#i have no sense of the commitment it would take

[deerspherestudios]

Asking about Mycheal’s sense of morality and thoughts on kindness sort of got me thinking - what are his thoughts on justice?

Some examples on what I mean (that you do not have to specifically address!): If someone has harmed someone else, does he think that justifies hurting them back in any sense? And if someone in power continually abuses that power, does that justify hurting or killing them to prevent more harm in his opinion? Does it depend on the degree? Where does he draw the line? Or is it completely unacceptable - does he think we should always try to use mercy to solve conflicts? What about in situations where mercy can’t be used? And how does what he’d say verbally on the matter differ from how he’d actually act in a satiation where justice might be needed (eg. he says that he would never hurt anyone in any situation, but in reality there might be situations where he’d bring harm - or he says that he would hurt someone to prevent more damage but couldn’t bring himself to in reality). I’d be interested how his isolated upbringing impacted his thoughts on right and wrong as well - I’d imagine he prioritizes interpersonal relationships over the good of the whole (of any group he’s been rejected by especially), but, if so, by how much?

Again, these are just examples of generally what I’m going for by asking for his take on justice, please don’t feel pressured to answer any of the questions in that wall of a paragraph specifically! I’d love to hear your thoughts on his opinions in the area of morality in general - whatever comes to mind, even if it doesn’t relate to any of my example questions or the points I brought up. Thank you so much for your time and the love you pour into your work, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Oo now this is a doozy of a question, from an anon no less :-0! I actually love these kinds of questions, but save them in my draft for months until I'm up to answering since I wanna do my best for them haha. Now's the time for this question to shine!

Long!!!!!! (possibly mad?? character opinions about justice and morality???) ramble below:

Regarding justice, I find myself struggling to answer to be honest! While I, the creator, have my own views on it, I'm not sure how someone like Mychael would feel about the concept of justice. This kind of thing warrants a society, of which he is isolated from. You don't really bother to be justified if something you did was wrong unless it's in the eyes of someone else, if that makes sense? Otherwise you'd end up arguing with yourself. And when stuck between committing a crime to survive or moral righteousness, it's obvious which one he would go for.

From your example, he's not really the type to believe in "an eye for an eye" as he's a pretty forgiving person. But of course, an extreme situation would change his mind like any of us!!

Now morality is a pretty nuanced topic, but after digesting the question a bit and gathering my thoughts, for the sake of conversation, I think his sense of morality can be simplified into a few traits:

First, he tries to be kind in all situations.

In the past, he's seen cruelty and kindness, how humans are capable of both, and the effects of those actions. Whether it's towards himself or others, he obviously prefers the latter treatment over the former. No matter what, he'll try to do the good thing (or at least, what he perceives to be the good thing) in most situations. He's aware it's naive to think so, but when you claw for something to live for, he insists "kindness above everything" is the best he could hold on to without losing himself.

Second, at times, he will be self-serving.

Just because he tries to be kind, doesn't mean there aren't moments where he'll be selfish. While his self interest isn't his top priority, in the rare instance he wants or needs something for himself, he'll likely skew odds in his favor. This is kinda clear from the game itself with how he treats MC when they start pulling away from him (another example is how he got his chickens and it's implied he does shoplift groceries/supplies no matter what he wants you to think.)

And finally, mercy is a tricky thing.

Let's say we equate mercy to forgiveness or compassion. Already in the game we see Mychael being callous towards the injured rabbit but also refuses to kill Rosie even though she doesn't really serve a purpose anymore other than being an attachment for him. With that said, you are definitely correct in saying "he prioritizes interpersonal relationships over the good of the whole" since with his background, interpersonal relationships are few and far in between. He might forgive a lover of his for murdering someone in front of his face, but wouldn't do the same for a stranger. He doesn't have the same sense of a judicial system like us humans, so with the above traits combined, he'd brush off the frankly heinous crime easier than most.

I hope that answers the question? Re-reading my answer a bunch I'm not even sure if I gave the points you're asking for but mmMM I spent spoons on this so have it like so 🫴❤️❤️❤️!!

[the-cosmic-cauldron]

☾⋆⁺💀₊⋆☽ ☾⋆⁺💀₊⋆☽ ☾⋆⁺💀₊⋆☽ ☾⋆⁺💀₊⋆☽

Summer is heating things up. The ground is scorching, the sun is lingering longer, and the weather has us sweating. And that only means one thing — we’re ready for action.Fast-paced, charged, electrified encounters. Let’s just say it: sex.

This summer isn’t just bringing the heat outdoors — it’s igniting something indoors too. So if you’ve been feeling that energy lately —aroused, lit up, stirred from within —then this message is for you.

Pick a pile. Take a deep breath, center yourself, and discover what your next sexual encounter will be.

𝒫𝒾𝓁𝑒 1

For many of you, I feel like you’re currently choosing celibacy. There’s no upcoming sexual encounter—you’re simply abstinent and not looking to indulge in that right now. I get it. I understand.

It seems you’re not feeling confident in your body at the moment. Maybe you feel disconnected, ungrounded, or like you’re disassociating from your physical self. A lot of you may be going through a no-contact phase with someone you were talking to—communication has ended, and now you’re in emotional retreat.

Some of you are dealing with wounded pride or ego, and it’s left you not wanting to put yourself back out there. There’s a strong sense of indecisiveness around the idea of intimacy—you don’t feel ready to give your body to someone or engage in a sensual connection.

As mentioned before, you might feel unrooted in your body. You’re not receiving the commitment or consistency you desire from the people you’ve spoken to, or are currently speaking to. Some of you aren’t in communication with anyone at all, and there are no future plans to engage physically with someone. The silence is heavy. Someone’s ego has been bruised, and they’re in recovery.

Overall, it feels like you’re in your head rather than in your body. You’re not emotionally or energetically aligned with the idea of a sexual encounter right now. And if one were to happen, it likely wouldn’t be a positive or satisfying experience—your mind would be too preoccupied, your energy too unsettled. You’re simply not in a space to be fully present and enjoy it.

𝒫𝒾𝓁𝑒 2

For this group, I’m picking up the energy of a make-up sexual encounter—a moment of intimacy after tension, disconnection, or emotional distance. It feels like you and this person went through a rough patch: arguments, misunderstandings, defensiveness, or even toxicity that built up over time. There may have been a lot of fiery energy, but it wasn’t passion—it was conflict. And that conflict created a wedge.

But now, I sense the walls beginning to come down. There’s a softening. A sense of letting go of pride, of defensiveness, of anger. It’s like both of you are realizing that the distance was more painful than the fights, and there’s a genuine desire to reconnect—not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually.

For some of you, this comes after a period of deep isolation or low self-worth—where the way this person treated you made you question yourself: “Am I enough?” “Do they really care?” You may have felt powerless, unseen, or unloved. But now, there’s an awakening—a return to yourself, and a realization of your worth.

This sexual encounter feels healing, sentimental, and reparative. It’s not just about lust. It’s about:

“I missed you.”

“I’m sorry.”

“We’re still here.”

I see a deep emotional pull between you two, like gazing into each other’s eyes with that unspoken tenderness—grief, love, regret, and longing all colliding in one embrace.

This might even happen during a planned getaway, somewhere distant from the stress of everyday life. A trip to clear the air. A space to reconnect. Whether it’s the beach, the mountains, or just a cozy Airbnb out of town, it feels intentional, like you’re both carving out sacred space for reconnection.

The sex itself will likely be slow, emotional, and intimate—a moment of vulnerability and softness. It feels like a fresh beginning rising from a broken place, with real efforts to build something more grounded, affectionate, and intentional. I see more dates, more consistency, more presence from both sides going forward. This isn’t just about physical union. It’s about emotional renewal.

𝒫𝒾𝓁𝑒 3

The first energy I’m getting from this pile is that you and the person you’re going to have your next sexual encounter with are very different—possibly even opposites. There’s this “yin-yang” dynamic between you two. Maybe one of you is the quintessential hopeless romantic, while the other doesn’t believe in love. One of you might be super cheerful and optimistic, while the other is more serious or even pessimistic. I’m seeing contrasts like someone who’s very cottagecore, soft, and girly, paired with someone dark, emo, or gothic in energy. But somehow, the contrast is magnetic.

I also see a lot of texting and phone conversations leading up to the encounter. You two might be reminiscing, revisiting old memories, and having those long, late-night phone calls that stretch into hours. This could very well be someone from your past—someone you’re reconnecting with emotionally through shared nostalgia. The tone is light and flirtatious. There’s laughter, banter, maybe even a little teasing.

You might go on casual, cute dates—like grabbing coffee, going for ice cream, or walking through a park. Nothing too serious or high-pressure. The energy is romantic, but also playful and easygoing. It’s like you’re talking again, but neither of you is forcing it or rushing into something heavy.

Still, beneath the surface, there’s unspoken tension—feelings that haven’t been addressed or fully processed. It’s that kind of emotional pull where neither of you really says what you’re feeling, but it’s felt. This unspoken connection builds a quiet intensity between you two, creating a slow burn that eventually erupts.

When it happens, the sexual encounter feels very spontaneous and primal. It’s not planned or carefully navigated—it’s rough, impulsive, passionate. There’s little to no talking beforehand—it just happens. A playful vibe turns suddenly into heat. The sexual energy is raw, reckless, and unfiltered.

It may happen in unexpected places—middle of the day, middle of the night, indoors or outdoors. It’s wild. It’s not about long-term plans, but about living in the moment and giving in to that carnal pull. It has the vibe of a sneaky link or a summer fling—fun, spontaneous, emotionally charged, but not necessarily built to last.

This encounter is about releasing tension, enjoying each other’s energy, and indulging in the contrast between you. It’s chaotic, magnetic, and very, very physical.

𝒫𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝟦

The first energy I picked up from this group is that it’s been a long time since your last sexual encounter. For many of you, it’s felt like a desert—dry, empty, and distant. You might be feeling a deep craving for something—something playful, energizing, primal, and even aggressive. That might be why you clicked on this pile in the first place.

Many of you have been celibate or abstinent for a while, not necessarily by strict intention but because you’ve simply not been in the space for intimacy. You’ve likely been in a very introspective phase, focused on solitude, self-love, and emotional processing. You’ve been pulling inward, healing, and trying to understand yourself more deeply.

For some of you, this withdrawal was tied to heavier emotional states—depression, grief, or personal loss. You’ve been coping, processing, and moving through a lot: emotional drama, frustration, and periods where life felt completely out of your control. The cards suggest you’ve faced significant obstacles—ones that made it hard to connect with others or even with yourself.

There’s a sense that many of you isolated completely—closing yourself off, building emotional walls, becoming avoidant. Maybe you were conflict-avoidant, emotionally burned out, or simply disillusioned. You were protecting your peace because so much had happened that left you shaken.

And yet, there’s been growth. There’s wisdom emerging from the rubble. You’ve shed old versions of yourself. Some of you have even acknowledged and begun releasing toxic habits or self-sabotaging patterns. You’ve gone through something deeply transformative, and now you’re recovering—slowly but surely. You’re learning, healing, letting go.

Because of all this, your next sexual encounter won’t be random, wild, or purely physical. Instead, it feels like something that may happen while you’re away from home—on a trip, during a summer adventure, on a work retreat, or even while returning to school or visiting a new place. It feels spontaneous, but in a grounded way.

This encounter may not even be full-on sex. It’s more about emotional closeness—soft kisses, deep eye contact, cuddling, caressing, gentle massages. There’s tenderness. There’s vulnerability. Maybe it builds to oral or intense foreplay, but it’s not about getting lost in the act. It’s about merging energy with someone new. It’s about exploring a new emotional landscape without rushing into something too fast.

You’ve been through too much to take this lightly. You’re aware of your own past patterns, your wounds, and your capacity for attachment. So even in this new connection, you’re moving slowly. You’re cautious. Intentional. You’re not sidestepping into another entanglement—you’re learning to love differently.

This next experience is not just sexual. It’s sacred, tender, and cautious. A soft beginning. A new page.

𝒫𝒾𝓁𝑒 5

For this group, the first energy I picked up on is frustration—a deep, lingering frustration that’s been weighing on you. Your next sexual encounter will feel like a release, a long-overdue relief you didn’t realize you needed until it arrives.

Many of you have been under significant stress lately. You’ve had things not go your way, plans fall through, and moments where it was hard just to get out of bed and find the momentum to keep going. It chipped away at your confidence. You might’ve felt low, defeated, or even tempted to give up on things entirely. But your pride kept you going—you held on longer than you maybe should’ve, simply because you’d already invested so much time and energy.

