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[yourfavoriteirishcherokee]

It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[cxvii666]

part 2 🫡

"so i take it you two have met before?"

"yes!"

"no."

ino takuma turns to you, with a irritatingly cute half smirk on his face as you pointedly focus on ignoring him.

"no? really?"

you resist the urge to roll your eyes and give nanami kento, your superior a tight smile.

"we uh, we were at the academy at the same time."

in a room full of your seniors and underclassmen you so hoped he wouldn't be here but, as always, luck was on your side.

you had left tokyo and moved to kyoto to begin training under utahime iori immediately after graduating, trying to obtain a grade one rank as a sorcerer. it had been a gruelling two years as utahime, while a mostly a sweetheart, was not an laidback teacher. which, of course was to be expected, i mean as semi grade one sorcerer she could be insanely harsh and uncompromising. this was great for your development for your cursed technique and overall control of cursed energy but not so great for, what had been, something of a blossoming relationship between you and ino.

you had gotten over him, mostly (not at all), but seeing him again, after he had grown out his hair and had a growth spurt and was smiling at you in that cute boyish way that he did back in the day-

MEANT NOTHING! ahem. didn't matter as you weren't here to see him. you were in tokyo on business.

utahime had been called in by some of tokyo's higher ups to deal with a the influx of high grade cursed spirits due to the presence of sukuna's vessel and had had you tag along with her as support.

'not that she needed it,' you thought to yourself looking around at those in the room.

you didn't doubt the current tokyo first and second years would out rank you had they enough field experience. paired with the presence of nanami kento and his 'apprentice', you were sure the tokyo sorcerers could have had this handled but the fact that utahime had chosen to bring you here amongst such high level sorcerers meant you had an opportunity to prove yourself. and you would not let a childhood relationship ruin that.

but ino, on the other hand was absolutely kicking his feet at the chance to see you again. as soon as he heard that utahime was going to be there with 'one of her younger associates' he'd asked (begged) nanami to let him 'assist him'. nanami had been skeptical at the time but he had just assumed that ino had wanted to show off to his underclassmen. but now looking at the two of you together he began to connect the dots.

......

"oh my god, takuma you gotta stop."

"you smell so good."

"fucking creep."

"you love it."

you stiffle a giggle as he works his nose up your neck, behind your ear and takes a deep inhale. fuck he missed you so much you have no idea. you sigh contentedly as his hands snake up the inside of your shirt and he starts leaving light kisses on the skin behind your ear.

ino has you pressed up against, you're not even sure, some wall of some corridor in one of the many halls of the tokyo's jujutsu high school, both of you buzzing with adrenaline after a job well done.

"you gotta stop before one of the students see us."

he closes his eyes as your hand snakes it's way up his back and grips his hair tightly making him whine quietly.

"fuck babe, i don't care, let them."

his kisses grow teeth and he grazes them across the lobe of your ear before sinking his teeth into your neck to hide a groan as you yank on his hair.

"yeah, what if your precious nanami comes by?"

ino lets out a sigh of dissatisfaction before retracting his hands from shirt and taking your hands in his.

"how long are you in town?" he asks you, biting his lip gently, a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

you drop his hands, "i'm supposed to go head back after this-"

he starts to pout but before he can say anything else you cup his face with your hands and smile softly at him.

"but for you, i suppose i could stay the night."

big up to myself for always adding unnecessary detail, we love to see it 🙏🏾‼️

lol my first official tumblr drabble dedicated to my underrated king 😏😈

[teruuu]

YO, i have some silly things to say so just skip it because i'm acting like a little girl right now. first of all: i am the anonymous anon who asked about the differences about the high-school and compulsion AU, and now that i can't prove it my heart is forever hurt (goshdangit) anyways, i really got jumpscared and flabbergasted when i saw LITERAL DAYS after the answer for my ask. but anyway. Second of all: i just got on tumblr because my friend who also love cotl kept showing me aveloka's art, BUT MY MAN, I FOUND GOLD AROUND HERE ON YOUR PLACE LET'ME TELL YA. anyways i screamed on his ears when i saw it and now he said i am "officially an anon" so i guess this is one of my internet traits. btw here is somewhere where my other friends can't se me doing this: ≽^•⩊•^≼ (HAHAHAHAHAHA... hehe) And Finally, Third of all: probably i have more interest with the high school AU. so i gotta ask: how did the lamb and narinder met? they must be in complete different social groups and have oposites lifestyles so how did they end up like this? was it something clichê like bumping in each other? or something more specific? because ngl i can totally see nari hating the lamb in the begining like any other cotl story lmao XD. anyways i'll try to not hold back in my asks around but i won't do a lot of them. thanks for giving your time and don't push yourself okie? [Btw, don't let aveloka know it but i think your nari is hotter. shhh)

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA SORRY FOR NOT RESPONDING TO THIS SOONER BUT I KNEW THAT IF I ANSWERED RIGHT AWAY I WOULDNT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO ANSWER WITH PROPER COMPOSURE

That last bit about Aveloka is hilarious. Omg how could I ever come close to the god of horror-inspired art in the cotl community?? Nonetheless, thank you for thinking so highly of me and my works, it DOES mean a lot to me

You are SO adorable and your response is so funny. I love it so much, thanks for not holding back! So, about your actual question:

— THIS POST is the first ever post I made about Old Faith Academy. My original concept for it was to be a pure Tutor AU, but somehow it grew wings and went from that to a High School AU, to Old Faith Academy AU!! Basically, Shamura (recently shown in my concept art for the bishops) forced Narinder to tutor the Lamb. Reason for this is that Nari is one of the smartest kids around and the Lamb has the worst grades in senior year, on the verge of not graduating.

— I wouldn’t say it’s an enemy to lovers type dynamic, but Narinder absolutely disliked Lamb when he first met them lololol. It’s mainly because he’s SUPER biased. He sees the Lamb goofing off all the time being all popular, but come to find out the Lamb also has bad grades, so he automatically categorizes them in the “lazy ahh no future” section in his brain, since he labels people based on stereotypes.

— The Lamb though, they’re chill. They really don’t care about anything unless it triggers them lol.

Hope this answered your question well enough!!!

[discoabc]

Spark academic/rank flowchart

Made this while procrastinating on some revision lol but this is a rough view of how the school system + promotions in the Spark world work! A lot of my notes for the fic are worldbuilding and I hope to cover most of it in the actual fic but I’m also aware some of this stuff is kinda. Superfluous detail 😅😅😅 

This system I do intend to expand upon in the actual fic at some point but it isn’t a spoiler by any means so this is really just to give the ppl who check this tumblr a head start on understanding some of the details of the world! I’m also gonna reserve the right to maybe tweak some details of this system later on but I’ll update this post if I do :] (also pls excuse my handwriting I was too lazy to type it all up lmao)

Aptitude test: ~6 years old, required for entry into any shinobi academy (the Academy isn’t the only academy in Konoha, just the most famous - will expand on this later in the fic!). These aptitude tests are more for non-clan kids than clan kids - they measure your chakra control + reserves to see if you could really make it as a ninja. Clan kids typically meet this criteria easily, the tests are more to catch potentially gifted civilian kids who otherwise wouldn’t become shinobi

General studies: 6-12 years old, essentially what we see in canon: students are taught basics skills in all disciplines with very little ability to specialise yet

Specialised studies: 12-16 years old. This is where for example Sakura and Kakashi took the module “Seals and their History”. Students would begin to separate out more here into their future roles, e.g. more combat focused vs support

Genin: graduate at 16 years old. The rank of your teacher is based on your grades at the academy: Kakashi for example states that Sakura performed very well and was assigned a jōnin teacher. Someone who performed less well would be assigned a chūnin teacher and then below that they would enter the genin corps where they wouldn’t really be assigned an official teacher. This is also an indicator of how far up the ranks they’re really expected to go - a jōnin teacher means you’re likely to rise through the ranks quite quickly meanwhile the highest someone could expect to obtain from the genin corps is chūnin really. Here nepotism strikes again: clan kids will pretty consistently get either chūnin or jōnin teachers

Chūnin: in the fic, Sakura was offered a promotion after only 2 years but it would typically take quite some time longer (though as someone with a jōnin teacher this wasn’t unheard of). The norm is that they are promoted through recommendation but a few would be promoted by taking part in the chūnin exams - that’s typically reserved however for the best of the best who will represent their village in the exams

Jōnin/special jōnin: as in canon, a special jōnin is a kind of inbetween rank for someone with high skills in one area but not well rounded enough to gain the rank of jōnin. If you’re given the rank of special jōnin however it is pretty likely you aren’t going to then achieve the rank of jōnin - if you were then higher ups would likely wait before recommending you to jump straight from chūnin to jōnin

ANBU: organisation, not rank, but typically hold ranks from chūnin to jōnin. Their commander is considered above your average jōnin but below both council and jōnin commander 

Jōnin commander: basically no. 2 in the village to the Hokage and is the biggest indicator of who will next get the hat - if the Hokage for example died suddenly the jōnin commander would act as an interim leader. Kakashi currently holds this position (which explains why Sakura was so shocked to see him in the hospital - it was basically like the deputy prime minster suddenly dropped in on her lmao)

Council: Power equal to that of a jōnin commander though usually hold just the rank of jōnin or, sometimes, special jōnin. Can be appointed both by the Hokage and recommendation (though a significant number of people must recommend them). Don’t really change much during Hokage transitions (UK ppl think I guess House of Lords?)

Hokage: the Big Dog, the Head Honcho. Appointed by the council and the Daimyo, although the latter doesn’t really have much of a say in it (again UK ppl think royal family approving prime minster: technically allowed to say no but it is just a formality atp). Sarutobi Hiruzen is the 7th Hokage (and also the 9th if we consider him taking over after the 8th again - and yes, before you ask, I am playing with the history here >:] ). Long since rumoured he is soon to retire for a second time and have Kakashi takeover - but Kakashi isn’t the only candidate for the job.....;)

NOT SHOWN:

Konoha military police: like ANBU it is an organisation, not a rank. And also like the ANBU commander, the commander of the police is considered higher than your typical jōnin but lower than the jōnin commander. Though their commander is chosen from within the organisation NOT by the Hokage There’s a few other groups I’ve left out (e.g. how medics fit into all this) bc this would get WAY too confusing if I included everyone, but this should give a good overview of who fits in where and a little teaser of how power is distributed towards the top

[yestrday]

shiny-jr asked:

Not a request or anything but I just wanted to say you write interesting content and it's always exciting to see when you post something! The Academy AU for genshin caught my attention the most for some reason. I actually had a thought. Since most of the students there are rich, surely they have their own rides to school, right? But maybe the mc can't relate. Maybe they take a bus, trolley, or train. Can you imagine, all the spoiled guys are like, "Pfft, who doesn't have a car/limo? Imagine taking public transportation. Cringe." But when they hear the mc takes public transportation to school everyday? Suddenly they're there using that public transportation. They don't need it, they just want another chance to see more of the mc. Oh, how the turn tables.

cut the cameras deadass. is that fucking shiny-jr in my inbox? holy shit.. call the c0ps.. call gov3rnment officials... this is a damn national holiday in the making.

FREAKOUT ASIDE... omg you have wrinkly brain... grooves and all. i would smooch it mwah. as expected from the writer of the twst sentient au you have no idea how many times I've reread it!!!

