#schnozmo: just not having kids in the first place

[trynadraw]

schnozmo has probably considered getting a hysterectomy at least once

[fountainpenguin]

Mind Over Magic

Crocker stuffing the cafeteria ceiling full of Fs...

So funny that A.J.'s reaction to Timmy getting answers right on a quiz is that he's lucky and Chester just assumes Timmy cheated somehow.

Wanda really has no filter... She'll just call her godchild a jerk with no hesitation. lmao.

I love Veronica's crush on Timmy.

Elmer has life so freakin' rough. There's just one kid in this class who's inexplicably possessed... incredible. <- Has a sudden urge to binge "Never Had a Friend Like Me" again.

I totally forgot Crocker knows about Elmer's mind control situation (or at least, we know Elmer asked him about it and Crocker promised to help him).

Wanda holding an entire armful of candy while Timmy gets only one piece... lol.

Hard Copy

Remembering how afraid Cosmo is of the doctor... Me glancing awkwardly at my 'fics like "Yeah, that tracks."

Cracks me up that Wanda and Juandissimo have an ongoing relationship of her using him "as bait." That's just what they are and he will play along every time... They are so funny.

This is such a good episode for Wanda... All the magical mistakes and poor choices in this episode are hers. I like when she pulls a jar of jam from the copier and starts eating it, completely forgetting what Timmy asked for... or when she and Timmy eat cake instead of solving the magical mishap affecting them. Very Season 7-esque when they have a tea party while Cosmo's gone ("Super Zero").

RIP Flipsie's indoctrination into a life of crime.

Parenthoods

Still so funny that Cosmo loves Canada in this episode and then in Season 7, you learn he's convinced his brother invented Canada.

I want Hazel to meet Schnozmo so bad...

Every time Mr. Turner calls his wife nicknames like Snugglebutt I lose my mind. Man just loves fawning over his wife.

Lol, there's a scene in Frayed Knots I wrote years ago that we're almost upon, and it draws directly from this episode (Anti-Wanda convinced the Anti-Fairy legal system will see her through).

Timmy has some really cute body language in this episode.

Honestly, this is one of my favorite episodes- it's just so silly and cute. Good use of magic and shapeshifting, lots of fun jokes like magic bending the fabric of the world like a map (or Timmy trying to assist with a theft).

-> I have a draft somewhere where I note down odd things that aren't against Da Rules, and I think "Assisting with crime" is one I need to add.

THERE THEY ARE! Cosmo and Wanda turn into rats at the end of this episode, and I think that's the shape of the rat I saw during my first watch of "1500 Minutes of Fame" and wondered if I'd seen it before. I'll have to compare these sometime.

The Big Superhero Wish

I have a soft spot for "Big Superhero Wish" because it's one of the first episodes I ever saw (during a visit to a pizza place when the sound was muted).

-> I think it's a fun one in the way it looks at relationships between random schoolkids (Especially Veronica). I also enjoy how Chester gets to chew through matter in this episode and then when you get to Season 5, he's trying to chew his way out of the F.U.N. Academy with the same "Munch munch munch" dialogue he does here.

Apparently Nega-Chin can tell Timmy and Remy apart even though regular Crimson Chin can't.

Timmy drowning in papers marked F followed by "Cool, there's a D in here!"

I like watching Timmy's average problems like getting picked on and wanting a glass of milk to cheer him up, but not even getting that.

Minotaur Francis is everything to me...

I like how Crocker knows a lot about comics, but specifically because he's confiscated them from kids during class. Playing that against his miserable child upbringing is kind of funny... I wonder if he read many comics as a kid, or if that's not something he ever really wished for.

Actually, Timmy being cut off before finishing a wish is something I would've liked to see more often. It's just silly. The tension balance in this episode once the heroes are wished away and villains stay is pretty good.

ksdlkfj, "I used my regular kid window-opening powers!" Elmer...

Totally forgot Chester ran up to Vicky and bit her on the leg, oh geez.

"My nega-vision will cut through your bodies like nega-vision!"

I would've loved an episode where Timmy goes into the real world to rescue the writer of the Crimson Chin comics since this episode ends with the Nega-Chin taking him captive. Alas. I guess I could write a 'fic about that, but I think it defeats the point a little when the visuals aren't going to change, haha.

I really want to watch "Masked Magician" again now, but I think that's later in Season 5 so it'll come up later in my binge.

