#he's not trying to find loopholes!!! he genuinely doesn't get it and is doing his best to work with what he's given!!!

[fizzyghosts]

Hywel is inspired by a mix of my issues with stories with nonhuman protagonist/about nonhumans becoming human AND vet posts ive seen warning people about the dangers of anthropomorphisizing animals. Its fine to joke about your pets doing things out of spite or other human emotions, it does put you at risk of not being able to read their body language correctly. Cats dont cry out of sadness, a cat crying, with actual tears streaming down its face, is a sign of a medical issue. A dog smiling isn't doing it bc its happy, it means its nervous. Not being able to spot these is bad, and sometimes even dangerous, for you and the animal.

If you never get past Hywel's human appearance and treat him like one its like getting a reactive dog, doing zero research or training, and then taking it to a dog park. If Hywel mauls someone in town then its on you.

[grievedeeply]

Hello there :) I see you take BG3 requests now, if it’s okay please could I request headcanons for Astarion, Gale, Wyll, Dammon and Karlach falling for reader who always goes out of her way to help them with anything they need 💙💙

decided to take some liberties with this prompt and expand it out a bit to them just being super helpful overall as a person, but going out of their way to help them in particular lol. hope you enjoy anyways and thanks for the request! sorry if these are short I didn't want to be super repetitive

astarion, gale, wyll, dammon and karlach with a helpful s/o headcanons

astarion

he's used to you being incredibly helpful by now. helping out the tieflings in the grove, helping to rescue halsin from the goblin camp.. it's in your nature, he thinks

and with him, you acted the same. only your behaviors increased tenfold with him

you went out of your way to help him, and he isn't sure of why, really. but you won't see him complaining. the less work he has to do to make it by, the better.. and you seem happy to assist, so why not enjoy it?

you tend to offer your neck up to him whenever he's feeling particularly hungry. it's the first time you do this when astarion really realizes you're always a bit more attentive to him than with anyone else

still, he jumps at the opportunity for a free meal. it's not as though he doesn't appreciate it, but he'll always wonder what's going on in your mind whenever you decide to help him out in that way

he's used to being seductive and a bit flirty.. but he notices that with you it starts to feel different. he hates the thought of falling for you, feeling something real and genuine in that way wasn't exactly a familiar thing to him

but he knows you'd treat him well. after all.. you're already this helpful now. but if you were his? he could only imagine how things could change

gale

he doesn't understand it. why you're so helpful

he's very thankful for your help, but he wonders why you always make the extra time to find an artifact for him. days before he needs his next one, it's already in his hands, ready for consumption and it's always because of you

he doesn't want to overthink it. but he will

do you think that he's not as capable as everyone else? is it just out of the kindness of your heart? whatever the reason, he tries to refuse any unnecessary help

even though he appreciates it, he wants to see you spending more of your attention on yourself. he loves that you care for people and especially him, but he wants you to take care of yourself first and foremost

he realizes he's falling for you relatively quickly. no one else in his life had really looked out for him in the way you have. you're special. you're kind and you're.. lovely, really

he adores you, and he'll return your helpfulness in kind!

wyll

oh... wyll

he's so sweet. he's always looking out for you, just like you are for him. you're so incredibly protective of him, especially when mizora is involved

you're trying to find a loophole in his pact whenever you can, and he realizes he's falling for you as soon as he sees how serious you are about this whole thing

he falls hard. no one else had really shown him this type of care before, and he feels appreciated whenever he's with you. you see him as wyll. not just the blade of frontiers

he sees how much you care about other people, too. he sees your heart and your kindness, and he just adores it. it's hard to come by people as genuine as you. he counts himself lucky to even be in your life at all

dammon

he doesn't think he needs the help

he enjoys your company at the forge. you keep his mind occupied and you keep him talking. sometimes he gets so lost in his work that he forgets to eat or drink

but he still doesn't think he needs your help. he's used to doing everything by himself, and he's not exactly the biggest fan of change

but when you start organizing the materials and metals laid about.. it's really nice. he won't say anything or bring it up at all, but he does notice everything you do for him

you'll make him a snack every now and then. you'll tell him to take breaks— things that he forgets to do sometimes— and spend time with him when you're able to

he likes you. a lot. he doesn't admit it right away, but he knows he does. he feels the ache in his heart. he would be a fool to not like you

he'll tell you eventually. hopefully

karlach

she's beyond appreciative of you in general

you're so sweet. it's a big change from her life with zariel in the hells, so she jumps at the opportunity to talk to you whenever it arises

she notices how you jump to help whenever you can as soon as she meets you. after all, you believed her about the paladins when she was practically a stranger

karlach tells you about her infernal engine, and you're constantly trying to find the infernal iron she needs. wherever you go you're looking for it

it puts a smile on her face, knowing that you care so much about her..

she develops feelings for you pretty quickly. you're kind, you're able to see her as more than a soldier.. and that's more than she's had in a long time

a little unrelated, but she's so happy when she gets to touch you. like... over the moon happy

[aviradasa]

The lost boys main HCs

Paul

Here are some paul hcs! I hope you enjoy! This is kinda short but i had fun writing it!

If you would like a part two going into more detail about him let me know. I'm gonna be responding to Dwayne's HCS, though. I hate the ones I posted. I'm also gonna be doing an HC/ one-shot series about each of the boys before they found each other/ became vampires, so stay tuned!!

Paul is a younger sibling. When he was alive he had 2 brothers and one twin sister.

He was 19 but going to turn 20 literally like a month before he died and despite how he acts he was the oldest when turned,

If you ask him his age though he will say 20 to fuck with you before pulling the “Nah I'm just joking” card and telling you he was only 19

He does that mostly cause he's a little upset he wasn't able to hold out at least another month, so he likes to say what he could have been, but he doesn't wanna lie about his age.

He hates liars.

He also keeps track of every birthday he and the other boys have had since they turned cause he doesn't want to lose track of the years. It kinda keeps him sane a bit.

On a less depressing note

He is also one of the sassiest assholes you will ever meet. He does not think before he speaks and honestly, he doesn't give a damn

I mean y'all hear him when he said the whole “ chill out girl 🙄😒” line you can't tell me he wasn't annoyed that star was ruining the fun

He also does not give a shit if he hurts someone's feeling with it especially if its someone he doesn't know or does not fuck with, he sees no point in trying to spare the feelings of anyone he doesn't care about

He can also be a bit flirty just in general as a joke or genuinely he is just like that and he dont care what gender it is he will make flirty jokes or comments regardless.🤣

He is an asshole, but he is quite loyal to the people he loves, surprisingly. But he loves them in his own way. Despite all the teasing, rude comments, cruel pranks, and injuries he may accidentally inflict, he doesn't fuck around with other people pulling that shit.

The definition of “nobody can bully my family or friends but me.”

He can be nice sometimes. It depends on whether he's fully sober or not, and then it depends on what he did.

Drunk = steer clear he's gonna say or do some stupid shit that could result in either a fight with somebody random or not,or you all dying.

Stoned = yeah, you have a better chance of seeing him nice with this one. But still, be careful cause high also results in hunger, so don't get bit. he does bite. Remember that.

He also relaxes better after smoking, so he might just sit his ass down for a while, maybe watch a movie.

He's not a TV guy though usually. he finds it hard to focus on shows and movies so he either likes to smoke before watching or else he has to pause it every 20 minutes to get up, walk around, and bitch about loopholes and plot points for a few minutes before he can sit back down and continue it.

He just kinda avoids them for those reasons. He's more of a music guy. Because then he can get up, bounce around, have fun, and not miss anything in the song cause he can do other shit while listening.

The music he likes is rock and heavy metal; I will admit, though, that he is the kinda person to pull the “Oh, you know (random band), then name 3 songs.”

“ (names 3 song)”.

“Oh shit cool, what's your favorite.”

He does that shit often, actually, but his saving grace is that if you know what your talking about, you now have a new friend to discuss your favorite bands with. 😭

He keeps his area of the cave a mess but he still knows where everything is. But it's not like a dirty mess; it's mostly just clutter.

He refuses to leave food containers or remains in his room overnight like he can not stand that shit if he's chilling out drawing or something, and he catches the lightest whiff of food smell from a container he finished off not even an hour ago he getting up and throwing it away.

Honestly, that goes for all the boys, to be fair. They don't care about being dirty themselves, but they don't want their spaces dirty if you get what I mean.

Also, he does not like people touching his stuff. Only a select few people can, and that is Laddie and the other boys maybe star once in awhile, and depending on whether you are a close friend or partner, you can, but everybody has to ask unless he says to grab it for him.

He just doesn't want his shit moved cause he's worried he won't be able to find it.

He's not worried about shit being broken cause he will just fix it. Unless it's CDs or records that he can't fix, he will be severely pissed.

But one specific thing you don't under any circumstance touch, grab or even breathe too close to is his sister's old music box. If that gets broken, he will kill you, no questions asked, and he won't feel bad about it, NOBODY would want to/ have the ability to stop him at that moment, so just please don't touch it.

Other than that, he doesn't care. He likes having people come to his space to hang out and keep him company. He also likes showing off all the cool shit he has.

Oh, and the him killing you thing reminds me.

He is scary as fuck when he kills/feeds cause his style is extremely animalistic. He doesn't just tear flesh away or rip a limb or two. He fucking MAULS his kills to the point that if you see the aftermath, you genuinely wonder if it was ever a human or not.