((this is a repost bc tumblr is absolutely unre4sonable with their c3nsoring and my post did not show up at first))

yeah no. the number of times you've had to watch those damn rich kids and their fancy ass limos stop by the gate while you get off at the bus stop. everyone else on the bus is staring at you and your uniform— a member of a prestigious university on a jam-packed bus? rumors start circulating. you must be some sort of charity student.

on your first year, you received many of these curious and haughty stares from your fellow students too. it isn’t easy, being a scholarship student, but you wouldn’t be where you are if you let some snobby rich kids embarrass you. so what if you took the subway and had to chase after buses? none of these would matter as soon as you graduate and get yourself an elite job.

when you (unluckily) win the affection of your harem, many if not all of them start devising plans in order to use your situation to their advantage. man. you just wanna go to school. why the fuck do they keep messing this up for you?

it’s the protag powers. the twins use the same subway line as you and have the pleasure of escorting you to class every day. you were a bit surprised when you saw two new students on the subway and mistakenly thought them in the same boat as you, poor background and all. they’re really not; they just like walking a lot. they’re generally pleasant to be with— aether making friendly conversation and entertaining you while lumine smoothly wraps her hand around yours. they protect you from unsavory strangers groping you in the crowded area... and other competitors hoping to have a sneak in some time with you.

aether, lumine

they’ve figured out your routes. they know the exact times when you get off and on the bus and trains. they expertly use the motions of the crowd to get themselves near you while hiding at the same time. doesn’t do anything much except stare at you for so long that you start feeling the creeps. honestly the other passengers are scared too. if they get close enough they’re lucky to get a smell of your freshly washed body and experience the familiar smell of your soap for themselves. breaking into your house and sneaking around your bathroom is one thing, but actually smelling it on you is a whole thrilling thing.

xiao, childe, gorou, chongyun, heizou, venti

why tf would they waste their time sneaking onto some sardine packed place when they could simply pick you up in their ultra cool, ultra sleek, ultra rich limo? drives up to your dingy driveway and rolls the windows down. get in, they say, looking all rich and shit. you don’t know how they got your address. everyone in the neighborhood is staring at you, your family is gaping, and the suitor is watching you expectantly. you feel pressured by this whole being rich thing, but as soon as you spot the free food— made by five star michelin chefs, btw— every worry is thrown out of the window.

ayato, xingqiu, childe, zhongli, diluc, kaeya

is driving the limo. ayato rolled up the thing separating the driver and the passengers so he can’t see anything. once he escorts you out, he wipes off the crumbs and fixes your uniform and hair before patting you on the head.

thoma

wanted to pick you up at your house too but ei and makoto are annoying and he thinks that it’ll make him look stupid. why should he offer you a free ride? impatiently waits for you as your dutiful seatmate and starts bullying you. you resist another day’s worth of the tempation to slap him.

scaramouche

doesn’t bother with catching you during your transit, but catches you as soon as you reach school. they make morning conversation and escort you to your classroom. you’re both in a crowd of students, but they feel like you’re the only person in the world.

itto, albedo, kaedahara kazuha, razor, heizou, venti, kaeya

meets you “by chance” when you stop by your local convenience store to get some things. they hog up most of your time, taking in your sleepy drawl and hazy eyes. you end up walking together to school and if they’re lucky enough, you doze off and cling to them for support. they let you, nuzzling into the soft of your hair and holding you close just like how lovers do.

heizou, venti, albedo, kaedahara kazuha, kaeya

oh no :((( some common street thugs are bothering you now. you’re about to pull out your ultra secret weapon, but a knight in shining armor comes swooping in! they’re self-satisfied about saving you, fantasizing about how you’ll thank them. you, on the other hand, is disappointed that you couldn’t test out your brand new t4ser.

kaeya, itto, diluc, zhongli, razor

is the street thug

itto

isn’t lucky enough to catch you on transit. the closest they got to was chasing after your bus and then falling through an open manhole.

bennet

[aurora-313]

Hello there! Love your fic, got to the chapter where Kaien reunited with Rukia. Found your tumblr, saw you answered questions, and here's one I thought I'd get your two cents on.

Do you think Kaien knew that Rukia had a crush on him? He's a pretty smart guy so I don't think he wouldn't have noticed, just ignored it because he saw Rukia as a protégé/subordinate/little sister. I honestly think he filled in a supportive brother role (as much as he could given he was still her direct superior) for Rukia since at the time Byakuya was still very emotionally constipated. But given it was the first bit of support Rukia had gotten in ages, no wonder she latched on quick.

Although, if guys like Kaien are Rukia's type, he has a very available younger cousin...

Good morning! I'm glad you've enjoyed it so far. Writing their reunion(s) was fun and I hope you continue to enjoy what's in store for the future.

Oh, Kaien definitely knew about it. As a Lieutenant and generally a very social affable guy, Kaien strikes me as a student of human behaviour.

I wager he understood that Rukia's attachment to him stems from her extreme loneliness brought upon by her circumstances; an Inuzuri street rat brought into nobility by an adopted brother whom evidently only did so because she resembled his late wife.

Already that's an off-putting situation and enforces a message that she herself is not valued, only her appearance is. That, and her closest friend, her brother she'd grown up with, all but told her to go when she's already struggling to fit in during every day life.

So Kaien, the first safe harbour in this tumultuous whirlwind of changing circumstance, is someone she'd latch onto instantly. Especially since he doesn't give to licks or a toss about her new nobility - and the Shiba canonically don't buy into that crap either. In his eyes, she's a new raw recruit who failed to greet him properly and needed a kick up the ass to be reminded who's in charge.

He went out of his way to give her solo remedial lessons to cover the things she missed at the Academy thanks to her early graduation; teaching her how to fight, how to commune with and activate her Zanpakutou, and freely offering her guidance and reassurance when she was feeling low or depressed.

How could Rukia not fall a little in love with him for that kindness alone? (helps that he's super easy on the eyes too. ;) )

From his side of things, I figure Kaien saw her as a mix of protégé, little sister and I'd even so far as to say daughter, depending how much older he is.

Had Kaien not died when he did, I think he would've successfully broken Rukia out of her shell and helped her overcome that loneliness to find a place in the 13th.

(Though you have to wonder if some in the 13th blamed her for Kaien's death despite the circumstances being what they were.)

And since ya brought it up; I mean... Kukaku's planning on recognizing that same 'veryavailable younger cousin' as an official member of the Shiba, and the Kuchiki and Shiba could - for whatever reason - require a marriage pact to seal an alliance... you never know~! (I jest)

[mrfancyfoot]

Obey Me Headcanons: Devildom and the RAD

Just a collection of bits (HCs, speculation, and OM lore fixes/sidestepping to keep things consistent) that I’ve put together so far from my work on Community Magic (in which Evie, occasionally mentioned below, is my OC).  I may add to this over time {I’ve added to this like 3 times already since originally posting a couple hours ago} as the fic takes shape and as OM adds new content to serve as my own reference. :)

Obviously, may contain spoilers below, so read at your own risk.

If you have your own speculation/fixes or I’m missing information that clarifies some bit of confusing OM lore, I’d love to hear it!  The OM core story is still ongoing and the way a lot of this is gleaned from the chats and side bits, it’s very possible that something will be fleshed out further after writing this.  The manga in particular will probably help to flesh out more of the actual OM world/background stuff.  I’m knowingly shaping a lot of things to help fit my story into OM.

The below is SFW, but my fic is not (it’s E-rated).  Please check out Community Magic on Ao3 (if you’re 18+)!

I recommend clicking through to the desktop post of this on my blog if you want proper formatting in all of its carefully tiered, bullet-point glory. Tumblr otherwise strips the formatting when viewed as a basic post and does make it harder to read. :(

Updated 7/1/2022

Royal Academy of Diavolo

The abbreviation ‘R.A.D.’ is one I can see people referring to as both ‘the RAD’ and ‘RAD.’  Evie routinely says ‘the RAD,’ while Lucifer more formally uses ‘R.A.D’ (with all the damn periods).

I noticed this after I kept typing “the RAD” but then noticed in-game that no-one prefaces it with ‘the’...  I wonder if there are any stores that I can similarly butcher by adding an ‘s’ to the end of the name that doesn’t actually belong there.  Maybe Goetia (Asmo’s hair salon)?  I can see Evie turning that into “Goetia’s.”

I have the RAD set up as a combination of facets of school types.

It offers a multitude of classes on just about anything one could imagine and more.  While it has tenured faculty on staff, it also brings in guest instructors on a rotational basis to lead classes and/or lectures on their niche/specialty area.

Most classes are offered in the official language of the Demon Realm (which I named ‘Devil’s Tongue’), but many classes are also offered in other languages found throughout the Demon and Human Realms (I HC that through prior unregulated travel to and from the HR that many common HR languages had taken hold in areas of the DR).

There’s no real “completing” or graduating RAD.  You can take higher and/or more specialized classes as you pass classes.

You can become certified/ranked/qualified through taking certain class paths, however, but these need to be maintained.

Newcomers are given an entrance placement exam and current students are routinely reassessed for proficiency, sending them back for remedial classes as needed.

I don’t believe for a second that Diavolo, Barbatos, and Lucifer are “students” and actively taking classes (possibly ones here and there on whims).  They are far too busy actually running and managing things.  The “Student Council” is far more a governing body of the students and RAD matters.  There doesn’t appear to be any other RAD governing body (like a board or headmaster or principal).

I think Lucifer makes his Brothers take a minimum of classes as ambassadors of Diavolo’s program/vision to provide a presence at the RAD but also to ensure that they are striving to better themselves.  And to give them that much less time to get into trouble.

Diavolo is Student Council President by simple virtue that he created it.  I think it’s possible that once the RAD lifts off the way he truly wants it to as a unifying hub between the three realms that he and the rest of the council will step back and allow for a more democratic voting process for council president and council members.

He may stay on as a kind of principal or director that the Student Council would then report to for a time after that before then also handing off that position.

While Celestial and Demon Realm leaders choose their own respective exchange students to send to the other realms, the Human Realm (which lacks a central leader or governing body [magic or otherwise]) candidates are magically chosen (maybe a la Goblet of Fire spitting out a number of qualified names? lol) at random after certain criteria are accounted for and then Diavolo and Michael pick from the proposed candidates.

Diavolo uses the experience and input gleaned from each new rotation of exchange students to better adapt the RAD and the Devildom to their human and angel visitors.

Things like ensuring that the RAD cafeteria has human-safe options.

I HC that he takes this further to establish laws like having clear warning labels on all pre-packaged foods for known detrimental effects on humans, etc.

Though even though they’re there (like on the Lunatic Pudding), even he isn’t the most diligent about checking before attempting to feed his human exchange student.

Given Evie’s very specific dietary needs, maybe he’d go as far as to ensure the RAD cafeteria options all have ingredient lists available.

One of Evie’s chief complaints at first is that there’s no handbook or crash course for humans on adjusting to life in the Devildom (and there likely does not exist the opposite for other exchange students, either).  Without constantly asking someone, she doesn’t know what foods are safe or dangerous to eat.

In the scheme of things, the RAD is still very new and novel in the Demon Realm.

As such, I HC that many demons are still very skeptical of it and Diavolo’s goals.  There may even be other schools in the Demon Realm at large that are considered prestigious and “better” than the RAD simply because they have the established tradition and age.  However, because it is Diavolo’s pet project and he’s the soon to be King, many nobles/upper class demons would still be taking advantage of attending the RAD and “getting in early” to gain points with Diavolo and possible future boasting rights.

I don’t think it’s yet at the point of where it needs to be choosy over admittance as it’s not yet anywhere near capacity.  If you want to attend the RAD, you are welcomed.  Tuition is free and there is assistance for those unable to afford things like the uniforms.

The Demon Realm and Devildom

In my HC, Demon Realm =/= Devildom.  ‘Devildom’ refers only to Diavolo’s immediate kingdom within the greater Demon Realm.  He’s still ruler beyond the kingdom walls, but it’s more like the Realm’s “capitol city.”

This makes it easier to imagine other cities and non-Devildom locations within the Demon Realm.

Those other cities would be home to other academies/schools, giving rise to the various sports and academic teams that may visit RAD for events.

The Celestial Realm would be ruled similarly, but the Human Realm, being the baby of the three, I HC as still very much finding its own legs.  Here, the Human Realm doesn’t have a central governing body at all, but is broken into the many factions we’re more familiar with.  As such, there are many magical bodies of governance over their own regions/peoples and not a whole lot in the way of unified standards beyond magic and magical beings as a whole being kept secret from the rest of humanity.

Because of this, the HR doesn’t have much say in its own exchange students.  The demon and angel students sent to the HR are very much acting as agents gauging how to best establish some kind of unification with the HR (or that’s at least what Diavolo has charged the demon exchange students with working towards).  The students to the HR likely normally have longer stays by virtue of them being immortal.  Human exchange students are normally given a year’s stay in their respective realm as they often do want to return home at some point and because they normally have much shorter life spans.

The other levels of Hell have their own proxy-rulers (lords) that govern in Diavolo’s stead and each level is completely different from the next.  It’s apparently technically possible to walk between them, but I hear ‘level’ and I get the image of, like, planes floating over each other, the top most being the first level you could descend to from the Human Realm and the bottom most being the plane with the Devildom.  Maybe “walking” would consist of walking to the edge of each one and finding a way down to the next, smaller plane (or up to the next, larger plane).

Flat Earth confirmed.  Y’know, maybe demons visiting the Human Realm got really confused over how the Earth is round when the Demon Realm planes have distinct edges (maybe the CR does too) and sparked the whole flat earth ‘debate.’  I was gonna write something about how Demons may not have even been to space (...do they have Space?) with their technological level and had to remind myself that we had rockets before the first Gameboys and way before the modern cellphone.  Probably harder to reverse engineer a working rocketship, though, haha.  Or maybe a/some demons outright told humans the Demon Realm has edges/isn’t round like Earth and someone took that completely the wrong way.

