#i may also not be fully coherently awake tbh

[hyah-lian]

Lmao speaking of demand avoidance........

[thelittlebirdthattoldyou]

how iwaoi refer to each other

my brain is dead and if i try to write fic rn i just know it won’t be coherent so have these dumb headcanons instead.

what iwaizumi calls oikawa

oikawa

when they're in front of other people, he just calls oiks by his last name

iwa isn't huge on pda (though he puts up with it from oikawa because he's sOFT for him) so he doesn't feel the need to stake a claim on oikawa in public with cutesy nicknames or whatever

he's not gonna admit it but he already knows oikawa belongs to him & vice versa so,, what's the point?

also he doesn't need to be mocked by hanamaki or matsukawa for being a sap, thanks.

shittykawa/trashykawa/crappykawa/loserkawa/assikawa/dumbass...yeah

ok i feel like iwaizumi doesn't use these insults super often, especially when they get older and more settled in their relationship

it mostly happens when he gets mad that oiks is being negative or self-deprecating or overworking himself again

sometimes he uses them teasingly when oikawa's being a brat on purpose, but he always sounds so affectionate that oikawa can't even bring himself to be offended

doesn't really use them in front of other people just because he'll fight anyone who dares to laugh when he says them. he's the only one who can insult oiks and get away with it!!

tooru

saved for intimate domestic moments, when it's just the two of them

oikawa LOVES it when they're staying home and cooking breakfast or something and iwaizumi calls him tooru without thinking twice about it (”tooru, can you pass me the salt?” or “hey, tooru, wanna go see that new movie that’s in theaters today?”)

he just says it so casually but it feels so right and oikawa melts every time

iwa loves saying it because it sounds so sweet and full on his tongue, and he thinks it suits oikawa so well

((iwaizumi loves oikawa, but he has to share him with the rest of the world. he loves that he gets tooru all to himself.))

babe/baby

similar deal. i like to think that iwa alternates between this & tooru.

happens more often when iwa isn’t fully awake

iwa likes to wrap his arms around oikawa and bury his face into his neck and mumble “g’morning, baby” with his voice still hoarse from sleep

oikawa literally can’t handle it. he combusts. it’s his favorite part of the day even though he refuses to admit it

once it slipped out in the middle of practice (iwa may have been distracted by oikawa’s smile after landing a perfect jump-serve, shut up) and matsuhana would not let it go for DAYS.

every time they saw oikawa they would be like “hey captain - oh wait, i mean babe” until iwa threatened to hurt them if they didn’t stop

pretty boy

shhhhhh let me have this

the first time it happened was on accident because iwa was just trying to make fun of oikawa

he wasn’t expecting oiks to go bright red and speechless when he said it, but it was SO funny

now he says it to tease oikawa whenever he needs to be taken down a peg. he’ll never get tired of seeing his usually polished, in-control boyfriend become a flushed, stuttering mess

oiks has no idea why it has such a big effect on him?? he knows he’s attractive & he hears it all the time from his admirers, but it’s so different to hear iwa-chan, of all people, calling him pretty.

what oikawa calls iwaizumi

iwa-chan

i couldn’t think of as many things for oiks to call iwa because iwa-chan basically covers it all??

no one else is allowed to call iwaizumi “iwa-chan,” just like no one else is allowed to call oikawa “shittykawa.”

tbh iwaizumi isn’t even sure oikawa remembers what his actual last name is at this point

whenever he hears it, iwaizumi is reminded of humid august nights catching fireflies & failed volleyball tosses in the park & sharing futons until they grew too big to fit.

it makes him think of their childhood, of growing up together, of each being the other’s first love, first everything.

they learned to love together & oikawa has changed so much, but at the same time he hasn’t, and when iwaizumi lets himself think about it he gets emotional

so he usually doesn’t think about it and just lobs a ball at oikawa’s head and tells him to shut up LMAO

hajime

oikawa probably uses iwa’s first name less often than iwa uses his

not because he doesn’t want to or because he’s uncomfortable with it, he just thinks it’s special (iwa-chan never let me call him by his first name when we were kids!) and he wants to make it special whenever he says it

iwa makes fun of him for being sentimental, but he adores the thought oiks puts into it, and he falls HARD whenever oikawa does say it.

