#he’s my favorite of the bitb boys

[the0retically]

Something I love about Rand is how unspecial he is

He doesn’t have any real merit or skill besides writing (and even then he never even had an ending for the campaign) and being just a slightly faster runner than the others

He’s just so average. He’s not special at all. He’s not part of the Hive like Rolan is, he didn’t learn magic and get a second chance at life like Kian did, hell he didn’t even realize the town was shaped like a hive

He never applied himself, he never did anything of note, he lived his whole life in the same town and he was just so ordinary

Does he get upset about that? Does he hate how he never did anything? Never even tried? Does he hate how normal he is while his friends are so extraordinary? Does he hate them because they’re everything he isn’t?

[dawnlotus-draws]

Rolan “I don’t smoke” Deep <3

Pls *click* for quality

[masonhasbean]

MY EXAMS ARE OVER! YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEAAAANNSS

I've rewatching BITB with a friend and i've come to the conclusion that i still adore this fucker so y'know. Our favorite boy :)

This is meant to be like one of those K-Pop Idol photocards he's signed for a fan because i thought he'd make a big deal about his autographs haha

More versions under the cut! Enjoy!! :D

[aiktad]

🍋🥥🍅🫛 for the ask game? (@spacestationstorybook)

🍋 - if your f/o could change one thing about themselves, what would they change and why?

i feel like kian has a Lot of regrets about the way his life went and the fact that he doesn't live up to be the cool world famous band guy everyone else thinks he is. i think he'd either change the fact that he lied to his friends to protect the image they had of him, or to dream bigger he'd actually fit the narrative that other people see him through. rockstar kian you are so important and real 2 me ...

gillion has a lot of things he would want to change; that's why he collects random titles, and it's a haha funny joke in the fandom but there are moments that make you realise he literally does not know who he is without these titles. which is sad!! and i love him!! but honestly deep down i think he would change the fact that he has chronic Chosen One Syndrome. get my boy out of the trenches. let him be a normal fish guy instead of a fish guy with the weight of everyone's sins on his shoulders please

🥥 - what hobbies does your f/o have? is there any hobby they would like to get into that they haven't tried out yet? what is it?

kian plays d&d and guitar ofc. i found the model of his guitar in canon and it almost made me stop hating on V-shaped guitars! almost. my s/i is really into cardistry because i only started out recently and i project onto him by making him really good at it – but i'd like to think kian would see my s/i doing cardistry and be like "lmao nerd imagine having an entire hobby revolved around throwing playing cards.... it's so cool Can you teach me please please please please please"

gillion plays a lot of chess! he's the real nerd of the diabolicule. i just know a tabletop gaming store hates to see my s/i and gillion coming. he'd engage with frogtopus racing more if it was a thing outside of, like, in-universe casinos. he's also a tech bro in my heart... babygirl your fuckass conch shell phone autism has captivated me

🍅 - if your f/o could buy you any gift in the world, whether it exists or not, what would they buy you? or, if they could make you something, what would it be?

holy shit you know those guitar pick flowers? kian. absolutely kian. he'd make a bouqet of them. godddd now i want to make some so i can be really gay ab it.... i might have some old guitar strings somewhere and i can find a dirt cheap pack of picks

gillion would collect shells and make those little shell & sea glass baskets you see at beach gift shops. ollie would teach him how to hand weave the baskets and all :')

they're both very sentimental guys tbh. kian leans slightly more towards "i'll buy you expensive shit bbg" than gil does but both of them would cry over a £3 mixtape of songs that make me think of them

🫛 - how does your f/o feel about pet names or nicknames? do they like them? hate them? what are their favorites and least favorites to be called and to use?

kian and my bitb s/i use them a LOT but 1000% ironically. they're so evil about it. they strive to make everyone around them uncomfortable. good morning my sweet baby darling cupcake prince. everyone within a 1000 mile radius instantly gets bugged

gillion the type of guy to make up nicknames in primordial and s/i is like "babygirl i have no idea what you're saying but i'm grinning like an idiot anyway"

[tigers1o1]

Whos your favorite of the main three in each campaign? Mainly PD, BITB and Apotheosis cause obviously your favorite in the albatrio is Chip

Obviously my favorite is Chip (understandable, clearly)

PD: William. I LOVE Dakota but William is just such an interesting character to me and the way he’s evolved throughout the campaign is sooooo OUGH idk man words are hard but HE (if I could have, I would have picked Ashe tho she’s so babygirl)

BitB: Rand. Hands down. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY. He’s just OUGH he entered my brain and decided that he’s gonna stay around for a whILE. And as much as I love Kian, I just- idk I’m sad about the way he was played idk

Apotheosis: Rumi 5000000% bro nonbinary rep? That falls in love with a little silly guys who only knows how to talk about rocks and lizards? Yes.