His kills are quick, violent, messy, and sadistic. Cause he genuinely does enjoy the kill, probably more than feeding.

He's an adrenaline junkie, a daredevil, and anything in between, so when it is time, he will find a target, and to be fair, he likes a good chase. So he will probably grab somebody, and when they fight back, he will purposely let them go and give them a head start so he can chase them down just to make the mauling more fun.

When he's done feeding, he is most of the time covered in blood, dirt, leaves, sand, sticks, you name it, and it's probably on him.

He cleans up as best he can before going back onto the boardwalk or heading into town of course. But if they have a late feeding and they have to get back to the cave in a hurry before sunrise. He will stay like that until the next day.

But by the time he wakes up, he hates the feeling of the stuff stuck to him, so he cleans up quickly just so he doesn't have to be uncomfortable lmao.

Anyway, that's it for now. He's just a funny, sarcastic, sadistic, flirty asshole. But we love him. Cause he's Paul.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Bout that essay titled 'A study of Gortash's twisted love of humanity'- yk what fuck it here goes nothing. Back into a facists megalomaniacs mind we go. Spoiler; this is long.

But first of all; let's do a thought experiment. Let's just assume, for shits and giggles, Gortash's position would've somehow been swapped with any other the other chosen or another Banite:

Let's start with the Banites: if we had gotten anyone except for Gortash Baldur's Gate would've been fucked. Like genuinely. Banites are cruel, vicious, unashamedly gaudy (they suck ass at infiltration missions) and they exploit loopholes perhaps even better than fiends. Any other Banite would've simply reveled in the fear caused by rampant myrkulites and bhaalists and probably stoked that fire by employing some of their own forces. And depending on whether the Zhents join the winning side or not they would've probably used and abused the black network to absolutely dominate trade and potentially choke out every non desirable in the city itself by fun activities such as grand scale slavery, starving an entire city, or simply employing enough mercenaries and some Bhaalist to get the job done. Banites fuck everyone over so hard they usually don't even stop at themselves, and prideful cruel beings who know absolutely no bounds in their desire for power commonly don't hesitate, especially not Banites who thrive in backstabbing. So the other chosen and the grand design are fucked cuz they will most certainly get removed for the sake of someone more desirable the second they somehow irk Banes favourite toy. Which in some specific cases (all of them) would be in 5 minutes flat. If you thought the local nobility was bad just wait until you see a Banite in their natural environment.

Ketheric: Yeah Baldur's Gate is fucked. Ketheric cares about one thing and one thing only; Isobel. And he employs a bunch of sadistic necromancers who have no concept of personal boundaries or consent for that matter, so chances are he'd let them roam freely in Baldur's Gate, making the streets a huting ground for his followers to find prime subjects to perform inhumane experiments on all while he turns a blind eye; either busy trying to get Isobel under his (mind-) control, reviving her or treating a brainless puppet that looks and once was his daughter like his one true solution to decades of grief and fucking up. He wouldn't care about what happens to the city, to the other chosen or even the grand design. He'd follow his gods orders but thats about it and no matter whether that's still Myrkul or Bane; everyone's fucked cuz surpringly the guy who adores lichdom more than life and the other guy who'd rather 'burn everyone's fields than loose' aren't about to give out any orders that will benefit anyone but themselves.

Orin: Another great case of 'yeah Baldur's Gate is fucked'. Orin wants one thing and one thing only: recognition. Preferably from Bhaal but she'd take anyone at this point. The problem about this whole thing is, she's been conditioned and instilled with so much self-loathing my dearest murder princess can't even begin to realise when she's getting shown any sort of adoration anymore and immediately understands it as mockery, see, for example, her butler. Is what I would say if their corpse wasn't chilling in Durges old bedroom. All Orin would do is stage ever grander and more elaborate public massacres and involuntary 'anatomy displays'. Baldur's Gate wouldn't simply be fucked; give her a week, and the majority of it would be dead. This works well for Bhaal, but for anyone else, it would kinda suck. Including the other two of the dead three. And the cult would probably still loathe her simply due to her not being a true Bhaalspawn, so cue Orin's madness reaching an absolute boiling point. She doesn't and would never care for any of the other chosen or the grand design. Unless she's reigned in, she's a utterly loose canon, even more so than she was already, with Gortash or Durge at the helm, respectively.

Now time for my favourite of the reckless murder hobos; Durge. Given the few in game notes we have Durge had a thing for obliteration. Including but not limited to every living being + themselves. So let's just assume Gortash’s cocky upstart charm and Orins assassination attempt didn't work out as planned and they are still the de facto leader but now without any leash. Baldur's Gate is probably obliterated. Alongside whatever else remains of the sword coast. Or Troil. They'd probably also have some weird ass fuck relationship with the brain cuz they already did without being the undisputed leader. And the brain would probably discard the grand design themselves cuz somehow Durge has that effect on things (might be the innate charm magic of Bhaalist priests that they use to convince people to join a literal murder cult). Either way, with Durge not giving a single damn about the other chosen, any plans but Bhaals (or their misunderstood version of it) and a dramatic love for self-obliteration, it may finally be time to remedy the elves' mistake and rip Abeir-Toril apart properly. Ao hates this trick, alongside everyone else, probably including Bhaal himself.

Which is all my longwinded way of saying; Gortash is the lesser evil. In any set of circumstances he displays enough leniency, monster fucker vibes and rationality to somehow keep this ruined, sinking ship from hitting the sea floor immediately. He has enough of a twisted love for humanity left, compared to the others, to a degree that he doesn't blindly follow orders or actively seeks the destruction of everything, let alone 'true' domination the way Bane intends to have it.

But yes, indeed, Gortash performed fucked up and cruel experiments. No doubt about that. And yet it was still on a lesser scale than a mad massive hoard of necromancers could, and his experiments, for the most part, actually yielded results, didn't they? Presumably, the Coginator and the remote control brain mechanism used for the Steelwatch. After all, there are zombies(?) in there, controlling that shit. However, the experiments on loving families were probably one of his selfish indulgences and his sorry attempt at figuring out if he was just born loathsome and his family sucks ass or if that's normal and humanity doesn't deserve a second chance. Or a 30th. FR lore is fucked up.

This is also a great transition to exhibit B of my thesis why Gortash does in fact love or is at the very very very least heavily intrigued by humanity; the sole existence of the Steelwatch. Listen, my guy serves Bane. Bane hates planning. He likes immediate results. So much so he actively pisses off his situationship Bhaal for it. Repeatedly. And he likes fear and tyranny. So what do you think the chances are that the black hand would actually enjoy the thought of a mecha army patrolling the streets of Baldur's Gate, keeping them save, and worst of all, instilling hope in the hearts of the populous, peasants and nobles alike? Yeah, absolutely fucking none. And yet Gortash did that. And he's not even just a regular banite. He's Banes chosen. He carries a part of Bane's divinity within himself. He has the de facto highest position in the local faith. He's Banes favourite toy rn. He's the centre of attention and he still goes out of his way to use things that could 1000% inspire fear and hatred to sow fucking hope and a sense of safety of all things in plain sight? I bet his adorable wrinkly ass that Bane wasn't happy and that even a thousand rituals to redeem his leniency won't save him from getting tortured extra hard for this fuck up. And considering the state of the Banites scriptures we found, and his entire character, Gortash is smart enough to know this is something Bane absolutely loathes. And yet my guy did that.

Another thing is the hive mind. Bane would probably not hate it outright, as its still 'burning the fields' by turning souls illithid, but it's wasted potential. Because there's so many great things you can do with a hivemind and the remote control over people's thoughts and emotions, for example instilling fear and terror the very things Bane loves. But that's, once again, not Gortash plan. If the notes and one of the evil endings is anything to go by the hivemind doesn't trap people in a state of torment, it does the polar opposite. People are happy, enjoying a better, simpler and nicer life. Enjoying an idea of what their life could've been like. They're smiling, happy, enjoying a casual market stroll and the bountiful rewards of the fields. Which is all things that a good Banite should hate and never inflict on someone. AND YET that's presumably Gortashs plan. Create a hivemind where everyone can dream happily and do soulless labour without noticing it while the world goes to absolute shit but the people do not. It's basically noah's arc. It's paradise in hell. The people are 'saved' while the gods continue to fight their petty games, and Gortash alone lords over this perfect dream. Protecting it answer using it to advance further.

Now, about the busts found in his office. Most of them depicted rather unsavoury, cruel people. Except for one. Which honours a self made person who took pity on those who had less. On those considered lesser by the upright and honourable citizens of the Gate. It's weird how, between all those symbols and testaments to cutlery and tyranny, there's still a sliver of empathy, renegade justice and even care for fellow humans imbued, isn't it? And what's even weirder, all of them are found in Gortash's most private place? His own little office hidden far above the grandeur of the throne room and the Fortress, where he sits at the helm, lording over his subjects and scheming his little plans? This is an excellent example of show, don't tell btw. It's hitting you over the head with the implications. But just in case, this might very well be a reflection of Gortashs mind itself and the visible expression of him being incapable of letting go of humanity as a whole, still carrying it somewhere not even that well buried between the resentment and cruelty but out in plain view for everyone curious enough to touch it because what others reason would he have tob'play the benelovent ruler' in a place where no one sees it? Where only his most trusted and fellow Banites mingle?

