#hypercompetent dumbasses

[sky-scribbles]

You've heard of Lord Lord from Around, now get ready for Archivist Archivist from the Tavern Family! His job definitely always involves capturing an interrogating Cerberus Assembly defectors. Just an average day at the office, nothing to see here.

[dollfairy]

work in a bank long enough and you'll find you meet either some genuinely clever and capable people (but alas, business-oriented) or the stupidest motherfuckers alive....and unfortunately it's the clever ones that don't stick around long bc they move up fast

[batfam-fanfics]

National Idiots (or Robins Six) by KingJai

1 Chapter - 14153 words

This would make an amazing freeze frame, is the last thing that Jason thinks before the bomb goes off. ––––––– “I! You! It’s not legal!” Duke screeches. Jason looks up from the blueprints, his face portraying how distinctly unimpressed he is, “Duke, my guy, we’re vigilantes.” ––––––– Shit. Fuck. Shit and fuck. ––––––– “Four.” “Three, technically.” Steph stares at Tim like he’s insane (which isn’t that far off, they’re all trained enough to lie to the tests–). ––––––– “Shit.” “Oh fuck.” “Go. Go. Gogogogo run.” –––––––

Or, the Robins bonding while being the hypercompetent dumbasses they are and stealing the Declaration of Independence

[maryallenc]

theres just something i absolutely adore about the way bells hells can be generally perceived in general by other people.

like how vox machina are these living legendary god-chosen heroes put into the history books and continue to be influential figures to this day. even during their time, they were protectors of the realm, slayers of dragons and gods. theyve taken the role of saviors and defending the side of good, despite how much of dumbass shitheads and callous in their ways and words they can be.

or how the mighty nein were these lesser-heard mysterious group of hypercompetent operatives entwined with criminal organizations, politics, governments, esoteric encounters, and divine or arcane secrets. they were shady motherfuckers whose agendas not a lot of people are privy to, altho we all know its mostly attending to each other's well-being and actually trying to do the right thing, and thats if theyre actually thinking some things through.

and now, the bells hells. the interesting thing is, theyre a group mostly comprised of ticking time bombs, and i feel like people can maybe already get some hints of that impression from them after a while? like. you see this colorful group of idiots. theyre actually pretty nice people. theyre appreciative and indulgent of most weird and even stupid shit. theyre not necessarily great at stealth, but theyve got the audacity to walk in any kind of establishment as if they belong even when they clearly dont, and weirdly enough it works. when faced with opponents, their first move is to fuck with them with some ridiculous shit. ghost haunts, booby traps, fake orgies, explosives as a warning. maybe even talk things out. wont even kill you, hell, they prefer not to usually.

but then you push a little too far. or youre in the way and they cant really afford to waste time. theyve got a goal, and theyre gonna reach it no matter what. and now youve got the most unhinged and feral group of people who doesnt give a shit about collateral damage or hurting themselves as long as they can put you down.

theyre also just so non-stop, and even if they were given time and opportunity to rest, theyre just so full of energy and grit.

during their first episodes, even eshteross was a little taken aback by how fast and immediate they move on to the next thing that needs their focus.

so. looking from the outside. theres this group of weirdos, most of them almost monstrous? just plain out weird and really questionable? in origins. theyre very nice people. very friendly. maybe even kind, sometimes at least. they fuck with enemies' heads, sometimes theyre small pranks, sometimes they just set you on fire. but stop short of killing, maybe even heal you!

but theyve also left so many places exploding and/or on fire. they will fucking ruthlessly win ANY COMPETITION OR RACE as undeniable victors.

the frontliners are beaten up and still standing and grinning with blood on their teeth, the casters have the least compunctions in killing, and the healer is fucking with a lot of the damages dealt within a fight.

theyre as quick to announce a big good like the voice of the tempest as their ally as they were with an amoral fey called the nightmare king whom they fully admitted to have been abducting children and innocent creatures for science.

no doubt, theyre all there to save the world. right some wrongs. make a better change.

but theyre just so. wild? and destructive. even to themselves.

im just curious on what the final image of them as a group will be for them.

[o0anapher0o]

10 Characters from 10 Famdoms

Thank you @meraki-yao for the tag. This was so much fun, but sooo hard XP

Karen Wilson (911). Gorgeous black lesbian rocket scientist momma bear (I’ll admit she won out over my man Tommy by like a milimeter, but also black lesbian rocket scientist momma bear. How is she not the character of all times?)

