#long post but its under a readmore

[gratuiciel]

that's an interesting question, and a good occasion for me to babble on about the blorbos xD

i think baji's real feelings about chifuyu are mostly hidden during the main story (and then revealed the moment he dies, when there's nothing left to do about it) so unless you dig deeper with additional content (spinoff, chibi reve, live action movie), you don't have that much to work with

long post incoming, with a few pics (sorry for the french lol, those are pictures from my own tokrev manga collection, i added translations in alt text) and also a chibi reve vid

by the time he meets chifuyu, baji is still traumatized by the crime he committed with kazutora, and in the spinoff, despite saving chifuyu from those guys to thank him for his help, he flat out rejects him when chifuyu starts showing interest in joining toman. after this initial rejection we see baji talk to himself in private, saying he never wants anyone close again

it's clear that without chifuyu's insistence on joining toman, baji would have just kept it at that, not wanting to get closer. but when he sees that chifuyu is serious about this, he accepts him into the team and also teaches him stuff like how he shouldn't rush into the fray on his own when he has teammates he can rely on (which is a bit rich coming from baji but that guy is kinda forced to contradict himself because of the threat kazutora poses + his own guilt). i think the spinoff is doing a pretty good job at showing that baji genuinely cares about and respects chifuyu, in various little ways

i should probably reread it tbh cause the details are a bit fuzzy rn (currently waiting for the second volume to come out where i live) but once the shojo chapters are done with and we get into delinquent business again, kazutora kind of becomes the ghost that haunts the spinoff's whole story (and i'm looking forward to the halloween showdown seen from their perspective, cause i believe we'll get there at some point)

and then there's the fact that the moment chifuyu steps into valhalla territory, he gets beaten to a pulp specifically because of his closeness to baji. i used to think chifuyu was dragged there, but now i'm not so sure. in the live action movie, even after getting his ass kicked, chifuyu actually walks into valhalla's headquarters a second time, along with takemichi (those boys have even less brain cells in the movies xD), to try and talk some sense into baji. so now i tend to think this is what happened when we see him the first time, too (but this one's just a headcanon, also the movie version of the characters is pretty different from wakui's version sometimes).

once kazutora does come out of juvie and we enter the main story's valhalla arc, then baji can no longer be with chifuyu for a whole lot of reasons. first, there's the promise he made to stay with kazutora no matter what, even through hell. baji is a guy that keeps his promises, and this kind of promise is not something anyone can back away from easily. kisaki joining toman was also a major reason for his departure, but when you take into account baji's promise to kazutora and the fact he went to meet him right after leaving toman, kisaki almost becomes something of a convenient excuse lol, although still a threat that baji wants to eliminate.

so what does chifuyu do when he walks (or is dragged) into this place full of dudes ready to kick his ass? he confronts baji about his decision to leave toman. chifuyu really admires toman and the whole "one for all, all for one" mentality, and he knows that baji cares deeply about toman as well. and who's there to see this guy try to appeal to baji's feelings, telling him to come to his senses? kazutora, most likely (he was absent for a bit to go fetch takemichi but i'm pretty sure he was still there at the start of the "trial of faith", since he's the one to explain who chifuyu is and why he's there). i believe that once he learns who chifuyu is (we don't know if he already knows about him before this incident, maybe the spinoff will tell us), and how far he's willing to go for baji, kazutora feels threatened by the guy, and orders baji to beat him up (again, this one's just a headcanon, but i think it fits kazutora's mental state at this point, and might also explain why chifuyu is scared of him personally (and not hanma who was technically presiding that trial)).

this would also explain why, the moment he sees baji talk with chifuyu, after hanma told him baji betrayed them, kazutora immediately believes it and rushes to stab baji (still not leaving hc territory here but would he have reacted the same if baji was talking to anyone else? well maybe with mikey lol)

so yeah, i think baji actually cares a lot about chifuyu, but was not allowed to show much of it (except when he was dying) because of the circumstances of the valhalla arc. when we see them in the spinoff and the final timeline (and in wakui's tr art), they joke around and spend time together like friends, which shows this isn't just a one-sided thing

here's the subbed chibi reve episode that shows the moment where baji beats up chifuyu (at around 01:10, halfway through the video), and we get to hear his internal monologue as he punches him.

we hear him beg chifuyu to give up on him. that's all he says, but it's a lot, because not only does baji admit he doesn't deserve to be his friend anymore, but he also knows chifuyu well enough to be aware that this might not even deter him from trying to reach him again

and now for the future! chifuyu is the type of guy that doesn't hold grudges if he knows the other person is sorry for what they did. we see this in the spinoff manga, and we also see this when kisaki apologizes in a seemingly genuine manner and then offers him and takemichi a drink in the bad toman timeline. chifuyu drinks it, because he believes kisaki meant what he said (and because he is not very smart when it comes to this sort of stuff)

also we get cute moments like this in the spinoff, i cant recommend it enough

chifuyu was there when kazutora apologized and told everyone he would stay with baji. he was probably the last person to leave the scene because he was holding baji in his arms at the time. he definitely saw that kazutora was sorry for his actions, and i think that from this point on he was no longer afraid of him. if not, then why would he be the one to come pick him up outside of jail each time? but one could argue that in the bad toman timeline (and onwards when he learns about the time travel) he was fighting against even more terrifying enemies and that therefore kazutora wasn't so scary anymore lol

as for the pet shop vs pilot dream, we kind of see him say that the pilot thing was a kid's dream, something not that serious, similar to hakkai's astronaut dream. after mikey's comment, it's clear that he also runs a pet shop because he wants to do something that reminds him of baji, but that alone can't be the sole reason why he chose this career. chifuyu loves cats and pets in general, and he's pretty sociable too, so the job fits him well, and i believe he is pretty happy with it

which brings me to the final timeline! in here too, chifuyu is the owner of a pet shop. baji didn't die, so he was under no obligation to honor his memory and could have chosen any other career. he could have become a pilot this time, but still went down the pet shop path. since he has memories of other timelines, i like to think that he chose to do this again because it was a way for him to stay close to his two friends, but also because he genuinely enjoyed his work there. after everything that happened, this was more important to him than his dream of becoming a pilot

in conclusion, and if anyone's still reading this by that point:

... i actually don't have a conclusion, i just really like chifuyu a whole lot and i think he's done more than just chase after baji's shadow. dude was just a baby who saw his best friend/role model die at age 13 and this certainly shaped most of his life afterwards, but he was genuine in wanting to help takemichi and kazutora, and i believe he became friends with both of them because they did get along well and not just because of baji

i need other peple's input on this: am i the only one who finds the baji/chifuyu dynamic kind of weird?

like, maybe it is because i have a lot of trouble understanding baji's character (it probably is), but while i know that baji cares about him, i feel like chifuyu cares a lot more (regarding the og manga only!! i haven't read the spinoff yet, even if i caught some info on it here and there. i am planning on doing so, i think it would help me understand them a lot more). he seems like he very much favors kazutora over fuyu, which is understandable, but it makes seem chifuyu's devotion a bit extra😓 esp in the spinoff lol, fuyu looks like he has the biggest shojo crush on baji

it's kind of iffy to me that during the bonten tl, chifuyu became a petshop owner when it was originally baji's dream to work with animals (fuyu wanted to be a pilot) and took kazutora with him (just because he was baji's friend, when he is canonically the person he dislikes/fears). like.. i don't know, it makes it seem like ""he has no personality"" outside of him? ygm?? this is really not random chifuyu slander, i actually kind of like him, but i just can't wrap my head around it😞 i can't tell if this was the direction his character was supposed to take. is he just supposed to be baji's #1 superfangirl, the hyperdevoted right hand and michi's friend? if that's the case, great!! it's just that it's not clear to me, chifuyu fans, please give me your thoughts!

[vipervvitch]

Color Magic

What is color magic?

Color magic is utilizing the correspondences of a certain color in witchcraft/magic. It can help hone intentions in a spell, or establish the intent uniquely on its own. You can use it anywhere within a spell, especially to nudge it in the right direction.

