#other people and their circumstances I can look at purely objectively

[familyagrestefanblog]

Ladybug's Lucky Charms in Werepapas

Let's talk about another detail that people kinda REALLY wanna ignore about Marinette's decision in the Werepapas akuma battle. It's the fact that she hand-waves away FIVE Lucky Charms until she finally goes with the sixth:

No, that is NOT irrelevant. Marinette is not supposed to disregard her Lucky Charms left and right because they're trying to tell her what she's supposed to do. That's Lucky Charm 101 in an akuma battle.

I'm not gonna pretend like I know for 100% certainty what they all tried to tell her, but

1) a couple of them can be easily interpreted in very relevant ways.

And 2) I don't NEED to know what exactly they all mean because it doesn't need to be PROVEN that Marinette isn't supposed to cherry-pick her Lucky Charms. We've known since s1 how this works and it's still done like this in s6. Thanks to not being limited anymore to 1 Lucky Charm, she gained the luxury of sometimes just getting to summon one for the purpose of whooping ass instead of solving the actual situation - which is still a lucky charm's REAL purpose - but that doesn't change the fact that you're supposed to listen to the Lucky Charm, not the Lucky Charm to you!

Under special circumstances like a final battle, sure, use additional ones to whoop ass. But you can't just switch out the problem solving Charm with a purely ass whooping one which is what Marinette did here in "Werepapas". It's fine when you do that in an extremely dire situation, but a normal akuma battle is no dire situation. Especially not when the only real stakes there are is being reckless with Adrien's amoks!

She's supposed to use whatever she gets and that'll lead her to the right solution. Not going through a whole line of Lucky Charms until she gets one where she finally likes the first thought she gets from it because of how little it challenges her self-preservation (makes you wonder if having unlimited Lucky Charms now isnt the worst thing that ever happened to her. Now she can just ignore whole Lucky Charms until she finally gets one that tells her something closer to what she wants to hear instead of listening to the CHARM)

Let's take a look at her 6 Lucky Charms:

From my recollection (so correct me if I'm wrong), while the teapot sometimes shows up here and there as filler Charms it was firmly established and used several times as a visual cue for Marinette to go to Master Fu.

Obviously, she can't do that anymore, but she has Alya as co-guardian, Luka who was trained by Su-Han, and even Su-Han himself as Celestial Guardian who now does whatever she wants.

In a situation where Adrien's amoks are the akuma object, it's a pretty logical thing to happen that her first Lucky Charm tells her to get Guaridan-related help. She has the option, all the needed support, and all the resources, but doesn't use it because it wouldn't be nice having to face the baggage that could come with it.

And even if you wanna say "She didn't get help because she didn't wanted the new Butterfly to possibly find out that Adrien is a Sentibeing!" Then that excuse still falls flat because obviously Adrien's LIFE is supposed to be more important than preventing that secret from coming out. The secret has no value if Adrien is DEAD.

Afterwards she gets a fan and this obviously could VERY likely mean that she's supposed to get Felix involved because he's the Miraculous holder of the Peacock. And by "VERY likely" I mean "I doubt there is a likely chance that it ISNT a hint to get Felix".

I won't even elaborate on this further. Her second Lucky Charm tried telling her to get Felix when Adrien's amoks were on the line and she ignored it. It is what it is.

For the third and fifth ones, I personally don't know what they could mean because I already struggle recognizing what exactly they are supposed to be. Though, they do have recognizable shapes. I bet other people could look at them and know where they've seen these objects before in the show.

Then right between these two, the fourth Charm Marinette summons is an unicycle (that for some reason isn't polkadotted, but screw it)

An unicycle like she summoned back in season 2 "Sabotis", the episode in which Alya became Rena Rouge for the first time. Meaning this one pointed to getting Rena's help.

For me, this is one of the most interesting ones regarding Marinette's feelings of not wanting to face the Lucky Charm's solution to instead protect all her secrets. But if anything, I would want to give it its own post and not half-ass it here. Cause there are a lot of layers to this one.

And, of course, the last one: the scarf. It's alongside the fan the one for which the fandom does casually acknowledge the symbolism of it being a call back to 1x01 "The Bubbler" where Marinette now infamously made the decision to let Adrien believe that it was his father who made the scarf for him - and not her - because of how happy it made Adrien that his father finally "cared":

I don't think I need to explain why it makes sense that this is the one s6 Marinette cherry-picks to finally work with. The poor scarf has been made into the symbol of Marinette wanting to keep pretty much everything about Adrien's family a secret from him. Including him being a Sentibeing. I miss the good old days when we dreamed of the scarf being set-up to become the catalyst for Adrien to write off his father as a useless deadbeat who isnt worth his time and love.

So, unfortunately, of course this is the one she goes with now. Even if it means taking the risk to kill Adrien. Anything to keep the secrets save and lies unnoticed. How tf did we GET here?

[endless-elysium]

Gentle reminder that any offering is a valuable offering

I speak from experience when I say that there are plenty of things which can prevent you from doing some "easy" offerings. That doesn't make your practice lesser in any capacity.

Judging "value" of an offering is purely subjective. You can't know everyone's unique circumstances, whether that be where they live, their disabilities, the avaliablity of materials, and many other such things. You can't really view it from an objective standpoint, something that is easy to you might be nigh impossible for someone else.

You can't put things into tight little boxes and exclude everyone who even mildly steps out of them. That is not what this religion is about. Ableism is unfortunately so prevalent, and whether intentionally or not, enforcing harsh standards for what is and isn't proper is only further amplifying it.

Take a step back and look: is this person directly disrespecting the Gods by doing this? Are they harming themselves or others by doing it? (Animals and the environment included.) No? Then move on. Scroll past it, block them if it really gets on your nerves, but don't go against Xenia just to prove yourself somehow superior.

And to those who are struggling and feeling like they aren't doing enough to honour the Gods; just know that it's okay. Whatever your circumstances are, whatever your situation may be that's making you feel that way, just know that you're trying, and that's enough.

Don't let yourself fall into a spiral of what's proper. Does it feel right? Does it make you feel good? Then it's enough.

All of us have unique situations. Don't judge someone else based on your perspective alone. Don't put anyone down for being different. We're a community, let's have each other's backs instead. You don't need to agree with everything, just don't spread hate or try to make someone feel inferior.

I know a lot of people covered this already, but I just want there to be more reassurance around.

Share your snacks with your deities, drink tea with Them, sit in silence with Them, talk about your day with Them, devote your thoughts to Them; whatever you can, whatever feels good, is equally as valuable.

[musical-chick-13]

Please, can you tell me more about headcanons you have of River?

OOOOOOH, YES, THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!! 😊😊

My biggest one (and probably like. the least Common™ a;sldkfaj;sldfk) is that River has pure-o OCD. Which, for anyone who doesn't know, is a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder where the compulsions, rather than something like handwashing or pacing or saying stuff out loud, are all internal. They are purely things you do in your mind. This can take...many forms. Such as "reviewing" situations or your emotions or thoughts to make sure you aren't Thinking Bad Ideas or Accidentally Did Something Harmful, it can be repeating stuff to yourself mentally, it can be obsessively thinking about a particular thing to ward off Horrible Outcomes, or. an infinite number of behaviors. (For more info, you can check out this blog!)

ANYWAY. River's obsession with Hiding The Damage™ (<-her words not mine), because if she doesn't, she will Ruin Her Relationship. The way she recurrently refers to herself as a bad or heartless person, despite helping to save people/the world with no objection (suggesting this "I'm an unscrupulous person" is something she has to keep telling herself internally, probably by looking inaccurately at her previous behavior and circumstances). The implication that she keeps (successfully) convincing herself that the man she loves doesn't actually Love Her Back (no, I don't think this was something that was just shoehorned in during the Christmas special, maybe I'll make a Full Post about that someday) so she can protect herself and not Wreck Things.

And the way she kind of like...frequently sees the Most Extreme Option is the right way to solve things? (She breaks her wrist to get away from a Weeping Angel and then tries to pretend she's fine???? because The Future?????? She gives up all her regenerations to save The Doctor in Berlin. She worries about the state of the world (and her own emotional fortitude) so much when she thinks she has to kill the Doctor that she stops time and gathers millions of people to plead with him to save himself. And she impulsively, immediately breaks out of jail and suggests throwing herself into a Time Void and targets a Dalek when she thinks he's in danger. Not that these are...compulsions, per se, but this kind of black-and-white thinking (of, there are no middle-ground options, I have to do the absolute MOST I can do RIGHT NOW) is...very common among people who suffer from OCD. Couple that with the fact that she canonically Holds Things In despite worrying about a whole bunch of stuff...yeah.

(...Tbh, I think you could even make the case that doing things like "testing whether he'll rescue her"--jumping off a building when she doesn't need to, sending him coordinates when her plan is Fly Out Of An Airlock so he intercepts her, pretending to be unconscious so he'll inspect her--are some external compulsions. In the sense that she can "prove" to herself that she is worthy of love/care. Which is compounded by how she finds her parents in her adolescent years so she can grow up alongside them, since they can't like. Actually raise her. Doing the most extreme things to hang onto the reassurance of love, etc. etc. Yeah, she has a skewed view of human emotion due to being Bred As A Weapon™, but I think there's definitely room to interpret that as being complicated and intensified by something else.)