2. Zuko (Avatar: The Last Airbender, Cartoon). He's my boy, he deserves everything. I will not hear a word against him.

3. Julian Bashir (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). Look at him. Superhuman space twink, second of his class with a spy kink.

4. Armand (Interview with the vampire). My favourite insane little horror gremlin. I haven't seen season 2 yet but I know he's going to commit so many attrocities.

5. Bucky Barnes (MCU). He's an adorable, grumpy murder weapon and I wish they had given him his cat in the movies

6. Phryne Fisher (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries). The one, the only, the legend, the honourable. Lady Detective, Pilot, Racecardriver, Heiress, best dressed, dancer, model, adoptive mother of many strays, light of his life and perpetual nuissance of one Jack Robinson.

7. Aramis (The Musketeers). Famous libertine by day, romanic with a heart of gold by night, loyal friend and general dumbass all day, every day.

8. Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation). He is everything. (And he's alive I do not care)

9. Firstprince (Red White and Royal Blue). I can't chose between Alex and Henry. I can't and you can't make me.

10. John Tracy (Thunderbirds are Go!). As with all the others, it’s this particular iteration of this character. I love the Ace!John headcanon but even without that, he’s simultaneously hypercompetent and the most awkward duckling and he parents a toddler AI. I never stood a chance.

Phhh. This took way longer than anticipated, but here they are. I learned far more about myself than I expected, too.

Tagging @alittlefrenchtree, @sigynpenniman, @taste-thewaste and everyone who wants to play.

[mermaidsirennikita]

Weekly Book Recs: 1/19/24-1/26/24

The Hook Up by Kristen Callihan

I am not into college romances. I was never into college guys, even when I was in college, and I find that college romances are often melodramatic and overly serious. I read this because it was a Kristen Callihan book... and it was great. Because generally? Her books are great. Firstly, Drew and Anna being later in their college years helps--secondly, they've both lived a lot of life, but not in a "I was in foster care and sent into a sex ring for the elite" way (which is shockingly common in these books). Their lives are hard but relatively realistic. Their issues are hard but relatively realistic. The story is all character--they begin hooking up casually, she doesn't see a future because she's 21 and hasn't been to therapy whereas he's all ABOUT the future (which actually tracks because he's NFL-bound and very much wunderkind status). She wants to withhold; he wants to be as close to her as possible. I really did buy them falling in love, but at the same time it felt like a couple of dumbasses in their early twenties falling in love, in a relationship that will be that rare "we met in college and we toughed it out and grew together" success story. Alsothesexwasreallyhotsothattoo.

Ne'er Duke Well by Alexandra Vasti

I'm a fan of Alexandra Vasti after her Halifax Hellions novellas--she writes with a style that's both funny and smart, with plenty of heat. I'm saving my full review until closer to its 7/23/24 release date, but this snappy tale of a hapless duke in need of a wife and the hypercompetent debutante (and secret purveyor of a scandalous library) helping him find one is so much fun... and taught me what "larking" means. Preorder here, here, or here.

The Friend Zone by Kristen Callihan

Not me getting in my feelings over a friends to lovers book!!! The pacing of this one is perfect, and there is no major insecurity or pining from our sensible, "one of the boys" heroine Ivy. In fact, it's the playboy tight end Gray who's instantly smitten with her--he just needs to figure it out, and after that, convince her to cross the line and ruin the friendship. (And when they do... They ruin it HARD in the best possible way.) It's surprisingly emotional and actually has some really hard plot developments--as well as a seriously hot scene that will live in my brain for quite some time. THIS is how you do friends to lovers, people, and of course Kristen Callihan pulled it off. The chemistry and tension just rocked off the page.

[stevensavage]

Dungeons and Marios: Honor Among Brothers

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I consider the films Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and the Super Mario Brothers movie to be successes as good films. I found them both enjoyable, but also find that both of them work because the people behind them made similar choices.  There’s a lot of lessons there, and you know me, I’m definitely going to write it down. 

Let me pause to note I do not consider them to be of equal quality.  The Dungeons and Dragons movie is fun, emotionally resonant, and both grand yet very human.  The Super Mario Brothers film is a fun romp with some clever choices, but not as deep.  But the lessons - even where they both don’t succeed - are illustrative.

