#mantis fam

[stealingpotatoes]

Don’t worry, if Cal dies in the next game Merrin will use any and all nightsister magic at her disposal to drag his ass out of the afterlife. She’s not letting get away that easy.

LOL wait good point, Merrin has the potential to be a really late healer

(commission info // tip jar!)

[robyn-runestone]

Okay, but I keep imagining Cal and Merrin exploring a planet and literally every time they come across a weird plant Merrin is like “I’ll pay you 20 credits if you eat that.”

Greez hates it when she does this and at some point Cere had to tell BD-1 to shock her whenever she says it, because she genuinely believes that Cal would actually eat the weird plant someday.

He knows it’s a joke, but Cal sometimes weighs the pros and cons in his head. Like this could actually kill him, but 20 credits is 20 credits.

[bexisanidiot]

Lmfao, I feel like when Mantis was like 15, Bee pierced his ears, and it was a shit show (he literally wanted them pierced)

He thought it was gonna be painless, but it turned into him fighting for his life while Bee was just trying to get the other ear so he didn't have just one earring😭

[toaverse]

Who do you think are underrated MCU heroes/characters?

In no particular order:

Mantis. Her story of growing up isolated, implied to have been emotionally abused by her own father Ego, and meeting before losing many of her half-siblings, before meeting and joining the guardians, is really interesting and something the films and the fandom often overlook.

Kraglin. He did get cool development in GotG 2, but after that he’s just there for comedic relief (kinda like Drax tbh).

Ant-Man and the ant-family in general. While their bond didn’t seem as strong as the Guardians’, they’re there for each other at the end of the day (tho I heard they screwed that up in Quantumania, so…).

[blushingtendertiel]

I forgot warriors way ended today and haven't stock up on any of the treasure stuff and am not sure did I gwt all the new pieces 🥲

[pillowdrawz]

🎃rise and MM Holloween??🎃

Rant/

The fact that in rise universe While the Turtles are cautious like in episode 1 but they quickly do not care anymore cause they usually go out in day. (Rise turtles goes to irl mario cart in NEW YORK OPEN DAYLIGHT, Kid Baxter wasn't afraid of the turtles, Nor the Humans when Rise leo was found out in the open, Repo mantis openly would talk to humans in his shop the humans DO NOT CARE, NOT TO MENTION SNOW DAY EPISODE?? IN THE DAY LIGHT??)

NOT TO MENTION RISE HAS A HIDDEN CITY??? WHERE THEY CAN BE THE MOST FREE???

Is it unfair for the other iteration cause...YEESS??

Sure mutant menace exist but humans just wanted drama and some action to make their lives not boring at the end of the day they do not care in the rise universe. Rise donnie was freely going in a school.

Its so sad but im so happy that The Mutant Mayhem got to go to school even though rise has the opportunity but doesn't want to. This makes me think does the rise fam have a Normal childhood??? (LIKE WHEN THEY WHERE KIDS-) the rise turtles would openly go out in the day light . Kid Rise Leo and Raph would sell a lemonade stand(with splinters help ofc) and People would buy like New york city people??? Hello?? Rise splinter has a Pictures of the rise turtles childhood its no secret to the flashbacks I imagine Rise splinter showing this to the other splinter and be like "This is where i help Blue and Red built a lemonade stand because they wanted new skateboards"

The splinters would be confuse cause WYM you made your kids sell lemonade UPSIDE???

end of rant/

Also this is Rise leo and Rise splinter you cannot tell me other wise.

(Also Sorry for not posting Bissy in collage Im studying IT. (Cause i wanted to make an IRL SHELLDON BABY HAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Me and my fam (four people), my parents in the front, my dad driving, and me and my brother in the back two seats in a nice red convertible, we started driving down this back road, and for some reason we started getting chased by a giant praying mantis.

