#or is it some random omnipresent being?

[impact-university]

The firey butterfly, the one true friend. All the others have failed, they will not be able to continue on alone. If those two leave, what hope is there for us all? None, if I am the one to have the final say.

[koqen]

⠀⠀remember me for who i was ⠀⠀☂️

[biowaredisasterbisexual]

I really don’t understand the criticism that Veilguard doesn’t include enough open, devout Andrastianism. Like, it just perplexes me?

Unlike the first three games, which take place in Southern Thedas (the purview of the Orlesian Chantry, the Sunburst throne), Veilguard takes place almost entirely in Northern Thedas. And it’s clear the Chantry’s role there is very different than in the South.

In Southern Thedas, the Chantry is a power unto itself. The Southern Divine, holder of the Sunburst Throne, occupies a place of real significance and power. She has her own militarized forces (the Templar and Seeker Orders). She politically has to interface with the rulers of the various places in Southern Thedas (Orlais, Ferelden, the Free Marches, etc.), but is not formally associated with or dependent on them. The South is comparatively poorer than the North, and we see a majority of services (taking care of orphans, medical care, the Circles, and very significantly education) being taken care of by the Chantry without necessarily much assistance from the relevant countries.

The Southern Chantry is an ever present figure in Southern Thedas, even for those that aren’t devout. And that is reflected in those stories and the cultures we learn about there.

The Tevinter Imperium is not like that. And that’s not terribly surprising. First, the Imperium pre-dates Andrastianism. They have another, older religion that helped form some of their cultural touchpoints. The Imperium did adopt Andrastianism, but did so as a consolidation of empire (which tracks with the Imperium being, in no small part, a reflection of the real life Roman Empire). As such, the Chantry is folded into and subordinate to the Imperium’s government. The real power in Tevinter, and control over the incidents of daily life that we see the Southern Chantry involved in, is the Magisterium and the Archon.

The Imperial Divine doesn’t control the Templars, the Magisterium and Archon do. He doesn’t control the Circles/education. That’s the Magisterium and Archon again. He is, in practical terms, less powerful than Dorian. He can’t make any real change as the Imperial Divine, so he dons a mask and runs a vigilante group to free slaves and make change that way.

The Northern Chantry simply isn’t as omnipresent as the Southern Chantry in the areas it exists, and it competes with a preexisting cultural backbone in a way the Southern Chantry doesn’t (because it largely stamped that out, though some of the Avvar and Chasind are still around).

I think a lot of people are comparing the impact of Andrastianism in Veilguard to that in Inquisition, because it’s the most recent, and the criticism spawns from that. But that…doesn’t make sense. The Inquisitor is leading a religious organization, ultimately affiliated with the Southern Chantry itself and founded by the left and right hands of the former Divine. It claims its legitimacy from Andraste herself (even if the Inquisitor doesn’t believe a single bit of it). The people who join the Inquisition are all okay enough with Andrastianism to affiliate themselves openly with it (Solas aside, but of course he has other reasons), and many are devout.

The Veilguard are just…random people. Skilled, powerful, talented people, but not people with any real affiliation with any Chantry. Davrin and Bellara have complicated relationships with the Dalish religion they grew up with, for obvious reasons, but they weren’t raised in Andrastianism or an Andrastian culture. Neve, per her, “barely keeps the holidays.” Her relationship to Andrastianism seems closer to the average non-church-attending American who celebrates Christmas and Easter, but isn’t particularly Christian beyond that. Lucanis does seem open to belief in the Maker and Andraste, but is kind of ambivalent to it. More agnostic than anything else. Taash wasn’t raised Andrastian, their mom largely still embraces much of the Qun even if she left, and Rivain was always kind of religiously funky anyway. Only Emmrich and Harding are particularly Andrastian, and even then Emmrich is from Nevarra which although deeply Andrastian is unique. Harding is the only companion whose Andrastianism we’d recognize from the prior games.

So in a game set in a region where Andrastianism is culturally less of an influence, where the Chantry holds far less power, and that has companions that aren’t devout Andrastians…how is it a failure of the game that it isn’t brought up more. That makes sense. It’s consistent with the world building that came before it and the continued reveal of that world in game.

I don’t get it.

[the-ferocious-kittyrose]

I feel like viv sorta shot herself in the foot, because such a big part of Hazbin’s story so far is that no one in Hell wants anything to do with the hotel, they don’t think it’ll work, they don’t want to better themselves, cuz being “good” is lame…

But in order for the shows premise to work, the hotel needs to have guests.

Charlie’s interview on the news didn’t bring in a single guest, the additions Alastor made didn’t bring in a single guest, the commercial they made didn’t bring in a single guest.

The random Exorcist angel being killed by a side character was more important to the story than the hotel. The hotel is so unimportant to the story that it doesn’t even feel like the characters are in a hotel! They feel like roommates living in a very big house.

And it sucks cus actually seeing the hotel up and running would be cool.

You have most of the guest exist in the background with a select few that get focused on and get their own plots.

Like imagine,

Vaggie is the receptionist. She books people in, takes phone calls, all that jazz. Her temper makes her interactions with shity customers a sight to behold.

Razzle and Dazzle are bellhops. They greet guest and take their bags to their rooms. They are very overly friendly. You know Mac and Tosh from “The Loony Tunes Show”? Yeah it’s them.

Niffty is head of house keeping. She does the cleaning and the laundry with the help of a mini army of bug maids that Charlie made for her.

Husk is head of room service. He’s not just a king of cards, hes also king of the kitchen. He owned a restaurant in life, but it went under as he gambled away all his money and and didn’t have the motivation to keep it up and running. “Makes the best Oxtail you’ve ever had in your life,” according to Alastor.

Charlie does… everything. You know how there are some people who say the devil is omnipresent? Well I took that idea and thought, what if Charlie could make multiples of herself and be at multiple places simultaneously? She can do individual therapy sessions, teach a yoga class, and hold a seminar, all at the same time.

Alastor doesn’t have as much of a direct role in the hotel. He mainly just acts as Charlie’s advisor/assistant.

[itscontinental]

Repeating ourselves, but scanned, and--

UPDATED WITH TRANSCRIPTION:

AH YES, ONE OF THOSE! What shape then?

a. Just a body, Beside another body.

b. In the shape of myself--my harksome bloom in stasis and crowning as it wills. Glimpses of my secret beauty facing down the Sun and recounting him the archived volumes of his inequity. Cultivating humbled vacuums where Phantoms of the absolute may wander, confused and suddenly very old, (as it grows darker) dimmer and demented. In the shape of my body--my person. A human: Constitutionally bulbous and prude (yet, succeeding, However, in fucking everything that ever lived; something to write home about? Perhaps a handful). In the incapably erring shape of some fungi and the great work petrified in God's image (from clay of harvest digs that leveled land and dug the oceans). In the constant shape of one's very own. Of Mind and Beauty, perhaps nudity--changing both in congruence and in spite of the word: Its changes and many meanings (like one scab-to-pick or fungible). Dancing awkwardly with the Virgin as she is tied and untied and the drip of fungus fertilizing my swollen veins making them swollen. In the... In the shape of something human... and... and beautiful in every way, requiring nothing but paper and water to populate; paper and water both & only and to pollinate and then to bloom as one would stain, be wet, and be walking across a sheet of beautiful stationery, in this: The engine of the oldest art, barking with ferocious love.

c. Just a shape that I no longer have to explain.

d. Square.

