#hcs for a canon divergence I crave

[melancholitas]

Law, hearing about Marineford, deciding "on a whim" to change course and haul Luffy's ass out of there still is one of my favorite moments.

A pirate that basically had no business being there, deciding to willingly enter a marine war. Metaphorically laughing in the face of the fleet admiral, a man he doesn't know yet he shares fate with. Just because.

This concept makes me want to see Sengoku doing something similar.

The old man has no business leaving his retirement. But after hearing about the Swords pinch, with Garp high on their heels, and then the recent news about his insufferable grandson?

I wanna bet he hauls his Buddha behind out on the seas and returns the favor. With his shifted sense of justice (thanks to Cora-san) he would be more inclined to act on it. Especially if his family is involved.

The very thing he always reprimands Garp for when his spawns are wrecking havoc again (I count Coby into that).

So he goes out there and helps Law. Claiming "it's on a whim".

I want to see this turn of events repeated.

Furthering the narrative of unconditional love and blurring the lines more of "conventional behavior".

But most of all, I want to see them mending the wounds of the past and holding tight onto what they treasure.

I want them to break the circle of having to see their loved ones being ripped from their hands.

I want them to be able to step up, and reclaim their ground.

Garp, Coby, Law, Sengoku. And everyone dear to them.

[seiwas]

conversations on love

[series. ongoing. 42.0k wc. post-canon-divergent. reader is a sorcerer. slow burn. friends to lovers. includes some nsfw.] ···· in every instance of love, gojo finds you.

*this is not a strict series so i'll be adding works to this whenever i feel like something exists in this universe! you might also enjoy: do you know what love is like?, a mini-series of almost's within col where you and gojo nearly get together, but don't.

recommended: to be read in the order below! each fic can kind of stand alone but is better read in order for more context.

ao3 mirror

00. baby blue, when i first loved you [currently writing.] ···· you fall in love with gojo—all the parts of him you’ve come to know.

01. do you believe in love? [808 wc. early 20's gojo. ambiguous relationship. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· you're both 23 when you first ask gojo about love.

02. tell me about love (show me how) [7.4k wc. late 20's gojo. post-canon-divergent. pre-established relationship. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· you teach gojo how to love.

2.5. and my body keeps saying (it's yours) [1.6k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship, no label. first times. nsfw.] ···· gojo thinks this is different, new, the first time for everything.

+02. look my way, you're what i crave [2.6k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship, no label. food trip. sfw.] ···· you and gojo made a promise to yuuji. (extra scene).

03. so this is what it means to be in love [8.9k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. falling in love. hurt/comfort. nsfw.] ···· gojo finds out what it really means to be in love.

03. too good to be mine [1.9k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. misunderstanding. angst. nsfw.] ···· you’re too good for gojo, in every sense of the word. (extended scene from 'so this is what it means to be in love').

3.5a. this feeling inside of me— [1.5k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. jealousy. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· you make gojo realize that this twisty-pop!-y feeling in his stomach might just be jealousy.

3.5b. —will i ever bring you peace? [1.4k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. hurt/comfort. sfw.] ···· gojo can’t give you a quiet life. no matter what. 

+04a. take my time (i'll spend it all on you) [1.6k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. lingerie. fluff. nsfw.] ···· gojo sees you in lingerie for the first time. (extra that takes place along 'these traces of love, they outline you').

+04b. if you're ready (let me) [1.3k wc. late 20's gojo. established relationship. lingerie. insecurities. nsfw.] ···· you find the other thing to surprise gojo with on his birthday.

04. these traces of love, they outline you [12.9k wc. late 20's to early 30's gojo. established relationship. 5+1. nsfw.] ···· the 5 times gojo’s sure you’ve changed his life + the 1 time he hopes to change yours. 

tags: #dykwlil (posted works) | #col (posted works) | #col tag (asks, extra hc's, discussions)

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[intheheartoftheking]

Painting The Roses Red

Jacaerys Velaryon/Targaryen x Tyrell!Reader

canon divergent, mentions of war/ptsd, a lot! of fluff, yearning, forbidden love, mentions of death and infidelity, dragonrider!reader

summary: HEAVILY INSP by this HC from @enviedear Reader is restless from nightmares of the war and Jace soothes her back to sleep by reading stories of Targaryen History while reminiscing on their past. Jace wonders how their story will fit into the future of Targaryen History.

word count: 1,566

a/n: It started off short because I was inspired by @enviedear 's head cannon (THIS ONE IS FOR YOU BABE) about Jace reading you to sleep with Targaryen History but then it became a whole thing of its own since I crave fluffy Jace and I love forbidden love. I want to write the wedding so pls let me know if a part 2 with memories of their wedding or any other of their war adventures would be interesting.

You threw off your sweat-drenched sheets and found solace in the cold breeze through the window. Your sleep had been restless all through the war, and you thought once it was over, you would finally have some peaceful rest, but the fear had settled into your bones, and you would never be the same again. Tears welled in your eyes as the memories of the past two years replayed in your mind. You didn't even realize that soft sobs had begun to leave your body as you stared out at the sea; however, Jacearys did notice. His coarse hand wrapped around your wrist, startling you out of your trance as he pulled you into his chest. "We're safe, you're safe," he whispered into your hair, rubbing soft circles on your back. This had become a routine for both of you since you found yourselves back at Kings Landing, and both of you constantly had to pull one another out of the distant memories of war. "I know," you murmured, "but that still doesn't change the chill in my bones and the fear in my heart as I watch you die over and over again." you whimpered as he tightened his grip on you. "Jacearys, you almost died. I fished you out of the water and watched you come and go from consciousness. The maesters believed you dead." He sighed. "But I am alive, and our victories will be written in the histories. The greens will only grow to be a stain, but a footnote in the rich Targaryen history." He pulled away from you to grab a large leather-bound book containing the tales of Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters wives before settling back on your bed. "Come," he beckoned you over softly, "we shall be the rulers our descendants look upon with admiration and seek guidance from just as we look to our ancestors."

You shook your head, offering him a sad smile as you climbed alongside him, adjusting yourself in his chest. His voice was a lullaby that warded off the fear that threatened to destroy your peace, and with the vibrato that escaped his chest, you could feel yourself being pulled by sleep. Your eyes are heavy as you cling to every word of the stories of Rhaenys and Aegon. As Jace looks down to see you opposing your rest, he aids the sleep process by entwining his hand in your hair, softly running his fingers along your scalp. 

You can feel yourself losing your battle, and Jace knows he's won as he hears your soft snores in his embrace. He looks down at your peaceful face in admiration and sadness. It was rare to find you so calm. It had been years since he had seen you so happy and carefree. 

The war had taken so much from you, your home, your family, and most importantly, it shook your lineage. You were a firstborn daughter, a lady created for more domestic pursuits, the beauty of Highgarden. You weren't fire and blood, or so you thought. However, when the war made you a dragonrider, the garden's secrets became revealed as your mother had to uncover the truth of an affair your great-grandmother had with a Targaryen prince during the rule of King Jaehaerys. The gods were merciful, and this child bore only a tiny resemblance to the Targaryen prince who fathered him, and your grandfather, the heir of House Tyrell, would pass his Targaryen blood to you. Amongst learning to ride dragons and fight for the rightful Queen, you learned the news that your home and your family had been taken and slain. You were now the Lady of Highgarden, thrust into a position you were not born for and fighting to make your place in the world while also trying to preserve whatever you had left of the life before the war. 

Jacearys wasn't supposed to fall in love with you, and you weren't supposed to fall in love with him, but you two were drawn to one another, bound together by some invisible string. He thought that he knew what love was supposed to feel like. After all, he and Baela were affectionate and devoted to one another, but with you, it was different. He felt electric when you accidentally brushed your hands against his while adjusting your riding gear. Or the way that it felt that the air had been sucked out of him when you gazed into his beautiful ember eyes. The way that your laughter filled the room and made his heart sing. Being with you made Jaecarys feel like the world had stopped and only you two were transceding through time.

It was only a short time before Rhaenyra noticed her son became fond of roses and would always request them no matter how difficult the import may be to Dragonstone. She also noticed how their newest dragon rider began to shed the colors of her house in favor of the colors of House Targaryen. It was hard not to notice the late hours you spent with Jace in the library, desperate to learn the language and customs of old Valyria as you both filled the castle with laughter into the hours of the night. You and Jacearys trained together, constantly pushing each other to your limits as you both developed a dance, a routine where your motions almost mirrored the other and your fierce devotion to one another became unmistakable, as when one of you was assigned to a mission, the other was desperate to go along to protect the other. This devotion would make you the woman who saved the heir to the iron throne, Prince Jacearys Targaryen.  

Once you became the Lady of Highgarden, Baela came to Queen Rhaenyra requesting to end the betrothal between herself and Jacearys. "He loves her, Your Grace," she stated, "and I do not believe he will ever stop loving her nor she. As we have witnessed, they would give their lives for one another if necessary. It would not be fair to Jacearys to watch the woman he loves marry another man; he is far too honorable to take her as a lover. Instead, he will be trapped with me, always longing for someone he can't have. Wondering of a future that could have been."

Rhaenyra sighed, knowing all too well what comes from loveless and forced marriages. She knew her son's behavior, and Baela was right. Unlike herself, Jacearys was far too honorable to lie with another woman, but he may never bring himself to love Baela. Instead, the two young rulers would be forced to be yearning gazes at court with Baela caught in the middle of an unspoken desire. Rhaenyra sighed. "I will grant your request." 

Queen Rhaenyra announced the end of the betrothal that same night, causing mixed uproar from the lords and ladies at court. Jacearys looked at his mother and Baela in horror and confusion as one of the lords called out, "Who shall be the bride of the prince now, Your Grace!?" "Shall we all present our daughters?" "I have a girl of marrying age!" Jacearys eyes searched for you and found you staring back at him, hopeful. He felt guilt as he looked back to Baela, who only nodded at him. A small smile crept on her face, and her eyes gestured at you. "Go to her," she mouthed. Jacearys blinked in confusion as his emotions raged inside him, and he felt his body begin walking toward you as his mother tried to quiet the unruly crowd. 

The crowd hushed as they noticed the prince making his way to you, the court, holding their breath as the realization dawned on them. The prince had fallen in love with the most beautiful but thorniest rose in the Highgarden. "My prince," you whispered, "they are watching." 

