#just a nickname since his name is also hershel

[verduresapiens-archive]

Just a little... ‘talk’

Hershel couldn’t help but feel a mote of pride when he watched Randall enter Misthallery. Awe. Admiration. Sure, the immediate outer territory was a little wild-looking, but it was just to help keep people out - once past the barrier, it was meticulously cared-for garden plots wherever Hershel had been able to fit them. It never got old, seeing that amazement, in their faces.

But then he remembered who this was. This was Randall. The bastard himself, second only to Bronev in regards to how much Hershel hated him.

“Wow... Did you do all this yourself, Hersh?” Hershel twitched slightly at the nickname. Ignored it.

“A good portion, yes. Much of it was done with help. I’ve some workers helping me out - some employed, others are volunteers.” He began walking - Randall following behind. There was a bit of small talk - Hershel could tell Randall was a bit nervous. A shame that Hershel didn’t care.

Randall could be nervous all he wanted - it would earn no sympathy from him.

Hershel led Randall to a little area out of the way - a section of garden that initially looked like it was designed for somebody to relax. Which it was, partly. It was also one of several little sequestered areas designed for specifically this - isolating an unseeded person so he could get them alone for just long enough. But first...

“Sorry about this, but I trust you about as much as I do Bronev, so~!” Vines. Surging in from the underbrush and clinging to Randall as he made an attempt to run. Failed. The young man babbled then - desperate to get his once-friend to listen, but Hershel had long since had enough of listening to people he’d been betrayed by. It only took a moment, filled with wildly confused noises and an amount of struggling - bookended with sounds of disgust and demands to know what had just happened. He’d been seeded, not that Hersh was in the mood to explain how all that worked.

“Be quiet.” Randall obeyed. There was a fascinating amount of confusion and distress on his face, and Hershel would have loved to experiment a bit if he didn’t have other, more important plans. “I have questions, and this is the only way I’m willing to ask them, as you don’t have enough willpower to lie to me like this. Understand?” A pause, a delightfully irritated glare, and then Randall nodded.

Good. Not that the man had a choice. He could say no all he wanted, Hershel would just make him change his mind. He would have his answers.

“Alright. Question one; how did you find me, and was Targent involved?” A few moments pause - either fighting the seed’s compulsion, or genuinely trying to figure out the best way to word the response.

“Tangentially. I was contacted by a man named Simon Foster who said he was looking for you. He said he was caught up in a lot of things and had only just recently realized you weren’t safe. Sounded like he was beating himself up over it.” Simon. Descole. It tracked - Simon-slash-Desmond was usually quite busy with his own life until adulthood. Hershel had gotten into trouble as a teenager - Descole wouldn’t have had the means to find out until years later. Until that point he’d likely have assumed Hershel to be living a happy, safe, comfortable life with the Laytons. “Simon had me investigate leads in person while he dug up information from afar. He’s pretty paranoid about Targent finding him, but managed to track when Targent took you to the point where you... left, pretty quickly. After that things got real hard to find. Eventually we determined you’d been to London at least a few times, and... here I am.” Well, that all made sense.

Descole didn’t track him down because the man wouldn’t have had the resources to know his brother was in anything but safe, happy conditions until well into adulthood, at which point everything had been done and over with. No Targent influence here, at least yet. Not in the way Hershel had assumed, at least.

“And Simon isn’t a part of Targent?” Hershel didn’t think he was, but you never knew.

“No. He hates them. Won’t tell me exactly why, but it’s not hard to tell that he does. Gets a specific tone of voice when he talks about them. Real angry. Like you, when I talked to you in your store.” Hershel couldn’t help but huff. Of course he was angry at Randall.

Really, Hershel only had the one question he wanted to ask. How Randall had found him wasn’t nearly as important to him as what had happened in the past. Randall was the only one that could answer that. Well, Bronev could, but Randall was significantly less armed than Bronev was at a given time.

“Did you contact Targent when I was forced to live in the forest?” Randall’s expression changed from irritation to horror. Or at least as much as it could, under the seed’s sway.

“No! I would never do that! They came into town a few days before they they stormed off to find you, maybe a week or two. Poked around the whole damn place for ages until rumors about you started circulating - I overheard them talking, and people at school, well... Gossip about the strangers stomping all over town was popular.” This surprised Hershel, and he took a second to collect himself. Pull it all back into the tight little ball surrounded by anger and rage.

“So what, you heard them talking then sold my location to them? For what, to get me out of your hair? To get Targent out of town?” Hershel hissed, barely holding himself back. Randall’s expression remained horrified, if slightly insulted.

“My family is rich, why the hell would I need to sell my best friend out for more useless cash?!” Randall spat back - probably just as irritated that Hershel was assuming that, as Hershel was at Randall in general. “They came into town badgering people about the Azran, and then when they heard rumors about you they wouldn’t stop badgering people about you! I didn’t know they’d track you down until the day of! I figured I’d get to you faster than them since I knew where you were, not that I’d stroll in to watch you be kidnapped!” Stress, anger, an amount of sadness, it seemed - Randall was clearly feeling several things.

And now Hershel was too. His seeds didn’t lie. Randall, under the persuasion of Hershel’s seeds, still said that no, he hadn’t had any affiliation with Targent whatsoever. No. No, that... No.

