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corviisquire · 1 year ago

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I’ve read the comments on my post abt soulsborne sleep token thing! Here’s some concept art I tried. More is on the way just… HW ew. Tagging people who were interested/encouraging this idea: @sleep-token @wingedinsect @moonchild-in-blue @foundationsofdecay @madsthenightowl @a-s-levynn

Undercut is me mindlessly rambling about what’s going on in my brain about this. Don’t read unless you like torturing yourself with reading.

I guess to start, I have only played Elden Ring (crucible knight more like crucible kill yours-IM JOKING), I’ve watched some lore videos on Elden Ring Bloodborne and DS1, haven’t played DS1 yet, and have all the art books except DS2 (cause nobody likes DS2). I’ve played very limited DND games. I’ve read lots of weaponry wiki pages but I have bad memory. If any information I say below is incorrect (like I say this sword is two-handed but it’s not or I misspell spauldor… spalder? Spauldron?) please correct me. I’m just using information I know and I’m always open to suggestions and feedback!

Random Lore Bits: Sleep and the Whale lived in peace but Sleep was always the higher deity. It created all that lives on the land and the TMBTE creatures. Sleep had many worhsippers but Vessel and the rest stood out. They were appointed as the highest knights of sleep. Vessel always had Sleep’s favor and therefore became Sleep’s vessel. Confusing I’m aware lmao. Sleep and Whale became enemies somehow and Sleep injured the whale, causing it to die. This time period before the Whale’s death was called Eden. NPCs speak of Eden all the time about how, “Peace and day has never been restored since Eden” “Eden is over” “If the whale were here, Eden would still be here”. All followers of Sleep become corrupt.

Bosses: Once killed, all bosses turn into statues and have branches grow out of them. They aren’t dead, just dormant. You can fight them again but returning to their fight area and making an offering of a certain amount of tokens. Once defeated again they return to being dormant. If you defeat all resurrected bosses (fought each one twice) you get smth called a Talisman of Blood (important later).

Regular enemies: Idk skeletons???? Giant birds??? Snakes???? Giant insectoids Idk bro???

Location: Like Elden Ring lands between, it’s called Fields of Elation. The capital city is either Nazareth or Jericho. I’ll try to incorporate Calcutta somehow. Geography is a mix of frigid coast, deep dark forest, large cavernous cave strictures, old ruined castles with mysterious rusty machinery inside, sparatic temples to sleep (all whale temples were destroyed), and the remnants of towns. Large trade road that goes through the entirety of the land is called the Path of Reason??? Idk bro I’m spitballing.

Currency: Tokens. Killing enemies and bosses earns you large amounts of tokens and like how runes work, you can level up you and your armaments with them.

Waypoints: Sites of grace, bonfires, more like RITUALS (I am not funny). I think calling waypoints rituals makes sense.

Flasks HP/FP: Estus Flask, Flask of Crimson/Cruelean Tears…. How about Flssk of H I G H W A T E R. Nah I’m kidding. No idea! Suggestions are open! I’m reading lyrics and nothings jumping out.

Incantations/Spells: Can be equipped to magic armaments and weapons! Kinda like you can choose between spell sword or just being a wizard.

Player Character: Tarnished, undead, hunter…. No idea what to call them. Robes and garments Very inspired by TPWBYT. Thinking the whale was an ancient god defeated by Sleep. Player Character is gifted with a certain power of the whale and was resurrected to defeat Sleep. Game opens with epic cutscene and player charter emerges from a cavern (TLYW) and goes through it before finding themselves on the coast of a freezing raging sea and an inviting forest. There’s probably one class you play as cause I’m lazy and you just collect armor and new weapons on the journey. TLYW style robes with greaves, hood, and gauntlets. Basic longsword.

Vessel: I’ve read the feedback and I agree that staff needs to stay. Live laugh staff. I’ve seen a few Elden ring builds where it’s right armament is staff for casting the long range stuff and left armament is a short sword, miséricorde (mercy dagger), scimitar(?), or other various short weapons. I like the image of this because I imagine him having somewhat light armor so if you’re far away, he spell. If you’re close, he stab. Spells are gonna be red. Change my mind. I like the Elden Ring boss Maliketh’s magic attacks so I imagine something like that. I imagine his boss fight starts with epic cut scene with him kneeled in a big arching cathedral temple type place and he’s like, “you seek to defeat the vessel of Sleep, foolish warrior? I have not known defeat against those of the sea nor those of Sleep” or some crazy bs like that. Half health, hands of Sleep show up and swipe and grab and Player Character. Just giant spindly hands that appear and float around. Attempts to break away form Sleep control but fails so that why he evil >:}

II: Dual wielding… what? No idea. I want him to dual wild some sort of straight weapon cause like drumsticks but honestly… sickles are so badass… Med. to light armor so he can move around a lot. Some sort of helmet with feather Mohawk. Boss area is probably in a fort outside of the main city. Just you and this guy. Get ready for a stamina check.

III: I’m torn between frenzied flame/black flame style magic user or spell sword. If magic, light armor. If spell sword, med. armor. Boss fight in a large old temple, candlelit and torn tapestries everywhere. Better have some fire immunity talismans on you.

IV: Halbert. All the way. Heavy armor my guy. Idk not much to say. Thinking banished knight ornstein inspo?? Boss fight Outside the gates to Vessel/Sleep’s castle. Vigor check time!!!

Chokehold: large dark cavern with webs strung about. It appears from above like, “A traitor to Sleep, hm? Pity. You seemed like you would be a good asset to the Vessel’s artillery.” Big axe time. High HP high strength boss. Vulnerable spot is probably its stomach area. Gives you armor, weapon, talisman, and incantation “Branches in a Flood” (roots sprout from the ground and entangle enemy).

The Summoning: Player probably stumbles upon the fight after meeting Aqua Regia and Granite. Mean killing machine. Idk what else to say erm… maybe player interacts with a sleep token symbol on a pillar with runes and it summons (pun intended) the summoning creature??? Stonehenge lookin boss area. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

Granite: Relatively peaceful NPC. Dialogue options are cool and it probably raises stats and alters your armaments. Quest line ends with Granite maybe just becoming dormant or it becomes a member of sleep again and sad boss fight initiates. Drops its armor, axes, root/weed talisman that increases stamina and immunity.

Aqua Regia: Chill and never ends in boss fight. Probably lets you summon them during other boss fights. Spear and sword. Gifts you new armor and talismans. Quest line maybe ends with them becoming too weak to keep battling and becomes dormsnt. You get their armor, spear, sword, rose talisman that raises FP, and a spell/incantation that shoots gold acid rays called Gold Rush or smth similar (Like Aqua Regia? Get it?)

Vore: Awesome boss. Inflicts poison damage for sure. I think we can all imagine how fighting Vore would be. In a poison lake haha it wants you to suffer. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

Ascensionism: Swords swords swords. Pulls a Starscourge Radahn and turns a meteor and player has to dodge lmao (cause yk ascending). Boss area is probably in a giant colosseum that’s old and crumbling. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

Are You Really Okay?: Player character pulls a stupid and decides to touch and inspect the strange incubator with a fetus inside and AYRO appears and is like “DONT TOUCH MY CHILD” initiate boss fight. Small castle is the boss fight area. Armor, weapons, talisman, and incantations are dropped.

The Apparition: Big guy, big hammer. Boss fight is somewhere in a forest clearing. No other ideas for it. Drops weapons, armor, talisman, incantations like everyone else.

DYWTYLM: Chokehold but with tiny dagger and looks like a giant engine. Probably shoots fire from the pipes on its body? Chokehold is PISSED if you defeat this guy first. Brothers fr fr. Boss fight in an old building filled with machinery. Speed is low but HP is super high. Drops armor, weapons, incantations, and talisman.

Rain: Your magic immunity better be HIGH. Renala style fight: Crazy hits, bad defense. Probably drops some crazy cool incantations, armor (really bad armor), and a talisman of fire immunity and raises your FP. Boss fight area is in a shiny crystaly forest area surrounded by weeping willow/wisteria like trees.

Take Me Back To Eden: The last boss before Vessel. Killer fight. Armor is also fire??? Difficult but probably super dope. Boss fight is in a SUPER large hallway in the castle of Sleep. Drops weapons, armor, talisman of resistance against airborne attacks.

Euclid: NPC that’s probably cranky and hesitant to befriend you at first. Still a follower of Sleep but respects the players fate to defeat the sleepmiester (I’m so tired bro—). Might fight you idk.Once dormant, drops and old mask of Vessel, a few incantations, and armor.

Endings: Endings one: You defeat vessel, sleep becomes dormant and no gods rule over the land. Creatures and vessels are resurrected. Endings 2: You defeat vessel and become the new Vessel of Sleep. No difference from first ending, you just chose if ya wanna be evil or not. Endings 3: If you acquire the Talisman of Blood, Sleep sees you worthy to fight them without using a vessel. Radagon Elden Beast situation. When you defeat sleep, the whale is resurrected.