[smearkrann13]

Some Casey Jr. Doodles with his apoc-fam 😇 (scroll all the way down)

Whhawha i love making art so much (these were like from 2-3 months ago lmfao)

I like the idea that either Casey Jr. was made by Baron Draxum (as a request by Casey Sr. and Draxum just agreed cause Casey is one of his favorite humans) Or Casey found Jr. in some abandoned building/ beside a dumpster and just took him in (this is more plausible so imma stick with this)

As he grew up he was taken care of the whole clan, this doesn't mean that only the turtle boys + april + draxum took care of him along with Casey, this includes everyone (Repo Mantis, Hypno, Warren, Baxter, The purple dragons etc.)

Cassandra would've probably said she never wanted a kid, but deep inside she always wanted a little mini copy of her running around causing chaos, and she would've given him all the love and attention she didn't receive while she was a child. So when she saw him, she knew she needed to protect him.

[freakartack]

Here is my obligatory Kat and Ana headcanons question. What's your brainworms on them? Sorry if you already got a request for them, I just adore the twins. Though considering I've seen some other takes on them (and their fam), I'm open to hearing more despite making god knows how many headcanons.

HELLO RESIDENT KAT & ANA ENJOYER i am always down to kat & ana. Just so I don't retread any ground, for everyone else watching all my previous kat & ana bullet points can be found here here here and here.

NOW FOR THE NEW STUFF: Going to do things a bit differently this time. I'm going to do one of my favorite activities, which is "spin the Warioware Wheel and think about whatever character interactions it spits up"

MONA: Oh this one's easy. Babysitter Supreme. Not only do Kat & Ana think she's cool as fuck but she's also one of the few people in this world that can actually keep up with Kat's energy. Similarly, Mona is the least intimidating of the warioware cast to Ana, and in her presence Ana will thus allow herself to Become Silly. Always has some crazy activities for them to do to the point where she can achieve the impossible task of making Kat tired enough to go to bed

MIKE: Kat gives him a 4/10 because he is difficult to tackle. Ana finds him kind of scary when his eyes light up. However, both of them love karaoke and Penny loves telling them embarrassing secrets about him so they find him quite silly as well

18-VOLT: AW 18-volt. I actually wrote a character interaction between 18 and the twins in warioware camping believe it or not. I think he is great with younger kids and so he gets along great with them, doesn't talk down to them the same way other kids his age might. Kat actually does not attempt to tackle him because she respects him as a peer. Ana thinks he's cool

CRICKET: LOL. Not going to lie, Cricket is a little hard for me to write sometimes because he's such a one-trick pony. But it is funny to imagine the 2 sets of martial-arts characters interacting. I think Kat would be elated to have an "equal" sparring partner, but Cricket would be kind of hesitant to spar with a baby kindergartener. (Kat would of, course, still give him a run for his money.). Ana would be really interested in Cricket's stories about his past journeys and of Master Mantis's fighting skills, all of which she would take at face value

SPITZ: SPITZY! VERY tackleable, but they have opposing opinions on him; Ana thinks he is a cute kitty man, but Kat thinks that he is a stinky cat. Spitz would enjoy talking to Ana and teaching her things, but he would NOTTT be able to keep up with Kat. Of course he cares a lot about them both, but he is simply not qualified to babysit a five-year-old with a sword. Taxi rides with them are similarly chaotic, but don't happen too often anyways.

[bluepeachstudios]

Ghost doesn't condone the boys stealing, but I'm curious. Does that include Repo Mantis' junkyard? Cuz, I think a lot of folks are unaware of this, but junkyard junk isn't free. You still have to pay the owner of the junkyard for that stuff, you can't just go in and take it.

It's funny, considering how much the turtle-fam (especially donnie) has stolen from him over the years

along with multiple counts of them trespassing onto his private property

at least two separate instances of them messing with his cat

with one of those instances being filmed with the intention of posting it online

all without his knowledge and/or consent

Repo is the only "villain" in Rise that is actually pretty justified in disliking the Mad Dogs🤣

Look, Ghost grew up going through junkyards. He tries to pay for things when he can, but he's essentially penniless and lives in the sewers. He doesn't just pick from Mantis' junkyard but he's definitely been there more than a few times.