What are ways I can use color magic in spells?

Commonly, you’ll see people use color magic in candle spells. People often recommend pink candles for beauty and love spells, because they associate pink with beauty and love, etc. What each color means, though, is up to the witch’s individual associations, alike every other correspondence. Since everything has a color, you can really use it anywhere. The color of the paper or ink of a petition, adding food coloring to a potion, using a colored rope for knot magic, literally anything. Even in the little things! The spoon you use to stir that potion, the body of the lighter you use to light the candle, the handles of the scissors you use to cut the rope, etc. Of course, as I’m about to say, you don’t NEED to pay attention to any of these things…

What if I have to use the “wrong color” in some part of a spell?

Say you’re doing a candle spell to attract new friends. You personally find a yellow candle ideal, because you associate yellow with happiness and friendship, but all you have is a green candle, which is a color you associate with money, and that’s not at all relevant to the spell. It’d also be best to probably ignore that correspondence with money, lest you attract friends who only care about spending your money or about the things you own, and not you personally. There are multiple solutions to this, some of them being:

1. You can ignore the color and focus on other aspects of the candle. You don’t need to account for every little thing in a spell, and if you don’t focus on the color of the candle and your correspondences regarding green, then it’ll have no effect.

2. You could overpower the color with other physical traits. Carving sigils and stuff into the wax might overpower the influence that the color has and give an alternative physical property of the candle to focus on that has a more relevant meaning.

3. You can consider other meanings of green and see how green COULD be relevant to your spell somehow. Green means go, right? You could say the green is allowing new friendships into your life that way. Nothing, imo, has a single use or correspondence.

4. But even so, if you only associate green with money, you could tie that in to your spell as well. You could attract friends who encourage you to have better spending habits, or have connections with people who could find you a better job.

5. You could look at the relationship that green has with other colors. Green, after all, is a mix of yellow and blue. You could therefore use it as a way to combine the correspondences of yellow and blue. If yellow means happiness, and blue means calmness, then green could bring you a friendship that’s both happy and calming. It’s also across from red on the color wheel. If red means angry, then being across from red could discourage fights in your friendship and make things easier.

These aren’t the only solutions, either. Witchcraft is largely about creativity. There’s an infinite amount of ways to approach spellcraft.

Subtle/easy ways to use color magic?

As a closeted and disabled witch, color magic is EXTREMELY helpful to me in my everyday life. I can start my day off with a little magic by deliberately choosing to wear a certain color in my outfit—even in places nobody else will see, like the color of my socks (which i like especially because I imagine them carrying me to that outcome that I want). If you paint your nails, put on makeup, or wear jewelry, that gives you many options for incorporating certain colors as well.

I buy things considering the color. I have a blue hairbrush because I want my hair to flow smoothly like water. I use a green mechanical pencil because I want to write down the correct answers.

If I can’t make an intricate potion, I can choose to drink coffee out of a yellow mug that morning to subtly enchant my drink to encourage a happy day.

Also, I have LED light strips in my room that I like to change to a specific color in order to paint my day and actions in my room with that magic as well. For example, when I’m studying, I like to turn my lights blue because I associate it with intelligence, memory, and calmness—and I don’t want to be any more stressed than I already am lol. I don’t do any chants or ritual work or anything special to “activate” or cast these “spells” aside from intentionally using these colors for those purposes, which makes it extra subtle. Nobody suspects that you chose to paint your nails pink because you’re using magic to attract more romance to your life. Nobody thinks anything about the fact that you chose to put on orange LED lights in your room because its the color you associate with your deity, and you want to include them some more. It’s super helpful, and extremely accessible.

[databent]

this is just me rambling mostly about myself sorry. but i hate how much it Sucks having a completely invisible and often totally unrecognized+dismissed disability 🥲 like i have non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder and it makes it impossible for me to keep a normal schedule (when ive had to - ie when i attended school, or if i were to work any regular job - id get so sleep deprived i couldnt wake myself up and/or would become too drained to function) but circadian rhythm disorders are full on seen as nonexistent by a majority of the population and those that do know of them often think its just "being a night owl" and you "can just work through it with a little discipline". so access to a diagnosis and/or accomodations is virtually nonexistent and i basically just have to either constantly deprive myself of sleep and permanently wreck my health or just put my entire life on hold for almost a third of every month. and im fortunate enough to have a job that (somewhat) allows me to work flexible hours and generally lets me work only the days im awake to, but because of my disorder being so invisible i know that from the perspective of everyone else there i just look like a guy with unpredictable attendance who comes in at inconsistent times and often only stays for like three hours, with nothing at all that makes it obvious that its because of a fucking disability. so to almost everyone that doesnt intimately know me, for the rest of my life, i will look like nothing but a profoundly lazy and unreliable individual. and it sucks!! and it makes me so mad!!! and its hard to face the fact that even what i CAN do still isnt enough so i constantly have to break my fucking back and put a lot of strain on my body just to meet like what are considered bare minimum standards. im constantly walking on thin ice because there is just no understanding from people of what things are like when you have a lifelong disabling condition that cant be fixed. and i still have it relatively easy! bcos during the times when im functional during the day i have pretty much no issues doing so. but for people with an invisible disability that affects their ability to function or work All The Time theyre Still often held to the same standards as everyone else because of perceptions of what "being disabled" is and basically i just really really hate how society treats invisible disabilities. fuck. its not fair or sustainable its literally killing people

[zannolin]

loving the stranger things posting as someone going through a sudden random stranger things phase lol. i have a question: what makes byler an interesting dynamic for you? i'm not a big shipper person personally but i like to hear people's thoughts!

it's so funny i got here because i was suffering from cares too much disease about the karate kid and i needed something to distract me and then um. it did more than distract.

sidenote: coming back to say this got??? so long. so i'm sorry lol. i'm a chronic rambler.

i'll be honest i never actually shipped byler seriously until literally 2 months ago today. i sort of went "haha what if...?" back in 2022 mostly because my friend was into it and i really love mike as a character. oh mike wheeler the character that you are...i've loved him since 2016 lol and i loved him and will as a dynamic since i saw s2. i was so sold on their friendship, and then s3 and s4 were brutal for me to watch as someone who has grown apart from a lot of friends because of similar circumstances (moving, mostly, but also some relationships, and the inherent tragedy of growing up, and the fact that having a shitty family and being 15 can do a lot of damage to your relationships if you're not careful, etc) so like basically i then got More into them because i am obsessed with friendship estrangement plots. and i like both their characters. ("like" is such an understatement even in 2022 i was unhinged about michael wheeler)

frankly they're interesting to me as a ship for all the same reasons as they're interesting to me as a friendship: devotion, knowing someone better than you know yourself, the fear of loss, the fear of change, how easy vs how hard it is to grow up with someone, estrangement, feeling like you're a bad person and self-sabotaging, etc. the funny thing is i didn't even think will was gay or that there WAS (one-sided, anyway) byler until the literal van scene in s4 because i have that little faith in netflix lol, not to mention i used to be a mileven shipper. and then s3 happened which killed my interest in that and then s4 beat the dead horse from here to california. i realized for one thing mike being queer is really interesting to me and opens a lot of room for fun angles on his canonical character with comphet and internalized homophobia, etc, and it works very well with established canon. to me.

i'm honestlyyyy kind of surprised i got into it at all because besides the fact that i'm not a big shipper anymore, i'm RARELY a childhood friends to lovers fan because 1) it's often boring to me, i'm like but why do we need something Other than friendship?? (aro alert) and 2) i personally do not enjoy romance where it's like. you end up with the person you dated in high school? like it's jsut a me thing but i go aaaaaa when it's idk 12 year olds being like "i'm in love" no you're not you're twelve. i literally have DMs of me to my sister watching s4 where i was like michael why are you saying you loved eleven the day you met her, you were twelve and spent the entire season fucking obsessed with finding your best friend and kept dropping her the second she wasn't useful for that, like i love you but you were— what. (regardless of whether or not that bullshit turns out to be, you know, Actually canonically bullshit. that was my reaction lol). um i'm rambling sorry. anyway. they just happened to hit really good beats for me where it could go either way for me (platonic or romantic) and i wouldn't mind and i'm happy with both. but apparently my brain is like What If Romance when it comes to fic for them and i'm being a bit self-indulgent. i want will byers to have nice things and i want mike to not be stuck in the world's worst written relationship ever (to me).

actually the tl;dr is basically everything i like about mike as a character has to do with his plots concerning will, and everything i don't like about what they've been doing with him lately has to do with his relationship with el, so via potentially unintentional gay symbolism, the power of friendship estrangement plots + my love of friendship breakup/makeup scenarios, and my fascination with writing queer loneliness and mutual pining, AND that "good luck, babe" edit, i ended up here.

also finn wolfhard keeps making the most ridiculously intensely tender expressions during byler scenes and i'm a simple creature i see a man with big wet brown eyes and i go oh well mayyybe....