Someone write about space demons.

Maybe the first level is the largest and they get progressively smaller, with the Devildom plane being the smallest.  Weaker level demons may make up the majority of the first plane and as they progress towards the Devildom plane, there are more higher status, stronger demons.  Weak level demons would be common and strong level demons (like the Brothers and various Devildom nobility) would be far less common.  There are no laws preventing demons from moving between the planes - it would be more ‘you can go to another plane if you can get there, but then you also have to be able to survive there or you’ll, you know...die.’

More extreme weather events occur the lower down in Hell you go.  That’s why we get events for bizarre weather in the Devildom so often.

It’s canon that the Demon Realm (and likely the Celestial Realm) is much less technologically advanced than the Human Realm.  This could be due to the DM/CR having much more of a reliance on magic and therefore less of a reason to develop tech, of which they likely both take frequent inspiration from the HR (if not outright adapting HR technology when they can).  It could also be due to angels and demons being immortal - time is on a much longer scale to them so they don’t have some of the same innovative drives as humans (who can do astounding things under the duress of time and life).  This is the basis for me throwing Evie at the Devildom’s ancient utilities infrastructure (much of which will be/is based on my own experience in the industry).

While the Brothers help Diavolo run the RAD, I think he’d have other kingdom/personal advisors for Devildom and Demon Realm governance (though the RAD also seems like it could outright be Diavolo’s version of his main governing body that just happens to also have school functions).  With as busy and drowning in paperwork as Lucifer is, he may also be advising on this with how close he is to Diavolo.

The Brothers seem to have other higher level jobs/duties (like Levi being a/the(?) Grand Admiral of Hell’s Navy), but I get the impression that they are often circumstantial and not constant, which lands them taking random jobs here and there at places like Hell’s Kitchen and The Fall.  Though with being immortal, job hopping is probably a frequent, normal thing for demons.

I’ve clashed a few real-world governing systems together to create the idea of various Bureaus, how they’re run, and the hierarchy of who they report to.

Like the Energy, Resources & Utilities Bureau that Evie ends up interning at.

Ex: The Bureau Director (in this case, Director Thrallhammer) heads the Utilities Bureau Board.  The Director then reports directly to Diavolo.

The Chief of X (Finance, Field Operations, etc) then reports to the Director.  (Not to be confused with terms like CEO/CFO/COO).

Special project/interest committees may then form from various groups of Board members.

I think that major retail spots may strive to advertise themselves as more (compared to the rest of the DR) technologically “modern.”  I designed the main mall in my fic to be like a combination of the standard Devildom architecture but with heavy influence from the US 90s aesthetic (weird shapes, bright colors, questionable patterns!).  So to MC/Evie, it would almost feel like taking an uncanny step back in time even though it’s perceived as modern, even “fresh” in the DR.

However, places like Majolish and The Fall rely more on a “modern magic��� aesthetic (and less on non-magic-tech overall) and end up looking more modern/advanced to the MC/Evie (and more towards what they would expect).

By canon, in the Demon Realm, there is no sun, the day progresses in various shades of dark (the CR is the opposite in that the sun is always shining and there is no dark night).

HC: So make sure your human is getting enough vitamin D and other supplements!  Diavolo keeps a doctor on retainer who’s more well-versed in human health and anatomy than most other DR doctors/healers, but they probably still aren’t on par with a good HR doctor for knowing human ailments.  I would bet that many human (and angel) exchange students begin going through a kind of depression at some point due to lack of enough sunlight.

It’s discussed at some point in the lore that mushrooms and some plants in the Demon Realm contain far more vitamin D to make up for the lack of sunlight which is why Demon Realm cuisine is heavier on them.

Maybe fungus is more palatable and varied due to a much larger industry of growing it, but you might be stuck with supplements if you’re the exchange student who finds mushrooms unpalatable. :(

Maybe demon exchange students to the CR have the opposite problem with too much sunlight being harmful to them in the longterm?

The (physical being?) relationship between demons and angels is pretty unknown/vague in OM canon.

What is known: Angels can “fall” and turn into demons.  Whether that’s literal or metaphorical, idk.  The Brothers got kicked out of/”fell” from the Celestial Realm, transforming from angels to demons.  That leads to the following different paths of my further speculation:

1. They are two sides of the same coin when one looks at their religious inspiration, with at least some population of demons forming from fallen angels and the demon Realm/”Hell” being created after the fall of the first angels and/or spirits (well before the Brothers fell).  The Demon Realm possibly being created from a corrupted form or part of the Celestial Realm.

This also opens the theory of the Human Realm being created “in the image of” the Celestial Realm, further pulling from religious inspiration.

2. Or they formed independently in completely separate but ostensibly adjacent Realms.  Angels can become demons from losing their holy magic, and I guess their bodies “falling” to or being corrupted by the influence of Demon Realm magic.

Question: can the reverse happen and demons become angels in this scenario?

Lesson 30 discusses how the Celestial and Demon Realms came into existence separately at the same time (I stumbled on this after writing this portion).

But doesn’t entirely discount all of speculation 1.

Angels and demons aren’t the black and white “good and evil” as many people view them.  In the world of OM, they’re mostly treated as different beings with drama between them and possibly different types of magic.

They can’t really have different Realm-level sources of magic or angels and humans wouldn’t be able to use their form of magic in the Demon Realm.  MC learns magic while in the DR and Solomon frequently uses magic, so unless what they’re learning and using is solely “Demon Realm” magic, the source for magic is universal.  There may be things preventing certain types of that magic from being used in the opposite Realm and/or a person’s link to that specific magic can be severed (fallen angels losing their holy magic).

From Simeon’s story arc, we learn that angels can be stripped of their powers (banished to the Human Realm), and seemingly become human, too.  So there’s some kind of further change that happens when they are banished to the Demon Realm - either in general with angels becoming demons or uniquely with the Brothers and possibly something Diavolo or the prior Demon King did for/to them.  Maybe being stripped of ‘being’ an angel makes them vulnerable to DR magic that influences them.  (I am not quite this far in the main story though because I’ve been slacking due to the constant events >.>)

I’ll dig more into the CR stuff in another post since I have dived into that side quite as much yet.

To be continued...

[snarky-art]

Tumblr glitched out one of my posts again so I’m making a separate post about The Trix’s backstories here. Their designs and a brief description of the founding of the group that follows The Three Grand Ancestresses who lead The Attempted Siege of Domino can be found here!

Info on their start in the covens and their meeting and history (primarily Darcy’s, which is super important to my au) below!

They each joined separate factions of the coven at different ages and engaged in rigorous training exercises, each excelling quickly with their magic. Icy was born into it, Stormy’s family joined when she was 6, and Darcy was enrolled in their “academy” a little before turning 8.

The reason the Solarian Staff has a small piece of The Dragon Flame imbued in it is because Solaria was a close ally to Domino back when it was still around . Am exchange of culture, artifacts, and knowledge was common. However, after The Fall of Domino, Solaris became much more secretive and covered of their knowledge and shared past with Domino due to the threats they now faced being associated with The Flame. However, members of the royal family are given this knowledge as it is their “right” to know by rulership and emphasizes the importance of keeping The Staff safe and keeps the knowledge hidden from the public. As Darcy’s mother was one of Luna’s many sisters, she had knowledge of this, although never told Darcy as she wasn’t in any need of knowing because she wasn’t close enough in the line for the throne, therefore she didn’t have the “privilege” of having access to this information. She only knows because she overheard her mom whispering to Luna off to the side during Stella’s coronation and Anointing Ceremony.

Cut to her rummaging through old forbidden texts and stuff and learning more about it and then, upon showing great proficiency with her magic at a young age, her mother enrolled her at this very prestigious coven that’s actually aligned with that cult type group (it’s one of the 3 main coven headquarters actually) lead by one of the head honchos for it (there are always 3 Ancestral Witches, each stationed at the big bases of operation (with the title of Ancestral Witch being basically the equivalent of Nymph for witches) in honor and accordance with continuing the legacy of the origins of the 3 Grand Ancestresses, who’s spirits still exist in the physical realm. They choose who shall be their representative and are prayed to for guidance often).

When she is approached by The Ancestral Witch that happens to be stationed at her coven as the head of that faction to ask if she wishes to be trained directly under her as an apprentice at the age of 10, she’s ecstatic. It’s from their she begins to be groomed by the coven to follow their real beliefs and goals of finding The Flame and securing it for them, without that knowledge being shared to her mother, due to the loyalty they begin to instill in her.

Stormy was approached and began her apprenticeship at the age of 12 and Icy began hers at the age of 5.

Once Darcy is made aware of the groups real goals and has sworn her proper loyalty to them at an initiation ceremony at age 13 ( this is masqueraded as a sort of graduating to a higher level of study to the general public), she reveals her knowledge of The Solarian Staff holding some of The Dragon Flame within it to The Head Ancestress and her advisors. This knowledge is shared then with the other 2 Head Ancestresses and they make a plan to secure it using Icy, Darcy, and Stormy as they are their apprentices and are in line to be the next potential Grand Ancestresses. They’re told to see this as their final test to officially become the next in line. At the age of 14, the 3 of them meet and begin a rigorous training regime (even more rigorous than before) to properly learn how to fight together, merge spells, and get their dynamic figured out. The Ancestresses know Stella will be attending Alfea, and that it’ll be easier to secure the staff there as there are less guards and protection spells than there are at the palace. When the 3 girls come of age, they are sent to Cloud Tower (a year before Stella) to get a proper feel for the area and get a plan sorted out.

The next year, Stella attends, and The Trix are ready to enact their plan, only that Stella blows up the science lab and is expelled, leaving them like. “Uh,, now what?” They’re told to just stay there for their second year and learn more and be thorough. This only means they’ll have no excuse to fail their mission next year. And so they do, and then, in their senior year, Stella attends, as does Bloom and everyone else. The events of season 1 are set into motion.

[katytheinspiredworkaholic]

WIP Wednesday Thursday

Title: Extraordinary

Pairings: HotchReid (side pairings Morcia, WillxJJ, others in flirtation)

Summary: League of Extraordinary Gentleman/Vampire AU;

Within the FBI there is a specialized team full of an elite selection of people. Unique individuals with very particular skill sets. And their job is to take the unusual cases: the ones that need to not only be solved, but are undetermined if the unsub is human, or something else entirely.

In a world filled with Vampires, non-human creatures, and subspecies unknown, there is only enough information to have them vaguely regulated. Rules that are so easily, and violently broken, all while hidden in plain sight among the unsuspecting public. Unrivaled for eons.

That’s where the BAU comes in.

Official Posting Date: Now posted on tumblr and Ao3, Click Here

Links: (Masterpost) (Snippet 01) (Snippet 02) (Snippet 03) (Snippet 04)

(TW/CW: This is pretty tame, Emily is just a little intense and eager because Spencer is... well, Spencer, and when she realizes all he can do? Oh she is chomping at the bit. Some trance-like things and witchy stuff and Hotch being territorial without being able to admit it.)

(the story so far/what you need to know for this clip at least: this takes place in chapter 02, what you will all see on Saturday evening, and this version is insanely unpolished (I’m about to go through and fix it up and give it a good make-over) but basically this is the first time Spencer is meeting Emily Prentiss and it makes... an impression. Also, Emily has been at the BAU for about 0.2 seconds and Hotch is already done with her. The sibling energy I love to see. It’s also hella long, as an apology for missing last week and being a day late. All you’ve missed is Spencer about ran into Emily turning a corner and she saved him from spilling his case files and coffee all over the floor. Now they are talking)

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“I apologize, I thought you were an intern or still in the academy.”

“It’s alright, everyone does,” Spencer says without taking offense. He wouldn’t have gotten where he was or lasted very long if he did; however, if he had a nickel for every time someone had been surprised by his age, he’d be as rich as Father Rossi. His full hands actually aids him as he mentions, “I don’t usually shake hands with people, so don’t think me rude. I’m Dr. Spencer Reid.” He offers her a smile in exchange, and it is mirrored on her face just as her surprise kicks up another notch. 

“Doctor, my my I am in for a trip on this team, aren’t I?” she laughs, and it’s a melodic thing that stretches over an expanse of time and history. Ballrooms in Russia and palors of France, Elizabethan and the roaring 20’s and everything in between all rolled into one. He’s not sure how he sees it, an impossible thing, but he can read it like a book and that must have something to do with what she is. “Emily Prentiss, it is a remarkable pleasure to meet you Dr. Reid. Now, I have to ask--” her tone is so charming and playful and probing he barely notices the nuance, “And I’m sure it’s taboo around here, but I have to know -- your regeneration process. Tell me what it is or what you do. You look so young.”