So how did two different films do same things, let’s take a look.  There are of course spoilers here, so here there be dragons (or Koopas).

Be Fun and Entertaining

Both movies are actually fun.  There’s action, there’s jokes, there’s actors and actresses giving it their all.  I had a good time at both. Super Mario Brothers was so snappy and tight I didn’t even take a break.

Fun can be forgotten, especially when you already have other things on your mind like adaption.  But you have to give people a reason to pay attention beyond “hey I adapted this.”  Be it Chris Pine being a charisma bomb or a brain-twisting Mario scene where the infamous Rainbow Road is realized, give people a reason to enjoy it.

You can also tell people enjoyed making them, both have a joy to them.  Which probably says a lot about why they work as well.

Don’t Run Away From What You Are

The Dungeons and Dragons film is just like the games - not the books.  A group of confused dumbasses get into trouble and save the day.  It feels like a gaming session, right down to bad luck and unwise choices.

The Super Mario Brothers movie is colorful, bright, and strange. There are moments it has homages to the games and gameplay, but outside of those it runs on a kind of game logic.  It feels like a game and doesn’t apologize at all.

This is what people came for.  I do not come wanting an explanation of Mordenkainen’s magic or how to use a Fire Flower.  I want to see hypercompetent stupidity and someone yelling “wahoo” he stomps on evil turtles.  And I got it.

Use It But Don’t Overexplain

Dungeons and Dragons brings decades of history, rules, rules changes, rules arguments, novels, adaptions, and more.  What do you do with that?  Well, it’s raw material but you tell a story first - ten minutes of rules are boring but the sorcerer Simon struggling to “attune” to a magical item is interesting because it’s about a person.

Meanwhile the Mario film inherits a disjointed series of games and events without an exact timeline or even consistency.  The film takes a pile of stuff and forges it into a setting but also doesn’t explain it much.  Power ups just exist - what matters is how you use them.  An industro-solarpunk kingdom of apes just exist - what matters is if you can make them allies.  Tell a story - besides people already bought into the premise of plumbers teleported to this cartoony realm anyway.

The stuff you adapt is fuel for an actual story.

Get A Cast That Works

Want a good adaption?  Get a cast that will embrace the roles and bring things to life so people feel and enjoy the film.  Even the best script is nothing without the right cast.

Dungeons and Dragons cast is stellar.  It’s like a movie filled with leads that just happens to center on Chris Pine’s bard, Edgin.  From the humor to the pathos, the cast brings you into the film.  A few characters might have been used better or given more depth, but everyone used what they got and then some.

Super Mario mostly does the same thing.  Jack Black owns his role as Bowser and brings pathos to the character (more later).  Anya Taylor-Joys Princess Peach is fantastic, badass, and charming enough she’s sort of the main character at times.  Charlie Day is terribly underused as Luigi, but clearly brought is A game.  I could compliment others, but you get the idea.  The film is inherently ridiculous but the cast is game, as it were.

Now Chris Pratt is the elephant in the room.  Regarding his problematic statements, I looked into them for this article, and it appears he’s not bigoted, but is not always thoughtful or good at reading a situation.  Regarding his acting, he can “phone it in” but can really shine when he sinks his teeth into a role.

That being said, his Mairo performance was extremely generic.  It was enough to move things along and make Mario human, but he didn’t add anything to the role.  Whether it’s his fault or the scriptwriters, I’m not sure.  I also noticed the animators did some amazing expression work with Bowser and Peach and wondered if they were more restrained with Mario.

Either way, lesson learned - get a cast that’s good and let them go.

Give Us Real Emotional Arcs

The Dungeons and Dragons movie brought tears to my eyes, once during That Scene at the end (if you saw it, you know), and once afterwards when I realized how I related to a character’s speech.  The movie has multiple emotional arcs that bring it to life, give characters reasons to do things, and help you connect.

This is not consistent among the cast or characters, and I blame the script.  It’s a perfectly fine script, but a few more scenes could have done wonders.  But what is there is good.

Believe it or not Super Mario Brothers does this too, multiple times.  In fact, there’s a scene where Mario and his original nemesis Donkey Kong find out they’re a lot alike.  When a cartoon plumber and a big monkey share parallel emotions, you’ve done something right.