#art #my art #creature #sleep token #soulsborne sleep token

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popstart · 1 year ago

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This is such a gweather win but at what cost. LIKE.... i can see the episode playing out like gwen being gaslit into thinking that this is A Good Idea (its not)

Heather convincing gwen to vote for leshawna because it would look really lame of her if she didnt. it would hint more to the audience that gwen actually cares A Whole Lot about her appearances and how people perceive her (since a lot of people think thats a super thrown on attribute for her to have in all stars) and it would paint gwen as less of a saint

i have a big problem with the way gwen is portrayed to the audience. The writers want her to look like this misunderstood girl so shes painted as this dick in canon but theres nothing about her thats like... even bad until s3 (s2 too with the whole breaking up with trent) but even then gwen was NOT in the wrong for that shit idc.

I think the meanest thing i can recall her doing is calling lindsay an idiot in episode one, when EVERYONE is caught off guard with the state of what wawanakwa is like. Her being in a bad mood is literally the normalest shit that happens in this show im sorry. this show cannot convince me gwen is a bad person, unless it did this. WHICH WOULD BE MILES MORE INTERESTING THAN HOW SHE IS IN CANON. gwen is so fucking BORING DUDE I HATE IT. let this girl be fucked up and insane and EVIL.

If they made gwen stab one of her friends in the back because of her own insecurity it would tackle like the two biggest gripes about the way she is in canon. It would set up her being this insecure freak more (there was also the episode geoff got eliminated. her disliking that geoff wouldnt like her according to her own insecurity but that was also tacked on as fuck) AND it would make her do something actually note worthily bad because of it. she could be actually painted as this underdog in the finale, especially if there were even less people on her side because of that. like seriously. why would half of the people that are on owens team be on owens team besides just being forced on there to make gwen seem like more of a loser. i dont remember owen interacting with majority of them and a lot of them dont seem like the party type. courtney comes to mind but also ezekiel (i guess hes sexist and thats the reasoning i forgot about that) and fuckin idk tyler and harold. AND EVEN THEN....... they didnt know about the party thing. lindsay switched teams when she heard about the party thing. idk maybe im just misremembering about the lack of interactions between characters.

and parallel to the way gwen didnt even vote trent out when he was framed for cheating, leshawna could have seen that heather framed gwen as well. (i think it suits leshawnas character miles better to be forgiving idk. like tda can push this agenda that leshawna is secretly awful but that shit is so unreal to me) gwen could be thinking all day next episode about how bad she feels about voting for leshawna, for letting her insecurities get the better of her, but Gwen and leshawna could make up and be bffs again in the finale. would it be too much to have this thing between both gwent and gweshawna in the same episode? idk maybe. im here to spitball not to be an actual writer (if i were to be an actual writer i would fix gwent from being terribly and awfully executed throughout literally the entire season. pacing issues eaughh.)

this isnt even mentioning how bullshit leshawnas actual canonical elimination is but its talked to death so im not talking about it because i dont really care enough i cant lie.

i hate the writing in tdi so much sometimes actually though. I think if they went this route it would actually be executed shittily bc thats just how it goes in td episodes. like it would be the certifiably worst episode in the entire series barring maybe sundae muddy sundae LOL. au where total drama is good and im not obsessed with the shittiest fucking show on the planet that i actively hate but cant get enough of

#total drama island #total drama #td gwen #td heather #td leshawna

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vro0m · 9 months ago

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This is purely me spitballing, because idk that two teams would agree to it, but considering we've now had drivers 'on loan' to other teams on quite a few occasions, surely there's nothing to stop two teams having a mutual loan scenario? So for example if Merc signs Antonelli and Williams signs Bottas, they could *technically* loan them out to each other for a year whilst retaining them on longer contracts?

Obviously Merc is probably getting the better deal in that situation, but if they threw in engine/parts discounts for Williams too I feel like it's a scenario that could kind of... work? Especially if it was just to fill the gap of 2025.

You mean Williams would have Antonelli and Merc Valtteri and they'd switch once Antonelli has got some practice in?

I guess technically it wouldn't be impossible but I struggle to see why Williams would agree to it. I genuinely don't know if engine / parts discounts are a thing and I'm not sure it would be worth it for them if it is. They've been saying they want to develop their own drivers and keep them rather than see them leave for other teams, and it's even more critical to have a stable line up with the reg change coming.

#vro0m's asks

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nemesis-is-my-middle-name · 1 year ago

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Maybe giratina is just like, not supposed to be in the mortal plane. When it's there it starts to destabilize the integrity of reality, not because of anything it actually does just because it has a passive ability to make things go haywire. Arceus probably does too, that's why it has to send Akari to stop reality from being completely destroyed if Volo's plan succeeds. Volo wants to summon giratina for vaguely similar canon reasons or something, but giratina has no actual say here, if they summoned it they had plans to trap it as well. So race against the clock to take down Volo before he pulls a Cyrus?

"vaguely similar canon reasons" so like, basically no reason, lol

jkjk no this is an interesting idea. i do like the idea that giratina is sort of passive and has no say more say in the situation than the rest of them do, it's just being used for its power. that's interesting.

maybe this whole thing ties back into ingo and emmet's big question mark of a situation. like there's some sort of global conflict or disaster happening that's larger scale than even akari&co are grappling with right now, and giratina is like, part of volo's answer to it.

maybe, and here i'm really just spitballing, but maybe there's been some sort of realization or discovery about the nature of magic in the course of like, the studies of scientists like laventon, that has suddenly destabilized accepted understanding of it. like, the well is poisoned at the source, something's inherently corruptive about it now or something. which would also explain why the wardens get involved with akari? if they're trying to fix it, too.

and then i guess that corruption, if it exists, would have to be giratina's doing? or, or maybe, arceus isn't actually for or against giratina, but one or the other of them has been like, wounded, or sickened somehow, and it's throwing off the entire balance of reality. and akari's quest is to heal it, but she doesn't know that yet. all anyone knows is magic is getting very subtly fucky, and it isn't interfering with everyday stuff yet, but nobody wants to find out what direction it's headed in if it keeps growing.

idk or that might all be nothing. like i said. i'm spitballing here.

#the nemesis speaks #the nemesis answers #anonymous #ley lines au

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sparklyeevee · 2 years ago

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I honestly think a lot of this (not all, anarchists can be as ableist as anyone else) is a communication issue, because these things kind of get reduced to shorthand and because a lot of anarchists are answering the same bad-faith questions we've heard a million times, rather than what was actually asked.

I don't think I could make a very good wheelchair ramp, but I know at least three people who could, at least one of whom is local to me, so in a properly anarchist society, if someone is like "Hey Eevee, the venue for your poetry reading doesn't have a fucking ramp." And then I would be like "Shit, you're right. Hey Steve, can you come help me build a ramp for this place?" and he'll come help, and if neither of us knows what the specifications are, we can look it up or ask someone else, and while I can't reliably build a sturdy ramp with the necessary traits, Steve can once he knows what they are. Obviously we need ways of making sure that if you don't have someone with the relevant skills or expertise in your own social circles, you can get ahold of them anyway, but like, that's doable.

Same deal with insulin. I don't know a damn thing about the large scale production of insulin, but the people who do, and the facilities necessary to do it, aren't going to just stop existing. They know how to do the thing properly, and what appropriate safety standards are and all that, and nothing about anarchism should stop them from doing it. Some of the people who currently do that would probably rather do something else, but there are probably also people who currently don't have that skill set or do that work, and would like to. If that doesn't balance out and we don't have enough people making insulin, or involved in distributing insulin, or idk, maintaining the equipment for it, then we have a problem, but the solution to that problem really is kinda "cross that bridge when we come to it" because it depends on particulars I can't possibly predict. Idk, are there other issues? Is like, a lot of the insulin used in the US being produced somewhere that would make it impractical to get it to the people who need it without capitalism's staggering disregard for the environment or the well-being of transportation workers? If we need more...insulin factories? I guess? So we don't have to move it as far, that's probably something that can be done. Again, I know fuck all about insulin. I'm one guy. I'm an herbalist and a writer and I can darn your socks pretty good. I've attempted to give the long answer here, but the short answer is "I don't know, but there are other people who do and I trust them."

Again, some anarchists are ableist fuckweasels, and many anarchists will try to spitball you an answer or pretend the fact that a problem is probably solvable means we don't need to think about it. And they shouldn't do that. But I'd maybe try asking an anarchist who is actually involved in insulin production because the rest of us don't really know what we're talking about on that particular thing.

