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watching-pictures-move · 2 years ago

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Put On Your Raincoats | The Challenge (Seven, 1990)

The title of The Challenge refers to a friendly wager between two dom(me)s, Ed Powers and Bionca, that the latter can't break Jeanna Fine, an unruly new sub with a bad attitude. (Or baditude, if you will, as the song "Bad Attitude" by hardcore punk band Articles of Faith posits. The song does not make an appearance here, but I'm listening to it as I write this, so it gets a mention in this review.) This is not a challenge in the Alien vs. Predator sense, where "whoever wins, we lose". On one hand, whoever wins, the viewing public also wins, assuming they like watching what this movie is selling (BDSM). Two, I'm revealing my biases here, but in my opinion, the viewing public wins a little more if Bionca wins. This is because Bionca in my eyes is an agreeable presence in many ways, while Powers resembles Tom Towles, who I'd last seen as Otis in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. (I concede my viewing choices may be bleeding together a bit here, as I recently gave that one a rewatch.) Who would you rather root for? The attractive and charismatic Bionca? Or a serial killer? The choice is clear. (Towles is also known for the Night of the Living Dead remake, where he spent the bulk of his screentime shouting at the top of his lungs and screwing everybody else over. Once again, the choice is clear.)

This is a BDSM film, but the acts featured are pretty light. (This is heavier on the DS than the other letters.) I found most of the movie quite engaging, as the emphasis is more on the dynamic between the performers than on the acts featured or gynecological detail. The movie's secret weapon is the terrific female cast. The aforementioned Bionca and Fine are joined by Tianna and Zara Whites, all of whom I've enjoyed previously and do great work here. Each actress has a distinct presence, and I enjoyed the way the movie juxtaposes them to give each scene a unique energy. Probably the most compelling stretch of the movie has Whites applying a soft touch to Fine and later encouraging her to overcome her trepidation once the tables are turned, as the two bond over their difficult pasts. Calling this a feminist work is likely generous, but there is at least nominal sympathy for the experiences of women. (I should note that Fine uses a certain slur a lot, but given that most of the movie consists of lesbian scenes, I suppose it comes with the territory.)

They also have wildly different hairdos and speech patterns. I'd known Fine had a pleasingly husky voice and Whites had a sexy Dutch accent, but this is the first I really noticed the slight and not unwelcome twang in Bionca's voice. (As for Tianna, uh, she's alright too. *gives her a participation medal*) Quite frankly, I found the movie much more enjoyable when only women were on screen, partly for prurient reasons, but also because the men came across as much less pleasant. I already noted Powers' unfortunate resemblance, but the climactic scene has a homeless man played by Patrick Collins brought in by Bionca to finally break Fine. Considering the other scenes seemed fairly attuned to the participants' pleasure, this one felt disrespectful of both characters' dignity. I understand that degradation is a kink that some people have, but this scene didn't sit right with me.

This is directed by Bruce Seven, whose work is probably the porniest-feeling of all the vintage dirty movies I've been watching. This is shot on video, and the resulting aesthetic is one of long takes that drift in and out of choice angles, and of scenes that unfold at a leisurely pace, with judicious use of cuts. (In certain circles long takes are considered the end-all, be-all of great filmmaking. I'd wonder what they'd make of this.) None of this is terribly artful, but it's also far from indifferent, as Seven has a great intuition for what to point the camera and when to cut to keep the scenes flowing and the energy playful. Also, I've said before that it takes a certain amount of talent to capture your cast's attractive qualities, and I think Seven does that, if not terribly elegantly.

That being said, you do get hints of interesting mise en scene. There's a scene between Zara Whites and Ed Powers (the latter wears a durag, which makes him look like a pirate) where the former is placed in some kind of weightlifting rig and the scene is shot with stylized lighting. Calling it Argento-esque would be a stretch, but I appreciate the effort, even if the scene is clearly shot in somebody's house. The second half of the movie is also set in a brightly lit dungeon, which gives it some charge without being too grimy. I criticized Joe Davian's Night of Submission for such crude production design yet am offering some guarded praise for this one on the same grounds. Perhaps I am being unfair, but I think two factors work in this one's favour. One, budgets were bigger on average in the '70s, so there's less excuse for the former to cheap out accordingly (it also had a bigger cast, and other Avon Films productions have had effective mise en scene). Two, if you can keep a secret, I found this movie way hotter, give or take a scene.

So, I don't know how much value this has as a piece of cinema, but if you're into the subject matter or like the cast, you'll probably enjoy this quite a bit, give or take a scene. Where I land is none of your damn business, but I suppose I gave it away already.

#film #put on your raincoats #movie review #the challenge #bruce seven

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portrait0fthem00n · 3 years ago

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Okay, so I've been watching a lot of kdramas (or by extent Asian dramas) since March 2020, and there were a lot of characters who were so queer coded (or just had a fruityness to them)?? Anyway, so here's a list

But let's start with some canonically queer characters in mainstream dramas, shall we?

Park Mae Yi (Run On) - is ace and talks about her asexuality early on in the show

Go Ye Joon (Run On) - is gay and outs himself in the end, has a talk with another character about the discrimination and struggles of being gay

Ma Hyun Yi (Itaewon Class) - is mtf transgender, and while her being a cook is her main story arc, her confidence and pride of being trans is important too

Hikari Kuina (Alice in Borderland) - is mtf transgender and an absolute badass fighter as she grew up learning martial arts

Jung Seo Hyun (Mine) - is lesbian and (like every woman in this drama) an incredible independant badass

Now that we have that out of the way, let's move on to the actual queer-coding:

Seo Moon Jo (Strangers from Hell) - okay, he may be a psychopath and a serial killer BUT he calls Jongwoo 'babe' every chance he gets, and immediately threw his strategies out the window for him, so I declare him gay

Seo In Woo (Psychopath Diary) - again, similar to Moon Jo, the homoerotic tension of obsessive love is STRONG, and in his case, In Woo and Dong Sik are even mistaken as a couple at some point, he's definitely gay

Oh Mi Joo (Run On) - she just gives me bisexual wife energy, especially when you consider her chemistry with Dan Ah

Jang Bong Hwan / Queen So Young (Mr. Queen) - considering their souls are trapped in the same body, and Bong Hwan actually falls in love with the king at some point, they definitely fall into the genderfluid and queer spectrum

Han Se Ju (Chicago Typewriter) - like with Mi Joo, I have no actual reasoning other than vibes, and Se Ju just gives me incredible chaotic bisexual vibes, also his character is basically in a polyamorous relationship that's disguised with some bromance

Jang Man Weol (Hotel Del Luna) - okay, you cannot tell me that somebody who has been alive for 1300 years and is as flirty and cheeky as Man Weol is straight, she definitely falls on the mspec spectrum as well

So Mun (The Uncanny Counter) - again, this is based off vibes, but So Mun feels like a closeted bisexual kid (and boy am I speaking from experience here lmao)

Lee Yeon (Tale of the Nine Tailed) - this man is not only an ancient god, but a fruity god at that. One, he has that bromance chemistry with his best friend, second his true love is kind of split into a male and a female soul if I remember correctly?? that's kinda queer

Wen Kexing and Zhou Zishou (Word of Honor) - I'm putting them together because they're technically canon in the source material, but their chemistry in the drama is still off the charts

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji (The Untamed) - again, they're gay in the novel but are demoted to "platonic soulmates" in the drama

Wen Qing (The Untamed) - my queen and her (not subtle) hatred for men flirting with her~ she gives me lesbian vibes and you cannot change my mind

Lu Yao and Qiao Chusheng (My Roommate is a Detective) - I don't know if this has a novel, but considering their immense chemistry, an incident of Yao introducing himself as Chusheng's boyfriend, and their overall vibes, they both give me bisexual vibes

Shang Xirui and Cheng Fengtai (Winter Begonia) - aside from the cinematography of this masterpiece, both Xirui and Fengtai are very queer, and canon in the novel

Rizuna Ann (Alice in Borderland) - she's giving me girlboss-lesbian-who-will-outsmart-you vibes, especially after her and Kuina became ~closer friends~ and solved the last murder case

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phoukanamedpookie · 4 years ago

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Why do cis white men get to have all the fun?

@idreamtofmanderleyagain and I were chatting recently about how, within the past 5 or 10 years, so much of fandom discourse around fictional characters is filtered through whether their actions, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes are morally justified or not.

And, being someone who pays attention to these things, it hasn’t escaped my notice that this type of discourse is very pronounced with characters who are women and girls, people of color, and/or LGBT (or coded as such).

Meanwhile, there are entire shows centered on cishet(-ish) white dudes who do things that are morally reprehensible: Tony Soprano in the mafia, Walter White running a drug empire, Dexter being a serial killer, Hannibal Lecter eating people, everyone on Game of Thrones not named Jon Snow, and so on. Hell (Ha, see what I did there?), Lucifer’s protagonist is the literal goddamn Devil.

Yet, there doesn’t seem to be all this energy directed at expressing approval or disapproval of their actions or toward ships involving these characters. Instead, people seem to understand that such stories exist to explore aspects of humanity that don't get much focus because it's not safe or socially acceptable.

How does a high school chemistry teacher become a drug czar? What happens when a mob boss goes to therapy? What happens when Satan falls in love with a human? These are some fascinating questions, things I know I’m interested in exploring via stories because it’s safer than seeking them out in real life.

And the thing is I want to dive deep into these questions with characters other than white men. I want to unpack and examine the circumstances that lead to the choices these characters make, the directions their arcs can go in, and how their relationships can play out. But outside of a few dedicated spaces, there aren’t many places where fans are free to explore these kinds of questions because everything circles back to whether people (should) approve or disapprove of this character or that ship.

And it’s frustrating because if you do talk about these things openly, you’ll get a lot of people trying to debate you as though you’re trying to justify harmful behavior or toxic relationships rather than trying to understand what leads to them.

Once again, it’s that puritanical streak that shows up in fandom where we’re just supposed to accept that characters do harmful things because they’re bad rather than examining the circumstances behind their choices. Or we’re just supposed to accept that a ship is always and forever toxic as though people and relationships are set in stone from day one.

(BTW, this puritanical mindset carries over to real life too.)

Speaking for myself, I’m not interested in static characters or static relationships. I’m interested in characters who do things I can’t or won’t do in everyday life, who walk in the twilight of morality, who contain fascinating contradictions. (I was and am taken aback by how much I love Wonder Woman because she’s not usually the sort of character I go for.)

As a diehard enthusiast of the Demon Lover trope, I’m intrigued by ships that are mysterious, passionate, and a little bit dangerous or scary. As a lesbian, a femslash shipper, and a huge romantic, I live for the profoundly transformative power of sapphic love. I’m not interested in whether a ship would be healthy or ideal in the real world. I want to explore what a ship uncovers about each character involved. I want to know how the ship could change them.

So what gives, fandom? Why does it seem so difficult to make space for this?

#azula #regina mills #ruby x christina #fandom meta

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mldrgrl · 4 years ago

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The New Addition

by: mldrgrl rating: PG-13 Summary: Hanella welcomes a guest for the weekend

Even more rare than a call from Becca was a FaceTime. Texting was more her style. So, when Hank picked up his phone and saw the incoming video call, he answered immediately.

“What’s wrong?” he asked.

“That’s how you answer your phone?” Becca said. “Why does something have to be wrong?”

“Many apologies, Daughter, but the infrequency with which you grace us with your face from a remote location are rare as natural breasts on a porn star.”

“Do you think that’s an appropriate thing to say to a daughter, Father?”

“Fuck no, but surprise calls make me nervous. What’s up, Kitten?”

“Don’t ever call me that again. Is Stella there?”

“Yeah, I think she was grading some exams or something, hang on.” Hank turned away from the phone and leaned over the sofa to try to see down the hall to the back room she was using as a study. “Stella! Stelllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

“Oh my god, why are you screaming at her?” Becca said.

“I like to take the opportunity to rehearse my Stanley Kowalski impression when I can. Here she comes.”

Stella came down the hall with her hands on her hips and her brows raised. Hank held his phone up so she could see Becca on the screen and she immediately dropped her hands from her hips and softened her brows, but she quickened her step.

“Becca, darling,” Stella said. “What’s the matter?”

“This is why I only text,” Becca said.

“Well, if you called more, we wouldn’t think shit had hit the fan somewhere.”

Hank opened up his arm as Stella came around to the sofa and sat down. She leaned against him and he adjusted his grip on the phone so they were both in the frame and so that she could also see Becca.

“I have someone I want you to meet,” Becca said.

“How the hell did you meet someone during a pandemic?” Hanks asked. “Oh my god, are you online dating? You know those people usually turn out to be serial killers.”

“Dad!”

“Darling, don’t worry, it’s still statistically a very low probability even if related crimes have been on the rise. Give me his name and social security number and I’ll run a background check.”

“Or her,” Hank interjected. “We’re still holding out hope she’s a lesbian.”

“This is the last time I am ever calling you,” Becca said.

“Does your mother know about this guy?”

“Or girl,” Stella added.

Becca sighed and rolled her eyes. She leaned down and tilted her phone at the same time so the view was of her ceiling and then she came back into frame with a small, brown poodle. “This is Ziggy,” she said. “A friend of a friend of mine was giving away her dog’s puppies and I picked him up this morning.”

“Lovely,” Stella said. “He’s very handsome.”

“I haven’t even met him, but I guarantee this is my favorite guy you’ve ever introduced me to,” Hank added. “Now you’ll be far too busy for online dating.”

“I’m not online dating, but I’m wondering if you can do me a favor?”

“What’s the favor?”

“Next month I have the writer’s retreat scheduled upstate. It’s just for a long weekend, Friday to Monday, can you watch Ziggy for me? He’ll probably be housetrained by then. Maybe. Hopefully.”

“Of course,” Stella answered, as Hank also said “Not a chance.”

Becca grimaced slightly. “It’s just that I’d really rather not have to put him in a kennel. I guess I can call Mom and see if she can pick him up, but it’s so far.”

Stella squeezed Hank’s knee. “You don’t need to call Karen,” she said. “We would love to watch him.”

“Fine,” Hank said.

“Thank you.” Becca smiled and held the dog closer to the phone. “Ziggy says thank you as well.”

Hank ended the call and then turned to look at Stella. She tipped her head back to look at him as well. He tried to scowl and she smiled.

“Why did you say no?” Stella asked.

“Why did you say yes?” he countered.

“I asked you first.”

“I asked you second.”

“Because I don’t see a reason to say no.”

“Because I got her a dog once and where do you think that dog is now?”

“I wouldn’t know, where is it?”

“I have no fucking idea, that’s the point. I went through all the trouble to steal the little fucker from the boyfriend of this woman I was...uh, actually it’s irrelevant how I acquired the dog, let’s just say I got a dog for Becca and fuck if I know what happened to the late, great Cat Stevens.”

“What in the world does Cat Stevens have to do with it?”