However Super Mario Brothers also doesn’t dive into the emotional arcs as well as Dungeons and Dragons and is poorer for it.  There’s some unused potential, from Mario feeling defensive about Luigi to Princess Peach’s isolation as a lone human in her world.  There’s unexplored character motivations, such as Toad’s heroic drive that differentiates him from his fellows.  I feel there’s 5-10 minutes of cut footage that made it a better movie.

But the lessons stay the same.  In fact  . . .

Give Us Relatable Villains

Hugh Grant, playing con-man Forge  charms his way through the Dungeons and Dragons movie in a way only he could.  Daisy Head’s creepy sorceress Sofina is something out of a horror film, and you believe she’d like nothing more to murder the idiots surrounding her.  Both get scenes that aren’t just villainy but humanity - Forge finds a joy in adoptive fatherhood, and Sofina snaps over how annoying Forge is in a relatable way.

This is great, they’re enjoyable.  They get human moments - but only the acting covers the fact they’re otherwise paper-thin characters.  Both could have shown more depth with just a few tweaks or an extra scene or two.  The actors clearly work with what they have, but there could have been more.

Meanwhile let me commit blasphemy - Jack Black’s Bowser in Super Mario not only gets to be relatable, his character is better handled than the villains in Dungeons and Dragons.

Yes I went there.

Black’s Bowser is a terrifying warlord and a hopeless romantic.  Madly in love with Princess Peach, he hopes to impress her and marry her instead of conquering her kingdom (sort of).  Throw in Black’s performance with excellent animation, and Bowser becomes sympathetic, a kind of ridiculously Shakespearean character of extremes.  If anything, I felt there was more to explore.

Both films add villains with some understandable traits.  Super Mario does it better.  Forge and Sofina aren’t interesting enough on their own, but Black’s Bowser feels like he could carry an entire film.

Do A Film Not A Preview

As I’ve said before, I will compliment the Marvel movies on sheer competency. However, I’m also extremely tired that the interlinked nature of stories seems to “wash out” the films.  There’s that need to keep the mega-franchise going, and there’s a certain “safety” in choices that wears thin.  Make something that stands on its own – like these films!

Dungeons and Dragons and Super Mario Brothers are delightfully standalone.  They do their job, they deliver.  Sure you may care due to the games - in fact it’s the only reason to care about Super Mario Brothers.  But both stand on their own quite well and in a satisfying manner.

There’s just that thrill of being able to “close the book” and move on with each.  Both deserve sequels of some kind, but its nice to see them deliver and be done.  It helps the people making them focus, and it means each film is reliably complete.

In Conclusion

So there you have it.  Both of these adaptions based on games, both wildly different, really succeed due to the same choices.  Embrace what you do, don’t overexplain, get the right cast and real emotional arcs we feel.  That’s it.

It feels unnecessary to explain this, but maybe the fact I feel this says volumes about the poor media I’ve seen - and how I enjoyed these two pieces.  Let’s learn from them, and maybe apply these lessons to things beyond giant big budget movies.

Steven Savage

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[heaven-dope]

im not disabled so obv take me with a grain of salt, and/or tell me if im being a dumbass. but like.

i dont see why disabled characters have to be badasses. i dont think its a bad thing for a disabled character to not be a badass/hypercompetent. i feel like the obstacles that disabled people have to face and the things they cannot do shouldn’t be shunned/ignored? disabled characters dont have to be badasses, they just have to be treated with respect imo

not to say i dont think disabled characters SHOULDNT be badass. badass disabled characters are cool!! its just i dont know why we have to set an unrealistic standard every time

[superectojazzmage]

Unironically, though, I feel like this exact phenomena is a prime example of vampires getting romanticized and sanitized and having all the drawbacks to their nature as vampires cut away for the sake of that romanticizing.

Like, seriously consider the implications of what a vampire's traditional traits would entail for a day-to-day life.

