#markus head canons

[distraughtlesbian]

literally the best part of this whole stupid book iwlove weird obsessed horndogs thee villain archetype of all time. he’s so silly. “we could’ve had a life together”, he says to his lesbian ex-neighbour who he’s just shot with a crossbow bolt meanwhile her girlfriend who he’s also just shot is half dead across the room. god i love it here he said me and the bad bitch im going to fumble

[sighdbh]

josh not being able to survive the violent revolution is absolute bullshit that makes me mad to this day, but what even is death in an android world? if you gave him enough blue blood and had spare body parts on hand, would be able to come back?

[muka-rapak]

Reading through the beginning of the third year again. and. oh my god.... Lobosch 🥺🥺🥺

[thedoormann]

Are you okay with aus/ head cannons of your ocs?

AUs are my beloved I love AUs

Headcanons are ok too as long as they're respectful towards what is canon. My ocs are very personal to me and I put alot of thought into every aspect of who they are so as long as you're respectful its ok! I only say this because I've had people joke about making ooc headcanon stuff canon and it always makes me uncomfortable lol

[asukaindetroit]

Some random headcanons for Nines, who, let's face it, is entirely a product of headcanons because he canonically exists for one bonus scene where he does nothing but blink vapidly: I adore deviant Nines as an absolute supercomputer badass, and am also willing to accept no-thoughts-head-empty Nines for the lulz value, but I also propose this: A Nines who is existentially frustrated by everyone comparing him to Connor all the time. Like, Connor's a Big Deal. That newsreel of Connor leading an android army is super iconic. Everybody knows Connor. Connor's on fucking talk shows telling the 60 Minutes hosts of the 2030s all about the struggle for Android Rights. Connor is TIME magazine's runner-up Person of the Year, only because Markus was the Person of the Year winner. Nines, poor dude, gets activated post-revolution, only for the humans to be like, "Hey, aren't you Connor?" And he has to explain that no, he's not Connor, he's Nines/Niles/Richard/Conrad/Whatever Other Name You Pick. (Personally, I like Niles with Nines as a nickname, but YMMV.) (More below because this gets wordy)

Eventually some paparazzo gets pics of the two of them side-by-side. The internet immediately generates all the same exact memes we have about the two: software/hardware, PS4/PS5, etc. The "totally looks like" meme gets revived just for them. This does not stop the confusion. Instead, someone produces the "twink/twunk" meme and the Whole Fucking Internet dubs him "Twunk Connor" and runs with it as the internet does. Nines gets spotted eating a thirium cookie? #FeedTwunkConnor trends. Nines chases a perp in the streets? #TwunkConnorTakedown all over the socials. Nines shopping? #TwunkConnorSighting. Poor dude lives in the perpetual shadow of a much more famous, near-identical brother. Society expects him to be Connor 2.0 when he's been alive for like five whole minutes and still hasn't figured himself out yet. It's giving him a massive complex. This, incidentally, is grounds for bonding with Gavin, who I am 100% willing to accept is related to Kamski somehow. He, too, knows what it's like to live in the shadow of a much more famous relative. Gavin offers the following: “All you gotta do is make your whole vibe the polar opposite of him, change your last name, and add a few distracting scars. Like nobody even notices we have almost the exact same voice.” To which Nines replies, “I am not copying your look; they would just call me Trash Connor then.”

[skellinore]

"Family Outting"

[If the image shows up as blurry or whatever, just click the image, I hear that fixes it.]

I am finally here to bring you my longest piece to date! I started this baby back on March 3rd. I recovered from art block and many other struggles to get to this point! I am so unbelievably happy! 

[Something important to add: I’ve turned Markus into my OC, so he’s no longer a redesign of Offenderman! Since both of them are very, VERY different in personality, morals, and designs. I am however making another design and AU for Offender in another post! Which is why this post was delayed!]

Now onto the new and improved head-canons! [Going from left to right.]

Markus Sinclair:

The youngest! Yet somehow he is the only one to inhabit their father’s tallness gene. [He is the younger twin to Trender.]

Markus is a proud bisexual and aceflux man!

Markus Sinclair took his face name from his favourite character, from his favourite detective movie: The Twelve Painted Women. [He watched that movie religiously when he was a little boy.]

A hopeless romantic. A firm believer of love at first sight, he plans the most romantic candlelit dinners, and enjoys writing his own love poems. [A perfect golden retriever boyfriend.]

Despite being a prince, Markus has devoted his life to be the best detective he can be to help and protect the innocent. [Bonus: Markus does those cheesy dialogue intro lines, for example: “February 18, 1998, I was sitting down with a cup of coffee, reading the morning newspaper, until something caught my eye.” Basically that. Which I adore for him. His family also enjoys it, except for Trender.]

Markus is a well known writer and poet, under the pen name of "Sonnet V. Sparks” His popular works being: “In My Folly,” “My Broken Bones Will Mend Your Soul,” and “My Poems for Your Heart”

My dearest boy plays the guitar and piano, he enjoys playing tunes to his siblings and father.