“Get out.” Hershel hissed quietly, telling the vines to let the man go. Randall sounded like he wanted to say something, sounded like he was struggling against the seeds in whatever way he could - but Hershel spoke again- “Get out! Get the hell out!” Randall, under the seed’s power still, did as he was told. He darted off in the direction of the entrance, hopefully back to London, hopefully far away from him. Hershel wanted...

Something else. Anything else. Anything that involved Randall staying as far away from him as possible.

[fatherobbed-blog]

HERSHEL JR. GREENE RHEE / ON THE ROAD TO GREENE FARM

001.     left     late     last     night    from    alexandria   ,   virgina    and    heading    down    to    senoia  ,   georgia    to    visit    family    (    maggie   on   social   media   )   ...    still    asleep    but    it’s    almost   time   for    him   to    wake    up. 002.     driving     back    home,    he     cried    before    he    left    but    not    after    aunt    beth    gave    him  a    kiss    and    present,     see    you   next    time    family   !    (    maggie   on   social   media  )     

[legendary-defender-of-fandoms]

Avatar Hunk AU Sneak Peek

So, I wanted to have a few Avatar Hunk stories ready for @hunk-appreciation-week , but I bit off more than I could chew & don’t have any of them done. To compensate, I thought I would share some backstory, Headcanon, story ideas, and other stuff that I want to put in my Avatar Hunk AU.

Part 1 - The Premise

Before I get too far, I need to give credit where credit is due. @avatarpabu97 was the one who originated the idea of Hunk being the new Avatar. I thought it was cute at first, but the more they shared about their Headcanon & the more I thought about it, the more I realized how it was a fantastic idea. It fit with the cycle of the preceding Avatar shows, it gave our favorite sunshine boi a chance to shine, and it could lead to some awesome stories that combine the best of Voltron AND Avatar! @avatarpabu97 had a lot of cool ideas for what kind of Bender everyone would be and who would be where, and our ideas might overlap in some spots. But I had a few ideas of my own for how the Voltron folks would fit in the Avatar universe.

Anyway, the Premise. For my Avatar Hunk AU, it would be set in the world of Avatar about 70-80 years after the events of Legend of Korra. The tech levels would be more advanced than what we have (given their access to Spirit Energy, Bending, etc.), but not quite on, say, Star Trek levels. Korra has died (of old age, or at least peacefully in her home), and the world has started to look for the new Avatar. But given the technological advancements made since Korra’s time, this is seen as more of a side quest by the general public. The White Lotus & the New Air Nation dispatch a few teams, and some ambitious mover producers decide to create game shows to find the new Avatar, but for the rest of the world, life moves on. A new research and development corporation, Galra Tech, starts to make serious advances in harnessing Spirit Energy. The CEO, Zarkon Daibazaal, is a suave businessman who started his company to help people. But having all this power at his disposal leads to corruption, and the chief scientist for his company - his wife, Honerva - has been performing more and more unsettling experiments. They may have plans to invade the Spirit World to reap untold power, conquer the world, yadda yadda yadda. So the Avatar will be needed once more to prevent the exploitation of the Spirit World, another Spirits vs Humans war, and possibly the destruction of the planet? Haven’t planned that far yet.

Part 2 - The Characters

Hunk - Born and raised in Zhao Fu, Tsuyoshi Hershel Seidou Garrett is the only son of Tsuyoshi Garrett, an Earthbender (and a distant descendant of Haru from the original series), and Lisa Seidou, whose family immigrated from the Northern Water Tribe after the Earth Empire dissolved. His nickname was a misnomer, since he was a very small baby, but he quickly grew into it. His parents always knew their child was special (Spirits used to gravitate towards him when he was a baby, he took to Earthbending like a turtle duck to water when he was five, he started Metalbending & helping his father in the family Satomobile shop when he was ten, and he’s always been the sort to end disputes & help those in need), but they wanted Hunk to discover his destiny on his own, let him decide if he should let the world know he is the Avatar. Hunk earns an academic scholarship to the Hiroshi Sato School of Technology & Exploration at Republic City University, where he meets a colorful group of friends & discovers the dangers of Galra Tech’s Spirit Energy experiments. When Hunk starts to realize he’s the Avatar, he’s not sure what to think. I mean, the Avatar is supposed to save the world every other week, isn’t he? And the Avatar’s always been some confident badass who can take out armies by themselves & never backs down from a fight. Hunk wants to help however he can, but he’s not sure he has what it takes to be the Avatar. Until he realizes just how much is on the line, in which case Hunk decides it doesn’t matter if the Spirits made a mistake or if someone else should be the Avatar. He has the ability to help others, and he’ll do whatever he can to save the people he loves.

Gyrgan - Hunk’s animal companion, an Armadillo Lion. Hunk saved him from poachers when he was a cub, and the two have been inseparable ever since. Gyrgan is slow to trust new people, but once he has accepted someone in his life he becomes a giant lap kitty. Threatening those he loves, however, can lead to a death more terrifying than failing an Altean linguistics class. Hunk has taught him proper manners, so he’s not a menace & is permitted to be boarded at RCU. Much like Naga and Appa, he’s huge & can be ridden by Hunk, but typically won’t let others ride.

