#rosaria: dad please not so loud

[makiandcheese]

I just thought about how Varka might feel once he found out that Rosaria views him as his dad. In my head there are two possible outcomes to it.

a.) Varka feels uncomfortable being viewed as Rosaria's father because he's mostly absent. Their interactions are limited to sparring sessions and lectures when she misbehaves. He believes that he could do better for her but because he's the GM of Mondstadt, he has to be the father figure for all. "I'm not your father." "I know that but do you know that?" He obviously cares for her but again, he believes he could do better

OR

b.) He would feel touched that the kid that probably once resented him now grew up to become like him. Someone who provides support the best way they can. Rosaria obviously dabbles in investigative vigilante activities, acting as the judge, jury, and executioner. Even if Varka doesn't fully support her methods, he supports how she finds her values and beliefs. In his eyes, that little girl is living proof he has done something right with the world.

[i90o3]

Reacting to their younger sibling getting hit on in front of them

diluc & kaeya x sibling!reader

summary—> your diluc and kaeya’s little sister and some creeps start hitting on you and they get really get aggravated.

warning(s)/genre—> fluff, swearing, mentions of inappropriate touching

A/N; just wanted to mention towards the end theres intimacy(arm holding/hand holding etc) between the reader and diluc, I’m gonna assume just to be safe that someone is gonna get on my ass about it saying how “it’s creepy they’re siblings” I hold/hug my older sisters hand/arm especially if i’m anxious when we’re out, same with my dad so it’s normal for me, and it’s not weird! ty.

It was a rather rowdy night at the tavern; you were sitting at the bar with kaeya and sister rosaria, and a certain mouthy bard, waiting for diluc to get off shift to head home together. You were humming and listening to the drunken adults ramble about stuff.

you were only 16, so you couldn’t drink yet, but diluc kindly gave you a glass of grape juice to enjoy until he closes the tavern. Taking a sip of your grape juice you notice an older man take the seat next to you on your right. But you pay no mind and turn your attention to your noisy drunken older brother. That is until the older man started to get a bit too close to you, so you scoot your stool away from him, but he just scoots closer. Starting to get anxious, you wonder if you should say something until you feel a hand on your thigh.

“Erm..excuse me sir, but can you please keep your hands to yourself..” you try and shoo his hand away but his grip becomes tighter and he doesn’t budge. “Cmon’..there’s no harm in it, say why don’t I buy ya’ a drink? we can have a little fun together, whadda say, pretty girl...” you can smell the alcohol in his breath and you almost gag. “no thanks, please leave me alone-“ you mumble but the old mans hand starts to creep up your leg.

You yelp and try and sit back but end up falling off the stool and making a loud crash, which results in everyone looking at you. “Y/N, Are you alright?” you hear your red headed brother say, and you look up to see him kneeling beside you. “U-uhm, yes, yeah, I’m alright” you mumble as he helps you up. “sorry sweet cheeks, did I scare ya? I didn’t mean to, just being friendly.” the old man reached out to grab you but you backed up out of his grasp and bumped in to diluc who was behind you, and you see kaeya grip the mans arm, “Have you never learned to keep your hands to yourself, hmm?” Your blue headed brother says and you watch as diluc steps in front of you. “Is this old man bothering you, Y/N?” diluc asks and you nod, “he was making me uncomfortable..his hand was, erm, touching me..” You rub your arms and step back a bit.

“It’s not that deep, I was just being friendly..trying to shoot my shot on a cute little girl.” the old man tries to defend his actions, “Excuse me?” the red head scoffs, “praying on little girls? oh how low of you..” kaeya starts “looks like someone needs to be taught a lesson?” he gets up, standing next to diluc and the man also stands. “There’s nothing wrong with it-“ diluc cuts him off, scoffing and pinching the bridge of his nose, “There’s nothing wrong with it? she’s 16, what are you 60? there’s Everything wrong with it. I’m gonna have to ask you to leave.” the old man opens his mouth to argue but kaeya quickly shuts him up, “before we make you leave. understood?” glaring daggers at the guy.