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piracytheorist · 2 years ago

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Twilight recognizing Yor's lullaby as one his mother used to sing to him is a very interesting detail regarding the history and culture of Westalis and Ostania.

(keep in mind I don't read the manga so I don't know any details revealed there)

While there are real life cases of neighboring nations sharing parts of their culture, there are signs that point to Westalis and Ostania having once been a united nation. The main real-world influence being West and East Germany, the two nations speaking the same language, having shared songs... maybe the war is what created the line between them in the first place. Westalis pertains to "West" and Ostania to "East" and many people in the story simply use "west" and "east" to refer to the respective country... as if it's not that much of a different country.

In such a case, it would make even more pointed how the first conflict between extremists and "pacifists" we saw in the story was between young university students and the WISE agents. The former were not born when the war broke out*, thus never saw the united country and they now believe in Ostanian supremacy. The latter were old enough to see the war break out and have their lives torn apart by it, and none of their motives include Westalian supremacy - because they remember the time where Westalis didn't even exist? So the idea of supremacy means nothing to them?

* I don't know how old Twilight is supposed to be, but aside from Nightfall and the newer recruits, he seems to be among the youngest in the agency. Now, the few flashbacks we've seen of him in the anime, were they in the beginning or the midst of the war? The old woman in episode 12 says that has been her life for "decades" so there's an actual chance that Twilight was born during the war. But in any case, anyone who's even a few years younger than him won't remember a peaceful time without divided nations. Idk I'm just guessing and spitballing here. I don't want spoilers.

That's interesting to think about because it might point to how the story will end. I cannot imagine the story ending with Twilight perpetually staying a spy, and considering how strong his motives are (at the detriment of his own self), he's not gonna want to retire if the cold war doesn't end for good.

And maybe that's just me looking too much into it, but maybe that end won't come without a unification. Again, the influence was West and East Germany - two nations that are now one. And if you think "That's too hopeful" I've heard older people say they never expected for Germany to reunite before it did (I'm curious to hear opinions from any Germans but I'm too bored to search lmao feel free to comment though). So... you know. I mean, if Endo wanted to leave the implications vague, it's not like he doesn't live right opposite another divided country that has been in a war stalemate for more than half a century and cannot draw inspiration from there.

Idk again just throwing ideas into the wind. Don't spoil me if the manga gives more info.

#nette speaks #spy x family

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makeste · 4 years ago

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so let’s talk about the new bak-u-go stuff

hey guys, so long story short, I took all of the bak-u-go stuff out of my weekly liveblog/recap post, and put it into its own separate post so that it didn’t take over the recap completely. so this is my big “all of my thoughts about the second OFA user’s vestige in chapter 304” post, basically.

my opinion going into the chapter

okay so without mincing words, my very controversial stance on this theory going in was more or less, “yes, I do think that maybe that Bakugou-shaped shadow who looks exactly like Bakugou could, in fact, be Bakugou.” not only that, but it strikes me as much more feasible than the alternatives, “Bakugou’s ancestor who looks exactly like him was the second user of OFA for some reason, and Horikoshi keeps hiding his face because... we don’t really know”, or “this is just some random guy with spiky hair, and again his face is being hidden just because.”

like, there is some reason we’re not allowed to know what he looks like, especially at this point. and writing-wise, there are really only three possible explanations for this. (1) it’s a red herring meant to trick us for some reason, (2) his character design hasn’t been completed yet, or (3) something about this character’s appearance is a spoiler, and the reveal is supposed to be a surprise.

regarding (1), I actually think this is the case with the Third. clearly he is not Kirishima as some had speculated. he doesn’t appear to be familiar at all. so if that’s the case, why is his face also being hidden? my theory is that it’s simply to lampshade the fact that the Second is being hidden as well. if Second was the only vestige whose face we couldn’t see, it would be beyond obvious at that point that he was someone familiar to us. having another vestige doing the same weird stuff makes him stand out slightly less.

anyways though, as far as Second himself being a red herring, I guess he could be. but a red herring for what? not to say it isn’t possible, but I don’t really see what the purpose would be.

regarding (2), this is a remote possibility, but imo it would be pretty uncharacteristic of Horikoshi. plus by this point he’s had more than enough time to flesh the design out. all of the other vestige character designs are completed, and we’ve seen all of Second and Third except their fronts and faces by this point. so I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this isn’t the reason.

which leaves (3): this character’s identity is important in some way, and is being purposely kept secret. this to me implies that it must be someone we know (because otherwise it wouldn’t be a spoiler). which basically means that no matter what, the possibilities are about to get weird.

my thoughts on the new “evidence” in the chapter

first off, my biggest impression is that there really isn’t much new evidence at all either way lol. but okay, let’s review what we got.

I’m ignoring Third at this point because I honestly have no idea who he is. he may very well be someone we haven’t met yet, so I don’t think there’s much point in speculating. so let’s focus on Second instead.

the hair

first off, his hair isn’t quite right to be Bakugou’s. it’s darker than Bakugou’s hair usually is, at least in the close-up, and also the hair on the nape of his neck doesn’t quite look right; it’s got more of an undercut vibe than Bakugou’s usually does. Bakugou’s hair is usually more out-of-control dandelion puff from the back.

so yeah, I’m not sold by this image. though on the other hand, I will say that as far as the argument that his hair is too dark, that’s undermined by the wide angle panel right before the close-up in which his hair isn’t colored in at all.

so yeah, it could just be something about the lighting in the close-up. also, the RHA scan seems to have upped the contrast a bit more than the original image.

here it doesn’t seem to be quite as dark compared to the wall he’s standing against. I could be wrong, though; we’ll get a better idea when the official version is released in a couple days.

but overall the style of the hair seems more off to me than the color. on the whole, I’m not really convinced either way here, so I’ll move on.

the rest of him

okay so first off, obviously this is not Bakugou’s current hero costume in any way, shape or form. honestly my first thought was “what is Shippuuden-era Naruto doing here in the OFA Mystical Space Land” lol. so yeah, no idea what that’s all about.

however he does have gauntlets! so this is definitely someone with some sort of arm or hands-related quirk. and Kacchan does have a new gauntlet design that we’ll see in movie 3, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that these could be another new design along those lines. that said, these are clearly not his current big ugly grenade-style gauntlets.

last but not least, this person seems older than Bakugou, which for me makes me considerably less enthused about the possibilities here, since I’m a weirdo who likes the idea of a timeskip even less than most people seem to like the idea of time travel, lol. then again there really isn’t much here to support that “he seems older” statement; that’s just the general vibe I get from him, idk.

I will say though that he has Kacchan’s same triangle-shaped torso with the same broad shoulders and upper back tapering down into a more slender build. that stuck out to me right away when I looked at this image. but he really does give off Naruto vibes as well lol, like I can’t unsee it sob.

anyway, and last but not least,

the hidden faces

because so far most of the attention seems to be on their appearances. but those aside, this chapter introduces a very interesting question that this mystery will have to address one way or the other. namely, why are these two vestiges turned around and not interacting with the others?

“so that we can’t see their faces, duh” -- no, I get that, lol. but let’s talk in-story explanation now. why are they huddled in the time-out corner not moving or speaking? what could possibly be the reason for that. we can see them clearly enough, so we know that they’re “unlocked” and fully formed in that sense. All Might’s vestige is the only one that’s not yet visible, and supposedly that’s because he was quirkless?? and so he didn’t have a quirk factor that could be passed down through OFA initially. though I didn’t quite understand all of that part tbh.

but so then what’s the deal with these two losers? are they just antisocial or what? OFA First says that the vestige souls which were chilling out inside of OFA gradually gained the ability to take a physical form as OFA grew more powerful. and these two clearly have taken a physical form. so then why don’t they talk? there are only a few explanations for this that I can see.

(1) it could be that these guys are still alive, just like All Might (who doesn’t seem to be able to speak either, although the other vestiges can communicate with him in other ways).

(2) or, these guys are purposely hiding from Deku for some reason. (or at least, hiding as best as they can in this weird little rock slab floating in space.)

that’s it. if anyone else can think of more possibilities let me know because I’ve been sitting here racking my brain lol. this is all I can come up with. and honestly, either of these explanations would be suspicious as hell, theory-wise. if these two vestiges are still alive, that almost guarantees time travel right there. and if it’s simply that they’re hiding themselves from Deku, then that begs the question of why. which, again, leads us back to “they’re familiar, and Deku would recognize them.” (though that last bit goes against what I was saying earlier about the Third, doesn’t it. honestly I’m just spitballing here now, I haven’t really thought this all out too thoroughly.)

soooo... yeah. that’s pretty much where I’m at. nothing about this seems to make any more sense than it did a chapter ago tbh. though I will end this post by addressing one more thing, just cuz.