Lance McClain - A Waterbending mischief maker from Whale Tail Island, Lance and his family move to Zhao Fu when Lance is 12 years old. The two instantly bond over their love of “Nuktuk, Hero of the South” (who, much like Captain America and Wonder Woman, has evolved past his propaganda origins into a pop culture hero with multiple reboots, spinoffs, and Saturday morning cartoons). Lance isn’t quite the scholar Hunk is, but he does manage to get into RCU on a Probending scholarship & is excited to go to his sister Veronica’s alma mater. Until he finds a certain big-eyed mullet boy is on his Probending team & in his classes (not sure how far the Klance stuff is going to go, because I have little writing experience & even less experience with LGBT+ rep. But I want it to keep true to the 30+ years of Klance sexual tension that dates back to GoLion.) Still, when the world starts to fall apart, Lance won’t be left out of the action. (Might also make Lance a descendant of Sokka and Suki, but not sure how to work that into the story)

Katie “Pidge” Holt - The daughter of the head of the Technology department at RCU, Pidge is a child prodigy when it comes to computers. She manages to skip a few grades & get into the Hiroshi Sato School of Technology at the age of 15. Pidge has a pet Owl Cat named Rover who becomes instant besties with Gyrgan. Pidge’s mother was the daughter of Air Acolytes, and Pidge is a skilled Airbender. However, Pidge doesn’t really connect well with others. Until she gets to Computer Algorhithms class and meets Hunk, the first person close to her age who not only understands her techno jargon, but contributes with his own tech knowledge instead of scoffing & calling her a nerd or teacher’s kid. She’s not so sure about his buddy/roommate Lance, but he kind of grows on her & they eventually bond over their love of Space Sword video games. Pidge’s brother Matt was interning at Galra Tech when their experiments in the Spirit World started to spiral out of control, and Pidge will do whatever it takes to bring him home. Even if it means fighting the entirety of the Spirit World.

Keith Kogane - You know how Mako & Bolin had it rough, growing up on the streets after their parents were killed by a Firebender? Now imagine if either one had to do it alone & never knew what happened to their mother because she took off when they were babies. After Keith’s father is killed in a freak industrial accident, the young Firebender falls in with the Blade of Marmora Triad. He’s caught during a raid by Detective Takashi Shirogane and his partner Ulaz, a former Blade, but instead of putting him juvenile detention Shiro decides to give the kid a shot at a new life (maybe he shows mercy to someone the Blades ordered him to kill, or he has impressive Firebending skills, or Shiro’s a sucker for mullets). Keith starts channeling his aggression into Probending, playing against a certain hotshot from Whale Tail Island over the years, and he eventually gets into the Lin Beifong School of Criminal Justice at RCU. He’s less than thrilled to be on the school’s Probending team with Lance, and after Shiro disappears Keith considers dropping out. But when Shiro reappears (backstory below), Keith will put aside his petty rivalry with Lance and help Shiro with taking down Galra Tech once and for all.

Takashi “Shiro” Shirogane - A skilled Metalbender & brilliant detective, Shiro is everything Hunk thinks an Avatar should be. Intuitive, compassionate, a great leader, skilled in a fight - is there any chance Raava can pick this guy to save the world? But one night, Shiro & his partner Ulaz (not sure if they’re just platonic partners or if they’re also partner-partners, also not sure where Adam & Curtis will come in if they exist at all) are sneaking through a Galra Tech laboratory after receiving anonymous tips that Honerva was capturing Spirits to experiment on, an explosion destroys the building. Shiro loses his partner, his arm, and six months of his life (which Honerva May or May not be responsible for). When he finally returns to his Republic City apartment, he’s visibly distraught by the lost time & a vague memory of something horrible coming. Pidge & Hunk work together to make Shiro a prosthetic he controls with Metalbending, at which point Shiro realizes Hunk is the Avatar & warns him about the Spiritpocalypse. Hunk isn’t sure what Shiro expects him to do about it, and Shiro promises to stand by his side in the coming war to defend humanity & avenge Ulaz.

Allura & Coran will also be part of the story, but I haven’t quite figured out their motivations or backstories yet. Allura will be a powerful Healer from the Northern Water Tribe (not sure if she’ll be a Princess or the daughter of Alfor of Altea Industries, a company that was bought out by Galra Tech through shady deals, corporate espionage, and some old friend backstabbing), and Coran will be Varrick’s grandson & heir to Varrick Industries.

Part 3 - The Stories

I’ve only got a couple of plots right now, but more are coming.

1) A New Beginning - this will be a prologue for the series, confirming the death of Avatar Korra & introducing everyone to baby Hunk. We’ll also get to see Tsuyoshi, Lisa, and a bit of their extended family. Expect maximum cuteness. This is the only story I’ve started so far, and I have it all figured out in my head. I just need to transcribe it.