[voiceofsword]

sry to bitch in your inbox abt this but im so glad you pointed out how so many modern enstarries Dont read the stories and base everything off fandom perception.. i saw these users joking about which character would say slurs and someone was ADAMANT rinne would and tho i knew it before it Really struck me then

a) none of them have ever engaged with this text in any meaningful way, ESPECIALLY not the first games' stories, because surprise! characters in es! did Canonically use slurs! and back then Nobody Liked It. we didnt joke about it. most people i know completely stopped paying attention to the characters who did until they apologized. (tho ofc its more a problem w the writing than the characters, but still. we were young. we had the spirit.)

b) people really like using rinne as a punching bag because they dont read the stories and know literally nothing about him except funny drunk drugs gamble man "fuckboy" who harasses niki and the other bees and its. infuriating.

i dont understand how anyone can claim to like a media without ever properly engaging with it, i dont understand how people have fun misunderstanding characters so drastically, and i also think joking about slurs has gotten wayyy too normalized where people feel comfortable saying these things about these characters they allegedly like. and characters like rinne (with a constructed mask of obnoxiousness and such) are the perfect target for these people. which SUCKS. all of it sucks.

NEVER BE SORRY!!!! i hope this is alright to post i thought your ask was good and insightful and i'll add onto it a little bit with my own thoughts (heart emoji)

yeah um ! was definitely a ride. i wouldnt recommend it to everyone but at least we have hindsight and things like slurs and general offensive terms/behaviors can be warned for, so that much is nice. i remember being really upset about a few of these, and then getting back into enstars earlier this year and reading a few of the more current stories + !! stories i was happy to see that the writing has developed CONSIDERABLY in terms of this especially after beasts. something ive noticed a lot of newer fans do (referencing my previous post irt the feeling morally superior) is that if you like a specific character for whatever reason youre actually a horrible person because that character said something awful once. of course youre allowed to dislike characters for whatever reason but dont tell other people they should perish because they like them (as if liking them means you implicitly agree with said views, more often than not One line in a miriad of stories that you might not even have read). but like you said, characters making ignorant comments (an unfortunate occurrence, although rare, it still happens) is not a reflection of 2d pixels on a screen but rather a team of writers..... idk. its a complicated situation. i see both sides and i think people are justified in liking or disliking but this is a game about idol boys (and girl) got dam

yeah i hate how people treat rinne a lot. like because characters like him and eichi are villains that means everything that they do or say is, at worst, a straight, physical threat to everyone around them, or at best, an annoyance that can make the fandom feel justified in making them the butt of reoccurring jokes. idk what else to say about him that i havent said already but its also 3 am now and i SAID i was gonna go to sleep an hour ago but i think i might just be a filthy liar

ALSO its probably because enstars is long, there's a lot to read and although tl's arent necessarily hard to come by you actively have to seek them out. again i understand how this might be a nuisance but instead of sitting down and listening to summaries or analysis ive noticed that a lot of short form consumption content lends itself to people just. posting the most reactive interpretations, and people playing a game of telephone with said information until a lot of the fandom has come to accept this misinformation as true. LIKE SOMEONE ON TIKTOK SAYING HAJIME AND WATARU WERE RELATED? IDEK IF THAT WAS A JOKE OR NOT? and yeah the use of slurs is like ridiculously normalized now im not one to say whether people can or cannot reclaim slurs and people are free to do as they like if they can. i see this one thing specifically with tatsumi a lot where people jokingly bring up how said character is homophobic or make homophobic comments towards characters even if theyre being like. excited or happy. and idk. personally it makes me sad. like maybe its fandom culture now maybe im old (is 23)

WHY WOULD RINNE SAY SLURS HES LITERALLY GAY AND IN LOVE....COME AWN NOW

[silvesi]

Dralsin lore dump alert wweewweoowwewoo (WALL)

My lil goth boy is from a different tree, although he’s not aware of this until mid icebrood saga at the earliest. 

HOW IS THERE MORE TREE?

So, think different timeline/dimension. Random unnamed sylvari found out about the mordremoth stuff earlier, and was really struggling with it. They don’t wanna follow anything. Existential crisis ensues. The solution to existential crises? Giving yourself purpose. This sylvari devotes themselves to preserving memories of the sylvari, not trusting that they’ll survive the ordeal. 

How? Good question! No idea. Add a load of magic bullshit, a lot of travelling, trial and error, and I like to think it's along the lines of propagating part of the pale tree - at least to hold onto those memories, not expecting it to ever produce. Definitely ends up delving into the mists during this research. 

So, they end up being right, their timeline is going to shit. They’ve already been hopping around the mists a bit so it's a frantic moment of OH HELL BETTER HURL THIS PLANT SOMEWHERE. They probably had a destination in mind, but wherever that was, it did not reach it, and ended up somewhere in the mists, probably pretty damn close to the rift. On the border, if not in it.

There is so much magic in there for a little plant already of a magical nature to feed off that it settles itself there, so eventually - mists tree :) 

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM. WHAT R THEY DOING.

It’s a fair bit messed up for obvious reasons, but it functions. I think that due to their creator and such, the sylvari from it almost always end up feeling out of place, like there’s just something missing. It’s in part due to that, and holding onto those memories of a failed timeline, that they too end up forcing a purpose upon themselves. They are frequent timeline hoppers and information gatherers, of knowledge they deem important that would otherwise be lost as those worlds burn out. Why? Just in case. They see themselves as keeping watch without interfering unless necessary. It’s kinda like the sylvari library of alexandria. They tend to travel in pairs, and as well as the generic mists-traversing and time stuff, have spent a long time becoming proficient in magic regarding memory. Learned their lesson very fast early on when one of them saw too much and had a bad time with it all. They routinely wipe/transfer memories to protect themselves, and I’m debating if this is such a huge thing that they consider themselves to have multiple ‘lives’ because of it. 

I alsoo think the reason they don't look super creaturey is because the tree already contained memories of what they should look like, so it's reflected more in their abilities. Thinking stuff along the lines of randomly phasing parts of their body in and out of shadow. Sticks m hand through a wall.

No CLUE how Dralsin ended up where he did and not remembering anything. Also no clue how, ‘coincidentally’, Valeran ended up in the same world too. Given that Valeran remembers, and was outcast for yet unidentified crimes, they’re likely related events.

