#him and Flint don't get along well...

[wolfylch]

I'm going insane - trying to make Flint a brother

[starry-bi-sky]

i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

[cheesecake801]

I'm soft for Volkner + Flint + Pokemon interactions. If you wanna hear some my thoughts/headcanons/rambling about them you can check that out under cut

Raichu is an absolute cutie, a sunshine on earth and nothing can convince me otherwise

May I show you this.

It. Lives. In. My. Head. Just look at them !!! Can't believe the anime blessed me like that !

So yeah, I think Raichu and Flint are very close ! Raichu would rush to Flint everytime he comes over at Volkner's place haha ! I think Raichu also gets along with everyone in Flint's team ! I think Raichu can be kinda clingy in the way that he likes climbing on Volkner and Flint haha, and so one day I checked how much he weights and boy, 30kg sure is a lot alskdkzkd, he may be heavy but that's not stopping him

Electivire really likes Flint too, I'll probably share more about that one day ! The thing is, he's got beef with Magmortar. They've known each other for very long and yet still bicker haha

Jolteon and Flareon are the opposite, they go along suuuuper well ! I think they would look at their trainers with puppie eyes when it's time for them to separate, they can't get enough of playing with each other.

Luxray's just sleeping in any case, better not bother him XD

• About the sketch of Flint taking a picture of Volkner and Raichu :

-The idea came to me after that one event in pokemas when Lear and Gholdengo came out with Lear wanting to be sent like 100 photos representing the link between trainers and their partner or something

-I like to think Volkner got a real soft spot for Raichu haha (well also his other mons and electrik types in general to be fair) so he can be very affectionate with him, I don't think anyone would get to see too much of that in public but if it's just Flint here it wouldn't matter much XD

-I don't think Flint would often take random pics of Volkner like that but he probably thought this is like a perfect moment to take a pic for Lear's event. I mean look at how sweet him and Raichu look together ! Such a nice exemple of a close bond between trainer and pokemon !

-Unfortunately I also like to think that Volkner doesn't like much having photos taken of him without warning haha. Kinda comes from that one pokespe moment where you see Shauntal got a pic of him but he's hiding his face haha !

-I think he'd be fine with photos depending on the situation tho, like if I remember correctly he was in a photo in his new year event in pokemas and he seemed super chill with that ! I think he likes it with friends or when he is in a good mood XD But most certainly not an unprepared one like that ansksk

That's enough rambling for now, thanks if you read all that XD I like talking about them a lot even when repeating myself (pretty sure I already mentionned some of that stuff before akskskdkd but it was a long time ago so it's fine)

[2005noroithecurse]

Surprising mammon for his birthday with some absolutely sinful gold lingerie. You spend the night worshipping him, showing your devotion and greediness for him, taking your sweet time with his sensitive body

𓏲 ࣪₊ hbd to our mans hes getting smacked between us all like a volleyball holding on for dear life <3

› cw : f!reader, lingerie, body worship, praise, nipple play, hickies, handjob, petnames (baby, honey), anal fingering, ball fondling

Your skin prickled with anticipation and heat, not even the cool air inside the bedroom worked to combat the fever stoked by arousal. The chain clasped around your neck, draping down your chest in interlocked mesh did little to ground you.

It was extravagant, something he rarely got to indulge in anymore but tonight was a treat; what could be more fitting for the Avatar of Greeds birthday than his beloved in trappings of gold just for him to unravel? You bit your lip, hands roaming your skin feeling far too needy for his touch.

But patience comes first, he went out with Asmodeus to do some shopping which means he'll be doubly surprised when he opens the door. Fortunately you don't have to wait much longer, hearing his telltale footsteps coming up the hallway as you rise to sit perched on your legs folded beneath you. It felt like that earlier desire was now a string fully pulled taught by ghostly fingers.

With a grin that nearly hurts your cheeks you watch as it takes his brain several moments to catch up to what his eyes see, mouth slightly agape as he takes you in. In a rush he fumbles with the door, dropping shopping bags at his feet.

"What are ya-"

"Happy birthday!" You tip your head back to laugh, purposely showing off your gold dripped breasts.

As your giggle tapers off you rise to your feet, padding over to him to take his hands in yours, noticing how hot his skin feels.

"Ya wearing that just for me?" You don't miss how his voice cracks on the last syllable. Stopping just before the bed you gently place your hands on his chest, humming in affirmation as they run down over the soft material of his shirt stopping to slip your fingertips beneath the hem and reveling in the way his breathing hitches at the contact.

"Mhm," you place a kiss to the side of his throat, "just for you...". The air is balmy as his hands hesitantly rest at your sides, as if for a split second he wonders if he's dreaming.

Encouragingly you drag his shirt up over his stomach, dragging your lips up his throat, over his jaw, before finding purchase at his lips in a kiss that devoured all air in your lungs. As he backed you up the rest of the way, until you felt the edge of the mattress hit the back of your knees, you pulled back to slow him. With a soft tch you help him pull his shirt off then toy with the waistband of his jeans before he eagerly slid them off as well.

"Thought ya said it was mine to unwrap?" He asked. Gingerly you palm his erection through his boxers, eyes half lidded as you guide him to lay on his back letting you straddle his hips. The sharp intake of breath as you slide your pussy, barely covered in a thin scrap of satin, against him makes you nearly moan.

He looks so gorgeous beneath you, hair tousled and skin already gleaming with sweat in the low light.

"It is, but what kind of birthday would it be if I didn't give you something extra special, hm?" You murmur as your fingers curl around the band of his boxers, enjoying the slight whine that slips past his lips.

His eyes are glued to you, rapt with want as you wiggle your hips again, friction working like pieces of flint to spark embers in your tummy and make your clit throb. Again you tell yourself to be patient, bending down to nip at his jawline before daring to swipe your tongue along his neck, sucking and grazing the flesh with your teeth to create vivid purple bloom across his clavicle.

Teasingly you roll his nipples between both thumbs and indexes, swallowing his whines as you bring your lips back up to his and his hands knead against your ass. In jerky motions his hips buck against you, desperate for that earlier friction as you pinch and lightly tug at his nipples.

It's easy to tell he's getting impatient, needy and you answer his breathy moans by slipping his boxers down. In a flash he's gotten the idea already, raising his hips to help you slide them off as his cock springs out of its confines to lightly hit against his abdomen. The swollen red tip makes you nearly start drooling, tongue sliding across your bottom lip with the faint remembrance of salty, thick cum coating it.

But that's not what you have in mind tonight, it just wouldn't be enough to show him how deep your affection for him runs. Softly you wrap one hand around his shaft, slight, slow pumps as he throws his head back against the pillows with a moan so deep you can feel how wet its got you.

"Feel good, baby?" You purr, keeping the pace languid to feel him throb in your hand. Instantly a deep flush spreads across his cheeks, one hand clawing at your thigh as the other lays against the top of his head.

"Everything ya do feels good," he grunts out the last part, already breathing heavy as your thumb smears precum across his tip.

"You know you're everything I ever wanted?" Your other hand reaches between both your legs to fondle his balls, a sweet spot you found early on in your relationship. Between the ragged breathing and the whiny moans you know he can't answer you, but you didn't really anticipate he would so you continue.

"You're so wonderful, always taking care of me," you bend back down to ghost your lips over his as you finish in a whisper, "let me take care of you baby, yeah?"

You pick up your pace, reaching over as you sit back to grab the lube resting on the bed. It's something he shyly brought up to you one day, something you've been saving for just this occasion. It slides out of the tube cold and sticky, easily enough to do one handed although some drips against the bedspread, forgotten.

Lightly your index circles his hole, gently building up to insertion so as not to cause any pain while your other hand keeps up its steady strokes against his cock. The way his jaw drops open in a silent moan as your first knuckle slides past the ring of muscle is absolutely sinful, searing itself into the back of your eyelids.

"You're doing so good, honey" you coo at him, barely holding it together yourself watching the way hes unraveling as you introduce more of your index. Tactfully you twist your hands around his cock, gliding against the skin as he sloppily pushes his hips up to chase the movement. When he stills for a moment you start sliding the digit in and out in a nice, steady rhythm.

"S'too much-" he chokes out, the hand above his head clenching part of the pillow in a white knuckle grip. "Feels good fuck-"

He cuts himself off in a strangled cry while your hand keeps pumping regardless, feeling the slow throb of his cock as warm cum spurts against his stomach, milking him as you place sweet kisses against his cheek.

Your noses brush as your hands leave him, groping for the hand towel that was also laying somewhere beside you on the bed. As you clean up in loving movements his breathing steadies against and his hands caress your sides, making you giggle.

"I get the rest of this present now, yeah?" He murmurs weakly, making your stomach do summersaults.

"Of course you do, birthday boy."