“That was the dog.”

Stella patted Hank on the knee and then tried to get up from the couch, but Hank pulled her back down. “I have to grade papers,” she said.

“I just wanted to make sure you knew about the naked shower party I’m having tonight.”

“Wouldn’t any shower party be naked by virtue of being a shower party?”

“That’s a very good point, Sherlock. I’d revise the invitation, but I’d rather just be redundant.”

“Mmhm.” She pushed on his knee and this time he let her up. “Text me the details, I need to get back to grading.”

“What, like a dick pic?” he called after her.

She glanced over her shoulder at him with one eyebrow raised. He waited until she was back in the study to unbutton his jeans.

*****

Becca dropped the dog off on a Friday morning, bright and early. Stella was awake to prepare for one of her classes, but Hank was still asleep. He didn’t hear the drop-off, but when he woke up and wandered into the kitchen to make coffee, he tripped over the dog, stubbed his toe, and shouted a ‘motherfucker’ so loud he was pretty sure he was going to get scolded for it later. The dog ran away.

“Yeah, you better run,” Hank mumbled, limping to the coffeemaker. “Fuck.”

Stella startled him not a minute later when she smacked him on the ass. He jumped and rubbed at his stinging backside, turning to her with a pout. She was holding the dog in her arms and it was whimpering and holding on to her neck with its head turned away from him.

“What was that for?” he grumbled.

“First, for shouting expletives whilst I was on a lecture.”

“I’m sorry, Sherlock, I didn’t mean to. Did they hear me?”

“No, fortunately, I was on mute. There are student presentations today. Which I must return to.”

“The damn dog tripped me and I stubbed my toe. It might be broken.” He leaned against the counter and lifted his foot up to show her his foot. “See.”

Stella reached out and took a light hold on his toe. He made a face at her and she gave it a rough tug to which he yelped and pulled his foot back.

“You’re fine,” she said.

“You’re mean.”

“Please don’t make enemies with Becca’s dog for the weekend.”

“He started it.”

Stella handed the dog over to Hank and gave it a scratch on the head before she walked away. “I put the instructions on the refrigerator,” she said. “Give them a read and then make yourself useful and take him for a walk.”

Hank pulled a sheet of instructions out from the magnet on the refrigerator and read through them. They were very detailed. Too detailed. He wanted to crumble them up into a little ball and burn them.

“Ridiculous,” he said to the dog. “When we left Becca with the babysitter the only unwritten rule was just not to kill her. You’re a dog, you should be pretty self-sufficient. Just don’t piss on the rug and don’t shit in any of my shoes and we’ll get along fine. Deal?”

The dog twisted and wriggled in Hank’s arms to be put down and so Hank put him on the floor. The dog sat down and then lifted a paw to scratch at Hank’s knee.

“Make up your mind, Zig. Up or down, what do you want?”

The dog barked once and then sneezed.

“I don’t speak canine.”

Ziggy whined softly and pawed at Hank’s knee again. The coffeemaker beeped behind Hank and he turned around to shut it off. He poured the coffee into a travel mug and left the cap off so it could cool a bit.

“Okay, Stella says you need a walk,” he said. “I need to put some pants on. Don’t lay anywhere where you blend into the floor. I need my toes.”

The dog followed Hank into the bedroom and immediately jumped on the bed. Hank shooed him off and undaunted, he explored from corner to corner, sniffing the walls and the furniture and the clothes on the floor. Hank snatched up the jeans Ziggy was nosing and put them on. He grabbed a fresh t-shirt from the closet and then went to dig through a duffel bag that Becca left for the dog’s leash.

It took Hank several attempts at getting the harness onto the dog. Number one, because he kept stepping out of it as soon as Hank got it on one foot. Number two, because he initially put it on backwards and didn’t know how the clip could possibly work when it was under the dog’s chest. He finally figured it out though and it seemed secure. He grabbed his keys, his wallet, a mask, and the coffee and headed to the elevator.

The half an hour walk with Ziggy made Hank understand the meaning of the term ‘boundless energy.’ If it wasn’t for the coffee, he couldn’t be sure he’d have made it. When they got back, he unclipped the dog from his harness and even though it felt like they’d just run a marathon, Ziggy dashed across the room and hurdled himself onto the sofa where Stella was now sitting. To Hank’s surprise, Stella laughed as she dodged excited kisses from the dog and didn’t scold him at all or tell him to get down.

“I am exhausted,” Hank said, collapsing onto the sofa beside Stella. He grimaced and let out a pained ‘oof’ as the dog stepped on his crotch and up onto his chest. “Fuck me, this dog is trying to kill me.”

“Have a nice walk?” Stella asked.

“That thing had to piss every five feet and terrorize all the squirrels and pigeons in the neighborhood.” Hank pushed Ziggy away when he tried to lick his chin and the dog laid down on his chest, panting hot and heavy in his face.

“How’s your toe?”

“What toe? Oh. Not broken, I guess.”

“Lovely.”

“He is a total chick magnet though,” Hank said, waggling his eyebrows at Stella. “Ladies were flocking to me like flies to honey. Almost got a few numbers.”

“Oh?”

“Don’t worry I told them my wife would kick my ass before she let me take a hot girl’s phone number.”

“I think I might join you for this afternoon’s walk.”

Hank chuckled and nudged Stella’s leg with his knee. “Kidding, Sherlock. Some kid did ask me if Ziggy had an Insta and then had to explain to me that any dog who’s anydog has an Instagram account and we should get on it the sooner the better if we want him to be a doggie influencer.”

“A what?”

“That’s what I said.”

“Looks like you have a new nap partner.” Stella inclined her chin towards the dog, who had dropped his head down to Hank’s shoulder and let out a deep sigh as his eyes closed. She smiled a little and stroked the dog’s back a few times.

“I didn’t know you liked dogs so much,” Hank said.

“More of a cat person, really. I don’t mind them though.”

“Did you read that list Becca left? It’s more complicated than the Treaty of Versailles.”

Stella chuckled. “It is a rather overly complicated schedule. For a dog.”

“I say fuck the list. I kept her ass alive for the requisite 18 years without a list, I can probably handle a dog for a weekend.”

“Tell that to Cat Stevens.”

“Oh yeah. Wherever the fuck he is. Okay, maybe we better stick to the list. Though I would like to point out, Cat was Becca’s dog.”

“Maybe that’s why she made a list this time.”

*****

Ziggy was sound asleep when Hank turned off the lights in the main room. The dog was passed out on his back, in his bed beside the couch, tongue lolling out of his mouth. Hank tiptoed past him into the bedroom and quietly shut the door. Stella was in the bathroom brushing her teeth. He came up behind her and pressed her into the counter with his hips, sneaking his hands up her shirt to massage her breasts.

Stella grunted slightly through her nose and pushed her hips back into Hank’s. She put her hand up to hold her hair back and Hank pulled his hands out from her shirt to do it for her. She leaned over to spit into the sink and he held her hair with one hand and stroked her neck with the other.

“Thank you,” she said.

Hank finger-combed Stella’s hair up into his fist at the top of her head while she wiped her mouth and then he let it go and rubbed her shoulders. She turned around and he held her by the hips.

“Where’s the dog?” she asked.

“Outside smoking a cigarette.”

“Do you think he should go outside once more?”

“He’s dead asleep. He was like…” Hank imitated the dog, rolling his eyes back and sticking his tongue out of the side of his mouth.

“You’re the one that was worried about him urinating on the rug.”

Hank pouted his lips and then nodded. “Fine, I’ll take him upstairs. But, you better be naked when I come back, or else I’m sleeping on the couch with the dog.”

“I don’t think that’s the threat you believe it to be.”

Hank narrowed his eyes and pinched Stella’s hip before putting his mouth to her neck and nipping lightly at the back of her jaw. She laughed and pushed at his chest until he let her go. He playfully slapped at her backside on the way out of the bathroom and she swatted his hands away.

The dog was still sleeping when he opened the door, but he whistled softly and Ziggy startled to his feet and then shook himself. “Come on, hairball, we’re going outside.” He snapped his fingers a few times and the dog followed him to the door to the roof.

Ziggy was hesitant on the stairs, taking them slowly and pausing every few steps to get his footing as he hopped up. He ran around the newly landscaped deck, sniffing just about every nook and cranny and lifting his leg on half of them. It had gotten chilly since the sun went down and Hank, in bare feet and a t-shirt, hopped up and down a few times and rubbed his arms as he called the dog back.

Hank was forced to carry the dog down the stairs when he wouldn’t budge from the top. He made a few false starts, but ultimately sat down and wouldn’t move. When he put him down, Ziggy stared up at him and then stayed closed to his legs as he went back to the bedroom.

“You, stay,” Hank said, pointing to the dog bed.

Ziggy sat down next to the bed. Hank closed the door. Stella was sitting up in bed, reading a magazine or journal, which she set down on her lap and took her reading glasses off.

“Did you really think that’s going to work?” she asked.

“He’s fine.”

Before Hank even finished, Ziggy was yelping and scratching at the door. Stella raised her brows and Hank sighed. He opened the door and the dog came flying through, jumped on the bed and leapt onto Stella with his paws on her chest, wagging his tail and kissing her cheek and chin.

“Settle, darling,” Stella said, turning her face away and pushing the dog back. He gave a whining bark as he dropped down.

“Do they make ritalin for dogs?”

“He’s just a baby.”

Hank kicked the dog bed into the bedroom and then pushed it against the wall with his foot. “Go get in your bed,” he said.

Ziggy laid down where he was, next to Stella. He put his head on his paws and lifted his eyes up at Hank.

“Now he’s giving me puppy dog eyes,” Hank said.

“Shockingly, I believe that’s where that term came from.”

“Well, I don’t like it. It’s too effective.”

“Resign yourself to the fact that we have a little guest for the weekend.”

Hank grumbled under his breath as he went to the bathroom to get ready for bed. He stripped to his jockey shorts and snapped off the overhead lights on his way back. Ziggy looked up from beside Stella like Hank was the intruder. He even had the audacity to give a little growl when Hank leaned over to give his wife a kiss. Annoyed, Hank flopped onto his back and the dog scooted closer and rested his head on his arm.

“Oh, now you want to be nice,” Hank said, reaching over to scratch the dog on the head. “I’m surprised Becca hasn’t called.”

“What do you mean?”

“To check up on the dog or let us know she made it to the retreat.”

“She’s been texting me all day.”

“What? What did she want?”

“Checking up on the dog.”

“She doesn’t trust us?”

“You didn’t question her motivations five seconds ago when you were surprised she hadn’t called.”

“I like to be fickle to keep you on your toes.”

Ziggy sighed and squirmed until he was on his back, all four paws limp in the air. Stella chuckled and rubbed his chest before she closed her magazine and tossed it onto the nightstand.

“We’re letting this thing stay up here, then?” Hank asked.

“Yes.”

“I think I’m more of a cat person too.”

*****

Hank was surprised that the dog was no trouble during the night. He woke briefly when Stella, always an early riser, got up and said she was going to take Ziggy for his morning walk and when she got back, would be entering in project results into her electronic gradebook for a bit. He grunted in response and mumbled a reminder to leave him some coffee.

When he finally woke fully, left the bedroom far more cautiously than he had the previous morning. Ziggy was nowhere to be found, but as soon as he started puttering in the kitchen, the dog appeared. Hank crouched down and gave him a few scratches.

“What were you up to, hm?” he asked. “Getting into trouble?”

Ziggy followed Hank as he went to the bedroom, most likely interested in the piece of toast in his hand. Hank held the toast between his teeth, wiped his hands on his jeans, and picked up his phone from the nightstand to text Becca.

Morning sweetheart. The furball is good. Not to worry. Haven’t shipped him off to a kennel yet and probably won’t. Have a good time at the retreat.

Hank took a bite of his toast and then tore a piece off and tossed it to the dog. Ziggy caught it mid-air. About thirty seconds later, he heard Stella calling his name and he snapped his fingers at the dog to get him to follow him out of the bedroom.

“What’s up?” Hank asked, and shoved the rest of the toast into his mouth.

“What did you say to Becca?”

“Hm?” he mumbled, mouth full.

“She just texted me and said you’ve implied the dog has been sent to a kennel and wants proof of life.”

“No I didn’t,” he said. “I said I haven’t sent the dog to a kennel so she doesn’t need to worry.”

“Why would you say that to her?”

“So she wouldn’t worry.”

“Well, she’s worried.”

“That’s not my fault.”

“I’ll send her a photo. Ziggy, come here, darling.”

Stella kissed the air a few times, but Ziggy thought trying to be caught was a game. He bounded away from Stella and then stopped and bowed down, his hind end in the air and tail wagging. She patted her knee for him to come, but he just jumped a few feet to the left and went back into the same pose.

“I’ll get him.” Hank started towards the dog and Ziggy barked and then ran to the kitchen. Hank ended up chasing him around the butcher’s block several times before he was able to catch him, but keeping hold of him was difficult. “Stay still, Zig.”

Stella knelt down and quickly opened the camera on her phone.

“What’re you doing?” Hank asked.

“Taking a photo.”

“A selfie?”

“Do you have another suggestion?”

“I don’t know, I don’t do selfies. Unless they’re dick pics.”

“Yes, I am aware, but we won’t be sending your daughter a photo of your penis.”

“Well hurry up, this guy is a bitch to hold onto.”

“Smile, darling.” Both Stella and Hank smiled as she held down the photo button, but Ziggy wriggled and squirmed.

“Anything usable?” Hank asked, setting the dog free.

“A little blurry, but they should suffice.” Stella got up and texted the photos to Becca. “She says thank you, and for you to never fucking text her again.”

“Brat.”

“You started it.”

*****

The day passed. They took the dog to the park. He napped when they got back. Hank worked on his book. Stella worked on a report for her class. In the evening, they lit a fire in the new firepit on the roof and cuddled up on the daybed with the dog between them.

“Should we get a cat?” Hank asked.

“Do you want a cat?” Stella countered.

“Not really.”

“Me neither.”

“It is kind of nice having this little hairball around though. Not that I want him to stay. He’s also annoying as fuck. But, nice to have around. For an hour or two. When he’s asleep.”

“Kind of like you.”

“Hey!”

Stella laughed and Hank pushed her down onto the bed, rising to his knees to lean over and nuzzle her neck. It was a ticklish spot for her, especially when caressed lightly, and it made her laugh harder. Ziggy barked from where he was wedged beside Stella and under Hank. He wiggled out from under them and then jumped on Hank’s back with his front paws, barking and growling.

“Relax, man,” Hank said, rolling to one hip off of Stella.

“He’s being a good protector,” Stella said, laughing when Ziggy nipped at the blanket over their legs and tried to pull it away.

“He’s being a cockblocker.” Hank wrestled the blanket back from the dog and then grabbed him under the chin, giving him a few firm scratches. “You know what, Zig? You be a cockblocker. You be the best cockblocker you can be, at Becca’s place. Cockblock the shit out of Becca, okay?”

