#shuttle man headcanons this year!!

[robert-modification]

bobtober day 11

[lexithwrites]

some gang rivals to lovers bartylus headcanons because im hyperfixating on barty rn and need to let this out:

some nsfw under the cut, they'll be in italics (everything is SSC)

the crouch family are quite new money because barty crouch sr brought back their original family business after his 'passive' father stopped it

barty is still getting used to being the son of a gang leader and having this insane respoinsibility but he lowkey loves it

he can drive nice bikes, go to clubs and bars and spend his money on drinking and weed as much as he wants

he stays away from harder drugs as his dad 'tests the product' so to speak

the crouch's product is drugs mainly so barty is usually always on jobs for his dad because the old man is rarely sober enough to do it

he has a switch blade on him at all times tucked into his shoe

the only reason he hasn't left the business is because of his mother and younger sister, they're his world

angelica crouch is five years younger than barty and starting to go out partying as well and he lowkey hates it and follows her to make sure shes safe, they get into constant arguments over this but she knows her brother is protecting her at all times

his mother is quite weak as she was born with muscular dystrophy and even though she was a sahm barty raised his sister just as much as she did

she also had barty young, 19, so they grew up together

barty's family has a lot of 'agreements' with other gangs and companies that shuttle their product discreetly but one family they don't talk to or have deals with is the black family

the crouch and black feud has been an ongoing thing for generations — pollux black and barty's grandfather almost killed each other before making a peace agreement to just stay away from one another

regulus black, the youngest member of his family, has always been shielded as his older brother and older cousins are the more aggressive ones in the family that help their parents

he tends to just spend their money and party instead of being apart of the violence or meet ups, but sometimes sirius takes him along to get him used to it

one of these meet ups ends with barty helping them as he was walking by when the hand over (the black family usually smuggle weapons as well as drugs) went wrong and the buyers tried it on with reg, barty shot them without thinking

regulus thinks he's a bit of a prick but he did save his life so he thanks him and sirius explains that as good as it was that he was there, he cannot talk to him as it goes against their agreement in the family

but then barty starts showing up where regulus is (his college, parties, pubs, his morning run etc) and even though they bicker as barty is a flirt and regulus 'isnt interested' things start to take a turn

one night regulus goes clubbing without his friends or sirius and tries to find barty himself at one of his father's clubs and some creepy guys start being weird around him and he's trying to leave but they follow him and then who tf appears from the shadows? barty

his knuckles are bloody and bruised by the time he's done and regulus insists he come back to his to try and clean him up, barty is a good fighter but those guys were twice his weight so he got hit kinda bad, and barty is reluctant but agrees

reg's bodyguards arent snitches but you know they're giving each other 'oop' looks when they see the crouch heir wandering into the apartment

reg cleans barty up and tells him to shower and then he sees how many fucking tattoos this guy has and maybe reg is turned on, maybe...

and he's trying so hard not to flirt with him or touch him but its REALLY hard okay barty is tall and hot and he's also protective as shit?

but then barty is sat on the kitchen counter in just his boxers and some short ass shorts that he borrowed from regulus and regulus is standing between his legs because they're bickering and god reg wants to touch his thighs because they're RIGHT THERE and barty knows he's staring so he just kisses him

reg instinctively slaps him and barty's like 'do it again'

they fuck like three times that night and god is it good

barty seems dominant and reg isnt into that but turns out barty is submissive but he has issues with bottoming from past relationships

so reg blows him and hes whimpering and choking himself and biting his bruised fucking knuckles to stop moaning so loud but reg is so good it hurts

and then reg rides him into the bed and chokes him and slaps him and barty is the happiest guy on the planet

plus hes really good at eating pussy so regulus gets him to do that a couple times

regulus has only been with two people before this because he doesn't wanna drag innocent people into his families life but barty is more violent than him so he doesnt care,,,,plus he makes him cum SO much its insane and he's never finished with anyone else before

his thighs are shaking every time they switch positions and the FLITH barty whispers into his ear when they fuck because he can be a little dominant sometimes when he's riled up enough and reg is just grinning the entire time because this boy might be his new favourite toy to play with

they smoke on the balcony together after one of the rounds and talk about how much they hate their families but they're staying for a few chosen people and it sucks but its how they were raised

the morning after barty has to leave but reg is like look i know we shouldnt but i wanna do that again and barty is like literally text me anytime of day and i'll be on my knees for you and reg is like bet

so they start up a lil fwb behind their families backs and they're sneaky about it but sirius and angelica get too close to catching them

this is basically all i've got so far but come on,,,,you see the vision

[stars-n-spice]

Welcome Back!

To yet another Silly Squad Saturday! Aka my attempt to post something Silly Squad (Bad Batch x Baddies Batch) related - be it headcanons, one-shots/fics, or art - every Saturday! Because Silly Squad Saturday has a nice ring to it and it eases into OC Sunday pretty nicely :) 

That and I want to try and motivate myself to do more with these guys because I post about like,, 10% of the collective lore I have about them while the rest of the 90% stays up in my brain. 

This week we've got: A Sharpshooters WIP!

I had an idea for a comic but thought it would be easier to write a one-shot for it instead. Rookie mistake. Oh well!

Anywho, enjoy the either first half or first chapter of a fic surrounding the idea that literally everyone on Pabu is protective of Crosshair (from his siblings, to their partners, to the islanders themselves) so when he introduces Tay to them all, they all get on his ass to make sure he doesn't hurt Crosshair in any way.

Tay’kaa Marr had faced some formidable foes in his past as a former gladiator turned mercenary for the Black Sun and later the Empire, so he was no stranger to going up against danger. He was a man who loved a challenge and never backed down when one was presented to him–ever relentless in his pursuit of victory.

However, years of hardship, experience, and running the risk couldn’t prepare him for the challenge that lied in front of him and the foes he now had to deal with. Nothing he’d ever faced before came even remotely close to what he had to deal with now:

Meeting Crosshair’s family. 

“Relax, dumbass, you’ll be fine,” Crosshair claimed, watching his boyfriend pace back and forth in the cargo hold of the Gozanti-class shuttle Tay totally didn’t steal from Black Sun and was now using as his own ship and temporary living quarters while being on Pabu. It was refurbished and a lot cozier than it was before and it was a place Crosshair found himself visiting whenever he needed some space and comfort away from it all. 

The two were currently getting ready to go and make their rounds around Pabu to formally meet Crosshair’s family, both of them finally having the courage to do so now that Tay was here on Pabu with Crosshair and had no plans of going anywhere any time soon. It was a huge step for both of them and Crosshair would be lying if he said he wasn’t terrified, yet the fact that his usually confident, suave, people-person boyfriend was seemingly so nervous about the whole ordeal had eased Crosshair’s nerves to the point of amusement. 

“Psh, of course I can handle it,” Tay responded with a scoff, looking over his shoulder and shooting Crosshair a small, playful glare. 

“I’ve made it easy for you. You’re just meeting them one at a time. I didn’t want to overwhelm you all at once…” he informed in a low drawl, absentmindedly rubbing his thumb over the textured parts on his new prosthetic hand that Omega had painted some doodles on the other day.

“Surely you can handle that,” Crosshair smirked, his tone teasing as he watched Tay momentarily pause and consider his words. Boom. Hook, line and sinker. The man couldn’t resist a challenge and Crosshair knew this well. 

“I’m just…nervous on your behalf-” He claimed, an awkward chuckle slipping past his lips as he turned around and slowly made his way over to where Crosshair was lounging on some rations crates like a damn loth cat. 

“My behalf?” Crosshair repeated, raising an eyebrow as he slowly sat up and folded his arms across his chest. 

“So you admit you’re nervous then?” 

“On your behalf-” Tay reiterated, stopping right in front of Crosshair as he attempted to flash his ‘this-is-me-trying-to-get-away-with-this’ smile, which obviously didn’t work as Crosshair had long since been unaffected by said smile. 

Crosshair clicked his tongue and rolled his eyes in response, biting back a small grin because any bit of amusement would either A) Feed Tay’s ego and make him think he could still use his charm on Crosshair or B) make the poor bastard even more nervous about the whole ordeal and that last thing Crosshair wanted was either thing. 

Yes, he was nervous too, but Crosshair preferred to just rip off the bandage now and get it over with despite knowing his boyfriend was the type to avoid and ignore any sort of feelings that didn’t make him feel good.

“Oh, right. On my behalf,” Crosshair echoed sarcastically as he shook his head, “How very touching…So thoughtful…” He smirked a bit and reached out to Tay’s lower lethorns, wrapping his hands around them and giving them a tug so Tay stumbled forward with a small gasp of surprise.  

Before he could fall over, Tay caught himself against the crate, his hands on either side of Crosshair’s thighs and pinning him in place while Crosshair kept his hands around the lethorns. It took Tay a moment or two to register what had happened, his brain slowly processing it as he blinked in confusion before he shook his head and let out a small huff at the sarcasm in Crosshair’s voice, though he knew the man was only teasing him. 

“I’m serious, Cross-” he grumbled, watching as Crosshair’s gaze was fixated on the silver clasps on his lethorns as he fiddled with them. 