[reveseke]

Tony, avengers & teen! BW! reader headcanons

Warnings? None really, okay maybe inhumane practice? (Talks about muzzling a teenager for biting problems. It's a suggestion, nothing that big or described tbh.) Also, this encompasses a lot more than just Tony, but I tried to keep it on Tony primarily lol.

A/N: Ssooo this had been requested by 🕷️anon. I'm so sorry this took me so long, but here it is. Also I'm all over the place at first bc background to thinking process and so on, but this was really fun! I hope you like them, I guess? :')

BW! Reader -> black widow (spiderman) reader

Okay, okay, okay okayookaylaku anyways, so I don't think Tony is big on kids (going by the movies) so it's probably Pepper and Fury who rope him into adopting reader!! I firmly believe it was Fury who placed them with the avengers & Tony, specifically to be under Tony's guardianship as a way to manage them & Tony himself bc we know Tony is a reckless fucker himself.

Character personalities based on different Earths; most notable is earth-12041 animation universe specifically, not the comics. Tony is based on the ironman sequel & E12041, Nat mentioned and is based on E12041. Pepper's personal interpretation of motherly leaning and someone's is good at getting along with others easily. Nick is a dick and based on E12041.

Sooo, now that's out of the system here's some of the headcanons :')

— Tony who was against the idea of having BW! Reader under his wing and BW! Reader who was against being in the avengers compound in general bc the avengers are still roped in with the government and so on.

-> take on hostile BW! Reader who is trying to escape every minute they're given. Someone who doesn't trust anybody and has been left to stew in their own mind for too long!!

-> que Tony somewhat sympathizing with Reader after reading into their past & family (especially if the reader didn't really have a good family to begin with.) — however, leaving the past open for now.

— I firmly believe that BW! Reader is as hostile to The Avengers as they would be to the police and such. Quite the anti government & police type of guy.

-> ALSO See the shock of the people Reader was primarily around / from the area under their protection when a journalist or someone on the net offhandly mentions that the young vigilante has been spotted around the avengers !!

-> or they take notice that the home grown vigilante has moved!! See the outrage. (Tbh, BW! Reader is either willingly getting let back to his home streets OR they escape to them.)

— Tony and the avengers are aware of Reader's reputation and I believe there's some safe precautions and jokes about them biting the team members or Tony on an average day (either from Flint or Tony himself) uhh.. yeah.

-> when I say safe precautions, see Fury having his men make a special muzzle for the reader or something alike that limits their erratic behavior.

— Also, Tony would probably be either disappointed or impressed (or both) with the reader regarding their biting habits and ways of handling the situations (which often ends with someone being killed or seriously injured).

-> And him basically being given options (that Tony sees as something that might set Reader off instead.) by Fury on how he should be handled. (See the precaution one over this one lol)

— BW! Reader who does not adjust well into the situation at first, but learns fast what he can do and cannot do and how much he can stretch and bend the rules without getting in trouble.

— Que Tony being impressed how easily he can lose track of the teen as he escaped the tower multiple times without being properly detected.

— BW! Reader who later on adjusts slowly but does no longer harbor outright hate for Tony or the Avengers, maybe to captain in some cases but still.

— tbh It would be funny if they warmed up to Pepper the first time around and Happy is the second person who was put to "babysit" them. (Maybe Nat as well? y'know shared identity name — the two widows [except Reader is probably being referred to with a secondary alias or as a BW junior/ mini BW/ Kid black widow, or just simply "BW" if they bonded. Alllsssooo, Nat helping BW! Reader with training!!])

— Also Tony having no patience or fatherly bone for Reader at first and it's Pepper counseling Tony about it. Short tempered slowly adjusting himself as well. And if BW! Reader is big on tech then random bonding time after Tony figures the teen out about it!!

— I mentioned before hand Fury putting Reader under Tony's guardianship to manage him. And I mean that, Tony's reckless and Fury thinking that having a kid under his wing might, just might actually help him keep tabs on the stubborn millionaire easier.

-> que Reader saying fuck it and refusing to speak or help out Fury on that management assignment.

— also first impressions are kinda poor imo, I don't think BW! Reader would have anything good to say about Fury or Tony. Rude, outright might get volatile.

[colddelusionsheep]

And we are back with the second part! Not going to lie, I started working on a DND campaign right after this. So writing progress is slow. Still writing at ungodly hours of the night tho, and as always, no one under 18.

1st Part

The start

As the other tribute said good by to his family. You could see how they cried for him. How they weeped for the fact that he would not be returning.

The other tribute was a boy that you had seem around the district. Flint Overhill. You never had any interaction with him, but each time you saw him you could tell he didn't like you.

He had dark black hair that was just above his shoulders. His eyes were such a dark blue that they almost looked black in the right light. If you remember correctly, last reaping the girl he was sweet on got picked.

She was a nice girl, quiet and kept to herself. She died as soon as the games started, didn't even stand a chance. Just like you.

The peacekeepers led his family out, and you could hear them weeping even after the door was closed and locked. Flint finally looked at you. The disgust in his eyes was plain to see.

"Looks like your luck has finally ran out. How does it feel to get what you deserve?" His words hit deep. They hit a place you thought had long sense gone cold.

"It wasn't my fault you know. My name was in there same as hers."

"Don't you dare speak of her." You could tell he was holding back. "With how many times you have put your name in, it should of been you."

"I-" before you could even respond. A patronizing voice spoke up.

"Oh my tributes, I certainly do have my hands full, don't I? Let's try not to kill each other just yet. You want to save that for the games!" Nodding his head, you could see all the pins that were in place to hold his wig on. "It makes a great show, oh yes indeed, but what's the point in a show with no cameras."

Both you and Flint were speechless. The complete disregard he had was unlike anything either of you had seen.

"Now, my name is Marius. I will be taking care of you two for the next couple of days. I hope I don't have trouble in the future with you two." As he spoke, he gave you and Flint a small wink. Then he started to usher the two of you into the train.

Before you know it, it felt like you stepped into a whole new world. Finery unlike anything you could've ever thought of existed was right here in front of your eyes.

"For the few days you are with us, you two shall be treated like royalty. Only the finest of things shall be able to touch my tributes' skin." As he went on, you mind stated to wonder along with your eyes.

You could see Flint role his eyes at Marius. Finding whatever you had just tuned out to be incredibly boring. You ran your hands along the wooded walls. It's smoothness brought back a far away memory to you.

It was blurry, but you could see the fine wood above you. Along with a man's voice....a voice that sounded so familiar. Before you could get lost into it more.

You felt a pinch on your arm. Snapping your head up. You could see the unapproving face of Marius. "Now, we will have to work on those manners. They are absolutely deplorable. No matter, we shall tackle that problem in the morning. You two get some rest. You will meet your mentor in the morning as well. So those manners better be improved."

At the last sentence, he gave you an especially harsh glare.

Flint brushed past you, giving your shoulder a mean jab as he did it.

You silently followed where they were showing you two your rooms. Stepping into your quarters. You were in awe of the luxury that was in it. Sitting on the bed felt like you would sleeping in the arms of an angel. Even the smell was wonderous. It was a mix of vanilla and rose.

But, before you could fully enjoy all the things around you. You suddenly remembered at what cost this is all for. Tears start to fall down in violent choked sobs.

You didn't want them to know, you didn't want them to know just how hopeless you are. How you were doomed to die in that arena just like they all wanted.

Yet, as you sat the crying your soul out. You were unaware of the camera watching your every move.

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"I want those mutts done by tomorrow."

"Yes, Sir."

As her lower confirmed. She went back watching the live feed. She has to give you credit, you were a pretty cryer. At least in her eyes.

This year was going to be a fun one.

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There we go! I hope y'all like it. Also, small little note, I do not do taglists. They can get pretty chaotic and I write on my phone so they can get really annoying to do.

[jumpywhumpywriter]

Living Weapon Whumpee part 20

Warnings: forced living weapon/fighter, recovery whump, reluctant alliance, rejection by peers, betrayal

“Thank you,” Whumpee whispered gratefully.

Max nodded his acknowledgment. "In my opinion, Jake needed to have that ego of his taken down a notch anyway. You did it in a very spectacular way." He coughed on a laugh. "You certainly knocked him down a few rungs on the ladder of authority, that's for sure. It's about time he received a reality check."

"So where are you located on this... 'ladder'?" Whumpee asked.

Max grimaced. "Near the bottom somewhere, I'd presume. To be a part of this team you have to have thick skin and be under constant pressure and criticism, and I'm less... imposing that the rest. Not as intimidating. Easy to push around."

Whumpee couldn't help snorting a laugh, earning a puzzled look from Max. "You say that, yet you are the only one who's had the guts to approach me so far, aside from Jake." His eyes swept over Max's figure, and the man wasn't wrong; he looked about as threatening as a fly. Short black hair and golden-brown eyes, wearing looser clothes than everyone else. Dressed for comfort, not appearance.