Fated: Bra’ad my precious baby boy. I cry over him dude I love him I miss him he deserves the entire earth I could write essays about him and be sobbing by the end of all of them

Convergence: Alastyr. If I could I would have picked strangle but alas he’s an npc. Honestly I remember jack shit abt convergence and should give it a relisten but yeah

[gilliontidestriderfan]

My favorite character from the main 3 from each campaign (That ive watched)

Riptide: Its a cross between Jay and Gill. Dont get me wrong, Chips great and all, but Gillion is silly fish and Jay is literally me. I would probably pick Hill but Jay is a VERY close second.

PD: Hands down Dakota. I love the guy. Im only on s2e28 so im not fully caught up but still. I used to love Wiwi so much and I still love him but Dakota is my boy.

Apotheosis: Rumi. Rumi is so just. They are described as perfect so much. They literally made a sex cult, in one night, that had 21 people.

BITB: This ones hard. I love them all. I think Kian and Rand are tied fir an EXTREMELY close second but Rolan is my boy. Like hes so silly and buggy and boy. Love the guy.

(Might update this post if I watch fated or convergence)

[wefaithfulfew]

say what you want about how “condis writing isnt bad but the others just go silly crazy” on twitter but im literally head over heels with all of condis pcs ive seen so far. he makes compelling characters dude.

the amount of people i know who have said jay became their favorite riptide pc overtime or since the beginning is seriously not a coincidence. jay has clear and compelling character motivations and her place and role in riptide is essential. literally theyd all be fucking dead without jay ferin okay.

vyncent as a character is so fucking interesting to me because he starts off clueless and a little selfish but grows and develops to form his opinions of prime around his friends. that means so fucking much to me. every action he makes is clearly because of people he cares about. its what drives him. the conflict with X in s2 specifically shows this because hes grown. he goes from being virion sol wanting to just get home and save flora to being vyncent sol who just wants to get ashe home. fuck man

and of course, rolan deep. i dont wanna spoil rolans role in bitb for the unitiated who havent seen it but please fucking do. its seriously tragic okay. id go tk argue hes the main character of the pcs in that campaign because of what he means to the story in particular

and fuck man i cant wait to see my boy emizel in action.

[fates-theysband]

👀👀👀👀 Hi hi hi hello!!!!

HI FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELLO!!!!! readmore bc one of the images is kind of gory

im posting bitb trailer stills at you guys again bc im not used to a podcast f/o having more than one official visual. someone compared rolan's expression here to the megamind no bitches face and ill admit that person is right but ouhhhh he still looks so handsome here...he's the reason i even checked out this show and can you blame me

pay no attention to the melted guy partially in the frame it's fine. anyway even when i was still holding out on my crush on him i would blush at this spot in the trailer. i dont know what it is about cute guys looking scared or distressed that makes me heart-eyed. i think i might be some kind of creature. his hair looks so fluffy here i want to run my hand through it

idk what it is abt cryingwyvern's art but boy howdy can they (if im wrong lmk i cant find their pronouns listed anywhere) draw the absolute HELL out of a very wide toothy grin. kian wears it the best of course <3 also i love how he's doing rocker hands on the steering wheel while, at the point in the show this image depicts, he is driving a cherry red delorean (with a vanity plate the real cali dmv would have immediately denied) way way way too fast. what a guy.

also just my favorite shot from the first episode's youtube upload. i unfortunately still think rolan and rand's A Bit Spooped expressions are cute (the full bout of madness ones are just distressing in a "noooo someone help them :(" way) and also i go ape shitt over kian playing his guitar. my three boyfriends and yes they're doomed by the narrative in their own separate unique ways <3

[twinkfromconvergence]

1 and 7 for the ask game :3

Favorite PC from each of the boys?: This one is not going to be surprising at all. Alastyr Cross for Bizly, Kasper for Grizzly, William for Charlie, and Rolan for Condi. What can I say, I like convergence. I also love Flynn but my Flynn is almost entirely headcanons. Though a lot of them it was toss up between BitB and convergence.

Did the fandom give you any wildly incorrect assumptions?: With pd I thought they were less little loser boys and less pathetic. I also thought Will was 10x more emo than he actually is.

[nyxthedragon225]

6 and 15 for the ao3 asks?

6. Favorite title you used

Okay so this one's probably a tie between three. We have:

which is a very sad bitb fic i made before the finale. I'm partial to this one just because it's one of the few that isn't a song lyric lmao. It's also the last line of the fic which I though was very clever :]

The there's:

Which is a polypd fluffy cuddling fic with a title from Winnie The Pooh. I just think this one is sweet :]

And finally what is possibly my favorite fic I've ever written:

which is a 5+1 Grandberry Pirates fic centered around Lizzie learning to trust her crew

15. What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

Pretty much all of them lol. I have a few in particular I'm excited for, like a bitb aftermath fic that is so far sitting around 5k words (which is a lot for me) and a riptide superhero au i've been working on for about a year since I read Tommyinnit's Clinic For Supervillians. Also a fic where Gillion goes feral during a meltdown and accidentally hurts Chip and Jay, as well as a polypd vigilante au fic based heavily on some mha fics my friend keeps recommending to me. Some snippets for these below the cut 👀

Bitb aftermath fic (Working title: 60 Days)

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Day one.