Eventually, though, you did let go. Whether it was a past person, a failed relationship, or an internal struggle, you surrendered it. Maybe you gave it to God, or maybe you processed it through therapy, journaling, prayer, intention-setting, or meditation. Whatever your method, it worked. You released a major emotional blockage, and now… something new is on its way.

Your next sexual encounter is going to be fun, flirty, and emotionally nourishing. It feels like a friends-to-lovers situation—not a random hookup, but something soft that builds from genuine connection. You’ll spend time laughing together, going out, enjoying each other’s presence—until one day you realize: Oh, we really care about each other.

You might have still been healing from an ex, someone you were deeply attached to. Maybe you were ghosted, rejected, or broken up with, and it really wounded your pride. You’ve had to retreat and rebuild, to reflect and recover. And now, this next person enters with gentleness and sincerity.

They’re someone who’s curious about you, protective of you, deeply observant. They notice your moods. They ask how your day was. They check to see if you followed through on your goals. They’re romantic without being performative. They just care.

Your sexual encounter with them could happen after a night out—maybe a little wine-drunk, maybe tipsy on laughter and shared stories. You come home, and the attraction becomes undeniable. It’s playful—you might even laugh during the act. But it’s also intimate. This person knows how to hold you, rub your back, give you a massage, ask for consent in quiet, loving ways. They might watch a romance movie with you and then slowly turn that tenderness into your own private story.

There will be eye contact. Skin on skin. Heavy breath, long kisses, and the kind of passion that melts time. One moment it’s midnight, the next it’s been an hour and you’re still wrapped up in each other. There’s a yearning here—a craving to be close, to connect, to feel. This isn’t casual. This is soul-to-skin.

All in all, this encounter feels like a reward after a long period of emotional drought. It’s deep, delicious, and exactly what you deserve.

𝒫𝒾𝓁𝑒 6

For this group, the first energy that came through is cheesy communication. You and this person are texting constantly, staying up late on FaceTime, sending long voice notes, even recording your calls just to replay them later and melt over the sweet or flirtatious things they said. You’re re-reading messages, checking who’s online, watching their stories with your heart in your throat. There’s this flirty, obsessive energy—like you’re both caught up in each other again.

This upcoming sexual encounter is hot, fiery, and emotionally charged—but it also carries this familiar ache. For most of you, this is someone from the past: an ex, an ex-situationship, a former sneaky link. Someone you never truly let go of. There’s a sense of doubling back, circling around a connection that was left open-ended, unresolved.

You’re still deeply emotionally attached to this person. Even if there’s pain or mistrust, you’d rather have a piece of them than nothing at all. Before the reconnection even happens, you’re already in detective mode—stalking their social media, checking who they follow, trying to decode their posts. Your heart is still invested, even though your logic is on edge.

At the same time, there’s a lack of trust. You don’t believe this will lead to a healthy relationship. Maybe you’ve been burned before—ghosted, ignored, breadcrumbed, or just left holding the emotional weight. You gave too much, they gave too little. The imbalance is still there, but so is the pull. Maybe they’re physically irresistible. Maybe it’s the sexual chemistry. Maybe it’s the history. Maybe it’s the illusion of what once was. Whatever it is—you can’t fully let go.

This energy is sticky, repetitive, and full of contradictions. You don’t trust them. You don’t see a real future. But you’re still watching them. Still texting them. Still wanting them. And that tension? That magnetic undercurrent? It builds. Until it snaps.

This sexual encounter will feel reigniting, but not necessarily redeeming. It won’t fix the trust issues or clarify the emotional confusion. But it will feel good in the moment. It’s passionate, raw, intense—maybe even hours long. It’s the kind of sex where your body remembers even if your mind protests. The kind where you fall into rhythm like no time has passed. It feels like reliving the fire of a past life, even if the future is foggy.

Emotionally, this connection stays surface-level. You’re not diving deeper. You’re not healing. But you are scratching the itch. It’s the “I missed this, I missed you” type of encounter—but it’s not really love. It’s craving. It’s nostalgia. It’s loneliness. It’s wanting something familiar, even if it hurts.

There’s tension, desire, temptation. And yes, it’s kind of toxic. But you still want it. You’re not over this person. You don’t fully want them back, but you don’t want to release them either. So you meet in the middle—in the bed, not in the heart.

Passionate but complicated. Fiery but unhealed. You’re reattaching through touch, but you’re still emotionally guarded. It’s a cycle, not a closure. And for now… you’re choosing to stay inside the flame.

🥀⚰️🥀⚰️🥀🥀⚰️🥀⚰️🥀🥀⚰️🥀⚰️🥀

[legendofzoodles]

If the Chain were kidnapped

Time sternly dads the punks into not being bad people. Has the experience and wisdom to pull an Uncle Iroh and get them to sort their lives out. Except Time doesn't actually have to say anything, just the mere presence of a strong father figure is enough to get the kidnappers to change their ways. That look in his eyes. He's not mad, he's just disappointed.

Warriors plays along. Weaves a sob story told so well it does lower their guard. In a couple hours he's safely secured their entire crime history, family backgrounds, and blackmail material for the authorities of this era to lock them away for life. Goal achieved, he suddenly completely switches up character, calmly thanking them for their time before breaking out his restraints and single handedly messing them all up.

Twilight: the silent type. Stares them down until they start sweating. His vibe radiates: “I supplexed gorons when I was a teenager. I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped here with me.” Before the kidnappers can start arguing about who has to stay in the room with him, Twilight just gets up, his restraints falling like wet paper, and walks out the door while they cower in the corner fearing for their lives.

Sky kills them with kindness. Starts with small shallow compliments which as they respond positively to and end up telling him more about themselves, letting his affirmations hit deeper and deeper until they're convinced to change their ways. To mark this new chapter in their lives he leads them to the nearest goddess statue to repent to his girlfriend.

Legend comes out of the gate tearing his captors a new one. But somehow, the insults cut a little too close to home. Next thing you know, they’re defending themselves, then explaining, then venting. Legend keeps calling them pathetic, but in a way that weirdly encourages them to keep going. So oddly, it becomes a group trauma dump session.

Hyrule: [positioned outside the room] Shouldn't we go in there and get him? It sounds like a fight's about to break out.

Sky: [equipping a clipboard and quill] No no, let him cook. He's making great progress.

With Wild the chain's rescue mission becomes trying to get him back on the team. Cuz you see, Wild's with the kidnappers now. Wasn’t even tied up to begin with. Just vibing in the corner eating all their food. His lack of any sense of danger or fear made them think he was a new recruit. He went along with it, and started assigning them nicknames and chore duties. Grandmaster reverse stockholm syndrome—they start following his lead.

Four plays mind games. Starts casual: “What’s your name?” “What motivates you?” “What’s your greatest regret?” By the first hour he’s ignited a civil war with members either fighting tooth and nail against their fellow men or suffering spirals of deep existential dread. There's a reason Four doesn't share much of what goes on in his head because this is the end result, and no one is having fun anymore. Except Four and his shadow.

Hyrule plays actual games. At first Hyrule just got bored and so interrupted their evil plan spiel offering to bet on how long it would take him to escape. However, that led to other bets being made, dumb challenges like how many rupees one can stack before they collapse, winner keeps their pile of the pool. He gets so into these games he completely forgets he was supposed to be escaping. And his captors forget he has backup coming.

Twilight: [knocking down the door] Hyrule! Don't worry it's okay! We're here to...wait, are you gambling right now?

Hyrule: [rolling dice] Wait five more minutes. It's my turn and I'm definitely gonna win!

Warriors: We didn't come here to stop one crime just to walk in on you commiting one!

Hyrule: One? [pulls out a near empty wallet]

Twilight: [turning to Warriors] He's bankrupted us.

Warriors: [face palming] I told Time not to let Hyrule carry the group travel funds.