And, ofc, as I am a durgetash truther, another exhibit. Him fucking Bhaals gore baby and putting a leash on it prematurely. You see, I've already talked about Banes likes and dislikes plenty so it should come as no surprise that the Edgelord Surpreme wouldn't hate carnage wrought upon foolish mortals by idiots who follow lesser gods than himself, since it would still somehow contribute to people being scared and panicking. But Gortash, being the ever faithful fuck up of a Banite, reigns in the Bhaalist and even the Myrkulites enough for that to kinda never really happen. He stopped the carnage from happening altogether, in fact, by giving the others enough scraps to keep them satisfied and from acting out but not enough freedom to fuck up his plans. I mean, heck he was apparently so convincing he managed to get Durge, again, biggest fan of self-obliteration, from going on an apocalyptic rampage cuz 'daddy I like his brain and I don't mean for dinner'. Him doing that actively contributed to preventing another Bhaalspawn crisis, which could've very well happened with Bhaals resurgence and revival, 2.5 loose canons and no ward of a random old guy in sight. But also him providing a clear goal and orders for Ketheric kept the lich from giving in to the sweet release of just not caring at all whatsoever. Everyone had their designated roles and boundaries and that was perhaps the only thing keeping this group of mentally unstable creatures from unleashing an apocalyptic nightmare; which again would've worked in their gods favour and technically didn't need any prevention.

And about the Gondians... Yeah this is gonna sound fucked up, cuz it is, but Gortash is actually treating them exceptionally nice. Their families are actually still alive and its not just a lie he's telling them, we don't actually see anyone getting flayed, strung up or tortured in some other way outright, they actually get to wear clothes and presumably they're fed enough to a degree that most of them can still somewhat work and the collar and the threat of your head exploding does suck but he could've also simply chained them to their work stations but they aren't. Let alone use charms or other beguiling and fucked up magic to force them into complacency. And they're not being resold or redistributed or forced to serve some random ass guy. The Gondians are, from a Forgotten Realms and probably Bane's perspective, treated exceptionally well. As are their families. Still undoubtedly fucked up and kinda sadistic with the whole explosion collar but objectively speaking he's one of the nicer slave masters. And they do allow him to produce the Steel Watchers en mass which once again contributes to the overall safety of Baldurs Gate and its other citizens. Still the lesser evil.

Though to be fair; Gortash also did some things Bane would really celebrate. Like somehow cheating his way into obtaining the Iron Throne, fucking Bhaals favourite and most fucked up """"child"""" and of course, keeping his parents alive and in agony to eternally fuel Banes fear kink. Except, it's only Sally who's afraid. Dravo is basically a blue screen of death personified at this point. He's a hollow, numb husk, isn't he? So somehow this once again doesn't align with Banes goals and Gortash's duty as a Banite. He's fucked it up again. But Gortash could've also simply killed them if all he wanted was revenge. Why go out of your ways, program elaborate scripts into them, keep the very place that testaments his fucked up past in good condition? Because a quick death would be too merciful? But then why is he so quick to turn on Durge if they betray him in a much smaller scale than his parents did. Well, perhaps he chose not to simply kill the very people who prepared Belladonna in the kitchen when he came to visit because he himself still needs them. Because underneath all that rage and spite there's still a broken boy who wants to hear his parents, albeit empty praise, and who wants to prove to them that he can be better? That his useless playing around actually helped better humanity, that he himself helped countess people and made lives better when all they thought he'd be useful as would be a pawn?

So, is it twisted? Yes. Is it rotten? Absolutely. Is it anything you'd consider to be 'conventional'? Absolutely not. But he does hold some wildly fucked up 'love' for humanity, if only as means to a grander goal (that being himself, ofc) or perhaps cuz he's genuinely incapable of letting go. Whether it's that, to spite Raphael, Bane and his parents or someone else, who knows. Probably nobody. But the shit he does is unorthodox and oddly self-sacrificial in a way where I just can't go, 'yeah no he absolutely loathes the sheer existence of the concept'.

I still think it's a missed opportunity he's not trying to build a spelljamming port though. I feel like he would absolutely do that somewhere down the line, if only to limit the black networks influence.

[bushkit]

Some headcanons for the daemos boys cause I got bored!

Some of these are just silly ideas but I have quite a few genuinely serious headcanons in there as well!

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Asch:

23 years old.

6’3 (very slightly over average for daemos)

Smells smokey and sweet, like cedar in a bonfire.

Great at archery, initially learned from his mother and has devoted himself to mastering the skill in her honor.

Takes his role as a leader very seriously, no funny business.

Hates nikargas with every fiber in his being. He will go out of his way to slay one if given the opportunity.

Fears failure and loneliness.

Hates physical touch, it causes him to flinch hard if he isn't expecting it.

Has oddly cold hands, very insecure about it.

Would laugh at videos of children falling.

Nonexistent spice tolerance (I took inspiration from Moistcritical).

Has a beloved pet phoenix, but sadly doesn't have much time to take care of her himself.

Wears a little eyeliner, slays the day.

Leif:

22 years old

6’2

Smells like he was rolling on the wet forest floor (he was).

Very knowledgeable about animals, even survived an encounter with a nikarga.

Has a very soft spot for children.

Low alcohol tolerance, gets drunk easily.

Drank quite often until he became a knight. (Still can't refuse a few cups if offered, but is getting better.)

Serious abandonment issues and mild separation anxiety.

Distrustful of higher authority, though secretly respects Asch and is grateful to have been spared.

Meditates quite a bit, prefers to do so in the wilderness (with supervision from Strike of course).

Loves thrills, riding on Strike’s back is his preferred method of travel due to the distance from the ground and the breeze in his face.

Will eat just about anything, eats like he hasn't in weeks.

Highly flirtatious, gets no bitches.

Rhys:

24 years old

6’4

Smells very clean and posh, like a fine cologne.

Nearsighted, needs glasses to see properly.

Very cautious, likely due to his vision impairment.

LOVES puzzles, anything revolving around strategy and riddles is his cup of tea.

Massive sweet tooth.

Extremely polite, like to the point he gets walked on sometimes.

Very mild temper as in common frost aligned fashion, but when his bottle breaks, it breaks.

Loves stargazing, constantly trying to figure out what those white dots in the black sky really are.

Perfectionist, hate hate hates when things are even slightly imperfect he goes insane.

Highly artistic, has journals apon journals of people and creatures he's doodled.

Often viewed as being boring (even by his own family), hates it.

Noi:

Youngest of the group at 20 years old.

5’9 (short ahh)

Smells citrusy, like lemons and grapefruit.

Autistic, has trouble picking up on certain social ques.

Experiences a phenomenon similar to Pinkie Pie’s “Twitchy Tail”, this is related to his ability to sense incoming storms.

Loves romance stories, forbidden romance is his favorite trope.

Scared of loud noises, he panics when he smells a thunderstorm coming.

Insecure about his size and strength sometimes, but tries to find loopholes.

Introverted, though highly extroverted when comfortable.

Values kindness and empathy.

Most loyal to Asch of the knights (even more so than Pierce and Rhys)

Highly curious but cautious, prefers to learn visually.

Mostly used as a messenger because of his swiftness and fantastic memory.

Pierce:

Oldest of the group at 25 years old

6’7 (very over average for a daemos)

Smells subtle but floral, with notes of lavender and water lily.

Gentle giant, gives wonderful hugs. (it would probably cure depression tbh)

Most mature among the knights.

Neurodivergent, some form of synesthesia and/or autism. (I'm leaning towards sound-color synesthesia.)

Does not enjoy killing or viewing fights, attempts to play peacemaker in most hostile situations.

Sensitive to violence and especially death, there's a reason why he doesn't speak much.

Distant, prefers to not make attachments.

Likes animals, used to nurse injured critters back to health before releasing them.

Surprisingly funny, isn't aware of it.

Carries his sword everywhere like its a comfort plush toy.

Has a very approachable demeanor, he may not speak much but he is a fantastic listener.

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

And those are my headcanons! Enjoy the goofy drawing of Asch simply ✨passing away✨ because a jalapeno was too spicy for him. Rest in pepperonis my love. Anyway Its almost midnight rn and I'm sleepy so goodbye!

[solsticescribe]

Mafia!HarryxLawyer!reader

Warnings: cursing, mafia setting but the worst they do is threatening

Your boss was a real asshole of a man. When you accepted the case he approached you with, you didn't know he was a gang leader. Not certain at least, but now you were stuck working for him and him only. You helped him out of a tough situation in court, which seemed suspicious on its own, and now that you knew too much about his business (and he about you) you had no choice but work for him. At least the pay was nice, even if the man itself was insufferable. Now that he had a good lawyer in his hand, he was much braver with his affairs and even more reckless, which meant endless work for you. The gang itself wasn't too big, they mainly did the dirty work for bigger groups or small affairs of their own but they never got themselves in quite the trouble as this one time.

It all started with your boss calling you to his office, sounding impatient. This usually meant that he fucked up something again. Just great. You found him at his desk, nervously organizing some papers in a file. "Finally you're here! You're nowhere to be found when you could be useful!" He spat at you. "What do you need this time?" "Watch your tone. I have a contract for you to look trough. I want to get out of paying for the stuff and I need you to find a decent excuse for that" You took a deep breath to calm yourself. "I can't just make shit up to solve your problems. I told you already." The man just smirked "Yet you're always doing it. You're an amazingly convincing liar, sweets. Either this or you can always go back to genuine work, helping the needy, defending what's good... just keep in mind that with everything you've done, it will be difficult to find clients that would trust you" He smirked and handed you the contract. You frowned but took it anyway. "That's right dearest. Might not be what you've dreamed about, but still puts a roof over your head, doesn't it?" He laughed out loud, mocking you. "Don't you dare fuck this up for me, understand? Now get out of here." You clenched your fist and left the office before you said something that you would regret later.