It was like a vicious competition between all the team members, Whumpee was starting to realize, constantly battling for power and authority. Everything from the way they dressed to how they walked was meant to impress and intimidate. But Max had apparently given up trying to climb the ladder of rank, if he wasn't even bothering to try and one-up the others.

Max shifted nervously on his feet at Whumpee's words, mulling them over. "I guess it's because no one else will tolerate me," he said, "so I figured 'why not try my luck with the new guy'? Maybe get along with another outcast, you know?"

Whumpee did know. Far too well. He was hesitant to trust, but maybe he could find a valuable ally in Max if he tried. He sighed heavily, rubbing his face with his palms. It was almost time to head to the sleeping quarters now, and after all the stress Whumpee had gone through, he was exhausted.

The other team members were already heading off, and Whumpee joined them, Max not far behind as they settled down for the night.

Whumpee was awake for a few hours after everyone else had gone to sleep, a dozen questions floating in his head.

Jake hadn't returned to the sleeping quarters. It made sense; Flint was probably intentionally keeping them in separate rooms to prevent another fight from breaking out. So Whumpee wasn't worried. He could rest easy knowing Jake wouldn't be retaliating in the night.

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[thetisming]

i genuinely wish i could articulate my thoughts on nicky because sometimes i think it comes off as just 'hes gay and makes me sad' because thats easy to say and articulate but like. he is a character who doesnt matter. not just like tamara and micah and yuri and luca and flint, but he isnt in the story. hes optional. and like, hes really fucking strong. hes been training most likely his WHOLE LIFE. of course hes strong. he doesnt matter. hes optional and you simply dont have to see him and his dad doesnt even seem to care about him and ??? i know a lot of what im saying has been said but bear with me here. and understand that ! some of it i was thinking before i saw other people say it. which just means im right. anyways. 👍. also i talk about oliver a lot here because. well you ujderstand

"sometimes i pretend the whole reason this tournament exists is so that my father and i could fight each other. but i suppose that wont be happening now..."

"nicky?"

"ah, oliver! don't worry. i need not be consoled."

paraphrasing because i dont remember but! fuck!!! all he wanted was to impress his dad! and then when oliver tries to console him he just brushes it off!!!!!!

something else is that. he knows about the prophecy. he knows what the point is. the winner defeats the wizard king. and yet he still wants to win. isnt that fucked? he knows and yet he wants to win to impress his dad. this is something i think about all the time. hes willing to be doomed forever, just so his dad will be proud of him.

and like, again hes been training forever. and then what, this other kid comes along and he arrived in this world like, maybe a week ago? and he still wins. whatever. this is lightweight. but he keeps winning and it isnt fair because hes been training his whole life. and then he wins. he actually wins ultra-ultimate. and he goes on to defeat the wizard king, the thing he wanted to do to make his dad proud.

and then theres like. nickiver, right? sure, this kid is winning the tournaments but thats fine. because it isnt the main one. and hes pretty. and hes firery and stubborn and hes strong and he fights on his level and it's fun and theyre nemises and they argue. and this kid is also just fucking clueless when it comes to any hints about nicky's crush. and then this kid wins ultra-ultimate. and then he sees this kid win pandora's box. and maybe now, if he didnt before, he fully understands the complete weight of defeating the wizard king. because he loves this boy, and he opened the box. he opened the fucking box and he climbed the tower and if he didnt arrive in the world. nicky wouldve done that. for his dad. for his dad's thousand year revenge quest. and again he loves oliver. and he sees him change after defeating the wizard king and maybe they get married and maybe for a bit theyre happy. but oliver defeated the wizard king, which is what nicky was meant to do. it's a good thing he didnt. or maybe not, because it came at the price of oliver.

and like, hes a kid. okay. hes maybe 13, 14, around oliver's age. and he loves fighting and familiars and i doubt he has any friends and i doubt he has anyone. but then he has oliver and oliver is nice but also argues and hes so clueless and hes perfect. hes the perfect guy and nicky loves him and theyre friends (despite their nemisis status). but again oliver defeats the wizard king. and yeah i think nicky probably befriends esther but. he had oliver. oliver was possibly his first non-familiar friend (i do think his familiars are his friends even after the whole thing) and he has him and then he doesnt. and he slips away because of that fucking prophecy. and hes gone.

and also, nicky's scared of being unimportant. he wants to matter. he wants to impress his dad he wants to be important. and hes fucking not, and it's heartbreaking. he was removed from wotww. i say this a lot but every other named character had a cameo. almost every place had a mention. but not nicky (and not giovanni either) (unless you count. french car guy.). nicky doesnt matter. nickys unimportant. nicky doesnt impress his dad. he matters so much to me but overall oliver is the hero of the story so oliver is going to win. nicky is optional in dotdd but god thats better than him not being an option at all.

and something i always think about with the hope and hopelessness line is. nicky holds onto hope. and oliver doesnt. nicky, the neglected, optional, moon coded boy, holds onto hope. and oliver, the loved, hero, adored, sun coded boy holds onto hopelessness. we're given every reason to think it wouldnt be like that. but nicky holds onto hope and oliver doesnt and of course oliver doesnt because hes the hero. hes the pure-hearted one. these things dont just go well. hes the pure hearted one so of course he wants to defeat a great evil, even if it ruins him.

but nicky? he holds onto hope in the end. hope. the character who would make perfect sense to be hopeless, hes the one who holds onto hope. he has hope. maybe hope is all he has. either way, he holds onto hope. and that drives me crazy.

and hes also fun. hes a fun character! hes dramatic and his lines are cute and hes clearly in love with oliver and hes funny and charming! all of this tragedy, and hes so charming still. and i think that does a lot. like, a silly character who says things like 'exactly as i expected... from my NEMISIS!!!!!!!!!' and then you find out hes tragic and his father is neglectful and hes moon coded and he has a moon charm on his coat?? LIKE!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!! AWESOME. and to top it all off. hes even gay.

anyway i love nicky i hope this ?? made sense. if it ever seems like my thoughts on him dont go deep they do im just awful at words & enjoy to make silly posts. i like him a lot

[ask-the-royal-absol]

Linda@Flint: "You know you're actually right about this kid being funny." The dragoness chuckled as she points her thumb at Destino. "I hear he's gotten himself into shit a few times cause people take 'em the wrong way. But it sounds like you know a bit about this absol already. You probably know about this prophecy involving him too. But I'm gonna be honest..." She trailed off as she looked around the room, appreciating the size and décor. "I'm a bit more interested to hear about this kingdom you're running. How far would you say it reaches and how long have you been running it? If it's anything like this castle then I bet it's pretty impressive."

Flint: Them. You use them, don't you?

Destino: Sure do. Suits me better.

Flint: Thought so. So, you wanna know about the kingdom? Hey Magmar, could you get the maps please? It'd be easier to show off our kingdom with it.

Magmar: As you wish, your highness.

*With a bow, Magmar ran quickly off into one of the rooms located on the side. Flint continued from where he left off.*

Flint: I've been running this kingdom for a good 30 years now. Inherited it from my father. It was difficult to take his place, I'll admit that. He had a...notorious reputation. But hard work is enjoyable work and work I certainly have. This kingdom is now thriving better than it ever has done before. It has to be partially thanks to the Underdark for allowing us access to their ores. Without those, I imagine many Pokémon wouldn't evolve into their final forms or perhaps even know about them.

Destino: At least we get some appreciation.

Flint: Of course your kingdom does. Our success depends on your trade relations with us.

*Flint caught a glimpse of something emerging from Destino's fur. Something purple. It took him by surprise when this shape formed into that of a creature.*

*Hope stepped up beside her father, knowing he'd never actually seen a ghost type before.*

Hope: Yeah, that's Destino's best friend. Felix. He tagging along too. He's a ghost type.

Felix: And poison. Ghost and poison.

Destino: Felix, out.

Felix: Sorry pal.

*Felix carefully left Destino's fur, making sure to pat down any loose strands. He knew how much Destino liked to keep themselves well groomed and he didn't want to cause them anymore frustration. He levitated next to the Prime. The king tried to settle himself. It was hard to when a mysterious visitor decided to appear from the long mass of fur on Destino.*

Flint: Wow. A real ghost! An actual ghost! That's not something you see everyday! At least, not up here.

Felix: Ghost type. Not a ghost.

Flint: What's the difference?

Felix: Ya see, I ain't dead. Just have abilities that resemble those of spirits.

Flint: Fascinating! I'll have to pick at you for more information about that! Anyway, yes. We could very well mine elsewhere. That's true. However, I'd much rather have the miners know they're going to be able to mine some ore, even if it is a small quantity of it. If they went somewhere new because our trading system broke down somehow, it'd mean we wouldn't necessarily be certain a days worth of mining would harvest results. The guarantee for resources is more valuable and more cost effective for me and the mining companies I work closely with.