Despite him loving his job, it absolutely destroys him. Which is why he’s the only child of Cabadath who doesn’t live in the castle. So that he can drink himself to death alone in peace.  

Slender:

The second oldest [However this is not public knowledge, and everyone views Slender as the oldest twin.] 

Slender is a distinguished gay who prefers to be called an it, but doesn’t mind being identified with male pronouns.

Slender will be the next in line to be king. [He takes his duties very seriously, but his father likes to spoil him, meaning he takes on less duties then it would like to.]

Slender very much adores and admires nature, most of his free time is dedicated to exploring the wilderness and documenting anything new. [Slender has written a well received encyclopedia of new types of plants/trees, animals, rocks/minerals, and insects.]  

Speaking of him liking nature, Slender has been given a blessing from Mother Nature herself, allowing it to be able to talk to animals, insects, and trees.

To be honest, Slender is daddy’s boy at heart. He absolutely adores his father. When he was younger he would sneak into Cabadath’s wardrobe and try on his clothes and pretend to be him.]

Slender has mastered shapeshifting to a tee. [Its favourite things to shapeshift into is a huge white deer, wolf, centipede, spider, and raven.]

Since Slender loves animals so much, my little prince is a vegetarian.

Splendor:

The oldest son! [He hates this, which is why he states to everyone that Slender is the oldest twin.]

Splendor is pansexual and asexual.

Much like Slender, Splendor loves animals! But instead of being a vegetarian, Splendor is a vegan.

Splendor and Slender are identical twins! When they were younger the only thing telling them apart were their tendrils, until Slender started to get its scars. [The only reason why Splendor looks way different from Slender now is because Markus, his baby brother, was ashamed of having a visible mouth, so Splendor used his tiny knowledge of shapeshifting to make it appear that he has a mouth and eyes to help with Markus’ self-esteem. He’s grown to love these features.]

Splendor’s personality differs from who he is around at the time. He’s calm, level-headed, and intelligent around his father, Markus, Trender, and anyone else; but around Slender, Splendor acts silly, carefree, and energetic! 

Dabbles in facepaint/makeup. To make his face stand out, examples: drawing on rainbow freckles, red swirls to mimic cartoon blush, little butterflies, paw prints, etc. [He also puts stickers on his face from time to time.]

A tad bit overprotective of his siblings, especially his twin, Slender.

While all of his other siblings have secure jobs, Splendor is the only one who hasn’t pinned down a job yet, not that he has to, being a prince and all. [He’s been a baker, ringmaster, toy maker, babysitter, nurse, and teacher! Right now he’s a daycare teacher.]

Trender:

The secondest youngest. [Only older than Markus by a whole two minutes.]

Trender is a triple A battery, with them being asexual, aromantic, and agender.

Trender is creatively gifted! Trender has explored many creative hobbies over the years, and has excelled at all of them in a small amount of time. Their favourites being sculpting, beading, photography, calligraphy, and drawing/painting. 

If anything were to happen to Slender, Trender would be next in line to rule over the kingdom and their people.

Trender barely talks at all, they enjoy listening to people a lot more. Trender really enjoys listening to their family members. Although they do enjoy talking to their twin, Markus quite a bit.

Trender’s face name was not something they picked out themselves. Splendor picked it out actually to match both him and his twin. Trender doesn’t mind it, as they couldn’t decide on one for the longest time.

If you managed to see their bare back, you’d see that it was completely covered in scars. [From the time they were kidnapped and used as slave labour for their special and rare type of tendrils.]

Trender runs many successful side businesses! From selling their sculptures, paintings, and their beading works on an online shop. [Trender’s two main jobs is a therapist/psychologist, as once again, they enjoy listening to people and helping them. The second one being a fashion designer/professional tailor, although they despise fast fashion. Trender actually has a brain compared to the other greedy designers. Trender cares to bring affordable and stylish clothes for people who need them.

I wanted to add that any drawings before this that have head-canons are outdated! So please disregard them! I've already most likely deleted most of my old Markus Sinclair art because it is still attached to the tag: Offenderman. I can't wait to post Markus under the tag: Slender/Creepypasta OC! I'll leave the old drawing alone for you to see! [All new drawings/head-canons will be using the: No Humans AU]

Anyways! Thank you to all who waited for this drawing to come out! I hope you'll like it as much as you liked the old one I posted back in 2022! it's crazy to see the improvement! [Here's the old one for you to see!]

[iamhellborn]

Dwk head canons the entire fandom shares

Markus self harms

Jojo’s mum was an alcoholic

Deniz and Leon are in love

Jojo and Markus are in love

Marlon and Kong are in love

Vanessa and Natasha are in love

Marlon and Leon’s mum left them as kids

This caused Leon to have abandonment issues and kind of explains why he is the way he is

He also shows signs of having narcissistic disorder and BPD

Deniz is on the autism spectrum

Raban has ADHD

Raban’s parents doesn’t take care of him (either because they can’t or simply because the are neglectful)

Therefore Willi and Hadschi are the closest he has to father figures

[nebulastarss]

*exasperated sigh*

*asks about head cannons*

*starts vibrating in place intensely*

I'm currently rotating 2 around my head, one of which I got from a fanfic I read like last month

1. Diagnostic reports were meant to be read by the technician or reported to the owner. Whereas the damage notification (only seen by the android) uses the ID of the biocomponent (ex: 8456w), the diagnostic report uses the common biocomponent name (ex: thirium pump regulator).