Vicky Loses Her Icky

Ooh, Sanderson head gag means "Pixies Inc." is coming up after this!

This episode is so goofy. Timmy's parents hire Vicky to babysit Timmy while they sit in the car in the driveway, waiting to be hungry enough to leave to the restaurant.

I wonder why I always see people complain this episode is annoying for "giving Vicky the backstory of being evil due to being bitten by a bug," because it's clearly stated that the bug came about because she was mean and Cosmo and Wanda had to give it physical form to remove it [Wanda claiming "All that evil has to go somewhere"]. /shrug

Here it is! I've been trying to remember what the "corn on Pluto" episode was.

I don't... I don't love Vicky saying she's leaving to donate organs. Are they HER organs?

Alarm bells instantly ringing when Vicky offers to dig people basements. I don't think Dale would like that.

Shout-out to Timmy's dad being rescued from the evil bug and immediately saying, "Hey, we're at the Cake 'N Bacon... Are we at least being nice?"

President dressing up like George Washington was such a funny way to avoid depicting a specific president.

Pixies Inc.

My boys are in the house!!

How have I literally never noticed Timmy's in the Future Business Leaders of America club...

Y'know, I always thought H.P. was just blatantly losing the golf game despite cheating, but watching again, the reason he has more strokes than Timmy in golf is because he went first.

Never not funny how many emotions the Pixies show when they're actually spooked or sad. They talk in monotone, but still make expressions... and that's not even counting their silly dialogue. I love them.

Dale Dimmadome & H.P. dynamic is so silly to me... Dale grew up around Dimmadome Farms [implied] and runs a burger chain, and the soy- & rice-loving Pixies aren't exactly known for eating meat. I just want them to try getting on the same page and continually hit roadblocks that make it weird.

Baby Face

I had no memory of "Baby Face" coming immediately after "Pixies Inc.," but oh my gosh does that make the "Gary and Betty seemingly knew about Pixies the whole time" theory funnier.

There they are! My other sillies are in the house!

Wait.......... hold up. Were Gary and Betty in the room when Timmy made his baby wish? -> There... there's no door behind them when the camera pans over.

They are so dang sus. Why were these babies unsupervised. Why did they not hesitate for a split-second before cramming Francis in a teeny tiny cage..... They are my everything.

crying at the huge crash sound effect that hits as Gary and Betty open the door off-screen. Why are they like that...

I say this every time I watch this episode, but Gary and Betty opting not to help a crying child and instead lock him in a soundproof dome is so dang funny. These two should not be left with kids. If they show up in New Wish with the Pixies, I will die actually... I still can't believe we got a Flappy Bob cameo. My son.

I feel like Vicky knowing Gary's and Betty's fun box song by heart is such a neat detail. Why is she hanging out with them. Why would they ever hang out with her. Fascinating...

Mr. Right

Another of the episodes I watched muted at a pizza place once upon a time...

Timmy and Melvin shoved into the same locker is giving me Leonard/Tammy flashbacks.

Elmer really doesn't keep his problems secret, huh? ("The boil doesn't like to be touched!")

Shout-out to the running gag of Francis scheduling his beatings.

I wonder why Vicky didn't go to school. The elementary school got out early. Maybe "recording Timmy's pain for future generations as a short film" was her homework.

...... Okay, actually.... I can TOTALLY see why A.J. goes on to found the Galax Institute in A New Wish based on his sudden uptick of interest in Timmy after noticing he's right all the time. I guess he really will chase the unexplained!

I love Francis... "Guess what I have behind my back. And don't say scorpion, because I checked." <- Guy who's really itching to finish my "Francis with a fairy godparent" 'fic...

lol, is Wanda's signature in her poof cloud the same as her signature when she signed papers in "Pixies Inc."? I think it might be.

That's all for now.

[fountainpenguin]

Why isn't Tootie qualify enough to get her own Fairy GodParents? She's the most bullied victim by Vicky isn't she? How can she not a miserable child?

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, let’s talk about the godkid green list again!

To qualify for having godparents, you first have to make it on the green list- the list of kids Fairy World trusts to keep the secret from adults. There are some little things about Tootie that make her a difficult choice at the current time. The number of godparents is limited and she may not be high enough on the list to get one.

Here are some reasons Tootie might not have a fairy:

Doesn’t listen to instructions (“Birthday Wish”)

Vicky doesn’t give her privacy (Godparent safety concerns… Hey, they have a union too!)

