#my ideas

[wanderingmind867]

If we get a new Batman tv show with pre crisis Jason Todd as Robin (as I continue to insist we need), we should definitely have Black Mask in the show as a prominent antagonist. You've seen all my posts on him and his backstory. He's perfect. This child of wealthy parents who hates social rules and conventions and masks. This almost anti capitalist businessman. He's a series of internal contradictions, but he has some really good merit for use as a Batman villain. Pair him with Two-Face and Clayface, have a story about masking. Pair him with Riddler, another character who might be autistic and who definitely understands hiding your true self. Pair him with Zsasz (like i've pitched before) and you'll get too weird men who hate society and might love each other.

Jason Todd and Roman Sionis don't have to be violent enemies like they seem to be nowadays. They can have a more fascinating relationship than that. Black Mask needs to become a bigger villain that everyone can learn n about. And I won't stop pushing until we finally see it happen. A show based on the pre crisis adventures of Batman and Robin II (Jason Todd) would be the perfect show in which to introduce Roman Sionis as a major antagonist.

[raven-6-10]

Another reasons for mermaids to give birth in shallows and keep babies tied to their bodies.

MERFOLK OF THEDAS, PART II

Part I can be found here.

This part will be me talking about what kind of jewellery, tools and weapons can be found among the merfolk. Because I have Ideas again. And I have been enabled by @zombiefishgirl

As usual, under the cut for length.

Weapons and Tools

So, for fairly obvious reasons, metal tools are not a thing among the merfolk.

Firstly, because it's not like they can make them for themselves when they have no way to process the ores or to smith metals. What with the temperatures required - impossible to get those underwater without any fire, nevermind that it would boil the water first! And of course the chemical reactions are very particular and water would not help there, especially not salt water.

And secondly, metal rusts. Nobody in Thedas has the technology to make metals that can survive prolonged contact with salt water, not yet. So even if mers traded for metal tools with surfacers, they would not be able to enjoy them for long.

So what do they use instead?

Stone is the obvious answer.

Flint has been used as a material for tools for as long as humanity knew how to make them. It's not out of questions that merfolk would use those too. Flint is easy to shape and durable, so the tools will survive long long time, passed from generation to generation. Mer use flint to make knives, axes and spearheads, with handles either also made from the same material or from bones which were carefully shaped and fitted to the blade.

(Note: Ranged weapons are not a thing among merfolk, for rather obvious reasons.)

Speaking of, bones are another material used for toolmaking. Whale bones, orca bones, shark bones, even narwhal horns if they can be acquired. The last ones in particular are valued for their looks and are turned into pikes or harpoons for hunting. Bone might be used as material for not only handles but entire tools, carefully shaped to be both useful and beautiful.

Smaller bone pieces might be shaped into needles and drills to be traded with the surfacers. Or into toys and teething pieces for children to play with. Though, admittedly, those too sometimes get traded if there's somebody willing to buy them and offering an acceptable price.

Merfolk also like to use obsidian and glass - the latter mostly acquired from land - to carve their knives out of. The cutting edge is much finer than those produced by other materials and holds longer. With suitable enchantments, a glass knife will last very long indeed.

Of course, any weapon is just for a convenience. If pressed, a mer is perfectly capable of killing - or at least seriously maiming - any target with just their teeth and claws.

Jewellery

When looking at what jewellery merfolk wear - and they wear a lot of it! - it can be all divided into two basic categories: the jewellery acquired from the land and the jewellery made by their own hands.

The land jewellery is, by and large, gold pieces. Set with gemstones, pearls, mother-of-pearl, or amber, enameled, plain or shaped into fantastical shapes - all that and more can be found if you look at what mer wear. Acquired mostly from the cargo found in shipwreck, although some pieces are bought from land-dwellers or outright commissioned from them if the mer in question has the necessary connections and can pay.

While silver and bronze jewellery can be also found among the sunken ships, it is of less interest to the mer. Constant exposure to sea water swiftly corrodes any such pieces, making gold the preferred metal due to its immunity to such things.