Back in your office, you slammed the contract on your desk and started pacing around to calm yourself. You hated doing this. Hated working for this annoying moron, wasting your talent on something stupid like this. Loathed every second but if you really couldn't get out of this situation, might as well make the best of it. Be the best there is.

You took the contract in your hand and started analyzing its content. Once you were at the end of it, the signatures caught your eye. Next to the name of your boss, it was signed 'Styles'. That family was the biggest and most dangerous mafia gang in the whole country if not the the whole continent. Did he really think he would get out of paying them just with a few arguments of a corrupted lawyer? Best case scenario, they get the money by force, get annoyed with you, either kill everyone in the group, together with you OR if you're really lucky you'll just end up beaten and on the streets. There is no point in trying to reason with a gang like Styles'. Or is there? Can you even find a good enough argument to get out of paying? If there is a loophole at all, it's an insanely small one. Luckily, there is nothing better for you to do. You just had to get out of that stuffy office, there was no way of thinking in this small place.

Placing the contract in your bag, you got up and soon found yourself at your favorite coffee shop. Your favorite drink and the cozy atmosphere might kickstart the process. How ironic, wanting to get motivated by a lovely place like this for working with illegal products. You sat in the far corner of the shop, making sure no one could peek over your shoulder and got to work. You laid out the contract and your notebook, making notes of the important parts, drawing up the stakes, outcomes, each unfavorable. As you were very fixated on finding anything that could grant you the upper hand, you suddenly heard a voice. "Is this seat taken?" You looked up and saw a man, about in his twenties with long hair and piercing green eyes looking at you. You couldn't exactly keep working with him sitting across from you, but didn't want to reject him either so you just kept staring at him. "There's nowhere else to sit" He continued. You looked around and indeed every seat was taken. When did so many people get here anyway? "No, no go ahead" You finally answered him and he shot you a smile that made you melt just a little. A lot. While he pulled out the chair, you quickly gathered your stuff and shoved them back in your bag. "Thanks. I didn't want to disturb your work, you seemed focused. Something important?" He asked. "Kind of. It's absolutely hopeless but my boss couldn't care about anything but his own pockets and I'm the one who has to get him out of any stupid situation he gets himself into." You took a sip of your drink which has gotten cold in the meantime. "Sorry. That was out of nowhere. It just builds up. Forget I said anything" He chuckled. "It's totally fine, you got to get it out before you explode. He seems like a real asshole to me" "He is" "I'm Harry by the way" You smiled, his name fit him really well. "YN"

You sat there talking to Harry for the rest of the day. You didn't even realize that it got dark outside. "Shoot, I have to go, sorry. This was real fun though" You got your bag on your shoulder and stood up. "Hold on, let me drive you home." "You don't have to do that. I still have to get some stuff from my office and it's close." "Are you sure?" "Yes, I don't want to bother you" "You wouldn't, but if you insist. Hold on a second, can you give me a pen?" You took one out of your bag and handed it to him. He scribbled something on a napkin and gave you both. "Promise we'd repeat this? Like a date that is." You smiled as you put them in your bag. "Might as well. It was nice" "Well then, looking forward to it beautiful" You said your goodbye and left blushing.

The next few weeks went by a blur, you were completely focused on the contract, occasionally texting Harry but sadly you couldn't find a time to meet up again. Still, he was so sweet all the time. You figured once you were done dealing with this you two could actually go on a date. The boss told you that he scheduled a meeting with the head of the Styles' to discuss his late payment. This not only gave you the extra stress of a deadline but the thought that you had to reason with the leader of the most feared mafia group of the country didn't exactly help either.

The night before, you laid in bed stressed out of your mind. Not really for the future of your boss or his gang but more for what will happen to you. Best thing that came to mind was text Harry and vent, staying general and unsuspicious, pretending you're a normal lawyer with a normal client. "I'm not convincing anyone with these half-assed arguments that I managed to scrape together" You wrote. "Don't say that, you'll do amazing. You worked on this for so long, you're going to blow everyone's mind." He answered not even a minute later. All night he kept reassuring you and as you fell asleep, you managed to believe everything will be alright.

As you were waiting with your boss in his office, you couldn't decide which of you was more nervous. Your boss was pacing around the room, rubbing his hands together and muttering nonsense. You leaned against his desk with your arms crossed, looking at him. You took the chance to annoy him and stroke your ego a bit. "Seems like you're doubting me" "You better bring your 'A' game today, you have to be better than ever. Understand?" He seemed like he was on the verge of breaking down. "Maybe we wouldn't be here in the first place if you would just-" the door burst open and in stepped a lot of guards and among them stood...Harry. Your boss jumped to greet him and you were stuck in place just staring at him. You felt betrayed and straight up angry. So this was his plan after all, get you to fall for him, be all friendly just to get you off track. Unfortunately for him, you were not gonna let that happen. You are going to bring him down at the end of this no matter what takes. When they finally acknowledged you, you were glaring daggers at Harry. "Hi" You greeted him with a sarcastic cheerful tone, forcing a smile on your face.

After another round of formalities, it was finally your turn to speak. You gathered every ounce of your confidence and kept looking straight at Harry's eyes. You couldn't read his expression but he almost seemed...proud? "Well, that was convincing enough. I get her, you don't pay and keep your lousy little business as long as you never make business with me or my gang ever again. Deal?" You were taken aback. The audacity of this absolute- "Her? You don't want her working for you. She's mostly useless, today she just got an attitude, no idea where from-" "I'm perfectly aware of what she's capable of. You're not exactly subtle when destroying evidence of crap you messed up. She got you out of death sentence more times that you would like to admit you piece of shit and you give her no credit" Your boss was speechless and so were you. "It's not like you have much of a say anyway. Get out of here so I could talk to her." At his words, his guards immediately took your boss out of the office. As the door closed behind them, Harry stepped closer to you, taking your hands in his and lifting them to his mouth to press kisses against your knuckles. "You were amazing. I never doubted you" He said between kisses but you pulled your hands away from him. "And you're a fucking liar" You spat angrily. "What did I lie about?" "Well you weren't exactly truthful." "You would have never talked to me if you knew who I was. But okay, you want honesty, here it is: when I approached you that day my plan was to just get you to work for me, but now... I want much more than that." You avoided his eyes. "Just give this a chance. You know you would be better off with me than that moron" "You're not much better" He rolled his eyes with a smile. "I love that attitude of yours. So what will it be? Remember you still owe me a date" He laced his fingers with yours. "We'll see how this goes but for now, you got yourself a lawyer"

[natelawtism]

pal, Speak more about your love for nate i DARE YOU (/pos) (i genuinely wanna hear about it)

DONT GET ME FUCKING STARTED ON THIS. but you already have. So I hope you're prepared for an insane rambling. (ALSO IM SO GLAD YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT HELLO?????)

There's so many things I love about Nate Lawson. he's always plaguing my mind and hasn't left for months (as you can see). Currently all I can think about is how he loves, and how he expresses that love! Since he's. It's so unique to him and how he is.

Like I've said before, he literally said "I'll relax when I die". He is such a workaholic and he's so scared of love and affection.

YET! His love languages are physical touch and words of affirmation (stated on his wiki). That's so... sweet to me. He fears anything or anyone getting "too close" but feels safe and secure in an environment where he can be loved and held. He needs someone to tell him they love him, but he's afraid of that fact.

That fact bleeds into how closed-off he is about affection. The fact that he rarely holds the player's hand, the fact that he INSISTS that he will not have his first kiss until it's the absolute "perfect moment". The fact that his ending CG is him giving the player a hug after they graduate!

And even then, the player encourages him to leave his comfort zone without pushing boundaries. Of course that doesn't mean that JB DOESN'T push boundaries, but a lot of the time on dates the mc encourages him to be more open and treat the relationship as what it is. She asks to hold hands and if he says no, she instead pivots to "can I walk closer to you on our way back?" it's something within his boundaries but out of his comfort zone! Something so they can both be close without Nate getting scared and rejecting the situation.

I GENUINELY CANNOT EXPRESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS BOY AND WANT TO HOLD HIM. He's my everything. He truly needs someone and somewhere he can relax, no matter how adamant he is about not relaxing or wasting time.

I believe he needs someone just as persistent as him, but also lax as a partner. Someone who can stand their ground and push against how stuck in his ways he is, but knows when to let something go about his boundaries. Not in a way where they argue with him, but in different ways. Someone who can find a loophole to get him to relax, or try and comfort him to convince him.

Someone who won't give up on trying to help him, and tries to help him because of their love for him. They want him to grow because they know how wonderful he is. They want him to heal.

Asking me to talk about my love for Nate is BASICALLY an invite to talk about my yumeship so I'm gonna ramble specifically now.