2) The Boy and the Armadillo Lion - this will be how Hunk meets Gyrgan & when he starts to suspect he might be the Avatar. There will be some tough stuff in here regarding poaching, but most of the animal torture will be implied. One of those “this guy needs to be returned to his mother/oh, don’t worry, he’ll be with his mother soon enough” situations. We’ll see “a boy and his future pet” bonding similar to Hiccup & Toothless, lots of fighting & chasing, and Baby’s First Avatar State. Also debating if I want Old Man Meelo to make a cameo. I love the idea of Meelo deciding to be a hermit in the Swamp because the Avatar’s going to need a cooky wise old mentor in the swamp, but it may raise too many questions if he watches Hunk fight off the poachers without doing anything to help. Maybe Hunk will ride through the Swamp on his way to RCU while wrestling with his insecurities about being the Avatar, and after fighting a few Swamp Hallucinations in the form of past Korra baddies Meelo will pop out of nowhere like Rafiki saying something like “You forgot to be the leaf!”

3) A series of vignettes about young Hunk developing his Bending skills. Earthbending sand castles with his dad, figuring out Metalbending while watching him work on his uncle’s racing Satomobile (oh, he has an Uncle Filo who races Satomobiles professionally), thinking he’s using Lavabending to weld a broken pipe (but Tsuyoshi realizes it’s Firebending), healing his friend Lance when he gets scraped up after trying to pull off a Nuktuk dive while their families vacation at Lake Laogai (which, without the Dai Lee hideout, is a fairly popular vacation spot), that sort of thing.

[mis3rabl3m3lody]

MAMA!!!

No but that is a word I often blurt out at random times, so I'll sometimes call my f/os Mama(even though they're all male dbdbdb)

I also most often call them "Sweetie", "Cutie" and "BB" or even "My smart little man" since all of them have very big brains 😊I just think it's cute dbdbdhsbs 💕 Sometimes I make a variation of their name, or give them a nickname based on certain traits of theirs. Here are some examples:

Tintin: Tin-Can, Tinman, Tinny Boy, Quiff Boy, Baby Man, Round Face, My strong lad, No-Jawline-Having-Ass(my personal favorite lmao)

Hershel: Hersh, Hershey(Just so I can say "I wanna Hershey's Kiss), Professor Lego, Square Man, Puzzle Freak, Top Hat McGee

Clive: Beanpole, My Dove, Blue Raspberry, My British Twink, Kneesocks(His shorts with those socks kill me bro, like cLIVE GET A NEW FIT ALREADY), My Little Gremlin

Alfendi: Al(when referring to "Potty"), Fendi(when referring to "Placid"), Alfredo Laynguini, Fender-Bender, Golden Eye, Snively(If you're a Sonic fan then you might see how I made that connection 😂), Bird Man(his face and nose reminds me of a bird ok?), Clown Shoes, Twig Legs(How tf you walk on those things??GOTDAMMMM)

As for what they call me, since they all have the same sort of niche, they mostly call me "Darling", "Dear", or "Love". But here are some of their own nicknames for me:

Tintin: My Treasure, Mon Cher, Mon Amour, Sleepy-Head(I sleep in a lot sjdbdbs) Mon Fleur, Fille Folle(Translates to "Crazy Girl"), Weirdo

Hershel: Silly Girl, My Sweet Melody(Hersh isn't much of a nickname guy)

Clive: My Little Doll, Freckles, Four-Eyes, Giggles, Miss Piggy(I snort and squeal a lot 😂), Closet Whore, Stockings(callback to "Kneesocks" since I often wear stockings djebejej), Hairbow

Alfendi: Dummy, Ragdoll Freak(I collect Raggedy Ann dolls and Alfendi is terrified of them djdhreh), Clown, Fatass, Depressed Slut, Lunatic, Miserable Meatball

what sort of things do you call your f/o? they can be romantic pet names used to make them swoon, or stupidly silly nicknames you blurt out that catch them by surprise. a shortened version of their name works, too. how do they usually react when you call them that? are you fond of pet names?

bonus! do you like being called any nicknames? if so, what names do they call you?

[sienna27]

TWD Spoilers - The Big Scary U (8x05)

Notes.  Again, separate bullets.  Though there are no literal bullets.  

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So to open with “bullets.”  Did they actually have Negan refer to the rifle’s magazine, as a “clip?”   They are not the same things.  Negan would know this.  And I am QUITE sure that all of the show’s explosive/FX guys and gals would know this too.  It’s just little bits of sloppiness like that in the writing, which make me sigh.

The whole scene with the Negan Round Table was tense and well done, but would have been WAY more suspenseful if we hadn’t seen that every one of those people sitting around the table (potentially about to be Lucille’d if Negan had gone off like it ‘seemed’ that he would) if we hadn’t already known all of those folks were alive and perfectly well when Rick et al showed up to ram the barricades.  Just saying, no issue at all with flashbacks to forward the plot, they save us needless exposition, but they literally could have opened the Premiere with that scene, as in aired it ‘in order’ and it would have been just fine with me.

Nice touch with all the marks and dents on Negan’s end of the Meeting Table.  It wasn’t even like it was a camera pan, I just happened to notice it. So I’d like to think that was JDM fucking it up during rehearsal.  

King Ass Face.  Heh.  And so CHILDISH!  You know why?  Because Ezekiel (and his “They’ve Got a God damn Tiger” tiger #RIPSHIVA) were the ones that saved Alexandria and ran Negan off before he could kill Carl and cripple Rick.  Negan is a bitter child. 