With the progress recently made in both glass-making and ceramics, merfolk have started trading with surfacers for beads, pendants and other such ornaments. Used for necklaces, bracelets and belts, they can be safely worn in the sea without worrying about them being destroyed by the water.

What about the things made by the merfolk themselves?

Well, for starters, those are obviously made from the things already found in the sea.

Pearls are very popular for the variety of colours they offer. Indeed, among the pods who make their livelihood farming oysters, it is nigh impossible to find one who does not own even one piece of such jewellery. Holes are drilled carefully through and the pearls are threaded on cords made of braided kelp, spun sea silk or even fish whiskers. The resulting long strings of pearls are then wrapped around necks, wrists, waists or even tail ends where the tail fin starts to grow. Assuming the mer in question doesn't just braid them into their own hair, that is.

Amber, if available, is generally used to make hairpins and hair combs, being a material particularly suited to such thanks to it's slightly rough texture. It is not often made into beads but some merfolk might offer it to a suitable craftsman from Rivain, to be set into gold for them.

Sea shells are another popular material for ornamentation, especially if there's mother of pearl involved. Animals, plants or geometric designs might be added in carving and the shell then strung on a necklace alongside pearls. And of course, there are the occasional sharks who are killed for meat, with their teeth also being used for necklaces.

Coral might be similarly used for making beads. That or entire pieces will be cleverly connected together with wire of thread, to make something similar to wreaths or circlets and worn on head, with hair braided to keep it in place. Though, such big pieces are very rare as merfolk generally don't harvest coral in big enough quantities so the materials are only available if a storm has damaged the reef and the broken parts have been gathered.

Other materials used for hair decorations are tortoise shells as well as whalebone. Those are turned into hair combs, long hairpins or rings for binding hair, with auspicious and beautiful designs carved into them by the maker. Although rarely used in such a way, whalebone might also be turned into bracelets and torques to be worn around arms and necks.

[hamishslair]

Terzo in fire

[sixtysixproblems]

i want to see Fox have the most chaotic ass relationship with some feral investigative journalists. and it somehow turns into a fix it fic. like this somehow leads to Palpatine getting taken down. how funny would that be.

like. journalists are fucking insane man (i mean this as a compliment), and insane in a way I think fanon Fox would 100% get along with. Like, what Palpatine didn't realize when creating a clone army to kill the jedi, is those clones might be very enthusiastic whistleblowers.

Fox stresses out the journalists by how much he's willing to divulge despite the potential consequences (or, yk, actual consequences cause it's palps), and the journalists stress out Fox bc they're catching up to Padme in number of assassination attempts. meanwhile--

Thorn: how many hours of sleep did you get last night

Journalist: i got like 30 minutes at my desk

Fox: omg twinsies

Thorn: nO

thorn's just. stressed.

[skyblueartt]

AND ANOTHER THING! I’m imagining William at Charlie’s funeral…he’s standing there, putting on his most convincing act, dressing in his best suit, comforting Henry and hugging him as his friend sobs over his dead daughter’s casket…as if he wasn’t the murderer ahhHHHHHHHH!! Giving a speech during the funeral— “she was such a sweet girl, whoever did this to her must’ve been absolutely sick in the head, I cannot even FATHOM it…one day, justice will be served and they’ll catch the monster who did this.”

Guys I’m going insane

[mystrade-lecroft]

Okay I might flush this out later but here's my au first meeting idea:

Buck shows up to work and starts kinda yelling at Chimney about setting him and Tommy up on a blind date but not telling Buck he was setting them up on a blind date, and Hen comes over like

"Woah hold up. You did it again?"

And Buck's like

"Did it again?! Did what again?!"

And Hen tells him about how she and Karen met in the same way

And Chimney is like

"Yes and are you or are you not married with two children? My success rate is 100%"

And Hen shouts

"It worked once!"

But Chimney just smiles and turns to Buck and asks

"When are you seeing him again?"

And Buck stands there a moment literally biting his tongue before he says

"Wednesday"

And storms off with Chimney shouting after him

"You're welcome!"