I've not developed more because the new dlc looks veeery promising for mists tomfoolery >:3

[jefferythejelly]

wtf is going on between dream and quackity??? I looked it up but I'm seeing so many different opinions from people 😓 what's going on and will I have to pick sides? I'm just so confused by this whole thing 😭

oh anon what rock have you been living under (and can you take me there)

this got kind of long bc a lot has happened and it's been kind of slowly building up over a month, and i kind of used this as an excuse to do something i've been wanting to do and make a rough timeline of events, so hope you don't mind the incredibly long post. it has certainly been An April (/neg) around here.

march 10th- quackity announces the big project he’s been teasing, the qsmp, a minecraft server with both spanish and english creators. dream puts out a priv tweet the same day saying he’s been working on something similar to collaborate with worldwide creators and he’s mentioning it bc he doesn’t want people to be worried about copying once it’s announced (this is foreshadowing)

april 2nd- dream announces the united smp and its accompanying live translation mod with a video and a tweet. small note here that the video was originally supposed to be an april fools video at first, which is why the international creators are skinned as the different manhunt members, but was delayed by a day bc editing took longer than expected. discourse starts near immediately as drantis are quick to accuse dream of copying q's idea of a multi language server

april 3rd- quackity announces that a new live translation mod is being implemented in the qsmp. copying accusations are now coming from both sides. note that it has been 1 day since the usmp announcement, so the chance that q actually developed a mod in that time is basically zero. also note that dream said he’d been working on the usmp prior to knowledge of qsmp’s mod being public. this is confirmed by snapchats dream posted later this month of camera roll screenshots of photos of a whiteboard with brainstorming for the usmp with the date march 8th visible, which is prior to the qsmp announcement. the point i’m trying to make here is that the most likely explanation is that it's a big damn coincidence

on this day there was also a brief copypasta started by george and sapnap joking about the similarities between the two servers (the first multilingual smp with live translation). george goes live with the smp from his copypasta tweet (slutsmp) and several ccs join throughout (during the stream its implied he basically @/everyone-ed the entire dsmp discord). he makes several shady comments but at this point its unclear if hes memeing quackity, the fans making drama out of the situation, or both

kind of skipping over a few weeks here bc its a lot of the same Nothingness but basically: discourse continues to spiral, egged on by the fact that dream has continued interacting with/mentioning quackity but is met with radio silence from the other side. there are a few clarifications from dream on twitter during this period that the qsmp and usmp are separate concepts and that he does not hold any ill will towards q

april 24th- while already somewhat assumed after quackity announced the qsmp's translation mod, quackity officially announces that the qsmp will be adding worldwide creators

april 27th- dream drops this thread which i highly recommend reading for yourself bc it gives a lot of context. tldr: quackity hasn't responded to dream despite multiple attempts to reach out, from both dream and other mutual friends. dream doesn't know what's going on with him but doesn't want any more hate to build between their two fanbases. he is explaining this because he feels he should explain his motives/give context as hate has built up to the point of irl threats to himself and his family's safety. he says that he is changing the concept of usmp slightly so there is less competition between the 2 servers and reiterates that he doesn't want any hate sent to quackity and that he's proud of all he's done

radio silence from quackity for this whole day, and then:

april 28th- quackity goes live on twitch. he says nothing about it and announces the new brazilian creators for the qsmp

and that's... kind of where we're at? q has continued being active on qsmp and social media and has said nothing, mutual friends are continuing to interact with quackity, and we've kind of reached a weird stalemate.

there's also some small bits of context that are more on the fandom side of things as to why a lot of ppl aren't supporting quackity anymore, so i'll (semi-briefly) try to explain those here:

during all this a mod on the qsmp was (rightfully) called out for including a mob that portrayed incredibly racist stereotypes of indigenous people. q did eventually remove the mod after public pressure but his apology/explanation of the situation was incredibly lackluster, and he didn't address any of the server members who made racist comments about the mob or after the mod's removal. this soured a lot of people's opinion of quackity/the qsmp in general.

second thing is just general vitriol between the two fandoms. qsmp fans/quackity solos were already being nasty at the start of the month, and that only built as the month continued. i saw at least one instance of a fan supposedly being doxxed and having someone show up to their house over the drama, and heard of ppl having gore/photos of self harm sent to their dms (so y'know. classic toxic twitter fandom bullshit). i will say that the toxicity has recently somewhat risen on the dteam side of things as well, with people being a lot quicker to hate on ccs still interacting with quackity and generally being super neg abt q (tho i can't act like some of that anger isn't slightly warranted. hell, i've been super angry over this and i used to be a super big fan of quackity). a lot of people are disappointed in q's silence over this whole issue and believe that it is quackity's responsibility to at least publicly denounce the doxxing/threats being made by fans in defense of him, especially as it's something that dream has already done, both prior to this situation and during.

as far as "picking sides" goes... a lot of ppl here on dtblr have been doomposting for a while, and at this point quackity is basically in no one's good books. at the same time, most of the rational people i follow have been acknowledging the nuance of the situation, and that a lot of mutual friends may be caught in the middle right now (shit dude, you're talking to a foolish main and that dude's still on quackity's damn server). there's also the matter of dream basically asking people to stop fighting, which at this point i am very inclined to agree with due to the levels of discourse and toxicity that we've already gone through, plus i think it's a better alternative than the community self-cannibalizing any time someone mentions quackity

ultimately it's up to you to decide what you want to do with this info and how much you want to remove yourself/unstan ccs, but know you aren't alone if you're sad/disappointed about how this whole thing has panned out 🫂 it has certainly been quite the Month around here

[the-king-of-lemons]

since fit’s on qsmp i finally have a reason to ramble about my headcanons for hack clients :O

[umhuhwellthen]

Hi hello everyone the rabbit brainrot is sinking in but the turtle brainrot is still going strong, so instead of working on my wips an au that keeps haunting the back of mind may soon be coming to light,

It's a miyamoto usagi x rise donnie single dads/sugar daddy au

It's comic usagi with only a few backstory/relationship tweaks to better fit rottmnt world.

Donnie is aged up and Shelldon is aged down to make him around Jotaro's age but a few years older.

Rambles/Ideas about this below:

Donnie(+the rest of the gang) are all grown up adults, Leo and Raph still live in the lair, Mikey has moved out but rooms with April, there's background caseynardo(Cassandra not Junior) and Leo's considering moving out too, or to expanding the lair/taking another part of the sewers as home to live with Casey, Draxum is entertaining the idea of moving in with Splinter, aroace sunset duo because im aroace and say so, and this fic/au is all about self indulgence baybeee

Oh yeah about Shelldon being younger than canon, so Jotaro is also younger than canon, daycare-1st/2nd grade age range, ill have to review child development stages for specific age but its a toddler/kid era Jotaro and kid Shelldon. Basically Shelldon started out the same as canon except his first form was a lot more robotic with less personality and when the guys reprogrammed him he gained sentience like how 2k3 Nano did, starting out with having the mind like that of a young human child before maturing, because tech gaining sentience is like being born. So Shelldon isn't teen son to another teen but actual toddler son to teen, and yes he goes haywire but its more he's programmed to no longer favor Donnie and Donnie ruins his fun playtime and doesn't realize what he's doing is wrong or too far cuz he's a toddler he doesn't know what morals are or what's socially acceptable and the only reason he gets what object permanence is is because he's advanced ai.

Anyway by the time of meeting Jotaro Shelldon is now a kid instead of toddler(3rd/4th grade I'm thinking), and Donnie is in his mid-late 20s. Usagi is older but idk by how much, not like creepy agegap, but enough between them that Usagi feels like as the elder he should be taking charge instead of relying on the younger man. And Donnie is just like, we are two parent-aged adults of sound mind and body able to make our own decisions, I have free time/money, you don't, let me take care of you.

This is what happens when you binge read leo#sagi/leoi#chi/usatello/doni#chi fics and they don't scratch that specific itch and then you remember that one post going; Cant find that fic/fanart you want? Make it yourself.