“I am young,” he states simply, finally stunned by a question he’s not usually asked. 

“Yes, yes, we all can’t be a thousand years old like your fearless Vampire leader,” she waves off and Spencer’s eyes widen because… he hadn’t known Hotch was that old. Sure he’d said he’d been alive for the better part of a millennia, but he always said it like a hyperbole. A turn of phrase that’s off by a couple centuries. But --

 A thousand years old. 

That would put him… 

God, that would put him alive, as a human, just before the start of The Crusades. 

“Oh, did he keep that to himself? Oops, my bad. Pretend you don’t know. Anyway -- so are you a Shifter? Or use a particular spell? Oh, or is it a curse? I’m fascinated by curses, I don’t use them often myself but the rigidity of terms using a power so chaotic is just such a fun juxtaposition that I--”

“No, no, I’m… normal, human,” Spencer interrupts her, still the smallest bit shell-shocked, but now connects a few dots himself as she speaks. Realizes very suddenly that Ms. Prentiss appears ageless because she is ageless. She’s also a Witch. One of the broadest terms for subspecies categories, which really doesn’t do it justice. A Witch could be a number of things. Someone who uses magic and science and the very Earth itself paired with the spiritual planes to do impossible things. Witches are beings so powerful they should be uncategorizable. Something Spencer is fascinated by as well. He’s never met anyone like Emily. “I look young because I am young. I’m 27, I’ve only been with the BAU for the past three years. I’m a little excited to not be the newbie on the team any more,” he tries to joke, but Emily’s gaze has gone distant and sharp all at once.

“You’re only 27? And you’re a doctor?” She asks in clarification, Spencer nodding along each time. “You’ve been a doctor, since becoming an FBI agent?” 

“Um, well -- I’m not a medical doctor. I do have three doctorates, though; in mathematics, chemistry, and engineering,” he finds himself shrinking a bit under her intensely interested gaze. “What?”

“Chemistry?” she asks, vaguely more distant.

“That was my first doctorate,” he murmurs back, not sure what has her looking so contemplative. 

“You’ve achieved all of this: three doctorates, FBI agent, BAU -- in 27 years?” she questions, a grave yet wondrous sound.

“Technically I did all of that in 15 years. I graduated high school when I was 12,” he manages to do more than mumble, and Emily’s wide-eyed stare has him spewing forth information like it requires an explanation. “I have an eidetic memory, and I can read 20,000 words a minute, and my IQ is 187 so by human standards yes -- I’m a genius, and borderline on the advanced brain developments scale. But I’m still human. Nothing paranormal or extraordinary.”

The pause that follows is palpable.

“Oh,” she says in an exhale, “Oh, you young soul. You have no idea, do you? What you are capable of...” She tilts her head as she steps closer and Spencer is very suddenly aware that he’s not sure she’s blinked since they started speaking about his qualifications. What he can do, how he got to where he is. No one usually shows this much interest, he makes them uncomfortable for reasons he doesn’t always understand. 

Emily doesn’t look uncomfortable, she looks… hungry. 

“You are so very, very extraordinary. Exceptional, really. Look at all of what you’ve accomplished with just 15 years of life.” That astonished sound again, like she can’t believe her luck--

And then she’s in his space, gaze boring into his, and Spencer can see galaxies in the depth of her eyes. His breath stolen from him and feet rooted to the floor. So he doesn’t step away as she leans just the smallest bit closer, words resonating with echoes across ages.

“Imagine what you could do with a thousand.” 

“Prentiss,” the deep voice of Hotch’s monotone (edged in something vaguely aggressive, and more than a little aggravated)  breaks through their moment. The trance fading like a fog from Spencer’s eyes. “No recruiting. It’s in your contract.”

“You have such a gift, it’s a shame to waste it,” Emily whispers in a rush as Hotch approaches them from down the hall. More earnest than intimidating, now.

“Prentiss!” 

“Think about it,” she winks, and then turns to give Hotch a smile that’s all teeth so sharp she resembles a shark. “Oh, what a sour face. What’s wrong? Were you planning on asking him first? You snooze, you lose.” 

“Conference room,” he instructs, pointing the way Spencer had just come. “Team meeting in 20 minutes. Try not to summon anything between here and there.” She sticks her tongue out at him childishly as she leaves, and sends a quirk of a smile Spencer’s direction that shifts her whole expression into something comically entertained. He’s never seen Hotch interact with someone like this, like they were… familiar, even exasperatingly so. The closest in comparison is probably Father Rossi. But this is less like old friends and more like sibling rivalry. 

The space Emily had just vacated is suddenly filled with Hotch, an overwhelmingly welcomed presence and it eases the tension out of Spencer’s spine and shoulders that he hadn’t even realized was there. 

“Are you okay?” he asks, low and quiet. They’re the only ones in the hallway, but secrecy is a hard habit to break.

Spencer nods, still gaining his bearings once more. “I think so. That didn’t feel like hypnotism. I don’t know what that was.” 

“Prentiss doesn’t manipulate minds or the wills of other people,” Hotch tells him, which is soothing if not for the foreboding question of what just occurred. “She doesn’t need to. She can do a lot of things: change her face, her voice, make illusions and talk circles around anyone -- even you.” Spencer looks up to him at that, aware that his level of intelligence is the only thing that keeps him safe from JJ or Hotch’s influence. His mind can’t be bent, or tricked.

“Then what was she doing? I felt compelled but… not against my will. What was that?” he asks, also quiet but much more high in pitch as his confusion turns his voice to a winded sound.

Hotch’s thin, stern frown does nothing to alleviate the apprehension caught up in his chest like a bad cold. 

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“Possibility,” he states, grim and not liking that Spencer had fallen prey to such a short moment with Emily Prentiss and her promise of what her craft could do for him. Hotch is well aware that Spencer’s gift of soaking up every speck on information he’s given like a sponge isn’t something to let wither and die like so many before him. There’s so much he could do with an infinite life, such as his and Emily’s, but the curse of living forever alone is not something to be taken lightly. And not to be decided by someone who still has so much more life to live unaided by other forces.

However, Emily was right about one thing. Hotch can’t deny that he’s thought about it. More than considered it as a definite possibility. 

An offer, all his own.

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Tagged list so far: @physics-magic​, @thaddeusly, @ssa-noa, @ssa-sarahsunshine, @tobias-hankel, @reidology, @mintphoenix

[shannon-foraker]

Shannon Foraker Headcanon

Fanart of Shannon, in a bit of a uniform mashup, because I was tired when I drew this. She's not wearing her hat because she doesn't enjoy wearing such things.

I'm new to tumblr, so I'm still learning how to use this site.

I'm working on a headcanon for the backstory for this Honorverse character I'm obsessed with.

Here's some stuff from my notes (more will come later).

Shannon's born 1875 PD, because in her first appearance in Flag in Exile, she sounds young. I wanted to make her much younger than Honor.

She's got two cousins in the SDF, Eimear and Orla.

Eimear was born 1878 PD, and Orla's born 1880 PD. The year Duchess Orla Foraker's born, the PRH government takes over the system.

Things aren't good, for the cousins. Officially, the nobles have to stop using their titles, and Shannon stops getting training on how to be a good royal. This will be an issue, as an adult. The people of Elvana don't like the annexation, and there's some minor resistance.

1896 PD Shannon graduates SDF academy at 21, and makes Ensign by end of year.

1899 PD Eimear graduates SDF academy at 21, and makes Ensign by end of year.

Both girls are addressed with ma'am, however when no people from the PRH's government, or informers are around, both get addressed as milady, which makes them, especially Eimear (who's too young to remember pre-annexation life) uncomfortable, until they get used to it.

1900 PD On Basilisk Station happens Shannon is a full Lieutenant in the SDF, and gets stolen by the PRH.

While officially, these officers are "loaners", everyone knows that the PRH steals officers for good, and retrains and demotes them. Under the Republic of Haven, things are fixed, so the officers aren't demoted and are treated much better, but under the PRH, it was a second-class status.

Shannon hacks her officer file for her own safety, as it's not safe to have your file say that you're really Grand Duchess Shannon Foraker of Elvana under the PRH. This saves her life under the Committee, later. Eimear is an Ensign in the SDF, and doing well. Orla is at the SDF's Academy.

1901 PD Orla graduates from the SDF Academy and makes Ensign by very early 1902 1902 PD Eimear is stolen as a Lieutenant, like her older cousin. 1903 PD The Honor of The Queen happens Shannon graduates from the accelerated 3 year program PN Officer Academy.

[thepenpalhub]

Howdy, Y'all! So this is bound to be a super long post, one because I am super excited to find some more penpals, and two because I can’t ever do anything half way! So to sum up some of it I’m a seventeen year old ADHD Legal Studies college senior in Arkansas with a background in Political Science (USA) addicted to coffee looking for some penpals!

I’m currently sitting under the sunrise daydreaming up some new plots for a couple of stories I'm probably going to end up starting. In the process, I obviously started wondering deeper into the cosmos and questioning everything about life, for example, with the way 2020 is going, what's the probability of the zombie apocalypse breaking out? This pondering has lead me here, searching for some friends that hold the intellectual capability to have a serious not serious conversation, because in my opinion penpals and snail mailers are some of the greatest friends yet!

My name is Allison, though I’ve got a whole slew of nicknames that you could pick from if Allison is too much of a hassle ;D! Allie, Elle, and Allis being a few of them!

I’m your normal run-of-the-mill College student, besides the fact that I’m a college senior at seventeen and I graduated high school at thirteen! I’m studying Law, though I have a degree in political science as well! For reference, I will be turning eighteen within a month.

My goals in life include bringing light to the corruption and corrupted in politics and government, helping as many people as possible to better their lives and improve their state of living, and being as much happiness and joy to the world as I reasonably can! My career goals include achieving all the above through politics, public speaking, corporate ventures, and government!

So yeah, I’m a pretty ambitious gal, to the point that some people have claimed I’m overbearing and too interested in myself! While I might come across as overbearing or self-interested, I’m one of the most selfless people I know, and on top of that, I try to be as self-aware as possible so that I can continue to emotionally, intellectually, mentally, and physically improve myself! One of my motos in life is “to know where you're going you must first know where you’ve been”! Plus... I’ve just got a really really big personality!!

Let’s see, I am a Sagittarius, ENFP-t, and enneagram of 8! I am also a Slytherin! In my professional life, I like to compare myself to a much nicer version of Katerina Petrova… or Clarke Griffin (if you ignore the manipulative and kinda bitchy part of both… sometimes)! Though in my private life I tend to take on more of a child-like nature, in the sense of being cheerful, energetic, always curious, and kinda oblivious in certain situations! I do tend to be a bit bratty, blunt, and bossy though!

Moral of the story, you can probably expect some rambling and super cute designs slash miscellaneous things in your letter if we go the snail mail route!

I kinda have some pretty diverse and interesting taste when it comes to things I enjoy! I like to think I have the interests of an elderly person and personality of a child, but you can be the judge of that!

* I love politics, linguistics, diplomacy, history, stock markets, real estate, law, and philosophy!

* Hiking and swimming are probably two of my favorite outdoorsy activities!

* I adore the gun range, it is probably one of my favorite places to go (after malls and libraries)! Very American of me.... I know 😀

* Beekeeping is something I’ve been doing since I was a child, I currently have over four-thousand hives!

* Reading, writing, and painting are also some of my favorite things to do!

I’m a painter, who absolutely loves bright colors (I.e pink and yellow)! I don’t particularly have a favorite music genre, from rock to country and pop to opera/classical I’ll listen to anything (it all depends on mood)!

I like to consider myself the reigning queen of over-energetic happy-go-lucky bubbly people! *Bow down peasants!* Some people have claimed I’ve got major crackhead energy, without the crack! I just blame it on my caffeine addiction paired with really really bad ADHD!

I’m a bit of a girly girl, with a love for the preppy look, and a love for hair bows and leather jackets! I love dancing in the rain, going to parks, blowing bubbles, watching Disney, playing make-believe or whatever, and acting like I’m high on sugar 9/10! I mentioned I had a childish personality, though as I said, some people find it overwhelming!

I love reading and writing (both originals and fanfics... yeah I’m a groupie when it comes to tv/movie/book fanfics)! Currently, I’ve been really invested in fiction works, I’m nearly finished with the CL Stone Academy Ghostbird series (It's a reverse harem for those that don't know, I highly suggest it), which I started last week! Though I obviously have been keeping up with my lovely textbook readings and such (seeing as this week is Midterms and all)!

