him, Akito is the object he wants to obtain.

And after she was born, just like other zodiacs, he develops some affection for her too. He even comforts her when she needed. But his goal is still same. This is why he intentionally ignore her to make her come. He thinks Akito is just being stubborn about it but she is just not. At that time, Akito was just a kid. Very lonely kid who was just waiting for someone to see her.

Its interesting that Shigure spends a lot of time to observe her, he constantly watching her, making a big plans to have her but he failed to see how much lonely she was. His obsessive personality makes him unable to see Akito as invidual. This is why he can remember her body type, eyes, her way of talking, her moves but he cant describe her feelings, her inner thoughts, her suffering.

This is actually its kinda parallel to Akito’s obsession with bonds. Akito defines her existence with the bonds because this is what he was told and Shigure defines his existence with her. But there is difference between them.

Akito didnt have outside life, friends etc, her god persona was all she had which later changes. Tohru becomes her friend and showing that she doesnt have to be god, she can still be loved as being herself which lead Akito to change. She changes when she was treated as invidual for the first time in her life.

But Shigure had friends and outside life since the beginning. He has Hatori, Ayame, some zodiacs, Mayu, he even later meets with Tohru. There are people who treats and sees him as invidual. There are people who sees his flaws but still accepts him with that. But he is the one who constantly chose to not move forward in the end. He never let go of his obsession and look at the life without it.

I do believe that he felt some care for Akito too. But even though, its definitely meant to be twisted, messed up love, he never try to move on it. This is his biggest flaw. He tries to change everything around him except himself. This is what we sees during the story.

He manipulates people around him to get what he wants. This is why he took Yuki and Kyo, this is why he takes Tohru. Of course, this doesnt mean he doesnt care aboutthem. He is capable of thinking about others and feeling guilty for his actions too. But this is exactly the problem. He seems to realize his flaws but he never try to fix it.

He excuse everything he did for the name of love. Especially the way he treated Akito is really horrible. This

is not something that should be overlooked. We always mentions how Akito shouldnt've treated zodiac like this and for the sake of both side, they should stay away from each others, how Akito should break them free. Same for Akito and Shigure too. Shigure shouldnt have treated Akito like this, it was horrible the way he intentionally make her feel insecure..and no. This wasnt for Akito's or zodiac' s sake, it was for Shigure's sake. Its because he wanted Akito for himself, instead maybe making Akito meet with other people was never option because he wanted her to depending on him. Because he is depending on her in a way, after all, Akito is the object that he defines as self worth.

And no, they dont deserve each others too, noone deserves to be treated like this, noone should play someone's mental illness the way Shigure did to Akito.

And he blames her for betraying him but...we dont know when he starts to have sexual feelings for her, he says he eventually obtained her which he probably meant that he sexually posses her cause for Shigure, sexuality is big part of love and how he express his love. Eventually they had sexual relationship but the fact that Akito still wasnt felt loved by Shigure and saw her body as something she should give to other men (Kureno) means she felt like a sex object. Also what was he thinking when he slept with mentally unstable young girl who has no idea how to relationship works? This is how Shigure treats her generally though. He came to her side and sleeps with her and goes back. The lack of emotional connection is always there.

Also how old was she when she had some relationship with Kureno and Shigure? She looks extremely young in those scenes. She is 6-8 years younger than them which means they had sexual relationship with her when she was teenager? Its messed up.

The reason people call as grooming, there is a emotional manipulation Shigure used on Akito since they were children and Akito's world view is very limited. Shigure as someone who has more agency should've known this and the reason people call as or pedophile, its because of all that age different. Author messed upw ith those ages and its really disturbing cause Akito was big possibility teenager when she had sexual relationships which is oof. The only reason i dont mention is because there was some supernatural thing over there etc but still disturbing.

