#i was also talking to dad the other day bc hes a Corporate Man in somewhat of a leadership position

[formulahs]

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[kentopedia]

please tell us everything you know about Kento’s parents

HAHAHH I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD ASK ME THIS WHEN I POSTED ABOUT THAT THE OTHER DAY I WIN. IM SO SORRY ITS SO LONG.

ok so i feel like outwardly, kento's dad is a lot like him. like he's very unemotional, and is the kind of man who wouldn't smile very often & is veryyy serious about his work. his dad has a similar corporate/finance job to the one kento worked in, and dedicated very long hours. so kento didn't see him often when he was a child. i think, until he was older he kind of resented him for that, but he eventually realized that he was just doing the best he could to give his family a good life <3 his dad cares about his son more than kento realizes, they're just not the best at communicating with each other. but when i say this, his dad certainly isn't cruel at all! he pushed kento to be his best and was a little hard on him from time to time, but he was always understanding & did his best to support his son in all the ways he knew how.

as for kento's mom, she is an ABSOLUTE sweetheart. when you think of how a mom she be, i think she is the perfect image. kento got his love of cooking and food from her, and she raised him to be a very respectful young man <3 i think she's much more extroverted and talkative than kento and his dad, but she's very warm, and she's just as kind as him. he grew up in a very traditional family, but his parents are very very loving towards him and each other. their son is definitely the most important part of their lives. i feel like his danish granfather is on his mom's side, so that's where he get's his blonde hair!! & they take him to visit his family in denmark when they can, and make sure he feels in touch with both cultures and sides of his family.

TBH I HAVE SO MUCH I CAN SAY PLS bc i thought about this for so long the other day. but in short, kento has a very very good relationship with his parents now that he's an adult. for a while, though, it was a little strained bc of his decision to leave to become a sorcerer, and his parents didn't want him to do that. also kento tended to isolate himself a bit due to all the pressure he was under, which led them to worry about him very often. <3 they were pretty strict & a littleee overbearing when he was a kid, but once he became an adult, he realized that it was just out of love & fear that they might lose him, so he started to understand them better.

[intertexts]

OK. OK OK OK. HI. IM AT WORK NOW SO THIS IS GONNA BE DISJOINTED AND NOT MAKE A WHOLE LOT OF SENSE BUT IM COOKING SO THIS REQUIRES AN ASK AND NOT A REPLY BC THOSE HAVE CHARACTER LIMITS (cooking both metaphorically and literally because it's 95 degrees outside at 9am and it is so so so so fucking humid) oh god get me out of the kitchen before i start burning things!!!

this could be Nothing. bc again I desperately need 2 learn more about cauldron and their motivations and such. BUT. going back to the tide/leviathan comparisons because they're making me kind of insane and i want to give him a Complex about it. because if we're not going to lobotomize him I need 2 hurt him in other ways (sorry dad)

so. this doesn't EXACTLY work 1:1 because there are only 3 endbringers and only 2 of them seem to be element-focused as far as i know. but if we have tide as a comparison to leviathan, we also have MAGMA who could be a comparison to behemoth if my thoughts are correct and behemoth is . big fire guy (he sleeps in a volcano so. I'm assuming.) . granted we also have like. whirlwind and shockwave and seismic who are the other elementals and they don't actually have an endbringer counterpart BUT IM !!!! going a little crazy thinking about like. if tide + his siblings are artificial capes, what if they (or at least he and magma because I'm kind of thinking abt them as the older ones. havent listened to the oneshot in a while so this may not be accurate) were given their powers SPECIFICALLY to be counters to the endbringers. or at least in an attempt to make a cape equivalent of the endbringers to better like... study their powerset or something. (I keep saying cauldron studies things bc I said that with david too and this really just comes from my inherent need for a big evil science team. in worm it seems like they're more capitalism focused but let a guy dream here)

this also brings up an interesting point with Elle who i know u don't know yet but she could be an interesting counterpoint to simurgh? Who as far as I know now isn't necessarily elemental but . neither is Elle really!! and that creates the big disaster in the oneshot bc she can't control her powers and goes kind of nuts about it.

anyway anyway anyway. tldr; tide and magma were specifically created as parallels to leviathan and behemoth, this wouldn't really be common knowledge to the rest of the capes bc of cauldrons secrecy BUT i think ppl would definitely notice the similarities in their powersets and that makes a subconscious fear response in people who have seen an endbringer attack firsthand (I believe in scary intimidating tide supremacy but then you talk to him and he's the sweetest human being in the whole world) . tide and magma both know this and have complicated emotions about it. I think tide has a very bad reaction to the leviathan attack if we are keeping that as an event that happens.

OR IT COULD ALL BE COINCIDENCE AND THIS IS NOTHING. but until i learn more about cauldron I am choosing to view them as my favorite trope of big evil science corporation <3333

OHH U R FUCKING COOKING DUDE YEAH <333

it is. so hard whenever u r talking about cauldron.... mallard conway ass levels of "oh okay i literally Cannot talk about this or else im accidentally gonna say spoilers." but. i DO think this goes so hard & conceivably makes sense for cauldron to do...... man one day in the far future we're gonna have to sit down and talk about if cauldron even would exist in this au. but. for now. hehehe :33 & i will say!!! i will say!!! research is. involved, in what they do. you are not off the mark.

ANYWAY. love this for him so much..... the way he moves and acts in a fight echoes leviathan.... does he have that water afterimage too??? when he's fighting?? because that shits cool as hell he should have it. i'm always just really ill over someone made to be a weapon who never wanted to be one.... tide you have to be at the leviathan fight but you shouldn't be :(((

i gotta listen to the elementals oneshot i have it downloaded rn.. i wanna know elle's deal because you have just said something unwittingly extremely funny & i need to know What happens to her before i comment on it!!!! anyway!!!! thinking abt tide lambert forever & always...

[cloudy-leonhart]

AOT Characters with a filipino S/O!

[Author Note: I just made this out of impulse lol, I’ll make a part two with the AOT veterans- if it’s requested then I’ll make a part three with the Marley Warriors- feedback is also appreciated on all my posts :))]

[Summary: It’s just headcanons, AOT with a filipino S/O lol, that’s it. that’s the post.]

Recommended song: Sa Susunod Na Lang - Skusta Clee ft. Yuri.

Gender Neutral Reader.

Theme: Fluff, Modern AU.

TW: Swearing.

Characters: Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Jean, Marco, Connie, Sasha.

Eren Jaeger

He probably fucks up his greetings with your parents, surprisingly your dad loves him, both of them talk about basketball and boxing, whenever Many does a fight, you and him come over so Eren could watch with you dad.

This man gets bodied by your dad ALL THE TIME during basketball, it’s valid because your dad used to be a basketball player.

He eats with his hands, yes he also got that from your dad. Your mom always comes up to you, while Eren and your dad talk, she’s happy that you found someone, and that Eren reminds her a lot of your dad.

Mans swallows rice like it was no one’s business, he eats that shit with barbecue and vinegar. 

You can’t tell me he gets drunk with your dad and his friends?? They watch boxing matches and eat peanut while drinking beer.

For some reason he acts like he lives there?? Like the whole community knows about him, the kids like playing with him, the guys like doing karaoke and drinking beer with them, and the titas and lolas love talking about your relationship with him and how they would totally marry a guy like that if they ever met someone like that when they were younger.

His favourite thing about the culture? Probably how open the people were, they were very generous and kind.

Armin Arlert

When you first told him, he was kind of like, “okay??” but he also took time out of his day to research your culture, he’s the type to catch you in a sad mood where you really miss your country, and take time out of his day to try his best to make food from your culture.

He’s mastered to cook Tofu Sisig and Halo-Halo. You always ask him to make it for you whenever you’re sad.

He could never understand how your family’s able to sit in your traditional clothing, he tries his hardest not to scratch, he literally looks at you with a look begging for help because he was itchy but he didn’t want to take it off.

You had to explain that he doesn’t always have to participate in your culture, because respecting your culture was enough for you. Mans cried because he thought he was horrible for not wearing the Barong for the whole ceremony.

He does loves trying filipino recipes, he loves seeing you cook adobo or tapsilog in the morning, it just fills the house with an amazing aroma.

he knows how to say ‘i love you’ in Tagalog and he has fully replaced ‘I love you’ with ‘Mahal Kita.’ 

Favourite thing about the culture? The language, he just loves learning new words everyday, his favourite saying so far is, “Huwag kang mag-alala. Akong bahala.” (Don’t worry, I’ll take care of it.)

Mikasa Ackerman

Poor baby was confused, she caught you talking on the phone in another language and she just stared concerningly at you, forgetting about whatever she’s doing.

She was also afraid to try your food?? Until you shove a ube-filled riceball (in filipino, Buchi) in her mouth, she ends up making it her comfort food, she asks you to make Buchi with her, she likes to eat the left over filling.

she actually wants to keep trying some of your culture’s food, her favourites so far is definitely Taho and Kaldereta, and of course Buchi.

She can’t say much in tagalog but she does know traditions, she did the binasuan dance with you once, amazingly she kept all cups in balance for her first time.

She knows how bless and actually calls people tita and tito, or ate and kuya. She was kind of, ahem, convinced, to call your parents nanay and tatay.

Your parents always complain about how you haven’t married Mikasa yet, Mikasa was confused about why she could hear them talking about her, but you reassured her that it was only just your parents egging you to marry Mikasa. In which she blushed in return.

Mikasa also learns recipes from Armin, those two cook for ther S/O’s so much that even their S/O feel like their not filipino enough, they got to try things even they didn’t know filipino culture had.

Jean Kirstein

SUPRISINGLY, he knows what blessing is, went as far as saying “Mano po.” whenever he did.

 your dad hates him for some reason lmfao like your dad’s always staring at him with a weird expression.

He’s scared of your dad, no cap. first time you guys went on a date and didn’t have a house together, he almost shit himself talking to your dad.

You tried to teach him to do the tinikling dance and he almost broke his leg.

You and your parents conversed by yelling at each other, like Sasha, he too thought that you were arguing with them and he tapped you on the shoulder like, “Should I leave?-” You were confused as he was, you had to explain that yelling was a way filipinos communicated.

He was concerned when you would hit him while laughing, you also had to explain that was also something most filipino’s communicated.

He tried picking the language up but he just butchers the pronunciation.

Favourite thing about your culture is the places, if he could he probably would’ve bought a private island.

Does this man know how to cook filipino food?? Yessir!! He’s absolute god at cooking, imagine when he finds out we have a whole CHEESE ice cream-

Mans was confused confused, why..would you like cheese ice cream?? surprisingly he likes the ice cream, it’s sweet and salty??

Connie Springer

THIS MAN- he thought filipino was a sexuality?? when you told him, he’s like “so, what gender do you prefer then?” 

HE WAS DUMBFOUNDED WHEN HE FOUND OUT WHAT FILIPINO MEANT-

I just know he shared filipino swears with Sasha, he actually grew accustomed to them, once in a while you’ll hear, ‘PUTANGINA’ throughout the house, because he stubbed his toe.

ugh he rocked the barong too, AND HE ROCKED HIS TINIKLING DANCE.

your titas seemed to love him?? Every time you talk to them, they ask if he’s doing okay.

He actually is a simp for filipinos, he was awestruck with how much beautiful women and men there were in the Philippines.

you cannot tell me this man doesn’t watch Manny Paqcuiao’s boxing fights.

In general he tries his best to respect your culture and not disrespect them, but he cannot bless for the life of him.

favourite thing about your culture is the adobo, he says its “bussin’”.

He drinks with your titos and your dad. No way he doesn’t, he also plays basketball with them.

traumatized somehow by the naked children running down the street sometimes- Filipino streets man, a little too comfortable-

He was shocked to find out that some people showered outside?? Like comfortably?

Man covers his whole face bc he feels like a perv.

Marco Bodt

Absolute researcher in your culture, like Armin, he actually makes sure he’s not disrespecting it or anything.

HE DOES THE BLESS GESTURE, but he whispers in your ear about how he accidentally blessed one of your titas too hard

his favourite filipino dish is Buko Pandan, he literally couldn’t help but get seconds when your grandma offered him a cup.

tbh he rocked his barong, he looked so good, like GAH DAYUM.

he picked up some words since he really loved being around your family, you were lively and your family was so open to accepting him.

you and him danced in a barong and baro’t saya for your wedding reception.

genuinely, he was in fearful awe when you caught a rat your parents have been complaining about in their house, remind you rats in the Philippines are as big as kittens 

He also calls you Mahal, it’s kinda cringey but you thought it was cute.