“You sure you want to do this? I mean…are you…ready to do this?” he asked, his tone suddenly serious enough for Crosshair to pause and consider his words as he slowly looked up to meet his boyfriend’s eyes. 

He could tell Tay was nervous about the whole ordeal, after all appearances and reputation meant a lot to the man, but there was something more than that. Something that made Crosshair think that Tay really was nervous on Crosshair’s behalf and was just triple checking that he was comfortable enough with the idea of introducing Tay to his family. After all, it was a known fact that Crosshair wasn’t exactly an open book–not to Tay and not to his siblings either (though he was trying to get better at that)–so to bring them together seemed almost unrealistic to Crosshair when he really thought about it.

Crosshair had been sarcastic earlier, but he couldn’t deny that his boyfriend was actually incredibly sweet and thoughtful. Of course, the dense idiot wasn’t always like that, it was something Tay had learned to be over the time period since their first meeting, but it meant the world to Crosshair that Tay cared. That he really cared.

He felt a flutter in his chest and he scoffed it off in response, his gaze falling down to the space between them as he tried to will the heat that was creeping onto his cheeks to sink back into his–what was supposed to be–cold heart. 

“Dumbass…” Crosshair muttered with a small click of his tongue before he forced himself to look up at Tay. “You think I wouldn’t have gone along with this if I wasn’t ready?” Crosshair questioned, his tone playful yet slightly insulting as he tugged at Tay’s lethorns. 

“Well, I mean-” Tay fumbled, scrunching his face a little at the feeling of Crosshair pulling at his lethorns before his hands came up to wrap around Crosshair’s wrists, the cold feel of Crosshair’s prosthetic no longer catching him off guard, to tug his hands off of him. 

“Don’t mean anything-” Crosshair grumbled, shooting Tay a small glare as the Chagrian pried his hands off of him, “-just meet them.” 

With a huff, he pushed his hands forward and wrapped them around Tay’s lethorns again in an act of rebellion. Tay let out a small sigh, allowing it to happen, though he kept his hands around Crosshair’s wrists as his thumbs absentmindedly rubbed against Crosshair’s one pulse. 

“Stop overthinking it…” Crosshair advised, giving Tay’s lethorns yet another tug to pull him closer.

“I like you better when you don’t think..” he teased with a small smirk, making Tay roll his eyes and let out a huff of amusement at the playful jab. 

“Hmm…yeah, because my reckless behavior is so charming,” Tay all but purred sarcastically as he leaned closer down to Crosshair enough to press a chaste kiss against his lips. 

“S’ not my fault I don’t think much…” Tay claimed in a low murmur against Crosshair’s lips, “Got hit in the head one too many times…” 

“So quit thinking about this,” Crosshair urged with a small snort, returning the kiss for a second or two before he pulled away and grinned up at Tay. 

“Besides…they want to meet you,” he informed, letting go of Tay’s lethorns finally only to give the Chagrian a playful shove. It caught Tay off guard, enough to make him stumble back and give Crosshair enough room to get up onto his feet. 

“And I’m sure you’d rather not stay cooped up here on the ship all the time,” Crosshair added, motioning around the cargo bay as he started down the ramp and onto the sand. “Hiding like some kind of hermit,” he teased, looking over his shoulder at Tay with a smirk. 

Tay rolled his eyes fondly, taking in the bits of the shuttle he’d been calling home for quite some time now. While it was starting to be familiar and was cozy enough for Tay, it still had hints of his past with Black Sun lingering in and around the hull like a ghost. It was home, yes, but some days and some nights, it hurt like hell to be in there–trapped with painful memories and bouts of regret and guilt. 

Besides, the beaches and ocean of Pabu were calling to him. In their gentle waves that kissed the sand and sheer, clear blue water; they echoed the call of Champala–a home Tay never had the pleasure of growing up in despite its waters running through his veins. 

Maybe Pabu could be that new home…He just had to take the first steps towards it.

“Yeah, yeah…” Tay muttered, shaking his head as a small smile slowly formed across his features while he watched Crosshair walk down the ramp. 

“You just want to show me off,” Tay half-joked, feeling some of his usual confidence return as he took Crosshair’s advice and decided not to think about it; his feet moving before his brain could talk him out of it. 

Hearing the confidence return to Tay’s voice and the footsteps falling behind him, Crosshair couldn’t help but grin despite Tay’s teasing remark. It seemed like it was finally happening and there was no turning back for either of them. 

“In your dreams, lover boy,” Crosshair responded, calling over his shoulder towards Tay as he watched the man hurry down the ramp to join him. 

“C’mon, I’ve always wanted to be a trophy boyfriend-” Tay quipped as he caught up with Crosshair and gave him a playful nudge. 

“Y’know, go back to the good ol’ days…” he joked, poking light at his past as a former champion gladiator; as if they weren’t some of the most physically and mentally traumatizing years of his life. But that was just like Tay to make a joke out of something like that and Crosshair couldn’t help but roll his eyes and shoot Tay a look. 

“Forget about it,” Crosshair retorted, shaking his head as he huffed and put his hand in Tay’s own. “You’re not a damn trophy, you’re my boyfriend. Now hurry up, I don’t want to keep my siblings waiting-”

Tay had little chance to protest or react in any way for that matter as Crosshair began to drag him along down the shore and over to the docks, though Tay wasn’t really looking to complain. Crosshair’s declaration had his heart fluttering and his chest filling with warmth as the two of them started towards the beginning of something new.

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Hey! I've been loving reading your posts, and I love your analysissssss.

I feel a bit embarrassed, asking as a fellow Older Person. But how do you characterize remake Leon in a way of ..does he actually GET any. Man has no rizz and low self esteem but i bet women love him. Plenty of hookups between missions or nah?

Remake Leon is tough when it comes to that kind of thing -- because, yeah, there's a big difference between how Remake Leon approaches sex vs how his OG counterpart approaches sex -- and I really don't think he gets laid a lot, if ever. He can probably count on his hands the number of times he's actually tried pursuing someone -- and that's in his entire life. If he gets any, it's almost always because he's the one who got seduced.

What I do is just kind of look at his approach to relationships in general in RE2make and RE4make and kind of tease out a characterization for his everyday life from there, if that makes sense? So, like, in RE2make, I really do think Leon entered Raccoon City a virgin. He's not, like, a wholly untouched "never seen a boob irl" virgin -- he's probably had his dick sucked a handful of times, maybe sucked one or two himself in college, has probably fingered maybe half a dozen girls (if that) and takes his cunnilingus skills very seriously. But that's it. I don't think he's ever actually scored.

The reason I say that is because of his interactions with Claire and Ada. With Claire, he's capable of being effortlessly charming despite his natural awkwardness -- and that makes sense because he's fresh out of college, and Claire is still in college, so they have a very similar approach when it comes to approaching the opposite sex and flirting and all that shit. But she's definitely more confident in all of those interactions than he is, so I really got the sense that she's a bit more experienced than he is, despite being two years younger.

And then there's Ada, who's older than him to begin with -- but even if she wasn't, she is a whole lot of woman. Ada amplifies all of Leon's insecurities while he struggles to keep up with her in every single type of scenario that the two of them find themselves in. She's the one who brings out and spotlights The Virgin(TM) in him, and that culminates in the kiss on the shuttle. Ada has spent the entire game so far sizing him up and trying to find the best way to get him to do what she wants without asking too many questions -- and the fact that he does shut the fuck up immediately after she kisses him is really telling re: the power an experienced woman can have over him. He clearly doesn't know what he's doing, so he just shuts up and lets her take control and guide him by the hand.

So, between Claire and Ada, it's like... you can tell he wants it. And he's capable of getting himself about halfway there. But once it crosses the line into "very serious" he freezes up because it's uncharted territory for him and he's loathe to disappoint. And the whole "not wanting to disappoint" thing is probably why he hasn't gone all the way yet in the first place. He probably, for whatever reason, missed the boat/didn't have the opportunity to lose his virginity in high school (I headcanon that he tied himself down to a prudish girlfriend who refused to actually take that step), and then felt really self-conscious about going into college a virgin. You gotta remember, Leon started college in late 1993/early 1994, and that was a big deal for guys back then. So he probably just kind of hung back and hoped no one would notice and waited for the opportunity to arrive with someone he trusted enough to tell his horrible secret to -- but that never came, either.

And now he's graduated at 21 and in Raccoon City and Ada Wong is playing him like a fiddle.

Fast forward to RE4make, and Leon's entire demeanor has changed.

All of those previous insecurities that Ada exploited are gone, and that nervous awkwardness that he had with Claire is gone, too. He got laid at some point between then and now, but the details of that are very unclear.

But one thing is for damn sure in RE4make: Leon is painfully, horribly, miserably lonely.

And because he's so lonely, I doubt that his sexual conquests were anywhere in the recent past. And then you look at what, exactly, he's been up to for the past six years, and a story kind of begins to tell itself.

I don't know if you've ever hung around military guys a lot, but I sure have (I kind of went through a phase in my late teens/early 20s where I basically only fucked active service members because of dat upper body strength), and if there's one thing those guys like to do? It's go out, get drunk, and try to get laid. And while Leon was never officially in the Army per se, those were the guys he was hanging out with post-RE2. Chances are, he tagged along for at least a few of those outings, and chances are -- like you said -- girls were all over him.