Jacearys only hummed in response as he lifted your hand to his lips, placing a soft kiss on the back. Hushed whispers rang through the crowd. "The Highgarden girl?" "There are rumors that they are a love match, but the Prince was promised to the princess." "She saved the prince's life; I, too, would fall in love with any woman of the sort." Jacearys chuckled as he caught some of the whispers and looked at his mother, who gave him a permissive nod.

"I have decided to marry Lady Tyrell, the Lady of Highgarden, if she will have me." Tears welled in your eyes as Jacearys publicly declared for you. "I will accept your proposal, Prince Jacearys." You nodded, a smile covering your face. Your heart overflowed with your love for Jacearys; you had spent so much time holding back due to duty and scrutiny. He laughed heartily as he kissed your forehead, pulling you in for a hug. "A love match!" someone shouted out, causing the court to erupt in applause and cheers. This union would promise peace amongst Westeros, for the people would know that the dragon prince and his thorny rose would furiously protect each other and their people. 

Jace shook himself from the memories and kissed your head, closing his eyes to breathe you in. "I love you," he whispered before shutting the book and drifting off to sleep. He staved off the nightmares from both of you for just another night and dreamed of what tales they would write for you both. 

[jamietarttownsmyheart]

please i need colinjamie headcanons or prompts i’ve been deprived of them for too long

i am. so so sorry for how late this is. and how uncoordinated the rest of this will probably end up being, but, just, ima unleash random colinjamie thoughts on u and hope it makes sense lol and that you enjoy them, but since idk how long it'll end up ima put everything under the cut

random hcs

colinjamie have definitely watched the owl house at some point. maybe this is fresh in my head since the final episode just came out a few days ago, but i definitely see colinjamie watching the owl house together. two options:

maybe colin was chilling with his niece (i want colin to have a niece or a nephew so bad, he gives uncle vibes and also i want jamie to interact with the kid at some point too) and she was watching it and he got invested. and then jamie got invested via colin. OR. henry was visiting the stadium on spring break and mentioned the owl house to jamie, who was curious, watched and episode, and then got invested. flash forward to colinjamie fwb era and colin dropping by one day and finding jamie losing his shit over the episode hollow mind. jamie needs to lose his shit with someone and colin is the poor soul who came over for a hook up but ended up having to watch two seasons of a disney cartoon.

that being said, i also think that jamie, if he ever watched avatar the last airbender as a kid, only ever watched until mid season 2. life got more complicated and he was more concerned with playing well than "lazy" things like cartoons. he never got to zuko standing up to his dad. he'll get there someday, it's gonna be great

colinjamie have a unique sense of style that they somehow make work, it drives so many people mad

colin had a crush on lightning mcqueen when he was a kid. (11 years old? idk how old colin is, so im putting him at 28 in s3, making him 11 when cars came out) he thinks about this childhood crush and figures its pretty telling that he's got a speedy car and a cocky but talented boyfriend

jamie is dyslexic, and when he realized audiobooks existed, he was thrilled. still, his favorite way to experience books is to have colin read them out to him.

that being said, his favorite way to enjoy drake is to have colin rapping along

colin takes jamie along to theater performances, musicals, and the ballet.

jamie found the "whose the worm now" moment so hot. he can't let colin find out

random prompt

prompt #1

so this might be because i just re read the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, daisy jones and the six, and carrie soto is back, as well as binging all of the daisy jones and the six show, and have been listening to taylor swift all month, but i am craving something specific?

like, i am so here for an au with actor or pop star jamie (have y'all heard phil dunster's voice?) and richmond player colin hughes. its giving posh spice and david beckham.

just the different flavors of it all. if we have it in modern times, as in, the time ted lasso is set in the show, we can do so much. (we can also have a colin who is not actually a fan of his bf's music. it's not that he hates it, it's just not his style. jamie knows this, and writes songs about colin anyways. colin loves listening to these songs regardless of them not being his style.)

then of course there is the other option--i am so bad at timelines and math, so dont come for me when this is all wrong, but i, on my 7 husband of eh kick, was like omg?? give me hollywood star jamie tartt and football player colin hughes who are "roommates."

prompt #2

im a sucker for vampires and vampire hunters. i think it can go either way for them in terms of whose the vampire and whose the vampire hunters.

prompt #3

a canon divergence au where colinjamie were dating s1. jamie and keeley were dating prior to his loan to richmond and stayed friends after their breakup. he really did love her, but still hadn't learned to be accountable yet. keeley still comes around to the club bc she's jamie's best friend and wants to test the playing field with roy.

[pentacass]

Idk if you've answered this before or if you've made your own canon for ves and lana but what canon choices did ves make during her class story? Is lana introduced sooner than the revan expansion?

alllright *cracks knuckles* sith clown time!!! (art by yarpell)

My OCs for each class exist in the same canon verse where my Jedi Knight, Aelirra, is the Outlander and Alliance Commander. Their stories happen in parallel with the game’s main events, with most of their paths converging during the Alliance era, then diverging after. It’s the same for Ves, except she meets Lana much earlier.

For Vestra’s canon choices, I’ll just mention the more ‘significant’ ones? (which really isn’t a lot lol)

On Nar Shaddaa, she chose to cure the plague instead of wiping out the Krayts gang, finding twisted amusement in a Sith being revered as a healer and saviour. She takes over the cult, and has it run to her specifications.

She bound all of the ghosts by force in Act 2, save for Horak-mul on Hoth. Horak seemed eager to go with her, and Ves wanted to know how it feels to bind a ghost willingly. 

In Act 3, she freed the Mother on Belsavis because the machine’s capabilities intrigued her, and she wanted to win it over so that she could look into augmenting herself in future. On Voss, she gave the dream-walking Gormak, Hadrik, passage offworld, and Force persuaded the Voss who confronted her in the airlock. It was the best she'd felt in ages, her mind and body whole once more, and Lord Lenshe was feeling magnanimous enough to hold up her end of the bargain.

For the Silencer CN-12 chip quest, she retained her cult and Force persuaded the Veil into serving her. During the Kaggath, she won over Darth Achelon and Lord Skar as allies, painfully aware that her power base is small and needs to grow beyond Pyron's fleet.

For the final Khem/Zash choice, she kept Khem instead of Zash.

In the end, she gained the canon title of Darth Nox, because she leaned very heavily into the dark side during the class story. (I changed it to Darth Avriss in my fics, cos I’m picky like that) She also released all the ghosts; she was so damn sick of them by then, and craved some time alone.

As for Lana, they meet way back in Act 1. After Ves collected two of four Hord artifacts, Zash recalled her to attend a Sith Lord’s soiree - they met here and had a one-night stand. They’ll meet again on Hoth in Act 2, and have another roll in the sheets. (It’s cold, okay??) After Ves ascended to the Dark Council, they became friends with benefits, and grew closer from there.

By the time Marr asked Ves to help on Makeb, she and Lana were a couple. Ves wasn’t involved with the events of SoR and Ziost (my JK has that…traumatising ‘honour’), but she’s there to catch Lana after Ziost beat her girl down.

During the five years while the Outlander was in carbonite, and Lana’s on the run from the Empire (can’t remember if this is hc or canon), Ves basically acted as Lana’s rock and secret accomplice. The initial idea of forming an alliance to fight the Eternal Empire came from Ves, and while Lana contacts Theron to rustle up Republic support, Ves pulls on her network in the Empire. So when the Alliance is finally formed, most Imperial recruits (and a lot of the initial resources) are there because of Ves. Aelirra may be the Alliance's Commander, but Ves is its sugar mommy.

[poet-shimmer]

* rp rules.

fandom:

undertale + alternate universes (only)

requirements:

please be capable of proper grammar, punctuation, and multiple paragraphs (15+ lines). my ideal preferred length, for reference, is a message that reaches the sign limit of a discord message.

provide an rp example of yours so i can get an idea of your writing style. really, enjoying my partner's style matters more to me than the length. when i can really tell you're an eloquent, passionate writer.

be 18+. because of my own age, preference for a mature partner and dark themes. don't lie about that. please.

i have a bit of a 'funny' rule regarding ocs. i will only accept other canon characters (more about that below) *unless* you have an oc you'd like to pair up with swap!sans. even then, i won't accept just about any oc. thanks for understanding.

third person only.

be open to canon-divergence/headcanons. i very much enjoy hcs, and i tend to twist canon facts in favor of an interesting storyline.

*be active*. be capable of multiple answers a week at least.

communicate. i am very patient and forgiving with my partners, but if i constantly have to second guess if you're busy or bored with what's going on i might just cut ties for my own sake.

please, please, please don't let me carry the plot. someone who knows what they want in a plot and brings ideas would be so great.

tell me your triggers.

ooc chatter isn't a must per se, but it means a lot to me. it usually raises the fun and activity! dry ooc talk really affects my mood honestly.

playlists, moodboards and rambles/hcs based on the characters/plot? umm, yes please?? again, not a must, but *so* appreciated.

about the user:

call me rose!

they/them

above 18

CET timezone

10+ years of experience

can mirror replies with little effort

needs a plot

highly prefers discord as a platform

discomforts/pet peeves:

venting without permission

people who easily lose interest

triggers will be disclosed in private

yes men. please don't just say "i don't know" or "you choose" or "whatever you want!" all the time.

character information:

✅ will do:

favs

✒ ink

main!

lots of experience, lots of hcs

☀️ dream

secondary main

a bit of experience, a good bunch of hcs

🌊 swap

NOT blueberry

OC ship friendly! (only him)

🌑 nightmare

zero experience so far, but very familiar with the character and willing to try!

🗨 classic

☠ reaper

others

anybody who isn't on my 'won't do' list, really! especially if they're from classic undertale. toriel, alphys, undyne, papyrus... you name em!

❌ won't do:

any rps involving characters from...

underlust

underfell

glitchtale

x-tale

(+ any alternate universes of them. the story of underverse is not at all canon to my ideas. it's totally fine to like any of those! i just don't.)

ship information:

✅ will do:

any crack- or rareship you can think about. i'm serious. whether it's romantic or platonic (and always legal ya sickos). i wanna bring characters together most people wouldn't, discover fun dynamics!!

examples:

ink and classic

nightmare and reaper

swap and swap!napstablook

(those are still kinda tame, but you get the idea!)

popular ships are fine too! they just don't tickle my fancy as much.

❌ won't do:

romantic ships involving fresh, frisk, chara, asriel or monster kid

incest

important notes:

if you read and understood all of those, then please include this smiley [🫖] somewhere in your comment/pm.

do not comment on this post! i have a pinned message for you to interact with if interested. like it or comment and i'll contact you. (or just go ahead and contact me-)

(current) cravings:

i would give anything for a good drink (ink x dream) rp. really. so if you're an enthusiastic dream rper hmu as soon as possible, i b e g-

aside from that, i look forward to playing ink, dream or classic sans against any other possible character the most currently!

