#i just know she'd be an arctic fox

[mspaint-flower]

Fox flowf

they keep turning her into animals help

[hmshermitcraft]

Nobody on the server knows how to react when Etho gets ill. Mostly because they're still under the impression that he's rather independent, that because he usually bases a little farther away than most and his quiet nature means that he prefers to handle things by himself.

His neighbors would beg to differ.

Xisuma got a taste of it in season seven, early on when Etho's monstrosity didn't have any roofs (rooves??) it rained and Etho caught a cold. Xisuma woke the next day with Etho standing at the door of his bed, wrapped in a blankie, "mom i frew up" look on his face. Poor guy was miserable!! X made him some chicken soup and let him crash in his base for a while.

Then in season eight iskall got a helping of ethosick before the moon went to shit. Iskall still doesn't know what he caught, but not night Etho woke him up shivering and asking if he could take them up on the cuddling. He was cold, which was odd since they live in the savannah, but iskall would never turn down some nice casual intimacy so they curled up together for the whole night and far into the day. When it got warm enough they took Etho outside and sat him on some warm grass and some fresh baked bread.

Season nine Etho got very ill during decked out and so everyone got a little taste of taking care of the slab, letting him nap on the spawn bed in-between his runs, asking simple yes/no questions so he wouldn't have to speak, keeping the volume down so his head wouldn't hurt so bad, the works.

Now in season ten Etho's chosen victim is Gem. He keeps visiting, day after day, not for very long, just to talk for a little and hang out, but she still finds it odd. Eventually she asks him what's up, and he admits that he's feeling homesick.

Etho's an arctic fox, Gem is a red fox. Etho's been deprived of having an actual packmate, another fox who understands him, ever since he joined the server.

"awh, you poor thing,"

"don't make funna me!"

"nah cmon, ok. C'mere then."

They dig out a den to stay in for the night, Gem learns that Etho's elbows could be classed as lethal weapons. Maybe after they wake up she'll teach him how to use them in combat.

-carrie

Etho is a cutie, really, is Gem's verdict. A big ol' softie who hates to be called one. She's always been pretty independent herself, but it's still nice to have somebody to den with and sleep the night away (and sometimes a fair amount of daytime too!)

Just don't expect her to read any bedtime stories! That's where she draws the line!

(She'd probably still do it if Etho asked.)

[marx-soul]

Metal Gear Solid characters and their fursona (according to a non-furry who knows a lot of furries)

Solid Snake: While he may have "Snake" in his code-name, he used to be a musher with over 50 dogs. You don't do that unless you really like dogs. Husky.

Otacon: After much consideration, I have settled on an albatross. No real reason, it's mostly a vibes thing.

Meryl: A red fox, for obvious reasons.

Colonel Campbell: An old big dog, the kind that looks a bit sad, like a St. Bernard.

Gray Fox: An arctic fox, not with its fluffy white winter coat, but rather its short summer coat.

Revolver Ocelot: Ocelot.

Liquid Snake: This guy is too lame to have a fursona.

Naked Snake/Big Boss: The first Snake. Coral snake. Venomous. It will be obvious why this specific snake was chosen in the next point.

Venom Snake/V: Milk snake. Looks a lot like the coral snake due to mimicry but isn't one. Not venomous.

Kazuhira Miller: Caribou. Lives in Alaska, not to be trifled with, but ultimately a prey animal who falls to a predator.

Solidus Snake: This man is a king cobra even. Fun fact! The king cobra primarily eats other snakes, and also is not a true cobra. I felt a snake was appropriate, considering his obsession with being a perfect clone of Big Boss.

Raiden: A big ol' scruffy street cat. Aggressive, sharp, and sorely lacked love and affection when it was young, just like Jack.

Sunny: With her tech prowess, she's gotta be a sparkly blue protogen.

Sniper Wolf: Despite her name, she'd be a wolfdog, not a full wolf. Both a reference to the wolfdogs she cared for in Shadow Moses and her last conversation with Snake.

Johnny Sasaki: A bat-eared fox, because of vibes + Meryl is also a fox.

There are many many more characters but I'm tired of doing this.

