#it's not like I want to be live to be 20 anyway

[smolbeanie1221]

Age dreamer here! Also possibly probably regressor too but I never exactly know what age I feel like, soooo confusion

Now ima vent about that a bit. I grew up in an unconventional way, my dad was sick my entire childhood and he was the center of my world my everything. Anyways I had to grow up fast in some ways, like logically I guess, but in other ways, I stayed as young as I could. I played with toys and stuffed animals until 6-7th grade, so 11-12 years old. A lot longer than most of my peers. Then middle school and high school happened, and coming up with story ideas replaced my pretend games with stuffed animals. Then when Covid happened my freshman year of college, my mental health crashed super hard and I was dissociating on and off for a long freaking time. During that time, I discovered the Lion King fandom and I immediately hyperfixated on that. I started getting sucked into other fandoms too, but Lion King is always my default. The fandoms and universes I hyperfixate on are pretty much always the same books and movies and shows I loved from ages 8-18ish. Covid happened when I was 18, and then I started dissociating for so long that I feel as though I didn’t really “age” at all during the time I was dissociating. I escaped back into fantasy worlds, not with stuffed animals and toys this time, but with characters from Lion King and Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron and Twilight and Divergent and Tinker Bell and Supernatural and Percy Jackson and the Buddies puppies movies and so many others. When I was turning 20, it felt so unreal to me, and it still does feel so unreal to me that I’m 23 now, but turning 20 felt so wrong because, what do you mean I was no longer a teenager?? I didn’t necessarily want to relive my teenage years, but I couldn’t say I was technically a teenager anymore?? Turning 20 years old to me meant full fledged adult, and I hated that thought. And I still feel so weird when I think about the fact that I’m 23 years old now. I don’t feel like an adult at all, I mean I function and live well enough in the adult world, but I don’t feel like I’m actually an adult. And… shit as I’m typing this I’m realizing the term I recently started paying more attention to, permaregressor… huh I think that actually does describe me a lot more than I initially thought. So… I think it might be accurate to say that I’m permaregressed to 15–18ish, and I age dream to go into a younger headspace?? Huh that’s… actually sounding pretty freaking accurate. I’m still not sure but… I think it makes sense??

Please interact with this post if you're a trans or gender non-conforming age regressor/age dreamer so that we can all see we're valid members of our community who aren't alone!

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[emsdevs]

Noah and Mateo Overview

This is just a brief little overview of my general thoughts/plan for the Noah and Mateo AU. After I post this, I'm gonna fix the masterlist so it's in chronological order and makes a little more sense. I'm gonna add the link anyway tho 😝 ALSO if this raises any questions about Nico and Ängeli's relationship or about the boys, PLEASE ask me!! I'm happy to elaborate and will likely be adding to this post anyway as the story continues! 🩵

masterlist | noah and mateo au masterlist

Nico and Ängeli:

Nico and Ängeli/reader are the same age.

Ängeli isn’t from New Jersey, but she went to school there and stayed after she graduated because she was with Nico at that point.

They met the summer that Nico got drafted. They were 18. (2017)

They started dating at the beginning of 2018.

They got married at the end of June 2019. They were 20.

They had one ceremony in the States with Ängeli’s extended family, friends, and the team, and they had a second ceremony a couple of weeks later in Switzerland with Nico’s extended family and friends from home.

Kids were not in the plan when Ängeli got pregnant, but they had talked about the fact that they both wanted kids.

As mentioned in one of the chapters, when they found out they would be having twins, they decided that was enough kids for them.

The twins were born in 2021, making them almost four right now (Jan 2025).

Most fics take place a little bit in the future, but I am working on doing more when the boys were a little smaller.

Nico feels a lot of guilt for missing so much of twins’ lives because of hockey.

Noah:

The shy twin. 

A teensy bit shorter than Mateo.

Much more quiet and reserved than Mateo.

Easily a Mama’s boy.