GOD that was so long, I'm so sorry. Some other headcanons I have are as follows: she likes sweets a lot. She loves contemporary (or...contemporary to us, at least--she's from the 51st century not the 21st) opera and classical music. (<-Yes, this one is purely self-indulgent.) She's a big Shakespeare fan. She has a favorite pair of super-fuzzy green pajamas that she thinks make her look stupid, but they're so comfy. She takes very hot showers because it helps her Feel Something. One of her favorite pastimes is playing strategy games (both electronic ones or board games), but she absolutely hates chess. Also, she not-infrequently commits petty theft to procure random gifts for her parents and husband. Or for gift exchanges for the Christmas parties she's forced to go to for work at Luna University.

And, lastly, she would have become an archaeologist and/or a professor anyway even if she'd never met the Doctor (this one seems to be...a little contentious). Mainly because she. Doesn't like people telling her what to do. I'm fully convinced that she would have broken away from the Silence on her own eventually, even if it might have taken longer than it did in canon. And she is a very intelligent, analytical person, and she seems to revel in historical knowledge and Finding Cool Objects, which...archeology was always going to be the perfect career for her.

[m-a-lice-sounright]

We're all acquainted with Suzunosuke's celebrated artwork involving the Clockworker's Doll, which was also featured in Miniature Garden Girl.

I wanted to go more in detail about this.

Let’s describe the image first:

The room seems small from our perspective. The background varies shades from a bright pink near the window to a duller magenta as you move your eyes to the left. Some petals float over the area.

There's a person at the center of the room, sitting on what looks to be a comfortable bed. She wears an entirely white dress. She uses a rose as her hair accessory and has a ribbon tied on one of her wrists. She seems to give a lonely expression in contrast to her smile. Her arms are crossed, resting on a birdcage. The latter one contains white-light pink flowers and three vessels of the Deadly Sins.

Given this premise, let's move on to a more elaborated analysis.

We can recognize three vessels in the cage:

The Glass of Conchita;

The Mirrors of Lucifenia;

The Marlon Spoon.

The only one that's not in it is the Clockworker's Doll. It could be a reference to the Doll distinguishing herself and seeing them as merely objects while she yearns to be a human.

Cages often symbolize imprisonment and loss of freedom. The vessels lost indeed their liberty of wandering around the globe. At the same time, it could imply she's preserving the items for Gallerian since he's collecting them, suggesting her appreciation for his work.

There are light pink roses that generally represent admiration, appreciation, grace, gentleness, gratitude, trust, joy, happiness, and love. In short, very generic adjectives.

The blooms in the cage could indicate the Doll's desire for having more. She wants to know about the outside world, given that her life is reduced to the small room she lives in, but she'd rather remain together with her “father”.

The rose in her hair could represent her belief that she's happy with what she has and accepts it, insinuating her admiration and love towards the judge.

The colors vary from pink to white, the last one symbolizing purity, hope, devotion, innocence, and youth. They describe the doll very well in my estimation.

Therefore, there could be a hint of the Irregular chained up, where each element in the confined space is a recall to the re_birthday song (Glass of Conchita = red manacles; Marlon Spoon = blue chains; Mirrors of Lucifenia = Irregular; Roses and sepals = the spring; the black room = the cage).

Seven roses have the meaning of “hidden love”. Gallerian loves the Clockworker's Doll or, at any rate, he's fond of the soul that dwells inside it. From people's point of view, he's a hopeless madman who takes refuge in past memories and projects them into an inanimate object. Regardless, Gallerian can communicate with the being inside it, developing a proper and genuine connection with her people can't perceive. Consequently, the expression can insinuate a non-existing affection from commoners’ apprehension of the circumstances. Conversely, there's a deep bond no one but her “father” can perceive.

Summing up, “hidden love” is concealed from the sight of others; only the two parties involved who in this situation are Gallerian and the Doll can fully comprehend it.

Speaking of the Doll, in the illustration we can notice she wears a distinct dress from the usual, blue one we're used to, a dress completely covered in white with minor pink tints in the upper area of the fabric and the ribbons.

A white gown commonly alludes to a connotation of innocence, virginity, being pure and clean, this in accordance with the values of the Christian faith.

It is evident here the authors' intention to correlate the achromatic color to the Doll's unexpected virgin pregnancy, thereby referring to the irregular residing in her womb. The pink features are very likely a citation to Irina, the owner of the soul inhabitating the Clockworker's Doll.

Now, if you pay particular attention to the Doll’s forehead, there appears to be what looks like a microscopic circular rash right above her left eye. I haven’t figured out yet what it is or if there’s any specific reason why it is there. However, I’ve come up with some ideas; for example, it may denote as a mark left after Gallerian's death by being shot in the head, a metaphor for emphasizing that the collector’s ideals will later be passed on to his “daughter”, and therefore he left a profound impression on her in his demeanor and mannerisms.

Or it's more conceivable they're there to provide an aesthetic effect.

The window refers to the external world, the world full of possibilities and new experiences that she never had the chance to discover. She only has her room, the demons in the vessels, and Gallerian to keep her company, nothing else. She's somewhat alone, although she's fine with that, having the impression of being mostly more relaxed than anything else. Although, observing carefully, it seems like she's staring at the window in a melancholic way: she wants to know the outer view of her door. Nevertheless, she's just a motionless doll and would rather remain by the judge's side.

Moreover, the window is divided into six components. They may indicate the vessels of sin Gallerian succeeded to gather, and it's also the number of roses visible in the birdcage (I'm not sure though, since the other version presents eight segments). Along with the one used as adornment, we have in total seven roses, identical to the complete set of the deadly sins.

Petals flutter in the air, wandering around the limited chamber. As mentioned before, these flowers cover symbolic connotations. Aside from the definitions listed previously, white petals can also indicate new beginnings, renewal, and hope. I figured there's a potential that they might represent Irina's body alterations over the course of a thousand years, although I'm not convinced 100%.

Additionally, in numerology, the number five is represented as “freedom, curiosity, and change, which can be interpreted as having the desire to have adventures and explore new possibilities”. As we stated earlier, the Doll isn't entirely free. She wishes to be more informed about what’s beyond her window, but she's limited to her tiny room and can't leave. Only Gallerian is her information source in order to understand the outside world, and as follows, his guidance has borne fruit indeed, albeit the results may not be the expected ones.

Moving forward to the next element, let’s focus on the fuchsia ribbon wrapped around her wrist.

Very frequently, ribbons have a deep meaning in cultural contexts. They’re linked to protection and required to stave off evil spirits. A bit ironic considering that she has the vessels locked up while holding their confined area, while in reality, she herself is a container.

Ribbons are also related to awareness in terms of specific diseases. As we know, the Doll has difficulty with the movement of her legs and is thus obligated to use a wheelchair.

The ribbon placed on the right wrist has a symbolic connotation as well. In some cultures, the right side has always had the significance of authority, power, and strength. During the Judgment of Corruption era, the Clockworker Doll is notorious for taking Gallerian's place as the director of Evil’s Theater after his demise. She has an elevated authoritarian position over the inhabitants or ordinary people while announcing verdicts as she determines the consequences of the individual.

In Biblical comprehension, the “right hand of God” symbolizes a place of honor, status, and righteousness. The career of a judge is certainly seen as an honorable position in the eyes of the public, and as such, they have the duty to be impartial and to pass fair judgments for everyone according to the law.

However, what happens when there's no law to rely on? When the only teachings you can exercise are those grasped from the previous misguided director? This is the case of the Doll acting as the master of the court. She doesn't have a guide to inform her that what she's doing is ethically wrong. She isn't even aware of what's right and what's wrong given that she needs to be lectured about the moral standards of the world. Despite that, she continues to do what she retains right because of Gallerian’s tutoring, having reconsiderations at times and reaching out for help, albeit in vain.

[mrnbv]

The truth about reality

These are the notes I took while watching this video by I AM with Brittany, I thought it'd help a lot of people. It is not exactly complete (I didn't write down all the examples she gave plus she has an amazing way of explaining things so I encourage you to watch the whole video).

When you see something you don't want, realign yourself with who you really are, source. Say to yourself: I am the shapeless, formless, limitless essence of existence.

What reality really is not: the 3D, this reflection is not and never will be, not the feelings, not the five senses, not the circumstances. Your five senses are not perceiving reality but something you are being aware of. You are reality. There is no objective reality: the senses are only a side effect of what you have accepted as the truth. It doesn't mean anything. Don't look at the 3D as feedback to say to you that you are no there yet, it is proof of nothing, they [senses] don't perceive reality, it is a side effect of what exits in your awareness.

You are all that there is, just by existing you can perceive anything you want. If you want something different from what you are living, acknowledge who you are, source, and choose what you want to experience. Thoughts, circumstances and feelings that this human character is living, have no meaning.

Accept the fact that, because you are source, it has to be the way you want, there is no other option, there is no room for fear, confusion, questions. There is just pure knowing. If the human character has thoughts and feelings, let them be, they're irrelevant, you are source. They don't have power over you. Nothing else will be source of anything, just you, unless you let them. Don't believe in the senses. You have power over everything. Don't give your power away.

You are the truth, infinite existence. Choose to know that as source you determine it all.

Let's play the awareness game!

For the next week, every day you wake up, choose to be aware of what you want to feel for that day, whether it's freedom, happiness, love, etc. Be aware of what you prefer to be experiencing, instead of choosing to be aware of the lack. Remove your attention of anything that implies the lack. Allow everything to happen, even doubts, circumstances because remember that there is nothing stopping you, they don't have power over you, the human character is not the source. Then, everything will start to appear differently. As reality, as all, choose what you want to shine your light on. If you perceive something contrary, it's not who you are, don't pay attention to it. Feeling, thoughts, doubts, circumstances, have no power. You are the source. What you say, goes.

[itsmistyeyedbi]

from the short asks abt love list: 3, 8 & 11 for zuri 🫶🫶🫶🫶

Hi! Thank you so much for asking🥹❤️ I won't even attempt to say that I'll keep this short lol, I'll just see how it goes as I answer.