Can't go out in daytime, meaning they can only deal with fellow night owls. Have a hard, constrictive time limit on when they can get things done because they HAVE to be back in the coffin before sunrise. Can't interact with religious objects (better hope your business partner doesn't wear his mother's cross necklace to work!) or enter religious spaces (no attending traditional funerals for you). Need to be invited to enter every single building you have to enter. You look and probably smell like a rotting corpse, maybe have very visible fangs, and even batlike features, all depending on the setting; at best, you're inhumanly pale in a way that can't be explained with albinism. No crossing running water so you won't be flying or sailing overseas on business, and if pipes/sewers qualify as running water than you're really fucked and best avoid any cities. Can't eat human foods, especially garlic, so hope you enjoy attending lunches or dinners where you just sit at the table like a jackass while everyone else eats and snubbing anyone who offers you food. You have a debilitating compulsion to count things that is so strong it can even make you keep counting into daylight. No reflection and you will find out VERY fast how many reflective surfaces are in a modern city. Most animals react with fear and aggression at your very presence.

On top of all that, you must murder and drain someone of their blood regularly, potentially EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, meaning you have to somehow be the most hypercompetent serial killer to ever exist to survive for very long. And you'd better be careful about how you do it or you'll make another vampire and add babysitting their dumbass to your list of responsibilities.

Point of all that is, being a vampire is NOT something that lends itself to living a very lush lifestyle and having successful businesses and vast hordes of wealth that permit you all the things you'd need to offset the problems your curse brings. Realistically, a vampire is probably going to be about as far away from a wealthy autocrat - especially if they weren't born into money - and is more likely to be like a creepy hick living in the forest and rarely coming near a small town for blood. A fact recognized by older portrayals of vampires, in which they were either monstrous creatures living in the wilderness or lived secluded, lonely lives within decrepit castles and such, with no human company beyond maybe their thralls.

None of this will do for sexy revisionist power fantasy vampires like those in stuff like World of Darkness, Twilight, Interview With The Vampire, and so on. The kind who are all pretty and pomp, their "cursed" lives played more for romantic drama or giving them cool superpowers with no heed paid to the implications of their constant feeding on the "cattle".

So instead of being basically super crack addicts or malevolent spirits or whatever, they'll be this glamorized elites who run big swanky night clubs or live in fancy apartments and manors or so on.

One can also observe how this is arguably an extension of the tendency for such vampire stories - and sometimes even more properly horror-focused ones - will try to scrub out any of the weaknesses of vampires, so they get all the cool magic powers but none of the drawbacks like getting killed or forced into hibernation by sunlight or hurt by holy objects.

[shieldmaiden19]

"I'm going to do what I do best."

"And that's what?"

"Oh I never really know. That's why I'm so good at it."

LEGENDS ONLY

[withinycu-arch]

I honestly don’t get why Jennyanydots is frequently paired with Skimbleshanks. Clearly her and Bustopher Jones are clearly IT

[blacknovelist]

character concept; a kenku actor that’s afraid of the dark who got reincarnated as a drow after an incident with one of the plays and who keeps forgetting they’re not a kenku anymore

[woodchipp]

Adventure actually shows the player that even though Eggman calls Beta Gamma's "brother", he still treats Beta as as nothing but a disposable bucket of bolts, as evidenced by the cutscene of Gamma accidentally walking in on Beta being physically dismembered. That exact moment is also Gamma's turning point, as he realizes that Eggman is actually a horrible fucking person to serve.

In Frontiers, the worst he does is banging his fists against the Egg Mobile and yelling at Sage a few times. And even then, the times he does that are framed less as him being the mastermind in charge and more as him being an old dumbass who is throwing a temper tantrum and needs to be reined in by his Hypercompetent Sidekick, not unlike IDW framed Eggman and Starline's dynamic post-#18.

Your comparisons are frankly surface-level. Here. I have explained this to you. Have you grasped the difference between the characters you are comparing yet, or are you going to simply disregard the evidence I laid down and call me an asshole?

And okay. You want another screenshot? Here you go.

>"Eggman treats Sage differently from all his other creations."

Okay but no he doesn't though

Show me a screen shot of him supposedly treating Sage differently, and I'll show you a screenshot of him doing the same damn thing to a previous creation.