Ziggy barked and wagged his tail.

“Good boy,” Hank said. “Good little cockblocker.”

“Don’t say that to him,” Stella said.

“Why not?”

“One day you will need to face the fact that your daughter is a grown woman who deserves a healthy sex life.”

“Oh my god, I’m going to throw up.” Hank groaned and flopped down onto the bed with his arm over his eyes. “Consider me officially cockblocked.”

Stella moved up onto her hip this time and put her arm over Hank’s chest. She kissed his chin and then pulled his bottom lip between her teeth. He grabbed her around the waist and grunted softly into her mouth. Ziggy trampled the both of them and stuck his cold nose into Hank’s cheek.

“Gah!” Hank groaned.

The licked furiously at the both of them and Stella released Hank’s lip with a laugh and a scrunched face. She buried her head down into Hank’s neck while curling into his side and Ziggy tried to wedge his snout down to keep licking her face.

“We are officially never, ever, ever, ever getting a dog,” Hank said.

“No argument from me,” Stella answered, sliding away from the dog and Hank and stepping off the bed. “Meet me downstairs and I guarantee you won’t be cockblocked.”

“Oh?”

“Naked shower party for two in ten minutes.”

“The naked is redundant!” he called after her as she walked away. He waited until she had started down the stairs to take Ziggy’s face in his hands. “Listen. This is a cockblock free zone, you got that? Keep it up and you just may end up like Cat Stevens. We good?”

Ziggy gave a short, gruff bark and then lifted his paw. Hank nodded and they shook on it. He got up and let Ziggy explore the roof for a few minutes while he folded the blanket up and put out the fire. Not for long though. He had a naked party to get to and he didn’t want to be late.

The End

#i wrote this #hanella #humor #DOGS #hank moody #stella gibson

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whaleofatjme1920 · 3 years ago

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Hello, may I get a creepypasta matchup, romantic please! I am 19, 5'8, Virgo, she/they lesbian. I'm looking for someone who can handle my high level of energy. I can lay in bed all day tired af but as soon as I get a text from my partner I'm bouncing off the walls. I always want to be trying something new and am very spontaneous. I love animals, especially cats and lizards. I'm very much an introvert and have lots of social anxiety but I'm good at covering that up. I can make anything into a good time, like this one time I took my sister on a road trip to a serial killer's cemetery plot lol. I love true crime and could talk about it for hours, or just randomly blurt out random facts. I'm very affectionate, always wanting hugs and kisses.i look and dress very tough but I'm actually a total softy. I've had some trauma in my past that I won't get into, but I'm still working on the healing process. Music is my life, any genre really, especially alternative rock. I'm someone who would stick around no matter what. If I love someone I would do anything for that person, even at my own expense.

Thank you in advance 😙

Your matchup is… Jane the Killer!

In general:

Okay, so I actually shifted through quite a few people before I decided that yes: I like you and Jane together. At first, my head said genderbent LJ/so I guess Laughing Jill? But then I said ok that’s wack. No, I like Jane and you and here’s why

What she likes about you:

Jane’s energy is admittedly all over the place, so she likes that you kinda keep her alert. She also finds it really cute that if she texted you or something, you’d be really excited - like it’s absolutely adorable in her opinion. So cute! She thinks you wanting to try something new is actually pretty admirable because Jane is kinda used to staying in her own lane? So it would be nice for her to get out of her comfort zone every now and then and just go with the flow. She’s a bit of a planner, so someone who can pull her from that and just be spontaneous would be really sweet. She finds it really sweet that you’re into animals as well, as she loves cats! She also really likes reptiles as well, so please share your reptile knowledge with her. Jane finds it really sweet that you can turn anything into a fun time. Adores your music choice. Like your fashion choice as well and will go shopping with you for more stuff that’s right up your alley.

General cute stuff:

The two of you would honestly go on adventures all the time! I can see the two of you just hopping in the car and seeing where you go, getting on the bus or the train and going wherever it wants to take you and you turning it into an absolute blast. Lots of laughter between the two of you. Jane honestly needs affection in her life, and she’s also super willing to give it once she gets comfortable with you which honestly doesn’t take that long. Jane would take you to restaurants and or just sit on hills with you, admiring the view and you and would LOVE to talk about true crime (because she’s- she’s a literal-) and will answer any and all questions you have. She’s not a killer for fun or enjoyment but she’s really good at talking about the craft. Jane would love to listen to your fun facts. She can also tell when your social battery is running out and when you need alone time so she’s pretty good on getting you the space you need.

You two as a couple:

Jane is one of the most affectionate girlfriends ever. She’s respectful of your boundaries, understands when you need your space, and will always be willing to communicate with you. Sometimes she needs her own space as she’s an ambivert leaning towards introversion, but generally, she can keep up with you and never grow tired. Because Jane is naturally really affectionate herself, she’d just let you lay your head on her lap and she’d do your hair, running her fingers through it and braiding it, trying new hairstyles and stuff. She will compliment everything about you and pepper your face in kisses almost every second of the day. She adores that you can make anything and everything fun and she needs that kind of positivity in her life. Jane is really sweet when it comes to helping other people too, especially her loved ones. So, whatever part of your healing process you are going through, she will be there, ready for you to lean on. She also really likes your height too as she’s a tall girl as well--

Closing Thoughts/Other Things:

Hi love bug, this was really nice to read. I guess all I can say in the closing thoughts of this one is that I hope you don’t put other people in front of yourself when you deserve the world and more all in your own right. Jane would do anything and everything for you. With her at your side, you have a best friend and a brilliant lover, someone who will always take care of you. Just give her the green light to do so.

#jane the killer #jane the killer x reader #creepypasta #creepypasta matchup #matchup #jane the killer headcanon #conversations with a fish woman

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* HEATHER BARON-GRACIE, CIS FEMALE + SHE/HER | you know OLIVE ABRHAMS, right? they’re TWENTY-THREE, and they’ve lived in irving for, like, TWO YEARS? well, their spotify wrapped says they listened to GIRL IN RED like, a million times this year, which makes sense ‘cause they’ve got that whole FIRST DATES AT A CEMETERY, PAINTING AT THREE AM, LONG WALKS DOWN THRIFT STORE AISLES thing going on. i just checked and their birthday is SEPTEMBER 13TH, so they’re a VIRGO, which is unsurprising, all things considered. ( e, 25, cst, she/her ) * applying for luisa’s bandmate 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚒, 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝚐𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚗, 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 okay the TL;DR, lesbian, artist, cynical, she is the queen of spook and even I dont control her. more under the cut.

► basics;

Full Name: Olivia ‘olive’ Abrhams Age: 23 Birthday: september thirteenth Sexual Orientation: lesbian Occupation: morgue receptionist (but wants to be an artist full time) Nationality: british (northern)

► background;

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England Hometown: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Education: University

► relatives;

Siblings: Older Brother (matty healy fc)

► relationships;

Ex-Significant Other(s): TBF Reason for Separation: TBF Current Significant Other: TBF What They Look For In Others: loyalty, genuine passion for life, understanding.

► personality;

Positive Traits: understanding, nonjudgemental, loving, creative Negative Traits: cold, impatient, cynical, overly passionate

► misc;

Hobbies: painting (girl is always covered in paint), knitting, reading, finding underground bars, learning about old forgotten languages First Book They Read: Judy Moody Favorite Book: The Well of Loneliness - Radclyff Hall Favorite Music Artist: Girl in Red Favorite Subject: Art Pets: a black cat and a boa Habits: picking at her nails, rolling her eyes ►Full Story Parents died when she was young, she moved to Philly to be with her grandmother on her dads side who wasnt all that great, she and her brother vowed to get out together. The two Abrhams siblings were an odd bunch, drawn in by the morbid and trying to find the beauty in it all. When Isaac finally turned of age they moved away from Philadelphia. The pair played music, studied photographic composition, painted, played with light, they let their creative energy radiate. In this time Olive learned how to play the guitar and started to write poetry as well as taking up an obsessive love of painting. ►Random HC // Aesthetics x dark academia is the way. x her apartment closely represents that of crime scene photos taken of prolific serial killers homes. Think taxidermy skulls, tarot cards, vintage poison bottles, plants everywhere (like seriously so many plants), book titles which include; how to make a serial killer, serial killers & sadistic murders. (only 3/10 chance she would actually kill you tho, so dont be too spooked) x stays up late at night to think of plots to save all the stray cats x listens to an alarming amount of sapphic music, dont ask her to stop, she will give you a look that even satan himself envies. x secret fan of things that arent art house, if you get close enough she might even show you her collection of science fiction novels, and talk your ear off about the lore of the Dune universe. x super helpful, will help you slash tires of your exs, and spray paint their car in a super artistic way. x definition be gay; do crimes ►POSSIBLE CONNECTIONS ex girlfriend, any and all possibilities, pining still, hate eachother, messy break up, any and all best friends, people who olive hangs out with regularly straight girl that olive is hopelessly pining over best friend, and so what if we get cuddly, we arent in love, no..no we arent in love.. no way people freaked by olives vibe, no she totally isnt playing up her spook just to intimidate you people she works with, give me the doctor friends, give me the nurses in school who need to do a clinical at a morgue, give me florists who work with funeral homes, give me it all.

#irivingintro #about #HI GUYS #this is my lil bean #I love her v much and would love to plot with all of you!

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Medea’s Worst Year of All-Time Anime/Game Superlative

Nobody saw this year coming…except for maybe Barbara Walters! Who could have predicted that this year would bless us with Australia burning, the entire west coast of the U.S. set on fire, stupid people setting fires because they wanted to reveal a baby’s gender, murder hornets, Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying, an almost war with Iran, serial killer mascots arrested, policemen killing unarmed black folks for having a counterfit $20, policemen killing unarmed black folks for breaking up a fight, policemen killing black folks for holding sandwiches, policemen killing unarmed black folks for fucking sleeping, a wide variety of “Karens” coming out of the woodworks, the end of Bojack, the end of Steven Universe, the end of Empire, and a pandemic so huge it’s killed the economy, canceled fun, and given the U.S. president the dumb-fuck idea of injecting bleach to kill the virus!?

SERIOUSLY, WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED ALL OF THIS WAS GOING TO FALL IN OUR LAPS LIKE HOT COFFEE ON THE CROTCH?!

At least there was anime this year.

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At least there was SOME anime this year.

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Biden won the election and Vickeblanca came out with Black Catcher this year.

Hey internet, it’s Medea here to give you her trashy opinion on this years anime and games that she’s watched or played. Because for some reason, my loser-ass loves to do out-dated as fuck memes! I shouldn’t complain, this shit brings a lot of attention to my page every year when I do this. Yes, 2020 was a complete dumpster fire so large that Domestic Girlfriend is crying foul. Many of us had to go on lockdown and ended up binge-watching the entire 957+ episodes of One Piece. I did no such thing. I am one of those “essential workers” so I didn’t hunker down for 9 months straight. But when I was home, I was watching anime. Actually, I would have done that even without the pandemic. I’m an introvert and find the human race to be deplorable.

You all know how this goes. I go over the best this year had to offer me. I had to search really hard to find the good in this year, especially in the anime world. Many things had to be put on hiatus or were delayed to a later date. Just a reminder, I don’t discriminate in what year the anime or game came out. If something came out in the happier times of 2007, that anime or game counts! Let’s get at it!

First Fandom of 2020: Interspecies Reviewers

Did anyone expect a fan-favorite of 2020 was going to be a hentai? Did anyone have on their batshit 2020 bingo card that a hentai was going to grab everybody’s attention? At the beginning of the year, my mind was set on the Railgun sequel and Eizoken. It wasn’t until licensors, streaming sites, and TV stations in Japan dropped this series that I started to pay attention. And got immediately hooked! It’s about three men going to different brothels and reviewing their time with the ladies. And these ladies are of different species! So with every bang comes possible enlightenment, new kinks, or a night of having your dick sucked off more than humanly possible. This anime blew away all of my skepticism and first impressions right out the window. Maybe it’s because I’m a degenerate and am often curious about sexual content, but this was a guilty pleasure of mine this year.

Favorite Main Character of 2020: Moroha from Yashahime

I know the majority of this story is going to revolve around Towa and Setsuna, but can we please focus a little more energy on the spunky, quarter-demon girl?! I know they’re pitting Moroha as the comic relief, but I’m hopeful that she’s going to surprise us one day. We fans of InuYasha would spend the past decade and some change wondering what InuYasha and Kagome’s daughter would be like. This year, we got our answer with Moroha. She’s got this wild side to her, probably due to the fact that she’s spent her entire life on her own. And while she’s silly at times, she can get down to business in a pinch. She has her father’s sense of smell. She has a sword. She’s able to shoot sacred arrows much like her mother. And to top it all off, she has this special rouge that if she puts it on, she’s able to unleash that ¼ demon power inside her and become Beniyasha! Yeah, I know the power only lasts a minute, she’s only 14, give her a break! I will gladly go through another week scratching my head at the confusion this story gives me if I get to see one more second of Moroha and her crazy antics or her bad-ass slaying.

Favorite Villain of 2020: The Devil Believers from Black Clover

This was one hell of a year for Black Clover. It would have been an easy choice to pick the devil and possible super devil that appeared during the elf fight. But I’d like to give a nod to the filler arc villains. And you can’t blame this group for wanting the power of the devil. They’re literally the bottom-rung of the Clover Kingdom and ones with little to no power or mana. So I can agree with why they would want the power of the devil. For one thing, they’d have more power. And for another thing, they’d be able to exact revenge on those who have wronged them. On some occasions I agree with exacting revenge and when it comes to the nobles and some characters in Black Clover, some folks do deserve death. I mean, have you met the king of the Clover Kingdom? Plus, this town and many other poorer towns get looked over by the kingdom. Peasant uprise! Anyways, I thought these people were really crafty in their crimes. I mean, they were able to knock Asta out on his ass with specially made poisons. I was actually hooked to this story of Black Clover (despite it being a filler arc). I know we’ll never see them again as they have been exiled, but it did have me semi-rooting for them.

Favorite Video Game Character of 2020: Honey from Pokemon – Sword & Shield (Expansion Pass)

Sorry Raymond from Animal Crossing!

Honey is the saucy wife of Mustard…I did not expect that to come out the way it did, but here we are! She has one hell of a team you can fight once a day. She looks out for her husband, the dojo, and the students of the dojo like they were her own children by providing food, drinks, and others. However that does come at a price as you do have to give up a sizable chunk of your watts that you collect in raid dens. I’m sure a bunch of MILF chasers were more than happy enough to give her all their hard-earned watts just so they can have their one-on-one moment on the beach with Honey.

What won me over was when that one guy from a rival dojo bad-mouthed her husband’s dojo and she…I think she kicked this guy’s ass herself. I don’t think she used any of her pokemon. Game Freak won’t show it, but we all know she kicked this guy’s ass to a point where he’s begging for mercy.