[ambi-stage]

I have such an unhealthy obsession with arctic foxes, so imagine how I felt when I found out about Alopex in the IDW comics Basic gist of my Rise! Alopex: Since her story in the comics remind me so much of Casey/Foot Recruit (i.e. formerly in the foot clan and once separated from them couldn't find a purpose until later on, it's a stretch i know but it's all i could think of) I decided to do the good ol' switcharoo and give this Alopex the usual Casey story where she's a subpar vigilante in the Mystic City.

As for how she meets the Mad Dogs, Alopex meets Raph first while he's alone in the Mystic City and on the verge of panicking. Alopex is just 'uhhh wanna see some tricks?' to distracts Raph and guide him around the city.

Once Raph reunites with his brothers, he introduces them to Alopex basically tells them 'i met this loser who's been using her weapons all wrong, can she come over for tutoring sessions' and the others are just 'you can't keep doing this-' He does it anyway :)

Like in the comics, she's closest to Raph but not in a romantic sense. The two just like to partake in some good ol' sparring and stopping criminals, like the familiar Casey/Raph dynamics from previous iterations. I like to think she'd be second closest to Mikey and act as a bridge for the eldest and youngest brothers to connect like they did growing up. I haven't thought of anything for Leo or Don yet, I'll have to get back to that :P

[coulsonlives]

Finished all eight episodes and well, that was underwhelming. Here are my main impressions.

Clothing was too clean and looked like it came out of a cosplayer's closet instead of being actual, lived-in clothes (if there's one thing the failed movie did right, it was the clothes)

Zuko was decent

Sokka had an a+ personality but was missing some nuance

The Sokka and Suki meeting was boring and had typical teen romance cliches galore

Appa and Momo were cute

Not sure how I felt about them starting with 100 years ago, and the cut between that time and the present day was jarring, I feel like the title card should've been there instead to break it up. And just the title card, none of that weirdly glowly, oddly-colored narrative with the bending examples and stuff, it looked so odd

If Katara were a spice, she'd be flour, if she were a book, she'd be two books, where the heck was her fire and spunk and generally just. differentiating traits because I didn't see any and it was so boring to watch her

Like honestly! She didn't have her motherly/parental role thing going on, even in a toned-down way, and she was missing her passion, I just. What else is left

Bumi was scary af man

Lots of the compositing was blurry as shit and it was distracting, probably a lot of newbie, abused comp artists with pay cuts given dneg was working on it

Aang revealing himself all mystically with the intense music, then two seconds later the music stops and he slides down on the ice with a thump made me lol, and I don't think that was the intended reaction

They're in the arctic and you can't see anyone's breath, why is that, tell me

Suki removes her makeup in like 2.4 seconds without missing a single bit of it, teach me your ways gurll

Momo is actually cute and not a demon, praise raava

The fire nation armor is pretty brutal, the shoulder pads are like obvious cardboard that isn't even trying to look like metal (I still can't really tell if it's supposed to be metal? That's not a good thing fam)

Way too much exposition and 'telling, not showing', some of the convos dragged on for wayyy too long

The fox thing was unnecessary, but I liked Yue's added motivation to help Aang as well as her people

What the f did they do to Azula, the foundations of her character are totally different from the og show and she barely even feels like a villain. Some of her lines about being inadequate or 'not good enough' felt really contrived too

Lots of strange cuts and camera work, more than a few times there was a person talking and the camera was looking at their waist or something else for no reason lol, and there wasn't an establishing shot when there needed to be, so things were just disorientating a lot of the time

Lots of things happened but the show just. didn't give any time for them to marinate. Sokka telling Aang he abandoned his people, he knew it, blah blah in one of the early episodes? It's poignant but it lasts like five seconds before the scene totally changes, I got major whiplash, fam

The lion roaring sound effect every time someone firebent, please stop I beg

Azula being defiant was interesting and the lightning scene was cool but I still miss Daddy's Pet Azula

Sokka screaming on Appa was funny

My favourite scene was probably the dude going 'but we're the forty-first!' and Iroh telling them, 'and you're all alive because of his sacrifice'. Like dang that hit hard and I loved it. I liked how they added that