Massive blabbermouth (“Birthday Wish”)

Easily upset

Stubborn

Makes rash choices

The fear she’ll go mad with power (Ex: Tootie canonically taps Timmy’s phones and stalks him at night, and maybe Fairy World worry that with fairy magic, she’d be even more aggressive and cause Timmy to be miserable. Fairy World needs to get Timmy in a stable place where he can handle Tootie before they give Tootie magic that might pull him under. See also, Tootie bullying Timmy into kissing her in “Home Wrecker” and “Dread ‘N Breakfast”)

She’s only 9 (Very young for a godkid; very risky)

Might not be long-term miserable; Tootie might consider Vicky’s bullying normal because it’s constant while to other kids, Vicky makes them miserable because they have good life experiences to compare with

Episodes like “Microphony” and “Channel Chasers” show just how many kids Vicky babysits. I assume Timmy is the kid she babysits most (almost every weekday), but on top of her babysitting job she also goes to school, has homework, has a social life (“Frenemy Mine”), and has pets to take care of. She’s probably not home much, and is with her pets when she is. Vicky’s torments might not exceed regular sibling interactions in the eyes of Fairy World

It’s completely possible Tootie already had a godparent but lost them and Fairy World is reluctant to assign her a new one

Maybe she’s close friends with someone who has a godparent who’s helping her through her situation

There needs to be reason to believe the kid’s life will improve with a fairy. Maybe it’s believed nothing will change; Vicky will keep bullying her, Da Rules will prevent her from obtaining true love, and she’ll still be pretty miserable. Timmy improves gradually, but maybe there’s reason to believe Tootie won’t.

Along with that, magic comes with side effects and godkids tend to develop rashes or sneeze a lot until they adjust to being in contact with magic. Maybe Fairies worry that Vicky would notice Tootie’s weakness and torment her more, then her fairy would be exposed, her fairy would be recalled, and Tootie would be left more bullied than ever with no godparent to help, thus making it a bad idea to expose her to magic.

Fairy World might be so overloaded with potential godkids that they haven’t noticed her or prioritized her over other kids who need help (Implied godparent shortage since at least “Fairy Idol”… or since “The Big Problem” if you want to be technical)

If Tootie’s 9, she might be going into Crocker’s class next year, which could put her at risk. Maybe Fairy World worries she wouldn’t handle that pressure as well as Timmy.

Tootie doesn’t need a fairy because Mark looks out for her and they are friends (I play with this idea in their arc of the 130 Prompts)

Tootie already has a fairy, but she’s good at hiding it so you haven’t noticed ;) Vicky didn’t 100% stop bullying Timmy- he still gets bullied and his godparents help him unpack the aftermath. Tootie might be in the same boat!

Could be lots of reasons; those are just some off the top of my head.

Tootie might be on the waiting list, though. Maybe someday when she’s older she’ll have a fairy, but right now she’s young and can’t keep secrets very well, so Fairy World might be waiting for the right time to assign her one.

Personally if someone was going to write a ‘fic about Tootie with a fairy, I’d love for it to be Schnozmo. Imagine him doing community service as a temporary godparent and he gets assigned to someone who wants to dress-up and go on spy adventures, and then it’s Tootie. He’d love and hate it at the same time. You know what this might be my new headcanon.

Alt idea: Sparky protects Tootie post-Season 9 and they are very happy and Sparky is friends with Doidle and Vicky likes dogs. Everyone wins.

[fountainpenguin]

Which Prompt...?

Hey. As you guys know, the 130 Prompts are about to go on hiatus. I anticipate this being a fairly long hiatus (a year at minimum, probably closer to a year and a half). Reason being, Knots is about to catch up to Origin and I’d like to reroute my focus there, but I’m also trying to get my original works published, and I’m just trying to cut down on fanfic time in general to reach that goal.

Now, I recently shared my tentative upload list, and you may have noticed we have two Prompts left before hiatus. One of them will be “Trying Too Hard”, which is kind of our final bit of set-up for the Gary and Betty arc before everything clicks and you realize what I’ve been doing. Very excited. That one will definitely be uploaded before the hiatus, so no worries there.

BUT, I’m not sure which of the other Prompts I should post before this extended hiatus! I have four cool options that I’ve been flipping back and forth between multiple times a day. So if one of these catches your eye and you’d love to read it sooner rather than later, send me an Ask!

“Repeat” - Cosmo and Poof alternating POV; third-person limited. Teenage Poof begs and pleads with Cosmo for permission to drive his car, and Cosmo struggles to learn how to let go.