Honey, for the win!

Favorite Game of 2020: Animal Crossing New Horizons

This game was just Zen for me. I know the release of this game came with some controversy like Gamestop saying it’s an essential business and will remain open for people to get their copies of the game. Hell, I was one of those assholes in line waiting to get a copy on March 20th. Did I predict that a pandemic was going to rage out of control when I got a prepay copy of this for Christmas 2019? NO! I only predict political things, not deadly pandemics! The good news, we social distanced, didn’t catch the covid and got the game.

Anyways, this game has been a non-stop calming and fun ride. I can even forgive their botch-up of Bunny Day. They even have events for holidays I never thought they would ever touch. I mean, does anybody know when Museum Day is? Probably not until Animal Crossing had an event for it! I’ve been able to let my freak-flag fly with designing my island. And this goes way beyond New Leaf for the 3DS. I can make a sign post with the words “Fuck Trump” on it and post it in my yard. I can dig up trees and plant them elsewhere. I can poop in a toilet. I can craft furniture and put my own design on it. My furniture can have Tracey Sketchit’s beautiful mug on it. I can sit on Tracey Sketchit’s face. I am a sick fuck and I don’t care. I can give Raymond and Bob maid outfits. Magical time in my game! My hopes for next year…I don’t know, get the Festivale furniture, get Papi and Olivia to join my island, maybe visit Danny Trejo’s island, who knows, sky’s da limit!

Favorite Het Couple of 2020: Nasa and Tsukasa Yuzaki from Tonikawa

This is one of the most unorthodox marriages I’ve ever seen. But in this 90 Day Fiance world we’re living in, I shouldn’t pass judgement on these two getting married in episode one and not knowing much about each other. Nasa meets Tsukasa as he was about to be plowed by a truck. Tsukasa saves his life. Nasa says she’s beautiful. Tsukasa says she’ll be his girlfriend if they get married. He agrees. She disappears. Four years later, Tsukasa appears in front of Nasa’s front door with a marriage registration form. Congratulations buddy, you’ve got yourself a waifu! In some way, this felt like watching Yamato and Takeo from My Love Story. I was fascinated with them progressing through their relationship. The only difference is that Yamato and Takeo took the old-fashioned route. This couple did everything ass-backwards in terms of having a relationship. But I couldn’t take my eyes off Nasa and Tsukasa’s relationship during each episode. I find them cute.

Favorite Yuri Couple of 2020: Karin Asaka x Emma Verde from Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club

AAAAAAAAAH! I’M IN IDOL HELL AGAIN! Yeah, no kidding! I came this close to putting Miu x Nicole from that abomination 22/7. But thank God for Love Live! There’s no telling if any of the girls from the Love Live franchise are confirmed to be lesbians. But fuck it, all of them attend all-girl schools, no males exist anywhere, and Sunshine gave us Kanan x Mari! Yeah, you know Kanan and Mari is canon as fuck, don’t at me. So naturally, I found more third-years to ship in the new Love Live series. Now I know I should have put up Ai x Rina or Ayumu x Yuu. Especially the latter due to recent events! But Emma x Karin is my OTP.

Now Emma is an exchange student from Switzerland and in coming to Nijigasaki, she first meets Karin and they became instant friends. When Emma said she wants to become an idol, Karin helped her quite a bit. Even though Karin had no interest in being an idol as her modeling career is starting up, Karin would occasionally help Emma out. And surprise, surprise, Karin ends up fascinated with the idol world and Emma helps her come to the light to be herself there. Okay, I’m totally reading this in some fragmented way, but I’m currently playing Love Live School Idol Festival All Stars and the app game has a lot more stuff involving stuff the anime has yet to talk about. Confirmed or not, Karin x Emma for the win!

Favorite Yaoi Couple of 2020: Eiji Okumura x Ash Lynx from Banana Fish

It took me a while to get here, but I finally made it to 2018’s overlooked gem. Forgive me for not being fully caught up, but from what I’m watching at the moment, I’m sticking to my guns and supporting the hell out of this. I mean, I could have mentioned The Titan’s Bride here…but fuck no, I ain’t goin’ down that mess! Ash has gone through a lot, I mean a helluva lot in his past. His cute boy looks have made him a target on the streets of New York, with mafia dons, and with prison inmates. But dude can kill if you mess with him. Then you have Eiji, who is just a literal example of a “pure cinnamon roll (until episode 8)”. These two are as opposite as you can possibly get. Ash is from New York and Eiji is from Japan. Ash likes hot dogs with everything on it. Eiji likes grilled fish and natto. Ash spent the majority of his life killing on the streets. Eiji was a track superstar. You get my meaning. But when we got these two together it’s quite adorable. Ash is really able to change when he’s around Eiji. Ash isn’t some heartless killer on the street about to kill a thug with prosthetic fingers. When he’s with Eiji, he’s a joker that can easily get scared of pumpkins. And even in later episodes, you got these two acting like a husband and wife.

Fandom That You Didn’t Expect to Get Into: Les Miserables – A Girl Named Cosette

Let me explain a little something. Les Mis! I have never seen the play, watched the movie, or read the novel prior to picking up this anime. Not a single one of those! And that’s a bit of a head-scratcher when you realize I was a bit of a musical theater nut in my teenage years. But one thing I do like is when Japan does an anime based on plays or historical events (like Romeo x Juliet or Rose of Versailles). The second I popped in Les Miserables the anime, I wanted to binge watch the whole 52 episode series. It is by no means a perfect adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. Several key players end up surviving all the way up to the end of the story! But because this was my very first viewing of anything Les Mis, I took to the story of Cosette and was eager to see what was going to happen next in her tale. Unlike the movies and play, Cosette was the main focus of the story besides Jean Valjean and Javert. And thanks to watching the unfortunate stories of Cosette, Jean Valjean, the Thenadiers, Javert, Marius, and the rest, I thought it was time to watch the OTHER adaptations to Les Mis.

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Russell Crowe sucks.

Fandom That Made An Unexpected Comeback: Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni

Higurashi or When They Cry is one of my favorite fandoms of all time! So naturally when we heard that it was making a comeback, I was excited. It was also very odd that Higurashi was given this sequel or reboot. Ahem! There’s another franchise that needs a face-lift. Umineko still deserves a better treatment. Plus, now that this series was out of the faulty hands of Studio Deen, Higurashi will get the special care it deserves. Believe it or not, it wasn’t just the anime that made a comeback for me, but the manga as well. Since 2009, I’ve read several volumes (out of order) and would every now and then come back to read the story. Back to the anime, this reboot or sequel…you know what, I’m gonna call it a “rebooqual”! This rebooqual sucked me back to the town of Hinamizawa and all the murders. Every week, I find myself comparing the current episode to one from the 2006 version. But then the fourth episode of each arc seems to catch me off guard.

Where are they going with this story and these twist endings to our favorite arcs? I did not expect Rena to turn a simple attempted murder into the end of School Days! I didn’t expect Rika to die in the most disgusting fashion they could think of. Could someone kill Teppei fucking Hojo? I will pay ¥5000 for someone to do that job. So yeah, because I know how much of this plays out and who does what, I’m usually watching and reading while making wise-ass remarks. But I still have fun with it.

Fandom That Inspired the Most Crack: Konosuba

In a year where I caught up with the popular Isekais like Shield Hero and Re:Zero, I found the wacky misadventures of Kazuma Satou to be amusing as all get-out. From the first 5 minutes, I found myself laughing at Kazuma’s misfortune. Seriously, how the fuck do you mistake a tractor for a car, have a heart attack, piss yourself, and fucking die in the first couple minutes to the series? You can only get away with this shit in gag animes! But it’s not just Kazuma’s dumbass, there’s a mage who only does explosions, but loses all her energy after one blow-up. Then there’s a busty, blonde who gets turned on by getting hurt and can’t strike anything with her sword. Anime’s biggest masochist or Cheryl Tunt incarnate, I haven’t decided which one to believe! Then you have this loud, crazy goddess chick named Aqua. She’s also useless about 86% of the time! Watching their unfortunate missions is all the crack that I need to get through this year. Seriously, Darkness is just all kinds of fucked up, but we love her.

Last Fandom of 2020: Yashahime

That’s right, the InuYasha sequel gets top spot here! Even though week after week I find myself asking more questions than when the episode started, I’m still hooked. If you’re like me, you watched and fell in love with the series InuYasha. So if they’re doing a sequel, you’re expecting to see all of your favorite characters from the prequel like InuYasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Sesshomaru, Koga, Rin, and the rest. Actually, no! Quite the opposite! We’ve got Sesshomaru’s daughters, but no Sesshomaru. Rin is sleeping in a tree we think! We’ve got InuYasha and Kagome’s daughter, but they’re M.I.A. None of the girls even know a thing about their birth parents.

Now are these new characters a catch like the ones from the previous series? Some are! The three main girls, yes! Especially Moroha! I’ve already praised her name earlier in the superlative. Towa and Setsuna do take on some personality traits from their parents. Setsuna is definitely serious like Sesshomaru and Towa sometimes has a carefree yet loyal aura to her like Rin. I know I’m always skeptical when a series gives us a sequel featuring the offspring of the main characters. Especially when you’ve got some lame examples like Boruto and Eureka Seven AO (I might retract my diss on Boruto later)! As each week gives us a new episode, we’re unraveling new clues into a lot of things involving our old favorite characters, as well as the new ones. So I have high hopes for Yashahime for the time being!

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ziracona · 4 years ago

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Hi! I just realised I havn't popped in in awhile. Do you have any headcanons u feel like sharing about the newer survivors?? (I love them all, they're so cool but I think imma have to say cheryl is my bby gurl. she's tired. let her rest.) also. i am. going insane. from a toothache :) - Sleepy

Hey! Hope your tooth pain clears up! I’m so sorry—that’s one of the worst. : /

Hmmm, I do, but I’m trying to think of ones I haven’t said in asks before. 😬 Unfortunately my memory of fictional characters is great, and my memory of what I said in asks is shitty. :’-]

I don’t know the newer survivors—except Nancy and Steve—as well as I do the older ones, because I’ve never written them, and I haven’t played Silent Hill. I like Zarina, Yui, and Cheryl a lot though. Poor fkn Cheryl can join Quentin in the “Please God, just one good day?” Existence. Rip to them both. 😭

Poor kid gets out of hell once, and ya throw her back in. :’-]

Let’s see—headcanon I am fairly sure I haven’t already shared. I think Yui and Min would get along really well, and Jane and Zarina would too.

Yui hates the serial killers especially, from her own personal experience, and goes to bat hard against them every time.

Ash flirts with everyone to a point it’s even more than Ace does, and for a while it becomes a competition between them to see who can flirt more and better than the other (not in a shitty way—everybody knows they have the competition going on and it’s more a ‘I can act better than you’ than a ‘I can win more hearts’ one.) Ace is declared the winner in class, Ash the winner in sheer quantity he’s able to churn out, and they agree to call it a semi-draw. It’s actually a really fun week for everyone, because they’re all constantly being complemented and flirted with in a way they know is performative and seeks 0 real actions from them in return, so essentially they are just showererd with ‘drunk girl in a bar bathroom’ levels of praise for seven days.

Felix and Nancy are the only two with significant others waiting back home, and they bond over talking about their wife/boyfriend and sharing stories and having someone around who understands that specific brand of pain and can encourage them that they’ll make it back home.

Tapp is a dad, so he gives Felix a lot of advice on stuff since he was an expecting father. Not so much “do this” advice, since his relationship with his family didn’t go so well, and he feels like he’s in absolutely no position to teach—more like “It’s okay. Women have been giving birth for thousands of years. She’s gonna make it just fine even if you’re not home yet, and you’ll get back to them. And I’m gonna teach you some of the tricks so you’ll be ready when you do. You can even surprise her by already knowing how to change a diaper and warm a formula bottle. I’ll show you how to do it,” and talking him through some of the stuff he would have been able to learn from infant care books. It’s sweet, but Tapp almost dies when Jane says its “Very heartwarming” and teases him, so they cut him some slack. Felix is really appreciative. Laurie has taken care of a ton of kids, and gives him some advice too, and so does Nancy, who had two younger siblings.

Steve is a disaster who suffers from “I like you and you are a girl, so *pigeon meme* Is this falling in love?” syndrome. Gets shot down hard by Laurie, who is ridiculously pissed at him for bringing it up during a trial when their lives are on the line, but after he gets over being super awkward around her, and she reaches out to be like, ‘Look, dumbass, why did you even like me?’ And he’s like ‘...because you’re, uh, really cool? A-and pretty? And...’ and eventually she’s like ‘Buddy, you don’t even really know me. You’re just lonely. You’re not in love with me, you just want to be, because you want to be in love with somebody, and that’s not gonna cut it, for me, or anyone. Be in love with a person—not with the concept of being in love. And for that to happen, you have to know them first.” And since Steve is good af self-improvement, he realizes she’s got a real point, and tries to find his worth outside of needing a girlfriend, and becomes both a lot happier, and one of Laurie’s closer friends. (Side note—this extends probably only to my initial Steve ideas. I had the idea batted around that in that universe, Stranger Things /is/ an existing show, but it’s based on a mix of urban legend and history from the 80s, and Nancy and Steve are the version from the actual 80s, and I think in that pitch Steve is dating Barb, who is still alive, and already worked through this specific issue, because many things happened differently for wild comedic ‘But in the show’ effect, becuase both them repeatedly going “WELL REALITY WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT” when like, monster hunting shit from the show won’t work on the Demogorgan, and *Spit take* “THEY HAD ME HIT ON ROBIN?” “Ewwww” “YEAH ewww! She’s basically my lesbian little sister! We’ve been best friends since grade school! What the fuck :’-]” make for amazing joke potential. )

Cheryl starts having nightmares where she sees things from the Entity’s eyes she was never meant to see, and finding out dangerous amounts of information this way. The Entity decides at some point this is too big a threat, but because it’s proud, it doesn’t want to just kill her, as that would be admitting a human is a threat, so it starts having killers gun for her mercilessly to try to get her to give up, and the poor girl is in agony.

Zarina documents stuff form the realm constantly, and has a careful scrapbook collection of all notes and paraphernalia from past survivors. She also keeps conspiracy pages tacked together trying to figure out who they were becuase they deserve at least the justice of people somehow knowing how they died and what they went through. Laurie is a big help with this, and so is Claudette, who has been keeping stuff for a long time.

Yui is very no-nonsense, and protective. She gives off strong big sister vibes. She especially also loves board games/puzzles/other games like Shogi or Go and such, and Dwight and Adam create game pieces for her to play Go with when she mentions how much she used to like that kind of thing, and Yui is incredibly touched, and makes several other ones for people to play with too, and it becomes a very enjoyed pastime between trials. It’s engaging and competitive, but much more relaxed and low energy than sports or training or going for a run, so it’s a great alternative. Meg gets super into making puzzles, and all the artists do too, and take turns painting pictures on boards, cutting them into puzzle pieces with extreme painstakingly slow care, and then doing puzzles together. Jake is invaluable in the actual cutting pieces out area, but actually enjoys to do it.

