#phobia of balloons

[globophobicligyrophobiccontent]

I'm not ready for my birthday

Since I started doing exposure therapy, and learning how much balloons can take, and how far can I go(Not a lot but enough for a globophobic), I wanted to have balloons at my birthday, not a lot, just some symbolic ones laying here and there.

I never had latex balloons at my birthdays, they're a little of a taboo topic for me in public and specially around my family, so I'm making my birthday a little private this year, and at a friend's house so my family doesn't know this and starts thinking I'm already over my phobia, wich I'm obviously not. I just wanna feel like a normal birthday for once, and I don't know if I'll have this chance in a while, so I'm doing it.

But lately, my brain is playing tricks on me and I'm started to doubt about this. I trust my friends and they won't do anything to scare me, that's a fact, but still, I can't control my overthinking.

Me and my 2 best friends are decorating, I'm in charge of the balloons so I know they won't be big, but what if they insist in helping? I'm not ready for people I know handling balloons.

And with that comes point 2, my boyfriend and friends touching the balloons, just imagining it makes me shiver so much.

Since this is part of my exposure therapy, I can touch them without fear, but I'm not comfortable with other people in general handling balloons, and I know my friends won't pop them, I'll still have them, I know I'm safe, but the feeling of watching friends, partners, or people you trust in general with balloons still icks me the wrong way, the fact that they can normally play or touch balloons makes me feel a little betrayed, it's a feeling hard to explain. I won't stop them unless they're trying to pop them because there's no danger.

So that's it, I just wanted to rant about this since it's almost just two weeks away from my birthday and time flies.

[sanniewriteshere]

It all depends on the color of the glass you're looking through 🎈🎨🖌️

Fluff and Comfort, a little bit of hurt in the middle

Type of relationship: Teacher and student (Non-Romantic)

Pronouns: She/Her

Gender: Femenine (Protagonist)

CW: Balloons / Loud Noises

Another day at the Academy.

After a few months of what happened at the Area Zero, things really calmed down for good.

The Gym Inspection went easy as cake, and the Academy Ace Tournament was really fun! Everyone agreed that they should do it again.

The Pokédex kept going on really well, but between adventure and exploration in this rich region, it's always good and relaxing to go back and take some classes at the academy and learn something new, or it wasn't going to be that easy this time?

It was a rainy day. Not a big storm, but wet enough to make everyone wanting to go outside think twice.

Juliana arrived just in time for Art class, one of her favorite subjects! Not that she doesn't like the other subjects, she learned a lot in every class, but Arts had something special on it, a special spark that can't be calculated or interpreted sometimes, like a Pokémon battle.

Also, Hassel, the teacher, was amazing on his job, you can see wonder in the eyes of his students, how he can bring a lot of emotions during the classes, even himself being a little emotional.

Juliana takes a seat on the first row as always, so that way she can listen better to the teacher.

"Hello again class. As everyone can see, today is not the most perfect of days, in fact, today I was planning an outside class to sketch some Pokémon, but sometimes plans change, and we have to adjust ourselves to the situation, like when we colour a drawing outside the line by accident. We can focus on the mistake and abandon the piece, or work or way through it and give or masterpiece a new perspective. There's always something we can do to work out weaknesses and turn them into virtues, or not. Not every work of art is a masterpiece, but it truly helps changing the color of the glass you're looking through."

Hassel always knew how to phrase his classes, always inspiring and uplifting. Almost as if his words alone made the rain stop and make a rainbow cross the academy.

"But enough talking, and since we're touching the subject of imperfection, let's start our class of today. Look at this sculpture of Professor Gibble I made, it's simple and not perfect, sometimes it's ok to take our time and learn from our mistakes, simple sculptures like this can be relaxing and entertaining. Can someone tell me what it's made from?"

Juliana take a good look at it, the gritty but light texture guve you a slight idea of what could it be.

"Paper mache?" Juli says, with a doubt in her mind.

"Yes! Very well Juliana, looks like you're an art expert. Paper mache is an easy way to represent something without a lot of materials, we only need for in this case: Paper, glue, water and, a balloon"

"A B-balloon?!" Juliana thinking inside herself, almost jumping when she heard the teacher say that cursed word, making a little frown.