“this theory is dumb and makes no sense”

the correct statement to make here isn’t “this makes no sense”; it’s “we don’t know what’s going on yet.” if and when we finally get an explanation, then we can start making judgments about how much sense it does or doesn’t make. but until then we have nothing to base that verdict on.

same thing with “it’s dumb” -- look, “I hate time travel plots because they rarely work” is a valid opinion. but “rarely” isn’t the same thing as “never.” there are good time travel plots out there. idk why everyone keeps rolling with the assumption that this is going to be some cliche plot hole-filled science fiction bs narrative with a tragic ending. we have literally nothing to base that on. we have no answers and a whole lot of questions, is what we have.

maybe it will be disproven! or maybe it won’t, and it will be exactly as awful as everyone thinks and it will ruin the manga entirely. or maybe it will actually be really cool. we don’t know yet. that’s my one and only conclusion here -- that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions. but then again I guess it wouldn’t be BnHA fandom if we didn’t. anyway so thus concludes my post.

#bnha 304 #bakugou katsuki #bak-u-go #bnha theories #bnha meta #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #makeste reads bnha #and now I gotta get back to editing the recap post which is a hot mess rn lol #I might be later than usual with that today #it was a weird chapter and I had to read multiple translations to figure out wth was going on #but anyways

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actual-fucking-clown · 4 years ago

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I just heard that you're doing requests!!! I already love your content and fully agree that Natsuo Todoroki is King~!!! If I may bother to ask a request? Just all the hcs you want to write about Ice Man bc it's getting to June where I live, and I don't mind cooling down~

Tera, my beloved, I'm going to be honest I literally fucking screamed upon seeing this request!!! I’ve been reading your fics before I even had like an acc here, so we vibin :) Also after the day I’ve had I need some fucking Ice man in my life n hopefully doing this will help me write my way out of the writers block that has been plaguing me for months!!!!

Future Blue here to say I had up to like all done last night and then my internet ate shit and I lost everything after 5. smfh. Woulda been done last night but the loss of my writing got me fucked up lolololololol. N e way

Warnings: cursing obvi, uh like nsfw for a hc or 2, my unorganized hcs that really follow no succinct line of thought and might not even be actual hcs???????

So Natsuo,

There is not a thing I wouldn’t do for this man, bc honestly after all the shit he’s put up with he deserves the world and then some. But I digress.

1. I think he’s a hesitant but attentive boyf. Like he seems like a genuinely friendly dude but I think it’d take him a while to properly warm up to someone enough to date them. And even then I think he might struggle to open up to his partner about anything like, emotionally. Not to say he’s entirely emotionally closed off or anything but somethings are just harder to trust people with. The main thing being his familial issues. And of course that’s were most of this stems from.

Now for the attentive part. His family dynamic has set a precedent on what not to do in a relationship so he’s always hyper aware of the things he or his s/o does, trying his best to avoid making any of the mistakes his parents made. Of course if he finds the right person he’ll be surprised to find that having a non-toxic relationship can be less stressful than he thought. It’s like a huge weight was just lifted from his shoulders.

2. He’s fucking hella romantic. Like he’s shitty romance movie romantic. He’s out here trying his best n woof. Gimme gimme. On date nights he pulls out all the stops. Sometimes it’s a nice classic dinner date at a pretty nice restaurant downtown, or it’s a picnic in the park at noon, or it’s stargazing from the roof of his or his s/o’s dorm/apartment/house, or driving out to a beach just for a long walk at sunset, or road trips to nowhere in particular. I could go on, I really could but you get the gist.

3. He’s got shitty pickup lines for days. Whenever I say shitty I mean like “god I hate it but at the same time I love it” kinda shitty. But yeah he likes to see his s/o’s reaction to his stupid pickup lines, whether they get flustered, or die laughing, or groan and make a snide remark, he’s here for it. Shoot one back at him and he get’s so absolutely red. Mans wasn’t ready. Mans will never be ready.

4. This just came to me but let’s be honest a lot of us here, myself included, have some sort of fucking daddy kink and like, I get it obvi but in this situation never call this man daddy. I feel like for him that is an instant turn off. I’m sorry to everyone I’m letting down but sometimes daddy issues don’t lead to a daddy kink.

5. But on the topic of kinks I think this man is pretty vanilla, he doesn’t scream “freak” to me, you know? Just normal amazing sex. Oh but he does enjoy hella praise both receiving and giving.

6. Hopping off that train of thought and onto another I think he kinda tries to keep his s/o as far away from his family as possible. He doesn’t hate them (when I say them you know i mean everyone except Enji bc he avoids that man like the plague and like keeping his s/o far far far away from that man was a given), no he just likes to have something so utterly untouched by his family issues. Mans needs a breath of fresh air.

-These next 2 I think will veer off from being hcs a bit and just like shit that I like to think about in general. Does that make sense? Who knows lololol. N e way. I like to think a lot about two aspects of this man, well 1 aspect of the man himself and one....dynamic? It’ll make sense in a few so just hear me out.

7. Ok so like I saw this post somewhere eons and eons ago. It was long before current manga events, maybe around the time we’d just gotten Natsuo in the manga. My memory of this post is hazy at best so bear with me as I stumble over my thoughts. Obvi at this point in time we had little to nothing on this beautiful, beautiful man, so people were left to theorize. So this one post, was really that shitty meme where it’s like “small brain if you think such n such, bigger brain if this, n galaxy brain if this, etc., etc.” Where in essence it was like, “He probably has a weak ice quirk but what if some sort of ice based healing quirk or no quirk at all!” N i think about it a lot to this day. I don’t believe that either of those are true but I do think it is absolutely immaculate food for thought so uh do with that what you will.

8. I guess this is back on hc territory but Natsuo isn’t picky with who he dates, as long as you’re not an asshole he’s kinda set, good to go. Now most of the fics for him you’ll see are like “ay yo, you’re another college hoe or like you’re just a civilian” but like what would the dynamic be if he dated a hero?????? I don’t think he hates heroes but his father has definitely had an impact on his view of them. He’s not enamored with them like I guess the rest of the population is so what if hero s/o?????? Perhaps?????? Have I suddenly had a fic idea??????? I like the idea of Natsuo with a like super popular Pro hero s/o or with like a super lowkey underground hero idk this whole post has been me spitballing shit.

9. Back onto proper hcs, it’s a common one that mans runs cold and ugh pls yes. It is also June rn and while the past few days have been cool and sexy the weeks prior had been hellish and on top of that I despise summer so give me all of that. Mans is your personal ac, he’s not opposed to his s/o just spending a hellishly hot day laying on top of him as they watch garbage reality tv.

10. Can we talk love language? Physical touch. He just radiates that energy. Probably touch starved, obviously due to you know what. But yeah definitely a hard physical touch. (Which is actually my least favorite love language considering I’m quite ✨𝓣𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓻𝓮𝓹𝓾𝓵𝓼𝓮𝓭 ✨but hey I’m not here to project I’m just here to tell you what I see n therefore think) He likes to be touching his s/o like 24/7. Out in public shopping or some shit? Holding hands, linked pinkies, arm around the shoulders or waist. At home? Sheesh be ready to be smothered bb.

TLDR: What a man 🥵

I think I’ve gotten most if not all of my thoughts about our beloved ice man out. I hope you enjoyed my nonsensical ramblings :)

Have a good morning/afternoon/night!!!!!

#natsuo x reader #natsuo todoroki x reader #natsuo todoroki #mha xreader #mha #bnha #bnha x reader #BNHA Headcanons #mha headcanons #asks #god i hope at least some of this made sense #thanks for the request I had a fucking ball writing all this shit #:)

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aluria-sevhex · 6 months ago

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REVISITING THESE NOW THAT I'VE BEATEN THE GAME

featuring: i know everybody's pronouns now! although... everybody's pronouns are just further down on the Steam page... i may be stupid

obviously, spoilers below the read more

Siffrin: ---YEAH MY MENTALLY ILL ASEXUAL NON-BINARY FAVE

blorbo

little floofy wizard guy

---wizards aren't real :P

could commit war crimes and i would probably still love them

traumatized

idk wtf he did but they fucked up somehow. you do not end up in a time loop unless things have gone wrong.

