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bthump · 3 years ago

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What kind parents do you think GriffGuts would be? Any headcanons?

hmm there are a lot of possible variables here so I'll just go with a modern AU version where they still have similar hangups and childhood experiences, give or take all the death and destruction. Bc idk how they’d end up parenting a kid together in any sort of canon-adjacent scenario lol.

So I think Griff would lowkey be a bit of a helicopter parent, partly bc he throws himself into the things he decides he wants with 100% enthusiasm and partly because he was orphaned or whatever as a kid so maybe he’d go slightly too far in the opposite direction. I also think he’d be more likely to make and enforce rules and structure than Guts. He’d help the kids with their homework, ask about school, insist on meeting their friends, check out the media they’re consuming and talk about it with them, join the PTA, etc.

But at the same time he has a very live and let live attiude in canon - do what you want is like the first thing he says. So I figure he’d also be the type of parent who is generally honest with their kid about the real world and potential consequences of their actions etc but doesn’t like, get overly controlling about what they watch or when they hang out with friends or whatever.

So like, a parent who wants to be involved in his kids’ lives but also knows when to step back and let them do their own thing, I guess? Maybe leaning one way or the other to a negative extent sometimes, because let’s be real here neither of them would be perfect parents lol, though I do think they’d both be pretty good.

Also he’d read like 50 parenting books throughout the adoption process as his way of coping with being nervous about sucking as a parent. Like maybe at first, especially because he had a relatively parent-free childhood, he’d try really hard to overcompensate by learning how to do everything and trying way too hard. And maybe for a while each new development stage would spark a resurgence. Like maybe the eldest child especially would see him as a bit overbearing. (though honestly I might be exaggerating that a bit because Griff needs more flaws as a parent for it to be interesting lol)

Well another possible flaw for him I guess could be being a distant parent, if this is like a Golden Age equivalent where he’s obsessed with pursuing his career for emotionally fucked up reasons. Staying late at work, missing stuff, trying hard to balance everything but still prioritizing his career over family, etc, til he has the requisite romcom/good berserk AU realization that love is all you need.

Guts would be a fun parent who lets the kids slack off and eat ice cream instead of doing homework and plays soccer with them in the yard (not that Griffith wouldn’t also join in). He’d be a good listener, and he’d talk to the kids like little adults, which the kids would love. I also think Guts is more likely to be a stay at home parent, partly because lbr Griffith would most likely have the better paying job, and partly because he’s good at taking care of people when he wants to be. He’d be great at making kids’ lunches, driving them to school, etc.

Contrary to like... his canon interactions with the kids lol, I would like to think that Guts would have some issues with worrying he’ll become Gambino. At the same time I could easily see him parroting some of Gambino’s bad parenting decisions that he’s never questioned, like not taking the kids’ safety into high enough consideration, bribing them with gifts if they’re upset, thinking that like... idk schoolyard fighting or bullying might help make them tougher, stuff like that. Like maybe he’d be really cautious about losing his temper at them or talking down to them, and he’d miss the more subtle negative things he learned growing up, that never really registered as bad parenting. I like to think he’d recognize it and change those things after a while though. Have a few nice wholesome family sitcom esque moments where he realizes he’s been fucking up.

Griff would be better with the younger kids and Guts better with the teenagers, I wanna say, tho idk if I can really justify that.

Also I think they’d both be great at comforting the kids and making them feel better. Griff would have a good strong steady and empathetic presence that makes them feel like he gets it and can fix everything, and Guts would be great at listening and taking them seriously and giving casual friendly advice that doesn’t make the kids feel pressured but also makes them feel like he gets it and they can fix everything. Maybe that’s my justification for their preferred age ranges actually.

lol idk, I’ve never really thought about this type of AU much so this is just what I’m feeling off the top of my head.

Anyway thanks for the ask! Sorry this took so long lol, my creativity has been at like kelvin zero recently for some reason.

#ask #anonymous #headcanons #modern au #b

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mithrilwren · 5 years ago

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fanfic ask: #5, 14, 17, 19

Ahh, thank you! This was fun :D

5. What’s a crackship you love?

Hmmm... I did get a little too emotional about Jester and that bakery girl from Uthodern. (this is a tough question - I don’t think I have too many CR ships in general! I’m sure more interesting answers will come to me as soon as I post this.)