Avatar Roku was like ?? um. I know he and Sozin were goofballs but cmon man

The shots with Koh capturing Sokka and Katara were cheesy as shit especially with the sound effects lmao, it looked like horror movie jumpscares from a b-movie

Some of the acting was hammier than a ham sandwich. Even Zhao gave me that impression at times especially with the dang spirit fish scene

Pippinpaddleopsicopolis the third

I know they had to condense a crap ton of episodes, but it really felt like the show was just checking off boxes at times instead of (like I said earlier) letting anything marinate

The opening scene with the earthbending and firebending was cool, it's a shame the rest of the show didn't live up to that

The bending vfx looked good. The choreography did feel a bit disconnected though, and not as martial arty as I would've liked

I felt like I could blatantly see some of the reasons the og creators left the show

Grumps tbh I'd give it like 4/10.

[autistic-writer-angel]

Psst, hey, Angel ask time

Emergency 🚑 (how often do they end up in the medbay)

Land 🏜 (where were they in your favorite a&b episode)

Special 🥳 (where were they in your favorite special episode)

What is YOUR personal favorite octo agent? (You don't have to answer this one if you don't want)

-Nova☆

Thank you so much for the ask!

🚑 Not too often. Angel is fairly healthy and, despite being accident prone, she doesn't have too many serious injuries. She probably ends up there two or three times a year. Even then, it's normally something trivial. Peso's just being overprotective. In between, she may have other trivial problems and talk to Peso outside the sickbay and he'd just give her so medicine or advice.

I should point out that Angel has a slight fear of the sickbay. Not because she's scared of being treated, but because it brings back bad memories of having a panic attack when she first woke up there and lying on the bed in the sickbay, staring at the walls until they became blurred behind her tears as she cried so hard she couldn't breathe.

Peso knows this and doesn't make her stay in the sickbay longer than she has to. He even does her semi-annual checkups somewhere else to make her feel more comfortable.

🏜️ I have three favourite Above and Beyond episodes.

One, I don't think Angel would appear in at all: 'Red Fox.'

Another, she doesn't play a very big role: 'Bamboo Rescue.' She's helping Peso, Shellington and Professor Inkling with the seahorses.

The third, 'Twelve Year Bloom', she tags along with Shellington and the Vegimals to search for honey and a present for the Captain. She never knows what to get people for their birthdays, so she's helping the Vegimals with the cake and getting the Captain a card. (I saw a birthday card recently that made me think of Captain Barnacles, so I like to imagine Angel saw it too and got it for him months in advance!)

So, yeah. Angel was one of the first to meet Selva. She was a little shy, but knew with Shellington and the Vegimals there, she'd be safe.

🥳 I actually have two favourite specials, but I only know where Angel would be for one of them.

In ‘A Very Vegimal Christmas’, it’s Angel’s twelfth birthday. She’s excited about the Christmas feast, Christmas in general and her birthday, but she also feels a little sad, missing her family. She tags along with Shellington, Dashi and Professor Inkling to check out the brine lake, so, of course, she gets stuck in the snot blob too. Nothing says merry Christmas and happy birthday like getting stuck in a big blob of snot!

(Just in case you care, my other favourite special is ‘The Great Arctic Adventure’, but I’m not entirely sure where Angel would be for that one.)

My favourite Octo-Agent... I think I'd have to say Natquik. I just like him. Angel does too, but she doesn't know him that well, so she's still shy around him. Still, she has to make an effort with him, considering he has saved her life.

[sweetheartmotives]

Yan ocs favorite soup?

Good question! Let's see...

Let's talk soup favorites!

Micah, The yan Bartender: He doesn't like soup. It's basically liquid to him, and it makes his throat feel weird.

Jaakobah, Evil Yan Cupid: I don't think he'd like soup, he's more of a solid food kind of guy!

Harper, The yan Eagle Hybrid: If he somehow got his grubby Claws on soup, he'd like it! He'll pretty much eat whatever. If he got to try other flavors, I think it'd be Kimchi jjigae!

Yumako, The yan magical girl: Hmm.. maybe Sour cherry soup? It's a pinkish color and it has cherries in it, so I think she'd like it!