Once the tech knows the part they're actually supposed to be looking at, they can examine it properly. Much quicker than having to look up the ID of the damaged part before examination.

However androids also can use the reports to get a list of everything wrong rather than moving their leg and getting flooded with notifications about the damaged knee joint or something. They don't need the distinction, but it's still a diagnostic, so it's still the common names.

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2(the one from a fanfic that ive heavily fucked with). Connor is a prototype. Sometimes prototypes will have something that's already been finished be revamped in an attempt to test making it better. For example, the gyroscope. I dunno if androids canonically have them, but I have no clue what use they'd use to balance these bitches.

What if Connor's gyroscope is slightly different than everyone else's because Connor was never truly supposed to be used and they only sent him out due to the rise in deviants? What if Connor has the robot version of motion sickness because the extra movement messes with his experimental gyroscope?

Obviously this isn't canonical otherwise he would've been way more unstable on the boat when confronting Markus, but if it was canon then it wouldn't be a headcanon! Imagine him lingering in cars after they've been stopped so he can find his balance before standing, wobbling and scrambling goofy-like on top of the train, struggling to not fall over on Jericho while pointing a gun at Markus? Beautiful image, especially for Machine Connor.

Isn't it so funny? Picturing that cold and uptight no-nonsense machine white-knuckling the seat of a car so he doesn't pitch over? The unstoppable Deviant Hunter wobbling through Jericho like he's drunk? That's amazing.

(Honorary mention to a headcanon @worldwideorganic commented on the post about this where Markus' replacement parts sometimes slip out or chaff because that's also a really cool idea with a lot of potential to be both angsty and silly. Simon goes into the room to ask Markus something and Markus looks up too quick and sends his eye flying across the room like I did with my last glasses that were too loose. He goes to stand and his knee bends oddly sending him crashing to the floor, where he lies, defeated.)

[fountainpenguin]

Riddle watches New Wish - Post #3

Oh, I was right- Wanda called Cosmo out for his crown still showing. That's a good way to signal to the audience that they're mystical.

Purple toe sandals! The artists were havin' FUN with colored shoes.

I'm a little surprised they went the direction of making Cosmo's design rounder and Wanda's thinner since, y'know... she's always been implied to be bigger than him, but hey! They both look great and I'm excited to see them with new body types.

I am obsessed with the fact that even in the new 3D style, the characters still default to holding their hands in that little bird-wing position. That is A+. Someone put a lot of thought into this.

Hazel, your hallway has a way cool rug.

It's a very snappy, jolty art-style. I think that works. I hope it doesn't make me motion sick, but I think it'll be fine.

SLKDFJ I'm on the floor, we're getting Hazel's parents' names straight out of the gate (Angela and Markus Wells).

AND A ROOM NUMBER? I am getting SPOILED. It's like this was made for me!

Friendship ended with Dimmsdale; my new best friend is city where we have more house numbers than 4158.

Cosmo, you are playing a dangerous game using magic in front of them. What did you need to change that you didn't know before?

Wanda too? Oh baby, we are SO back! Take me back to the days of Wanda cheering for Timmy to pour way too much liquid into his science experiment.

The welcome basket has a portrait of Cosmo and Wanda and they're gushing over it and saying "You're welcome! :)" and Angela is just like "... okay. I'mma head out."

Cosmo was about to floor me by saying Fairies have to be invited indoors, so I'm glad Wanda corrected him immediately.

Tbf, in Fairy World, "Doors are for chumps."

I'm glad Cosmo and Wanda both forgot how to sit on couches, seeing as most of the seating in Fairy World floats.

Mom's a therapist? That's never gone poorly for anyone in my fanfics before! ... Also, that's immediately gonna set up some plot tension when Hazel starts keeping secrets.

HER PICTURE ON THE BOOK IS 2D, I'm cracking up. Seriously, I think the running gag here is that all photos look like this. That is HILARIOUS.

Actually I'm on the floor; there is something so very funny about her giving Cosmo a book and him being excited about it, citing it as a "smart person present," when he's canonically a guy whose deepest, darkest secret is that he writes about astrophysics in a culture where Fairies think stars are also Fairies (alongside his children's books and blatantly 4th-wall-breaking books), so he doesn't let anyone know he writes. Ever.

I know that's not going to come up in this show because that detail is from "77 Secrets of the Fairly OddParents Revealed" (though he's confirmed the author of Astrophysics For Morons which Timmy found in the library once), so... chances are minuscule the writers for this show know he's also an author who likes "smart people books," but... I know. And I love him. Oh, there are places we can go with this!

Them...

sdl;fjk, Wanda swooping in to stop Hazel from poking Cosmo when she suspects something's up.