I think that Rowan gets Nate into the habit of holding hands tbh. It's like a year into their relationship at LEAST but I think they, naturally, have different progress than Nate and JB (because JB is her own diff person lol). I believe that part of the fact Nate and Rowan get into the habit of holding hands is the fact that Nate kind of... finds himself getting comfortable. When he realizes this, he FREAKS THE HELL OUT. But that's kind of a story for another post. The holding hands isn't public (at least for a WHIIIIIIILLEEEE), but it happens in private settings or on dates when no one they know is around. It's VERY SPECIFIC settings, but it's small contact that makes both of them feel loved. The mushy feeling in Nate's heart makes him nervous and scared when he thinks too much about it, but with Rowan he begins to let himself .. Just live. Even if it's small steps of doing so.

[the-gateway-to-madness]

So anyway Ducktales 2017 is super fun for me because I'm literally exactly like Louie except I have a deep-rooted fear of becoming him because I live in reality and not a mansion-

There's satisfaction for him in finding loopholes, putting together the pieces in various situations, and being the strategist, but at the same time he can't think too much about the future or he'll stress out (given the fact the creators of the show confirmed Louie is like this because he grew up poor and took on a lot of that pressure emotionally, I assume that's part of why he doesn't plan for his future, but anyway-).

For him, that means coming up with strategies and tactics in the moment, on adventures. For me, that means finding ways to carefully integrate fictional characters and OCs into established worlds, analyzing things and picking them apart. Either way, we're not planning ahead all that far, both trying to escape reality.

And he's smart. Like, REALLY smart. But he's insecure about it because he's not book-smart in a family that really values book-smart. His family never really makes him feel bad for not being their kind of smart, just for the actions that stem as a result of it (his schemes, for example). You can tell they don't understand how he thinks, except Della (i, too, have a parent who gets me and a parent who does Not), and he has a lot of emotionally vulnerable moments with her because of that.

He only lets down his guard and genuinely connects with people he really feels get him, even though he's very eloquent and perfectly capable of casual connections with almost anyone. Same. I'm deeply, almost self-damagingly empathetic- my emotional attachments are a point of great vulnerability for me. I've chosen to embrace that vulnerability and the closeness and care it can bring me, but that's not a very natural choice for Louie like it is for me.

A lot of society only really seems to value "math-smarts", like what Huey has- more rigid intelligence, strong memorization of facts and figures, and being adept with numbers if you're lucky. But Louie has "language-smarts". Flexible, adaptable to different situations, but wow you don't come off as smart most of the time when you're this kind of smart. I was reading at a 12th grade level in 3rd grade- I know for a fact I grasp the English language at an abnormal level. But that intelligence really isn't applicable in a lot of situations, and I 100% recognize the form of lacking-self-esteem that comes with it- the form Louie shows consistently in season 2. For him, his linguistic, flexible, imaginative intelligence comes out as strategizing, lying, and scheming. For me, it comes out as quick, easy storytelling/writing with friends.

We share an ability to see patterns others don't while missing the patterns others do see.

Our kind of intelligence comes with this- very basic level of practicality. I hate sports because they seem unnecessary, over-hyped. I don't want to do a lot of very societally normal things because they seem convoluted and not necessary for happiness. I engage with television and movies because I find the construction of story and characters fascinating.

It all makes me feel like I'm lazy or can't ever do enough because I just... don't have an interest in a lot of things that people think one should. It's like- there's this level of intrinsic, constant self-awareness and practicality in me, to the point where I feel incapable of engaging with anything that doesn't interest me.

Combine that mentality with the burnout and emotional strain of being under severe financial pressure your entire life and, more specifically, not being able to do anything about it or get out of it- so why try to do anything at all? -, and bam, you get Louie Duck. He's motivated by money because to him money = comfort, and comfort = safety.

I also started consciously knowing what it'd be like and feel like when my childhood ended at something like- age 15 or 16. I was desperate to cling to the freedom, the lack of responsibility, the privilege of a safety net- for years. I see some of that in Louie too.

Oh, and of course Bobby Moynihan sold it. Really just went all in on giving Louie depth and feeling, 10/10 incredible performance-

Point is, it's cool to see someone who thinks like me actually portrayed pretty accurately onscreen. Thanks @suspendersofdisbelief :)

[meggannn]

Three Houses/Hopes x Taskmaster

AKA here's how I think the kids would do in a school-wide Taskmaster competition.

notes/explanations/ramblings under the cut

GARREG MACH STAFF

My thinking is that this is a lighthearted team-building game across houses, like a school sports day, so that’s why it’s students-only. If the staff participated, here's how I'd categorize them:

Rhea: I do not see a universe in which she participates lol. like I try to envision it and it does not compute

Seteth: just does the task

I included Cyril above just cause of his age and his likelihood to become a Garreg Mach student post-canon. He's only in “asks for help” because he needs someone to read the tasks out. After he hears it he’d be “just does the task.” But I wanted to put someone else in the bottom category with Hilda lol

Hanneman: would fall under the “distinguished older gentleman who completely loses his marbles over something small” category if there was one. Otherwise, loophole user or overly competitive

Manuela: I didn’t make an “older woman who makes every task as horny as possible” category, but if she was involved I’d make one just for her

Gilbert: gets distracted by something small, like categorizing all the rubber ducks by color or cleaning up after himself, and forgets to do the task. In this tier, “doesn’t give a fuck”

Catherine: overly competitive

Shamir: just does the task

Alois: does his best with mixed results

Jeralt: doesn’t give a fuck

PLACEMENT NOTES

Alois as Taskmaster was something I came around to after the subreddit recommended it. He'd award a bonus point randomly to whoever genuinely laughs at his puns.

I considered Seteth as Little Alex Horne, because he does have a sense of humor, but I think he's too genuine of a “straight man” to join in the spirit of the game. I do think he'd do well in the studio portion, reciting the stats and calling out mistakes/quipping back when the conversation gets rowdy.

But I like the thought of Byleth as the assistant for the recorded on-site tasks as someone who: 1. would get their hands dirty, and 2. doesn't mind the students making fun of them. Either way, I think a hard-working assistant (Seteth/Byleth) carefully planning all of these tasks only for the results to be judged by Alois who decides winners on his whims would be a funny inverse of the Davies/Horne dynamic, and very on brand with the show.

I thought about putting Ingrid in the “just does it” category but I think she’d get competitive if it were a game of BL vs other houses. If it’s just her house, she’d just want to have a good time. If it’s vs the other houses, she wants to represent her country well.

Annette is in the competitive category because she reads the task and immediately gets to work once the timer starts. Too concerned with Doing a Good Job and doesn’t read over the task and think it over, much less check under the table or look for any hints.

Claude also could have been in “overly competitive” but I think he’d have too much fun trying to find loopholes that he wouldn’t care about winning, he’d just try to have a good time bending the rules as much as possible or getting a rise out of the TM+assistant. Like Rhod Gilbert but with less antagonism.

Petra is in the loophole-user category because she is smart, and I think her second-language skills would help her here. She’d read instructions and interpret them as the Rules as Written, not Rules as Intended, which comes in handy in this game.

I haven't played Scarlet Blaze yet, so admittedly I had to make an educated guess on Monica based on content I've seen at a glance and fandom reactions to her.

Lysithea is ambitious in schoolwork and stuff that matters, but I think for something this nonsensical, she’d just do the task to get it over with. That is assuming she shows up at all.

I was torn with Sylvain because he is the type to show off, but since this is something that ultimately does not matter, he doesn’t want to try hard, fail, and look like an idiot doing something stupid like Felix or His Highness, so I think he’d just be in it for a good time. He occasionally wins without even trying, which absolutely infuriates Felix, who says he does not care (he does care).

For Felix himself I swung between “overly competitive,” “just does the task,” and “doesn't give a fuck.” But I think he's competitive only in certain things (he wouldn't get bent out of shape if he can't draw a horse with his feet), and I think he is too passionate a person to put in no effort at all. For most tasks I think he'd fall somewhere in the middle in terms of effort, thinking this is all stupid but still privately kind of wanting to do well.

SUBCATEGORIES

Subcategory 1: “Does the tasks while wearing a unique/weird Taskmaster outfit” includes Sylvain, Caspar, Hilda, Flayn (Seteth helped her make it), and all the house leaders. Dimitri and Edelgard got convinced into wearing one by their class. Claude was down to wear one immediately.

Subcategory 2: “Does good on the art tasks and nothing else” includes Ignatz, Flayn, and Bernadetta

PRIZE TASK IDEAS

I see Claude making a running gag out of his prize tasks, like something that embarrasses Edelgard or Dimitri every single round but it's always a tossup who it'll be. Like for "bring in the thing someone will miss the most," he'd bring in all of Dimitri's left shoes. Claude would also bring in the Sword of the Creator for "most high-octane item" and it's unclear whether he stole it or Byleth lent it to him because she thought it'd be funny.

Caspar would get a tattoo of the Taskmaster.

Raphael brings in the grilled cheese/cheese toastie box for "best subscription."

Hilda would be a big-time bullshitter like Judi Love trying to talk up all of her prize tasks.

Petra would bring in a reindeer skull for "most unusual item."

Hubert would find some way to bring in human blood in every task.

In a shocking turn of events, Ashe would steal the Spear of Assal for his "best stolen item."

Leonie is responsible for the "And I haggled for it" running joke, but it's unintentional.

Someone like Edelgard, Dedue, or maybe Ignatz would bring in the puzzle box, I'm not entirely sure who, but what I DO know is that Sylvain is responsible for "Just open the box, you p***y" and Byleth calmly stands, motions him over, and pulls him outside to chastise him while the entire class watches in disbelief/horror.