Also in my mind its

Donsagi-for both yui#chi usagi x donnie(any) and miyamoto usagi x donnie(any)

Usatello- specifically for miyamoto usagi x donnie(any)

Don#ichi- specifically for yui+#chi x donnie(I've only seen this with rise donnie but ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ any )

Censoring so it doesn't show up in tag , my own personal preference, everyone has their own

To explain why I'll be tagging posts of this with specifically usatello only

Also what brought on this au was Usagi and Jotaro feels and seeing cute fankids of Donnie(and other turts but mostly Donnie's) and remembering buddy daddies anime and reading kakairu with accidental/purposeful baby acquisition and then the realization of fanon!yui&$chi usagi being discount Miya and remembering my yearning for donsagi fics that had storybeats usually found in leo#+_sagi fics

And then that one post about "yeahyeah world weary battle harden warrior taking the never worked a day or suffered in his life prince, but what about the role reversal? With the one never knowing a gentle touch and only with a purpose to serve being served instead, loved and cradled and treated gently instead of roughly? By one with maybe not physically power, or they do but it's hidden behind pretty smiles and soft skin, but power nonetheless, to take care of them to lavish them with gifts and the like? Instead of only caring for others and never themself"

Wow I wrote a lot more than I was meaning too

But yeah this au is mostly about giving Miya nice things(except the devil on my shoulder that I will be calling Stan said I needed to put some bitter into the sweet but it's mostly backstory so I let it slide)

I've heard of being productive when you're sick but this menstrual hormones work ethic is kinda off the shits

Anyway this started as purely a Single Dads AU, with a meet-cute(or meet-ugly, depending on your perspective) where Usagi kinda, accidentally, sorta, kidnaps Shelldon while picking up Jotaro from school/daycare

But then the joke of successful businessman/genius inventor Donnie being mistaken as Usagi's sugar daddy wouldn't leave my head, and I was reading Usagi comics and he had some sad boi hours and I was like Nooo and then I was rereading the issues I had read with Mariko, Kenichi and Jotaro to get references for wips, and remembered the tragedy of Usagi's and Jotaro's relationship and went NOOOOOOO.

And decided that Usagi deserves nice things, I need to wrap him in bubble wrap and give him his son or let him HAVE A FUCKIN FAMILY STAN YOU FUCK FIRST YOU TAKE HIS KID AND THEN KEEP HAVING HIM INTERACT WITH KIDS AND HIS SON AND BE GOOD AND HAPPY BUT YEARNING AND FLEETING AND THEN YOU GAVE HIM MOMMY ISSUES ONTOP????? HEY WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH ANYTIME AN OLDER WOMAN IS KIND AND MOTHERLY TO HIM OR THEY BOND OR SOMETHING SHE HAS TO DIE AND BY HIS HAND NO LESS??? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN! DID USAGI'S MOM DIE IN CHILDBIRTH??? IS THAT WHY THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT HER AND WE ONLY SEE HIS DAD? A NEVER ENDING CYCLE OF KILLING HIS MOTHER? AND WE'RE NOT EVEN FUCKIN GOING INTO HIS LOVELIFE. STAN EXPLAIN YOURSELF

Huh.

Anyway, "You're stupid, I like that in a man." Etc etc Jotaro wants a younger sibling new Donnie clone baby(because Donnie and Usagi are definitely the type for wanting/having a large family)

This was supposed to be a silly self-indulgent au id draw sometimes and now I'm drafting a fucking fic

[thecherrygod]

im curious about something but i dont want to test it out tbh so does anyone know if you mention something on a post under a read more does it still appear on like the tags or the search of it

[void-kissed]

chaining cherry blossom to clover (Clio/Aria)

Clio being chosen for the Dandelions means she gets to avoid the approaching Keyblade War, and Aria vows to find a way to join her in the new world despite not also being chosen. Despite the road ahead not being clear, a very special gift is given, one which would come to be the key to the two reuniting later down the line. (1974 words)

This is my first piece of selfship writing for my new blog, and also my first piece of selfship writing for my (current) newest romantic selfship with my OC, Clio! I hope that anyone who wants to read it enjoys doing so, as I definitely enjoyed writing it ^-^

Tag list: @sunlight-ships | @artificervaldi | @hirael | @thatslikesometaldude (to be tagged in what I make, please see this post!)

Comments on and reblogs of my work are always okay, and appreciated, but are by no means required!

(Document transcript under the readmore:)

When the Dandelions began to be chosen, the Sapphires were one of the first parties whose members were approached, to the surprise of approximately none of them.

After all, although the group’s existence and purpose did not become widely known for some time, it seemed logical in retrospect that the party which once collected more Lux than any other in the Anguis Union (save for one) would harbour many Keyblade wielders with powerful light; wielders who were therefore wanted, wielders who were valued, wielders whose identities - their bonds to their parties and their Unions - would all be cast aside as they would be made Dandelions, made into Dandelions.

As war’s shadow loomed ever closer over Daybreak Town, tensions slowly but surely rising up to boiling point, the Sapphires found themselves being able to count more than one of their wielders in the ranks of the Dandelions - the ranks of the few who had been chosen from all others to survive the world’s end, leaving the rest of the people they had known to simply fall and be lost in the senseless combat that fate would have them march towards.

“So they want you as well, do they?”

Aria’s casual question that she already knew the answer to reignited the spark in her girlfriend’s eyes as the two sat together by the sunset-lit fountain one evening.

“Yes!” came Clio’s reply, in a light voice that shone with much of her typical positive temperament. “I really can’t say I saw it coming, but it feels like such an honour, you know?”

“I can only imagine it must.”, Aria smiled, though her own tone was comparatively much more subdued. “After all, so few individuals have been selected for such an important role.”

“Mmm! Yeah, that’s.. a really good point..” Clio’s excitement had softened and dissolved somewhat as she picked up on her girlfriend’s quietness. It was easy for her to tell when something was up with Aria, based on subtle details like the way her catlike ears were slightly downcast, or how her wings were subconsciously tilted to face the floor; it had gotten to the point where she couldn’t help but feel slightly surprised when others said that Aria was almost impossible to read, and tended to blame it on things like her cold way of speaking, or the mask that she wore across the lower half of her face.

“..What’s wrong, Ari?”

“I.. it’s nothing.” she tried to insist.

At this, Clio shifted closer towards her on the fountain’s edge, reaching forwards to place a comforting hand on Aria’s shoulder. “Are you sure? I don’t wanna pry if it’s not something you want to talk about, but if something’s up, then it isn’t good to keep it locked up in your heart or anything.“

Careful not to shake Clio’s hand away in the process, Aria shifted, drawing her legs up to lean them on the edge of the fountain. Her wings were now being held outwards slightly to better improve her balance, ensuring she would not go toppling backwards into the fountain.

“It’s.. more that I don’t know how to word it properly without sounding mean..?” she tried to explain. She was looking away at this point, and her left hand was absentmindedly toying with the ribbon of her hairpin, while her right hand held her legs.

“Huh? How so?” Clio asked her. “..What, d’you think I shouldn’t have been picked or something?”

“What? No, it isn’t that at all!” she clarified quickly, finally turning to look at Clio’s now-worried expression. Her own eyes carried surprise; she would never doubt Clio’s worth like that.

“It’s of no surprise to us that you were selected, because you possess such strong light. But you’re not arrogant with it like so many others of similar strength seem to end up being - in fact, I would say you’re the only person with such bright light that I feel so comfortable being around like this.” she admitted. “So, in many ways, you’re perfect for this.”

“Aww, that’s really kind of you to say!” she replied, worry fading away with relative ease and becoming relief. “But, uh.. What is it, then? If I can ask that?”

“Of course you can ask that.” Aria stated plainly. “It’s just.. If you go with the Dandelions, I won’t be permitted to come with you.”

“Why not? I’m.. sure they’d let me bring you with me!” Clio tried to smile further and be reassuring, but the way her voice faltered slightly indicated she was not entirely confident in her statement.

“..Maybe if what they were after were simply strong Keyblade wielders. But they aren’t.” she insisted, turning her head to look down at the ground again. “All they want is light; they’re gathering those whose hearts have strong light inside of them, and leaving everyone else to the chaos that we all know is coming. So, the last thing they would want within their precious ranks is something like me.”

“Oh.. I guess I didn’t think of it like that.” Clio shuffled closer once again, trying to give Aria as much comfort as she could after hearing the “something” and the spite in her tone. “But, if a war really is on its way like they said it was, then surely they’d just want to rescue as many people as they could from it?”