Felix knows a lot more than anyone else about the Entity when he’s taken, so he spends a bunch of time with the research team trying to recall whatever he can from his childhood and sharing any information he has, then just stays on it because he wants to. He’s desperate to meet Benedict Baker someday himself, becuase that man seems to get around, and he really wants to know what happend to his father.

Everyone becomes protective as fuck of Cheryl when the Entity starts targeting her, and someone—I think Kate and or Meg—probably both together—as a one-off joke call themselves her knights at some point, becuase they’re running such dedicated protection detail, but it becomes a whole thing, and several more start to do it. They’ll like ‘fist clasped arm across chest at attention, quick bow’ when they see her, and it’s goofy as fuck, but it helps a lot making Cheryl’s reality more bearable. Plus, it’s really sweet. Nea gets in on this and comes back one day with a little daisy chain she made cause she was bored, sees Cheryl, it clicks, runs over and offers it as a ‘favor’. Zarina sees and comes back later that day from a trial and kneels and presents Cheryl with a rescued toolbox with a brand new part. This becomes increasingly common and extravagant, and Cheryl /cannot/ deal, but it’s like, genius, becuase it takes exactly this level of surreal goofy friend bullshit to distract from the hell she is living. She ends up just regularly having someone come back from a trial or trip to the woods, salute with an arm across their chest, bow, and present her with anything from a pinecone or pretty rock, to flowers or a medkit, to a salt statue or key, to a painting or hand made bracelet, to a makeshift weapon or a pillow. Everyone always tries to outdo each other, so the gifts tend to be extravagant. Zarina considers herself Cheryl’s righthand woman/personal knight by chocie, because she wanted a cause to fight for and has found one she truly loves, and she makes Cheryl her favorite gift so far, coming up to her at the end of a long day, after a very bad trial where Cheryl was mercilessly and slowly killed by the Pig, kneeling, and offering a thick shard of stained glass from the chapel, made sturdy and held in place with a few chunks of soldered and wrapped iron along the blade and down the grip, forming a razor sharp and reinforced stained glass knife.

#ask #Sleepy #headcanons #dead by daylight #dbd

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margotverger · 5 years ago

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top 5 best hannibal takes and worst hannibal takes. go

okay i’m going to do this generally on what other people’s takes (that i’ve seen or read somewhere) are because none of my hannibal takes are bad.

top 5 best:

that margot should have been butch in the tv show and that the margot/alana romance could have been developed a little more, i’ll elaborate more on the butch angle in top 5 worst, but i think while i enjoy marlana in s3 (who doesn’t) i do think that there could have been a Little More to it, especially since there was admittedly a lot of gratuitous metaphorical work on a visual or verbal level in early s3 that didn’t... really do much after the first few, and that i think bryan fuller definitely got a bit self-indulgent. while i love s3 i think it was weaker because it got quite ensnared in feeling like it had to explain everyone’s individual recovery (not a bad thing necessarily and the looping narrative definitely had this feeling of “time has been changed, mutilated, adjusted after mizumono”, but on a narrative level it could have probably still been achieved but left more room for things to. Happen) and i think that some of the excess could have been trimmed to allow for more margot-alana development beyond simply talking about taking revenge, i would have loved to see some genuine conversation that only affected both of them that made us realise just why alana would raise the child with her, why they would get marriedーalana having very little dating life and presumably trauma around relationships since her immediate ex tried to murder her and is also a serial killer, and margot having been traumatised repeatedly due to being a lesbian in a very homophobic family, they deserved some space in order to explore why exactly they mean a lot to each other. even a singular scene that didn’t depend on taking vengeance on the men who hurt them would have given us enough i think.

lara jean chorostecki’s hot take (implied) that freddie would have a wife. groundbreaking. love that. regardless of bryan fuller i am assuming with full confidence that freddie lounds has a wife after the timeskip

autistic will graham. enough said. hugh dancy’s only stupid thing was saying will isn’t autistic. that was a sin. will graham is autistic

lesbian abigail hobbs. lesbian abigail hobbs!

the hot take that hannibal doesn’t do its women characters justice, this isn’t just about deaths (i do agree that for the gothic horror narrative characters are doomed to some extent, and i don’t overly grieve over deaths that came too early, so i’m not too fussed) but on a writing level, bryan fuller definitely tries to portray himself as a very woman-positive author who introduces feminine energy - and he does! but at the same time there is a lack in developing relationships between women, and for a story to truly give space to be a genuinely woman-positive story there needs to be strong relationships between women that don’t depend on men; obviously since hannibal’s presence is insidious and infects everything, as is his luciferian ways, and will’s often the binding agent, this can’t be entirely avoided but regardless of hannibal they can exist, on some small level, individually. we saw that a lot in s1! between abigail and freddie and alana and abigail mostly, plus there was a small glimpse at it in season 3 with bedelia and chiyoh (underrated imo i would love to see further into why bedelia has her views of chiyoh and what that means ... i hope they interact again if hannibal s4 comes to pass!). so it proves there is room for it. it doesn’t need to be every episode or even have a huge arc but seeing hannibal pass the bechdel test more than like. twice a season would be nice!

top 5 worst takes:

that bedannibal is more romantic than hannigram (lol)... i love bedelia and bedannibal a lot but that’s just. hm. incorrect

that hannibal has never loved anybody except will. i’ve wrote about this before but i think that’s a deliberate misunderstanding of the character hannibal. what is unique about hannibal and will’s relationship is not the presence of love but the presence of being changed by that love; transformation is at its core, the openness to being adjusted or altered... recognition, seeing, understanding, and that allowing compassion not only for the other (in hannibal’s case) but for the self (in will’s case). hannibal loves a lot, but his love is not separate from crueltyーi think this is where people misunderstand. just because he is willing to hurt or harm people isn’t, in the narrative (not in real life), because he doesn’t love them. his cruelty is because he loves people enough he wants to bring them to the height of their being, in extremis. he loved alana, which is why he showed her a chance at mercy. he loved bedelia. he loved jack. he loved abigail! he loved bella especially, and he genuinely mourned. these went beyond fascinations; these were genuine expressions of affection, love, whether they be platonic or romantic or familial. hannibal’s flaw is not that he is incapable of love. and personally i think to disrespect his relationships with other characters (who are all women, black or both lol) in order to further isolate the white m/m relationship is... not ideal. not a sign that someone is wholly prejudiced but i think it’s something we should be critical about, especially when hannibal through word of god is confirmed to love other people.

bryan fuller’s own take that margot being femme is somehow less prejudiced or problematic than if she was butch. i haven’t read the book yet but i already know that margot’s portrayal as a butch lesbian was problematic but thomas harris is . undoubtedly prejudiced in many ways and that’s a fault of him, not a fault of the existence of being butchーbeing butch isn’t just a “stereotype” it’s a genuine mode of existence, it’s an intricate relationship with gender, sexuality and love, and butchness deserves to be represented as something beautiful, desirable and complex... instead of just deciding she should be conventionally feminine because that’s somehow more progressive. but then again he also made her have sex with a man so you know. lol

ANY take that involves over-analysing who is a top or who is a bottom and then rendering the characters into homophobic/fetishistic stereotypes. it’s ugly! it’s weird! keep that shit away from me. also any take involving “dark!will”. again that just does the character of will disrespect lol. the whole point of will is that he is morally complex and perhaps beyond the human scopeーhe is not just an echo of hannibal... i’ve seen one too many fics where will just becomes a savage brutal unfeeling murderer who only cares about hannibal after s3. like please watch the show

that hannibal is a narcissist/sociopath... or any other ableist interpretations. not every villain is a narcissistic (a genuine disorder) sociopath (just another word associated with npd etc) just because they do bad things. they’re very real disorders that people deal with and are infinitely more complex than just a character having a god complex and killing people. the whole point about hannibal is that he exceeds what is considered neurodivergent and while i don’t mind if people with similar disorders relate to him (much like how i relate to will’s autistic traits) i think a lot of bad comes from people throwing the label sociopath around because it becomes dehumanising and leads to further stigma against truly vulnerable people.

basically any trope that just does a character a disservice or neglects the actual story in further of fetishistic thinking, prejudiced thinking, ableist thinking... will graham can be autistic because of his empathy (i’ve seen it implied that he can’t be because of it when, as a very empathetic autistic person, hyper-empathy is a very common if not universal symptom, it just appears differently) and hannibal is not a sociopath just because he kills and eats people. and we should all have a little sip of critical thinking juice

#ty lear <3 <3 #bluebeardsbride #inbox

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yououghtaknow · 4 years ago

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so i filled in this chart (made by @fingersmithbysarahwaters <3) on my twitter dot com account (@/genderhead if you want to see me post more Casual stuff). i am now going to explain it in depth because i am autistic and my special interest is my own show.

NOTE: the way i did this chart was that the "coded" column is who people see you as and the "girl" column is who you are. also i am not an expert in riverdale analysis, i simply know what i’ve heard my very smart friends talking about.

ARCHIE GIRLS

ARCHIE CODED

sandy my best friend sandy….. she is just such an archie in her core. cause archie is the Heart of the town, he’s the Heart of the friend group, and that is very sandy. on the surface, they’re very similar - both being very athletic people, both just really wanting to be liked by everyone, both being kind of lost at the beginning and in a manipulative relationship. but, at the end of the day, archie’s all about being there for the people he loves, and even though he’s spent a lot of time hating himself for his mistakes, he grows and moves on, much like sandy. also they’re both not that good at dancing but will still be in the school musicals to support their friends.

JUGHEAD CODED

jacob love……. he an archie girl at his core because he just wants to protect the people he loves. he is genuinely torn between music and football, and has to deal with knowing people have done bad things and that he can’t do anything about it. he may go about it the wrong way sometimes, but he’s just trying to do what’s best for his friends and himself, which makes him a bit more jughead coded. he’s very much trying to be perceived as a season 1 esque jughead in the fact that he knows he’s different in a deep inherent way and has a hard time articulating it for a while. he also has the trauma of abandonment from both of his parents and runs away to protect himself at one point.

BETTY CODED

ms eleanor early…. i needed to include some not so main characters to fill up the chart, and ellie’s character has always been quite interesting to me, because the roles that sonja and emma play in og skam are very typical of a gay drama, and combining them into one character i think makes her a lot more interesting. ellie is trying to be perceived as a season 1 betty, she has the blonde hair, the perfect upper middle class family, she has a crush on the perfect jock guy, but…. that isn’t really who she is. she’s a fierce protector of what she believes to be the truth and is always ready to stand up for herself and her friends. she thinks she’s a betty coded veronica girl but she is not. also ellie would absolutely name a band after herself.

VERONICA CODED

my best friend james cohen…… james is a very obvious archie girl. he’s very much the heart of his friend group, he literally almost went to jail trying to protect nick. he loves his found family so so dearly and he’s a nice boy who plays a guitar. but when we get into his veronica coding….. veronica is just such an interesting character to me (more on that later) but the way james relates to her. veronica is all about getting validation from her dad and male figures, whereas james is trying to get validation from his mum and female figures in his life. he also openly struggles with alcohol abuse and is very good at giving some one liners. he’s also kind of a mean girl in the first few seasons??? like he’s seen as that way from the pov character. also i believe that, if given the opportunity, james would open a speakeasy/casino underneath a local diner.

JUGHEAD GIRLS

ARCHIE CODED

i am about to interpret characters so wrong. so bryan is what people who don’t view riverdale through the correct lgbt lense think an archie coded jughead girl is like. he’s a jock, he’s been with a lot of girls, he’s kind of stupid (his archie coding) and he’s a bad boy™ who struggles with money problems and is in love with the perfect good girl (who is also a lesbian). he’s just the worst. i hate him.

JUGHEAD CODED

oh <3 would you look at that <3 it’s me <3 isaac yououghtaknowmp3/genderhead <3. i couldn’t think of another random character to included so i just did myself. i am jughead coded in the fact that i am weird i’m a weirdo i don’t “fit in” and i don’t want to fit in. i have always known there is something inherently Other about me and i haven’t tried to hide it ever. i also am a writer and use my writing as a way to process my real life trauma and things going on around me. also the scene where jughead burns down his childhood home and then sings seventeen (reprise) from heathers does affect me on a deep and personal level. i am a bit betty coded in the fact that i Am very much like that.

BETTY CODED

annabell!!!! i love them so so much, they are so fun to me. they’re very much later seasons betty coded, in that fact that i fully believe they have the serial killer genes. they know what they’re good at and they do it well, and they are trying to be seen as a serpent queen type figure, but…. at the end of the day, they do just use sardonic humour to relate to the world. they are covering up their mental illness with strange little jokes and enjoy making bitchy little comment in such a fun way. also they’re a nonbinary lesbian which i think is a very bettycoded jugheadgirl thing to do.

VERONICA CODED

nick my best friend nick!!!!! nick is very veronica coded in the daddy issues way. we see them have issues connecting to their dad and they try to find that bond with other male companions…… he also deals with some substance abuse problems and is very dramatic and uses a lot of pop culture references to cover up their actual issues. but, deep down in his heart, nick is a jughead because he cares deeply about the people around him, even though he has trouble showing it. also he is in love with james in a very similar way to how jughead is in love with archie. also i feel like all of their younger brothers can and will kin jellybean.

BETTY GIRLS

ARCHIE CODED

esther my bestie!!!!!!!! esther is trying so hard to be seen as an archie like figure. she wants to be the centre of the friend group, she wants to be in charge and know what’s going on at all times. she just really wants to be liked all of the time, but that is what makes her such a betty girl. she’s very perfection orientated, and she’s also very ambitious and clever in a betty way. betty’s whole relationship with donna sweett just has esther vibes. also the wig in a box scene in the hedwig episode where betty is trying to make everyone feel better??? very esther core.

JUGHEAD CODED

alistair. thomas. fletcher. god this boy is very jughead coded. from the first moment we see him, he’s Weird. he’s very season 1 jughead in the fact that he’s a gay little outsider trying to stay a gay little outsider but his curiosity gets him dragged into the main plot. also al tries to see the world through the lens of fiction, much like jughead. but at the end of the day, he is a betty. he is very intellectually smart and we see him struggle a lot with perfectionism over what we’ve seen so far. also he’s good at snarking with his siblings and he has fully psychoanalysed people at musical rehearsal for no reason other than to have fun. He’s also a betty for reasons i can’t get into on this night due to Spoilers but you’ll know it when the time comes.

