#so not everyone else gets to (maybe) be sad bc of this/lh

[narwhal-butterfly]

There are jokes and there are things like that about how Grian was the secret Mastermind out of him and Scar in 3rd life because he was but not because Scar is an idiot, not because Scar is naive, not because Scar doesn't understand that he's being manipulated and used but because Scar thinks that if he lets Grian use him, if he lets himself be manipulated that he will get love in return, that if he is used as a weapon and as a tool he will be able to be loved, weapons and tools are often loved by their creators and what is Grian if not the man turning him into a weapon, into a tool to be used by him, creators love their creations so if Scar lets himself be turned into something by Grian maybe he will be loved by him

[ember-owlet]

ohhh mr blue 🥺 such a sad but sweet song…do you have a favorite character or any agere headcanons for them? todd and mr peanutbutter would be great cgs (although maybe not together or their kiddo would get stuck on a flaming rollercoaster hahaha), hollyhock is a trauma regressor and i think todd would actually be a flip bcs he does have that childish side to him and would enjoy expressing it with someone who won’t be mean or judge him about it and i think sarah lynn isn’t a regressor necessarily but she never let go of her childhood dreams after everything she went through and when she had the time she would definitely like read space books or architecture books and stuff and imagine things differently…eep sorry for rambling hehe hope ur doing well

you never have to worry about rambling here firelight, when it comes to headcanons or interests i love to hear what you have to say! i know that its hard to find a space to share age regression headcanons for nicher fandoms/shows so i'd never want to dampen that enthusiasm. (and these are some AMAZING headcanons!! i especially love flip todd, i'm glad everyone agrees that he'd be a good cg but he is also the silliest guy. you are also 1000% correct, mr. peanutbutter and todd are a dangerously chaotic duo to keep a little one safe.) /gen

aa thank you for asking!! my favorite characters have always been princess carolyn, todd, diane, guy, and beatrice (for all the same reasons someone would like a "villain", she's a deplorable person and mother but a beautifully written and flawed character).

i realized i'd never fully put down my headcanons to notes before regarding the show, and if i wrote every single headcanon i had this post would be a novel so i made a chart/drabbles! have a wonderful day yourself and i hope you're staying safe.

personal headcanons/rambles under the cut, nothing formal but spoilers for the entirety of the show ahead:

i hope i got everyone, but these are the main ones!

caregivers:

guy

diane's cg, also a familial caretaker for sonny. just the best guy!!

judah

princess carolyn's cg! he is fully aware of how stubborn she can be when regressing to a teen and is just there to make sure she doesn't get hurt.

corbin

honestly one of the most stable cgs (/lh /pos),, in another universe he would've been beatrices' cg and supported her to get help for her trauma.

charlotte

mama cg all the way, she takes care of penny through her vent regression and truth be told her and herb used to be caregivers for bojack once upon a time.

biscuits braxby

a caregiver through and through, for some reason i used to daydream about her taking care of a regressor after the bojack interview and reassuring them that she would make sure they were safe.

ralph

personally, in terms of cgs i think ralph was princess carolyn's cg while they were together, and the role being taken over by judah once they get married as princess carolyn would be hesitant to regress around anyone else (vulnerability to her is scary!!)

vanessa

canonical mother for the win!! she just gives judgemental coworker that means well but would take care of someone if needed (but doesn't mean they're getting out of it without being teased a little)

kelsey

another canon mom!! she just seems really sweet and means well despite her firm demeanor when working.

flips (cg! lean): todd

beloved!! personally i don't see him as a parental caregiver, but definitely is one of the silliest and laid back caregivers out of the bunch. i could also see him regressing if the environment were relaxed enough but always in a middle headspace. herb

okay. hear me out. i just KNOW herb would've been a good caregiver for bojack along with charlotte, i've been thinking about this for a while now but i really think they'd have been such a healing dynamic for bojack as parental cgs. during that time in his life they were his favorite people even if charlotte knew about how awful he was.