Favourite part of your culture, the clothing, he’s always asking to go to parties just so he can wear the barong.

he’s also deathly afraid of the bodies of water the Philippines has, he doesn’t know if murky water scares him more than clear water in the islands.

Mans tried his best to corporate your culture into your guys’ wedding, until your Tito Philip brought a WHOLE ASS LIVE CHICKEN as a wedding gift?!

he was kinda sad y’all didn’t keep the chicken.

Sasha Braus

Sasha honestly didn’t know that your were filipino until you spoke your language with a family member, you guys were yelling at each other and Sasha thought y’all were fighting-

she wants to learn the language BUT ONLY THE SWEARS, connie and her both.

she loves when you speak to her in your langauge, she loves guessing what you’re telling her. SHE ALSO LOVES WHEN UR PARENTS TRY TO SPEAK TO HER AND THEIR ACCENTS COME OUT.

you guys actually went to the Philippines for your guys’ honeymoon. did she almost spend all your money? yes, did you let her? duh.

Her most favourite thing about your culture is definitely the food, and beautiful people like you.

Genuinely rocks the Baro’t Saya, her short hair goes well with the dress, her colour was a dullish-pastel pink, she had a matching fan with it too! 

She wore it for your birthday, almost ruined it by almost spilling fruit salad on it.

THIS WOMAN- SHE WAS LITERALLY CRYING TEARS OF JOY WHEN SOMEONE BROUGHT OUT THE LECHON (a whole roasted pig).

Yes, she almost ate half of it, she would’ve probably finished it if it weren’t for her eating everything else, a human compost bin, you got leftovers? She’ll eat em.

She loved going to Jollibee with you, you and her have dates where you literally eat almost everything off the menu.

[commander-chaoss]

🦴 Malcolm

Answered, but I will gladly take any opportunity to talk about my characters bc I'm a narcissist.

So I will be approaching this question from a different angle now and talk about not what inspired me to create the character, but what inspires me in where the character is at.

But in truth, nothing inspires me in the moment I just make stuff and connect dots later. Sometimes years later. Took me years to realize that Nexus was a superhero story. ANYWAY.

The American Dream. Malcolm is the pinnacle of the American dream. Average guy from a rural upbringing works hard goes to college works hard some more and works his way up a corporate ladder and boom! Success story! Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps! And that's a good thing. But this is also his villain origin story.

See, his father rightly wanted him to be independent, so he raised him telling him that "no one will pick you up but yourself, no one will help you make good YOU have to make good. You've gotta stand on your own two feet because no one will be there when you fall." and this is a good lesson (and to be clear, was not used as justification for neglecting young boy Malcolm he was well taken care of his parents were awesome) the problem is that being raised in this mindset Malcolm's worldview developed into one of "there is no altruism, generosity, or truly good people." Not exactly in a cynical way, but in a very neutral way. He doesn't believe there is any grand cosmic force ruling the universe so all we have are the days under the sun and no one is really going to spend that time caring about other people we've all just gotta get as far as we can go.

And truly, there's nothing really bad about his worldview. I mean, I'm a Christian so I disagree in a very fundamental way, but it's not like he's some twisted individual. He's a very normal guy, actually. But when you believe that nothing really matters outside of life, and that right and wrong are defined on an individual basis save for a handful of rules we all agree on to function civilly, why shouldn't he partake in shady deals? Sell weapons to people who maybe shouldn't have them. Fund research that may not be entirely ethical. Steal information from other studies. After all, it's just business, and what good does integrity actually do in a world where there is no higher power watching?

And then enter Arely, who's worldview is entirely different, and she acts on it. And she gets herself in trouble simply because she has enough faith to give people the chance over and over again. to give Malcolm the chance over and over again.

Malcolm is equally interested in Arely as a person and as a interesting topic of scientific study. His world is so different from hers, and yet, hers cannot be dampened for anything. And the weird part is that he comes to see that she's right. Because people do risk their lives to protect each other, and people do go out of their way to care for each other, and people do pick her up when she falls. And it takes him a long time to admit it, but his worldview is wrong.

Nexus isn't really a story about a teenage girl with cool superpowers and an unbreakable spirit. It's about a average man who believes there are no good people in the world, and it's about the Korean family who can't really understand her but could tell that Arely was in danger and took her in. It's about Joe, who keeps paying her because he knows that she's just trying to support her friends but can't reliably work. It's about Xander, who learned that his dad was a criminal and vowed to be better. It's about Quinn, who cared so much about the world's first superhero that he'd put everything he had into a doomed case to protect her. And it's about a mugger who accidentally fired a gun and never wanted to hurt anybody.

[pinuphead]

This started out as Elliott hcs for his childhood and teenage years but evolved into me just writing this boy an entire backstory. This ends with him joining the army. Cws for: child abuse emotional and physical, infant death, dysfunctional family, religious trauma, homophobia and queerphobia, mentions of antisemitism, murder and animal death. 

-Elliot was born on January 18th 1887, the same date as the great southern comet of 1887. No reason other than I think it would be cool or idk something something things falling from the sky falling angel symbolism destiny. Also this would make him a Capricorn, which is the goat constellation, and goats are associated with Satan and with out of control sexuality (it’s a literary symbolism thing) so I think that also fits perfectly. I should mention I don’t believe in horoscopes and all that but I do love symbolism and I’m a bit of a nerd for astronomy.

-Elliott’s parents were named William (Bill) Spencer and Audrey Harrison. Elliott’s father was a butcher (it just makes sense to me) and his mother was a midwife. They got married when Audrey was very young because of her first pregnancy, and getting married wasn’t something she wanted to do because Bill was not nice man and had a very bad temper, but she didn’t have a choice because of how socially ostracised she’d be for having a child out of wedlock. 

-Elliott’s older brother, also named Elliott, was born in 1885 and died in infancy. Since she’d given up a lot of her personal freedom to marry and live with someone she didn’t really love Audrey took his death very hard because it was like her sacrifice had meant nothing. When our Elliott was born he was named Elliott after him. This is something his parents never talked to him about, so he never understood why his mother was so weirdly cold or overbearing towards him. 

-Elliott grew up in Liverpool (bc... this is where both Doug Bradley and Clive Barker are from so) and he spent a lot of time helping his father out with his butchering business. Being around so much blood and guts had a profound influence on him. When he was 9 his dad forced him to kill a chicken by snapping its neck to prove he was strong enough to take over his business one day, and the event was incredibly traumatic for him as a young boy. He often had nightmares about it, and the other stuff. Including nightmares where his dad would hang him on one of the metal meat hooks in his shop, to the point where he developed something of a phobia for them. As he grew older he became more desensitised to the gore around him, and would help his dad prepare the meat for hours without feeling anything about the flesh he was handling. 

-Elliott’s first sister Agnes was born in 1891 when he was 4 years old. Elliott and Agnes grew up pretty close and in general he had a good relationship with all his sisters. But since they were born so close to each other they also had a lot of sibling rivalry and fought like... a lot. His sister would call him Ellie as a nickname, and he liked how soft and feminine it sounded and identified with Ellie more than he did with Elliott. 

-Elliott dealt with a lot of bullying at school because of his father’s profession meaning Elliott would sometimes have bloodstains on his clothes and smell like raw meat. Because of this he would get into a lot of fights and was generally regarded as a problem child by most of his teachers. He also struggled a lot academically due to a combination of not having a great home, having undiagnosed bad eye sight that meant he couldn’t read properly (Pinhead’s actor Doug Bradley is both long and shortsighted and needs to wear contact lenses and reading glasses, but due to short sightedness being a big detriment in the army I like the idea of Elliott just being longsighted) he was also neurodivergent rip him. And because he was alive at a time when it was perfectly legal for teachers to corporally punish their students he got caned a lot as a child and it really instilled a deep hatred for the education system and his local community in him. 

-Pretty much the only friends Elliott had growing up were other kids who were socially ostracised for stuff they couldn’t control. So he ended up hanging out with Irish immigrant kids and kids from disreputable families (like kids with single mothers and such.) He liked his friends and having a group and they’d get up to a lot of stuff together like breaking windows and such, but he didn’t like how they were all so mean spirited towards each other and kind of toxically masculine, because Elliott was by nature pretty feminine. They’d want to rough house and insult each other constantly and Elliott would play along but never felt like that was really him. 

-Elliott’s second and third sisters were born in 1893. Beth and Alice were twins and born when Elliott was 6 years old, and Agnes was 2. Amelia and Alice were like... weird girls so they got into a lot of trouble that Elliott would have to get them out of. Like they would sneak out at night to go down to the sea and he would have to run out of the house at midnight in his pajamas to get them back before his parents realised they were missing. In general he reeeeally stuck his neck out for his sisters a lot. Older brother moments lol. 

-Elliott was very gnc all his life but had to hide that part of himself from his parents and classmates, but having sisters gave him a chance to be feminine because they would share their books and toys and things with him. They’d play card games together like happy families and he would lose on purpose, because if he lost they’d make him wear their clothes as a sort of “punishment” but he always really liked getting to dress up. He was also pretty fond of sneaking his mother’s jewellery and makeup when he could safely get his hands on it.  Elliott’s gender nonconformance meant him and his father clashed a lot over his mannerisms and self expression. And his mother wouldn’t try to protect or defend him from this bullying, so they also had a pretty fraught relationship. In general Elliott grew up trying to repress that part of himself but never really being able to. I imagine when he was an adult and got time off from the army he realised one day “oh shit I have my own money and lodgings now I can buy a dress and no one can stop me” so he started finally getting to express himself in private. Anyway. 

-Elliott’s family were Roman Catholic and he went to his local church every Sunday. I should mention that Catholicism and Protestantism have a bit of an odd history in England, and like... Catholics and Protestants have historically always been at each other’s throats, so this was another source of tension for poor Ellie in school. For context, Catholics were only given full civil rights compared to members of the Church of England in the 1800s, before 1829 it wasn’t legal for Catholics to even be members of Parliament. Elliott wasn’t massively pious and always felt quite uncomfortable in the church, he found the Catholic idea of everyone being born sinful pretty frightening. His dad couldn’t ever forgive him for anything, why would God? But because he attended service and seemed to be a genuine believer he was picked to be one of the altar boys.

-Elliott really liked being an altar boy because he didn’t get a lot of attention at home so being able to take part in the mass and have his whole community see him in a positive light was really nice for him. Elliott seriously considered becoming a priest for a while. His altar boy career sadly came to an end when he told the priest during confession (this is when a person tells the priest their sins and is absolved of them, basically, for ppl that don’t know. It’s something that kids are sometimes expected to do but nowadays it’s more of an adults only thing to my understanding I’m not Catholic lol. But back in those days kids would be expected to go to confession.) that he liked wearing girl’s clothes, and the priest told him he was too unclean to be part of the service anymore. This did pretty severe psychological damage to him. Elliott went home and sat in a tub of cold water, obsessively scrubbing himself until his mother found him. Even worse was that the priest told his parents and his dad threatened to tie a brick to him and throw him in the river if he ever did it again. Elliott had to keep going to church and interacting with this priest for the rest of his childhood. 

-His final sister Annie came as a huge surprise to the family and was born when he was thirteen in 1900. Elliott was incredibly relieved to have another sister because the idea of having a brother made him nervous, as he was worried they’d grow up to be like the boys at school and he wouldn’t be able to be himself his siblings anymore. Elliott and co babyed Annie sooooo much because she was the youngest btw. Amelia and Alice used to pretend that Annie was their baby and they would try to feed her porridge and stuff. They would always ask Elliott to pretend to be her father and he would play along even though he found the whole thing the Victorian child equivalent of cringe. 

-Elliott also had a MASSIVE sweet tooth pretty much all his life, even as a cenobite it just makes sense to me okay. I know cenobites probably don’t need to eat but also Pinhead would 100% steal chocolate from his victims if they had some lying around. He grew up in a time when sweet things were pretty rare, and he never learned how to restrain himself around candy because he never really had any so when he did get to have any sweets or chocolate or anything his first instinct would be to eat it all immediately. He was 100% the type to shoplift hardboiled candy from his local shop. They’d have to put up like... posters listing banned kids with him at the top. 