[leonardalphachurch]

the more i think about it the more i dislike kai’s characterization in 16-17. rvb, like so much other media, has a problem with making its woman hypercompetent hardasses while its men can be goofy, stupid, soft, incompetent, flawed. (the women in rvb ARE flawed but those flaws tend to be “she’s too much of a bitch”).kai was the exception to that. kai was goofy and stupid and immature and inappropriate. she didn’t feel removed from the reds and blues as some kind of guardian, uniquely capable figure but just. one of them. but in 16-17 she did. suddenly she was mature, she had a business, she no longer spewed wild non sequitors that made people pause and go “wait. what?” i’m glad they kept her sexuality but it really feels like she is no longer the dumbass annoying little sister to one of our main cast but instead a babysitter to show tucker how far he hasn’t come.

women do not exist in service of men. being grifs sister tied her to a man but that was not her character. if you removed that part of her she was still there. take her out of tuckers arc in 16-17 and what do you have? what is compelling about her?

enough girlbosses. give me more cringe fail women

[soleminisanction]

Hi, hope you’re having a good day! I was wondering, if you are in the right mood for it, if you might talk about your feelings about Damian. I have such mixed feelings about him (and Stephanie tbh) and you’ve done some really cool meta. Thank you either way. Oh and I loved your little Tim snippets you put out a while ago

Thank you! Kind of you to say.

Damian... oh, Damian. I'm very much in the same boat regarding mixed feelings towards him. There are some aspects of him I really enjoy. He takes the lead in some of my favorite fanfics, especially the ones that really dig into his relationship with Tim and explore how working through that conflict (rather than avoiding it, like most people do, including canon) could really help Damian grow as a person and mature into a true hero.

And I think he's got a lot of potential for fun stories. I enjoy him as a character whose whole concept could not exist anywhere but superhero comics. When played right, his unique balance of absurd hypercompetence, Troubling Unchildlike Behavior, archaic chivalry, snobbish brattiness and rare-but-achingly-sincere vulnerability can be a lot of fun.

It's just a shame that so much of his content is anything but that.

At this point, canon Damian is, more often than not, little more than a misplaced chuunibyou light novel protagonist, complete with no less than three Big Titty Goth Girlfriends and the overall narrative aesthetic of an angsty 13-year-old's DeviantArt gallery. I cannot take any of his stories seriously because he's trying so damn hard to be edgy and important and he just looks like a dumbass kid. Lighten up, small child. Goddamn.

The most interesting thing about him lately is that all his male friends keep coming out of the closet. I doubt this will actually lead to a future where Damian is acknowledged as asexual but hey, an enby can dream.

But my big Damian hot take?

I want to know when he's finally going to grow up and admit that he doesn't want to be Robin.

It makes no goddamn sense that his current book is called Robin. He doesn't look like a Robin, he doesn't act like a Robin, and he's not telling Robin stories. Literally the only things in that stupid book that have anything to do with Robin are Connor Hawke (who was Tim's friend first) and that one stupid issue that was clearly inserted in by editorial mandate where the other Robins showed up purely so Damian could beat three of them up and get his ego stroked by Dick, yet again.

It wouldn't have been a huge major change or anything, but I think the story would've made just a little more sense if, instead of insisting on the Robin branding after his big dramatic storm-off, Damian went off to wear the exact same costume and tell the exact same story, but did it under the title Son of Batman or In the Shadow of the Bat and registered for that tournament under the "fake name" of Ibn al'Xuffasch. That would be a clever continuity shout-out, deepen the themes of him reconnecting with the al'Ghul side of his lineage and struggling against Bruce's expectations, and as a bonus, make way more sense, given that Tim is clearly in Gotham being Robin while Damian is doing nothing of the sort.

But somebody coughStephaniecoughJasonStanscough turned Robin from "a job" into "a participation trophy" to coddle widdle baby egos and so it's now considered some horrible offense to not acknowledge Da Holy Blood Son as the One Twue Robin even when he clearly has no interest in actually being Robin, he just feels entitled to it and to the respect that comes with it. So we're stuck with it, for now, I guess.

So those are my rambling thoughts on Damian. I hope he gets better writers someday. I hear he's good in the animated movies.

[kaptainkit]

things i need in jjk season 2:

more first-year trio being hypercompetent dumbasses

gojo training kugisaki

sukuna being scared of kugisaki

more utahime-sensei

more gojohime

mahito dead in a ditch somewhere

more maki

MORE SHOKO

kugisaki nobara shopping and traveling to her heart's content

NO ANGST. ONLY FLUFF (w/ SOME GORE, SURE, WHATEVER).