#proposal hcs

[butterflyscribbles]

A silly little headcanon I have💍✨

Bonus:

[littlesapphicraccoonguy]

Now THATS some top tier rizz 👏👏👏

[dreamerinthemoonlight]

How they Propose (Xiao, Dainsleif, Zhongli)

Thanks to @stygianoir for requesting and giving me some ideas. But I won’t blabber any more

Characters: Xiao, Dain, and Zhongli

Fluff, Fem!reader (no pronouns used) under the cut

Xiao

Let’s go with the hardest first

It is so hard to imagine Xiao proposing, if I’m honest. He’s not the kind to do research on human traditions and rituals

But if he did it was because Zhongli mentioned it or because you did

Once it came up and once he gave it some thought (and probably consulted someone more knowledgeable), he’d propose

His proposal would be something super simple. Even though he would totally want to do right by you, the guy is pretty direct and his proposal would reflect that

Maybe on a warm summer’s night he’d take your hand a slip the ring on your finger while asking. He totally blushes and definitely stumbles over his words but is visibly happy when you agree

Dainsleif

Dain is also a hard one

You had to bring it up and when you did he kinda tilted his head and was like “huh? marriage? What for?”

I mean, he’s been alone long enough he’d be the kind to really not think about it until someone else mentioned it

You weren’t mad at the reaction per se, but you walked off to let him think it over

And he did. He spent a lot of time thinking over it, trying to figure out where to get a ring--it’s not like he can ask an abyss herald or anything-- and working through how people do the marriage thing this many years after the downfall of Khaenri’ah

When he proposes, you’ve all but forgotten about the conversation, so you’re pleasantly surprised when he takes a knee and asks you to marry him

Unlike Xiao he’s super formal about it. As the Twilight sword, he’s no stranger to ceremony and formality and as direct as he is, you’re worth it

He’s actually scared when you don’t reply immediately, but gives you a rare wide smile when you accept

Zhongli

This guy has his shit together

Like, I still don’t entirely how his “those who renege on their contracts face the wrath of the rock” thing  works in a relationship but he’s not nearly as... inexperienced with people as Dain and Xiao are

100% done according to Liyue tradition. What that tradition is, I have no idea, but I can imagine it being  a warm spring evening

The two of you are on a walk enjoying the wonderful weather when he leads you to a less visible place (Can’t see him letting others see what should be an intimate moment)

When he’s sure that the two of you won’t be disturbed, he gets down on one knee and pops the question

When you say yes he gives you one of his amazing close-eyed smiles

He’s lived for 6000 years, but this is going to be one off the memories he treasures most

[ouaw-facts-i-just-made-up]

Gideon proposes to Kremy after the Krew settles down.

He forges the rings himself (many failed attempts happened, but Gideon is anything but a quitter), got them enchanted (one is cold, one is hot), and he saves up money to take Kremy on the most extravagant date he's ever been on.

He gets all dressed up, Gricko, Frost, and Torbek all hype him up. They take a nice walk, go to a fancy restaurant, do some other cute lovey dovey shit. Kremy is throughly swooned. And when they go back home, in front of all their friends, Gideon proposes to him, "I didn't do it right the first go around, will you let me have the honor of marrying you, for reals this time?"

Kremy, obviously, says yes

[frobby]

rin 1000000% has a list somewhere of things hes good at that yukio is bad at

[uzi-x33]

SURPRISE!! I MADE AN INTERACTIVE THING^_^

[thecrowquet]

If grian and pearl can be sky siblings then surely gem and grian can be sea siblings

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

Absolutely horrible thought for the night:

You've heard the sad fan theory that Movie Ambrosius was gonna propose after the Knighting, now consider the even worse:

Comic Ballister was planning to propose after the joust. He was making preparations to dedicate his life to his partner when he blew him up.

[marshvlovestv]

So basically my Ghosts neurodivergence headcanons at this point are: Sam, ADHD; Pete, autism; Patience, OCD; Sass and Hetty, depression; and Isaac, uhh.... is in Cluster B somewhere (I say vaguely so as not to be misunderstood, but to be clear, personality disorders are really just a collection of deeply ingrained coping mechanisms and the fact that I can recognize this in Isaac is actually something I like about him!). Not to mention, all of the ghosts have PTSD to some extent, if not from traumas that happened in life, then from the memory of actually literally dying.

But the thing I find most interesting has to do with Flower, because her neurodivergence is mythology-specific. She wasn't an addict or anything in life, she just happened to be very, very high when she died, and now, as a ghost, she is permanently under the influence of drugs. Her brain does not work the same way it did when she was alive, and that's just something she has to live with now. It's just a really interesting angle on neurodivergence to me.