Oh!! I almost forgot I know three languages (not including English)! Spanish, French, and Russian! Though I’ve never had anyone to use the languages with, and I’m still in the process of learning Russian!

Side note, I'm a full-time college student that has multiple entrepreneurial businesses that I run, so I'm fairly busy! But I'm also super chatty and talkative, so there's that!

As for what I’m looking for! I’d love a best friend, someone that can put up with my amazingly hectic self, while also being able to hole and intelligent conversation.

I’m cool with an email pen-pal, a messaging pen-pal, or a snail mail pen-pal! Admittedly I’m currently in a crafty mood, specifically because the holidays, so snail mailing is probably at the top of my list at the moment! I just moved to a new location, which has been a blast, mountain people are so super sweet (coming from someone who grew up in the city) and I’ve officially managed to get my address and everything squared away! So that should be spectacular!

Age and gender identification don’t really matter to me, though I do connect with people older than myself a tad bit easier because my interests normally don’t line up with my peers! Similarly, people who have life goals, ambitions, and/or self-aware people are a serious weakness of mine, what can I say, I'm a sapiosexual, both in regards to romantic relationships and friendships, the brain is the most beautiful part of the human. Similarly in that fashion, I am also demisexual and pansexual.

I'm looking for something long-term, whenever I start something I pour 100% into it, and I expect 100% back! My time is a delicate thing, and even though I'm ridiculously busy I love sharing it with others! I would also be interested in exchanging photos early on with people that pique my interest, both for verification purposes, and because I prefer to put a face to a name. Similarly, your location does not particularly matter, domestic or international pen pals are welcome! I would love to be able to put some of my languages to use, however, but all cultures are welcome!

Anyways! I’d love to get to know you, so please shoot me a message and we’ll see where it stands and where we land! I’ll try to respond to all messages, but I can’t stand small talk, so if you just send a “hey” with no context or a few other words like “hyd” I probably won’t respond (and imma blame it on my Adhd)! I mean.... I did mention I love long messages!!

Can’t wait to hear from y’all!

And I hope everyone has a spectacular day and night!!

My email is allismichelle12@gmail.com for anyone who wants to reach out there! Or you could just message me on Tumblr!!

[five-wow]

here are some thoughts from my (first, somewhat late) watch of 10.15!

we start off with adam intimidating a minion and threatening his life while they’re reburying three bodies. cool. this is totally something he can come back from.

joanna! danny’s mystery woman has a name! i very vaguely caught some annoyance/confusion about her name here on tumblr because apparently somewhere else (outside of the episodes, i assume?) she’d been called something else, if i understood correctly? but seeing as i missed most of that, i’m honestly just glad she has a name now.

also! joanna texting her sister/friend (i don’t really know who she is for sure?) that she met a guy at a bar - thank god, tbh, because last episode it looked like she just randomly had sex with a stranger (which is fine) and then got into his car to let him drive her home (which is not fine, because we may know danny is an okay guy, but she had no earthly way of knowing that).

“it wasn’t your fault. you did everything you could. it means a lot to me that you’re here.” kudos to sister/friend for not falling into the trap of blaming danny and piling onto his guilt subplot!

STEVE is WAITING OUTSIDE when danny leaves the morgue, oh god. that makes total sense and i’m glad for it, but i somehow didn’t expect them to show that.

steve: “you wanna talk about it?” nothing super clever to say here, but it just make me really, really happy every single time steve asks danny if he wants to talk about something (or just pushes him into it, ocassionally) because!! that’s good!! that’s healthy!! that’s a really good friendship, and i’m proud of steve. (on a slightly related note, i’ve been watching a lot of 9-1-1 and reading some fic and while a lot of that fic is really fun, i kind of feel like many of the writers in that fandom give eddie at least double the capability to deal with emotional turmoil in himself or others that he is shown to have in canon. eddie diaz is basically what danny sometimes accuses steve of being, only eddie is actually closed off and struggling with repressing everything he ever feels that much, and steve has by this point had years to learn healthier ways of coping and he is not that person anymore, at all. he knows how to talk about emotions and he does it, too, and the funny thing is that i’m pretty sure he learned a lot of that by making danny talk to him about danny’s emotions, which steve did all the time right from the very start because he cares about danny and wants him to be mentally happy and healthy, and tl;dr, steve and danny’s friendship makes them both happier, more emotionally stable people and that makes me emotional.)

tani teaching a class at the police academy and bonnie (grover’s niece) absolutely acing all her classes and tani and bonnie hanging out and getting lunch together and tani subtly mentoring bonnie IS ALL VERY GOOD.

fdjfkdjkfd oh god. i was so happy with this scene and then suddenly bonnie has a boyfriend and it’s the dude who buried bodies with adam a moment ago. so... is he a bad guy (i hope not, because i’m already a little tired at the idea of another cool female character getting in trouble all the time because she’s dating yakuza and that’s for some reason the most interesting thing the writers could think to do with her), or is he undercover? is adam undercover? are they BOTH undercover but they don’t know it about the other guy so they just keep committing crimes to look like badass criminals when really they’re just both trying to catch the other in a seriously bad crime?

oh god, there’s this whole scene with the academy recruits on the shooting range and tani keeps drilling them on shooting faster (which i have... thoughts about, too, but let’s not get into that) and they make it really explicit that bonnie is the fastest and definitely faster than her boyfriend and this, uh, really looks like foreshadowing for bonnie ending up having to draw her weapon on the boyfriend at some point.

adam to lou: “thanks for the coffee date.” i must say, very unexpected ship they’re pushing now. :p

adam: [starts saying things, possibly making up excuses] lou: “no, no, come on, you don’t have to explain anything to me.” let the man talk, lou!!! if you don’t want to hear it, i do.

ahhhh, lou is keeping adam occupied while steve searches adam’s apartment. things are making more sense now. (though lou does call steve to tell him to wrap things up like a minute after his coffee date with adam started, and also at most a dozen feet away from adam where chances are definitely above zero of adam being able to hear him, fjdkdf.)

steve had “a feeling” about adam. no need to be so jealous, danny.

wait, wait, adam is back on five-0? i... they probably showed or mentioned that in a recent episode, i think, but apparently i’ve really just been turning my brain off during this subplot because i do not remember that at all. (this is why i like bingewatching things, because at least then i have a clearer picture of what happened in the episodes right before, gosh.)

danny: “... but the point is that if i was a human being...” love it. love the subtle implication that danny is not a human being, but in fact an alien from new jersey, which as we all know is in outer space.

bonnie’s boyfriend is not officially bonnie’s boyfriend yet and she thinks he might be seeing someone on the side, and this is sad because as viewers we all know that that someone IS ADAM (and three dead guys). just not like that, though. probably.

bonnie: [tells tani her potential bf has two phones] tani: “hm, okay. this one’s easy: run.” YES. PLEASE DO.

quinn!!! i was starting to wonder if this was one of those mysteriously quinn-less episodes.

oh nooo, bonnie sneaks around potential bf’s house and then STEPS ON A TWIG. c’mon, girl.

fdjkfd the guys catch her and now i remember that this episode description said she was going to get kidnapped and adam would help get her back. this will be... interesting.

quinn’s awkward face while lou is yelling in surprise about bonnie having a boyfriend is absolute gold.

lou yells at tani for not telling him anything about the boyfriend yesterday but honestly, she does not deserve that.

also: all those dramatic shots on adam’s face, oh dear. is the rest of the team seeing that expression he has? are they seeing all these close-ups?

adam threatens his yakuza rival in an effort to help get bonnie back. is this supposed to be redemption for adam? i’m confused.

lou says it’s not tani’s fault and he apologizes! this is an episode of people realizing they shouldn’t put the blame on innocent bystanders (instead of one that attempts to heighten the drama by milking misplaced anger for all that it’s worth) and i like it.

siobhan has been tied up in some shed in the woods and endo (the potential boyfriend) is feeling bad about it but is unwilling to untie her, god. (quick detour, though: i’ve been wondering this since the beginning of the episode, but how is siobhan even at the hpd academy now? i was under the impression during her first appearance this season that she was in her last year of high school, so when did she even graduate?)

i do feel for endo (which i like! it’s cool to see a Bad Guy be not pure evil but believably conflicted), but leaving your almost-girlfriend in a cabin in the woods for your godfather to “take care of it” with a sad look and “i’m really sorry” is not the best of moves, my dude.

tani and quinn: we have good news! hpd intercepted endo and steve and lou are about to question him! adam: [sweats]

endo lies his ass off in interrogation which makes him interesting but also costs him a lot of sympathy points from my end.

lou pretty much assaults endo while he’s cuffed to a chair in the interrogation room. i get why these emotions make for good tv, but uh, hm, maybe five-0 should at some point consider a policy of not letting people who are personally involved in cases near suspects, because this does kind of seem to keep happening.

jfdkfd, adam confronts endo in lock-up, endo taunts him and says adam can’t tell anyone in five-0 what he knows because he’d have to tell them how he knows endo, the team finds out that endo has yakuza ties and go to confront endo about it and he’s gone. omfg, adam, how are you managing to fuck your own life up this effectively in such a short amount of time, after you fought all those years to get away from everything you’re doing now?

siobhan gets herself free!!! and then runs right into guys with guns outside the cabin, of course, because this is tv timing, but still, WELL DONE.

fdjkfdkjfd, adam’s brilliant plan to solve the situation is to call up the rival yakuza boss and threaten to kill his godson out of revenge. this is. this is maybe not a great idea.

adam: “in case you haven’t been paying attention, kenji, i’m not afraid of much these days.” oh adam, buddy, don’t brag about misplacing the entirety of your common sense.

the team is watching adam load endo into the back of a car on tape and it’s honestly kind of hilarious. steve asks danny how he would explain this and that’s hilarious, too, because they’re seeing their (ex-?)friend load a stolen suspect into a car to run off with him, thereby betraying all of them and everything they stand for, and steve is taking this opportunity to turn to danny and go “see, i was right”. fjdkfd.

steve’s gut says adam will come through for them in delivering siobhan, and we all know steve’s gut is secretly psychic, so that’s a spoiler. :p

and it does happen!!! i’m glad to see bonnie back in a safe place.

oh god. adam randomly appears from between the foilage to look serious and share a meaningful nod with steve. is he... is he officially on the other side now? they’re not still going to let him be part of five-0, are they?

domestic steve and danny in the(ir) kitchen!!! steve is giving eddie danny’s breakfast!!! and then there’s something about endo having hacked into hpd’s database, because of course they need to attach some ongoing threat to this, but honestly, who cares about plot when there’s “don’t shame my dog. i’m cooking you eggs, alright?” and danny saying steve doesn’t have to cook him eggs but steve already doing it anyway while danny is once again randomly sitting on the kitchen counter and steve cuts danny off before danny can request his eggs a little burned because steve already knows how danny likes his eggs, obviously, because steve is a stalker when it comes to danny. yes!! this is stuff i like a lot.

danny is saying he could probably get out of steve’s space soon and steve has the excuse of very intently (and yet somehow also very badly, it looks like) scrambling those eggs, but he’s also definitely, 100% avoiding looking at danny in that moment, and then he starts saying how there’s no paint yet and that’s bad and danny should stay. just. just move in together officially, you guys. just do it. nobody would be surprised. you know it would make both of you very happy. this is not even a ship thing, but just, oh my god, these two humans so clearly want to be in each other’s space and they keep coming up with excuses and getting this close to admitting that maybe neither of them wants danny to leave and then yelling at each other about eggs and how it’s not bacon day. it can be bacon day, steve. it could even be pancake day. it could be pancake day every day for the rest of your natural lives if you just told danny you wanted that.

overall, this was a very fun episode! i’m honestly just really happy with this season in general - quinn being added to the team does maybe not look like much progress on the subject of female characters, because she’s just one person, but there have been SO MANY scenes of her and tani together by now and genuinely, their friendship is healing my soul and watering my crops. i’m still not sure what to make of the adam subplot, but if they’re doing what it kind of looks like they’re doing - permanently putting him on the other side of the fence, back with the yakuza - that could actually be somewhat interesting. i’m just really, really scared that even after all of this they’re going to try to give him some kind of redemption arc that just has no chance of making sense anymore after everything that’s happened.

[thegleeacademy]

WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE A NEW SCHOOL YEAR THAN BY REOPENING THE MOST TERRIFYING M/S OR D/S SCHOOL RP THE TUMBLR WORLD HAS EVER SEEN?