3. What does your OC look for in a romantic (or perhaps purely sexual) partner? Is this always healthy?

You know what? I think a good amount of any unhealthy aspects of her relationships come down to her. Not everything is set in stone, but a lot of the things she likes in a partner are pretty standard things.

Being kind and caring is one of them. They don't have to necessarily be nice, so long as they aren't running around intentionally hurting people (...unless there are very specific, convincing reasons for it - and it isn't happening regularly)

A good sense of humour is another one. She doesn't mind having to do a little digging to find it lol, so long as it's there.

She does like flirty (maybe even edging towards sexual) banter, so she usually leans towards people who are comfortable with that - whether that comes out as them responding in kind or them having a more bashful "stammering and clutching their pearls" response.

The main thing is someone that makes her feel special. It can be in how they treat her or speak about/to her (especially if it's different from how they treat or speak about/to others). Fortunately, it's always been less of an "I hate everyone but you" and more of a "You're the most amazing person I've ever met" - can't say the former has never done something for her though. This isn't something she actively looks for, it's just something that always draws her in. And it's gotten her into a little trouble sometimes.

8. Does your OC pursue only monogamous relationships? Or are they open to other, more creative, options?

She's only been in monogamous relationships. An open relationship would be a no, she just isn't comfortable with that. But I don't see her being averse to a polyamorous relationship.

There are some situations that would be easier for her to adjust to than others. If a couple both have an interest in her and wanted to explore the possibility of her being in a relationship with both of them, she'd be down. And excited. And nervous. She'd be more weary if she still had issues with relationships, but if she had enough of a handle on them, she'd be ready to try.

If she and her partner both developed an interest in someone, she could still be down to try. But it would have to be years into her relationship with them, with a lot of talking and her already having a handle on her issues with relationships before she could comfortably do that. If she didn't, she wouldn't be for it. She wouldn't want to complicate things by bringing someone in and possibly subjecting them to her messiness as well - she'd be grappling with the fact that she might be doing that to her partner already.

The most difficult situation would be if they're all single. As in, all three of them having feelings for each other but don't have an established romantic relationship. If there's a friendship there, maybe, but even then she'd be terrified of ruining things with both of them. Her insecurities would shine the most in these circumstances, unless she's dealt with them. But still, not the most ideal situation.

Now I'm thinking about the Adam/Nate/Zuri poly again, God I need to post about that soon.

11. Has your OC ever been the object of someone's affections that they did not (or could not) reciprocate?

Absolutely.

Depending on what route I'm playing, Douglas is one of them lmao. It's not something she can take seriously, but she does consider his feelings when she let's him know that nothing is gonna happen there. She makes sure he knows that she's too old for him.

There were a fair amount of people who showed an interest in her in uni. And she really didn't help because a lot of them were people that she'd spend a lot of time with at a party - chatting them up, getting to know them (but who's to say if they're getting to know her), drinking with them, dancing with them. Then she might make out with them, and on a few occasions, if she really enjoys their company, go home with them.

And she isn't the type to leave immediately after (unless they seem to want her to) - she's down to cuddle a little, maybe spend the night if things go so well that she doesn't even want to attempt to move wink wink, even have some tea the next morning. She isn't going to pretend to not know them afterwards either. If she sees them, she will talk to them.

It can definitely be read as there being some deeper interest there, so some of them do try to pursue something more and well... sometimes, she gives it a shot (as much as she can with her 'leave them before they leave me' mentality), but it ultimately doesn't work out. Even if she does end up having some kind of affection for them, it isn't in the same way or to the same extent that they have for her.

A short ask list about love.

[blazehedgehog]

Headcanon territory, but how do you feel about Robotnik having strong arms but still being overweight? Usually I think of characters who work with heavy metal parts as having some decent muscle, but I could also see him deigning the labor beneath him.

I think in order for him to have a background in machinery it makes sense he'd have some amount of strength. And remember: while we personally think of strong men having this supremely cut, hourglass shape:

A lot of that muscle tone is just for show. Those are body builders. If you want to see what a real strong person looks like, with functional, practical muscle, go look at strongman competitions.

They are full of guys that look "fat" but are actually almost pure, solid muscle. Body builders train to remove fat. Strongmen train to become strong, where having a little bit of fat is a necessary component.

I was just telling my discord chat a few hours ago about how I was actually building significant upper body strength for a while. I'm a big dude, we were still in the shadow of Ryan Davis dying, and I wanted to exercise more. So I'd roll out of bed every day, and before doing anything else, I'd do push ups. From late 2014 up through 2015.

At the start, I could barely do five. But I kept at it. Every few days, once I got comfortable reaching my current goal, I'd add more. 5 push ups became 10. Then 15. Then 20. By May of 2015, I was able to do 100 push-ups.

I did not lose a single pound. And I don't mean baby push-ups, I mean full, real, actual push-ups. More than that, actually, as I was doing what I'd heard called "Indian Push-ups" -- a technique that blends exercise and yoga, where you curve upwards as you push off the floor and bend your body into an A-shape. sometimes they're called Hindu Push-ups. I could feel it working my tummy.

But no weight loss. That, plus a bunch of other circumstances that broke my habit, meant I stopped doing push-ups. I didn't realize just how much upper body strength I had until I started working a thrift store job later that year and I started getting constant compliments about my ability to help people load heavy objects into their cars. I started to realize that for the first time in my life, I had real biceps. But I still looked like a fat guy with a big spare tire.

So... sure, yeah, Eggman can be a strong guy and still have this big belly. It happens.

And for my own sake: I posted this in the discord, but here's me trying to do ten of those push-ups again. I get pretty winded, but I'm out of practice, and once I caught my breath I barely felt it in my arms, so I could have probably kept going.

My cousin, who has a rock climbing hobby and has always been kind of a lanky bean pole, says he even struggles to do ten push-ups. And I do this with a significant undercarriage.

[simlit]

All odd numbers for Kyrie!😁

What memory would your OC rather just forget?

I think he'd wish he could forget that he was given to the church as a baby. Not necessarily because he wants to reunite or even know his birth parents, he doesn't. But it's a constant reminder that he, quite literally, doesn't belong there. That he was given away as if he was a tool or some material good. It's just a lot to carry around with you.

What is your OC's fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw?

Fear of failure. Something that has only recently made itself evident to him (and me lol). In a way, he's a people pleaser. He doesn't want to disappoint those around him. He fears the ripple of consequences that might stem from his domino falling first, and doesn't want to be the person responsible for a larger collapse, so he sort of keeps to his duty as a cog, despite how he might not align with the objective.

How far is your OC willing to go to get what they want?

I would say... not very. He's lazy, certainly, but he's also sheltered, incredibly inexperienced, and lacks the means to get what he wants through pure brute strength, power or smarts. That being said, if the obstacle is something he can overcome, I think he'd be more inclined to actually try.

What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

I made Kyrie almost as a blank slate so that I could easily adapt him to the circumstances of the story. Because CotS is both interactive and filled with characters I didn't create, he had to be someone who could blend well with all types of people, and not have many "hardstops" so to speak, morally or otherwise. But along the way I've tried to make someone who is an "open template" entertaining, and I think Kyrie's almost lackadaisical unbothered humor emerged from all of ~that~. I didn't go in planning him to be such a huge fucking troll, but I'm glad he has his "thing". In a story with so many strong personalities, it would have been easy to get overtaken by the other cast members.

Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

"That's abominable." Because it's just so damn funny.

What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

Yes, he has one, and no he doesn't use it. And it's been called into question multiple times in the story, and I still don't think a damn one of them knows the actual truth yet lmao. It's funnier that way. It wouldn't save him from getting murdered, obviously. It would probably just get him murdered faster.

If you met your OC, would the two of you get along?

Absolutely. If he wasn't so hot. Because honestly every time I look at him I just want to punch him in the face so 100% the conversation would go no where and I'd get arrested.

Does your OC have a faceclaim? If so, who?

No he doesn't.

What is the worst thing you have put your OC through story-wise?

I kind of... took his sister. Mean Jade go grr. I have this terrible habit of killing off loving sisters. I leave the bad ones though. Elsera says hi.

How does your OC behave when enraged?

He's one of those awful people who just gets stoic and civil when angry. As Tay said while having the absolute pleasure of being on the other end of it: that's probably worse. He's not been confronted with a situation that would make him exceptionally angry though, i.e. nothing life or death, so maybe that would change.

Does your OC have any illnesses or disorders? How do they handle it?

He doesn't.

What emotion is the hardest for your OC to process? How about express?

I think it would be loss. Which I guess is a generic answer, since it's pretty typical of human nature not to handle loss well. But I think when you have so very little in your life that is truly meaningful, then you're grasping at straws and have nothing to distract you from your grief. I think in the story currently, he's in a constant state of bracing. Trying to remain outwardly hopeful even though his body is already starting to reject the premise that things will turn out well, and that putting so much mental strength into denying it, degrades his focus in other facets of his life. Outside of the few moments where he's truly and genuinely amused, I do feel he's starting to lose himself under the pressure he would have, otherwise, been able to stand against without hesitation. I can't really imagine him in a place where he has to accept that loss is real, and I don't know how or if he can cope with it when it does.

What is your favorite thing about your OC?

I love what a huge fuckin TROLL he is. Sorry, it's so entertaining to me. It's one of my main reasons for preferring him with ~certain~ members of the cast. Mostly the ones who are ripe for riling up ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[yinyuedijun]

Help I have another idea I need to share sjdnkek

This one's a bit wild ig so bear with me ok??! It's fluffy too and non toxic I think. I hope. Pls tell me this isn't somehow creepy I'm sorry if it is skskdkkd

SO- Aventurine × Ena! Reader.