Wind is pretty good at playing the 'innocent grandma’s boi' shtick. Will get them to fawn over him, give him life advice, offer snacks, meanwhile he’s already stolen all their keys and is just waiting for nightfall. That said, if the chain don't arrive quick enough Wind's captors might indulge the boy and give him his first tattoo or piercing.

~~~

Thanks for reading! Some of these are more unserious than others.

Masterlist

Other headcanons: 

Parkour team

Honorary Gorons

How each member of the chain laughs

[recent-rose]

Basically yeah, the 'sin' the Indous committed necessitates this ritual where they carry the head of the once-revived bride up the mountain every 5ish years to keep the impurities they think they released in reviving her at bay. It was to keep the entire village safe from divine retribution, not just their own family/loved ones - at least, that's what Hikaru would think it was for.

As for Hikaru's motivation, I mean. In the chapter where we see Hikaru reaching out to Unuki-sama, he does mention that he feels like he's failed his dad in not being able to fulfill this ritual. His dad also wasn't a big believer in Unuki-sama taking unmarried loved ones away, he says as much to Hikaru in a flashback. I think it's also mentioned by Yoshiki's dad as well that Kouhei (Hikaru's dad) wanted to end the ritual with their generation. With that in mind imo... it's more likely to me that Hikaru was either asked/pressured by Tetsu and Hajime (the older guys we see conversing with Takada about the state of the village, they seemed to have a lot of faith in the Indou ritual before it 'failed' - that they know Hikaru was attempting it at all kind of speaks for itself) or perhaps he decided to do it for his father to keep the village safe. Hence the note in his room about that Yoshiki finds about the ritual. Because while it's true Hikaru is a silly goofy little guy, he also demonstrably loved his family and friends, and would do pretty much anything to protect them. Also doesn't make sense for Yoshiki to be his sole motivator when neither of them believed in the ritual in the first place. One of his motivations, sure, but def not the only one. Especially not with the context that the ritual was for the entire village. Yk?

ive seen some ppl sort of misinterpreting og hikaru's role in the series. hgsn isn't a tragedy because death and an eldritch entity ripped two young lovers apart. hikaru was probably not in love with yoshiki. like everything we know about hikaru points to a straight guy (or at the very least someone not struggling with his sexuality/identity/social acceptance in a conservative small town) who loved his best friend but was not IN love with him. and that's... that's the point.

yoshiki is struggling because as early as the first few chapters (or episode 1) yoshiki confirms for himself that hikaru never would have said that he liked him (romantically obviously). that's (partly) what that confession scene was. it was him acknowledging to himself that hikaru did not have a reciprocal crush on him in lieu of being able to confess while hikaru was still alive.

thats part of what makes this series so sad. yoshiki was already facing this mental health crisis BEFORE hikaru died. hikaru living would not have solved all of this for him. he would still be a gay teen in a backwater village with antiquated views about sexuality. he would still feel isolated and alone and like a monster. would he have found camaraderie with og hikaru if he ever confessed or admitted to being gay? idk, maybe. assuming he ever gets brave enough to do so instead of just running away, which... there's reason to believe he never would have. but with all the information we have, it appears that hikaru was neither gay nor interested in yoshiki that way. so yoshiki would still perceive himself as fundamentally alone in that sense. hikaru living would not have 'saved' him from this struggle. again, that's the point. yoshiki was alone, that's the reason he relates so hard to 'hikaru', who is also fundamentally alone.

and then of course the rest of the series is largely about determining what love actually is/looks like/feels like. a LOT of people seem to think 'hikaru' isn't capable of loving anything, which could be true. love is subjective, and 'hikaru' starts out the series very immature and selfish, wanting the comfort of yoshiki for himself at any cost. but in more recent chapters, he's actually willing to put yoshiki's well-being wayyyyy above his own. he splits himself in half to make yoshiki feel safe, even at the cost of his own. he feels immense guilt and self-recrimination when he does something to hurt or disappoint yoshiki (or even his other classmates re: asako crying in front of him), even when it's not explicitly addressed. he's willing to exile himself back to the mountain, to condemn himself to an infinite lifetime of loneliness, now knowing what it's like to not be alone. just to prevent yoshiki from facing any more hardship. if that's not love, then what exactly is?

[kissagii]

first love. sae x gn!reader. 600 words.

Itoshi Sae has never fallen in love before – not really. It’s not that he hasn’t had the chance, in fact, he’s probably had more opportunities to fall in love than the typical man his age. People like him. People want to fall in love with him. Itoshi Sae wants to fall in love with people, he thinks.

But he can’t. Or, rather, he won’t. 

Running from romance was always his instinct, burying his craving for closeness behind a bitter attitude and the excuse of needing to focus on his career.  

So when you came along, bright and beautiful and exactly his type and clearly interested, Itoshi Sae… didn’t run? 

“Do you want to go grab coffee sometime?” You asked him the first day you met, after talking for nearly an hour at a local bookshop (you helped him find a birthday gift for his mother after watching him stare blankly at the shelves for ten minutes).

“Yes,” He’d said, before his mind could even process it. He did want to go, though he really should have refused. Said something about needing to train. Not let himself get invested.

Yet suddenly, Itoshi Sae had your name in his phone and was planning to go on a proper first date: and for the first time in his life, he was glad to be doing it. 

Itoshi Sae should’ve ended it after the first date, like he had so many times before. Saved both you and himself the inevitable letdown when he ran from the prospects of commitment. 

And yet, he didn’t.

Instead, he took your hand gently in his while dropping you off at your place after a delightful morning together at a local cafe.

“Let me take you to dinner sometime. There’s a restaurant downtown I think you’d like,” He said, half thinking. The reasonable part of his mind protested loudly, but he was surprised to find that his heart? His heart really didn’t care. His heart was excited. His heart wanted this – not in the sense that he always somewhat yearned for the idea of love, but in the sense that he was willing to sacrifice his extra hours of training to spend a little more time getting to know you.

Itoshi Sae’s heart was beating out of his chest as the two of you hashed out plans and set a date to see each other next. He was excited. Giddy even. What a strange emotion that was. He felt like a fool, entranced by your smile and the way you talked like you really wanted to know more about him. 

“Thank you for everything, Sae. I had a great time,” You said, “You’re way more charming than you initially seem, did you know that?”

“I- You’re welcome. Thank you. I…” – Sae’s breath caught in his throat, almost imperceptibly, his cheeks flushing – “I also enjoyed myself. More than I ever could have expected to.”

It was on instinct that he kissed you then. Sudden, yet soft and unhurried, his hand gently cradling your cheek like you were the most precious thing he had ever held. He let his lips explore yours, drinking in the sweetness of your lips and relishing in the way you didn’t immediately pull away. 

“See you next week, yeah? I already can’t wait,” You said as he left, with a smile he was sure would blind him if he looked at it for too long.

He didn’t even loathe to admit that he felt the same.

“I’ll be looking forward to it too.” 

Itoshi Sae always ran from love – it was just what he did. Until, of course, he met you, and his very soul rewired itself to love you with a passion he never knew himself to be capable of.

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[tgd-sideblog]

So @glorious-spoon expressed interest in the tags in more of my thoughts on why Eddie shuts Buck out of the house purchasing decision as referenced in this post and far be it from me to deny myself an opportunity to ramble about 9-1-1.

Eddie is clearly happy and relieved when Buck initial responds to the news of the move supportively, it’s a weight off his shoulders that he doesn’t have to worry about leaving straining their friendship, and he welcomes Buck joining him on the realtor call. So why is it that the next time Eddie talks about the move it’s to announce he’s done it all without even mentioning to Buck that he’s found a house he might like?

A mortgage and housing downpayment are not instant processes and Buck and Eddie see each other several times a week, for Buck not to know means Eddie has been making big steps that it would be natural to mention as they happen but has instead kept quiet.

And I think it circles back to Eddie’s ongoing issues with self-denial and noble suffering, in two clusters.

(It's hard to lean too much on analysis of the financial aspects because I don't have familiarity with the housing markets and pay-to-housing cost ratios of LA and El Paso and even if I did TV logic would take precedence, but…) if Eddie could afford to rent a nice enough house in LA on a firefighter's salary (& at the point of planning the move he expects to be able to get an equivalent job in El Paso), it seems reasonable to think he could rent at least an equivalent home there. Instead he buys a house that needs so much work it's uncomfortable for Eddie to live in and Helena suggests in the PS5 conversation has multiple issues that make it ill-suited for Chris to visit. I think Eddie's choice of house suggests he's still punishing himself. Eddie's perception of the root cause of his issues with Christopher was that it was caused by Eddie indulging his wants, ergo the opposite of that is to not think of his own comfort at all. Also I think some part of Eddie wants to be seen to be righteously suffering, that if Christopher sees Eddie is willing to live in a terrible house to be closer to him that will show Chris how much Eddie loves him. It also implies a degree of pessimism about what will happen in El Paso, Eddie has no hope that Chris will be quick to want to visit or stay with him, he’s expecting any resolution to take long enough that Eddie will have time to fix up the house before Chris will want to be in it. Buck’s light-hearted framing of him joining the realtor call is because some of the houses Eddie has looked at are ‘tragic’ and Buck wants to help him pick a nice one – involving Buck would mean pushback on that. It’s not necessarily conscious, but I think Eddie is aware enough that Buck might try to talk him into something nicer or ask him to explain the choice to buy a wreck of a house. Eddie is at the point in time feeling pretty insecure about his ability to withstand temptation (Kim) and some inner conflict and shame about the fact in his heart he is not 100% fine with doing whatever it takes to fix things with Chris (he’s picking Chris but he’s clearly reluctant to give up his life in LA) and I think he knows that his determination to make this drastic decision is only going to waver more if Buck starts poking well-intentioned holes in it so the solution to that is to ensure it’s a done deal without Buck getting any opportunity to sway him.

Eddie tying himself down to buying a house is in part a gesture of the seriousness of Eddie’s commitment to putting Chris before everything else, and so it has to come from Eddie. He tried getting Buck to help with Chris in the immediate aftermath of the Kim situation and Chris wasn’t receptive at all. Letting Buck contribute to the move in ways that make the process meaningfully easier would undermine Eddie’s sense of responsibility and willingness to put himself through this for Chris as punishment for his actions, if he lets Buck make things easier that’s cheating. Of course, Buck ends up being a major help anyway by subletting, but by that point Eddie has already thrown himself into the decision, Buck isn’t building him a bridge he’s just offering Eddie a line so he doesn’t sink while doing what he has already committed himself to, but Eddie’s met his own expectation that he will throw himself fully into making this sacrifice in order to repair things with Chris.

[the-tv-lover]

I think this is probably the most tame ask I could possibly send but. How do you think Tenna would react if his partner proposed to him? He is just such husband material to me and I feel like he would be so cartoonishly happy about it LMAO!!!

Ohhh this is gonna be fun <3

Proposing to Tenna headcanons under the cut!

For headcanons about Tenna proposing to a partner instead, read this post!

MINORS DNI

At first, Tenna would react with complete shock! He would be caught so off-guard and go quiet before fumbling his words when he finally thinks of how to respond to that. It's not that he's not committed to his partner or afraid of committing to them, he's just not used to someone willingly committing to him on their own accord like that. It just baffles him because most people who are "committed" to him are his employees, not many want to commit to him as a friend, let alone a relationship.

He fumbles around with whoas, whats, and huhs as he tries to fully process what his partner said. His partner would have to ask again to snap him out of it, which he then would be absolutely ecstatic! You can bet he'll be blushing and a flower will be growing out of his nose the second time he hears it. He would do things like pick up his partner and spin them around joyfully, and smother them with cuddles and kisses.

Since he has an unstable sense of relationships though, once the giddiness subsides, you might catch him shrinking a bit as he starts feeling insecure, wondering just how long his partner will want to stay committed. He would ask if his partner is sure about this. All it takes is a little bit of reassurance and convincing that he'll be a good husband to get him back to feeling on top of the world again!

You can bet he's gonna brag to his employees about being engaged to his partner every day until the wedding, and it's gonna drive them insane. Then, of course, he's gonna end up bragging to them all the time about being married and what a great spouse his partner is.

[charlieluver]

Hello, can you write a Carlos Alcaraz sfw alphabet please? Thank you 🙌

sfw alphabets || c. alcaraz

a - affection (how affectionate are they? how do they show affection?)

He is super affectionate. Very touchy. Will always reach out to your hand unconsciously, or hover his hand on your lower back, gives kisses on top of your head. Loves to put his arm around your shoulder, a sense on protectiveness clear through his body language. Isn't afraid of displaying pda.

b - best friend (what would they be like as a best friend? how would the friendship start?)

Given his playful side, friendship with Carlos has a high possibility to start from a silly banter. Something about how mild your drink is, given that you are in a club in Ibiza or how funny you look while doing stretches in the academy.

And when you become best friends, he would look out for you, even for the smallest things. Carlos would be ready to fight someone who badmouths about you, never second guessing your actions. Carlos would generally act immature, but during serious convos, he would be the one to give you power, to give you the support to lean on. Because he believes in you, his best friend, through thick and thin.

c - cuddles (do they like to cuddle? how would they cuddle?)

Carlos loves to cuddle. At the end of the day, pulling your body onto his chest, his legs over yours as he snuggles into your neck, placing kisses and telling how much he loves you. And somedays when he doesn't feel great with his game, the only comfort he finds is when he comes back to you, you arms wrapped around his waist as your fingers play with his hair. He loves to cuddle in the car just before a match (which sometimes ends with a makeout session when his horny ass just can't resist the faint taste of cherry on your lips.)

d - domestic (do they want to settle down? how are they at cooking and cleaning?)

