#maybe i'm evil for getting annoyed at a family member dying just days before i start a new job sure

[xknify]

back in the nightmare dimension. you guys want any souvenirs when i get back

[thethrillof]

I wish you would write a fanfic where you completely unleash your star fox headcanons. you reblogging star fox stuff the other day unlocked part of my brain and i'm so curious now. even just a crumb of some thoughts...

hbhbg man. i just re-remembered it and got annoyed, as i do, about how basic and how much the games just retread. no fic sample b/c idk how yet but random just This Could Be Better thoughts:

krystal! how about she doesn't forget her entire life. actually keep looking for information about her family and/or dying world.

even if she needs to be stuck to another character about it, like...she has an english accent (for some goddamn reason) and wolf does sometimes too, right? give her being a native from her planet directly and him having left when he was a pup or being descended from them. a connection to someone beyond fox, and potential angst!

general villain stuff. andross is so flat. Evil Scientist Emperor yeah sure whatever. he cares about his family enough to get andrew onto star wolf. more of that. moments of checkin in on his nephew. exploring their relationship. andrew wanted to be important and andross put him where that could happen. or even just getting him out of the way but making sure it was where he could be protected by the other members.

pigma also being a flat greedy douche is so boring. have a dude who is generally nasty but sometimes acts uncomfortably nice to fox. because yeah he doesn't regret leading james to his death for money, and doesn't mind twisting the knife to get to peppy, but he knew fox as a kid, and that's all he's going to see. the kid. maybe even cracking some black humor, asking if fox is paying his current crew enough to not do the same.

falco being a gangster getting more than random mentions to jab at him. he can get into all sorts of nasty places on old rep as well as current star fox rep.

he even has informants in andross' army, which absolutely nobody expects. it's out of fear for some, but a lot more of it is he was a jerk with a heart of gold and his random kindnesses (giving cuts to the locals who needed it, warning others off when he could've just shot 'em) weren't forgotten so easily.

this isnt fic use hc this is just a thing: in a game like Assault, give fox all the flight stuff and krystal all the on-foot combat, to match their skillsets.

actually yeah just. developing a small rivalry with falco when she encourages hand-to-hand(ish) sparring and floors him immediately. (More Relationships With People Who Aren't Fox)

james haunting andross. venom is regularly plagued by sightings of a lone arwing that doesn't show up on any sensors, just visuals.

andross actually didn't give a huge shit before that. the original star fox had just been a nuisance in his eyes, and his offer of paying pigma more was for his cornerian information, not out of any particular concern.

the fucking ghost of james mccloud, though. that ratchets his stress and paranoia up. ghosts aren't real, he's a scientific mind and knows better. he must have dodged everything he threw at him. is surviving in venom's airspace even after andross drags the whole place back to another dimension and can't have access to any sort of supplies. there must be something. he is augmenting himself to avoid the weaknesses of flesh such as eating or sleep is coincidence.