-Annie’s birth was the same year Elliott’s family was forced to move from Liverpool to London because his dad’s business went under after he beat up a customer during an argument and people stopped coming to his shop, and people started just generally being nasty to the whole family. They moved to stay with Audrey’s extended family until they got their own place and Elliott really hated living in a house with tons of other people, he especially hated that his cousins would all make fun of him for having a Northern accent (accent is a very big class signified in Britain and people with working class or Northern accents like the one I have are viewed as stupid and less likely to get a well paying job) so he would spend ages holed up in a corner by the radio repeating what people were saying (people allowed to appear on TV and the radio all had to have posh accents until quite recently in England btw), and he eventually picked up a more posh way of speaking and the teasing subsided. 

-Audrey eventually got a job as a maid and Bill got a job as a delivery driver, so they were able to afford a small place in White Chapel to live, with another family living above them. The family living above them were Jewish (White Chapel in London was at this point a predominantly Jewish area, which is why) and Elliott’s parents were your average antisemitic british people but they couldn’t really move anywhere else so they mostly tried to avoid their neighbours, and kind of begrudgingly tolerated them. Elliott and his sisters got an really well with their neighbours’ children though, and Elliott became really close friends with Isiah, the boy living above them. 

-Isiah’s parents looked out for Elliott and his siblings a lot, and they were the ones who first suspected he might need reading glasses and convinced his mother to take him to a doctor. Elliott got teased about needing glasses a lot but his grades improved and Elliott was finally able to catch up to his peers and became quite academically gifted. Elliott was pretty good at maths and science, and he thought he’d like to get a job helping people so he thought about trying to go to medical school to become a doctor. 

-Elliott took a lot of interest in biology and human anatomy. He’d pick up dead birds and animals he found in the street and dissect them. It grossed him out and his mother gave him hell for it, but he had to know what was inside their bodies. It made him feel oddly nostalgic for when he was a little boy and his father showed him how to cut animals apart for meat and it felt like they had something in common. Once Elliott was able to catch a still alive pigeon and he snapped its neck just like his Dad had taught him. He was so proud of himself but also so disgusted that he liked hurting things and felt powerful, safe even when he did. He buried it in the back garden and never told anyone. 

-In addition to this he was often the one who’d take care of his siblings when they were sick because his parents worked all day, and in general him and Agnes were mostly in charge of cooking and shopping and other chores. 

-Isiah and Elliot would often talk about the differences between the religions they’d been raised in. Isiah explained that Judaism doesn’t have a concept of everyone being born sinful, or a concept of Hell. The closest thing to Hell was  Gehinnom, which wasn’t a place of eternal punishment but a place of spiritual cleansing. Elliott still believed in the god he’d been raised to believe but he started to seriously question some of the things he’d been taught and became sceptical of the Catholic church and what it stood for. This ended up being really good for him because it helped Elliott accept his sexuality as a natural part of him rather than something inherently sinful. 

-As a teenager Elliott went through the very confusing period of being gay and not realising and wondering what the hell is happening to you. Elliott really liked talking to his sisters about their crushes and eventual boyfriends (though these relationships had to be kept a secret from their father) and he had a biiig crush on Isiah and they experimented a bit but Isiah wasn’t serious about it like he was and that hurt him deeply. Through that he slowly came to realise when he was 16 that he was attracted to men. He stopped going to church when he realised this, and he did get a bit of shit for this but soon enough everyone had other stuff to worry about. 

-Elliott also used to carry like.. love letters and notes and gifts and things between Agnes and her boyfriends because she was scared of how their parents would react if they found out so they had to meet secretly and stuff.  

-also between the lines but Elliott struggled a lot in school because of being queer. Like he was in an almost constant state of anxiety and being in places like a changing room was so uncomfortable for him and he’d be physically bullied constantly. So he started skipping school semi frequently to go hang out in Soho where the Molly houses were (or at least according to my book on the history of Polari, a code language that was spoken by British gay people, that’s what the scene was like in London at the time and I think the term Molly House was still used to refer to places men who wanted to have sex with men would go to meet but I’d have to double check. With Molly being a bit of a mean slang term for an effeminate gay man at the time.) He never went in because he was terrified of being seen in a gay bar by people he knew, but every time he saw little glimpses of men leaving together or men touching hands with knowing glances he’d feel giddy and warm inside. 

-When Elliott was 17 in 1904 his family was irreparably broken when his mother pushed the mistress of the house she was employed in down the stairs of her house and broke her neck. She tried to hide the dead body by keeping it in the cellar where the meat was kept, but it was discovered and she was arrested. (This is partly based on a real murder that took place in this time period) Elliott often thought about the dead body lying with the animal meat, and his own experiences with butchery. He decided him and his mother must have had more in common than he thought. People stopped wanting to associate with them, and Elliott’s father became more violent with them than he’d ever been to the point where Elliott regularly feared for his safety. Once Elliott’s father swung at him with his old butcher’s knife while drunk and left a permanent scar on his back. Elliott gave up any other aspirations he’d had and lied about his age to join the army that same year to get away from his father. Agnes also lied about her age and name to get a job away from home as a governess (their upstairs neighbours were the only ones who stuck with them through this time and were kind enough to write her a reference), and they sent their younger siblings Beth, Alice and Annie back to live with Audrey’s family. 

-Elliott’s mother was executed the day before he went away to the army training camp. He spent the whole day wandering aimlessly around London, and eventually he ended up at the church and broke all the stained glass windows of the saints and angels with stones.

[plush-anon]

You worked at joanns? 😍 dream job

In all fairness, a large part (and I do mean a LARGE part) of why I enjoyed working at Joanns were the managers.

The store manager was a guy named Richard, one of maybe two or three men who worked there total, and this man was practically a saint as far as retail goes.

This was a man who would, with no hesitation, get on the floor to help customers, or hop on the registers to check customers' purchases out, or pop on to the cutting counter to cut fabric. He remembered the names of regulars, would chat and smile while getting shit done, and was the type of guy to speak slowly and softly when we had shitstains explode at us measly peons for not giving them the full cost of an item back in a return (ex $200) when they used a coupon to purchase an item to begin with and only paid a portion of the cost (ex. $150). No joke, this actually happened to me on Black Friday with a man who stood at about 6 foot with a crewcut and a snarl (the military Karen, if you would)

Richard, of course, stood at about 6 foot 5 inches, and reminded me of a ginger grizzly bear in some ways. Very few customers continued to be assholes when they asked to speak to the manager and Richard came over, smiling wide. He encouraged us to chat with the customers while we worked the cutting counter - it was a good way to learn about what they were making, encouraged general conversation and lent itself to a better environment for everyone, worker and customer alike, so we weren't just awkwardly standing in silence the whole time.

The assistant store manager (aka his second in command - we had two other assistant managers, but she wielded more power than both of them) was Farrah, and she was basically Cool Wine Aunt, but with weed. She was open about smoking it (but not in a pressure-the-underlings kind of way, but more of a 'yeah, it calms me down' kind of way) but never on the clock, and was just really chill in general. She was also a 'jump on the registers' type of manager, and on occasion would take the closing staff out to get a drink from the texmex place next to us in the shopping center, and cover one for each of us - particularly during the Holiday Clusterfuck of October, November, and December (their Frozen Kahlua Mudlslide was my alcoholic drink of choice - they also had these spicy chicken strips that were amazing with it, but I digress).

Both of them were amazing people who would support and back us up without hesitation (if they weren't dealing with corporate or stock trucks coming in), and both routinely worked 15 to 20 hours UNPAID overtime during the Holiday Clusterfuck so that we the underlings could get more hours without Corporate jumping up our ass about going over budget.

They were also refreshingly upfront in our monthly meetings about profits and meeting them, as well as why company policy was the way it was, and how to work within the boundaries so we got more hours. One of my favorite moments was when they said the fabric sales essentially covered their own cost (production and delivery); the rest of the cheap crap in the store was what covered our paycheck and electricity, so hawk it as much as you can if you want extra in the bank (paraphrasing here, but that's not that far off what they actually said tbh).

With some Karen-y exceptions, the customers were honestly pretty chill. There were two women from a nearby church who bought well over 200 yards of cut fleece to make no-sew fleece blankets for children and the poor in December (it took forever to do, but they were so cheerful about it and told some funny anecdotes in between, kept the counter clear as soon as they were cut, etc. Took them three carts to haul everything to the register XD).

There was the slew of quilters making everything from baby blankets to anniversary gifts to quilts for their grandkids attending the local university that they could wear to football games in the colder weather, while still showing team pride. They always bought quarters and eighths and the end of the bolt for half price, digging thru our remnants bin for something they might have missed they could get for half price. They always talked about what they were working on, and spoke in great detail on their kids or cousins or niblings or grandkids. I saw so many pictures on phones, in wallets, and they loved them to absolute pieces.

There were cosplayers making their first costume to comicon, halloween goers trying their hand at making their own outfits, and a few furries making custom suits for order or just updating their own personal outfit. There were the usual school and church Christmas plays that needed costumes, and folks making custom table runners and place settings for family holiday meals.

One notable young man bought out 30+ yards of our 65" inch wide bolt felt for JEWELRY projects he was making as a part of his business and as a part of his art program (you can major in art with a concentration in jewelry making, and he was using it for that). He didn't leave a card, but the pictures he showed us were STUNNING.

We had a few elderly mothers come in with their daughters, to pick out fabrics so they could make their own wedding dresses, or quinceanera outfits, or veils; they showed us the patterns they had, or the pictures they were basing the designs off of, and all of them were STUNNING. (One came back in with the finished dress in the bag, this intricately beaded poofy dress that had to have taken days, hot pink and shiny).

We had local restaurant owners pop in for re-upholstery projects and curtains and vinyl; same with teachers and deck dads and furniture restoration workers that would gush about the design, what they had planned. Some would bicker with their spouses on the pattern, but it felt good-natured on the whole.

We had some elderly men come in to peer over our sewing machines - "How much it run for? My wife's birthday is coming up and her old machine's about done, and I want to surprise her. She had a Singer, but she hates the electronic screens on some of these newer ones, they hurt her eyes." - and moms coming in to sew some custom bed sheets for their kids - "My son really likes the new My Little Pony show, but he's a little shy about it. Do you think the blue's okay? Only he like yellow more, but they don't have any back there and he doesn't MIND blue really but - Actually scratch that, how wide is the fabric? My pattern says it needs to be at LEAST 22 inches wide, does it say on the box?" - and people coming up with some WILD craft ideas that were always a delight to hear them gush about - "So this MAY seem crazy, but I can turn these plastic pumpkin trick-or-treat pails into SNOWMEN heads with felt like this. We fill them with treats for the kids since we don't have a fireplace and they like it fine, but someone said I should sell these on Etsy and people really like them! But I've run out of pumpkins, and you have NO idea how happy I am that you guys still have some left."

The group we had to work with was also pretty crafty; a few were chronic call-outs, some a bit lazy, some perpetually done-with-this-nonsense, but we were mostly on the same page on shift, and all of us were crafty as heck. The employee discount was a blessing AND a curse, lemme tell you.

Stock was the best part, for me. Hours before the store opened at 9 AM, we would rip open the boxes and stuff everything onto the shelves, organizing anything the closing shift missed the night before along the way, updating new stickers or shuffling pegs over for new product arrangement, etc. We could listen to music or podcasts as we worked, and I ended up impressing some of them bc of how fast I tore through everything some mornings (the music definitely helped out there).

I was actually about to be promoted to assistant manager after 6 months, but then I got my job with the university, and they had federal health benefits AND dental, so... yeah, no contest there. Richard actually laughed when I told him I'd been hired at the university and was giving my two week notice, since it meant he didn't have to do the slew of paperwork that accompanied new assistant manager hires. He congratulated me on the job, especially the health benefits - he said that was a perk worth leaving any job here for. I nearly cried with relief that he wasn't mad.

He and Farrah chipped in and got me a small music box that plays Man of La Mancha's Dream the Impossible Dream on my last day. It still sits on my desk at work.