Okay. ah... I uh... I think I can get you a FEW of those things... Erm, Let's see here... Bloom in stasis... Bloom in stasis... Hmm--AH! Here's one! How about a tetra-polar psychological pattern that rather than sequentially alternate at random intervals--vibrates instead an omniscient wine or hum of narcissism, inferiority, mania and self-hatred at all times. Overshadowed by a deep sense of lust-- All of which being subject to a law of glacial increase, one that may only be measured over decades--Falling into a retroactive Mosaic of smell and color: most of which being common yet profoundly unobtainable.

That was somewhere on the list. Yeah?

a. Oh, rad! Thanks dude!

b. No, it wasn't on my list, but rad! Thanks, dude!

Okay, fine. Just a guy then. Would you like a dick?

a. What else would I write poetry about?

b. No, thank you.

You sure can--you're a stuffed fucking Pig! No, no. Not actually, but I suppose I could take the blame for the misunderstanding; you are not a pig.

a. No. But I am utter swine.

At least I know that I'm not you, right? ... In any case... now that you're here, we can get going. And What is that that you're wearing? It smells like... orange peels & pine trees with... what are those?

a. Roe... fish eggs.

b. Summer nights when you were just sixteen.. seventeen, Maybe... How they changed... How they became so many scents that you could almost place if you closed your eyes and didn't shake that ugly warmth that trickles down your spine....

And with us in the gift-giving spirit, how about an uncertainty of self, ranging from paranoid to obsessive-- Omnipresent, debilitating, and rarely justifiable. People will find comfort in your idiosyncrasies--companionship, even. But every single one of them merely tolerates your neurosis. You have a thing and people know it; they think you're crazy. and you are. and you know it. And they know it. And everyone knowing everything makes you feel so fucking Crazy.

a. Oh, that sounds manageable. Thanks!

b. Oh, that sounds super fun! Thanks!

c. Oh, that sounds like exactly what I deserve, Thanks!

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

updated and improved "all the fears want arthur lester carnally" list

just a general tally of influence/Marks arthur would have received if you were playing by TMA rules. enhanced with further contemplation and with some peer review from @luci-z-wont-shut-up thankyouuu

the eye

VERY dedicated private investigator. consistently more invested in Solving The Mystery than, like, Remaining Alive

was magic-stalked by the KIY and his cult throughout season 1

also kayne was watching his whole life and taking notes to roast him about his trauma later. apparently

something something metanarrative implications of an audience gathering around just to watch you suffer

the spiral

possessed by a god of madness (twice) (three times?) (possibly more depending on how you count?)

was held hostage in a fake dream-realm mental institution with fucked up architecture so one of the aforementioned madness gods could pry information out of him (which also gets cryptically described as "Here, there, everywhere, nowhere. Anywhere." which is sooo the spiral-coded)

relies on someone else to be his eyes so there's always the lingering background awareness that he may be missing or outright misrepresenting information & consequently he can't trust what he sees

the end

he's died.

multiple times.

there's also the omnipresent threats on his life but mostly just that. like. he's been The Ended. doesn't get much more direct than that

the stranger

i still think "losing parts of your body to another consciousness while they are still attached to you" is VERY the stranger type activities

the king in S1 turning any weak-willed bystanders against him so any stranger could turn into a threat without warning

also, the king and scratch posing as normal people, even people he knows sometimes!

orbited by a cast of nonhuman Entities remaking their identities into something closer to humanity for one reason or another (john, yellow, scratch, kayne) and frequently not quite hitting the mark (ty luci)

the lonely

general sense of alienation from his peers that started young and—just vibe checking here, just taking a general temperature—doesn't seem to have gotten much better over time

"I want him safe." / "You want him back." / "...Yes." <- guy who can totally handle being alone

john left and he went fully off the deep end in the span of like, a day

it's just one of those things that i think he hates and is terrified of but also is constantly haunted by

the desolation

the whole vibe of the death/destruction specifically of things that could have brought meaning to the world, or people who had a lot to live for and could have touched other lives and had an effect on others, is... um. (gestures vaguely at the. all of them)

will do LITERALLY ANYTHING to avoid losing anyone else.

also pain. i feel like pain takes a thematic backseat but it is still a part of the desolation and good lord is this man in so much pain basically all the time

one time he did an arson at an in-progress building site and left a guy bleeding out in the ruins!! desolation come get your juice

also independently invented molotovs so he could use them to kill a different thing which was perhaps divine inspiration straight from the lightless flame itself??

the slaughter

start with parker's death and just work your way down from there tbh

the butcher confrontation "Whose life did you take without provocation, without threat? Who did you kill that was innocent?" vs the slaughter's "random, senseless, unmotivated violence"

also knowing that pain and death are coming but not where or when or how. Yup 👍

just. in general. he has been wading through his own and other people's blood in equal measure since the start of the damn show

had to hide in a pit full of rotting corpses that one time

the vast

timelines! go confront how meaningless your entire life is in the face of the uncaring multiverse! have a quick crisis about it! fuck meaning!

i still don't have a whole lot for this one tbh

he can't stop falling off things obviously but i don't think he's particularly scared of that. i think he's resigned to it. balance is a fickle beast and he has accepted that it does not return his affections.

one time a kraken almost drowned him?

the buried

known claustrophobe!

almost got pinned in a cave, unable to move, on multiple different occasions!

this man and caves in general have a very very bad relationship. they keep making him be underground and then terrible things happen to him down there.

drowning goes here also :)

the dark

"Funny. Before all of this, I used to fear the dark. Not in any crippling way, but – but now it’s… well, now it’s no different."

used to be unnerved by the dark and now he is blind. checks out

also, the dark world. it's in the name, baby. that's more john's fear but i think it has to rub off on him at least a little bit

the corruption

eeeeverything that happened with the witch. she tried to use him to breed maggots. now that's what i call Corrupt™

horig, also

obsessive, almost self-destructive levels of devotion to an entity that killed his friend and wrecked his life. listen i'm supportive i think they're perfect for each other in an ESH way i'm just saying this probably also falls into the corruption's purview (ty luci)

ESPECIALLY considering john lives in his body like a parasite. not trying to be derogatory here but like, on an objective level. he is stealing his body parts. and arthur loves him. again, incredibly on-brand for the corruption

the web

he Doesn't Like Being Told What To Do >:[

ongoing vendetta against cult shit for this exact reason

the idea of not having fully free will seems to be very actively and deeply concerning for him

"I am the captain of my soul" and so on and so forth

got literally brainwormed by The Creature back in addison (twice!)

the flesh

Michael Fucking Faust

also, had to bite his own finger off before that. in case you needed or wanted some bonus points

the hunt

HOO BOY has he ever been Hunted. so many times by so many different things. take your fucking pick

also: "You are hunting." / "Predators need to be hunted." <- basically an active prayer to the hunt

this man is prey animal rage incarnate honestly. go!! lose yourself in the bloodlust!! kill them before they can kill you!!!!

john would really appreciate it if he was a little Less cozy with the hunt tbh :(

the extinction

i'm actually not counting this one bc it doesn't take avatars and also doesn't rrrreally exist yet

he's lived through a world war and a pandemic. how's that. i think that's as good as it gets.