But, like. He's still Leon. I don't think he became a puss hound overnight or anything. In RE4make, he still very much keeps to himself -- he doesn't put himself "out there" so to speak. While he does hit on Ashley a handful of times, it's always in a very subtle, low-key way that feels more like he's trying to invite her to say something back to him, rather than just going for it and seeing how it shakes out (like his OG counterpart does).

I mean. That is to say. After the very first time he tries hitting on her COMPLETELY FUCKING WHIFFS, that is. LMAO get dunked, Leon.

So, I can very much see, like. 23 year old Leon out at a bar with his Army buddies, and he tries a line on a girl, and it goes nowhere, so he just cuts his losses and stops talking to her all together fkdshjfk Especially because, like. I think of Leon and Ashley's first meeting in RE4make, after she runs away from him and he just stands there and is like "That went well." Dude is no stranger to rejection. He definitely tried during some of those outings, but chances are he more often than not just kind of waited to see if girls would approach him, instead.

And I'm sure they did. And I'm sure the most success that Leon had was when he was following their lead when it came to the initial conversation/pick-up phase.

But. Then we circle back around to Leon being horribly lonely by the time of RE4make. And I think what's actually going on is that Leon realized, at some point, that those random hookups were, in some ways, making his depression worse -- because that's not who he is. It's never been who he is. Leon didn't even lose his virginity until he was old enough to legally drink -- probably because he wanted his first time to actually mean something -- and now he's just picking up random girls at bars?

I imagine Leon had a moment in the middle of the night where -- he's lying there in a bed that's not his, in a dark room he doesn't recognize in some stranger's house at three in the goddamn morning, and beside him is some girl he just got done fucking like an hour ago, whose name he barely knows -- and he just looks over at her, asleep, and he's just asking himself "what the fuck am I doing here?" So he just quietly slips out of bed, gets dressed, and lets himself out without so much as leaving a note behind for the girl to find the next morning.

And that's the last time he ever does anything like that. Probably was the last time he got laid leading into RE4make. And it was probably years before the start of that game.

So, like. I feel like Remake Leon has sort of sworn off random one-night stands, because they're always empty and meaningless and they leave him feeling more emotionally isolated than anything else -- the physical satisfaction isn't worth it, comparatively. If he does have a one-night stand, it would be with someone he maybe worked a mission with or at least knows a little bit, as opposed to not at all -- so, this would have to be post-RE4make, anyway.

But... Again, he's still Leon. He's still lonely and horny and he definitely still wants it. He definitely thinks about sex more often than he thinks about anything else. It's just that the biggest difference between Remake Leon and OG Leon is that OG Leon is self-destructive enough to keep going after it, whereas I think Remake Leon just stays home and jerks off a lot.

Like a lot.

Like sometimes more than twice a day.

[accursedkaleeshi]

Accursed Izvoshra: Bentilais san Sk’ar

Behold! The only Izvoshra to be (retroactively) named & expanded upon in the source material! After surviving both the shuttle crash that took Grievous from his people & Thrawn’s orbital bombardment of his colony on Oben, Sk’ar was put to work as an Imperial General. That’s Legends canon bruv. The rest of this is community headcanon!

Long before that Sk’ar was the Prince of Kaleela & the Hand of the West. When he met Qymaen & Ronderu he was young, younger than them by a couple years, but already 9 standard feet tall & accomplished enough to be the Khan of his father’s military. Through the Huk war he would be instrumental in the defeat of the yam’rii & even kept getting bigger, just under 10 feet at his largest. Out of all Kalee, Bentilais worked closest to Grievous for the longest. They were comrades in arms in a way that the term best friends didn’t really seem to cover.

How did big Benny meet Qymaen & Ronderu? I asked some of the other Grievous nerds what they thought & outsourced really liked what TB came up with. Meet-cute under the cut by @tuberculosis-bot-9000. (The Consumption. #bentalais, Kaleeaboos. Discord, July 7, 2023.)

Kaleela is in and of itself a nation. Located on the convergence of multiple major trade routes by land and sea, it’s the largest city on Kalee by a massive margin. It’s influence is incredibly widespread. The Kaleela Tongue is a pidgin language that is spoken almost globally, as a lingua franca is some places and as the default in others. The state-sponsored faith is the most codified “church” type thing Kalee has. The pockets of Kaleela’s elite are deeper than some countries. And all of it bows to the Emperor.

The Emperor of Kaleela is… not what you expect when you imagine the most important person on Kalee. He’s miserly, he’s physically unimpressive, and he’s ancient as shit. He’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from being a skeksis. And he’s Sk’ar’s father.

Because Kaleela is untouched by the war! Yes, the outlying colonies to the east are bedeviled with rumors of invaders, and the southern territories are all but wiped out, and more and more refugees are flooding in by the day, but the Jewel City is safe. There is no war in Kaleela. The Emperor sees no reason to join the war effort, much less bend the knee to some backwoods eastern barbarian.

This makes Q+R very mad.

They just park their army in the city and start making other connections. It’s a careful song and dance convincing cushy nobles to lend their strength and resources, but it’s one they play well. They have to. Kaleela is the crux of it all. Without Kaleela’s army and navy, the war will eventually end in a Yam’rii victory.

Then, at a party, they meet the prince. It’s a celebration of his recent appointment as Khan of Kaleela. He’s the one that controls Kaleela’s military now. So they have to be precise.

Sk’ar is intrigued by the demigods. He’s heard tales of their glory, their cunning, their prowess in battle. He knows the skinny man with a rifle is the best shot on the planet and the woman with the mane and swords moves faster than the eye can see. And he knows he’s got them on the back foot. He’s interested in seeing what they do more than what they say.

They tell him, in no uncertain terms, that the war will come, and sooner rather than later. The Emperor wants to hide behind his money and his wives and his 88,888 things, but the bugs don’t care. They’ll drag him off his throne, crack open his skull, and eat him before his mewling pups if something isn’t done. Sk’ar finds the idea hilarious. He knows his father is weak. But he wants to know why he should follow Qymaen rather than take a throne by himself. He certainly has enough money and warriors for it. Qymaen just shrugs. If he wants to do it that way, he can, and Qymaen will take what remains when the bugs rout the Kaleela prince. Sk’ar throws his head back and laughs. The gall!

He agrees.

(Thank you @tuberculosis-bot-9000 for letting me use your words & the Benny braincell!)

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Self-Rec Tag Game

I was tagged by @decepticonsuggestionbox

Rules: Share five of your works (art, writing, etc.). Then tag five people to share the things they made.

1. Something you absolutely adore.

2. Something that was challenging to create.

3. Something that makes you laugh (or smile).

4. Something that suprised you (in how it turned, in how much people liked it, etc.)

5. Something you want other people to see.

An Unintentional Voyage - A short MegaRatch novel loosely-based on the broader G1 setting where Megatron and Ratchet, through acts of stupidity and chance, are isolated in deep space on a shitty space shuttle. They have to work together to slowly make their way back to known space. It explores their personalities, how they relate to people broadly, how they relate to each other, and how they approach problem-solving and cooperation, all while exploring alien worlds and the challenges of being cooped up in the Cybertronian equivalent of a souped up Volkswagen bus. I absolutely adore this. It's the second fic novel I started, but the first I finished (because it's only 44k words). There isn't much MegaRatch content out there to start with and this one started as a challenge prompt, loosely inspired by The Way Forward by KottonKat, which you should also read.

2. Reforged - This is a very long MegaRod novel, inserted into the IDW1 MTMTE/LL timeline during the tiny "victory lap." It contains canon blending features and draws from various continuities for some of the lore.

While the A plot focuses on a very slowburn romance, the B plot focuses on unraveling a religious conspiracy and what it means to process guilt, all while expanding on and exploring Caminus as a setting, which did not get much canon development. It also contains Prowl painfully growing a conscience.

This one was difficult. Two years of "difficult." It was hard to juggle plot threads and keep a consistent narrative with appropriate pacing because I did not expect it to take this much space to develop this particular story.

But I'm glad I did it. I really enjoy the final result, despite the two major style changes that occurred in the course of writing it. The first 11 or so chapters even got full rewrites partway through to make the style changes less jarring. I'm proud of it.

3. Courtship Dances - A short quintuple TaraProwl drabble based on the mating dances of peacock spiders. This one cracks me up every time I look at it. It's just fucking ridiculous and I love for that. Read it and have a chuckle at Prowl suffering.

4. A Thousand Years - I made this as a one-off for MegOp Week one year. That year, I challenged myself to do a different continuity each day and I find TFP (and Aligned in general) pretty difficult to write for.

I was really surprised how much people really enjoyed it and apparently continue to enjoy it. It only just now got kicked off my "top 5 most hits" graph. I thought of it as a fun challenge, but then more than one person told me it was one of their comfort fics. That's insanely flattering! And a good reminder that you never know who is going to love your creations.

5. The Hollow Man - I wrote this horror novella at a fever-like pace in under a month like a lunatic. It addresses the implications of "what if the Magnus armor is Ultra Magnus's original body and what if that body is haunted?"

Readers inform me that it is spooky and unsettling.

