#like is that a necessary jump. no. its not.

[kkglinka]

A special interest (tm) occasionally has its uses :) So: Blake doesn't have her mother's ears.

The size and shape of Kali's ears are consistent with the african serval, a species of solitary lesser cat. (Lesser cats can meow but not roar). We know they're cat ears because they can fold over. (Dog ears can rotate and pin but lack the double twist necessary to fold over at will).

Kali is also, thematically, baloo to ghira's bagheera, hence her goofy nature. Baloo is an Indian black bear, which are pretty small compared to most. Which explains both her name and the choice of melanistic color (black) ears. Note that I'm not implying she's also part bear - this part is purely thematic and canon has consistently shown that faunus bear the traits of a single animal. (Vs what qrow claimed)

Meanwhile, ghira's roar suggests he's a jaguar rather than leopard like bagheera. Leopards have a double cuff short roar. The most weakass roar of all the great cats. A truly sad roar, bless their hearts. Anyway, jaguars and leopards alike are also solitary species.

So how did two solitary souls produce the most social of lesser cats, the most efficient land predator, as Blake's updated ear profile suggests? Because she was born into a wolf pack - the white fang. While this name is nominally a reference to the black panthers, we should look to the book by jack london, and the core wolf pack of the jungle book stories.

Which yields the half wolf, and the boy raised within two worlds. At times, blake is brother wolf who guides mowgli (ilia and adam). Other times, she is mowgli herself, caught between opposing forces. As she states, she doesn't want to be just a cat or just human.

I digress. If I'm right about faunus traits occuring through spiritual transmission, a canon quality of afterans, ascension and likely all the brothers' creations, then Blake is a cat like her parents, but a social species because of the environment in which she was born - a result of her parents' choice to be part of a society.

She also displays a number of low key feline behaviors on a regular basis but the show doesn't draw attention to them the way catgirl animes typically do. She does display a righting reflex if falling (but not after being bashed by a dozen tree branches). She can jump extreme distances and climb quickly even with aura depleted, indicating heightened muscular density. She broods on railings, watches fish people, runs on rooftops, and her semblance has evolved in a way that yields nine lives. That's just off the top of my head, though.

As for potential children with a human partner... Her own soul is feline, so the question is, what would Yang's soul be if she were a faunus? (The answer is brown bear because these two are also bagheera and baloo, and goldilocks invades the home of eurasian brown bears).

Which traits do feline and ursine share? Highly efficient predators, fiercely protective of offspring with whom they maintain lifelong contact, both human tolerant, etc. Using the spirit model, their child might take after one or the other (cat or bear), but combining traits might yield a lion, hyena, wolf or dog. Or plain unascended human, of course, though given that yang and blake both passed through the Tree...

I haven’t watched RWBY and don’t know that much about it and I gotta know - since Blake is like a cat girl does she get high off catnip? Is that a thing? Are drug dealers using catnip in this world? If she falls from a height does she land on her feet?? If she and her butch blonde gf have a kid is it a blonde cat? Can cat girls and humans have kids together? Is it like either human or a cat or is it a mixture? Like if a human had a kid with a cat?? I have so many questions about the lore and biology

as the resident rwby expert (false credentials) i will answer your questions my dear anon.

catnip: i highly doubt she is affected by catnip b/c she’s like. far more human than cat.

drug dealers: i mean i highly highly doubt that is a very lucrative business. it’s not like the world is filled with catpeople fhsjdhjsd

falling from great height:

she falled on her face :(

kids: the only thing i know about human/faunus kids is velvet scarlatina has a human dad and faunus traits so it might just be a dominant gene??

[syrupfog]

Sometimes Usopp has nightmares.

Not ones of his mom dying— no, those are no more than a dull ache now. But nightmares of being thrown at the feet of the man who single handedly started off the worst week of his life. Made him feel useless and broken.

Franky.

Usopp doesn’t think Franky bothers to remember how they met. In the grand scheme of things, it’s not important, right? They’re on the same team now, on the WINNING team. Franky built them the best ship in the world, and even made Usopp a tribute to Merry with the mini merry.

But sometimes at night, he’s trapped in that moment again, where he’s thrown at the feet of the man who was head of the Franky Family, who looked down on him like he was dirt, and scoffed when Usopp demanded their berri back.

And it happens all over again; getting attacked, hit again and again until he feels the crack of his bones and darkness billows into his vision, until the last thing he sees is Franky, behind that iron mask he wore, looking down at Usopp with, somehow worst of all, INDIFFERENCE.

And Usopp wakes up with a gasp, clutching his heart, sweat pouring off of him, only to find Franky snoring peacefully in the bunk below him.

And somehow that. That hurts.

It shouldn’t. They’ve made amends. They’ve reconciled. Franky has time and again wept with him and for him.