BETTY CODED

rori!!!!!!!!!! rori is such such such a betty in every way. the pastel colours are very her. betty’s relationship with denying her mental illness is very her in the early season. even the betty/archie relationship is quite reminiscent of rori and james’s relationship (i mean this in a gay way not a barchie way). also the way people interpret betty and her sexuality reminds me a lot of rori, the whole performance of femininity riverdale betty specifically does…. also rori is very much a main character type of person and betty is thee main character of riverdale. also betty spending so much of the musical episodes with veronica is a very rori move.

VERONICA CODED

milo woods!!!!! my fave girlboss!!!! they’re very veronica coded in the fact that they are the cool, cultured, popular new kid in town with fancy style. also they are very “you’re gay? thank god, let’s be friends”. but they are very much a betty girl with their insecurities and their girlboss ways being a lot more subtle. like milo shows up out of nowhere like veronica, but psychoanalyses and romances the local lgbt community by being mean to them in a sincere and fun way. also the whole “i’m the daughter of the black hood” speech has milo energy.

VERONICA GIRLS

ARCHIE CODED

sophie!!!!! sophie is archie coded in the fact that she is just so cool and well liked and sporty and hot. like sophie’s whole introduction is like the “whoa! archie got hot!” scene only sandy has always thought she was hot. but sophie is such a veronica at the end of the day. like she is a hashtag girlboss in the sense that she’s the captain of the football team, she’s smart, she’s put together. but also she has a past where she’s been betrayed and assaulted and abused and she’s just trying to keep it all together at the end of the day. sophie kennedy i love you

JUGHEAD CODED

theo alterman. god he is weird, he is a weirdo. he wears dark clothes, he’s deeply sarcastic, but he’s always there for his friends in his own special way. also i feel like theo would fake his own death. he’s also canonically hyperfixated on dungeons and dragons which is an epic jughead moment. but he is very much a veronica girl in the fact that he is so bitchy and fun to his friends but is always there for them and trying to be a good friend. like he messes up a lot but he earnestly trying his best to empathise with his friends and be cool and good. he just wants to fit in so much but also the world according to chris is a very theo song

BETTY CODED

liz my friend elizabeth!!!! she is very betty coded. i mean, both of their names are elizabeth. they’re both blonde, they both deal with overbearing mothers, shitty fathers and high expectations. they both struggle with mental illness in a very repressed way and also liz is very intellectual. but she is such a veronica. liz is seeking out validation constantly and is willing to change who she is just to get people to like her. she’s also very desperate for friends and will always try her best to keep them. also liz says some absolutely wild lines in a fun veronica way. liz would say i recognise those abs anywhere about james.

VERONICA CODED

finally my best friend in the whole wide world brianna holland. oh bree. my love my light. they are just such a veronica girl. veronica’s relationship with femininity and sexuality is very similar to bree’s, with equating sex to both power and validation. in a way, bree is also seeking out her father in the men she’s had relations with in the past, but we see her grow from that and move on to a girl (like veronica should also do). also bree is just such a girlboss i love them so much. also they both have a secret sibling which gets a very dramatic reveal. it’s so intensely fun. also it’s about the reputation by taylor swift.

thank you for reading, stan riverdale, stan skam brighton, and please know that i wrote this instead of doing my final piece of coursework <3

#skam brighton #isaac speaks #genuinely the pain of having my special interest be the show that i write is just..... so strange #but alas here is my 5 page long mini essay about my funny little guys and riverdale #heart emoji

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swatato · 5 years ago

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fat. FAT. P H A T RANT INCOMING FOR ANYONE WHO CARES TO READ THIS NONSENSE CUZ @haldidoodh ASKED

That episode literally blasted the last of my serotonin into smithereens but TBH??? WHO AM I MAD AT I should have seen this coming this whole volume has been such a headache. I cant be bothered to type up a coherent rwde essay on everything that bothered me this episode so im just gonna copy and paste my earlier yelling here instead ;A;

Team Rwby was god awful in episodes 11-12. They’re so self-righteous, entitled, hypocritical and cocky as a team and it doesnt help that they all suck as individual characters nowadays (except for weiss but even she lost best-girl points this episode also lmao blake and yang aren’t even INDIVIDUALS anymore they’re just bumbleby). It was annoying at first but now its just infuriating how rwby thinks theyre always right with their uwu energy and think they can do whatever tf they want with ZERO CONSEQUENCES.

Basically any time there is a problem in this show they have Ruby uwu at it and its solved lol.

They kept giving ironwood shit for taking on this incredible burden SO THAT NOBODY ELSE WOULD HAVE TO and rather than offer any real solution they just kept going “but mantle” like okay?? But remnant??? Like obvi letting mantle rot is bad but HE WAS OPEN TO ANY HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS CUZ HES OBVI AT HIS WITTS END AND DOESNT LIKE THE IDEA EITHER but yeah they just proceed to be the fattest hypocrites by hiding secrets of their own after being all “no more secrets uwu” and WHEN THEY GOT EXPOSED THEY JUST WENT “>:[“ (yangs self-righteous little glare here pissed me off so much oof) especially when ironwood was laying everything out in the open to them from the start. AND ESPECIALLY WHEN THE SECRET WAS FKIN “OH YEAH SALEM CANT DIE LOL” They watched ironwood make every decision he did in hopes of beating Salem while KNOWING she couldnt die??? So literallY WHERE do they get off on screeching at him with their yOu doNt hAvE to Suffer In ManTle YOu doNt kNow whAt iTs liKe bs. Wtf made ruby distrust iw at the start anyway? Because he had a bunch of ships out? They kept this CRUCIAL piece of information from him because he seemed stressed out?? Like what made ruby keep the secret from him. Someone tell me.

And the fact that rwby beat the ace-ops makes no goddamned sense. The power-scaling in this show is non-existant. We finally got to meet some pro huntsmen in this universe who aren’t teachers but are actually on the job, but because we gotta move out of the way for that 👌🏽✨ Power Of Friendship✨ and ✨rwby is always right✨ they somehow managed to beat experienced huntsmen with YEARS in the field who’ve actually graduated school??? FARM BOI OSCAR WHOS *JUST* LEARNING HOW TO FIGHT MANAGED TO LAND A PUNCH ON NEO FKIN POLITAN??? Didnt neo dance circles around yang??? Yang, who punches for a living and also beat mercury and adam??? I cant yall (and the fact that he didnt even bother to sneak up on her this boi literally screamed “no!!” as he ran down a hallway and neo didnt even have time to blink??? Pls)

Ruby’s “you were the best, until you trained us :3” -for maybe 2 days before my team went dancing ruby sis shut right tf up pls my god is this line just so. UNEARNED. Training in a room for a short while does not simply grant you the years of field experience the ace ops have and whAT IS UP WITH HER TRYING TO REASON WITH HARIETT AFTER SAYING THAT COCKY LINE AND FIGHTING HER??? WHAT and also like. The entire idea of “the ops lost cuz they weren’t good friends and were bad at teamwork uwu” is just so dumb. Ur telling me this group of high ranking hunstmen who’ve most likely been working together for at least a few years didnt have teamwork down??? Learning to work together is the most BASIC concept for a team to learn!! Its like the first thing a team has to perfect!! If the ace ops are supposed to be the best of atlas you dont think the ops would have gotten something as fundemental as teamwork down?? I dont buy it. And who gives a shit if they dont hang out after work or take selfies with eachother. Being friends doesnt necessarily mean theyre great at working together. If they succeed at relying on eachother to watch their backs, to keep each other alive (in the words of hariett herself) then Id think theyd know how to protect eachother i.e WORK TOGETHER.

And for all the ✨friendship✨ and ✨going through so much with someone✨ talk rwby like to do, the show barely displays these people acting like friends. We’re constantly TOLD how great of friends this group is, but the actual CONTENT we are shown leaves a lot to be desired. Tell me the last time ruby and blake teamed up in a fight. Or weiss and blake. Or yang and weiss. What teamwork?? Yang only interacts with blake now and weiss is only ever allowed to interact with ruby. Has blake ever said nora or ren’s name out loud? Have jaune and yang ever held a conversation between just them? Team rwby just spent a GOOD DEAL of time seperated from eachother, but when they reunite their teamwork is still somehow better than the ace ops?? Honestly its easier to believe that ruby is closer with team jnpr than she is her own team. If they showed the ops messing up during rwby vs ace ops fight due to lack of communication, then it still doesnt matter. My point is that they shouldnt have lacked teamwork in the first place.

Robyn was m e h this episode “JaMes ConTinUes to UnDeresTimAte Me” *proceeds to get knocked over in .3 seconds and is then KO for the rest of the episode* also great job for starting a fight and aiming to take clovers life in a moving airship with a terrorist on board when clover was acting PEACEFULLY and qrow was WILLING TO TALK IT OUT WITH IW and potentially work on a solution, but naw robyn is big mad and shall shoot.

Qrow made zero sense this episode too. I was with him right up until he chose TYRIAN OVER CLOVER??? THE PSYCOPATH WHO CANNOT BE REASONED WITH OVER THE RATIONAL DUDE YOU KNOW IS GOOD except clover wasnt acting rational in this fight at all and ill get to that AND IS THE ONLY FRIEND YOU HAVE WHOS NOT 19????? Qrow rly looked at tyrian- a man who is literally an enemy to all of remnant and went after ur neice- and said lets get rid of this punk together u and me bro. Like screw teaming with clover to bring down the dude you ACTUALLY have a grudge with whos also a serial killer and then trying to talk it out with clover whod be willing to do things peacefully why is this show like this

and AS FOR CLOVER. where were the braincells this episode. Qrow was trying to fight tyrian-the WAY bigger threat here, but clover??? kept knocking him away from tyrian and restraining him with his hook like??? YEAH LETS HELP OUT THE DEMON SCORPION CRACKHEAD HES CLEARLY NOT THE PRIORITY ATM nvm clover deserved to die there m8

His death scene was emotional and I feel bad for Qrow but u literally sealed his death when u ganged on him with tyrian so why are you even surprised. And on the subject of fairgame, im glad it didnt happen. Qrow was in no state for romance and I was glad he finally had a friend. He just spent the last volume thinking he wasted his life away helping oz, drowning in misery, drinking til he passed out on the street and so drunk he couldnt even be of any help during the apathy situation, when up til now hes been shown to fight just fine while drunk. I don’t see this as a “bury your gays trope” because clover was never confirmed to be gay and all their scenes added up to 40 seconds of platonic friendship. These two are grown ass men, if they had the hots for eachother then im pretty sure they could openly show it and not dance around it like theyre kids. I do feel bad for mlm viewers who were hoping for some rep with fairgame/lucky charms (cuz rt only cares if ur a cute marketable lesbian) but idc for the overly entitled fans who try to force their own headcanons on the writers and go feral when they dont get what they want. You dont just get to prance around claiming whats canon and what isnt. If rep is there then great, but if it isnt, then why not look somehwere else and let the author tell the story theyre trying to tell? Shipping fairgame cuz you think its cute is absolutely fine but not when u start getting ready to casterate crwby for not catering to you. Also, rwby sucks with lgbt+ rep anyway so what were yall expecting.

The only thing that was great this episode was the chorerography. It just sucks that the animation/choreo continues to improve while the writing doesnt. Another thing that really fell off this episode was the whole “we’re friends but we have to fight” drama. It doesnt work when its only ONE SIDE SHOWING ANY DISTRESS OVER IT. Only the ace ops (marrow, clover, the vine dude) seemed to show distress over having to fight rwby (it sucks that the only 1v1 weiss has won was because marrow was going EASY on her cuz he didnt wanna fight her fr) but rwby???? They didnt give any shits. They were so quick to turn against them and aim for their heads. They were SMILING as they ran at the ace ops, while they looked conflicted. If you oppose their UwU philosophy, you’re dead to them.

I really wanna enjoy RWBY but sometimes this show (and the fndm) really tests me. Its ironic how this episode came right after last episode, which I thought was the best chapter this volume. Anyway I rate this 10/10 cuz it gave me best character ironwood and best boi marrow and I would like to give them hugs for carrying this volume on their backs. (Also tyrian and penny and winter have been great too)

#oof just oof #and idegaf about cinder yall #lowkey hoping she gets all the maiden powers so she can finally beat rwby up and HUMBLE them a little #rwby #rwby vol 7 #rwde

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wonderfulworldofmichaelford · 6 years ago

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Six Shots OCs

Set in an alternate timeline where superpowers are a thing and the United States government has a department of superpowered mercenaries who work to either recruit or terminate the most dangerous superpowered individuals around, the empathic gunman Eric Madden is tasked with taking down a superpowered serial killer known as “The Jersey Devil;” however, his dark and troubled past rears its head and complicates matters.

Keep in mind all of this is WIP and some stuff may change. Questions, comments, and feedback is appreciated. First up, though, here’s some trivia about the actual story itself:

The story actually has this working title due to originally being a story about assassins that was abandoned a couple years ago. It was changed due to too many fantastic elements creeping in, so it ended up being retooled to have superpowers and accommodate abandoned OCs.

That original idea actually spun off from original ideas for a different one of my stories.

HEROES

Eric Madden

Born and raised in the town of Bedlam, Maine, Eric had a rather uneventful childhood until the age of 16, when his hometown was razed and burned down in a horrible incident that left him an orphan. Taken in by the DOSI team that arrived to clean up the mess, it was soon understood he had the extremely useful powers of empathic reading and heightened senses; after training him for years, he became one of their most useful field agents.

He is 27 years old.

He has a dirty blonde hair, is 5’11”, and has blue eyes.

His power in more specific terms is that he is able to sense the emotions and intent behind them in people, thereby making him something of a living lie detector. He also has heightened senses that allow him to react incredibly quickly to anything his opponents may do, making him incredibly good at dodging hits.

He is a trained dancer, and did theater when he was in high school. He often utilizes the flexibility and movements learned from dancing in battle.

He wears special prescription glasses that allow him to focus his eyes better without straining himself.

He is a bit arrogant and cocky, and often goes on missions listening to music on an MP3 player, trusting his innate abilities to keep him safe.

He has trust issues which stem from a traumatic event from his youth.

He is ambidextrous.

He is bisexual with a preference for women.

He is engaged to Emmy.

He really thinks the Beatles should have disbanded in 1998, as he feels their post-80s work to be incredibly subpar.

His name is a holdover from the original concept for the story, in which he was part of a Seven Deadly Sins-themed hitman group in which he represented Wrath, thus the last name “Madden.”

His favorite song is “Pussy Control” by Prince.

Emmy O’Riley

Emmy O’Riley spent much of her childhood dreaming of excitement and adventure; at the age of 15 she got her wish, when she was swept up in a conflict where British agents were tracking down a superpowered refugee. Using her innate abilities she was able to drive them off, which attracted the attention of a local gang of rebels who fought back against British agents who came to Ireland. Befriending one of the members, one Primrose Cluain, she and Prim spent the next few years fighting off the British before they were swept up by DOSI after being framed for a terrorist attack in London to protect them. Emmy became a valued agent, and met and fell in love with Eric Madden.