I love it and want everyone to see it. I want to do more horror pieces and this one was so fun. It's one of the few pieces of my own writing that I actually go back and re-read for the pleasure of it.

It was inspired by headcanons from @tangentially-displaced & @decepti-thots

Tagging: (I'm trying to tag this time, please ignore if you do not wish to participate) @starvonnie, @bitegore, @tarklesbehindthescenes, @dramamelon, @weapon-up-wallflower

[jesse-cosay]

Just curious, but do you have any headcanons one what the Cat’s deal could be and what she is/where her oddities come from? While her comment about not having had a vacation in 150 years does seem like it could suggest that denizens are immortal or at least long lived in general, I just can’t help puzzle over answers like this from Owen that make sure to point out she is an exception rather than the norm:

Add in her shuttle and implicitly the number tracker that Simon probably got from her that holds a design aesthetic different from anything we’ve yet seen on the train, and it really paints quite a mystery surrounding her. Though not her relationship with Frank, that we already know about lol. What are your thoughts on her?

OHOHO mAn, my knowledge on the cat is super limited because I struggled with deciphering what were theories and what was facts we'd learned in canon (and... my hyperfixation lies pretty heavily with book two and begrudgingly with book four, which only have minor cat appearances).

I'll explain what my original thought process was and how im going to have to edit it now, since I think there could still be a connection.

Before I'd assumed she was one of the 'original denizen'. Perhaps when the train first started, One had not considered how hard of a life it would be for a denizen to live forever and to always be saying goodbye. And after so long being alive, obviously you figured your way around and made a way for yourself.

Some cars seem to 'reset' so to speak, once a passenger has been through. (Or I assumed they did, given some of the examples we see.) Like Tulip after leaving the Straight Up Italy car- how should the next passenger learn their lesson and help the rose woman if not because the car resets? (ofc we see her wandering around in book 2 so that's false)

I didn't think every car would reset, Tuba talks of the loss of her children- and I figured it was a balance. Some denizen's live their whole lives repeating one moment because they remember nothing else. And some live full lives, because there are some things you can only offer to another once you've experienced them (not empty platitudes). And then there would be the Originals, denizens who lived since the start of the train, or at least, from very early on. Having lived so long, knowing so much, it's a kind of help that could only be found on the train.

I'd also figured that, if that wasn't the case, it was just that Samantha had 'nine lives', and lived them out consecutively, likely retaining her memories since she appears very much the same as she reoccurs in the background.

But there aren't any denizens like the cat. At least none that we're alluded to.

Alternatively, I think it'd be interesting for the cat to be tied to One in the sense that Amelia is. One likely let Amelia help because he wanted to better understand his purpose in helping the passengers. And what better way to understand empathy then through a pet?

Maybe she wasn't doing what a pet did, but how would One know? He obviously had many flaws in how he worked and what the train did, I think it'd be interesting for the cat to be an earlier attempt at connecting with the trains reason for existing. Likely one that went wrong.

[themajortechie]

My new headcanon for a world built around Shelter x Humansongs x Sad Machine (in that order)!

Okay, so this is the first time in a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time that I've written out my headcanons for anything, but MAN. Humansongs is a BANGER of a song and the more I think about it the more I feel like it intends to build off of Shelter in some way or another. I tried to also include Sad Machine into the theme of the story as well. The crackling flames at the end of Humansongs makes me feel like there must be some kind of bittersweet ending to the story. Like maybe Rin's escape pod/shuttle thing has finally landed on another habitable planet, but she's now old and weak after the many years that were spent traveling, and much of what there is now to experience in reality is left up to whatever she may have left behind with the virtual world and her escape pod.

Story headcanon, building off from Shelter:

Rin, in the loneliness of the endless virtual eternity she calls home, creates a companion for herself, molding it around the memories she has recalled of the short time she lived on Earth. This companion AI is very rudimentary at first, being more a construct of the environment that Rin has drawn around her—for now, the best recreation of her former home on Earth that she can muster—than a true human-like being.

As time passes, she creates more and more of these AIs to keep her company. She grows older, and as the decades alone in space pass, weaker as well. By the time of her old age, an entire digital society has formed thanks to her, and the virtual world she called home is no longer lonely. She is no longer lonely. This society has grown considerably more complex with time as well, now being nearly indistinguishable from human society as she remembers it. And after raising so many of these AI companions, it is now their turn to return the favor, and care for her in return. The very first AI she had created returns, tasked once more with keeping her company just like it had been originally created to do.

To Rin’s surprise, it doesn’t only care for her. It’s almost as if it wishes to become her, to carry on her legacy. She tells it what stories she remembers of the human world, and its human songs. For the first time in many years, song begins to flow. It begins as a trickle at best—her voice awkward from such infrequent use—but even in her old age, she sings. The AI knows that Rin’s time is short, and wants to learn as much as it can about not only Rin, but the life she’s lived, and the world she came from. Though her best explanation is far from detailed or accurate given her age when she left the planet, the AI understands that for all the good humans have shown through Rin alone, they still warred. They still neglected others for their own selfish gains. But still, humans were wonderful and strange creatures.

It eventually becomes known that the shuttle and its inhabitants are finally approaching a distant planet—its destination. The AI admits that it feels bad for wanting to replace Rin, even if it’s with good intentions. As the shuttle draws closer, Rin finally awakes for the first time in many decades, and watches the little blue marble in the darkness grow bigger and bigger, the voice of her companion(s) in the virtual world still echoing in her head as the shuttle enters the atmosphere. The story ends with the shuttle now on the ground, partially buried in dirt as fire crackles around it from the heat of the re-entry. The sounds of song echo quietly from within.

[nebulouscoffee]

*rolls up sleeves* OKAY!!! My time has come, I've got Dax on the brain 24/7 so I shall share my many many thoughts about this (with the disclaimer that the show never really gave us a concrete or consistent answer, so I'll just separate the canon facts from my own headcanons lol). Anyway I think the answer is yes, they do!

Canon:

Dax's first host, Lela, was 48 when she was joined. During Jadzia's zhian'tara, the first question Lela (via Kira) asks Jadzia specifically to test whether Jadzia still has Lela's memories is "Who supervised Lela when she was an initiate?" and Jadzia can no longer remember- implying that normally, she would

Jadzia fondly recalls tucking her son Ahjess in bed every night (during a conversation with Miles about kids Molly's age). It is of course entirely possible Lela was raising a young child in her 50s, but given the age at which Jadzia (and, by the looks of it, Yanas Tigan) decided to have children, we could assume Trills broadly start families at around the same age group as humans, which would likely be before Lela's joining (this is reaching though, there's no real canon information on even the rate at which Trills age)

(And this one's definitely a stretch but) Ezri claims she's possibly behaving all rambly and emotional due to "the Emony in me". At Jadzia's zhian'tara, Emony (through Leeta) stated that being joined improved her focus and concentration- so perhaps Ezri was remembering a time before Emony was so calm and collected?

Torias (through Bashir) remarks that he feels lucky to have been chosen as a host, because now his memories will live on forever. Well, Torias died in a shuttle accident LESS THAN A YEAR after he was joined- that's not very much to pass on to the future hosts now is it!! For the sake of this poor man's ego we must assume his pre-joined life is now stored in the Dax symbiont too

Joran Dax was only joined for six months before they transferred the symbiont to Curzon; before that, he was already a musician, and his brother said he was always volatile and cold. The two biggest things Jadzia and Ezri seem to inherit from him are 1. that emotional volatility and 2. musical ability and/or interest

When Sisko's trying to guilt Verad Dax into giving Jadzia the symbiont back, Verad says "She'll live on in me", to which Sisko argues "Her memories will live on, but she will die". Again, Jadzia at this point has been joined for less than two years- it just makes more sense if he's referring to all her memories

Jadzia mentions she could remember everything Verad thought and did, and it was all so sad- it's left vague whether she's only speaking of those few hours, or his whole life. Verad seems to vaguely remember the events of the day (he says "I had it, it was so close"), but all The Knowledge left him after he lost access to the symbiont. Anyhow he's a unique case; complete integration with the symbiont takes 93 hours (and he isn't even included in the zhian'tara lineup later) so I'm guessing Verad just never fully joined with Dax, meaning nothing about this invalidates the other stuff

My thoughts:

Trill culture and philosophy (and spirituality?) seems to consider time and memory and the physical in more or less fluid terms- it's not so simple like the symbiont is a hard drive and taking it out results in the host losing the memories, and putting it back means regaining them. (Canon: Jadzia Sans Dax recognises Julian when she wakes up in the infirmary; and he's someone she first met as Dax. Now, you could argue that it's because she also knew him as Jadzia- and you would not be wrong! But I do think the memories leave a mark; the joining process changed Jadzia irreversibly- even without Dax she could never be pre-joined Jadzia again. It follows that over time, Jadzia changes Dax similarly, too- the worm Ezri gets will not be the same worm Jadzia got, and should therefore have at least fragments of Jadzia's pre-joined life still lingering)

I think the symbiont's and host's memories all integrate and blend together like ingredients in a stew, subtly altering each other over time- it's difficult to parse them apart while you're just like existing, but if you concentrate, you can identify what comes from where, to a point. So generally the childhood memories are like the subtlest flavours of the bunch- you aren't always consciously aware of them, but if they weren't in there, it would taste different, etc