Ghost's whole thing is "don't steal if you can help it but also stealing from bad guys is morally fine" which is why he skims money off of billionaire's accounts. And THAT, he does use to pay for things.

Ghost hates Repo anyway; he made a deal with his kids and then went back on it. In Ghost's mind, that's enough to get your shit thieved. lmao

[stealingpotatoes]

Does Kata have a poncho?

yes of course!! Cal makes sure every Mantis crewmember has one!!

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

OMG?!??!

I hadn't watched the Guardians of the Galaxy holyday special!! Was anybody gonna tell me it actually confirmed that Mantis is Ego's daughter or was I supposed to find that out in a YouTube comment myself?!??!?

I'm so freaking happy :D this is the first time a headcanon I subscribe to has ever been made official!!! I was CONVINCED that Mantis was one of Ego's kids when GotG2 came out (it was perfectly logical - why would Ego take notice of a random kid to enslave, when his main characteristic is making kids with all known species and taking them to back to his planet and only killing them when they prove useless to him? We know he mated with one of Mantis' species from his displays - hence he necessarily had an empath kid, so no need to go grab one unrelated to him: Mantis was useful so he kept her, like a "flea with a purpose.") I never expected it to be acknowledged tho!! But the plot bunnies are back!! The fluff is back!!! Peter has a sis sjsjdsjsjszjkz 💛💛 I can go back to imagining Ravager AUs where Mantis gets picked up by Yondu along with Peter 😍 or even better, grows up with Meredith.

GotG is the only Marvel franchise that still elicits feels in me. It actually cares enough to flesh out its characters in ways by building from the little things (like Yondu's fatherly love for Peter was possible to conjecture from the first movie but was still unsubstantiated until the second, like Kraglin being Peter's "big bro" from the Ravagers was just hinted at but now he's part of the Guardian fam, and like Mantis obviously being one of Ego kids is finally a thing) so that the audience can pick up on the clues and predict how the relationships are naturally going to develop. It doesn't betray the viewers by dropping the subtext bc the writers have changed their minds and playing dumb and saying people imagined things that weren't there - it follows things through!!!!

Anyway I KNEW IT. I FREAKING KNEW IT!! MANTIS IS PETER'S SISTER BAAAAYBEEE!!!!

[player-1]

Not to make it seem like an obvious question, but does anyone think that the Omnicron kids are considered half-siblings? Besides the obvious appearance-wise, it makes sense in a way for Omnicron to have a partner/mate for each element for a possible heir but he also always wants to be on top of the food chain, so after he has the kid he just...kills the mom? Eat them?? Maybe like a reverse mantis thing, but who knows...Since there's zero mention about any mother/mother-figure in their lives, I'll just leave it at that.

And even if it's a sibling thing for every one of them to be at each other's throats with insults or disagreements, none of them seem relatively close to one another if they were true-blooded siblings (besides Nara and Grunda, but they literally had a millennium of wartime to get cordial). The only thing they have in common is their opinions on humans (good or bad) and how they acclimate to their new lives outside of Omnicron or being ghosts in Extinction. Besides, if the half thing is relatively true, then it'll be an extremely sore subject for all of them that they just never bother to bring it up; it's just a fact of life that'll never change or get fixed anytime soon as long as they're the strongest of them all.

That being said, the only one that will have a problem with it (of course) would be Metta; since he's considered a true Normal type and also inherited Omnicron's ability to control all other element types (main moveset). But with him being the youngest and a cringe-fail bowling ball, if he's constantly rubbing it in the other's faces then it's a given why all his older siblings collectively hate the youngest. I mean, if he's practically written out of the narrative in N:E (or the rest of the fam refuse to mention him), then that's saying something, besides him indirectly causing everything terrible in N:E, that is.