Her hair is naturally black but she dyes a green streak into it.

Her power allows her to, for an hour at a time, cause any one small object to be able to infinitely replicate in her hand even if it somehow leaves it, essentially giving her infinite ammunition. For example, her preferred weapon of choice is throwing knives; with her ability, after she tosses the knife a new one will appear in her hand. There are limits, however; she can only give this ability to items she can hold in her hands, and only up to ten at a time (which allows her to use smaller throwing knives and shurikens in multiples). The original item and all copies also dissolve after some time. This ability also only works on inanimate objects and cannot work on living things, nor does it work on food.

She is 5’7”.

Her eyes are green.

Her favorite movie is The Green Mile.

She has a scar on the back of her left shoulder from a British agent stabbing her.

She is heterosexual.

She is 28 years old.

She is engaged to Eric Madden.

She’s totally into the punk style.

Her favorite band is the Ramones, followed closely by the Sex Pistols (the only British band she really likes).

Scarlet Love

Unlike many of her coworkers, Scarlet does not have a tragic backstory or a rough childhood. Raised by loving adoptive parents, after she was contacted by DOSI after her powers developed she jumped at the call.

She has the ability to control the flight path of projectiles she fires so long as they remain in her line of sight.

She favors the use of revolvers over any other type of gun.

Scarlet Love is not actually her real name, but a name she took during childhood.

Despite not even being from the West, she absolutely loves dressing like a cowboy.

She is extremely hyper, energetic, and cocky.

She is unabashedly gay.

She is engaged to Primrose.

She is almost always the Agent of the Month.

She is 5’7”, has greenish-gray eyes, and dyes her hair pink.

As a character she is primarily inspired by Hol Horse from Stardust Crusaders and to a lesser extent by Revolver Ocelot from the Metal Gear series.

Primrose Cluain

For much of her life, Prim just wanted to stay low and avoid confrontation. She didn’t want to be a hero, she didn’t want to fight the British. But then came the day her parents were nearly killed with a car bomb, and all bets were off. As mentioned in Emmy’s bio up there, she fought for years before joining up with DOSI to escape terrorist charges falsified by British agents.

She has the power to create illusions, though the bigger the illusion the more strain it puts on her. She usually teams up with Scarlet to cover her weaknesses, as she can create illusory Scarlet’s so that she can get into a position where she can redirect her bullets unimpeded.

She has a rather soft voice.

She prefers to go by “Prim.”

She is a lesbian and is engaged to Scarlet.

She favors wearing black dresses, no matter the weather.

Despite absolutely hating the British, she is a big fan of The Cure. She hates The Beatles though.

She’s also a big fan of My Bloody Valentine, with Loveless being her overall favorite album. She also likes Nirvana, especially their seventh album.

She absolutely is into the Goth style.

She’s 5’9” and has black hair and blue eyes.

Alexis McDowell

From a young age, Alexis was on the run from British authorities due to her powers manifesting early. At the age of eight her parents were struck down by British agents in front of her, and she only barely managed to escape. From there, she spent much of hear early life lying, cheating, and stealing to survive, eventually joining a street gang and rising through the ranks until she took over. Nowadays she harbors superpowered individuals and fights back against the authorities, all the while trying to make Britain a better place for her infant children to grow up in.

Her power is extreme durability. She has incredible stamina, speed, and very tough skin, making her very hard to bring down in a fight.

She does not do well in cold, and it seems to be her kryptonite, so to speak, though it doesn’t weaken her skin.

She is 32 years old.

She has dark red hair.

She is 5’5”.

She has a tic where she’ll throw the word “right” at the end of her sentences. This was something she picked up from her father, as opposed to most of the rest of the way she talks which she picked up from the thugs she hung around with on the street.

She has two children, Lyn and Caleb, ages 4 and 3.

Nadia Rosemont

Nadia was the older daughter of Dario and Poppy Rosemont. From birth they knew Nadia was different and special, and tried to help nurture her and make sure she stayed on the right path. She was especially helped by her younger sister, Dahlia, but when Nadia was disaster struck and, in a freak accident, Dahlia drowned in the lake outside their home. Nadia’s power, which was until now mostly kept in check, lashed out, and she accidentally killed her parents as they came to see what happened. Horrified, Nadia fled. While she never turned herself in, she lived with the guilt and became more tense and anxious as the years went on, desperately wanting to just live a quiet, peaceful life and not hurt anyone anymore.

Nadia’s power is an extremely powerful form of psychic energy attack. Typically activating when she is under great stress, it manifests as semi-visible pink tendrils of psychic energy emanating from her back that are razor sharp and can cut through flesh with ease. They have an effective range of 20 meters. However, while they can cut through flesh, they are not capable of any feats of strength and are rather unwieldy when it comes to grasping or picking up things. This is because her powers are not fully realized to the stress and trauma stemming from her childhood.

Nadia’s hair is white, not from her trauma but because she was born with it.

Nadia has brown skin, inherited from her mother’s side. Her sister Dahlia was white.

Nadia has some form of autism, though certainly a very high-functioning form. She does not like making eye contact, is not good at social interactions, and so on. This is explicitly based on myself, so if this does not seem to apply to you, that’s why.

Her favorite food is key lime pie.

Col. Richard Freeman

The guy that Eric, Scarlet, Prim, and Emmy answer to. He has been working at DOSI for thirty years, and has seen a lot in his time.

He has no powers himself. However, his mother did, which inspired him to join DOSI to help people like her find a place in the world where they can make a difference.

He is 65 years old.

ANTAGONISTS

Valentine Leeds

Born the thirteenth child to an alcoholic father and a long-suffering mother, Valentine was often subject to his father’s ire and his sibling’s torment growing up. His mother was his only support, and she taught him that no matter what, he should always smile through it and put on a happy face. His mother eventually killed herself, and with her gone, his last bit of self-restraint went with her. At the age of thirteen, Valentine used his power and killed his father and siblings before falling off the grid and blending into normal society. Over the years he would continue killing people, earning the moniker “The Jersey Devil” in reports but never being apprehended due to his power’s unique properties allowing him to avoid detection. His sweet and cheerful personality belies a completely insane murderer.

His power is an extremely strange and deadly one. When activated on himself, it gives him an incredible boost to his strength, speed, stamina, and durability, allowing him to do things like climb walls and effortlessly tear people in half. His power’s secondary ability lets him call forth a physical manifestation of his powers from his shadow, rendering him seemingly powerless. This has allowed him to avoid having to register and to avoid detection at all, as he merely needs to detach his power whenever he is in danger of being detected and hee will slip beneath notice. This physical manifestation is an embodiment of his hatred and rage that has been repressed all of his life.

He is 21 years old.

He is black.

He is not dishonest, and his happiness is always genuine.

He really doesn’t like to swear all that much, at most using mild language.

He dresses a lot like Michael Jackson in the “Thriller” music video; at the very least, his signature look is that stylish red jacket.

It is very rare to see Valentine without some sort of smile on his face.

He is in part inspired by the character CB from Starlight Express, at least in terms of being a seemingly innocent and cheerful young man who is actually a completely insane serial killer.

His first name is a reference to the villain of Kingsman: The Secret Service.

His last name is, of course, a reference to the legends of the Jersey Devil.

His power function similarly to Stands from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure.

The monster he can summon as a manifestation of his power is named “Loveless.” This is a reference to the album of the same name by My Bloody Valentine.

His favorite song is “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson. Jackson is also his favorite artist.

Roxanne

Roxanne had a rather troubled childhood. Her mother died giving birth to her, which led to her father being emotionally distant to her, which ultimately led to Roxanne attempting suicide. The attempt failed, but the attempt left her permanently blind. During her stay in the hospital after this, no one visited her, which led to her completely cutting ties with her father and the rest of her family. She would go on to become a serial killer who targeted happy families, killing at least one person to make them miserable.

Roxanne’s power is electrical elemental abilities. In particular, she has perfected the use of her electric abilities to paralyze her opponents, something she uses to keep her victims from struggling too much.

Roxanne has specially made red-tinted sunglasses that allow her to see, as they are hooked into her optic nerves. However, she can only see everything in red-tinted colors or infrared.

She always wears a scarf at all times to cover the scars from her attempted suicide.

She is 6’ tall and rather slim.

She is a redhead.

She is named after “Roxanne” by The Police.

She is a bit irritable.

Yuriko Himura

Moving with her mother out of Japan to get away from her father at the age of 6, Yuriko would soon find a new home in the town of Bedlam, Maine. A shy and nervous young girl, she soon found a friend in a young Eric Madden and the two became inseparable for much of their childhood.

Then her father found her.

Her father was a member of a cult known as The Faces of Death, and when she was 6 he managed to catch up with her and attempted to initiate her into the cult. Whatever he did, it ended up awakening her repressed powers and drove her mad, leading to the destruction of the town of Bedlam and Yuriko’s descent into constantly seeking more powerful enemies to kill.

Yuriko’s inherent power is shadow manipulation. She can teleport using shadows, though the shadow has to be big enough to fit her (she can’t hide in the shadow cast by a toaster, for instance). However, she also has the ability to control and manipulate any shadow into attacking at her command.

Yuriko has a secondary power that is inherent in the katana she wields. The katana has the ability to absorb portions of the strength of any person she kills with it, and so as long as she holds the sword she has the raw strength of all these she has slain with it. It is unknown who forged it with this ability, but it is known the Faces of Death cult had it in their possession for a long time. Whenever the current wielder is killed, the power entirely resets.

Yuriko practices a sort of ritualistic necrophilia. If she views someone she kills as particularly honorable, she has sex with their corpse. This was likely instilled in her when her father initiated her into the Faces of Death, as the cult has a history of necrophilic practices.

Yuriko is 5’7” tall, has black hair, and dark brown eyes.

As a child, she was rather infatuated with Eric.

She has a tattoo of a serpentine dragon on her back, which she got during her initiation.

ANTAGONISTS: ENIGMA

Kristoph Hollenfeuer

Kristoph Hollenfeuer is the end result of a Nazi breeding experiment from WWII to produce the perfect superpowered soldier. Unfortunately, he was forced into cryostasis until the late 80s, when he was awakened and trained to use his powers. From there he took over as the head of the Secret Nazi organization known as Enigma, and has since been working on ways to subtly undermine democracy ever since as well as create the ultimate superhuman lifeform.

His power is the ability to generate flames, though due to the eugenics and Nazi science involved in his birth he’s a lot stronger than your average fire-wielder.

He is 44 years old, not counting the decades in cryostasis.

He is 6’2” and is naturally blonde-haired and blue eyed.

Hannah Schonheit

Enigma’s top scientist and the most trusted compatriot of Hollenfeuer. She has an absolutely brilliant mind and is responsible for many of their scientific breakthroughs in modern times.

Her power allows her to split off a copy of herself that has incredible strength but limited intelligence. She can only have one copy at a time.

She is 5′7″ with dark hair and light blue eyes.

She wears red-rimmed circular glasses.

She is secretly disdainful of Enigma’s ideology but she sees no escape without being killed for knowing too much.

She is 33 years old.

Fritz “The Mad Gasser” Bohnen

The only surviving child of a previous attempt at breeding a supersoldier. While he is incredibly powerful, he is also extremely dangerous.

His power allows him to emanate a variety of dangerous gasses or smoke from his hands; when he emits his gas, a hole in his palm opens and expels it. He favors paralyzing gas and tear gas but can do much more toxic gasses.

He wears a gas mask at all times

He is 6′.

He is 27 years old.

He is actually rather talkative and outgoing, with an easygoing and friendly personality.

MINOR CHARACTERS & FAMOUS FIGURES

Tara Holyfield

A younger member of DOSI. She spends most of her time in the garden.

She has the power to easily dig through dirt, rocks, and the like.

She likes to eat dirt. She has no idea if this is a side effect of her power, but she enjoys the taste.

She is always extremely happy and is perpetually upbeat.

She is 5′4″, with light brown hair and sparkly green eyes.

She is 20 years old.

Kevin Kilgore, Sr.

A legendary soldier from WWII. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest soldiers who ever lived, and he helped inspire the founding of DOSI.

His power caused all of his natural abilities to be amplified. He was faster, stronger, and more flexible than a lot of his fellow soldiers, and smarter as well.

Despite the above, Kilgore was extremely humble and never tried to lord over his fellow soldiers, believing them all to be in this Hell together.

He frequently fought against Enigma; they considered him their archenemy.

He is said to be the inspiration for Captain America.

He took the death of his son very hard; his son was killed in an ambush by German forces.

After the war, it’s said he adopted children who lost their parents in the war.

He lived to the age of 88.

He has a statue in DOSI headquarters.

Joshua Thorne

A US politician and a renowned philanthropist and enviromentalist. He generally acts as a correspondent between the White House and DOSI, though on some occasions people attempt to go behinds his back.

He has the power to control plants, a la Poison Ivy,

He is gay.

He is one of the very few openly superpowered politicians in America.

His hair is gren, which may be a side effect of his powers.

He was born into a wealthy family, but was taught to use his wealth to help others by his parents. He spent much of his youth doing chrity work and volunteering.

He is 35 years old.

He is very pleasant, happy, and genuine, which most people admire in a politician.

Joanne MacMahon

A popular masked wrestler who goes by “The Dominator.”

She has the ability to control the elasticity of her kin, and can make herself incredibly hard or incredibly rubbery, allowing her to tank hits or bounce about. Aside from this, she is just naturally very strong.

She is 5′8″.

She is almost never seen without her mask on.

She is very kind towards her fans and often shows up to kids birthday parties.

She has recently attempted to start an acting career.

Chef Rusty

A celebrity chef. Real name Kaipo Mahi’ai.

He has the power to enhance the flavor of anything he cooks so that it is palatable to even those who would not normally eat it.

He is rather plump and is well known for his big walrus mustache.

He is rather plump.

He is 55 years old.

He is one of the most popular chefs on TV, and is a beloved figure in his native Hawaii.

He earned his nickname during childhood when he tried to make soup in an old pot he bought at a thrift store. The soup he ended up making was filled with rust from the old pot.

Iris Ravencroft

See here.

THE THIEF AND THE SAMURAI CHARACTERS

See here.

SPOILER CHARACTERS

Lilith Crowley

Scarlet’s long-lost sister, the two were seperated at birth. Lilith has gone on to live a relatively pleasant life as a hitman.

She has the power to harness wind and create razor-sharp air blades.

She has white hair, which may be from some unknown trauma in her childhood.

She is almost identical to Scarlet. The only noticeable difference is their hair and eye color.

She is bisexual.

She is a big fan of the band Styx.

She really enjoys Pringles.

She is very particular in the cases she takes, and has a strong sense of justice, often doing jobs for lowered rates so she can enact karma on the wicked.

Sofia Kilgrave

Lilith’s partner and girlfriend.