That being said, the broad pattern does suggest that the most powerfully influential hosts are the chronologically closer ones; Jadzia is most dominantly influenced by Curzon, and Ezri by Jadzia. Both seem to feel Joran and Torias (the prev two) quite strongly as well. So maybe Ezri would remember Jadzia's childhood the clearest of the lot, and Jadzia Curzon's, but both would struggle with Lela's or Tobin's

Generally speaking though, Dax is the link- so all pre-joining memories are probably vaguer and more corrupted than POV Dax Memories; especially the further back you go

Ezri seems to struggle with the inability to distinguish between her own lived experiences and previous hosts' memories more than Jadzia did (which is attributed to her unprepared joining). So it's entirely possible she feels like Jadzia's pre-Dax memories actually happened to her- more than anyone else would! (Canon: she suffered PTSD like effects from Torias's shuttle crash, as if it happened to her.) I like to think this difference makes her a very unique and valuable and historically significant part of the Dax chain

S1 Jadzia seems more self-restricting and studious, the way her unjoined self is described- S2 onwards, more of The Curzon Traits (self-indulgence, constant quipping, fondness for Ferengi and Klingons, disregard for authority, etc) start to kick in. This suggests that the symbionts' memories grow more potent over the years, and therefore start to feel more personal (would S1 Jadzia have gone off on the blood oath mission as readily as late S2 Jadzia did?) So maybe S7 Ezri can't clearly remember Jadzia's pre-joining life, but a couple years later, it (along with several more Jadzia things) comes into sharper focus

There are probably further subtleties like the personalities of the hosts and the unique ways in which their brains interface with the symbiont and which past hosts they seem to favour and stuff (it's hinted that Jadzia might've gotten the drive to broadly be athletic from Emony; but Ezri inherited specific gymnastic abilities- and Emony was a gymnast even before the joining!) Again the show is vague and not always consistent about Dax in general, so that's just an invitation to go wild with the headcanons really

wait wait do trill symbiotes carry forward the pre-joined memories of their past hosts? like does ezri remember jadzia's childhood. does it feel like it happened to her, or does it feel like a dream - or is it mostly or completely gone?

[sayuricorner]

Transformers Animated prompt idea: Earth raised bots AU: More Earth Bots profiles

Here’s some other profiles and headcanons of Earth bots from the “Earth raised bots AU”! ^^

Warning: References to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

(UPDATE: New oc added)

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->Browning:

-Is the tiniest of the Earth Bots.

-”Birthdate”: 13 september 1988 in japan

-Was took in by a young japanese man in Osaka.

-Has a kansai japanese accent.

-Is a warframe(?) gun.

-Alt mode: browning gun

-He was named browning because of his alt form.

-Was named Browning because of his alt mode.

-Despite his size, Browning is a bot who didn’t let others step on him and know how to voice his opinion.

-Is very resourceful and is capable to put up a fight.

-Since he is so small this make him undetectablesecurity systems making him a very good spy.

-Is a little shit with a heart of gold.

-Call Jadwiga “boss”.

-Hang on most of the time on other Earth Bots’s shoulders to avoid being step on.

-Love mecha, kaiju and sentai animes/TV shows.

-His favorite tv show is Kamen Rider.

-He is a fan of Godzilla movies.

-When Wasp brough to the Earth Bots community and was given political asylium, Browning voluntered himself to become his “emotional pet support”, an idea that Rung liked ‘cause he noticed that Wasp became very uncomfortable and anxious when around bots bigger than him and could badly trigger him so having a very small bot as an emotional support would be very good for Wasp.

-Is protective toward Wasp and help him to calm down when he is badly triggered.

-(Fun fact 1: Browning is originally a decepticon character from the anime “Transformers: super-god masterforce”).

-(Fun fact 2: His “birthdate” in the AU is the airdate of the episode in which hr got introduced “The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!”).

->Sakura:

-One of the oldest Earth Bots

-Birthdate: 30 March 1930 in japan

-Was found and adopted by a family in Nagasaki.

-Had a japanese accent.

-Was named “Sakura” ‘cause she appeared at the start of the cherry blossom season.

-Is a civilframe motorcycle.

-Alt form: motorcycle

-She and her adopted siblings lost their parents in atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sakura and her siblings didn’t get caught in the bombing as their parents send them to Yamaguchi days before to extented family for a small vacation, unfortunatly the parents stayed at Nagasaki and end up victims of the bombing.

-Since this tragedy, Sakura looked after her siblings and their families through the years.

-When Sakura met Jadwiga and the other Earth Bots, she was very hesitant at first to go live in the community in Detroit and leave her family behind but her adopted family convinced her to go.

-Is a hard-working femme who’s always ready to help others.

-Had anxiety problems.

-Had PTSD due to the trauma of her adopted parents’s death.

-Had regular therapy sessions with Rung.

-Is one of the scientists of the community.

-Had interest in science since the first times of her existence.

-Like to sudy technologies, science theories and biology.

-Develop technologies and equipement for the Earth Bots.

->Skyfire:

-Is a cybertronian shuttle who was burried in the ice of the Artic for hundred of years.

-Was found by the Earth Bots during the TFA events and was traited and woke up by Knock Out with Ratchet’s help.

-Was shocked to learn how long he have been buried in the ice and that there’s a conflict on Cybertron.

-Is also extremely worried ‘cause he had a conjunx who was his science partner and Skyfire is very worry about what happen to him while he was trapped in the Artic.

-Don’t want to be involved in the Autobot/Decepticon conflict as he is a scientist and not a soldier and was offered to become member of the Earth Bots who are also neutral in the conflict, an offer that Skyfire accepted.

-Skyfire’s objective: Find out what happened to his conjunx and reuniting with him.

-Act as a mentor toward the Earth Bots scientists.

-Share with the Earth Bots stories about how were Cybertron he had knew before his accident.

-Is a gentle giant.

->Pele:

-One of the youngest of the Earth Bots

-Had appeared in a volcano in Hawaii.

-Was adopted by an hawaiian family.

-Birthdate: 22 April 2008(or fifty years before the TFA canon)

-Was named Pele after the hawaiian godess of volcanos and fire.

-Is considered as one of the baby siblings by the community.

-Is a warframe seeker.

-Her frame had the ability to resist the highest temperature, she can even take a swim into lava if she wanted.

-Alt form: A jet.

-Is a playful femme who’s very curious about things.

-She like to observe things and people to learn how things around her work.

-Is a passionate of hawaiian fire dancing.

->Mulan(OC by StephanieNolmans  on Wattpad):

-One of the oldest Earth Bots.

-"Birthdate": March 01, 1928 in China.

-Was took in by a Shaolin temple.

-She was named after the legendary chinese heroine Hua Mulan.

-Is a civilframe motorcycle.

-Alt form: Motorcycle.

-She became a disciple and was taugh martial arts by the master of the temple along with the other disciples.

-She was one of the first Earth Bots Jadwiga met when the latter decided to travel around the world in hope to find others like her after WWII.

-After she left the temple to go live in the Earth Bots community, she learnt other martial arts.

-Her favorite martial arts are kung fu and karate.

-She love peace and calm, especially when she meditate.

-She's a disciplined femme who like to had a structured and organised life.

-Since she lived in a isolated temple most of her life before becoming a member of the EarthBots community, Mulan had difficulties to socialize and because of that she is rather shy with people/bots she just met, making her a bit of a loner.

-Bumblebee one time told she was like a "Prowl 2.0" as a joke.

-She use as a weapon a shaolin sword she forged herself.

-She's a good fighter and train everyday.

-Thank to her shaolin training, she cultivate the cybertronian equivalent of Ki which make her develop abilities which shock bots from Cybertron as normally no cybertronian motorcycle is able to do the things she could.

-However, she still working on developping her "ki abilities" and on learning to had a perfect control of them.

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Tag list:

@wassupbroseph , @astridkolch

[thebreakfastgenie]

☕ Toby's end arc

hmm? what arc? what are you talking about? isn't it weird how he just stopped getting storylines?

okay denial mode temporarily deactivated

There are. No words. For how much I fucking hate that arc. My relationship with this show (which I should have mentioned when I got that ask the other day) is I delusionally believe I could have done it better even though I was literally in elementary school when it ended so when it comes to the last three seasons the stuff I don't like I tend to sort of... de-emphasize. I acknowledge it happened but sort of gloss over it into my Santos administration headcanons that make me happy. The one single thing that simply does not exist in my brain and just never happened is Toby's goddamn arc.

Let's start from the beginning. I hate the entire concept. The ISS thing is stupid. One of the strengths of The West Wing, early on, was how grounded it was, and most of Sorkin's storylines were based with varying degrees of directness on real events. He said he was getting a lot his stories from page 5 of the newspaper (although some of them were headlines, just a few years old) and I guess John Wells and company either didn't notice or didn't care, because they did a lot more... wild stuff. The ISS thing is just... so television. And a secret military space shuttle?? Even if that's real, I don't find it believable on television. If they wanted to do a space crisis they should have just had a shuttle lost (nice parallel to the s1 finale btw!), but I guess maybe Columbia was recent enough (2003) that it felt wrong. I noticed the artificially inflated TV drama stakes when it's completely unnecessary in ER too so I think it's a John Wells thing and I hate it.