[lightadarttomendyourheart]

this weekend i found myself feeling close to my time when i lived in warsaw. when i'd spend the weekends alone in my flat, drinking alone and texting my friends in canada, having wonderful conversations, smoking out my kitchen window, listening to music that broke my heart. idk why but i really felt that vibe the last 2 nights this weekend. i usually haven't drank alone here in yyc, i did last night but tonight 2 friends came over but they have since left and i am left feeling tipsy and nostalgic for those warsaw nights. i know back then sometimes all i wanted was some company. the first 3-4 months in warsaw were quite lonely, not having any close friends, spending my time sleeping and eating and texting people back home. this weekend felt similar, but not the same. because i do have friends here. i wasn't walking 15-20 mins to the closest grocery story with my huge backpack in the height of summer, bringing groceries back with me to my flat. exhausted and sweaty af throughout the entire ordeal. i feel older. more mature. (obviously). but i kind of love that's been the feeling lately because i look back on those times so fondly.

i really need to enjoy this time now, because when i move to the uk, i won't be living alone anymore. i probably won't live alone again for a very, very long time.

when i lived with jake i really missed my alone time to listen to music and tumbl. but with brandon's shift schedule i think i will get a decent time alone to do what i please and have my alone time, which will be a blessing but also a curse, because i know i'll miss him when he's working lates or super early mornings. it's going to be hard, i already know that. not even just for me, but for him. when he's trying to go to bed at 8pm, or when he's finished an early shift and he's asleep when i get home from work. it's going to be rough. but i'm wiling to do it all.

i know when we first started dating i was so against moving to the UK. and now that i've fully committed and decided it's what i'm going to do, i can't imagine anything else. i can't wait to fully, maturely live in the UK. it was so different living there as a student. i always knew living there as an adult would be so different, and i'm honestly so, so glad i have this chance to do it again, properly. idk if i'd decide to do this if it wasn't for him. i always knew i'd live in europe again. i knew it wasn't the end for me when i moved home from warsaw. i just never ever thought i'd be moving there for a boy.

but here i am, living out my childhood dream. if i could talk to 12-18 year old me and tell her, hey, listen, we went to a magical festival in albania in 2019 and we met a boy, and then 4 years later, after another long-term relationship, we re-connected with the boy we met in albania and started dating long distance and now i'm moving to the UK??? honestly, i know what i would say. i would first say WTF REALLY? but at the same time, i know i would say, i knew it was meant to be. it's been my destiny from day 1. i've always known deep down this was going to be for me. well ok no, i haven't always known, but i have deeply deeply hoped for this to be my future. i've always wanted to meet a boy and move across the world for him and start a new life. it's always been in my nature to wander and drift and move and explore. so this is honestly, the natural path my life has lead me on. being me, this was always meant for me. and i just feel so grateful to have finally found a man who without question, i know i want to do this for. brandon is my person. i'm learning more and more how to accept his flaws and who he is fully as a person. and i love him, wholly.

he has shown me how much i mean to me on numerous occasions, and just how i feel when i'm with him is second to none. i just love being in his company, just us two. it never feels forced or boring or anything negative. i could happily travel with world with him, without the mantis fam (god forbid) and be happy. and i think that means so so so much. whenever jake and i would spend time just us, it was fine but it felt meh. i wasn't fulfilled. i could and have happily gone to a show just me and brandon and it is honestly some of the funnest times i've had. me and B, at an AP, vibing and dancing and drinking, and it's such a good time. always. god i really missed that and i never want to take it for granted.

he is my person. he honestly is who i want to spend the rest of my life with and a little part of me never thought i'd find that person. i thought i'd find men who were ok, who were tolerable to be with in those settings specifically, who weren't awful but weren't my people like the mantis fam are. but he is, and more. i'll be honest, i don't have a LOT of people i feel that with. that i can go out with just the two of us and have an amazing night no matter what. i think maya indy and sarah are the only people i would comfortably say we'd always have an amazing time, and now brandon. and that is so incredibly important to me. to compare my boyfriend to my bestest friends in my life. that's how it should be. and anyone who settles for less are missing out on so many amazing things in life.