CONCLUSION: i still think arthur should go shake hands with the vast and get carried off by a bird and hope that gets the rest of these assholes to fuck off. i think it's his best bet atp.

[journeytothewestresearch]

Can you please tell me what abilities sun wukong have because am always confused about it i even hear some people says that sun wukong is omniscient and omnipresent and can control time or that he is is a boundless character

At no point in JTTW is Monkey ever depicted as a boundless character with omniscience, omnipresence, and control over time. Anyone claiming that has never read the novel. Never ever trust any online claims about Sun Wukong unless a cited quote is provided.

Having said that, I am slowly compiling a comprehensive list of all of Monkey's magical abilities and skills, complete with corresponding Chinese terms and citations. However, I am nowhere close to being done (and won't be for years), so I can only give you a general list at this time. But I will link to my past articles where applicable.

The following is based on a list I wrote a few months ago for someone looking to make their D&D campaign more authentic.

Immortality - He has six layers of immortality. But these are more like layers of invulnerability. As a "bogus immortal" (yaoxian, 妖仙) he is still susceptible to injury and death because he hasn’t yet achieved Buddha-nature and broken free of the wheel of rebirth (see note #1 here for an explanation).

Invulnerability - He has an adamantine hide that can't be pierced or hurt by earthly or heavenly weapons and elements (this doesn't count the times that he allows himself to be cut). This is thanks to all of the immortal foodstuff he had eaten in heaven being refined within his body by his samadhi fire, giving him a "diamond body" (jingang zhi qu, 金鋼之軀). Sometimes he uses this invulnerability to freak out demons by blocking a sword strike with his bald head. However, he can still be hurt. For example, he is twice wounded by special elements born from spiritual cultivation, samadhi fire and wind (the book treats cultivated and heavenly elements as two different things). Also, one villain, a scorpion demoness energized with Buddhist dharma power, is able to successfully penetrate his skin by stinging him in the face with her tail.

72 changes - He can transform into anything. The only flaw is his tail, which doesn't always change the way he wants it to. Or, a character recognizes him because of his red butt.

Cloud somersault - This allows him to fly 108,000 li (33,554 mi / 54,000 km) in a single leap. The skill is actually a metaphor for instantaneous enlightenment, for those who achieve it will immediately arrive in the Buddha's paradise.

Magic hairs - He can change any one of his 84,000 hairs into anything he wants (tools, random objects, living creatures, etc.) These include hair clones, which are autonomous copies of himself that can range into the tens, hundreds, thousands, millions, or even billions. However, he only deploys these on a small scale in the novel. He never uses the power to its full stated extent.

Super strength - His greatest feat is carrying two mountains while running "with the speed of a meteor." But there are characters physically stronger than him. For instance, Monkey cannot escape the grip of the Great Peng bird once he is caught in his powerful talons.

Martial arts - He is proficient in armed and unarmed combat, being able to go toe-to-toe with deities with centuries more combat experience than him. "Short Fist," a historical style, is listed as his preferred boxing method. But he mainly relies on his magic iron staff for fighting.

General magic - Monkey is shown capable of calling forth gods and spirits, growing or shrinking to any size, parting fire and water, creating impassable barriers, conjuring wind storms, casting illusions, freezing people in place, putting anyone to sleep, unlocking any lock, bestowing superhuman strength, bringing the dead back to life, turning invisible, changing someone's appearance, traveling to and from heaven and hell, etc.

Magic Eyes - He can see through illusions. But this isn't always portrayed consistently, for I know of several times where Guanyin fools him, and even a god of the soil, a lesser deity, is once able to do the same thing.

Medicine - He can diagnose maladies and concoct medicines to solve the issue.

You can see that omniscience, omnipresence, and control over time are not listed. I think the problem is that people are confusing Sun Wukong at two different points in his character arc. The powers listed above come from the journey itself (ch. 13 to 100). The omni-level powers would come after he achieves Buddhahood at the end of the novel (ch. 100). However, it's very, very important to know that the story ends before Sun Wukong, now the "Victorious Fighting Buddha," performs any feats (i.e. he has no feats as a Buddha). I'm sure people could assign him powers ascribed to other Buddhas in religious literature, but what happens after the story ends is beyond canon.

I hope this helps.

[d34dlysinner]

Just me writing one of my random headcannons, but I've always thought about this when thinking of Beelzebub as a parent.

It's pretty angsty.

And contains spoilers about his situation (from Bloodshed Beel card)

Beelzebub wants to be with his kids, but can't with his situation. Just as be does with Avisos. Yes he runs from responsibility at times he can defend Avisos, but for him to not put others in major danger he can't always be there. Especially if he has kids there. He will be near them and take care of them, but he won't say that he's their parent and will find ways to avoid answers.

He'll maybe be okay with telling then the truth when they're older and can fend for themselves.

He also doesn't want his children to identify themselves as his children when there's a target on him. He knows he's being hunted and that he's running, so he can't risk it when it comes to his children.

Even if there's a case where his children are omnipresent as him. He would never be able to see them suffer as he did.

He might not really introduce himself. He'll take care of them. He'll be present at their birthdays and some of their achievements and he'll always bring something from his trips around Hell. He'll also talk about other regions and stories bound to those regions.

There also might be a chance where he'll hear his child refer to him as their dad. Just because he's always there for them. It'll make his heart flutter and shatter at the same time. He'll feel bad, but he knows for their safety he needs to keep silent about his identity.

I can imagine his children connecting the dots when they're teenagers and they'll probably be angry at him for keeping silent.

It can either lead to them staying angry for a long while or them being understanding.

Either way, Beelzebub would feel bad and he'll not stop them from discovering the truth when they're older. There might even be a chance where he'll be okay with them being angry at him and staying away from him. It'll shatter his heart, but it also means that they won't be there if he's fighting and dying.

[justatalkingface]

Izuku vs Deku, Person vs Puppet

While I'm at this... I've made this point before, in that one Izuku mega-post I've made, and maybe once somewhere else? But I feel it's worth posting again outside of it, in a post just for this, if only so it's easier for people to look at this on it's own merits.

People use the name 'Deku' to refer to Izuku and I, on a personal level, dislike that. Don't get me wrong, I know why they do it, so I don't blame them (or you, theoretical random reader), but I don't like it all the same. Why?

On a fundamental level, I think of Hori making Izuku's hero name 'Deku' to be something that damages Izuku's development as a character, that it's not something done because that is what Izuku, the theoretical person would do, or something that will help him grow in some way; Izuku doesn't benefit from it all, actually.

No, the only person that really benefits is Bakugou. Here's the thing: Izuku doesn't like to be called Deku, he never did. Bakugou calls him that as an insult, deliberately, and the one time Ochako does it, based on a misunderstanding? Hurts him; he feels betrayed that his new friend is suddenly insulting him.

Of course, he's understanding when she explains why she said it, and all is forgiven afterwords, but that underlying fact is still there: Izuku does not like that name. So, why did he call himself that?

The way it's shown to us, the audience, the whole encounter with Ochaka is supposed to make him look at that insult in a new light, so Izuku calling himself that is supposed to be 'reappropriating' that name, and theoretically, that sounds great! The problem, though, is the reality of how it's presented to us:

When Ochako explains what happens, she says she thought it meant 'Dekiru', which is promptly explained to us that it means, 'You can do it!', and the way it's shown to us makes it clear that it's being given as an answer to the question Izuku has been struggling over: who am I as a hero?

