#it's cos he finds it easier to take care of other people than he does to take care of himself

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General headcanons for Alfred as a boyfriend (SFW)

Here's my first actual post on this blog, hehe... I can't find the ask but someone requested some Alfred headcanons, so here are my rambles about what I think he's like as a boyfriend!

He’s honestly not the most traditionally romantic person. Your relationship is more like friends who make out sometimes. But he does have his own little ways of showing you he loves you!

He’ll put together playlists of songs that remind him of you. They’re mostly loose connections, like maybe a song mentions your eye color, or the lyrics remind him of a date you went on together, or it just sounds romantic and makes him wanna kiss you. He likes to sit with you while you listen (to every single song), and he interrupts the songs a bit to explain why he chose them.

“This one had me thinking what if we were dancing in a ballroom together, and out of nowhere, bam! Zombies bust in. The door crashes to the ground! Our dance turns into one of those cool fighting scenes with the—oh, this part reminded me of the time I woke up early and you were about to fall off the bed. You had a cute bedhead.”

(You have no idea what the lyrics are at this point.)

Dates with him are pretty casual, more like “hanging out” than anything fancy. Maybe you stay at home and watch movies/play games, or you go out for dinner at a local diner, or you go do awful karaoke together, or you go and prank a friend together.

He’s happy as long as he’s with you. Bonus if there’s food and/or drink.

He occasionally takes you out to a more traditional restaurant and dresses for the occasion. They’re usually expensive, too. The food isn’t his preference (too complicated for his palate), but if it makes you happy, he’s all for dealing with it for just one night.

His primary love languages are acts of service and quality time. He’s always doing what he can to help you out (and feel proud of himself in the process). Whether he helps you run errands, runs a bath for you ahead of time, or fluffs your pillow before you get in bed, it’s all because he wants to make your life easier!

He gets a little jealous if you ever spend time with your shared friends without him, or if you spend more time with others than him.

He’s so excited if you take interest in any of his hobbies. Movies? He’ll ask if you want to co-write a script with him. (He’s very relaxed about what exactly ends up in the script.) Archaeology? He has so many random facts to dump on you, and he’ll be super impressed by any knowledge you have on it. Conspiracy theories? Time to watch a bunch of documentaries! He enjoys them despite their flaws, but lets you know exactly when something is false and what actually happened.

He tries to take interest in your hobbies, too, even if he doesn’t understand what you’re talking about. It could be the most boring thing and he’d still listen and ask you questions about it. If it makes you happy, he wants to know all about it.

Pet names from him consist of things like babe, dude (💀), honey, occasionally sweetie, (jokingly… mostly) prince or princess. It’s all over the place. He’ll call you honey and dude back-to-back sometimes.

He loves debating if you’re comfortable with it! But be warned, he gets very heated about certain topics. His sense of justice is important to him. Otherwise, he’s usually not serious about these debates and doesn’t care who wins.

He tries to keep things light and doesn’t usually let people see his more serious side. He’ll open up to you more over time, however. It’s really him letting a wall down and allowing himself to get closer to you.

Every now and then, he has days where he’s a lot quieter and calmer than usual. He just wants to relax, stay on the couch with you and watch movies or simply chat. Maybe a movie chattering in the background as he tells you about his childhood. He doesn’t try so hard to keep up this energetic, heroic persona.

He’s right back to normal the next day like nothing happened.

Likes to annoy you for fun. Not in a mean-spirited way. He just thinks your responses are cute and has poor impulse control. Poking your cheeks or ruffling your hair or playing an obnoxious song loudly on the stereo while he dances. But he’ll back off if you’re genuinely upset with him. He means no harm.

He loves if you’re willing to play along with whatever he gets up to. Maybe he’s decided he’s going to try and vacuum the whole house while doing a handstand on the vacuum. You can hold onto his legs to help him stay balanced.

This man is very impulsive and has a tendency to get himself hurt. Random bruises all over his body or a cut along his forearm. He bounces back easily, and doesn’t want to fuss over it, but he lowkey likes if you baby him about it. He’ll always say how it’s not a big deal and he can take it, but his heart does this little flutter when you show concern, and even more if you force him to take better care of himself.

He burns himself in the kitchen and you force him to run it under cold water. He’s swooning inside.

He likes to gossip about others, especially over breakfast. He can’t help it; he’s just nosy, and he always has an idea of what’s going on and how he can help out. Huge bonus if you gossip with him!

He loves to feed you, but the majority of the food he brings for you is burgers or tubs of ice cream. He likes to experiment with the burgers’ toppings and seasonings, but they’re all burgers nonetheless.

Every now and then, he does plan some big romantic endeavor. It’s like a surprise. You never know when it’s coming… You wake up one morning and find out he’s booked a week long cruise, your bedroom is filled with balloons, and there’s enough breakfast food on the table to feed an army.

He does this thing sometimes (often) where he swoops in and has to save you. A puddle on the ground? No need to fear! He picks you up and swiftly carries you over it. The safest place for you is in his arms. He’ll even lay down and let you use him as a bridge if you want.

A suspicious penny on the sidewalk? LOOK OUT, IT MIGHT BE A BOMB! Let HIM step on it before you get blown up!

He steps on it. Nothing happens. Better safe than sorry!

If you’re the more independent type, that won’t stop him from trying. He just wants to keep you safe and have you appreciate his efforts. Being disinterested or resistant will just make him try harder.

Says cheesy stuff like “happy wife, happy life” unironically. He’s also the type to use terrible pickup lines to flirt with you. Totally unaware of how bad they are until you start laughing.

He also doesn’t care that they’re bad. He’s just having fun.

Loves to give you his clothes to wear. Seriously. You want one of his hoodies? Try six of them.

You complain when one stops smelling like him so he puts it on, works out, then gives it back to you like :D! Fixed the problem!

He takes so many pictures of you guys. Videos, too. His phone storage is eaten up by it. His favorite thing is to take selfies together. Usually with some silly filter. Or an even sillier caption.

“me and the babe out shopping” and it’s a picture of you, holding a piece of fruit with the dog ears filter

He’s not the most physically affectionate, but he always gives you morning kisses and especially kisses before leaving the house. He also loves carrying you around (mostly bridal style) in his arms for no reason other than he can. A hand on your back, another on your thighs, your head pressed against his chest. He loves it.

He loves knowing you find him physically attractive! He worries sometimes about being too overweight, so any reassurance that you like his body helps. If you think he’s hot, and you’re hot yourself, that must mean he definitely is.

Has a tendency to call you hot, but he’ll call you other things if it makes you uncomfortable.

Occasionally brags about you and how lucky he is. Not as often as you might think. Though he gets oddly competitive if anyone acts like their partner is better than you and starts spouting whatever he can so everyone knows you’re the absolute best. No competition.

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Albedo Headcanons

A/n: Since I don't have much to post rn, I decided to go back to some of my old headcanons that I didn't publish and expand on them. These ones are all the way back from 2022 even, but I'm still happy with my portrayal of Albedo lol. Hope you all enjoy them too! I did work on these a little more, but I didn't take in consideration all the new events with Albedo after 2022. Keep that in mind.

Contents: General platonic and romantic headcanons, Albedo x GN!Reader, fluff, dash of angst if you squint really hard, self indulgent, possible grammar mistakes

General headcanons:

- Albedo is not a person who really indulges much, or at all, in friendships and relationships. He can understand the appeal, but he simply does not care as much as an average individual. He has his work to get to and his research to keep going, and the continuously taxing process of keeping relationships in general are tiring for him

- He prefers his solitude much more than any other company. He may not be in love with people much, but he is in love with the trees, the branches, the snow falling and the frozen lakes of Dragonspine - every new day means a new love for him, and he cannot wait to do his homework on anything and everything, even things he understands fully now. One thing you can equate this love of his to is the snow of Dragonspine itself, countless snowflakes hugging the lands, buried deep in crevices and cracks, trying to get to the center of the world.

- Since he has researched so much, even the smallest of new discoveries are very exciting for him, it’s those small joys that show his inner being through the smile that lights his eyes and makes the corners of them crinkle.

- Due to his drawn back nature, and his origins, he isn't so well met with emotions, so those are one of his many interests and curiosities.  He is well mannered, he knows how to maneuver a situation, but when he looks back at it, he can't help but feel distant and confused - why did they get so excited over such a small thing? Why did she blush so easily? Why did that boy get so scared by some wind? Why did he find himself observing the contours of someone’s face when he didn’t know them? Why did he wish to sketch them?..etc 

- He doesn't think he feels sorrow/regret like the others, he isn't like the others that much is certain. Sometimes when he is alone in some comfortable space he will just stare somewhere and wonder.... how would have he turned out if he just...felt more.. What does true happiness without limitations feel like? What is freedom? Does it come without regrets? In those moments he understands what sadness is. All these thoughts make him feel so heavy, his chest is heavy and tight and his heart feels lonely. At times he thinks what would happen if one of his close co workers were to suffer an injury or quit their work for greener pastures, the field of alchemy certainly wasn’t any easy one for everyone. He knows he’d miss their presence.

- There are many more complex questions that plague him late at nights, only to shrug them off like a coat in the morning in favor of his Alchemist coat 

- This all being said, getting close to him is more on the difficult side. Unless you are willing to pull a little more work than him and frequently check in, he simply wouldn't know how to act. He does his best where he sees he can, though. He isn’t emotionless, just a bit clueless.

 - He would gladly help you, and guide you in the field of Alchemy in case you are curious about it, although he would much rather point you in the direction of a "starter mentor" first, before he offers himself as a mentor. It's not that he's underestimating you, but he feels as if giving you a good, solid start with a teacher of an "average" Alchemist would be a much easier way into the field of alchemy. In a way, you could say he’s underestimating himself in handing you the knowledge he has in a way you’ll understand. 

- Klee is one person he feels most close to. Sucrose is a capable lady, smart and close to Albedo, but Klee is someone who simply touches Albedo's heart in more ways than one. He wishes to keep her close and protect her, she feels familiar to him and gives him more sense of grounding to this world even if the responsibility of taking care of her wasn’t something he initially took on by choice

- That being mentioned he definitely has great patience with her, and slowly, even if she is not really able to understand, she is teaching him to feel

Romantic:

- Everyone knows the great Alchemist is also a great artist - everyone who has gazed upon his works would say so with 100 percent certainty paired with a couple more flattering words. Yet Albedo would shrug those compliments off and politely counter their words; a simple thank you does it

- He does not really see much of sentiment in those pieces of artwork as much as he does in the art he did of you

- Those are his favorite pieces. He loves to capture every detail of you whenever he can - the way your nose scrunches, the way your brow quirks, the way you lay down after a long day, the way the wind blows through your hair, the way your hands are after having them soaked in water for too long or when they’re cold..

- He is still quite reluctant about initiating contact, especially the physical one due to his lack of proper experience on the topic. Most information he has was read from books or heard from his fellow Knights, but none worth mentioning or trying in practice in interactions with you

- So it takes much, much for him to warm up to the ideas, you will have to initiate things slowly, so he can warm up to those touches initiated by you as well but he does his own part in reciprocating and returning those small affections

- The best ways of bonding together is babysitting Klee honestly; drawing, searching nature for anything of interest..etc. So that being said his love languages are quality time, after that it would be acts of service and after that words of affirmation. 

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[vasyandii]

HELLO! ^^

I’m a huge sucker for romance and relationship dynamic type questions so I do have some questions about VernAM (I believe that’s the right way)

Not the questions have to be answered, as I believe I have too many! But here’s my top three

1. In one of the little comics you did I believe AM talked about how he refused to give himself a body heat because of the concern he would produce and odour and this is where this question blooms from, does AM have any insecurities when it comes to his human body, or a fear that he doesn’t meet Vernons expectations? Or that she’ll find something un attractive or gross about him?

2. Whats their favourite thing about each other? It could be a personality trait, a skill, a body part, or say a little habit they tend to do?

3. Are they more dog people, cat people, or some other species like fish or reptilians or do they not prefer animals at all (if they had the ability to adopt pets)

Thank you so much! I love your art so very much and gain lots of inspiration from you to grow better in not just art but in educating myself in different cultures and ethnicities, please remember to drink water and I hope you have a wonderful day! Thank you once again! ^_^

Howdy Romeo! I'm happy I was able to inspire you in some way! I'd be happy to answer all your questions! Thank you for the ask! 💞💞

VernonAM 🏺🖥️

1.) Does AM have any insecurities when it comes to his human body?

Obviously, yes. It's AM's first time on Earth physically, of course he would have insecurities. However, it's not fully because he wants to meet Vernon's expectations. It's the fear of BEING.

(This is gonna lean into some confusing type shit so bear with me. I briefly touched upon it in the second question of this post)

When AM was given a physical, tangible body, there's now a HIM that can suddenly be held accountable for his actions and that makes him uncomfortable. So being aware his body isn't as mighty as him (the complex), AM tries to combat it by removing variables that can be prone to criticism even if Vernon doesn't mind.

Look at it this way; usually people act differently online than they do in real life, right? That's usually because there's often a disconnect with their actions. This discrepancy largely stems from the perceived disconnect between their online actions and their real-world identities. When interacting online, there is often no face or tangible form that can be directly traced back to the individual. This sense of anonymity can lead to a significant reduction in accountability.

As a result, individuals—particularly those who may not be well-adjusted or who possess mean-spirited tendencies—feel emboldened to say and do things they would never consider in face-to-face interactions. They exploit this lack of immediate consequences, engaging in behaviors that are often harmful, disrespectful, or downright cruel - Much like AM, who only just recently acquired a body. (I hope that makes sense ;0;)

2.) What's their favorite thing about each other?

I'll categorize these by personality traits, skill, body part, and habit!

Vernon likes AM because of his hatred/sass because it allows her to have an outlet for her morbid curiosity along with an entertaining conversation. She doesn't find his skills her favorites because that's just him, she believes AM doesn't have skills as a man. Her favorite body part is AM's eyes, he's easier to read as a man. His pupils dilate significantly when he looks at her and AM doesn't even know. A habit she finds endearing from AM is him holding onto the end of her shirt with his hand and following her around wherever she goes.

As for AM, Vernon's take no prisoners attitude is his favorite part of her personality. Of course AM also enjoys the moments when she's caring towards him, but that's something expected. His favorite skill is how good of a liar Vernon is. She could tell him something so outlandish with such a straight face that AM would consider believing it; it's like she believes the lie herself. His favorite part of Vernon's body is her lips, AM likes how soft and warm they are, and how they're shaped. A habit he enjoys is that she would pace around the space they're sharing when she's talking, AM just likes watching her walk, I guess.

3.) Which animals do they prefer, if any?

In regards to if they're cat or dog people; Vernon is a dog person, to her they're easier to train. AM would probably like cats since they do as they please.