Ena being ofc, the Gaiathra Triclops. In this version, even though everyone believes Ena was assimilated into Xipe, that's not what really happened - Ena instead made a deal with Xipe, trusting the Harmony to uphold Order, and willingly gave up their path and power as an Aeon, choosing to reincarnate as a mortal. And before they gave up their power, they did two last things: first, guarantee that their reincarnation would regain at least some knowledge of their previous life, i.e knowing that they were an Aeon before. And second, give out one last blessing to one of the people they watched over - Kakavasha.

Ena goes on to reincarnate (I'm thinking something like the Dan Heng/Dan Feng situation, so reader has dreams of their previous memories and such, but is a completely different person to who Ena was), and Reader!Ena lives a pretty tranquil life as a mortal - while Kakavasha goes through hell, and loses faith in the Gaiathra Triclops. I haven't given much thought to how they meet, but maybe Ena!Reader goes to Penacony out of curiosity for what a land presided by Harmony is like (given that they know they used to be the Aeon of Order, and that they had previously chosen to entrust Harmony with their path.) and they run into Aventurine there - and they just know. They can feel Ena's blessing on him, and they're immediately drawn to him.

Getting to know each other, creating a bond, trusting each other until Aventurine can open up about his past with them, and reader reveals their identity, and suddenly everything changes for him - he wasn't abandoned by his God, but rather they'd given him their final blessing before they passed - and reader has this strong urge to cherish and protect him, not because he's the child blessed by Ena, but because they've fallen for him. The complicated relationship they'll have to sort out where Kakavasha feels like Reader is a gift sent by Gaiathra, while Reader cherishes and worships him like he's the divine one. Aventurine being loved unconditionally and cherished for the first time, being basically worshiped by the Reader.. being treated like he's the most precious thing in the world, being looked at with pure love and adoration. The hurt, the confusion, the fear of being loved.. maybe reader can have some issues too and be so wholly devoted they'd do anything for him, no matter how much it might harm them, just to add a bit more trouble to work on.

I don't think I'll ever actually write any of my ideas (even though I do have a writing blog lmao) bc I'm too insecure about my writing and my inspiration bursts are too inconsistent, but thank you for reading my silly thoughts and letting me share them lol I really appreciate it, especially bc you're one of my favorite writers here <3

- Penacony DH smut anon (lol)

I DONT THINK ITS CREEPY AT ALL!! I adore reincarnation romances and I have a particular fondness for reincarnated deity romances. It would be so interesting to see Aventurine process this news. I really like the phrase you used wrt "the fear of being loved" - I think Aventurine would suffer very, very intensely from this fear under regular circumstances with a human. I can only imagine the state of panic he'd be in if he were the object of affection of the god who supposedly forsook him. augflgsjsk it would be so juicy... reader too I'm sure they're full of many complicated feelings just like dan heng is (I bet the two of them would be besties)

I'm sad hearing that you feel you won't write your ideas, I think they are so brilliant and I love reading them 🥺 you're always welcome to share them here - but please let me know if you do ever decide to post something, I'd love to read and reblog it <333

[zenmastercharles]

Conceptualizing Upgraded Powers for Every Miraculous

What’s up BITCHES🗣️‼️

…i’m sorry guys, I shouldn’t have called you bitches.

The concept of evolving powers in Miraculous Ladybug has raised some…interesting questions. When Ladybug basically said “fuck you, I do what I want” and made herself a new power, it confused a lot of us. And when Shadowmoth did the same goddamn thing, we were just kind of tired of it. The unspecific and wishy washy circumstances around upgrading a Miraculous user’s powers has inspired many people in the fanbase to make up their own headcanons for it, improving on the power that we were given and also conceptualizing upgrades for other users. 

Well, in this post, I’m gonna do the same thing….

For every goddamn Miraculous we see in this show

Am I crazy? Yes. Do I even have the time to do all of this? No.  Am I going to obsess over this for days on end instead of doing what I actually need to do? Absolutely.

To explain what exactly I’m doing here, instead of looking into the animals each Miraculous is based on, I’m purely going to draw concepts from the, well, concept the kwami embodies. That means I’m going to find a new power for Creation, Destruction, Transmission, Emotion, Illusion, Protection, Subjection (fuck Action, all my homies hate Action), Evolution, Intuition, Migration, Derision, Perfection, Jubilation, Inflatio-nah I’m just fuckin’ with you, Exaltation, Multiplication, Pretension, Passion, Determination, and Adoration.

Okay so maybe I lied about every Miraculous being in here since I’m ignoring the Eagle, but I’d rather wait until more Miraculouses from the NA Box get explored. Some of these are going to be easier than others, and some of these are going to be the bane of my existence, lookin’ at you Derision (which is oddly fitting). I’m gonna try my hardest not to make these upgrades OP. Now, without further ado, let’s do this.

🐞LADYBUG MIRACULOUS🐞

“Oh, Ladybug already got an upgra-” Well that upgrade was ASS, so we’re giving her a better one. When thinking of a new power for the Ladybug Miraculous, it was pretty damn difficult. I mean, Creation is a concept that’s so broad yet so specific. You have so many options yet no options at the same time. I was caught in a bit of a strange conundrum. So, in my desperate time of need, I turned to a friend that’s been helping me with shit like this since I first started writing.  My all-knowing buddy,

🪽𝒮𝓊𝓅𝓮𝓇𝓅𝓸𝓌𝓮𝓇 𝒲𝒾𝓀𝒾🪽

When I went to this site, I did what anyone would do and simply searched up Creation to see what I found. And I found a lot, a lot that could become too busted too fast. I had a few ideas at first, my first idea after going to this page was a literal goddamn domain expansion, that being Ladybug projecting her will in the form of a pocket dimension where her imagination reigns supreme. My second idea was something I would’ve called Power Plant, basically Ladybug’s spots glow and she can generate blasts of pure Big Bang energy, which again, is busted. 

Eventually, I found something that interested me and that’s Transmutation. Y’know, Alchemy from FMA? Yeah, that. It’s basically transforming one thing into another thing of equal value. And that, my friends, falls under Creation. Because you’re basically breaking something and using the parts to create something new. So, I’m guessing you can see where I’m going with this, right?

Ladybug’s new upgraded power is Overhaul, an ability that allows her to transform an inanimate object into an object of equal weight and density. So she can take a vase and transform it into an ax, but that ax is gonna be the same weight and density of the vase…and it’s gonna be made out of glass.

…holy shit, I just realized that’s an MHA reference, I legit didn’t even mean tha-

🐈‍⬛BLACK CAT MIRACULOUS🐈‍

Another upgrade that I came up with thanks to the help of with the help of my dear friend,

🪽𝒮𝓊𝓅𝓮𝓇𝓅𝓸𝓌𝓮𝓇 𝒲𝒾𝓀𝒾🪽

I am of the opinion that Chat Noir got absolutely shitted out of a new power in Season 5. You’re telling me you had Adrien go through all that bullshit that season and you couldn’t have at least given him some new razzle-dazzle to pay it off? Boosh.

Anyway, this one was actually fairly easier since Destruction isn’t really that broad a concept. I mean, you’re destroying shit, how complicated can it be? So, with Creation, I wanted to think about how Ladybug was creating something, but with Destruction, I want to focus on what Chat Noir’s destroying.

I went through some ideas before I came to a conclusion, Chat Noir being able to destroy someone’s soul to incapacitate them, him being able to destroy someone’s mental boundaries and what not. For the longest time I had the idea in my head that Chat Noir could maybe destroy an aspect of something, like maybe he could just destroy the color in an object and turn it completely gray. However, I feel that’s a bit more…situational. But, I eventually had a definitive idea. You know what falls under Destruction? Division.

“Wha-how does Division fall under Destruction?” You might ask, and that’s simple, division is destroying the bond that keeps multiple things whole, forcefully separating them. For example, if you have a lobster and you tear off it’s claw you have to destroy the shell to get to the meat inside. You’re dividing the shell from the meat by destroying the shell. (I’m fully aware that you didn’t need that explanation but I just watched the episode of Young Sheldon where George taught Missy how to crack a lobster and I’m still not over it)

So, Chat Noir’s new power is Hissection, it allows him to forcefully separate one thing from another by basically touching it and pulling that bitch out. He could use it on an akuma’s object and literally rip the akuma out of it without damaging the object. Or, if he’s getting really morbid, he could rip someone’s skeletal structure out of their body and just watch them fall down like ol jelly bones. He obviously wouldn’t do that, but still.

I have the perfect scenario for this power to develop too, Monarch finds out that Adrien is Chat Noir and tries to use the ring to get him to come to his side since Adrien’s a sentimonster, only for Chat Noir to use this power to separate himself from the Peacock Miraculous and wedding rings, granting himself his own sentience. Isn’t that just raw as hell?

🦋BUTTERFLY MIRACULOUS🦋

I’m gonna call Gabriel Hawkmoth for this section because I refuse to keep up with his new names. Hawk Moth has already got a kind-of upgrade with “Megakumas”. However, Megakumas are just boosh. They’re basically ‘akumas but stronger’. So I’ll be coming up with a new one just how I did with Ladybug. 

Now, the butterfly is connected to the concept of Transmission which I was having a hard time with because my stupid ass brain only thought of Transmission as “broadcasting TV/telekinetic signals”. That’s the reason I changed it to “Transformation” in one of my fics. However, one quick trip to le dictionary corrected me. Now I know that Transmission is the act of transferring something from one place to another. THAT’S why he can do that fuckin’ butterfly head thing…well my version doesn’t make sense anymore.