“That would be the sensible way of going about things, but..” She let out a sigh. “Keyblade wielders who have darkness in their hearts are seen by some as weaker, or less trustworthy. Even moreso if those wielders actively try to make use of their natural affinity for darkness, if they happen to have it. It’s.. arguably not entirely misguided, considering the corruptive effect that darkness can have on people’s hearts when too much is present, but that doesn’t mean that everyone who wields the darkness is evil.” Her hand was playing with her hairpin again.

Now it was Clio’s turn to sigh, feeling dejected. “I sure wish more people could actually see that instead of insisting otherwise..”

There was a fairly long pause as the older wielder trailed off, and the pair of girlfriends could only hear the steadily-flowing water from the fountain they were sat on the edge of.

“I mean.. I haven’t technically joined the Dandelions yet.” Clio then stated, taking a moment to lift up the crown of clovers she wore around her head to stop it slipping. “There’s meant to be a meeting pretty soon, but.. I could always just stay here with you instead! At the end of the day, I- I really don’t want to lose you..”

“No.” came Aria’s response, bluntly but not coldly. “You should go with them.”

“Huh? But.. what about you?” she replied. “And everyone else, too - I can’t just leave everyone to suffer while I go with the others!”

“Just because they don’t want me there doesn’t mean I won’t go there, clover.” she stated, very matter-of-factly. “If you’re with them, then I’ll just find a way to make it to you. And it’ll be easier to do that if you go with them, because not only will they then be easier to find, but I can be more certain of your safety while I hunt for them.”

“You really think you can follow them..?” she wondered.

“Yes.”

“..How?” she then asked. “I mean, I definitely reckon you could do it, but.. You sound surprisingly sure about it. A lot more than I would be, in your shoes.”

“..It’s because of this.”

For the third time that evening, Aria’s hand found her hairpin, but this time it was much more deliberate - she reached up above where the ribbon ends hung and carefully brought her fingers around the cherry blossom flower in its centre, running her thumb across its large, soft petals.

“..Your hairpin?” Clio asked.

“Yes.” she repeated. “If you’ll have it, then.. Please take this with you when you go with the rest of the Dandelions. Take it as a promise, and a sign - if it’s with you, then the rest of me can follow. And I will follow, somehow, even if we don’t quite know the method yet. I will find a way to be with you, no matter what it takes. Whether I’m a Dandelion or not.”

A brief moment passed as Clio’s eyes became glittery with tears.

“Aww, you’re going to make me blush, Ari! That’s so sweet of you to say, I.. I don’t think I know what to say! Of course I’ll take it, if you’re okay with giving it to me!”

She smiled. “I wouldn’t have offered if I wasn’t.”

Using her right hand as well to ensure none of her hair got unnecessarily caught, Aria carefully moved her hands into position, her dark red nails that Clio had painted for her working their way to where the cherry blossom grew from. She then took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and tugged as hard as she could bring herself to pull. Despite bracing for the action, she still let out an involuntary hiss as she did this, wincing and shutting her eyes much more tightly as the pale pink flower came sailing away from her head with the force.

Keeping her right hand pressed against the left side of her head to try and lessen the intensity of that awfully sharp pain she now felt, she tried desperately to stop tears forming in her eyes, before all of a sudden becoming aware that a strong hand was pressing into her back, gently but firmly, just below her wings.

“I’ve got you.” came Clio’s voice from her right-hand side, before her other hand reached up to clear the tears from Aria’s eyes. “You nearly sent yourself right into the water with how hard you pulled on that.”

“It.. was needed..” she replied, somewhat vaguely. Her head was now tilted to be facing Clio’s more directly, allowing her to see her girlfriend’s supportive if slightly concerned expression. She could feel both her arm and her hand on her back now, giving her confidence that she would not fall backwards even if she wasn’t holding herself upright out of tension.

It was then that Aria realised she had one more thing left to do, so she moved her left hand towards Clio’s right. Resting on her open palm was the flower that once rested in the centre of the hairpin she had never been seen without, the blossom’s five pink petals and two green leaves looking delicate and tender in the sunset’s light. As carefully as if she were handling a baby bird, Clio reached out and tentatively lifted up the flower, making sure not to accidentally damage the petals as she took a closer look before then holding it close to her chest. It seemed to attach itself directly to her jacket once she had decided where it would go.

“..Thank you.” was all Aria could say to fill the silence, her voice just as soft as the flower petals felt to touch. The sharpness of the pain was thankfully becoming somewhat duller and less intrusive with time, and Clio’s gesture of bringing the flower to her heart was something she had treasured immensely.

“Don’t worry, shadow. I’ll keep this safe for you.” Clio declared, now placing her hand on her chest next to the flower. “You’ve just got to make sure you stay safe as well.”

“I will. I trust you, clover.” she replied, shifting to more properly reciprocate her girlfriend’s support with a hug. “No matter what the future holds.. No matter how long it takes.. I will reach you, and we’ll both make it past whatever is coming, in our own ways.”

As the last of the sunlight faded, the pair stayed and cherished this moment in each other’s arms.

[sylvctica]

@goldenorder ➤ sylvie's birthday! ➤ accepting

“Sylvie.” 

He calls to them sweetly, following with a short 'happy birthday' as his gentle fingers cup their jaw for a kiss. Being greeted by their birthday alongside the upcoming spring, as seen by the budding flowers on bare branches, was rather befitting for a god of dendro. It is as though the soft fragrance of the blossoming flora was welcoming them into the new spring.

And of course, he intended to celebrate the occasion as well, with all of his meticulous planning during the past few days—unbeknownst to the other—waiting to come to fruition. 

However, he wasn’t in any particular rush to get to it, leaving them to spend a good part of the day in the uprooted city. There was not much to it outside of some idle chatter and wandering, the two merely basking in one another’s company. Really, neither one ever asks for more than this, but they both go out of their way and beyond for the other regardless. They could have hundreds, no, thousands of birthdays after, and he would still try to make each and every one as memorable as the last. 

By the time late afternoon came about, nimble steps come to a brief pause, a hand reaching to grab forth onto theirs with a light squeeze, quietly indicating for him to take the lead “Shall we take a stroll out?”

As pleasant as the city may be with its warm inhabitants, it makes for a less than ideal intimate setting. And though he intended to take them with a destination in mind, that would not be made clear until they’ve reached it—or close enough to it, anyway. Both have become familiar enough with the paths mapping the region to know where they lead.

It was a fairly lengthy, but pleasant trek—though that is partially because he took extra care beforehand to ensure that nothing short of danger would interfere unexpectedly. And because their chatter helped fill the time, it did not feel as long as it took for them to arrive at Vanarana, home to the aranara who seemed to have anticipated their company with widened smiles. 

Quickly surrounding the two in swarms while greeting them like yapping fledglings, a small laugh slips from the brunette. “You will have to excuse them. It has been a rather long time since they have been able to celebrate with you, so naturally, they are quite eager.” 

He gently ushers the crowd to pave a way for them, guiding the other towards what appears to be a small picnic setup upon a flat and large tree trunk. Along the way, an array of flowers and ornaments could be seen decorating the village, some which soon decorate the dendro god in the form of intricate flower crowns weaved tightly together. 

Sitting down on opposite ends of the table as the children of the forest rejoice and sing in celebration, Zhongli muses fondly. “Please, help yourself. As before, I’ve personally prepared the bamboo shoot soup, but I also brought some of the region’s delicacies as well…ah, and of course, let us not forget the wine.” A light flush extends across his face at the comment. “It is not much, but it is your first birthday home, so I did not wish to go full extravagant."

"Ah, here—before we begin…” 

As he gets them to extend their palm out, a pair of exquisitely crafted chopsticks were gifted to them. It was born of jade and wood, carved in the likeness of a dragon and deer that resembled their own selves. 