Taiyō, the Yandere Cafe Host: Phò/Pho! It's something he treats you and himself to occasionally! Yum yum yum :3

Damian, The yan deep diver: Probably tomato. He's basic, just how I like 'em!

Tomen, the Clumsy Yandere: Wonton. He enjoys not-so-liquity foods, because y'know... he's clumsy and spills everything. Like the stupid idiot he is.

Kaan, the yan vampire: Blood soup! What's blood soup? Just blood made to look like soup.

Isla, the Platonic!Yandere witch: Maybe she's vegan? I don't know but she enjoys Borscht! It's yummy and healthy!

Yandere Arctic Fox Hybrid: If he ever could have soup, his favorite would probably be Sinigang. It has meat in it so he likes it!

Apollo, the Yandere Otter Hybrid: Sancocho! When he first got his hands on it, he immediately became obsessed. It's one of the foods you first gave him! Probably why he likes it so much :]

Lelantos, the yan Stalker: He prefers smelling ur dirty clothing instead of eating <3

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I think some or one of these is a stew? Haha, I think it's okay though. Stew and soup seem similar to me!

I hope you enjoyed reading, as I enjoyed writing! =D

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[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

To go with jackrabbit anthro Ingo, I am thinking maybe... peacock for Melli? Bc flashy, colorful, and annoying, the ones at zoos like to steal things from people too, like Melli stealing the torches. House cat for Mai bc haughty with some people and calmly affectionate with others. Arctic fox for Irida? Polar bear for Gaeric?? Possibly poodle for Arezu bc they have lots of different haircuts associated with them, plus to me she seems kinda like she'd be a dog anyway. First thought for Iscan was a rabbit, which gives the bonus of emphasizing how uncanny valley Ingo can look, but most of the rabbits I know are actually pretty chill, even the wild ones outside of my apartments, those dudes don't even move if a dog walks by them. Lots of wild ones spook easily though so it could still work fine. Would be kinda funny if he was like, a bad omen kinda animal though, like a barn owl or black cat, to go with his whole "warden for a ghost fish while deathly afraid of ghosts" thing. Or maybe Palina being one of those bad omen animals would fit that theme better. Hm.

Idk, what say you? This is just me spitballing lol

oh my god peacock melli it's so perfect. and mai is a cat of course! aloof until you gain her trust and then you can hang.

i feel like the bad omen animals should be reserved for the miss fortunes, though. like they have to be, right? barn owl charm, black cat clover, and... idk what coin is, i can't think of another superstition animal off the top of my head. snake? or maybe coin's the black cat bc she has the literal cat ear hair already.

meanwhile i think volo should be like, a dove. or some other animal that's usually symbolic of peace and divinity. and maybe in hisui there's even some forgotten lore about them traditionally being sinnoh's priests.

[arsonmurderandjaywalking]

🐶 ✊️ 🐾 for any or all of your ocs!

Also 🔪 lol

🐶: Helena, who runs during all hours of the day both to avoid her problems and because she genuinely likes it, the freak, would start running and not stop until she gets to somewhere the dog can't follow or until it gives up, whichever comes first.

I think Arin starts running until she sees something that she can climb and the dog can't and then scrambles up there and hopes that if she waits long enough it'll get bored and go away. I'm just imagining her crouching in a tree yelling at a dog that's barking like it wants her dead.

If she could get away with it and not immediately out her identity I think Ella would freeze its feet to the ground but she feels so bad about it and frees it as soon as it's calmed down enough that it won't instantly attack her. Otherwise, there's a non-zero chance that she also ends up in a tree pleading with it to try and get it to leave her alone.

✊: Ella does her usual tactic of incapacitating her enemies by encasing them in ice, which works. She then calls animal control. Helena and Arin try to electrocute and fire blast it to death, respectively, which works, but not without significant property damage due to the fires they keep starting due to poor aim and ostriches being wriggly bastards. they would not think to call animal control at any point, even if the ostrich was still alive.

🐾: I picture Helena as one of those big dogs who are just so grumpy and will not do anything unless they want to do it. Arin is one of those medium-sized, yippy dogs that are so excited about everything. she would always want to play. Helena would not. Ella's an Arctic Fox. snow/ice associations, cheerful, smart, unassuming appearance, can take down animals twice their size. It's perfect.