Juliana has faced a lot if dangers on her treasure hunt: Dangerous Pokémon bigger than everyone could imagine, Rebellious students, strong trainers, fallen down to the Banned Paldean Crater, saw beast from other times, and even her Pokémon and her battled aggressive AI robots with bravery an strength, but nothing like that scared her as much as a silly balloon, one of her most embarrassing secret.

Of course, how the newly announced Champion of Paldea, who helped save the region from an ecological catastrophe, could be scared of balloons? That was inconceivable, no one has to know, just imagine a rumor like that spreading through the school? Nobody would take her seriously anymore.

Juliana was on the clouds overthinking about the stupid loud noise they make when they pop, almost not hearing how Hassel was explaining something about making a good paste for smother results. Her heart was rushing, but she was sitting still in place, no were to go, and the rain still pouring without signals if stopping

"Before we start you can choose one of you Pokémon partners to use as an example, or making by memory if you prefer it that way."

One of Juliana's Pokéballs started moving alone, making her alert again, and one of her Pokémon came out of her pokéball. Her old partner, already knew a lot about her since they've been in adventures for a long time, so the Pokémon must have feel the emotions of their trainer and just sit on her lap to help her calm down.

The time started to pass and she has barely started, scared to make a rough movement in case something accidentally pops her balloon.

*POP* A balloons popped making only Juliana jump, but her Pokémon help her calm down before it's too late and the classes notices.

"Haba! I was working with that! Don't bit the balloon again!" One of her classmates is reprehending his Fuecoco, who must have mistaken the balloon for food. "Cocooo..?" The Pokémon felt a little confused about what happened.

Some short laughs, including from the teacher, can be heard across the room. "No laughing matter..." Though Juliana.

"That's what I was talking about when I mentioned mistakes, everyone can make one, but we don't have to let them discourage us, we have to learn from them. Tell me, was something you wanted to improve from your sculpture?" Asked Hassel. "Well, actually yes, the face was looking weird, I wanted to start again but the the glue was drying up and it was a little late..." "Good then, start again, use what you learned to improve your craft, and let's feed this hungry fella.." Hassel offered a berry to the Fuecoco, wich happily munched while his trainer worked again in peace.

Juliana wasn't herself, and the clock was going extra slow today, it was hard to concentrate with all of the noise on the background, she barely made the base of the head and couldn't get through the class. Her Pokémon stayed by her side the whole time, being a good model and letting being pet whenever Juliana was feeling nervous.

*DING-DONG DING-DONG, DING-DONG DING-DONG*

The bell indicating the class was over scared Juliana a little, but at least the suffering ended ended.

"It looks like our time is over, I hope you learned st least one thing new today. And don't worry if you didn't finish your pieces, you can come back and finish them whenever you like".

While Juliana was quickly putting her thing in her backpack, she hears a familiar voice calling her name. "Miss Juliana..." Hassel say across the classroom. "Oh no, did he noticed?!" Juli thought scared "Can you help me with sort paperwork here for a moment?" Hassel pointed to a chair at his sides of his table, where mixed art projects and teacher's stuff was scattered. "Y-yes, sin problema! Coming!" Said with a little of relief on her voice. She let her Pokémon by her side, still doing it's work of a companion in case of a panic attack.

"Please help me sort this papers, put the drawings by this side and the notes here, inside this binder" Said Hassel, while waiting for the last students to retire from the classroom. Juliana takes the seat and begins to work, her Pokémon on her lap taking a nap and and working as a weighted blanket to help it's trainer.

Minutes later, the last students left the class with his Pokémon, their steps can be heard in the distance. Time for Hassel to make his movement.

"So, miss Juliana, how was the class today?" He asked. Juli waked up, she was daydreaming again, as a copping mechanism to evade her surrounding when she was scared.

"Huh... Great! It was an amazing class as always!" Juliana answers, but, this answer sounds very... automatic to Hassel, who has seen this studen in better days.

"Did you sleep well last night? I suppose, the melody of the rain help everyone sleep... And what about breakfast? Aren't you hungry?"

"Hmmm... No... I mean, Yes! I ate a sandwich this morning" Juliana starts to doubt, so she shots "Why are you asking?"