Destino: So, without access to our resources, you'd be screwed over? Ha, I knew our kingdom was valuable to the surface. Serves you lot right for locking us away.

Flint: This kingdom tried to fight for your freedom, kiddo. We just unfortunately failed.

Destino: Clearly you didn't fight hard enough then.

Flint: Type advantage is a powerful thing, Prime.

*With a stream of panting, Magmar appeared from behind the king, holding what looked to be a beautifully adorned tube.*

Flint: You did well! Don't you worry too much about it! Which one is this?

Magmar: Land map. I've got the city map rolled up in there too, incase you need it.

Flint: And that's why you're one of the best advisors I've ever had! Good lad! Let's crack this open!

*Flint took the tube with the tips of his claws, unscrewing the deep blue cap from it. With claws that big, there was a little struggle for those fine motor movements but Flint was able to eventually get it off. He gave one of the maps back to Magmar who delicately put it back in the engraved tube. Flint then unrolled the perfectly kept map. It was surprising how neat it looked. No tears, no wear marks, no ageing either. It looked almost brand new.*

Flint: Now this right here is the land you stand upon. We are right here.

*He pointed at the dot labeled 'Terrestria'.*

Flint: And the land all around it is the land I govern. You see those black lines? There the boundaries of my kingdom and will one day belong to Hope.

*Using his claws, he traced the upper right corner of the landmass marked on the map.*

Hope: One day. You've just gotta give me the title first.

Flint: Yeah. It'll come, don't you worry about that. Now, the most interesting part about this is the city is called Terrestria and the kingdom, so everything inside of this area, is also called that too. I'm honestly not sure of the reasoning for that, you'd have to ask a historian or something.

*Destino stared at the map, looking at all of the features it had to show. They saw the rocky structure their group appeared from. This kingdom was absolutely huge. Compared to the Underdark, this was massive. Ridiculously so. Imagine all of the resources this land had to offer. All the space that could be given to its citizens. Destino knew their parents obtained an ok amount of foods and other items from Terrestria though it was never enough to feed absolutely everyone. Considering the amount of trip their parents took, no wonder they decided to continue their trade relations with this kingdom. Destino felt as though their kingdom had been cheated out on more. If they had this much to offer, why wasn't the Underdark given more? There was a growing sense of anger inside of Destino. They had to keep it together.*

Flint: You'll also notice that it's the smallest kingdom compared to the others. There's debate on whether Mechania or Terrestria is bigger but Mechania does seem like the larger kingdom. Naaturo has the largest kingdom but that's because it does the majority of food production. Queen Pollen is incredibly good at keeping her food supply lines going for the rest of the kingdoms. Whimsain also has a substantial amount but they won all that during the Great Type War. Can't really shift the boundaries of our kingdom as we don't want another war going on but it'd be nice to get a little more land to work with. Hope that answers what you wanted to know.

Flint: That's right. It's not completely public knowledge so I'd keep it on the hush-hush when you're outside these castle walls.

Destino: Wait, nobody outside even knows about this?

Flint: Only certain Pokémon do. If we spread knowledge of this union around, it'll end up in the ears of the Whimsain lot and we'd be in a distortion of a lot of trouble. It'd mean we couldn't provide any of our end of the bargain to you.

Destino: My lips are sealed, Flinto. Dunno if I could trust any of these idiots with this information but you do you.

*Flint looked towards Gizmo and Mouse, determining whether they could be trusted with this. He was usually a pretty good judge of character and they didn't seem like the type to spread something like this around. Flint made a mental note to send a couple of spies to watch and observe them for any suspicious activity. With a sigh, he felt he could deal with the risk well enough.*

Flint: Our union was established around 400 years ago. King Alumin of Terrestria and King Estavior of the Underdark met when the Terrestrians were trying to find a new mining route and agreed on a collaboration between the two kingdoms would be beneficial between the both of them.

Flint: Estavior allowed Terrestrians access to their mines, which we found out later on was a guarantee to harvest ores for evolution stones. Alumin offered foods and other resources for this. Kind of him but it's really helped us out in the long run. We've been going strong since then. Ores are super useful for us as we've got the knowledge to turn them into evolution stones. The ores of these stones are incredibly dangerous when raw.

Destino: We had one of our citizens try to use one of the ores scattered around. She did not recover from the deformations caused. So much energy and power to be harnessed. Honestly, if I had an ounce of interest in the matter, I'd be curious as to how I could use that power for myself. A spotlight for my own. That could be good. Always showing the most important Pokémon in the room.

Hope: Of course you'd say that. Surely there could be other things that the energy produced could be used for rather than yourself?

Destino: And what would be the point of that? Honestly Hope, you're not thinking of the bigger picture here. A spotlight. For me. It's a fantastic idea.

Felix: Des, perhaps we should draw the focus back to the King? This is interestin' stuff.

Destino: And bring the conversation back to something dull? Come on Felix. You know it'd be far more interesting talking about how I would use these ores if I wanted to use them.

Flint: Point is, these ores are dangerous when not cut into shape and we're able to turn them into something useful for everyone. The trade union is something that benefits both sides, even with the danger of being discovered. Perhaps you should take more interest in your history, young Prime. If you don't learn about it, you may make mistakes which could lead to the downfall of your kingdom if you're not careful.

Destino: Me? Making mistakes? Ha, that's hilarious. I doubt it.

*The map of Arkaedia is now available.*

@askiceboundlopunny @masked-vee

(6/6 - No more questions for now.)

[eldritch-spouse]

Hello Pinnie! I was wondering what kind of relationships do the Icons have with their head imps?

To be a head imp, one automatically needs to have some level of the demonlord in question's trust. After all, not just anyone alone can ascend to the position. More than skill, they need to get minimally along with their demonlord, or otherwise a few sets of traits that net them that position.

Don't forget that things are always a tad one-sided, naturally. The benefiting party of these unbalanced dynamics is always the Icon.

Vesper and Lacai get along very well. Vesper can confide in Lacai and they manage to keep each other in check several times, because even if it looks like Vesper is the one in greater need of supervision, both have their impulsive weakspots. Although the barrier of royal duty is always present, it can be said they're friends, at the end of the day.

Rinx and Nena are likewise in a pretty decent relationship. Nena is overworked due to Rinx's whims, and he tends to be unintentionally cruel sometimes by not thinking of how much work something will take, but Rinx will spoil her generously when in good moods, and generally, they think somewhat fondly of each other.

Vorticia and Eleri are family. Eleri has been present to co-parent with Vorticia when the biological fathers of her children were consumed. If there's someone Vorticia trusts, it's them. Likewise, although Eleri is not romantically or sexually interested in the Queen, they have built an incredibly strong bond with her and the princes/princesses they raised.

Zizz and Jayde have an easy-going sort of dynamic. Jayde overworks himself mostly out of already being somewhat anxious as a person and because people in Sloth will naturally dump all the work on someone like him. Zizz very openly trusts Jayde and takes the time to demand his head imp get actually necessary rest, because coming across someone minimally bearable to be around frequently while awake is hard for Zizz. Jayde feels he's not treated badly at all, though he'd like it if Zizz didn't leave him hanging sometimes.

Kalymir and Roch... Get along? Kalymir thinks Roch is pathetic and a weirdo, but in a funny way. He likes fucking around with Roch, and that's part of the reason why the imp has lived so far. Roch doesn't really care if he's thrown around, everything in Wrath is warm and he only really has to get to work in certain key moments, because his King would rather settle things with blood then written word/diplomacy. They have a mutuality.

Livius and Flints are also a bit like family, but in a more nuanced way. Flints has been present in Livius' life for a while now, and Livius knows he's an imp that can be trusted with certain truths that not everyone can keep till their grave. Flints also knows how to read and deal with the King in a way most people couldn't get. He's valuable and reliable to Livius. Flints himself also feels a sense of duty towards Livius and will never betray him.

Cero and Rieba have a strained relationship. Rieba is overworked to the bone, and most of her work day is spent in awaiting the moment where Cero will decide to put her in the spotlight or nag at her over something minuscule. He's incapable of telling her that she's his most competent worker, and she's losing hair from stress.

[elisedonut]

What is the difference between flint/percy and perciver

because they look the same to me and i dont get it

Hello!!

Love this question thank you for sending it to me!

ok so keep in mind what we do actually know about Marcus and Oliver is a little limited so alot of this is more just how I see them personally at this moment in time alright?