🔪: I'm thinking Arin would be either an amazing impostor or an absolutely god-awful one. she'd be a great actor and would be able to get a lot of people on her side but she'd probably forget a small but really important detail that brings down the whole charade. Helena's just not the type of person who's good at subterfuge but she'd do a lot of damage very quickly before she's caught. Ella would consistently last very long before she's caught but she's just not cold-blooded enough to kill more than is absolutely necessary. the most likely to lose because the others complete all of their tasks before she kills them. Luna would get voted out first because she is so suspicious all the time and literally every person there knows that she lies all the damn time both for fun and secret-keeping reasons and is good at it. if she manages to survive the first emergency meeting she wins every time. It's a bit of a coin flip for Cecilia because her main tactic is to just not say anything unless spoken to, which is just how she usually is, so no one finds it suspicious, but when confronted with evidence her excuse usually just boils down to "none of your fucking business," which is obviously not effective. Terra kills a lot and usually gets away with it because no one finds her suspicious, but she can get sloppy and leave witnesses if she's not careful.

[derelictheretic]

I am going to write self indulgent His Dark Materials/Far Cry 5 fics again and no one can stop me

[bookwyrminspiration]

Today I witnessed the most endearing thing practically ever hold on I gotta tell you.

Background: my city's library system has a summer reading program, and I'm one of the volunteers to help run it at my local branch. Today I had a shift that I'd taken to fill the sign-up desk for the last few hours of the day because no one else was covering them, so I show up ready to be alone for the next three hours and...there's someone already sitting behind the desk, the prior two volunteers very quickly explaining how things work and how to sign people up. I have never seen this person before, and she seems overwhelmed by information and is young, and looks a little nervous when she sees me standing there as the prior two volunteers leave, and I'm immediately overcome with such intense big sister energy like oh man I gotta look out for this kid, so I explain that I'm also a volunteer and join her behind the desk and she looks relieved and warms up and we chat for a moment

Now we're behind the desk like normal and so her mom walks up, introduces herself and asks the girl if she's all situated and ready, because this girl wasn't at the orientation and has just showed up without any of the hour of prep all the other volunteers received.

The girl says yes, so her mom very excitedly goes over to get her little brother, whose like 8, and brings him over, this way she can specifically sign up her little brother and mom as the first people she helps. She explained the program, turning to me for help once to make sure she got it right, and got her family signed up. It was so adorable I can't even explain it

And then the mom started to walk away to hang out in the library before turning back around to say "wait! I need to get a picture of [name's] first day!] and pulls out a camera, taking a step back so she could take a picture of the two of us (I gave my permission to be in the photo) for this girl's first day volunteering at the library

So now she's behind the desk, has had a practice run, and I'm there to help if she forgets anything and we're volunteering as normal. One of the things the staff does for us is provide a sketchbook and crayons (idk why crayons) to pass the time if we didn't bring anything or don't feel like reading at the moment, so the girl starts to mess around with the sketchbook and I'm reading next to her until I notice out of the corner of my eye, she’s written my name on the page.

My hair is dyed bright red, so when her little brother was trying to guess how many pom poms are in the guessing jar, the mom had asked me how I dyed it (Arctic Fox) and so under my name the girl had made a note of the brand, and I'm like oh cool! that way you can take that page of the sketchbook with you and won't forget! and then because I happened to be paying a little closer attention, I saw when she turned the page this incomplete drawing of a face

as an artist myself I know it's uncomfortable to have someone watching you so I tried to focus on other things, but the sketchbook is out on the table so I see it from time to time when I look up, and I notice a few minutes later...that she's drawing me! She's got the skin tone and my black mask, and then she starts to add my makeup and earrings and that bright red hair I mentioned before. And I'm just sitting here like oh fuck kid I would die for you. She was so sweet she was complaining about the crayons and how she messed up the ears so she turned them into elf ears and once she knew I'd realized she was drawing me she kept turning to look at me like "hmm let me see" to use my real life face as a reference. Like she'd just met me and thought my hair and makeup was cool so she started drawing me