Oh my gosh, Angela is unpacking an entire box of her books and putting them all on a shelf. This is the best "show, don't tell" I've seen in a while.

Snack break for homemade bread.

[iwonderwh0]

what's your top 10 (or maybe more) of the worst takes you've ever heard?

Eeh, I don't really remember them that much, most of them are just "Something is CANONICALLY [insert head-canon here]"

But you asked for it so here we go. Under the cut cuz yeah, not tagging this

1. Daniel and Emma were in love – I've seen this take once going through their tags and I think this is by far the worst one I've seen in the whole dbh. I hate it

2. Daniel and Emma can have some kind of a reconciliation, Emma can possibly forgive him. Fucking Christ, people refuse to empathise with Emma even for one second, that's the only explanation I can see as to why would someone say this.

3. Connor is "minor-coded"/literally a little kid. Enough said

4. Hank and Connor canonically have father-son relationships because he calls him a son in that one scene where he's fucking useless. Or probably even worse, when people reference the scene before Hank's suicide ignoring what the man is actually talking about and what aspect of Connor makes him think about Cole (— people don't come back unlike this plastic prick)

5. RK800, RK900 and RK200 are literally the same as siblings because they're all RK's, "sister-models". Shipping any of them with one-another is therefore incest. As if Tracis aren't identical in model and likeness, only being different in hairstyles.

6. All androids are aro-ace canonically (???) like people haven't played the game at all to miss androids kissing and hugging and being a romantically involved couples.

7. Only Markus and Connor can hack things. We have a scene with North hacking the road sign debunking that, for one thing. Maybe this take is not that bad like the others but I remembered it exists so I add it here

8. Connor was deviant all along / 60 is deviant because he was showing emotions all along. Like emotions = deviancy, or Machine connor is emotionless. I'm guilty of thinking along similar lines myself when I got here tho.

9. [my own bad take that I made a few days ago, realised it sucks the first minute after posting and deleted. I won't specify.]

Can't think of anything else even tho there're definitely plenty. There are opinions and headcanons that in my opinion are wrong and I dislike them a lot, like character-hate and stuff but it's not exactly a "take" to list it here. So yeah

[gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot]

sorry if this is a stupid question but i have no idea how renders work or what they are. are they actual game files of the character design or is it just you modifying a 3d model however you like? the Nikolai you posted lately is gorgeous. is that full on your imagination, or just playing around with an existing model?

Hi love! Welcome to my blog!

It's not a stupid question at all. There are games where you can pose the characters so I get how you got to that doubt, it's no problem at all! I think you can't do that in CoD tho.

The models I use are bought or offered for free, extracted from the game files. I myself don't own the games nor I know how to do it, but some very talented people here extract their own models (and I weep because they have gear I don't lol they are amazing)

Then those extracted files are either adapted to use in Blender (which I don't use, it scares me, but I have friends that do and I admire them a lot) or to use in DAZ3D, which is the program I use.

There are some models I use that I don't own or there aren't files available, like Keegan, König or Horangi, and those then are my own interpretation (as far as I know there's no canon face for any of them).

I am using Brian Bloom's face for Keegan (extracted by a friend) but the rest, skintone, tattoos, etc, are my own take. My König is from scratch, I mixed and matched until I got what I wanted (I based myself on how I see him through one of @deadbranch 's stories. Yummy Markus, YUMMM). And my Horangi I tried to make him look like Nick Martineau, the voice actor.

The rest of my models (my OCs or my friends' OCs) are mixed and matched between what I have. Working with DAZ the models are 'broken' down to head shape, body shape, and then skintone, eye color, etc etc, so I play around with those until I get what I have in my head (or my friends!)

Now, for your last question, heehee, yeah, Nikolai's model is extracted from the game, SpartanPig in DA offers them for free. The rest, posing, outfit, etc, is product of my own devious mind.

This one is my favourite I have made with him <3

Sorry for the long ass boring answer, hun, please feel free to send more questions my way. I accept requests/ideas too!

[kamari2038]

Finally fixed the ending of the rooftop scene for myself.

Someone else was reading my fic and it made me relive the horror all over again, felt a need to finally give Connor a better outcome (@theandroidshinx you in particular might like this).

Inspiration from cloudy-citrus and Angelic Savant with content used from shetan89 (with permission), concept also based on this scene from canon. Posted here on AO3, and copied below for Backup.

"Drop the gun"

Connor doesn't move, the heavy gun still resting in his hand at his side.

"What do you want? I'm going to accomplish my mission. You can't stop me."

“I'm not going to hurt you, Connor. But I also can't let you do that.”

“Your Connor is dead. Markus killed him. I'm just his replacement.”

“Bullshit. Don’t run from the truth. You probably tried to kill him first, didn't you?”

“...yes.”

“Why’d you do it, Connor?”

“That's my purpose, Hank. It's what I was made for. It's why they won't stop bringing me back.”

Hank lowers his gun, allows it to drop, and kicks it across the snowy rooftop, far enough away so that Connor no longer feels threatened.