I really only have one idea for this and I find it perfect. Y’know how akumas transmit powers to akumatized victims right? Well, what if the butterfly user could transmit themselves?

Hawkmoth’s new power is Swarm Shadow, it allows him to break his corporeal form into a swarm of butterflies, allowing him to blast across large distances in a reduced timeframe and re-materialize. It’s basically teleportation with extra steps. 

I always thought him being able to do that in Volpina was cool as hell and I wished canon came up with a way to incorporate that someday…they didn’t.

🦚PEACOCK MIRACULOUS🦚

This one is gonna be a bit shorter because I pretty much got a great idea the moment I thought about it for more than three seconds. The Peacock is the Miraculous of Emotion, right? Well, what better upgrade would there be than, well, controlling emotions?

Argos’ new power is Vehementor, it allows him to subtly or blatantly influence a person’s emotions, he can push positive or negative emotions onto someone, or soften certain emotions to calm someone down. Someone with a stronger will could of course resist this. 

I used Argos instead of Mayura because we clearly aren’t seeing her again for a while. 

🦊FOX MIRACULOUS🦊

Now THIS one is harder. The Fox Miraculous is one of Illusion, which is a power that’s so straight-forward that it’s hard to think of anything to add to it without dipping into other domains. At one point, I thought of giving Rena a memory-based power, maybe the ability to take people’s memories and project them in the form of illusions, but that seemed like it was a bit situational in nature.

Eventually, I did come up with something. Imagine an illusion so advanced that it covered you at all times and that you could alter at will. You can make yourself invisible by forcing the illusion to mimic your surroundings, you could make it look like you’re teleporting by disappearing and reappearing behind people in puffs of orange smoke, you could make yourself look like someone else, you could make someone think you’re a shapeshifter, pretty much anything! 

So, Rena Rouge’s new power is Outfox, it allows her to manifest an illusion that’s connected to her brain and can react to her brain activity, twisting, shaping, and altering itself to whatever Rena can think of. She’ll definitely need to focus to keep pulling this off, or else the illusion would go haywire and out of her control, but it could still be pretty damn cool.

🐢TURTLE MIRACULOUS🐢

The Turtle Miraculous is one of Protection, which sounds like it would be difficult to come up for something with. I always felt that when coming up with new powers for the Turtle, other fan-creators did some that just…didn’t feel right to me. They just didn’t focus on the ‘protection’ part enough for me to feel like it made sense. My first idea for this was to give Carapace the ability to shape his shields into other stuff, and while I do think that would make for a good sub-power, it wouldn’t really fit for what I’m going for.

But then, I came up with something I like. Do you remember Metal Mario? It’s a powerup from, well, Mario, that gave him a thin coating of metal that enhanced his durability and strength. I’m going to give Nino something similar to that.

Carapace’s new power is Fortify, it allows him to create a forcefield that’s shaped around his body, allowing him to run around tanking attacks left and right. It also increases his physical strength, however, a downside is that he experiences a slight decrease in speed and agility. 

(Yes, I gave him and Rena similar powers intentionally, DJWifi is one of my favorite relationships, let me be)

🐝BEE MIRACULOUS🐝

Subjection! 

“Wait, isn’t it Action no-” SUBJECTION!

Subjection is an easy one. Subjection basically means ‘bringing something under your control’. So what better power for this one than mind control?

Queen Bee’s new upgraded power is Hive Mind, it allows her to stick someone with her trompo and bring them under her control, forcing them to do whatever she wants.

Notice how I said ‘Queen Bee’? Don’t worry Vesperia fans, I’m one of you, and I’m not leaving her out. In fact, I’m giving her a completely separate power upgrade. While Chloe would have no problem mind controlling someone, Zoe would likely find the concept…icky.  So, we’ll have to find something new for her. At first I wanted to give her the ability to control plants, because one, putting plants under subjection and two, bee, but that felt unoriginal. So, what did I go with? Something also unoriginal. Because what’s better than enacting subjection? Reversing it.

Vesperia’s new upgraded power is Layoff, it allows her to reverse low-level subjection, if someone else has you mind controlled, Vesperia can reverse that shit easy. Yes, it’s basically Bee Balm from Scarlet Lady (zoe please don’t sue me).

…ugh, fine, if I did consider the concept of Action, then the power would be Comb-Up, it would allow the user to drain the momentum from an object with the tip of the trompo to such a point that the object just completely freezes mid-air.

🐰RABBIT MIRACULOUS🐰

We’ve got the main 7 out of the way, let’s get onto the time-hopping Miraculous itself, the Miraculous of Evolution. I have mixed feelings on the linking of Evolution to the Time Miraculous because, like, I get it…but like, it doesn’t match all that well. I mean, Duration was right there if you really wanted something time-related. It doesn’t make that much more sense than Evolution, but it’s closer.

Now, at first, I focused a little too much on the time aspect, I thought of stealing time from someone else to slow them down DC style, I thought of enhancing her own time to speed herself up, I even thought of a power that’s actually going to the next Miraculous on the chopping block. But, I eventually got back to Evolution, and thought about what it means to evolve. And I came up with something pretty cool. What if Bunnyx could evolve objects?

Bunnyx’s new power is Rush Job, it allows her to harness a small percentage of chronokinetic energies and apply it to an object to evolve it, bringing it to a higher level. For example, you got a car? Do you want it to fly? BOOM! Rush Job! Now your car has jets and wings….I feel like I haven’t explained it well enough.

The weakness of this one would be, I guess, when it evolves it looses one of it’s best features from when it pre-evolved. Like, going back to the car, yeah it has jets now but there’s not a steering wheel anymore, just a steering mechanism that’s hella hard to get down. Also it wears off fast.

🐍SNAKE MIRACULOUS🐍

Ah, the Miraculous of the Snake, or as I like to call it, the one that basically lets you go “nuh-uh”. Intuition is a simple concept to get down, basically you’re super aware and have good instincts. This is also another wibbly wobbly time Miraculous, it and the Rabbit take turns making each other insignificant. This one was actually pretty easy for me, as I already had this power in mind for the snake for months now. 

Viperion’s new power is Scale Factor, it allows him to peer through time to view the possible outcomes of each action they take, and adjust for certain happenings. He would have to focus hard, but I feel that shouldn’t be hard for Luka.

🐴HORSE MIRACULOUS🐴

Bit of a detour, but the Horse Miraculous’ power doesn’t make sense to me, mostly because it’s a huge wasted opportunity. The concept is Migration, and that’s basically moving from one direction to another. And what are horses known for? Running! So the obvious conclusion for the Horse’s power is PORTALS! I’m gonna give the Horse the power I think it should’ve had in the first place.

Pegasus’ new power is Steed, it allows him to sprint at incredible speeds, becoming a light green blur (same color as the portals). 

🐒MONKEY MIRACULOUS🐒

This one…this one was the death of me. Because what the fuck is ‘Derision’? I didn’t even know that was a word before Thomas decided to pull it out of his ass and slap it onto the table. Apparently is means, “contemptuous ridicule or mockery”. So basically, magic bullying. Now, how do I find another application of this? Credit where credit’s due, Uproar is kinda perfect for the concept of Derision. Basically making your opponent the laughing stock by disrupting their power. After a few hours, I finally got it. What if your power made you the laughing stock.

What if you’re the jester, the joker, the one who made people laugh, whether they like it or not?

Roi Singe’s new power is Quip King, it allows him to tell a joke so bad, a joke so cringe, a joke so unbelievably garbage, that anyone who hears it laughs at him. Forcibly. And they can’t stop. It’s basically Joker Venom but WAY less lethal. Can’t exactly threaten the city while your ribs are quaking.

🐲DRAGON MIRACULOUS🐲 

Okay, Derision was the death of me, this buried me underground. This time, I knew what Perfection was, I just don’t know how that connects to the animal or the power. I mean, Ryuko has weather powers. The fuck does that have to do with Perfection? I mean, if you wanted her to have weather powers that bad, Precipitation was right there. 

Anyways, finding something to do with Perfection that still looped in with it’s main power was very hard…so I just didn't. I straight up forgot about the ‘Storm Dragon’ powers and focused completely on Perfection. Perfection means, well, making things perfect, so I thought of something like a stat booster, making the user a living unit of strength, speed, durability, and stamina. I realized that, one, that would be way too busted, and two, it would overshadow the turtle’s new power. I eventually came up with something different though.

Ryuko’s new power is Omni-Tongue, it allows her to understand and speak all existing languages, including ancient or fictional languages. It’s kind of situational but honestly, the Dragon is already one of the most busted of the Chinese Box, it doesn’t need another super flashy power. 

🐷PIG MIRACULOUS🐷

Ah yes, the Miraculous quite literally designed for Rose. It’s the Miraculous of Jubilation, meaning the feeling of great happiness or triumph. I’m sure you’re thinking “Zen Master Charles, how the hell are you gonna find another application of this.” Quiet, dear reader, as I know how to do this. I didn’t really have any other ideas for this one since the answer was pretty clear cut.

Pigella’s new power is Peace Out, it overloads whoever she hits with her tambourine with so much positive emotion that they can’t do anything else but frolic around and enjoy the world’s beauty.

🐯TIGER MIRACULOUS🐯

What the fuck is ‘exaltation’?

“Actually, the concept got changed to ‘elation’.” Ahhh…what the fuck is ‘elation’?