The fundamentally cheerful and uplifting nature of the word, how quick and easy it is to say (as opposed to Aoyama's paragraph long abomination) and perhaps most importantly it takes that old, hateful name he's been called his old life and changes it, makes it new, encouraging, and hopeful, and has real resemblance to All Might's catch phrase, 'I am here' (as in, 'you no longer have to worry because I am here').

The setup for Izuku's name is for that, for Dekiru, the hero that says, 'You can do it!', which symbolizes the primary influence on his life shifting from Bakugou, from being belittled and looked down on, to All Might, to being enthusiastic and hopeful and encouraged; that is the reclaiming of Deku promised to us, like a new tree growing from a burnt down forest.

So... why is it Deku, then?

I'll say it again: it's because of Bakugou. It seems clear in how MHA's writing is set up that at first, Bakugou wasn't supposed to be as important and omnipresent as he ended up being, and at some point Hori shifted his plans to force him in the story, even as he was trying to keep Bakugou as Bakugou, keeping those same fundamental character traits that, realistically, he should have outgrown or have been punished for. And one of those traits?

Is calling Izuku Deku, calling him useless. The reason Izuku ultimately called himself 'Deku' has nothing to with Izuku himself, it's about Bakugou: if Izuku's hero name is Deku, and Bakugou calls him Deku? That suddenly isn't a bad thing, anymore; he's not insulting Izuku, he's just calling him by his hero name! But at the same time, it's clear by how Bakugou acts that he isn't calling Izuku by his hero name, he's just calling him by that same, belittling childhood name he always has; reality itself has just shifted to make that seem acceptable.

But if Izuku called himself Dekiru, though? Then suddenly, that shallow protection Hori afforded to him vanishes, and it's clear that Bakugou is, in fact, constantly insulting Izuku, every time they talk. It makes him look bad. And, well. Hori can't have that, so... Deku it is.

Do know what the peak irony of all this is, though? The accidental metaphor that makes it clear just how little Hori cares about Izuku, as anything beyond being a vessel to advance the story?

The meaning of Deku: it can mean a couple of things, like useless, for example, the way Bakugou uses it, but another meaning is a puppet. Hori literally stopped Izuku from calling himself Dekiru, from saying, 'I can do it!', so he could call himself a puppet instead... and all for the sake of someone else.

The symbolism on that is so strong that it hurts.

[humorisstoredinthetits]

More Headcannons

cuz why not

also can someone give me ideas pls being creative is hard

Chandler:

One of her favorite pastimes is harassing people who have wronged her or her wives

One time they went to a restaurant and Mac tried to order off the kids menu bc it had the only safe food for her on it but they wouldn't let her

Chandler tried arguing with the manager but they stood firm

The four of them decided to just leave but on the car ride home Mac started crying because she made things difficult for them and she hates doing that and why can't she just be normal and-

Chandler then vowed to make that restaurant burn for causing Mac to have a meltdown

Unfortunately JD wouldn't go along with her plan to actually burn down the restaurant so she had to move on to plan B

She started a months long Facebook campaign of smearing the restaurant, complete with dozens of alt accounts detailing false yet elaborate tales of their horrid experiences at the restaurant

She would strategically leave 1-star reviews at random intervals not too close together as to not arouse suspicion

She even had the health inspector called multiple times

Eventually all of this caused it to lose so much business that they could no longer stay open, causing Chandler to cackle with glee

She does things like that out of a mixture of pride, love, and general sadism

She has a general empathy problem, outside of her close circle of loved ones she finds it hard to empathize with people

This is especially true with people who Chandler perceives to have wronged them in some way, once that happens they are only worms to be crushed

But once she starts to care for a person, she really cares and would do literally anything for them

She knows the things she does are morally questionable, she just doesn't really care

Its the same thing when she was at Westerberg, all of the plebeians meant nothing and she never even considered the morality of it as long as it meant that the people she loved were safe

This has caused many fights with Veronica, who has a really strong moral compass

They'll be talking about the past and Chandler will show little remorse for how she acted, which will cause Veronica to get upset

Chandler understands on a conceptual level that what she did was bad, but she justifies it saying that it was for the greater good

In her mind the greater good means that it helped her loved ones

Contrary to popular belief, Chandler is not selfish, like at all

She actually values herself very little, her biggest priority is her wives

She spends all day thinking of them, when they're coming home, what they're going to want to eat, what little surprises can she do for them

She really just wants them to be happy and feel loved

Thats part of why she reacts so aggressively when someone messes with them, that and the trauma from middle school of course

She kinda just refuses to deal with her trauma for the most part, saying that she's moved past it

She has not, in fact, moved past it

Mac has been pressuring her into going see the same therapist as her, and recently Duke and Veronica have joined in, but she refuses to go

She thinks that it'll make her look weak, and she hates looking weak in front of her wives

The only trauma she's confronted in any capacity is her religious, and that's only because religion is so omnipresent in their small conservative town

Mac tries to remind her that this isn't middle school anymore, they don't need her to be strong all the time, but Chandler adamantly insists that she has to be

As you may have guessed, Chandler's mental state is like Chernobyl, just waiting for one wrong thing that'll cause a meltdown

Her sanity is basically held together with duct tape and love from her wives

Recently she's been copying JD and his slushie habit

JD is the only person she'll talk about her trauma with

They both share this anger with the world, a dark past that they refuse to talk about, and a desire to just burn everything around them

Veronica is ready to just drag both of their asses to a therapist before JD takes Chandler to the shooting range because she knows that will not end well for anyone

God that got dark

I'm gonna add some fluff bc that was kinda depressing

She spends way too much time on social media

That girl has a fucking addiction to it

During High School she was one of those people that would sit in the back of class and make TikToks instead of paying attention

She also refused to do anything physical during Phys Ed but everyone was afraid to fail her

All around she was just kinda a shitty student

Its not that she's dumb or anything, far from it, she just got pretty lazy bc she got the nerds to to her homework and Duke would tell her everything she needed to know for tests the day before

Once she left she got over her laziness and now can't sit still

Seriously this girl cannot sit still for the life of her, even if she's cuddling with her wives she needs to be scrolling her phone or stroking someone's hair or anything really

She probably has ADHD but there's no way in hell she's going anywhere near a doctor to get it checked out

She's super afraid of the doctors, mostly bc she hates getting shots or blood drawn and it seems like she always has to get at least one of the two whenever she goes

Its a whole fight whenever they go to get their flu shots

One time Veronica joked they just get a giant pet crate and carry her there and Chandler wouldn't stop pouting

She gets extreme road rage and is very liberal with her use of the horn

If someone parks like a dumbass in a parking lot she will zip tie carts to their car and watch as the person gets upset

Duke:

She snores so fucking loudly

Chandler almost smothered her one night bc oh my fucking god how was she supposed to sleep with Snorlax over there making Titanic horn noises every 5 seconds

Eventually she went to the doctor and got it fixed but good god for a while there it looked like their relationship was gonna collapse

She has a very hard time crying

She watched all of Violet Evergarden without shedding a single tear

Veronica started accusing her of being heartless

In reality, her parents used to punish her severely is she cried so she just suppressed it

She loves flipping people off

Its just so funny to her to give people the bird and watch their faces scrunch in anger

Its her primary way of communicating in the morning before she's had any coffee

She hates going swimming

Its partially from her lingering body image issues but also because (in her opinion) swimming sucks