i just can't believe i've found my person. it has always felt like this long lost idea that i've had, finding the person i wanna be with forever. there are so many billions of people on this planet that how can you find your person so quickly? i'm not even 30 yet, i haven't even been alive for half of my life. how is it possible? but i don't even question it now. i know. he is the one for me. and whether i'm the one for him is something else. but that doesn't matter. in this moment, right here and right now, i don't want to let go of the feeling that this is the beginning of the rest of my life.

[thedawningofthehour]

I know you said you were gonna keep Warren and Hypno's fates anonymous, but will they be mentioned when the Hamatos find out how Draxum was able to accomplish erasing/replacing Donnie's memories via Hypno's illusion magic? And if their fate was clear and they (hopefully) are alive, would they try to covertly inform the family or another villain or mutant or yokai who pities the Hamatos (like Repo Mantis or Bull Hop or Hueso)?

The fam might connect the dots, but honestly Hypno is really no longer relevant as far as they're concerned. He didn't invent the spell, it wasn't anything particular to him. He was just the dude Draxum got to perform the task. He would have done it himself, but it was an extremely advanced procedure that held a significant risk of completely frying Donnie's brain, and he was just not going to take that chance.

If Draxum did let them go-they still wouldn't be able to help, sorry to say. Draxum would have forced Hypno to wipe both his and Warren's short-term memory. To their senses, they would have woken up the next morning on their living room floor with Warren's clothes all ripped and a mysterious bundle of cash shoved into Hypno's pocket, going "what the fuck did we drink last night??"

[ganeshpnf]

Hi there,

I recently discovered your blog, and let me say that I love the slice of life headcannons you've come up with for the Jade Palace family. This is coming from someone who has a slice of life one-shot collection planned for KFP surrounding the Jade Palace family, and I can't wait to work on it whenever I can, I have two in progress by the way.

(Let me say that I've always imagined that Po most likely did experience some bullying as a cub, as demonstrated by the first movie when 1. When we see how much the Five's depreciating comments had affected them, and 2. how he commented to Master Shifu that all of the pain he endured at the Jade Palace could never compare to the pain he felt to that of simply just being himself every day. Plus, we find out that he "eats when he's upset." He indeed has a loving father, bit it's only natural for one to want friends thier own age.)

Anyway, I'm kind of curious on your take on a scenario where perhaps the Five found out about Po bringing them together unintentionally. How would that play out? I'm pretty sure Master Shifu won't be pleased when he finds out that Po was the one that unintentionally food poisoned him with soup. It's secrets of the scroll.

Keep up the good work.

Helloo! :) Thank you so much I'm glad you enjoyed my hc's. Jade palace fam are my favourite, can't wait for your one-shot collection!

Po was indeed bullied as a cub. As we see in the first movie, when he was the waiter for his dad, villagers were way too mean to Po. Also we don't see him interact with anyone else besides his dad before he was the dragon warrior. He was indeed  kind of a depressed, trying to feel a little bit better by food, trying to forget the possible pain he had.

Anyway, I thought about that possible scenario before. I always imagined five wouldn't react that much after a brief shock and amusement. Probably lots of laughter from Mantis and Monkey duo, since Mantis was the fake doctor that time and was only summoned to recover Shifu. Tigress would be probably impressed once again, even though she would not openly show it. She would understand once again that Po is their lovable dragon warrior and was destined to be there from beginning. I think Shifu would be the one to react most. His master was right again, and the dragon warrior, who he despised before was the one who accidently created the legendary furious five. I can imagine Shifu staying awake all night and thinking this all over in his head, meditating and thanking his master over again for blessing him with such wisdom. And about the food poisoning thing, Po might have to do a little more training exercise as a punishment. Poisoning a kung fu master is not a little thing to do 😄