Has some kind of weird connection with Luke Hughes. Luke can bring Noah out of his shell the same way Mateo does. No one else can do it, at least not as well as Mateo and Luke.

Also loves his Uncle Jonas. He sneaks Noah extra chocolate during their summers in Switzerland.

Is a dinosaur lover. A little nerd in general (lovingly)

Follows Mateo in everything. Gives Nico and Ängeli puppy dog eyes (straight from Nico, cope and paste) hoping he’ll be let off the hook when they get into trouble because he was “dragged” into it.

Mateo:

The outgoing twin.

23 minutes older than Noah.

This kid has never heard of slowing down.

Papa’s boy til the end. His Papa is his favorite person.

His second favorite person is Jack Hughes. They match each other’s energy.

Also loves Uncle Timo. Timo is quite the instigator when it comes to Mateo’s schemes and outgoing personality. 

Strangely is kind of attached to Curtis Lazar. He likes that Curtis low-key bullies Luke a little bit sometimes because Mateo can get jealous of Luke spending time with Noah.

Had a space phase for a little bit. Ended up being into cars instead.

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[hasufin]

Useful

Big Data: We know everything about you. We track where you live, what you buy, who you talk to, what you do for entertainment. We even listen in on your conversations. We will use this to tailor advertisement to you, and if we feel like it we will use this to influence your voting patterns and control your government.

Me: Cool, cool, cool. That's fine, totally fine. So, um, could you give me contact info for this guy I went to school with? I haven't heard from him in years and I was kinda wondering how he's doing.

Big data: Here's a bunch of super shady malware-laden sites which claim to have that info, and for only $24.99/month, non-cancellable, they'll probably not tell you.

Me: But you have that information. And since you supposedly get it from aggregating publicly-available data, there's no legal reason you couldn't tell me. It's all public data which you gathered legally, riiiight?

Big Data: Yes, of course. Definitely. Absolutely no illegal or unethical data mining here, no sirree. It's all completely legal and above board.

Me: And you'd be able and willing to prove that, right?

Big Data: No.

Me: Riiiight. Anyway, you have what I want. You know what I'm after. Some of the results you've shown me indicate very clearly you definitely know exactly what I want and are deliberately not showing it to me. Could I please just have it?

Big Data: No.

Anyway. I was thinking about this actually when I was trying to find a business on Google Maps. There's so much data gathered, and it's very obvious not only that various entities have that data but that they're the authoritative source of that data. And they're using that data for their own purposes, but they are intentionally withholding it in order to force a black market. It's not even simply someone wanting to acquire a huge batch of names and SSNs, it's that right now - in spite of the data not being privileged in any legal sense - the only way to find the phone number of Irene Adler in Craft Mills, Washington I would have to go to a site which is clearly meant to install a bot on my computer. And 20 years ago I could just go to Yahoo People Search and pull that information up.

And, you know, that drives resentment. They've demonstrated these services can exist, and it's not like there's no market. But they're refusing out of what seems like sheer spite. They're not even just refusing, they're actively taking these things away.

[mxcrayon]

losing my actual mind rn

i had this interaction in the dropout discord (i am the first and third person). short. simple. i only got the first year bc of a discount + a gift card i had, so i was planning on using this person's suggestion.

then, i got this.

oh my god!! how nice!! how sweet!!! how thoughtful!! i gave them my email and they sent over a subscription, i thanked them profusely. i was very grateful, very touched.

hours and hours later i was still thinking about it and i recalled how, in the email id gotten about it, it said "tao yang sent you a subscription" and id seen that and thought "oh haha like the tao yang" and then moved on

but now, thinking back, i was like.... theres no way, so i googled tao yang.

......

TAO YANG BOUGHT ME A FUCKING ANNUAL DROPOUT SUBSCRIPTION

[kradogsrats]

Oh! I think about this a lot, though I'm not really sure why besides that how people make decisions about children is inherently kind of interesting to me.