But that moment started off the worst week of Usopp’s life, and Usopp cannot help but wonder if everything would’ve gone down differently if Franky’s goons hadn’t touched him. If he’d had the same time to process as everyone else, had heard the news with everyone else.

Would he have still left the crew? Fought Luffy?

The fight still haunts him. He’s always been a useless failure of a pirate, but—

Usopp’s just not sure why Luffy even let him back.

And as his thoughts spiral and his pounding heart rate slows, Usopp blinks crusted tears from his eyes and wishes, DESPERATELY wishes, that he could have just BEEN Franky from the beginning.

He’s good with his hands. Maybe if he had just started studying to be a shipwright they never would’ve gotten to that point. Franky’s all but replaced him on the ship anyway, hasn’t he? He’s like everything that Usopp is, but better.

Stumbling out of his bunk, trying and failing to be quiet about it, Usopp slinks out of the bunk room and onto the deck. It’s a night so foggy that not even the moon lights their path. The lanterns hung on either side of the door to the kitchen the only things casting hazy light.

Which is why he jumps out of his skin when Brook appears in front of him like a ghost in the night.

“Yohohoho,” Brook laughs softly. “I’m sorry to have startled you, young master Usopp! I was simply out for a midnight stroll!”

Usopp blinks. “You’re not on watch?”

“No, it is our Captain’s turn right now. He’s up in the crow’s nest. I was thinking I might play him a tune— I’m not in need of much sleep these days— but perhaps you might be in need of it a bit more than him?”

Usopp doesn’t feel in NEED of a tune. He feels in need of sticking his head in a bucket of ice water, perhaps, to get his thoughts out of the dark place they’re spiraling towards. But he doesn’t want to disappoint Brook. “Sure,” he says. “What have you got cooking up?”

Brook’s violin is out in a heartbeat— although he has no heart— and after a few tuning notes, he begins a slow, deep rendition of Bink’s Saké. Usopp recognizes the melody but Brook has managed to turn it almost into a funeral dirge. Something mournful, crying out.

He feels like he’s intruding just by listening to it.

When the song is finished, Brook seems to breathe out (can he do that?) and with his breath his whole skeleton collapses down, like a marionette with all but one of its strings cut.

“I think, sometimes,” says Brook, “that I am not worthy of being the one who survived.”

Usopp wants to jump to his defense, tell him that Brook is NEEDED and NECESSARY and they COULDN’T DO THIS WITHOUT HIM.

But he remembers how empty those words sounded in the moment as Chopper yelled them, as Usopp left the crew on Water 7. Like empty appeasing platitudes.

“I think…” Usopp says, slowly, carefully, “that worthiness isn’t something that matters, in the end.”

He’s sitting on the deck, the chill numbing his feet. Brook goes to sit, gingerly, next to him.

“I think that the only thing that actually matters are the choices you make— and not EVERY choice. But the most recent choices.” He peters off for a moment. Brook looks especially creepy in the fog. “Whatever happened that led to you being here doesn’t matter. What matters is your choice now. And tomorrow. What matters is continuing on.”

He doesn’t believe it, not really. His choices haunt him. Every lie haunts him.

“I don’t make good choices,” he concedes, looking down at his calloused hands. “But I want to. I’m trying.”

Even if he doesn’t want to keep trying, sometimes.

Brook leans back, silent as a ghost for a moment, and then, quietly, “I know you are, master Usopp. You are not as lost as you think.”

Usopp doesn’t say anything after that.

Brook doesn’t either.

The morning comes with hot sun and the pounding of feet across the deck. Usopp wakes with a crick in his neck and shade over his eyes.

He blinks, inhaling the scent of pancakes. As his vision clears, he realises he’s only able to have slept so long because a straw hat had been placed over his head, hiding his face from the worst of the morning sun.

Usopp groans.

He pulls it lower, hiding the heat in his cheeks

“It’s the choices you make today,” he tells himself. “Not the old ones. Just the ones today and tomorrow and tomorrow.”

Because maybe if he tells himself that everyday, someday he’ll even believe it.

And until then, he can lie.

[luminaryvinestaff]

OMGOMG OK MAYBE YAN SLINGSHOT IDRC IF ITS STORY OR HCS ^_^

A/N : havent been the sanest lately ! /silly

I feel like sling would cling to you ? Sort of . . I think he'd be with you 24/7 and use a excuse of you guys being " best friends " Even if you've only known each other for less than 4 weeks , He'd definitely watch you before he interacts with you since i feel like he'd be anxious on how he'd interact with you , First impressions and all . . Sling would most definitely have delusions of you guys already being together despite him calling you guys best friends .