Also this may be annoying to read so ill add a TLDR at the end jdfhadk

Really though for me at least when it comes to Flintley vs Perciver alot of it comes more down to outside factors and just Marcus being meaner

Like Flintley is a very "mean to everyone but you" type of ship to me. Even though I do still think he has his moments when it comes to Percy anyway. it's a ship where one side falls within a few meetings most of the time to me (normally Flint). A ship where when/if the other person falls to that everything else will happen extremely quickly.

It's also slightly a Flustered/Experienced ship dynamic to me because of me recently being obsessed with the concept of Marcus being a total prude who doesn't want to disappoint his family any more then he already has. Like that isn't always important but it's fun to play with and not something I tend to play with when it comes to Perciver.

Because with Oliver I tend to actually think of him as having a very loving family who treat him really well mostly because of the fun difference that shows with Percy's family.

Also I think the fact Oliver never seems like embarrassed or concerned about how much he only cares about Quidditch is a sign that his home life is pretty good or at the very least like supportive of him.

While with Marcus I like to make his family even worse then the Weasley's for the same reason. So I tend to think of them as putting a lot of pressure on him and him having a very difficult time living up to it.

I'm also one of those people that take the text fuck up the writer made about Marcus' year in the first book as just him having failed that year so i don't tend to think of Percy and Marcus interacting much at all before like Percy's sixth year.

Even though it was later fixed I think it's just more interesting and adds more layers to him and another thing for him to feel like a fuck up about as well as just being an easy way to force him and Percy to interact.

so it just stays fact to me.

Perciver is a slow burn friends to lovers type ship to me I know enemies to lovers is like gaining ground with them but I personally don't care for it much. I prefer when they do still end up bickering at times but for the most part get along really well.

I think even after both of them realize they have feelings that it takes forever for them to own up to it. Neither side wants to lose the other as a friend so they both try to just push it down and ignore it even though it doesn't really work very well

Both sides are convinced the other is way to good to be with someone like them so everything is very slow moving

I tend to think of them as getting together later in life vs a Hogwarts romance.

I do think both ships have a an obsessive like tint to them because both Marcus and Oliver both have that obsessive personality

though I do think Flints more of a bitch about it

Oliver at least tries not to be a jealous bitch and just kind of buries it when he feels it

While Flint doesn't even attempt to hide when he's having a jealousy fit

I think most of the Weasleys adore Oliver and can't stand Marcus

I think Oliver is more likely to not take Percy's side on something if he really thinks he's wrong when it comes to his family (even though he wouldn't say that actually in front of the other Weasleys)

while Percy could literally say something way off and incorrect and Marcus will still be 120% on his side against his family(and will say so Infront of them without care)

Marcus is more likely to not try to convince Percy to always forgive his family

while I think Oliver would be likely to try to

even though in both cases I do think the final decision is left to Percy either way and both would follow what he decides

Oliver's first love is Quidditch but Percy is very close behind it

Marcus puts Percy above everything else to an unhealthy degree

So Tldr the main big differences to me

Flintley:

Meaner then Oliver

Quick burn feelings

Flustered/Experienced

Later interaction

Flints are worse then the Weasleys

Outwardly Jealous

Weasley's hate him

Handles Weasley conflict by always loudly taking Percy's side even if he's wrong

Percy >>>>>>>>> Everything else

Perciver:

Nicer then Marcus

Slow burn feelings

Friends to lovers

And they were roommates

Woods are better then the Weasleys

Tries to hide his Jealousy(he fails)

Weasleys love him

Handles Weasley conflict by forming an actual opinion on the matter at hand and talking to Percy about it privately

Quidditch > Percy >>>>>>>>> Everything else

[iamnmbr3]

For the ask game, Oliver Wood!

How I feel about this character

Who wouldn't love his utter fanatical devotion to winning school sports games that ultimately don't actually affect that much? They only thing Harry ever got that enthusiastic about was Draco Malfoy. If Harry had been that into Horcrux hunting the main plot of book 7 would've been over by chapter 5 and the rest could've been devoted to the 8th year drarry fic of our dreams. Remember the time Harry almost died in a Quidditch game and Oliver tried to drown himself in the showers...because they lost?

Or remember this moment:

Hilarious and iconic. I feel like this video captures him perfectly lolol.

All the people I ship romantically with this character

I...don't really. In my head Oliver's true love is Quidditch lol. Although I would be deeply entertained by a fake dating AU in which he seduces Marcus Flint to try to learn about the Slytherin team's strategy for the Quidditch season and then it's left ambiguous in the end whether they've actually caught feelings for each other or have expanded their Qudditch rivalry to new levels... (25 years into their marriage all their friends and acquaintances are still not sure and also are not entirely convinced they aren't actually doing a Bit but are too afraid to ask).

My non-romantic OTP for this character

I just think it would be so funny to know more about the absolute chaos that must have ensued from him sharing a dormitory with Percy. Just imagine Percy insisting on total peace and quiet while he studies vs Wood up at all hours making Quidditch models. I feel like they'd either get along really well by terrifying everyone else into giving them the space to themselves to work on their respective Very Important Projects TM or else they'd constantly be fighting. Or maybe they alternated. Either way. Peak content potential.

My unpopular opinion about this character

I don't think I have any. Comment your spiciest Oliver Wood takes lol.

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Can you imagine if we got to see Wood's reaction to Luna's Quidditch commentary?

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earthbound old man tier list

S Tier: Doctor Andonuts. idc what anyone says, he is a fascinating bewilderful tragic morally dubious rubiks cube of a character, and if i think about him for longer than 10 seconds i get so emo i wanna dye my hair black and run away into the woods. he is also very funny. i would squash him like putty.

A Tier: Wess. mother 3 wouldn't be mother 3 without Wess and i'm not kidding. i love how he is written as both a terrifying abusive father and also a genuinely wise antifa ally, the duality of humanity or whatever. a bunch of his lines still give me chills to this day. especially [ this one ]

Leder as well. absolute fucking real one. imagine taking a vow of silence for the rest of your life to protect your beloved community, none of whom even can remember the sacrifices you've made for them, singlehandedly bearing a lifetime of unfathomable trauma to spare them theirs. he is atlas with the planet earth on his shoulders. yet another character who turns my brains into spaghetti-os.

B Tier: George is one of the most intriguing characters in the series. Boy, I wish Itoi took the time to actually Write him!!! so many questions, so little canon material, but my imagination does drive me a bit to madness with this guy I fear.

C Tier: the fuck do you mean Geldegarde Monotoli was super wicked evil under Giygas' influence, kidnapped Paula, took over Cartoon New York with sheer capitalist ruthlessness - then as soon as you break the Mani Mani statue he's like -tiny bichon frise sneeze- "ouuugghhh goodness gracious i'm so sorry, i don't know what came over me, i am so harmless and frail and made of pudding also" -little pekingese cough- and Paula is like "don't worry ness 👧 he was just a sweet old man all along lol!!!" nvm it's pretty funny actually

Grandpa Alec goes in C Tier too. imo he's well written in chapter 1. his reaction to grief feels really off-kilter in a strangely human & believable way, like?? he is snapping at Lucas and immediately feeling remorse, cracking jokes to try and assure Flint (and himself) everything is ok when it clearly isn't, kooky silly and also unsettling at the same time. i think people forget that he's also a messy clumsy maladjusted grieving dad, just like Flint. but after chapter 1 he kinda falls off, doesn't have much interesting to say or add to the story. i find myself kinda wishing Lucas had a closer relationship to his grandpa implied post-timeskip… oh well.

is Jonel old? his sprite doesn't look ancient but considering his attitude & his adult kids I imagine him to be in his 60's probably. i like that he's a bit of an asshole, and his moment at the prayer sanctuary implies a religious aspect to the village that's super intriguing… iirc he has a line all the way in New Pork where he trash talks Flint for still holding out hope & tryin to find Claus, and it's like?? damn, Jonel, a cunt to the bitter end!! gotta love that.

likewise Mayor Pusher is one of those Tazmily villagers who really highlights how fake & callous some of these people can be. i love the part toward the end of chapter 7 where he blabbers about how much he hates this hick town and he's so eager to leave already, and when he catches Lucas eavesdropping iirc he's rude as ever to him. what a douchebag! no wonder his son is so depressed ❤️

Nippolyte is a benign real one and I like him, even though there's not much to him.

wish Scamp did or said literally anything of note before dying. oh well

D Tier: yeah fuck Mr. Carpainter though. i don't believe for a second he was solely driven to become a cult leader by alien brainwashing alone, dude's gonna be on some MLM shit within a year mark my words

??? Tier: i don't consider Mother 3 Porky an old man, i consider him Very a forever thirteen year old trapped in a sickly grotesque disproportionaltely aging body. but if you do consider him an old man, he's in the stratosphere tier blowing up the moon

[cheesecake801]

Pink Volkner my beloved

Also some doodles

Close ups + much headcanons/rambling under cut

- I like to think Elekid is the 3rd pokemon Volkner got (after Shinx and Pikachu).