Carlos would hundred percent want to settle down. I can imagine him as a big family man. He takes care of the kids while you rest, the dishes cleaned and dried before you could even go to the kitchen, when he sees you are exhausted as anything. He groans like a teenager when you tell him to do chores, and you know it's all fun and games. Carlos could never be annoyed or irritated to help you, to help your children. But that man has a serious case of forgetfulness, like how he is up till two in the night, completing your daughter's project which she told him weeks ago.

e - ending (if they had to break up with their partner, how would they do it?)

I feel Carlos would love to try to make it work till the end. He could never let you go, his life, his everything. Until a point where it just doesn't work out at all. And if he even had to, it would take him days to figure out how to bring it up. He would delay it, words dying in his tongue when he looks at your eyes. And he would bring it up in a quiet place, where there are no prying gazes on both of you. Face to face, even if it meant seeing him in a broken state, tears threatening to fall over his cheeks, ragged breaths following after. But he would make sure you knew the reason. The validity behind it. Face to face.

f - fiance(e) (how do they feel about commitment? how quick would they want to get married?)

Carlos is a loverboy. He would love to wife you up as soon as possible. But he is very serious and responsible about his career, so he would wait, getting to know you, to get comfortable, to be himself at the end of the day. I really feel he might get married in his early 30s and would have around three kids.

g - gentle (how gentle are they, both physically and emotionally?)

His touch is warm to your skin, especially gentle in the morning when he carefully removes strands of hair from your face. His hands roam around your body, tracing patterns across your belly. It's quite shocking how soft his touch is compared to the roughness on court.

He might look all tough on the outside, but on the inside, Carlos is a softie. Feels deeply, and in the game of tennis, it sucks. Hard to move on from losses,you trying your best to help him cope. And when you face problems, he talks it out of you, his way of connecting with you, emotion pouring into the conversation. And the thing is, he resonates with you,your happiness making his day and your pains affecting him aswell.

h - hugs (do they like hugs? how often do they do it? what are their hugs like?)

This boy is a hugger. Like A LOT. Getting out of bed? Hugs you first. Cooking breakfast? Hugs you from behind. Leaving for practice? Hugs you a little tighter before running towards his car. To Carlos, when you exist in the same space as him, hugging is a way of enjoying your presence.

I feel Carlos loves the bear hold hug, pressing your body completely against his chest. He feels like a protector (which he loves to be). And at times when he is vulnerable, he would love to be in your arms, his head pressed against your chest, you threading your fingers through his brown hair, whispering sweet nothings to him.

i - i love you (how fast do they say the L-word?)

Around three months, four at the max. He is big on feelings, and the first one to tell the L word in a relationship as well. Probably in a fancy restaurant, tipsy giggles shared between each other. And then he stills, looking into your eyes, breathing slowed, smile barely held back. And after the I love you, he is so smug, calls for the bill. And Carlos chuckles seeing your face, wide eyed with a tint of red on your cheeks, waiting for you to say it back.

j - jealousy (how jealous do they get? what do they do when they’re jealous?)

Oh boy, he will say that he isn't jealous, but then you see him pouting, huffing when you try to cuddle with him. It might be really insignificant, perhaps how the waiter smiled at you a bit longer, or how at the cafe the server threw in a heart on the cup. And sometimes you find it so cute, the way he fails to hide how jealous he is. And when you see his resolve melt slowly, he would say I hate when people do that. You are mine.

k - kisses (what are their kisses like? where do they like to kiss you? where do they like to be kissed?)

Carlos kisses like there is no tomorrow. Tongue all the way. He would definitely be a neck and shoulder kisser, his lips travelling from your jaw, down till the valley of your breasts. He would give you a sneaky soft peck, whenever he sees no paparazzi around.

He loves to be kissed on his face, especially his cheeks. When he smiles, his cheeks cutely plump on the sides, which is quite impossible not to kiss. He also loves being kisses on his abs (about which he is quite cocky about.)

l = little ones (how are they around children? do they want children?)

You knew Carlos, being so polite to everyone that you believed it wasn't even possible for him to be even more kind. Until you saw him with kids. How his voice softened, hands hovering around their little frame just in case to catch them when they fall. How his eyes light up, smiling untill his cheeks hurt.

Carlos would love to be a dad. He would love to have two or three kids, teasing and running behind them all day. He would be one of those dads who would do stupid things along with their children. And he wouldn't ever hesitate to lay his safety down for his kids.

m - morning (how are mornings spent with them?)

On the days he needed to go for practice, mornings would be early for him. Cooking his breakfast with yours, placing a kiss on your sleepy forehead before he would head out for work.

But on off days, morning would be slow. Waking up with his hands around your waist, staring at your sleepy face before he nestles into you, occasionally falling back into sleep that he doesn't realise you admiring his face, lips a little part, soft snores escaping. And when you both were up, you would just lie in each other's embrace, talking about sweet nothings, kisses stolen in between.

n - night (how are nights spent with them?)

Nights are slow and cherised with Carlos. Gentle massages over his biceps while he talks about his day. His hands around your waist, thunb circling as he listens to you talk about your work. Teasing touches and lingering kisses which sometimes lead onto something else. But every night, before you both fall asleep, a soft peck against his lips is a must.

o - open (when would they start revealing things about themselves? do they say everything all at once or wait a while to reveal things slowly?)

Carlos is a person who seems like an extrovert . But his closest people would see a much quieter version of him. The one that shares silly childhood incidents, the one who shares his deepest thoughts on life paired with his favourite drink. He looks like a person who would reveal incidents which are precious to him in the beginning, and when you have been dating him for a long while, it slowly unravels with thoughts, about his career, his relationship with his parents, his feelings. What he thinks about himself, about others, his life at a glimpse. And he would trust you when he is the most vulnerable, crying on your shoulder without any guilt, laughing along with you on the silliest things. Everything that he feels, he confides in you.

p - patience (how easily angered are they?)

He has medium tolerance. Wouldn't ever be too short tempered, but he isn't a high tolerence person either. And I mostly think that his tolerence changes according to the situations. He wouldn't get quickly angered when he is trying to fix the leak in the washroom. But will get angered in seconds when someone even remotely is rude towards you.

q - quizzes (how much would they remember about you? do they remember every little detail you mention in passing, or do they kind of forget everything?)

He looks like a general forgetful person, but not when it comes to you. Your interests, hobbies, what you love to eat, everything is in his mind. Your to-do lists, your bucket list items, he helps you even without you realising it. And when he sees your familiar doe-eyes looking towards the flowers that you like, he surpirses them by putting it next to your dressing table before practice.

r - remember (what is their favourite moment in your relationship?)

It was a pretty ordinary night, beginning months into the relationship. You were helping him with the dishes after having dinner over his place. While wiping out the washed dishes, he looks at you. Rubbing the sponge over the wine glass, shoulders relaxed. Like you belonged there, being in his house, alongside him. And he just couldn't help it and slipped in an I love you. Because it just felt right. And he caught you off guard, hands stilled, looking at him while your cheeks heated up. And god how much he still loves your reaction, how you barely mumble a love-you-too before turning red as a tomato.

s - security (how protective are they? how would they protect you? how would they like to be protected?)

He is very protective. Carlos always has one of his hands on you, either be interwined with your fingers or just ghosting over your back. He is quite alert, and whenever he feels that something might be wrong, he just puts his frame next to you, arm draping around your shoulder. And when anyone tries to flirt with you? An arm around your waist tugging you onto him does the trick. He would loved to be protected by being pulled at. Like how you would just pull his arm away while walking so as to not hit his head on a signboard. Or how you would hold his bicep a little tighter when someone else is trying to hit on him. And his favourite? How you kissed him right in front of the whole stadium after his win, claiming him to be yours.

t - try (how much effort would they put into dates, anniversaries, gifts, everyday tasks?)

Oh he is a plan freak. Buying you dresses for special dates, perfumes and heels to pair with them. Getting you huge bouquets on your bithdays and during anniversaries, taking you on a ferry. Safe to say he is very lavish about dates. But there is something soft in the way he always restocks your favourite foods and how he helps you dry your hair after showering. And slow dates of him cooking food for you warms your heart the most.

u - ugly (what would be some bad habits of theirs?)

Not doing laundry or sometimes forgetting basic chores (iykyk). All in all, he is amazing but sometimes you wish he would have been a smarter dad, so that he could supervise the kids rather than take part with them in stupid activities.

v - vanity (how concerned are they with their looks?)

Oh, very. He loves his hair and his shoes a lot, the cupboard full of addidas is enough proof. He loves a good perfume (overuses it and finishes in a couple of months). But when you started dating him, you took over the hair department, because this guy has a blind spot for which haircut looks good on him. So you were there to save the day from your boyfriend getting the most horrendous haircuts.

w - whole (would they feel incomplete without you?)

100% yes. He would be sending you random pictures of him eating or doing something silly on tour. Late night calls were a routine when he was away, telling you all about the guys (mainly jannik). And he would always whine about missing you before ending the call, being all pouty.

x- xray (how well he can read you?)

After months into dating, Carlos could read you pretty well. He could tell when you were angry, pissed or sad. Your emotions came with sublte gestures which he noticed. Just like when you are anxious and dancing your feet, his hand would slowly rest on your things, warm smile trying to ease out the anxiousness.

y - yuck (what are some things they wouldn’t like, either in general or in a partner?)

A person who doesn't reciprocate his feelings and excitement. It would surely make him frown and dislike the person. I think a person who lacks empathy wouldn't be liked by Carlos. A person who isn't humble and looks down upon others would definetly be the ultimate turnoff for him.

z - zzz (what is a sleep habits of theirs?)

Spooning you. Without fail every night. He loves to hold you close, arms resting over your waist as your back is flushed onto his chest. Rise and fall in your breath helps him calm his. Caging your body like its the last thing he could die protecting. Sealing his position with a kiss on your head before drifting off to sleep.

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hey love, sorry for replying to your ask so late 😭 i genuinely wanted to make this as accurate as possible according to me, and it took me a while to word my thoughts and that's why this is pretty elaborate and long 😅

this is one of my favourite asks and thank you for requesting <3 masterlist

[snazzyspider]

ok maybe this is a hot take or not idc but i see so many ppl upset abt mac suggesting you both see other ppl after their update and i???? dont get it??

like... its a dating sim. we as the player are seeing AN ENTIRE HOUSES WORTH OF OBJECTS romantically (for the most part) already but its upsetting that one of those objects wants to do the same TEMPORARILY? it almost feels like a double standard. doesnt make sense to me that people are upset about it

its especially confusing to me because honestly mac's reason for wanting to see other people is VERY valid and their logic is sound. through experience you can learn to better identify your needs and what you want in a partner and having that knowledge would benefit a relationship in the long run. thats, like, kind of a known fact for the most part and an extremely logical train of thought for that kind of proposal but for whatever reason its upsetting bc mac isnt fully committed right out of the gate like other characters such as hector, for example.

idk. maybe im pulling a wildcard but its just an incredibly confusing thing ive seen from some mac fans

[xxfangirl365xx]

just some thoughts on "MAMA" given the new lore he have (just random lol)

to be honest, I feel Mama might be the MOST inportant song going with the lore...It was one of the more theatrical songs from the show. The new lyrics,Maryanne,the computers in the background,the "child" G had...idk all of it was CRAZY (in the best way)

In my opinion mama has always felt like a desperate cry. Ik it's kinda like mother war and not an actual "mother" but I cannot help but think it's half mother war and half a fictional mother. (if that makes sense)

as we know the black parade has some pretty deep routed war themes and this new lore is making them even stronger. a son writing a letter home to their mother to explain how they will not get into heaven due to the horrible deeds they have committed and how ashamed they are of them.

With the new lore it almost feels as if G is also talking about the horrible deeds they have committed (maybe even guilt for the "election" they hosted earlier)

"mama were all gonna die" because they are now aware of their governments wrong doings and is coming out of the fog to realize this, that the dictator is taking innocent people out, and they are prob next.

it's almost like a final letter "mom, I'm not coming home, this is the end of the line. You don't need to know why but This is it."

and the "when we go don't blame us! we'll let the fire just bathe us! you made us oh so famous"

didn't the black parade "die" in a fire?

saying "it's not us. we did not die by something we did, someone else had a hand in it, but hey, at least we went out famous"

"mama we're all full of lies" that's a given. They were lied to and lied themselves about this whole ordeal

"and right now their building a coffin your size." it's almost like a "they got me, they r gonna come for you next by association from me"

"well mother what the war did to my legs and to my tongue"

this line has always stuck me as like they were injured in the war and the "tongue" reminds me of things like from the bible of "don't let your tongue speak evil" type of things yk?

so basically like "the war rly messed me up"

"you should have raised a baby girl, I should have been a better son"

regrets from both sides.

"mama" saying "if I had a baby girl, they would not have had to go to war and this would have never happened"

G/the parader saying "I should have been a better son for you!" like regrets of things not done

"she said you aint no son of mine! for what you've done, their gonna find, a place for you and just you mind you manners when you go"

she's mad, prob more of a guilt/grief mad that her son has turned into something "evil" or "wicked" from the war (idk if that makes sense but yk?) like she's horrified and angry at the things he has done. ashamed.

but the mind your manners thing I RLY like just angry but still being a mother like "how could you!" and "behave wherever they take you!"