For other animals, They would be a Reptile and Bird household xD. I could see Vernon owning a bearded dragon or any cold blooded reptile while AM has like a cool African Grey Parrot :)

But in reality I don't think these two should have access to animals lmao

Aaand that's all for now :3 if you'd like me to clarify anything, feel free to ask! Thank you for reading!

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Moonwood Part 4

|Part 1|

Just in case Steve somehow missed the fact that Schiller takes its basketball team very seriously, there’s a big plaque above the gymnasium door the proudly proclaims he’s in the home of the Schiller High Timberwolves, state champions!

The memo about the coach only drafting moonie guys doesn’t seem to have gotten around because Friday afternoon tryouts come and it looks like every guy in school who can tie his own shoes has had the same idea as Steve and has come out to try and earn their spot on the bench - even some guys who look like they can’t tie their shoes. He does see a good handful of moonwood guys though - including two of the guys who tried to jump him. 

The number of guys he’s got to compete against doesn’t make Steve too nervous, but the amount of people who seem to have shown up just to watch makes him a little jittery as he leaves the locker room and heads into the gym. He saw at least a dozen kids sitting up in the bleachers on his way in and there’s bound to be more by now. The bleachers were never empty at a game back in Hawkins, but everyone knew that had more to do with the limited number of thrills to find in their small town on a friday night than school spirit. It’s different when he knows people are watching because they expect the team to be good. Better than good - state champions!

Steve warms up and joins a couple of the guys who are shooting hoops at one end of the court, showing off while they covertly scope out the competition. It helps actually. Once he’s got a ball in his hands and has made a couple of shots it’s easier to relax and have fun. He makes most of the shots he takes, unlike some. This kid Hank is clearly the best though. Guy is easily six feet tall and sinks shots from half court like it’s easy, but Steve’s far from the worst. He can totally do this.

It’s fifteen after when a shrill whistle finally interrupts the sound of balls thudding against the hardwood. Steve tosses Hank the ball and turns towards the sound, and his heart skips a beat when Billy strides onto the court, flanked by Dave and Chet. Billy stops at about half court and blows the whistle between his lips again as if he doesn’t already command the attention of everyone in the gym, and Chet sets a box full of red and blue numbered jerseys on the ground at his feet.

“Alright listen up closely guys cause I won’t repeat myself. If you don’t already know I’m Chet, co-captain, and this here is Billy,” Chet gestures to Billy with a sardonic twist to his lips. Cause everybody there knows who Billy Hargrove is. “He’s team captain. There are only a few spots open on the team and a lot of you so come over and take a jersey.”

There’s an immediate scramble for the box. Steve doesn’t get what the rush is, but there’s something about the energy in the room that has him pushing forward without thinking and elbowing his way into the crush to make sure he can snag a jersey. It turns out to be a good thing, because the box empties and there are six guys left empty handed looking like they might cry.

 “Red team you’re home court, blue team you’re the visitors side. Hopefully we don’t have to tell you which team you’re on.” Chet instructs, and there’s some nervous laughter. Steve pulls his jersey over his head - he’s B3.  He’s excited to see that Hank is also on the blue team. They’re giving each other high five’s and clapping each other on the back as one of the guys who got left out, clears their throat and asks what the rest of them should do.

Steve’s mouth falls open in shock when Billy scoffs and sneers, “I don’t know, jerk off? I don’t care what you do. Scram.”

Billy being an ass isn’t the shocking bit, it’s the way the extra guys actually start to leave and nobody stops them.

“Wait a minute. They don’t even get to try out?!” pops out of Steve’s mouth before he can stop himself, and it’s like darts to the chest when blue eyes snap to him and Billy stares at him like he’s trying to peel back his skin.

“They either didn’t want it bad enough or weren’t strong enough to fight for it. So no they don’t get to try out. But you’re welcome to give up your shot if you want to.”

Steve can feel six pairs of hopeful eyes shift towards him. He grits his teeth and guilty does not meet any of their gazes. His gaze snaps back to Billy when the other teen speaks again, full of smug delight. Steve wants to be there, too much to give it up to someone else and Billy seems to relish that. His gaze is too intense and too probing.

“Any more questions Princess, or can we get on with the next test?”

Yeah Steve’s got questions. And he’s gonna ask them too cause fuck Billy Hargrove.

“What do you mean test? And where’s the coach? I’m not here to get my chain yanked Hargrove.”

Hank gives Steve a look, obviously shocked that he has the nerve to go up against Billy but kind of low key impressed too. Steve doesn’t get it. Yeah Billy’s built and he’s top of the food chain, but Hank’s not small. Six foot, wide shouldered, and muscled, Steve doesn’t even need to ask if he’s from moonwood. He just has that look. Steve’s starting to get used to it and the more he does the weirder it is to him that everyone acts like they’re scared to cross Hargrove. 

Sweaty palms and weird heart palpitations aside, Steve is not afraid of Billy Hargrove. But the dark glower Billy fixes on him at being challenged warns him that maybe he should be.

“Aww, don’t say that. You’re gonna break Billy’s heart Harrington.” Dave teases, and a couple of the other guys snicker. Those watching in the bleachers follow their cue and the gymnasium buzzes with amused sounds.

“Shut up Dave.” Billy grumbles without venom. He saves all of it for Steve as he snaps out, “Lap-ups, now! All of you pipsqueaks. Anyone who stops before I blow the whistle can hand over their jersey and take their sorry ass off my court.”

There’s some groaning but the guys immediately start shuffling towards the boundary lines to start their laps around the court. Steve hesitates for a fraction of a moment, caught in Billy’s gaze. Billy stares back at him unblinking, daring, and Steve thinks for a fraction of a second that his eyes don’t look human anymore. It’s like staring into the gaze of a predator. It sends a shiver down his spine.

He’s snapped out of the moment by Hank’s hand landing on his shoulder, the taller boy leaning close as he urges Steve to come on, explaining, “the team captains always run the first half of try-outs. It’s tradition.”

Steve frowns. It seems odd to him, especially for a winning team, for the coach to be absent for half of the try-out but what does he know? The Hawkins Tigers never won a regional title, let alone a state championship. 

The red and blue teams run laps around the court. Dave passes each of them a ball to dribble under the visitors basket and Chet catches their rebounds at the home basket. He passes them to Billy, who passes them back to Dave in between his shouts for them to pick up the pace or stop dribbling like grandmothers. 

Steve and Hank fall into stride next to each other, until one or the other has to pull ahead to catch a ball or take a shot. But they always fall back into step after, and Hank makes conversation with him. It makes it easier to ignore the burning in his legs, and the eyes he can feel digging into his back, so that Steve can just focus on showing off his control of the ball and making his layups. 

He’s a cool guy Hank. Laid back and confident with none of the usual highschool awkwardness. He kinda reminds Steve of his grandpa, which makes more sense when Hank admits he’s lived in Moonwood his entire life and has never been anywhere else.

“Really? Like not even on vacation?”

Hank shrugs his big shoulders and grins.

“What for? Got a beach if I want to swim and a whole national park on my doorstep. Plus it’s hard, you know, for folks like us planning around the cycle.”

Steve has no idea what he’s talking about or what he means by ‘folks like us’, and he doesn’t get the chance to ask because a ball comes flying towards Hank fast and hard. The other boy just barely manages to catch it, but the loud way it THUDs against his chest makes Steve wince in sympathy. Hank stumbles and his head snaps up, and Steve swears an honest to god growl rumbles out of his throat as his eyes lock with Billy.

“Stay alert ladies!” Billy mocks before he brings the whistle to his mouth and blows it sharply for everyone’s attention. “Alright game of knock-out, red against blue. Follow me!”

Billy sets off toward center court without looking to see if anyone will follow - knowing they will.

Hank mutters something under his breath that Steve doesn’t quite catch but it sounds like ‘alpha, dick-head’.

They don’t get much chance to talk after that. Billy announces that only the winning team will make the cut and continue on with the tryout.

“That’s not fair Hargrove, they’ve got Hank!” one of the guys on the red team complains. It’s this big lunkhead named Brian, one of the guys who tried to shove Steve into a locker. His pal Virgil nudges him in the side and shout whispers for everyone to hear.

“Yeah but they also have the pipsqueak. Harrington will be an easy out.” 

“Not as easy as your mother Sanchez. I’d watch how I was running my mouth if I were you.” Billy drawls in reply. Not even a snap or a bark, but still there’s something in it, like a growl, that makes the hair on Steve’s arms raise and his throat feel tight like there’s a hand squeezing the back of his neck. And he can tell it’s not just him by the way Virgil and Brian immediately clam up and avert their eyes. 

The game starts, one player from each team taking a shot from the key line at the same time until one of them makes a basket. It’s up to the next player on their team to try and out hoop the opposing player and knock him out. The last team standing wins.

Steve tries to just have fun with it, but pretty soon it’s a whirlwhind. Steve’s ears are full of the sound of pounding feet and his frantic heartbeat. A strange electric rush fills his blood as the competition heats up, the stands alive with cheers and heckling as the game becomes a chaotic scramble to try and stay one step ahead of the guy in front of him. It’s dizzying. Steve can barely focus and Billy doesn’t help.

If it’s not - “What was that? Come on Harrington! My little sister could have made that shot with her eyes closed.”

Then it’s - “You’re damn lucky Reeves has got his head up his ass today Pretty Boy. You’d be out if you were shooting against anyone else!”

Fuck you, man. Steve thinks more than once. Nearly says a couple of times. Has to bite his tongue to keep the words in when they are three blue and two red and his first shot falls off the rim and he’s a hair too slow on the rebound.

“You’re out!” Billy snaps before the red player’s ball has even made it completely through the net. “You deserved that Harrington. You call that a hustle?”

Steve calls this cruel and unusual punishment actually. He has sweated through his shirt, his face is flushed, and his chest is itchy with heat. He’s got the strangest urge to march up to Hargrove and sink his teeth into him.

He can just imagine his mom’s humiliation if she gets called to the school because ‘Stevie bit another boy’ like this is the second grade all over again. And then he remembers that he’s eighteen and technically an adult and he could get sued or worse, and keeps his teeth to himself.

Even without him the blue team wins, largely thanks to Hank. While the rest of his teammates celebrate, Steve can’t help but feel a little glum. The hour is ending, the coach never showed and he knows there’s no way in hell he’s making the cut. Not after the way Billy rode his ass the entire time. He’s kinda bummed about it because despite everything he had fun. It was challenging, but in a good way. Like it made him wake up or something. There’s something about this place that makes Steve feel more alive.

After the red players have filed off the court in defeat, Billy, Dave, and Chet have the blue team line up and congratulate them on their win.

“Really good job guys. We saw some great stuff out there today.” Chet praises and the tension in the room releases. Steve can feel the way the other guys start to relax, chests puffing out with pride and trading tired grins.

“The good news is, all of you are moving on.” Dave leads and Steve jolts. He can’t believe he heard that right. Does this mean he’s on the team?

“The bad news is that means you’re going to have to spend a week smelling each other's farts.” Billy adds dryly and some of the guys chuckle.

Steve frowns in confusion. He doesn’t understand. The try-out isn’t over? And what does he mean they’ll have to spend a week smelling each other’s farts? 

As if he can hear Steve’s brain racing Hank leans down and whispers, “The basketball team goes on a retreat at the beginning of the year. It’s like boot camp. Coach will finalize the roster after the retreat.”

“They let the basketball team take a whole week off school to go camping?” Steve asks a little weirded out. It just seems unusual to him, but this wouldn’t be the first example of special treatment he’s witnessed the basketball team getting.

Hank nods.

“The volleyball and soccer teams too. Though the soccer teams go in spring. Don’t worry. Most of the teachers will give you your assignments in advance so you don’t fall behind.”

Steve supposes that makes sense since it was early in the semester. And he supposes when the athletic teams are actually good, the school sees it as an investment in the students' futures. He’s willing to bet there is a lot of scholarship money to go around for state champions.

“Basketball camp is mandatory for the entire team, not just the rookies.” Chet explains to the group. “Dave is passing around a permission slip. Your parents need to sign it for you to get on the bus.”

“The bus leaves at seven A.M. sharp Sunday morning. If you’re not on it, tough titties.” Billy finishes. 

Sunday morning…right after the bonfire.

|PART 5|

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[gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot]

for the oc ask game teehee:

5, 12, 13, 15, 19, 26, 30, 32, 77, 94 :3

5. What is something they like to do together?

Hiking, rock/mountain climbing, swimming, working out in the gym together (weight lifting most of the time), being lazy on the common room's couch together while reading or watching films, gaming (fighting games like Tekken or Street Fighter mostly, sometimes co ops with Soap and Gaz), doing paperwork

Christine tried to teach him how to surf and deep diving, but Simon wasn't exactly a fan (he liked diving though. He just doesn't like not controlling his surroundings). He is more inclined to nap in the heat under an umbrella, and then grumble when she lies on his back, soaking wet. On the other hand he enjoys her company when he is immersed in his woodworking or tending to his knives, she takes the opportunity to read or study vocabulary, enjoying greatly seeing him sweaty and sometimes cursing under his breath.

12. What is something their S/O does that makes them flustered?

The moment Simon is completely comfortable being maskless around her, and then in various states of nakedness and semi nakedness, and is also completely comfortable with touch, he discovers he can learn to tolerate his scars. He never thought about them as something other than consequences of his job, of his past and his own recklessness sometimes.

He hid himself from the world out of habit, to avoid the pity in the eyes of people that knew, to avoid the fear, scorn or disgust in the face of people that didn't. He couldn't give less of a shit about what anyone thought, but it was easier. That way, he wouldn't have to look at them too and remember.

But Christine likes to kiss them. Each and every single one. Or just trace them with her fingers, until she learns by heart where each one is. At first he grumbled and huffed about it, mumbling something about them 'being disgusting/ugly/unsettling' and she just said they meant that he survived (which is something he told her about her own scars, so...) and that she is eternally grateful for that. So he slowly learns to accept that maybe he is worthy of good things.

Contrary to what it would seem, it's very easy to get Christine flustered. Simon looks in her direction? Flustered. Their knees touch while in a briefing? Flustered. He casually leans over her to grab something? Flustered. He whispers something in her ear? Flustered and melted.

She feels certainly pathetic for being so desperate for his touch, but Simon just laps it up. He enjoys it greatly, the cocky bastard. So if he can get away with any stolen touch, even in public (but NEVER in a serious situation, like on duty or in the field), just to see that pretty blush and the way she looks up at him, wide eyed, he's down for it.

Also, the pet names. There's something in the way he calls her 'lovie', 'love', 'doll', 'sweetheart' or similar, with that voice of his, even before they're together, that just makes her melt. She knows it's a very British thing, but she melts all the same, like the fool she is.