rutabaga

i purely put him down for my friend who had talked about him being a caregiver,, i have no idea what she sees in him but to each their own. /nm /lh

flips

honey sugarman

ah yes one of the most tragic characters in the show. honey to me is a flip purely because i think she became an involuntary regressor after her lobotomy. i am purely going by headcanon than science but i assume losing so many of your functions as an adult would cause her to go to a more simpler state (either by choice or not) to forget the pain of losing crackerjack.

princess carolyn

my favorite flip (/j /lh) to me she already is a canonical caregiver when taking care of so many of the other characters in the show over herself (and being a mother to ruthie). but, if she truly trusts someone enough she'll regress a little to unwind and feel like she can take back her childhood after growing up WAY too fast with cutie and her siblings.

flips (regressor! lean) :

hollyhock

precious girl,, i can totally see her being a teen regressor or cool older sister as a caregiver, i almost was tempted to add her to the babysitter pile as well since her caregiving is a very relaxed style. she relies mainly on her dads for comfort (especially when having flashbacks from living with bojack) as well as having an accepting friend group to let her feel child-like around them.

paige sinclair

totally random and a hot take but i adored her character. she was just so passionate about her job and of course pushy but its the same reason we love princess carolyn. i think baxter would mainly be her caregiver but i think when she is caretaking her style is very whimsical.

pickles

my sweet girl,, totally a regressor with endless energy and interests to keep herself entertained. mr. peanutbutter would do his absolute best to calm her in most situations but after a while let her emotions run their course.

regressor:

bojack

i do not trust this man caregiving for anyone. (/hj)

i don't think he fully understands what regression actually is but tends to fall on habits of wanting someone to care for him and only truly regresses when in an emotional state that brings him back to childhood (aka vent regressing).

most of his long-term partners have seen a form of his regression and have taken on the role of a caretaker.

the only other person that has understood him in his regression without putting a name to it is diane. they're just naturally child-like at times and they don't mention it further than that.

diane

at first didn't understand the concept of regression and thought it was "weird" until researching "inner child healing" to help with her ivy tran novel series.

the only person she truly trusts to fully regress around is guy and he is more than willing to take care of her and make her feel loved and appreciated (she's his beautiful salad bowl /lh)

sarah lynn

my sweet girl pt. 2

even if she doesn't know what regression is i just want to give her a happy childhood,, she deserves to be an architect!!

the way she held herself in the that's too much man episode breaks my heart every time and therefore she is my child now!!

penny carson

my sweet baby girl pt. 3

charlotte is more than willing to be a caregiver/mama again, helps her work through the trauma and grief of what had happened between her and bojack but gives her the space she needs to feel in control of certain situations and then a gentle hand to hold her.

i also think penny wears her mom/dad's oversized sweatshirts to feel safe and comforted when having flashbacks.

beatrice

another character that deserved better!! and to have better coping mechanisms!!

loves to play with a very specific doll that she keeps close to her heart, as well as large elegant dresses that she loves to feel the fabric as she twirls and dances in

in an au that i have corbin and her got married, and though he can't heal her past he is a very stable figure in her life and assures her that she can in fact open her heart to loving again.

babysitters:

mr. peanutbutter

i believe he genuinely wants to help when others regress and becomes extremely enthusiastic about hearing that you can be tiny around him, but is nowhere near responsible enough to be an actual caregiver.

just as distracted as the little one, and just as easily persuaded to get them what they want

anna

will watch a regressor if they paid her (/hj).

was bojack's babysitter in-between takes of secretariat, but wasn't a lasting relationship.

keeps him in line when he becomes fussy or throws a tantrum, but ultimately forgets to also reassure him and that leads to further emotional outlashing.

crackerjack

beatrice's big brother babysitter!!

at least once in his life he's snuck her an ice pop/ice cream to let his little sister have a taste.

wanda

a positive and fun-loving babysitter, was possibly one of the kindest caregivers that bojack had when regressing (and also the one that let him get away with the most).