She was only there for an hour, and I helped her mom get everything sorted out to sign up for volunteering hours because the girl is young enough that the normal system doesn't really work for her and she wasn't at the orientation, and her mom was so thankful for me just being there so the girl wasn't at the table all on her own the very first time with such a quick intro from the previous volunteers. Instead she got to see me sign people up and hear the information repeated over and over and do it herself with someone to fall back on in case she forgot something

and she was so anxious about leaving, because it was just going to be me and she thought she had to wait for someone else to get there so I wouldn't be alone and I was just there like honey I didn't even think you were going to be here don't you worry about it at all, I can take care of the desk on my own and then I watched her take another 15 minutes walking around the library before checking out like 10 books and I had this moment of "I used to be you." Because that's what I did at her age in the library.

and I might have to specifically sign up for an hour at the desk where she's signed up just because she was so sweet and nice to be around and I wanna make sure she's doing alright at the desk like aurhgu

another notable instance was when this person about my age walked up to the desk and we simultaneously complemented each others hair, like just "I love your hair" at the exact same time, and then we both complemented each other's makeup

anyway my point is people are incredible and kind and the world deserves kindness and also everyone should go to the library and pick up a book

[octoagentmiles]

Personally I like to think that Tweak or Professor Natquik were the ones to tell Barnacles he had autism. Like, maybe either Natquik had experience in mental health and recognized the signs in Barnacles, or Tweak's mom taught her a lot about developmental disorders such as autism/ADHD and passed her knowledge onto Tweak( you also mentioned in a previous post that Dashi didn't know she had ADHD until Tweak told her, so I figured Tweak might low-key be an expert about mental disorders)

We don't know anything about Tweak's mom, if she even has one, so in a way every headcanon about her is canon until otherwise proven /hj

Personally I think Tweak just,, knows a Lot. About completely random stuff. Like this:

That's Tweak lol

Plus Tweak has ADHD/autism (/headcanon) so I figured that she would recognize Dashi's traits, since she has them herself. In my head I imagine it was super casual too, like Tweak just assumed Dashi already knew, and made a comment one day like "yooo ADHD squad!" referring to herself, Dashi, and Kwazii, and Dashi was like "wait hold on-"

As for Barnacles you are so very right. I headcanon this too now. Because if it was Tweak, then again she'd be recognizing her traits in him—but it could definitely have been Natquik because I already have these two headcanons:

Natquik is like a grand/father figure to Barnacles. [he was canonically his mentor for a long time too.]

Polar Bears aren't,, like, super knowledgeable on this kinda stuff; it's taboo or something. Idk why I have this headcanon but it's a really strong vibe I get.

but Natquik!—is an Arctic Fox, so it's possible he could at least know a bit more about neurodivergency, etc. and considering he went basically off-grid for maybe 20 years without a radio, just so he could complete his research, and was perfectly happy doing that—he also might not be 100% neurotypical lol

[crazywolf828]

Not that I like rvvby anymore, but now that I've infected (heh) you with arknights, an arknights au would be perfectly viable lmao feline Blake is obvious, as is dragon Yang (tho what variant could be up for debate, since there are at least 3 different draconic races in ak) Ruby and Weiss would be up in the air, as well as what op types they would be. Just a thought =3c

Alright, alright, I'll humor this but I have got ao many au's going on! Blake you're right feline for sure, and while I'm down with Yang being a dragon (asbestos my beloved) bear would also fit because of her whole fairy tale thing and she's a very Frontline type. Don't ask me why I've always enjoyed the thought of like Arctic fox Weiss so I'm going with that (are there even foxes???) And Ruby... Hm. She'd have to be something special. I'm sure they're all even and stuff buuuttt let's go with an angel because I think it would be neat with the eyes and everything.

Now for types of ops. Weiss would of course be a caster, she basically already is in the show, low health and def but high attack. Ruby... Ruby would be maybe a specialist? Either that or a sniper I think. She's fast and very versatile but not high health, also crescent rose has a sniper rifle so. Blake my love, there are no ninjas I'm aware of... Hm... Maybe a DPS defender? I know defender isn't exactly her thing, but she's fucking strong, which we've seen thanks to v8 where she fucking holds the hound from flying away- Anyway. Yang, my love, DPS defender would be good for her too, her semblance is charged by being a punching bag after all, taking the brunt of the hits while the ranged pals do damage and then she also gets to dish it back once her special attack is ready.