It gets her hair wet and she has to dry it again, if she's at the beach then the water makes sand stick, being in the pool is ok but once you leave it you're just all dripping wet and its gross, she could go on

She almost strangled Mac when she suggested they go to a water park

But she does enjoy shooting people (Chandler) with a water gun

One time Chandler won at game night and so she filled one with ice cold water and proceeded to shoot Chandler, who let out a guttural scream and chased her around the house

This ended with Chandler grabbing the gun and shooting Duke several times before declaring that they were even

She absolutely refuses to write in any of her books

She's also one of those people who refused to hi-light or write in a textbook, considering it heresy

She loves chocolate but cannot stand mint chocolate

Veronica loves it and that has caused many arguments

She fucking loves it when it rains and she can stay home

She'll go to the library and curl up with a nice book and just listen to the sound of the rain

Mac:

She likes to wear baggy clothes like sweatpants and hoodies bc of how comfy they are

This causes issues during the summer when its 10 gagillion degrees outside and she's sweating buckets yet still refusing to change into some more appropriate clothes

She is way stronger than she looks

Her McNa-muscles are on point

She can very easily pick up Chandler and Veronica at the same time

She kept up her cheer exercise routine after leaving school bc it just felt wrong to stop, and because of it she's stayed in excellent shape

She's taken up drawing as a hobby, and while she's still not great she's improving by the day

She mainly draws her favorite characters kissing

She gets big into shipping whenever she watches something and will get into shipping wars

To this day she will argue that Discord x Fluttershy was stupid and that her and Twilight Sparkle should've gotten together

She'll get her nails done with cute designs and then refuse to touch anything so she doesn't ruin them

She's very easily distracted

Put a video of a cute animal in front of her and she zones in

Chandler takes advantage of this to talk about what she's getting Mac for Christmas or her birthday without having to awkwardly shoo her out

She cannot open childproof caps for the life of her

If she needs to open the bottle with her meds she had to get Veronica or Chandler to do it for her

She has a bad habit of chewing her nails when she gets nervous

She's basically the opposite of Chandler in the fact that she emphasizes far too much

Even one of those stupid commercials talking about how there are sick animals needing your help and you can help for a dollar a day or whatever will make her burst into tears

She owns about 100 different mugs but only uses like 3 of them

Chandler is getting annoyed about how much space they take up

Veronica:

She is godly at fairground games

With just a few bucks she can win any prize she wants

She's the most technologically literate of the four of them and is the one who plays IT when something goes wrong

Chandler is like a grandma when it comes to that so she's constantly having to help her fix the TV or her phone or whatever else

She made the other three take self-defense classes, especially after noting Chandler's tendencies to get in fights with people

Her parents made her take one before she went to high school, and she's really thankful for it as it got her out of many dangerous situations

She carries around pepper spray everywhere she goes and deep down she hopes that someone tries messing with her so she can spray their ass

She has the most diverse musical taste out of them

Her playlist can go from anime OPs to Green Day to Van Halen to Minecraft song parodies

One time Chandler tried listening to it but the whiplash she got from going from Komm Susser Tod to The Eye of the Spider was enough for her to give up

She got really upset on her 11th Birthday when her Hogwarts letter didn't come in

She was really counting on it to take her away from Ohio

Her and Chandler often fight over how they decorate their house

Chandler decorates like she's a 50 year old suburban white mom and Veronica just doesn't vibe with that style

She says that if she ever sees a "live, laugh, love" sign she is going to make her sleep on the couch for a month

Chandler retorts that if Veronica had her way their house would be covered in anime figures and posters, to which Veronica asks 'what's wrong with that?'

She fully believes in old superstitions like breaking glass and walking under a ladder are bad luck

She's the kind of person who won't fill up her car until its almost empty, much to the annoyance and fear of her wives

To her credit there have been some close calls but she's always managed to get to a gas station in time

She really loves Costco and goes multiple times a week to look for good deals

In reality she's looking for those huge packs of Pokemon cards bc she's an addict

[maestro04yayyy]

https://www.tumblr.com/maestro04yayyy/762341715456688128/random-dialogue-exchange-idea-for-like-1-year?source=share

Expansion on the "Drip Fed Poison" exchange/idea; just assume that Lila never found the butterfly or what have you so there can be focused family drama lol.

Its been a little over a year since the resolution of the Hawk Moth 'incidents' and Zoe would like to think her life had been going great. She finally had a parent who loved her and was invested in her, she was a burgeoning actress, she had friends she didn't need to compromise her values for. & hey, being rich was still ya know, nice.

Unfortunately there's been a blooming undercurrent of wrongness she's not quite able to put a name too. Its a lot of different little things.

She's found herself a bit more inclined to how around Andre's money & name to get things (but for nice reasons & her friends) But also sporadically had this blow up in her face. Usually not long after she had some kind of disagreement with Andre about a picture or event, or shot in a film.

She's also found her schedule often conflicting with her friends unless she obscures it from Andre or lies to him, almost like he doesn't want her hanging out with them. & he's very twitchy about her possibly dating, though he says its just to avoid paparazzo.

She briefly floats the concern t Jean who has become an increasingly ever present confidant and enabler of her sneaking out. But he's monosyllabic. Merely saying, he cannot speak poorly of his employer and continue to do good work, while subtly hinting helping Zoe dip out on an event to see her friends is the good work.

Things, don't quite come to ahead so much as she quietly floats the concern at a small friend hang out and Sabrina looks distinctly... Panicked. Made worse, when in trying to encourage her to say anything Adrien get roped in and is also suddenly super uncomfortable.

At first they treat it like its cos discussing Chloe is uncomfortable and it is, but...

Neither one has the full picture, and both are a little uncomfortable as they feel like it may come off as advocating for her, or smearing Andre, and they had both kind of convinced themselves they'd read too much into the relationship and clearly Chloe had to be at fault, right?

Adrien obliquely explains Chloe regarded a lot of wat she did with or for her father as a form of work. He did too. She plays the role of darling, devoted daughter, babysits visiting rich kids and helps out with events and fundraisers and Andre covers for her expenditures and misbehavior. Not that odd... Right? Really the issue is that he enabled her being mean, right?

Sabrina's read is a bit different, with her noting the instances Chloe tended to come over to her place, or be extra foul usually coincided with Andre being particularly clingy or omnipresent. & that he could and would withdraw his patronage of Chloe if he felt she was not acting as her name befit. IE, he is the source of her classism and Audrey impersonation, but it was a mistake, right?

He's better and learned now right?

Well, maybe not, especially if him currently blowing up Zoe's phone with guilt tripping messages is anything to go by, but the only other person who might be helpful is Madame Bustier, who Sabrina says Chloe sometimes spoke with alone.

Zoe is hopeful that a trustworthy adult will help her put all this to rest.

So the fact Caline looks like she might throw up when Zoe broaches the topic and clearly both wants to offer a hug and is trying to make her not panic by getting to close does not fill her with confidence.

As it is,

Chloe only ever really broached things with her once, after a breakdown (Not meltdown, breakdown) in class that involved flipped tables and broken glass after a particularly 'stressful' few weeks.

She'd been oblique over it, names and issues and expectations oscillating wildly and even Mr Agreste somehow got worked in but al of it painted an unflattering picture. One that likely informed her decisions as an Akuma to "Take Andre out" in one form or another.