again, it usually happens in private

oikawa will whisper it into the space between their bodies when they’re curled up together, ready for bed

he’ll say it like a prayer, hushed and reverential, because he can’t believe iwaizumi has stayed by his side, has chosen him and chosen him over and over again, all this time.

and then iwa kisses him, as if to say of course, you idiot, i’ll always choose you, and oikawa murmurs hajime, hajime, hajime into the kiss.

oh also he knows how much iwa likes when he says it & he’ll definitely use that to his advantage when he wants attention

manga spoilers under the cut!

mi cariño/mi corazón/mi amor/etc.

listen, oikawa speaking spanish to iwaizumi makes me hyperventilate

as soon as this boy knew he was moving to argentina, he went and looked up all the spanish pet names he could because he wanted to fluster iwa as much as iwa flustered him

for a solid month he was walking around san juan not knowing how to ask for directions when he got lost, but at least he knew how to say “you’re the light of my life and i love you.”

he’s also 10000000x flirtier in spanish than he is in japanese which was a surprise to everyone, including iwa, because no one really thought he could get any worse.

iwa has no idea what oiks is saying half the time, but he likes the way he says it

oiks, on the other hand, is glad iwa can’t understand him because it gives him an excuse to say as much sappy shit as he wants

picture him,, like,, kissing iwa's hand and putting it over his heart and calling him mi corazón

some linguistic liberties taken <//3 i don't speak japanese

k i'm gonna go cry over them for the next hour or two so that's all for now ♡♡

[abyssalanathema-fr]

I'd love to hear more about Havenae, her lore is so interesting! :O (and she's super pretty too!)

First, thank you for the compliment on her!! :>

As for info, Havenae has a deep connection to both the dream and spirit realms. She was born with the ability to connect to the dream realm, and it only strengthened as she grew. In her dreams, she was also able to peer into parallel worlds as long as those worlds had a version of herself existing in them (aka, she basically broke the 4th wall as she could peer into this world where Flight Rising is only a game). As you can see, though, learning about that connection became an obsession and ended up getting her into a giant mess with the unnamed THEM, who seems to be a guardian of order of some sort who protected the veil between realms and worlds.

Now before that mess, she was still able to tear herself away from the things she saw and dreamed, as the veil that separates mortals from other realms was still intact for her. THEY ripped that reprieve from her as punishment, however, which led to her being unable to separate herself from her parallel selves and the worlds they resided in as easily, which in turn left her with the ability to see more clearly into the world of spirits and the Void between other realms. Which, again, in turn led her to only being loosely tied to reality. And, as much as this ability may be a boon due to the insight and experience she gains, it leaves her vulnerable to creatures that live in these places. (Ex: dream demons, void-born horrors, other beings that may prey on those that see too much)

Due to all this she’s basically ‘eternally dreaming’ and so tied to her parallel selves that she barely considers herself an individual on most days. After meeting Dysmorpha (a Greater Horror/Void creature) and joining the Abyssal Sanctum (which is basically 99.99% monster/otherwise non-dragon members), however, she’s gained more ties to the waking world which has allowed her to be more coherent and awake than she’s been since the Incident. Her relationship with Dysmorpha is the biggest reason for this, though, as the Horror has learned how to bring Havenae back from her dreams more often than not (though a lot of her ability to do so has to do with what Dysmorpha is rather than a special talent for it; as a being with a strong connection to the Void, she knows a few tricks on how to disconnect yourself from it).

Also, though Havenae started out as an Imp with a strange gift, she can’t really be considered fully draconic anymore, honestly. Having something linked intrinsically with…. what’s the dragon word for humanity?? Anyway having something like that ripped from you probably ends up changing the basis of what you are in more that one way, if you think about it. Also annoying some higher being because you can’t keep your hands in your dimension is a sure-fire way to make them make you not fully dragon anymore, honestly. You don’t want to stay in your section of the universal playground? Fine now you’re neither dragon nor Other congrats you little brat. (At least that’s probably THEIR thought processes tbh.)

Anyway this got a bit more rambly than I meant it to and some of it was just me restating her lore in a slightly more coherent way than in her bio, but I hope it was to your liking! (Now I want to draw a silly comic with Havenae and THEM though, for some reason.)