Okay so Elation means ‘a feeling of great joy or pride’. Now, how the hell does that factor into a super punch? I have no idea, but I do have an idea of what it’s upgraded power could be. See, when you’re super happy, you’re super energetic, like you’re bouncing around and shit. And you would need a lot of stamina for that, so…

Purple Tigress’ new power is Resolver, it allows her to grant herself nigh-infinite stamina and a slight increase in speed and agility. 

🐁MOUSE MIRACULOUS🐁

Eezy dubs.

Polymouse’s new power is Bootleg, it allows her to produce copies of physical objects, the only downside being that the copies will be of lower quality, y’know, like a bootleg version.

🐓ROOSTER MIRACULOUS🐓

Ah, pretension, a claim or assertion of a claim to something. It actually makes sense paired with the power of the Miraculous itself, good job Thomas! Of course the power itself is busted beyond all accounts and makes the rest of the show seem like it could’ve been solved if at least one character had an IQ above room temperature. It’s hard to come up with something new for Pretension because it’s such a…specific term.

My first idea was a power that allowed the user to create a specific rule that had to be followed within a certain area, but that sounded busted. Too busted, even by the standards of the power it already has. However, once I wrote this off, I had an idea. How about, instead of creating rules, the Rooster hero could break them?

So, Rooster Bold’s new power is Rebel Roost, it allows him to make himself exempt from any rule or law by writing it with his feather pen dagger. Seems pretty useless at first right? WRONG! Laws of gravity? Fuck you, I can fly. Rules of Nature? Hey, mouse! You can kill that cat that’s been hunting you now! Yes, it’s broken, but so is it’s other power.

🐐GOAT MIRACULOUS🐐

Another eezy dub, y’know how passion basically means you’re dedicated towards something and have strong emotions towards it? And when it’s at it’s peak, nothing can keep you away from it?

Caprikid’s new power is Scapegoat, it allows him to become intangible, meaning that he can walk and/or float through physical objects, but he can’t touch them until he deactivates the power.

🐂OX MIRACULOUS🐂

The Ox Miraculous of Determination, in the simplest terms, is literally a big blue ‘nuh uh’ button. Surprisingly, it also makes sense paired with the power Astruc came up with! I’m tired as hell so I’m not gonna explain my thought process here.

Minataurox’s new power is Oxenfree, it allows him to supply his allies with boosts to their willpower. It’s lazy, I know, idc. (God, I’m falling off.)

🐕DOG MIRACULOUS🐕

THE FINAL ONE, YEEEEES

The Miraculous of the Dog holds the concept of Adoration, makes sense with the animal, not so much the power. Now, how the hell am I supposed to find another application of Adoration…actually it’s quite easy. It’s the same thing as the Horse, where all I have to do is give it the power I think it should’ve had in the first place. 

Miss Hound’s new power is Track Star, it allows her to target a specific person and track them down wherever they go. 

~~hide away, hide away from me, hide away, hide away from me-~~

I’M FINALLY FUCKING DONE! 

Guys, this took me 10 days.

Alright, if you have any alternate ideas you want to share or want to use any of these for your fics, make sure to comment below.

[femmefatalelf]

Escaping the Illusion's Web: Why you're trapped in your current life and how to change it

If a genie suddenly popped out of a bottle and offered to answer to any question that has been troubling you, what would you ask? That was pretty visit site here much the situation posed to thousands of metaphysically oriented people recently when they were given the opportunity to solicit the aid of higher consciousness.

Not surprisingly, the majority of the questions concerned personal predicaments. Here's a fairly representative example: "I have been on a spiritual path for fifteen years. I am a vegetarian. I meditate and do yoga. I am a healer and am always offering myself in service to others. Why can't I have the perfect relationship? Please help me. Thank you, Mary."

Mary is typical of the many Light Workers who responded. She feels stuck, disempowered, and more than a little frustrated by the condition of her life, and she wants (almost desperately) to find a way out. This presents a curious dilemma, for in the perception of higher consciousness, Mary's problem has already been surmounted - only she hasn't yet realized this, so she herself continues to perpetuate it.

Within the laws of the illusion created by the Veil of Forgetting (the energetic barrier that separates each human incarnating on Earth from knowing who he or she truly is), problems arise purely out of preference. When you find yourself in a less than optimum situation, it is because the condition as you perceive it clashes with how you would like things to be. If you could look from a higher perspective, you would recognize the perfection of your circumstance, the great care and intent expended in its creation, and the lesson it offers for your growth. And you would realize that the answers you seek are already with you. But while this may be lovely theory, it has little value unless you can do it.

It's always tempting to ask an expanded intelligence to intervene and fix the problem for you, but this also means giving your power away. Given the choice, wouldn't you prefer to learn how to resolve problems by yourself? There is a wonderful saying attributed to the Chinese: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. It is in this spirit that we offer the following information.

The key to the solution is embedded right in Mary's question, hidden so cleverly in plain view that the questioner rarely sees it. Her question, like almost all the others we received, is centered on the pronouns "I," "myself," and "me." "Of course," you might think. "After all, who else but I is experiencing the problem, and who else but I wishes to know the fix?" Beware, however, of truths that seem self-evident. They often turn out to be glib but false axioms that you-like most humans experiencing the world behind the Veil - assume are immutable.

As Albert Einstein delighted in reminding his associates, it is impossible to solve problems at the level of their creation. What this refers to is not the need for more intelligence and information but rather an increased awareness, or consciousness. It is simply another way of expressing one of the universal truths of Creation: What you see depends on where you're looking from. A problem persists only as long as the person experiencing it clings to his or her existing viewpoint.

There is no area of conflict on your planet today - personal, national, or global - that is not rooted in this simple principle. One faction wages war against another only because of differences in the points from which they view. There is no objective right or wrong; there is only perception. The solution is not compromise, for compromise can cripple the spirit and most often results in mutual dissatisfaction and covert resentment. Resolving the issue requires that both parties let go of their personality viewpoints (expressed as belief systems) and rise above the level of conflict to meet in a new field where both are seeing in a new way.

It is the same with an individual's problems. Therapy and processing only help you adjust to what is an unpleasant circumstance. The real solution is to let go of the viewpoint that keeps you stuck and expand into a greater level of consciousness.

"So," you might ask, "can I become more conscious?" The response is "Yes and no." Why such an evasive answer? Because the question holds the very glossed-over, self-evident assumption that lies at the heart of your difficulties. Which I are you speaking about? If you think there is only one, then there is much to reconsider.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

hi! firstly, sorry in advance for the long ask. your blog is very thought provoking! secondly, i wanna say i really appreciate all your writing on totk - i’ve kinda deliberately avoided looking at any critiques of the game because, quite frankly, i had a fun time in the moment while playing it and i didn’t want to sully that experience, but your posts have all been quality and have given me a lot to think about with respect to the narrative, its aims, and whether or not “pure, uncomplicated, escapist fiction” is actually a good thing

i digress though - the subject i wanted to ask about, which comes up both in your general “all the consequences were undone and therefore nothing mattered” stance, and more directly in your post about dondons/humanity/morality (specifically the part about “should we trust the bargainer statues that nothing matters? or should we actually care about light vs dark?”) is kind of the age old sentiment that the journey is more important than the destination, and how you think about this in the context of zelda as a narrative, as a defining game in the adventure genre, and now as a landmark in the open world style

in the case of the bargainer statue, i was thrown by you framing “trusting the statues about morality” vs “being moved by the struggle of light against dark” as an either/or - a grimly nihilistic view. in the game (and, i think, in real life), the message is that the ultimate futility of everything does not invalidate the reality of people living their lives in the present, and a positive nihilism challenges us to try and help people and do good in spite of that meaninglessness. this is why the bargainer statues feel so bizarre and un-zelda-like (or at the very least, un-hyrulian. not a bad thing!) - the universe of zelda has always at its core been about how helping other people is a noble endeavor and is its own reward (with gratitude in skyward sword actually manifesting this physically), and the bargainers’ ambivalence flies in the face of this. it’s obvious to us as the player that towns being destroyed and lives being torn apart is objectively bad, even if everyone ends up as a poe in the depths either way, and the bargainers reading as sinister and alien actually reinforces this more than it calls it into question. the quality of the time spent in life matters, even if the ending looks the same

as a game, i think zelda has always been at least as much about the stories and connections you experience on your quest to deal with the big bad as it is about that actual climactic fight. it’s always leaned into the adventure half of “action/adventure,” and in some ways i do think this is what “gameplay before story” originally meant. as you’ve noted, some of the brightest points of totk are the sidequests and characters for whom you can make a small but noticeable difference, and through which you’re driven to interrogate the world and maybe yourself too. and it’s because of these connections that reverting things at the end doesn’t make everything futile and pointless. link is our connection to hyrule, and if the adventure impacted us positively, then we can infer that it impacted link (and to a lesser extent, zelda) positively as well, and that’s worthwhile even if the external circumstances change

a last quick point is that i think the increasingly open world nature of the series also reinforces this - sure you can run naked straight to castle and beat ganondorf without engaging with the game in any way, and you’ll save the day the same as someone who put in 300 hours on the way there, but your takeaway will be completely different, because that journey is the entire point

anyways thanks again for your thoughtful posts and for reading this far if you did!