The old man angrily takes his leave, and the two brothers turn to you, bombarding you with questions and concerns. “Are you alright?” “did he hurt you?” “do you need anything?” “would you like me to beat him up?” question after question, with no time to answer any of them. “Get off her ass, you two aren’t even giving her the opportunity to answer all the dumb questions your throwing at her.” Rosaria says as she takes a sip of her booze. “right, sorry.” diluc says and he turns to you. “I’m alright, I’m not hurt, I just want to go home, and no, you don’t need to beat him up.” you let out a sigh of relief and a small chuckle. “I’m sure diluc has no problem closing the tavern, right brother?” Kaeya says, in a teasing manner for the last part. “mhmm, of course, it’s about time I close up the tavern anyway.”

When there’s nobody left in the tavern except for you and your brothers, you hug kaeya goodbye, “Thank you, for earlier..” you say as you squeeze him tightly in the hug. wrapping his arms around you and rubbing your back, “Well, it is my purpose to look out for my adorable younger sister.” he chuckles and you let go smiling, waving good bye.

When you and diluc are walking back to the Manner, you hook your arm around your brothers and lean on his arm. “Are you alright?” you smile, nodding. “Mhm,I just want to say thank you, for earlier, for looking out for me..” you hug his arm tighter and he wraps his arm around your shoulder. “Of course, I would do anything to make you feel safe.” You smile and giggle, walking silently back to the manner with your older brother.

5:37 pm 9/02/2021

[vaguely-concerned]

The Mandalorian Chapter 13 reactions

Well, that was... well. in short I quite enjoyed some of what happened while din was there and I didn’t really care about what happened while he wasn’t there lol. I think it’s becoming increasingly clear that I just don’t care for the episodes dave filoni writes for this show, which is simply a matter of taste I guess. 

(if you loved this episode wholeheartedly -- probably look away now, I’m going to be a bit of a downer about it and I don’t want to shit on your joy haha)

- let’s just get this out of the way first: there’s a lot of stuff around rosaria dawson and transphobia in real life and yeah, of course that affects how I watch the show. I don’t even want to talk that much about ahsoka in this because of it. she was not that good in the role, after seeing how it played out I don’t think the character needed to be in this show at all, and she should never have gotten the role in the first place and that’s about it for what I’ve got to say. 

- dave filoni consistently does things with din’s characterization that feels off and weird to me, subtly out of place with what we see in other episodes (he’s... ruder? more short tempered/cocky/actively or aggressively interpersonal? more prone to express himself directly than he is usually? idk how to describe it but filoni!din always feels one step to the left of what he should be and I’m so hyper-attuned to this character that when something’s a bit iffy with him it throws everything else off haha. it feels like a shallower, more convenient read on him and I don’t like it)  

I also think filoni is almost too familiar with and in love with the source material sometimes? “A Mandalorian and a Jedi? They’ll never see it coming” is undeniably a great line that echoes in decades of deep lore and so on, but dave my good man din had no real idea what a jedi even is until literally this morning. we, the audience, know about this long and storied history, but unless ahsoka spent the afternoon explaining it to him din still only knows the faint outlines of it, he has no personal experience of or attachment to it. it’s not bad, as such, it just rings false to the character based tone of the show for me personally 

- positivity break: baby sitting perched on the dashboard to be close to papa while they’re in hyperspace........sd sdfskdjhfdsakjksdhfkasjd  

also this is some full on madonna and child in the manger shit and I am LIVING for it (odds he’s crying quietly behind the helmet here? pretty damn good if you ask me). the mundanity of what’s essentially the shitty spartan bathroom of the razor crest on one side contrasted with the light and tenderness and love on the other? amazing, a perfect microcosm of what this show does with combining the grittier everyday down to earth stuff in the star wars universe with myth and wonder and magic and through it elevating both

 - the idea of having an iconique samurai/sword duel standoff and a western standoff going on simultaneously is genuinely inspired, but in action it didn’t really work for me. (the sword duel stuff needs these moments of stillness with sudden outbursts of violence and then stillness again, the western standoff needs mounting tension until it’s nearly unbearable, and cutting between them the way they did you sort of didn’t get either to its full potential. again it’s a cool idea, though, I hope someone picks it up and does it better at some point)

- seeing a jedi and a mandalorian wander together through a burned out wasteland left desolate by greed and warfare should have hit me harder than it did but for some reason it didn’t, idk. thematically sound, though, I like it a lot on the metaphor level