The Aaravos situation is unusual in that there's a relatively short timeline attached to it—they aren't putting off having children until some nebulous future time when there might finally not be some kind of crisis somewhere, they're putting it off for seven years, at which point they will be... all of 25 years old, which is generally considered to be a much better time to have a baby than 19 or 20. I've read stuff in other fandoms where the decision of whether to have a child during a time of threatened world crisis becomes about weighing the risks of the child growing up without one or both parents, or growing up in a dangerous and war-torn environment, or not growing up at all against the risk that the world will simply never be sufficiently safe. With a definite finality of "within ten years, either we have stopped Aaravos for good or the world has ended"... they might as well wait, which may or may not be bittersweet depending on how badly they want to get started.

(One thing that's interestingly vague about this setting is what/when is considered to be "adulthood." That's a number that has been pushed later and later in modern times, which is not a bad thing! However, looking at the characters themselves—Rayla is functionally a child soldier at 15, and Soren is already an officer in the Crownguard at 18, meaning he probably joined and was expected to be ready to die for his king at 16 or earlier. Callum being High Mage to Ezran makes sense, but is also literally putting a teenager in a government cabinet position. What makes all of that slightly less weird is that culturally, here in real world USAmerica and/or Canada, we have essentially added an entire new stage of non-adult life after 18, during which you are expected to figure out a career trajectory of some kind. When you remove the expectation of higher education from the question, "I have already launched my lifelong career at 16" works a little better. At that point, "I will start a family at 20-21" also sounds less insane because they've already been operating as an adult for several years.)

Anyway what I think would be really interesting about the whole question is the competing influences on both sides—Janai and Amaya explicitly get married during Karim's rebellion because she's "done putting off the good things for fear of the bad," and I think Ethari and Runaan would have a thought or two about waiting for the time to be "right" versus valuing yourselves and your family. Bringing a child into the world is obviously a bit different from getting married, but I think the "don't let the evil in the world dictate when you can seize joy" philosophy could still apply.

On the other hand, you have the personal experiences of Callum, Rayla, and Ezran with having absent parents. Callum lost his father as a young child, then his mother not long after, and was raised by his stepfather. Ezran never had a mother in his life, and lost his father, as well. One set of Rayla's parents left to defend the world and never came back. I think they'd all have some Big Feelings about those things—most obviously Rayla's parents, as the obvious closest analogue to their situation, but also like... it's at least kind of implied that Sarai and Damian had a child despite both of them knowing that he would likely not live to see that child grow up. I think it's unlikely that Callum doesn't feel Some Kind Of Way about that. Parental loss/abandonment trauma affects basically every character in this entire story, and while they all deal with it a bit differently... they all gotta deal with it.

(And of course, if you want to get extra angsty—what happens if suddenly OOPS ALL PREGNANT? What if it's in year one post-s7 versus year six post-s7? Do they keep the baby? Do they let Aaravos prevent them from keeping a child who is otherwise wanted? I feel like that's a much harder choice than whether to start trying for one.)

Rayllum, 10 babies and Xadian family planning

I’m trying to post the next chapter of Dark Alternative, but AO3 is very wonky, so you’re going to be subjected to my rambling thoughts on my new WIP for Work in Progress Wednesday.

So, over my vacation, I’ve been plagued by post-season 7 fanfic ideas. Short fics, obviously. No more than three chapters, as usual.

What’s got me intrigued right now, is how the continent of Xadia, or at least, a select group of people, will manage with living with the knowledge that Aaravos, in some form, is coming back in seven years. How would that affect politics and society, as well as the individual characters and the choices they make knowing that?

The regular folks would struggle to miss that whole eternal darkness and dead creatures thing that happened, but what do they know about exactly what went down?

And what do they know about what’s to come?

You know me, I’m a Rayllum person, so pretty much any fic of mine is a Rayllum fic, and this current idea is focused on how this particular threat affects the next stage of their lives.

