#i have more thoughts but they're still turning over in my mind like a rotisserie chicken

[daggerxmoth]

this is personal headcanon stuff specific to my rook lol but i love the idea of lucanis with a mourn watch rook because i think it adds to the safety he feels in trusting rook to handle spite.

like a mourn watch rook is very comfortable and familiar with spirits; spite wouldn't be frightening to them and they would have knowledge and experience that could help lucanis navigate this tenuous bond he's formed with spite by the end of the game.

and i like to think mourn watch rook being more open to lucanis and spite's unique situation plays nicely into spite being so intrigued by them so quickly.

[tavina-writes]

Because Tumblr apparently believes "save this as a draft" when it comes to asks to be the equivalent of "put it in the void where it is never to be seen again" ;-; @woobifiedvillain I lost your ask about NHS & the body part headcanons (can be found here.) which I also answered a version of last night here.

BUT I am always thinking about NHS, so obviously I have more of these!

NHS & the Canons part 2 below:

Headcanon: NHS's dad, the previous Sect Leader Nie was sworn brothers with WRH at one point. This appeals to my sense of parallelism because this means that sworn brothers have been the leading cause of death for Nie sect leaders for two generations running! This is just background for why the Nie brothers have so many neuroses and I turn it over and over in my mind like they're rotisserie chickens. I just think this would make their backstory so much more crunchy.

Heartcanon: I like to think that NHS plays an instrument from the huqin instrument family (erhu, zhutiqin, banhu, etc) because it's such an integral part of opera music, but I wobble back and forth on which one since the zhutiqin is the most commonly used for various operas, the erhu is my favorite, and the banhu is actually from Hebei BUT ANYWAY.

Gutcanon: I have mixed feelings about reconciliation and NHS post canon, not because 'he doesn't deserve it!' or 'no one would give it to him! he's done too many crimes!' mostly because have we seen the world these characters are occupying lol. ANYONE can have a reconciliation if they want one. What I'm not entirely sure is that NHS really...wants? friends? anymore? at the end of this? I flip flop about this and it occupies MOST of my thoughts, but I am not entirely convinced of the desire for reconciliation or friendship from him at the point we leave him at canon.

Junkcanon: NHS got introduced to porn during his artists and painters phase likely shortly before he got shipped off to the Cloud Recesses, because some of the more commercial art could be saucy.

In actually more sexual headcanons: no one can convince me NHS isn't a pillow princess. You want him to put EFFORT into a physical activity??? oh! oh! JAIL! Enjoyment only! Effort NEVER!

Spleencanon: I think most of my spiteful takes about NHS are from fandom related things and not like, canon related things, but: for NHS' own personal mental and physical health post canon he should quite the jianghu and take his 2-5 kids with him on a road trip while spending lots of money. For his midlife crisis moment post canon ofc.

;-; I'm still really sorry I lost your ask to the void. It's been forever since I tried saving an ask as a draft on tumblr and I completely forgot that this would happen to it.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

#actually i interpreted it as him just trying to get under her skin and accidentally hitting way too close to home #seeing as they're in. ya know. san diego. #which is both scully's childhood hometown (in a way) and the place where her daughter died. #he's uh. really dumb. #but this is also a Thought actually i need to stew on this #turn it over in my mind like a rotisserie chicken

that's interesting too, i just don't see scully being in a spot where she wants to "play house" with mulder, especially because it's san diego, because it's literally too close to home, because it's her birthday, because she's remembering emily; and, most importantly, because mulder's you're making this personal thing still lingers there, stewing viciously between them, reminding her not to get close and not to give in and she does want to play house but not now, not with mulder right now because it's not personal.

but i'm going to turn your interpretation over in my head like a rotisserie chicken.

oh yeah I think I agree with you, I was talking to @melliabee about this last night: it's not so much that she really does want to play house (like you said, that's more on MULDER'S mind than hers, at this point, which is... certainly interesting considering what's going on all season tbh; but it also makes sense since this is after FTF, so) it's just that everything else is bugging her so much, and they're in a place that locationally carries a lot of weight to her.

like, what I've gathered is that even prior to everything with Emily, Scully's feelings toward San Diego are very similar to what MY feelings are towards Wasilla, Alaska — essentially, after moving several times, the closest thing to "home" with a lot of feelings attached; not quite "homesickness," but a lot of nostalgia (this opinion is probably influenced a lot by "the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake" by audries tbh, which i have... a lot of feelings over). so like, that's a whole deal in and of itself and then also Emily and THEN s6 is just so. generally tense. Scully is having a very difficult time overall tbh.

so actually I think you're exactly right about there being that idea of domesticity in Mulder's mind way more than Scully's (bc it is MUCH too close to home for her geographically for her to be comfortable in all of that tbh), like that's... certainly a motivation tbh. he's clearly enjoying the excuse to be so openly tactile with her lol, but at the same time, bc of everything else going on ("you're making this personal" and the fact that they're both still frustrated with each other on multiple counts) I do think he's also kinda pushing the limits of how far she'll let him go? like almost a middle point between testing the waters, and trying to get under her skin.

(also, like I mentioned to Mellia yesterday I'm working on a short fic where Arcadia happens in s2 instead of s6 and it's literally way to much fun to write shsjshsks)