"Hmmm, for nothing, it's just, that it's... weird I think it's the word? It's very unlikely to see my best student so down like this". Juliana straights her back and wakes up fully, noticing that there's no one in the room, just she and her teacher.

"No no no, I'm fine, I had a good sleep and ate well this morning, I'm completely fine" She said with an awkward smile trying to hide her nerves.

"Are you sure?" Asked the teacher "You barely worked on your sculpture today, usually you're one of the first in finish, and look at your work today" Hassel pointed to her 'Pokémon sculpture' on Juliana's working table, was barely resembling her Pokémon, but missed a lot of details and color in comparison to the work of other classmates. "I know I said you should take your time, but this isn't like you..."

Juliana barely looks at it, and then barely looks at his teacher in the face, almost fully evading them "Yeah yeah I'm fine, I think it was the weather".

Hassel had his doubt of the answer "Ok, I believe you, but please remember, everything I do it's for the greater good of my students, if there's something wrong that you want to tell me, please let me know so I can help, ok?" Juliana looks down at her Pokémon, and her mon looks back at her. "Ok, thanks you, I'll have that in mind..." She said while organizing the last papers.

What they both, teacher and student didn't notice while chatting, is that one Skwovet has entered in the classroom and by accident, like the Fuecoco earlier, the little guy bitted one of the balloon mistaking it for a berry.

*POP*

"AAAAAHG" The once relaxed Juliana screams, jumps and hugs her Pokémon very close to her, starting to hyperventilate.

"Here you are Cheeks! Excuse me! Sorry, for bothering, he gets intro frenzy mode when he's hungry and runs away" One student enters the class to pick up his Pokémon and quickly goes away, closing the door.

"Don't worry, be careful next time!" Said Hassel quickly before looking back at you.

"Oh Juliana, are you ok my child?!" Hassel looks worried, putting his hands on her shoulders to try to ground her.

After petting her partner and looking like the area is clean now, Juliana calms down.

"Y-yes I'm f-fine, everything fine now!" She looks to the other side, embarrassed, to evade a possible judgemental or funny looks from the teacher.

"I'm sorry for my intromission, but, were the, balloons bothering you during the class?" Hassel says in the sweetest and calmest voice possible, to avoid loosing confidense from his student.

"No nonono not possible! Me? The newest champion of Paldea? Scared of balloons?! No way! It was a confusion! Eeemmmm... Thissss, this little guy just bite me! Y-yeah that's it!" But when she looking down at her lap, wanting for an excuse, Juliana's Pokémon wasn't there! Instead, it was now in the middle of the middle of the classroom playing with one of the balloon on the ground, chasing it around the room.

"*Eeeeeeek* Nononono buddy come here come on left that there please!" A scared Juliana covers her ears with her hands while calling her Pokémon back at her side.

*Fliiiiiiiiiu* Hassel whistles slow a quiet, calling the attention of the Pokémon and making it sit right at his side.

"Hmmm, who said that the dragon tamer's whistle would work on this friend huh?..."

Both teacher and student can feel the awkwardness filling the air. Juliana looks to her side to avoid crossing his eyes, crossing her arms and resting them on the table, while Hassel pets the Pokémon.

"...Excuse me again, but... Are you sure there's nothing you what to tell me? I understand if you don't want to say anything, I can't force you to talk, of course, but I always believe in confidentialit-"

"OK FINE YOU WIN!" Juliana can't take it anymore and screams "Yes, I'm scared of the balloons! I hate the loud noise they make, they make me uncomfortable, I couldn't finish my job because of that!" Hassel can feel in his student's voice a great weight being release, like something you hide for long time, feeling that he already knew very well.

"It's ok, you can laugh, I'm used to it, just please don't tell it to anyone, I can't imagine if people knew about this.... *Sniff* Embarrassing for a champion..." Juliana felt more relief, but sad by the way she had to tell this to her teacher.

"*Sniff* Sorry, I'm sorry, I made this awkward, I know this isn't the way..." Juliana looks embarrassed.

"Please, young Juliana, don't be sorry, I understand, it's something you can't control..." "I'm... I'm the one who should be sorry, for making you go through..." The teacher apologize "No please, don't say that, there's no way you could tell.."