13. What is something they find hot about their S/O?

What they don't would be a shorter answer lol... But they coincide in the same thing that might be a bit controversial.

They absolutely love seeing the other in action. Beating someone, training, shooting, using their knives, whatever.

Ghost finds incredibly hot that Riot is not a defenseless princess, and that she absolutely could kill him. He is certain that she'd might have a bad time trying, but that she'd ultimately succeed, and, for him, having a partner that is capable of taking care of herself is very hot.

Again, this is my own interpretation of the character and the one I write, I'm not saying it's canon. All those that write civilian cutesy bimbo reader don't come at me, thank you.

Riot finds incredibly hot how big and strong he is. That he can move so silently in spite of his size, that he can manhandle her as if she weighed nothing when she feels self-conscious about not being skinny and petite. How big his hands are, so big that he can almost cover her entire ribcage with them or cup her arse.

That in spite of being so capable, she can feel safe with him.

15. How do they comfort one another when the other is upset?

Depending on how upset the other is, with touch or just presence.

If both are mildly upset, usually cuddling does the trick. It only depends who's the upset one to know who's lying on who. Simon tends to crush her beneath him while cuddling, burying his face in her chest so she runs her fingers through his hair. If Christine is the one upset, he wordlessly drags her to his lap and keeps her there until she calms down.

If they are extremely upset though... both are avoidant, so first, they'd have to track the other down.

Simon tends to hole up in his room or Price's office, so she goes there and just keeps him company until he's ready for touch. If he can't be found in his quarters, his office or Price's office, it's most likely that he'll be at Price's house. The Cap sometimes doesn't even know, he gave him a key long ago to the garage, where he has some woodworking equipment to keep himself entertained.

Christine has levels, the lowest being holed up in her room, the highest mean the nearest coast because she needs to see the ocean. He tries to get to her before that, and will drive her there himself if he can't redirect her to the K9 barracks or the nearest petting zoo.

19. How good are they at communication?

Lmao you're joking right 🤣 Stupidly bad. Like, embarrasingly bad. At least verbally, because with touch they communicate quite well...

26. Who gets jealous most often? How does their S/O deal with that?

Ok well. Both. They trust each other though.

Much to her surprise, Christine gets attention from men sometimes. She's not interested at all, but it is what it is. Even with that face of hers. Simon seethes in silence, watching intently the whole time, ready to intervene although he knows full well she can take care of herself. He's never sure if he wants her to beat the offender (he gets hard just thinking about it) or have the opportunity to do it himself.

Sometimes he is less patient and plainly grabs her waist or materializes at her side, looming, silently threatening the other guy's existence. Almost wishing for a bit of action to show off.

Much to Christine's displeasure, there are more women in the world attracted to Simon's broody, imposing presence. She is way more open with her jealousy though. She would be visibly enraged, eye twitching, clenched jaw and her mind a turmoil of what ifs and how dare they.

Simon is quite good at shaking unwanted attention, plainly leaving the 'offender' hanging without listening. He's truly not interested in human interaction beyond Christine, Johnny, Kyle, Price and the rest of the 141 and select members of other groups, like Chimera.

But he would be lying if he said it doesn't feel good to see her all possessive and murderously jealous. Of course he won't let the opportunity to tease her to pass up, once they are in private, and he'd also be lying if he said he doesn't get impossibly hard when she starts yelling at him that he is hers and she'll be damned if she allows any lowly skank to even breathe the same air as him. Or he thinks she's saying that, because by then she is ranting in Spanish and he's trying not to tear her clothes off.

30. Describe how one character would cheer the other up after a hard day.

Touch. Touch touch touch. Those two are so touch starved is not funny.

The best way to get Simon out of a murderous Ghost stage is to have him face down on the bed or on the couch, with Christine perched up on his arse, and giving him a massage. The first time they discovered that was when he pulled a muscle while training and she tried to help, and he was a puddle in a matter of minutes.

So anytime he is fucking pissed, bloody tired or just done with everything after one of those days where he hasn't killed anyone just by chance or thanks to Price being in the way, he'll drop on top of her on the couch, or will drop on the bed face down and not say a word. Of course he won't ask, but she knows anyway, and will happily knead his tense back and shoulders until he is putty and groaning. She'll be giggling so much that he'll end up laughing too.

Usually after a hard day Christine will stay for a long effing time in the shower (that's if a bathtub isn't available. If there's a bathtub, she's soaking in there, sulking). She never cries in public if she can help it, so the shower is a very good place to have a good cry, and if Simon happens to join her she can pretend it's just water on her face. He knows better though, he is no strange to crying in the shower.

So he'd wrap his arms around her and pull her to his chest, so she can cry in peace or not, just in comfortable silence under the water, for as long as she needs.

Once Simon reckons it's enough he'll start tickling her, ignoring her protests and kissing her, until she is giggling in his mouth and clings to him, her mood lightened.

32. Can they communicate private thoughts whilst in company? If so, how?

Oh, they absolutely can, with just a look. Given that Simon wears the balaclava or at least a half mask most of the time, she becomes quite adept to recognize the subtle changes in his eyes. Narrowed, widening, rolling, you name it. Subtle shaking of his head or tense shoulders sometimes. She'd tell you (if she trusted you wouldn't use it against him) that he narrows his eyes and clenches and unclenches his fists when something mildly displeases him. If he's truly pissed though, he goes stiff as a statue.

Christine stopped wearing her mask when she made the mistake of using it as an example for her 'students', so now she's kinda trapped to only wear it when there's a crowd, out of base or during missions. She thinks she's way better at hiding her emotions that she really is (she was comparing herself to Soap, so...). Her knee bounces, her fingers tap on any surface she can find, on her arm or her thigh, sighs deeply, eyebrows furrowed, rolling her eyes so hard she could see the back of her skull.

A 'normal' conversation would be like:

Ghost: staring intently (pay attention to me)

Riot: raises eyebrow (you alright?)

Ghost: slight shrug of his shoulders (want tea)

Riot: soft nod (ok we'll go)

They drive Soap up the wall (How the fook can ye understand!?)

77. What is something they would never forgive the other one for doing/saying?

Cheating. That's a hard line for both of them. All the time it took them to finally get somewhere, all the effort, doubts, agony, just to end in heartbreak? Yeah nope, there's no coming back from that.

94. Their pet has caused destruction. Who puts the pet in jail? Who defends the pet?

Who puts the pet in jail: Simon, absolutely, hands down. He won't admit he has a soft spot for all of them, but if he's pissed enough at any of their shenanigans, the pet is getting locked in a room until it calms down (or until he calms down)

Who defends the pet: Christine, of course. Because the poor baby has never done anything wrong, how can you stay mad at that face, it's just a baby, how dare you

My lovely @eenochian i'm so sorry for the time it took to answer <3 love you abejita

[nightswithkookmin]

Hey it's good to write to you again 💖love your sense of humour it always hype me😄😄

I just went to Yoongi's concert, I'm telling it's magical, loud and fun. What made me even more excited is because I was traveling with my friend whom we just renewed our friendship that was broken because of misunderstandings, I introduced her to bts and as we were watching their content she suddenly said she like jikook, and in my mind I thought she is talking about them in a platonic way so when she elaborated she said she can see when people are fucking each other😁😂 I laughed then I showed her your blog she's been reading it saying you are very blunt😂😅 Anyway few day after she came and asked me if taehyung used to date Jimin or if tae has a crush on Jimin because she noticed at times tae would look at Jimin's lips and all, I said I thought the same at first. Do you think v had a crush on Jimin, Is that why Jungkook when it comes to yoongi, Rm and tae he needs to clarify that it is friendship turning down every ship moment that can be made? Because I noticed he has no problem with Jimin or jihope moments but always with the others he interrupts them.

Aahh vmin vmin vmin- the ship that could if only they would

No one knows for sure what his thing was with Jimin. It was easier to label it as a crush for kicks and giggles back then. But as grown adults that they are now its a little bit 🥴

I mean sometimes the members themselves do admit some of the things they do and say is a bit fruity 🤷🏾

With Jungkook isn't it double standards for him to feel the need to go out of his way to demystify Jimin's ships while his own ships hang in the gay balance?

Minimoni are friends he says but Namjoon and I are thirsting over eachother's bodies- boys scouts honor

Yoongi and Jimin are laughable he snorts but hey what's that in between Jins legs. time to jiggle jiggle

He's made not letting Jimin's ships breath his entire personality and instead of Jimin whooping his ass as he should he's 'oh Jungkookie" melting away at him

Not to say Jm enjoys it entirely cos clearly it gets a bit too much for him sometimes🥲

This 'double standards' is something I hear most teen same sex couples complain of so I find it interesting to see these things play out between them.

And it's definitely interesting how we the fans respond to this as well. We will praise Jungkook for being territorial but let Jimin exhibit a similar territorial streak and suddenly it's he's clingy, he's an attention seeker, and he acts like he owns Jungkook.

I'll take it a notch further and analyze this in light of Tae's reaction to this territorial behavior in both of them. If Jungkook acts territorial over Jimin with Tae, Tae backs away, acts like he's gonna cry most times and only puts up a fight on few occasions but should JM try to be territorial over Jungkook, Tae would square up with him more often than not🥴

Then there's Namjoon who used to back down and show some respect for the Maknae's feelings- and then suddenly doesn't care anymore. He legit said,

I digress.

Sigh. Am I the only one missing Jin? Where's that one Taejin shipper please send me Taejin gifs😭😭😭😭

Tae can be intense and he's able to connect to people and things on a very deep emotional almost spiritual level. When he was young he used to desire this same level of intensity from the people around him often leading to him coming across as not having emotional boundaries. I don't know much about him personally, but I can deduce from certain things he says and does that he used to get this thrown in his face a lot.

This lack of emotional boundaries is what is often misconstrued as a crush by some of us.

But I think he just wants to hold hands on the pier with Jimin and discuss their deep deep affections for one another while the sun gradually set over the water

It doesn't make them gay- may be lesbians for sure but not gay😭

And while Jimin equally wants a friendship like that and so reciprocate with Tae- he better not try that shit on Jungkook.

You're gonna caress Jungkook's hands in the dime light, over soft music, while whispering to him how much emotionally attached you are to him- better be prepared to have his children while you're at it

So to answer your question, I think Jungkook knows the difference between what's an unconventional quirky friendship and what's blatantly Gay.

And most of the time when he's reacting to these scenarios he's simply expressing his discomfort with the latter.

The day Jungkook goes cross eyed on Vmin is the day you know for sure those two are crossing some serious boundaries Friends shouldn't cross. Other than that I don't think he minds- nor should he.

The only reason he should be worried at all would be if Jimin is emotionally bonding with Tae and not JK. As it stands, that's not the case.

Minimoni are not Vmin. They are not the quirky unconventional same sex friends that Vmin are. So yea, if they start touching up on eachother and if Namjoon- NAMJOON- KIM NAMJOON- starts flirting and flashing dimples at Jimin he has every reason to be worried. I TOO WILL BE UNCOMFORTABLE AND I'M NOT EVEN DATING JIMIN.

THIS KIM NAMJOON????

Smart intelligent successful TALL KIM NAMJOON?

Look, Jungkook is even better than me. I wouldn't let my girlfriend be friends with a KIM NAMJOON. Are you kidding?! I would follow them everywhere and put surveillance on them. Reinforce social distancing rules. 5 ft apart always and never alone in one room.

You think ill let my girlfriend be friends with an Rm, Yoongi, Jk you're mad. And then they'll just tell you casually, hey babe i'm gonna hang out at Rm's place- eh? Excuse me?! PARDON!

Hanging out doing what exactly cos I know yall be not talking about your feelings with them. PRAY TELL WHAT EXACTLY YALL BE HANGING OUT FOR?

I mean I'm not threatened by Yoongi per se but Agust D? Child no. No. No no no no no. NO.

Personally I don't think Jimin is in any way romantically interested in anyone in BTS other than Jk. I will fight him on this if he denies it🤧

But doesn't mean certain people in the band don't- sexually excite him beside JK. He's a rather healthy young adventurous spirited gentleman - with raging fiery hormones JK tries to keep under control

*Insert JK screaming I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS LEVEL OF HOTTNESS🤣

If your boyfriend had sexy sultry eyes and a Jawline that looks straight out of a hentai anime imagining you would want to police him around too.

And look, Daddy is not wood.

Sticks and stones may break his bones but dare I say, tall chiseled 8 inch biggo excites him😝

I suppose curvy wide hips big booty breastina does it for him too😭😭😭😭😭

I think he finds Namjoon and Jk's physique ideal and attractive as men. And if he's dating Jk then I see how that would be a problem for Jk.

For Suga, I think it's more of how Suga treats Jimin. He treats JM like someone would treat someone they loved. Jimin admires Suga a lot. For his intellect, for his passion- JM has a tattoo of Suga's words on his body. Let that sink in and then put yourself in JK's shoes.

Jimin may be evasive but when he admires someone he praises them a lot. He praises their physique ifm he finds that ideal or attractive or intellect if he admires their ingenuity. He keeps praising and admiring JK. He keeps admiring Namjoon for more than his physique- come to think of it he's shown considerable admiration for Suga, RM and Jk more so than the others.

The only time I've seen him admire V in any way sus is when he said Tae has a huge shlong. I suppose that's enough reason for anyone to Stan V😭 If I hadn't seen it myself I would have said my man's exaggerating but that thing is humongous😭😭😭😭

Moving on from V's shlong,

Between V and Jimin I frankly don't recall who influenced who. We know Jimin today to be the most emotionally vulnerable one who's able to connect emotionally with others but if memory serves me right, that used to be V🤔

He's the one most of the members felt emotionally honest with and comfortable with and the one they seem to suggest helped them gain confidence to be themselves emotionally.

I don't know. Sometimes I feel JM and V are the same person. Different sides of the same coin. Their soul mate shtick makes sense to me.

Talking of soulmates, I find it interesting Tae Talking about twin flames in his new song May be. He said he would release it in 10yrs but I'm itching to hear the whole thing NOW. A. It's a really deep good song. The lyrics are fire, the genre is on point

You told me you are my twin flame, Our colors shimmer the same, when the world is cold in the winter, we'll melt each other away.

I have to praise him for the emotional depth most of his sings have- it's everything I desire in a song. A song that speaks to the human condition and evoke such strong emotions and is very soulful. Bravo mate.

But isn't it interesting how he's switched from soulmate to twin flames and yet still evoke the same imageries of the moon the way he's done when writing songs inspired by Jimin?

Not only is his dick massive his voice is massive too😭

Sorry what was your question?

Ah, JK interrupting JMs ships.