ALSO

it could be the mother falling for the propaganda herself yk? like she reads the letter is is like "well maybe he deserves this! If he was doing something against orders. "they r gonna find a place for you for what you've done!" almost like "you deserve to be taken away for (whatever tha case may be)

"dont return to me my love"

like "don't ever come back! I don't want to see you again" kinda deal

"it's rly quite pleasant except for the smell"

the MOAT perhaps? He knows they r gonna go back to the MOAT or be killed

maybe trying to comfort her like "hey it smells but...it's not that bad mom"

then it turns into the rly "angry part" where he's just screaming "mama!"

"and if you would call me your sweetheart, I'd maybe than sing you a song" the mom is like reminiscing on how when they were little she would sing to them (maybe idk too much here)

and then G retaliate with the "but the shirt that I've done with this fuck of a gun you would cry out your eyes all along!" like "you shouldn't actually see me now. You would be horrified to see me and know what I've done

further pushing away his mother

this is rly interesting to me

"were damned after all! through fortune and flame we fall!"

again giving the black parade was famous,had status and then "died" in the fire to hide the fact they were in the moat

"and if you can say that I'll show you the way to return from the ashes you call"

again, they didn't actually die so "rise from the ashes" they were alive and rose back to some form of power as the black parade.

"we all carry on! when our brothers in arms are gone! so raise your glass high for tomorrow we die and return from the ashes you call"

again. this ties in a lot of recent lore for me.

The war theme. Now we know danger days and Black parade are more connected I am pretty sure revenge is tied in more. Mikey's medal for "dying" Ray has a red sash for being a medic...

and raise your glass high

ghost of you MV where they r at the bar...before the fight...where Mikey dies

they quite literally have a toast...raising their glasses high

at the end of mama u hear the mother crying. realizing the fate of her child.

I really strongly believe...somehow..

the universe where DRAAG is, is where people who maybe have died already go. That would explain the military themes and why the org.lore for black parade was they r where the patient goes when he dies.Maybe like a middle ground, not heaven,not hell.

they all died in the war, then took the role of having a band (which they did in ghost of you) and became the black parade.

long story short. This song connects revenge to black parade. Which then also connects it to the current lore we have.

idk if this makes ANY sense at all chat I'm gonna be SO real with you haha.

Let me know what u think :D

[sunnysock]

okay yapping about my oc time!

before anyone tells me im cringe I KNOW T-T

i make oc's for fun and whimsy not to be well written <3

literally i think i made her based on "i wanna make an oc that can be friends with the heroes and the lov…"

so like shes probably a mary sue… and thats okay being cringe is fun

ANYWAY THIS IS HER (actual yapping under the cut)

now im sure you've noticed… she looks like all mights mom

thats cause she's an all might daughter oc… gulp… her names 'Wendy Yagi' GULPP…

her quirk is called "pixie" and then later after a quirk evolution its renamed to "healing pixie"

because it happens in the moment i posted earlier where she's hugging dabi whos on fire! because yk, she definitely would have died otherwise! who couldve guessed!

anyway her actual quirk is a transformation type that lets her shrink and grow wings :3 i dont have any art of her like that tho so sorry…

but BASICALLYYY what i did to justify that is i made all mights' moms quirk a healing quirk thats based on her emotions, so the more intense her emotions are the more she can heal.

so wendy's quirk evolves to basically give her that BUT she can ONLY heal when her emotions are intense… so its not toooo op guys trust

moving on her plot is basically this:

when she's like 8 she gets kidnapped by AFO (obviously who could've seen that coming) and she kinda just lives with shigaraki and kurogiri for a year while also getting psychologically tortured by AFO. the details for what i want to happen there aren't 100% set in stone but rn im thinking he has her kill people to make into nomus? amongst other things obviously but thats the big one.

besides that tho she actually gets along really well with shigaraki and kurogiri

the scar on her cheek is actually from shigaraki, but it was an accident lmfao. and then shes like "no, no its okay.. look it looks like a heart its okay trust T-T"

and hes like "bro i dont even care ur ugly die (lying)"

also in order to get her to sympathize with them and hate all might and heroes, AFO tells her about shigarakis backstory, like how his quirk manifested and all that

and like this KINDA works she's like "what the freak… my dad and everyone i know is always yapping about how great and important heroes are and how bad villains are… but like if they just did theyre freaking job shigaraki would be a happy little guy rn… damn.."

anyway after shes rescued she starts sneaking out at night to… idk feel something.. and one night she meets dabi! yippee! at this point shes like 9 almost 10, so he's 17ish. and theyre first meeting is dabi killing a guy whos trying to rob and kill him. then he turns and theres a 9 year old staring at him like ._.

anyway thats kinda the catalyst for her whole character

her thing is sorta like deku and ochako's thing at the end of s6

"i dont wanna ignore whats inside their hearts" but with everyone she looks at!

anyone can commit almost any crime in front of her and she'll be like "okay but what if they had a bad childhood" LMFAO

its obviously more nuanced than that but thats lowkey the gist of it

and whatever whatever she keeps going out to meet him cause he reminds her of shigaraki.

so with that and just the experience of going into the streets at night as a 9yr old she learns more about how ass heores can be and stuff like that and ESSENTIALLY, she starts using all mights money(with permission) to donate to homeless shelters, charities, that kind of shit.

and then yk at some point shes basically solely funding a specific homeless shelter for years, and sorta takes over it.

again, does it make any sense for a 14/15 yr old to be in charge of this? absolutely not. but its okay. because its not real.

does this work logistically like at all? absolutely not! anyway

by the time shes 14/15 she's managing a homeless shelter/soup kitchen (but with not just soup! wow!) which ive completely orignially named "Pixie's Hollow" (LMFAO) and its whole thing is basically that its a 'neutral territory' so villains can be there and police wont come and arrest them. for the most part.

im gonna skip over everything until the training camp arc because im gonna hit the character limit- but important things to note are; she's in 1-A, and she replaces mineta (thank god), and in the sports festival she doesnt get past round 2. she also shows up to the stain fight but ill yap about that another time (and a lil in the tags)

anyway she ends up getting kidnapped along with bakugo because AFO asked shigaraki to. and she has a conversation with afo where hes like "yeah dont tell anyone but i lowkey fucked up my plans for u…but also it kinda worked ur out here helping villains. anyway im gonna have this nomu you helped make beat u up. cause itll make all might sad and be rlly funny"

then afterwards shiggys like "damn what'd u do to her bro what the freak" (a little inkling to the start of shiggy rejecting afo teehee foreshadowing)

she ends up finding twice first, cause dabis obviously not answering her calls, and basically is like "hi ik this is like super fucking weird but im lowkey worried about u guys so heres some supplies… call me!" and he likes "yeah no this seems completely legit ill take this back to the gang"

anyway after that wendy, instead of being NORMAL and mad at dabi and shiggy and the rest of them, is like "oh but… theyre like number one wanted now… what if they cant get food :("

and like its an established thing she does at this point where she brings supplies to criminals 'on the run', provided theyre not.. yk.. completely evil… but the people who help her do that r still like "girl this is the league of villains…. get a grip…" and then she ignores them cause shes a little bit insane!

this all takes place just before the overhaul arc, but after the license exam.

obviously tho when twice comes back with this bag of shit from a HERO STUDENT. and not just that but ALL MIGHTS DAUGHTER.. WHOM THEY KIDNAPPED… everyone else is like "omg twice u idiot… theres almost definietely a tracker in that shit"

but there isnt! and wendy gave them her phone number! so shigaraki calls and is like "bro r u mentally unwell????" and she says yes!

the gist of the rest of the story is her starting off trying to make sure they're safe, and maybe stop them from commiting horrible crimes, but it kinda just fizzles into "shit these guys are super traumatized and lowkey have a point… like they shoudnt be murdering but like LOWKEY"

in the end shes basically just "guys i do not give a fuck about all the crimes youve commited but if you keep doing this ur gonna get killed like twice was or put in prison and im too young to actually make changes to that system rn so can we cool it" and theyre like "lmao no" and the final war starts

and shes like "okay… ill leave shigaraki to deku and himiko to ochako. me and todoroki will handle dabi. we got this guys!"

and then dabi starts fucking burning alive so she jumps on him and is like "PLEASE BRO PLEASE UR GONNA DIE AND I CANT HANDLE THAT RN" and then when shes fucking dying from hanging onto a human sun her quirk evolves and starts healing both her and dabi to keep them alive.

and then after todoroki shows up shes still healing him so in the end dabi gets healed enough that he lives! yippee!

and then also when she notices all the toga twice clones shes like "shit…. ochako might need help with that lowkey" and shows up just as himiko is giving ochako blood

and shes like "what the freak stop i dont want you to die" and heals them both! yay! and then kurogiri and aizawa show up like

"hey um.. we're getting everyone together to help deku.. u comin?…"

and shes like "oh yeah for sure. um. himiko wanna come? cause deku def needs help and i swear his main goal is to save shigaraki if he can" and himikos like "yk what okay but only cause i love u girl"

um and then shigaraki dies the same way as in canon cause there is no saving that man sorry.

this post is such a mess im crying i make no sense.

maybe ill post like a snippet of some actual writing ive done idk. its almost midnight im tired this is as coherent as we're gonna get.

ill end with a screenshot of the playlist i have for her cause thats probably a better explanation than what ive written just now!

sinking town = aftermath of kidnapping

poison = her relationship with dabi (ISH. im pretty sure its suppposed to be a romantic song but just listen to it with platonic lenses)

fable = thoughts and feelings about villains and shiggy

bleeding heart = just thoughts about herself

takedown = fight against overhaul TEEHEE

step on me = relationship with LOV

placing the blame = thoughts towards endeavour but also lowkey all might towards himself (cause he finds out about how fucking messed up wendy's mental state is)

let down = final fight with dabi

frozen heart = sorta how villains view wendy? idk its hard to explain how i see this song in context to her LMFAO

what it sounds like = final fight with dabi PLUS final fight against afo/shiggy

i hear a symphony = general thoughts about everyone she loves

EDIT: I MIXED UP SOME SONGS SO REREAD LMFAO

[legally-allowed-to-slime]

do you have any thoughts in particular about the "pearl how do you feel about teaming with me?" conversation? ive seen a bunch of different takes on it so far, which have made me equal parts excited and worried for future shiny duo developments, especially on gem's side.

thanks for the ask! i was kind of avoiding this clip, not because i didn’t like it (on the contrary, i think it has many interesting implications), but because i’m not sure what to make of it. so let’s slow down and see what’s up with that.

first of all, the question:

gem: pearl, how do you feel about teaming with me?

wuh-oh. immediate landmine territory. this is towards the end of the episode, when gem has presumably had time to consider what officially teaming with pearl means. but why does gem ask her this?

if gem had said a flat out statement like “i feel good teaming with you” or “i don’t feel good teaming with you” we would’ve been on more solid ground, but here, she keeps it cautious, open-ended. in gem’s mind, how she continues this conversation depends on what pearl says.

what i don’t get is what exactly gem was thinking. she says “teaming with ME”, but we all know pearl wouldn’t have trouble teaming with gem. the only party who might have doubts is gem herself, who tore into pearl last season for the perceived betrayal. maybe she thinks pearl has somehow grown hesitant to team with gem, but why? the only explanation i can think of is that gem feels that she’s pushed pearl away too much, especially during WL, and somehow alienated her.

pearl: (cheerfully) i think this is going to go great

now one might chalk this up to typical pearl thinking the best of her allies, and tending to view gem through rose-flavoured glasses, but to me she’s also trying to steer the conversation into safer waters. pearl detects that gem has doubts for whatever reason, and returns to the safe “oh, we’re besties” trick that makes gem treat her with, frankly, a less calculated mindset.

gem: you’re not worried about it?

now it gets interesting.

to me, gem being worried about pearl’s loyalty doesn’t seem likely. gem’s made it clear in WL that she realises that pearl siding with scar was actually the loyal thing to do, and must have figured out by now that she is now the equivalent to scar (as pearl’s perceived ally) this season. furthermore, if she was worried about that, it seems silly to ask your would-be traitor if they were worried about it. she clearly has something else on the mind.

the interpretation of this line that i think makes the most sense, is that gem thinks pearl has good reason to be worried. but why?

pearl: no, i'm not worried! why would i be worried? you're like one of the most loyal people on a team, usually, right? gem: well… pearl: especially to me! gem: well… pearl: because you’d be loyal to me. you know, cause we seem to be teaming even when we’re not teamed.

this is why i love traffic!shiny duo, they improv so naturally and fluidly you barely realise it’s happening. c!pearl would probably have shut the conversation down there and then, but cc!pearl recognises that gem is being reticent and therefore starts saying things in hopes of goading a reaction.

first, she claims that gem is one of the “most loyal” people. this makes zero sense and is based on absolutely nothing. gem is no more loyal than anyone else on the server, and hasn’t committed any great acts of sacrifice for her allies. pearl knows that gem will challenge this, and when all she gets is a “well…”, she pushes further and adds “to me”, which tips over into lying, because gem was knowingly dirtying pearl’s name in WL.

when there’s still nothing, pearl reasons her thinking out loud with a “teaming even when we’re not teamed”, which is probably a reference to their little unofficial alliance going on in SL and WL, especially in the finales. she puts a lot of trust in who she perceives to be her friends, and in return, she expects the same level of loyalty that she gives them.

anyway with just 2 words we get a lot of insight into gem’s mindset. she thinks pearl might be worried because in gem’s opinion, she hasn’t been that loyal to pearl. but when seeing pearl not share her thoughts, gem decides not to warn her at all.

gem: well, i was just curious what you thought. pearl: well, what do you think? gem: oh, i’m— you know. pearl: no, i don’t know actually.

typical cryptic gem. traffic!pearl seems to be in a constant state of bewilderment whenever talking to gem, which is probably what keeps her coming back for more (because our girl loves a challenge).

there was a clear shift. gem was on the cusp of telling pearl, in my opinion. but seeing pearl be so trusting, i think gem didn’t want to let her down or make her start to have any doubts. gem likes pearl to be unconditionally loyal to her, and was worrying that she might not be. now that gem knows that pearl still is, well, gem can start to put her walls up again, which means not ever revealing her uncertainties or vulnerabilities.