In this world, children are born as “blank slates” and given a typical childhood experience and allowed to mingle equally. As their minds develop, their roles begin to form, and by the time they are thirteen, every child will have a mark appear behind their right ear that will mark them as either a submissive or a Dominant. This is determined by some kind of spiritual inner force, everyone just wakes up one morning to find they’ve been marked. Their family has until they are eighteen to teach them what their new role will mean for them before the rules fully apply to them. At twenty-one they are required by law to attend a BDSM academy where their training for whatever role life has given them continues on a more serious, official level. Anyone that resists will be taken to a higher security academy by force. Once you’re at an academy, you can’t leave. Students remain at these academies until they graduate. Submissives can’t graduate without a claim, and they’re aged out of academy at 30– at which point unclaimed submissives are sent to the slave markets to be sold off before they’re too old to be trained to get the best years of service out of them.

In Ohio, the most prestigious boarding BDSM academy is located with its campus split into two; Dalton Academy for Dominants and McKinley Preparatory for Submissives. Each school has their own building but they are considered one campus, with a courtyard in between. In this world, many families are known in the world for breeding Dominance, and the Headmaster is from one of the most notoriously Dominant families. Because of his prowess, Dalton is known to mold infamously powerful people and McKinley is known to birth above average submissives. THE GLEE ACADEMY is the best of the best.

♒ ☠ I NEED YOU TO LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY, BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE VERY MUCH TIME AND I CAN ONLY SAY THIS ONCE.YOU HAVE BEEN OPPRESSED FOR FAR TOO LONG.

It is important to remember that this is a school that teaches BDSM concepts but it is placed in a Master/slave world so consent is not taught or enforced. Dominants are allowed to be whatever kind of person they want to be and submissives MUST follow ALL orders unless they are claimed. Punishments are handed out without ooc conversation first.

The Glee Academy has always been infamous for being a place where the widest variety of creativity is nurtured while the dark and macabre thrive. Not everyone is strong enough to survive the experience. Are you tough enough to see what happens now that someone seems to be out to turn the tables? Will you favor the resistance or fight for the monster Dom/mes?

WE’RE BACK WITH AN ORIGINAL PLOT TWIST AND MANY CHARACTERS ARE OPEN!

This is now an open fandom roleplay, so we have all of the canon characters and a select number of original characters. You can find the quick application form on our old main @thegleeacademy and you can find all of the current character information @tgastaff. Feel free to contact me/apply on either blog. All ooc questions/anons will be answered on the old main and all ic organization is done on the new staff blog. We have an appless option now! You can fill out an app if you are more comfortable that way, but all you have to do is tell me what your ideas are for your character and I’ll let you make a blog. You can play any character from any fandom or bring in your favorite Original Character.

[yeonchi]

Kisekae Insights #11: Sea Princesses Part 1 (Introduction and Rider List)

(Art by Rainbow’s Network, formerly Princess Rainbow Channel, source here)

You thought five months of Sea Princesses content wasn’t enough? Why don’t we make it six then? Oh, I’m sorry, you thought this was going to be one part like the other shows we’ve gone through so far? Oh no, the Sea Princesses series has so much significance in my project for a niche (and almost forgotten) series that it’s going to take three instalments to cover everything I want to cover.

I was planning to cover my versions of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger and Kamen Rider Decade first, but I’ve been so busy with other stuff that I haven’t had time to prepare those instalments ahead of time. Also, I thought it would be better to cover Sea Princesses while it’s still fresh in my mind. In case you didn’t know, Sea Princesses content has taken up the majority of my Tumblr posts in the last six months under the coronavirus lockdown; from April to June, I reposted my reviews of the cartoon series that I wrote in 2019, then from July to September, I fulfilled an item in my bucket list by translating and reviewing the books that inspired the cartoon series. You can check them out here.

In the next three instalments, I’m going to take a look at the involvement of Sea Princesses in my personal project, as well as share some theories about the series that I’ve implemented in my project and teased in my reviews.

A brief introduction

The first mention of Sea Princesses in my personal project was in 2010, when I assigned them warrior names like I did with the Flowertots. Unlike Lucky Star, however, whose characters were divided into five different clans, the characters of Sea Princesses form only one clan, namely the Uesugi clan. In the Moushouden Series, the Uesugi clan would also be known as the Salacian Army.

After being inspired by the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XI segment Night of the Dolphin, I drafted up some mock battle fixtures for a storyline named Salacia Rebellion. The storyline wouldn’t get made into actual stories until 2017 with Three Kingdoms Series 3.

Sure enough, the Sea Princesses made it into Doctor Who as well, crossing over with two sea-related animes. They had appearances in Series 7 Part 1 (the Salacian Time War arc) and the Next Gen Series (a two-parter in Series 8 and then a minor appearance in the Series 9 finale two-parter). In the Moushouden Series, they became Kamen Riders, which I’ll elaborate on later.

Regarding timelines

Most of this series’ involvement in my project is based on the timeline of the animated series. When I bought the books, I was hoping that I could implement them into the series as well, but I decided to stick to adapting the animated series because the timelines for them and the books are very different.

So what is the series’ timeframe in terms of this project? Officially, I decided that the events of the series would be set in 2004, the release year of the first book, assuming that everything in the series takes place in one year as there is no indication anywhere in the series that the class has moved up a grade. This means that the characters would have been born around 1996-1998. You can calculate for yourself how old they would be during the years my stories are set in.

Original characters

What would any adapted series be without any original element to them? There are four original characters that I’ve made, but one of them isn’t as “original” as you may think.

The Squid Princess: Squid Girl

You thought I couldn’t make an original character for this series with a character from another series? Haha Rider machine go brrrr.

Yes, that’s right, Squid Girl is, in fact, a Salacian. Her father, the Squid King, was killed by Maurice Mouseling at the fourth Battle of Kawanakajima in 2006. He was the first king to suggest an invasion of Dryland to prevent Drylanders from coming into Salacia. Initially, the other kings were not willing to join him, but they eventually warmed to his cause, given the damage the Drylanders were doing to the ocean. Following the Squid King’s death, his daughter went onto Dryland to take revenge, but she ended up in the wrong place and well, you know the rest if you know about her series.

Squid Girl was one of the two who worked behind the scenes with the Master to bring about the Salacian Rebellion of 2010. She is seen fighting Maurice during the final battle as she attempts to take revenge for her dead father. She also served at the catalyst for the group’s backup plan when the Salacians were defeated by the Dryland armies, eventually starting another conflict amongst the Drylanders before returning to her home at the Lemon Beach House.

In 2012, Squid Girl met the Fourth Doctor in an episode of his spinoff series before she became a companion of the Fifth Doctor, alongside Tsukasa Hiiragi in Series 6 Part 2 and Series 7 Part 1, and alongside Clara Oswald and Takeru Aizawa in the 50th Anniversary Series.

In 2018, Squid Girl was part of a faction of princesses who became Amazon Riders thanks to Narutaki and Nozama Pharmaceuticals. She gained the Neo Amazons Driver and fought as Kamen Rider Amazon Neo.

The Squid Girl anime also featured a girl named Kozue Tanabe, who is implied to be an octopus. She is only mentioned once in Three Kingdoms, but I stated that she was related to the Octopus Royal Family.

The Mermaid Prince: Zhuge Shu (and son, Zhuge Sōta)

Originally, I created this character in 2012 out of nowhere and it wasn’t until 2018 that I actually gave him a backstory. Believe it or not, this was going to be my answer to the Barracuda Kingdom saga until I thought better of it and kept it separate by making him the Mermaid Prince. He was also one of Hiroki’s echoes created when he split himself all over his timeline.

A long time ago, the Mermaid Kingdom was notorious for frequently breaking the First Law of Salacia, which stipulates that Salacians are not to be seen by Drylanders. This resulted in the other kingdoms turning on them, forcing the royal family onto Dryland. The Mermaid King transformed into Agito and fought with all his might, but was killed in battle. His daughter, the Mermaid Princess, was saved by a Drylander before they could hunt her down. They eventually got married and had a child named Seretao. When Seretao was still a baby, the Shark King invited the Mermaid Princess and her husband to discuss a treaty, but his real intention was to kill them.

Luckily, Seretao was left in the care of the Wolonggang Academy, the same academy where Parker trained when he was very little. Upon graduating, Seretao became a mercenary for hire and changed his name to Zhuge Shu (courtesy name Hutiao, made from separating the characters in his name – 虎 and 儵, the latter is made up of the characters 條 and 黑).

Sometime in 2005, one of his jobs led him to the city of Hiroki’s primary school army, where he overheard two girls plotting to kill him. He eventually managed to find Hiroki and tell him to escape to Honnōji, which only served to delay the inevitable.

Over the next few years, he became acquainted with Salacia and worked odd jobs both there and on Dryland. At one stage, he took on the name Magoichi Saika and fought for the Date Army, led by Doctor Eggman. He was the other person who worked with the Master to facilitate the Salacian Rebellion and he was also the Shark King’s strategist, supplying him with weapons and strategies.

Later on, after Squid Girl executed the backup plan, Zhuge Shu, now the leader of the Saika Renegades, defected to Parker’s army. Not much was seen of him, even after they disbanded, until the Salacian Time War in November 2012. Zhuge Shu meets Parker again and helps him set up a delta wave generator, which is actually a trigger that would fire the Harmony Signal once it was charged. Following the battle, Zhuge Shu was entrusted with Akeno Shiranui, a woman who Parker accidentally married following events that led him to see her true form as a mermaid. The two got married and had a baby boy named Zhuge Sōta, who was born in October 2013.

Salacian General: Lorah

Lorah is a Salacian general who fights as Kamen Rider TheBee, with his underlings, Hugo and Tata, fighting as Drake and Sasword. He isn’t known to be a part of any royal family (that never came to mind when I created this character), but given who his underlings are, you could argue that he is affiliated with the Turtle Royal Family.

At the end of his debut episode, Lorah would be revealed to be a Roidmude alongside Hugo, Tata and the goddess Salacia; Narutaki had kidnapped their templates and had some Roidmudes copy them so she could trigger the Global Freeze. After Narutaki’s plan was foiled, Lorah and the others were rescued and they continued fighting as Kamen Riders.

Characters and Riders

When I first implemented this series in 2010, I wasn’t able to include all the characters because I was unable to find or keep records of them at the time. All I had was the characters that had descriptions on the official website at the time, including Agostinha and Dinho, even though the former had no lines and the latter had no appearances (I thought he did at one point, but after watching both series, I was proven wrong). Naimo was also added as I did remember watching The Babysitters back then.

Jaune, Goldina, Flourison, Matilda, Veto, Caton and Caramelo, the “forgotten characters” (who had no descriptions), were implemented in 2017. The speculations I had for them weren’t added onto the wiki until 2019 for the sake of completeness.

The great thing about Sea Princesses having so many characters is that I can make armies of Riders out of them. The characters’ Rider designations are derived from Ryuki, Hibiki, Kabuto, Agito and Amazons. Most of the Riders were featured in Kamen Rider Decade, while some additional Riders were added in Soulbound Series 3 and 4 because god, I can’t stop thinking about Rider War storylines with them. The Salacian Riders are split up into factions typically consisting of Riders from one series.

Ryuki Riders (led by the Shark King):

Kamen Rider Ryuki – Daniel Camielez

Kamen Rider Knight – Kelvin Galvarro

Kamen Rider Scissors – Sirilo

Kamen Rider Zolda – Elektra

Kamen Rider Raia – Soraia

Kamen Rider Gai – Marcello

Kamen Rider Ouja – Tubarina

Kamen Rider Odin – Shark King

Kamen Rider Tiger – Ester

Kamen Rider Imperer – Leia

Kamen Rider Femme – Polvina

Kamen Rider Verde – Vivi

Kamen Rider Abyss – Bia

Daniel and Kelvin are Drylanders; additionally, Daniel is the Dryland boy from The Boy and The Secret Admirer. He will be elaborated on in Part 3. Kamen Rider Ryuga has not been implemented into Decade or Soulbound, but he will be implemented in Zi-O.