14. Post a line of dialogue from one of your WIPs without context.

"You don't love this place. Not like you love the sea." (no context, but I'll give you one guess what ship this is for :P)

17. Describe a fic that's still in the ideas stage.

Oo! I've got quite a few. There's one in particular that I'm very excited to start on once Nightingale is finished, but I won't spoil it just yet. Another that I've had on the backburner is a... space pirate AU? I don't know, man, I listened to a bit too much Counter/Weight from Friends at the Table and suddenly it was something I desperately needed to write.

Bigger details both tbh and [redacted], and most of this came out of one very long shower brainstorming session, but the basic premise is this:

Caleb - an official ambassador of the Cerberus Assembly and newly appointed member of the Royal Dwendalian fleet - is one of the best and brightest in his (admittedly, small) class, so it's no wonder he was chosen to lead the first diplomat mission to the Kryn Dynasty in nearly a decade - a mission with absolutely no ulterior motives instituted by his higher-ups, right?

Right.

Well, long story short, he picks up an unexpected passenger along the way (Nott) and we jump in just as their little craft gets unceremoniously wrecked in deep space and they have to put out a distress beacon for rescue. Enter the rest of our cast, the space pirates led by our beloved Captain Fjord and his motley crew - a university dropout from an affluent planet who is absolutely not running from anything, a free-spirited painter from across the system entirely who is definitely not running from anything either, a couple of wayfaring circus folk looking for their next gig after The Incident, and a pink-haired creature Caleb's never seen the like of before, searching for the family that left his remote world and never returned.

A deal is struck with the (honestly, financially struggling) pirate crew - get Caleb and Nott to the next big planet where they can buy a new skip and continue on to Rosohna, and they'll be paid handsomely from the Dwendalian Empire's coffers on arrival. Of course, along the way adventures are had, friendships are struck, and Caleb starts having second thoughts about... well, everything, really.

I think it'll be a blast, and something akin to candy writing-wise: full of the things I love (world-building, elaborate AUs with canon parallels, SPACESHIPS) but more episodic and less strictly plotted than something like Nightingale. I'm hoping it'll be easy to just sit down and have fun with it without thinking too hard.

19. What is your favourite character headcanon?

Recently? I like the idea that Beau and Nott start having more late-night talks - a little less drunk, a little more earnest - and that the rest of the Nein notice and assume they’re plotting something together, when really, it’s just that it’s been a while for both of them that they’ve had someone to talk to where they don’t have to hold anything back. (I know we talk a lot about Beau and Caleb having big sibling energy, but I could see Nott and Beau developing a real sibling-esque vibe as well.)

#critical role #ask meme

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ghosty-schnibibit · 5 years ago

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very late (both in terms of date and time) ttazz liveblog before graduation comes out later today!

the main reasons i put off listening to the ttazz for as long as i did:

was in the middle of a balance relisten, specifically in the middle of eleventh hour, and didn't want to break my flow there (iirc i was right before That Episode and i didn’t want the mood whiplash of going from ttazz to the emotional gut punch of the chalice)

still getting over amnesty in general because d a m n, this was my first season with taz from beginning to end that hit me hard, i needed some decompression time

i'm always a little terrified to listen to ttazz eps because i've been here for a long ass time and have seen interactions between fans and creaters go bad fast and am always quietly worried for our good good brothers even though most of the fandom is relatively chill

but graduation begins today so! i felt like i needed to get it over and done with. going into this with my only spoiler being that sternclay is canon, let's do this!