She has the ability to envenom any object she wishes with a powerful neurotoxin; however, once out of her hands the item loses its poisonous capabilities and the poisoning is cured in her foes. She has control over how sever the poison is, and can do any sort of venom from a mild sickness to paralysis.

She is incredibly flexible.

She dyed her hair white to match Lilith.

She is 5′9″ with yellow eyes.

She is a bit clingy and overprotective.

She is based partially on Copperhead fom Arkham Origins and partially on an OC my fiancee created (I asked her permission before revamping her for here).

Bianca Murphy

A police officer who was mortally wounded during duty. She was reassembled as a cyborg by Ozymandias.

She was previously a police officer in the midwest. She was mortally wounded during a gang bust.

She is based on Robocop, though she’s not cyborgified to near the extent and her face is still visible.

Ozymandias Crowley

An interdimensional traveller, and Lilith’s son from another universe. He seeks out all iterations of his parents in the multiverse to kill. He is apparently from another version of this reality.

His power is an incredible variatian of technopathy, which allows him to control and manipulate machines to his whim. Combined with his brilliant intellect, he was able to figure out how to travel dimensions and fashion his own warship to do so.

He wears a cybernetic bodysuit of his own design, that regulates his body and increses his strength and reflexes by grafting itself to his spine.

He is generally rather even-toned and is most certainly a sociopath.

#my writing #my ocs #Six Shots

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animaanimewizard · 6 years ago

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SNK AU

Synopsis: ???? None. Nope. Blank.

Original Idea: Levi was in foster care system where he met his best friends and got introduced to his future and he never really left the system. Eren is has been foster care system since the earthquake that killed his mom. His time is almost up, though. He looking forward to finally getting away from they system and traveling the world. Unfortunately after getting involved with his new case worker, Levi, he finds himself mixed up in world of conflict bigger than himself.

Ch 1 plot-Levi is working expecting the house of Dimo Reeeves. His past is told in flashback. He tells Dimo to expect someone call about within the week. Back at the office he is called by Erwin that his uncle is in hospital and is asking for him. Levi goes to him and ask why he never fought for him in court. Although Kenny is surprised to see him, but answers he saying that he was truly unfit, that he taught him all he could ever learn from him and with that he knew he’d survive. Kenny says that knowing that is all he need to know he done his part. Levi doesn’t hold a grunge or resentment towards him. Kenny starts telling Levi about the people he was working for but his breathing fails. Levi leaves as the nurse rush in. At the hospital Levi runs into Isabel, who a nurse. She said that she and Farlen were reunited, but since they never knew Levi’s full name they couldn't find him. Levi tells her his full name “Levi Ackerman” and she realizes that man that just died was related to Levi. She gives her condolences and promised to get into contact with him soon. At the office Levi is assigned 3 new cases by Erwin. Saying together they are really just one. He was assigned Eren Jaeger, Krista Lenz and Armin Arlet.

Back Stories:

Levi was in foster care because his parent died when he was young. His uncle was left to take care of him, but was declared unfit by court of law. After bouncing through a lot of homes he finds one with little girl named Isabel. Soon after he meets Farlen. They become close quickly. After Isabel was attacked they ditch the system and live on streets. Making a living by being a gang of thieves. When they get pretty infamous Erwin finds them and brings back to system. They get put in separate homes. Since Levi was the oldest Erwin makes him a special offer. Erwin is actually in charge of special government program that finds its recruits in people of the public assistance system with aptitude for it. Levi agrees to join for Isabel and Farlan. Although his day job is being a social worker, he is recruiter of the program since Erwin was moved to Head Director SURVEY.

Eren’s mom died in giant earthquake that killed thousands in the Shinganshina district and left Maria county in disaster. His dad when crazy afterwards and Eren kills him by accident. Due to acute stress disorder he doesn't remember this and thinks he father is missing since the earthquake. The Yeager name was changed when moved into the country making the Y a J. His street fighter name is Rouge Titan. His greatest rival is Annie. Eren’s has a key that he believes that is from his old home as a keepsake. Eren fights to earn money so they can travel the world. His past foster homes were with Armin’s grandpa, Shadis and Hannes.

Armin was left in care of grandfather when his parents disappear. His parents worked for the Reiss company. Even though his grandpa survives the earthquake he dies of old age soon after. Armin is highly intelligent, but doesn't keep himself taking action when it necessary. He manages Eren’s and Mikasa’s fights.

Mikasa lived with parents until they died trying to protect her from a kidnapping attempt for human trafficking. Eren saves from her kidnappers and she kills one too. Annie isn’t a rival but more of competitor. She was adopted by Jaeger’s afterwards but always kept her name the same. She no longer in the system, but stay close by for Eren and attends all of his fights. She goes to community college studying the world and lives in studio apartment working part time a model.

Historia Reiss/ Krista Lenz. Historia lived with mom who a prostitute until she was until she was murder. This happened sometime after the earthquake. Her father was contacted but couldn't keep her, because he was married. He changed her names and made sure she got place with good foster family. Pastor Nick is her foster father. Either way he abandoned her with no further contact after said arrangement was made.

Plot stuff:

Ymir is Krista’s girlfriend and knows her whole story. She was a run away that couldn't go home, but since then turned legal.

Kenny was contract/serial killer. Was hired by Uri Reiss and became friends with him. Kenny killed Historia’s mom, because while being at Reiss household one night she overheard talk of how the company’s dam in area caused the earthquake. After his death he stayed with the Reiss company. When heard of the experimental drug, he became very interested and though of taking it, because of his Pulmonary edema. Sadly his dream slipped away, because he learns of possible negative effect.

Historia’s mom left a tip with govement that the Reiss company was cause of the shingashina earthquake. An investagtion is opened bur left untouched for years. Until Erwin finds it. Looking into the company he finds some foster child that’s biological pararents worked for the company. Also see Historia’s file, but the next day finds a file on Krista Lenz. The following day Levi is unawarely assigned the 3 cases of Krista Lenz, Eren Jaeger and Armin Arlet.

Grisha killed Reiss family in insane rage. He worked in Research and Development department of the Reiss. Worked on producing the drug’s formula.

Petra is regular social worker with Levi. Aurou is her husband and he is cop like Farlen.

After getting Krista’s case Levi goes to inspect the home. Nick is Pastor and acquaintance of Hanji. He tells Levi that Nick took her as a favor for someone in church, but doubts the child's sanity. Because Krista sometimes calls herself Historia and is rebellious and stubborn while usually as Krista she is sweet angelic girl. Also tells Levi that she is lesbian and currently out with her girlfriend.

Hanji is psychiatrist for the government and does evaluations for the program. Mike also works with her on this, but mostly he works with Erwin. Hanji is married to Moblit

Annie and friends are poor. She is street informant and fighter. She gets information from Hitch and Marlo. Who are dating and children of officials. Marlo doesn't like any of this shady business and is determine to changed it. Annie supports it, because people like her have no other choice. She also help Armin when he needs stuff. She is good person to you, but a bad person to others. She is emancipated from her parents and is living with Berlhot and Reiner. They all when to school together. They want to gain enough money to support themselves and their families. Annie goes to Armin to ask for his genius help and in return she’d give him a percent of her cut.

Erwin believes there is connection between his father’s murder and the Reiss company. He father worked a tutor for the Reiss family until his death.

Armins parents where killed by Djel Sannes, same as Erwin’s father. Erwin found the retired Djel Sannes and brought in for questioning. He told them about illegal actions of company, but without evidence there wouldn’t be case to hold in court. He told his predecessor was Kenny Ackerman that he might sell out the company for right offer. Erwin looks for him and he finds out about his hospitalization. Erwin realizes that his Levi’s uncle that he had met once before, but Levi still underage when accepted into the program. When he goes to see him, he ask about Levi and refuses to say anything to him about the company. Erwin leaves thinking about what would be the right offer to Kenny.

Other Plot Stuff:

The earthquake was caused by Reiss Company, because they built a dam in area with stressed the land and cause the earthquake. The official story was there was a large undiscovered fault line running though the area. This worked out well. The Reiss company bought up the destroyed land and most of surrounding area to use for fracking, coal mining, logging and and energy plant. Most of this keeps the land unstable supporting that there now a highly active fault line there.

Ymir is meets Rod Reiss. He says he is curious of who his daughter was dating. He takes back to company and shows her the experiments. When Ymir ask why he says its because she about to become one. Rod Reiss didn’t not like that the only living heir of the company was dating a “an uneducated lesbian run away” when she could do so much better. When Annie, Reriner and Berholdt show up to steal the drug they find her. All sweaty and tied up to hospital bed. Eventually getting caught they too are forced into human trials of the drug. The effect of the drugs help them escape, but Berholdt has the negative effects and becomes sick. Ymir later goes berserk and kills their neighbor. Only they don’t have time to go and find her, because Berholdt is also freaking out.

Historia goes looking for Ymir after she goes missing. She finds out that picked up by limo. Then she goes to father company demanding to know what he has done to her girlfriend. At that same time Erwin is there visiting to further his investigation.

At Eren’s fight a Reiss company worker witness Eren’s rapid healing. Rod get to get his arrest for street fighting and goes to talk to him while he is in holding, but is cut off by Levi paying bail. After that he tries to get him by going through his current foster family. The Reeves. Rod threatening to demolish their small business. Fortunately by this time Eren is 18 and is taken by Levi.

After Rod ultimately fails to capture Eren he does to hospital to get Kenny. Says he was actually worried about him, that he can give a drug to hold back his ednma. Kenny responds in a scoff saying he rather not take it is going make him a sh*t brain. Rod growls in respond say the he is having discharges in hour, because he still has work for him to do. Kenny’s task is kill the Reeves and take Eren.

More Plot Stuff:

Ewrin is investing the Reiss company. Armin parents stumbled upon illegal bio-experiments and try going into hiding. Eren’s key is really opens a hidden lab where Grisha worked from home. Kenny left information on the USB that could ruin the Reiss company for the serial murder, capitalizing the natural resources of Maria County and causing the Shingashina earthquake. When Annie hears about the experimental drug and tells her friends about it. They are interested in stealing it and selling it to the highest bidder.

Eren is first successful human to take the drug. His father was just trying to make sure Eren lived a long life, unlike his wife. Its what she wanted Eren, for you to live a long time. Sadly Eren thought he was trying to kill him and while running away from the him set the house on fire while his father was still inside. This how Grisha Jaeger died.

When Kenny is dying after Rod’s failure and demise, he gives Levi the usb with the evidence of company’s crimes. The company which has a lot of influence on government and press, so it was never trialed for these crimes

Levi recognized that Eren and Armin have serious potential as candidates for the program but knows they wouldn’t join. He tell Erwin that they have their own dreams and don’t need a future to save them. He also tells Erwin about Eren’s rapid healing, which he learned of after going to one of his fights. Light bulb goes off in Erwin’s head that this might be due to his father work at the Reiss company. Erwin request to meet with Eren anyways.

Eren says that he recognizes Levi as the person who saved from some bullies a long time ago. Saying he looked taller to him back then. This before Eren knew Mikasa. Eren’s where Levi’s fosters before he got moved to place where he meet Isabel. The bullies were picking on him about Armin. Calling them fags. Levi stands up form him and chases off the bullies. Levi was around 14 and Eren was 7.

The Drug:

The experimental drug promotes longevity and youth. Even causes rapid healing. Making people almost immortal. But in other/most it causes mutation that turns people into mindless cannibalistic monsters with high body temperatures. People like this only need sunlight to basically function. The drug was made before the Shingashina earthquake, but after was shutdown by pull of government funding and pharmaceutical companies found it to be dangerous to competition refusing to invest further. Development stopped after Grisha killed the Reiss family, but samples were never destroyed. Rod Reiss began the re-development of the drug after learning he has cancer to save his own life. Almost 7 years later. Due to the profits gained from monopoly of natural resources on Maria County’s land he is able to fund research without investers.

AU Stuff:

Current ages; Historia is 17. Eren is almost 18. Mikasa is 19. Armin is 17. Levi is 25. Annie is 17 going in 18. Ymir is 19.

Facts: Eren was 9 when the Quake happened. Levi was 16. Levi has been in foster care of unspecific amount of time. Although he meet Isabel and Farlan when he was 14. They ran away at 16 after the quake. It took a year of Erwin to find them and bring them back.

Timeline:

Research for the drug started 4 years prior to earthquake. After the earthquake funding was pulled and program was abandon. 5 years after the shut down Rod Reiss restarted it, because he found out he had cancer. Copy of serum where made but no progress with eliminating the negative effect, because original research belong to Dr. Jaeger where completely lost. After 2 years of this Rod starts looking for Grishsa, but finds out he had died. He turns to Eren and starts having thoughts about his own living child. His only heir to the Reiss legacy. He incognito visits her and learns of that Ymir is he girlfriend. He then visits Ymir and invites back to office to talk. Ymir agrees to knowing he his Historia’s true father and that how he successful kidnaps her and forces her in unofficial human trials for the drug. This makes rumors and whispers spread around the company. Eventually Marlo and Hitch hear about from there parents and trade that information to Annie for drugs. Annie tells Reiner and Berholdt about this drug and start planning to steal it. Rod places people to spy on Eren. Levi becomes aware of people watching Eren while hanging out with him. Rod learns of rapid healing and then tries to kidnap him at jail, but fails. Levi tells Erwin about this and Erwin brings into the loop of the investigation. Levi gets mad about this, but trust Erwin to do make the his own decisions. He tells Levi to take Eren in hiding. Levi leaves immediately and takes Eren to his place. Then he goes back to Erwin to tell him about the things Kenny told him at hospital. Erwin calls the hospital to see if Kenny left anything there, and learns he was discharged by Rod Reiss. Realizing Eren is in danger they go for him, but him missing.

Elsewhere Historia finds Ymir in middle of break down, because she ‘ate’ someone. Once she gets her calm down Ymir explains to her what happened. Historia gets mad and calls her father. Having gotten his office number from the internet. Rod tells her they should meet and sit down to talk about this. Meanwhile he has got Eren strapped down to medical bed for examination. Historia agrees to go meet him to help Ymir. Following this Erwin and Levi prepare to invade the Reiss company to find Eren. When Historia gets there she finds her father is glad to see her and is even crying. This all an elaborte lie to manipulate her. He tells her that cure for Ymir is in Eren. This convices her that they should dissecte him. Then Kenny comes in calling Rod out on his BS, because he is only trying to save his own life and company. Rod is enraged by this and tries to kill Kenny. Rod explains to Historia that his drug can save millions of lives, but she is doubting him.

In the end Eren is saved by Levi, kills Rod Reiss with permission from Historia and Kenny is found dying. Within the USB there is document talking about an separate laboratory where the drug was conceived. This is the lab that Eren’s key unlock. Inside they find the original research and cure for the negative effect. Historia is given her father shares and hold on too --% of the company executive power. She destroys all research and development of the drug within the company. Everything else is saved in hidden lab and dedicates the company to restore the Shingashina and surround lands that they were using.

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