[marvelmaniac715]

I probably shouldn’t write for Doctor Who, because this is an overplayed trope, but here’s what I want for a potential multi-season companion. Her name is Callie (short for Calypso, which means ‘she who conceals’ but that’s just a coincidence…) and, personality-wise, she’s practically a stereotypical companion at first. Smart, witty, cheerful, reacts to the TARDIS with a typical “it’s bigger on the inside” but when she says it it’s almost like she’s making fun of the past companions. Her eyes are similar to Clara Oswald’s, she has blonde curls like River Song, which she keeps in two plaits like Yasmin Khan, she smiles like Rose Tyler, and the Doctor has an overwhelming sense of deja vu. She’s not much of a hugger, which the Doctor respects, but the one time she does hug him after a particularly emotional moment, he swears he can hear two heartbeats. That’s not the only thing - her eyes seem kind, but if you really look into them, there’s an iciness there. She’ll often smile to herself, like she’s laughing at a private in joke. She’ll often make herself a soup which smells just like a soup that can only be made with ingredients native to Gallifrey, and during her adventures with the Doctor things go wrong more often. She’ll push the Doctor to be more selfish because “you can’t save everyone”, and she won’t tell him much about her childhood. But then, one day, Callie starts acting even more odd. She responds to a question with “I’ve mastered it”, and the Doctor discovers that her ringtone is Saxon’s theme from when he was Prime Minister (“I was just a kid when Saxon became Prime Minister, that tune’s really nostalgic for me…”), then the truth comes out - Callie never existed; she is in fact the Doctor’s best enemy the Master (but you probably already knew that 😅). Her motivations are quite similar to Missy’s - she wanted her friend back, so she managed to make her newest regeneration a combination of every woman that the Doctor’s loved, and has drawn upon her knowledge of what the Doctor finds most appealing in a friend/romantic partner. When he tries to push her away, she gives him a look of mock-confusion and asks:

“What’s wrong, Doctor? I thought you were going to show me the universe?…”

Edit: I’ve started writing a fic about it :D:

[help-itrappedmyself]

So, I love fics about weird/creature Tim Drake. Cause the boy's backstory is practically fully malleable for whatever nonsense you want.

And I can't stop thinking of shifter!Tim, but his family is snakes. Snakes don't care for their young, they are practically wholly independent once born. If you mix that with human customs a little, raising the boy for only a few years, so he is independent in his snake and human forms, then you can have good parent(s) biologically, and just full confusion from everyone else.

Tim, just straight not knowing that how he was raised is weird because culturally, for him, he had fantastic parents.

Or, Make the others different kinds of shifters, so Tim thinks that as shifters, they should know. Because he isn't stupid, he knows the human ways are different. So he thinks it's more shifter/human divide. But the others, who I assume would be pack animals, are appalled and very confused by his lack of need for things that seem like basic necessities to them.

Neat way to also make Tim very sneaky, good reflexes, very fast. Also potentially venomous just for fun!

[sweetchildcloud]

Pairing Bully!Gojo x nerd reader.

Cw:Gojo here is possessivejealous,ferocious,violent(at others),very fond of you. Reader was abused by ex,needy for attention,broken,heart broke.

Bit of violence in the first part? (Showing you against the lockers forcefully)

||Don't look at anyone but me|| written by me

About:Gojo is your bully but he also feels something for you and his possessiviness grew when he saw you with another guy.

The reader only responds with cuddles and kisses (which are great weakness for the big bad bully Gojo :3)

"You heard me - who is it?"

Gojo said angrily, he shoved you up against the locked door and looked deeply into your eyes.

"Don't think I haven't noticed the way you look at him. Don't think I haven't noticed you two hanging out together."

Gojo's face was only inches from yours now - you could smell his breath. He pinned you against the door with his body - his hands wrapped tightly around your wrists and his muscular chest pressed against you.

You blushed as you felt yourself...protected? "it's just a friend, why? are you jealous?" You asked smirking.

Gojo's expression turned into a menacing scowl, and his grip tightened around your wrists. He leaned in uncomfortably closer and you could smell his cologne as he spoke.

"Damn right I'm jealous. You're mine - and I mean *mine*. You got that? No one's going to be coming anywhere near you but me. Grrr"

You blushed at the last part. 'did he just growled? Oh my god' you tought at that fact wich was both cute and hot in wich you couldn't help yourself but kiss his cheek and snuggling your head on his shoulder.