OH SHIT! new ttazz music! :D

kill me with emotions more like

or clint could be pollution a la g’omens

YES PLEASE I HAD TO GOOGLE HIM

... is there some reverb on justin's audio? he's echoing

i literally only saw ferris buller for the first time a year ago and i cannot remember wayne newton being in it

whomst???

yes please i am so curious

aww, that's fun

... so the ending was likely originally going to be duck taking over as mothman??? i'm so mad

YES PLEASE EXPLAIN GRIFFIN I WAS SO CONFUSED ABOUT THIS

g i v e m e t h e l o r e g r i f f i n

oh my god that is so good, holy shit

oh right, the npc who was a ghost that i couldn't stop picturing as owl from winnie the pooh because of his voice lmao

oh dang griffin and trav's audios are echoing too, this is super distracting

i would agree with that honestly, i feel like it was more like a tv season-esque build than an epic

... mood, and also why i think it hit everyone so hard that ned died

same, i love bad liar duck so much

the audience struggled with it too for a bit there lol

it has been so fuckin long since i listened to the first few eps of amnesty, i legit do not remember what aubrey's original voice sounded like

"how did we come to ned chicane?" damn trav

i always made a connection between suffering game and the shifter arc in my head but i didn't want to compare the two seasons unjustly, i feel better now that griffin's made it more implicit

who is clinking a spoon against a porcelain cup

"i'm checking slack, fuck you guys" pfff

that is literally how you brought barry back griffin

i need someone to write an au where aubrey touched thacker and got quelled earlier in the timeline, holy shit

dang, i could have guessed it was planned... i guess a lot of this arc's foreshadowing came in the form of "the boys all picked red null suits" moments where random things all added up

... wait, didn't duck kill the tree abomination? i need to relisten to amnesty so bad, i honestly cannot remember, i think that arc’s finale came out while i was in the middle of finals

ilu griffin

we could have had a "you earned love, but you didn't earn LOVE" moment??? g r i f f i n

YES, give me those great parallels trav

i have literally never seen a national lampoon movie guys

i thought it was!!! dang :(

honestly i wish pigeon had gotten more screen time between the arcs, she was really a wasted character imho

i love danbry so much :')

i'm only familiar with brian blessed as hamlet sr.'s ghost lmao

YEEEAH, STERNCLAY! :D

...

i maintain that she fell off a pudding fruit tree lol

oh fuck i am somehow even more happy thacker did that knowing that now holy shit

nice, time for some graduation hype!

tiny heist? i don't remember hearing anything about this :0

i am so fucking excited to see these maps trav, holy shit

i! cannot! wait! for! travis! dming!

oh my god i do the same thing with all my ocs, i have an entire publisher doc with all their info written out too

i'm so damn exited! holy shit!!!

nice one griff lmao

alrighty, that's the end of amnesty! i can't wait to see what trav has in store for us, and i'll still be here livebloging along with it for the foreseeable future ^u^

p.s.: thank you guys so much for all the love on my recent post!!! i didn't expect so many people to enjoy me venting my emotionsTM over suffering game lol

#taz #taz amnesty #the adventure zone #ghosty liveblogs taz #veeery late lmao

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kyberled · 6 years ago

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As an OC blog, did you have any characters in mind while creating your character you took inspiration from? (from the burntout meme)

Easy Meme for a Burnt Out Mun

Yes and no. See, I originally didn’t intend to create Braig as a character at all. In fact, he was Rodi’s idea. Way back in the day, my main blog was over at @asiifisms. Rodi, at the time, had a bunch of muse for her Obi-Wan, @highgrcund. We had our boys chatting in a thread, and they got on well enough, and we got to talking. Rodi suggested an AU where K/H Braig was Obi-Wan’s padawan, and, well.

At first, he started as just an AU. But then we decided to make him younger to fit the AU, and that changed him a bit; then we got to talking about upbringing, and that changed him a bit. Then we talked about his education, and that changed him a bit. And then he started interacting with more people, and I got more into the SW lore and universe, understood more about the Order, and more and more people ended up falling in love with him and he just– Basically, a lot of things happened to change him from that AU. So I made him his own side-blog, and then his own full blog, and now, the only things that are the same are his name and I guess his scarf? And the scar he gets across his face.