[glarehand]

canon divergent hc once again. i only have those kinds of hcs tbh

golbez struggling to understand his identity unrelated to war

kain visiting golbez, who has returned to earth after a stay on the moon but refuses to leave his secluded space near mysidia, coincidentally near where he was born, aside from the behind the scenes, almost night vigilante esque, work he does to fix what he destroyed

he asks what exactly golbez gets up to otherwise, having asked barbariccia the same--curious as to what a fiend gets up to in her spare time, considering all she has is free time

and he says he studies magic, reads magical texts and texts on wildlife and herbs (if he can’t learn white magic, he might as well learn to craft potions)--basically learning things to study and grow, doing so to better himself and understand his powers outside the frame of waging war. he wants to do things to see if he can do them, how he can push the boundaries of spellcasting for himself and his own gratification

but even then, he says he’s not quite sure how to engage with things that aren’t in the vein of magic and gaining knowledge. not that it doesn’t interest him or that he wrongfully considers it an important part of himself, but he just

he’s never read a book

he’s only ever heard music in passing, has never listened to it on purpose

his fingers are clumsy with writing utensils (which is understandably chalked up to the sheer size of his hands) and although he has vast knowledge, including reading difficult texts and writing/thinking in intricate ways, he wouldn’t know where to start getting his thoughts down in a descriptive sense

yes, he considers his interest in magic to be for pleasure but he doesn’t know how to engage with more than that. doesn’t know how to do things others do, both human and lunarian

kain considers himself both cursed and blessed by his lineage, immersed in all the culture and glory that comes with being a dragoon but also the bloodshed, a life that necessitates violence but craves an end to it

especially after the war, he’s able to reorient his understanding of it back to peacetime, to when training had the goals of protecting something or improving one’s own abilities or sustaining a rivalry and pushing one another or even just to jump high enough to see the sunset unconcealed by trees

he has the family ties to see his rank as a dragoon and a commander untarnished by war, with the capabilities for so much more than bloodshed

but golbez is just learning now of what he’s been unexposed to, wouldn’t know true enjoyment of something if it physically wounded him in the process

“i borrowed non-magical texts for the first time,” he explains, the usage of “texts” to refer to fiction in a non-educational setting an immediate indication of his unfamiliarity with it, “i’m. not sure if they’re good or not”

a small smile graces kain’s features and then golbez’s as well

“i’m not much of a reader myself but liking it is more the point than if it’s ‘good,’ although it can be a real task to get through if it’s really that bad”

“is it more common to find something written poorly or...?”

“i suppose executed poorly is more the case but if you find yourself thinking it’s garbage just... pick something else”

“good advice for everything else too, i suppose”

“music’s the same way, maybe even more obviously so”

“although i’ve certainly heard music in passing that is... ‘not good’ and i’m more accepting of that i think”

“yeah, i know what you mean,” kain agreeing that hearing someone put their heart into music, even if it just sounds like clanging, is more endearing than having to slog through written text. as if being graced with self-expression through music versus being cursed with textual over-confidence in one’s (lack of) abilities

golbez asks in turn what kain does when he’s not working--or what work is compromised of if war isn’t being waged

he can relax into conversation then, describing literally anything golbez could fill his time with

“as dragoons, we protect the castle, which mainly means staying vigilant but it allots great chunks of time just to catch up with others while we wait, doing stretches or rotating breaks or offering up help to the carpenters or guard if they need an extra hand.

we have more training-heavy days but even then, it’s only a competition if someone’s interested in making it out to be one. there’s no point in hierarchy when we’re all to contribute to the same task or when dragoons, depending on location, work in entirely different ways.

both my fathers (his birth father and adoptive father, richard, being referenced here--we’re operating off of mixed ff2/ff4 canon) rode dragons and never jumped like baron’s dragoons do, baron’s dragoons thus having no experience with wyverns.

if a dragoon was judged solely on the height of their jump, neither of my fathers in all their valor would be considered good enough, so i see no point in being strict about qualifications other than desire to do good for baron or in some circumstances, ourselves.

but on off hours it’s ensuring no one’s made a martyr of themselves on the clock, drinking some, goading your brother into doing both taking breaks and having a drink (golbez smiles)

sparring, trying to learn healing from rosa, talking about anything until it gets dark, exploring anywhere in town we think we haven’t studied closely enough. playing cards

helping my mother fish and bring her catch to market, bartering with the other townspeople and trying not to cut my fingers off hacking fish apart, making sure the elderly get their picks first. appreciating those bartered, community-made goods like some kind of dragon’s hoard. taking the wyvern back home out into the forest, “training” with her, if you’d consider doing tricks and trying to outrun her training

i haven’t tried art but i think if it’s hands-on enough and it can look bad the whole way through then...”

golbez laughs at that and the depth of it rumbles in kain’s chest, despite the low volume

“maybe i’ll try that then. i could stand to try something new and do it poorly”

“doing something poorly for the first time in your life?”

“oh no, absolutely not” and they both chuckle, far less serious about themselves than they assumed a year ago

[ruiniel]

Hello!

Sorry right back for this late comment/reply, but here I am!

(the scar reasoning)

It's... I don't wanna say 'easier' in that sense since any art form presents its own set of challenges, but you're definitely fortunate in the regard that you can alter the lore as needed to suit the story and not be overly concerned if it diverges too much from the source material. ☺ My mindset has difficulty finding that middle ground. 😅

Hah I see where you're coming from, trust me I do. When I started fanfiction writing for the Tolkien fandom, I didn't know much about the reception or the kind of fandom it was overall, especially concerning acceptance of skewing canon (even though with Tolkien, the term 'canon' is so debatable it's hilarious).

I also started my journey on fanfiction dot net, which, in hindsight, I realized later did Not represent the majority of the Tolkien fandom in terms of acceptance. You had reviews such as 'I like this story and this was a good chapter even though you have made Legolas a brunette, instead of a blonde.' (Me: uhmm, okay) or 'However, I have to say that I really dislike (my fem!OC). [...] I sincerely hope her attitude changes, otherwise it will be very difficult to continue reading with such an unsympathetic heroine.' (Me, who's always loved building Tolkien fem!OCs and roots for them being represented with different facets and a personality outside heteronormative/gender role expectations: uhmmmm, okay). Needless to say, I don't stick around that site anymore but it was a great place to start where I made an awesome friend.

My point is, you do you on divergence... up to you!

And I also wrote Speaker instead of Scholar, brain go derp! 🤪 *Highly embarrassed*

Oh please I once wrote 'appendices' when meaning 'appendages' (not betaed). Only noticed after I posted. I eventually got out from under the shamecouch

Another random one but I may even slightly HC that Al might be infertile due to being a hybrid, but the possibilities are something I intend to look further into at some stage and are currently just a small thought.

Yes! I've also played with the concept of Castlevania dhampir fertility here and I've seen the infertility HC used in fic. Other HCs in the Castlevania universe say a dhampir can have children by either humans or vampires, since they are 'both' in a sense. Again, I believe personally that a headcanon is a headcanon. I consider a headcanon something that goes into the realm of 'don't like, don't read' - meaning, if you don't agree with it, move on and find something you do like. I will never debate a sensibly concocted HC (barring any -phobia inferred within it).

Ah yes, bottom line: Do as you please. 😁 For you personally, though, how far is too far? Just curious.

I write fluff to darkfic so no major boundaries here. I keep art outside of the realm of morality as I personally believe it doesn't belong there. But, I will say I'm not a huge fan of romanticizing certain actual harmful activities/concepts in stories. 'Do what you like, but tag well and mindfully.'

Could he be turned, though, do you think? 🤔 Fully, I mean. Always found it a little curious that, for a series centred around vampires, we never get an onscreen turning.

I've never thought about this, haha! But, at least in the show-verse, I do remember Godbrand talking to Isaac and saying Alucard is nearly as powerful as his father. Perhaps the human side and vampire side don't cancel each other out, since they thrive in communion within him.

Alucard's upbringing is also of insane interest to me, such as, would his vampiric side have prompted cravings while he grew up, even if he'd never even tasted it? But that's a rabbit hole for another time! Far too many thoughts and questions on it!

Indeed! You can take from both the show-verse and the game-verse on this one, depending on what you like. It's great to explore in fic! Also, I brought Carmilla into it here dlkfjs

Seriously, thank you ever so much for indulging me here!!! It is such a treat to login and read all your responses! 🤗

Thank you as well for the replies, and Happy New Year!

Hey, dearie~ Apologies for the random Ask, but am curious as to your thoughts on a particular subject (and… may or may not need them for fic reasons 🤐): Does Alucard actually consume blood? Human and/or animal.

Aside from those stores in his keep under Gresit (which are… bizarre in and of themselves, honestly 🤔) and a comment to Trevor about 'killing and eating' him which could be interpreted in different ways, there doesn't appear to be that much canonical evidence to support the idea. Took my noob ponderings to the world wide web, but with little success. Most offered info from his game counterpart, which states that he apparently has consumed in the past but dislikes the taste? 🤔 If correct, one could fill in the gaps with info from similar sources as such, of course, but I personally still enjoy reading others' takes on the question. 😁

And it's naturally a fun idea that the fandom seems to eat up; him drinking from his partner 'cause c'mon, you have a half-VAMPIRE boyfriend/husband! Bu~ut, what if he doesn't like blood? What would the reason be? HAS he perhaps consumed in the past but no longer does? Share with me your wisdom!... Please. If it's not too much trouble. 😊

Hi! Finally got to this, thanks for asking! This'll be a long-ish one.

From your note I take it we're mainly interested in 'show-canon' here, and that’s the lens I’ll filter this through but I'll refer to other media from the Castlevania universe on this topic.

Yes, as you wrote, the show-verse interpretation of him has some references to hematophagy:

The presence of these in Alucard's private Keep:

Considering Alucard was in pretty bad shape after the first confrontation with Drac, and IF we assume those contain blood, it seems implied it was used in some manner as part of a healing/reanimation system OR, maybe, as sustenance during his Sleep ... The provenance of it? We (I) don't know, the show doesn't focus on that.

Alucard heals speedily when wounded as evidenced in the show a few times, and the fact that the chest scar remains after Dracula fights him in season I suggests to me just how close to kicking the bucket he might've been, if we think about who wounded him in the first place. So, maybe this was a one time case of needing this extra support? But don't know. In the speculation business here.