Not to belittle Glenn’s death but I will allow that it was ‘refreshing’ (for lack of a better word that I can’t think of right now) to hear him referred to as “The Widow’s Husband,” when you know it’s always women referred to as ‘so and so’s wife.’  

So Rick, Daryl, Carl, The Widow, The Ginger, Preacher, King Ass Face.  Is that everybody that Negan knows by ‘name?’  If so, I am VERY curious as to what he would call Carol.  Because the Termites were the ones who nicknamed her and Daryl The Archer and the Queen Bitch.  I think Negan would come up with something more unique for her.  

Speaking of Negan, let’s get into him for a second.  His discussion of “rubbing one out” in the trailer to calm down was a discussion I could have done without.  I’m not saying it was bad writing, it was effective in adding a layer to his creep factor, but still, didn’t need the imagery in my head.  Blech.  Overall though, Negan referred to his junk or someone else’s junk seriously like a RIDICULOUS number of times, and by the end, it HAD lessened my view of the character.  Which I’m assuming was intentional, because he no longer comes off as quirky, powerful scary, he just comes off as a genuine creep.  Like dude, it’s a workplace, enough about your dick.   I know this was filmed back in early summer but it was striking me as oddly ‘timely’ with the current wave of creepy harassers being exposed (no pun) right now.  

Simon Ogg is really excellent at ‘goofy scary’ which is a very particular skill set.  And it pains me to say it (though I’ve intimated to this before) but I am not ‘un-fond’ of Gavin.  I will be a little sorry when he gets killed.  That is mostly because he is a good actor, and he plays him more like a ‘real’ person, if that makes sense.  Obviously I know it’s the writing too, but like him going through the doorway to see that Rick and everyone were outside about to unleash hell and he muttered, “oh shit.”  Because THAT is what you say in that moment!  Then again walking out to see the double digit worker insurrection and muttering, “Jesus Christ.”  Again, APPROPRIATE RESPONSE FOR THE MOMENT!  He doesn’t walk around with a false bravado or a true psychopathy like some of the others, he’s just in the middle of this shit and he holds the line of what he needs to do but he’s said before, he just chose this as the easiest path.  Unlike most of the Saviors who are psychopaths or average redneck, dirtbags, I believe that Gavin could just as easily have been part of any of these other groups.  He just happened to run into Negan first.

Speaking of their redneck dirtbags, are there any black Saviors?  Or Asian, or Hispanic saviors for that matter?  I know the workers there for sure yes, clearly a multi-ethnic group, but I am drawing a blank on any ‘non-white’ members of their armed faction.  Hmph.  (*whispers* racist)

I have missed Eugene’s Eugene’isms.  From the beginning the show has always had characters who added levity to scenes that weren’t funny and with Abraham and Glenn, and Merle, and HERSHEL, etc., all dead, Eugene’s absence in that area was a missing piece of the key TWD puzzle.  That said, if he doesn’t trade a couple of his cucumbers for a full set of working testicles, and do a major doublecross of Negan I have no problem with him being Lucille’d or made into walker chow.  Him not immediately diming out Dwight was a good start.  And I think he was genuinely happy to see Gabriel too.  

Gabriel grew a pair!  Like, for real!  He was manipulative and lowered Negan’s defenses and fucking stripped him of his gun!  Damn, man!  Good job!  I mean, it didn’t work out, but still!  SOLID EFFORT!  

The Rickyl.  Rick’s points weren’t wrong, but Daryl was right.  I am TeamDaryl on this one.   Things change.  You had three full communities of fighters in this war, and now you have two.  It’s like you lost a whole God damn country.  War plans are changed when a country is lost from the list of allies.  Especially when you only had two allies.  And Daryl wasn’t being psychotic with his plans!  He wanted to end it all that day.  The quicker a war ends, the more people live.  That’s a ‘duh’ moment.  And he listened to Rick’s point about the families and nodded like ‘yeah, okay I don’t want to kill the families,’ then pointed out, ‘but hey, they live over in this part of the compound we’ll just go in on the other side, they can run up the stairs to escape the walkers and Rick is still, “No! People could get hurt!” Dude!  you’re fighting a WAR!  You can, and should, work to minimize civilian causalities but you can’t save everyone!  It’s your people or their people.  One of them has to be the MAIN priority, and one has to be the LESSER priority.  Get with it, man.  

The fight did have good wind up music though.  I think it was a riff off of the Daryl/Richard fight music!  Even with Daryl’s “NAW!”  Ha, ha!

Then Rick, FUCKING MORON(!!!!!), tosses the explosives into the fire.  This Rick, this is why people think you’re bad at coming up with plans.  Because blowing up the truck, instead of the Savior compound, was a “bad plan.”  Their faces after that were a nice, amusing, break to the tension. Like a sigh, and “okay, well, that’s the end of that.’  And their sweet little choke hold callback.  You do know that we have the only show, in the world, with a sweet little CHOKE HOLD, callback :)  It was also sweet how Daryl was all about unleashing his frustration on Rick, and kicking his ass, then he realizes that Rick might actually get hurt (again because he’s a fucking moron) and then it was all “I will grab your hand and drag your ass out of here because I LOVE you!”   :)

Negan couldn’t put down Woman Lucille after she turned.  So Negan is . . . Morgan.  Hmph.  I also would have been cool with a quick flash of Woman Lucille showing Hilarie B in that role.  