I don't know what to tell ya. He's a hater🤣🤣🤣🤣

You should watch him finding all the excuses in the world as to why JM shouldn't collaborate with the members on a song but somehow had no objection when JM said he'd make a song with him😭😭😭😭

You know when he was younger and he was asked whom he would entrust his sister to out of the group he chose himself? He couldn't chose anyone even when most of them chose Jimin💀

That was his sister. Now imagine his partner 🤣

There's no over analyzing this. I think it's just his personality. And he's been consistent with it. Remember the Perilla leaf debate?

Personally I think some members deliberately avoided answering the question- or answered it the way they did bcos of Jungkook 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

When Tae said let's take turns I knew Jk was gonna throw a bomb and Jimin was gonna stutter 😭😭😭😭

And of course Namjoon and Suga will say they don't care- of course 😌

Cos if they did care then Jungkook would be vindicated won't he🤣

Ahhh Jimin- JM and his tiny, but why should it even matter if you're eating how would you even notice these things 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Boy's been traumatized straddling the line between the hyungs and the Maknae trying to explain to JK relax we are not flirting, relax he grabbed my balls don't mean I'm cheating. Meanwhile all JK seeing is them walking down the aisle in rainbow suits🤧

If everything we've been screaming on ship street wasn't making things clear, it's obvious from this clip alone the diverse views on boundaries that exist in the group.

It's clear, as I've been saying, JK has boundaries. Boundaries some members think is childish and ridiculous and so do not respect or adhere to which used to be a major cause of tensions within the group.

And for Tae to point out in support of Jungkook that sharing a chopstick or whatever those Perilla leaves were meant to signify was a sign of crossing boundaries should answer my question about him backing down when JK instills boundaries over JM with him but not so much when JM tries to instill boundaries with him.

It's double standard on Jms part and Tae is not the one. Do unto Jk what you want done unto you. If you think JK is childish for trying to instil boundaries with your friends what gives you the right to instill boundaries over JKs friends? Gotta love him. He's a no nonsense sort of person.

Now, we also understand why Namjoon stopped respecting JK's boundaries. It goes both ways.

When I tell you BTS has more drama and is better than the Kardashians whew🤭

Jungkook was the most gaslit member of the group. They constantly made him out to be this unreasonable possessive dude who couldn't keep his relationship a secret. Personally, I don't think a person's boundaries have to be negotiable. It's not something you negotiate on with them. And ridiculing them and calling their boundaries unreasonable and childish speaks to your own inability to take no for an answer which is generally toxic.

It's a good thing JM made his emancipation proclamation himself cos JKV and I were gonna have to break him free from the mold.

Okay bye I'm gonna watch it and akeke to myself again

Oh wait, your friend. I should say something nice- ho ho ho ho ha ha ha ha may the force be with you💜

[snarkylinda]

I’m very glad you’re talking about spencer being parentified because it feels like people sometimes gloss over it a bit? or maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places. if this isn’t something you do in you’re blog feel free to just. not respond but do you have any more thoughts or. idk headcanons on how that might have affected him as an adult?

Hi anon! To be honest I have no idea what is essentially discussed alot on the fandom other that a tiny fraction of it I expose myself to because 1#I am too tired and old to deal with fandom discourse about my blorbo, and based on my previous experience with fandoms I KNOW that the most popular the character, the bigger the discourse so haha no- 2# I joined in late lmao literally a couple of months ago, so I am super out of the loop just screaming to the void in desperate needs for someone to scream back 🤲🏼 do this kind of asks actually made me so happy agahagaha 🥰🥰 Buckle up bois this is LONG-

Ok now to those that might come across this and ask themselves what the hell does being parentified means, it's a broad term used for the phenomenon of (at best) a child sharing parental responsibilities due to x circumstance, or (at worst) downright having the parent/child dynamic completely swapped, with the child being the caretaker for the parent and household. You don't have to know deep CM lore knowledge to realize the latter is Spencer Reid to a T. Hell, they aren't even subtle about it lmao:

Btw parentification is often mixed in with abandonment and while they share the "child being forced to grown up" too quickly, the former is often distinguished by the fact that, more often that not as is this case, the parent still cares for them but are unable to do so how it should be (tho there are several cases where parentefication is an part of willing neglect, sadly) and added to the fact that they have to look after themselves- they have to look after another.

This is a really complicated, broad topic and I just mentioned this to go full disclaimer and that I don't blame Diana at all for how messed her son ended up since she can't help it- and to make a joke about how Spencer was abandoned and parentified. Also harassed. Guys he wasn't even 18-

Anyways but back to your question, how do I think that affected Spencer growing up....well in everything basically lmao

But I will take on two instances that had stood up to me the most: emotional management and hiding secrets.

The second one is easier: you would catch this man dead before he vents to you over something other than his shitty dad (that I find very funny tbh) and when he does is because he is at his limit and about to fucking cry.

Now don't get me wrong: we all are entiltde to our privacy. These are grown ass adults and they have lives outside of their working circle....

Right?

Haha we have an problem-

So yeah, Spencer kind of actually needs to rely on his co-workers because he has literally nobody else to rely on-

And yet

Oh here is the thing- Spencer is one polite boi but he is also blunt, if he doesn't want someone on his business he says so (look back when Alex discovered him and Maeve) this is literally "I wanted to tell you but I feel like I shouldn't"- this is not season 1 mind you, this is season 11, and yet here he was one of his oldest friends literally grabbing him by the arm and having to tell him it's never a bother- I am the only one fucking crying at this?

Excuses seems to come to Spencer like it's second nature- "sorry a tube on my apparment broke" "Oh I....I tripped!" "There was a lot of traffic so..." "I was watching an movie" and I am not am expert on USA's history or some shit, but Child Protection Services had been a thing since at least the 60s, so I don't think that a 10yo living alone with his mentally ill mother would have flown well- you get the idea.

I think this scene summarizes the whole thing perfectly

Get it? it's irony. (I love how Spencer is about to say something like dismissive "thank you" but because this shit hit too close to home to comfort he just gave a polite smile and walked away. That silence was LOUD) Because Spencer had always had done the former but the latter er.... :D

And it's not only when it concern Diane btw, any problem whatsoever Spencer would rather lock himself up (literally lmao) that sit down and talk about it- it's only when his bs is exposed and he can't refutage (like that little scene after Gideon's death when Rossi asks him if he had been there all night- he points out the fact he is wearing the same cardigan as the day before) that he opens up....or he runs away, which leads me to the second big point that I think shows how much Parentification fucked him up:

Spencer has the emotional maturity of a teenager.

I talk about this literally all the time so I'll be shorter lmao basically Spencer... has an issue- ok he has lot of issues- and that is the way he dislikes direct confrontation, so whenever he is hurt or angry he would rather be dismissive and passive-agressive that talk it out with the person- even going as far as turning away and storming out of the room.

(Here is the part where I put the screencaps but him storming off would be out of focus so lmao er.... Elephant Memory, Memoriam, Proof, a little part in 15x2 and The Gathering)

Now... I do think that a grown-ass man doing this shit is hilarious, like I love Spencer's bratty side so much lmao but it's an clear sign of someone that never learned how to deal with his emotions on a healthy way, someone that 6 out of 7 days of the week had to interiorize everything in and because of that holds on so much....resement, so much repressed anger but also without an stable force on his life to help him manage that- so we are left with an teenager trapped in an adult's body, loss at how to handle shit like he always did.

....And want to know the worst part about an Parentified boy onto adulthood?

That they don't know better.

[summae]

hello! do u have any garden headcanons that you'd be willing to share... i loved how well you managed to grasp them in so little words ❤️

hallo sorry it took me so long to answer this! (and Thank YOU!! for the nice compliment :)) )

also boy do I have headcanons or just what I think could happen if they end up together (AND ALIVE?) so here we go

Warren's absolutely inept at cooking he Tries and he Knows how to survive on his own but he's more than happy to leave Gordon alone in the kitchen and let him work his magic (I also don't think Gordon's that good either but he's willing to try for warren)

Gordon sleeps with his socks on, Warren says it's stupid and Gordon pulls out his phone with that article saying it's easier to fall asleep with them on and they have a Debate abt it

also think both of them have a sweet tooth but Gordon's actually pathologic like three spoonfuls of sugar + milk into tea and Warren's like arent u afraid of losing your teeth and Gordon's like (girls who like sweets when they meet bitches that snort sugar)

Warren strikes me as a morning person or even if not necessarily loving waking up early he's like someone who once wakes up is Awake whereas Gordon's fully nonfuncional in the morning and Warren has to drag him around he pretends to hate it but he doesn't of course

i think neither Warren nor Gordon are Conventionally Pretty cos that's boring but Gordon was in a metal band he's since long embraced being a Freak while Warren's still self concious in the silent way but Gordon genuinely thinks he's the most handsome man alive like he's truly convinced Warren is this mythical relict that only the pure of heart can find and appreciate which makes Warren feel so embarrassed but after a while he embraces it and they become so obsessed with each other from an outside perspective it's frightening

idk why but it think they both try to become vegetarian for Waffles (it makes sense in my head) but they like full english breakfast too much so they Just can't it's funny to me ok

Warren says he was a punk (pointing at Gordon) just to see Gordon get red in the face and explain At Length just how much punk and metal are different genres because he was born in the eighties so He's like That and how while he can see the strength of certain messages conveyed through punk music it's just Not at all like metal where techinque and actual musical ability is valued but also he played bass so maybe he's more chill about it but he still wants to point it out ok he isn't Punk and Warren does it because he's insane about Gordon getting heated and at a certain point he just tunes him out it's like asmr to him

they both have Issues and so it takes them a while to get it together like Warren is in love but won't say anything because he thinks what they have is too good to ruin and Gordon still thinks Warren is Fragile and also possibly straight? but once they Do get it together they still don't define it because it's Too big and too personal to have a name like I am 100% serious when I'm saying that I think their relationship is Overwhelming in the most romanticly haunting sense but they balance it well it works with them exclusively

both of them are tactile people but Warren won't initiate any contact he's more like a dog that accepts pats but doesn't get up to search for them

Warren's a tidy person and Gordon's more "There's method to my madness" but he's an Archivist so he's got every important document cared for and has extremely good spacial memory i like to think that a few years down the line (in my universe where they are happy and live together) they become sort of telepathic and when Warren needs something he doesn't even have to ask he's just like "Have you seen the- and Gordon's there "Top right corner of the shelf in the bathroom" and they do this All the time

I HAVE MORE? I think but IDK how to be normal so this will be all for now thank u and thanks again for the sweet compliment have a nice LIFE ANON 🌟🌟

[fantastic-mr-corvid]

7 Snippets

Tyy for the tag @dujour13 ! im very bad at selecting small snippets, so under the cut they go!

one wotr Cecio, mostly jojos Celia n co, bc i have been rotating how they interact all week, with a peek at the two CeliaXElena ockiss pieces [born to run&everlasting kiss]

im about to log off but if anyone hasn't been tagged please take this as your tag!

snippet one: Dear Sister

Red, red, everywhere. I never understood ‘seeing red’ as a phrase for when fury takes over, but it seems I am now drowning in it, staining my hands, my clothes, my soul. It was as easy as drowning. I finally saw the rising tide for what it was, and made one last struggle against the waters with the angel's light, but I felt the red flood down my throat all the same, and I succumbed. Yet I find I breathe easier now, even as my corpse lies at my feet, even as the water takes me. My mind is quiet and my body is mine. That is to say, the good man is dead. I am what's left. But you know all about that don’t you, my dear sister?

snippet two: all i got's a photograph

Black hair and a sharp face, almost in profile, pressed against her own golden curls, as he wrapped around her, one pale arm slung over her shoulder and the other coming out from under her own, to hide underneath her jacket, wrapping around her torso. Conficcare. Her second oldest friend, and one of the only people who could aggressively cling to her like that and get away with it in public. She has to fight the smile, just like the Celia in the photograph, exasperated fondness is the strongest emotion in her heart when she thinks of him. Conficcare. The next strongest emotions he evokes are regret, are sorrow, for the child he was, the man he became, and her part in both of those. Much can be said of how long they have known each other, have fought for each other, have loved each other, all of them.  Little is said on how it took time to get past that first stage. It's easy to look back at the history, and say it was rosy, but for every fight back to back, there is one face to face, for every kind word- for every mean word said in jest, is one in truth.

snippet three: There was no way this house could hold the two of us, i guess that we were too much of the same kind

Finally, something snaps inside Rametto, and he turns to Celia, making painfully direct eye contact, lips twisted into a sneer as he bares his teeth, “You’re not my damn father, what do you care?” He sees golden eyes go wide, and he regrets it immediately. Hes- hes not like his brother. He's careful. He opens his mouth again, wishing he could brush it all under a rug- “I know- I know I have no right-”  her voice shakes and he wishes he could say it's the last night, the exhaustion, but it feels like he can see her properly, and that exhaustion is not just from one night spent worrying over numbers, its a lifetime of exhaustion, and Celia is only nine years older than him, only six years older than Cecio, and suddenly he realises she's so damn young.  Something in the back of his mind is screaming, terrified.  She breaks eye contact first, ducking her head, and suddenly it feels terribly dark in the kitchen.

snippet four: for what its worth, i never meant you any pain

Golden eyes flick to the report cards pinned with touristy magnets on the fridge, and the part of Celia that raised Cecio wonders if she needs to stop him staying out so late, but the part of her that sees who Cecio is now, knows there isn't much hope. Not for Rametto, not for the little brother of Conficcare, the protege of Muro, for the boy who will become a man, and step into a whole new world of violence. At her orders.  Her head shakes, trying to banish the thoughts from her face as the outer door clicks, and she settles back into stillness, waiting to see what Rametto does. Pause, unlace his shoes, then try and place them on the floor quietly is the first part of that answer. He opens the inner door and treads carefully, avoiding floorboards like he's seven and superstitious again, making his way towards the cupboards, putting his bag on the floor and letting it lean against the side of the counter, leaning down himself to unzip it -and taking out the battered metal box Celia remembers Stecco taking to school, still with the dent from where she threw it at his head but changed trajectory at the last second, hitting the metal pole he was leaning on instead.

snippet five: born to run

In hindsight Celia is sure she screamed, teeth flashing, and she gripped the steering wheel and slammed her foot on the pedal, her instinct taking over, calculating angles and skid and acceleration, a too fast stream of information, as her brain shut out anything beyond what was strictly necessary, trusting in Elena to solve any attempted sabotage.

snippet six: i wanna die with you wendy on the streets tonight in an everlasting kiss