Just a fun thing, they make me think of these health bars in the games:

2. Again as you mentioned, the 'kill you and eat you' banter. It's hard to tell but my take is Alucard simply played on Trevor's preconceptions there to get a laugh out of it, since he was aware of the prophecy as shown when he asks Sypha here 'do you know the whole story?'

(can we pause to appreciate Sypha's blush for a moment aww)

And (I think) that when he saw them and heard their reason for coming, he likely knew, hence the 'do you care, Belmont?' questions. But he's a bastard(affectionate) and why not test a Belmont out because he can.

3. Adding what he told Sumi and Taka in season III:

Now, the statement might've been an extrapolation as a part of training, but do with that what you will.

It's a fun idea to eat up(har har) because blood drinking, or the symbolism of it - taking of one’s life force, has often been depicted as having a sensual side in certain literature genres and other media if the intent is not murderous (aka not a 'drink them dry' situation). It represents a physical and visceral connection between the (usually) willing giver and taker on a much deeper level than other pleasurable physical interactions let's say. It involves a huge amount of trust from one party, and the validation of that trust by the other.

I won't go into the wider discussion of the vampire myth origins and how it changed from its folkloric roots around the 19th century, though there is a lot to say. But the concept of vampirism has been around for millennia - as far back as Mesopotamia. Suffice to add that the contemporary Lestat-Dracula-Alucard types, the elegant, decadently flawless depictions of the vampire are a product of literary works gaining popularity at the time (rotting thanks to John Polidori, Sheridan Le Fanu and the like). Also! The term dhampir is not a Castlevania invention, but has its origins in Balkan folklore, with the same meaning.

Most offered info from his game counterpart, which states that he apparently has consumed in the past but dislikes the taste? 🤔 If correct, one could fill in the gaps with info from similar sources as such, of course

Right! The gameverse/Castlevania universe has some other references to it too, some I remember:

In SOTN he can activate a spell called dark metamorphosis, which in summary heals him if coming in contact with (enemies') blood 

Soul steal is another spell in the games that Alucard (and Dracula) can master, which is just that: healing by draining 'souls'/the life energy of those around them, dealing damage and healing themselves.

While neither of these are straight up 'blood drinking' they follow the trail of vampirism - draining the vital essence of the living.

And since we're here, lumping this together. A spinoff radio drama (Japanese) taking place after SOTN events deals strongly with Alucard and hematophagy. In Nocturne of Recollection Maria Renard is living with Alucard after the SOTN events (... nothing suggested they’re in a romantic relationship, mind you, at least it didn't seem like it to me).

The Villain of the story (incubus Magnus) appears to Maria and suggests Alucard won’t be able to control his thirst at one point around her, saying something like (paraphrasing) “why do you think he keeps a human around”.

She doesn’t believe him, but then asks Alucard about it, who admits he has consumed human blood in the past, but obviously doesn’t anymore. In the past he turned an old servant/friend (Lyudmil) into a vampire, which is strongly implied. It's also suggested that he struggled with his vampirism and legacy. I like to reference these bits in any ‘dhampir turns someone’ fic since it’s still in the Castlevania universe and Why Not.

Going back to the animated show, I’ve seen (and used) some common tropes in CV series fanfic:

drinks blood in dire circumstances: he’s gravely injured, usually beyond healing abilities for some reason and someone offers up blood to help him heal/get back on his feet

Sensual, usually blood kink/blood play, mostly in smutfic 

My headcanon of show-verse Alucard is he can drink blood, but he doesn’t need to, since we've of course seen him eat plain ol' human food. Nor is he interested, I see him presented as leaning more towards the human side of his legacy here. Anyway, this was the mile-long ramble, I likely missed some things but in the end it's up to you how you want to interpret it as an author, how much you want to keep to the fandom universe or expand beyond it.

I'm a strong proponent of 'it's canon if it works for me' in fanfiction writing tbh, and I've written AU show-verse Alucard drinking blood for various reasons/with various effects. Looking forward to how you apply it for fic purposes!

[sofoulandfairaday]

Any headcanons for Delphi? :)

Mmmhh, this is a tough one since I don't really like the idea of Bella and Voldemort having kids (for various reasons, maybe I'll do a separate post about why).

Also, I read CC a long time ago and while I remember what happens, I also remember that the part about Delphi made my blood boil from the injustice that was her life. It irks me and irritates me to even think about it, both from the waste of the character and how she was treated. Also, I don't think she was a very well-written character at all (but none of them was in that play, so...)

For these reasons, and also because I try to not diverge too much from what we know in the canon, my HCs are about Delphi's conception and birth. If you want some about how the story actually went or about some AU where Bella and Vold live, I can do a part 2.

Delphi was a mistake. I don't care what anyone thinks or says, there is no way Voldemort planned her unless he wanted to cut her up and use her for some dark magic ritual where he needed his own flesh (sorry for the extremely gruesome image, but it's the truth). I think that both Voldemort and Bellatrix had just assumed it was impossible for them to conceive: a post-rebirth humanoid body couldn't possibly produce fertile sperm in Voldemort's mind, just like a battered, beaten body, put through fourteen years of torture in Azkaban couldn't possibly be fertile, let alone carry to term safely, in Bellatrix's mind. Ironically, they never had doubts about the other, although they were convinced the other had doubts about them.

It happens when they are not being careful, especially Bellatrix (who was the one that took contraceptives during the first war) since she isn't having regular periods and is very weak. Normally, witches at her age are still perfectly capable of having kids, but she had had problems in the past.

Neither of them takes it very well, at first.

Bellatrix does not want to become a mother. No, sir, she does not. She is Bellatrix, a female warrior, who wants to go into battle and bring the wrath of the gods, fire and blood, down upon her enemies. She never wanted kids, she doesn't want this one.

Bellatrix also doesn't want to be a mother. And the two are different. You see, I headcanon Bella as having a difficult relationship with her sex. Not because she doesn't like being a woman, but because she feels constrained in the stereotypical roles of womanhood, which she sought always to break from.

Once, when Druella was expecting her fourth and last child (a boy, who died a few days after birth), she had a conversation similar to that of Aemma and Rhaenyra in the first episode of HOTD. She told her eldest daughter, who was nine at the time, that sooner or later she would be laying in the birthing bed as that was her duty as a pureblood woman.

Bellatrix replied that she would rather be a warrior, destined for battles and glory. When Druella told her, half-scandalised half-worried, that warriors often died in battle, Bella answered that ladies died in childbirth, which to her was much worse.

Bellatrix has a series of crises and doubts regarding (in no particular order): her role as a mother, her relationship with the dark lord, her place in the DE ranks, the birth itself, her marriage with Rodolphus, her life after that, the sex of the baby, and much much more. The fact that no one explores them in fanfiction in the proper, deep, correct way irks me.

She concealed her pregnancy in the first months when it could still be done, and then she just disappeared for a while.

Bellatrix was the most pretentious mother-to-be in the world, with the most difficult cravings to satisfy. She accepted nothing but the best.

Bellatrix was sure her feelings towards the child wouldn't change whether it was a boy or a girl. With that being said, she hoped for a boy. The thought of a little Dark Lord, who was just like his father but who truly loved her and was devoted to her, was one of the main ideas that led her to accept the pregnancy. I think she thought raising a boy would be much easier, and something she would have more help with (Rodolphus & Rabastan, the DL himself, Narcissa who had already raised a son albeit a weakly one). There was also the idea of the Black inheritance. With a son who turned out stronger than Draco, she could provide an actual heir to the House of Black, something her parents had failed to do.

Also, Bella spent most of her adult life around men. She probably would have an idea of how to raise a son, how she would want him to be, and very few on how to raise a girl.

Of course, she would want a warrior for a daughter. Except what if her daughter didn't want to be? What if this daughter turned out like Narcissa, a housewife who barely uses complex magic these days? (I feel that Bella has some ingrained sexism inside of her, which I particularly like because it makes her even more complex). What if she marries an idiot like Lucius? Even worse, what if she runs away with a Mudblood like Andromeda? Oh, Bella would kill her with her own hands if that were the case! Her own mother had wanted someone more like Narcissa, someone less involved in the bloodshed and more in the politics. Bellatrix had suffered because her mother just wouldn't understand what the right choice was! What if her daughter was the same? What if her daughter felt the same about her? What if her daughter broke her heart the same way Andromeda had broken her mother's? What if she broke her daughter's heart?

Bellatrix wants a boy. Boys are more simple. (They're really not, but Bellatrix doesn't realize that).

On the other hand, Voldemort despises the idea of having a son. What if the child looks like Tom Riddle? What if the child tries to usurp him? Nope. He wants a daughter that looks like Bellatrix and has her loyalty.

He gets a daughter that looks like Bellatrix.

Bellatrix is also overjoyed because LV tells her he was hoping for a girl and that she has made him proud.

The moment she holds her daughter in her arms, she feels pride and love like never before because that is the blood of Salazar Slytherin and her Lord and her family all together and she is absolutely perfect.

She got to name the child and she respected the Black Family traditions (Voldemort doesn't concern himself with baby names, and definitely didn't have a family name he wished to bestow upon his child).

I have no idea why she chose Delphini, since dolphins are intelligent, playful, and friendly creatures (not the primary qualities Bella would have wanted for her child), and both the myths about the birth of this constellation do not fit these characters' stories at all. So, I think she did it because of another reason. The two main stars in the Delphinus constellation are Sualocin and Rotanev. When read backwards they give the name Nicolaus Venator, the Latin translation of the name Nicolò Cacciatore. He was an astronomer (and I headcanon him as a wizard, at this point) and the only man who ever got away with naming not one, but two stars after himself. I think Bellatrix would have been fascinated with this story, with this man who literally wrote his name in the stars. That's why she chose it.

The labour was difficult, and so was the pregnancy.

The child could understand her father speaking to her in Parseltongue, in the womb. Voldemort sometimes did that, just to make sure the child inherited that ability of his.

Voldemort was not present for the birth. He was in the room farthest from it and still, he could hear the screams and they reminded him of Wool's (where sometimes unfortunate girls like his mother turned up pregnant and in need of help; most died). He hated it.

Rodolphus, however, paced up and down outside of the room, and he still hadn't made up his mind on how to feel about the whole situation. (I find the whole thought of them being one big happy family a bit too fluffy and unrealistic).