Without a doubt, when we last saw Rayllum they were totally committed to each other and are fully ride or die… but how would that devotion relate to their future, in particular, the subject of children?

Now, I’m an angster in my deep dark heart, so while I’m sure many people could conceive of a fic where Rayllum are secure in their ability to defeat Aaravos come round two, that ain’t where my brain was ever going to go.

Rayllum are in love and clearly want a future together. Callum was openly planning a quaint little one in the Silvergrove before they were rudely interrupted by the whole end of the world dealio.

So, where does that leave them now (in my angsty reality anyway)?

In their youth, they both leaned into their more paranoid natures (Rayla leaving without Callum in TTM and Callum getting physical with Soren in season 4), and while they’ve both grown and matured since then, would such a threat as the world ending be enough to bring that paranoia right on back?

Which leaves me with my current fic planning conundrum.

Assuming Rayllum decided to forego the whole having kids thing until Aaravos is imprisoned again, how likely is it that they could plan when to have a family.

I’ve seen people say that the world of The Dragon Prince is in a medieval setting, and so people had children younger then, which, aside from not being the entire story, doesn’t feel like it really applies to a world with magic and dragons, a world that lacks the sexism and gender roles that are also associated with medieval times or other more grounded works set then.

Additionally, looking at canon, I think it could be reasonably argued that some form of birth control is readily available in the setting. In fact, I think it’s likely multiple forms of birth control exist in the world of The Dragon Prince.

From humans to elves, we don’t see large families normally associated with the inability to plan a family via the use of effective birth control. The “largest” family we see are the Sunfire monarchs, with three children. Viren and Lissa had two children only. Sarai may well have had more children had she lived, but Rayla’s parents spent multiple years at the Storm Spire and she remained an only child.

I can’t imagine there’s much in the way of entertainment at the Storm Spire either. Sure, they could abstain or get creative, but oof, hasn’t enough been asked of them?

Even looking at prior generations, we do not see large families. Given the closeness in ages of the siblings we know of, it also seems unlikely to me that children were lost in childbirth or to childhood illnesses.

To me, it seems far more likely that family planning is active in Xadia and would be a tool Callum and Rayla could exercise.

Clearly, no birth control is infallible (or I guess it can be, magic and all) and I assume Miyana’s twins were unplanned.

Personally, I head canon Rayla herself was an oopsie baby in order to further explain the complications of her parents being called away to join the Dragon Guard.

Where am I going with this? I don’t even know anymore.

I suppose, to me, it’s not a foregone conclusion that in seven years Rayllum would have a kid (or indeed multiple). The setting of the world doesn’t imply that it’s particularly difficult to prevent pregnancy. In fact, the small families imply to me that family planning is a cultural norm among elves and humans.

Faced with the imminent threat of Aaravos’ return, would Rayllum plan to start a family? Certainly, people put off having children for far lesser reasons.

We also don’t know how using dark magic, even in that limited capacity, has affected Callum and the potential for him to get possessed again. It was clearly enough to physically mark him, but does that go deeper?

Would imprisoning Aaravos once again result in an inevitable possession?

Not great when Dad gets taken over and abandons the family.

Or worse, Mum has to take him out.

Angsty though!

As usual, I’ll be doing my own thing in my fics, but I’m interested to see where Arc 3 goes with this (optimistically assuming we get it). There are a lot of factors at play to explain why we might see a lot of the characters in a state of stasis. Seven years isn’t that long when you’re facing the world ending, after all. Particularly when you’re likely to play a very active part in trying to stop that returning apocalypse.

So, which way to go? I see the angst potential in both.

On one hand, you’ve got the pain and desperation of protecting your kid from a returned Aaravos, or perhaps worse, a possessed Dad.

But on the other, you’ve got two people who likely want to take the next steps in their lives, but feel the pressure of a ticking bomb haunting them and potentially preventing them from moving forward.

Either way, bring on the pain.

[bixels]

Messy Trixie Charleston dance roughs.