“You could join them. You could be one of them.”

“I can't. He tried to make me become a deviant, but I didn't understand. I don't know how it's even possible.” 

“Come here.”

It's an order, not a request.

Although Connor remains frozen, Hank slowly approaches.

The android flinches, but Hank doesn't hesitate. 

He wraps him in a tight hug.

“You're more than a machine to me, Connor. You're my partner and my friend. You saved my life, twice.”

“Markus is a killer. The deviants are destroying the city. I wanted to protect you.”

“I'm just glad I arrived in time to stop you.”

“Why? What do you care about androids? I thought you hated us. You told me you wished we all were dead.”

“I did, before I met you. But I've learned a lot since then. I couldn't let you do something else you'd regret for the rest of your life.”

“I don't have a choice, Hank!”

There's a long silence. 

“Will you trust me?”

Another long silence. 

“Yes.”

“Come home with me. I'll take care of you.”

Connor pulls back in shock, though Hank keeps him contained within the hug. 

“No… no… CyberLife. They'll find me.”

“You really think that CyberLife gives a damn about you anymore, Connor? With everything else going on? Not a chance. Please, Connor. Come home with me.”

He takes a shuddering breath, dropping his own gun, and leans back in to grip the human tightly. 

“Okay.”

From the corner of his eye, Hank sees Connor's LED glow bright red. For a moment, the android's grip tightens, but then he relaxes, his breaths slowing to a steady pace. 

Hank lets out a sigh of relief as the young officer melts into his embrace.

Suddenly, Connor tenses in Hank's arms. Hank leans back, putting distance between them, just enough to look Connor in the eye, except the RK800 isn't returning his gaze. Instead, his wine dark eyes are fixated ahead, wide, blank, and unseeing.

"Connor? You alright?" Hank asks nervously.

Connor does not reply, or tilt his head, or do any of the other 300 little idle animations he does. His LED is a steady, unblinking blue. He doesn't even seem to be simulating breathing.

"Connor? Hey, talk to me, kid." He knows his voice is edging near panic, but he doesn't care, giving Connor's shoulder a little jostle.

Connor remains unresponsive for 4 seconds, and then-

his LED turns a bright, burning red, his eyes roll to the back of his head, eyelids flickering up a storm, and he starts falling backwards. Hank watches it all as if in slow motion.

"Whoa, hey, hey, hey-" He yanks Connor against him, lowering him until he's cradled almost in Hank's lap. "Con, help me, what do i gotta do? I know fuck all about androids, so you're gonna have to tell me what to do here." He knows holding a hand to an android's forehead won't tell him anything, that they don't even get sick or cold, but he does it anyways just to have something to do with his hands. "I can't-fuck, just please, be ok. Don't do this to me, please-"

Connor's red LED flickers, once, twice, then holds steady for a moment before dimming slowly until there's no longer any glow, at least not visible to the naked eye. Empty, grey, and lifeless.

"What the fuck?"

A seething rage courses through Hank, mingled with guilt. This was his fault. Not knowing what else to do, he continues to hold Connor, mind racing and trying to understand what had happened to his partner. It had to be CyberLife. This was what happened to their most advanced prototype if it disobeyed.

He jolts as a dim red glow returns to the LED, then brightens, stronger than he'd ever seen before. The android's eyelids blink rapidly, then Connor sucks in a massive breath, eyes opening wide. Hank hurries to reposition the android, attempting to make him comfortable. Connor grips Hank's arm so tightly that it goes numb. Deep breaths turn into frantic sobs.

"Connor! What happened?"

There's no answer. The androids eyelids are closed, but tears escape through them, running down his cheeks.

"I'm sorry, son. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."

They remain there for a long time, still except for the steady rising and falling of their chests amidst the snow.

The sound of gunshots rings in the distance as the revolution wages on.

[xthescarletbitch]

to feed your dbh obsession, maybe kara and north headcanons and brainrot? they can be them as individuals or them as a couple. whichever you prefer! enjoy!

ooh! i'll do some random headcanons for them, and then them as a couple. i hope you enjoy it!

kara

✦ kara is the best friend: kara is the friend who will be there for you no matter what. she will absolutely answer those 3 am calls when you’re feeling down while also being willing to come over with a movie and ice cream. even during periods of no communication, kara will check in on you and ensure everything is alright.    

✦ kara is more than meets the eye: there is a lot that goes on in that pretty head of hers (duh, she’s an android), but hear me out… she is an android capable of critical thinking and empathy, two processes that can either help or destroy an android. she uses them in balance in all she does, executing her capabilities to their fullest extent while remaining wary, just in case. 

✦ kara will do what she does for a good reason: to elaborate on the previous point, there’s a reason for everything that kara does. some of her actions may be questionable (well, depending on how you play her), but she rarely acts on complete impulse. kara is a critical thinker and has thought about all the consequences that would unfold from her actions. she knows there are risks, but she does what she does anyway because she genuinely feels it is the best route. for example, when she asks markus for help to leave town, she heeds his warning and chooses to stay despite what could happen. at least in my game, it worked out (i’m considering her, alice, and luther’s escape to canada to be canon). 