"Yes, of course..." Said Hassel while thinking about that day when a Driftloon scared you, or the tender but skittish way you leave your Flamigo squeaky clean, as if the Pokémon themselves could pop at any moment.

"Don't worry, this conversation will remain between us, and please let me always have an eye on you in case you need help" "Y-yes! Thanks professor Hassel!" Juliana exclaimed more happy than before.

"Thank you... " Juliana wakes up and hugs her teacher, who is almost crying again, but recompose himself to look more professional.

"I have to mention, you still have to finish your work, I hate leaving work unfinish" Hassel says making Juliana shiver "But do not worry, well work together on that" Juliana gaves an awkward smile, hopping that doesn't mean what she think she means.

*EXTRA*

Of course, being at the Art class, means Juliana wasn't alone, Penny was also there, but because of her fear and because Penny usually sits in the back, Juliana didn't notice her this time.

When Hassel called Juliana after class, she wanted to gossip on what about he said to her, so Penny activate the Cassiopeia program in Juliana's SmartRotom and heard the whole conversation. EVERYTHING.

Wanting to test a theory, Penny sends a Team of Pokémon to Nemona ask her to "test the power of this team". Nemona was always happy to help, and Knowing Penny isn't the best fighting, she innocently accepts.

The team was: A Flamigo, a Jigglypuff, a Driftloon.

One by one the Pokémon goes to battle, Juliana being very nervous, makes her Pokémon do weird combo attacks.

[rensotherkinblog]

Hi so uhhh idk where else to ask this at this point so I'll say it here

What do you do when you suspect that you might have a kintype of something you've got a phobia of?

Recently I figured that I could be Balloonkin , and I'm worried. I feel like trying to embrace it but at the same time I want to get as far away from it as much as possible.

Advice would be appreciated.

[renthewriter1]

A short story I'm working on.

It's gonna be called Oversaturated clownery:Puffy's journey to composure. Here's a summary of the plot.

A balloon dog named Puffy Worryworks is born within a circus and is immediately horrified by his surroundings. The loud and hyper balloon animals prancing around happily is what terrified him most. This caused him to attempt to escape the circus but is caught by a clown and taken back to the main part of the circus tent. This is when Puffy finds out that the first act in the circus is about to start, and is also when he's given the name Puffy Worryworks by a clown who noticed his behaviour. 3 minutes into the act he gets too scared once again and escapes. This time he's successful. He travels through multiple places (villages, beaches, countryside, streets) until a woman named Sandra spots the anxious creature and takes him to her home. She reveals that she's a retired clown who used to be named Fuchsia, and reassures Puffy that shes more calmer than most clowns. She also mentions that she aims to take care of puffy the best she can, and teach him that things do get better and not every loud object is a threat. From this moment onwards this is when the happy ending happens which'll show Puffy becoming a happier and less anxious person.

In short, OC:PJTC is about a globophobic balloon dog wanting to find a calmer environment to live in.

Most things in this story will be a metaphorical representation of how I feel having globophobia meanwhilst also being balloon-dogkin at the same time.I'll probs make an analysis presentation that'll explain how the short story represents that

Here's what some of the characters look like:

Puffy Worryworks

Sandra/Fuchsia the clown

Sandra's girlfriend (Doesn't have a name yet)

I don't have nay major plans with this story, I'm just going to publish the story to AO3 and/or quotev and that will be it for OC:PJTC.

[mossiestpiglet]

having a phobia of something i rarely encounter anymore is super easy to deal with Until It’s Not

[nobody-nexus]

Acrophobia - The Fear of Heights

Similar to Ft Foxy, Phobia Balloon Boy tends to be docile until he’s noticed. Being nocturnal, he will float about- going wherever the wind takes him. It’s only until he notices someone look up at him is when the demon will pounce. He will turn his head towards whoever’s looking up at him, showing his bloodshot eyes

Whether or not the person freezes up or starts running, he will propel himself towards the target, reaching his long blood covered fingers out at them. Once at a close enough range, he will use his uncanny fingers and plunge them into the person, wrapping themselves around the prey before flying up

After a good distance, he will slowly rip his fingers out of the person, and soon enough allowing them to fall to their death. It’s not known if the demon does this for sport or for eating, or even how it would be able to eat due to the lack of a mouth

[3615rose]

It's not uncommon but surprise people, but I have a severe phobia of those plastic balloons.