It also makes me wonder about Trevor, who died of an overdose. They're not specific about what he took and I don't personally know what kind of shit rich finance bros take, but just based on how he behaves I feel like it's not too much of a stretch to say he's a little more... wired? all the time? than he maybe would have been in life? Idk.

Also Alberta: she didn't seem like she was actually drunk before she got poisoned, but maybe the moonshine worked its way into her system as the strychnine did. Maybe she's a little bit tipsy all the time!

[thatstoomanysausages]

LOVE IS IN THE AIR FUCKINF APPARENTLY (Tomodachi Life):

- Why is Mumbo always the one to have overreactions to food man😭

- He just turned grey and melted into the floor because I gave him creamy stew

- Jizzie is not happening guys

- They are fighting and throwing shit at each other😭

- Joel went to apologise and Lizzie said “Hell nah😒😐”

- Joel just fell to his knees

- All he can think about is Lizzie😭

- Genuinely a whole ass rain cloud above him rn🙄

- I’m giving him a bowler hat to cheer him up. It didn’t work much

- He has a dress now

- Joel is singing a rock song now

- Big B is HEREE BABBYYYYYY

- Jimmy has had a fight with Pearl🧍‍♂️

- Why are these mfs so aggressive???

- I’ve given Jimmy a maid dress😋

- And an orange strawberry hat

- He looks so fucking goofy

- They made up thank god, I don’t know how Pearl kept a straight face with him standing there looking like an absolute knob

- TIMMY AND JOE HAVE LOVE ISSUES

- TIMMY FIRST

- I FORGOT HES IN A RELATIONSHIP WITJ JOEL

- HE WANTS TO PROPSE

- HOLY SHIT IM STRESSING

- He’s gonna do it in a maid dress and yellow strawberry hat💪💪

- I hate doing these😭😭😭

- I had to physically hold my fuckinf breath

- FUCK YEAHHHH

- honeymoon in China

- Guys I fucked that proposal up twice I only had one chance I was stressing😭😭

- JOE WENT TO FUCKINF SLEEP ARE YOU KIDDING ME ITS ONLY 9PM MOTHERFUCKER COME ONNNNNN😭😭😭😭

- Killing myself😐

- Guys why does Lizzie not have Scar as her best friend😟 DID THEY FIGHT WHAT

- SAME WITH SCAR

- SORRY GUYS LIZZIE AND SCAR BROKE UP💔💔💔💔💔WHAT I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT COULD HAPPEN

- Truly a fuckinf heartbreaking day for scar and Lizzie bestie truthers (me)☹️☹️☹️

- …weren’t Grian and X besties

- Now it’s X and Jimmy… huh? Am I stupid

- Oh wait no I’m dumb G’s bestie is Mumbo🔥🔥🔥

- No one panic😊

[fatcatlittlebox]

Ha. Gal rejected Sauron’s proposal and immediately started dressing up in her Middle Earth bridal collection for the next 3628 years.

[yellowocaballero]

Omg hi Ms. Yellow Caballero big fan of your work <3 For real though, I'm really excited that your sharing the Weekenders, it was a joy to read and I'm bongocat-ing now that others also get the privilege to read it as well.

Referencing your tags, would you please elaborate of ableism in fandom and, like you said, how fandom treats characters with unpalatable disabilities?

Hi Ms. Bud Lite I'm a big fan of you <3

TL;DR A fear of writing characters of highly marginalized identities shields you from criticism and discomfort, but it's actively stigmatizing to people of these identities and as a writer you really need to get over yourself and write The Icky People.

I guess I'll come out swinging on this one and say that fandom doesn't like severe mental illness. (As a note, when I say severe mental illness (SMI) I mean illnesses such as psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, substance use disorders, personality disorders, etc)

Obviously, nobody likes people w/SMI. It's just insanely egregious in fandom to me, since fanfic writers absolutely love writing characters or HC characters with depression, anxiety, or a specific variety of PTSD That Isn't Scary. People actively reject any character HCs for a SMI. When people write a character with SMI, they nicely downplay it, ignore it, substitute it for a disorder they like better, or rewrite it. It's completely untolerated, in both headcanons and in fanfiction, and every time I bring it up I always get the most interesting reasons why somebody couldn't possibly acknowledge a character's SMI in their writing. I've heard all of these:

"I don't know enough about the disorder to write it accurately." Do research.

"I'm not X, so I can't really depict it." You probably aren't a cis white man, but you depict those guys just fine.