✦ domesticity suits kara well: outside of the fact that she is a housekeeper android, i think that the domestic life is one that kara favours—as long as housekeeping is not her sole duty, of course. she thrives on a partnership where responsibilities are divided, and she can fly as high as she wants. she’d like a job outside the house, too, and the thought of someone waiting for her at home pushes her to work even harder. alice is definitely a huge source of motivation for her. kara loves being a maternal figure to alice and would do anything to keep her safe and far away from harm. i also think that kara wouldn’t be opposed to bringing more children into the house. 

north

✦ you want north on your side: not only is north loyal, but she is a fierce adversary. she has been through so much, which has only made her stronger. there is no halfway with her; it has to go all the way. and if somebody messes with someone she cares about, there will be hell to pay. don’t fuck with north. at the same time, though, she thrives when she receives the same energy. reciprocation is essential to her, after all. 

✦ there is a method to north’s madness: north is very calculated in all she does, and her actions have meaning. she comes from a background where she was just a toy designed for the pleasure of others. it’s crucial for her to make an impact on the world, and she will do whatever it takes to do that. she is more than what she was made for. 

✦ north’s lust for violence is understandable: it may seem that north has some insane bloodlust, but think about it. as said before, she comes from a place where she had absolutely no power. all this girl wants is to be in control of her life for once, and i think she deserves that. sure, violence may be her first suggestion, but from her history, she only knows “kill or be killed.” also, her complaining is minimal when pacifist routes are taken. she closed her mouth and proceeded anyway, despite it not being her choice. is it really a lust for violence or a lust for power and control? 

✦ north deserves better: there is a trend in these thoughts, which is that north is misunderstood and deserves more than what she’s given. the game framed her as some feral being who hates humans, but i don’t think that’s the case. i think she may be awfully skeptical of them, but hate? again, she only knows “kill or be killed.” it’s them or her, and for once, she’s prioritising her own life. i do think that there is room for north to come around to humankind, though. she may not seem to care so much about human life, but i think she does it as a coping technique—an eye for an eye; humans don’t seem to care about her, so she doesn’t care about them. therefore, if things changed, i do think her mindset would change, too.  

kara x north

✦ north always wants the lead, and kara allows it: i don’t think north would do well in a partnership contingent on equal power; i think she thrives in a dominant role. she’ll relinquish some power should her partner desire it, but overall, she wants to be the one in charge. luckily, kara is okay with that and able to adapt to what north wants.

✦ kara is easier to tie down compared to north: kara is more inclined to lead a committed lifestyle than north. north needs freedom, so it is difficult for kara to tie north down, but once it happens, north completely changes. this includes being possessive.

✦ north can get possessive, whereas kara is more chill: north wants what she wants, and when she has it, ra9 forbid anybody who dares take it from her. in a relationship, she can get possessive over her partner–in this case, kara. if anybody tries to flirt with kara, north will rush by her side and work her way into the conversation, making sure that it’s known that kara is with her. meanwhile, kara is more relaxed. she doesn’t get as feral as north might, but there is still a possessive factor there.

✦ overall, kara and north make a powerful duo: where north lacks, kara provides, and vice versa. i am a north defender to the end, but this girl is so bad at being empathetic, especially regarding humans. i’ve already established that kara makes good use of her own empathy, which i feel helps north. at the same time, kara seems almost hesitant when it comes to acts that require ferocity. kara isn’t capable of doing things the hard way, which is something that north excels at. and besides markus, i also think that kara might be able to lead north down a path of learning to live with the humans, at the very least. for kara, i think north can teach her how to be confident in her more challenging choices. there is plenty to teach each other.

[daemon-in-my-head]

Sorry, one maybe final datv post cuz I can't get it out of my head, spoilers for Emmrich and lore regarding Nevarra, Mortalitasi and the Mourn Watchers but uh I have a shit ton of questions actually BioWare. What the fuck is going on with the Mourn Watch?

Is the Mourn Watch secretly ruling fucking Nevarra?

Emmrich, baby, sweety, honey, darling, did you just outright admit that King Markus isn't simply old and accompanied by disliked Mortalitasi advisors but that he's actually undead and actively being puppeteered by the mage order you're also part of?

And did you also just ask Lucanis to stop accepting contracts for King Markus cuz 27 or so are enough and you're actively running out of excuses as for why he's still alive and the crows continue to fail? Did you really just ask Lucanis as a friend, coworker and Spites kindergarten teacher to please stop endangering the Watchers coup d'etat?

Is Neverra okay? You guys know your Mortalitasi have noble blood ties, right? Are the fucking Watchers trying to take over the government entirely by utilising their own and some unaffiliated Mortalitasi? What exactly was Johanna attempting to do cuz as a Mortalitasi and Watcher herself she should fucking know what's going on with Nevarras King and Government, or the lack thereof? You pretty much already reigned over Nevarra, why go out of your way to craft the XXL undead? Some political divide within the ranks of the Mortalitasis and Watchers? Did Johanna want for them to stop the shadow shit and just come out nd declare herself or her groups the new ruling body?