an important caveat is that although we’ve come to a sort-of conclusion on what gem meant, we can never be sure whether this was entirely in-character. gempearl is one of the most notorious pairings known for playing directly to the heart of the fandom: not the youtube commenters, not the fanartists, not the twitter mob, but the crazy people on tumblr. for all we know, they were just playing this up for the drama of it. but we can pretend.

tl;dr: my take on it is that gem thought pearl might start to have doubts about her loyalty, but when it turned out she didn’t, gem decided to retract her question. also we might be overthinking it

[justafewberries]

I don’t think that holds up. According to sotr, Beetee is kept alive because he's too valuable to kill. They would know that he had a hand in the development, because they kept him alive to aid in the projects of the Capitol. If others could implement or expand the system better than Beetee, there'd be no reason for Snow to keep him alive after the failed rebellion.

There’s this line from sotr that stands out:

"I’m too valuable to kill, but my son is disposable."

You could take that as Beetee’s belief, but Plutarch who is seemingly better connected than anyone else repeats it later:

"Beetee’s too valuable to kill."

If Beetee’s contributions could be duplicated or taken over, Snow would have no reason to keep him breathing. the very fact of his survival means his knowledge was essential. even if others were involved, Beetee must have been the architect. his work was the trade-off for his life.

Snow's keeping him around because he's useful. And with a mind like his, Snow would’ve kept him under constant surveillance, both using him and waiting to kill him, just like he did with k&p and "convince me" in catching fire.

"Yes. But you don't go to the Capitol unless they invite you," said Madge unhappily.

They'd have to approve of his presence, arrange transportation, and have a good reason for Beetee to be in the Capitol working on any project at all.

It just doesn't make sense. his value wouldn't plausibly be enough to give him the keys to the same propaganda machine he tried to sabotage, especially because it's panem-wide communications.

i just don't think beetee could be found as a rebel, then everyone turns a blind eye years later and give him even remotely enough of a leash to plan something like this, even if someone takes over as the head builder.

Which brings us to the paradox: Plutarch tells us in Mockingjay that Beetee "essentially redesigned the underground network that transmits all the programming." Not part of it, the network.

His exact words are:

"But we have Beetee. About ten years ago, he essentially redesigned the underground network that transmits all the programming. He thinks there's a reasonable chance it can be done. Of course, we'll need something to air. So, Katniss, the studio awaits your pleasure."

Beetee redesigned the entire network that distributes information to the districts. the reason he had trouble getting back in was likely because SC didn't plan for him to be a converted rebel when he was designing it. he likely wasn't planning on having a way or reason to hack it, and thus built it to be solid because he wasn't a converted rebel back then. he probably didn't even know 13 existed. he didn't intentionally leave himself an in:

He thinks there's a reasonable chance it can be done.

which makes me think he wasn't supposed to have been aware of the opportunities awaiting him in district 13 until after he designed it.

with sotr, it just doesn't make sense anymore.

his work can't both be the most valuable thing in panem, to the point where they are willing to keep someone who committed treason alive, whilst simultaneously being an underground operation.

the only way I can see beetee being allowed anywhere near the comms system is if he was completely trusted, which, with snow's track record and overall paranoia, isn't possible after even an ounce of exposed rebellion.

i don't buy the "beetee has been loyal since ampert's death, so the capitol let him redesign the comms system" argument because of sotr.

haymitch spends the entire time after the games trying to prove he's a lapdog. he does everything he can to make sure snow knows just how loyal he will be to save the lives of his loved ones. they die. all of them. no one around haymitch is allowed to live. it's how snow functions.

snow is ruthless. he kills people even plutarch doesn't know about:

They say it's to cover the scent of blood from the mouth sores that will never heal. They say, they say, they say…Snow has a list and no one knows who will be next.... even Plutarch occasionally reacts in surprise, maybe wondering how a specific tidbit passed him by.

he holds grudges. no one found rebelling against the capitol would ever be allowed to take on such a crucial point of their infrastructure, especially when their history of rebellion has to do, largely, with that exact same system.

there is absolutely no way even just the threat of his family's death would gain beetee a trusted status. snow doesn't work like that. you cross him up once, it's over. you're under his thumb forever.

it was supposed to be over for katniss and peeta in the 75th games. that was going to be their deaths. he just needed to use them to try and settle the districts. snow knew it was never going to work. death was on the other side of the deal. it always was.

that's how snow operates. he kills. he poisons. he doesn't forgive.

so, no, i don't think giving beetee the clearance to overhaul the system that he once tried to sabotage is in character for any of them. nor do i think giving a known rebel the keys to arguably the most important system in the capitol and saying "have at it!" is believable either.

the comms system is how most, if not all, of their main propaganda is distributed. even if it was a decade later, i can't possibly believe beetee is the most irreplaceable man in panem, to the point where they let him design their entire comms system and hadn't redesigned it a decade later to make sure he couldn't do exactly what he did in mockingjay.

snow's too ruthless for that. and no, i don't believe the capitol is that stupid, either. not when it comes to the crucial nature of the comms system.

[burritowitch]

in honor of my debate friends & i finally making superman movie plans here is my batman speech and debate au. because i dont even know.

Bruce - he's the coach. i imagine he's the teacher for a social studies ap. i wanna say modern world history. (normally i cannot imagine bruce as a teacher but how else would he be a debate coach). hes been running a debate team in some way shape or form since dick was starting middle school. bruce had been a student teacher at dicks middle school and helped run the debate team before getting a teaching job at the middle school for 2 years and continuing the debate team before starting to teach at the high school and taking over the debate team there. hes the kind of coach that Will show up to every single tournie and stay at the table in the cafeteria so he can be there for the kids. wont leave till the end and will drive people home if he needs to (even though its against the rules). despite this, he expects a shit ton from every team member. also the kind of coach to have daily after school practices and require people show up, even if they have sports or other commitments or they cant show up to the next tourney. BUT hell show up to team dinners and pay for everyones food (no small deed, high schoolers already eat a lot, they eat even more if theyve been surviving off basically nothing but their breakfast and maybe a single slice of costco pizza for 12-15 hours). when he was in highschool he did lincoln douglass debate and info speech.

From this point on I'll break it up into grades because that's going to make the groupings make more sense.

Seniors

Dick Grayson: he's literally been on bruces debate team for seven years. because of this, bruce expects him to be the best. because of this, dick feels comfortable arguing with bruce and calling him on his bullshit. he's also on the gymnastics team and is constantly ditching debate team practices for gymnastics meetups, a big point of contention between him and bruce. Dick did public forum debate for his first four years before switching to policy debate, and he's stuck consistently to international extemp for speech. He's also the kind of senior that will just grab a freshman if he needs a debate partner and his usual partners not there. he will do 100% of the debate prep and just let the kid be first speaker with his prepared speeches. this is because he Has to show up to literally every tournament. at those tournaments, he is the first person to just straight up Disappear until awards. is he in some back corner of the school punching the brick walls? is he four blocks away in the parking lot of an apartment complex taking a nap in his car? is he smoking on the football field? no one knows. one of those probably. he's a horrible driver and will run red lights on the way to chilis but he is also everyone who cant drive's first pick for a ride to team dinner. he has made freshmen race for shotgun on many occasions. he's a nats champ and plans on continuing his streak. despite it all, he is NOT a board member.

Barbara Gordon: joined Bruce's team a year after Dick did, when she was in 7th grade. bruce trusts her incredibly, and while he has the same high standards for her as he does for dick, he believes she doesnt need him to help her reach them. it helps that her dad is also a teacher. for debate she's been competing congress for years. for speech she is constantly booking it between events, competing in domestic and international extemp as well as info. she is delaying rounds by like a good twenty minutes. she mostly stays at the table between rounds, being the general game master of any games the teams playing. shes the person in charge of the mario kart bracket, shes the poker dealer, shes the one explaining the rules of catan for the twentieth time. when novices dont know whats going on or need help figuring out what exactly to do for prep or how events work, she's who everyone else directs them towards. she's also the person who seems to be in contact with the people running the tournament, shes who starts telling people to clean tf up and get their shit together for awards. first person to realize when blasts drop on tabroom. shes been president for two years, and shes already training her replacement for when she graduates. and yes, she has won nationals.

Helena Bertinelli: transferred to the school a year ago, does not like most of the people here. mostly sticks to herself. before this, she'd been doing debate since her freshmen year. bruce remembers his team competing against helena specifically, so he has a little bit of harboring resentment for all the times she beat dick and babs and the kids who graduated before them. she regularly ditches practice because of this. she debates in lincoln douglass and speaks in international extemp and original oratory. she has competed in public forum exactly once (1). at tournaments, she mostly sticks to herself. she does this by either sitting in her car after her rounds end or by entirely just leaving after rounds end and not sticking around for awards or team dinner. this is another point of contention between her and bruce. when she does stick around at tournies, its because shes hanging out in a little group with babs and the other bop members in a back hallway. because she had a different original coach, her prep style is vastly different from the way bruce taught all his kids. she cannot wait to graduate and get away from bruce and get into the college debate circuit.

Jean Paul Valley: only joined the team this year. mostly joined to try and build his confidence and ability to speak in front of other people. hes trying his best. but he's also that one guy that no one wants to partner with because they know he's a gauranteed 0 chance of breaking. bruce tried to get him to compete in varsity in one of his first tournaments and regrets it dearly. he (tries to) compete in public forum debate and does do original oratory speech. at tournaments he wants to go home as soon as prelims are over but his ride is always one of the other seniors he cant go anywhere. ends up just wandering the area surrounding the school for eight hours before he gets to go home. he tries to get freshmen to partner with him but they also want to win. babs does her best to help him but theres only so much she can do when he struggles to make it through a speech. he just wanted to have something good to put on his college apps, this is not working out for him.

Juniors

Jason Todd: was first on the team in his freshman year, then took a hiatus sophmore year and now is back. he was a sweet kid his first time on the team, dick partnered with him once or twice and most of the now varsity members liked him. but then when he came back it was like he was a whole different person. no one likes him, he's an ass, and bruce gets more and more frustrated with his lack of taking things seriously at every tournament. he competes in original oratory and used to compete in policy, but doesn't anymore. he debated in lincoln douglass for a few months and was an ass to his opponents. people cringe when they see him walk into their room in a round. mostly avoids the table after his rounds, opting to instead wander around outside the school or the area around it. he's a good speaker, and consistently places high, he just doesnt show up to awards because he doesnt want to deal with bruce. bruce consistently thinks he could be doing even better if he cared and if he actually showed up to practice, but jason could not care less. he shows up to team dinner just to sit at another table by himself.

Cass Cain: this is her second year in debate. babs was her tutor and thought it would be good for her to help her learn how to speak more easily, and babs thinks she should explore more events. bruce thinks she could be doing more and keeps trying to get her to do the events he did, but cass doesnt do them. instead, she exclusively does dramatic interp speech. and only with scripts that bruce buys for her. she consistently breaks even though her speaking isnt the best just because her acts convey so much emotion and clarity. despite only doing speech, she will show up to debate day just for the sake of hanging around. shes done pf all of once, and it was with jpv. it did not go the best. after her first tournament, she determined that she was going to go to nationals and win her event there. to do this, she practices constantly to the point where she could recite her speech in her sleep. if she doesn't break she simply walks out of the building and walks home. several hours. and does not tell babs (her ride). this has only happened twice and everyone would like to keep it that way (especially bruce. who does not know where his student who he's responsible for is). she does not log into tab room ever and babs just has to tell her about her blasts. she'll disappear and then magically turn up for awards after no one's seen her in an hour.

Sophomores

Tim Drake: started in his freshman year and immediately started doing everything he could. every tournament, every opportunity, he's there. bruce is preparing for tim to be the next champion of the team. originally joined the team when he found out dick was on it and hasnt left since. he was everyones favorite freshman his first year on the team, and hes still the varsity members favorite. he started off debating policy with dick, but has done public forum a handful of times. is responsible for the single time helena did public forum. he typically ends up doing policy with dick though. for speech he does domestic extemp and info. during tournaments he usually stays at the table the whole time with the whole group or ends up following around varsity members to wherever they chose to run off to. either that, or he's the guy who ends up passed out underneath the table for a good two hours while a very loud game happens above him. he Will be the guy whos laptop dies with five minutes left of his extemp prep and the guy who delays debate starts because he has to plug his laptop in and can't find the outlet. almost always ends up the deciding vote on where the team goes for team dinner. despite only being a sophmore, he's definitely on the board. he's the secretary. when barbara was deciding board positions he was a shoe in. only debating in varsity because hes debating with dick, otherwise hed still want to be debating jv.