Now one point that I’ve never gotten into before on my notes here,but it has been with me since the beginning of my season seven catch up, was the whole thing with Negan’s “wives.”  Because his fans are all, ‘oh he’s not a rapist, he’s okay.’  But what he does is NOT okay.  He sees a woman that he likes and makes their husbands GIVE them to him so he doesn’t beat their brains in!  He IS a rapist.  Just because you aren’t physically holding the women down during the “act” doesn’t make what he’s doing any less of a violation.  Christ, his wives were trying to kill him!  These are not voluntary relationships! They want him DEAD!   I’m not trying ‘to do battle’ with a whole sub-segment of the shipping community but yeah, a guy who coerces women into having sex with him or he’ll kill them and/or their real husbands is just fucking disgusting.  I’m hoping that all of that stuff being brought up again (plus all of the creepy dick talk above) is the part of the writer’s efforts to remove the ‘mystique’ around him, and make him more of ‘pathetic douchebag,’ than a ‘charming villain.’    It’s working guys!  👍🏽

Speaking as a Virginian, and knowing our “fairly” balanced racial makeup in the NOVA area, I can say without a doubt that there were not nearly enough ‘black walkers’ in that herd of dead people.   Were those like “Friendship Heights” walkers?  Because otherwise, no.  

The Regina actress is a terrible actress.  It’s SO rare that they have a casting misfire (“fifth letter of the alphabet” *cough, cough*) that it is JARRING when a bad actor shows up.  Because bad acting takes you out of the moment and when she yelled, “I’m Negan,” with all of the impact of a high school theater production, I was like, ‘oh, no, no that made my ears hurt.  Shhhh.”    No future talking for her.  She just needs to stand there and look tough until she gets iced.

And as long as I’m on this, Austin isn’t a super great actor either.  Not terrible.  And maybe the prosthetic on the face is hurting him.  Not physically but like affecting his performance, because he doesn’t ‘project’ much in the way of emotion.  I understand he was doing a double cross there and trying to protect his identity, so he was supposed to be ‘pretending’ to be tough when he was actually just freaking out that they would figure out it was him and he’d get tossed out into the herd.  Still, I’d never watched him before and thought, “wow, he’s good,” like I have for (as examples) Simon and Gavin above.  So I’m going to stick with, ‘not super great.’  :(  But on the bright side, I have HIGH hopes Daryl will murder him by season’s end.  

Helicopter.  I blinked, and blinked, and blinked.  So confused.  Like, does it belong to the Garbage Pail Kids?  Do they have a helicopter in the dump? Because it was their ‘neighborhood’ Rick was walking through.  Curious.  Very curious.  Maybe it’s a harbinger for next season...

Overall even though it was Savior focused I didn’t hate it, but that was ONLY because they balanced it with the Rickyl.  I don’t wish to see another Savior focused episode, at all though, so here’s to hoping we won’t have to.  And I would have totally skipped next week (more of Jesus is enough for me to skip right now) but then Carol had to show up in the next scene damn it.  See, keeping one of the Magic Three Carickyl constantly on screen DOES affect viewership, because I can’t be the only one who was like, ‘okay, fine. I’ll watch.’

Finally to the Caryl:  Updating my note here, because on second watch, the scene was actually much more layered than it seemed!  Full thoughts (with screenshots) on that over here on this post.  Still though, screw you random Dying In The Street Savior for telling Daryl that  Carol was alive!  We needed him to check on that shit himself!!!  And he WOULD have damn it, because his face when he thought that EVERYONE was dead, was complete horror and panic.  Then the relief when he found out about the badass woman who killed all of the other saviors, (because of course he knew if there’s ever a Last Woman Standing it’s his Carol) was totally an ‘oh yeah, that’s my girl.  Thank God she’s okay,” sigh.  It was actually kind of the reverse of her hearing his motorcycle last week.  Her smile, then his sigh of relief of knowing that she was still all right.  And that’s our Caryl for the week.  Which is again, (let’s all remember the drought) more Caryl than we got in 96% of last season’s episodes!  So I can’t even be annoyed with Norman.  He wasn’t trolling, he didn’t SAY anything was going to happen with like a ‘wink, wink or something.  He was just excited about tonight because of the Rickyl stuff, and he was excited about his Melissa tweet because he loves Melissa and apparently really liked that Caryl scene with her.  So he put it up again, and I got my hopes too high that the writers would reward us, as I would have rewarded us.  It was on me.  I own it.  Sorry folks if I got anyone else’s hopes up too :)  Also I do honestly, think it’s deliberate that literally every single week either M or N puts up a Caryl post on show night.  I think they are trying to keep the momentum going in the background, even if the foreground plot on the show, is still ‘the war.’  Just how I see it.  It’s coming :)

So, later kids!   Have a good week!  And if it’s an upcoming Turkey Day for you enjoy your side dishes, because really the sides are the best part! ✌️

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CHARACTER STATS SHEET.

██▒ BASIC INFO.

BIRTH NAME: Hershel Greene Rhee

NICKNAMES/ALIASES:  Rhee. Sumset. Lil shit. Hersh.