---yeah a lot went wrong. also he LOVES HIS FAMILY SO MUCH IT NEARLY DESTROYED THE UNIVERSE TwT

needs a hug

depressed? depressed

crushed by existential dread

ok based on some of these moments in the trailers they did something horribly unspeakable

---eh yeah i guess. i mean. that Sadness got fucked up lmao. and. Act 5. but the moment in the trailer i was thinking of was in response to Sif being too good at fucking up Sadnesses

Basil energy AND THAT MAKES ME WORRIED FOR HIM "everything's fine :')" NO IT FUCKING ISN'T

---it was, in fact, not fucking fine

---congratulations to Siffrin In Stars and Time to being a concerningly relatable protagonist

Isabeau:

gay for Siffrin

---IT TOOK HIM THE ENTIRE GAME DJHSGEHFHDNS

seems chill

likes Bonnie's cooking AS THEY *he SHOULD

Mirabelle: ---YEAHHHH MY AROACE QUEEN

really sweet! will fuck you up

yeah sorry i don't have much

Bonnie:

cooking gremlin

has sister issues or obtains them during the course of the story

---:( Nille...

would not want to be around in the kitchen because they're a terrifying force of nature i don't trust myself to not fuck up the food XD

Odile:

suffered for a phd

actually knows what they're *she's doing

also gay

---i mean. nothing contradicts it? but no actual evidence. however the exchange about multiple names and the one about the legality of Body Craft in Ka Bue are evidence for her possibly being trans

-----COMMENT ON THE COMMENT: I LOOKED IT UP AND INSERTDISC HAS CONFIRMED THAT IN CANON SHE IS SIMPLY 'queer' AND IS TOO OLD TO CARE ABOUT LABELS. HONESTLY MOOD TBH

babysitting everybody

---well her reason for joining the group was that leaving the task of saving the country to a bunch of young'ins would give her an ulcer so i guess?

---Odile's friendquest managed to somehow hit me in the relatability feels even tho my last connection to <redacted part of ancestry> is several generations ago. <redacted elaboration>

star head guy *Loop:

bitch

are they the reason Siffrin's in a loop?

---WELL. UH. WELL NO. BUT ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY YES KINDA DEPENDING ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT.

they know about the loop

will probably be like "oh i'll help you :)" and end up being a late-game boss

---hey if anybody who saw the initial post sees this reblog, quick question: did you find this guess funny

"have you tried not dying?" have you tried shutting the fuck up

---i can't believe i've gotten attached enough to this wonderful bitch to wanna get "Behind the scenes"

coping with the fact that i don't have ISAT by looking at the stuff on the Steam page and compiling my impressions of the characters

perhaps i should've used visuals but fuck it we ball

uhhhh using 'they' by default because i only know Siffrin's pronouns. also i'm not sure about Bonnie and Odile's names but like there's trailer footage of them attacking while the narration calls them that so. uh yeah.

Siffrin:

blorbo

little floofy wizard guy

could commit war crimes and i would probably still love them

traumatized

idk wtf he did but they fucked up somehow. you do not end up in a time loop unless things have gone wrong

needs a hug

depressed? depressed

crushed by existential dread

ok based on some of these moments in some of the trailers they did something horribly unspeakable

Basil energy AND THAT MAKES ME WORRIED FOR HIM "everything's fine :')" NO IT FUCKING ISN'T

Isabeau:

gay for Siffrin

seems chill

likes Bonnie's cooking AS THEY SHOULD

Mirabelle:

really sweet! will fuck you up!

yeah sorry i don't have much

possibly Bonnie's sister but i may just be grasping at straws, my only evidence is they both have darker skin than the other group members and the fact that there has to be a reason this kid is going on dangerous adventures

Bonnie:

cooking gremlin

has sister issues or obtains them during the course of the story

would not want to be around in the kitchen because they're a terrifying force of nature

literal child???

Odile:

suffered for a phd

actually knows what they're doing

also gay

babysitting everybody

star head guy:

bitch

are they the reason Siffrin's in a loop?

they know about the loop

will probably be like "oh i'll help you :)" and end up being a late-game boss

"have you tried not dying?" have you tried shutting the fuck up

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #homegrown post #aluria rambles

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bigskydreaming · 4 years ago

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And another thing, he said as if its ever just ONE more thing, hahahaha look, fuck you numbers, I’m not about to be limited by the likes of YOU.

Anyway.

Anyone else think its kinda weird that in all the many years of “Dick not so secretly resented Jason because Bruce adopted him and made him Robin and that’s why they were never close” fics.......there seem to be a big whopping zero that take the fix-it approach:

“What if Bruce had been aware of the tension between the two because he’s not actually a Dumb Dumb McStupidhead and thought to himself, gee, if only there was something I, the parent, had the power to do about this resentment from one brother based on something I, the parent, did for the other brother who never did anything because he is not the parent and also he did nothing wrong? What if given that I and my actions are the actual problem here, I, the parent, he who holdeth both the actual power in this family as the parent and the power as the problem-causer, to address the problem.....like what if I got off my ‘matches with Batman’ butt and.....did...something? About it?”

Like.....oh I don’t know, just spitballing here....maybe explaining to Jason just what it was Dick was resentful about when it came to Robin and that Jason wasn’t the one Dick was actually mad at, which more than likely would have prompted the extremely empathetic at this age Jason to take Dick’s side and be like wtf, you gotta fix this B.

Or maybe like, going to Dick and expressing how sorry he is that he didn’t consider how Dick would feel about any of this and that he’s let it go unaddressed for so long since then, which more than likely would have NOT resulted in Dick continuing to hold a grudge against an innocent third party but rather be like thank you this is literally all I ever wanted, a fucking acknowledgment that you’d hurt me and that my being hurt mattered to you?

Or if the problem is more Dick being resentful that Bruce adopted Jason and not him, maybe Bruce explaining this to Jason and that Jason wasn’t the one Dick was actually mad at, which again, more than likely would have prompted the extremely empathetic Jason to go umm, wtf are you talking to me about this for then, if you think he’s upset about that why the fuck aren’t you going to talk to him about it and tell him all this stuff about regretting not adopting him before now and sparing him this hurt instead? Like what are you waiting for old man, your fucking helicopter to come pick you up? NOW. Go NOW. You’re not getting any younger, geez Louise, why are old people so dumb.

Or maybe like.....Bruce going to Dick and expressing how sorry he is that he didn’t consider how Dick would feel about.....look, you see where I’m going with this, right? You get it? Its not actually all that tricky to grasp?

Or hell, maybe even just in a fic where Jason nurses his own resentment over the fact that he’s heard so much about Dick and looked forward to meeting him and yet months and months go by since Jason’s adoption and in all that time his alleged big brother apparently can’t even be bothered to come introduce himself, RIP Jason’s feelings, guess he can’t possibly matter all that much to the guy, way to welcome him to the family......

I mean, its not like THAT thought neeeeeeever comes up in fic, so its like, hmmm, counterpoint, but where are all the fics that take the angle of rather than let Jason think he doesn’t matter to his predecessor and let Dick take all the blame for this impression when there’s LITERALLY nothing Dick could do about it since he found out about Jason from the freaking newspaper months after the adoption and only after Jason debuted as Robin.....maybe Bruce, could again, just like....start a conversation. And be like Jason I seem to have inadvertently given you the wrong impression here, but trust me, Dick not coming to meet you before now had nothing whatsoever to do with you and was purely because I never actually told him about you.

Again, cut to Jason, the actual brains of the family at this point in time, staring at Bruce with his mouth hanging open:

“Wait, so you’re telling me that after the two of you had this big fight and you haven’t seen him in like eighteen months, AND after his eighteenth birthday came and went without you bothering to even call him and let him know you still wanted him in your life despite him no longer legally being your ward, AND after you went and took me in and adopted me......you never at any point picked up the phone and said hey kid that I raised and consider family and still want to be part of my family no matter how long its been since we talked......I just thought you should know, given that we’re still family and all, that our family is now bigger, because that’s information that is kinda key to give to people you consider family, as NOT keeping them in that loop could kinda sorta maaaaaaybe give them the impression that you DON’T think of them that way or else you would have thought this was relevant information for them to have?”

Bruce: I’m not sure I see where you’re going with this.

Jason: How are you this dumb. No but seriously. HOW.

Anywho, cut to me, twiddling my thumbs here all super casual like.....

But HMMM, isn’t it WEIRD how fandom, which is totally better than canon, and definitely does not have patience for that unnecessary family angst porn DC is so obsessed with and just wants these goshdarn idiots to be a FAMILY, like......neeeeeeeeever utilizes the transformative power of fanfic and their much more reliable takes on Good Parent Bruce Wayne to like....have Bruce....do something about the problems between past Dick and Jason? In any of these fics? And instead has him just....let the opportunities to make things better for them, AND HIMSELF in the process, just like.....sail away into the rear view mirror, waving a hand at them as they pass, content to let things fester and worsen until cut to after Jason’s return, like.....oh gee, really wish something could have been done about the relationship between Dick and Jason way back when, maybe Jason could have benefited from another close relationship in his life then and maybe Dick might not be as bad off now if he wasn’t burdened with unnecessary guilt over having had human emotions when he was a teenager?

So so SO weird that this angle never comes up or gets tackled in ANY fics that emphasize Dick’s alleged history of being an asshole to Jason and the reason they were never close or barely knew each other. I mean, its such an EASY and OBVIOUS fix to all that, don’t you think?