[i-willstealyourtoes]

TBB END SPOILERS

OKAY SO

- YOU GUYS!!! I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY TBH

- Literally so happy I started stimming and played Earth Wind & Fire after bro

So many good things happened 🙏:

- All of TBB lived ✅

- Bitches I be hating on died (Nala Se, Hemlock, Rampart) ✅

- MOST OF THE CLONES ESCAPED!! (The ones that didn't gave their life for the mission but were aware of the risk) ✅

- The clones (for literally the first time I swear) get to choose what they want to do in life ✅

- ECHO MY WIFE IS OKAY (this show made me a fan bro I'm sorry for being late to the party 🙏) ✅

- We got to see everyone else on Pabu okay ✅

- WE GOT TO SEE THE THREE CLONE KIDS OKAY (Deke, Mox, Stak) ✅

- The other kids and Emerie are safe ✅

- TBB most likely live to a old age safe and happy ✅

- Omega grows up to be a brilliant person and even joins the Rebels (all my best wishes to her) ✅

- Bc of the overall failure on Project Necromancer, money has been wasted by the Empire (ex: this literally brought no benefit to them only cons) ✅

Some things I'm a little sad abt:

- Didn't find out what happened to Cody (seriously, where is he???) ❌

- Tech didn't come back (tbh, that's fair but still, he was my favourite) ❌

- Never found out who Clone X was (thought it was gonna be Cody or even Dogma)

- No Fives (/jk) ❌

- Didn't get to see Rex and his squad at all ❌

- Didn't get to see the Rebels trio (Rex, Wolffe, Gregor) interact much in the whole show ❌

- Some clones still died in the process of escaping (no fault of the show, just sad abt it) ❌

- Didn't get to see old Crosshair, Wrecker and Echo ❌

- Did not get enough Echo (there will never be enough of him in the show /lh /nm) ❌

- Didn't see Cid at all after everything she'd done ❌

- Didn't expand on Omega being maybe force-sensitive (although I guess by not expanding they're telling us she isn't at all) ❌

Overall, this was a brilliant show, and if I could cry abt it I would (I only teared up once and it was about Tech's dialogue that was high-key representing neurodivergency)

Now, where's Cody? Where's Echo? In my mind they're actually perfectly safe and happy 🙏

[koolades-world]

Not the same anon but hhhh I feel ya.

I literally only found out that someone saying they can “do math in their head” wasn’t an expression for just being able to math quickly or without a calculator they can just literally do math in their head. Literally blew my mind. On a semi separate note I’m also on a waiting list to get tested for dyscalculia lol. Only thing that saved me in my higher level required math classes was asking the teacher if I could take tests before the weekends because if a weekend happened between learning the material and/or test prep I would forget all the formulas come the day of the test. All my non test work and study review would look good but then I’d totally bomb all the tests. Not sure if that’ll help for u but it made my marks just a little bit better and honestly any little bit helps in my case lol./lh

Good luck with your math stuff!

People that can do whole math problems in their head are wild to me too. Like, y’all can do sixteen plus nine without needing a couple minutes and then eventually giving up? Not too long ago I tried to do a simple problem like that in my head and I came up with three answers and not a single one was right 😭😭

Apparently I have this face I make when I’m confused because everyone can tell when I don’t understand something. My poor math tutor looked so sad to tell me not a single answer was the correct one because he knew I was trying hard. My younger brother is a math genius so it makes me looks even worse 😭

I really want to get away from math but I can’t since I adore science </3

My current math teacher is super weird and we haven’t taken a test since December lol. We all flunked the midterm bc he’s a bad teacher so he curved it which saved me. He doesn’t understand how I can’t do mental math since he has a photographic memory or something idk I usually stop listenig at that point LOL

Thank you for tips and well wishes I really appreciate it! I’m so glad I’m not alone. It’s always been difficult for me to vocalize my problems since everyone else seemed to be doing just fine, so it brings me comfort to know that maybe it’s not just me being stupid LOL have a wonderful rest of you day or night <3

[michael-aftons-nonbinary-lover]

Guess who’s back >:))

Saw your requests open so OFC like i promised here’s a angst request😹‼️

i’m still super caught up on the thought of Kid!Afton!Reader so here 😝🤪

Kid!Afton! who runs away from home after William has another burst out and goes missing for like 2-3 days before the cops find them passed out in the woods about 3 blocks away and it’s just really angsty and William makes sure to have his little anger sessions in the basement or in his room so he doesn’t scare them off like that again?