Ironic part that Shigure was called out when he tried to flirt with Tohru even as joke but same thing didnt happen with Akito. Is it because she is cult girl, she doesnt deserve protection? Akito is not older than Tohru that much, Tohru was 16-17, Akito is 19-20 in those times but Shigure is portrayed as Tohru’s adult figure/father figure but with Akito, he flirt with her when she wasnt even 16 years old and he is both lover and father figure for her? Its horrible really. Its not okay to flirt with Tohru who is normal high school girl cause thats the rule of society but its okay to flirt with Akito who is emotionally younger than Tohru because she is not normal highschool girl, they are in cult so its okay? Its not Akito’s fault borning in some cult.

He also justify sleeping with Ren, yes he was hurted by Akito’s actions and he has right to mad at her but i wished he focus on his own wrong actions, instead of putting blame to others. He emotionally manipulates her and intentionally enabling her destructive behavours to increase tension between her and zodiac. I think people really underrate how much Akito was traumtized by this. Shigure is keep making jokes about it, Akito got triggerred by little moments and her mind literally goes back to Ren. He literally made her internalized misogny worse and increase her hatred against women more cause she didnt want to blame Shigure or other men for betrayal. This is why she lash out to other women.

(I am talking about those things cause its important both for this character and story and shouldnt been overlooked.)

I dont think this is love. Love is strong emotional connection between two inviduals but Shigure just doesnt understand her at all. He keeps pushing her corner. And she is depending on him too much which is so unhealthy.

Rin and Haru has same problem too though, Rin is depending on Haru too much but at least, their love feels more like...love. Rin doesnt see him as father figure lol. And Haru didnt love her cause of some supernatural dream, they just love each others as invidual and yes, sex was too early for them too. Especially for Rin but at least, Haru was younger, he maybe couldnt think that far but Shigure is older than Akito, he should’ve know better. Also, Haru hates Rin's abusive parents cause they hurted her deeply but Shigure actually feel empathy for Ren, the one of people who deeply hurted Akito.

I am not saying that noone should feel empathy for Ren, i am saying why all of people it had to be Shigure who supposed to love Akito the most? No wronder, he related to Ren cause his obsession of Akito is parallel with Ren’s obsession of Akira. Its kinda similar.

Every story has and need a character like Shigure, someone who push the plot and some of his scenes are really entertaining too, so i understand why people like him but i think the way he treated Akito and how he used people shouldnt been overlooked and he should have get consequences of his actions but he never get one, unlike Akito so i dislike him a lot.

People can only grow when they recognize their wrong actions and try to change it. This is Shigure’s character flaw, he understand his wrong actions and never bother to change it. He asks Akito 'how she will atone?' but would he bother to ask himself to same queston too?

In the end, he never does. He never grows as character. Theme of story is literally uncontional love doesnt exist but his relationship with Akito comes from contional situtions, full of toxic, unchanging and eternal. He literally says its eternal to Akito. Basically condracts with the theme of story.

Just like how Akito need to end her relationship with zodiac for both their sake and her sake, Shigure should’ve end his relationship with Akito. People around him call him out for it, Hatori and Kureno told him to act kind, Ren questioned his love but Shigure never seems to stop and thinking how unhealthy this love is, not for himself but also for Akito and he shouldnt just act like this.

Yes, he is realistic character but he is realistic jerk and it shouldnt be funny. I dont like him saying 'i am jerk/i am not good person anyway' as joke but never really adressed by narrative, it only makes him weak as character. Its not some determination, its weakness. This is why him being separated from Akito in the end would be good punishment for everything he did, it would be consequences of his actions but it didnt. -_-.

When he properly take care of Tohru and zodiac or help Hatori or Mayu, he seems more sempathic because despite him being very selfish person, you can see he care about people around too. Shigure should've find his own worth outside of his obsession with Akito, instead until the end, he keeps holding on to her.

I am saying this as someone who used to blindly accept all types of canon relationships because its canon but this relationship made me wake up.

Saying that 'Akito deserved this cause she was toxic' is same mindset that justify police force. If people think Akito's relationship with zodiac should end for good, then they should think the same for Akito and Shigure's relationship too. No matter what, just because Akito acted toxic, this doesnt justify Shigure's acting same too.