- Shinx was the 1st to evolve and it really inspired the other two to become stronger as well ! They all wanna reach new heights together, Volkner is very proud of them.

- Elekid is an energetic dumb cutie. He tends to cause problems by accident.

- He's likes to assist Volkner's machine tinkering even tho he doesn't understand a thing about it. He's super useful to provide power for the machines but at the time Volkner lacked experience and elekid lacked power control so I can imagine things went wrong a few times aksksksks, like machine explosions and such. Still, they were both hyped !

- Volkner's electivire absolutely LOVES music and it has been the case ever since he was a little elekid

- One day Volkner lended elekid his headphones and he was overjoyed ! He loves loud music and feeling the vibration it causes in the body.

-His music taste is close to Flint's. I think they also have a lot in common personality wise ! They end up becoming great buds with time

- Talking about music, idk if I mentionned it but I love the idea of Volkner playing electric guitar and Flint playing drums. I think they would play together in Flint's garage or something

- Luxray sometimes use his X-ray vision to help Volkner find lost picks haha (we don't talk about the time he saw it in another mon's stomach)

- I think the 1st time Volkner went to Flint's home, there was this moment Flint's mom being like "Oh you must be Volkner ! Flint talks about you a lot 🤭" and Volk would be looking at Flint like "...👀" and Flint would be like "AAA I do NOT (he does) ANYWAY, let's go to my room". And he also would give Volk a house tour until he shows off his drums in the garage and that would be when they both discover the other plays an instrument.

Btw about family :

- I don't think about parents/family a lot in pokemon but I like to think Flint has like a lively family !

- I picture Volkner as an only child so I think he's intrigued by Flint's life in his house, with him having a brother and all ! He likes the calm he has at his own home but Flint's home has such warmness, it's not bad

- Maybe Volkner got his love for tinkering from his dad. Like he would sitting there watching his dad repair stuff while he teaches him how to do it and stuff !

Some less important detail about elekid/electivire :

My sister mentionned how you're supposed to trade for electabuzz to evolve into electivire but I decided to ignore this because I prefer the thought of Electivire having been by Volkner's side since he was a kid. Now he could been traded with Flint's magmar then immediatly traded back once evolved but I think that trading mechanic is kinda stupid and will use the fact that in PLA none of that is necessary.

Because Elekid would get along well with Flint, if he belonged to Flint at some point it could be interesting ! But I still prefer the thought of him always being with Volkner, with him having things in common with Flint being a coincidence. For balance it's funny to think magby/magmortar has similarities with Volkner hehe. Maybe I'll dig on that on day...

That's all for now (it was plenty already haha), thanks for reading all of this ! I love to share headcanons, I hope it's not too much alsksks

[jackoshadows]

Big Bucket Wull's bad-ass speech about saving the Ned's little girl hits different when we know he used to visit Winterfell and probably ran into little Arya Underfoot running around and sitting next to her father while Ned chatted with the lords come visiting. And that Arya herself was named after a great grandmother from the mountain clans and we get the same clans marching for her.

"There's people," Bran told her. "The Umbers are mostly east of the kingsroad, but they graze their sheep in the high meadows in summer. There are Wulls west of the mountains along the Bay of Ice, Harclays back behind us in the hills, and Knotts and Liddles and Norreys and even some Flints up here in the high places." His father's mother's mother had been a Flint of the mountains. "Wull?" said Meera. "Jojen, wasn't there a Wull who rode with Father during the war?" "Theo Wull." Jojen was breathing hard from the climb. "Buckets, they used to call him." "That's their sigil," said Bran. "Three brown buckets on a blue field, with a border of white and grey checks. Lord Wull came to Winterfell once, to do his fealty and talk with Father, and he had the buckets on his shield. He's no true lord, though. Well, he is, but they call him just the Wull, and there's the Knott and the Norrey and the Liddle too. At Winterfell we called them lords, but their own folk don't." - Bran II, ASoS

[gilbertsdumbblog]

Milocraft be like

Also requesting lore for this AU because HELLO HI I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR MORE-

-Romeo voice- dude like i get that you went through some shit but you've been killing the vibes here like crazy

this is gonna be a LONG read under the readmore because this au is several years old and has numerous arcs. hence why im fairly certain im never actually gonna write this au out properly lmaaaoOOOOO-

Warning for mentions/depictions of death, mutilation, and severe mental illness (the kind that makes people lash out in fear)

A handful of quick notes:

Milo is being written as a transman who has autism. Him being trans isn't super relevant most of the time, but him having autism leads him do shit such as 'elopement', which is when someone who has autism just. Wanders off because they don't like where they are currently, or see something that interests them. Source, I have autism and do this dangerously often. It also leads him to seemingly overreact to certain things, such as people touching him or people lying to him. (He takes being lied to EXTREMELY personally.)

I've also written out names + personalities for all 12 Jesse variants. Six of them don't rlly appear in the au because my god i don't need to juggle more characters, but the ones that do appear are as follows;

Jekyll (white shirt + blue suspenders), previously Jesse before adopting Jekyll as a nickname during the Witherstorm arc to differentiate himself from Jessie. This is the 'primary' Jesse, having blown up the Witherstorm, found the flint + steel that starts the portal arc, and being present for most of season 2. He is friends with Olivia, Axel, and two other Jesses. Julep (teal shirt/tan overalls + red clip), is a mute and highly protective Jesse. She is the instigator of the events of Season 2, and is present for the entirety of the portal arc as well. Also friends with Olivia and Axel. Maisy (lavender shirt/blue overalls + pink clip), is the architect of their little friend group. Present for season 1 and 2, but takes a backseat to the action most of the time. Not keen on adventuring; We won't see them as much. Also friends with Olivia and Axel.

Jessie (red shirt/blue overalls + yellow clip), is an amateur adventurer who is an adoptive twin to James. She is part of the Ocelots, and at the start of season 1 she is openly antagonistic towards Jekyll and his friends in a fashion similar to Aiden. Over the course of season 1 she mellows out significantly. Present for the portal arc, but not most of season 2. (She's the one to knock Aiden off of Sky City.) James (White shirt + red suspenders), is a self-admitted coward who mostly hangs out with the Ocelots because his 'twin' sister hangs out with them. Sometimes helps with their builds. Would never join in on the teasing Jessie and Aiden did, but never stopped them or said anything either. Absent for the portal arc and season 2; He hates being involved in dangerous stuff like that.

Jay (Black shirt + green suspenders), is the only other 'main' Jesse we see who isn't really part of a pre-existing group. Similarly to Petra at the start of season 1, he's a lone-wolf type who ends up joining the group purely by happenstance after barreling through the nether portal in episode 1 right after Ivor. Might have psychic powers, but he pretends he can't hear you if you ask. Present for large sections of season 2, but not the portal arc.

So if you see any of these names crop up, just know they're versions of Jesse, not OCs. (I mean, what's really separating them from being ocs at this point though? whatever)

So to boil it down to its VERY bare basics or else I'll be here typing all afternoon, the au essentially revolves around Milo ditching Sky City immediately after the events of 'Order Up!' to travel with Jekyll's group and learn to be an adventurer. It takes a lot of convincing, but Jekyll and a few others in the group agree to let Milo tag along because, at the time, they assumed they'd be going straight back home after going through the Sky City portal.

So imagine their shock when they step into the portal hallway, and it dawns on them that not only do they have to track down their home portal? They've gotta babysit Milo and keep him from dying now. Milo being present for the portal arc makes things EXTREMELY complicated in spots, especially the Crown Mesa portal. It's also worth noting, if i ever write this out, Milo and Co. do NOT end up in the Murder Mansion portal first. Because I don't think Milo's first experience outside of Sky City should be witnessing several people get murdered. (We're not trying to traumatize him THAT badly THIS early on)

Speaking of the Murder Mansion, while Milo is there, he tries to distract himself from the anxiety of his situation by fixating on Cassie and her cat Winslow. (He learned about cats from Lukas, and got SUPER fixated on adopting one at some point) Fun fact, Cassie and Isa used to know each other! And they did NOT leave off on good terms, so when Milo makes the mistake of off-handedly mentioning Sky City, and then Isa, Cassidy becomes fixated on murdering his ass. He MUST have the fucking flint and steel.

(This image is from Milo's perspective right after Sparklez dies.)

Looney-Toons ass-logic keeps Milo from getting killed during the Murder Mansion portal. Straight up slapstick type garbage, he literally hits the White Pumpkin in the face by swinging a door too quickly at one point. Cassie gets away before he can even process what happened. Anyways, I'm focusing on this portal because it establishes a very BAD dynamic between Cassie and Milo that WILL come back to bite him in the ass later. Specifically, he ends up in the basement with Jessie and Stampy, and instead of Jessie catching fish to distract the cats, Milo ends up catching the fish. Jessie stops him before he can feed any fish to the cats, because 'We are NOT dragging a cat along with us too!'