LV was genuinely worried that Bellatrix would die and steeled himself by thinking there was no woman in the world more different from his mother.

There were also other worries: what if it was born dead, sick, deformed, slow... a squib, like his mother?

But it was the most perfect, healthy, baby girl.

She was NOT blonde.

Like Harry Potter, she too had her mother's eyes.

[roscgcld]

Loves the Ultimate Wife Material Gojo half sibling expansion with Geto.

I have to ask though when what happens after that ‘mission’ with things between them? What about when Geto finds the twins? Would he still end up killing the village?

I can imagine three possibilities from this.

1. Geto takes the twins and does not kill the village because he knows not all non-sorcerers are bad and raises the twins with Ultimate Wife Reader, so Gojo now has two nieces to spoil rotten.

2. Geto kills the village and takes the twins, he goes to the Ultimate Wife Reader to apologize and give them one last hug before he leaves them for good.

3. The most painful thing to imagine but if Geto killed Gojo sibling, Gojo would absolutely have killed Geto when he found out what he did.

I think it depends on what kind of ending you'd want the story to have lmao - if we are talking about me personally, I want them to have a happy ending together. Everyone around me knows I hate angst with a passion, so whenever I get to not think about the bad side of things I tend to do that instead haha.

spoilers at the undercut!

However I am a hardcore book reader from a young, so I understand the importance of not diverging from canon content. If we are following the canon content, we can say that the second would be the most likely outcome. If Gojo!Sibling was a thing, I think he'd not lose hope for every non-sorcerer out there. I think he'd murder the village, and probably just went into hiding whilst he is at it. He wouldn't have lost it and called everyone 'monkeys' and thinking that they are beneath him - cause he has been shown all the love and attention he can ever crave from another person. But people still snap under pressure - and what is what happened honestly. And because he knows that if he surrendered the higher ups might do something to the twins; and he can't let that happen. So he defected and ran into hiding.

If I have a say in it though, I think it he probably just stole the kids and let some low-levelled Curse out to teach them a lesson. Not something that'd cause huge damage, but one that will cause so much headache and annoyance and unnecessary trauma to kids by scaring them lmao (he collected the Curse after 'forgetting' about it for a few days). But he brought the kids home and they have a little family of their own. And since Gojo!Sibling is not on the best of terms with the Gojo family anyway, so they took the girls in as their own and started their little family together.

Either way tho, I like all the parallel universes that can come from this hc! Cause the different outcome brings different stories c:

[viscountessevie]

Kiddo FCs for me:

Edmund: Kate goes into labour two weeks early when Anthony is in Parliament and he gets a message from Violet to come quickly. He just up and leaves, knocking a few people out of his way, races home on a horseback. Violet is there with her but Kate's in a lot of pain and screming for Anthony. When Anthony reaches home he just takes off his coat, rushes in, rolls up his sleeves and goes to sit behind Kate. Kate's leaning on him and they hold hands while she struggles to bring their child into this world. And obviously they cry when they hold Neddy. And everyone is waiting for news and rushes over to meet the newest Bridgerton and Violet cries when she hears his name from Anthony. Her baby now has a baby of his own. He's a sweet boy and he wants to be like his papa but is also wise and patient like Kate. He worships his parents and is their number one champion. Also since he's grown up in a home filled with love, he'll only settle for a love match in the future.

Miles/baby named after Kate's appa (season 4): Comes easier than Neddy but Anthony is taking no chances and wants to be there for the birth again. Of course Anthony refuses to leave Kate's side this time and is at home throughout her last few days of confinement. They are both better prepared for this one. Neddy is waiting with granny Violet and aunt Hyacinth. When he goes to meet his new brother, he runs up to his mama and asks if she's okay and if she was in a lot of pain. And he swears to protect his baby brother because he's the first born of two first borns duh. Miles is a funny baby, he sleeps and cries a lot but he always calms down near his mama, papa or Neddy. Sophie and Gregory are his favourites. Also, he's totally mama's boy.

Charlotte/baby named after Kate's amma (season 6): The easiest birth by far for the most demanding baby. This one is a total hellion like Kate and is stubborn af. She wants all the attention and the good thing is she gets it from her dad and her two older brothers who are even more protective that Anthony or Kate ever were. She's going to give Anthony a lot of grey hairs when she grows up to be the most beautiful woman anyone has ever seen but her parents are proud of how strong, smart and loyal she is. She loves her uncle Michael and is best friends with little Violet.

Oops baby girl/don't know if they'll name her after Mary (season 8): The sweetest little girl to ever exist. Her birth was the most difficult and Anthony cried for days because he really thought he was going to lose either Kate or this perfect little angel. She's everyone's baby now, people literally have her in their arms all the time, she's never put in her bassinet or cradle. And her favourite person in the world is her papa. She has Anthony wrapped around her little finger and she knows it too. She's also the kindest of the lot and reminds Kate so much of her appa!

Related to this ask and this was the essay in question ahaha.

Also I got a request to do Kathony Pregnancy HCs a while ago and that can be found here! Just for this ask and your brilliant writing, I'm going to call you Writer ✍️ Anon.

I mostly wrote about cravings and how Anthony and the kiddos interact with Kate while she's pregnant. I love all the extra details you've given here. Honestly I agree with most of them in terms of the pregnancies!

As for who they are as people, I've been reading so much of @hptriviachamp Trivia's Next Gen HCs and The Courtship of Charlotte Bridgerton series that it has become canon to me. So I do have to disagree with most of these HCs but you’re still valid for how you view the kiddos. 

My read is basically on who they are in the birth order as well as agreeing with Triv’s assessments of their love lives. There are some bits that diverge and that’s what I’m going to talk about here [Under the cut cos it got long lmao]: 

Edmund: 

As much as Kathony tries to raise him to feel loved and like he doesn’t need to have the weight of the world on his shoulders, he is still a first born and we’re all fucked up. We are after all the test children lmao and Kathony isn’t immune to making mistakes raising their kiddos. He wouldn’t feel as responsibility ridden as his parents did because he wasn’t parentified after losing one of them like they were but he is still very protective and feels responsible for his siblings. He’s also very eager for his title and responsibilities as a future Viscount. So personally, I think he is kind of a stiff always trying to be the ‘perfect’ Viscount 

And I agree with Triv that Anthony would go easy on him so as to not repeat history with having Neddy grow up too fast but Edmund sees it as his dad not trusting him to take over from him so cue Daddy Issues. He just wants to impress his parents and society, it takes a toll on him tbh. As far as love matches go, while he believes in it because of his parents I think kind of like me he initially ends up with a highly romanticised version of what love should be and has a lot of failed romances in his early seasons and as he hits his late 20s, he starts going for the older women and men - yes our boy is bi as fuck. 

This HC is fully credited to Triv but yeah I can definitely see him settling with an older woman, a widow and adopting her child. 

Miles or as I like to call him Madhavan: 

UO: I’ve hated the name Miles for Miles because it sounds so modern and just doesn’t seem to fit him as a name itself. So I’m taking this opportunity to rename him Madhavan after my HC for Kate’s dad’s name in the show is Madhavan (my usual go to name for him is Thaman but I wanted something close to Miles). 

Anyways he goes by Madha and this is where my HCs differ from Triv. I think he’s a PEAK middle child. While Kathony does their best with all the kiddos, I think Miles just tends to be overlooked at times solely because he liked to keep to himself as a kid and is more quiet (kinda like Frannie) so they think he’s independant and leaves him to his own devices. But he ends up feeling isolated in his own family so in his teens to young adulthood, he starts kicking up a fuss to get his parents’ attention. Boy definitely had a scandal or two. Eventually after talking it through with his parents, he mellows out. Meets a girl who actually sees him for who he is and they settled down with your usual picket fence. Most likely the only one of the Kathonys to have a couple of kids - maybe 3.

Charlotte/Charithra: 

So I adore her name but I despise the new Show!HC popping up that she might get named after Queen Charlotte rather than Kate’s mom so I AM REJECTING that energy. I’ve flipped flopped a couple of times on what her mom’s name would have been and it was always Chandra/Chandri/Charithra. Chandra sounded too old, Chandri was after my aunt but I didn’t like how it ended with an ‘i’ it looks like an incomplete name when written down lmao. And I think Charithra is a very pretty name and it also starts with Char like Charlotte tho I’d like to think Show!Charithra goes by Chari. 

So while I love Triv’s fic and her interpretation of Charlotte, I think Chari would be pretty different. Yes, she is another middle child and is discreet - I agree with Triv on that front but I think while she does go by the book in some aspect she is still an middle child and always needs to make her presence known. I think like Kate, she would be a very formidable and intimidating deb, she’s more subtle with her digs than her mom was. Definitely pansexual and has shacked it up with almost everyone in her season. Tbh, I don’t think she’d get married, I think she likes having her independence. I think she’d eventually retire to the country with her girlfriend - maybe they have the occasional boy toy here and there. 

Mary: 

She is BABY!! And OF COURSE she’s still getting named Mary, fuck the show canon, Mary is a present and loving step parent and the best of us. Kate is going to honour ALL THREE of her parents with her kiddos. 

Anyways like Triv said, Mary is Kate 2.0 a whole ass menace and while Kate was a little beaten down as the Eldest, Mary never had that responsibility and is PEAK youngest child. She constantly reads all the men for filth and is more direct than Chari is. Also she’s a funky little lesbian. The GC’s talked about this before but omg a lesbian version of Persuasion with Mary would be PEAK romance. But yeah she has this angsty romance with her wife before they get together and her wife is the only one who can get her to chill out a little but again she’s Mary and Kathony’s kid - she has no chill. Like Charlotte, she isn’t that interested in kids and can’t have them anyways being a lesbian and all and neither of them want to fuck a dude just to get a baby so they are the funky lesbian aunts who love treating their nieces and nephews.

As for family connections (lmao can’t believe I missed out that part of your ask til I read back everything): 

I think the Sharma-Bridgerton family are very close knit. While sometimes, they hid away their baggage (see: Edmund thinking his dad doesn’t think he’s worthy of responsibility and bottling up those feelings and Madha feeling isolated and not telling anyone til his shit ends him in hot water of a scandal.), they all do share their stories, days and talk about everything at family dinner. That being said with the siblings, I think Edmund and Mary would be really close (a lot of the eldest-youngest sibs are very close I wish I had that *cries*) while Madha and Chari are two sides of the same Middle Child Coin. 