Why do you hate me? What have I done to anger you, mighty god @fuckyoudave ?/j /lh

Don't Make Me Run Away Out the Backdoor

-(Dad!William Afton and Afton kid!reader)-

-(Summary: the ask, from Tumblr user fuckyoudave, who loves being emotionally hurt)-

-(CW: yelling, runaway child, slight injury, small self-doubt in a damaging way(?idk how else to put it), and also William being an absolute ass in the first part of the fic)-

-(Reader is 10 and for sake of the fic, pretend Michael and the reader are the only Afton kids, eel oh eel. Title is from the song "Violent" by CarolesDaughter. Oh, and also Mrs. Afton's name in this is Caroline, bc I love that name, and it fits with the idea of her in my head)-

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You sprinted downstairs to find your father, bouncing excitedly at your bright idea. You were going to ask your father to have a tea party with you. You had pulled out the old tea set that your mother had given you. You would ask her, but she always played tea party with you, and she was out at Michael's soccer practice today.

Your father didn't play tea party with you often, or anything really. He was always busy working, either at his diner or at home. You weren't mad about it, that wasn't the right word. You were just sad and upset most of the time.

Opening the basement door, you dashed down the stairs, eagerly looking for your father. You found him quickly, running over to him and tugging on the hem of his shirt.

"Dad! Dad! Come play tea party with me!"

He sighed tiredly.

"Not now, Sweet Pea, I'm very busy."

You stopped your happy jumping. Why didn't he wanna play tea party with you?

You looked towards the ground, dejection filling your little heart.

"But, why not? Please please please? I wanna play tea party! You haven't played tea party with me for so long!"

Your father let out an irritated groan, rubbing his temple, and turning towards you.

"Not right now, I have things to do. Very important things, alright. Why don't you go see if Michael will play your little game with you?"

"He's at his soccer practice right now! And I wanna play, please dad, please!"

"ENOUGH! I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR INSOLENT, CHILDISH GAMES! GET OUT OF MY SIGHT AND BOTHER SOMEONE ELSE, ANYONE ELSE! GOD!"

You stood there, feet away from him, eyes wide and tears welling up in them. Your breath hitched and you barely contained loud sobs. Were you really that annoying? Michael always said you were, but he was your older brother. Older brothers lied about their younger siblings all the time, there was no reason to believe him. But as they grew up, older brothers became more and more truthful. Maybe Michael had been telling the truth.

"Well? Why the bloody hell are you still standing there? Get out!"

With that, you turned and ran up the stairs, slamming the basement door and bolting for the door of your own room.

Michael thought you were annoying. Daddy thought you were-what was the word? Bothersome. What about Mama? Did you bother Mama too? What if you just bothered everyone? What if your whole family secretly hated you? What if they only kept you because they had to?

You couldn't stand it, your little 10-year-old mind couldn't find out why they didn't love you.

You scrambled to your closet, pulling it open and digging through it until you found your biggest back pack. You shoved your toothbrush, and some clothes in, along with all your favorite polaroids of your family. You grabbed your favorite book, the one your father used to read to you often, and packed it in, just to make sure you were happy wherever you found yourself. Eyeing your Springbonnie plush, you decided to bring it with you, along with your water bottle, just to make sure you always had water.

You tip-toed downstairs, quietly filling your water bottle and taking one last look around your house. It was agonizing, but it had to be done. You had to leave. How could you make the people you loved so much live with someone who they didn't want. You had always heard about love being full of sacrifices. This was a sacrifice you were willing to make.