Ingrid brings in the laminator. It's by far her proudest moment in the competition.

MISC NOTES

Edelgard would be like Victoria Coren Mitchell: She'd keep trying to apply reason to the tasks, with mixed results, but on certain things (that may or may not even help her in the competition) I think she'd shine. Like when Victoria calculated everyone's scores in her head before Alex and Greg did, or when she taught herself how to ride a bike on camera just to complete the task.

Dimitri would just try to have a good time, but the assistant would need so many extra props because he'd end up breaking a lot of the materials. He would do excellent on all the food tasks though. In "Eat this egg the fastest" he'd just break it on the counter and swallow it raw.

Claude would get caught out by the two-part tasks every time because he'd try to be so clever working on Part 1 that it'd end up fucking him over. He'd make the obscenely tall chocolate sandwich for "make the most exotic sandwich" only for the second task to say he now has to eat all of it as fast as possible.

Felix mockingly saying "All the information is on the task" becomes a meme. Most of his tasks are crumpled from all the times he's clenched his fist in anger.

Leonie + Hilda on a team = Ed Gamble + David Baddiel. "Can I just check, have I been put on a team with Hilda Valentine Goneril?"

Solo tasks: The TM would probably want to give all the house leaders unique tasks, e.g. making Edelgard count all the beans in a can or Dimitri send him 500 cheeky texts. But I think Felix, Ferdinand, Hilda, Sylvain, or Lorenz getting extra tasks would be best for entertainment value. I think Felix is the only one who might be a sore loser about it, but god it'd be funny (even Lorenz might laugh it off if he sees it ~endears him to the public~ or something).

[icharchivist]

I'm sure somewhere on the Grandcypher is like a club meeting for those who have tried to kill MC before, where they get together and talk about their experiences. Like why they tried to, what drove them to it, how they've changed, how to cope with the guilt etc

Sandalphon is super pissed about having to attend still, but he provides coffee

Lu Woh is definitely offended. It was a test. He wasn't actually trying to -

Everyone avoids Lobelia :)

HELPPPP the club meeting of shame.

Sandalphon can't even go against it, his motives were fully evil, he just regrets, so all he can do is try to drown his guilt in coffee during the meeting. While yes, Lu Woh would try to defend himself so hard.

All the Evokers are here also, because they really tried. Nier especially would weep about how she just wanted to be loved.

I think the Eternals count too because if i'm not mistaken they all kinda went berseks in their 5* trying to kill MC? But also, Feower genuinely wanted to kill MC in his recruitement quest, and we have Seox who almost did when he was drugged by Nehan. So at least those two are forced to attend as well, Seox full of guilt again, Feower pouting a little like "sure i wouldn't do it again. But like. can you blame me." "yes" "listen.". Oh right and Tweyen too tried to kill us during her recruitement quest, more to test us and test herself. She's definitely at the reunion too.

Nehan probably has to come as well since it's his fault Seox almost killed MC so it's kinda him who tried to kill MC. He's too out of it to care.

if "tried to kill MC because of mindcontrol" is on the table, Siegfried would also have to be here. Siegfried is mostly here to take notes about who else he has to look out about.

Enyo is in the center of the room. People ask her *when* she tried to kill MC. She smiles and goes "oh, everyday i try a little harder.". everyone ends up putting her on a watch list.

Does Fiorito being tasted with killing MC and just finding a loophole to not do it count as well? because i feel like Fio would be mortified about being in this group but feel like it's what she deserves.

Aglovale would also have to come to those reunions, come to think of it. He still feels guilty but he won't let it show because he's surrounded by so many potential enemies. He's looking around for who he will play mindgames with.

Geo should come the moment the Cosmos fam manage to bring him back to them; I believe.

Honestly most ex antagonists would end up on this reunion tour.

but yes, they'd avoid Lobelia as much as possible.

and sorry if i miss any but it's all i can think of at the moment --

the more he meets them the more Lu Woh is convinced he doesn't belong in this group. also what the fuck danchou why is there so many people who tried to kill you in your crew are you INSANE--

[leogichidaa]

i love your anons! the rabastan situation is hilarious. when you said he might have cast a spell i got this wild idea, what if he was regulus in disguise?? i knew that it wouldn't add up with getting arrested and the Longbottom situation but it's still excig to think of. maybe Bellatrix figured out regulus' leaving and decided to pull him closer to keep an eye on him? maybe he's just not him anymore, changed after the cave. but it would explain why Sirius and Voldemort apparently don't remember him.

I've been having so much fun with these asks 😄

No, but I love this idea. R.A.B = Rabastan. I can 100% get behind this. Regulus survives the cave somehow and Kreacher tells Bellatrix about it for some reason. Maybe there's some kind of loophole in Regulus' orders that allows Kreacher to tell Bellatrix or Narcissa and no one else. So they give him a potion and change his appearance and call him Rodolphus' long lost brother.

He's not exactly thrilled about it, but he figures this way he can keep tabs on what Voldemort and the Death Eaters are doing. When Voldemort falls he is concerned because he knows that Voldemort has a Horcrux. He knows Voldemort is not properly dead. When Bellatrix wants to go looking for Voldemort, Regulus is eager to go along with her because he would really like to find Voldemort too and hopefully destroy him while he's in a vulnerable state.

Bellatrix is convinced the Longbottoms have information about Voldemort and Regulus can't let Bellatrix get the info without him there because she'll try to leave him in the dark and resurrect Voldemort. So he's there for the torture and he gets caught and thrown in Azkaban. He's nervous during the trial, scanning the crowd, not only because he doesn't want to go to prison but because he's worried that people will recognize him.

Or maybe Bella's been Imperiusing him. Maybe she fucked around with his memories and he doesn't even know he's Regulus, he genuinely thinks he's some dude named Rabastan. Such an interesting idea!

[theyjustadmitthathuh]

I feel like it's not really fair how you're presenting the money you are paid for DONATING (!!!) plasma. The reason it's not a lot of money is precisely because it has to be a voluntary donation, something people do out of altruism and care. Yes, sometimes people are genuinely desperate and their motivation for the donation is the little money you get for your TIME, but that doesn't change the fact that it factually is good that it is something based on DONATIONS.

You know what would happen if people could sell their blood? It would become extremely expensive, and someone like me, who cannot donate blood because she actually has depended on blood transfusions before, might have to end up paying out of pocket because insurance would not cover it any more.

You’ve never been in a plasma donation center and it shows. I have. Regularly. I watched one of my best friend go to two different plasma centers for double the money (not allowed but they didnt care) right after he got out of surgery. Would you imagine he didnt heal anywhere close to the timeline that the doctors told him? Weird right? That was just from all his altruism.

Do you know what would happen to the blood you rely on if these centers stopped paying for the “donators’” time? You wouldnt have the blood they harvested from poor people, mostly poc at that.

No one who has a choice is in a plasma center. I guarantee you that. Plasma centers are not the fun little bus that parks outside the walmart and the high school where they give you a cookie and a spongebob bandaid afterwards, I’m not allowed to donate there either bc im anemic. Plasma centers are where they take your blood no matter who you are or what you’ve got going on (unless you fail the hiv test, then you can only donate once) and try to throw you out without paying or bandaging you.

Do you know how many fights I got in with the plasma people because they tried to find some loophole where they didnt have to load the card?? If you think you would have your blood transfusions without paying the poor their blood money for their literal body parts, then you’re uninformed about where your body part “donations” come from.

Yes, health care needs an overhaul and needs to stop being a for-profit industry. Yes, allowing the sale of bodies and body parts in any form commodifies poor people’s bodies and creates incentive for abuse.

But don’t for one second think that if all plasma centers stopped paying for “your time” that you’d have the same supply of blood that you have now. You can oppose the sale of human bodies and body parts for ethical reasons, as do I, but dont forget where the blood in your viens came from and dont forget why it’s not in its original body. Because someone needed $10-$20 enough to sell their blood.

[darklingichor]

Mort, by Terry Pratchett

*One more extra entry, why not?*

May have a run of Discworld, I'm not having a lot to time to read words on the page books and nothing else on audible is catching me.

I attempted to read Angel's and Demons by Dan Brown. I made it though an improbable use of air conditioning (I can't get mine below 60 let alone cold enough to form frost on furniture) and a massive amount of scientific sounding babble and enough dialog to find out that Robert Langdon is an idiot, before I gave up.

So I finished the Rincewind series (except for The Last Hero which I will have to get in this year's birthday book haul in November). Though I found Unseen Acidemicals to be underwhelming, I genuinely loved all the others and I adore Rincewind. The only thing I loved more then Rincewind preparing to runway in any given situation were his interactions with Death, so I knew that when I finished the Rince Cycle, I would start the Death Saga.

I like the concept of the Grim Reaper doing things and the idea of Death taking on an apprentice is a cool one. I've seen it once or twice before, and there is always a point where the person learning to be death wants to save those who are meant to die and it's a struggle for them to accept that death is inevitable and changing the course of someone's time line can have major consequences.

And this is basically what goes on in Mort. Mortimer is a thoughtful young man of 15 whose father is dispairing of what to do with him as he is not suited for the family farm. He takes him to a hiring fair where Death of the Discworld on his pale horse named Binky takes him on as an apprentice.