I originally considered changing his name, once I finally realised that he was nothing like my King/do/m H/eart/s boy. His new name was going to be Bréan (Pronounced BREY-on), but I never went through with it. So many people already had custom tags with his name in it, and we had so many nicknames made (Braigimus, Braiggo, Braigos, Braiglet, etc), and shipnames (Braigsoka, mainly; We could’ve made Bréba, probably, but I’m not sure it looks quite as nice as Braiba) that wouldn’t have worked, and so many reasons I never went through with it. (Sidenote: I recently started listening to the broadway OST of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Claude Frollo has a brother named Jéan, pronounced almost the exact same as Bréan, and let me tell you, that threw me for a loop.) After I decided I didn’t want to change his name, I thought to myself that I still really liked how ‘Bréan’ sounded, especially if you paired it with Braig - Braig andBréan. For a time, I debated giving Braig a Force-Sensitive identical twin brother, with whom he got up to shenanigans with, before Bré left the Order, fell to the dark, became a Sith, and one inevitably had to kill the other, because I’m awful. After that, I decided that Bré would be a non-Force-Sensitive twin of Braig who still lived with either their father or their mother. Then I made him older, since I thought that would be a fun dynamic, then I made him look less like Braig, I kept him as Braig’s moral opposite but in different ways, threw him in the exact opposite living conditions (a slum in the Outer Rim vs. the Jedi Temple on Coruscant), renamed him to Karvan, and made him Braig’s half-brother by a different father. They don’t know each other exists, and don’t have any reason to think they’re related, when/if they ever meet.

So his name stayed the same. He loses his scarf when he’s about 16, but has it before that. His scar’s… Mostly the same, except he only has the one visible one, and his goes down past his jaw onto his neck, while KH Braig’s doesn’t, and the origins are from two very different events. But, I feel like I can’t possibly discredit the influence my trash son had on this sweet boy, and how - I’m not sure this counts - he was the inspiration for Braig in the early stages of his development. Sort of.

A lot of Braig’s ‘mannerisms’ have been inspired by Obi-Wan: His love of tea, his penchant for proper etiquette and manners, the way he tries to straighten his appearance out and avoid looking too scruffy, and the way he strokes his chin (an invisible beard) when he’s very deep in thought. A lot of this comes from how Rodi and I wrote him as being raised largely by Obi-Dad since day one; Papa had a lot of influence on his boy, in-canon and out, so it makes sense to me that he’d pick up on things dad did. Honestly, a lot of this wasn’t intentional, but rather something that happened over the course of our writing together, so I suppose that counts.

Braig’s hairstyle, as he gets older, was inspired by Qui-Gon, but you already know that. Rodi honest to god messaged me in the middle of a skype chat saying she’d been thinking about how Braig would look with a Qui-Bun and attached this sketch:

And I was SOLD. Absolutely, 100% sold.

(If you can’t tell by now, whenever I say Rodi has 50% custody over Braig, it’s not as much of a joke as you’d think. He wouldn’t be who he is without her. [Neither would I, but that’s beside the point.] Hell, he wouldn’t even exist. She’s the one who even got me watching TCW in the first place.)

(Rodi probably has just as much if not more influence on this boy’s appearance than the original K/H character did.)

I don’t remember if it was my or Rodi’s idea to make him a Force-Healer; I just know it came up in a chat we were having. And I know making him a doctor changed how I envisioned him, but making him a Force-Doctor even more so. Because he had to be someone who the Force would… Choose, for lack of a better word, to be a healer. Especially once I did more reading into healing - he had to be someone who could and would focus enough, who had the patience to do the necessary meditation, and so on and so forth. So I think that had something to do with it all, too.

He’s indigenous because some nice anon suggested it ages back, after asking me about his real-life race and me answering I hadn’t decided. (My K/H boy is latinx.) Heidi, wherever she ran off to, suggested Booboo Stewart as a faceclaim, and we all know how perfect he turned out to be. So that wasn’t really inspiration, either. It just happened.

He’s as cuddly as he is because adults showered him in affection when he was a baby and I guess nobody ever stopped. It started out just with Obi-Dad, of course, but has since spread to Shaak, Eeth, Yaddle, Mace, Depa, Quin, A’sh, and so many more. So nobody ever weaned him off the cuddle bug, so now he snuggles everyone he’s comfortable with.