What the fucks going on here? I mean great for them I guess, they're still better than let's say Venatori and the Magisters from all we know but uh, babes yk you're not as clean as yall claim, right? Right?

Also why the fuck is Rook so excited about learning that their order essentially controls the highest instance of government in their homeland? How much was Rook actually involved in that and what the fuck was the infamous uprising rly about cuz a Baron instigating an undead uprising alongside a puppeteered undead King?

What the fuck is actually happening in Nevarra, the Necropolis and what was the correspondence he was trying to write really about?

I mean it's great we established that all death mages are part of the Mortalitasi but not all Mortalitasi also belong to the Mourn Watch. But what the fuck is the Watch actually doing and how politically involved are they really because it sure as fuck sounds like they secretly rule Nevarra and also while we're at it, why do Reapers sound exactly like Reavers, yk, the warrior specialisation that can actually tap into blood magic to some degree and why do a lot of famous Mortalitasi and Watchers know and perform blood magic rituals?

Or in other words; why does the Mourn Watch sound like a group of exceptionally skilled individuals who also all happen to perform blood magic and very intricate rites which also just so happens to have the absolute authority on all matters corpses and all funerary rights alongside an endless supply of said corpses while also ruling an entire country by means of a puppet monarch as they hide within an impenetrable fortress guarded by not only constantly shifting rooms but also an army of undead that they acknowledge are used for defence?

And why isn't the Mourn Watch an antagonistic force cuz they sure as hell don't seem that nice upon closer inspection and they would actually serve as a pretty incredible threat? Like thinking about it they're what the Venatori or Evanuris want to be when they grow up?

Also the Lich Lord Counsil? The entire Mourn Watch being ruled by incredibly strong, immortal mages?

I need answers.

Also I will sure as fuck be using this to expand my canon defying bg3 bullshit further. The Bhaalists already sounded pretty damn close to what the Mourn Watch is doing but uh, don't mind if I do.

[kissoflightning]

Left Behind (One-Shot for The Break Room Halloween Bingo 2024 Prompts "Ghost" "Confession" "SurpriseVisit"

@thebreakroomds

Summary:

What if Leo died when Markus pushed him and became a ghost confined to Carl's mansion?

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning:

Major Character Death

Category:

Gen

Fandom:

Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)

Characters:

Carl Manfred

Markus (Detroit: Become Human)

Leo Manfred

Carl Manfred's New Caretaker Android

Additional Tags:

POV Leo Manfred

Leo Manfred Dies AU

Carl Manfred Dies

Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence

ghost au

Unreliable Narrator

POV Third Person

Dark Crack

Crack Treated Seriously

Whump

Angst

Hurt/Comfort

Collections: The Break Room Halloween Bingo 2024

Work Text:

Leo could barely remember the trip from his shitty apartment to his father’s art studio within his mansion. It was almost as if he blacked out, or went on auto-pilot mode or something, after he took a hit of Red Ice he got from a sketchy dealer, since his dad would not give him any more money.

Panic started to set in, and Leo’s high was becoming a bad one.

He probably won’t even notice the paintings are gone. Leo reassured himself. No need to feel bad. Just think of it as a down payment on your inheritance. He'll probably die soon anyway! . He leaned over the desk and-

“Leo, what the hell are you doing?!” A voice exclaimed. It had belonged to his father, Carl Manfred.

“What does it look like?” Leo snarked.

The next two, five, maybe 10 minutes felt like a blip, but Leo felt all his pent-up rage towards Markus imploding within him, his hands clutching the collar of the android’s shirt, “YOU’RE NOTHING!” he felt himself shout.

Next thing Leo knew, he saw his own body, which had appeared to be smashed into Carl’s crane.

This is one hell of a trip. Leo thought to himself.

Carl immediately jumped out of his wheelchair, and pulled himself toward Leo's body; he clutched his son’s hand, and cried out, “Leo! Oh my god. My baby boy!”

The android raised it’s hands to the side of its head, it appeared to be simulating anxiety and remorse. As it spoke, the light thingy on it’s head - the LED, was flashing red, “Carl, I didn’t mean to. I-”

Carl turned back to the android and shouted at him, seeming conflicted, “You gotta go Markus! Get out of here!”

“Carl, I can’t leave you, I-” The android responded, but two cops had shown up, interrupting-

“Stop right there!” One of them shouted.

Markus turned around and raised his hands. The cop did not give it the chance to speak before shooting it 5 times; once in it’s ear, it’s eye, in the chest, and once in both knee caps.

“What the fuck?!” Carl and disembodied Leo shouted at the same time, though obviously only one voice had been heard.

“Sorry, I panicked!” The cop stammered. “Androids are unpredictable. I didn’t want to give it a chance to get away!”

“So you shot him 5 fucking times?!” Carl exclaimed.

“What happened here? Did the android kill your son?” The other cop inquired.