She doesn't mind letting the cold seep into her through her coat, Elena right next to her and gazing out at the city skyline, doesn't mind it at all. If her eyes linger on the person beside her, on the folds of leather, on the still paint splattered hands, on her eyes and face and lips, then that's her secret. Elena is too distracted to notice her lingering gaze, hands twitching like she wants to reach for a paint brush, as her eyes stare into the distance, mind whirring with composition and colour.  She's an artist to the bone, got creation on her soul, and one day, Celia prays, Elena will have the time and money to put to canvas every painting she ever dreamed of making, even the ones she's daydreaming of now, when it's just half formed thoughts to distract herself while waiting.

snippet seven: everlasting [kiss again]

A voice next to her bites out, “Idiota” any malice blunted by the fondness that underlies every syllable. And Celia turn her head towards her sun and grins too, wide and full of love, giggles turning to cackles, Tesoros shoulders shaking alongside his head, as he lowers his arms and reveals his own grin, and finally Elena cracks to, rolling her eyes as the twitch at the corner of her mouth turns into a smile, lovingly frustrated, but then her eyes glint maliciously and she opens her mouth again-

[caninefit]

file ¹ leo ahn.

layer ¹ statistics.

name: leo   ahn.     nicknames,     aliases:     just   call him   leo.     age:     well.    date     of     birth:     october   19th.     place     of     birth:     gojoseon.     zodiac: ox. nationality:     korean.     gender:     agender.     pronouns:     he/they.     sexual     orientation:     bisexual.     romantic     orientation:     biromantic.     species:     daywalker vampire.     power(s):     has the unique ability of mind control.

layer ² seen.

low music playing in a lounge, eyes following you across a room, a  piercing  scream  cut  off,  spontaneity  in  all  things,  a  collection  of  artifacts  treasured,  finding  humor  in  human  logic,  comfort  found  in  power,  using  tinder  as  take  out,  grief  buried,  heavy  rain and thunder,  30%  alcohol  70%  blood  concoctions in  a  glass,  the  smile  that  crosses  your  features  when  you  learn  something  new  because  you  seldom  do.

layer ³ dossier.

turned  a  few  hundred  millennia  ago.  

old,  like  too  fucking  old.  

moves around often: will usually settle in a place for a couple of years and then go on. in  bearhold  cause  streets  said  supernaturals  were  getting  killed  and  he  wants to  see  what’s  up.  nosy  ass  literally  walked  of  that flight  like:  🤨 😯 😁

does  not  gaf  about  the  peace  this town  has or the generations of beautiful co-existing that's been going on. that has nothing to do with him.

does  not  care  about  other  people.  there  was  a  time  when  he  did, and i mean truly did  but  that  time  has  come  and  gone  and  it  doesn't really come  back.  when  you’ve  been  here  this  long  you  learn  a  couple  of  things,  among  them  being  the  fact  that  you’re  the  only  person  that  matters.  nobody  stays  but  you,  nobody’s  life  is  guaranteed  but  yours  and  it’s  easier  that  way.  that  said  there  are  a  few  people  he  holds  dear,  a couple of companions, them  being  old  as  well (might send in a wc for them!)

fought  in  many  wars,  used to kinda have a thing for them but. no longer meddles in human problems.

wary  of  old  witches,  he’s  seen  too  much  and  knows  better  than  to  piss  one  off.

has  a  love  /  hate  relationship  with  vampirism.  don’t  get  me  wrong  he  embraces  what  he  is  to  the  fullest  (  a  little  too  much  actually  )  but  there  are  times  when  he  just.  wishes  he  lived  and  died yk? right  now  isn’t  feeling  that  way  though  and  i  apologize  for  what's  going  to  happen  because of  it.

lives  unashamedly,  wants  others  to  do  the  same.

believes  there’s  nothing  wrong  w/  doing  what  you  want,  eating  what  you  want,  killing  what  you  want.  probably  has  had  some  bouts  of  violence  in  the  past  but.  we  move!

humans?  i’m  so  sorry  but  he  looks  at  you  the  way  you  look  @  your favorite food.  or  maybe  a  really  cute  dog.  would  love  if  someone  would  change  this  though  he  needs  to  be  reminded  humans  matter  too.  preferably  this  century! 

thinks  he’s  hot  shit

layer ⁴ wc.

would  love  some  friends:  if  you  play  someone  old  i  am  looking  @  you.  vampires,  witches,  shapeshifters,  i  want  them  all.  leo’s  been  around  a  long  long  time,  so  give  me  old  old  old  dynamics  please  ❤️

a  human  blood  bag  (  could  be  consensual  /  could  be  mind  control  ) 

some  enemies!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i’ll  beg.  he’s  very  much  a  shit  starter,  esp  back  in  the  day  and  i  know  there’s  gotta  be  some  people  upset  there’s  yet another  vampire  doing vampire things in bearhold. 

maybe  one  of  those  companions  i  mentioned  earlier.  like  a  ‘we’re - stuck - together  - and - i - love - you - for - it - even - if - i - don’t - show - it - and - if - you - die - i’d - probably - devastate - a - tri-state - area’.  they’ve  probably  felt  every  human  emotion  towards  one  another. 

maybe  a  hunter  flirtationship?  like  they’ve  literally  been  trying  to  kill  him  and  he’s  just  like  ooh  you  wanna  kiss  me  so  bad. 

also  think  it  would  be  cool  if  he  had  a  dark  history  with  someone.  like  maybe  they’ve  fought  in  the  same  wars,  sometimes  not  always  on  the  same  side,  and  there’s  this  tension  and  i  am  rambling  atp.

but  that’s  it!  i’ll  be  adding  an  in  depth  biography  &  making a wanted  connections post  later  (  maybe  )   but  i  think  i’ve  listed  enough  to  get  me  started.  i  love  plotting  and  talking  things  out  so  if  you  don’t  want  any  wanted  connections  up  there  or  they  didn’t  spark  another  idea  don’t  hesitate  to  hit  me  up  +  brainstorm  ok?  

[egg-emperor]

It sucks that Sonic Boom isn't being renewed because they could find some way to incorporate Sage. And Boom Eggman being the softie he is would praise her for even the smallest thing. I can see him actually being a kind of good dad in contrast to Mainline Eggman being just awful as a father.

Boom Eggman is the only version of Eggman I'd accept to be any modicum of a good dad. Making sure his daughter is well taken care of while also being her teacher in the art of evil. Being proud of her for every small act of evil. She could even screw him over once and he'd be like "that's so evil! That's my girl!"

That's just my take on it tho. I like the contrast between canon and boom Eggman.

Yeah I think the most popular but the canon divergent fanon version of Eggdad and Sage now would work perfectly fine with Boom Eggman, he's set up well for some version of Sage to be introduced to him.

Boom Egg isn't so bad, he's actually known to be lonely and want friends and family with his desires to befriend Sonic and co and what he had going on with Morpho and Mombot and such. Basically all the things people would like game Eggman to be, fully possible without malicious intentions or ulterior motives and more depth than modern Egg's shallow perception.

Plus I think the guy who has managed to have some genuine and friendly moments with Sonic and also managed to be concerned with the well being of a child like Beth the shrew and stuff would make a better father than the one who is always trying to kill kids in terrible ways and has very shallow self-centered and selfishly beneficial ways of caring about his creations at all lol

Boom Egg would enjoy having someone to teach evil who's genuinely enthusiastic without having to make them eat evil cookies if she had the same loyalty she does to modern Egg. She could please him much easier and he'd probably gush over her evil and emphasize it a lot fondly like how much he does with himself in the show.

I can definitely see him being so attached and proud of her that he'd react like that to anything evil she does even it were against him or at his expense in any way because he'd just think it further proves her greatness and how impressive it is. XD Depending on what abilities she has in the Boom verse she'd be one of his significantly greater creations.

She probably wouldn't be as big of a threat just like Boom Eggman isn't as much as modern but she'd especially be much higher up on the list than the majority of his other creations, which he'd appreciate her highly for. But also for the way she can feel like family to him and he could get the company and care from her that he's always not very secretly desired going by other bonds he's made.

I enjoy looking into and embracing vast differences between modern and Boom Eggman in personality and interactions, it's pretty interesting and fun. If Boom still existed and a version of the dynamic could've existed like that officially then everyone could've been happy and gotten what they personally wanted out of the character and father daughter dynamic.

[squid-ink-symphony]

Finally working on my agents?????

Idk what 8 is going to end up like, but I'm going to play octo expansion in the next couple months which should help with that. But for now here's what we have!

I named them all after citrus stuff cuz.. its cute <3 Anyway, if you want a playlist sort of inspired by these 4 and just Splatoon/Splatoon characters in general check this out!

More info under the cut! And of course anything here is subject to change. Feel free to ask me or the agents any questions!

Lime/Captain 3

I mixed the male and female base inkling hairstyles to get the one i use for Lime.

They/Them :)

I changed the cloak they got from cuttlefish to a cape(easier to draw.)

Gave them back their old hero suit/jacket thing and shortened their pants.

This is Lime as of splatoon 3, i dont really know if anything is different about them in one and two that varies from the canon designs other than the hair.

Lime is very much the silent type who tends to worry too much and tries to make sure everything gets handled. This means they can end up taking on a lot more than is healthy for them, but they figure it's better that they do it than anyone else so no one else gets hurt.

has a lot of scars that i didnt include becuz this pic isnt colored.

The exact same height as Yuzu, but Lime wears high heels when in casual clothes so they end up being taller.

Has one older sibling.

Uses roller.

Clementine/Agent 4

Is used to being the smartest there is, and she still is really talented. But when she got into a really fancy school she was suddenly surrounded by other people on her level and she actually had to work. Had never built up good study habits and had just coasted by on natural talent until now, so she dropped out about 3/4 through the school year. A couple weeks later she was scouted by Marie.

She only really went along with Marie due to the low point she was in, and she figured following some random woman into the sewers couldn't be any worse than what she had already done. Saving Callie really helped bring her emotions and confidence back up.

She might still be dealing with feeling like she needs to be perfect and smart for her to have any worth, but she's working to get better and allow herself to make mistakes.

He/Him, She/Her and They/Them!

Their hair is just a shorter version of the "straight" inkling girl hair

The logo on her tank top is supposed to be the cuttlegear logo, but i never drew it lol

Wears her hero jacket around her waist after rescuing Callie.

The wheels help her skate and work well while riding on inkrails. It was her first actual project she let herself work on after dropping out. At first it didnt work, but she eventually tried again and again until it did.

Worlds number one salmon runner.

Was so used to being "the smart kid" until he was surrounded by tons of smart kids. And suddenly, that trait didn't make her stand out any more.

Starts off very self loathing, and Marie doesn't notice because 4 is getting results and all Marie cared about was getting Callie back. But slowly 4 grew to break down and then build herself back up again with Marie's help.

Only child

Uses Dualies mostly, but is also pretty proficient with a charger. Is sort of a jack of all trades and can really play any weapon.

Pomelo/Agent 8

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She/Her and He/Him???

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E liter user??

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Yuzu/Agent Neo 3

Was originally going to be called Lemon to match with Lime, but i thought Yuzu was cuter

It/It, They/Them, She/Her, and honestly anything else you want to use. Hoards pronouns and names like a dragon.

Lives with Little Buddy and their mom. Their mom(not biological) is a Goldie.

Does actually speak salmonid, and refuses to work for Grizz Co. Will fight their employees on sight. (this causes some slight issues with 4 when they first meet)

Stringer user!

Finds treasure in the splatlands and sells it in splatsville for cash. WILL fight you on sight if you try to take their stuff.

Hair is a mix between the male ponytail and the canon braid style.

Loves to collect shiny bits and bobs, and can sniff out anything like it from a mile away.

Yuzu will do anything for money. It needs money to help support her family!!!

Was sort of conflicted fighting Deep Cut. On one hand, Yuzu respects them a lot for what they do for Splatsville. But on the other hand, Yuzu is not backing down from a challenge OR treasure. So Yuzu chose to at least do Deep Cut the honor of keeping it a clean fight with no tricks.

Speaking of, it WILL play dirty to get what they want.

Very curious and loves to poke around where they don't belong. Will find every little thing hidden in every level.

Absolutely horrible sense of direction, Honey has to help them out a lot.

Is somehow the most naive and most distrusting of the group.

When they celebrate, they go all out! Splatfests, something good happened with the NSS, birthdays, pretty much anything is an excuse to party like tomorrow won't come.

Honey/Little Buddy/Agent Neo 3 Also?

Has a full proper salmonid name, and so does Honey and Yuzu's mom. I just havent decided what they are yet. But Honey was the name Yuzu gave it, and so they wear it with pride!

He/Him, It/Its, They/Them

Has a braid in their hair just like Yuzu!!

Is growing in some of his goldie scales! But not all of them are their yet! Got his first one after the Hugefry transformation. During the transformation he turned into a massive goldie, but returned to normal with no other side effects. But whats this! There was a single golden scale! Honey was so proud!!

Very brave, unafraid to do anything to help Yuzu out! He will help his big sib!!

Likes to cook!

[metal-harbor]

What happens when Sonic falls back to Earth? How does everyone react to it? Did Sonic age 10 years or is he now 10 years younger than everyone?

(That would be weird for Tails! Your big brother comes home after 10 years and he's now the younger brother, and a lot shorter lol)

Sonic is 10 years younger than everyone else now! He’s almost a foot shorter than Tails and Cream and is obviously a little out of place. His care free attitude is a welcome change of pace for some and seen as a little ignorant by others.

Reactions were mixed!

Tails was so thrilled to have his brother back but as an adult and the co-leader of the organisation he feels like he doesn’t have enough time to truly let it sink in that he’s back. I think he feels guilty for being a little resentful of Sonic for leaving him alone all those years; he knows he didn’t mean to but still, his actions endangered people whether he meant for them to or not. I think Sonic feels a little uneasy about the fact that Tails is a different person now, his morals and spirit haven’t changed but ten years is a lot of time to miss. He still loves his brother of course but having their dynamic flipped on it’s head is a lot to take in.

Amy doesn’t blame him at all for what happened, she knows he was doing his best to save the world and that he had no way of knowing what would happen. She’s a lot calmer now, she still admires him as a hero but also sort of sees him as a kid? She spends a lot of time getting him to open up about how he’s feeling about the strange new world he finds himself in and is the one that really helps him find his place in the group. She is the other co-leader so he spends a lot of time with her at first getting to know what’s what.

Knuckles won’t even speak to him, he talks about him as if he is a reckless child that endangered them all. He doesn’t care about Sonic’s intentions, only that he lost the chaos emeralds in outer space and has destroyed their way of living. He’s calmed down a lot in the past decade but hearing about Sonic’s return reignited old flames. He spends his time on Angel Island alone, guarding the Master Emerald as it’s the only thing keeping balance.