Gojo froze as you kissed his cheek - it was like he didn't know how to react. His scowl faltered and became more of a sly smile.

He wrapped his arms around you tighter and pulled you into a sweet and tender hug. Your chests were pressed against each other, and his nose was buried in your hair.

"Mine" He whispered in your ear.

As you snuggled into Gojo's body, he pulled you closer and placed his hands behind your head. The smell of his cologne was intoxicating.

"Mine." He repeated - this time as a warning to anyone else who might try to take you away from him.

You giggled as his cute and cold behaviour before pepper kiss his cheek and neck.

A shiver went down Gojo's spine as you kissed him on the neck - his grip on you tightened and he tilted his head to give better access.

His breath caught and he let out a soft moan - he seemed surprised at how easily you'd gotten him to give in.

"You're gonna spoil me if you keep this up." Gojo mumbled, as a smile spread across his face.

You gently caressed his cheek feeling how soft and warm they were like mochi

Gojo was putty in your hands - his scowl was gone and now he just looked like a bashful boy being swooned by his crush.

He let out a soft grunt as you caressed his cheek - he was caught completely off guard by your affection.

"You really know how to make a guy swoon, huh?" Gojo whispered, as he rested his head on top of yours.

"I like you so much, don't leave please" you asked scared "don't make myself feeling special and then leave...I wouldn't take it"

Gojo's face softened once more as you begged him not to leave. He wrapped his arms around you tightly and pulled you into his chest, burying your face into his neck.

"I'm not going anywhere" He said confidently, kissing your forehead. "You're mine now. And I'm gonna make sure no one takes you away from me."

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Me with Gojo:

Also if u want more of bully!Gojo ask me.

[whereserpentswalk]

Imagine what it would be like for a society with 21st century level tech, on an earth that was both flat and infinite. Our society lead us to stop exploring at a certain point. Eventually trade caravans stopped finding new lands to trade with, and colonial empires stopped finding new places to destroy. But in a world like this that just wouldn't happen, first contact situations would be basically indefinite.

Think about what that would do to your sense of place in the world. Around the equivalent of the 1800s we'd probably figure out that there wasn't going to be an end. Some exploration would be haltered by things like massive uninhabitable zones (who knows how climate would work), but a 21st century society would always find ways.

Imagine living comfortably in a 21st century world and finding out about new first contacts, new contents, new cultures, new species, every day. There would be entire places, entire human civilizations, that you only learn exist as an adult. It would certainly change politics a lot (there are always new threats, and always new players on the board, and imperialism might be way worse of the wrong regime is doing the exploration). There would be an entire branch of anthropologist that exists to find new cultures. Scifi and fantasy would make up weird things that exist in hidden corners of the world.

There's no big thesis to this. Just thing it's an interesting normalweird worldbuilding concept. Could be very lighthearted. Could be very very dark.

[wanderingmind867]

Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman sll got colour themed anthologies. Superman got a red and blue series, Batman a Black and White series, and Wonder Woman a Black and Gold series. But... I want to propose we take this a step further. We have four other founding JLA members, after all. And while I'd love to do colour themed stuff for all sorts of characters, let's just start with those four. Here's my pitches:

Flash: Red and Gold. Red and Gold would also work great for a Captain Marvel/Shazam colour based anthology. Both Flash and Captain Marvel pretty much share colour schemes. But I think it would work pretty well in either case. There's so many good shades within these two colours.

Green Lantern: Green and Black. I think these two colours make the most sense. Hal Jordan's uniform is mostly Green, with some Black on it. And a series of comics in Green and Black sounds really pretty, honestly. Really, really pretty visually.

Aquaman: Orange and Blue. I know Aquaman's outfit is usually Orange and Green, but Orange and Blue just sounds like a far better complementary pairing. Aquaman in orange, reflected against the beautiful blues of the ocean? It sounds majestic. It would be perfect for a comic series, in my opinion.