Shit.

Everything went to hell so fast.

Kian fucking exploded. Rand went insane. Rolan found out he was a bug.

Rand didn't know what to do anymore.

She just wanted to play D&D with her highschool boyfriends.

He sighed as he stared into the darkness of Mr Dickman’s survival bunker.

Seemed pretty empty to be there all alone. Not that he had much of a choice.

Shit.

She closed the door with a slam and slid down to the floor, running a hand down her face. He reached up to flick the light on with his shotgun.

He looked around at the room.

“Well,” She muttered to Racheal, who had been hovering behind him for the walk over. “Time to make this place… livable.”

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Riptide superhero au (no working title)

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Someone kicked down the door.

Chip was left staring at a short person with shoulder-length green hair, black armor, and a giant sword.

To reiterate: What the fuck?

“I AM TIDESTRIDER, HERO OF THE DEEP, AND I COMMAND YOU TO STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AT ONCE!” the Hero proclaimed loudly. They (He? She? No, best to go with ‘they’) waited a beat then stepped forward. The action shook Chip out of its trance and forced it back to the real world, which, unfortunately for Chip, - also known as the villian Houlding - meant hanging upside down in a museum getting caught stealing a magical artifact by a superhero brandishing a giant fucking sword at it.

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Feral Gillion Fic (working title: I'm Terrified Of What's Inside)

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The Champion stared deep into the blue eyes of the redhead with the bow, growling and pinning her against the wall. She held her hands out in a placating gesture, speaking in some foriegn, dry sounding language. The Champion narrowed her eyes, almost insulted. As if they were going to fall for the fake surrender. That was one of the first tricks he was taught to defend against in his training.

He felt something touch his shoulder suddenly and he jerked away, raking a clawed hand against the abdomen of the redhead and growling. They turned around to see the scrawny boy, looking terrified and betrayed.

The Champion bared her many rows of shark-like teeth. Easy prey.

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polypd vigilante fic (Title: None Of Them Were Saviors)

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Okay. So they both knew his face and name, he’d apparently stayed the night, and the heroes didn't want him anymore. His breaths were coming out shakily and ragged, his heartbeat pounding in his ears. Wraith reached up and ran a hand through her hair and she whimpered, melting into the touch even as she struggled to breath.

“Dakota, look at me, please,” Wraith said gently. He was so different from how he was in fights, it almost threw Dakota off. When she didn't look up to Wraith, Variant gently placed a hand under her chin and guided her head upwards.

He could pull away at any time. They all knew he could. They all knew he wouldn't, couldn't. She needed this.

She needed them.

[the0retically]

HELLO HI IS THIS THING ON as a small distraction what is your favorite bitb scene?

HI HELLO!! Thank you so much I love being able to gush about the boys

For Rolan: I love the funeral, Condi pops off and is incredible in that scene I adore it so much. I also love the scene with him and Rand at the tree when Rolan remembers all the things that add up to make it clear that he isn’t the original and that he isn’t human. It’s so so well done I love it

For Kian: his song to Becky and the whole scene with her under the tree, it’s where we see him act the most like the real him and I love it. Also the work that Grizz puts into the song is perfect, I just love that song and I wish it was released for public it’s amazing

For Rand: so many of his, I love him so much and he’s my favorite of the boys, but I do really love the scene where he’s looking at the map of Galloway and his dnd books and seeing that the town looks like a brain is so—that scene gives me goosebumps every time I love it. Bizly figuring things out is such a peak dnd moment where the dots are connecting and I just love it :)

[tigers1o1]

Hey, if you don't want to answer that's fine, but I was curious if you had opinions on fanon jrwi design things? (Gillions tail, making Jay more masc, transing bitb gender etc). Are there any headcanons you dislike?

*giggles* Y E S. I’ll go by character

Gilion: TAIL. Also I really like the orange markings bc ✨contrast✨also he’s a short king. Not a headcanon but I REALLY love the man bun. Boob window is awesome, until it becomes overly sexualized :/ also man’s absolutely has sharp teeth

Chip: I really love the new design. Wouldn’t change a thing except people keep forgetting about his PINKY. Also SCARS. Man’s has SO MANY SCARS. Honestly this kind of goes for everyone. I love scars <3

Jay: soot rings under her eyes from goggles/ grease smudges. She tinkers all day, she’s gonna be messy :3 also she would have so many flyaway hairs dude. Also if the corset was a little more functional and study rather than just being for aesthetics.

Bitb boys: I really love the transing of genders. In every direction lmao (although ftm Kian is probably one of my favorite things). Also Kian has so many shinies (jewelry). Rand wears his hair in a half up ponytail thing. Also I kinda enjoy the idea of him having a slight lazy eye, but maybe I’m just projecting ajfbsjfnofa. I really like the idea of them having friendship bracelets but let’s be real- they all would have broken within a year.

As for dislikes: I don’t think there’s anything I super don’t like. I’m very chill when it comes to headcanons, and if you’re excited about something, I’m probably also going to be excited