But ultimately, the only person who can give her any insight into what Andre is like with a daughter besides Zoe herself... Is Chloe.

Ohhhhh i love this!!!!! Well I hate how andre is to zoe!!! But I love her slowly getting more concerned and worried about the situation!!!!! And yeah that would be a really good set up to reintroduce chloe(so I am basically considering this an au now because it's awesome) maybe not phisically because she is in london i think? I remeber it being the usa but the changed it last minute i don't know i haven watched the last season but still as a voice on the phone and talk to zoe and maybe just maybe connect as sisters!!!!! I honestly just love zoe and chloe being good sisters!!!!

[overleftdown]

farleigh start thoughts

this is going to be a very random, very eclectic post. i just wanted to share some stuff that i can't figure out how to post independently. some headcanons, some commentary, some references... who knows. probably just a lot of yabbering.

"keep the rain" by searows. dude. just listen to the lyrics, i swear.

i was wondering about what the cattons really give farleigh. there's kind of... endless possibilities. his family in america is emotionally neglectful, but how do the cattons differ? i can imagine that having felix and venetia, two people of similar ages that he can glue himself to, is important to him. i also think that frederica start is an overlooked aspect of farleigh's character. e.i. he needs to have some semblance of closeness with the cattons if he has a chance at convincing them to financially support his mom. i think his ultimate mistake when confronting felix was perhaps centering himself, when the conversation was originally about frederica. although farleigh needed to finally say what he knew all along; he's different, and he's being treated differently because of it. i digress; farleigh wants companionship, a loud and distracting lifestyle, the security that only wealth can give you, and the possibility of helping his mom. that's how i sum it up, at least.

although farleigh is prone to escapism (into his wealth, into drugs, into his social life, into the games he plays), he doesn't seem as committed to cognitive dissociation as the rest of the cattons. i don't think farleigh is deluded by the wealth and power he has access to; i actually think it's the opposite. he is so hyper-vigilant of what he can lose that he's entirely aware that he doesn't know how to exist without wealth. the rest of the cattons have convinced themselves that wealth isn't an inherent part of them (elspeth with her odd anecdotes that imply she's a worldly woman, felix with his down-to-earth "i'm beyond classism" attitude, venetia with her general boredom of wealth and everything attached to wealth). farleigh never has that attitude. he knows exactly who he is with wealth, and he's terrified of what he will face without wealth. how would he cope with his sometimes-debilitating otherness? how would he have any power, any control, if not wealth and status? (this is a warped perception of reality, but i believe that's the perspective that comes with omnipresent wealth since you were born).

i think that farleigh would smother his room in pictures. i mean all kinds of media. films he likes, artists he likes (beyonce, justin timberlake, gwen stefani, aaliyah, madonna), pictures of new york, polaroids, photo booth strips, favorite travel locations (greece, italy, LA, germany, whatever), chad from hsm because that's his hair inspo, vogue magazine clippings- jesus, dare i say... postcards? i'm picturing anything and everything. but let's say that farleigh is a very private person. i mean, he's a professional hider, secret keeper, "inside thoughts" kind of person. i'm imagining anything just slightly too personal would be kept in a box. maybe that same box he keeps his cocaine! family pictures, baby pictures, personal photography (would it be bold to imagine farleigh as a notorious street photographer?), old knick knacks like his first friendship bracelets or seashells he found on the beach. i'm getting carried away. farleigh seems like the type to consume, linger, consider. i feel like anyone who wears gucci loafers also has an immense amount of sentimental material.

farleigh doesn't like english food that much.

farleigh is clearly able to apply himself in an academic setting, if the tutoring session is anything to go by. he takes a gamble on whether spending time with people is more beneficial than actually doing his work, and maybe he's just a little bit bored by school. but at the same time, he listened to oliver's entire essay and counted each individual time that oliver said "thus." where the tutor wasn't even listening, farleigh made the choice to specifically comment on oliver's rhetorical content because he understands how to apply yourself academically, even if you've yet to get around to the actual assignment. so.

i think farleigh likes to read. clearly felix, vee, and farleigh all made an agreement to read harry potter together. but i'm also imagining farleigh as a sort of classic literature, historical drama, and romance type of reader. i just think he'd get a kick out of it. i imagine his myspace page genuinely contained moments where he shared book plot like it was school drama.

based on archie's information about how he was asked to audition for farleigh, i think that farleigh speaks to his mom less often and very casually. in a few of archie's interviews, he said he was asked to mimic a phone call with the character's mom while he talked about guys he slept with recently. i think farleigh learned to avoid attempting any substantial conversation with frederica from a fairly young age (also from what archie has said about farleigh's dynamic with his mom). there's a level of both maturity and immaturity to farleigh's relationship with frederica. frederica clings to youth and avoids traditional aspects of motherhood. farleigh had to meet her in this odd middle ground, speaking to her like a friend that's similar in age to him. i can imagine that very few people have had any genuine, serious, emotional conversations with farleigh. like archie has said, farleigh and felix's heated confrontation has never happened before. farleigh doesn't say shit about what he's feeling or thinking.

farleigh and the cattons is so GAH. familial but transactional, familial but not quite. the cattons resolutely ignore the massive elephant in the room that is their inability to let go of how they view farleigh. "dad felt so guilty that he agreed to pay for all of farleigh's education," which also implies that farleigh is only living with the cattons because james has roped himself into this odd situation where farleigh is being shipped to england for school. now that he kinda has to stay with them based on that one agreement, it would also be weird if the cattons didn't treat farleigh the same as felix and venetia. i'm getting carried away. supporting a family member isn't supposed to be on the basis of guilt or pity. there is supposed to be... love? like, c'mon. this makes farleigh's relationship with his cousins odd. venetia believes farleigh is spoiled ("talk about biting the hand"), felix agrees that farleigh is there for entertainment. both comments didn't sit very well with me. the normal family dynamic is shrouded in this strange obligatory and transactional attitude. odd. odd odd odd.

YOUR BEST AMERICAN GIRL BY MITSKI

nothing, just farleigh's relationship with sex and how abysmally unhealthy it is, actually. and also the fact that oliver coerced him sexually GAH. i see this character and he makes me insane to be so honest.

he had to mourn both his cousins ALONE??

i hope farleigh eventually does something incredibly sinister and conniving and mean to oliver.

okay i'm done. hope you enjoyed... all of that.

[deeranger]

Lost in the Woods

So, I made this drawing and a little imagine for the SPN Eldritch Bingo 2024 for the square "Lost in the woods".... 🙃

Word count: 1,277

Characters: Sam Winchester

Warnings: Open/ambiguous ending, implied possible mcd, creepy forest entity

The cold yellow light from the moon somewhere above is quick to bleed into almost pitch-black darkness as soon as it hits the naked canopy. The many crooked branches simply filter it out, like skinny fingers grabbing and choking out the light. Sam can barely see his own hand in front of his face, let alone where he's putting down his feet. Great. That's just great. He should've never gone on this hunt alone.

Only faint remnants of moonlight manage to weakly illuminate the ground in random spots scattered on the forest floor and on tree trunks and shrubbery. It creates an eerie sort of glow that seems to contrast the black, and Sam would probably find it fascinating if it wasn't for the fact that this place is oozing pure evil. It's like the forest is watching him, like there's something breathing right down the back of his neck. It feels... Ancient. So much so that even the oldest oak tree in this godforsaken place is no match at all for the age of whatever lives here. One thing is for sure, it is never going to let go should it get its claws into him. And a scary feeling is brewing in Sam's mind that that is exactly what's going to happen if he doesn't find his way out of here. And soon. God, he should've stayed on the trail.