Then there's the leak and the whole mystery of it which again... just feels tonally wrong for the show. They did leak storylines in the earlier seasons that were good! The later season' obsession with pitting the characters against each other sucks and it's why I'm lukewarm on them! Anyway!

I don't know if they planned it as Toby from the beginning, but CJ was definitely planned as a red herring. The entire thing was designed for cheap shock value and it's terrible. I don't care how grieving Toby was, he would never, ever do that. They already butchered Toby's character by making him a deadbeat dad and the whole fight with Josh and man I watched a clip the other day of Vinick accepting the nomination and Toby's reaction to it was so bad... it felt like someone trying to write Toby based on the stereotypes of him without understanding the nuances of the character. Toby at his core is depressed because he's an idealist and the world constantly disappoints him. Late seasons Toby sometimes just sounds vindictive and mean. Anyway!!! It sucked!!!!!!!

The only way I can imagine it would be worse was if it actually was CJ, so I hate that one of the popular "fixes" is saying Toby took the fall for her. The only way I can rationalize it in my mind is that Toby did take the fall: for his sister-in-law. It's conceivable (at least, on the level of this goddamn nonsense storyline) that David would have known about the military shuttle and told his wife, maybe to reassure her. Heck, we don't know what she does, maybe she has a background in space travel too and knows about it! She and David had kids who had just lost their father; Toby took the fall because his kids will still have one parent if he goes to jail.

I like that Toby ends up out of the election cycle but helping Josh behind the scenes and I actually love that he's teaching in the flash forward. And by the way, there's actually no way in hell they planned the ending to the leak storyline ahead of time because everyone is on good terms with Bartlet in that flash forward!! God!!!!!!

It's just such bad writing. I'm so annoyed about it.

[hyperfixated-on-hensper]

I've had that headcanon for years, lol.

Especially since he doesn't have a middle name, he'd use a Dunlop there.

Anyway, this is my opportunity to share my Hensper Marriage headcanons ✨️ Lets gooooooo.

Firstly, I get the vibe, Jasper fell first, and Henry fell harder. So, I think Henry was the one to purpose.

I like to imagine a dandelion field, or he'd take Jasper to space or some beautiful dimension. lmao, maybe in the love shuttle???

Anyray, Henry would get down on one knee, pull out the ring, and Jasper would instantly lose his shit. He'd squeel and bombard Henry with kisses before he actually gets a chance to say anything.

And Henry's like, "I haven't asked yet."

And Jaspers like,' omg ur right' and stands back up, takes a few deep breaths and is like, 'I'm ready now, ask me.'

And as Henry starts his speech, Jasper would just start squealing again, getting progressively louder until he can't hold still any longer, and starts jumping up and down screaming 'YESSSSSS!'

Secondly, despite Henry proposing wasn't the first one to have started picturing the idea of their marriage. Jasper had been planning their wedding before they were even together.

He's determined and delulu. He's been cultivating a wedding pinterest board since he was in middle school, and we love that for him.

Despite all this planning, He forgot that being Henry's groom meant he wouldn't get to be his best man. Jasper tried to convince him for days he could do both, and Henry remained unconvinced.

Charlotte would end up being Henry's best man instead, Piper would be Jasper's. Ray, since he's canonically an ordain, would ordain the ceremony (and cried the whole time), and Schwoz would be the flower girl.

It was Henry's idea for Jasper to wear a cropped top suit, but it was Jasper's idea to have a white one. Henry probably wore a form of tight fitting black suit.

They each had their own bouquet, which Henry- I went to flower camp- Hart arranged himself, picking flowers he thought would represent both of them well.

When these bouquets are thrown at the reception, it's Oliver and Sidney catch them.

The gang paid for their honeymoon as a wedding gift, where they'd go, idk.

The only one who didn't contribute to the honeymoon fund is Schwoz. Who claimed he had the best gift for them.

They're both very confused when Schwoz shows up at their door a few months after their wedding with a baby.

Like an actual human child.

Schwoz confused the song lyric, "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby on a baby carriage" as an important american culture custom and was very concerned as to how two men would manage that naturally.

So, with his stealth scientific skills, he broke into their room one night and stole their DNA to create a perfect genetic hybrid and grew one in a test tube to help them out.

Jasper's thrilled. He 100% accepts this child. He spends the whole time playing with the baby while Henry is panicking over the concept he's suddenly a parent.

After a long- ass ripping lecture, Schwoz learns not to make children without consent. Though, Henry is eventually thankful for the creation of his kid.

Mostly bc he knows that Jasper has always wanted kids, he never really had an opinion either way until now. But the first time he holds that baby, he already can tell he'd be willing to die for her.

It's a girl.

They named her Page after Charlotte and are already better parents than anyone else in Swellview.

Ray and Piper get competitive over who is the better aunt/uncle and constantly fight over who her favorite is.

Her favorite is Charlotte.

Idk which one of yall did this, but I love you.

[retroellie]

can u do a imagine/headcanon of joel taking ellie and daughter!reader to the museum for ellie's birthday and maybe what they do for the reader's birthday too? xoxo

Summary: Joels daughters and Ellie’s birthdays 

A/N: Thank you for the request<3 I love me some daddy joel being a dad :) 

Warnings: None 

Word count: 803

-You weren’t really into museums but when your dad came home after a long assignment he was on, he asked you if it’s something she would want 

-”Do you think she’ll like it?” 

-”Dad, ellie is my best friend and i know she can’t turn down a dinosaur.” 

-The trip to the museum was a lot of fun

-It consisted of campfire stories and attempting to teach ellie to play guitar 

-When you guys finally arrived ellie was so happy, she was so happy she almost broke your head open jumping off the dinosaur 

-”I told you she’d like it.” 

-”Yeah yeah.” 

- Ellie showed you pretty much every single thing in that place, you knew nothing about space and dinosaurs 

-Yes, she did make you wear a fedora 

-”Look how small this one is!” 

-”Hey it kinda looks like Y/N” 

-”Ha Ha” You said sarcastically “You know dad, they all kinda look like you. Get it cause you're old.” 

-There was so many jokes told that day but you were truly amazed by the history, not only of the dinosaurs but what people did back in the old world 

-You always had the constant urge to touch everything, all the bones and the flowers that grew around them 

-When y’all got to the space section, ellie had to look at everything and when she did she explained it all to you 

-While ellie was looking away you ended up stealing some things, you were gonna surprise her with them 

-That rocket ship lava lamp she had, you gave that to her when y’all got back to jackson 

-When the planets above moved, you watched the colors dance 

-”I’ve never seen you smile this much.” Ellie chuckled 

-”It’s beautiful, i mean look at all the colors.” 

-”Yeah, it’s a beautiful place out there.” 

-”Lets move to venus together, when you get that rocket i mean.” 

-Ellie just smiled at you, skipping off to see something else 

-You both picked out a helmet for each other, she picked out the yellow tinted one for you and you picked out the original for her 

-You both got into the space shuttle while Joel stayed outside, there wasn’t enough space for him but he was happy to let y’all have fun 

-You gave her the cassette tape you had found for her (for the headcannon let’s just say you found it lmao) 

-She gave you one ear bud so you could listen with her, it felt at that moment you guys were kids again 

-”I swear for your birthday, i’m going to blow you away.” 

-”Yeah you better.”

-”Thank you, Y/n” 

-”Of course, you’re my best friend.” 

-Your birthdays are not as eventful because you don’t like to go out of jackson much 

-So ellie and your dad always have a birthday party for you 

-The parties always take place at your dads house and most of your close friends come 

-Obviously Maria and tommy come 

-The day of your birthday your dad wakes you up, singing happy birthday with a cupcake with a candle on top 

-Does he tear up a little bit??? Yeah, this man is sad let him be 

-”Happy birthday kiddo.” He kisses your forehead 

“Do you want some??” 

-”Hell yeah.” 

-You both share the cupcake 

-Dina always takes you “Shopping” It’s mostly just you seeing what you want and her getting it for you for your birthday 

-You know it’s just her way of keeping you distracted so the others can decorate the house 

-When you come home you have to act surprised but you knew it was going to happen 

-The presents you get are mostly books, records, and posters 

-You don’t mind it, some of the books and records are ones you’ve been looking for 

-Ellie goes all out on her birthday gift, i mean she searches for months for your birthday present 

-One year she got you a piece of clothing that your favorite artist actually wore

-”ELLIE, YOU DID NOT.” 

-”I did, i traveled all 7 seas for that thing so i hope you wear it every day.” 

-”I will, thank you. thank you so much ellie.” 

-Your dads presents are always close to heart and almost always handmade 

-He made you a guitar and it has been your favorite thing since

-Towards the end of the night you, ellie and joel make dinner together 

-It’s always your favorite because they want your birthday to be special 

-After dinner you always watch movies you want too, if you want to watch dirty dancing for the 3rd birthday in a row they’ll watch it

-You almost always end up falling asleep on the couch 

-Your dad just picks you up and carries you to your room 

-”Thank you dad, for everything.” You sleepily whisper 

-”I just wanna make my baby girl happy.” 