Even with helium in it, I'm scared shitless. Just seeing them deflated can rush me in a panic attack.

I hate those motherfucker. And they pollute the earth.

*NOTE: in this case, phobia refers to a very strong irrational fear, not being a little scared of something. if you can handle snakes but they make you nervous, that's not a phobia.

[ghstzzn]

who yhe fuck put a bunch of balloons in my bathroom

[stuffmostlyonlyrelateabletomeidk]

sighs in having globophobia because of childhood trauma

[idkimnotreal]

one of my first memories that i relate to autism is being at daycare at like age 4 and it's after some party and the caregiver lady had us kids play with the balloons and burst them at will, since they would be cleaning it later anyway, and we were kinda helping with that but having fun, and i noped and i crouched and covered my ears and screamed while the other kids wreaked havoc around me in the room.

that's all i remember. i don't remember the teacher's reaction. likely my parents were told about this. this is one of the things that makes me baffled that i was never diagnosed as a kid, not even with asperger's which was common in the 2000s, but instead only misdiagnosed with ocd (i'm a boy, or assigned male; borderline would make sense but they don't (mis)diagnose boys with that).

[globophobicligyrophobiccontent]

I know I abandoned this post a little a lot, sorry about that, I wasn't feeling creative enough to write or update, but I'm back now, I think I got what it takes again!

I'll start with simple things with creative liberty and I have a request, sorry it took this long! I didn't check the request box in a while since nobody sent anything. Also planning to rebrand the blog, just to change the image, wash the face.

Also, I can't believe I'm saying this but, I'm really happy and excited for my birthday! I'm planning to do it on my friends house, so I can put... wait fo it ...

Balloons

Weird, right? Well, the thing is, that I did a little bit of exposure, and I can handle balloons pretty well now, I still can stand the popping, but it's an advance.

The thing is, if I use balloons to decorate at my house, my family probably will just ignore that I'm still scared of the popping and stuff, and also, make jokes about how I used to be scared, in good font, but still, it hurts a little.

So if I make my birthday at my friend's house, I can make it a little more secret and personal. My friends know about my phobia and they're really respectful and understand my steps, so I can trust them with that.

Nothing too big, just some here and there to make one of my childhood dreams come true: to have a "normal" birthday, if normal means have some balloons.

Well, I think that's all for now, if you took the time to read, thanks! I will update more soon.

[hollistercrowley]

Specific phobia moodboard!

Phobia #2: Globophobia

[bluerasbunny]

Well, it is that time of year I suppose!

Brought to you by my mind and scouring the DCA's voice lines for key words for way longer than expected,

2024's DCA PROMPTOBER !

Please tag any works for this list under #dcatober24 ! No need to ping me, though you absolutely can (I'd love to see what comes from this list)!

Thank you to the DCA Palooza for the idea for this!

Prompt list in text under the cut!

Best Friend

Paper Pals

Googly eyes

Bells

Artistic license

Hues

Glitter glue

Trouble

Off-Limits

Lights on

Naptime

Carousel

Night

Knock

Hide

Naughty

Found

Phobia

Ruin

Trapped

Gears

Nightlight

Duality

Error

Balloons

Scorch

Stalking

Time-out

Reboot

Birthday

Trick or Treat

[lagomoz]

Proseka headcanons

-as rui’s childhood friend, nene has extensive fire safety knowledge

-shizuku is adopted, hence why she looks so different from shiho. she was adopted shortly before the moon rabbit event and it contributed to her clinginess

-shiho forgets this fact sometimes. she’ll casually mention something like shizuku got all mom’s good genes so unfair and ichika has to be. um. shiho

-kanade is mildly nearsighted/myopic but spends so much time at her computer she hasn’t noticed

-emu is buff. she climbs multiple stories without breaking a sweat and is canonically part of the swimming, handball and rhythmic gymnastic clubs, you can’t tell me she doesn’t have some muscle

-saki helps out as a human notepad for tsukasa, reminding of him things he would otherwise forget within 5 minutes

-the vocaloids also help. at first it was unnerving to have hatsune miku be an extension of his psyche that knows his darkest secret (stole saki’s candy when he was 6) but now his phone has a more reliable catgirl themed reminder system