Death, it appeares, is having something of a mid-existence crisis and wants to try new things. So with the idea of teaching Mort the trade and setting him up with his daughter Ysabell, he sets his sights on retirement.

Any book that had Death in the discworld equivalent of a conga line will live rent free in my brain!

I will say that there were moments where I found Mort to be a little annoying, but just in the way that most teenage characters are annoying. Like you know they're going to screw everything up because they won't listen to what other people say, but this is in part, because a young person is experiencing stuff for the first time so probably won't take their word for it.

Just like every kid thinks they invented something like "The dog ate my homework" most teenagers are going to approach one thing or another and think "Yeah, they said that, but maybe if *I* try it..."

Death could get a pass here because he doesn't understand people, let alone teenaged people, but the fact that he himself has a couplenof cosmic loopholes living in his domain might have gone a long way to why the book ended like it did.

I loved Mort's evolution while in the Death trade and the way he thought his way out of the mess that not thinking clearly put him in. I loved that he refused to be anyone but himself, and who he was had value so that when he started to lose himself, someone who loved him brought him back.

I really liked that we saw the ins and outs of collecting the spirits of the dead and how in this world, belief shapes what happens after life.

The most fun I had with this book was seeing death try everything. A drunk Grim Reaper is hilarious, and the idea of him being a fry cook makes me giggle.

[nothing0fnothing]

Someone get out the tiny violins this poor poor estranged parents just can't do right for doing wrong. *sob*

.. except, she's not estranged, she speaks to her son once a week. And she does know she's doing wrong, because she was told not to contact her daughter in law and decided the work around was to send flowers.

We're seeing a real theme here from the first post again, there's that theme of her trying to find loopholes in her family members boundaries. Yanno, that classic behaviour that non abusive people regularly do? (heavy sarcasm.)

She wants to be so smug too, the quotation marks around "harassed" like that's not what it's called when someone asks you for no contact and you attempt to contact them. Yes, it is still harassment even if the unwanted contact comes with a bouquet of flowers. You'd think that was common sense but as followers of this account know, common sense among abusers isn't so common.

The more this hag talks the more the story comes together don't you think? Remember how in part one she was absolutely aghast that she would be denied the opportunity to send her precious unborn grandchild a gift? Yet here she is admitting to using gifts to violate the boundaries of her daughter in law while she puts on a show of innocence "harassment? Me? For sending flowers (??)" Yes bitch, and you know what you're doing.

How can you be trusted to send gifts for the baby within reasonable boundaries if you can't be trusted to maintain reasonable boundaries at all?

It's not lost on me that the initial commenter has simply told her that all she can do is respect her sons wishes and wait for the dust to settle to extend a genuine olive branch to the family. Our OP then replies with a ramble about how she's tried to extend the olive branch but her DIL (daughter in law) is so mean and unreasonable she won't even accept her passive aggressive flowers. And her son is soo mean too because she offers him an olive branch every week but he just won't accept it. She's just such a victim guys. Honest.

Notice that "properly talk" comment. All contact he's had with her thus far just doesn't cut it for our OP, he needs to talk how she wants him to. That once a week conversation he affords her? Yeah, doesn't cut it. If it's not a talk on her terms, it doesnt count. Its not "proper" unless it's her way. She's practically beating him over the head with that god damn olive branch and insisting he reconcile on her terms rather than his.

Doesn't really paint a picture of emotional maturity does it?

[kenxmatsui]

"Pressure?" he questioned when she spoke, "Christ, Leyla... how did you end up at that?" He listened to her reasons a little longer before moving to close the gap himself, nudging her hands loose so he could hold it instead, "Give me a bit of warning before you move and take away your warmth from me, okay? I don't like the cold." He shook his head, "Tired doesn't mean sleepy," Ken added, and rather than leaving it that like he had wanted to since he could not articulate his thoughts properly, attempts were being made to string together more words to explain on this further, "I don't know how to put it, but it's everything. I'm tired of watching people I care for get hurt, tired of not being able to do anything... just tired of feeling actually. I'm not used to this. Can we just lie here for now?" Though he said that, he followed it by somewhat giving in, "You know it's damn near impossible to resist you, so if you want candles and wine and all that, we can." And somehow find self control to not speak. "I don't want to keep disappointing you."

He shrugged, "It's both. I care about you. Worry, concern, love, aren't limited to just one aspect, everything is taken into account. I know that it can come across as overbearing, I'll try to make it less so but the way I care for you will not decrease." He returned the squeeze, "That was a pivotal point for me as well, to know someone genuinely cared and could be so gentle, you saved me in more ways than one that night and forever since." His voice grew deep and serious not too long after, "I know it's beyond my control but if something were to happen to you again, Rohan will most certainly have to sedate or even stake me, there'll be very little else that'll stop me from burning this town down." He didn't want to imagine it, couldn't, not without anger bubbling up. Shifting focus to concentrate on her soothing voice, nodding in agreement, "Together through the bad and the good," he repeated, words falling with ease yet with great difficulty too since it sounded far too close to for better or worse.

"He can be stubborn sometimes, but yes we can help him out... Wait, you did?" he asked, surprise lacing his tone, "Well, sure yes reckless, but honestly I wish you told me mostly so I could've come with you. Even after they cordoned the manor off, I was trying getting to get in with some loophole. I still find the sheriff's department useless but with it being a crime scene and all, I couldn't properly justify it." Him being a stickler for rules was extremely inopportune at times. "Where you in there long? Did you go into the cellar to get that wine? Did you see anything else?" Questions rolled out before he could stop himself but Ken eventually did pause, "Sorry sorry...don't feel the need to answer those, I just can't stop thinking that there's something we're all missing."

Halting that train of thought from taking off again, he went back to the part where she said her and Dilan had an argument, something that did not come as a surprise but what did was Leyla saying she wasn't needed, a scoff rose to the surface in answer, "I assure you Dilan did not need or want me in that moment. She needed you. I was not nice, usually am not but in that moment, despite me trying to be less harsh given the circumstances, her tantrums irked me a great deal." While they did manage to talk, Ken did not know of it did any good, all that stuck was Dilan's insistence to want to feel pain. "You're who she needs even if she has a shit way of showing it, but in saying that you're not wrong for not wanting see her do that herself, you've faced it before, you shouldn't have to do that time and again. I'm not good at giving advice on anything but maybe you can leave her be for a bit? Even if it's hard to do. I'm doing that with Haru." Those last few words came quietly, a fact he didn't want to think on but that wouldn't stop the inevitable. "I ran into Haru not long after they came to town, pure coincidence really but it felt like fate. Had to tell them then, didn't have much choice they thought me dead. Not entirely wrong, though. I went to see them after everything too...Haru is going to leave town." He wasn't going to stop that, he hadn't when they were kids, couldn't now as adults not if it meant Haru could be a little bit safer outside the mirage and without him complicating things.

With a sigh he sat up a little too, "I don't think you're fragile nor do I sugar coat things. We've had arguments, you became frustrated numerous times with me due to my bluntness and the way I say things. It's not easy for me to talk about stuff like this and often times I don't want to but you can't say I don't talk to you because you're one of the only people I'm this open with, one of the only I willingly want to share anything with." He looked to her with somewhat of a resigned look, gaze eventually falling, unsure as to why she thought that but not letting silence fill the pause lest she think he was shutting her out or some such thing, Ken took a slow breathe in, "I didn't want to talk about it after everything you've seen and said on how you felt but if you want to know why I keep the numbness in me it's because it keeps me alive. It sounds fucked up and in some way it is, but the truth is I'm someone that didn't die when I should have. Even after multiple attempts I'm still here." He began to feel it, the way his mind was pulling back reigns on his speech, attempting to reel the words back to the far corners of his mind but he pushed through for her, "Don't get me wrong, I'm starting to see worth to this life now because I get to live it with you, but when I didn't have you, I had anger and apathy, they kept me going and numbness was the balm that comforted me. I don't want to be rid of it. I don't who I would be without it."

Closing his eyes briefly after that, fists involuntarily curled as he let the words, let the vocal admittance, sink in. Despite having come to the conclusion in the confinements of his mind, it was another thing entirely to speak it, while he wasn't sure how exactly that would affect him but he was sure it would in some way because those thoughts he had ignored began to rise again. For now, however, he looked to her again, thumb slowly brushing over her cheek as he inched a little closer, "I know it'll be different for you because you're not me. You're better. So, just trust me on this one. Things might not feel quite real, but it will fade for you, you won't let the linger." It only on purpose did he let the feeling fester, it rooted and rotted within him because he allowed it.

"How can being a star be a punishment? The question was posed more as a thought being spoken out loud than anything as he cast a glance skywards to the twinkling lights above, unable to figure out why exactly that was the case. But of course, at the end of the day they were just giant balls of gas, humans were the ones to assign patterns and stories to these thinking them to mean something they were not.Mapping the sky for navigation purposes he understood more than fanciful tales of tragedies. His interest had only piqued forth from spending time with Leyla, her love for them caused him to want to know more, and while did appreciate them a little more than before Ken knew he did not posses the wistful nature she had when peering up. "I suppose so," he tacked on as she explained, "I never really paid attention to such myths and legends. Until finding out creatures like me existed as those cautionary tales." Even after that discovery he hadn't cared much for stories, just accepted that this was his new fate. "Maybe humanity did itself a disservice with all the tragedies."