Anyways at the very end of the episode, you know Winslow?

He doesn't have a collar. Cassie never properly tamed him.

You know who has fish in his inventory and loves cats? Milo. He ends up taming Winslow RIGHT in front of Cassie while she's stuck in the Silverfish pit. This only makes her even more furious at his existence as you can imagine.

There's more I could go into about the portal arc, but there's a LOT to go over so that might end up being a separate post. (Might just do separate posts for each arc in general? Idk, something to think about)

After the portal arc wraps up and everyone successfully gets back to their original Portal, there's a small timeskip between the end of that arc and the start of the second arc to let Milo establish a house for himself. (Snowy Taiga is the biome he lives in :3)

Milo isn't present for the events of season 2 for a variety of reasons, but the main one being that I want him to confront his issues with Isa. Because fun fact, when Milo left Sky City to join Jekyll and his group? He didn't warn anybody he was leaving. So when he's in Beacontown for a series of errands, imagine his surprise when he runs into ISA AND REGINALD of all people????

From the perspective of everyone in Sky City, they were pretty sure Milo had DIED. That at some point he'd gotten picked off by a monster while people were still trying to establish the new city. So Isa is both relieved to see he's alive, but also PISSED because where the FUCK DID YOU GO?! And Milo's just sitting there like

Arc two is essentially establishing that Milo and Isa used to be really good friends, and that something happened that divided them even before the events of Order Up. This arc is meant to lay the foundation for Milo and Isa actually making up, while also giving several sequences of flashbacks to give insight to Milo and how he grew up in Sky City, and how those experiences affect how he behaves today.

(No, him getting thrown in jail over the dirt is not why they fell out.)

Initially she was planning to just visit temporarily, but now that she knows Milo is alive and living in this portal, she decides to start badgering Milo about where he's settled down at and whether or not she's allowed to visit. Reggie is mostly just quiet, but he's super curious about where Milo disappeared to as well and lowkey kinda worried he's gonna vanish again. Milo is annoyed by Isa's pestering, and this eventually leads to friction between the two that steadily gets worse the longer Isa sticks around questioning Milo about where he went and what he did.

Eventually, this culminates in a screaming match between the two of them after two-ish weeks of this standoff has passed and Milo has become fed up with the questioning. More importantly, he's fed up that Isa is demanding answers when, from his perspective, she LIED to him for years about the nature of Sky City. And she certainly had to have lied about her history; Because he brings up Cassie by name, which Isa has no rebuttal for because, "You... Met Cassie Rose? How??"

Isa is equally fed up, however, because she spent the better part of a year thinking her brother friend had died, only to find out he'd actually fucked off without even saying goodbye to her first. Reginald is also slightly hurt, less so by Milo not saying goodbye and moreso because he'd spent that whole time thinking his crush was dead. He does agree it was kinda shitty of Milo to leave without saying goodbye to literally anyone.

Unfortunately they don't get to resolve their argument because in the middle of it, that's when Romeo decides he's going to start covering this 'world' with bedrock. It's kind of hard to keep arguing about who's right and who's wrong when the sky is suddenly turning black. Milo, in typical Milo fashion, decides to FUCK off immediately without resolving the argument by getting his horse (he adopts a horse after moving, her name is Beruca) and riding off towards Beacontown because Jekyll PROBABLY knows whats going on, and it seems like the bedrock is converging towards that point anyways so???? Beacontown we go.

Milo is about a day away from Beacontown on horseback, so by the time he gets there the 'bedrocking' has ceased and. Uhm. Beacontown looks different than I remember. Hey where did Champion City go?

He gets to the main hall area to hear numerous Jesses and several other people all screaming and arguing about someone named 'Romeo', and what to do about him. By the time Milo wanders to where everybody is arguing at, it's mostly Jack, Petra, Xara, and Jekyll all screaming at each other about how to handle the... 'Admin'.

Milo's never heard of an 'admin' before.

It takes several moments before someone points out that Milo is kinda just. standing in the doorway. Super lost. After asking about the whole 'bedrock' thing, Champion City, and Beacontown's changes, he learns about everything he missed while he and Isa were too busy being angry at each other.

Eventually, this culminates in Milo being extremely interested in meeting Romeo. He just wants to chat, for a little bit! Get to know the guy a bit? He sounds... Lonely.

Xara and several others are against this, but after being convinced by Julep and Petra that it'd be safe (I mean, what is Romeo going to do against Milo? Attack him? Yeah, he'd get an axe to the face.) and there isn't any real harm in just talking, they reluctantly agree to let Milo and Romeo talk. After being led to the 'prison cell' (Its just a bedroom he cant leave) Romeo is staying in, at first Romeo wants NOTHING to do with Milo and actively insults him for trying to chat with, 'Someone as renowned and revered as myself!'

To Milo's credit, he takes this on this chin rather well, because he can tell that Romeo just REEKS of insecurity after being stripped of his powers, and he's being defensive because he doesn't want to be coddled. With some gentle prying and Milo sharing details of his life, Romeo finally starts talking with him slowly.

After some stilted back-and-forth, Romeo agrees to let Milo visit tomorrow to talk again. Milo is thrilled about this. Over the course of the next few days, they meet up daily to chat about their lives, with Milo always arriving with ingredients of some kind to show Romeo how to make certain foods. Eventually, Romeo asks Milo why he's being so helpful to him, and especially so tolerant of how 'useless' he is with how to craft and the likes.

And Milo tells him about Sky City. And the portal arc, in which Milo was an active hindrance at times due to his inexperience. In short, he understands what it feels like to be 'useless' when you're surrounded by people who move and behave as naturals in combat, crafting, building, and adventuring. He knows the feeling of being a 'burden' is rough, and he wants to extend a helping hand to Romeo because he won't hold any of his shortcomings against him. Especially since he didn't know Romeo previously as an admin; Milo has no biases against Romeo.

After a lot of back and forth regarding this, eventually Milo and Romeo decide to ask Jekyll if it'd be possible for Milo to. Like. Have Romeo move in with him?

Milo lives in the middle of nowhere, so they wouldn't have to worry about people being set off by Romeo, and since Milo has no prior negative experience with the ex-admin, he's not going to judge his progress as harshly as everyone else in the group would.

It takes a lot of convincing before they agree to let Romeo move in with Milo, with the agreement being that if Romeo gets out of line that he'll get his ass sent below the bedrock. They both agree, though Milo is far more optimistic about this arrangement than Romeo is; He mostly just doesn't want to go back to the Sunshine Institute now that he has no power. And, hey, Milo's chill, so that's a bonus.

Arc three is basically establishing the actual 'group' Milo's in; Himself, Isa, Reginald, and Romeo.

Because he ditched Isa and Reginald at his house when he ran off to Beacontown. He may or may not have forgotten they were there, and they are EXTREMELY confused when he returns like a week and a half later and there's a DUDE with him.

This arc also focuses on starting character development for Romeo and Isa, moreso for Romeo, and how he slowly. painfully. tries to become a 'better' person.

Not nicer, he just stops being a power-tripping shithead eventually.

This is also when Isa and Milo ACTUALLY start resolving the problems between the two of them and start to become friends again. And of course, Reginald and Milo start getting closer over the course of the arc, though they don't get together until towards the end of arc three.

Speaking of the end of arc three, remember Cassie? Yeah, payback's a bitch. At the end of season 2, if Jesse chooses to stay behind in Beacontown, one of the two letters they get is from 'WP' saying to 'Watch out!'. While Milo is making up with Isa, getting together with Reggie, and trying to make Romeo less of a shithead, Cassie has taken over a woodland mansion, setting it up as a new murder mansion in their dimension with everybody else none the wiser.

Not until James goes up and missing, with a ransom note left behind with a series of maps leading Jessie to where her brother is. After catching word of James going missing, Milo and his group head over to Beacontown to ask Jekyll, Jessie, and Julep what the hell is going on, only to learn that he was evidently kidnapped. Fearing that they were likely walking into an ambush, a large rescue party is formed to head to where the maps lead them, with Milo immediately inserting himself into the group to help.

Petra thinks about stopping him, but doesn't. She's going to regret that later :3

It takes several days of travel before the rescue party gets out there, consisting of Julep, Jessie, Petra, Jay, Lukas, Axel, Olivia, Jekyll, and Milo. Maisy stays behind to keep an eye on Beacontown while everybody else is gone.

When they roll up to the mansion, its pretty clear that they're probably walking into an ambush or trap of some kind; The front door is set up like this for god's sake, with obsidian surrounding the whole door frame.