-He gives you a kiss on the head before leaving 

-”Goodnight baby girl” 

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[the-golden-ghost]

Jigen for the headcanon ask game!

Headcanon A:  realistic

He keeps things in the lining of his hat. Not like... spaghetti like that one post implies but spare change and maybe a few extra bullets, sure.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

He ALSO keeps spaghetti in there who gives a fuck a man's gotta eat

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

He gets really fucked up about seeing elements of himself in Goemon because he SO thoroughly doesn't want Goemon to turn out like him and is in a fair bit of denial about the fact that Goemon in a lot of ways already is. It's a protective instinct and a self-hating instinct but it's also really bad cause it denies a lot of fairness and respect in their relationship. Basically he has issues ¯\_(ツ)_/��

Also read @dandunn's series about this please

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

I STILL STAND BY THE IDEA THAT HE NEVER OFFICIALLY TOOK DRIVING LESSONS

He was trained by a bunch of sketchy mercenaries for hire and some random old people who saw him when he was a scrappy confused homeless 17 year old wandering around and went "oh hello there young man" and gave him dinner and driving lessons once

He doesn't have a driver's license but frankly I don't think he needs one, I mean in Part 2 he knows how to pilot a goddamn space shuttle so

[spike-and-faye]

Hello, I require your infinite wisdom please!! :O So I just finished cowboy bebop and I am so confused like who the fuck was Julia. WHAT was Faye's past. I literally never process tv shows and the bebop was not immune to my stupidity LMAO like... I guess the ending just really confused me, from what I gathered Spike and Vicious were friends? But then they weren't? And Julia dated Vicious but also Spike? And he? Went after Vicious even after Julia had died? I am Confusion. Please help. Thank u...

Oh BABEY I am so glad you asked! :) Be prepared for a long answer and I apologize in advance for how incoherent it will probably be.

ALSO Please note: this show is fucking complicated. I have watched it all the way through several times a year, every single year, for over a decade now, and I am *STILL* finding new shit every time I watch it. It's packed with symbols, motifs, allusions and underlying themes that are just so rich. It is so extraordinarily well-written that it could give a lot of classic literature a run for its money. I'm literally working on an in depth literary/film analysis my husband lovingly calls my Manifesto on the series right now. SO PLEASE don't beat yourself up about not catching everything on the first go round.

HEY BTW for anyone who hasn't finished the show, please know there will be MANY spoilers ahead!

Anyways ~

1.     Spike / Julia / Vicious:

The information we get on Spike's past, including Vicious and Julia, is pretty limited considering how big of an impact they have on the story. We get our first glimpse in Session 1: Asteroid Blues, then again in Session 5: Ballad of Fallen Angels, Sessions 12 + 13: Jupiter Jazz, and Sessions 25 + 26: Real Folk Blues. I recommend reviewing these episodes for you Julia and Vicious fix.

What we know:

Spike and Vicious were both members of an organized crime syndicate called the Red Dragons, which is roughly analogous to the Yakuza or the Mafia. Their positions in the organization are not clear, but there are some images alluding to them being hitmen, and they likely rose up in the ranks as they were close acquaintances of Mao Yenrai, a Capo of the Red Dragon.

Spike and Vicious were close comrades. Spike taught Vicious everything he knew about fighting, and the two had a deep trust in each other. Which Spike fucked up ….

^^Vicious looks hot asf here

Julia was Vicious' lover/girlfriend. One night in 2068 (three years prior to the time we watch in the Bebop) Spike is injured, presumably from a syndicate-related fight and he passes out in front of her door. She takes him in and nurses him back to health and he SIMPS HARD for her. We’re all but told he's in LOVE love with her. They start an affair, and Spike tells her he's ready to abandon the whole life - the syndicate, Vicious, Mao, all of it - and they could run away together.

WELL Vicious finds out about this whole affair, and is DOUBLY betrayed because his literal best friend and girlfriend have been having an affair, and tbh I think he was just as jealous of Spike's attentions as he was of Julia's. (Whether or not it’s a sexual thing for Spike … well … I have my own headcanons about that). SO when he finds out they're going to run away together, he gives Julia an ultimatum: you can either kill him, or I'll just kill you both. Spike had written her a letter about meeting him in the graveyard to start their new life together, which she tears up to hide his location from Vicious. (This is the falling ripped up pieces of paper we see in Spike's flash back in Session 5).

^^ r/gifsyoucanhear

**NOTE: There are those who disagree with this view, (looking at you Cowboy Bebop wiki) instead suggesting Vicious and Spike were buds in the past, but then hated each other once they were both considered as potential successors to Mao. That's why Vicious wanted him dead, and he was enlisting Julia (who he didn't necessarily have a romantic connection to) to help kill Spike since he knew Spike loved her. Personally, I think there is plenty of evidence that Vicious also wanted Julia, and in fact was already with her, when Spike started seeing her. If you want me to cite my sources please send an me an ask about it :)

Spike gets the idea, whether by her just not showing up or word around the syndicate being like YO Vicious wants you dead. Despite Vicious' ultimatum to Julia, he was gunna kill Spike either way. SO he sets up an ambush, and SadBoy™ Spike walks intentionally into their trap. Somehow, he doesn't die, though the entire syndicate thinks he did. (Note Annie's reaction to seeing him alive in Session 5). It’s also implied that this is where he lost his eye.

HIS EYE - possibly the most important symbol in the show so I do have to mention it. In episode 26, he explicitly explains to Faye that one of his eyes only sees the past. (PS this isn't dissimilar to Jet's arm… we can get into that another time). Basically, he's constantly living halfway in the past and halfway in the present, and describes the past like a dream he can never wake up from. Because dysfunctional or not - the syndicate WAS his family. (Again - see his relationship with Annie, Mao, and Vicious (prior to Spike's betrayal)). It's his reminder that Julia didn't run away with him, and that he'd left behind that life for her. (He didn’t know she was being threatened until the final episode). Basically Spike is hyper-fixated on what he had and what could've been.

Not long after this, Spike starts bounty hunting because like? What else is he going to do. He doesn't care if he lives or dies but if he has to be alive, he may as well be able to eat. He joins up with Jet Black on the Bebop.

TL; DR: Spike stole Vicious' lover, Julia, so Vicious made Julia choose between her killing Spike or Vicious killing them both. She instead went into hiding and Spike thought he'd been stood up. He fake died and got the hell outta dodge.

2.     What was Faye's past?

Ok let me start by saying Faye is my wife and my life. HOWEVER I hated her the first time I watched this show circa age 13 because I thought she was annoying/vain/shallow (also because #internalizedmisogyny lol am I right fam). Good news! She is all those things! But she's also very lonely and scared and an amnesiac and secretly a sweetie and she realizes she loves the crew of the Bebop like family.

SO my wife's backstory:

she was born in the 1990s (#only90skidsremember). There's some debate over her race/nationality, but due to the images of her hanging out in Merlion Park in Singapore, my bet is that she's Singaporean. She comes from a wealthy family with a big house, and we see some utterly *adorable* film of her as a child/young adolescent in Session 18: Speak Like a Child. I cry everytime </3

^^ Holla for the representation

In 2014, circa age 20, she and her parents were going into space when the shuttle they were on had some kind of malfunction/accident and it killed an unknown number of people, including her parents. At the time, the technology didn’t exist to be able to save her, so she was put into a cryogenic sleep state. Meanwhile, the Lunar Gate accident occurs, breaking up the moon and causing rock showers on Earth's surface. Most people died, moved to Mars, or settled underground.

She wakes up from her cryogenic sleep in 2068. (Also the year Spike leaves the syndicate.) She's 'woken' by the corrupt Dr. Bacchus who plans on charging her for the years and years of medical debt she's accrued. (See Session 15: My Funny Valentine.) Luckily a lawyer takes interest in her case (Whitney Haggus Matsumoto) and tries to help get rid of her debt. The two fall in love, but turns out Whitney is a Scumbag. He's actually Dr. Bacchus's nephew, and faked his death, writing Faye as the sole inheritor to his will. This means she'll take on all his debts. So baby girl has LOTS of debt at this point.

In the intervening years prior to her joining the Bebop, she gambles, cheats, gains a lot of street smarts, and adopts a very seductive character to get her way. She joins the crew on the Bebop in Session 3: Honky Tonk Women.

TL;DR: Faye is Austin powers

YIKES this is so long I am so sorry. Bitches are obsessed with this show. (I am bitches)

3.     The Ending

Okay I'm going to present this in the way, in my scholarly opinion, would be correct, though there are SO many interpretations other than simply 'Spike died :/".

To understand the plot of the last couple episodes we actually have to go back to Session 5: Mao is instructed* to sign a treaty with a rival syndicate called the White Tigers. (*He's instructed by The Van (Council of identical creepy old men) who are the actual head of the dragon. I think we only see them in Session 26.) Well - Vicious is a Bastard Man and he and his fellow mutineers blow up the White Tiger guys' ship and slit Mao's throat. Before he dies, Mao is like "Gotdamnit if Spike was still here this shit wouldn't have happened." Later in the Cathedral battle, Vicious explains to Spike he killed Mao because Mao 'lost his fangs'. He planned on killing Spike for good her, IMO, so there'd be no rival to take over as Capo for the Dragons.