I don’t necessarily think they default to Mama’s Boys and Daddy’s Girls and love their parents equally but there is a small preference and it’s alternating - so Edmund is PEAK Daddy’s Boy kinda like how Anthony was with Edmund I himself. Madha is close with Kate and goes to her first about feeling left out and looked over and she totally gets it cos we all saw how London treated her. Charlotte is PEAK Daddy’s Girl and his Princess because she was the only girl for the longest time and she had him wrapped around his finger since Day 1. Mary being Kate 2.0, definitely adores and idolises her mom and much like Edmund trying to be like his dad, Mary emulates her mom very often - albeit she’s more unhinged than Kate. 

As for the Cousins & Aunt/Uncles: 

So my personal HC is that Saphne, Kathony and Benophie are all very close because they all got married back to back and Simon, Anthony and Benedict are all buddies while Kate and Sophie are besties - Daph is close to them too but the sisters-in-laws have a closer bond since they are the only ones for the first decade. Then when John and Michael marry in, they are also close to Kathony because of Frannie (my personal HC is that Anthony and Frannie are the closest and she’s his fave sister). 

In that vein all four of these couples’ kids would be close and besties.  Solely based on age, I’d pair the following dynamics:  - Edmund, Belinda (both 1815), Amelia (1814), Caroline (1816) - Madha, David (1817) and Charles (1818) get up to alot of hijinks - Charlotte, William (1822), Alexander (1820), & Violet (1824) - also of course Saphne’s ABC are there to be older sisters to Charlotte and Violet its a vibe - Mary and the other babies, Edward, John and Janet. 

Bonus HC: Edmund unwittingly forms a group of all the first borns and get together weekly to snark about their annoying younger siblings lmao.

That’s my take on the Next Gen! Thanks for this ask Writer ✍️ Anon - can’t wait for your future ones ehehe

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The Promise: What they stole from us (a)

Books: The Royal Romance 1

Rating: G (This rating will change due to the plot as the story progresses)

Pairing: Liam & Jessica (MC)

This week’s wackydrabbles takes a serious turn with this miniseries that complements my ongoing series  The Promise. The prompt is “I wish we could do this all the time” 

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A/N #1: Liam confesses his feeling to Leo about a suitor.

A/N #2: Applewood revisited in the Agent Phoenix: Forged In Fire A/U canon divergent series.

A/N#3: In my HC Liam is a lefty and this is a rare trait only 8% to 9% of the worlds population share. I’m sure that I am not the only author nor the last that would HC this trait. I can only hope that my attention to this detail differs from theirs and offers something to the story.

Word Count: 1,600 *As always, forgive my typos and grammatical errors.*

Reading time: 8 minutes

*I suppose you can read this on its own but the story below is related to the promise as a whole. Once completed part four will pick up. This story is central to the plot *also this story has been in my drafts for two years so I wanted to give it its own moment so consider this a story within a story*

Applewood - (Liam’s Social Season)

Leo’s Quarters

Leo looked outside the window of his room and saw suitors arriving, each being assisted with endless amounts of fine designer luggage, hat boxes, and handbags. Despite the four-hour ride, their makeup, hair, and outfits were impeccable. He thought about what they can offer Cordonia and what they can offer his brother. Madeline was never a part of this thought process; she clearly wanted one thing: a crown she could offer Liam nothing. Hana was sweet, but he could tell early on her heart wasn’t into the competition, only following the path her parents wanted for her she wasn’t searching for love but acceptance. Kiara was ambitious, but she wanted to use Liam’s position for herself, not for their people. Penelope didn’t have much of an opinion or direction; she seemed to just want to be in the Court’s inner circle. More concerned with dresses and canine couture over matters of Governance.

Of course, there was Olivia. Olivia was strong and bold, and she would be perfect if Liam loved her. Liam and Olivia spent hours together as children, as teenagers, young adults, and adults. Love if there was anything more than friendship had ample time to blossom, and it didn’t even begin to bloom. Least, not for his little brother. Liam always found Olivia to be quick to temper, often lacking patience and tenderness. Something Leo knew his brother craved and needed. But whatever Olivia thought she felt for his brother would never be reciprocated. Olivia would always be seen as a friend, and her pride didn’t allow her to accept it.

But then there was her, the one. Everything he knew his brother wanted, and at the same time, everything Cordonia needed. She stood outside the limousine taking in the scenery of the manor with her baseball cap in her hands, wearing ripped jeans and a T-shirt. Finally, someone true to herself. Someone that didn’t care to stage her appearance for a four-hour uncomfortable drive. Bertrand was heard directing the staff to pick up her tattered green top-loading sea duffel bag stamped with the letters USMC. She walked over to the staff, and he could see her shaking her head and being handed back the bag. She put it onto her shoulder. When she turned, he saw the number 08 and the name Garcia printed on the back of her shirt.

He and his brother lived in a world where, when it came to a choice of a spouse, perfection was valued over authenticity, conformity over individualism, and passiveness over assertiveness. Leo believed his brother needed the opposite of what was expected of his choice of bride and Cordonia’s next Queen regent. Cordonia didn’t need a Queen who was quiet, meek, and not willing to argue or express her opinions. Although he loved her, Cordonia didn’t need another Regina who resigned herself to organizing tea parties, bridge games, taking on responsibility for charitable causes, or blindly performing the task his Father directed her to do.

Leo had regrets about abdication that he kept to himself. It was not because he risked it for love and failed with Katie but because he realized his brother would have to prove himself twice as hard as he would have. There was a lot at stake for the Kingdom, and he couldn’t undo his abdication; his little brother was left with a responsibility that he wasn’t born to take. They both received the best education Cordonia had to offer, but the intensity of their studies differed. Leo was taught to rule, be direct, know the laws and treaties like the back of his hand, train to study personalities, and read people quickly, whereas Liam was taught to follow and support. But despite what they were taught, Leo believed his brother was the better choice, and he was more than capable of steering Cordonia to a more modern era. He would create new relationships and repair relationships his Father alienated.

However, the royal council is appointed for the life they would favor; his Father’s ideals. Liam would get resistance from its members stuck in their ways, comfortable in their positions, afraid of change. His brother needed a strong spouse by his side, who wasn’t raised with the docile ideology of how a lady of the Court should comport herself. Liam would forever need a wife, a friend, an ally, a leader, and someone he can trust.

When he thought of Jessica, he saw just that and someone with all the qualities that could withstand the rigors of a royal council divided. Jessica was ready for the responsibility of what it meant to be Liam’s wife because she was there for him. In a matter of weeks, she learned their customs and navigated Court just as well if not better than any suitor. She engaged with nobles and royalty in law, art, history, and music but what he loved about her was that she engaged with the staff and the public, never forgetting she once held a job like theirs. The most significant criticism of the Rys throne was how out of touch they were with their subjects, and Jessica was relatable to the people the throne served and protected, which made her special.

A rhythmic tap sounded against the door that snapped Leo out of his thoughts. He called out, “It’s okay little brother, I’m alone.”

Liam entered with a sad expression on his face.

Leo mumbled, “So, I take it that your ride with father wasn’t full of fatherly advice and kingly pleasantries?”

Liam sighed as he rubbed his hands over his face in frustration. “Leo, what exactly does he want? I divide my attention between the suitors, but I want to spend my time with her whenever I can. Everything is happening so fast. If I have a moment to myself, I want to spend it with her. I simply don’t care to spend time with anyone else.”

Leo mumbled, “I see. Who is he saying you need more time with?”

Liam looked dreadful as he uttered the name. “Madeleine. He thinks I will warm up to her. He believes she is the right choice for Cordonia. So the other night, he wanted me to have high tea with her. “He sighed with a distant look in his eyes, retracing the memory. “I was about to call the staff for tea service, and I saw her outside from my office window…I thought I could just say hello. What was meant to be a brief greeting was actually a four-hour conversation. Time just got away from us. Leo, it was the highlight of my day. Just being with her talking about whatever came to mind. She has the most amazing laugh, and when she smiles, her whole face lights up. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” Liam wrung a hand down his face. “Leo, how can I make the choice Father thinks he knows what best but Jessica… brightens my day. I think about her more than I should.”

“So, is your time with her important to you?”

Liam threw himself onto the bed and stared at the ceiling. “The longer we’re together, the more I think about what really matters, and so many things I once thought important don’t even make a list.”

Leo gave his brother a warm smile and said, “Then you are spending your time wisely.”

“I am almost afraid to admit it…I have this warm feeling in the pit of my stomach when she is near when I reach for her hand, and we touch. I feel my breathing and heartbeat sync with hers, and wherever my pains or troubles are, wane completely. I’m not incomplete, and everything about life feels right. I have never felt I belonged with anyone until I met her. When I walked her to her room that night she got on her toes and kissed me sweetly. Then she said ‘I wish we could do this all the time.’ I feel the same. I wish I could kiss her every day. Her lips belong on mine.” Liam smiled as he touched his lips.”

Leo smiled with a chuckle, “Liam, it sounds like you are in love.”

His eyebrows turned up in a vulnerable expression as he turned his head to his brother. “Leo, I’m afraid of just asking her how she feels about me. To look her in the eyes and ask her if she loves me. If she feels the same way, I do. What if I’m mistaken? What if she is just taken with me and she isn’t in love with me? Father says its duty to the crown before love. But Leo, I want her to love me. When I ask her to spend her life with me, I want her to want it as much as I do. I want her to feel the same way I do. That I’m her first thought in the morning, the last before she falls asleep, to wonder throughout the day what am I doing. I really want that type of love. Life would feel empty without it now that my heart knows it.”

“What makes you doubt that she does?”

“We have only had a few stolen moments since she came here. This whole thing is about me. It’s about me choosing a wife, but I want her to choose me too. This is a promise of my heart, body, and soul, and to no other Leo. I will never stray; she has all of me. I need to know that I have all of her. I want Jessica to want Liam, the man. Everything is some challenge, some ball, some Cordonian tradition… What if that all fades with the demands of the Court? I am not just choosing a wife, I am also choosing a Queen, and I am unsure if I can have both.” Liam looked back to the wall with uncertainty and worry in his eyes.

Leo hummed in his throat. “Hm…I see. Liam, there is really one way to find that all out.”

Liam arched his brow to look back at his brother. “What are you thinking

[katsidhe]

12,17,33

12 already answered here.

17. Thoughts on each of the psychic kids? any headcanons of the metaphor within their arc? any canon divergent ideas?

Unpopular maybe, but—with the exceptions of Sam (obvi) and Ava (method actress and queen of my heart)—I don’t really care that much about the psychic kids. I don’t think there’s a ton of metaphor going on: it’s just a lot of people given some highly variable and destructive powers, something something temptation something something alienation. Idk, I don’t think eg Jake’s blackmail or Andy’s death is that deep.

