#it wasn't much and part of me wants to be self-deprecating but also yknow what. i'm gonna be proud of myself actually

[fridayyy-13th]

guess who just wrote for the first time in two weeks 😎

[floralovebot]

If you had to give Garth a new friend group who would it be?

that's rough.....

because honestly part of his charm is that he's extremely maidenless... well not maidenless he Is pulling hot babes left and right but friends?? ooh boy,,,

i wouldn't want to take away the fab five from him, despite how poorly they treat him at times. However, i do think it would've been really cool to see him with the new teen titans! i completely understand why he wasn't with them at that point, like i get it. but just from a character relations perspective, i do think this would've been a natural next step if he wasn't so self-deprecating (and busy in atlantis). dick and donna were consistently the nicest to him out of the fab five so he gets to keep some of that previous dynamic. wally is also there but,, roy isn't!!! no offense to roy i like him on his own but he was a big reason why garth left in the first place so. yknow.

but anyway, garth does have good relationships with kori, garfield, and victor. and i guess raven too but we don't really see that,, like ever. he's obviously not close to them, but they're not mean to him. which is a big thing for garth! kori seems to hold him in high regard too, at least after he becomes tempest, so it would've been nice to see their relationship actually progress to the point where she trusts him like that. like in the titans (1999) issue 19 where she says she trusts him with her life. like. what the fuck!! there are also multiple issues where garth and garfield have a little friendship going on (that one panel where garfield yells at arthur gives me so much life adghlj). and there are a few cute moments between garth and victor.

i really don't think he'd become like,, besties or family with any of them, but if i really had to give him More friends, i think they would've been the safest bet.

within the confines of underwater,,, letifos Should come back. idc if they're dating or not, but she should just always be there. for Me, personally <3 i think it'd be hilarious if tula and dolphin also came back at the same time. it'd never happen but who cares. the four of them can be in some weird polycule together aldhg

my second hot take is that garth and koryak should've become besties

[i-write-shakespeare-not-disney]

Dare I ask: the LS prequels?

Ahhh yes. Those monsters lmfao.

Okay. So Placebo Effect, I believe was split into four.

1- the one that's posted and introduced Dylan and the dynamic at the shirogane household.

2- seeing the fighting get bigger, seeing him get more involved in dance, realizing Dylan was already going after someone else, the fight that gets Shiro his nose scar which is when Keith starts to get closer to him, finding Karina, and the adoption offer from the Shiroganes that he rejects.

3- Starting in college, meeting, befriending, and falling for Roland. Also around the time Shiro meets Adam (I believe? My timeline might be skewed and this might have gone in part 2) and Keith doesn't like him because he just started having a steady, good relationship with his brother and now some four-eyed motherfucker is messing it up but whatever, Shiro's happy so fine. Also, this is when it details what his relationship with Roland was like. I wanted to paint it out to be really nice and awkward and cute, only tainted by times when they had to hide or when Roland got anxious about taking new steps because he wasn't ready. It would end when they break up and Roland insists he wasn't gay and Keith just confused him.

4- This would detail that time Keith tells Lance about when it seemed anyone who was interested in him wanted to hide him or saw him as a one night stand, when he struggled to enjoy dance with Roland still a part of it and taking the position of captain despite the fact that Keith had been there longer, and all the exhaustion that came from the self-deprecation Keith felt with everyone he slept with. It would end with him noticing eyes following him at a party and thinking here we go again, before he goes up to the dude who's at least pretty cute, and offers him a beer.

MEANWHILE Lance's prequel is a lot blurrier, but also broken into 4 parts.

1- this would start with Lance finding out about Allura's sickness, like freshman year as well. He's still writing at this time, so a lot of is spent making poems about his own emotions and things he wishes he could tell Allura. Again, my timeline is a little wonky, so bear with me here. This part would focus more on his pining and the friendship he has with Allura and Hunk and Pidge. It would go into sophomore year where he meets Kinkaid, the cool junior jock who's really nice and cool and it's kind of flattering that he thinks Lance is smart, but Lance just really wants to be like him lololol yknow

2- This one would time skip to senior year, during which I think is when Veronica is dating someone who everyone thinks is really cool until Lance notices bruises on her and finds out the truth. I think by this time Marco has also already had the twins which put its own strain on the family. This one would explore Lance's family more, plus show how he puts his emotions into his poetry and how he helps his sister. He would also go to his friends to vent when he feels useless, and its summer after senior year that he and Allura finally start dating, and I'd like to think it culminates from how patient he is with Allura and how he brings her snacks after hospital visits and how much he cares about his family, and how beautiful his words are.

3- This is freshman year of college, detailing his time at his college with Allura and how they visit Hunk and Pidge all the time, and just how the relationship is. Little tidbits of memories that were sprinkled into Lovesick, like braiding her hair, finding her post-it notes, reading together, etc. It would also highlight the uglier parts, like arguments they had if allura ever talked about what would happen after she was gone, or if she had a bad hospital day and Lance was trying too hard to be optimistic about it. This one would of course, end with her death. The beach day, the hospitalization, the sandwich, the crying, the blurriness through the funeral. The rest of sophomore year is blurry and weird and empty. He doesn't write anymore.

4- This would start at that first anniversary. When he's completely miserable. Hunk and Pidge want to help him feel better so they try taking him out during the summer, and he finally agrees at some point, and there he meets someone completely opposite of Allura. And she's flirting, and he's in pain, and he's numb and hollow, and he wants to feel something. So he sleeps with her, and he feels horrible, and he cries when she's gone and he doesn't tell Hunk or Pidge, and tries to write because he's finally feeling so much, but nothing comes out because it's all her and he can't see her without feeling horrible all over again. He tells his friends eventually. But he's feeling things again, so that's something. He meets another girl, gets too drunk, and the same thing happens. He swears he'll stop, because he feels like he's spitting on Allura's memory, and he believes it. Junior year starts and he meets Nyma in a group project and explains it very briefly to her. He just tells her how he doesn't think he'd meet anyone he could like in that way, how lonely it is, but how gross he feels if he indulges in the physicality of it. She proposes a deal. She's sick of scrolling Tinder, he wants to feel something without feeling like an asshole for not pursuing more with those girls, she wouldn't expect anything from it, he gets to not feel so lonely or so gross. They become friends with benefits, though Hunk and Pidge aren't sure it's a great idea. This one ends with hunk and pidge talking about a party that Lance doesn't wanna go to until they insist because they wanna get trashed and he can be their DD. They don't relent until Lance agrees, and he imagines it'll just be another boring night, and he can call Nyma whenever he gets back.