^^These guys are The Van btw

THEN in Session 25, the Van basically catches Vicious and is like “you killed Mao and now you have to go to Time Out.” The Van also decides to just kill everyone associated with Vicious, just 2 B safe. That's why there's a big ass shootout at the Loser Bar where Jet and Spike are chilling, drinking, (missing Faye and Ed and Ein lol) and Shin (younger brother to Lin, who's helping Vicious overthrow the Dragon) explains all this to Spike. OH and PS JULIA IS ALIVE AND HERE IS HER LOCATION :). (**Notice Spike's reaction at this point is different than his reaction in Jupiter Jazz when he hears there's a Julia on Calisto. Much less excited… hmm…).

SO THEN you know we get some flashbacks of the past as previously explained *and* Julia just happens to run into Faye. She recognizes that Faye is one of Spike's friends from the Bebop (she was keeping tabs on him it seems) and picks her up. Faye doesn't know who Julia is but is like damn bitch I'm a little gay for you. (I mean … that may just be my bi ass projecting, but Faye is REALLY struck with her. Look at how she describes her to Jet, I mean come on.)

 Faye's like, 'we should team up' and Julia says 'no thanks but also tell Spike to meet me at *the place*'. Meanwhile back on the Bebop Spike and Jet are talking and Spike goes on about some dream woman who was his other half. (We assume he means Julia … I have my reasons to doubt this … I have a lot of angry DMs about my opinion here lol but I just do not give a fuck (: I can expand on this in another post or you can refer to the title of my fucking blog haha) Personally, I think Watanabe personally left this specific scene open ended, the same way he does with the ending and various other things.

more like SIMP Spiegel

ANYWAY Faye comes back to the Bebop to tell Spike about Julia, and Jet gets intel from a former cop buddy that there's some shit going down with the Dragons. (Again, the Van is hunting down everyone ever associated with Vicious, including your pal Spike). Bebop is attacked, Faye tells Spike what's up with Julia, and he heads out.

 PAN TO VICIOUS chained up - about to be executed - but what's that!? It's a bird!? It's a pla- no it's just a bird. (With one glowing red eye … hm … reminds me of Spike, also the drug Red Eye. Pls let me know if you have any thoughts on this). Just a bird with a BOMB! Explosion (RIP bird c. 2065 - too soon), Vicious kills the elders, his buddies show up and are ready to go fuck shit up.

this show could not be more of an aesthetic

MMMPhhh okay RAINY CEMETERY. Spike and Julia. She draws a gun, explains why she didn't meet him that day, and then hugs him. Now Spike is not *great* at showing his emotions but he literally just stands there. Maybe it's a stoic expression of how sad he is that he never knew she still cared, when it seemed like she dumped him. Maybe he's finally getting some closure on his past. Maybe the past doesn't mean the same thing it used to. (I'll elaborate later on this).

They go to Annie's to get stocked up on stuff, she lets them know she denied knowing Spike was still alive and hey also the Van was assassinated by Vicious and his guys so. Watch out for that. Then her shop is surrounded by Vicious' guys and she dies :(. Spike and Julia escape to the roof, but she's shot and dies in Spike's arms, and says 'it's all just a dream' :(. (Refer to: Spike living in a dream of the past).

Anyway Jet SAID he wasn't gunna go after Spike but. Jet's parental instincts kick in (oh yeah he was shot in the leg earlier btw) and he goes to Sitting Bull to see if he knows where Spike is. He basically says yeah Spike's about to die somewhere. (I want to do a further analysis on all the Sitting Bull scenes.) Well conveniently Spike returns to the Bebop, eats, tells his story about a tiger-striped cat. (At one point Jet asks if he's going there for her, and Spike is like well she's dead now so whatever). THEN we get to the scene where Faye is like HEY YOU CAN'T GO OFF AND DIE ASSHOLE and he's like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I 've been living in the past so I might as well see if I'm living now. (**This will play heavily into my interpretation of the ending). Faye is pissed, shoots the ceiling and he goes off to the syndicate headquarters to fuck shit up.

He basically John Wicks his way through the building, Shin dies, he and Vicious have the big boss battle and whatnot. He kills Vicious and stumbles back out down the stairs and says "Bang!" and collapses. We pan to the sky and see a star fade away.

Well that explains the plot … now here's what I think happened!!! ALSO may I mention, anon - you picked up on something I feel like a lot of people miss out on. Why *did* Spike go back to kill Vicious if Julia was already dead??

Basically, once it became clear that anyone associated with Vicious was being killed, Spike knew they'd hunt him down, and they weren't beneath Kill-Billing their way to him, (i.e. systematically destroying this companions to get to him). And for all his apparent indifference - he really loves his new found family. Jet is literally like an older brother to him. Ed is a little sister. Ein is well … a very good boy. And Faye? Well the relationship is complicated, and I'm not going to get into the 69,420 reasons I ship them here, but I think it is beyond argument that he really does care for her, even if that just in a filial way. He didn't want the syndicates to kill them for their association to him, or in order to get to him. So he did what he had to do to protect them. *AND NO* I am not saying that he didn't love Julia. But it was clear that his desire was no longer to run away with her. I think he genuinely loved and cared about her, but at some point between Jupiter Jazz Pt 2 and now, he accepted that their time together was over. Now he had a new raison d'etre, which is the Bebop.

I think at this point Spike has 'woken up' to reality (as he implied to Faye in their final conversation in episode 26: "Look at these eyes. One of them is a fake, because I lost it in an accident. Since then, I have been seeing the past in one eye, and the present in the other. I had believed that what I saw was not all of reality...I thought I was watching a dream that I would never awaken from. Before I knew it, the dream was all over." (This is from the sub btw I'm too lazy to look up the dub transcript.) He wasn't going there to die, he's going to find out if he's really alive. This line is fucking cool and everything - but it's implications are multitude. I won't go into them all here but basically : what makes him alive now is that he's free from his past. He's alive because he has this new family and protecting them is all he really wants now. Spike was protecting Jet, Faye, Ed, (and Ein) by going and facing the entire syndicate, knowing that their lives would all be in danger.

SO - did Spike die? Well again - Watanabe has purposely and artfully left this open ended. Well, if we're following the symbolism from Sitting Bull, then yeah, the man is as dead as disco, and wouldn't that be a fitting ending? BUT at the same time, Spike always refers to having 'died' before (meaning when he was ambushed by the syndicate, and they all thought he died, and he pretty much did). Don't forget that in  movie (takes places roughly between episodes 22 + 23, and yes, was made AFTER the series but whatever) he like .. DIES dies. He goes to the afterlife and everything. He wakes up to find he's chilling with Sitting Bull, who's like nah it wasn't your time to die yet. So the fact Sitting Bull confirms Spike will die in the final episode, means yeah, Spike is pretty much dead.

BUT -- okay now hear me out -- could this death in the final episode be a death to his previous life? The person he was in the syndicate? Now that he's extinguished the Red Dragons for good, is it not possible that its merely *that* life which has ended? That's the optimist in me saying that, but if it keeps me from staying up all night crying, I guess it'll have to do. Watanabe definitely wants to leave it up to the viewer, so whatever you think, I feel like there's validity to it.

WELL any anon, sorry for the fucking lecture - and believe me, I could've said MUCH, MUCH more - but I enjoyed this question. I always love talking about this show so please all you fuckers feel free to message me or send an ask about anything any time. I am really slow at replying because #life'sAbitch.

Love you all.

SY,SCB <3

[smallblueandloud]

uhhh. cj and toby, toby and andy, andy and cj, and… cj and josh

send me two characters and i’ll talk about their dynamic!

cj and toby: MY BELOVEDS. GOD i love these two. they just! they know each other! they trust each other! past everything, the pain and the secrets and the arguments, they still trust each other, and i love them for it. toby hadn't seen cj in YEARS when he flew out to recruit her for bartlet's campaign and she STILL went with him! that's love, my friends! toby is the straight man to cj's frivolity. cj is the faithful to toby's cynic. they hold each others' secrets and lie to each other and it's just. they kill me

toby and andy: andy makes fun of toby and he takes it. that's it, that's the dynamic. (not really, but-- toby would do a lot for andy. she would do a lot for toby. neither of them would sacrifice their goals as government officials for the other, and i think acceptance of that is when their relationship finally stabilizes.) (that is, until toby throws away his job and his future to cover for andy leaking the shuttle.)

andy and cj: cj, like toby, is cautious. andy is not. their best moments come when they accept this. their worst moments come when andy needs something from cj and cj can't give it to her, or when cj has a plan and andy will not follow it. luckily, since they're both better prepared to talk things out than toby, they worked this out fairly early on, and have functioned pretty well since then. except for the time cj walked out on andy (and toby) because she had a plan. and the time andy asks cj to ask for toby's pardon. but aside from that everything's perfect!

cj and josh: i LOVE your headcanon that cj really, strongly reminds josh of joanie. she's his older sister! he's her little brother! it's phenomenal and i love them. they tend to take out their general anger on the other, because they know they can take it, which isn't like the MOST healthy thing but it works! cj, who's much better at being a normal person, is good at telling josh when he's too deep in his own head. josh, stalwart that he is, will show up and do what she asks for him. what else do either of them need?