It was honestly my favorite retail job out of the bunch I've suffered through. Surprising at first, since I initially received a rejection email bare HOURS after my interview with Farrah, but about a month later (as I trawled endlessly through interview after interview, desperate for anything those first few months ), I got a call back from them asking if I was still interested (which I was, bc hey a job!). They remembered me specifically bc I had missed my bus to the interview, called ahead to let them know I would be late, then walked the whole way there in the rain to get there. (It was only about a mile and a half away, so not a terrible journey, but flooding is an issue in our flat-ass city; I looked like a drenched afghan hound holding a useless umbrella, so enjoy that imagery).

They were particularly impressed by the calling-ahead part.

Unfortunately, both of them ended up moving on to different paths over the year after I left - apparently they had been friends with benefits (? I say hesitantly, since I ran into one of my coworkers at an art show later on and she spilled the beans there - she was a bit flighty in nature though, and got caught up in gossip a LOT, so who knows. Lovely brocade custom projects though), and his ex girlfriend had called corporate on them and got both fired.

I think Farrah came back some time later, but the damage was done after that - the new manager came in and operated SOLELY to corporate policy. A LOT went to pieces in terms of store cleanliness, order, and general camaraderie after that - the new fabric counter folks look and sound dead inside, and barely interact with customers (not even a 'whatcha making' in passing, which is kind of sad - the stories I got helped to pass the time, and kept me from using up all of my Set Conversation Phrases for customers that actually WOULD leave us standing in silence). Corporate also stopped some of the smaller store policies that made our job easier and gave the customers a little something extra (the 'end-of-the-bolt' discount - if, after the customer orders say, 2 yards of fabric on the bolt, and there's say, a half yard "remnant" left on the bolt, we can sell them the remnant for half-price. A LOT of quilters LOVED this, and we did too, since it saved us from filling out the remnant tag and printing a sticker later on).

Just goes to show how important good management is in a business; especially when it can kick a store previously part of the top 50 stores in the NATION (while being a medium store at that - smaller place, NOT Hobby Lobby size like the Large stores) to something much less pleasant. I could be rose-goggling the situation thought - retail is still retail, no matter how nice some aspects are - but it still sticks with me as to how good he experience was even taking into account that it WAS minimum wage retail.

Food for thought, lads, food for thought.

[devhawthcrne]

—  THE BASICS.

full name: devrim cemil karadaş-hawthorne

preferred name / nicknames: dev

age: 33

birthday: december 31st, 1988

zodiac: capricorn

gender and pronouns: cis man ; he/him

sexuality: heterosexual

relationship status: “married” lolz

hometown: wichita, kansas / providence peak, colorado

current residence: while he still owns a home in summit lake, dev currently rents downtown

length of time in providence peak: 21 years, minus the time spent away at college

occupation: bartender at the wolfhound

—  THE BACKGROUND

long story short, dev is the eldest of three children. his earliest childhood wasn’t exactly a walk in the park, and his dad left the family when he was (insert age i’ve forgotten here lol). they eventually moved to town and, two years later (i think. what even are timelines?) his mother, ceylin, ended up marrying richard hawthorne, a prominent surgeon in town. 

life was honestly really great after that? like. dev had way more than he could ever dream of, but there was also this desperate need to prove himself worthy of this “second chance”?

he pushed himself super hard all through school, throwing himself at his studies and his athletics, to essentially become the golden child. he really really really just wanted to make them proud.

this all culminated into an early acceptance to stanford. it was there, during his junior year, that dev met maddie dryden (aka hawthorne). right off the bat she was pretty much everything to him. he could see a future with maddie so effortlessly. it came as no surprise when he inevitably proposed, and they were married two weeks after she graduated.

for the first two years life was once again more than he possibly could’ve dreamed of. dev had the love of his life at his side, a promising job with at the dryden family company, and an incredible house they’d someday be able to fill with babies of their own……. heh.

after trying and trying for a baby maddie eventually had what was just a scare, but that scare… well. it scared her right out of their marriage and across the world. turns out maddie didn’t want the life they had together, after all.

dev was completely blindsided and 10000% destroyed, basically. he waited and waited for maddie to come back and, when it became obvious she wasn’t going to, he just really fucking lost his way. quit the fancy job, moved out of their nice big house, packed up the dog and found a loft downtown.

tbh he wasted about a year or so of his life away being a reclusive grouch who only ever came out of his hole to hit up another dive bar, but slowly, oh so slowly, he got it together. kind of. maybe? idk. he’s given up trying to prove something to the world, but he’s like. fine-ish now.

he started bartending mostly bc he didn’t want to fall back on either his or maddie’s parents for help, but also bc if he was slinging beers and listen to other people’s problems all night and day he wouldn’t have to talk about his own.

has absolutely refused to give maddie an official divorce until she settles it with him face to face because, after her abrupt departure, he doesn’t think she should get to take the easy way out and wrap it up long distance

— TLDR:

he’s maddie hawthorne’s jilted (almost but not quite ex-) husband. used to be a corporate golden boy, now he prob just smells like spilled beer and peanut shells  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ will probably never allow maddie visitation rights to their his dog, kevin. is not so sorry about it either.

—  WANTED CONNECTIONS.

childhood friends, friends or acquaintances from his former life with maddie, friends he’s made in this new chapter of life, neighbors downtown, co-workers and customers, a high school gf, casual flings from the last 6 years, maybe someone he kinda a little bit tried to date since maddie left him but ultimately failed lol

[mama-germany]

~i have been working on this for MONTHS~ 

this is a thus-far comprehensive bio of my edgy emo child Keira.  I’m using her in a Cyberpunk Red campaign so this is her bio as relates to the campaign, so some modifications have been made.  This is not her canon form, but it’s close.  if you’re part of the Swordfish campaign, go away, bc backstory spoilers.  And trigger warnings for, uhh, a lot.

Keira’s the oldest daughter of Joey Youngwood and his wife Olivia.  Her sister Carly comes along two years later, and two years after that, her parents go through a nasty divorce.  Because of Joey’s demanding career as a contract Samurai for Biotechnica, Olivia gets primary custody.  Keira’s childhood, while not particularly eventful, is marked by a distant relationship with her mom.  Keira is a daddy’s girl through and through, she takes after her father, she resembles her father, she cherishes her time with him.  Meanwhile she and her mom have little in common, and her resemblance to her father doesn’t really help.  Keira’s dad teaches her about guns and how to defend herself and plants the seed of a love for rock music.  He buys her her first guitar.

Andrew comes into the picture when Keira’s about 14.  Olivia’s new boyfriend, he started out mediocre enough, but didn’t take well to standing off against the rebellious, petulant, and disobedient teenager, especially compared to her agreeable mother and mild-mannered sister.  Their arguments turned physical more than a few times and Keira’s mother rarely intervened, on the basis of ‘Keira needing discipline’.  For the record, to the best of Keira’s knowledge, Andrew never raised a hand to Carly.

Memories of Keira’s teenage years include studying music, similarly emo (and short lasting) boyfriends, piercing her ears and face by herself or with the help of acquaintances, occasionally stealing cigarettes, hooking up with her boyfriends in shady places, and going to prom in a short quinceanera dress at the behest of her father.

The second Keira turned 18, she moves out of her mother’s home and starts getting tattoos.  She moves into her father’s Biotechnica funded apartment.  While her father is thrilled, he’s also a busy man and Keira can’t really be trusted to keep herself out of trouble.  He asks Skyler to keep an eye on her and keep her from getting herself hurt.  That’s how they meet.  Keira resents this straight-edge man trying to ruin her fun, but at least he’s cute.  Through him she meets the rest of his friends, all elite corporate Samurai and soldiers who’ve been raised most of their lives for this kind of work.  Maddelyn takes a shine to her, fascinated by how different her relatively normal life is by comparison to hers.  Her boyfriend Dean despises her - seeing Keira as a stupid, obnoxious brat just getting in the way - and the feeling is more than mutual.  Alina is ambivalent to her presence.  Luce dislikes her attitude and distrusts her, but eventually they come to friendly terms over some common interests.  Maddelyn and Keira eventually become close, bonding over Keira exposing her to things normal young women tend to do.  They paint their nails, go out to bars, and Maddelyn is always a willing audience whenever Keira wants to practice her guitar.

For a short period of time, Keira’s got a boyfriend, Hunter, whom she meets at a music club.  They manage to last a few months, longer than any fling she had in high school, but they too eventually split.  Keira was spending more and more time with Maddelyn and the rest of the squad and, of course, Skyler.  She’s very good at getting a rise out of this generally very even-tempered man, but at least she’s entertaining.  Turns out that when she’s sort of behaving herself, he doesn’t really mind her company.  He eventually shows an interest in her guitar, he asks her to attempt to teach him, and while he doesn’t take to it easily, it’s not too long before what do you know, Keira’s got a crush.  She secretly considers Bad Company ‘their song’.  

So her life’s pretty good, for a year and a half or so.  Out of an unsafe living situation and spending time with the people that matter to her, and a couple new friends.  That doesn’t last.  Her dad’s essentially a soldier, after all.  One day he leaves for work, and he never comes back.  None of his squad do.  Night City’s dangerous.  Something took them all out.  But Biotechnica’s excuses are pretty thin.  Not that it matters to Keira - at first.  Her father’s dead.  She sees his body sent to the ovens before her eyes.  She doesn’t know what to do, where to go. She won’t go back to her mom. Skyler lets her know that she’s still welcome around them. He and Mad look after her at their headquarters for the next few days.

The next few months after are her worst. She’s erratic. She’s impulsive. She’s drinking and smoking more. When she’s not doing that, she’s attempting to navigate Biotechnica’s departments to find out exactly what happened, what could have taken out an experienced Samurai squad with so little a trace, but Biotechnica is opaque. Maddelyn shares some of Keira’s suspicions, Skyler doesn’t. The others mostly dismiss her as well.

Several months after her father’s death, in that stage where you begin to claim you’re doing better but you’re really not, Keira finds herself with an older boyfriend. A little too much older. More of a sugar daddy, really, someone who can buy her all the liquor and cigarettes she wants. She just wants alcohol and a distraction. He wants a little more from her. One night he plies her with alcohol - she doesn’t exactly make it difficult - and starts touching her and doesn’t really take ‘no’ for an answer. Keira manages to bloody his nose and fight him off, she steals the keys to his motorcycle and leaves on it. But she’s drunk, she’s shaken, her nerves are fried, she barely knows how to drive as it is, and she crashes head-on into a curb. She wakes up in a hospital bed with Maddelyn and Skyler relieved she’s alive but not exactly happy with her. She’s got lots of breaks and dislocations, but at least nothing needs to be removed. Skyler angrily resolves to never let her out of his sight again, and Keira resolves never to let this happen again. She gets wolvers, Wolverine-like retractable claws, implanted into her hand a few days later. 

She stabilizes after that, sort of.  Sobered up, she spends more time with Maddy and Skyler and the others, taking them up on their offer to have a place to go.  She’s grown a lot more attached to Skyler.  A lot.  He’s barely let her out of his sight for months and she does not mind.  Maddy notices.  Oh she notices.  The sisterly pestering begins.  They go out drinking, Mad teases her about her crush on Skyler, maybe it’s a bit more than a crush, and she says Skyler likes her too.  A lot.  And Maddy’s right about everything, all the time, right?  So the day comes when Mad decides she’s had enough of seeing them dance around each other and takes it upon herself to lock them in a room together.  Keira takes the hint and makes her confession.  She loves him.  Skyler........... doesn’t really know what to make of that.  He’s shocked.  Kinda confused.  On the spot.  Doesn’t know how he feels or what to do.  He tells her people say and think crazy things when they’re mourning.  Don’t make big decisions about how you feel like this.  

~so that hurts~ 

Keira takes a deep breath and takes it like a big girl and tells him to forget this conversation ever happened. Forget she told him anything. She will too. And she keeps it to herself, but he’s her best friend. She can’t lose him. She doesn’t have much left. So she won’t press things and make him uncomfortable and alienate him. She’ll back off. Because she loves him. She hates Maddy at the moment tho. So does Skyler. Neither of them talk to her for a little while.