You can learn more how the healthy relationship works in here;

https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/healthy-self-healthy-love-characteristics-of-strong-relationship-030220185

People say their relationship became healthy and author said so, lol even though, story shows opposite. More details in here. If author says this relationship is healthy, does she even know what healty relationship is? : ) This is not an example of toxic relationship can become healthy either because if you look at details and research about what is healthy relationship is, you will see thier relationship didnt change that much in core.

Story shows opposite. What a reader supposed to do when author’s words condratcts with whats they write? To me, what story shows me is more important than saying. So, its still unhealthy relationship and its not real love.

Basically; To me, a character who is unwilling to change for better, character who never face any consequences of their actions, character who is very selfish is weak and boring character. Also i hate the way he treated Akito a lot. And again, it shouldnt be overlooked. Its horrible. And no, he doesnt change in the end, he just loose his reason to fight cause he gets what he wants.

What a shame. It whould be a lot inspiring to watch characters ending toxic relationship but in the end, its normalized and ruins their potential to be grow. Akito would try to change for better anyway, for Shigure, story would force him to change and finally he would have to do something about his life which is better ending. Well, f.ck the canon, we can make our own endings.

In the end, this post became my rant but its true though.

(I might edit things later).

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- TWs for the backstories -

- PLEASE READ -

- I CARE ABOUT YOUR SAFETY AND I WANT YOU TO BE OKAY - 

Xisuma + EX - Abandonment, physically and mentally abusive parents, haphephobia, thoughts of being ‘lesser’, and running away.

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Mumbo - Threats, emotional abuse, and running away.

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Grian - Helping with someone running away (For a good reason but im still putting this here.)

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Impulse - Major claustrophobia.

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Tango - Major aquaphobia, fire, and absent parents.

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Zedaph - Dead mom.

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Doc - Kidnapping, experimentation without contest, lost of limbs, gore.

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Ren - Breaking and entering, gore.

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Joe - Minor lost of self, cloning, death, brought back to life

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Cleo - Kidnapping, experimentation without consent, death, bringing back to life, and minor corruption (by her being a zombie), and poor relationship with AngelCleo

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Stress - Lost of friends and death of a friend.

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False - Bringing others to life, lost of friends, death of friends, and fighting.

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Bdubs - Absent parents, neglect, poor upbringing, forced to mature faster.

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Jevin - N/A.

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TFC - Lost of family and friends.

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Scar - Bad relationship with twin brother, unmeant neglect from mom, and running away

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Hypno - Absent parents.

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Keralis - Absent mother and minor neglect from said mother.

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Wels and Hels - Neglect and good relationship that turns poor with age with twin.

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Etho - Dead mom, abusive dad, escapism, and fighting.

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Cub - Neglect, confliction, and fighting

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Green - Cloning, anger, neglecting others, thoughts of being lesser, and  superiority complex.

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Skinless - Fire/Burns, abuse + neglect, and cloning

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NPC - Hes just a robot :]

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Beetlejhost - Ghost, lost of self, derealization, and neglect

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AngelCleo - Poor relationship with Cleo

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Badtimes - Bad relationship with twin, minor corruption, and unmeant neglect from mom.

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Iskall - Minor PTSD.

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Beef - Fighting, kidnpping, and uncontested/unaware cloning

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xB - Neglect, bad parenting, manpulation, running away.

[wonderlustandlost]

PERSONAL INFORMATION.

CAESAR RUDAYA IS HERE.

If you must break the law, do it to seize of POWER. In all other cases, observe it. Julius Caesar quoted, Caesar Rudaya will do it.

REAL NAME: Caesar Rudaya

ALIAS: Caesar, Cas, PIERROT, THE CLOWN.

GENDER: Masculine Male

P.D.O.B: Manchester, September 9, 1992

OCCUPATION: General Manager of Pillar Signature, Drug cartel's drug lord.

HEIGHT: 175cm

WEIGHT: 63kg

BLOOD TYPE: A

MBTI: ESTP-T

ORIENTATION: Bisexual-Aromatic

AFFILIATION: Pillar Signature, BERMUDA TRIANGLE, THE DAWNTIDE.