Shadow resents him and shares a lot of the same sentiments as Knuckles, but keeps them as close to his chest as he’s able to as to not disturb peace in the group. Shadow refrained from attacking him on sight only at Tails’ request. He speaks to him minimally, usually avoiding him by getting on with his jobs and declining his help despite knowing it would make things easier. Ultimately, he resents having to take on Sonic’s role as the protector of a large group of people, he doesn’t want to be the hero in charge of saving the world and is very tired. He also resents Sonic because he watched Tails mourn him and helped him through it.

Rogue keeps her feelings close, she’s glad to have the extra hands around - especially someone that isn’t so drained or nihilistic. She wasn’t close to Sonic before he went missing but was saddened mostly by Tails and Amy’s responses to it. She’s seen the strain that having to do his job has taken on Shadow and is the one that forces Shadow to pass on some of his responsibilities to Sonic. She somewhat selfishly sees Sonic as a means of helping Shadow heal.

Cream is as sweet as ever, a polite young woman who treats him respectfully. Her opinion was definitely influenced by Amy and she’s thankful that he’s home safe. It’s very strange for them that they’re the same age now but they get along well. Spending time with Cream is when Sonic feels things are the most ‘normal’.

Sonic doesn’t really know what to feel, he feels guilty for being the cause of everything but also knows he didn’t have much of a choice. He immediately wants to help but struggles to find a place in the group when it moved on without him. He’s glad they all stayed together but can’t help but feel a little replaced, especially by the fact that Tails and Shadow are so close. Sonic feels a little like he’s intruding, but is trying his hardest to do whatever he can to fix things. Ultimately, he’s just relieved that his friends are alive and safe even if some of them might not be his friends anymore.

[number1villainstan]

So! Tengai headcannons! You’ve really done it now because he is one of my favourite Little Guys to put in Situations. Alright here we go:

He’s blind in one eye and is partially blind in the other, but has almost perfect vision in the not blind one wearing contacts. Kai has offered to fix them before but Tengai says there’s no need; his barriers act as a form of echolocation, he can tell exactly what’s in the barriers even without needing to see it. (Also I found out today that Mice and tenrecs communicate and find their way with echolocation, and also that it’s called echolocation because they use the sounds they make to locate the echos and find their way around based on that. Also if you don’t now what tenrecs are, Google them, they look like Pokemon. Back to Tengai!)

He’s autistic as fuck (same) and his mask is noise muffling to help him deal with sensory issues. It doesn’t completely cancel out noise, but it does make everything quieter and easier to handle. He’s frequently seen wearing headphones or earmuffs (which i..just figured out is short for ear mufflers..) when he isn’t wearing his beak mask. Due to his partial blindness, his hearing is increased, which makes everything worse for the poor baby.

His favourite animals are red pandas and opossums, but he also loves watching the koi in pops’ pond. He once saw a red panda for sale on a black market Overhaul and a couple others dragged him to and begged Kai to let him get it for the rest of the day. He was like a child asking their mother for sweets- after literally the entire day of him not shutting up, he was eventually allowed it and now he has a pet red panda that roams a few select rooms in the compound and a sectioned off area in the garden. Rappa doesn’t let Tengai forget about how much he begged, and he doesn’t let overhaul forget about giving in.

Prior to the red panda fiasco, he would bring in small animals like hedgehogs, rats, squirrels and birds, that had been injured and nurse them back to health. However he isn’t allowed anymore, as it was one of the conditions that was agreed upon for the red panda, along with Tengai taking full care of it, paying for everything with his own money, having to find a vets for it himself, as Kai refused to touch it to heal it if it got sick or injured, and a few more things.

And here’s the sad backstory cos you know I had to do it to ‘em.

His parents abandoned him at an orphanage when he was born, so he never knew them. He was moved around from foster home to foster home for a few years, until he eventually ended up at a Buddhist monastery that offered to take him in. No parents wanted him, due to his blindness, which he was born with. He was still relatively young by the time the monastery took him in, 6 at most. He enjoyed living there, he loved learning about the history of the religion, and he loved how peaceful everything was. He liked the people there, as typically they treated him with nothing but kindness. It wasn’t the most amazing place for a child to grow up, as he got very little socialisation with other kids, and being around only adults meant no one completely Got It, as adults typically don’t. However, when he was nine, he was allowed to attend a private school. This was where he had his first encounter with Rappa.

The first day there, on the first break, Tengai was sat out on the benches, reading and listening to the other kids, when he heard yelling and commotion. He looked up and saw a kid very clearly a couple of years older than him getting into a fight. He wasn’t sure what to do so he kept away, he’d never seen huge conflict like this and it terrified him.

As the day continued, he was horrified to find out he shared most classes with the kid who had started the fight and due to his calm demeanour, he was the mediator child and was made to sit next to rappa in almost all the classes they shared.

As the years passed, Rappa and Tengai decided they should probably try to get on since they absolutely weren’t going to be able to get away from each other any time soon, and they also didn’t have any other friends because Rappa scared everyone off and Tengai didn’t like talking to people, so it was the best they were gonna get.

However it all came crashing down when they were 15 and 16. By now they were in a new school and Rappa got into a massive fight, which ended in the other kid in hospital and Tengai getting punched trying to calm it down (he now has two fillings in his bottom right pre-molars) due to this, Rappa was expelled and they had no way to contact each other, as Tengai didn’t have a phone. The next few years passed and Tengai was alone the entire time. He tried to explain to the others at the monastery but still being the youngest by quite a bit, no one really got it.

Eventually, when he was 19, Tengai decided to leave and find somewhere else to live. He gathered up money over the last 4 years from freelance jobs here and there. Once he’d moved into his own apartment, he was walking at night and heard yelling from an alleyway. He decided to go and see what was happening, see if he could calm it down, and to his surprise, he found Rappa in a fight with someone he didn’t recognise. He put up a barrier around the other man and ran to Rappa.

After narrowly dodging a punch, Rappa recognised him and was excited to see him again. He knocked out the other guy and offered to show Tengai where he was saying. Tengai cautiously agreed and off they went to the compound. On the way, they caught up some, Tengai explained what his living situation was like, how he was in and out of work and struggling to keep a job due to the constant sensory overload.

They finally got to the compound and This was where they found overhaul in the garden, panicking over a snake that had gotten in. Tengai managed to bubble it and take it away while Rappa explained to overhaul what was going on with him, who he was, why he was with Rappa and such. Tengai backed up what he said and overhaul decided he could be useful to have around, and offered to let Tengai stay with them if he worked for them. Tengai, not being an idiot, questioned it and overhaul gave an entirely sugarcoated version of what they did and while Tengai was skeptical, by the time he figured out what was actually going on, he was in too deep and had to see it through.

It wasn’t all bad, however. He got on well with Kurono, pops and the trash trio, he was happy to be back with his childhood friend, even if he was a lot louder and rowdier now. He eventually got a happy ending, it just took a while.

I have more I just can’t remember rn and also I’ve been typing for over an hour :’)

yea typing that much can be exhausting believe me i've done it

These are great headcanons!

[just-some-random-blogger]

love letter bc not only your fanfics deserve love but you do too! 'me when i dance' you mean cute? does it mean dance covers too? 'WHATEVER HAPPENS' well it went better than i though but i still was dizzy and sleepy. thanks for your support! i sewed a tie on friday! it took exhausting 3 hours (i was promised itd take 1...) and i was hungry but everythings ok. im still alive. how did your friday go? 'my grandma was kinda mean for that' im judging. respectfully to your grandma but still. 'our neighbor threw it away' oh my am i angry now? id tell this (in)human being a couple of sweet words... you didnt but i cried. yk if you want to make me cry in wfal you should kill a cat. (not recommended) rip lovely TT 'it’s the in the keep then' *excited meow meow* 'OFF ANON LIKE YOU PROMISED' oh youre so petty. 'im sure you’d burn the first day you step foot here' absolutely right. thats why i never go there. im like burning in summers in st. petersburg when its 30 C so... 'YOU DO KNOW THATS FREEZING POINT' nuh its perfect?? 'why is it harder to breathe in dry areas?' its dry + cold. its important. bc we just got less oxygen into the blood... like we have the same amount of oxygen in the air but bc of the absence of water vapor the blood doesnt absorb it as good as in the south. 'I HOPE YOU FIND PEACE TOO' its ok i still dgaf while she doesnt trigger me. but alright. ill get over once. thanks for your love<з 'Thank you i love my hands even though they’re so veiny' its ok isnt it? ik many people love it. its just your hand that do very perfect things! 'ur making me wanna maybe make it' hgjdj ig thats my job here. glad you love it and know how talented you are again. id be very glad to see the part 2 if youre up to make it! 'I HAVE THIS STARK UNIVERSE' yeah and i love it TT its just easier for me to associate myself with the starks? ghdjfdj yes bc of the north. im glad you love the north's aesthetic sglkljs. do yk the series vikings? i never watched it BUT. i know they interacted with the ancient rus and wow theyre northern so. i did some research and learnt they had a russian actor which was very famous and ideal of male beauty but now hes a meme TT i nearly cried bc of laugh when i found out this fact. 'because then id have to use a name or (Y/N)' HAFHISI poor child. try not to? get more creative? goof luck? im glad you find the possibility of speaking for others' thoughts important enough to use y/n. 'she at the very least knows how to properly conduct herself and treat others' yeah thats why shes fine. i dont have guts to raise a sword either, rather make smn raise it for me >:) but still your opinion is the most important here. so im gled you love your creation. 'IM SO FUCKIGN HOT' HFJSJFKF and how nice it was to walk down the street with the snow falling down and only -5 C🥰 so cozy. HGIODJOF how were the classes? how are assignments? oh youre soso sweet with the song TT love you catmom TT so good morning or anything! have a nice everything! love you! drink water (esp during this hot time) and eat nice food! take care<з

OMG LOVE LETTER

ME TO MY CAT EVERYTIME I SEE MY KITTY

love letter bc not only your fanfics deserve love but you do too!

'me when i dance' you mean cute? does it mean dance covers too?

T_T i meant funny HAHAHHA i mean i dance but i dont post myself dancing. i enjoy learning dances though! if i like them enough

'WHATEVER HAPPENS' well it went better than i though but i still was dizzy and sleepy. thanks for your support!

<3 <3

i sewed a tie on friday! it took exhausting 3 hours (i was promised itd take 1...) and i was hungry but everythings ok. im still alive.

do you mean like you made a tie from scratch T_T RIP I TOOK DRESSMAKING AS MY ELECTIVE IN HIGHSCHOOL AND I HATED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. I WORE THE DRESS TO PROM BUT MY GRANDMOTHER HAD IT GET REDONE BY A DRESSMAKER SO I COULD WEAR IT AND ALSHFHASF;ASF;HASF;HASFHSA I CRIED COS IT WAS EXPESIVE at least to me AND I FELT SO BAD THAT MY GRANDMA HAD TO DO THAT T_T

how did your friday go?

i was on a roll on friday that was when i posted the p3 and the pedro pascal fic. the next day tho T_T i was really tired cos i was overthinking about my assignments. i finished them now tho so its ok. i still have some to finish but meh im tired it can wait tom

'my grandma was kinda mean for that' im judging. respectfully to your grandma but still.

T_T my grandmas kinda mean so its fine but STOP JUDGING PEOPLE IN GENERAL T_T

'our neighbor threw it away' oh my am i angry now? id tell this (in)human being a couple of sweet words... you didnt but i cried.

there was unfortunately no place to bury the poor kitty T_T i live in the city. its just concrete and asphalt T_T

yk if you want to make me cry in wfal you should kill a cat. (not recommended) rip lovely TT

WTF NO WTF NO WTF WTF WTF

'it’s the in the keep then' *excited meow meow*

LOL it may take a while im tired T_T

'OFF ANON LIKE YOU PROMISED' oh youre so petty.

/: im not petty im just reminding you T_T

'im sure you’d burn the first day you step foot here' absolutely right. thats why i never go there. im like burning in summers in st. petersburg when its 30 C so...

oh wait it becomes 30 degrees there in st petersburg!? that's actually pretty hot. it was apparently 32 C here during 12pm AND I WAS ON FIRE T_T so wow im suprised it gets that hot. idK I FEEL LIKE THE INTERNET IS GIVING ME WRONG TEMPERATURES BECAUSE IT FEEL LIKE ITS WAY HOTTER THAN THAT BECAUSE IF ST PETERSBURG CAN GET 30 DEGS WTF

'YOU DO KNOW THATS FREEZING POINT' nuh its perfect??

'why is it harder to breathe in dry areas?' its dry + cold. its important. bc we just got less oxygen into the blood... like we have the same amount of oxygen in the air but bc of the absence of water vapor the blood doesnt absorb it as good as in the south.

oh so now you believe in science /:

'I HOPE YOU FIND PEACE TOO' its ok i still dgaf while she doesnt trigger me. but alright. ill get over once. thanks for your love<з

'Thank you i love my hands even though they’re so veiny' its ok isnt it? ik many people love it. its just your hand that do very perfect things!

people like veiny hands on men. and

i mean i love my hands but sometimes im like wew theyre so big and veiny. its a testament to how hard i work but yeah society makes me questions things about myself. its so unhealthy

'ur making me wanna maybe make it' hgjdj ig thats my job here. glad you love it and know how talented you are again. id be very glad to see the part 2 if youre up to make it!

WELL SEE ALL YOU PEOPLE MAKING ME DO PART TWOS WHEN IM SO AGAINST THEM T_T

'I HAVE THIS STARK UNIVERSE' yeah and i love it TT its just easier for me to associate myself with the starks? ghdjfdj yes bc of the north. im glad you love the north's aesthetic sglkljs.

lol i was not sure if you knew of my stark universe at the time SO YEAH WOOO I LOVE WOLVES <3

do yk the series vikings? i never watched it BUT. i know they interacted with the ancient rus and wow theyre northern so. i did some research and learnt they had a russian actor which was very famous and ideal of male beauty but now hes a meme TT i nearly cried bc of laugh when i found out this fact.

i also only know of the series vikings. who's the actor? im so curious. the first persont that popped into my head is alexander ludwig, but it says hes candian so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

'because then id have to use a name or (Y/N)' HAFHISI poor child. try not to? get more creative? goof luck? im glad you find the possibility of speaking for others' thoughts important enough to use y/n.

I AM CREATIVE HOW DARE YOU 😡 and of course other characters are important my gosh AHAHAHAH imagine having everything be about you all the time T_T 🤢🤢🤢

'she at the very least knows how to properly conduct herself and treat others' yeah thats why shes fine. i dont have guts to raise a sword either, rather make smn raise it for me >:)

d;lkgaf;ksagflkasfgkas;fgas;fg;fakl;gaf;asf why are you so inheretly evil. it's giving yes i love manipulating others alshf;ahf;ashfsla stop HASLFHALFLASFASLG gwfo/

but still your opinion is the most important here. so im gled you love your creation.