Something I still don’t understand is exactly what Azazel was trying to accomplish with them: if he wanted superpowered hybrids surely it would be better to leave them alive and use them. And if he’s looking for a leader: he spoke to Lucifer but didn’t know which his vessel was? Doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. I hc that he’s just pregaming the apocalypse/getting a bunch of seals ready, I guess.

Canon divergent opinion: improve 2.21 instantly by making Ava, not Jake, the winner of the battle royale. She EARNED it. And because we’re emotionally invested in her the way we’re not in Jake, we are acutely surprised and devastated by her betrayal when she stabs Sam in the back. It would have been SO MUCH BETTER. Let Ava Kill Sam 2k07.

33. Ideal Supernatural ending, when, where?

Before 15.20 aired, I was honestly and abjectly torn on how I wanted SPN to end. I was convinced that I would inevitably hate whatever ending we’d be given. This was because I was pretty sure it was going to be some combination of blaze of glory/dying together, or the brothers hunting or living together forever and everything is Fine. On some level my dearest fear was always that togetherness; I was convinced that SPN as it stood in s15 would be utterly unable to loose the claustrophobic leash on Sam Winchester and let him find any form of peace or fulfillment outside the walls Dean had built.

And at the same time, I knew if SPN in s15 gave me the Sam and Dean divorce that I on some level so desperately craved, it wouldn’t feel earned. It was impossible, because even when Dean leveled a gun at Sam in 15.17, Sam tearfully told him he’d always been his protector. And I ENJOY that level of fucked-up apologism and self-delusion! Yet I instinctively knew I wouldn’t enjoy the finale beatifying that dynamic forever, setting in stone the idea that Sam could never escape and their relationship could never improve. That’s a little too queasily grim even for me, especially because I knew it would be celebrated, in-universe and out.

So I was torn between the freedom I wanted for Sam’s sake, the id-level enjoyment I get out of Sam being trapped, and my conviction that Sam wouldn’t be able to find his way out in the space of one episode. I couldn’t see a way the show could resolve that sticky mess without my intense dissatisfaction, and even less could I imagine that the show would deign to try.

And then 15.20 happened.

And I fucking wept, because OLD SAM. The premise of 15.20 managed to give me the best of all possible worlds: a dose of actual heartwarming brothers, a dose of toxic claustrophobic brothers, and a roadmap for Sam’s recovery, AWAY FROM DEAN. The complex grief of Dean’s death together with the impetus Sam needed to leave this horrible life behind, to build something new and good and untouched with his own two hands: for me there is in principle no possible way to improve on that, once the characters are where they are in s15.

If the field is opened to earlier seasons, though?

I don’t think ending after s5 or s8 would have been particularly satisfying, because even though they wrap up plot arcs, they leave SO MANY strings of emotional development dangling. Same with s13: even if Michael had released Dean, there is just way too much Lucifer aftermath to unpack.

But setting aside my attachment to things that happen in s11+... I would have really enjoyed an ending circa s10 that involved Sam leaving for good/an otherwise explicit premise deconstruction that, at the time, I’d hoped s9-10 was in some way building to.

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[toastie-the-know]

The canon bases of RudeAggro!Felix and Apologetic!Dimitri

(Since I actually spent an entire evening doing this, I’m posting it because I don’t want to feel I “lost” all that time haha! I sort of do this kind of stuff for work sometimes, so this is clearly the sad fate of a person who can’t leave their work at work and brings it into their hobbies 😂 )

I’ve read a lot of Dmlx fic (in English), and have seen a lot of art, and there’s a trend I’ve noticed in the characterisations of both Felix and Dimitri that stands out to me: Rude and aggressive Felix, and Apologetic Dimitri. More specifically, Felix being rude/aggressive to Dimitri, and Dimitri apologising to Felix. The characterisations stand out to me only because my hc characterisations are more like “tsundere” Felix, and polite Dimitri. There’s obviously an overlap between “rude/aggressive” and “tsundere”, as well as “apologising” and “polite”, but they are not the same thing, at least from the part of the world I come from (I played with the JP audio on English text). I wanted to figure out if I was missing something from canon, so decided to take a short dive and check out the source material.

This meta isn’t an attack on people’s preferences. Creators of fan works depict characters in a variety of ways for personal reasons, and it’s no one’s business to pass judgement on that. I’m not trying to legitimise my hc, or delegitimise othere people’s hc. All I want to know is whether there is  strong canon basis for the characterisations, which I might have missed. I’m also not saying that “unless a characterisation is based off canon 100% it’s not legit”.  I don’t believe in that statement. Looking at canon is one way for me to see whether the “RudeAggro Felix”, “Apologetic Dimitri” is more a case of creator extrapolation, or based off something very clearly there in the canon.

So I’m gonna look at three bits of text. 1) The words and expressions used in the support conversations, both JP and EN 2) The tone in the voice acting, both JP and EN in the support conversations, and 3) Dimitri and Felix’s lines in Azure Moon route chapters + in the monastery, but only in the JP (it was easier for me to search the JP text quickly, more effort required for the EN). Of course there’s more you can glean about their characters from other supports etc, but I don’t have that much free time… 

Heads up I’m a bilingual and bicultural Japanese/Aussie (have lived in both countries), so I’m pretty confident in my interpretations of the JP text and audio.

Rude and Aggressive Felix

There’s a lot of canon for this characterisation to be based on. Listing the words and expressions Felix uses when talking to Dimitri is pretty aggressive, and is meant to be demeaning if we take it at face value.

Felix insults/expressions of aggression 

Support C

その気味の悪い笑顔で話しかけるな。/ Go away. (I would add “Don’t talk to me with that creepy/spooky/grotesque smile of yours.”)

見ているだけで胸糞悪くなる。/ Just looking at your face makes me wanna retch 黙れ。獣は獣らしくしていろ。/ Shut up. And stop walking around on your hind legs. 獣 / beast 猪 / wild boar ならばさっさと失せろ、邪魔だ。話しかけるな、この化け物が。/ Hurry up and get out of my sight.  I don’t make a habit of talking to beasts.

Support B

猪 / wild boar 貴様 / an aggressive form of addressing “you” in Japanese, although in this sentence it’s not used aggressively 阿呆が。/ Do you take me for a fool?  (I took the Japanese more along the lines of “Are you stupid?”) 腹立たしい……。/Looking at your face is making me angry (No JP equivalent) / Farewell, Your Beastliness.

Support A

獣 / beast (but used in the context of the “the face of a beast vs the face of a man” line) 手が滑って斬りつけないうちに、答えろ。Answer quickly before my hand slips and I cut you in half お前の辛気臭い顔が、癇に障って仕方なかっただけだ / I couldn’t stand the pathetic look on your face.

Stepping out of the Dimitri/Felix support conversations for a bit, we know from Felix’s other interaction he is also rude and aggressive. Calling Dedue “dog” is probably the rudest and most demeaning example we have. Telling Ingrid to go and get married is also pretty rude. So overall we have a lot of evidence that Felix is ok with being abrasive, at best. Intentionally hurtful and malicious at the worst.

So Felix is rude to Dimitri in their support conversations, but the rudeness lessens as the support levels increase.  As you can see from the list above, the number of expressions of aggression go down between conversations C and A. Felix doesn’t call Dimitri “boar” once in the A support conversation. The last line “癇に障って仕方なかっただけだ / I couldn’t stand the pathetic look on your face” is a bit tricky, since I think there’s a bit of a divergence between the JP acting and EN acting. The JP is very clearly a "tsundere" intonation, meaning there’s a vibe of “I care but am too embarrassed to admit it”. The EN was a lot less obviously for me, so if you only got the EN there’s a chance that Felix’s  “I couldn’t stand the pathetic look on your face” comes across at face value - an actual insult.

Outside the support conversations, Felix uses the words “boar/beast” to describe Dimitri specifically quite often. But the intention behind the use seems to change (from an attack on one’s character to a nickname). Looking at the AM route, lines within each chapter + in the monastery phase, we find he uses the words ten times in total. That’s a descent amount, considering the number of lines he probably has overall (I’m not that dedicated to count all his lines… proper methodology would want me to do that though…). The last two times he uses “boar” it seems more of a nickname rather than as a way to attack Dimitri’s person.

A surprise find was that Dimitri uses “beast” five times overall , in the same contexts that I checked for Felix’s use (AM route, lines within each chapter + in the monastery phase in JP). In all cases he is describing either Imperial soldiers, or the baddies at Remier village. Never in reference to himself (which I thought might come up, but didn’t).So 

TLDR; There is canon basis of Felix being rude to Dimitri, but it looks like he mellows out a lot by the end of the game.  The JP flags the “tsundere” vibes a lot more than the English.

Apologetic Dimitri

I’m gonna start with the numbers from the chapters + monastery sections first, because these are the bits that clearly form the canon basis of “apologising Dimitri”. But with some interesting twists!

As a quick and dirty measure, I searched for the characters 謝 (to catch 謝る、謝罪 etc), 悪 (to catch 悪いな、悪かった), and すまない. I didn’t search for ごめん/ごめんなさ�� (gomen/gomennasai) bc I bet you three cups of coffee that you won’t find Dimitri using this expression.  ごめん/ごめんなさい is more typical of children and women, or super casual. So Edelgard and Claude might use these, but not Dimitri.  

Dimitri apologise a ton in the chapters and monastery sections. For all three words, we have 16 expressions of “sorry” from Dimitri. For comparison, I just checked the first five chapters for Claude. Chapters 1-5 Dimitri apologises 7 times, while Claude apologises once. So yeah, canonically, we find good grounds for Dimitri being a person who apologises often. We’ll see later that in his other supports with Blue Lions characters, he apologies to them also.

Dimitri apologises 6 times after Rodrigue dies in chapter 18. And 4 of these apologies are concerning his behaviour while he was disengaged with the war effort/unwell. These kind of feel a bit different to the “sorry to inconvenience you” type apologies that are more typical of his sorries (see list below)

To Byleth: 4, for being boring (1), for making a weird request (1), for Byleth helping out (2) To Edelgard: 2, once about making Edelgard feel bad bc she thought he was underestimating her, and once about the poor choice of gift he gave her during their childhood. To Lonato: 2, for the general badness of the situation To Claude: 1, (but unclear to me what exactly he’s apologising about) To Dedue: 1, for surprising him To Mercedes: 1 (need to check again To a Kingdom soldier: 1, because the soldier was looking for him To Lonato’s soldier: 1, for the general badness of the situation

Most of these apologies are of the “sorry for being an inconvenience” type. This could be interpreted in a variety of ways ranging from just being polite right through to low self-esteem. Whatever the construal, it does seem objectively that Dimitri says “sorry” a lot more than other male characters who might have as many lines.