Pros: 

Takes place not too long after “Shadow”, so it might be nice to have those too near each other. The original intention was for “Repeat” to mirror “Shadow” by focusing on the Cosmo / Poof relationship in parallel to the Hiccup / Anti-Wanda relationship we saw in “Shadow”. 

I’m pretty pleased with my Cosmo portrayal. We don’t get to see him in my works much, so maybe you guys would like to have this.

So much Cosmo/Wanda fluff like seriously guys it’s cotton candy.

We get to meet Dusty! I was going to hold off, but he’s cute, so???

We learn a bit about Timmy’s and Remy’s fates, which is kind of interesting, but I wonder if we’d want those after the completion of Remy’s arc and such.

Concerns:

I have like four different endings for this piece, so I need to choose carefully. It’s going to take a lot of work to pick the best one, and what if I regret the one I chose later? Maybe it’s better if I think about it longer? In one ending we get a glimpse of Sammy Sweetsparkle’s fate and once we go down that path there’s no reversing... Might be best to wait.

One of the endings for this piece is fluffy, one is semi-fluffy, one is semi-angsty, and one is full angsty. I know you guys don’t have a lot of context at the moment, but feel free to let me know which way you’d like to see it go. If the Prompts feel deprived of fluff and you’d like more, by all means, say so!

“You’ll Never Know” - Young Anti-Mama Cosma’s POV (Just before she becomes pregnant with Anti-Schnozmo); third-person limited. It’s just pure, unadulterated Anti-Fairy culture. We just chuck you right into the Seven Festivals and experience every single day through the eyes of a local.

Pros:

The Seven Festivals are a cool part of Anti-Fairy culture that we don’t get to look at in quite this much depth during Frayed Knots. You guys might like watching the festivals play out in prose instead more than what you glimpsed in that worldbuilding post.

We get some depth about Anti-Florensa, as well as Anti-Cosmo’s dad and Anti-Bryndin when all three of them were younger.

This is a self-contained one-shot and might be a good posting choice so we’re not bringing in new plot lines just before the hiatus.

Concerns:

Maybe you guys need a break from Anti-Fairy culture after “First Things First” and “Shadow”? Not to mention “Watch and Learn” and Knots.

Technically everyone in this piece is a semi-canon OC. If that bothers you, you will be sad.

“Live For the Moment” - Foop/Hiccup’s POV; third-person omniscient. Foop and Hiccup, just shy of their 150,000th birthday, attend the annual Autumn Masquerade and are introduced to Anti-Coriander for the first time.

Pros:

We get to meet Anti-Coriander! Since we talked about her, Foop, and Anti-Marigold a lot recently in “Temptation”, it might be nice to see her.

Some cute fluff and talk about Anti-Fairy culture, which is a fun topic. Definitely not as in-depth as “You’ll Never Know”, but there’s a bit.

We get to meet Cavatina too! Although that might be a con, not a pro. He wasn’t supposed to show up, but apparently he did. He scares me. Listen kiddo, I adore you as a toddler, but you a scary tween, man.

Concerns:

I was going to wait until both the Gary and Betty and the Mark and Vicky arcs were done before we transition into the Cavatina arc. I want you guys to be excited about Cavatina, and I don’t want that excitement to burn out early.

Specifically, since “Trying Too Hard” will be posted around the same time, it’s probably less complicated to make you guys wait for Cavatina, rather than trying to balance the intrigue and foreshadowing of the Gary and Betty plot arc with the Cavatina stuff.

Even more specifically, Cavatina isn’t much younger than Poof and Foop, which means that he’s in his late tweens in this Prompt. I think I might prefer to wait until you guys have seen him as a kid before we see him as an adult. Unfortunately, waiting that long means it will be ages before we get to meet Anti-Coriander... but then again, that might help build the drama. That could be fun.

“Do the Math” - My document is so drafty that POV shifts between the fragments right now. Will probably end up first-person Remy POV. Remy and Juandissimo are attending the Fairy Reunion during Season 5 and totally minding their own business when Timmy Turner is suddenly charged with the Head Pixie’s murder. Rolling his eyes, Remy sets out on a quest to prove not only that the Head Pixie is alive, but that Timmy is innocent. Not to clear his rival’s name or anything- just to show off his detective skills and eat hot dogs.