Stephanie Brown: this is her first year on the team and shes doing it between other extracurriculers. bruce is very Not Happy about her percieved lack of dedication. she ends up going to maybe four tournaments across the whole year. when she does compete, she does public forum debate with tim and domestic extemp. she competes in novice for speech and jv for debate. shell stick around the table after rounds but she mostly stays on her phone since she doesnt know most of the people there very well. shows up to maybe one practice a week where she just does homework. when she does compete, it does go pretty well for her.

okay thats all im doing right now im tired and if people like this ill add more people i dont know. this is a 2000 word post thats enough.

[bogos-bint3d]

random thought bc i was making alphyne sims LOL, do you think undyne would ever want to have children? how do you think she’d be as a parent?

While I personally don't quite have a "definite yes" or "definite no" answer for this I personally think that, yeah, possibly! I think it's a question with a lot of layers to it, "is it something the character would want?" "Is it something the character should do?" "How much thought would the character put into it all beforehand?" "How long would the character wait before making that choice?" And first of all I think I should talk about fandom culture's view on kids in general. Why? Because I'm obsessed with validating my opinions like this

It's been said many times by many people now how there are a lot of times where fans end up writing completely out of character for the purpose of placing characters into positions of stereotypical familial structures- ESPECIALLY forcing women into the roles of motherhood where it doesnt fit or make sense for them to the point where I don't think I can really add anything substantial or important to the topic. The pros have very much said what needs to be said.

HOWEVER. I ALSO LIKE TO HAVE FUN WITH FUCKING CHARACTERS. I LIKE TO EXPLORE DIFFERENT TOPICS AND SITUATIONS WITH THEM. I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO SHAMELESSLY ENJOY THEIR RIGHT TO INTERPRET CHARACTERS WHERE THEY THINK NESCECARY. WHERE THEY THINK FUCKING FUN!!!

So with that said, while demeaning female characters to singular sad and one dimensionsional traits of "Mother" is very clearly to me Not A Good Thing, people should stop acting like it's a fucking sin to imagine the possibility of a character having a child while still retaining all their accurate attributes, because it is a very possible thing that can be and IS done!!!!!

What are my thoughts on Undyne with all this?

Hehhaahehehaa....... strap in.

Where do I BEGIN. How about the inspirations behind the character of undyne herself.

Ok so see this wonderful lass here. That's a sculpture by Chauncey Ives of the mythical water spirit, Undine. Thinking about it, you all probably know this anyway because I do fairly often reblog Undine themed stuff too. Because I'm just like this. But how about the interesting stuff?

The original myth, created by Paracelsus, an alchemist and philosopher born in the 1400s, I believe comes from his work "A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, And Kindered Spirits". I think that's what it was called. I'm too tired to talk fully about it specifically and we need to get to the point so have a video of some guy reading it here

Yay :]

It's pretty much what it says. Paracelsus essentially believed that elemental beings (whom he had adapted and reimagined from ancient or traditional at the time sources) were simply part of the strangeness of God's natural creation and should be studied, as part of appreciation of the Bible etc. And we know ALL ABOUTTTTT utdr and its biblical links/imagery. But back to undine :]

Paracelsus named his takes on the classic concept of elementals: gnomes for earth (YES HE INVENTED THE WORD GNOME!!!!!), sylphs for air (yeah he also invented the word sylph), salamanders for fire (he didn't invent that :[), and of COURSE! UNDINES FOR WATER! He believed undines to be fairly similar to humans, a significant difference being the lack of a soul. Which surely means nothing when talking about Souls Are Important the Video Game. And anyways according to him they were apparently fairly capable of getting a soul through love. Wikipedia also says that Paracelsus says that a child from this love will too have a soul which is nice

Blablabla Wikipedia says undines are like fucking desperate to get a husband or whatever but dudeeeee she can do whatever she fucking wantssssss. I think she can and should be enjoying her life with alphys rather than it being a thing just for a living soul or whatever. They're just happy, no mythology attached

Onto the most iconic interpretation of the myth, 1811s Undine by Friedrich De La Motte Fouque. When you think of the tale of Undine it's almost always that it's this specific story you pull from. Apart from another one I'll briefly touch on later (please hope it's brief). In it, Undine is a woman adopted by a fisherman, who was taken in by the fisherman after his own child died. Hmmmmm wow hmm sort of like how asgore took in undyne after his children died HM BACK ON TOPIC. Personality-wise, Undine is described by Wikipedia (because I don't have the book) as "erratic", and "capricious", which Google dictionary describes as "given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour", which again sounds quite similar to the Undyne we all know and love.

It mentions that when married to Huldbrand (the main guy in the book he's not important tho) she is "kind and gentle" and yeah imo the writing with this IS kinda shit HOWEVER I think if were simply using this as inspiration for undyne I can definitely imagine her *eventually* becoming a calmer and more thoughtful person with A: the presence of someone like alphys to mutually love and understand her for her and B: the absence of having to worry about a war to fight and always sort of being on edge and just being. Like that. And again this would all be a *progressive experience*, rather than in the book where undine literally switches up over night. I do like to consider character and stuff

There's this line from the Wikipedia summary which jumpscared me

I 0% believe this has any significance to deltarune whatsoever however it was so funny out of context I had to add it

Another completely unrelated thing here but there's a fucking guy called "Kuhleborn" and I just. Can homestuck leave me alone. FOR FIVE MINUTES.

Sorry back to cherry picking the story to fit undyne.

Ok so truthfully I don't find anything else from that specific story that I find particularly helpful to undyne, the rest of it's kinda just useless to my point. Re-establishing the fact here that I skipped over a most of the actual significant parts of the story because I specificly want to talk about how I see it parallel to undyne. But that's it really. I just especially wanted to mention this adaptation of the story as it is pretty much the most iconic interpretation of the myth.

That is, interpretations that specifically refer to its source by name. Because by far the most well known media to draw influence from the myth of undine is the iconic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, "The Little Mermaid". I don't have much to say on how the little mermaid does take much inspiration from undine, other than the way andersen himself interpreted the story. Simply, the fact that Hans Christian Andersen, a man who based this story off of his own feelings at the inability for another man to reciprocate feelings of romance for him, and resonated with the story of undine so much that it was a source of inspiration for the little mermaid itself is so crazy to me. Like. Here is a queer man who read the tale of Undine and understood it so much he wrote his own story inspired by it and made it tie in with his own experiences of homosexuality! Like that's so crazy to me! Because it just makes the undertale character of undyne being sapphic so much better to me! It took the sad story of gay tragedy and took it and made it a story of gay joy!!!!!!! We are all so happys forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok ummmm. I got carried away because we are steering very far away from what this post was originally about. Umm. Point is. Original story was of queer sadness but undertale is now of queer joy + the story of queer joy being based on story where being with this person who you really love and being truly and properly bonded in an undeniable and magical way is enough to give you a soul that will live forever. I think that's somewhere near the point I'm trying to make but at the same time it's not quite the point I was trying to make. And this is absolutely just one interpretation of one relationship and this is by no means in any way supposed to be the end all be all of what ANY relationship should be. I really don't think this is what the definition of love is. However for these characters I feel it can be a huge aspect of it for them

NOW FINALLY MOVING ON TO THE ACTUAL CHARACTER FROM UNDERTALE THANK FUCKING GOODNESS!!!!!

Oh undyne. With some of the implications in game that she lost her family, I very much imagine her being cautious with this sort of situation. Would she be able to handle is for example? Would she know what to do. Given its something she might not even have real first hand experience of, is it something she would even want to risk forcing upon another person? I think she struggles so much with responsibility as it is. She wants nothing more than to protect people and cheesus if she had a kid of her own you know she would be doing every single thing in her power to make sure that kid never has to face what she did. Undyne says at one point in game (if you kill her in neutral i believe) she never told alphys the way she felt because if/when she died in battle, she wouldn't want alphys to deal with that. And again, she really would not want to have a kid if she worries that one day that kid would have to worry about someone they truly care about not being with them anymore

So *would* she want them? I don't really think it would be an overwhelming innate desire or anything like that, but really not against it. Sged need a lot of time beforehand first. Some time to live her life to the fullest, time to make sure it's something she can handle without guilt, time to make sure it's something that does bring her joy. And then yeah, 6 or 7 years minimum I can see it happening. And I think it would be nice

"Now let's talk about susie, can we talk about susie? Please stun (and other readers) I've been dying to talk with you about susie all post, okay?" /ref

I don't really have anything to add I just think alphyne should adopt susie. In every timeline. Undertale deltarune I just think ok. Because she doesn't have a good home life to the point where she's like just Not Safe and hm young couple with no children in her area? Undyne would want to help her soooo bad because she understands just what it feels like to be young and alone not really cared for and she would NEED to fix it. That's defo how it is for undertale at LEAST. Idk entirely with dr if it'd be exactly like that cause we don't know what undynes got going down in dr yet.. but even so that's nothing to stop them

Anways yeah I think you mightve been waiting just a wee bit long for the answer to this ask I uhh.....m.....mmmm. yeah man I... yeah. I really do genuinely hope you enjoyed his tho cause uts currently quarter to 2 in the morning and I'm going on a train & to the aquarium tmrw so my ass CANNOT be waking up at 11 am again. Shits fucked. But when I tell you when I'm locked in on an undyne topic I AM LOCKED IN. IT TOOK A WHILE BUT I FINALLY DID IT. MORE THAN HALF OF THIS WAS WRITTEN WITH NO BREAKS OF CHECKS BUT THATS THE BEAUTY!!!!!! FLY MY SCARAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spotaus]

I'ts been. uh two months??? Geez I was NOT paying attention to time apparently, my bad!! I'm back now though, because I love horsegirl dust and his early-day shenanigans :]

Okay, first off, I LOVE that Dust is immedieatly internally cursing this entire situation of his!! Not nessicarily because he's ungrateful, but because it's dangerous for the people around him! He's always been hyper-aware of how dangerous he is to be around, and because of that, he can't help but think Nightmare is an idiot for letting him out at all, but especially for taking off his magic restrictions!!

But then this is also immediately juxtaposed by other info, like how he had been given that nice, slightly oversized, sweater that made him feel more comfortable! Another moment. He can't fathom why the king would let him out so easily, but also he can't figure out why he'd be given such a comfort like this for times when he wasn't even doing any proper work. (it's a nice touch to mention his old clothes were ruined and his armor for missions+practice wasn't comfy, so it establishes a need for the gift in the firstplace!)

And the description of the cuffs!! I remember discussing that they were different everywhere, but I still love the way you described them here! Ancient magic deep inside them, heaby like eights, just super duper obviously present!! It's so sick...

His thoughts on the others are so silly too. Like, the respect he holds for Horror (someone obviously closer to the King, but probably new like him) because he's actually cautious about this criminal loose in the castle! Poor Horror saw his chance to get out of his (very kind but) overbearing family situation and come help the King, and by proxy his family, only to get to the castle shortly after Nightmare has employed someone who need FOUR MAGIC RESTRAINTS??? Obviously a criminal. This poor guy is keeping an eye on Dust lmao.

Then Nightmare, notoriously the paranoid king! Word spread, it was pretty obvious how touchy and overprepared he is. And yet here Dust is experiencing the rare treatment of Nightmare's need to give people Redemption Arcs (I mean. Not really, they still do commit crimes. It's just how the people see it because the crimes are done to protect the king/the people lol-) and he is not enjoying how strange it feels to just... be trusted.

And Killer! Bro saw Dust come out of it from his magic-blocker induced haze and. Man, yeah, he can forgive and forget that initial detatched reaction, because Dust is strong (he saw first-hand), clever, and kinda fun once Killer figures out how to be just a slight bother to him :] That's the kinda friendship no one expected, but Killer kinda needs more friends who can grasp what he's been through, and Dust will feel like he needs an ally here sooner or later. It just works out that Killer is persistant and Dust will eventually warm up to his presence! :D

The activeness of his storm!!!! Ough, the fact that Dust just... being there with less cuffs can just kinda make the storm linger? That's sick af... This is early enough by far, this is his era when he doesn't know how to ccontrol it properly without the barrier and with the cuffs. It makes total sense that in this moment, has he's getting worked up, the clouds above start to rumble. There's a drizzle. he knows it's his fault. Ha has to force himself to calm down and breathe!

Ehehehehehe.... Thinking back to getting that first cuff off. Night seriously would've done something like that, no hesitation. In the past he wasn't above sending Killer down to the dungeon to spook some prisoners, maybe torture someone if they'd done somethings particularly bad or they had hurt someone he cared about, but Night preferred to not force anyone to get their hands dirty if they didn't have to. So, for Dust, who has been pretty damn cooperative for a criminal who fried some of his men? Nightmare saw a chance, realized how bad a state this guy was, and let him free just a bit despite it all. Gave him a chance.

And then Dust!! His first words upon processing everything (Shout-out to the storm for reacting so quick to being allowed to be stronger again + immediately shocking Night about it lol-), including Killer having a knige at his throat because he just seemingly attacked the king, is to ask why Nightmare did that? Let him out of a cuff?? That's those two's first hint that Dust' s magic is weird, i think, too. Nightmare didn't sense any particular malice or intent to attack, more frustration and fear from Dust (though barely) so that zap must've been reactionary + outside of Dust's control! (Also idk if we discussed it, but I don't think those zaps do much to God-Apple-Magic era Night? His goop is kinda just like a conductors and absorbs/deflects it down to the ground. At the most it's like a static electricity zap. Though, it CAN explode a tendril if Dust is just aiming at those since they're expendable limbs- ANYWAY,) Dust is such a sweety at heat, worried about why his dagerous storm was just released a little by his very jailer.