Tying your shoes, you silently close the back door, grabbing your bike from the shed and throwing your backpack and water bottle into the front basket. You zipped up your jacket and tightened your helmet. After walking the bike through the back gate and closing the latch to the gate to make sure it was locked- just like Mama had taught you, it was to keep you all safe- you sat on the seat of your bike and started peddling down the road. You had no idea where you were going, but you would get somewhere eventually.

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William was constantly on edge, Caroline was fretting about everything, and worst of all, Michael was in hysterics.

Everything anyone outside of his family did made William upset. How could he have been so fucking stupid? He should have just put work aside and spent time with you, then none of this would have happened. He snapped at everyone except his wife and son, constantly wanting to beat the hell out of multiple people. He had nearly thrown boiling hot coffee at Henry, upon which Henry had insisted that he go home and prioritize bring there instead of working or trying to find you. The locals officers could do that perfectly fine, and your first location wouldn't be the diner anyways. William had begrudgingly listened to his childhood friend.

Caroline had started keeping an eagle eye on Michael. Anywhere he went, even just to the backyard, she had to see him at all times. She wouldn't give up hope on finding you, heaven knew she wouldn't give up until they brought her baby home or, in the worst possible scenario, they brought back her baby's body. She hated thinking about that, but she had to consider the possibility. She couldn't let the same thing happen to Michael. She wouldn't let him go out looking for you, no matter how many times he pleaded, begged, or cried to the point where William had to drag him away and put him to bed.

And Michael, the poor child. He had started falling behind in class, he slept less at night, he almost perpetually had tears running down his cheeks. He just wanted his little sibling back.

He kept wandering into your room, even though he knew that he wouldn't find you. He always went to Dad afterwards, disappointed, hurt, and upset.

Dad's basement space was so messy now. It didn't matter that you had only been gone for three days. Dad had broke so many things, and Michael had heard him yelling about how it was his fault.

Michael knocked softly on the dirt of his father's office.

"Come in."

Michael opened the door door slowly, shuffling into the cold basement.

"Dad, I need- I- I want to-"

Michael sniffled, watching as his father turned around in his swivel chair.

"Come here, Mike. It's ok, I know."

Michael ran into his father's arms, pulling on the collar of William's shirt and sobbing his tiny eyes out. The 11-year-old continued his wails as he listened to his father's coos of comfort.

"Where are they, Daddy? I just want them back home? Why did they go away?"

William felt a pang of guilt and sadness in his heart. His child was missing, his wife was constantly concerned about them both, and his son was currently sobbing his eyes out, all because of him.

"They'll be home soon, Mikey, I promise."

Michael nodded into the crook of William's neck.

William just hoped he was right.

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The Afton household got a phone call 6 days after you had left.

"Hello, Caroline Afton speaking."

"Yes, Mrs. Afton, this is Officer Burke. We found them."

Her eyes widened.

"Where are they?"

"They're in the hospital right now, we found them-"

She hung up the phone, rushing to put on her shoes and coat, and get William and Michael.

Barging into the basement, she found William tearing up old books that he had never read. Hair bedraggled, eyes red and puffy, he looked up.

"Good morning, love. Any news?"

"Yes, they're at the hospital. Go get the car started and I'll get Michael."

Her words and tone left no room for disagreement, and even if they did, William wouldn't have argued with her. He sprinted to get the car ready as his wife woke up his son.

At the hospital, your parents and brother looked at your sleeping form, your small body covered in bruises and cuts. Your mother's worry had increased tenfold upon seeing you, your father's guilt and self-loathing had as well.

Your older brother was just relieved to see you again. It didn't matter that the bed you were in wasn't your own. It didn't matter that you hadn't talked to him yet. All that mattered is that you were safe and that you were be back home soon. You would both play with his Gameboy and giggle through the walls in just a couple of days, all thanks to the nice Officer Burke that ruffled his hair outside.

Officer Burke was talking with your parents now, telling them that you had been found not too far from one of your elderly neighbor's houses. Mrs. Davidson was the one to recognize you and call the hospital, waiting there with you all night until Officer Burke could get your parents on the phone.