Martian Manhunter: Green and Red. Yeah, J'onn gets the contrasting colours of Red and Green. Red and Green are two colours that complement each other really well (as i believe even basic colour theory touches on), so a comic in shades of Red and Green sounds perfect. Beautiful. So much could be told in these colours.

I could keep going from here, but you get the idea. I've proposed ideas for colour based anthologies with Flash, Captain Marvel/Shazam, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter. And as long as there's interesting colour schemes, I can keep going here.

[raven-6-10]

Headcanon that "when you kill King Markus/when King Markus dies" is an Antivan Crow idiom for "never fucking ever".

[lovekabaneri]

Getting Dunked - Apocalyptic Ponyo AU

Inspired by @keferon Apocalyptic Ponyo au. Brace yourselves - it will be long and unpolished.

This will be something of a divergence, based on this particlular post: Link.

So, after getting inspired by the “Human gets dunked in toxic chemicals and mutates” idea in Apocalyptic Ponyo, I came up with several ideas for Blaster being dunked.

AN: I don’t quite see Blaster as another orca mer. Don’t get me wrong, the art of him in orca wetsuit was good, but I think he can be something else, something more fitting since his whole thing is *blasting* music and so on, also he has a cassette and has a lot of dancing clips. For now, I am torn between a few options – on one hand I want to make his more flamboyant, keep his bright colors but I also want to keep him some sort of sea mammal for his music, which doesn’t fit too well with his red color scheme.

So, it’s either I make him a fish mer to keep his color: rockfish, parrot fish, angel fish.

Or I keep him a mammal mer for the music, since fish are not vocal: beluga (sea canary),  Weddell seal (almost musical underwater calls), sea lion (very loud and kind of similar color, but we already have Roddy and Ratchet).

V1 – Blaster is rescued by Jazz and Prowl from a sea monster. Jazz wants to help him get to safety and won’t just leave him, despite Prowl’s protests but then when they navigate the ruins, Blaster ends up slipping and falling in some polluted water with strange chemicals from the big industrial facility that are… oddly suspicious. He thinks nothing of it but oh, no! He had been scraped and some of the stuff got in him. He starts feeling sick, feverish and itchy, his bones even hurt and he shakes.

Jazz is worried about his friend, since Blaster was one of the few he trusted, maybe even the only human he trusted with personal things. Prowl wants to leave him, since he’s an inconvenience and a danger, after they discover that Blaster has somehow started to mutate into something. There will be angst as Jazz watches his friend mutate, not knowing if he’ll be fine of if the human would turn in a mutant like those weird-legged fish things they were attacked by near the big, tall ‘sky towers’.

Prowl gets frustrated and almost leaves Jazz and Blaster but returns after noticing some odd movements from the mutants (hunting behavior?) and his conscience gnawing at him. He comes back in time to help as Jazz and barely conscious Blaster are surrounded by those freaky-legged mutants. They must have followed the blood trail from Blaster? So, they manage to slip away, Jazz and Prowl carrying still mutating and delirious Blaster on their backs as they run away. But it is difficult to run, since those thinks have claws and spindly legs and can climb, so Jazz can’t just pull them up high to wait it out. Blaster begs Jazz to leave him, but Jazz doesn’t want to, since Blaster kind of was his only friend for a long while. Jazz suggests they hide Blaster in one of the nearby buildings while they deal with the mutants but then, Prowl’s brain uses the environment and cooks up a trap for the mutants with the half-destroyed apartment building. But… they need bait, aka Blaster, Jazz is loke “NO!” but there’s no other way and Blaster does agree, even though the poor man just wants the pain to stop and to not be jostled around so much he’s feeling like he’d purge his organs out.

(At this point, Blaster is still looking a lot like a misshapen human, his spine as wonky and doing these *concerning* pops and cracks, there are splotches on his body, clammy skin, his legs feeling like jelly and maybe turning purple from the blood flow being cut? Or maybe his legs do what froglets do with their tails and they are slowly getting shorter and are re-absorbed in his body as extra calories to grow the mer tail? Oh, and that tail – damn does the man hurt as this thing is stretching out from his spine, his pelvis is shifting along with all his organs. If he ends up a whale-like mer, would he have a blowhole? Imagine growing another breathing hole! Or maybe if he’s seal, he’d grow fur? Or scales for a fish? Still not sure.)