I don’t know where his love of flowers came from; I guess that just happened. I do know that he got his journal, which is now his most precious belonging, from Obidad, in another skype chat with Rodi. I know he can heal without the Force, using either ‘standard’ or herbal/natural medicines, because Cad and Hora taught him. I know he can play holochess because of Obi-Dad and Mama Ti, and cards because of Xann and the folks at Aruk’s bar, and he’s learning how to cheat at cards from Quin, because of course he is. I don’t know why he likes stars so much, but I know Obi-Wan takes him stargazing, sometimes. He likes getting his hair brushed out because Obi-Dad and Boba and Cody do it for him and it’s relaxing. He knows Vapaad because Mace decided to teach him, Tusken from A’sharad, Chaulis because of Nihrik and Reyvahl, and Mando’a from Bes’laar and Wolffe and Cody and Boba and Satine. I don’t know why he likes reading so much or why he so desperately wants to be published in the Archives, but I know Jocasta has encouraged that greatly. He likes lullabies because of Shaak and Obi, hot chocolate especially because of Shaak and also Hora, and operates under the assumption that he can get away with murder because apparently it’s true.

To make one (1) soft boy, it takes a village, not a Batman.

Honestly, a lot of his growth and development has come from interacting with all my partners on this blog, and I couldn’t be more thankful. You’ve all helped bring him to life and develop this intricate canon and flesh him out and just, wow.

But enough of that.

The biggest inspiration for Braig? My dojo. I’ve been training in various martial arts for fifteen-plus years now, and we’ve always been harsh on our traditionalism. We actually had the oldest living student of Yagi Meitoku visit us not so very long ago who’d been training for sixty years (Not sixty years old, he has been training for sixty years), and he said, of all the schools he’s been to, ours had the most similar energy to Meitoku Daisensei’s, so that was really cool for us; Our grandmaster of kung fu (who’s also grandmaster of the Shaolin Fist in Asia) has said that our school has kept our forms closest to the patterns/ways he first taught it decades ago, which is also really cool for a few reasons. We’re HUGE on maintaining tradition, right down to the way we take our jackets off (that’s right, you can take your jacket off wrong). It’s pretty obvious that the Jedi are heavily, HEAVILY influenced by East-Asian ideals. So I thought it only make sense that I put dojo culture into this kid. The self-imposed perfectionism over his forms and kata, the dedication he has to his tasks, the way he tries to present himself to the general public, how he handles and treats weapons, how he rarely if EVER crosses his arms, how he fixes his posture, the playfighting he does with his close friends, hell, even how he stands when idle (a loose approximation of ‘parade rest’) all comes directly from my dojo. His philosophies are MASSIVELY dojo oriented. Even the fact that he just wants to keep people safe comes from something my Hanshi told us years and years ago at a Ni Nen Keiko that really stuck with me for some reason: “The strong must serve the weak, not the other way around.” That is a MAJOR influence for how Braig views the world and his role in it. So if you talk to him about philosophies, or ask him for an Aesop’s-Fables-esque story, he’s probably gonna say something I picked up over at the dojo.

I teach there, too, I teach tiny children and pre-teens. So a lot of baby Braig’s ways of expressing himself comes from them, they’re how I understand tiny children operate and thus are my references for writing a tiny child. That, and my brothers (also dojo rats like me).

Honestly, I think that’s why I never lose muse for Braig. I go to the dojo at least three times a week, every week (perhaps two on weeks when we’re closed for long weekends), and every time I’m there, if he’s been fading, this boy comes right back, because that’s him. This is going to sound majorly cliche, and it’s not really a character, but he’s been inspired by the dojo spirit, and it’s constantly being renewed, so, so is he.

So, tl;dr, he’s not really inspired by any specific characters, as far as his OOC creation goes. Or maybe he’s been inspired by a bunch of them. Depends on how you read it. But I’d say he was inspired more by lessons, and philosophies, and interactions with the many people who have come together to shape him and his life into what it is, now.

Oh, and, of course, the light of my life and my best friend, @ectochoir / Rodi.

Blame her, not me.

#storygiver #&& give the sun a head start; ooc #long post //#&& as best i can; answers

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