At least things return to normalcy, more or less, after a few weeks of avoidance and non-eye contact. Keira actually spends more time than ever with Alina, because she cares the least about her company. They have so little to bond over, but it’s the most comfortable silence Keira can find around others. But life goes on. Mad and Skyler and Luce are still her friends. As life goes on, Keira’s mind begins to wander to her future. She can’t stay there forever. She isn’t a Samurai. She isn’t one of Night City’s best and brightest, wasn’t born into the elite.  She can’t be one of them.  Over the next few months, Keira starts pulling away from the group bit by bit.  She uses the money her father willed her to move out of his Corpo apartment into a place of her own (it’s small and shit, don’t get excited).  She starts heading back into the chromer nightclubs, starts meeting new people.  She plays a couple of small gigs, the last of which she actually got paid a meager sum for.  Talks of starting a band are swirling around her head.  Her childhood dreams of becoming a Rockerboy begin to resurface. 

till they don’t. 

She’s out on the streets with the squad one night.  She met up with them during a routine patrol.  Hanging out with Maddy, trading insults with Dean, the usual.  They get an impromptu call to deal with a disturbance in the direction of Biotechnica’s offices.  No one’s very worried about it.  But they’re in one of the city’s combat zones and Keira’s a civilian.  She’s gotta go.  The rest of the squad’s written her off as Skyler’s problem, so he gets to escort her out.  The details are hazy, but when the groups part ways, they never come back.  

In Cyberpunk RED In their absence, there’s an explosion and an as-of-yet unknown team picks off the rest of the squad.  Maddy barely survives and Trauma Team manages to put back together what’s left of her, and she goes into hiding while she recovers.  She eventually hears rumors that the story is, she and her friends were eliminated for selling off company secrets.  Framed, of course.  It’s unknown what exactly happens to Keira and Skyler.

In my story canon, that takes place 200 years in the future instead of 20, everyone’s on a spaceship, doing routine things, shooting the shit, and they get that disturbance call.  Keira begins arguing with Dean about his treating her like a pet.  Maddy knocks her out to make everyone’s lives easier, and Skyler leaves with her.  She’s given an oxygen mask while she’s out cold to make the transition to the smaller ship easier.  While Skyler’s bringing her back to base, he begins feeling faint and passes out.  When Keira comes to, and sees Skyler unconscious, she knows something is deeply wrong, and manages to pilot them to a civilian hospital, not the base.  Not on her life.  

Skyler is sequestered and once he comes to, is told that the rest of his teammates are dead.  There was an accident on the ship after he left.  The reality is, time-release gas canisters were planted in the air ducts to dull their senses and knock them out, leaving them unable to defend themselves against another ship blowing them out of the sky.  

It’s been a few days.  Keira’s access to Skyler is restricted.  And he’s not recovering.  Maybe there’s something to the whole thing about dying of a broken heart, but Keira suspects he’s being poisoned instead.  During visiting hours, she asks a hapless nurse to take him for a walk, like an invalid, and she’s allowed to.  Once hidden in a back stairwell, she jams an adrenaline shot into his chest, sets the stairwell on fire with a can of hairspray and a lighter, and they escape as the fire alarms go off.  She brings him back to her apartment and nurses him back to health as best she can, just weaning him off the poison.  

In both stories, at least he’s still alive and he believes her now.  

Back to Cyberpunk RED, after a few days Keira helps Skyler find a place to stay, close to her, and they start trying to pull it together and make a plan of action.  All Skyler can think to do is Solo work, and despite his protests, Keira refuses to let him go it alone.  That’s how they begin their lives alone together in Night City, just trying to stay alive and find out what their loved ones died for.

[olivia-ivy]

I don't have the motivation to make this a full fic, so you all get

The Field Trip Fic (Abridged)

Okay, we all know how the typical field trip fic goes right? Peter has a field trip to Stark Industries and Tony is the typical embarrassing mentor/dad.

This isn't that.

First of all, Peter checks with May and she says she'll be sure to take time off work so she can be a chaperone for the field trip. Except, uh oh, someone calls out on the day of the field trip and May has to cover for them, which means she can't chaperone, and since she can't be there, the chaperone:kid ratio isn't enough so now the field trip is kind of stalled.

Flash and even a few other kids on the bus are like "Nice going, Parker," and Peter is trying to just disappear into the seat, when suddenly there's a commotion outside the bus.

Everyone crowds to the side where shit is happening, and who should appear but Tony Fucking Stark, riding in on a silver chariot/Audi. All the adults are bewildered. All the kids go slack jawed. All the Peter Parkers are trying even harder to be absorbed by the green vinyl seats.

Mr. Harrington is the one who speaks up like "Um ... Can I help you sir?"

Tony: "Yeah, May Parker asked me to chaperone the field trip since she can't make it."

23 teenagers simultaneously get whiplash as they whip around to stare at Peter Parker, who now has his hood up over his head and the drawstrings pulled closed.

Peter, muttering: "I told you I wasn't lying about the internship."

Nobody ever doubts a word Peter says from then until graduation. Flash looks like he's revaluating his entire life.

Meanwhile, back outside the bus, all of the adults are in similar states of shock, but also it's the MCU, they've dealt with alien attacks and flying cities, Iron Man chaperoning a field trip with them should not be the weirdest thing.

((Idk how New York works, but in Mass, if anyone outside the school wants to chaperone a field trip, they need to fill out something called a CORI form, it's basically a criminal record background check, and I'm gonna assume NY has something similar))

One of the teachers eventually speaks up and is like "Well we'd be honored Mr Stark, but we have certain forms that need to be filled out-"

And Tony just reaches into his inside jacket pocket and pulls out the form and hands it to a teacher. The teacher unfolds it and holds it up to the others (and inadvertently angles it so all the kids on the bus can see it too) and across the entire form in big Sharpie they see "GOOGLE ME" or "I'M LITERALLY IRON MAN" or "YOU KNOW WHO I AM"

And yeah, they do know who he is, but the office still needs the form. Tony let's them squirm for a minute, then reaches back into the same pocket and pulls out another copy of the form, this time properly filled out (courtesy of Pepper). The teachers look relieved and one of them rushes inside to get it to the office, while all the others pile on the bus. The field trip is back on.

All the kids are trying not to stare at Tony, which goes about as well as you'd imagine, and Peter is just mentally projecting 'Don't sit near me, don't look at me, don't talk to me, you're the worst, I hate you.'

So naturally, Tony sits in the seat in front of Peter.

"Hey kid!"

"I hate you."

"No you don't."

Peter groans and slams his head into the seat. Bc he knows Tony is gonna do something to embarrass him, hell he already has, people are still staring.

Tony: "Oh come on, this is the thanks I get for saving the class field trip? Where are we going anyway? MoMA, the Met, the zoo...?"

And this, ladies, gentlemen, and those too cool for the gender binary, is where it really deviates from the regular field trip fic format:

Peter: "Oscorp Headquarters."

You could practically hear every muscle in Tony's body tense up.

Tony: "Oscorp ... Didn't you have a field trip there last year?"

Translation: ISN'T THAT THE PLACE WHERE YOU GOT BITTEN BY A RADIOACTIVE SPIDER

Peter: "Yeah, but they donate a lot of money to the school and a lot of our graduates are interns there, so we have field trips there a lot."

Translation: Yeah, but it was either this, or sit in Spanish class all day, soooo

And it's not that Tony isn't allowed in Oscorp's tower (which started construction a few months after Stark Tower and is exactly one floor higher, and Pepper wouldn't let him add more floors to his tower bc "You are not using company money for a literal dick measuring contest, Tony"), it's just that it would look bad if he was seen in there and Pepper would have strongly discouraged it if she didn't think Peter being around would give him enough self-control to not cause a scene. (Pepper Potts is rarely wrong about things. This is one of the few times she was wrong about things.)

The tour starts and Tony is just rolling his eyes and making jokes about everything to Peter, partly bc it's Oscorp and everything he's saying is either true or deserved, partly bc the spider bite wasn't exactly a fun experience for Peter and Tony is trying to stave off a panic attack.

It's working. He's a good dad/mentor.

By the time lunch rolls around and the class is eating in the Oscorp cafeteria, the kids are more or less acclimated to Tony's presence. That goes away, however, the second Norman Osborn walks in.

And sure, Osborn says he wanted to personally visit the Midtown tour group, and sure, he and Tony shook hands and they're making small talk like civilized human beings, but the teenagers can smell a drop of drama from a mile away, and everyone is livestreaming the entire thing.

Things quickly devolve into a fight.

Some highlights: Norman accuses Tony of spying. Tony responds with "It's not corporate espionage, Norman, it's a field trip." That gets GIFed and is the new reaction meme by the end of the day.

Norman gets all huffy, and says "How can I be sure you're not trying to steal Oscorp's research?!"

Tony: "Well, first of all, Oscorp would have to have something worth stealing."

The kids all lose it.

Tony Stark is escorted from the building.

Which puts them back in the same chaperone predicament they had at the beginning of the day, but now all the kids are revolting, so they leave with Tony and the other chaperones just follow them instead of trying to negotiate with Oscorp security.

The bus driver takes them to Central Park for the rest of the day and the kids hang out on the rocks trying to process the absolute savagery they just witnessed. Pepper Potts is on the phone trying to manage SI's response. Tony Stark and Peter Parker are sitting next to each other, laughing their asses off.

Tony: "So, good field trip?"

Peter: "Way better than last year."

The next year, Stark Industries makes a generous donation to Midtown Tech. A donation that is exactly one dollar more than what Oscorp gave.

[gcnnerpaxton]

bri again making a terrible decision. do i need a fourth? no.......... bt here we are anyway. after this i promise im done fr a while bt :/ i lov this lil bitch so here we are........ give this a like if u wld b Down to Clown w him aka plot!

「axel auriant & cismale」⇾ paxton , gunner, the senior radcliffe student’s records show that he is a leo and 22 years old. he is studying film, living off campus and can be loyal, resilient, anxious & indifferent. when i see him i am reminded of curling up in bed for days in a hello kitty comfort shirt, the click of a camera shutter & hand-me-down’s two sizes too big.

pinterest is HERE.

TW’S FOR ABUSE, VIOLENCE, MISSING CHILD, KIDNAPPING, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, AND INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA BELOW!

stats.

name: gunner brick paxton.

age: twenty-two.

gender identity: cis-male.

pronouns: he/him.

sexuality: demisexual.

birthday: july 31, 1998.

star sign: leo.

myers-briggs: istj.

year of study: senior.

major: film.

occupation: librarian.

place of birth: laramie, wyoming.

religion: catholic (non-practicing).

background.

neen jst brought in gunner’s older brother so fr those who read elias’ bio u kno tht gunner is the middle paxton child w eli being the oldest n then they have wyatt who is the youngest!!

they lived at the top of a hill in a trailer in a trailer park neighbourhood in laramie, wyoming so to say the least that fucking sucked for everyone involved

the trailer was so small that all 3 boys ended up sharing a room, gunner and wyatt sharing a bunk bed bc they cldnt fit 3 beds into one room it really was every childs nightmare bt they quickly grew used to it tbh

gunner was always more of an artsy child than invested in sports - though he does enjoy baseball and continued even to this day after their dad made him join SOMETHING in middle school - so he never rly earned their father’s respect, but he was always close with his mom since they had the same calm temperament

DEPRESSION/ANXIETY TW - he also gained a list of mental health issues that their mom had as well, including social anxiety and major depressive disorder - DEPRESSION/ANXIETY TW END

VIOLENCE/ABUSE TW - their father always encouraged pretty volatile behaviour and it caused a lot of physical fights and arguments between the brothers when their dad told them the best way to get over it was to start hurting until someone tapped out, it was just a chaotic and pretty abusive household but no one knew and their mom definitely wasn’t going to say anything about it to their dad - VIOLENCE/ABUSE TW END

MISSING CHILD/KIDNAPPING TW - wyatt went missing on a weekend that their parents were gone because of a trip they won, and things just got worse from there

ANXIETY/DEPRESSION TW - high school was really rough for gunner, his anxiety grew worse as time went on that no one found wyatt, their dad grew more hostile towards them, and their mom just grew sicker, it was rare that she would ever leave her room and if she did it was in fits of random energy where she would do something spontaneous and completely unnecessary to their house as a way of coping - MISSING CHILD/KIDNAPPING/ANXIETY/DEPRESSION TW END

the two years that gunner was at home after elias finally left for school were basically torture and as soon as he could, he was falling his brother’s footsteps in getting out of wyoming to go to school at radcliffe

INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA TW -  things are far better now that they’re out of their home situation, but gunner’s going through some more things personally now; the paxton’s were raised in an incredibly religious household, and he’s got some classic Catholic Guilt going on upon realizing that he’s not jst attracted to women n he avoided talking abt it forever/stayed in the closet fr far too long bt he’s sort of come out now in his own way even tho he does still get a bit nervous talking abt it rly - INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA TW END

he’s also ‘dealing’ rn which is frankly funny to think abt bc this man is abt as threatening as a care bear bt money is tight between him and eli all things considering, and with the amount of meds he’s on, plus incredibly frequent doctor’s visits, needing to pay for extra epi-pens, inhalers, etcs. bills add up so he’s cutting back his meds n selling wht he can spare which is . so unhealthy bt thts life in corporate america baybee!

details.

is literally allergic to everything. grass, cats, most fruits, milk, most nuts, bees, latex, probably more i cnt even keep up w them its pathetic

u can catch him n eli strutting around campus w matching epipen holders tht he got them fr eli’s 16th bday JKSDNGKLHSDGLK

if things cldnt get worse he also has quite intense asthma so he carries an inhaler with him at all times

n to make matters even WORSE he frequently has dizzy spells n bad memory problems bc of all the concussions he’s suffered from (about 8-9 at this point) as well as consistent migraines that can b literally debilitating sometimes

awkward n jst a bit of a Weirdo to b frank like if it weren’t fr eli he wld probably have one (1) friend he jst cnt converse w ppl

didnt have any friends in high school so took the time to teach himself rly weird things, knows a fuck ton of magic tricks, can yodel, juggle, solve a rubix cube with his eyes closed in under 2 minutes, just extremely weird and specific things

can honestly b a bit mean/barbaric to ppl he’s not close w/doesn’t kno has told ppl to their face before he doesn’t enjoy talking to them bc he has no concept of social constructs/norms

loves 2 film random things at parties, makes him feel more comfortable at them n he makes short films of them all after

update about his summer away: ended up heading to nyc fr a film internship n actually had a rly good time??? fr once?? jst had a rly nice summer fling after being a bit heartbroken throughout the school year it was jst a rly necessary n fulfilling summer fr him king of getting wht he finally deserves

this also led him to b like . oh maybe i’m Not broken bc he doesn’t realize........... demisexuality is a thing n wld get rly awkward during hookups a lot if hes jst not 100% comfortable w the person so now he thinks hes like a one man machine who actually has some Self Esteem n thinks he can have Sexual Relations all day every day (he cannot)

connections.

ppl who buy off him?? probs wld have to kno him some way hes too scared to sell to Random randoms KJSHDGKLHSDLG

other film majors :-)

some friends………. hes awkward bt he means well…………

a mans he wld Risk It All fr (aka a guy tht gunner actually has a crush on n is Extra Awkward probs a lil mean to bc hes still New to That)

ppl he has a crush on/unrequited crushes either way wtvr floats ur boat

some enemies tbh much like elias he has a temper n he tends to blow up rarely bt it happens n when it does it actually can b quite scary JKSHDGLHSDG

a muse….. mayhaps?? someone he always wants in his film projects

awkward past hook ups maybe some current ones teehee

anything Ur Heart Desires

[mieczyhale]

throwing together some of my recent/ish hc posts/tags for @hellomyguru bc its a thing, babey (i have no idea what you’ve seen and what you havent bc tumblr really just suck like that so lmao)

my tags on this post::  #HELL YEAH HELL YEAH #more pride hcs!!! noice!!#i love these sfm#like klaus always taking part no matter how bad shit is bc HIS PEOPLE!!! and ben trying to punch picketers and homophobes is fucking adorbs#and i would kill (whoop) for the day klaus makes ben corporeal during pride and ben can punch all the people and then disappear#vanya’s is cute. come to the light darling!!#and diego fksgjf okay listen whether one hcs him as bi or not this is 1000% something he’d do either way#he’s supportive!!! and he has lgbtqa+ family!!! and nobody gets to be mean to his family but him!!#see also:: the first year after the apocalypse is avoided five decides to tag along when klaus saying he’s taking dave to#his very first pride. he not only enjoys himself but he learns a lot and either then or over the course of the following weeks figures his#own labels out - bc i hc five as asexual and i just have a thing for klaus being the all knowledgeable one about something for once#and his siblings learning about gender and sexuality from him and maybe discovering something new about themselves along the way!#except luther. he’s a cis hetero and we all know it#but maybe he learns to be a good ally. maybe#i mean probably not but whatever#allison is the only other person in the family who i’d even consider calling straight#bc there’s nothing wrong with being straight and i just.. dont have another label that i think fits her really well#so yeah ive got gender and sexuality hcs for them all flgkscndn happy pride month bitches

my tags on this post:: #’you’re telling me this happens every year?? for a whole month??!’ #actually i need every possible concept of dave experiencing pride month and seeing how far things have come for gays#like rainbow shit everywhere#and of course the legalization of gay marriage#out and proud gay politicians and gay people in positions of power#the amount of support that comes when homophobic shit happens now#homophobia isnt the accepted norm anymore#another thing i like is the concept of - either during pride or just in general - dave being excited to learn about the community as a whole#his boyfriend is a nonbinary pansexual and klaus has explained before what those words mean but dave wants to really understand#we stan a supportive and loving couple#dave has a lot to learn in 2019 but i think this stuff would be the most important and have the most effect on him yknow??#shit isnt perfect but its better and now he can work on getting passed the environment he was raised in#so he can hold klaus’s hand in public and kiss him around other people without panicking and eventually he proposes because HE FUCKING CAN#HE CAN DO THAT. HE CAN JUST.. ASK HIS BOYFRIEND TO MARRY HIM. LEGALLY.#good fucking shit

my tags on this post:: #did you see the state of the sky in the apocalypse?? there’s a chance he really wouldnt have noticed#i mean like yeah it could be a funny plothole#but there could also be reasons for why thats not something he noticed#or idfk man timeline shit#maybe the moon didnt explode the first time around#maybe it did and there’s just another moon somehow some way#maybe he didnt notice bc he was first too scared and then too frenzied and angry probably and then he had shit to focus on and math to do#and then dolores wanted to go on dates to the local wine cellars and flat empty areas that used to be parks and then there was spending days#in the library together like having a girlfriend is a lot of work okay#maybe five just didnt have the time to slowdown and consider things like space#maybe his headspace was too fucked#sometimes you just forget about the moon - i know i do!#so sfgksncjf okay y e ah

my tags on this post:: #YES!!! #yes yes yes #okay #so#everytime someone mentions or even hints at dave having anger issues i wanna fucking cheer bc thats one of my biggest hcs for him#like yeah he’s sweet and gentle and respectful and all that - genuinely a good man - our lil jewish gay#BUT#he did grow up in the 50s and 60s which as op said would have surrounded him with a lot of toxic masculinity. now i dont think he would be#a toxic kind of masculine AT ALL but it definitely would have forced him to hide his emotions and feelings and idk hobbies and of course his#sexuality. and i say hobbies bc there isnt a canon answer for it i dont think but i personally hc dave as being someone who loves art#specifically: drawing. dave keeping a lil sketchbook and some pencils under the pillow on his cot in vietnam?? yes please#so anyway yeah - he wouldnt have really had any good examples of how to properly take care of your anger - although he has enough#heart and common sense to know its really fucking wrong to take it out on women and children and people one is dating WHICH - another hc i#have that ties into this is that somehow his dad found out that he’s gay and beat the crap out of him over it. because unfortunately thats a#thing that happens. so his main male example was an abusive pos. and then he goes to vietnam which is fine because its not like he has#anyone stateside that will miss him - that will talk to him anymore - and its a warzone so there are a lot of ways to work out your anger#and yeah that of course includes bar fights. and he does - usually - try and keep a hold on his anger until he’s away from anyone who might#feel threatened - and he doesnt wanna end up taking out an innocent on accident - but he’s not actually perfect and so sometimes he fails#and it happens around klaus one time and seeing his love’s reaction - the making himself smaller - trying to hide - going quiet and so#clearly afraid - and not just afraid but afraid OF HIM - freezes him to the core where he stands because nobody has ever reacted like that#before. or if they have he never noticed or cared because they didnt matter. but this is klaus. his klaus. who he loves and would never do#anything to hurt him. his klaus who he protects and defends and knows he wants to spend his life with - no matter how impossible it is#he wants to go to klaus and apologize - try to undo the damage done simply by him raising his voice and lashing out - but he doesnt know#what to say or how to say it - he doesnt know what to do with the situation honestly. so he leaves the tent and goes to take his renewed#anger and frustration out on whatever he can find so he can calm down and hopefully get into the right headspace to have whats#no doubt going to be a really hard conversation with his boyfriend. because where do you even start??#but of course they talk it out and dave promises to work on his anger and on how he lets it out and yknow.. its dave so klaus trusts him and#it takes some time - there are some incidents - but dave works hard and learns a lot from klaus - including how to unlearn a lot of shit he#grew up with - and its rough but having a partner from the future who breaks all kinds of barriers definitely helps#so y eah. those are my brief feelings on it and i wanna marry op 

my tags on this post::   #!!!!!!!!!!!! #YES #i adore this post#i could never pinpoint why the introduction on the bus made me feel like That but this is it!!#its just so sweet and innocent - even surrounded by other soldiers in the middle of a warring country#the innocence and unbearable fucking adorableness of their first convo on that bus just… its so bright and lovely it makes everything else disappear#the only thing that matters is the two guys getting to experience that ‘o h’ moment for the first time in their lives bc their childhoods#never let them have that #i assume#bc like op said klaus didnt go to a regular school and he wasnt p much stuck in that house and then he was on the streets so#and for dave like.. i guess he could’ve had that moment in school? but it would’ve been one-sided and he never would have#told anyone. 1960s. gay jewish man. yeah.#they’re each others first (and only) loves and i just really fucking adore that and live off of posts about them 

my tags on this post:: #what if he wasnt dead-dead though???#bc like… the day five found them all dead was apparently the day the apocalypse happened right? so its not like they’d been dead for days#weeks or w.e yknow??#and the time between klaus dying and coming back is varying and undetermined - there’s no canon timing for the length of his deaths#so what if he came back to life??#like okay i know its not really possible in canon bc five buried them i think?? or is that a fanon thing??#i cant remembering #anyway#but still - in general klaus not being permanently dead in the apocalypse is another possibility#and five didnt know about it bc after finding them all he began his 45 year journey#and klaus wakes up alone and essentially has to learn to survive and he doesnt know five was ever there bc..well.. yeah#five is long gone#maybe klaus lives out his days in that wasteland#and he doesnt remember it where five does bc five time traveled back and klaus didnt. the klaus that got stuck in the#apocalypse is a different klaus - like a different timeline. the klaus from ep1 never got stuck in the destroyed future so#he’d have no knowledge or memories of it or anything#or - second thought - he kills himself at some point after waking up and either begs god to let him stay dead or he strikes some kind of#deal with her so he doesnt have to return to whats left of earth#oooo or something happened that put a lock on his powers?? like yknow those cuffs and devices and stuff in stuff in fantasy that freeze the#users abilities?? that’d be an interesting plotpoint bc then like who did it and why and what was the last day really like? yknow#vanya’s meds but More is the idea #just a thought#but anyway idk im just a big fan of klaus with the inability to die and all the possibilities that brings 

my tags on this post::   #i’ve actually never stopped to consider why he didnt notice them except for my v first tua watch-thru#which is odd bc like that seems like a thing one should notice after a few watches??#but w.e #anyway#my only other hc for that part of the episode isnt that klaus didnt notice them bc he’s used to guns#it’s that he didn’t hear them#or that they weren’t loud enough -to him- to register as gunfire initially#bc like one of my close hcs is that he has bad hearing. growing up with people screaming in your ears 24-7 365 can’t exactly be good for#his ears now can it? and with how loud some of them are and how close they can get to him - without touching him - that’s just.. a lot of#fucking volume okay#now add in the academy’s mission alert siren#how loud he listens to his music with headphones on when he’s trying to drown out some REALLY LOUD SCREAMING#and then being near gunfire growing up. those bank robbers had guns and weren’t exactly a big distance away#all the raves and clubs and parties he goes to?? places where music is played so loud the room shakes and you cant hear anything else and#the music itself can be heard from blocks away?? that’s an indeterminable amount of intense noise#and then of course the gunfire of vietnam#so like… boys ears have SUFFERED. whether they wanna acknowledge that in canon or not#so the shooting at the theater - the shooting thats IN the theater - which is large and meant to house sound#thats happening across a big city street from where they’re standing and they’re behind the food truck and if klaus was ordering when it all#started that was just another level of sound and he’s not exactly focused bc everything is awful yknow?? so either it takes him a second to#notice or register it on his own or maybe he doesnt and ben says something?? idk but that’s kinda the field i’ve landed on for that scene#not that im not here for op’s hc!!! bc it really is a good one and it makes sense. im just rambling my own theory here bc i like considering#the Ways for Things sometimes. esp with klaus involved. this does make me wonder tho… if his hearing somehow is -fine- in canon…. h o w?#bc like bitch who tf can take all that and have perfect hearing?? thats gotta be impossible. if they are fine is it related to his powers#somehow?? like.. does his casual passing between life and death all the time mean he doesnt have mortal ear weaknesses? its weird but im..#i’ve got theories. 