“Consider this as my own form of engagement to you, in return for the rings.” The tease gets a heartful chuckle out of himself before he glimpses down fondly at their hand, his thumb caressing their ring. He nearly gets lost in the motion before continuing to speak. “...I would say that is a complete joke, but I would marry you countless times if I could."

"That aside, I know of your fondness for food, so I figured this would most suit you. Whether you choose to make use of them or keep them as a decorative piece is entirely up to you.” A gift from Liyue while they celebrate in Sumeru...a beautiful mesh of the two places they call home. "...And of course, I have some preparations made in my teapot as well..." His words teeter into more of a flustered mumble at that statement.

There is another pause, as a warm and ungloved hand cups the other's own to press his lips against their knuckles with a hum. “Happy Birthday, my jade. Let us celebrate many more birthdays to come.”

      Elongated ears perked up a little at hearing their name called in that all-too-familiar tone—unable to help the smile that followed from ear to ear at feeling the equally familiar touch of his fingers and lips against their own skin and mouth, leaving them to coo contently with a soft mumble of a 'thank you' against him.

      Of course, they were not foolish to think that Zhongli didn't have something planned for the day, but as to what it was ... it was hard to guess. Truthfully, they were happy merely spending the day together—as they needed nothing more—but knowing the consultant, he had something up his sleeves meant to spoil them.

      Regardless, the thought and wonder was shelved as their afternoon was filled with chitter-chatter as they walked around.

      Upon their hand being taken with intent, a tilt of their head followed. Sylvie was about to open their mouth and comment 'isn't that what we've been doing?' but the inquiry fell flat at the look towards them—this was probably the build up to their actual gift, leaving their stomach to pleasantly flip-flop around a few times as they nodded and gestured for him to lead the way.

      The city was left well behind, and as for the direction they were heading ... they also weren't foolish to notice it was towards Varanara—but they hadn't expected that the reason why they were going there was essentially the equivalent of a surprise party consisting of many little plap-plap chattery Aranaras that were quick to swarm around the Dendro god.

      "You"—a short laugh follows, attempting to keep their steps clear of any stray Aranara that was around them—"got them to prepare a birthday party?" Although sounding a little incredulous, the excited and touched expression on their face betrayed that the gesture itself carried heavy weight to the god.

      ( Of course, the forest never forgets, after all—especially when it comes to one born from it. )

      It took a little while to get to the seating area, considering Sylvie stopped here and there to lean down and talk to the Aranaras that came and went, bringing their own flowers one by one until a wreath of flowers decorated the crown of their head. It was hard to not fill a blissful haze in their thoughts, emotions swirling throughout their body, from their core all the way to the tips of their fingers—and even more so as the cheerful song of the Aranara filled the air, alongside the aroma of food which was enough to keep them grounded at the moment.

      Zhongli's small comment of the wine didn't help, leaving the god to raise their eyebrows a bit and turning their cheerful smile into a smirk for a short second, but upon the request of them bringing out their palm tempered their expression back into curiosity.

      At the sight of the beautiful chopsticks embodying both of their 'true' forms being placed in their palm, a wave of heat washed directly through their whole body—not helped by his comment confirming what they had presumed the gift, and gesture, meant alongside his explanation. Their hand holding the chopsticks raised, slightly covering their completely darkened face ... but even as he was focused on their ring, their own fingers in his grasp curled around the base of his hand to hold it.

      ( The latter part of his comment definitely left them a little more heated as well, making their brain frazzled out of curiosity what else he had placed in the privacy and intimacy of his own teapot that'd leave him mumbling so quietly. )

      It took them a few moments to finally detangle through the pleasant mess of feelings coursing through them, keeping themselves in the moment through the warm grip of his hand and the feeling of his lips pressed against their knuckles. "Pff ... gods, you really still went all out, extravagant or not ..."

      The chopsticks were placed down gingerly next to their soup—it would be a shame to not break them in celebrating their own birthday with a meal made by him ... for else what use would they have gathering dust when they were meant to fulfill the role of filling one with food?

      Their own eyes fell down to his hand, smiling from ear to ear as they squeezed his hand more firmly. "And at least I can say 'yes' more officially now, rather than feeling myself collapse out of embarrassment at it being accidental. Gods, yes, I want to marry you, always. Always."

      Eyes lifted to look towards him like he was their sun and their moon, their earth and sturdy stone, before reaching to grasp the wine with their free hand and to slightly lift it for emphasis. "And to many, many more birthdays to come, my asan and my home."

[omegaversebookshelf]

Omegaverse Worldbuilding Hell: World Basics 7

What about kids? Do omega bodies reject sex/children for anybody but their bonded mates?

No

[millionsnife]

The most fundamental tenet of Knives' identity is "Vash's brother"; it forms the absolute bedrock of all of his other views and values, and is the very core of his sense of identity. What exactly 'Vash's brother' means is a complicated topic, and is tangled up in a lot of different thoughts and actions.

Being Vash's brother means protect Vash from others up to and including Vash himself, love Vash, and make Vash happy. There's other things in there as well, but these three are Knives' priority as his older brother and while his actions may seem to contradict these edicts, in his mind everything he does is in pursuit of these three things.

Making Vash happy is a goal he knows he can't fulfill in the present, with the world as it is. It's a long term future goal he's willing to work towards later once he's built their paradise, but it's always there in the back of his mind as one of his driving motivations.

Loving his brother is easy enough, because he's always loved Vash and never stopped.

Protect Vash on the other hand is something a bit more difficult and time consuming, and the most seemingly contradictory of his motivations. Even if it means Vash hates him for it and he becomes the villain in his brother's story, Knives truly believes that humans will hurt Vash so they need to be eliminated for Vash's own safety, to protect his brother from those that would hunt him down and kill him in their hate and fear.

Vash himself causes so much harm to himself with his petty attachments to the humans, who always die and leave him alone or abandon and betray him so Knives will hunt and hound him. Kill his friends. Make it impossible for Vash to become attached to the presence of these humans, so they can no longer hurt him with their betrayals and their deaths, even if it means that Vash hates him. Because so long as he's focused on Knives and unable to create emotional ties to the humans, then he is safe. It's the only way to protect him, as far as Knives is concerned.

And once he's finally created their paradise, Vash will be surrounded only by people who love and care for him. People he can grow attached to without fear, and all of these bad memories won't matter anymore. He won't be sad or lonely, once Knives has made their paradise, so everything he's done until then will no longer matter between them.

Post series his methods change, mostly in deference to Vash's preference and emotional needs/attachments, though his goals and motivations do not. He still attempts to protect Vash, even from himself, and provide as much of a safety net as he can for his younger twin, though it is quite a bit of a learning curve for him to figure out how to do so without resorting to the more expedient methods of murdering everything not a Plant. His own more solitary nature, dislike of crowds and generally being around too many people at once, and preference to not being touched by others also makes all of it difficult, as well as not trusting Vash's human friends just yet.

[princess-of-purple-prose]

[ID: A Mob Psycho 100 comic of Reigen speaking to the possessed Minori at the beginning of the Mogami arc. Reigen exclaims, "Not to worry, Miss Asagiri!" He whips a hand through the air and points at himself to declare confidently, "I'll make sure the truth is reached!" Mogami, in Minori's body and faking teary amazement, says, "Thank..." Then he looks down, frowning slightly, and turns to ask, "Are you a fan of comedians."

Reigen sweats, "Huh," and Mogami looks away and says, "It's just that that gesture looks like the 1983 comedian Miyagawa Yoshi's Mogami Keiji impression." Reigen exclaims, "Why impression? I've actually modelled my business on Mogami himself!" Mogami replies, "Clearly not well enough because Mogami Keiji never did that."

Reigen raises an eyebrow, looking dubious, and asks, "So you're familiar with Mogami's work?" Mogami looks away tiredly and says, "A little. It doesn't matter. It's nothing." Then he spins back to Reigen with a frown and says, "It's just that the hand thing was for exorcisms."