-you know that classic nightmare of leaving the house without pants? tsukasa has legitimately done that as a kid. he forgor. (saki will never let him live it down)

-in the kamiyama student council/hall monitor room, an has put up at sign saying “_ days since last kamishiro incident”

-the shinonome siblings both figured out the other one was gay before they figured it out about themselves

-airi’s great at trivia from her time as a variety show star. she still can’t beat minori at idol trivia, though

-ena keeps a diary with fort knox level security. try to read it and you’ll lose a finger

-saki learned to crochet from the old ladies in the hospital

-shiho’s most treasured phenny is a somewhat lumpy crocheted phenny holding a very lumpy crocheted bass guitar

-tsukasa snores. he falls asleep in 10 seconds and sounds like a dying lawnmower

-mizuki has learned a small bit of french from their sister and uses it exclusively to teach rui and an how to swear in french

-emu still celebrates her grandfather’s birthday, even if he’s not there to celebrate with her

-ena is allergic to dogs, the middle point to airi’s cat allergy and akito’s dog phobia

-rui has various small scars from his experiments over the years, but nobody ever believes the real causes (rocket launcher, robot bite, exploding balloon animal, etc.) so he just makes up a new cause every time someone asks

-mmj! has had repeated incidents of minori and airi’s little siblings walking into frame when streaming at their houses. shiho understands the concept of a livestream but has still been caught failing at creeping past like that one new broadcast of the guy crawling along the floor

-kanade has pots & eds, this one I have a reason for look at her symptoms. chronic exhaustion, heat and cold intolerance, comorbid sleep issues and depression, dizziness when standing up, fainting after standing up, very pale skin, family history of medical issues, pain at normal physical activities, exercise intolerance, vertigo at mild exertion, she just fucking dies during the entire baseball event, I could go on. she canonically gets pain in her hands from opening a jar girl that is not just being out of shape that is physical disability. this one I will go conspiracy board on listen to me I’m right

-kohane ate bugs as a kid. an is horrified, toya is confused, akito is impressed

-ena and airi got in trouble in middle school because they’d keep starting fist fights in defense of the others honor. if they saw the other in a fight they’d jump in guns blazing no hesitation no questions ask ready to throw the fuck down

-vbs!rin and len were given a skateboard by an and then promptly had the skateboard confiscated by meiko for property destruction

-haruka is horrible with slang. she asks the stream chat what poggers means and immediately uses it completely wrong, killing all viewers on impact

-minori is torn between thinking it’s cute and wanting to die

-toya has been banned from arcades before because he made them lose too much money/they suspected he was cheating

-ena brought kanade over for girls night and nearly scared akito half to death because he went down to get a late night snack and there was some Ghastly Creature looming in his kitchen

-kohane's parents stick out like a sore thumb when going to her live shows. it mortifies her that everyone on vivid street can recognize them as the only milquetoast middle aged couple dressed in normal clothes loudly going YOU'RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE that don't know the first thing about music

-minori knows basic programming. she mostly uses it for forums, blogs, html, other web design things usually related to idols as a hobby, but she's become the groups designated anti-shizuku tech support

-mafuyu has always been able to see ghosts but after adults figured she was just playing pretend as a kid so she shrugged and figured it was normal and not worth bringing up again

-honami has one of those massive extended families and somehow keeps track of them all. at any given time cousin #57 can crawl out of the woodwork and she remembers their new job, favorite food, past three romantic relationships and list of allergic reactions

-mizuki does doll customizing as a hobby. they prefer making human sized clothes, but it's fun to make them miniature too. they've introduced shizuku to it and she loves it, but doesn't have the heart to do anything that would hurt the doll (sawing limbs off, dunking them in boiling water, shoving wires in them, etc.)

[lunar-wandering]

anyways as i mentioned earlier here is my absolutely nuts 'analysis' of Boboiboy having autism, and how each of the seven elementals kinda showcase a heightened version of an autism symptom-

so we're gonna go down in order (of manifestation for the elements)-

Boboiboy himself- he's just got the vibe, y'know? But also; it's been established he had no friends prior to moving in with his grandfather, which, y'know, is quite strange for a "normal" kid his age. He also tends to look at the people around him to know how to react in certain social situations (usually the person he looks to is Gopal which. Isn't always the best choice). Also the strong sense of justice is obvious (including that he goes so far as to help villains as well). (Yes this can be an autism symptom).