What they aren't initially aware of is that the walls of the mansion are three blocks thick. Two layers of dark oak, with obsidian between; To prevent them from brute-forcing their way out once inside. (Not that any of them really brought pickaxes)

It takes a bit of wandering through the mansion halls before they finally end up in a dining room-type area, in which after everyone in the group wanders in past the door frame, the walls slam shut behind them and Cassie reveals herself. Kinda. She White Pumpkins the place like what happens in her episode right after Sparklez dies

With a pre-recorded message letting everyone know what deep shit they're in, and that she's not letting Jekyll and his friends get away this time. Needless to say, everyone sorta shits a brick collectively as they realize its Cassie behind all this.

The group tries to stay together as they traverse the mansion, but eventually, the group slowly gets split and divided; First Lukas, Julep, and Axel get split from the group by a moving wall in a hallway, then Olivia, Jekyll, and Jay get split from Milo, Jessie, and Petra.

As Milo, Jessie, and Petra explore and attempt to join back up with the others, they eventually stumble into one of the rooms that Cassie had modified; Though she hasn't completely cleared it.

Milo sees a chest on the 'loft' section of this room, and like the thieving goblin he is, IMMEDIATELY runs up to begin looting it. While it's mostly just random building supplies left behind by Cassie, interestingly, he finds a very special item inside; A totem of undying.

Not that Milo knows what he's looking at, he just thinks its a neat statue and shoves it in his back pocket without thinking twice.

He starts to descend the ladder from the loft to rejoin Jessie and Petra, and show them the weird gold statue thing he found, when the block right beneath the ladder suddenly is shifted by a piston. And Milo gets dropped into a basement type area. Alone.

Petrified and knowing that he's a sitting duck like this, he immediately begins walking with his back literally pressed up against a wall every chance he gets, clutching an iron axe and trying VERY hard to be brave and not cry. He's DEFINITELY not going to cry OKAY

eventually, Cassie realizes that Milo got completely separated and IMMEDIATELY goes hunting for him in the basement area, eventually cornering him in a brewing-type room. At first he's able to fight back a bit and stay on his toes, but Cassie isn't here to play fair; She ends up grabbing a random potion of water from one of the brewing stands after staggering him and hurls it as hard as she physically can into the side of his head.

Negative effect or not, having a glass bottle break on the side of your head uuuuh fuckin hurts! Source; i dont wanna talk about it.

Milo isn't given any time to recover before Cassie knocks him flat on his back and kicks his only means of defense away, leaving Milo completely at her mercy. He's starting to regret coming along now.

Before he can ask her why the hell she's even pursuing them still, Cassie decides to make this entire encounter personal. She doesn't immediately kill Milo; Instead, she decides she's gonna make him suffer first after ditching her in the silverfish pit, AFTER STEALING HER FUCKING CAT FROM HER!!!!!

To keep the gory details brief; Milo first gets his face bashed NUMEROUS times against the floor of the basement, breaking his nose and leaving him too dazed to retaliate, his left eye gets gouged out by a pair of shears, and then his right arm gets chopped off with an axe. After all of that, Milo is basically catatonic and is abandoned to bleed out in the basement.

And he does. He gets to feel every second of agonizing pain before he slowly fades out as he loses more and more blood.

And then abruptly, he comes back. In a nauseating rush of energy and sudden health, the totem of undying he'd shoved in his pocket brought him back from death. And in the following moments as he recovers and feels all the agonizing pain from before come back, he promptly throws up and starts sobbing.

It takes awhile for the scattered group to reconnect throughout the mansion; Cassie wasn't able to separate anybody else, except Jay, but he was far too paranoid (and... Maybe a psychic) and she wasn't able to get the drop on him like she did Milo. That's not to say Milo's the only one leaving injured, and it's certainly not a happy ending either way.

By the time Petra and the others rediscover Milo, he's gone entirely nonverbal and will not stop shaking. The remaining eye has a dead, thousand-yard stare. And he rejoins the group, just to learn... That James is dead.

He was likely dead long before they'd gotten there. He was bait, just to bring everybody else in.

Nobody leaves the mansion happy. James is dead, pretty much everyone is injured, Cassie didn't get to kill anyone in the group, and Milo...

Well, he's not doing so great.

The end of arc three is Milo and the others returning to Beacontown, and Isa, Reginald, and Romeo learning about what the hell happened.

Arc four is the final arc, and its where things get really messy.

This is a 'recovery' arc. Milo's personality has changed, drastically, as a result of the trauma he went through. His paranoia is through the roof, he's terrified to leave his bedroom, and he refuses to look himself in the mirror. Reginald is obviously worried sick, and does a lot to make sure Milo is still eating at the very least while he's holed up in his room, but Romeo and Isa aren't exactly sure how to help at first.

Isa does her best to bring food as well sometimes to Milo, as well as books for him to read so he's not just... Sleeping, or having a panic attack. Romeo, however, has a different approach; Let's go find some sheep for him to pet! After getting a pen set up and tracking down some sheep to lead back to the house, Milo is at first pretty excited about the new animals at the house.

Plus, they're dual purpose; We can shear them and get wool, which is pretty helpful! And without knowing what Milo had gone through, Romeo accidentally approaches Milo from his blindside offering him a pair of shears.

All Milo sees is red hair and the shears before he flips the fuck out. In a panicked state, he ends up attacking Romeo in what he believes to be self defense, giving him a black eye in the process before Isa and Reginald realize whats going on and physically grab Milo to pull him away from Romeo.

Needless to say, things are... Tense after that.

Romeo isn't mad, per say, but he's definitely upset. And seeing as Isa seems to know Cassie, he eventually decides to ask her about what Cassie Rose was like, and if there's a reason why Milo freaked out on him specifically. After talking back and forth for a little bit, it takes awhile before Isa realizes that part of the reason Milo might've freaked out is because he had red hair similar to Cassie.

Romeo takes this. Personally.

Isa also takes this. Personally.

Neither of them are happy about Cassie Rose, and the fact that she's still at large somewhere out there.

Meanwhile, Reginald is worried sick about his boyfriend and how he's adjusting to having lost not only one of his eyes, but his dominant arm as well.

Normally, when Milo was particularly stressed or upset about something, he'd write about it in a personal journal in order to let him lay his thoughts out and mull over what it is exactly that made him agitated in the first place. But now, without his dominant arm to write?

It's all chicken scratch. It infuriates him all the little things he can't do anymore.

It eventually gets to a point where, for lack of other options, Isa and Reginald decide to get into contact with Jack. At the very least, they're hoping he can help Milo to get used to having one eye, but he's going to have to adjust to having one less arm on his own unfortunately. Milo is extremely reluctant to leave the house at first, but eventually relents when Reginald agrees to stay with Milo the entire time he's in Beacontown.

The whole group heads off and to Beacontown, meeting up with Jack and Nurm and, after a brief explanation of the situation, Jack agrees to not only help Milo adjust to having one arm, but also offers to help Milo train his arm up to be stronger. After all, if you've only got the one arm to work with now, you'd want it to be strong enough to help carry or move things.

Meanwhile, Isa and Romeo have. Other plans. They meet up with Petra and Jay after encountering them in Beacontown, and after talking for awhile about Milo training with Jack and the whole situation surrounding that... It becomes pretty clear that Isa wants to hunt Cassie down and put a stop to her violence.

Namely, by killing her.

Jay isn't keen on trying to kill anybody, but agrees that it's probably the best course of action given she'd deliberately gone out of her way to come back and try to get them all killed, and ends up loaning potions and some enchanted weapons to Isa, Petra, and Romeo before they head off to search for Cassie. Before they leave, they tell Reggie and Milo that they're simply, 'Going on an adventure, to explore the overworld while Milo recovers'. He's sad and anxious that Romeo and Isa are going to be leaving for awhile, but doesn't voice any objections.

So while Petra, Isa, and Romeo are off hunting for Cassie, Milo and Reginald spend a decent chunk of time in Beacontown helping Milo adjust to his new disabilities. Over the course of Milo slowly regaining his strength and learning to work around the one arm and eye, he slowly starts to open back up and bits of his old personality come back in pieces.

After about a month or so, Reggie and Milo decide to head back to their house so Milo can stop being paranoid about everyone around them, and eventually, Isa and Romeo come back too. Don't ask where we've been.

The ending to this au isn't super concrete; I've never rlly been able to settle on anything I like past the point of Milo sorta-recovering and Isa + Romeo killing Cassie and coming back. I toyed with the idea of a polycule between Reggie, Milo, and Romeo, though I'm not wholly commited. (It is a very funny idea though)

I also thought about Milo being taken back to visit Sky City after all this time, though I'm not exactly sure what would happen from there.

Anyways uh insanity -throws confetti- i dont know how many words i typed but i hope you enjoy reading all of THIS mess