A twig loudly snaps under his boot, and the young Winchester swallows down a gasp. With his pulse skyrocketing, he freezes to the spot like a statue, all senses on high alert. The forest seems to hold its breath along with him, waiting... And watching. The feeling of being observed is intense, and Sam suddenly feels like a newborn gazelle circled by a hungry pack of lions, all alone and vulnerable in the middle of the goddamn savanna. He's a friggin' sitting duck and he knows it. And whatever is out there knows it too... And it's getting closer. He can feel it. Shit.

The hunter's fingers that clutch the Taurus have turned slick with sweat now even though the forest is chilly. And suddenly, he's seriously doubting if the silver bullets in the gun's chamber will help him at all. Probably not. Same goes for the flask of holy water in his pocket. And for some reason he's pretty sure that spewing out an exorcism won't work either.... Not out here, not on this thing. No, this time he's in way over his head and every weapon he brought is pretty much as useful as a chocolate teapot.

Cursing himself internally, Sam strains to pick up on whatever is lurking in the shadows... But all he gets is darkness, silent as the grave. It's like he's being watched from all sides, like danger is somehow everywhere around him now, pitch-black and one with the shadows clinging to every surface. It's omnipresent, a looming threat ready to pounce at him from any angle. He needs to turn back, needs to get the hell out of here now if he's going to stand a chance at getting out alive. But how? It's all around him and he lost his bearings a long time ago. He isn't even sure which direction to move in and by now he's not sure if it matters either. He's surrounded.

"What are you?" he hears himself ask into the chilly forest air. It comes out shakier than he'd like, and a gray mist hangs in the air from his breath until it evaporates and disappears, fleeting like a ghost. But the forest doesn't answer. Instead it offers more silence, heavy and ominous, and the darkness seems to somehow grow blacker yet, choking out the last bit of moonlight.

"What do you want??" Sam tries, automatically backing up when the night expands and creeps closer, black and tar-like and threatening. It's everywhere. The metallic taste of adrenaline spreads in his mouth, and his heart hammers against his breast bone with such frantic speed that he's uncertain if he might be passing out. He can't see anything. The blackness has reached him now, thick and evil and almost pulsing with something too ancient to even name. It's clinging to him, like a terrifying second skin, alien and predatory and freezing.

"No—"

It feels like he's breathing icewater all of a sudden, like his lungs are freezing over, blooming ice crystals gnawing at his insides and lodging themselves in every tiny blood vessel. It's like he's literally getting smothered from the inside, chest too heavy to even heave properly despite his efforts. God, he's never felt a cold like this before. This is… This is it, isn't it? Instinctively, he knows he doesn't have long, maybe just a minute or two before it's too late. Before he's absorbed into whatever it is that's pouring into him, devouring him. Killing him.

"D-Don't—" he chokes, and panicked he tries to force his eyes to see anything but blackness, to identify what it is that is now lifting him off the ground. He expects to see the crooked branches overhead, like bony fingers of an old crone reaching for him on a backdrop of pale moonlight, but he sees nothing. Nothing except a sea of black, a void, endless and hungry and absolutely diabolical.

As he feels life draining from him, his mind frantically spins and races in one big jumbled-up mess. His life flashes before his eyes, pictures of his childhood, of countless dingy motel rooms, faces of monsters that are no more and of those that got away, of everything that matters and doesn't, of all the things he still wants to do, what he needs to do... And like a red thread in all of it is his big brother's face. Dean. He can't leave Dean. Not like this, and... And not yet. He's not ready, the world isn't ready. But most importantly.... Dean is not ready. It's way too soon, his big brother will not be able to cope with losing him like this so soon after what happened at Cold Oak, after Sam left him the first time. No, he'll spiral in no time, Sam is certain of it. Or he might make an even nastier deal of some sort in his efforts to bring him back… And Sam can't let him do that, can't let him lose himself like that again. But what can he do to prevent it, really? Hell, not even Castiel can heal the kind of hurt Dean is going to feel no matter how hard he tries. Oh… Wait. He forgot. That could be his last chance, the very last straw to grasp at. He's not sure if he can even get his vocal cords to move, but he has to try, has to focus despite the solid cold that has settled deep in every bone. But he's listened before.... Maybe he will listen again? Just once? He has to. He has to.

With the last bit of air left in his lungs, Sam prays to the night sky he knows is somewhere up above him, obscured by ragged branches and blackness. It takes all of his might, and in the chilly forest air he calls out for the angel, voice thin and cracking. He feels the darkness around him angrily pulse in response and it constricts, wraps around his body like a snake, coiling and deadly silent. There's no room to breathe anymore. There's no room at all, and Sam falls as silent as the forest around him, blind and paralyzed... And waiting. Waiting for the flutter of wings or footsteps to approach. Just waiting. Hoping.

[the-fabled-void]

Thoughts on reapertale chara? I feel like we need more of them and the fact that reapercore(reapertale chara x core frisk) is canon is a very interesting concept which i very much love and i want more of reapertale chara in general sm

Also i should probably ask if ur comfortable which chara ships-

I've tried to get more into Reapertale lore, but as far as I'm aware it started as a Soriel AU and then expanded. And as much as I find RT Soriel adorable, it never interested me enough to get into the rest of the AU (especially early on bc I was very bitter about how some Soriel shippers portrayed and still portray Asgore)

I did read up on Chara a bit! I do like them being "the first human who fell" being turned into "the first human." I also feel like them worshipping and believing in the gods of RT makes sense.

I don't the corruption bit that I read, mostly because I'm bitter bc evil Chara *eye roll*

But hey, I guess it wasn't executed as horribly as it could have been, and it even matches with canon UT Chara a little (failed death -> corruption)

As for them with Core, I find it really interesting and cute! It seems random, but it doesn't need a huge lore reason.

They do seem like opposites- a vessel of chaos & violence x someone who was so obsessed with a happy ending that they kept resetting to relive the experience. The one that causes mischief, and the one who tries to help people who've lost everything. So, opposites attract?

Lmao Core thinking "I can change them"/j

But also, they share some similarities. Immortality and... Some kind of omnipresence if we go with the idea that chaos is everywhere.

And they were both too attached to the world (Chara's DETERMINATION and Frisk's unwillingness to let the story end)

Oh, oops, this turned into a character comparison instead of a proper ship analysis

All I wanted to say, they have a lot of potential to work really well, as they contrast off of each other but also share common ground

As for your question about ships involving Chara- don't worry, I enjoy them! As long as they're not being shipped with an adult or Asriel, I'm not gonna turn up my nose.

My personal favorites are Cocoapowder and Charisk (as long as it's not a universe where the Dreemurrs take in Frisk too... for obvious reasons)

Not that there's many other options, but these are mine! Feel free to ask me or bring up your own ideas!

[justanotherboringwriter]

Uhhh since u guys liked my jimcurly stuff n I'm getting back into Mouthwashing (+am probably forming a Curly fictive) here’s sum random stuff!!!! Also ig stars will be an omnipresent figure in my jimcurly works and Daisuke’s here cuz my Daisuke fictive wants 2 b included so everybody say hi to Daisuke!!!!! :3 also might add onto this later idk

╰┈➤ Gender, sexuality, ethnicity, & style hc’s

˙⋆✮ Grant Curly

જ⁀➴ cisboy, he/him.