"It feels insulting to the character." There is no shame in having a SMI.

"I can't understand what it's like, so it's better to be cautious and avoid giving characters stigmatized identities." There are LOTS of experiences that you'll never understand because you've never had them - you just don't want to write anything you're uncomfortable with. People with SMI make you uncomfortable, and you don't want to write anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, or think of a comfort character in an uncomfortable way. SMIs are marginalized differently than solely depression/anxiety/The Nice PTSD, and by refusing to write them you're actively contributing to the stigma.

I think (?) I've spoken in the past about how I believe that the rigorous external and internal policing of writing people of marginalized identities is actively harmful towards efforts to increase diversity of experience and background in fiction. A lot of fanfiction writers are just terrified to write people who they can't directly relate with, because they're worried 'they'll get it wrong' and be Big Cancelled. I think this is negative enough when it prevents people from going outside of their comfort zone, but on a macro level I think this results in people refusing to write characters of marginalized identities as all. It's an insidious thought process, and it's reflected in people's unwillingness to diversity their writing or acknowledge canon diversity.

'Well, I don't understand what it's like to be Black, so I don't want to write Black people'. 'I want to project on this character, so I only want to write them with mental illnesses and identities I have'. 'If I write a marginalized character incorrectly people will yell at me, so I won't write a marginalized character who's marginalized differently than me at all'. Can you imagine writing a lesbian character with a boyfriend because 'you feel uncomfortable writing lesbian experiences'? It's blatantly homophobic. But people do that with disability and race/ethnicity ALL THE TIME.

People with SMI notice that you feel uncomfortable with them. It's obvious. They notice when a character has a SMI + anxiety, and you only write their anxiety. They notice when a character displays symptoms of a SMI in canon, but you write it out. And POC notice when the characters of color are written out. I know we all like to project on the blorbos and relate to them, and in the joys of your own head do whatever, but as a writer if you only stick to identities you're comfortable with you are actively being a worse writer. Which to me is the REAL sin lmfao.

[sixteenth-days]

False as a zombie (but with stitches)?

Dried blood. Stone dust. The roof of her lab, and visible through it, the sky. That was bad. Everything felt hazy, incomplete.

There was pain, somewhat faint and fuzzy, reanimated nerves panicking all through the left side of her body. Everything on her right, meanwhile, was numb. She tried moving, scrabbled the stiff fingers of the hand she could feel against the rubble beneath her.

Something was wrong. She couldn't think clearly. There was a hole in her head. What had happened? She had been- she had been-?

After a few tries, she managed to brace her hand against the ground; found the strength in dead muscles, somehow, to lever herself clumsily upward. Once partly upright, though, alarm bells sounded inside her head, increasingly urgent- something was very wrong with her balance, her center of gravity. She sagged to one side, nearly collapsed to the ground again.

Something was missing. Something was wrong. All the sensations in her body seemed confused. It was very hard to move.

She cast her head around, disoriented and confused, and caught the reflection of her movement in a glass-fronted cabinet against the opposite wall. She froze, stared until she could parse out what was wrong with her own silhouette.

Ah. That explained why she couldn't feel anything on her other side.

Half of her was missing.

One arm. One leg. Her innards spilling out of her bisected torso. Only half of her face.

She looked around, holding her fragile head upright with her one remaining hand, but she couldn't see any scattered limbs, no fingers or hair beneath the chunks of debris.

Half of her was missing, and she had no idea where it had gone.

[ladybugkisses]

So here’s a Lack A Daisy question, if Rocky were to propose to Ari, how would it go down?

Rocky knowing how Ari feels about marriage would probably result in him taking his time to even bring it up, only doing so after noticing she doesn't show any aversion when her aunt asks when he's thinking of popping the question

but when he does he still tries to somewhat pose it as just a hypothetical question or a joke he can take back in case she's not interested, like "So... hypothetically speaking, IF I asked you to marry me, what would you say?"

and she responds with "...Hypothetically, I guess I would say... 'I always thought your last name would suit me' ♥️”

which is 10x better than whatever best case scenario he could think of and he was not ready for it but sCREW IT he's gonna get down on one knee and ask properly IMMEDIATELY, he can buy a ring later

[i-write-boop-spoops]

i wouldn't put it past you and steven to randomly elope. like, one day, a couple years into your relationships, maybe you're engaged, maybe you're not, and you're about to go on another one of your trips, when one of you is like "let's get married" 🥰

can you just imagine it? the two of you (and the officiant too ig), somewhere secluded and picturesque, sharing your love together and sancitfying your union, away from prying eyes...

i'd imagine you'd still have a wedding later on, with a fancy reception and all your loved ones and guests. i also imagine, you'd eloped secretly too

do NOT tell joseph you eloped. he WILL have a heart attack if he finds out he wasn't at his son's real wedding.

even if elopinng was your idea, he'd still blame steven. and steven? he's not going to hear the end of it. he doesn't regret it one bit though!