As Caroline thanked Officer Burke again, William just watched the scene playing out in front of him. Michael sat at your bedside talking to Mrs. Davidson, as you blearily opened your eyes. Michael's excitement was evident throughout the entire room.

"Dad! They're awake! Come on, come on!"

He followed Michael slowly, being sure not to scare you off again. He apologized profusely, promising to you and Michael both never to yell at either of you again.

He would be mad by himself from now on.

(sorry this is so fucking long, lmfao. I am finishing this at like 11:30 at night, bc I want to do it now, so I'm not gonna go back and fix any mistakes I made, I'm just gonna have to live with the embarrassment. Also, stop giving me angsty asks😠/lh /nm)

[jjkyaoi]

i’ve seen a couple people post their dsmp hot takes, so i figured i should post my own :]. throws this in the pit of hell

• I DON’T THINK DOOMSDAY WAS ACTUALLY THAT BADLY WRITTEN LOL

i mean i understand the criticism, but like to be honest it’s probably one of my favorite dsmp events. yes it frustrates me to hell and back due to the unfair disadvantage that everyone else a part of new l’manberg had , but honestly i think it captured a good like. feeling of heartbreak, and loss, and all the raw emotions that the characters felt as they mourned for l’manberg was really something that i liked about it! it wasn’t happy, it wasn’t fair, it was sad and frustrating and heartbreaking and that’s why i liked it lol!!! maybe i enjoy too much of these characters suffering /j, but even though i’m forever a l’manberg stannie, narratively, it had to go imo

• I DON’T LIKE C!TECHNO

I’ve been pretty open about this before but he is probably one of my Least favorite characters. i think there’s so much more that could be done with his character— there’s so much more that could be explored, but he’s so stubborn in his own views that aren’t even as unflawed as he thinks they are that he’s kind of at a character standstill. i don’t like the way he treats anarchy, because what he says is anarchy is not, and it’s just mindless violence in destruction while throwing that name on it in a misused way. ( one of the reasons why doomsday frustrates me so much). c!dream makes me incredibly uncomfortable, so c!techno’s continuous nonchalance and almost friendly banter with him even with the signs c!tommy showed that c!dream had done something bad to him in exile puts me off and is yet another reason why i just don’t like the guy

• DADSCHLATT IS TOXIC AND IT MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE

lmao okay, listen, from what we saw while c!tubbo was working under c!schlatt their relationship wasnt healthy. c!schlatt would constantly snap and yell and berate c!tubbo for no reason— and, if i remember correctly in one stream c!tubbo even hid from him in a closed off room— and not to mention that c!schlatt literally fucking publicly executed the kid, so the fact that the fandom took that and turned their relationship into a happy family thing has always made me wiiiiildly uncomfortable bc their relationship from what we’ve seen was not like that !! in the least !! i’ll accept dadschlatt as long as it’s not portrayed in a good way, anything else leave me Alone /hj /lh /nm

• I DON’T LIKE THE WHOLE “michael dying” scenarios

once again something about this fandom that makes me wildly uncomfortable, and maybe i’m being a baby about this but the whole “michael getting killed” or “c!ranboo killing tubbo” thing that went down in this fandom made me wildly uncomfortable, because even though it’s a literal minecraft mob the idea of somebody killing this kid that we’ve grown to recognize as a child— as somebody’s adoptive son, always made my fucking skin crawl dude lol. make ur angst scenarios but the idea of brutally killing a kid like that has always made me. eugh

• STOP MINIMIZING C!TUBBO DOWN TO ONE CHARACTER ASPECT.

we know that c!tubbo’s a really complex character, and so it’s strange to me that people always minimize him down to one character aspect and have that be his entire thing. like, first it was bees and now it’s just “boom boom nuke boy” you’re making him a one dimensional character when he’s way more beyond just a couple things he’s spoken about one or twice. he can be a bee boy and a nuke boy!!! he can be more than those two things!! he is more than those two things!! /nm