HAHAHAHH of course i love my creation. out of all the forms of art i make, i am most confident in my writing because of how much feedback ive had on it, as opposed to my drawing and my music and anything else. i would like to be better at them but that would also require me to force myself to be confident enough to share them so T_T its a paradox

'IM SO FUCKIGN HOT' HFJSJFKF and how nice it was to walk down the street with the snow falling down and only -5 C🥰 so cozy.

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HGIODJOF how were the classes? how are assignments?

never ending like my queue AHHAHAH T_T

oh youre soso sweet with the song TT love you catmom TT

<3 im excited to do it!!!!

so good morning or anything! have a nice everything! love you! drink water (esp during this hot time) and eat nice food! take care<з

good day my love <3 i hope you also keep yourself hydrated and eat well. take care of yourself i love you

xxx

[punkscowardschampions]

Mali

Ali: You took Rio to get a tattoo?

Moses: Why are you asking us? You’ve seen so, haven’t you?

Ali: The why was implied pretty heavily

Ali: Kind of a weird choice, no?

Moses: It’s settled, it’s on her skin

Moses: a choice the girl made herself

Ali: Again, I wasn’t really talking about the artistic vision

Ali: How did it even come about, did she ask you or what?

Moses: Wes talked about it, she was after coming with me and did

Ali: I didn’t know you were in contact like that these days

Moses: She serves at my local these days

Ali: Yeah, true

Ali: She wanted a part-time job, do you think it’s been going good?

Moses: Been a hit with the regulars

Ali: She could do the job standing on her head

Ali: but you do remember she’s not old enough for it nor a tattoo, right

Moses: I remember you acting up worse less grown than her

Ali: And she’s a good girl, I’d have just appreciated some warning that you were going to take her to get inked

Moses: If she didn’t tell you that’s no business of mine

Ali: You know it’s my business 

Moses: I wouldn’t what you do or don’t busy yourself with now you’re back involved with a married man playing happy families

Ali: It figures that this is what it’s really about

Moses: He’s got 5 kids you’re keeping him from, letting him put another in you don’t give you the right

Ali: I’m not keeping him from them

Moses: Sure you’re not

Ali: I’m not

Ali: he’s giving your sister space and time, which he doesn’t have to do but under the circumstances seemed right

Moses: How’s my sister meant to show her face around

Moses: he’s driven her out by making a fool of her and whore of you

Ali: The rest of us managed

Ali: though I’m sure a fresh start has been welcomed

Moses: There’s no comparison, he owed you nothing and that’s how you was treated

Moses: he was hitched to her

Ali: I wasn’t just talking about myself, or claiming I’m a victim in this situation

Ali: it clearly wasn’t a happy marriage on both sides, you can admit that and still blame him

Moses: All you care about is yourself

Ali: Life’d be easier if that were true

Moses: Yours is with her away, you can step right into her place

Ali: She took herself away

Ali: as did Ronan

Moses: She had no choice, his carry on humiliated her

Moses: do you know how many of our women divorce? ‘Course you don’t cos you’re not one of us

Ali: I know she’s not the first or last

Ali: and that doesn’t make it any easier

Moses: She’s the self respect neither of you’ve none of

Ali: Okay, it’s your job to defend her

Moses: I defended you plenty, use it does

Ali: You knew why he got married that young

Ali: it’s not like you were in the dark at any point

Moses: Nor were he about what marrying meant

Ali: He didn’t have all the facts

Moses: You would make excuses for him

Ali: It’s just the truth, if he knew then what he does now, he wouldn’t have gone through with it

Ali: but the knowledge this late saved no one

Moses: He couldn’t do no wrong in your eyes before his opened to that truth

Ali: That’s bullshit

Ali: you know I’ve always taken him to task for Django, first off

Moses: Nah, you let him offer the boy hush money then you let his feet back under your table, it’s no less his roof for being moved out

Moses: you call yourself his mammy

Ali: The money was for Una

Moses: It was for my cousin’s guilt, get a grip

Ali: I don’t care what his intentions were, I know how it was used and I’ll not find fault in that

Ali: Django and I just want each other to be happy, I thought you of all people would want that for your sister

Moses: As I said, you’ve never found fault

Moses: think how that boy feels to be left out in the cold while he’s playing daddy to the rest

Ali: And I’d force him through it for my own selfish reason?

Ali: There’s no undoing those choices, Django knows he has me, no matter what else is going on, that’s how it’s always been

Moses: Had you, maybe

Ali: Moses, how would you even know

Ali: when’s the last time you saw him, like?

Moses: I’m no eejit

Moses: you’re willingly becoming one for John’s sake, he’s no different in getting put aside than anything or anyone else who is for yous to have what you want

Ali: My kids are my kids, I have time for them all and it’s nothing to do with who I’m with

Moses: Yeah right

Ali: They were babies when we were together, it’s different, they’ve all their own minds now to respect

Moses: Minds you’re not bothering yourself with when your head’s full of only him and your body’s full of a baby you both want more

Ali: Am I not here asking after Rio

Ali: before we ended up here

Moses: A question you had the answer to, you’re not really troubling yourself, are you

Ali: You know I don’t mind if she gets a tattoo, you can hardly call me a bad parent for it now when you’re the one that took her

Ali: I mind you using her to make some kind of point, or to score one

Moses: Bold to reckon I care about you in this at all now

Ali: You don’t have to, we can leave children out of it, that’s all I’m asking and I think that’s fair

Moses: Children don’t get work pulling pints

Ali: You don’t think she’s safer there, where people know who she is, than in some random shop on [insert famous Dublin high street vibe here]?

Moses: You’re late to ask us my opinion

Ali: but you clearly have one so you may as well

Moses: Fair cop to you, with no shame, trying to use her yourself when you said you minded it so bad

Ali: How am I?

Moses: Bring up how she’s a baby again to put me in the wrong when she’s nothing of the sort and neither am I to take her anywhere

Ali: It’s just a little out the blue

Ali: again, when is the last time you saw her before she got the job

Moses: I used to see her every day ‘til you got knocked up by her daddy again, when’s the last time he spent any of his time with her instead of supplying her mates

Ali: None of us are in disagreement about his decency as a father

Moses: Don’t talk to us like I’ve none

Moses: you left me, you took her from me

Ali: I left you, I never took Edie from you, not once

Moses: We’re not speaking of her

Ali: The other two could see you too, I’m not a monster

Ali: it was just me and you that didn’t work out

Moses: She wanted it to work out with her real daddy, showing disloyalty to him via me wasn’t gonna help nothing

Ali: Of course she did, she was just a kid, crushing that hope on his behalf was unnecessary 

Moses: The hope you gave her going back to him

Ali: It wasn’t like that, he doesn’t do real relationships

Moses: To you, she was just a kid thinking she’d got her daddy home

Ali: This was 10 years ago now

Ali: haven’t I made up for it, put shit right as best as any of us can

Moses: That’s for you to talk to your daughter about, like

Ali: You’re the one bringing it up but sure

Moses: Where do you reckon I heard it, Ali

Ali: But why would she talk to you about this

Moses: Who else can she, you’re telling yourself it’s grand and you’ve done right by everyone

Ali: Jesus, am not

Ali: I’m defending myself from you in this convo, not sainting myself on the reg

Moses: Don’t worry yourself, your new man’ll saint you whenever you want

Ali: Because that’s all I care about, nice one

Moses: How you behave ain’t nice but it’s been years there too and you’ve learned no lessons

Ali: I know who I am

Moses: We all do

Ali: You got what you wanted from me, I don’t know why you’re holding a grudge

Moses: You’ve never seen us hold a grudge, sweetheart

Ali: Let’s not

Moses: You started it, I wouldn’t finish it by telling me what to do if I was you

Ali: I’m not going to be threatened by you

Moses: I don’t make threats I carry ‘em out, as well you know when you needed my brother to fall in line

Ali: Which is why you’re lashing out, you don’t know what to do about this

Moses: There’s nothing to be done, he’s as welcome to my leftovers as Ro was

Ali: As long as you feel better 

Moses: As long as you watch how you talk to me

Ali: Who’s name-calling, not me

Moses: Let’s not act like you’re above it

Ali: I couldn’t possibly be above anything

Moses: If this is what you wanna live like, you’re gonna feel low

Ali: You’re not concerned, no need to think about it

Moses: Right, your problem

Ali: I’ve none, obviously

Moses: No skin off my nose, you’ll be sorry when every kid of yours resents you

Ali: Well I only care about the one inside me, don’t I

Ali: not remotely concerned that your brother has kidnapped one

Moses: First time you’ve mentioned him, you can’t be that concerned

Ali: What would be the point of mentioning it to you, you’ve made it totally clear how you feel

Moses: I’ve seen him, you could ask after him, but why would you

Ali: You don’t want to help me, even that much

Moses: You’ve done even less for me lately

Ali: Be why I didn’t say you owed me

Ali: obviously you’re going to take your brother and sister’s side, what else would you do

Moses: Said like I never took yours over his and him in hand before

Ali: He was in the wrong entirely that time

Ali: now it’s nowhere near black and white 

Moses: Kids need their mammy, it’s women’s work for a reason

Ali: He’ll have to come around or I’ll have to do something about it

Ali: he’s getting grace for my fuck ups but that only extends so far

Moses: Babies is where you can have a say, even when he’s a boy

Ali: I’m messaging every day

Moses: If you’d left my sister’s marriage alone she wouldn’t be around to raise your son and the day’d come sooner Ro got sick of both roles

Ali: As you said, she has 5 of her own that she’s raising alone right now, she’ll get sick of that too, no doubt, never mind picking up any slack

Moses: The eldest girl’s more than of an age to help and raised to, there’s your hope crushed

Ali: Things have changed significantly, how they’ve been raised is being challenged, I would dare say

Moses: I know my niece, she’s her ways set in stone

Moses: but the younger ones will have their fun to be sure

Ali: As I said, he’s time but it’s limited

Moses: He’ll hear

Ali: I hope so

Moses: You either trust me or you don’t

Ali: It’s not about trusting you

Moses: Yeah it is

Ali: It’s trusting him to do the right thing for Junior

Ali: which I have to

Moses: He’ll do what he’s told, if I’m the one doing the telling

Ali: He’s 30 years old, not 13

Ali: He shouldn’t need his big brother to tell him things now

Moses: When he don’t carry on like a stropping 13 year old I might treat him as the man he should be

Ali: Well, I look forward to that day, like

Moses: Do us both a favour and hold your breath so’s I don’t have to hear yous ‘til then

Ali: Charming as always

Ali: Perhaps if one of my children is considering body-altering choices, you could let me know beforehand next time

Moses: Half the fun is you being last to be told and getting in my face

Ali: I know you have a better idea of fun than that

Moses: It was cute when you had your own, RIP

Ali: It’s easier for you

Moses: What would you know?

Ali: Making me the nag means you can dismiss me, it’s fine

Moses: Don’t nag me, woman, it’s simple

Ali: Now, I owe you that favour, at least

Moses: Least you can do after everything I still do for you

Ali: Really

Moses: Yeah

Ali: You must be going soft in your old age, to still be bothering

Moses: Or I’ve always been and you never bothered yourself to notice

Ali: I was joking

Ali: you aren’t as bad as you pretend to be

Moses: You’re a joke and I’ve heard ‘em all

Ali: Sure but your unoriginal material is allowed to fly

Moses: Would be out of date, as you said, we are

Ali: Ancient history, yeah

Moses: And I’m busy in the present, you done having a go or what

Ali: Have you heard me or not

Ali: I could always hammer the point home a few more times to be certain

Moses: You’d need a point first

Ali: You don’t help yourself do you

Moses: I don’t reckon the sun shines out your hole, you mean

Ali: If that’s what I was after, I’d have joined Caleb at [the commune] and started a cult

Ali: I’m just trying to do my best for all the kids, that’s it, I’d like to be on the same page about that with you

Moses: All the kids except my sister’s, yeah

Ali: That’s her’s and Johnny’s business, not mine

Moses: You stuck yourself in the middle of it being a homewrecker you don’t get to turn a blind eye

Ali: And I’d help it trying to raise her kids, how?

Ali: Of course I care but I’ve no say

Moses: She’s no fucking say, you do

Moses: he’d go home on your word

Ali: There’s not a home to go back to, she’s left, he’s left

Moses: Who’s to provide for her? Ronan?

Ali: They need to talk

Ali: Johnny will, he’s still their father

Moses: ‘Til he’s fathered how many by you

Ali: I can provide for my kids, I’ve never needed that sort of help

Ali: I’m not taking that away

Moses: It’s cultural, you know that

Moses: unless you’re taking his instead

Ali: He had them first, he still has to provide for them, he intends to as soon as she’s ready to talk it out

Ali: it’s new territory, I’m not saying he can’t provide anything but not at the sake of them, no

Moses: He’ll have me to answer to if he’s gutless again, how he was about the boy

Ali: Yeah

Ali: he’s grown a lot since then

Moses: In the ways that interest you

Ali: No, not what I meant

Moses: Ah, I don’t wanna take your meaning where he’s concerned, thanks

Ali: It’d be weird if we saw eye to eye but he’s been there this entire time, he’s still trying to be there now, you don’t need to worry

Moses: They’re my family to worry over, as he’s losing no sleep tucked up next to you, someone has to

Ali: When has he ever not worried, come on 

Ali: you know him 

Moses: About you, not her

Ali: About everything and everyone 

Moses: He’s a prick, everything he does is for his own gain

Ali: Yeah, okay

Ali: easy to say that in the now, less so for the past 17 or so years

Moses: She gave him exactly what he wanted, it ain’t her fault she isn’t you

Ali: No one is blaming her

Moses: He has and now he’s treating her worse than a dog

Ali: Don’t you want her to find love?