Pros:

We just heard Timmy describing this event to Chloe in “This Is a Box” so it might be good for readers to get the context before they forget this event happened.

Juandissimo!!! There’s not a lot I can say without spoiling things, but some fleshing out goes down. Plus, who doesn’t like Remy?

There’s one Gary scene in this piece that I would love to get out of my system before “Trying Too Hard”, just to make you guys squirm a bit. Gary’s arc won’t suffer if we don’t, but it’s less squirm-inducing.

Concerns:

Didn’t....... get...... “Sentry”....... finished yet. Order... non-chronological.

The fact that Remy and Juandissimo are together again long-term will probably come up. Technically* only my blog followers really know this, and my readers don’t. Will this reveal make the Remy and Juan arc in the Prompts seem boring if we already know the ending? I sure hope not considering that I just reminded you guys about it again! I mean, since “Teacher’s Pet” exists it would be stranger if they weren’t, I guess.

Can’t... decide... what order to put my Juandissimo stuff in. Before the reveal in this piece, or after? If I reveal now, then I should be able to swing an upcoming Prompt to be more entertaining and in-depth than it currently is. I can be direct about his relationship with Cupid in the upcoming "Learn Your Place” Prompt if I post this one first, but I’ll have to skirt the subject if I flip the two and then it might not be as funny.

I’m still honing my Remy voice, and I’m worried that he isn’t quite bratty enough. Maybe I should set it aside and practice with him more first?

Like I said, I’ve been flipping between these four constantly. I just can’t decide! I still have the final say, and I know I’m being super vague about what’s to come, and so it’s hard to decide which one you’ll like the most, but if any of you would like to offer input before hiatus strikes, you’re welcome to.

Are you desperate for Cosmo/Wanda fluff? To meet Anti-Coriander and Cavatina? Juandissimo stuff? Pick your poison and let me hear it!

[fountainpenguin]

"Female genies have names that end with vowels, male names end with consonants." Is that also why Anti-Cosmo doesn't like the Nebula name?

I was not expecting anyone to catch that! Yes, that’s a thing that bothers him. He’s lived a long life of genies first hearing the name Anti-Cosmo and the obligatory, “Isn’t that a girl’s name?” conversation and didn’t want to subject his son to that, even if it’s only until he turns 150,000 and gets his adult name.

Also I, uh… I never explained the Nebula name apparently, so let’s do that.

ANTI-FAIRY NAMING TRADITIONS

Anti-Fairy parents pick the middle name of their counterpart’s child, that name being the anti-kid’s first name until they come of age and use their anti-name. I figure that Fairy/Anti-Fairy communication is pretty poor. It’s better in modern times, but back in the day, many Fairies didn’t tell their counterparts what their baby’s name was. Combine that with Anti-Fairies living in large colonies, and not having names becomes really annoying. Thus, Anti-Fairies name their own children.

This leads us to the tradition of Anti-Fairies having “private names” and “adult names”. Anti-Cosmo’s private name is Julius, which is Cosmo’s middle name. Anti-Wanda’s is Venus, which is Wanda’s middle name. For the first several chapters of Frayed Knots, Anti-Cosmo is referred to as Julius (Anti-Schnozmo is Augustus because I wanted both brothers named after Roman emperors). All their young friends are called their private names too, which is… hard for me to remember. And I’m the one who has the cheat sheet of who is who I’m so sorry.

Anti-Fairy age of majority is 150,000 (coincidentally 13 in human years). That’s when everyone stops referring to them by their private names and calls them by their adult names instead, which hopefully they’ve learned by this point in their lives. The Anti-Fairy Council don’t have enough to do, so one of their jobs is to actually sort this kind of thing out.

When Anti-Cosmo and Anti-Wanda were married, part of the ceremony involved sharing their private names with one another. “Not All the Same” was first-person POV, so Anti-Cosmo referred to Anti-Wanda as Venus because that’s the sort of intimate relationship he and his wife have. Since they’re that close, they’re allowed to call each other by their private names in, well… private. In front of other people, even people who know their private names, it’s respectful to use adult names instead. It’s an honorary.

Private/adult names are one aspect of Anti-Fairy culture that Fairies don’t have much knowledge about, and we’ll see this throughout both Knots and the 130 Prompts. Even as early as “Second Chance”, young Foop insisted that Poof refer to Goldie’s counterpart by her private name, Kelsia.