Unless, of course.....in the fics that make an emphasis of this fandom created dynamic.....its not actually considered a problem to fix at all.

But rather, this manufactured dynamic IS the fix, to what they see as the ACTUAL problem......any kind of real or explored focus on what Bruce actually DID and didn’t do, that caused the resentment they’re all too happy to show Dick nursing, but seem keeeeeeeeenly deft in avoiding any exploration of him FEELING. Except of course when it comes to a reason for him to feel even guiltier BECAUSE of it.

Its almost like we would have had a ton more variety in how fics depict the early years between Dick and Jason, perks of this oh so easily arrived at fix-it angle.....unless those fics were always doing exactly what they intended by keeping every one in the comments sections so busy commenting on what a jerk Dick was in that chapter or in the older events that chapter mentioned, that they just so happen to never really spend much time considering Bruce’s inciting choices back then to be AS worthy of comment or criticism.

Idk you guys, I just happen to find it kinda hilar in that ‘what a weird coeenkeedink kinda way’ that so many of the things a lot of fandom are EXTREMELY loud about holding against Dick (whether Dick did or not actually do those things in the first place)....just so happen to be the very things that most of these same people REFUSE to ever hold Bruce accountable for, or admit that he actually did.

Y’know, like how Bruce never actually fired Dick as Robin, that was just a retcon (when there’s literally been more versions of events where Dick WAS fired than WASN’T at this point).....but meanwhile, Dick very much definitely did FIRE Tim, that was exactly how that went down.

Or how similarly, Bruce neeeeeever actually kicked Dick out, let alone made him give back his keys, but Dick DEFINITELY kicked Tim out of house and Gotham.....even though Dick literally did none of that and in fact was living at the penthouse the whole time he was Batman, meaning Wayne Manor was perfectly available to be Tim’s home base the whole time, if he’d wanted it.

Or how Bruce has never lifted a finger at his eldest, or thrown any kind of a temper tantrum, because he is a good person who would obviously never ever do that, BUT if the son he spent the longest time raising just so HAPPENS to end up with a reputation of having a hair-trigger temper, going off at the drop of a hat, blowing things all out of proportion and lashing out physically whenever he’s overwhelmed emotionally.....well, that certainly has nothing to do with Bruce or anything he’s ever done, lol why would it, BUT its definitely something that needs to be commented on time and time again because it very much did happen all these times in canon, whereas all these times you’re talking about with Bruce are very clearly out of character writing because see, Bruce just isn’t like that, uh doy.

Or how Bruce definitely wasn’t being problematic as hell when it came to his non-interactions with Dick back when Jason was living with him, but Dick’s non-interactions with Jason are 10000x more worthy of comment and criticism. And Dick’s responsibilities towards the emotional wellbeing of the kid he didn’t pick to be his family and wasn’t even actually legally family with at the time, let alone actually obligated to, are definitely the same as Bruce’s responsibilities to the emotional wellbeing of both the kids he did actually pick to be his family and did actually make obligations to. Thus the one is definitely more deserving of a call-out post than the other....wait, what? Dammit, I was SURE my math checked out on that one this time. Well fuck a duck, now I am THOROUGHLY flummoxed by all this.

Yup.....

Just really funny in that lmao ‘actually not at all sorta’ way, how its the extremely PRECISE things that so many fans absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge Bruce ever doing, that they just can’t help but ‘expose’ as a mere retcon, bad writing, ooc behavior, writers just ‘not getting who Bruce Wayne is,’ etc, etc, whenever it does get brought up by other people....

It just so happens to be these very specific things that come up time and time again as the things people just WILL NOT LET GO when it comes to Dick doing them.....even when.....in most cases he didn’t even actually do them! Not because they were ‘mere retcons’ or just ‘bad writing’ or ‘ooc behavior’ or ‘writers just not getting who Dick Grayson is’....but because they literally. Did not. Happen. Until fandom for some reason - ‘despite’ HATING canon for having Bruce do THESE VERY SAME THINGS - put their own interpretative or transformative spin on things and MADE those things happen in such huge numbers that a lot of new fans coming into fandom by way of fics honestly believe that THESE are the canon moments and its the ones attributed to Bruce that are just fans of other characters having their sour grapes moments.

I mean....

You gotta laugh.

Anyway. So I mean, unless I’m just totally reading the room wrong, I’d have to hazard a guess that the only real reason we NEVER see fics addressing things the way I outlined in my earliest examples at the start of this post.....is that a whole lot of fandom just kinda decided over the years that it was just waaaaaay easier to just redirect peoples’ ire at other characters, away from Bruce, than it was to go to the trouble of like....actually ADDRESSING Bruce’s pesky little canon mistakes.

Cuz see....writing a happier, more united Batfam in the years before Jason’s death is only a fix-it fic if the problem you’re fixing is the family’s relationships.....and not ‘Bruce acknowledging - let alone taking ownership of - his mistakes.’ If the latter is the REAL problem, well a more ‘together’ family isn’t something you actually need at all....you just need someone else to pin its divisiness on.

But I digress.

Aaaaaanyway.....now standard stock disclaimer that as I’ve always always always said....I don’t actually hate Bruce nor do I have anything whatsoever against Good Dad Bruce.....my issues are always just with peoples’ approach to his canon mistakes or poor writing being to double down on the problem but just make it someone else’s. And that one little thing where the Smartest Man In The World can come up with a way to fight Doomsday with a paper clip and some chewing gum, but goshdarnnit if he’s not completely helpless and powerless when it comes to fixing his own mistakes or interceding in his childrens’ emotional problems.

(As in by just y’know, parenting them. Sitting them down for a conversation. No, bugging their apartments and calling that his love language doesn’t count.)

Also, an Honorable Mention Pet Peeve goes out to all the fans who love to dismiss Dick Grayson stans raising this issue because ‘this sort of thing happens with all the characters’ when lololololol, no, it really actually does not. Given the weeeeeeeird similarities and parallels in the very specific things we tend to gripe about Bruce doing in canon and others tend to gripe about Dick doing in fanon, like, I’d actually think some of you would be a bit more empathetic about how much it sucks seeing your fave character condemned for stuff like this, given the lengths you go to when avoiding acknowledging Bruce doing it. But then again, that would defeat the point of attributing all that to a Bruce scapegoat instead of a Bruce in the first place, so I mean, I guess not actually.

But whatevs. I guess I’m just not able to grasp the nuances of how people criticizing or even fixating on some of Bruce’s worse actions in canon gains the ire of fans who are like, I am just here rolling my eyes at you guys for being so addicted to your shitty misery porn that you like, just loooooove going with the takes where Bruce is just the worst person ever and a totally shitty dad....

While meanwhile.....many of those exact same fans.....

Two seconds later: Now if you don’t mind, we have to get back to making up scenarios and bad faith interpretations that paint Dick as being just the worst person ever and a totally shitty brother or son. But in a not-that-we’re-addicted-to-shitty-misery-porn kinda way or whatever, because we’re obvs SO not, that’s YOU guys, this is totally different. We don’t LIKE doing this, we’re only doing it because we HAVE to. It has nothing to do with us not actually minding the writing or the content of what’s being written whatsoever, we just don’t like that it makes Bruce look bad, and as long as you keep fixating on how it makes Bruce look like, duh, what other choice do we have but to make someone else look worse instead? When you think about it, this is all your fault, really.

Anyway. You just gotta love the takeaway.

Us: Griping about something Bruce does in canon and how the writers portrayed it and any resulting followup.

Others in Fandom: manufactures a parallel scenario with Bad Brother/Son Dick Grayson out of a single out of context panel, tinfoil and some dental floss.

Fandom: These two situations are the same.

Us: Okay but see they’re really fucking not tho, is the thing....

#its a Friday night gripe #and Im feeling ripe....#wait. no #thats not a thing i take it back guys I promise Im not ripe I bathe Im hygienic #I Swear

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tovanori · 4 years ago

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I miss having a crush or just being in a relationship, I miss the feeling of it. But idk if I’ll ever be good enough to be in one anymore.

Idk what I really miss, the honey moon feeling I guess. But when I think about relationships I always think about how I have nothing to offer. I can barely sustain myself, how else am I gonna help someone else. But also I know that they’re their own person and can fend for themself but I just feel bad about it idk why.

I just feel like I’m not enough? To be in a relationship? I don’t want to burden anyone. I feel like I’m such a heavy luggage for anyone to consider dating. I’ve been keeping people at arms lengths subconsciously and unconconsciously. And I just don’t remember how to connect to people like that anymore? I never want to assume or pursue.

but also I really want a gf but like, idek what I am. I’m nb yeah. But idk how to find a woman that actually wants someone like me? Idek what I am. Sometimes I feel like I’m more trans than nb but I’m not as comfortable fully saying I’m a transmasc. Especially if a girl wants a dude and I have nothing to offer in that regard. Idk I’m just spitballing rightnow, I’m in one of those spirals and I cna’t stop thinking.