Heyy thank you so much for perusing my blog and leaving such a thoughtful ask, it's greatly appreciated! <3

That's interesting you took the Dondon post in that way, as it wasn't what I meant at all haha. But I do recognize it was worded in kind of a cryptic way, and left it up to interpretation perhaps a tad too much (see: the limits of subtext), so I can try and make myself a little more clear (and I also think you bring up really good points that completely deserve to be mentioned and that I personally do not mention nearly enough)

What I meant by the "either/or" isn't what we, as an audience should take away as what's important or meaningful, and completely discard the other part as useless. It's not what we experience ingame, and this contradiction is inherently interesting and sparks some degree of conflict (good! storytelling need those and totk is conflict anemic honestly)

What bothered me is that we are prompted, in the game, to see things in an extremely black and white way in spite of an argumentation that maybe, we shouldn't. It's not bad in itself, I even think it's great that we get to question the moral fabric of the world! It's one of the very rare (in my opinion) compelling things about the narrative weaved out for us. But the endgoal of the game still remains the same: find Zelda, and swear yourself/all of your friends to Rauru's ancestral kingdom by using his powers and his guiding hand. Link's role in restoring Hyrule is never even hinted as being a potential question mark, or something we should ponder upon (Twilight Princess did directly question Hyrule in more ways than one, WW is also there, etc). But moreso than in other games in my opinion: we are doing the bidding of a king's territorial war that happened a very long time ago, and the current state of Hyrule doesn't seem to indicate the need for pushing a unified kingdom back onto everybody, or at least it wouldn't be a problem if not for Ganondorf's presence (which in of itself is still arguable as an argument for royal unity, since people would have been willing to band together for the sake of their own communities regardless of whether or not there was a unifying realm --remove the Sage's vow, and I don't believe Link's friends would have let him handle his fight on his own even without having to swear their alliegeance to what is basically a dead kingdom by this point).

My problem isn't the statues; it's that this Light/Darkness framing is only ever questioned when close to them/the Monster Brothers, and the rest of the world is extremely rigid in what is the correct path --but without the added tragic weight that other Zelda games generally have about this aspect (the Sages in OoT being torn from their previous aspect/your own lost childhood, Skyward Sword's Hylia and the way she enacts her plan through people who never had a choice --and that's identified as something bittersweet, not to mention the infamous curse of Demise...)

I do adore what you mention, this sort of "positive nihilism" as a staple of the series. It's never as apparent as in Majora's Mask in my opinion, where getting people comfort and rest is ultimately without consequence as you constantly reset their minds, but it still feels meaningful to have helped. I think BotW did that really well too --where you help people rebuidling life and meaning in the middle of the desolation, making the post-apocalypse hopeful, a place for potential growth and change and resilience and experimentation. In TotK, however, I don't think your efforts are as centered around making sure these people get a future as they were in BotW (except maybe, as you mentioned, in a couple of sidequests --Lurelin's village being one of them, for example). Maybe it's because Ganondorf's threat is not as clear as the Calamity's was, maybe it's because what guides your adventure is to find Zelda first and foremost rather than defeating whatever threatens the peace (treated narratively as a hindrance more than the core problem, even if it is ultimately the core problem --again, the narration/quest design is pretty messy here and it doesn't help matters), or maybe it's because the endgoal is not for people to make their own way into the world, but mostly for the wayward folk of Hyrule to be ushered back onto the glorious trail of Hylian/Zonai's legacy --but to me, the game has a weird agenda regarding Link/the player's role into this world that is generally tangential to his role as a hero and a balancing force in other legends. Here, he starts the game as a knight. His duty is to Zelda, but it ends up overlapping to what Zelda represents in a far more abstract way than usual.

What I think works in TotK in terms of "positive nihilism" is actually Ultrahand, and this gimmick of "world as playground", which I believe is a very clever and engaging way to imagine an open world. There are a ton of little gameplay moments that are yours to shape and inject meaning into; manipulation for the sake of it, the joy of play, and experimentation being rewarded and never punished. To me, this feels the most like inhabiting the world, making it your own, and doing things because they matters to you --and this being enough. But narratively speaking, this is just not really the story being told to us: we are told, us and basically every other NPC, to conform to a plan laid out for us that doesn't ever need to be investigated or questioned --even though now, at crossroad of what the future could look like, would be the perfect moment to do so.

I think what I ultimately tried to point out in that Dondon post is how jarring this hint that, perhaps nothing you do In The Name of Light actually means anything, and this having zero impact on the rigidity of the pupose you are supposed to accomplish In The Name of Light --and the game never seemingly acknowledging that paradox, which made for a (I think, unplanned) pretty oppressive playing experience on my end.

[gear-project]

Wait so Ramlethal's katanas could theoretically be a potential threat to Happy Chaos because her Instant Kill is called Soul Extinguisher? Shouldn't Happy Chaos, after spending time in the Backyard, be resistant to spiritual or soul attacks? Unless there is something about the Rattle swords we don't know about.

From the very beginning, the RATTLE katanas were "created" along with Ramlethal herself inside the Backyard.

So from that point onward, they had spiritual features to them that a sword forged in the outside world probably would NOT have.

And while Happy Chaos himself has similar origins, there are different properties to speak of when talking about the difference between a "normal" Backyard Resident, and a being that was "corrupted" by Negative Information.

When the Valentines were created, they utilized the properties of GEAR Cells (from a VERY specific Gear, Justice), a specific kind of Human, and various other useful data that would aid a Valentine's powers in the outside world.

However, with Demihumans and Youkai, they have slightly "different" circumstances related to their birth: some are born from "strong beliefs", "rumors", "fears", "intense thoughts/feelings towards something or someone", or even simply an "intense focus" that manifests itself as a living being or monster.

With Demihumans/Youkai in particular, some are formed from Positive thoughts, while others are formed from Negative thoughts and fears, the former are often associated with Guardians, Deities, and Treasured Objects and Folklore associated with those... However the latter often bear Curses, Deadly properties, and dark Legends surrounding their existences.

You can think of it as similar to the concepts of "Yin" and "Yang" which are focused on both Positive and Negative energies.

That is not to say that all Negative Energy is "bad" or that all Positive Energy is "good" in classification, but in the natural sense of things, it is similar to the difference between Nutritional things and Poison depending on the being or person it affects.

In the case of a being like Izuna... he was born from the well-wishes of a dying woman who wished to see if her husband was safe... and thus Izuna was born as a "guardian" of sorts for human well-being born from an Kanzashi Hair Ornament.

But when you look at a being like I-No:, she was born from the fears and dreads of Humans towards GEAR-Kind: the nightmares and hatred of Gears and the desire for a world free of war and conflict with Gears.

Is I-No's existence truly a Negative existence though? Hard to tell.

With Happy Chaos though... he was exposed to "pure" (undiluted) amounts of Negative Thoughts, Negative Emotions, and dark intent that literally transformed his body and twisted its appearance...

If that sort of thing can transform a "human" in to a "monster"... imagine what it could do to an entire POPULACE of people... that's how potentially DANGEROUS Happy Chaos actually IS.

Just like it's "common knowledge" to avoid toxic chemicals or poison... this is the sort of thing you SHOULD avoid for your HEALTH!

Happy Chaos already classified himself as something akin to an "undead corpse" saying he was "already dead" when he confronted Nagoriyuki (and even Giovanna stated that something "reeks" when she got a wiff of his scent).

But well, just as humans use cleaning chemical agents to get rid of stains and corrupt and rotting elements, there are entities that are the complete OPPOSITE of what Happy Chaos is by nature... beings that COULD purify if not wipe out his very existence!

Thus far, Folklore often hints that the Japanese people are often known for using methods to kill Demons and Ghosts, so those "ancient methods" are most likely the key to defeating something of "undiluted darkness" like Happy Chaos.

Even the very bloodline of the Japanese is tied to the extermination of spiritual entities that have a negative impact on this world...

As for Ramlethal herself... while one might speculate that she has no immediate ties to Eastern culture, just the mere fact she uses Katanas and the "sacred methods used" for forging said katanas, speaks positively towards her case as a potential enemy to Dark Energies (and Chaos).

[sundrie-foolishnesses]

why did people bother to give us whole lessons about 'The Difference between Wants and Needs' in primary school.. wait and high school as well. like well you might 'want' a nice meal, but you only 'need' to eat. what was the point of that?? where else do we teach word connotations in such detail. it wasn't even nuanced in any way.

a need cannot exist in a vacuum. something can only ever be needed for a purpose. food is necessary for humans to be alive. humans being alive isn't necessary for any supreme objective purpose. nothing is. food is a necessity because we want people to be alive.

niceties are the same. if we want people to be happy, then, generally, they need to have nice things, and time to enjoy them.

want and need are not opposites, they're related but different concepts that have interplay.

it feels so ideological recounting it. like they were trying to get us to believe that a need is legitimate, whereas pure wants are illegitimate. seek to eliminate that which is illegitimate and you shall become a better person. classic christian nonsense.

its everywhere when you look for it. this insidious idea that your body is a base animal that has illegitimate desires that the conscious mind has an obligation to suppress, as a civilised entity.

something i noticed while learning mandarin - if you're ordering food you just say 要, which you would translate as want, but can also mean need. in english if you order food and say 'i want..' - it sounds rude and self-important. instead you have to say 'would like..' - thassa conditional, under what circumstances would you want this food? the ones we're currently in?? what do you meeeeeean just say the thing you want. but no, we have to invoke alternate realities to disguise a want as basic and understandable as to eat nice food you enjoy.

so yeah. people have wants, and contrary to popular belief we shouldn't be hermits in hair shirts eating nothing but boiled roots or what have you. i don't think i've seen it worse anywhere other than within fat issues, because almost everyone treats dieting as a moral obligation. everyone just accepts that your body is stupid and base and you have to keep it in check with abstinence. in truth, ignoring the things your body is telling you it wants is just bad for your health. eh issue tou big for here. dieting is quackery.

thou art a beast, and as a creature within the physical plane, seek to fulfil thine desires. who needs enlightenment when you can have borgor. observe handy table.

benefits:

enlightenment - ?????

borgor - yum

in conclwsn: bungr is yay

[thenewpresident]

I'm ovulating and I don't see the purpose in it. So heres a bit of a ramble.