"Oh," She gave him a small nod. Though, as he mentioned it had been five or six months since he had smoked, the corner of her lips lifted into a soft smile. Her lips grazed across his cheek as if to congratulate him, even if he did only take a step back from it on her behalf.

"You didn't," She attempted to reassure him as she scooted a tiny bit closer to him, though sliding her hands underneath herself in an attempt to keep them to herself. "I'm just trying to be respectful is all," She promised him. "You don't want to do anything tonight and I don't want to pressure you into anything. So, I'm just trying to keep my hands to myself is all," She admitted, motioning down to her hands tucked underneath her as if to demonstrate. "But, if you really are tired, then we could always call it early and go to bed?" She offered up optimistically, scooting closer once more as if offering that they could cuddle if he did want to just curl up in bed or maybe sneak off together in the dreamscape. Though, a part of her had a feeling that wasn't what he meant when he said he was tired to begin with.

"Oh," She gave him a small nod. Her hands sneaking out from under her as she hesitantly reached out to hook her pinkie through his and give him hand a small squeeze. "I thought when you said you were worried you meant about me as in my mental wellbeing, not on my behalf," She mumbled out. Her cheeks flushing red in embarrassment at the misunderstanding as she tried to make it clear to him where her demeanor shift had come about from. "But, it's okay. We didn't know each other all that well back then and, as scary as that was, I think," She snuck a peek up at him as she gave his pinkie another small squeeze. "I didn't how much you meant to me until I thought I was going to lose you?" She admitted quietly. "Just, god forbid anything happens down the line, just know that whatever you're going through, I'm right there with you and vice a versa, so while you might want to feel the pain in the moment, you're not the only one whose feeling it too. That's what it means to be a team, right? We're in it together. The bad and the good," A soft smile graced her lips as she brought the back of his hand up to her lips for another featherishly light kiss.

"Well, with Rohan, we can both help out with the Pendulum repairs and for Meena, just continue to search I guess? I knew about the 'm' from Aaliyah and, um, I might have," She squeezed her eyes shut as she confessed. "I might have snuck into the Moore Manor after they put up the crime scene tape. It's just Aaliyah seemed so upset and I thought maybe I might be able to find something that could help? But, all I found was a fancy bottle of wine that I gave Aaliyah so she could have something on Meena's while we continue to look. Sorry I didn't give you a heads up before though. I know it was reckless," She explained only for a sigh to escape her lips and her body to sink further into the cushions at the mention of Dilan. "Yeah. I know... We kind of had a fight? I couldn't watch her torture herself and I don't know. It's hard knowing that she likely needs you more in this moment, then she does me," Her voice was no more than a soft murmur as she adverted her gaze. Hyper focusing on her hands instead, not that what she was admitting to was really anything new. While, she may be the older sister, she seemed like a pretty useless one these days or maybe always. It didn't help that she had been raised to fill the role of the middle child before she had meant Dilan and now? It just seemed like she was once again horribly inadequate at being there for the people she loved the most. "When did you tell Haru that? Is that why you two were keeping your distance when everything went down?"

"But, how do you know?" She asked. It wasn't that she didn't believe him. She just couldn't seem to put together how it would be different for her if it wasn't for him. "Wait-" She sat up a little bit as she leaned forward. "Why won't you? How does it help you? Talk to me please. I know you don't want to hurt me, but I'm not as fragile as I seem, Ken Matsui, and I know when I get quiet it seems like I'm saying one thing while my actions are saying another, but it's just me trying to process is all and I think sometimes when you sugarcoat things for me, I wind up trying to decode what is being said which only ends with me making inferences that may or may not be correct?"

"Being a constellation is the punishment. She chained her daughter up to save herself. She chose to humiliate and sacrifice her own kin to save her own skin, so now she spends eternity up there on display, chained up in the same way she had chained Andromeda. Her vanity and selfishness has turned her into the laughing stock of the stars. But, most myths act as cautionary tales. They're supposed to teach you lessons and be warnings of what might befall you if you let the worst parts of yourself get the best of you. That and I guess most humans suffer in myths? While the gods seemed to always get off free despite their own cruel and often unjust actions. I think back then, it might have given the people who believed in them someone to blame for the problems, but I also think it tells an interesting depiction of the privileges those in power can possess and the sometimes unfortunately reality that comes in part with it? And back then the leaders wanted to be as close to the gods as humanly possible to have some divine right over those their ruled, so having their gods resemble them might have done the trick? I don't know. But, the fairytale ending is. Even if in the original fairytales, there are far more tragedies," She admitted.

[you-can-call-me-fangs]

It’s cool that your talking requests! So, can I have illumin with a sick reader or we meet illumins family or something like that we would be dating him to. Preferably male reader but gn is good to.

Also can I be 🧀-anon?

Thank you for being my first request 🧀 anon! 💛💛

Also I'm sorry if this ended up being a little too self indulgent for me but I can't help it I had too much fun coming up with headcannons for the Zoldyck family because they're so...themselves, ya know? They're fun to build headcannon ideas off of

Meeting/Being Apart of the Zoldyck Family

When the adults in the Zoldyck family first met you, well they didn't like you, it's not that you did anything wrong you're just an outsider and they can't help but be wary of you especially when your being introduced as Illumi's boyfriend

I mean if the Zoldyck family can be transphobic is it really a stretch to think their a liiittle homophobic too?

Silva is just straight up in denial

He refuses to call you Illumi's boyfriend, instead he'll call you "Illumi's friend"

You and Illumi will call him out on this but he'll keep on "messing up" (you know damn well he's doing it on purpose)

Kikyo is bit more excepting, but not of you, she doesn't think anyone is good enough for her precious son though

It doesnt help that she believes every gay stereotype she's ever heard, she will honestly pull up on you with something like, "I thought you people wore rainbow colored clothes?" and will be genuinely confused if you aren't wearing rainbow colored clothing

Zeno just thinks Illumi is going through a phase by dating you

In conclusion you being Illumi's boyfriend makes the adults in the Zoldyck family confused and uncomfortable and I take pure joy in this thought

The kids are a different story, none of them care too much about you being there as Illumi's boyfriend

I actually headcannon that Illumi can get along pretty well with all his siblings he just doesn't see them enough

At first Killua isn't too fond of you and even actively avoids you, it's his way of being cautious around you, even if Alluka likes you (which she most definitely does, who doesn't Alluka like?) he still tries to be careful

Like, you're willingly dating Illumi how stable could you be?

However once he realises that you're a pretty cool dude he'll actually start hanging out with you a lot, he'll damn there latch himself onto you

You'll go skateboarding together, pull pranks on people together, hang out with the rest of Killua's friends, and so on and so on, you'll even start to have your own inside jokes

You and Killua call each other step-bro in front of the adults (mostly Silva) to try an get a rouse out of them

Illumi will lightly reprimand the two of you but he will never do anything too serious cause he secretly thinks it's funny too he just can't show it in front of his parents

Basically you and Killua have a lot fun together and are known to also cause a little chaos

Illumi will never flat out tell you that he's jealous about the all the time you get to spend with Killua, but he is, you can tell because after you and Killua hang out Illumi will ask you everything he can about Kil

Was he having fun? Was he smiling? What were some of the things that he liked? Did he ask about him?

You've tried to ask Killua to go out Illumi more often but he will refuse, you did find a loophole though, Killua will hang out with Illumi as long as you're there

You try to do this as much as possible so Illumi can actually see Kil for once without him being mad or scared of him

Milluki hates playing video games with Illumi because he always miraculously wins, has never played a game in his life but will still get a W and then be like "oh, I won"

Milluki just sees this as a massive insult to his skills so he'll play against you next to boost his ego, he is still a pro gamer after all, this boy spends way too much time on his computer to not be one

When Milluki was younger and it was just him and Illumi, Mil was the type of younger brother to hide behind his older brother and talk shit from there because nobody would mess with him with his tall scary looking bro standing right there, right?

This changed somewhat since Illumi puts more of his time and focus into Killua now so Milluki switched all of that energy to you

Now Milluki will get behind you and shit talk from there, Mil sees you like a brother so that's cool

Has that "don't make me call my older brothers to come down here and whoop your ass!" type energy

I think Kalluto and Illumi already get along surprisingly well

Kalluto will follow you and Illumi around the same way he does with his mother

Kalluto will randomly gift you little paper cut outs or paper origamis he made while you're at the house, it's his way of showing he likes you

Illumi and Kalluto can both be so quiet and keep to themselves so much that being around the two of them can be one of the few times in the Zoldyck house where you can have some peace and quiet

Similar to Killua hanging out with Illumi, for Illumi to hang out with Alluka you'll have to be there

Cause Illumi is under this weird impression that Alluka isn't apart of the family or something (which we all know is bullshit) so you have to be there so he'll have a reason to stay

You definitely have to correct him several times on Alluka's pronouns, don't worry he'll get used to it he just needs some practice

Also Illumi truly enjoys playing with Alluka, they get along very well

Alluka is child like in a way Illumi probably never got to be so being around Alluka and kind of playing in her world helps Illumi be a little childish too, which he likes

Alluka would be trying to play dolls with the both of you, braid your guys (mostly Illumi's) hair, play dress up, etc.

The other Zoldyck siblings will go to you and Illumi first before their parents when they have a problem

For instance, if they're arguing and they need an adult to help them tell the other to stop bothering them or if one of them has a nightmare and they want to sleep with someone else they go to you and Illumi