[finncakes]

mothafuckin' tanks bitch!!!! 💥👊💥

redraw of photo under the cut

[ursinedyke]

“[the vote] was not to oppose your command of this camp. that is without question.” ohhh my god here we have ned at his wit’s end very suddenly leading a camp of restless, ill men who are telling him they prefer crozier’s plan to his own and dundy makes it a point to clarify that he does still respect his authority. they’re lead brained and tired and sick and starving and dying and still ned’s command is without question. he could have defended the choice any other way but he’s sure first and foremost to let ned know the decision they made wasn’t because nobody took him seriously. which is probably one of ned’s biggest insecurities especially at this point. but whatever its not like i care or anything

[charmwasjess]

At @calcedon79's request, I wanted to share this recipe! Writing this, I realized that a lot of the reason I don’t write down my recipes as a rule is that writing recipes is hard and I’m horribly bad at it!

Still, I’m gonna try, and I’m gonna give you way more information than you need because I want you to succeed! It might look long and intimidating, but it's just because I talk too much and want to tell you why I'm doing things, not just what I'm doing. This soup is cheap, easy, and amazing. 

I’ve tried to guesstimate amounts, but really, so much of my cooking is estimation. You want a bunch of leftovers? Okay, add extra onion, carrot, and another chicken breast and more broth. Looks like your onions are burning a little? Add more oil. Taste thoroughly as you get toward the end. Add more salt than you think you need.

You will need: 

Butter or olive oil or your sauté oil of choice

Onions (1-2)

Carrots (2-3)

Garlic (2-3 cloves crushed, or as many as you like)

Celery or Fennel bulb (2 sticks of celery or about a handful of chopped fennel bulb and stem)

Rotisserie chicken (designed around the bizarre cheapness and availability of these in US grocery stores, really any roast/cooked chicken breast will do)

A spoonful or two of flour

A little dry (not sweet) white wine (optional)

Chicken or vegetable broth (amount based on your pot size/desired quantity, I typically use a 32 ounce carton)

Salt

Pepper

Fresh dill (feel free to add any other leafy herbs if you like herby stuff, parsley would be great here too)

Spinach or leafy green of choice

Lemon

Creme fraiche (sour cream if you live in one of our charming American food deserts, or if you’re European, probably some insanely good third thing that I don’t even know exists, or even mascarpone, smetana, something like that. Creme fraiche can also be made at home by combining buttermilk and heavy cream)

Egg noodles (optional) OKAY!

Every good soup starts by sauteing butter or olive oil with salted chopped onions and garlic in a pan. 5-10 minutes, or however long until the onions are translucent. It will make your house smell amazing. You will feel at peace: confident in yourself and in the sexy genius who created this recipe. 

Chop and toss in carrots, celery and/or fennel (a handful or two.) Try to get them small and uniform because you’re gonna be the one with those pieces in your mouth and you want them to cook evenly. Low-medium heat. Add more oil or butter if it looks like things are sticking. 

While that’s cooking, let’s talk chicken. Where I live, it’s very easy to pick up a rotisserie (roasted) chicken at any grocery store for absurdly cheap- $5-7 depending on the size. It’s one of those economic tricks: stores actually lose money on the chicken, but people go to the store just for it and then they’ll end up buying 20 other things, so it's a net gain. Anyway, roasting your own chicken pieces instead is easy and I do it all the time, but for this recipe, I use the rotisserie because it’s cheap and fast and adds a lot of quick roasty flavor without any extra time. If that’s not available where you are, any roast chicken breasts or thighs will do. (Come see me in the comments if you need more instructions on roasting your own chicken pieces!) The key is to tear the cooked chicken with your hands into bite-sized pieces before adding it, so you have big, shreddy chunks instead of neatly cubed nibbles. It gives the whole soup a mood. Think about two or three handfuls of meat, proportional to the amount of onion/carrot/celery you added earlier. (The vegetables will shrink as it cooks, that’s fine and good!) 