my tags on this post:: #probably in the massive fucking pockets of his fluffy coat#see also:: a dealer’s place #a boyfriend’s place#an ex-boyfriend who is also a dealer’s place#a girlfriend’s place #a partner’s place#all ex’s of course bc dave is the only valid romantic relationship#he made friends with the person who owns a nearby thrift store and they help him out#he has a locker at a public place like the ymca#he only has one outfit before returning to the mansion so he has nothing to carry - ever on the move#he thiefs off of people in rehab and crackhouses he stayed in that are dumb enough to leave their shit unattended#when he sees something he likes or he feels its time for an outfit change#he mostly sticks with his lace up pants as far as bottom pieces go bc its much harder to sneak away with skirts#and the kind of crazy pants he likes. there’s only room for one pair of pants for this pan disaster#after returning to the mansion he has access to the funky gay clothes he had managed to aquire before leaving all those years ago#bc like… i kinda hc that he got out of there fast and probably higher than fuck and had nothing packed#have you ever tried to pack while high?? it’s harder than it has any right to be#crack theory:: he had a bag - we just never saw it bc in the beginning he wore it under his floofy coat bc safety and he didnt need it the#rest of the time.#i have a lot of thoughts and headcanony opinions about klaus’s time on the streets so thank u#for giving me a place to dump some of them   

[firebirdsdaughter]

Hee hee hee...

... I found a Zi-O 14 raw...

I’m gonna watch it!

(I’m still tired though, so this’ll likely be a speed through and then I’ll do another post later, but anyway, more below!)

(So it turns out I lied. I got way to into the episode. Sorry.)

In no order:

YES! Geiz you softie, I knew it. Even if you’re gonna defend it by saying it’s bc you want to be the one to kill him or whatever, I knew you weren’t gonna leave it at that.

It’s making me think of something from the musical ep of Buffy (disclaimer: I have not actually watched Buffy I just have the music from that ep bc... I love show tunes. No. Really. That’s why.). Weird comparison, I know, but hear me out--Spike’s got this line that goes (w/ some less applicable parts removed) ‘I hope she fries ... I better help her out.’ Literally, I feel like that's what happened here. Geiz is like ‘I totally do not care at all that he is dead, absolutely not, not for any reason whatsoever, I’m going to leave now good-bye. ............ OkaymaybeI’mgonnagosavehim. But only bc I want to be the one to kill him. Not bc I care at all in any way even a little bit.’

RYUKI!

Yeah, yeah. I know it’s just Tsukasa, but, I mean... Ryuki.

Aw, he did the henshin kinda like how Takeru used to do it. ^^ God, Tsukasa, what are you doing giving me warm fuzzies?

THREE GHOST NO WAITING.

TSUKASA LOOK WHERE YOU’RE THROWING YOUR SHIT GO PICK THAT SWORD UP RIGHT NOW!

NO! MY BABY! WHY HAVE THE LAST THREE TAGS BEEN IN ALL CAPS?

Okay, yeah, but... We already know Takeru has one/it. So... Hm. Does Tsukasa know that? At this point I just never take anything this man says or does at face value, so...

Ooop. Yup. Guessing he dropped that on purpose. What is your plan here, Tsukasa?

SOUGO JUST LOADED TAKERU INTO THE TIME MAJIN. HE’S MAKING HIM DRIVE. I LOVE THESE TWO GOOFBALLS THEY ARE SO CUTE.

Wait. Is future¡nonRider¡Takeru gonna meet past¡Rider¡Takeru?

OH. Oh... Wow. Okay. Not the plan I was expecting to be implemented. A... Apparently Takeru’s new Force Push works on physical stuff, too. Alright then! Sure, I’ll take it!

WAIT IF GHOST SOUGO ISN’T THERE HOW IS TAKERU GONNA GET BACK???

Oh, hey Woz. I guess. He seems... A little frustrated about something?

Sougo, why are you making a face like you got caught talking in class? You don’t have to feel bad about this. You did a good. A... Side from semi-stranding Takeru in the past?

Wait... If the incident never occurred, then Another Ghost was never created, then Takeru never lost his memories, then he never got deRidered... But the Ghost Watch exists so he should still be deRidered.... Augh! I knew I didn’t have the brain for this time travel stuff! I’m gonna stop thinking about it.

And now Uhr (or whatever his name is) is gonna pout. Which is probably gonna be destructive.

But also... MAKOTO!!!

Though... Why is Makoto here? Though, I guess I’m not sure when exactly this would fall during Ghost, since we weren’t given any timeline indication for it. Seems to be after Takeru and Makoto made up, though... I guess he was in the area? And then saw Takeru getting attacked.

Yeah, okay, so he’s still Spectre, which means the Ghost timeline hasn't been erased yet.

Aw, and he doesn’t know it’s not the Takeru from his time. So... Are we gonna have two Takeru’s? I’m curious.

IT JUST APPEARED! NOW IF PAST¡TAKERU SHOWS UP WE WILL HAVE FIVE FOUR GHOSTS!!!

Unfortunately, we lost one bc Tsukasa is a dick.

I’m assuming Takeru’s memories are back, too.

Makoto is just staring at him (looking absolutely fantastic, might I add) like ‘dude wtf are you okay? What’s going on?’

THEY DID THE POSES THEY SAID THE THINGS

Uhr, why are you surprised? Did you not do your research or something? YOU PICKED A FIGHT W/ THE ACTUAL KAMEN RIDER GHOST.

I realise this is all gonna get erased by the end of this (come to think if you erase the Ghost Timeline... What happens to Makoto and Kanon? I mean, Takeru never dies... Do they never get sucked into Gamma? Bc the accident never occurs, or bc Gamma never exists? And if Gamma never exists... What about Alain? And his family? Oh Dear.) so this won’t happen, but it’s really funny think about Makoto mentioning this to the Takeru of the past later and having 2015¡Takeru be like ‘Makotonii-chan wth are you talking about?’ and Makoto is like ‘Wth do you mean wth? YOU WERE THERE!’

SWARTZ JUST SHOWS UP TO SCOLD HIM. I love this evil time manipulating family that hates each other.

Okay, but Uhr is gonna turn the brother into Another Ghost anyway... But now he’s not dead, so destroying the Another Ride Watch isn’t a moral dilemma anymore.

And there go Makoto and Takeru.

EXCEPT THAT’S TAKERU FROM THE FUTURE HOW IS HE GETTING BACK.

Wait... Is Geiz still in 2015? Maybe he can give him a hand.

Sougo, did you just realise that Woz does not actually have your best interests in mind? I’ve known that since nigh ten episodes ago.

I feel like Makoto was either just like ‘Takeru what the hell is going on?’, ‘What are you doing here?’ or, ‘Weren’t you wearing something else half nd hour ago?’ (okay, probably not that last one). And now Takeru is scrambling bc he can’t very well be like ‘yeah I’m actually Takeru from the future who forgot he was a Kamen Rider etc.’

Mika there w/ the accidental save. I’m sure a little sister looking for her brother is gonna hit a nerve w/ Makoto, too...

Poor Makoto. He’s getting Gaim Arc Tsukuyomi’d. It’s okay, honey, this’ll all have never have happened by the end of this episode.

He’s still, like, two dimensional, though. Physically, I mean. Like, Flat Stanley. He can fit through tight spaces if he turns sideways.

Takeru is such a terrible liar he has to look the opposite direction. It’d be really funny if the Takeru of 2015 came running up right after they leave. Poor Makoto would be so confused. Even more than he already is.

Poor guy, I’m so sorry. Don’t worry. Like I said, by the end of this, this’ll never have happened.

Aw, Geiz came back. I’m glad he’s alright.

Also... OH MY GOD I JUST NOTICED SOUGO MOPING IN THE CORNER.

It sounds like he’s complaining, but I don’t speak Japanese, so I’m not sure. I’m really confused as to why Takeru didn’t tell them, though... Like, did he think they wouldn’t believe him?

Oh, yeah... What’d they tell Junichiro? He doesn’t seem as worried as he’d presumably be if he knew Sougo was technically dead...

Tsukuyomi taking one for the team w/ this conversation. Geiz is just sitting there like ‘this is one of the most awkward moments of my life.’

Oh my gosh, they just came in. Poor Takeru’s running around so much. His feet have gotta hurt by now.

Takeru don’t talk to Sougo when you know no one else can see him, for pity’s sake.

See what I mean? Everyone is looking at you like you’re nuts.

Oh for... SERIOUSLY? YOU’RE ONLY TELLING THEM NOW? You bloody little troll. It’s okay, I still love you.

I’m... Pretty sure they just mentioned Akari. Aw, that’s sweet. They couldn’t get her back, but they didn’t forget her.

I’m starting to wonder if the Ghost cast just have a group chat and Takeru’s actor was like ‘hey who’s free during this time period?’ and these are the folks who could make it.

Aw, Geiz is embarrassed. I saw you doing the awkward embarrassed thing. Poor Tsukuyomi just collapses in a chair.

Oh my gosh... Geiz is mad that that they made him embarrassed and have feelings, so he’s got both Sougo and Takeru by the shoulders like an angry big brother or something, and poor Takeru’s trying to explain, I love this episode. I also love how bad Geiz is at feelings.

Wait, though... Did they give Sougo his body back, or did they just temporarily revitalise his ghost? Bc I seem to remember that while Takeru was a ghost, he was capable of being corporeal at times.

I love how Sougo is just nodding along w/ what Takeru’s saying like ‘Sempai, save me!’

Geiz is like ‘You asshole... I GOT DOUBLE RIDER KICKED FOR YOU!’ He’s totally gonna try and kill him again for this...

This is totally like that moment in Dekaranger when Hoji got huffy about something and stalked out and the rest of the team just started giggling and someone literally said ‘He’s so bad at feelings!’ Bc Geiz is very bad at feelings. I love him, he’s so hopeless.

Yeah, it’s fine, Takeru was able to make it so he was no longer reanimated. And confused the hell out of poor Makoto in the process!

Geiz is also embarrassed about the Ghost Ride Watch getting destroyed. It’s okay, peaches, you got double Rider Kicked, remember? Anyway, Takeru’s got one. Well, I mean... Presumably it’s the same one. Just... It’s in a time loop. And it will be until we finish changing time. At least we know it’ll always come back, bc Puma Zi-O has to have it for Geiz to steal in the first place.

Aw, the Time Jacker sibs are working together! Guess Dad frustrated.

Robot fights? In my Kamen Rider? It’s more likely than you’d think!

Aw, look at that. They just got their gamers on.

Oh, nope, now we’re Build and Cross-z.

God, you boys REALLY SUCK at not being in sync. Are you sure you weren’t meant to work together?

Woz here, trying manipulate Tsukasa. Please. You don’t play a player.

Still excited for the day Geiz uses Sougo’s name.

Geiz here, sharing the powers again.

Tsukasa is sitting in this construction equipment like one of your french girls.

I think Tsukasa just asked Woz who he was talking to, and Woz was like ‘Uhhh... I dunno?’

I just realised... Sougo’s Decade Armour has a barcode on it?