I just. I guess I miss the feeling of loving and being loved in a romantic way. Like I love my friends and all. They’re my family of course. But it’s just, different.

Idk.

This is the kind of shit I wish I had a therapist to talk to about.

#slife #rant #vent #idk

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fehlicitaes-archived · 3 years ago

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@chaermolypi asked: some classic ‘five times kissed’ for some classic r/usim? 🥰 ’ 𝙵𝙸𝚅𝙴 𝚃𝙸𝙼𝙴𝚂 ’ 𝙳𝚁𝙰𝙱𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙿𝚃𝚂. | no longer accepting.

idk i tried lol

One.

The first kiss never actually happens at all. Aasim should’ve known it was a dream the moment Ruby came up to him, flirting. No one ever complimented his smarts or how he presented his projects. In fact, no one paid him any attention at all most days, unless it was to roll their eyes at him or call him a nerd before shooting spitballs at him. He wasn’t very popular, so there was no way in forty hells Ruby was actually coming up to him, smiling and twirling a red curl around her index finger.

“You’re really cute,” Dream Ruby says. “You should be my boyfriend.”

Aasim, even in his dreams, sputters and blushes and can’t seem to form any words.

It turns out that he wouldn’t really have any time to say anything at all, anyway, because Dream Ruby doesn’t give him the chance to before she’s rising up on her tiptoes, hands perching on Aasim’s shoulders, and guiding him the rest of the way down to meet her halfway for a kiss.

Almost instantly, Aasim’s eyes fly open and once his vision clears enough in the dark, they settle on the lamp sitting on his bedside table. His cheeks are warm, heart pounding in his chest, and sweat beading at his hairline.

Of course it was a dream.

Aasim rolls over onto his back with a groan, staring, almost annoyed, up at his ceiling. Sometimes he really hated his brain.

A hand lifts to press his palm to his clammy forehead. Maybe he was coming down with something. He couldn’t think of any other explanation for that stupid dream.

—

Two.

They’ve been dating for a few months now, having first gotten together last semester and grown accustomed to their usual route to classes. This, unfortunately, had to come to an end when they came back from winter break and had all new classes. Last semester Aasim could walk Ruby to most of her classes and still manage to make it to his own before the bell rang. This time, however, the universe really seemed to be against them. They had no classes together, and to make matters worse, it seemed like they had classes on the opposite ends of the school. Aasim wouldn’t be able to walk Ruby to her classes, completely, with time left over to make it to his.

“Well, this is my stop,” Ruby sighs, glancing up from her schedule, between Aasim and the staircase. “My first period is upstairs.”

“I miss how it was last semester,” Aasim laments, not bothering to hide his disappointment. “We’ll barely see each other for the rest of the school year.”

“Don’t pout,” Ruby lightly teases. “We’ll still see each other in the morning, during lunch, and after school. Sure, it’s not, like, ideal or anything, but it’s better than nothing, right?”

“I guess,” Aasim reluctantly agrees. “It’s still not fair though.”

He still hasn’t let go of her hand.

“I know it’s not,” Ruby agrees, not liking the situation very much either. “You still get to walk me to first period… Well, mostly. Almost.” Halfway was better than nothing, she supposed.

“Better than nothing,” Aasim sighs, reminding Ruby a little too much of Louis. Since when had he gotten so dramatic?

“Calm down, Drama King,” she almost laughs, shaking her head. “You act like it’s the end of the world or somethin’.”

“That’s because it kinda is,” Aasim responds without missing a beat.

Ruby resists the urge to roll her eyes at him.

“Okay now, Mr. Theatric, Louis called and he wants his dramatics back.”

“Oh, shut up,” Aasim snorts, half-heartedly. Ruby actually chuckles.

A small silence falls between them before Ruby is reluctantly pulling her hand out of his and starting up the steps. She only stops when she hears Aasim clear his throat.

“What?” she asks.

“Aren’t you forgetting something?” He asks, expectantly, almost offended that she didn’t remember.

Ruby rolls her eyes at him again, albeit playfully, and smiles as she responds, “Oh, right…”

Rather than descend the stairs, she leans over the railing, calling Aasim over, and once he’s close enough, presses her lips to his. Naturally, it lasts a little longer than it probably should, but neither of them really seem to mind. Ruby even makes a mental note of how much nicer it is to not have to stand on the tips of her toes to kiss him this way.

Once the kiss is finally broken and Ruby is pulling back, she murmurs, “See you at lunch,” before giving Aasim one more quick peck to the lips and extracting herself from him completely to start up the stairs once more.

—

Three.

Ruby’s always known Aasim to be a nerd—in fact, it was one of the things she loved about him—but she hadn’t known he was a dork as well. Really, she should have figured as much, given that he’s him but it wasn’t until prom night that it really occurred to her that her boyfriend was the biggest dork she’s ever known.

The night had started off normally enough, they mingled with friends, hung out by the snack table, eating some chips and drinking some (hopefully not spiked) punch, before eventually making their way to a big table to sit at with their friends.

It felt as if Ruby had just gotten comfortable before she saw Aasim standing up and extending a hand out to her. She doesn’t even have time to say anything before he asks, “May I have this dance, M’lady?”

Okay, so maybe the punch had been spiked.

A light bout of giggles escapes Ruby in spite of herself and she rolls her eyes at him.

“You are such a dork,” she remarks, reaching up to grab his hand and rise to her feet.

“Yeah,” Aasim agrees, leaning down to press his lips to the back of her hand, “but you love it.”

“Oh, yeah, sure I do,” Ruby replies, feigning sarcasm, as she’s pulled out onto the dancefloor.

—

Four.

It wasn’t often that Ruby missed school. She’d texted Aasim that morning to let him know that she was at home, sick, and for him not to wait up for her. She thought that would be the end of it. She should’ve known better.

Aasim texted her between classes and at lunch and after school. Ruby didn’t mind. She thought it was cute and it was nice having someone to talk to. He told her that he was gonna stop by after school with the work she’d missed.

Three o’clock came and went, followed by an hour and by four thirty, Ruby could hear a knock at her window.

After jumping in her skin, Ruby recovers and knows who it is before she’s even out of bed.

Aasim always did this, not wanting to alert her parents or annoying sister of his whereabouts. Ruby couldn’t blame him, and in fact, preferred it this way, too. Her parents would lose their minds if they knew, and Annabelle would take far too much pleasure in blackmailing Ruby over it. She couldn’t wait to get away from her family—if she could even call them that.

“You could’ve given me a little warning,” Ruby says, upon opening her window for him.

“I wanted it to be a surprise,” Aasim replies, nearly losing his balance as he none-too-gracefully climbs through the window. One would think he’d be more nimble about it with how many times he’s snuck into her room, but some things would never change, it seems.

Ruby steps back, watching Aasim for a moment, before moving forward to close the window again, and moving back to her bed.

“Yeah, well, you nearly gave me a heart attack,” Ruby sighs, crawling back beneath the covers, gaze watching Aasim as he moves over to sit on the edge of her bed and pull his backpack onto his lap.

“Sorry,” he mumbles sincerely, rutting around in his bag before pulling out a folder and handing it over to her. “Here. It’s the work you missed.”

“It’s okay,” Ruby sighs, taking the folder from Aasim and thanking him. “I’ll work on it later.”

“Oh, also,” Aasim says, reaching back into his bag and pulling out a tupperware container. “Here.” He hands it to her.

“What’s this?” Ruby asks, setting the folder on her bedside table to grab the container and hold it in her lap.

“Homemade chicken noodle soup,” Aasim responds. “Rahmi made it for you. She wanted me to tell you that she hopes you feel better soon.”

“Aw, that’s so sweet,” Ruby coos lightly, a smile forming on her lips. “Well, tell her I said thank you.”

“Will do.” Aasim watches as Ruby sets the soup aside next, saying that she’ll eat it later.

Ruby lays back down, getting comfy under the blankets, watching Aasim as he gazes down at her for a few moments before seeing him kicking off his shoes.

“What’re you doing?” Ruby asks, as he moves to crawl into bed and lay next to her.

“I missed you,” Aasim says in lieu of a response, reaching for her hand and kissing her fingers, then the back of her hand.

“I can see that,” Ruby says in bemusement, “but that doesn’t mean you need to go getting yourself sick.”

She just knows that if Aasim gets too close for too long, he’ll end up catching a cold, too.

“I’ll be fine,” Aasim murmurs, trailing kisses up her arm now, until his lips are reaching her shoulder.