[aballadforbarbatos]

fanfic

fairly long i guess. i’m going through a bit of a mephisto brainrot right now tbh; took a long break from obey me and came back to see 1500 AP. immediately spent all that to get a mephisto icon when the card was at level 10

was it worth it? hmm.

you have no goddamn idea what prompted you to do this

YES you applied human logic and it turned out to be right but maybe you should just stop doing that. stop thinking

mephistopheles had been a bit too mean for your liking. that’s what kicked this whole thing off to start with

maybe he didn’t mean it. maybe he did. anyway it ruined your whole day

satan had noticed your mood change and suggested something nice, which was:

“why not read something nice and fluffy?”

and then the idea had stuck itself in your head and just not let go

you do a quick search on doogle, and to your delight, the demons have not let you down!

searching up “mephistopheles x reader” returned thousands of results, and while you knew there’d be a lot of ooc writing, the idea of mephisto being not mean to you was enough to make you excited :D

you want to open up a fic right there and then, but something makes you stop. the brothers would get awfully suspicious if they saw you all blushy and giggly and pink…

you leave it for lights out where you can get all blushy and giggly and pink in secret.

you see mepisto the next day and excitedly wave hello at him. he looks at you strangely. good enough!

and then it kind of becomes an addiction. you can’t read anything else and your textbooks are a struggle when you’re thinking about all the fake mephisto romances you could be reading instead

satan asks you to review a book he found and you have to turn him down saying that you’re reading a book that’s vaguely related to horses but he wouldn’t like it because the narrator sounds like lucifer

you’re lying of course, but he doesn’t know that

and then one day, when the fanfics aren’t hitting the spot, a new idea comes to you. what if you wrote your OWN mephisto x reader fic?!

you totally brush over the fact that you actually know mephisto irl and sometimes even have conversations with him. if you just stick to the ooc template that everyone else uses it’s like a totally different person

so you jump on the devildom version of ao3 and start posting. you do this for many, many months and nobody in your circle finds out, but BOY does that fic get popular

you end up skipping a chapter because of an event and then promise to release it on wednesday, but then wednesday rolls around and you still haven’t done it AND THERE’S A STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING

the clock is ticking away and you have stuff to do, like it’s also your turn to cook dinner and you’re failing your classes, so you kind of have to go home like right now? you stick your hand up

“what’s up, MC?”

“can i go home? i really have to write this chapter.”

everyone perks up except for lucifer who’s ready to tell you off for not messing around. too bad he’s drowned out by literally everyone else

“wow! you’re writing a story?! what is it about?!”

no wonder you chose “nothinky” as your username for this fic cause you don’t think about the answer and how these demons that are crushing on you fairly obviously will react

“oh yeah it’s about me dating mephistopheles”

silence.

lucifer looks like he’s bitten into a lemon, which is kind of funny but you’ve just thought of a great line to put in your fic so you scribble that down instead

“mephistopheles. like the mephistopheles WE know or,”

“i didn’t know mephistopheles was a common name in the devildom. yeah it’s the mephisto we know?? oh, but i did write him based on the template that others used, so it’s really just a totally different person”

“wdym others.”

“well i did devour like hundreds of mephisto romance stories before this you know…”

“MC what the fuck.”

you keep going because basically you don’t know when to stop and if you keep going they might let you out earlier

“yeah i’m coming up to the part where he proposes but i was gonna ask one of you guys about that since i don’t know if it’s different down here. AND i need someone to read the story with me because even though he was supposed to be based on this template i feel like it’s a lot closer to the actual mephisto, and that would be a problem because i’m really starting to fall for this mephistopheles-not-mephistopheles”

that’s not a joke. sometimes you think about how crazy it is that you got here. as you’re explaining things about the story you don’t notice that everyone’s eyes have shifted from you to above you.

“i can teach you about how nobles propose, MC.”

you freeze up and feel your face burst into flames. you can’t even turn around and say “great!”

but if you had turned around, just by coincidence, just a few moments earlier, you would’ve seen him there, slack-jawed and eyes wide. a sight completely unbefitting of a noble.

how nice that you’ve made the first move for him.

and you said that you needed someone to read your story, didn’t you? perhaps he can show you how much better the real thing is.