So, after a quick calculation in Prowl’s noggin, the trap is set, the mutants go for defenseless Blaster and Jazz is *this* close to jumping out as the mutants get close, but they activate the trap. Jazz pulls Blaster up with a rope and Prowl topples the unstable building on top of the mutants, killing them all.

Blaster is very sick for a few days after and Jazz and Prowl have to hunker down in an abandoned building for a bit. During that time, he slowly and painfully changes into… an actually pretty ordinary-looking mer (*cough* unlike Brainstorm *cough*). In fact, Prowl wouldn’t have thought he could have been human if he had not seen Blaster mutate with his own eyes.

Blaster wakes up and Jazz is super happy his friend is not only alright after mutating but also fully aware (Jazz either learned or saw a savage mer while with Prowl) and Blaster is genuinely freaking out. Because… He’s a mer now! Like, legit one, he can feel all the weird new limbs, he can’t move properly in his new body, his vocal cords are also VERY weird and make even weirder new sounds like chirps, whistles and such very easily (even does it sometimes unconsciously) while trying to speak English feels like gargling marbles. Now, he has to not only learn to speak mer from Jazz and Prowl, but also how to move, swim, hunt, basically survive the apocalypse as a mer.

By the time they reach the ocean proper, they would have mostly smoothed things out and would be working as an odd little pod. Prowl no longer hates all humans, only the bad ones, and his opinion of Blaster has changed a lot. Maybe they would try and find the reason why blaster mutated and to see if it can be reversed, even if it is unlikely.

(more under the line)

V2 – Blaster is alone when the tsunami hits and he’s in big trouble. He almost drowns but manages to save himself by climbing up a fire escape on a tall building. Well, not so tall after only the roof is left dry after the wave passed through. He is all on his own, his phone was sopping wet and there was no way to contact anyone, he has the option to escape, to go towards where he saw a couple of emergency flares in the distance (towards the ‘shore’) but… everything is a mess and he’s worried about Jazz and Prowl, his colleagues too, but mostly the two mers since they had no way to evacuate and animals are usually left behind in emergencies. The wave had hit suddenly while he was not on shift, so he knew nothing of what happened at the aquarium. The aquarium is in the opposite direction of the flares… but he’s determined to see if the two mers survived or if they need rescue.

(Completely unaware Prowl had sensed the tsunami earlier by using the magnetic fields or air pressure, or something similar, and the two told no one in order to make an escape attempt since Jazz heard they were going to take Prowl back to the wild and he’d be alone again.)

So, Blaster gets whatever supplies and tools he can, including a sharp broomstick for self-defense from the new freaky fish, and starts navigating the flooded ruins while making his way to the aquarium. At some point, he ends up accidentally stumbling across a few of the freaky-legged mutants near the industrial zone and has to hide in one of the flooded factories. He’s unaware that during the run he had not only cut and scraped himself but that some of the strange ‘secret’ chemicals in the warehouse were leaking and he slipped and got dunked straight into the mutant soup.

He does treat his injuries after getting away from the mutants but it is too late, the transformation has begun! Within the next 24 hours he starts feeling sick, skin clammy and developing fever, his insides feeling like they were flopping around as he moved (not untrue) and soon it becomes a bit too much but he pushes trough, reaching the aquarium. He goes inside and feels dread on top of the physical pain because the place is in ruins. Thankfully he sees that Jazz’s pool was empty and there were no bodies, so he goes “Oh, thank goodness!” and finally collapses.

Blaster would be alone, in pain and delirious. He’d have to struggle to keep himself safe as he feels and watches his body mutate. As he loses the ability to walk properly, growing a tail and his whole anatomy changing. He can’t keep anything down during this whole time. Finally, he fully turns into a mer and feels sweet relif – falling in a fitful sleep. He wakes up, groggy, uncoordinated and heavy. Tries opening his supplies and earing a protein bar or something but such dry human food does not agree with his new biology, so he chokes and finally startles into full awareness.