Ali: there was no way before but now she’s free to 

Moses: Who’s gonna love her with all his kids in tow

Moses: you’ve no clue how lucky you’ve been

Ali: The right person she wants around them won’t have a problem with it

Moses: Decent men don’t just appear from nowhere

Ali: No but they’re not extinct either and if he’s such a prick then she’s better off without 

Moses: My daughter’s better off without him controlling her every move, let’s have that conversation then

Ali: He is not controlling anyone’s every move, so we can but there’s not a lot of point

Moses: Give him chance, he’s been at yours five minutes

Moses: and can’t legally marry you yet

Ali: When have I ever let anyone tell me what to do

Ali: even when you were doing the telling

Moses: You’ll let him play daddy to my baby

Moses: at least you reckon you will but you’ll not get far

Ali: We’re all of us too old for playing games

Ali: she’s your daughter, nothing can change that

Moses: Best you remember it

Ali: How could I forget

Moses: You turn into someone proper thick when you’re near him

Ali: You act like you want to hear why

Moses: You’d have me listen, and whoever else is a captive audience, it’s an embarrassment 

Ali: Yeah, right

Ali: homewreckers don’t get to bathe in the warm glow of congrats, I’ll have to cope without 

Moses: I’m sure your family have shares in whatever babies need for your sake

Ali: If they’re smart

Ali: and it’s only 7, you can’t clutch your pearls

Moses: If they had the same daddy I wouldn’t

Ali: Considering you saw to that being impossible, strange you’d complain

Moses: You’re welcome I saw to only 1 being his before you fucked that for yourself

Ali: You’re welcome I freed you

Moses: I was free the entire time, you wouldn’t commit to us

Ali: Not how you wanted

Moses: How any sane person wants, but you had your blatant obsession to keep alight

Ali: We had a child, if you’re not Caleb, that’s a commitment 

Moses: Letting every man who shows an interest put one inside you devalues it slightly though

Ali: Do you want me to say you meant nothing to me? 

Moses: I know I didn’t, I’m not thick

Ali: I’m not going to force you to think different for my own peace

Moses: You were thinking of him, no need to say it

Moses: you’ve your peace now, there you go

Ali: For fuck’s sake

Moses: Enjoy your fresh start and fuck whoever got hurt for being in the way, that’s the past

Ali: I was doing everything I could to not think of him

Ali: you’re nothing alike, there was no looking for cheap imitations 

Moses: You were doing everything you could to get at him 

Moses: and we’re related, you’re welcome

Ali: Alright, have it your way

Moses: It’s how it is, next time Johnny remembers he’s got other kids, have a chat about them and swap birthdays, cos they match those of yours like yous planned that between yourselves

Ali: I had noticed, what with the obsession

Moses: Don’t talk down to me like I’m paranoid when you used us to wind him up

Ali: It was more complicated than that but you don’t want it to be

Moses: Nah, you’re after overcomplicating it to make yourself sound better

Ali: What are we even arguing about it for?

Ali: We’d never have worked

Moses: You’d never have stopped passing yourself around, no argument from us

Ali: You’re welcome

Moses: Did the ghost of your dead pal tell you to

Ali: I don’t think you’d come highly recommended, no

Moses: Making yourself available for everyone’s use wouldn’t, especially my cousin’s

Ali: You believe in wisdom you can only get in the afterlife now?

Moses: She got that learning while still living

Ali: She didn’t die for my sins, nor none of yours

Moses: I didn’t sin against her

Ali: None of you were kind to her

Ali: we all let her down

Moses: She got what she wanted from us, it weren’t kindness

Moses: you let her down, she knew where she stood with me

Ali: She’d fail to miss that message

Moses: I dunno, was like talking to a plank of wood

Ali: My God, grow up

Ali: she’s been gone these 17 years able to do no harm to no one

Moses: You first, hanging onto him the same number of years

Ali: You of all people know I can’t

Moses: That makes it alright then, yeah

Ali: I haven’t said it is, it’s just the truth

Moses: Jesus, pathetic is what it is

Moses: nobody forced you to be that much of a whore and he weren’t the one forced to marry, my sister was

Ali: He didn’t pick

Moses: He was a grown man with a means to earn, you and him could’ve taken yourselves away, or he could’ve alone

Ali: We did, it didn’t last

Moses: Girls already have no say, no power

Moses: and she had even less thanks to the pair of you

Ali: And what about you?

Moses: What about me

Ali: It had to be your sister because you and Ronan were shaping up to be disgraces

Ali: If you boys couldn’t do exactly as you pleased then maybe your sister wouldn’t have to sacrifice herself for the sake of your family’s reputation

Moses: Shift the blame back to us, ‘course none of it’s his or yours

Moses: I did right by you, there’s no disgrace in it

Ali: They happened before us, that decision was made from how yous were acting

Ali: obviously everything after has blame enough for me and him, plenty

Moses: Before, I was acting well within my rights

Moses: even ‘respectable’ lads don’t marry ‘til they’re 21, none of my family saw any shame in how I behaved

Ali: Your daddy agreed, there had to be a reason

Moses: He was tricked into seeing it as a good match, anyone would without knowing of the ins and outs of you and him

Ali: You knew, your sister knew

Ali: by the time they got hitched everyone fucking knew, I was insane about it

Moses: I packed a bag for her to go, she wouldn’t disobey my daddy’s wishes

Ali: Because he didn’t see Johnny’s behaviour as a problem, same as yours

Moses: If he’d gotten over it, there’d be no problem

Ali: He could’ve cheated on her with me the entire time and your family wouldn’t have shit to say in her defence 

Ali: but put the weight of her shame and feeling like she can’t show her face at my door, as if she’d not just be expected to take it

Moses: He’s not meant to put you at the same level as her

Moses: you’re to fuck

Ali: And you’ve seen for yourself, the comfort that is

Ali: You don’t believe in any of this

Moses: He could’ve married you, it ain’t the taboo he told you it was

Ali: Take that up with his father

Moses: He took up with my sister, I believe in him not ruining her life

Ali: Divorce happens, not such a taboo these days either

Moses: It isn’t only that

Ali: What then?

Moses: She can’t get the years back

Ali: Of course not

Ali: same would be true whoever she married

Moses: She deserved better

Ali: Yeah, she deserved a say

Moses: He fucked up everything for everyone and there you are forgiving him, chucking him happiness he don’t deserve

Ali: For entirely selfish reasons, I don’t deserve it either but I won’t deny myself because of that

Moses: Your reasons have always been

Ali: I know

Moses: And I’m bored, your daughter knows where I am when she’s looking for more trouble to get herself in

Ali: Ha ha

Moses: You’re laughing now

Ali: One tattoo is enough for a 14 year old, thanks

Moses: She’ll find me

Ali: I’m going to talk to her myself

Moses: Good, do better

Ali: You really seem concerned 

Moses: I’m less selfish than you

Ali: Offering ‘trouble’ doesn’t help anyone

Moses: You’re the one calling us such a bad influence my sister got married off

Ali: There’s no need to live up to the claim

Moses: Why’s that?

Ali: Because you don’t want to be the worst version of yourself, no one does

Moses: What I want’s never mattered to you

Ali: It’s not about me

Moses: Easy enough for you to stay out of it in that case

Ali: Not in the event it involves my daughter, no

Moses: Shame she’s her own mind, isn’t it

Ali: Why would that ever be a shame

Moses: Because you ain’t involved in her decisions

Ali: If she’s making bad ones, I can try and help her, that’s all we can do as parents

Moses: The tattoo’s cute, if it had been ugly I’d have put my foot down

Ali: She’ll appreciate not needing a cover-up or lasers in 5 years then

Moses: She’ll feel the same about it in 5 years as she does now

Ali: It’s a time for making mistakes, it’s my job to mitigate the risk behind the scenes for her

Moses: What says she about you calling her new ink a mistake

Ali: I haven’t, but it could be and it’s still not the end of the world, is my point

Moses: To her face

Ali: And I wouldn’t, it’s cute, like you said

Moses: But you’re still in mine, haven’t you nothing to do

Ali: You wanted me in your face 

Moses: Your bitching is getting repetitive 

Ali: You can quit any time you like

Moses: The reason I tolerate you ain’t changed

Ali: Ditto

Moses: I’ll remind you of her when the replacement’s here, you’ll need a nudge

Ali: It’s a good thing you’re trying to be a prick because that’s painfully unfunny

Moses: My days of entertaining you are long over, be why

Ali: Definitely not your - craic

Moses: Weren’t your personality I kept you ‘round for either

Ali: You might have mentioned

Moses: Don’t go crying now

Moses: ancient history, like

Ali: Oh yeah, that’s gonna be what gets me

Moses: I remember the state your hormones got you in

Ali: You don’t need to tell me how glad you are it’s not your problem now

Moses: Oh that’s rich, no one’s gladder than you whose baby this one finally is

Ali: I’m just saying, seeing as you think I’m making up reason to talk to you

Moses: As there’s only one means of shutting you up what works

Ali: Which is?

Moses: Something I’m not offering, you being a homewrecker’s put us off doing it myself

Ali: Oh, God

Ali: shut up yourself

Moses: Find the door yourself while you can still fit through

Ali: Ha ha, very good

Moses: The laugh is at not with

Ali: You can’t stop me taking it however I choose

Moses: The show you make of yourself stopped being funny years ago

Ali: It’s not for anyone’s entertainment, be why

Moses: Not even yous own, sadly

Moses: but you’re grand now, you got yours, everything you was after

Ali: Happy endings do exist

Moses: Sure they do

Ali: I don’t need to rub it in your face

Moses: But you’re giving it a lash

Ali: Nah

Moses: Yeah

Ali: Do you need the last word that badly?

Moses: You’re just that smug

Ali: I’m happy

Moses: At the cost of everyone else, have the sense to calm down

Ali: Sure, I’ll feel the shame owed, no more

Moses: How about feeling your son’s absence or the unhappiness of the rest of your kids

Moses: but no, enjoy your honeymoon

Ali: Don’t even start

Moses: Don’t tell us you’re happy, half my family are away to another country because of you

Ali: And you know, or you should know, that Edie is unhappy because of Una passing, which none of us could do anything about

Moses: Which is the only reason I’ve stayed

Ali: It’s a fucking awful time for them, Django and Liam too

Ali: they could give less of a shit what I’m up to, honestly and that’s fair

Moses: You don’t help yourself or them neither

Moses: timing’s shite

Ali: You’re telling me

Moses: I am, she’s need of you

Ali: I know that, I’m here every day

Moses: With him, growing another brother or sister for her to make her feel like she matters less to you

Ali: You know that’s not how it works

Ali: there’s room in my heart for every one of them

Moses: Not in your head though, that was how it worked for your mammy, she really let you slip through her fingers, didn’t she

Ali: My mammy had a lot of issues I don’t

Moses: You’ve the eldest ones no more under your eye than her

Ali: What makes you think that

Moses: I’ve seen it, you didn’t even know I had your daughter under my protection, what I protected her from

Ali: Excuse me, what

Moses: She’s safer with me, that’s why I’m back in her life

Ali: What are you talking about, what happened?

Moses: It doesn’t matter, I’ve made my point

Ali: It very much does matter

Moses: Nothing happened because I was there

Ali: At the pub, when, who did it

Moses: You’re too slow, it’s been handled

Ali: What the fuck

Ali: who are you to keep this from me

Moses: Who are you to talk to me like this

Ali: No, I don’t care about your potential hurt feelings right now

Ali: why would you not tell me that something happened to my daughter

Moses: Your daughter you sent out to encourage grown men to drink with no one watching over her

Moses: because it didn’t, I stopped it

Ali: Jesus

Moses: Johno’s not shown himself since [whenever] how happy are you with him now, hmm?

Ali: I don’t have time for you to be smug

Ali: I have to talk to my daughter

Moses: Nor does he the time for her by the sounds of it

Ali: It isn’t his job to sit through another shift with her, I didn’t ask him to

Ali: I assumed she could handle herself and that yous could be trusted not to be animals, no matter how much drink is drunk but that ones on me

Moses: Handle herself, the size of her

Ali: There are other ways to handle yourself 

Moses: And men are all animals

Ali: You said it not me

Moses: I said too I’m looking after her, that’s the last time anyone’ll try and touch her

Ali: That isn’t the point

Moses: There’s no point to hysterics, it’s done with

Ali: It’s not done with

Ali: she’s hidden it so it is obviously bad enough to stop working there

Moses: She don’t want you worrying yourself with a baby inside you, that’s fair

Ali: She’s never to worry about me, it’s my job to worry about her

Moses: Aside from being embarrassed I was the one who stepped in, she’s alright

Ali: I don’t know that

Moses: You won’t if you don’t relax, she’ll never tell you nothing

Ali: You won’t

Ali: she was still a little kid the last time I was pregnant, she just needs to know that she can still come to me, she has to

Moses: She promised she was all good, I made sure

Ali: I appreciate that you were there

Ali: now I’ll ensure it doesn’t happen again

Moses: Don’t take her job off her, come on she loves it

Ali: I can’t just let her stay somewhere unsafe

Moses: That happened [whenever it did] I’ve been keeping her safe since

Ali: That’s not your job either

Moses: It’s no work being down the pub

Ali: You know what I mean

Ali: it’s mine to make sure she’s safe 

Moses: And she is, what you punishing her for, the fault’s with the man who can’t hold his drink and he’s been shown the error of his ways

Ali: I’m not punishing her

Ali: I need to talk to her, so she knows she can’t keep this stuff to herself to try and deal with

Moses: You said she’s to handle herself, ‘course she reckons the same

Ali: She’s not to believe she’s incapable when she’s not but there’s limits

Moses: You’re overreacting cos you feel guilty

Ali: I’m not overreacting

Moses: Sure, nothing happened

Ali: Now that you feel like you’ve dropped her in it

Ali: she’s not in trouble, obviously

Moses: Believe us or don’t, she’ll tell you

Ali: I believe you intervened, why wouldn’t you

Ali: but you also didn’t tell me until you could use it against us 

Moses: This is the first time I’ve spoke to you since I don’t know when, why would I go out of my way to tell you something that’s been sorted

Ali: I tell you things you need to know about Edie

Moses: You don’t need to know how I smacked a man about, Ali

Ali: God

Moses: He never touched her, nobody else will

Moses: that’s the end of the story, for christ’s sake

Ali: It was bad enough that you had to go that far, is what my ‘God’ is for 

Moses: I might’ve overreacted too, it upset me

Ali: It would, you’ve known her her whole life

Moses: She’s on my arm

Moses: and hers was tiny held out to put distance between them

Ali: Don’t, my hormones

Moses: It was the most disrespectful thing I’ve ever had to watch, I couldn’t

Moses: she should be untouchable

Ali: I know you couldn’t

Moses: I hated it, but it wasn’t that bad for her

Ali: Okay

Ali: I mean, that’s something

Moses: I told you I’m soft

Ali: You’re not soft, you just care about them all, which we all appreciate

Moses: No you don’t

Ali: Moses, yes we do

Ali: Rio clearly does

Moses: She’s a good girl

Ali: Yeah, I know

Moses: Leave her to brighten the lads’ days and earn her tips under my eye

Ali: I’m gonna talk to her

Moses: I dropped her off, unless she’s gone again, you’ve chance

Ali: Thanks

Moses: I’m not having her walk from [wherever this tattoo parlour is], heels she was wearing

Ali: I meant thanks for being there but sure thanks on behalf of her ankles too

Moses: I’d take a beating for her never mind give one

Ali: It means something that you still look out for them regardless of how you feel about me

Moses: It ain’t about you

Ali: Exactly, they’re innocent in all this