YES! THANK YOU! I knew I could count on you, Tsukasa. He just yelled at Woz to either stop or be quiet, I’m pretty sure, snatched the book and closed it. Bringing back Masahiro was a great choice, I love this. So long as he can keep it up. I hope he’s not overdoing it between this and Jinga.

Either that or he said ‘too long,’ which is also true.

Oooooooo. He can use two Riders at once on the sword.

Woz, are you just realising Tsukasa is doing what he wants, not what you want? Seriously?

Like I said, I do trust Tsukasa to at least have noble intentions/goals, even if his methods are rather... Questionable at times. I do believe he does take his post as a Kamen Rider seriously. Even if he’s... Tsukasa.

The Decade Armour is chanting ‘HEI-SEI HEI-SEI HEI-SEI etc. etc.’ and I’m afraid I must admit I love it.

Aw, Tsukuyomi and Takeru waited for him to wake up. Geiz isn’t there bc he’s embarrassed.

Junichiro is scared of Tsukasa, and you know what, valid.

Also Geiz is gonna kill something and for once it might not be Sougo. It’s okay, dude. Like I said, at the end of the day, he is a Kamen Rider, the goddamn leggy bastard.

HE’S JUST EATING THE FOOD OH MY GOD THIS MAN IS UNSTOPPABLE.

I love how he apparently takes the camera off to eat.

And Tsukasa is still himself, even though the Decade Ride Watch exists... Hmm... So either the thing about there being two Koutas was true, or... There’s something else going one w/ leg asshole here that allowed him to keep his memories when even Fruit Jesus lost them.

That’s... Actually an okay photo? Tsukasa, have you improved?

Geiz is gonna try and kill him again. Sorry, sweetie, he’s just like This. I wouldn’t advise picking a fight right now, he’s been around the block multiple times. He’d just trash you again.

Is Woz... In the scene? Or is he... Not? Is he trying to predict Tsukasa? Oh, this’ll be interesting. Tsukasa vs Woz.

Geiz is still glaring, Tsukuyomi looks a little like a frightened rabbit.  Zi-Ot3 isn’t sure what to make of the leggy bastard just yet.

So, the preview...: Is Puma Zi-O planning to beat his past self into submission? That’s... Dark. What’s the relationship between Woz and this Kisshan fellow? Did Puma Zi-O feel like Woz was screwing up, so he sent Kisshan back, or was this the plan from the start? Does Woz even actually work for Puma Zi-O? Is he just playing a part and biding his time for something else? Looks like, as a comment I saw put it quite well, Puma Zi-O is entering the chat next week. Kisshan is gonna throw Geiz and Tsukuyomi around, much to Sougo’s horror, it appears. And Tsukasa... Not sure what Tsukasa is up to yet. Not that I expected to know.

Oh, yeah, and wasn’t there a recent scan leak of Geiz’s Time Majin using a Diend Ride Watch? So... Are we actually gonna be seeing Kaito, or... What? Bc Kaito and Geiz, that’d be a pair. Kaito would probably tease him, and Geiz would fall for it every single time. We’ll see. I have no expectations as far as returns go bc I know they’re limited by availability and willingness, so let’s just go with the flow!

Alright. I’m sorry this was so long. Virtual toffees for anyone who read all that. I still love Geiz, he’s bad at emotions and embarrassed by feelings, I love it. Presuming we’re gonna have a ‘Puma Zi-O is my enemy, Tokiwa Sougo is my friend’ moment at some point (kinda like Ryuuga had over Katsuragi and Sento respectively). Poor Tsukuyomi is trying to wrangle these idiots, but I wish they’d give her a little bit more to do. Tsukasa remains Tsukasa, not surprisingly. Hope to see more of the bitter Time fam that hates each other in the future. Who knows, since Sougo is going to 2068 next week, maybe we’ll even get to meet Goggles.

Also, for anyone wondering why it says ‘Puma Zi-O’ all over this... Well, my computer kept correcting ‘Ouma’ to ‘Puma’ and I eventually decided that ‘Puma’ was funnier. That’s all.

Here’s a shot of Makoto looking attractive despite poor quality to finish off:

[lcrettas]

henlo my little pumpkin pies it’s me liz again i run loretta do u member hi how are ya UH anyone need a lawyer??? bc here’s benny! call him any time and he’ll fight for YOU! alksdjf this is what happens when i binge daredevil! anyway, you can read more about my son below! and hmu if you wanna plot anything with him. pls do. he needs... love. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

( CHARLIE COX, CISMALE, HE/HIM, TWENTY-NINE) ✧·˚. — ( BENJAMIN MURPHY), a ( DEFENSE ATTORNEY) has been in vegas for ( TWENTY YEARS ) and has made quite the name for themselves. they are known to be ( QUICK-WITTED and EMPATHETIC ) but don’t get it twisted, they can just as easily be ( STUBBORN and BRAZEN ). they’re so much more than that, though.

death tw

BENJAMIN MURPHY was born in new jersey. his mother passed away shortly after giving birth, and he was left with his piece of shit father to raise him. as far as he knows, he’s an only child, but his pops probably had some other kids floatin around the east coast. that wouldn’t surprise benny. 

his pops was a BIG gambler and a crook. he almost lost benny to a relative a few times, due to his neglect for his son, but he worked his way around keeping ben from going into foster care, simply so he could write him off as a dependent on his taxes. what a shit. additionally, he once lost the shitty apartment the both of them were living in to someone in a poker game. that one incidence, in fact, is what brought the both of them to vegas. with nowhere else to go, benny’s dad thought this was the perfect opportunity for the both of them to head west to vegas, where he could REALLY win big. at just nine years old and to much of his dismay, benny just went along with him. 

benny was always a smart kid! top of his class. in addition to going to school, he was able to start working early as a bus boy and a bellhop in order to bring in extra (and most) money to support himself and his son of a bitch dad. 

my boy benny had an okay time in vegas, though he grew to resent the place that occupied most of his father’s time, attention, and money. he had no extra money to pack up and leave, so he just stayed in vegas through high school, all the while his father was trying (and failing) to win a cool mil or two via various games of chance all around the strip. 

it wasn’t until the very DAY ben graduated high school that his father’s endless gambling finally paid off. instead of attending his own son’s graduation, ol’ mr. murphy was chillin at the slot machines when he hit a lucky streak and ACTUALLY won $500,000, all at once. the excitement and irony was just too much for benny’s dad though, and he dropped dead of a heart attack just minutes after he won. 

that day was a mix of emotions for benny. he was upset his father wasn’t at his fucking graduation, but that redeemed itself when he found out that the money his dad won, the money that KILLED ol’ mr. murphy, would all be rewarded to benny. 

benny knew this sum wouldn’t be enough to support him forever, but he knew it could definitely get him a head start. because he was an exceptional student, he earned himself a scholarship at stanford that would cover a few of the biggest expenses that come with attending an ivy league school out of state. with the blessing of the rest of the money though, he figured he should put it to good use and go to law school. he wanted to make a life for himself that was completely above board, unlike his dad. 

he returned to vegas shortly after he graduated law school, simply because it was the only place that really felt like home. he may have resented it before, but it was his own choices that brought him back. and he could live with that. 

now! my son opened up his own firm not far from the strip. he worked for a prestigious firm previously, but really couldn’t shake the desire to be his own boss and make something of himself BY himself. or at least, mostly by himself. 

as far as his personality goes... my guy is on the straight and narrow. he has a real passion for justice and people. he’s not tempted by crooked dealings, (at least for now) as he saw those kinds of things greatly contribute to his father’s downfall. he’s kinda charming and a little bit of a smart ass! the whole lawyer thing... it works for him. he’s got a soft spot for people! rather than corporations. he’s totally friendly unless you give him a reason to hate you. kinda not afraid of anything. 

fun facts:

hates HGTV! hates it! why do you want a beach house with a game room??? there’s a beach right fuckin there!!

more of a tea guy.

will steal ur man and ur girl at the same time! 

can play the piano v well (the hotel he used to bellhop for let him practice on the busted baby grand in storage)

horrible dancer.

boxes in his free time! he fast! sometimes he has a black eye. not saying he’s in a fight club... but maybe he will be 

wanted connections: 

i’m gonna send this into the main too, but a partner at his firm! the person he decided to open it with! could be anyone, but relatively close in age.

clients!!!???!!! he will fight for you!!!!

a best friend!!! this could also be his partner but doesn’t have to be. 

friends with benefits OH YOU KNOW i love me some fwb. (any gender)

slow burn where they hate each other at first please see:

 http://ofcmusing.tumblr.com/post/179367748052

http://rickscosnett.tumblr.com/post/120120829761

http://anissagraces.tumblr.com/post/179175958132

enemies oh you KNOW he’s gotta have some

sassy soul sisters so just like two bros chillin in a hot tub, roasting everyone they know. they don’t have to be in a hot tub.

literally anything else is cool !

[rapscallicns-blog]

hopefully the last one but honestly i have 0 impulse control so who k n o w s

( *✧ DEV PATEL, BISEXUAL, CIS MALE ) — HAVE YOU SEEN PIERRE BEAUMONT, THE 24 YEAR OLD PHD STUDENT THAT’S WARM-HEARTED, BUT ALSO MELANCHOLIC? IN ANOTHER LIFE, HE WAS KNOWN AS PIERRE BEZUKHOV FROM GREAT COMET.

Look this boi is so s o f t

(and so dead inside)

(please excuse my war and peace headcanons ok)

Ok so Pierre was the product of an affair between some super rich russian - american corporate businessman and a french actress.

His father wouldn’t get a divorce and also wanted to take her future child, so Pierre’s mom retired, packed up, and started traveling across Europe, doing odd theatre jobs wherever she could book them.

(Pierre takes his mother’s last name, still does, to this day.)

They were always just one step out of dear old dad’s reach, or so they thought. In reality dear old dad had a PI stalking them from city to city but ultimately never did anything more than take some candids and make reports on how the mother and son were doing.

They really only ever stopped running once Pierre was of age since his mom was really paranoid about getting caught.

Pierre speaks like five different languages as a result.

Education was also sort of jumbled and a mish mash mess because of that too.

Pierre never really fit in anywhere because he didn’t stay anywhere too long, plus he was sort of a quiet, introspective child. A sweet kid, sure, wanted to belong desperately, had a wild streak in him sometimes, was kind to everyone but never really found anyone.

Honestly he’d probably worked up a healthy dose of fear of other people by the time he’d gotten through secondary school.

That’s? When they hear (from the PI that’s been following them around) that Pierre’s dad is dying. Leukemia, a couple months to live.

He wants to see Pierre.

Pierre’s curious and just - wants to meet the father he never really knew before he loses the chance forever. Mom isn’t happy but she isn’t heartless - she let’s him go back to New York while she herself decides to return to her native France and settle down permanently there.

Everything is awkward, obviously.

Pierre’s father is surprisingly fond of his illegitimate son? And Pierre is sent off straight to an ivy school as part of his father’s dying wishes and he’s both sort of guilty that he’s cheated the system and also guilty because he’s not. Gonna do well. Sorry, Dad i don’t actually know but seems to really like me.

His half siblings are Not Happy About Any of It.

Pierre has a l o t of pressure. So of course he cracks. His grades don’t drop, because he’s sort of clever, he guesses

But he does become notorious for making the worst friends and going to a l l the college parties.

(Seriously if you read the book there’s an incident where he straps a dude to the back of a bear and throws them into the river) (it is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying)

Then of course, dear old dad dies and?? Leaves the whole estate to him.

Like. Literally all of it.

(He freaks his shit because w h a t.)

So now he’s - a PhD student of Linguistics, honestly just wasting time because he doesn’t wanna have to deal with or even think about his father’s company which he might have the duty to take over if he ever stops being a student.

Still has a strained relationship with his half-siblings. No matter what he says they won’t be appeased.

Suddenly plunged into high society life and? very confused. Very awkward. Knows No One? Doesn’t know how to talk to any of the snobs. Is low key terrified 100% of the time. 

Realizes that he gets judged bc he’s the son from the affair though.

Still has very little friends

But is honestly such a soft boy though. Literally always willing to lend people money because he figures they need it more than he does. Loves his mom a lot. Smiles abashedly at people when they talk to him. Picks up stray animals?? Ok this man is probably the favorite of the stray neighborhood cats.

(I love him he’s soft)

(ugh)