Dimitri and apologising to Felix

Dimitri apologising to Felix, we have exactly one example in the chapter conversations. In chapter 18, Dimitri says to Felix “I have no words to apologise adequately” or something along those lines, regarding Rodrigue’s death. (And shortly after, Felix addressed Dimitri by name).

We have zero cases of Dimitri apologising to Felix in the support conversations. For a quick comparison in his other support conversations, Dimitri apologises to Ashe once, Sylvain once, Ingrid once, Annette twice, Mercedes three times (but the expressions he uses are different to the three I mention earlier). Interestingly, Dimitri also doesn’t apologise to Dedue.

These numbers might just be reflecting the fact that Dimitri and Felix’s support conversations aren’t really topics where apologies would be made. Dimitri and Felix’s support conversations aren’t about burdening each other, being a nuisance, or supporting each other. Their support conversations are actually about Felix coming to terms with Dimitri’s dual nature, while Dimitri himself seems seems unbothered by it.  (The only place in canon we really see Dimitri using his words to express remorse and discomfort over his dual nature seems to  be his A+ support with Mercedes).

Dimitri’s responses to Felix’s rudeness in support C are more like indirect affirmations of Felix’s characterisations of him (“A beast craving blood, am I? I assume you’re speaking of the events two years ago”, “I deny nothing, Felix.”, “Perhaps you’re right.”). Maybe a little bit resigned. There are a handful of sad-faces. It actually seems to me that Dimitri is in general agreement with Felix.

In support B, Dimitri is unbothered by Felix’s abrasiveness. When Felix gives him a hard time, Dimitri tends to push back (“As though I would be careless with something so valuable.”, “Come now, that was so long ago!”).  In this entire exchange it’s only Felix who is bothered by something, while Dimitri seems quite oblivious to Felix’s turmoil. The final line in this support is Dimitri saying “What is going on with him…”

Support A Dimitri is quite assertive of himself  (“ Do not waste your breath on questions with such obvious answers / 当たり前のことを聞くな”, “ You are wrong/ ……違う”), still a it resigned (“Always so ominous / お前はいつも物騒だな。”), but unlike supports A and B, showing awareness of Felix’s internal state, and thanks Felix.

Dimitri seems generally unbothered by Felix giving him a hard time, and Dimitri does not apologise for his character. Dimitri seemed ok with his dual nature, while it was Felix who was more bothered by it. But by the end of the game, if support A is reached, Felix also comes around to accept the dual nature. Dimitri and Felix aren’t really in an “apologise to each other” relationship, because it seems from Dimitri’s POV, there is nothing about himself that he needs to apologise to Felix for.

So TLDR

There is good canon basis for rude/aggro Felix. There is good canon basis for apologetic Dimitri. Dimitri apologises a lot in canon, but not really Felix. The one time he apologises is concerning Rodrigue’s death. But given that Dimitri does apologise to people often for inconveniencing them, it’s not hard to imagine how Dimitri would apologise to Felix for inconveniencing him in some way.

So I don’t think I missed anything in canon, but fan creators extrapolate these canon bases into various directions. Which is cool! Because isn’t that the fun of doing fan works!

The end.

Links out: JP Text, EN Text

[chrisemrysfics]

Hello~

So @shellsan tagged me to reply to some questions and I’ll be happy to do so~!

Favourite trope/s? Least favourite trope/s?

I’m reply to these together, to be honest I don’t think I really pay attention to tropes? Or it might be that I don’t really know what categorize as one. Like if you give me one, I can say how much or little I love it, but I blank out thinking of them myself.

But! I do enjoy a lot (like, a lot) anything to do with Time Travel and Crossovers (especially when both canon are kept as they are and meet, rather than “FandomA!AU for Fandom B”). In one fandom (BBC Merlin, and I see you liking it too), I enjoyed a lot the Watch the Show fics; I think because of how much it would rely on having Merlin’s magic revealed and all the things most of everyone missed out.

Since we’re here in fandom trops; for DGM my fave trope is anything where Allen either grows up with the Noah or joins them and just generally getting a family out of them. Meanwhile, for MDZS, it’s time travel and fix it/everyone live (goldmines are when both tropes are used in the same fic).

I can’t say if I have a least favourite, but I generally avoid unrequited love (unless its thought as unrequited but is in fact returned). I’m a bit meh about love triangles/characters “fighting” for someone love, but depends heavily how its written. Or what the intent is.

Favourite Universe to read in (AU, Canon, Canon-Divergence), especially for the fandoms you list below?

For most fandoms, I tend to first enjoy canon and canon divergent content. It’s the whole feeling of wanting more of the original canon, and all the ways people can add in, change things, and stuff like that. After a bit though, I also start to indulge in AUs.

In general, I get attracted most to anything that mirrors canon or keeps a certain sense of canon. So canon-divergence, canon au, and aus that retains dynamics similar to canon are the fics I’m most interested in.

AU’s that you can’t get into/don’t usually read?

That’s a good question. I can’t say anything comes to mind? If the summary/tags make me curious I’ll check, if I like I read.

Favourite fandoms to read fanfiction from?

At present time, I’m mostly reading MDZS fics. Whenever the mood hit me, I go back to DGM, but my mind hyper-focused right now. In a general sense, DGM and MDZS (with sometimes BBC Merlin) are the fandoms I’ll read for, as they remain my top three faves.

Favourite ships for said fandoms?

MDZS: Wangxian, I like other ships but I don’t seek out fics focused on those ships, those other ships are Xuanli, 3Zuns, Junior Trio, and XY/MXY (I dont know why but my mind threw those two together).

DGM: Neallen and Tykillen are the two I love the most, and I also love the OT3 with Nea, Allen and Tyki all together. I do like a lot of others ships, but yeah, I’m weak for those three.

BBC Merlin: it’s been a while since I did read fics for Merlin (not counting the one I just did it caught my eyes okay), but Merthur still my fave ship. I enjoy it in any form, and I kind of love it when Gwencelot is a side pairing. But like with MDZS, I don’t really seek fics of other ships I like (said ships being Gwencelot, Merwaine, Freylin, Gwaine/Morgana). I do think current me though might appreciate polyamory, there is a potential for it after all and it’s nicer than the ship wars (that I hope have calmed down since last I actively checked the fandom). If I would go all out and put all ships I like in the polycule, they would be: Arthur/Merlin, Lancelot/Gwen, Morgana/Gwen, Gwaine/Merlin, Arthur/Gwen, Merlin/Freya, Merlin/Morgana, Gwaine/Morgana.

Favourite characters for said fandoms?

In MDZS, I... feel like I love Wei Wuxian a lot and then I love everyone else?? I mean like, Lan Wangji, Jiang Cheng, Jiang Yanli, Wen Ning, the Juniors trio. I like most other characters that play major roles (exclude antagonists, except JGY and XY, I love how much I want to scream at them).

In DGM, Allen is my first love, Nea is my second, then it’s a bit of many characters at same level of appreciation, more or less (Tyki, Cross, Mana, Lavi, Kanda, Lenalee, Road, Wisely).

In BBC Merlin: Merlin and Arthur first, then Gwaine and Lancelot, then Morgana and Mordred and the rest of the round table knights.

Underrated characters in those fandoms you want to see more of in fanfics?

I’m the kind of person who can love a lot of characters and ships (on various degree) but tend to hyperfocus on a single character and then my OTP(s) for them, and as you can see above I do get hearteye for protagonists a lot. So I can’t quite say who is underrated, but I can more or less speak about characters I think it would be great to see more about.

In MDZS, it is definitely Mo Xuanyu. We know so little about him, pretty much everything we do know is given from others perspective, so there’s no way to know what is real. It leaves open for a lot of hcs, and so it’s interesting to see the different views. But just... I need so much more of MXY lives fics ;;;;;

I think in DGM, I definitely want to see more fics with Mana and Nea (especially interacting with current Allen), but I dont think those two count as underrated. And in BBC Merlin, I can’t think of anyone I personally want to see more of.

What is your favourite length of fic to read?

Any lengths, I rarely pay attention to the length of a fic, like a look at chapters and word counds but mostly just to decide if I have time to start reading it or if it’s going on my to-read list, but I never really, consciously think about it.

Preferred/most common ‘rating’ to read?

Again, I don’t really pay attention to it. Actual ratings, more than half the time I dont even notice which is put. Tags/warnings, I’ll take a look but its more like assessing than truly pausing to process them.

The three tags you look for most when you pick a fanfiction to read?

As mentionned in previous reply, I don’t really pay attentions to tags. It’s only if I’m looking to satisfy a specific craving I’ll properly filter, but most often it differs based on the fandom.

I would say that currently, I’m keeping an eye on MDZS tag for Time Travel, Fix-it and Canon Divergence.

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yo ! so i've gotten a string of new followers that i'd love to write with ! writing starter calls can be a little hard for me when there's been no plotting, so consider this a PLOTTING CALL. this is open to ALL MUTUALS ( if we're following each other ; please check before liking ) along with that, i'm going to drop some au's that i have written up that are definitely up for grabs ( they're all linked ) and ones that i would like to write.

villain au 

hunger games au 

atla / lok au 

fantasy au // could fall under critical role au bc i've gotten some critters ! ( be mindful, i'm only on ep 14 )

pro hero verse // i don't have anything for this yet except hc's that i've yet to write up & even then it isn't much !! come plot with me here !!

shadowhunter au // based on the BOOKS, not the show. might take place after they open up the academy OR if we're to follow the plot of the mortal instruments, izuku can definitely fall into clary's role

percy jackson au // this isn't set into stone bc i can't pick between zeus and athena for his parents. sort of leaning towards athena, however. come figure it out with me !

actor au //  it just sounds fun and like there could be wacky shenanigans. ideas for this au, another idea,

soulmate au // i'm a sucker for the particular au where whatever you write on your skin shows up on your sm's skin for a few hours before fading even if it's still on yours, but it has to be put there by your hands.

horror au // idk i've been craving something horror related lately ! ideas for this au

childhood friends au // cuuuute. could follow bnha ( canon divergent ofc ) or be completely au