- I LOVE that pure beskar makes a specific sound, and that it’s an almost ethereal noise like the high clear chime of a distant bell. also now din has something to fight light sabers with that isn’t the dark saber which makes me so happy because you guys I do not want him to be the mand’alor. keep that funky laser sword away from my dad, apart from killing him at the end that is literally the most boring way to end his arc pls do NOt 

- wow they really went in hard on the samurai stuff in this one huh! there is a part of my mchanzo-loving heart that thrives on seeing a space cowboy and a space samurai team up, *wild otp-fuelled whisper* they’re twin genres inextricably entwined okay they belong together if you see this spreadsheet I’ve made over here -- 

- even knowing it was just a trick I felt such intense distress seeing the signet pauldron away from din. like the attachment I have to these pieces of metal because That Armour Means Dad... wild  

- they really chose the dumbest name possible for the baby huh fsajdfhsaj I agree with din his name is ‘kid’ now (eh just give me a while to get used to it probably I’ll come around)

also... you know what I’ve said before about shrinking the big unknowable galaxy ‘the mandalorian’ has been setting up? wow did they do that big time in this one, and it makes me feel decidedly :/. why does the baby have to come from the jedi temple, is there truly no other tradition of force users in the entire galaxy he could be from? WHY do you have to pull thrawn into this when most people watching this show won’t even know why he’s such a big deal? is this a stealth tease for a rebels sequel? if so why spend an entire episode of this show that only gets eight precious episodes a season on it??   

- on a more fun positive note: baby’s clothes are clean again, so it’s confirmed that din does wash them (and I guess that he does have some means of washing clothes aboard the razor crest!). I loved... most of the dad and baby stuff in this one, but then don’t I always I’m easy to please that way haha (the ‘playing catch’ sequence felt a bit off to me but I don’t know why. din being like ‘he’s so stubborn’ wasn’t... eh. didn’t land right. “that would be a first” was fun tho lol) 

- having ahsoka state the baby’s feelings out loud like that felt... weird? and also kind of unnecessary in parts, like yeah he’s a baby who’s been passed along to different groups of strangers and experimented on by empire scientists, you don’t need to spell it out for me that he’s been scared and lonely, or at least spell it out more interestingly? it’s such blunt force storytelling where it didn’t need to be? there are more elegant ways to get the same things across, I am absolutely convinced 

- ...wow while I was watching the episode I was mostly like ‘okay this is Fine I can go along with it’ but seeing what I’m thinking about in hindsight... yeah probably my least favourite episode of this show full stop haha, it took the spot from chapter 5 which was also a filoni ep

- I did 100% genuinely adore the whole part of din approaching the town and meeting the magistrate. consistently hiding the baby behind his cape and his arm? being deliberately, teeth-grindingly dispassionate with everyone, just giving them nothing? getting to see a bit of professional bounty hunter din again? wonderful in every way, I love this man  

- lots of meaningful shots of baby in the middle with a mando on one side and a jedi on the other, it’s almost like they’re setting up some Themes here lol 

- ...do you think din told ahsoka about either the rhino-levitating or the force choking. because girl I don’t think not training him is going to make this just go away haha, he just won’t know what he’s doing  

- it makes me so sad that baby connects his force powers with being abused :( (also a heartbreaking sign of just how much he cared about din from the very beginning, since he used it on the mudhorn to save him anyway ;________; was that like. literally the first time he sensed kindness and affection in anyone in like twenty five years or... ) 

- I understand why ahsoka would feel this way because of her past and specific traumas, but tbh attachment in a baby? probably a good thing, he doesn’t really have the higher brain functions to cultivate non-attachment yet and needs a safe figure because again. he is a baby. 

good on her for realizing it’s not a task she can take on both for the baby’s sake and her own, and also that din is that baby’s Dad though. the way she smiled at the end watching them leave seemed vaguely hopeful/had a little bit of wonder in it, like maybe she felt the potential for something good there, something she couldn’t conceptualize from her background but could sense the tentative outlines of anyway?  

(also so much pressure on a lil bb to decide his path... his dilemmas should be limited to what colour socks he wants to wear today not the course of his entire life :( I know he’s a magic baby but.......) 

- idk maybe I’ll find more affection of this episode through rewatches, you never know