Refracts don’t even name their kids. They just refer to them as “Daughter” and “Son”. They like knowing their kids’ names and will sometimes use them if they know them, but they’re usually pretty chill about it. H.P. can tell all his pixies apart by their smell/taste in the energy field, but his Refracted counterpart, the Dame Head, gave up after like, four. She has her mill and farm, and she just lets them run loose. Cut her some slack- it’s lots of kids and they all look alike. She doesn’t divide them into different jobs like H.P. does. It’s just, “You girls go gather some wheat and you girls run the mill today”.

Although the Seelie Court refer to their Refracted counterparts with the Dame and Drake titles, Refracts who do know their kids’ names just call them that. So, H.P. refers to Dame Sanderson as Dame Sanderson. Her mom just calls her Sanderson. H.P. calls Anti-Sanderson that name in Origin even when he’s underage. Anti-Sanderson’s dad called him Ennet until he got his adult name.

SURNAMES

Many Anti-Fairies use their mother’s surname, because many grow up knowing their mothers but not their fathers (since mom gives birth). Fairies mistakenly interpret this as Anti-Fairies always taking mom’s name, hence Caudwell asking Foop in “Hidden” how certain names haven’t been lost. Anti-Fairies who don’t know either parent usually take their counterpart’s last name when they learn it.

In actuality, Anti-Fairies take the surname of the more dominant parent when appropriate. The Anti-Coppertalon bloodline always passed down that name because they’re nobles, regardless of whether the parent was male or female.

During the first half of Frayed Knots, Anti-Cosmo has the surname Anti-Lunifly, which he got from his mother, because she outranked his dad (who was a castle servant).

He later discards that name for Anti-Cosma, because he has more respect for his late dad than his abusive mom and wants to leave that part of his past behind.

When Anti-Cosmo married Anti-Wanda, he took her name and tacked it onto the end of his, thus making him Anti-Cosmo Julius Anti-Cosma-Anti-Fairywinkle. I did this partly because Cosmo’s driver’s license in “Turning Back Turner” said “Fairywinkle-Cosma”, and I wanted the two to be reversed.

In the “Who Am I?” Prompt, Anti-Cosmo referred to his family as “Anti-Fairywinkles”. In “Unwelcome”, Foop referred to himself the same way, even correcting a Fairy who called him “Anti-Cosma”. He then followed this with a comment that “Anti-Fairies get their surnames from their mothers”; he doesn’t know the actual legalities because they bore him.

WHERE DID “NEBULA” COME FROM?

Foop’s full name in my headcanon is Nebula Anti-Poof Anti-Fairywinkle. That’s it. It’s not Foop Anti-Poof Anti-Cosma-Anti-Fairywinkle.

The short version of this story is, Anti-Cosmo wanted to name his son Foop but in the time period between the events of “Anti-Poof” and Foop being shipped off to jail, Anti-Wanda and Timmy got talking about the fight and somehow Crash Nebula ended up in the conversation and she fell in love with the name. 

There was like a six-hour period before Foop went to jail, which allowed him to get his statue for the Blue Castle made and be introduced to a few members of his extended family. One of these was people was Anti-Cosmo’s mom, who basically kisses the clouds Anti-Wanda floats above. Put simply, after Foop went to jail, his extended family got into a big argument over this child’s name. He was the first anti-fairy baby born in over 300,000 years, and heir to the High Count seat to boot. He’s a special boy and naming him was hard.

Anti-Cosmo finally backed down, so the legal papers list his son as Nebula even though he still prefers the name Foop. But, Foop himself was in jail for ages and didn’t even find out that Nebula was part of his name for awhile, so he got used to thinking of himself as Foop. That’s how he introduces himself, and since he gets around and causes trouble, it’s what the media knows him as too. 

So for the most part, only his extended family call him Nebula. And Kelsia when she’s teasing, and his dad when he’s very cross with him. Even the Anti-Fairy Council and Anti-Wanda call him Foop. His name is only Nebula on paper, and for all intents and purposes, “Foop” is a nickname that stuck.

Anti-Cosmo is unreasonably pleased with this turn of events.

BUT WHY HEADCANON NEBULA AT ALL? WHY NOT JUST FOOP?

Several reasons, but mostly I did it because of Foop’s dissociative identity disorder. Personality A refers to himself as Foop. Personality B refers to himself as Hiccup. They both identify as and answer to Nebula. Basically, the narrators I write will usually refer to Foop/Hiccup as “Nebula” or “Anti-Poof” verbally as their culture dictates, but still refer to them mentally by separate names for the reader’s benefit. 