The discussion about Dust getting a little bit of 1 on 1 work w/ Night to try and connect to the storm too... It's so banger! Poor guy can't possibly believe that Nightmare is doing this to improve Dust's own quality of life-

Ughhh I just love the description of this not-forest..... A place where the false gods wanted to control nature so badly that they custom-designed this entire forest to look natural, but just every so slightly wrong? It's so sick....

Lore!!! Dust + Fam camping trip out to th elittle lake!!!! Oh that poor thing, thinking back on his happy memories and how cool his parents and brother are, missing them so much, but it all being overwhelmed by the storm's presence? Because how could it not? It saved his life, it ruined his life, it changed his life forever in a way he can never get back from... And him thinking about how the lightning gets him too. How he can't hurt someone without knowing and how he's grateful for that, but!! Ough!

Then!!! The ranch!!! He has stumbled across the old rundown ranch!!

I love how his first instinct is to just... hide away lmao. he hears any chance at another person and slinks away to observe and watch! Just.. very telling of him hehe! (And AYO!!! Mannequin monster reveal!!! There they are!!!!) And then slipping inside, again so him! He's curious, he needs to know! And the build up of empty, empty but in use, to the actual living horse watching him!!

Him moving really quickly to just... give the horse a treat because he's so curious and infaturated, ad the way the horse is so calm around him is banger!

The callback to where he's seen these horses before too!! The fact that they've used them before, but that they hardly seem to actually be out and about, hidden away and almost forgotten out here in the woods. (And him assuming that they might help with farmwork and stuff, but Horror's apprehension keeps him from trying to join him so he wouldn't know? That's such a fun detail!). Just... such a fun worldbuilding moment for Dust to be here.

And then, I'm sorry, it IS so very in character, but Dust just vaulting into a stall and out the window to hide in the trees the moment the stablehand is coming back is SO funny. He's so worried about being around others, being caught doing things he shouldn't, he's being cautious FOR others, of himself haha! He's so sweet... And little does he know that his plan to bring back sugarcubes will NOT be his last visit >:]

Gifted Drabble - New Age AU - Horsing Around

Hey @spotaus !! :D My totally not scheme is done! (it has been for a while lmao. but i didn't want to ADD to the amount i already send you so it was in the backlog lmao. Waiting... like a little present... or a sniper >:D)

So here we go!! A day with Dust in his early days. Bck when he wasn't quite training to be a knight and still on parole lmao.

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His arm feels empty.

Dust rubs his arms and feels the obvious lack of another one of his bracelets.

Fucking idiot.

That is what King Nightmare is.

Who the fuck trusts a prisoner with dangerous magic?! Aparently the king of Ochard.

He can't help but touch the warm sweater covering him. It is handmade by one of the seamstresses, either in town or from the castle Dust doesn't know. It is just.. it was made for him...

Dust doesn't know how the king noticed but he noticed that Dust dislikes being uncovered... And with his normal stuff ruined after the original fight and the armour he borrows on missions not being comfortable.

It is... more than he deserves...

It is soft and warm and is slightly too large for his frame. Exactly as he likes it. That together with the beanie and the trousers? he is warm and comfortable in the cooling air. THe shoes are still his own as those are sturdy.

And Dust long ago layered rubber into them to help them survive his sudden lightning strikes.

He is outside now. In the open air as he stares at the castle. Large and Dust sometimes has the feeling it moves... but the storm in him always made him feel weird stuff about totally normal things...

His hand finds the two remaining bracelets on his arms. One on each. Secure and tight.

Dust's phalanges map out the, by now, familiar texture. It is rough and large. It is ancient technology, not at all what they looked like back home.

Back home... the designs had been slink. It had been streamlined to not bother anyone when working. To not get stuck on things and to make them harder to remove. Dust looks at these bracelets. They are nothing like that... They are large and heavy, almost as if it are weights put around his hands. They weight about the same as that as well, his arms used to ache badly with all four. that together with the obvious dark grey and purple magic shining in the runes? It is very obviously that Dust is a criminal and a dangerous one at that.

It would be nice if they were actually treating him as such!!

At least Horror isn't an idiot. He is weary and keeps a close eye on him. Which is much better than Nightmare's almost blind trust?! Dust always heard the guy was paranoid... yet here Dust was. Walking around. Not locked away in a cell. with only two magic blockers on him by now.

Worse is Killer who just... treats him as if they are hanging out? It is so confusing! what is he even suposed to do?! It wan't that long ago that Killer was trying to, unsuccessfully, interogate him!

It is a strange place.

He hears an ominious rumble in the, now, much darker clouds above him and he tightens his hold on his own hand. He closes his eyes and breathes in deeply. Concentrating on his soul, or whatever that mess counts as, and feels the storm. It is reacting to his anxiety, like the most overactive guard dog.

It is hard to force his own soul to calm down, especially with the storm also zapping his own soul. It makes his soul feel more agitated and almost frenzied. It is difficult, to calm down, to let any emotions that had been there leave him. To just feel numb. But that is the only way to control the storm. The only way for it to calm down and to not accidentally zap someone.

The rumbling up in the air calms again and Dust glances up. Less dark but there is still a small drizzle. Great. Hopefully he doesn't ruin any gardens by drowning plants... again.

He rubs his face and his eyes find the blocker again. He wishes he was still wearing four. Sure he couldn't even feel his magic at that point and the storm had a hard time powering him. It felt like he could barely be awake. But at least then he was actually harmless! At least then he didn't have to worry that he would kill someone!

there had already been too many close calls.

Yet... when Nightmare realised what the four bracers did? How low Dust had been and how he was barely not in a coma? Ngihtmare had immediantly removed one of the blockers. Which caused his magic to spark out and zap the other. He hadn't even been fully awake yet when he found Killer glaring at him wiht a knife aimed at his neck while Nightmare had been holding on of his braces.

Dust remembers frowning at them confused before glancing at the brace and then back to the now empty spot on his arm.

"why did you remove that?"

That had been his first question because that is what had nagged him. It is dangerous. Very dangerous. They know he is dangerous! They saw the damage he did on purpose! And with the magic keeping the storms out now gone it just means that his magic will grow stronger!

Which Nightmare may want as the king is now trying to train him on controling the lightning. Dust told him already he can't but Nightmare just keeps making time for them to feel out the lightning and for Dust to practise... It has to be that Nightmare wishes for him to control the lightning so Dust can use it on missions... otherwise it would mean that... it is for Dust...

And the only people who cared about Dust had been his parents and brother. Even the mage installing the spell and making the magic directly connected to Dust hadn't cared about Dust or his health. Just that the theory he had had been right. That it was possible t use magic to power living monsters...

More rumbles in the air and Dust shakes his skull. He needs to stop thinking about it. It makes him feel like a project. As a thing. As a studycase. All things that give him anxiety which causes the storm to grow angry and... He would call it protective but Dust is pretty sure the storm can't actually feel things... and if it did it would only care about keeping Dust alive to enable itself to live on.

He needs a distraction.

He looks around and looks away from the castle. He spots the forest around the castle grounds and partly on it. Maybe a walk in the forest? just not see the castle and find soemthing to not think about what is going on now? that could work...

He walks towards the forest.

The closer he gets the more he realises it just looks like a forest. It is actually a tree garden. Carefully and skillfully maintained to make it look like a garden.

Dust studies the tree line and looks down. He can see that there is lose ground, clearly maintained to make it easy for the roots to well, take root. There are bushes alone the treeline, forming a natural looking wall to keep the trees to their area. Dust walks alongside the treeline and spots a sand rock path leading into the forest. Winding and twisting between the trees. Looking like a paht made by people often walking over it.

He crouches down and nudges some of the very small ferns and beginning patches of flowers aside. A small gravel line alongside the rocky sand path. Again, carefully maintained but looking natural. It is again all created in an image, looking exactly as these magic made gods want it to look like.

Still it is an illusion made well enough that it can work.

Dust follows the path and listens to the forest. It is much too quiet. The creatures sensing the danger that he is. Hiding in their little home sas they feel the storm brewing.

At least this forest reminds him of home a little. They would go to the nearby forest, when their parents had the currency or it and Dsut himself was strong enough for the small trip. It was a pine tree forest. there was a small lake. They would go at any time a year. Small three day trips. They would camp right by that little lake, their dad would be teach them how to catch a fish, how to prepare it over an open fire. Their mom would than later take them a bit away from the camp, teach them how to find their way back and how to look for shelter.

He didn't get to go on many trips.

The spell around his soul was meant to make him able to live. To be able to just exist. Instead he had to make sure he didn't accidentally lost control. That he didn't feel too scared or mad or hurt as the lightning would shoot from his fingers without his consent.

The one upside was that it also hurt him. It burned his joints and mana lines whenever it zapped outwards. At least he will never hurt anyone else wihtout noticing.

It is the only punishment he got for hurting his little brother...

He tries to focus on which plants he sees. Trying to remember old classes. What is edible? what is useful to make camp? Which ones signal for many insects nearby? Which ones are used to feed larger animals and you should stay away from.

It is... A good distraction.

The path through the forest isn't as long as he had hoped. It is maybe a good fifteen minute walk when the trees thin out again. He had been walking slightly downhill.

There is a small building next to the other side of this small clearing. it is made of an light wood with pink or red ish roof. There is a pen with two horses...

There are horses in this forest?

Dust stands by the tree line and frowns as he glances around. He doesn't see anyone... Why is there just a building wiht horses?

He walks a little closer. Slowly to make sure he isn't spotted. Why is this little ranch hidden away? It looks... old. Really old. The light wood is all faded, maybe it used to be darker but the constant sun also bleached it clearly. The white painted is peeled off and the roof seems to have been red before but experienced the same conditions to turn much pinker.

He hears movement and he rushes to hide behind some hay stacks.

A monster walks out of the probaly stables. They are a mannequin monster. They are wheeling a wheelbarrow out with old hay which they throw into a bigger cart with a pitchfork.

Dust just watches them work for a while. See which steps they take and what they do to try and figure out the whys. This he asumes is cleaning out the different horse... pens? After that they move towards his hiding space and Dust realises he messed up. He is right by the fresh hay!

Dust listens carefully and moves around the stack as the other grows near. At least all those classes and training is working in his favour in a bit.

There is a long silence but the other grabs the hay and leaves again. Dust makes sure the other is back inside before rushing towards the side of the stable and steal more glances.

That is where he stays for most of the afternoon. Watching the person move around the stable as they clean and order things. They fill the feeders and water troughs. After that is done they take some tools that he can't quite get a close look at as they walk towards the horses that are outside. Dust sees two at the moment.

There is nothing he can hide behind to get a closer look to see what the other is doing. He cna however...

He goes into the stable. He glances around and ignores the smell. There is a small area to the left right by the enterance. He spots another set of large boots and some large brushes and something that looks like a metal hook? There is a small brush to the side as well. A bucket on the ground with some left over grain in there. there is a small basket with carrots. There are more things but Dust has no idea what any of those things are for.

There are six pens inside. Dust slowly walks deeper into the area and glances into the first pen. It is empty and completely clean, no straw or hay or water in any of the obivous spots. Empty? Not in use? He moves to the next and sees that while there is no horse inside there is straw and hay and water. Even some grain. He moves towards the last pen on the left side and finds it much the same as the second he saw. Ready for use but empty.

He turns around and freezes. A large horse is staring at him from inside the pen across from the third on the left. Dust is frozen. Sure he has near a few horses before. The white mare hiding the enterance to a smuggle spot was always great! She even let him pet her once in trade for an apple. But this horse looks much larger than the other had been. It didn't even make any noise!

They stand for a moment. The horse huffs as they lean a little closer. Sniffing the air before huffing and shaking its mane.

Dust blinks and glances towards the enterance, there had been carrots... He silently moves over there as grabs one, then he glances back to quickly check the other pins. Nope, just one horse inside it seems. He walks back with the one carrot and holds it out to the horse "Is... this what you wanted?" his voice is just a mumble.

The horse walks over and sniffs the treat before eating it quickly.

Dust watches and studies the horse. It looks strong but he doesn't know stuff about horses... Just that they are usually used to pull carts, transport people around, or to help in the field to prepare for more farming. He wonders what these horses are for- oh wait he knows! They used these horses to get to the farms near the border where they met Horror.

That is all he ever saw of these horses... When Killer and him have missions they usually just walk or they hire faster transport if it is further.

He never really goes towards the gardens or the farm checks as Horror doens't like to have him along, which is fair he is dangerous. Maybe the horses help there more?

Something nearby moves and Dust quickly glances out of the small windows by the empty horse stall. The ranchhand is nearing the building.

Dust rushes towards one of the empty stalls on the other side and climbs through the window. He waits a moment until he hears the door move before jumping down and rushing to hide by the treeline nearby.

He glances back and pants. That was close.

Dust isn't sure if he is even allowed to be near them. Or even here for that fact. He is still a criminal and on house-arrest after all. He glances back before making his way back to the castle. Best get back befoe anyone goes looking for him.

Maybe he will go back tomorrow... He heard horses like sugar cubes... he can try to get some to give to the horse...