“You say that now, but just you wait.” Ruby watches him out of the corner of her eye. “And when you do get sick, I’m not taking care of you.”

She knows she would, but Aasim doesn’t have to know that.

Aasim doesn’t seem to care either way, moving to kiss along her collarbone and up her neck.

“That’s fine,” he counters. “This is worth it.”

His lips move up, trailing along her jaw, then up to her cheek.

“God, you’re such a dork…” Ruby sighs, feeling their noses brushing.

“You love it…” Aasim murmurs before he’s full-on kissing her.

—

Five.

Ruby could almost feel bad for their friends for being subjected to the sickeningly sweetness that is her and Aasim. She knew that they could be a bit much but in all fairness, it had taken them a hot minute to finally get together. Ruby hadn’t realized that Aasim liked her, and basically had to pull it out of him before they ever got together. But, now that they were together, it was practically impossible to keep them apart. They’d spent so much wasted time beating around the bush when they could’ve dived in and started a relationship so much sooner than they had.

So, one should’ve been surprised, when during the middle of a movie night with friends, they couldn’t keep their hands to themselves. It started off with Aasim kissing her cheek and ruby giggling and lightly swatting at him. It didn’t deter him, however, doing the exact opposite.

Between Aasim’s relentless lips and Ruby being absolutely and utterly weak for him, the two are full-on making out, despite the fact that they’re in a room filled with their friends. It’s more than a little distracting, especially since neither of them knows how to be quiet or discrete.

“Guys, c’mon,” Violet groans, giving them a partially disgusted look, despite the fact that they aren’t paying her any mind. “If you aren’t gonna watch the movie, can you, like, leave? Because the rest of us actually want to.”

Being called out is enough to embarrass Ruby enough to make her pull away from her boyfriend.

“Sorry,” she mutters in her chagrin, nudging Aasim with her elbow.

“Sorry,” he parrots after being prompted, though he really isn’t, at all.

It’s ironic that they would be completely put off if it had been anyone else making out in front of them, and yet, here they are, not bothering to give anyone else the same courtesy.

Love truly makes you stupid.

This is very obviously the case, because not even five minutes after being called out and embarrassed, Aasim is moving back in to kiss on Ruby all over again. And, soon enough, Ruby is, once again, caving to his lips.

The next time they’re interrupted is less polite, however, and the room ends up disrupting into chaos.

Louis chucks a pillow at them, smacking them both in the face.

“Boooooo!” he calls out, as if a disgruntled audience member—though that isn’t too far from the truth.

Before Ruby can even react, Aasim is jumping up, red-faced, either from embarrassment or anger—she can’t tell—and lunging after Louis, with Louis yelping in surprise and scrambling to get away from him.

This is why they can’t ever have anything nice.

#&& . FUELED BY COFFEE AND SPITE / ask prompt.#&& . KEPT MANNERS / ruby b. interaction.#&& . KEPT MANNERS / ruby b. answered.#chaermolypi

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ok I wanna talk about Wander and Dominator's dynamic again because holy fuck is it amazing

Uh. Disclaimer cuz idk how long this will be I'm literally just spitballing here.

So! To start off, we obviously need to look back at basically the first episode of season 2. Wander can clearly see Dominator is actively harming the planet that she is very obviously trying to destroy, but based on the guy's track record so far, he chooses to still give her a chance. After all, an enemy is just a friend you haven't met yet! So when Wander starts claiming the giant spiraling drill making a huge af hole in the FUCKING PLANET HE WAS PREVIOUSLY STANDING ON, he starts thinking about how well his interactions with this new villain will go. He starts having doubts, especially once Sylvia comes along, because he knows what Dominator is doing to the planet! But then maybe Dominator is kinda like what Major Threat (Or I guess Jeff now) used to be like, or just another goofball buddy like Hater! Who knows, he hasn't met her yet, so he continues onward!

Wander keeps up this same hopeful fascade all the way up until he and Sylvia get locked up in their little wall cage thingy. He states, while being pouty and miserable, that maybe this enemy was just an enemy, and when nothing else happens after a while, he sadistically remarks that maybe the "Residents" of this ship want them to stay. His tone is very null and dead, as if confronting the reality that some people are just pure evil is a fate worse than death!

Eventually, this clip happens, where Wander starts promoting friendship again in the hopes of finding some sort of hole in Dominator's demeanor. Of course, she fails to crack, proving to Wander that his assumptions aren't always right. She continues to ignore him, resumes not giving two shits when the mans starts dancing on her fucking keyboard, and only leaves when her ship gets flooded with lava thanks to Hater and Peepers.

From here on out, this is how their dynamic plays out, even after Wander finds out she's a "LLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDYYYY???????????????????????????????????" Well, at least on Wander's end of the bargain. For Dominator, a few things have changed.

People now know what she really looks like, and since Wander especially knows, he's extra dead-set on making her a friend. Of course, to her, this behavior is extremely annoying as she doesn't really need any friends. Dominator has voice lines too now, so we actually get to know what she thinks of Wander, and the guy swings from pissing her the fuck off, and amusing the hell out of her!

Now you may think that this is similar to what Hater thinks of Wander, since sometimes the two amuse each other, and other times Wander gets on Hater's nerve. (That last one is like 90% of their dynamic lmfao) However, this isn't the case. For Hater, it's a mix. He absolutely despises Wander to no end, but he clearly finds some sort of amusement in him coming around to bother him all the time, since conquering planets is just. Like. His job at this point. The mans is bored out of his mind and needs distractions for his ADHD brain, and Wander makes life fun! So yeah. Again, for Hater, he's got mixed feelings on his arch nemesis. For Dominator, however, she's more like a swinging pendulum, not feeling one way or the other for too long. She likes messing with Wander, and just likes him in general sometimes. And other times, she absolutely hates his guts like Hater does. She's amused by him one episode, and then another she goes out of her way just to kill a flower he and Sylvia liked.

So, in short, Dominator doesn't know what to think about Wander. All she does is call him weird and odd and then destroys a planet or two mid-sentence. She tortures him and laughs at him, all while proving that she cannot be swayed. She may be a pendulum, swinging one way or the other, but she's too heavy to be actually moved. And whenever Wander realizes this, his happy-go-lucky "Enemies are friends you just haven't met yet" mentality overpowers all reason. Then he's just back to square one again.

Y'know, looking at it in this light makes you realize why Dominator can't describe Wander with anything but "Weird."

This all comes to a head when the last episode of the show arises. "The End of the Galaxy."

In this episode, Wander starts off being completely against Dominator, and absolutely sides with everyone else. He is very much willing to forego the usual "I will bug you until we become friends" routine and tries thinking of another more effective solution. And very reasonably, everyone in the room wakes up and chooses violence. Now, sure, Wander recognizes how bad of a person Dominator is, but he just cannot and will not associate himself with anything inherently violent. Wander is a pacifist at heart, and even when the galaxy is dying, he will never in his life choose to kill anyone! Even if it meant saving everyone else. He just... He can't.

So naturally, he sneaks into Dominator's ship and tries to warn her about her impending doom. Because that's what you should totally do when your target is currently trying to kill you and all your friends. Yeah!

(That was sarcasm lmao)

When the two run into each other, Wander isn't really keen on becoming friends, but he's still too stubborn to look past her glaring insecurities. He can very easily tell that something's been bugging her for years, and will continue to haunt her if someone doesn't help, but Dominator is just put off by his desire to figure out what. And eventually, when everything is just looking down for Wander, Dominator thinks she's finally drilled it into that weirdo's dumb stupid little head that she isn't keen on being his friend! Girl straight up laughs at him when he thinks his friend has died. She taunts Sylvia with a frozen Wander, and basically spells out for the guy how she's going to destroy the last planet in the galaxy. Despite how odd he is, Dominator knows that Wander can't ignore the signs this time, just like how he knows she couldn't ignore him after their first interactions.

Of course, Wander falls back into the perpetual cycle of trying to befriend her once he pieces together her insecurities, (FINALLY) and when he does, it just confuses her even more. She doesn't take the bait, obviously, because she's just that cruel, and storms off to the next nearest galaxy to start from scratch once more.

I just. I really love their dynamic so much. It's full of complicated emotions and feelings and questions. There's so much story and drama built up around these two and it's so FUCKING DELICIOUS!!

Idt it’s rejection Wander struggles with; he gets rejected constantly. It’s being IGNORED he can’t handle. Like if he can’t even piss someone off, he knows he’s losing and it’s kinda funny to watch 😆

Also this is me @ Dominator 24/7

#I said all this in a reblog btw because I saw an oppurtunity and took it #The original post is so fucking funny to me tho because it's literally just a looping gif of Wander chucking strawberries at the back-#-of Dominator's neck. Such a tiny little detail that he didn't have to do at all. Just a petty fuccin mess.#I love it #tumbleweed

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