[yourlocalsmutwriter]

Is this retail therapy - Janis Sarkisian x reader

When people talked to Janis they didn't expect that one of her hobbies was shopping. She was the girl who stood against the popular group, the girl who had only one friend, the girl whose clothes looked like they were DYIed or thrifted. Truth is Janis only loved shopping at one store - Hot topic. It was like a holy mecca - it had everything from band t-shirts, hair dye, to cutesy Disney stuff she wouldn't admit to liking. And Hot Topic had you - a very cute cashier, who she was  attracted to.

Janis had definitely seen you around the store before you got the job, and wanted to talk to you, but being a useless lesbian, she couldn't just ask you about the band shirt you were buying or compliment your fandom pin. But since you two were juniors now, you worked at the store and she had an excuse to talk to you. Like today, she walked in asked

"Hey, can you point me in the direction of the hair dye?" as if she didn't know the store like the back of her hand.

"Sure.We have Manic Panic and Arctic Fox, as well as some more niche brands."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome... what's your name. Sorry for asking, but you're always here and I feel awkward not knowing what to call you."

"It's Janis."

She'd stop by almost every day, always browsing and sometimes buying small things like jewellery, pins and patches and sometimes she'd buy a shirt or even a dress. When you got new things, you'd write down what Janis would like and show it to her as soon as she came, or she'd call the store just to hear your voice.

You hadn't seen her in a few days when the store phone rang. Your coworker picked up and after a quick "yeah, she's here, you can talk to her" you knew who it was.

"It's your girlfriend." Your coworker mouthed to you, handing you the phone.

"She's not." You mouthed back.

"Hi Janis. Yeah, we have that in stock. If we sell it out by then, I'll request a restock. Yeah, of course I reserved that for you. Okay, see you soon. Bye." As you hung up, you said.

"Damn, I'm so gay."

"You're so whipped. Why don't you just confess to her."

"What if she's straight?"

"Are you kidding? She flirted with you last week, you were just too oblivious to notice it."

‘’When did she do that?’’

"She said that you have a nice lip gloss on, and when you said thanks, she asked if it would look good on her. That was supposed to mean I want you to kiss me, not show me the lip gloss then sell it to me."

"You're reaching."

"Okay, but why did she buy a rainbow patch from me a few days ago and we haven't seen her since? She wants to give you a hint."

"Maybe it's a present for someone?"

"If that girl painted the lesbian flag and wrote I'm gay on her atrocious jacket, you'd still be wondering about her sexuality."

"Hey, I like that jacket.". You were about to argue with them more but a customer came.

Meanwhile as Janis finished her call, she sat by Damian and told him.

"I checked with the store, they still have my Maleficent horns, so that's my Halloween costume. Hello, Earth to Damian, what are you staring at? So I have a paint stain or something?"

"Is that a pride patch on your jacket? Who are you trying to be, Michael Mell? But seriously why are you wearing that, it's like you're coming out to the whole school. "

"I wanna see if it's noticeable. If it is, I'm gonna wear it to Hot Topic, give the cute cashier a hint."

"That girl won't notice that you're gay even if you go up to her and kiss her. Now can you focus on the Caddy and the party, or did your plan to overthrow Regina go out the window?"

"You're right. Love can wait, revenge is more important."

Janis didn’t wear the jacket when she picked up her Maleficent horns. She didn’t hang around aimlesly with you, nor did she tell you about her art exhibit, her fight with Caddy and one day she just showed up out of the blue.

‘’Hi, Janis. Long time no see.’’

‘’Hey. Listen this might be weird, but hear me out, please. At school I'm known as the lesbian outcast, but today we all talked about our insecurities after a huge fight broke out. The main point is that I felt accepted for the first time and now I'm here. Do you want to go out with me?’’

‘’Yeah. Now I owe my coworker 10 bucks.’’