STATUS: Alive

FACECLAIM: Soloist Crush (Shin Hyoseob)

Caesar is a complex individual. He is usually nonchalant and playful towards people he know. He also really kind to those he think deserve his kindness. But in the other side, he is an unsympathetic and cruel towards those who is against him. He loves to judge people based on their first impression and appearance, he hardly change his opinion on others so it's important to put a good first impression when you meet him.

Although he looks like he is easy to approach, Caesar actually a really close person. He act friendly just because he feel he need to but no one really know what kind of person he is. He could be the most polite person and also the biggest dickhead based on the situation and his own mood.

Caesar has a broken moral compass. He doesn't really care about what is bad and good as long as it's beneficial to him and he get what he want with any kind of way possible. Caesar also a highly confident person, he know well to use his power and put an act when he need to.

Mostly, he act dumb and cluless so people will think that he's an easy target when the truth is he is more than what it looks like. He is a very manpulative person and loves to mess up with people head. He doesn't really show his real emotions and he loves to act dramatic all the time.

He might be the most annoying and complicated person you ever met. You will feel like you know him but you actually not at all.

Caesar is a very adorable person, he is an animal lover. He got two dogs that he loves so much. He often talk to his dogs and even address himself as daddy while talking sweetly to them. He really care about his dos that he will literally do anything for them.

Caesar is a slim young man with light skin, black eyes, and mid-length black hair. He might look like he is short from first glance but actually he is at least 175cm tall. He has soft features and dorky look often seen. Caesar loves to wear comfortable clothes in daily basis but when it comes to work, he always put on nice fit black suit and tie.

He often style his hair down to look just natural and doesn’t really like to dye it to other color, just black, natural color. Because he is a very dramatic and comical man, he also can easily change his expression. That’s why, don’t easily be fooled of his smile because no one know which one is fake and real one.

He only has one tattoo which is a cross that located on his back because he is a really religious person just like the other BERMUDA TRIANGLE. His face easily get bloated and puffy especially after he just woke up but he really care about how he looks infront of others that’s why he always try his best to dress well.

In 1992 to be precise on September 9, the married couple, Dirgantara and Kiyoko finally got the descendants they had hoped for. The son born to the couple was later named with the name Caesar Rudaya. A name that has many meanings with a hope that later Caesar can realize the meaning he wants himself.

Unfortunately, hope is only hoping because what is said is very different from what is done, in fact, Caesar since childhood has been restrained and arranged to become a weapon of power by his father.

The label as a proud child, golden child, and dear child has disappeared.

His father is a culinary businessman who is very famous in Indonesia. His family owns many restaurants in many cities in Indonesia that have become the trust of many people. Pillar Signature, an upscale restaurant that certainly provides unquestionable service and food.

Because of his father's tough nature, Caesar had been educated to be a child who of course had to be able to carry out what his father had provided. Caesar grew up to be a man who was very skilled in many fields, even though Caesar followed various directions given by his father, of course, the man did not completely swallow it all. In silence, he learned a lot in the future to conquer his father.

Because he already knew so much, he couldn't turn around his back anymore.

The source of his father's wealth did not only come from the culinary business he was running. Secretly, his family also carried out various illegal businesses in the procurement of illegal drugs. Caesar who found out about this then could only laugh because he knew, he was the one who would have to dirty his own hands to continue running this business.

His father is too strong to be destroyed for now, especially with the fact that it is not only family strength and money, but this crime is also supported by a wider range of parties.

It was not easy to earn his father's trust to finally accept the burden of this great power and secret that had to be tightly closed. At the age of 25, he finally became the GM of several restaurants owned by his father in the Jakarta area. He also began plunging straight into the drug ring, in just a few years he was able to rise to many positions of influence. Of course thanks to the skill.

He knew that this was not the end of his business, he still had a lot to do. He will not be able to breathe a sigh of relief because Caesar Rudaya has just started a real life.