Hibiki Riders – Ibuki Faction (led by Marli):

Kamen Rider Ibuki – Marli

Kamen Rider Todoroki – Caramelo

Kamen Rider Zanki – Delfi

Kamen Rider Danki – Naimo

Kamen Rider Sabaki – Matilda

Kamen Rider Eiki – Dinho

Kamen Rider Shuki – Socita

Hibiki Riders – Kabuki Faction (led by Maurico):

Kamen Rider Kabuki – Maurico

Kamen Rider Tohki – Isa

Kamen Rider Nishiki – Lia

Kamen Rider Habataki – Camarina

Kamen Rider Kirameki – Angelica

Kamen Rider Amaki – Jaune

Kamen Rider Kyoki – Goldina

Kabuto Riders – TheBee Faction (led by Lorah):

Kamen Rider TheBee – Lorah

Kamen Rider Drake – Hugo

Kamen Rider Sasword – Tata

Amazon Riders (no leader):

Kamen Rider Amazon Omega – Juli

Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha – Jessi

Kamen Rider Amazon Sigma – Agostinha

Kamen Rider Amazon Neo – Squid Girl

Unaffiliated Riders:

Kamen Rider Agito – Zhuge Sōta

Kamen Rider Gills → Chalice – Zhuge Shu

Kamen Rider Hibiki – Marcela

Kamen Rider Saga – Salacia

Soulbound Series 3 additions (2019):

Kamen Rider Amazon New Omega – Akeno Shiranui

Kamen Rider Amazon New Alpha – Miss Marla

Kamen Rider Gouki – Caton

Kamen Rider Touki – Veto

Kamen Rider Shouki – Flourison

Kamen Rider Banki – Serena

Soulbound Series 4 additions (2021):

Kamen Rider Aqua – Duante

Kamen Rider Poseidon – Windy Adams

Duante is the mysterious boy featured in The Healer while Windy is the name of the Drylander girl in The New Princess, not to mention that she is named after the Drylander girl featured in the third Sea Princesses main series book, The Windy Letters.

I’ll start covering the history of Sea Princesses’ involvement in the project from the next instalment.

[starfleetimagines]

Upcoming Imagines (Feb. 2/20)

These are all of the requests I have received and have decided to write. I can’t promise when any of these will be written and I don’t have an order that I’ll be writing them in - I just write whatever one I have inspiration for at a given time.

Currently, I’m very busy with my university classes as well as volunteering at my old elementary school one day a week. So, I don’t have much time to write. I have a break week in two weeks so hopefully I’ll have some time then to write some stuff. But yeah, here are the requests that I’ll try to write in the next few months:

Quark – Marital Advice (aw--heck on tumblr) [Any chance I could get a DS9 request where the reader goes to their best friend Quark to talk about marriage troubles with their husband Worf? A bit of comforting banter at the bar type thing?]

Garak – Flirtatious Surprises (anon on tumblr) [I wonder if I could please request a DS9 Garak x reader imagine where the normally quiet plus-size reader flirts with Garak in front of everyone and leaves him flustered but in the end he just kisses her and everyone cheers?]

Data – Panic Attack (Area_C-137 on wattpad) [Maybe you could write one we’re the reader is in a relationship with data and he see the reader having a panic attack and then they cuddle to make the reader feel happy]

Data – First Date Part 2 of First Meetings (ElfWarriorQueen on wattpad) [Maybe them going on their date and there could be some kind of unfortunate accident that draws them closer together; like drinks get spilled over the reader, or maybe there’s a malfunction in the elevator and they’re stuck for a while.]

Trip Tucker – Tension (adela-topaz-caelon on tumblr) [Can I request a vaguley smutty Trip Tucker x Reader, where they're on a mission together in a shuttle, there's some repartee between the two, who aren't yet dating - and comments start leading to others and so on and forth and such, and then there's a time skip to them going back to the station, and whilst they did get the work done, other's can tell by marks on the Reader's neck that something has happened.]

Christopher Pike – Parents (anon on tumblr) [I had a realization thats night if you can do Disco Pike becoming for dad I'll love you forever]

Wesley Crusher – Comfort (anon on tumblr) [could I request something fluffy where Wesley does his best to comfort the reader after her now ex-boyfriend break ups with her b/c of lack of sexual intimacy and the reader avoids Wesley cause she feels she's not smart enough or pretty enough for him]

Leonard “Bones” McCoy – Dance Practice (jesterofsorts on wattpad) [I was wondering if you could do a Star Trek imagine about AOS Bones? Maybe if he teaches the reader to dance because they don't know how and they fall in love with each other?]

Garak – Rescue Party (kate_the_dork on wattpad) [I was wondering if you could do a Garak x reader where the reader is taken by the Dominion and is interrogated for info about ds9 but she won't give it up cuz she's too cool for that lmao. And then, cuz I'm a cliche and fluffy gal, Garak comes to save her?]

Garak – “Sew, you like me?” (Indirect_Detective on wattpad) [Could you do a Garak x reader? Him coming to terms with loving the reader and finally trying to admit is but doctor Bashir keeps cutting in and ruining the moment. Garak finally gets the reader alone and compliments the reader(looks and personality) as he's hemming readers uniform before opening up to the reader?]

Malcolm Reed – “Talk to me, please.” (chevyp15 on wattpad) [Malcolm Reed x reader where reader seems off and when Mal confronts them they break down and confess all their worries about the relationship?]

Deanna x Will - Pregnant (anon on tumblr) [Can I ask you for something fluffy between Deanna Troi x William Riker where set during an official Starfleet ball and they announced that Deanna is expecting a baby again, but Deanna feels uncertain after the death of their son Ian Troi and Riker comforts her, which leads to a bit of passionate kisses please.]

Garak - Presents (anon on tumblr) [Ah I request an imagine for garak. Like he’s at his shop and his so comes in with something from cardassia for him and he has no idea how his so got it for him and she refuses to say. But he’s super happy about it because it’s something he’s missed for so long. And just fluff ensues?]

Pavel Chekov – Set Up (anon on tumblr) [Can I get an imagine with Chekov please? Fem!Reader works in engineering and is like a daughter figure to Scotty. When Chekov starts shadowing Scotty, he meets the reader and a friendship quickly forms because they are both adorable dorks. Scotty notices that their friendship could become something more with a nudge in the right direction. Soon the Scotsman has get both the reader and Chekov together. Just something super silly and fluffy!!] 

Kathryn Janeway – Protection (anon on tumblr) [Hiiiiiiii could I have a Janeway x reader fic where she steps in front of you to protect you and uses her arm to shield you and is super gentle with you and everything? Can be romantic or platonic whatever works best for this!]

Spock x Uhura – Wedding Bells (anon on tumblr) [Can I ask you for something fluffy between Spock and Uhura where they get married on planet Vulcan with all their friends and family around them?]

Being Pavel Chekov’s Betazoid Wife Would Include… (dancingwith-thesunflowers on tumblr) [Could you write some headcanons about Chekov and female betazoid-human hybrid!reader getting married and having children please?]

Dating T’Pol Would Include… (anon on tumblr)

Will Riker – Pregnant (borzanimariana on wattpad) [Write with command riker and reader are married and she's pregnant, please]

Having Worf as a Father Figure Would Include… (anon on tumblr) [Being a security office and having Worf as a father figure (cause y/n is one of the youngest in the crew)]

Being Married To Jean-Luc Picard Would Include… (spaceyslytherin on tumblr) [Request: Being married to Jean-Luc Picard would include.]

Malcolm Reed – Nightmares (wraith-queen-todd on tumblr) [Heyyyyy ep so can I request a Malcolm reed imagine where he comforts his so after thy have a nightmare about him dying-? If that’s ok. I never really request before haha sorry I’m so awkward]

Scotty x Jayla – Graduation (anon on tumblr) [Can you please write an oneshot with Scotty + Jaylah where Scotty is at Jaylah’s graduation from Star Fleet Academy and Jaylah admits to Scotty that she is proud that Scotty is the first person she considers “a friend”?]

Data x Geordi – Domestic Life (anon on tumblr) [Hey! If you could. Would you be able to write an one shot please with some Data + Geordi fluff where in an AU, Lal (Data’s daughter) is a small child and both Data + Geordi married and are looking after her and they’re playing and having fun with Spot the cat, as he causes mischief.]

Trip Tucker – “You’re hot when you’re jealous.” (anon on tumblr) [Hello I’m the smut asked about trip. As for the thing I was wondering if it could be like trip for jealous of someone flirting with his so and she reassured him that she only has eyes for him? If that’s ok?]

B’Elanna x Tom – PDA (anon on tumblr) [If it’s okay. Would you write an oneshot between Br’Elanna & Tom Paris where they are arguing about things, but in the end, they have a romantic moment, which is seen by the rest of the crew, without them realising. Please? Thank you in advance!]

Michael x Ash – Nightmares (anon on tumblr) [Hello, I love your writing!! 🥰 Could I request an oneshot with Michael comforting Ash after having a panic attack during his PTSD please? ✨ Thanks!]

Leonard “Bones” McCoy – Study Date (SloveniaReader95 on wattpad) [I was thinking... maybe with Bones where he is a year or two ahead at the Academy and for the first exam, the reader is already giving up, but Bones is there not letting her do it or something:)]

Malcolm Reed – Destressing (anon on tumblr) [Can you do a Malcolm reed smut if that is alright? Maybe Malcolm comes back to their room after a shift stressed and his so tries to calm him down a bit and it turns into smut?]

Kathryn Janeway Being Your Mother Would Include… (anon on tumblr) [Could you write some headcanons about Janeway being the reader’s mother, please? Thanks so much! I love your beautiful writing!!]

Julian Bashir – “Surprise!” (anon on tumblr) [DS9 request: The reader's belly has popped. So have her buttons. It's time to tell Julian the two of them are going to have a baby.]

Will Riker – “I love you.” (catherinedm on tumblr) [Hi(: I love your blog your writings are amazing. Could you maybe please do something about Will Riker telling you(the reader insert) his fellow enterprise officer he’s been datuing for a while that he loves you for the first time? Thank you so much!! Keep up the great work]

Sylvia Tilly x Michael Burnham – More Than Friends (anon on tumblr) [Can you please write an oneshot where Sylvia Tilly helps Michael, when she finds out that she has never been on a proper human date, she decides to play matchmaker for Michael, not realising that her friendship with her new roommate could lead to more..]

Trip Tucker x T’Pol – Family (anon on tumblr) [Would you be okay to write an oneshot based on Trip and T'Pol, where they have been living on Vulcan with their daughter Elizabeth for a few months, and they're hoping that sooner rather then later that they’ll have another baby? Thank you so much! I love your beautiful writing for the Star Trek fandom!!]

Ezri Dax x Julian Bashir – Moving In (anon on tumblr) [If it is okay with you please?. Can you write an oneshot where Ezri and Julian attempt to build a life together, no matter what odds they may face. Thank you so much!]

Kira Nerys – Socially Awkward (anon on tumblr) [Can I request something for Kira Nerys with a female reader who's very opinionated/clever but socially awkward/a little overly cautious? Maybe a civilian of some kind, but that's not 100% necessary.]

Worf x Jazdia Dax – “Marry me.” (anon on tumblr) [I know requests are closed, but I am sorry and I do apologise for not being more specific about the Worf and Jadzia oneshot request. Would it be okay if it was something like it was last night for the Defiant, maybe set on Gaia ("Children of Time") and Worf surprises Jadzia by asking her to marry him. Hope that makes more sense! I’d be willing to send it again, if it doesn’t. Thank you very much!! I love your writing by the way!]

Will Riker – Home Safe (tngbabe on tumblr) [I'd like a will riker and reader. I'd love to have him take me home from a party because I'm drunk and wants me to get to my quarters safely and then stays.]

Comforting Kathryn Janeway Would Include… (geekyamorel on wattpad) [I was wondering if you wouldn't mind doing a KathrynXReader. Maybe something like Janeway is having a bad day and the reader tries their best to help calm her and maybe ends up making a fool of themselves just to make her smile and laugh]

[startofamoment]

that’s rough, buddy

Jake’s always had a complicated relationship with fire.

(A character study of sorts on firebender!Jake.)

Hi everyone! Welcome to this incredibly self-indulgent thing, in which I mash together my primary obsession of years past with my current reason for living. (Nevermind that they don’t intuitively mesh well. We’re just going to say that Brooklyn is kind of like Korra-era’s Republic City and call it good.)

An anon had asked me ages ago whether I had any headcanons on what type of bender each person in the squad would be. I hadn’t felt inspired to write an actual fic for this AU until the super talented @microfroggo took on my silly pitch to draw our boi Jake as a firebender a couple months ago. Because tumblr is tumblr, I’ll include the relevant links in a separate reblog down below – def check out Mikko’s work if you’re at all interested in getting something done!

PS: I should probably mention that I don’t do very much to explain the Avatar-related side of this AU. If you’re unfamiliar with the animated series, I’d recommend at least skimming through the wiki page so you get a basic understanding on the different forms of bending. (And honestly, if you have time, GO BINGE-WATCH A:TLA! I promise, you won’t regret it.)