He'd definitely be sort of self aware of his tendencies , But his mind would probably be too clouded with the idea of you in general to even be aware that what he's doing is morally wrong or not normal to other people , I don't think he'd be that obvious (?) on showing his tendencies . I think he'd be obsessed with the thought of you depending solely on him . Physically , Mentally he just wants to see you actually needing him instead of him needing you . .

I feel like he'd hesitate on stalking stuff first but eventually does it frequently the more you guys talk or the more you guys get closer and closer , But you're already the closest in his eyes , So . . . . Sling would probably struggle on explaining himself whenever you notice that you didn't tell him something that he mentioned that you liked , If you catch him in the act he'd probably make up countless excuses and stumble on his words — Even if you've never actually caught him . .

I think him being speedy and being able to double jump would help him in breaking into your house if it ever comes to that , Sling would be the type of yandere that would want to know everything about you — Private, Personal, Public he doesn't care , He just wants to know everything about you . ( + You depending on him ! ) , I think he'd actually hate it if you have friends and you mention them in a conversation , It could be one mention and he'd already be ticked off from that . He's FILLED with jealousy when it comes to you .

I don't think he'd actually kill for you , But if he deems it necessary he'd definitely hire someone else to do it due to him not wanting to get his hands dirty or for you to get suspicious in general — If you don't know how it happened then you don't know it happened ! ( < his logic ) .

[grimmjowjaegerjaquez]

i wish my brain didnt immediately jump to suicidal thoughts the second im alone with my thoughts after something happens less than ideally

[stuckinapril]

i love anthologies. anthologies are so sexy

[fedoranon]

Okay but why is there no way to browse the already extant communities (I'm sure some people like to click buttons) to see what people are doing? At least titles? Is this an invite only thing bc that is the opposite of everything I like about Tumblr

[windupaidoneus]

drooling slightly. my back hurts bad. emet massaging my back. life could be dream

[jessielefey]

One should play the Drakengard/nier games in reverse publishing order in order to get the most out of them. Like how Bloodborne can be said as to "teach you how to play Souls games", Automata followed by Drakengard 3 followed by Replicant teaches you how to read Drakengard as a metacommentary in a way that conceptually proves "just starting from the first game in the series" is doomed to leave you confused and angry and heartbroken; in this essay I will...

[m00ngbin]

I think that maybe I need to take a break because seeing Mob Psycho stuff makes me so happy that I get super nauseous🧍

[qumiiiquinnquin]

ill never be good enough at anything

[scarletiswailing347]

just finished reading delilah's statement, there was a lot of things in it that was either only tangentially related to the allegations or straight up unnecessary to put (in particular: putting in media references and cc metrics several times as flavor text, detailing the don turnt situation with no claims of whether or not permission was granted by the affected party, namedropping certain ccs who had nothing to do with the allegations, and putting the tweet and yearbook photo of one of the ppl who put forward that zam was a bully with no claims of whether or not permission was granted) which contributed a lot to the 47-page length

honestly so far what im getting is that there was a Lot of toxicity on multiple sides like not even just between zam and delilah

[girlwiththegreenhat]

tell me you've never had to use skype without telling me you've never had to use skype: you complain about discord

[jessiesjaded]

can I please catch a break right now? just one little break??

[homophyte]

kinda weird as hell the amount of ppl who have made it their brand to talk about how every new thing denoting cuteness is actually covering up a supreme usually political evil . i think calling a dog a pupper is fine actually and its way weirder to imply that its horribly bad than it is to not care

[linoguy]

I really like the attention song by new jeans and I watched the performance….. these cameras dude

[monster-noises]

I know I've made like.. this exact post like four other times but it's gunna keep coming back up until I Figure It Out so.. I have been on and off thinking about the actually solid Idea I had for remaking FaHI as an Original text (along side or after FaHI Proper is written) And I think where I've ended up with it is pretty good! It captures a lot of the same themes and the bones of the thing and I like it! And Yet........ I don't think it is possible to 1 to 1 translate FaHI, it will always Loose Things, very very important things that will always make it a Completely Different Story. The same heart around the same ideas, in the broadest sense, but as soon as you take it out of exactly Where and What It Is it becomes something completely different.. Like you can't hit Any of the same story beats in the same way.. The structure of the environment is different so the way everyone interacts changes and thus shifts every important interpersonal moment.. the situation with the mold and the magic changes and changes the characters themselves in inherent ways that change how they interact with the world and each other but I have to change these things else it will be Very Obvious What This Was.. not a revolutionary concept by any means but I'm not entirely sure what to do with it.... FaHI; the fanwork is a story I Very much love and want to share as the fanwork that it is but there's a lot about FaHI that I love and Wish dearly I could share in a professional or personal context and I simply can't as much because of it's limitations as a fanwork... and I want to split the difference but ooo it always feels like I'm loosing so much.. GRAH!!