Add a large spoonful or two of flour, just sprinkled over vegetables and chicken both. Give it like 1-2 minutes - just enough time that you’re starting to get really worried that it’s burning or sticking and you have ruined everything - that fucker Jess lied about this being easy!!

Then, dump in about half a cup of wine to deglaze the pan and stir it all up. It will do an absurdly satisfying quenchy sizzle. (If not, turn up the heat.) You don’t have to use the wine at all - actually, at this point, if you want to skip it, just add in all your broth. (If you do use the wine, add the broth after another 2-3 minutes, when the wine has boiled into the ingredients and largely disappeared.) The soup should look now like the amount of soup you intend to make. Why the flour? It’s not as much as if we were making a roux for a thick soup, but it adds just a bit of viscosity and girthy-ness to this soup. The flour sucked up all the flavor hanging out in your cooking oil and any chicken fat, formed a nice crusty roasty layer, and then the wine/broth dissolved it into the soup so every bite will have that deliciousness without a bunch of oil sitting on top of your soup.

Turn down the heat to low. Your broth + chicken and vegetable mixture can simmer for as long or short as you like: at minimum 10-15 minutes, at maximum, hours. Remember, longer simmers mean richer, deeper flavor, softer vegetables, and more fall-apart chicken. Shorter means brighter flavor, vegetables that might have a pleasant firmness if you like that, and generally more brothy soup. Either way, simmering also evaporates some of your moisture, so check your broth levels and add more if it looks like your soup is getting thicker than you want. 

We’re getting to the final steps here you do right before you want to serve. Chop up and add your dill + any leafy spinach greens (think about two big handfuls, but greens get super tiny as they cook, so you can go wild on this. I think this soup would be great with big handfuls of arugula, kale, or whatever you like. Bright and green!) Let your green stuff cook in about 5 minutes, but not longer, because they’ll turn brown and still taste good but not be very pretty.

OPTIONAL STEP TIME: I like to serve this soup with egg noodles, but I cook them separate and put them in the individual bowls on a serving by serving basis, because I don't like soggy noodles disintegrating in my leftovers. If you want to do the same, now is the time to start a second pot of water, boil your egg noodles, and strain them. Just follow the package - usually it’s about 5 minutes. 

Now is a good time to adjust the salt and pepper. Add salt, taste, add more salt, taste, add more salt. Don’t be shy because there’s a ton of shit in this soup sucking up your salt. If you taste it and you don’t like it, nine times out of ten it just needs more salt than you would expect. I like spicier things, so I add a ton of black pepper - and sometimes even white pepper or cayenne for extra warmth.

Squeeze an entire lemon into the soup with your hands or one of those lemon destructo devices.

Put in a bowl with egg noodles if using, a little extra dill on top if you want to be fancy, and a dollop of creme fraiche. The creme fraiche really is important - it will softly and dreamily melt into the soup while you’re eating it, creating a luxurious, creamy texture that goes super well with the brightness of the lemon and herbs.

Whew, okay, meet me in the comments if you have any questions!

This was the chicken soup I was talking about in my other post about soups

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[wyvernity]

sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH

bonus

[chushanye]

I am so beyond happy that Kristen is messy as hell. I'm glad that jealousy overtakes her after a breakup. I'm glad she is procrastinating and completely lost when it comes to reviving/creating a religion, and that the weight of responsibility is freaking her out so much she is ruining her relationship with her goddess. I'm glad Ally made her fall behind in school simply because needing to do it is overwhelming. I love that she bitterly snaps at people who annoy her.

she's a character that in every step and decision is reminiscent of a teenager you might actually meet. the heart is there, the flaws are there. she feels so tangible. I love her, so so much.