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Cool, I'm down with both poodle Arezu and arctic fox Irida. Not sure about lizard Mai, if only because I'm not sure how that would affect Adaman's self-image issues. Although. Mai could be like, the Exception to him, because she's Good Luck in their culture, on top of being fast and blue and beautiful, and thus basically an ideal Diamond Clan embodiment. If she were pretty much any other kind of reptile he might feel different, but if they're the only two Diamond Clan reptiles around at that point and she's a lucky animal, then that'd make sense if he was able to keep his insecurities about being a bad fit for a leader and like maybe the Pearl Clan are onto something about reptiles having piss poor luck. It's just that now he has someone to compare himself to, and all he can see are the ways that he falls short. A mourning dove for Cogita is a smart idea, I like it a lot. Also, I was thinking about white dove Volo, and I found it even more fitting bc those are the birds they use in sleight of hand tricks.

If Irida could do it without killing him, the easiest way to make sure he was doing things like eating right and grooming himself and hopefully even calming down every once in a while, would be to drag him back to the settlement where he'd have people to help him. But she can't. At this point she knows the best thing for him would be for him to go back to wherever he came from, since he arrived in mostly good condition, but she has no way of doing that and is just trying her best. She'd be sad to see him go, but also extremely glad to know that he won't just waste away out in the mountains or get mauled to death or something.

I think it'd be hard for Melli not to notice, especially because he seems to take great care of his own appearance. Compared to Melli, Ingo kind of looks like a stuffed rabbit that was used vigorously as a chew toy until it was raggedy and most of the stuffing had leaked out. He's also one of the few people Melli sees on any regular basis, so whether he wants to or not, Melli's going to be Aware of him. Now as to if he'd help... I don't think he'd go, like, out of his way to help, but he wouldn't deny Ingo help either (though he might gloat while giving it lol). And yeah, I can see him nagging at Ingo to get his act together, that's probably how he shows he's worried and also he'd be legitimately annoyed if something completely preventable happened that then fell on Melli to take care of. The Great Melli is, of course, great art everything, but that doesn't mean he wants to be scraping Ingo's carcass off of the floor of Moonview Arena like he's roadkill just because Ingo didn't eat enough and passed out on the job. He can appreciate the theatrics of a good swoon, but this is taking it a bit far.

Yeah, Emmet is going to have so much work to do to help get them both back on track once he finally gets Ingo back. Because somehow I don't think Ingo is going to be especially helpful. Even if the rift damage was magically fixed and he suddenly got all his memories back (which, let's be real, is unlikely), he'd still have years worth of habitually not taking good care of himself and ignoring things until they boiled over. He'd probably just be getting overwhelmed way easier, while still not doing a lot of the things that would actually help because he's too stressed out, in an environment he's not used to anymore, and it's hard to get back into habits you've long since fallen out of. So Emmet is unfortunately going to having to do some of the heavy lifting for a bit until Ingo can start self-regulating again. Which isn't going to be great for his stress levels, but on the plus side he has the other half of his buddy system back which his instincts appreciate, he no longer has to worry about where Ingo is and miss him, and in general he's just got way more in his reserves than Ingo, who at this point is running on fumes. I assume Emmet has some form of support system too, to help him.

HMM all very good points about mai. the idea of her being considered a lucky animal is very fun, too. i do like the diamond clan having more than one prominent lizard—since the mirelands are probably the warmest climate it would make sense for them to have the most reptiles i think. ...which brings to mind an interesting interaction with ingo, actually, because if they have a lot of cold-blooded or heat-and-humidity-adapted clan members and the rest of hisui is comparatively cold and arid, they would probably know the most about how to adjust to changing climates if the body isn't doing it. once they realize that's like, a major concern, melli might very (very) begrudgingly share some of that knowledge with him.

meanwhile irida... physical distance might not be seen as a punishment but i wonder if being confined to a single region isn't. especially for someone who's a warden, servant to sinnoh's blessed. all of vast hisui created for pokemon and humans, and he can't safely visit like half of it? and irida in particular would be the most hurt by it i think. since they still don't know why he arrived here, but she accepted him, made him warden, he's her friend and confidant, served the clan so dutifully and almighty sinnoh, can't you see you're killing him. what did he do to deserve this?

...honestly a lot of this talk could be applied to canon as well. it's just that specific circumstances make it Worse (or more visible as the case may be)