He is so confused, scared and freaked out because he’s not only on his own in the apocalypse, but now he’s mutated in a new body. He hears strange noises and panics – maybe the building is going to fall down even more, maybe it is the monsters, so he takes whatever he can and runs- or at least tries to. Blaster realizes he can barely move and only flop around, barely manages to drag himself to the water, arms burning from the strain and then rolls himself into the water… only to almost drown because he can’t swim.

He fasttracks the swimming part because he wanted to get away from the odd noises and now in the water, he could *feel* the vibrations inside his head and it was NOT good! His new instincts scream to run away! So, with a lot of flailing and colliding with things, he swims away from the aquarium.

Once safe, he does a quick look over his new body and he comes to very concerning realizations (read more below the line). He clearly has his mind intact but he’s also looking like the average mer. He’s barely able to recognize himself, forget about other people recognizing him.

As some extra angst, he could see other survivors and goes to ask for help, not realizing he now looked quite intimidating with how much bigger he was, plus sharp teeth. He also did not take in account it was quite dark, since he had good night vision, so he scares the survivors when he pulls himself out of the water. They scream and point stuff at him, trying to shoo him away. Then, he realizes with his new vocal cords, he can’t speak normally, because when he tried smiling and asking for help, all the people saw was this large mer baring sharp teeth at them and making weird/scary noises. They end up throwing things at him, even take a few mock swings with a broom and Blaster is forced to swim away. He is feeling SO bad after the encounter. Would his family and friends even recognize him or has he changed too much? Will he be like another of the ‘dumb animals’ to them?

Then he’s attacked by a leviathan and with his poor swimming skills (since his mer for would usually move quite fast normally) he almost gets eaten. He’s injured and thinks it’s his end but then Jazz and Prowl come, after they had heard his ‘screech’ for help.

But then… he faints.

Jazz and Prowl also don’t recognize Blaster, since he’s a mer now. Although Prowl does look at Jazz weird when he tell Prowl he felt like he’d seen the injured mer before. (Impossible, since Prowl was the first proper contact Jazz had in a LONG time.) but then he takes a careful took and- huh, he does look kind of familiar from somewhere?

Well, the two end up taking unconscious Blaster to a safe place and treat him the best they can. When he wakes up, Blaster is both surprised and happy to see that his ‘dream’ of seeing Jazz was actually real.

Both orca mers are shocked to learn that Blaster is now a mer, after a LONG game of charades and bits of rough human speech, maybe even a bit of scribbling on the wall? Jazz is in disbelief and Prowl… well, his feelings are complicated. He thought it was a normal mer but now turns out it is one of the humans, but just mutated somehow? Prowl does not like Blaster and gets jealous when Jazz starts hanging around Blaster. Jazz is happy his friend was safe, since he was also worried if Blaster was alright, but now he was there and Jazz  was eager to teach him a lot, especially after they see how bad he is in all the mer stuff, including swimming – the one thing mers need to know the best.

Again, there will be tension between Prowl and Blaster. Jazz would want to keep him close, but then he’s a burden in Prowl’s eyes. They quarrel and Blaster tries to mediate, it does not go well. Prowl swims away angry but then he does stumble across a leviathan and being alone makes him vulnerable.

In this scenario, since Blaster is not incapacitated, he and Jazz think up a plan to rescue Prowl, since Jazz is still not in top shape and Blaster is mostly useless when not used to his new body. They pull up some boom boxes, hook them up and with Jazz as bait this time (being the nimbler one) just blast the monster with a booming burst of noise and static. Jazz helps Pull disoriented Prowl away and the 3 swim to safety, well more like Prowl and Jazz swimming at max speed while dragging Blaster away from danger. After that, Prowl reluctantly thanks Blaster and accepts him, if only for now. Again, takes a while for Prowl to get it that Jazz and Blaster are just good buddies and that Blaster was not going to ‘steal’ Jazz.

At this point, Blaster is really starving and needs food, so the two do share their meal with him. Blaster is… reluctant to say, to bite in a chunk of raw meat but his hunger says otherwise, so he eats it and… it is not that bad. Prowl says something and Blaster needs translation – basically that was the best they had at the moment and once they got to the ocean and Prowl’s home, they would have something proper to eat. By the time they reach the ocean, Blaster would have gotten used to  swimming properly and have a basic understanding of the mer language.