PPS: FMA:B fans out there will note that I’ve included a little nod to everyone’s favorite Flame Alchemist… Because, yes, this is definitely just a gratuitous homage to all my hyperfixations. I’m sorry. (Not sorry.)

“That’s it. Use your breath, son.”

Jake inhales deeply then exhales, focusing intently on the small flame between his hands. He’s supposed to be making sure that it doesn’t blaze wildly or just die in the wind.

He’s done this particular exercise a bajillion times now. (Or maybe less – Mrs. Stratton did mention that he needed to work on his math.) Still, his dad says it’s very important to practice his control. Jake supposes that’s fair, given that it’s only been a few months since he nearly singed Nana’s eyebrows off while blowing out the candles on his blue birthday cake.

What he really wants to do is skip forward to launching fire missiles with his fists or propelling himself through the sky on flaming jets, exactly like he’s seen it done in the movies. But his dad says he’s got a long way to go before he can attempt anything more than a basic fire stream, so Jake just nods and does what he’s told. He’ll become a firebending master eventually.

Truthfully, though, Jake thinks that maybe if his dad weren’t working or golfing so much, maybe they’d get to train more often, and maybe he’d be able to progress to something other than breathing.

The funny thing is: when his dad officially walks out of his life, despite all of their training, Jake’s not sure he even still knows how to breathe.

--- 

 His mom’s an airbender, and Nana’s an airbender, and Gina and her mom are airbenders. So Jake wants to be an airbender. (If only it worked that way.) 

He’s unfortunately stuck as a firebender, with no one to teach him how to actually firebend, so he has to resort to copying the Ninja Lion-Turtles on TV. Raphael’s naturally his favorite, although he can’t make heads or tails of how to replicate his fire daggers.

He almost never experiments with bending at home, of course. He’s not the brightest, but he at least knows how dangerous it would be for one of his attempts to go wrong without anyone around to help extinguish the fire. On the rare instance that his mom isn’t at her multiple jobs, she lets him practice while she paints ceramics or cooks. She’s only had to run in with a bucket of water once, but, well– once is enough.

And yes, he could technically be enrolled in lessons… but that would cost money, and Jake would really rather have a full belly than a proper fighting stance. His mom is overworked and overwhelmed as it is; he couldn’t possibly ask her to look into registration fees at the local dojo.

 ---

 Occasionally, when he’s alone in the park with Gina, he’ll run through the few basic exercises he remembers then attempt some fire-jabs and kicks. He’s not supposed to, but he’s fairly certain that nothing will catch on fire in an open field and that, on the off chance that anything does, a patrol officer will handle it. Gina doesn’t mind at all and usually just uses the time to meditate. 

It’s on one particular trip to the park that it happens. He’s not even sure how he does it, just knows that he goes from buzzing from the inside out to shooting electricity from his fingertips. He lifts his hand up in wonder, trying to get a closer glimpse at the little iridescent bolts. He’s so enraptured that he doesn’t realize where his other hand is pointing. He doesn’t see the string of lightning hurtling straight toward his best friend.

Everything turns out fine in the end. The blast wasn’t strong enough – he isn’t strong enough –  to fatally wound her, but Gina still gets brought straight to the hospital.

“I’m okay, Jake,” she insists with a huff, waving off his umpteenth apology. “Besides, I swear I met Raava in the two seconds your lightning hit me. Did you know she’d be ethnically ambiguous? The scrolls have not done her justice at all.”

Jake chuckles, accepting the jello cup she offers him.

For the most part, he’s glad that she’s fine and that she apparently met the Avatar Spirit and that she still likes him enough to give him her dessert.

Deep down, he feels terrible. He’s never going to lightningbend again.

 ---

 Jake had assumed that he’d find his path in college and know what to do by the end of it. Instead, he’s a new graduate back in his childhood bedroom, freeloading off of his mom for as long as she’ll let him. He’s really just coasting through life and going through the motions, aimless.

Eventually, his clarity comes – not in a spark, but in a short-circuit fire erupting just a few houses away. 

He’s woken up by loud sirens blaring and screams echoing in the night. He acts on instinct, running out before remembering to put shoes on and running into the blaze without a second thought. The ground should be blistering hot beneath his feet, but he doesn’t notice at all. He keeps going until he’s parting walls of flames, ushering the family of nonbenders to safety.

In the thick smoke rising from the still-burning house, he sees destruction. In his hands, for the first time in a long time, he sees something good.

He thinks that maybe he should join the local fire department, that he should use his bending to help control and extinguish rogue flames. He thinks about it, and then thinks about it some more, and then figures that he probably wouldn’t enjoy the constant reminder of how devastating fire can be.

Months after mulling over it, he finally comes to a decision: “Mom? I think I’m going to sign up for the police academy.”

“That sounds like a great idea, honey,” she replies, pulling him into a tight embrace. “I’m so proud of you.”

 ---

 It’s rough because all the other trainees have been honing their bending for years, whereas he’d been spending most of his life trying to restrain the inferno inside him.

Most of them laugh; one of them actually slams him against the lockers and calls him a “sorry excuse for a firebender.”

“Don’t mind him,” a voice says. “He wouldn’t know a good bender if the Avatar kicked him straight into the Spirit World.”

Jake looks up from where he’s slumped on the ground and recognizes her as the fierce metalbender no one’s been able to talk to all week. There’s a distinctive scar through her right eyebrow, and he wonders whether it came from a freak accident. (He also wonders how she got into the men’s locker room, or how she knew he needed somebody, anybody.)  

“I’m Rosa,” she says, reaching out a hand to help him up. “Wanna spar?”

 ---

 He gets better. 

He trains with any firebender that’ll take him on, watches instructional videos, goes on Yahoo! Answers… Soon enough, he’s wielding whirling discs and shooting comets of fire like the best of them.

The only thing he doesn’t even consider attempting is lightningbending. At least not until he’s in his thirties, watching wide-eyed as his new captain generates a cracking stream of electricity out of nothing. It’s just strong enough to stun the escaped convict they’ve been tailing, no real damage done.

“You want me to teach you how to lightningbend,” Holt says without preamble the next day.

Jake opens and closes his mouth dumbly, feeling thoroughly seen and not quite knowing how to respond.

“Before anything, Peralta, I should let you know that not everyone is able to manipulate lightning. It takes a different level of power and a certain kind of–”

“I can do it,” he interrupts quickly. “I’ve done it before, sir, when I was a kid. I just don’t know how to control it.”

Holt regards him for a long moment before nodding. “We start at seven tomorrow.”

 ---

 Jake’s always thought that fire meant power and aggression and pursuit. Instead, it’s weakness when he’s face to face with particularly-skilled waterbenders – those who can render him useless, temporarily buried within thick sheets of ice; or who send downpours of unrelenting, freezing rain over his head.

(He thinks, as Amy smirks and bends a rapid torrent of water toward his sternum, flinging him halfway across the training room, that he’s weak for her in a different way.)

 ---

 It had never occurred to him to measure the intensity of his flame. He’s always figured that the fire he produced was hot enough – hot enough to take down perps, hot enough to never turn the heat on in his apartment, hot enough to discreetly keep Amy’s coffee warm throughout the morning. (If she’s noticed him repeatedly finding excuses to pick up her mug, she hasn’t said anything about it.)

Charles, of all people, makes him check. “Hey Jake, do you know if you can keep a flame constant at say 350 to 425 degrees Fahrenheit?”

Jake turns away from his computer screen to look at him, his brow scrunched together in confusion. “Why?”

“I was thinking of doing an open-fire roast for the precinct’s Turkey Day dinner this year.”

“Boyle, you want me to firebend our main course?”

“It would make me so happy.”

Noting zero sarcasm in his response, Jake shrugs then swivels his chair back to his desk. “Okay, yeah– But ask Gina if we can book the training room for this. I’m not firebending a turkey in my apartment.”

 ---

 It turns out that being a walking furnace really does have its perks. Or at least that’s what Jake realizes as Amy burrows into his side, pressing her nose into the crook of his neck.

“You’re warm,” she mumbles sleepily, exhausted from the day’s departmentally-mandated sparring practice and the just-as-steamy bedroom activities that followed.

(It had to have been well over their thousandth time facing off in the precinct gym, both of them familiar enough with each other that they could anticipate nearly all of their attacks… Except he really could never have foreseen Amy’s final move: completely disarming him, not with a tidal wave but with a kiss.)

“Warm?” he scoffs teasingly. “I think you mean hot.”

She groans loudly but cuddles closer to him still, her smile burning against his bare skin.

 ---

 He gets thrown for a loop when their major serial murder case boils down to a ring of firebenders, all stuck in their old way of thinking.  

“You’re not them,” Amy reminds him, running a gentle but steady hand down his back.

I could be, he thinks. Because even now – especially now – in the calm silence of the evidence lockup, he can feel the sheer power thrumming beneath his skin. All it would take is for him to get too angry or too drunk or too anything, and the worst could happen.

“You’re a good person, Jake,” she says, her tone more firm than before. “You always have been.”

He swallows thickly and nods, letting her pull him into a long embrace.

 ---

 If there’s one thing he’s wished he could do with his firebending, it’s healing. He’s watched Amy do it countless of times, stepping up as the precinct’s unofficial healer whenever necessary. He’s felt the soothing power of it himself – cool water coaxing at his skin, repairing everything from a black eye to a bloody nose to a stiff back.

Right now, watching the love of his life start to bleed out before his eyes… He’s never felt more helpless.

“Damn it!” Jake yells, pushing his jacket into her side, willing the bleeding to stop. With the shooter knocked out and cuffed in the corner, he’s finally free to assess the damage. “When is the ambulance going to get there? You need a healer, now! ”

“J-Jake,” she chokes out, bringing a shaky hand to his clenched fist. “F-f-fire c-can cauter-r-rize.”

He lets out a sharp gasp, his eyes wide with shock. “You want me to burn you?!” He shakes his head vehemently. “No, Amy, no. It’s too dangerous. I could kill you–”

“Y-you won’t,” she says, her voice barely above a whisper. The open trust in her eyes makes him want to sob. “Jake.”

“Okay,” he says, wiping hot tears with the back of his hand. “Okay.”

 ---

 “Can you do the twinkling lights again, Uncle Jake? Pleeaaase?”

It’s bedtime at the Jeffords household, and two little girls are decidedly not asleep.

“Please, Uncle Jake? Aunt Amy? One last story and the twinkling lights?”

He meets Amy’s gaze and raises an eyebrow. She shrugs, her lips curling into a smile. “I suppose just one short book wouldn’t hurt. Right, Jake?”

He hums, feigning thought while glancing at the clock. “We might have just enough time before your daddy and mommy get back.”

Cagney and Lacey cheer as he switches off their bedside lamp, and then watch with glee as he fills their room with dozens of tiny, carefully-placed flames. He makes them flicker with a precise movement of his hands, makes them float like fireflies in the night sky.

The twins fall asleep soon enough, lulled by the soft tone of Amy’s voice and the amber glow of the lights.

Sometimes Jake forgets how enchanting fire can be.

 ---

 Yet again, he’s at the mercy of a waterbender.

This time, it’s his daughter, only two-weeks-old and somehow already able to cause ripples and waves as she moves a tiny hand through the warm water in her tub. She lacks any real control, which is perhaps the biggest problem.

“Amy!” he calls out, equal parts awed and panicked. There’s nothing much he can do right now, apart from maybe distracting the baby with a dancing flame. (Not that he’d allow her anywhere near fire, at least not yet.)  

 ---

 “I’m going to be a waterbender like Mommy,” his son declares one day, with all the confidence of a child that’s crossed the jungle gym for the first time. He’s a little older than most kids are when they start bending, but it’s too early to be concerned about it; he could just be a late bloomer. (Granted, it wouldn’t matter if he didn’t start bending at all. They’d love him just the same if he were a nonbender.)

“How about firebending?” Jake jests lightly, feeling a bit wounded but also kind of relieved.

“Hmm, maybe,” Max shrugs, before running off again to play.  

Of course, of course, when the boy eventually does start bending, it’s a scorching stream of fire that bursts from his small outstretched fist. He’d been mimicking the probenders they’d seen on TV the day before, copying their fighting stances down to a tee.

Jake meets his eyes and sees the same mixture of fear and amazement he’s come to know so well. He quickly takes control of the wild flame, tamping it down to a low ember before gently passing it back to his son.

Max nurses the glowing warmth between his two palms, staring at it in fierce concentration. It flares too-strong for a moment, then recedes but doesn’t fizzle out.

Jake nods at him and smiles, pride blossoming in his chest.

“That’s it. Use your breath, son.”