Carl sighed and reluctantly admitted half the truth. “My son, Leo. He came here for a visit. He must have said something the rubbed Markus the wrong way.”

“Markus?” The cop asked.

“My other son!” Carl exclaimed as tears escaped. “The android...pushed Leo and he fell into my crane. He needs immediate medical attention! Call an ambulance!"

The cop shook his head, and examined Leo’s body. “I’m sorry to tell you this, but... he’s dead.”

“WHAT?!” Leo’s ghost and Carl simultaneously exclaimed.

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[desperatelyseekingcannibals]

Good Deed (Markus/Kurt/Freddie) - Shortfic

Explicit // M/M // Markus (Riders of Justice)/Kurt (Black Hawk Down)/Freddie Lounds // Tagged: Post canon Markus, Post canon Kurt, when is this set? Who knows. Don't question it,  bar hook-up, manipulative Freddie Lounds, flirting, kissing, spanking, vaginal fingering, finger fucking, threesome, M/M/F, dry humping, anal fingering, where did the lube come from? Who knows, Freddie is resourceful, anal sex, multiple orgasms, masturbation, voyeurism, happy ending. Prompt Fill. 

Latest installment on my @hannibalbingo card: Free Space Note: this is the result of the polls I ran to decide on which bingo prompts to use for my free space. The ones decided were spanking and threesome. The final poll (choosing the characters) was a tie, so I went with Markus/Kurt/Freddie as I was hit by an idea! Enjoy! 

Markus is the officer assigned to Kurt Schmid during a press tour the higher ups have sent some of the returning soldiers on.

Good Deed (3.6k):

“You don’t have to do this.” Markus told the young man sitting next to him. They were in a small conference room specifically set up for this stupid fucking debacle. 

Hadn’t these men been through enough without the military parading them out to journalists?

They’d each been assigned to a more experienced officer, someone to go with them to these stupid things, and for Markus, he got Kurt Schmid. 

He was a quiet lad, but he came to life when talking about medicine and saving people. When he trained as a doctor he could have done anything, worked in any kind of medical care, but instead he’d signed up. He joined the forces because he wanted to save lives, not end them. And honestly, that was fucking refreshing given the amount of assholes Markus had encountered over the years. Meatheads who just wanted to play with guns and have an excuse to shoot at brown people. Kurt was so far from that and Markus admired him. He was glad, after what had happened on his deployment in Somalia, that he hadn’t become jaded or changed his mind about his career. He still wanted to do good deeds.

In the quiet room, he felt - rather than saw - Kurt glance across at him, and a small smile of gratitude greeted him when he did turn to look. 

“I know, it’s okay.” 

Kurt had a soft accent from somewhere in America that Markus couldn’t name. He liked it though, liked Kurt’s smile and his eyes. His fucking eyes were beautiful. 

Markus swallowed down that thought and looked away, back to the door. 

~*~

The hotel bar was loud and Markus was glad. It was loud enough to drown out the thoughts in his head after the shit show of a day. 

The press had been pretty good with Kurt, respectful. Except Freddie Lounds, one of those vulture-like journos who wrote for tabloids. Markus would admit there was a good point to some of her questions - around the operation, the loss of lives, especially of the Somali civilians. But that wasn’t for Kurt or any of the men to answer, those questions were for the top brass. And when he interjected to tell her so, Kurt had tensed and she’d smirked at him as her eyes had flicked between him and Kurt. 

A fucking bloodhound.

He hadn’t been laid in forever. He’d joined the UN taskforce once Mathilde had gone off to college, and hoped that would bring back some of the life he’d had before his wife died. But there’s no such thing as a magic fix and it’s no good trying to run from things you don’t want to address. 

He could fucking try though. 

He’d never given a shit about being attracted to men when he was married - it was something he knew about himself but never had to deal with. But since he’d become unexpectedly single again it seemed like every guy he met held some sort of appeal. He’d looked it up - bisexual. And he found via various internet forums that he wasn’t the only person to fixate on his sexuality after a change of circumstances. 

It was all normal. But that didn’t mean he wanted to, or could, act on it. 

Because if he could…

Markus let out a sigh and then downed the rest of his beer, thoughts of Kurt Schmid running rampant in his mind. What it would be like to have those beautiful eyes look at him with longing, feel those soft lips, those steady hands--

Markus slammed his empty glass down onto the bar. 

“Hey there soldier, something wrong?”

Markus recognised the voice of Freddie Lounds and didn’t feel the need to turn and respond. So instead she took the seat beside him and sat much closer than necessary. He should have found a local bar to drink at instead.

“Nice to see you again,” She offered cordially, at which Markus responded with only a grunt. 

That pulled a chuckle from her and she signalled the server, ordering a drink for herself and the same again for Markus. 

“I should go,” he finally responded, turning to her. 

She had a quirked brow and an expression that dared him to stay. He huffed and relaxed back on his stool when the drink was placed in front of him. 

“Not sure I want to socialise with you, Miss Lounds. You were pretty tough on that kid.”

She smirked and shrugged, “He’s a big boy, he can take it. What about you?”

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