Halilintar (Thunderstorm). hear me out. Halilintar manifested due to overstimulation. I mean obviously the phobia of balloons is a huge factor here- but being in distress due to loud sounds is exactly one of the things that causes overstimulation for autistic people (could contribute to why he has this fear in the first place). One of the ways people might react to overstimulation is by becoming irrationally angry. Basically what I'm saying is that Halilintar spends most of his time on the edge of a meltdown-

Taufan (Cyclone). autistic joy. listen LISTEN. it's DIFFERENT from other people's joy, okay? a lot of autistic people experience emotions very intensely, it can full out take over you. also as far as i remember (it's been a while) he was the only one who had such an intense reaction to the mood changing potion- sure, the other people who had it were locked in one emotion, but none of them went as wild as he did- because he felt it a lot more intensely.

Gempa (Earthquake). i will admit, i struggled for a moment with Gempa- but honestly i think it's because he is, in my opinion, the one who's the most similar to OG Boboiboy. other than the heightened need to protect, which likely includes the sense of justice, I think Gempa is the one who masks the most out of all the elements. This is also why he seems to be the most neutral element.

Blaze and Ice. I'm doing these two together, because technically, their origin points are from the same thing: Burnout. It's just two very different responses to it. On the one side, Blaze is trying to, ironically enough considering the name, prevent burnout, by relieving stress (by doing things in the middle of night while no-one is looking and there's no pressure of social interaction). When there is too much stress, he falls into an overstimulated state similar to Halilintar's. On the other side, Ice represents the more depressed side of burnout- aka what happens after you actually burn out. It's why he's tired all the time.

Duri (Thorn). Okay so technically Thorn first manifested in battle but we're ignoring that. His tier 1 manifestation, as we all know, was mainly most definitely because Boboiboy got a concussion- but! Here's the thing; I don't think the concussion is why Thorn acts the way he does (though it's probably a part of it). I think, Thorn is just unmasked. The others all mask on some level, but Thorn just, doesn't. He doesn't really care how others might perceive him if he does 'childish' things or says things that no-one else understands because they didn't make the same connections he did, and he certainly doesn't care that deadpan telling someone their outfit is terrible might hurt their feelings, it doesn't even occur to him. He doesn't mask at all.

Solar. Again, technically manifested during battle. However once again we are ignoring that. It was established that the manifest condition for Solar (as Light), was for the elemental master (Boboiboy) to "expand their knowledge", and "read more". And, well, I know Boboiboy specifically read a bunch of science and history books and stuff, but honestly I don't think it really would've mattered what he chose to use to expand his knowledge, because Solar's main autistic trait is special interest. Because Boboiboy mainly focused on science and stuff, that became Solar's special interest, hence why he rambles off about formulas and stuff, and why he likes doing experiments. He hyperfixates on that stuff.

now. i could do the fusions... but honestly i haven't thought about the fusions enough to draw conclusions, so we're sticking with this

[midnight-mourning]

🎃DCA Promptober 2024 Masterlist🎃

Hello!

This post will contain links to all the promptober 2024 things that I've done. When I get the chance I'll also start uploading them to ao3, and will have the link to that as well if you prefer reading that way ^-^

Edit: Here's the link!

Day 1: Best Friend

Day 2: Paper Pals

Day 3: Googly Eyes

Day 4: Bells

Day 5: Artistic License

Day 6: Hues

Day 7: Glitter Glue

Day 8: Trouble

Day 9: Off-Limits

Day 10: Lights On

Day 11: Naptime

Day 12: Carousel

Day 13: Night

Day 14: Knock

Day 15: Hide

Day 16: Naughty

Day 17: Found

Day 18: Phobia

Day 19: Ruin

Day 20: Trapped

Day 21: Gears

Day 22: Nightlight

Day 23: Duality

Day 24: Error

Day 25: Balloons

Day 26: Scorch

Day 27: Stalking

Day 28: Time-out

Day 29: Reboot

Day 30: Birthday

Day 31: Trick or Treat