[xiewho]

hiii :) i just wanted 2 say i love how u draw gorgug and fabian thistlecaster is such an underrated ship and their interactions are some of the best in fh

HI ANONNN THANK U !! i wholly agree they have such a fun and interesting dynamic i wish people explored more !! here's a silly gorgug + fabian moment from fhsy for u <3 (cause i want an excuse to draw them again hehe) hoot growl baby !!

[modkatisbacc]

Saw some folks point out that Lilly was most likely like the youngest in the Alliance, since her dad fought alongside Libby, Ray, and Maya in the War.

Consider, Even if this is more of me throwing a little bit of AU out there: Her father dies when she's twelve, and wanting to keep all the elemental masters together, Wu and Garmadon bring her into the Elemental Alliance, knowing that she already had the powers of Earth.

The other elemental masters freak out because,,, *points* that is a CHILD.

But they also understand that if she was left to her own devices (her mother passed when she was really little) then she could put herself or others in grave danger with her powers.

They absolutely deck little Lilly out in impressive weapons and battle armor.

Now here we go into heavy headcanons/au territory.

With Libby being the second youngest EM in the group, her and Lilly form a close bond.

Like her parents, Ed and Edna, Libby is great at creating things. She LOVES building- mechs, especially. With Libbys help, Lilly's first mech (the one donated to TOS I've decided) was created.

Yes they may have gone all out on safety features on the mech, but would you completely trust a twelve year old with a very large elemental mech?

One day she brings over a boy. Wu and Garmadon are WORRIED because the boy is NOT an elemental master, he doesn't even know anything about fighting. She is sixteen and could punch the head clean off someone's shoulders with her powers...

These two are worried the most because they personally made it their mission to make sure the EMs were ot being hunted or used for their powers. So, bringing in a non EM into the fold was deemed risky.

They of course warm up to Lou, who thinks Lilly is the coolest person in the world and he learns basic self defense from her.

The EM Alliance falls apart when she is only 20 . *I say that bc everyone looks like they may be in their 50's, mid-late 50's after the Merge With Lilly being a decade younger well .. she would've been a decade younger at least :/*

She gets sick after she defeats Grief-Bringer. It wasn't bad at first, she honestly just thought she may have caught a cold. Also yes, in my headcanons and AUs Cole has been born when she goes to Shintaro. I have another post going into an au-headcanon mashup (I say headcanons because it isn't necessarily disproved by canon) that I kinda want to write about some day.

Knowing she was going to get worse, she started working on making sure Cole was prepared to become the next Master of Earth. When she was feeling well enough she would leave the house (unfortunately she also didn't tell Lou where she was going most of the time fidjxjsjshd)

Refused to pass on afterwards and instead keeps an eye on her family. Is the reason SOMEONE survives stuff that he shouldn't have.

Fun Facts about Lilly!!! That are canon in my stories!!!

- She is a realm hopper. Yes this is based on the fact that she apparently spied on Garmadon while he was in the Underworld in that one comic. I haven't read it but you know. I want to do something with that knowledge.

- she isn't in the Departed Realm especially after the Merge. She's trying to keep an eye on Cole while trying to find her husband and her friends. She found Wu first, of course. And with Wu, she found Garmadon. Before the Merge she would switch between watching over Lou and Cole.

- She is the only Previous EM of Ninjago to participate in the TOS, which may or may not be canon. I say this bc of that outfit and you know... The mech....

-Cole is 9, she is 29 when she dies. Also it's freaking sad because ain't no way Ray and Maya knew this until almost a decade later. Wu keeps a close eye on him and Lou afterwards. You know since he was canonically there for his birth hello??? *According to the comic*

- fun fact about me it literally took me 6 hours to write all this in one setting bc I was at work. Lilly did this to me.

Also, if there are any timeline problems that aren't just me pushing it for the AU tell me about it so I can fix it please I don't want it to be too off the course!!!

I think that's it for now,,,

[every-sanji]

[autistic-katara]

icl i would be at least a little happy with almost any ending for stranger things but one thing that would ruin all of it would be an epilogue (of a decade or more later)