Both Jazz’s and Blaster’s minds will be blown when they realize mers have actual cooking, technology, music and so on. It is after that Blaster learns Prowl is a cop and they technically held a law enforcement officer captive.

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Blaster is not having a good time, he’s now almost completely unrecognizable with his new body, he has tail, flippers, his voice sounds different and struggling to speak in both languages, even his hair and face has changed a bit to fit the mer body. He’s missing his music because not only did he lose most his tunes in the apocalypse but he also has no human ears to put earbuds in. Oh, he also realizes he’s now technically naked and all his organs and ‘things’ have moved to new spaces. He is having a lot of body dysphoria, can barely drag himself on the shore and just… flails for a while in the water, maybe almost drown (Pathetic for a mer) until they get him up and swimming correctly. There’s also the realization at some point that no one would look at him and think “Oh, that’s Blaster from the aquarium.” He’s unrecognizable, just another mer to other humans, just an animal.

Not to mention, now that he’s more aquatic and sturdier with his new, larger body, Jazz is even more clingy. Prowl is not pleased and feels jealously because Jazz spends not only more time with Blaster, but he and Jazz can communicate with each other better, since Blaster knows human and all the body language, so Jazz is basically on the same speaking level. They will eventually resolve it, by the time they reach the open ocean, but for now there will be more tension between Blaster and Prowl. (Yeah, it takes time for Prowl to realize Jazz and Blaster are just good friends that love music and food.)

Blaster on the other hand, in both scenarios, Blaster will have a big freak out/realization moment as he travels for a while with Jazz and Prowl, especially when he’s a mer. As he learns more and lives with the two orcas as a mer, he comes to realize they are not ‘Just very smart sea creatures that resemble people’ but that mers ARE actual people, with their own language, culture, music, even laws and cuisine. They are literally sea people and Blaster feels *really* guilty, because even if he did treat Jazz like his own person and not dismiss him as some beast, he still kind of though of Jazz as an animal, a really smart one like a monkey or a parrot, if only just a little bit. After all, some animals can also imitate speech and are as smart as a child. And then witnessing just how smart Prowl is, a real computing machine, a genius, he feels even more embarrassed.

Also, I think Blaster would be quite grossed out when he has to have his first proper meal as a mer. Maybe Jazz and Prowl teach him some hunting but since it has been a few days since he changed and is not only exhausted and starving from the mutation, but also still healing and quite uncoordinated, Jazz and Prowl share what they caught with him. Could be fish, could be crustacean, or could be something bigger and he has to ‘dig in’ the carcass before the mutant sharks smell it or they’d have to fight mutants.

[justali-anne]

Fun idea: To keep with the Skelebros' mysterious yet goofy nature, I'll assign the headcanon that they basically have cartoon logic on their side. It lines up with their weird physics breaking/fourth wall smashing abilities anyway, so what's the fuss?

Here are some examples:

Both of them have hammerspace, so they often pull random crap out of their backsides like it's completely normal.

We already know Sans can use offscreen teleportation and Papyrus can "jump" over things.

Both of them have gravity manipulation, so sure they must often use it on themselves too, right? Imagine Sans walking off a cliff like Wile E Coyote and just... walking on air.

"SANS GET YOUR LAZY ASS OVER HERE I'M STUCK IN THE FLOOR AGAIN!!!!!"

If the situation is FUNNY, the two can get hit and crushed by anything and be completely fine (yes, that includes Mr. 1 HP), but if the situation is NOT funny, or moreso, if they're confronted by a human, they can be hurt and killed, obviously. Rule of Funny, basically.

Bursting out in little songs isn't that uncommon for them, and neither is changing the environment around them to match the song. Papyrus having Disney Princess vibes has taken over my mind for this one.

Why can they do this? Well, there's the "sciencey, playing with magic stuff" idea I proposed in another post, but then again, there are so many theories. Then again, I guess it's all just bullshit. Yup. It's just Skelebro bullshit. No more questions.

[malu897]