જ⁀➴ Had a crush on a girl named Jill but really only when she wore her tomboy clothing and thought he was bicurious and would get over it and just be heterosexual. Anyways, Jill is now Jimmy. Achillean, gay, poly.

જ⁀➴ Scottish. People think he’s from Utah or smth cuz he looks white asf lmfaoooo

જ⁀➴ have u seen his in-game fit? White asf. Cowboy. Other than that, he has kilts.

˙⋆✮ Jimmy Zare

જ⁀➴ transboy, he/him with a secret side of it/zi/xe and horror themed neopronouns.

જ⁀➴ not really any changes in sexuality??? Just gender made him go from heterosexual to gay. Yeah, not much here. Achillean, gay, poly.

જ⁀➴ american, mistaken for Slavic

જ⁀➴ unintentional Y2K grunge with a side of cigarette Lana del Ray iykyk

˙⋆✮ Daisuke Juarez

જ⁀➴ transboy, he/it/zi/xe.

જ⁀➴ gay poly all da way >:3

જ⁀➴ Mexican-Japanese.

જ⁀➴ Y2K grunge but has to try unlike Jimmy. Family calls him a cholo which ig yeah cuz cholo is Mexican slang for both gangster and person who is partially Mexican.

╰┈➤ Neurodivergent/disability hc’s

˙⋆✮ Grant Curly

જ⁀➴ neurotypical. Probably a stress disorder.

જ⁀➴ low spoon, got worse with age.

˙⋆✮ Jimmy Zare

જ⁀➴ paranoid schizophrenic, depressed, probably NPD, low empathy, self harming tendencies + history of suicide attempts, alcoholism, and drug use. Probably plural from trauma :(

જ⁀➴ low spoon + chronic pain.

˙⋆✮ Daisuke Juarez

જ⁀➴ adhd, autism, depression, low empathy. Also possibly plural??? Definitely 1-3 Protogenic/ endogenic headmates then he decided to make more. History of SH (cutting + hitting).

જ⁀➴ low spoon, random body pains + gets random bruises, scrapes, etc., due to sensitive skin.

╰┈➤ Alterhuman hc’s

˙⋆✮ Grant Curly

જ⁀➴ huh

જ⁀➴ thought everybody just identified as some kind of creature as a child bc kids are just like that yk. doing his best to support his partners 🙂👍🏻

જ⁀➴ won’t admit it but likes it when they go full animal, especially during freaky time!!!!!

˙⋆✮ Jimmy Zare

જ⁀➴ wild wolf therian 100% probably also dragonkin. Both came from trauma, a desire to be able to protect himself, a desire to be free, and wanting to not feel like a vulnerable animal anymore.

જ⁀➴ will make a den and hoard stuff + scent his clothes then make Curly or Daisuke wear it/just scent their clothes.

જ⁀➴ yk damn well this mf goes feral during freaky times. Biting, drooling, growling, rutting. He bites the back of their necks type shit.

˙⋆✮ Daisuke Juarez

જ⁀➴ ouppy!!!!!!! :3

જ⁀➴ loves being spoiled + treated like a puppy. Sitting on laps, wearing clothes too big for him, wearing a collar + ears n tail. “How’s my puppy?”, “Have you been good for daddy?”, etc, he LOVES that shit.

જ⁀➴ bottom!!!!!! Doesn’t help that he’s muscular but Jimmy n Curly are much MORE muscular + stronger

[fareehaandspaniards]

hmmm. favourite character for an ask game...gonna have to go on a whim here and say mensis scholar damian, just have a feeling you like him yknow (being silly)

How did you even get the idea??? ahsdnmwdwqm

The Ask meme

Favourite thing about them:

Every thing. Damian as a human being. Places to summon him, the idea of revealing the Mensis Ritual, his equipment, his shield and cane, his look, his age, his cage, his Micolash, his School of Mensis, him being a tomb prospector in the past, him being him.

Least favorite thing about them:

I can't summon him on every boss or talk to him. I can't even learn properly who the fuck he is.

Favorite line:

I'll just use one from my fic because of reasons:

Micolash blushed, looking shamefully at his unexpected savior.

"Why did you help, sir?"

"I know that your family isn't wealthy. And still, you are diligent and much toil. The teachers praise you, Micolash, and I believe that despite your attempt to break into other people's property, you are a good young man… And if you are thrown out of here just because you want to know more, it will be very sad. I hope to see you successfully graduate from Byrgenwerth and build a good future for yourself. And one more thing. Don't do that again."

"Thank you"

Micolash was a little taken aback by such selflessness, even hesitating for a second - what if he had been sent by Willem? But the man was open. Micolash realized with embarrassment that he had never even asked his name.

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brOTP

Damian x Rom x Caryll!

I like to imagine their college years, when the three of them would get together and Rom and Caryll would pour out their souls to Damian, because he was so much older and wiser. And Damian felt like a young student in their company (even though he was only in his early thirties). Their friendship had endured a lot, and even at the end of their ways, when they had stopped talking so much, there was still an unbreakable trust between them, and if one asked for help, the other would provide it immediately.

OTP

Gremia x Damian

You've probably guessed it by now. Just the union of a very tired, very loyal and responsible old man with a maybe a little silly, but very honest and loving man.

Gremia needs Damian, with his omnipresent care and affection, all the wrinkles on his pale body and counsel, and Damian needs someone who is not tainted by madness and filth, who is willing to do anything for him and who will take the weight off his tortured heart.

(All other pairings with him are also nice, especially damicolash)

nOTP

Doesn't exist :P

Random headcanon

Among the Tomb Prospectors, Damian was the only fully educated and, at first, physically weak man. However, his leadership and concern for his comrades grew stronger as time went on. Ludwig had even planned to appoint him the next captain of the Tomb Prospectors, for he himself was to take command of the wider ranks of Church Hunters and Executioners after Logarius.

But there was Isz Chalice and Ebraitas, and things did not go according to plan. Also, when Ebraitas was found, Tomb Prospectors reacted in different ways. Some fell to their knees, some vomited, and some, frightened and maddened, attacked. Ebrietas was scared and felt sympathy for Damian because of his warm aura, not threatenin and tender, and secret dreams of children and family. The great ones feel and see people through. She tried to show it, but her inhuman voice, even more like a howl, and her frightened need to defend herself, caused by the attacks of the other Tomb Prospectors, caused not only the deaths of almost everyone in the squad, but also Damian's disgust for her. This became his personal trauma that he hided inside.

Unpopular opinion

He isn't dumb or late to heal you with choir bell, he just wants you to die! (maybe you were disrespectful to Rom? better say sorry)

Song I associate with them:

A lots of songs actually. Sorry for not giving a link to spotify, it just doesn't work in my country

Weird Science by Oingo Boingo

Соседи by Oxxxymiron

Колесо by Oxxxymiron

Does your mother know by Abba

Livin' in a world without you by The Rasmus

Lord of the Dance by Blackmore's Night

Favorite picture:

Any picture of him.

I'll put here his usual screenshot because it is called "oh damian you are so big" on my puter and it is just usual Damian in a high resolution