AGE: 18

DoB: December 19th

HOMETOWN: Hilltop

CURRENT LOCATION: Alexandria.

GENDER: male.

PRONOUNS: he / him.

OCCUPATION: Group runner / jokster.

LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: He lives in a residential home with his mother in Alexandria even though he thinks he’s old enough to have his own home.

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: english / spanish / korean that Maggie learned from Glenn.

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

FC: Byun Baekhyun

HAIR COLOR: Midnight black

EYE COLOR: Heterochromia 

HEIGHT: 5′8

BUILD: tall, slender, muscular

TATTOOS: None.

PIERCINGS: None.

CLOTHING STYLE: Whatever he can scavenge which is the casual blue jeans, t-shirt or button ups. He has a boyish syle when he does go shopping, like shirts with vulgar writing and ripped skinnies with boots. Hoodies, leather jackets or just pure crap in his mind, Rhee will wear it.

USUAL EXPRESSION: Mischievous and docile.

DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS: Even though he’s been born and raised in the apocalypse, Rhee has both a serious side and a very playful side that doesn’t match what’s happening around him. He’s a spirit lifter, not a debbie downer.

HEALTH.

PHYSICAL AILMENTS: He has a scar on his collarbone from where he nearly got stabbed and it sometimes aches and causes him problems. His right wrist had also been broken when he was a lot younger that results in sometimes daily sufferings if he uses it too much.

NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS: none

ALLERGIES: Pollen. He’ll summon a walker herd with all his sneezing.

SLEEPING HABITS: He only gets about 2-4 hours of sleep each night believe it or not. He keeps his nightmares hushhush from his family since they have more important things to worry about.

EATING HABITS: Since food is rare, he eats what is available  to him at the moment. However, he will risk it all for some sour gummy worms and sweet tea.

EXERCISE HABITS: A daily routine with Morgan and Jesus involves the usual workout and combat training. Morgan hipped him on to meditation and yoga to keep his mind light and body limber.

EMOTIONAL STABILITY: Rhee bottles everything up, so his emotions can sometimes run wild and it really bleeds through? He doesn’t have mental breakdowns often, but he does cry sometimes and it’s not for himself but for those around him or his lost family members. It’s something he internally struggles with just so he appears strong to everyone else.

SOCIABILITY: Rhee is talkative. Sometimes too much for his own good and to people he shouldn’t, but communication is key for him to get to know someone. After all, you never know when someone might die. Rhee doesn’t have a hard time talking to people, but he does enjoy being silent and listening as well.

BODY TEMPERATURE: average.

ADDICTIONS: none.

DRUG USE: none.

ALCOHOL USE: occasionally drinks if Maggie lets him.

PERSONALITY.

LABEL: A puppy / god-given

POSITIVE TRAITS: Smart, gentle, caring, playful, optimistic, clever.

NEGATIVE TRAITS: impulsive, reckless, headstrong, blunt, philophobic

GOALS/DESIRES: his goal is to keep his family alive and safe for as long as he can. Their happiness is what keeps him calm and leveled, so he works hard to see their smiles each day.

FEARS: Losing his family, being a failure, getting gutted, negan.

FAVORITES.

WEATHER: Snowy

COLOR: black

MUSIC: What he hears on Rick’s ipod

MOVIES: lol can’t watch movies but if he could his favorite would be transformers

SPORTS: Ping Pong, pool– in his mind he is king of these sports okay.

BEVERAGES: Sweet tea.

FOOD: Sour gummy worms..

ANIMAL: nONE BUT HE WANTS A CAT. OR A HORSE. SOMEONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

FAMILY.

FATHER: Glenn Rhee

MOTHER: Maggie Rhee

SIBLING(S): none

CHILDREN: none

PET(S): None but you guys a horse would be nice. Or a cat. Or Shiva.

FAMILY’S FINANCIAL STATUS: What is money?

EXTRA.

ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius.

MBTI: ENFJ– Warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. Find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. May act as catalysts for individual and group growth. Loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. Sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.

ENNEAGRAM: THE HELPER–the Caring, Interpersonal Type: Demonstrative, Generous, People-Pleasing, and Possessive.  THE ENTHUSIAST—The Busy, Fun-Loving Type: Spontaneous, Versatile, Distractible, and Scattered.

TEMPERAMENT: phlegmatic and sanguine

HOGWART HOUSE: Ravenclaw

MORAL ALIGNMENT: chaotic neutral

PRIMARY VICE: Pride

PRIMARY VIRTUE: Charity

ELEMENT: Ice

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Behind the Scenes: Chapters 229-230

(Current Queue: 9.0 / ? )

Below the break, the beginning of Turnabout Corner proper.

(All BtS here)

Chapter 229: Turnabout Corner, Day 1: Part 1

I liked the idea of Pearl thinking gangsters weren't an actual thing, because it really is something hard to believe if you haven't personally encountered any, especially given how the media tends to depict them. It also fits with her 'sheltered' life, even though she is more travelled since her mother’s arrest.