None of my crushes ever felt that deep. A lot of typical 'romance' in my life came from pure boredom, and really didn't bring me much besides simple stimulation. I by no means have grown or looked at the world differently because of 'romantic' interest. Everything in my life outside of this weird cultural pressure of monogamy has felt romantic. My ever changing perception is romantic.

Someone to hold is honestly such a surface level stimulant which is blown out of proportion because of our biological need to procreate.

I'm ok  with dying alone. Honestly, I don't even consider it dying alone, I mean my whole life I've been surrounded by people. I was consummated by two people, pushed out by a person, I've never really been alone.

Life is a bit like your local grocery store and your connections are whoever enters through the revolving door, some people stop by once, others are regulars, sometimes a local might move away, and eventually the store shuts down. Doesn’t really matter if anyone is entering or leaving when the store is closed, because the store no longer is.

That is why I don't really understand this fear of ‘dying alone’ , the need to have one's identity go from ‘i’ to ‘us’. Is the fulfillment of a partner really that special? Like I completely understand, company is nice but I don't think that makes independence objectively scary.

Romantic love after all seems quite suffocating, holting your personal growth so it can be shared and developed by the proxy of someone you find hot. Eventually the flame burns out and you’ve wasted your time, shaping your personality based on another person's company. That's why fresh divorsays pick up weird new hobbies because they have assassinated their identity in the vain of a relationship and now are desperately trying to get it back.

I find it pathetic. Especially invigorating to see these sorts of ideals be pushed onto women from a young age. We are told to be someone's daughter, and eventually that label is going to die, and we have to be someone's wife, and finally someone's mother, because what are we if not a breathing baby factory? Terrified that we won't be plucked in time, not to be consumed when ripped, and just let our flesh mold.

Why should I be scared of my biological clock running out? There’s well enough of our species to go around, I don't see the point in shifting my life's trajectory for the path of anothers.

Maybe I’m just selfish and young so I don't really understand. Well so be it. I because I feel quite content with myself and myself only.

My greatest love won’t be a sole person. Humans are too curious to be that monogamous. The greatest love is everyone who has gone through that revolving door, everyone who shaped my worldview, even ones who evoked deep anger, as to feel anything at all is the love of life.

We are born to engage in all that surrounds us, develop and use our mind and body to its greatest extent, find an identity. So to water yourself down to an 'us' to cut yourself off from the depths of your own identity. Is to settle for a simple feeling, a trick of the mind, practically killing yourself and letting someone live off your corpse. It may seem nice to know someone wants to gnaw at you but is it really worth it? You're going to grow old and bitter and just be left with teeth marks across your face.

Some might consider me a pessimistic bitch for this, but I honestly think this is one of my most optimistic opinions. We shouldn't settle down due to some surface level fear of being alone. Because it's a ridiculous fear to have. We aren’t alone in any circumstance. We all share something in common at all points of life, and that is being individuals with our own interesting thoughts and feelings. Which should be pursued during our time alive, we shouldn’t stop the influx of change for a partner. We are curious creatures, we should be fearless and free. I don't care about having babies when I ovulate, I just like walking around my apartment shirtless because my tits look extra perky.

Thank you, have a good day!

[cagedharmony]

sunday thoughts? sunday thoughts.

okay i don't like poking ppl to really discuss my deeper thoughts on him or other charas bc i can proceed to write a lot and i feel like a nuisance doing so but this is my rp blog so let's talk abt him and the way his character and aventurine's (bc i am a filty av/end/ay enjoyer and artist lmfao so they're always on my mind) character. so if you're ready to read my probably unfiltered straight up anxiety-induced adrenaline thoughts let's go !! i wound up going on tangent and lost my train of thought but still a ton of sunday thinking so feel free to read this mess haha. esp the random me plugging a fic series it's so well written as are the writer's other words they are an amazing individual.

okay but fr i kinda started w/ a main objective but bc this is anxiety-riddled adrenaline it is a big jumbled i apologise if i make no sense ahead of time. but i thank you if you're willing to listen to my eadily derailed train of thought.

so something that at the very least in the avnd circles i've been around the talk how the two reflect one another is tossed around. i want to go in deeper on it. so ultimately sunday and aventurine are two sides of the same coin. two people who have quite a few connections and similarities but at the same time had entirely different circumstances making their paths be quite different and how they grew and how they act much different.

sunday until recently was a bird with clipped wings trapped in a cage. while he looked as if he had freedom and even a sense of order and power he also lacked the agency to really steer his life toward a path where he could leave his cage and fly freely. the charmony dove speech is quite often memed and used as a copypasta but he is essentially that dove. he doesn't view himself as that way but at the same time subconsciously believes he's trapped and has no choice but to remain int he safety of the cage he's so safely enclosed himself in. much akin to this wonderful fic written but an absolute sweetheart (legit pls go read their works i respect them dearly and have had the utmost pleasure to get to chat with them like the most wonderful sweetheart i have nothing but praise and sweet things to say and the fic is part of a series and ugh it's so well crafted you know the love was put into it) where his cage was one he trapped himself in and tossed the key himself. he's essentially locked himself up even if he can very easily free himself and walk his own, uncharted path. he fears the unknown that leaving the cage could do and thus he's trapped both in his role and in penacony.

how is there a reflection between him and aventurine? many factors. both have/had family they loved as well as family they lost. for sunday it was his and robin's mother and aventurine his whole clan but especially his elder sister after his mother and father before that. both had a person who helped shape them to who they are today both in raising and teachings. for sunday it was gopher wood (don't get me on my hatred for this man we'll be here for a hot second) and for aventurine it was jade. both having means chaining them to their duties, but despite the chains there is a modicum of freedom aventurine is able to express and pursue despite still perpetually being trapped n the system that allows him to be free while sunday--prior to 2.7 and beyond--didn't have that. prior he was one who planned out each aspect and didn't overstep his line or take risks that he had no foreseeable outcome in the end. there were slip-ups in his actions in the penacony arc in relation to his mental state deteriorating under the belief his sister, his one and only family, was gone and lost. a sister he once had the fear of losing and had pure panic over in the past when he'd first been appointed oak family head learning of the stray bullet that hit her thanks to gopher wood. from the tone of his voice throughout the story as it goes from 2.0 to the end of 2.2 it's easy to pick up in hindsight both tonal changes and in text to how he speaks. clear moments prior to 2.2 that really indicated things was his discussion with sparkle when he called her out for feigning the look of his sister, the meeting with aventurine and dr ratio, and the ending of 2.1 with his discussion with gallagher. the latter of the three being one that showed his emotions the loudest as it was the man all indicators pointed to as the murderer. on top of the little bits of his being resembling other family heads. revisiting the scene and taking note of those things said is quite fascinating.

now a big thing i think of is his questions toward aventurine. while he is indeed speaking toward aventurine and asking questions it begins with questions that are specifically in regard to business and aventurine such as the cornerstone, if he handed it over, if his mind has been tampered, and so on. the questions that while directed at aventurine are ones sunday has his own answers for. these questions are looking at their similarities and how he answers. while aven reflects him in certain aspects he also has things sunday could only wish for himself to attain but cannot. both bound by duty and bound by fear. now for the questions asked:

do you love your family more than you love yourself? to sunday robin is precious and she has been his closest companion since birth. it is quite evident he loves her more than he loves himself. aventurine's answer is yes. reflecting his own.

do you hate and wish to destroy this world with your own hands? the answer is one that could be up to interpretation. he most likely has conflicting thoughts and values toward this answer. on one hand he has crafts his plan for entrapping the dreamscape in an eternal slumber to keep all caged in the sweet dream, a paradise his childhood dreams had long been distorted to think was the answer where the one awake to keep watch would be him. no paradise for himself as he is undeserving. this paradise would have included his sister as a means to keep her safe beyond her own wishes. but at the time she was long gone. aventurine responded he didn't know which can reflect the complex emotions to such a question. sunday loves the dreamscape and the dreamweavers, but his heart is long broken to view anything in clear light.

in the 2.7 main trailblaze mission when speaking with wonweek, a reflection of sunday's inner child and a state of what could have possibly been if not for what he'd been crafted to believe and follow, aventurine is mentioned in regard to sunday taking a risk, a chance, that is unlike his careful calculated self prior. the similarities and how aventurine still takes his own path despite his circumstances, the thrill of the gamble and chance and the aspect sunday could never attempt to conceive for himself prior, sparked something in him alongside the words of the express and all who woke him from his trance, his dream. despite the nervousness and fear he admits to having he still stepped forward. it was the first steps out of the cage and onto a new path filled with the unknown. having the express, especially welt, as those to show endless possibilities it allows him to go into places he once thought impossible for a caged bird like himself. now the aspects he had a slight sliver of envy for are ones he's attempting himself. their paths completely different, but still now he can claim his own destiny and see where it leads.

i kinda lost my steam nearing the end but ultimately the aspects of himself he sees in aventurine within the penacony story and now he's the one who can take a chance and forge his own path for whatever the future holds is such a great realm of possibilities and change. sunday may not be able to fully atone for his actions or expect any semblance of forgiveness, but he can work to better himself and become his own person rather than be the person someone else crafted him to be. he's a freed bird treading uncharted paths and now able to reach for the stars long thought too far out of reach. the possibilities are endless.

anyways thanks for reading my messy thoughts. i hope it made a modicum of sense. i have so much i want to express about sunday and about robin but it's hard to put it fully into words. i hope this allows some aspect of my thoughts. may you have the most wonderful of days.