Poof never outgrows the “Foop” name and continues to refer to his counterpart by it even when he starts introducing himself as Anti-Poof. It’s just one of his quirks, the same way he refers to Goldie’s counterpart as “Anti-Goldie” instead of “Anti-Marigold” as she prefers.

Here’s a chart of how to address them / who answers to what:

“Nebula” - A polite way to refer to either one of them (when they’re underage) and you don’t know who is in control at the moment. If you’re coming into a room and seeing them for the first time, it’s respectful to greet them this way. They won’t correct you if you just wanted to tell them something real quick, but if they can tell you want to have a serious conversation, they’ll often tell you which one they are. If you’re one of their relatives who doesn’t believe in their DID, you might call them by this name too.

In this phase, Foop and Hiccup see each other as separate entities and get annoyed when you can’t tell them apart. Since they both accept Nebula as a name, neither will have their feelings hurt. Their speech, interests, and behaviors differ dramatically, so you can use your context clues to figure out which one is which once you have their attention.

“Foop” - Foop will answer to this. Hiccup will frequently answer to this on Foop’s behalf, though in his younger years he will politely correct you. He’ll take messages if you request, though he finds it demeaning and invalidating. If Hiccup is out and you want to tell Foop something, it’s more respectful to handwrite your message and address it at the top as “Foop”, and then leave it where he can find it (such as on his desk, taped to a door, on the fridge, etc.) Hiccup would much prefer you giving him a letter and asking him to “give it to Foop when he comes back” than he would you saying, “I want to talk to Foop” or “Tell Foop to do his chores.”

Hiccup is very aware that he is “the second personality” when he’s young and sees his place as below Foop. He’s willing to stand up for himself and for Foop, but he has a lot of self-doubt and frets constantly about being “unwanted”.

“Hiccup” - Hiccup will answer to this; Foop will too once he remembers, “Oh wait, that’s me.” In their Nebula phase, Hiccup will request you refer to him by the name Hiccup because it makes him feel valid. Foop, however, won’t supply his name unless you ask for it. He treats “Hiccup” as another nickname. He doesn’t pretend to be Hiccup and goes about his business as normal; he just isn’t bothered if you call him by the wrong name, because he gets that you’re trying your best to keep up with him.

Foop sees Hiccup as a little brother. Mostly annoying, but occasionally useful. Sometimes, he will actually pretend to be Hiccup to avoid getting in trouble, but only when it benefits him- not to spare you from embarrassment. In their younger years, most people see Hiccup as “the alternate personality” and have little interest in him as a person. People wanting to talk to them usually want to talk to Foop, and the idea of talking to Hiccup may not cross their minds. If you do want to talk to him, though, you can leave him a note that has his name on it somewhere he’ll find it. Foop and Hiccup respect each other as separate and don’t read each other’s mail.

“Anti-Poof” - After the age of 150,000, this is the proper way to address them. They both fully identify as this, and that’s where things get tricky. At this phase of their life, Foop and Hiccup are constantly confused about their identity. Lines are blurring and they both see themselves as “Anti-Poof”. This is the point where they both try to discard their old names and take the role of dominant personality. As such, they might get offended if you refer to them as “Foop” and “Hiccup” and very upset if you ask to “talk to the other one” or tell them you know which one they are.

In this phase, both Foop and Hiccup are in denial of their DID and trying to unite themselves into one again. Where once they got annoyed if you referred to them as the same, now they get annoyed when you refer to them as different. “You want to talk to Anti-Poof? Yes, that is me. Wait, now you don’t want to talk to me? I don’t understand. I’m Anti-Poof.”

The funny thing is, by this point their personalities are very distinct and people take Hiccup seriously as his own person (since he never went away), and he doesn’t want that anymore. Both Foop and Hiccup are still somewhat aware of each other, like roommates that share the same apartment. They don’t intentionally go through each other’s stuff, and they don’t get upset or confused if all of a sudden they blink and they’re at school or standing in front of the fridge. They know it was the other personality’s doing, but they both calculate the situation and react accordingly. Getting annoyed at each other doesn’t help. They know that now.

They’re like two brothers who share the same car. If the other brother has it, they can’t use it. When it’s available, they run their individual errands and do the things they want to do with it, understanding that it will be returned to the other brother for awhile and then that brother will use it too, that’s all. 

Kind of a mess, but I do specialize in messes.