Trucy actually suggests in the game that Apollo go "check out the scene of the crime", but I decided to have them go to the Detention Center first. I'm not sure if it's something you have to do in the game or not, but I thought it might be something Apollo would do, given his claim that "For a lawyer this is it, the place where the battle begins!". Also, given the timeframe I established for travel time between it and the agency, it slotted in nicely between the conversation with Alita and the team's lunch break.

Speaking of "this is where the battle begins", I had Luke reply "Better hope your prosecutor doesn't take that seriously!" mostly as a reference to Barnham.

Was this the first time I actually established Luke's car? I always intended for him to have one by this point, but I think I lost track of mentioning his driving status in-story after he was still learning how just before Turnabout Shelter. Trucy dubbing it the "Lukemobile" was something else I always had in mind, as an echo of how Hershel's car only got its nickname after Emmy similarly named it.

Chapter 230: Turnabout Corner, Day 1: Part 2

Now this is a scene I looked forward to writing for a very long time: The entrance of Klavier Gavin! Naturally, I had an idea of how it might go in mind for a while, and it turned out pretty close to that idea once I finally got to writing it.

A little warning of what's to come: The police officer's first line in the chapter is said to be spoken "loudly over the roar of a passing motorbike", heralding the arrival of Klavier at the crime scene.

In canon, it's Trucy who cuts the officer off, and she lets him get more words out first: "Ah, it's you kids again. Look can't you find some other place to play..." "We're not playing! We're um, "investigating"! Aren't we, Apollo?"

AU-Apollo has not only known Kristoph much longer than his canon counterpart, but also known Klavier's name and role in Phoenix's disbarment for years at this point. As such, he instantly recognises Klavier, and has pre-formed negative opinions on him that only now finally have a target. I kept Klavier's first words to him the same even though Apollo is glaring at him here instead of staring in curious disbelief, since I figure Klavier looked up what Apollo looked like after Kristoph's arrest, so he knew who Apollo was and was mostly just teasing him with the comment about being 'inspected'. As for Apollo's canon reaction, I gave that to Luke: He thinks Klavier is familiar thanks to his physical similarity to Kristoph, but doesn't know who he is outright. Trucy keeps her canon reaction of total non-recognition and instant crush on her 'prince' Klavier.

The situation swerves away from canon as Apollo jumps in before Trucy can tell Klavier about their letter of request. I had to restrain myself from having Apollo outright accuse Klavier of anything yet, just have enough said that he and Klavier both know the other is aware of them, but Luke and Trucy are still out of the loop for now. In fact, with Klavier and Apollo busy staring each other down, it's up to Luke to attend to actually entering the crime scene, and the officer on guard is still intimidated enough by him that it's not really hard. Luke doesn't actually have any idea if there's a law about refusing a defence attorney entry to a crime scene (In fact, I highly doubt there is, given the prejudice against them) but his demeanour is enough to scare the officer into letting them in anyway. This also alerts Klavier to the fact Apollo is the defence attorney on the case, in a slightly different way than he found out in canon.

Y'know, now I think about it, Klavier could easily have been coming from inside the park rather than arriving at it, given he immediately leaves after showing them in... I've always interpreted the officer's reaction to seeing him as more of a 'what are you doing here' rather than a 'oh you're leaving now', since he goes "It's you! Mr. Gavin!" as though he's never seen Klavier in person before. In canon, after Trucy says they're trying to get to the crime scene, he just says "You must be exhausted, standing out here! I will take you to the scene of the crime.", which doesn't indicate either way if he's come from it or was going to it. Trucy later comments to Phoenix about his motorcycle, but I don't know if she's meant to have seen it arriving or it was already there when she and Apollo arrived. This is something I didn't think to check when I played the game myself.

The way Klavier leaves, I knew Apollo was going to want to grab Trucy and leave without ever going into the park, so I had to make him go in by having Trucy slip out of his grip, forcing him to follow. I also couldn't resist the chance to touch on a headcanon of how this scene happened in canon, to showcase a little of Klavier and Trucy's conversation between leaving the park entrance and Klavier dropping them off at the crime scene with "...On that note, enjoy your investigation!". I've always liked the idea that Klavier also recognised Trucy straight away, and learned from her here that she had no idea who he was. Trucy, in return, was told she was 'not like other girls' and internalised this, leading to her very sudden fandom over Klavier and the Gavinners, which she directly says in Serenade is because "I'm a girl! I'm supposed to swoon over gods of rock! [...] I bought all their stuff on the way home from the trial!" Honestly, I should have had Apollo interrupt their conversation sooner (it's more in-character for him to do that), but I was too focussed on how Trucy and Klavier would interact and didn't want to end it.

In canon, Apollo merely wonders who Klavier was between him leaving and Trucy screaming at the 'corpse'. I actually ended up unintentionally echoing here how the Wright kids would later react to seeing an actual corpse after Romein LeTouse's death: Luke takes the lead in dealing with it, Apollo is reluctant but will do what he has to, and Trucy tries to stay as far away as she possibly can. Luckily for them, this first run-through leaves them dealing with only a mannequin and not a body.

And Ema comes back in to the story! It's kinda a shame I had to end the chapter where it is, but I didn't have a better stopping point, and Apollo does claim it took "thirty minutes" for Ema to study the letter of request. Even though I decided to treat his thought as an exaggeration, I figured the lengthy break was a good place to pause for a bit.