The view looks up on Mogami, whose expression is removed and reminiscent of his actual face as he says, "Regular people-- and cameras-- can't see psychic powers. It's not much of a show if you wave your hand and say you did it. Arcane gestures look so much more impressive. He was a TV personality, it was a necessary flourish."

Reigen still looks skeptical, and he asks, "... How is it supposed to go?" Mogami looks away and says, "He did it all the time on his show. Did you only watch variety cameos?" There's close-up of his pensive face against a black background.

Then Mogami sighs loudly and starts whipping around his hand so it's visible as smears in the same way Reigen's was. He scowls, "Look. Wide gesture to make the movement seem fuller. Snap to break up the next gesture. Swish, bob for length, anticipation, double the fullness at the end."

The last panel shows Reigen standing outside the glass separation panel, jerking a thumb back and saying casually, "Mogami's evil ghost." Mogami clenches his fists and thinks, "Fuck." End ID]

Edit: OP kindly added this to the og post, please go reblog from them instead!!

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do you guys want my entire fnaf au. yes

basic timeline of events:

-1979 fredbears opens. moderately popular

1981 charlie (4) goes missing, and “is found” about a year later. henry pretty much abandons fredbears for a new project (charlie, but then freddys)

1983 bite of 83. crying child (8) dies and michael (15) is completely and thoroughly fucked up about it. fredbears is “temporarily closed” but is never reopened

1984 freddy fazbears family pizza place (pre fnaf 2) opens

1985 missing children incident, over the span of about 2 months. closes a month later

-1986 elizabeth goes missing publically. circus baby, wills passion project, kills her. and all. in his own workshop though. he manages to cover it up as a runaway.

-1987 the NEW freddy fazbears pizza! (fnaf 2) opens :D surely this will go great.

1987 like a month later bite of 87. mangle bites the frontal lobe of the night guard (you know him. jeremy). immediately closes.

-1988 wills wife leaves him fucking finally

-1989 freddy fazbear pizza opens finally! this one is actually probably gonna be fine

roxy (0) is born! michael (20) had this girlfriend he thought he was gonna spend his whole life with and she got pregnant! but she didnt want it. but he did. so um its all his. great.

-1991 circus babys pizza world opens :) genuinely pretty normal also the whole child murder robot thing doesnt come up like almost ever. until! it does!

1993 freddys closes to focus circus babys much more advanced animatronics

1999 roxy (10) dies. um she got eaten (yknow) by funtime freddy see she wasnt allowed near the animatronics (wow sounds familiar) but she somehow ends up in the room and decides. well hes silly. and well. BUT DOES SHE DIE REALLY??????

1999 michael in the search for what the fuck happened there gets in the sister location game predicament where he. fucking dies kinda but hes okay dw hes just ourple and pretty much just skin and spite. circus baby closes. bc. the animatronics are gone

-2009 the brand new freddy fazbears pizza opens!!! (its just called freddy fazbears pizza) its great it does not have animatronics its human actors :D to dispel any controversies yknow :) this is where the story is set. :)

maxwell dalton works at freddys currently! he is a mechanic and works in the basement cleaning and repairing all the old animatronics. the idea is that maybe with the right modifications and such they can open MORE restaurants with animatronics. of course that isnt going to happen. but william is a nostalgic man and he owns it. max is a weirdo freak that tries his best to be friendly likable and most importantly, trust worthy! he is very interested in the history of freddys and likes to talk about Fun Facts with his coworkers, like that fabric suited animatronics were made by henry but the plastic ones were will, and that chica was reportedly the first animatronic to start noticeably smelling bad and starting leaking some strange liquid by the time the restaurant closed. but max isnt just here bc he likes the animatronics, max is here bc spoilers max is roxy haha wow can you believe it did you see that one coming.

michael was a single father and will had a new kid in line to mess with so instead of just using his money to help michael raise his kid, he used his power over him to make him work at his restaurants and generously volunteered to take care of roxy while he was gone. in these times will decided roxy (who was starting to look more like will than michael did. but like a little girl.) would be his little mini me, but in order to be that they had to like the same things he liked. so he talked and talked about his own life and confessed to like. yknow murder and how awesome he found it to them. roxy didnt actually take this well and became very reserved and unhappy, and will doesnt take THAT and comes up with this epic plan.

see charlie. um died he knows this. he knows this for sure bc he killed her. personally. fortunately for him he realized this when it happened and managed to steal the plans for charlie. so. if henry can build a new daughter he can fix his granddaughter so he decides hes gonna kill them and fill them up with parts. he doesnt have the visual crafting skills of henry, but he does have. roxy. so he can just use their skin.

so he tricks them into the funtime auditorium, gets them snatched by funtime freddy, and then retrieves them before anyone could find them. unfortunately for him roxy is tall and chubby for a 10 year old, just like he was at their age, so theyre a bit. mangled. by the robot meant to grab average sized 5 year olds. but thats okay. he can fix them. and well roxy seems to be... alive again! but not as a robot in human skin but as human skin holding these robot parts in it. which sucks major ass and they immediately want to leave and get out of this absolutely terrible situation but they know as well as anyone else in town that william is well liked and nobody would believe them at all even a little bit. fortunately having. um. died. they can talk to ghosts. and one of the ghosts. charlie. knows that theres at least one person that would fully understand their situation: samuel emily WOAHH so roxy goes and finds him

roxy does make it to sammy (samuel baker his mothers name) in northern arizona and well. after being very confused and making various phone calls to his mother (he was 4. when everything happened to him and then his life was pretty normal otherwise) he decided to take in this weird fucked up little kid. of course um he couldnt tell anyone though its. illegal. probably. so he did his best to like kind of homeschool them and keep them happy. which involved supporting them through transition once they realized that. max is trans simon make a cis oc challenge (no).

so okay max becomes an adult and we’re back to the present of the story max decides to go back to hurricane to this new freddys restaurant and theyre trying to hire a mechanic for the animatronics very convenient because thats what mac wants is access to the animatronics. max has already heard the terrible shit will did so he wants to like. yknow some sort of. justice. or whatever and he knows theres ghosts in the robots bc he met them after having experimental surgery done in wills workshop. so he wants to go help. them. leave and stop being ghosts. and try to find ways to implicate will and get him like. not arrested the goal is to kill him in the end. remembered as a bad person. thered be no story if max just came in with a gun.

FAQ:

did you really go with the name roxy. is that a reference

umm. yes i did and yes it was post roxanne wolf. its a cute name and a reference to foxy and security breach doesnt exist in my au so.

did you really go with the name max. is that a reference

no max i came up with years ago. not for this character (it was this characters previous versions boyfriend)

what happened to henry?

henry left the franchise after the bite of 87 he could not do it anymore. he also left charlie to his sister bc he was really guilty about making her and while jen didnt like that he did that, charlie is like. a person. so she did agree to take care of her

what is charlie doing?

she works at freddys! as a mechanic also i just kinda wanted her around. she fixes the arcade machines theyve had for 25 years but she came in for max’s job and um. well max has it and doesnt let her see the animatronics so she kinda has beef with him but not really

what is michael doing!!

michael also works at freddys!!!! he knows his dad is like a bad person who at least caused the death of elizabeth (but not really anyone else) and fucked up his daughter but will is the only living family member he has (as far as he knows) (his mom has passed. at this point) so like what the fuck is he going to do. so he tries to keep watch of things there and makes sure nothing goes on. he knows unless will is dead freddys is happening so hes trying to take hold of it and keep it safe.

where did the circus babys animatronics... go.

they separated into scrap baby and molten freddy. it was mostly babys idea and it didnt work at all so they were mad at her and kicked her out. ballora and foxy wanted to go home but freddy was scared what they would do to him (bc he had almost Just got roxy at that point) and didnt want to be alone so he kinda forced them in with him. they were eventually both recovered and shoved in the basement with all the other animatronics.

where is [x event/character/game]

i probably. dont know much about it/them or couldnt fit it/them in cleanly. feel free to ask about it though, it may have A place.

feel free to ask anything you want!!!!! thank you for reading if you did :)