• ROMANTIC C!TNTDUO MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE

i know it’s just characters, but it’s still uncomfortable to me to see people shipping two characters together of cc’s who have both expressed their discomfort towards shipping in general— haven’t given their go ahead towards it. the “they’re so gay” jokes and writing or drawing smut of these two people together are completely different things and it just always makes me uncomfortable !! just make them friends!! i’m not here to control what u do ofc but that makes me :// eugh

• I DON’T CARE FOR THE SYNDICATE

maybe it’s because i don’t agree with their ideals, or maybe it’s also because they’ve been doing nothing but. chilling and hanging out and that’s why i can’t get emotionally invested in their plot— though it’s mostly because i don’t agree with their ideals whatsoever yes i’m stubborn— but i’ve never really cared for the syndicate. beyond c!ranboo. c!ranboo <3.

• I DON’T HAVE SYMPATHY FOR C!DREAM

what he’s going through is horrible, yes, and nobody should go through that, but his character makes me wildly uncomfortable so i don’t give a shit <3 i don’t have sympathy for child abusers. call me a horrible person . get nae naed on bozo 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💪🏼

[autistic--cryptid]

INFODUMP ABOUT UNDERTALE TO ME RIGHT NOW :O /POS

(about Anything At All idc if its rambly bullet points or anything pls im begging u this is lichrally my special interest cmon pleaseee /lh)

OKOK I WILL!!! /pos

cant put this under the cut on mobile so here’s your warning that this will b a very long post!!

random chara hearcanons + ramblings bc CHARA MY BELOVED!!!

i might be projecting but i hc that chara has depression and ptsd! we know they hated people bc of what asriel says during the epilogue, “I know why Chara climbed the mountain. It wasn't for a very happy reason. Frisk. I'll be honest with you. Chara hated humanity.” and i think they hate humanity so much bc of some trauma other people caused. chara is angry and upset, and probably starts to hate humanity more once they learn about all of the pain humans have caused monsters. they aren’t evil or mean, they’re traumatized and hate people because they’ve been hurt so many times

i like to think that chara is so close with asriel in part bc he was one of the first people they felt like they could fully trust. asriel was with them through everything, saved them, gave them a home, etc. i think chara loved him so much in part bc asriel was there for them when everyone else had hurt them

i think chara erases the world at the end of the genocide run because of frisk’s actions in that run and not bc they themselves are cruel. chara is smart, they know that a frisk who would kill all monsters would likely be interested in destroying things alongside chara. the way i see it, chara is angry. they had to watch frisk kill their friends and family, the monsters who took them in and protected them after they had been hurt so bad by humans. chara watched them hurt asriel after he cried and begged for them not to hurt him. they watched frisk reset over and over at every save point, trying to hard to kill everyone and everything and not stopping even when they themselves are struck down. and they don’t have a body anymore so they couldn’t do anything to stop it. genocide run frisk shows what chara hates in humanity: mercilessness and cruelity for the sake of cruelity. they want to get revenge on frisk and stop them from hurting alphys and the monsters who hid and escaped. they want to stop frisk from hurting people beyond the barrier. chara constantly says “just finish the job” throughout the run because they’re exhausted and can’t stand watching frisk hurt these monsters anymore, they just want everything to end. the reason they only come out at the end is fear, in part, and the fact that watching asriel be killed despite his cries and begs was the last thing they could take. when they say “it’s me, chara!” in the mirror in toriel’s home rather than “it’s you” i like to think it’s for a similar reason that sans says “pretend to be a human” to frisk, and for the same reason that some theorize he would make fake blood at the end of the battle with him. chara wants frisk to see another person, hoping maybe they’ll find some goodness and humanity. just like some theorize that sans would use ketchup as fake blood to make frisk see that they’re hurting people like themselves as well, chara wants frisk to see that frisk is human to remind them of any good humanity they might have. they aren’t evil and they aren’t seeing themselves in frisk’s actions, they’re trying to stop frisk from hurting everyone and trying to get revenge on frisk for the pain they’ve caused. the reason why you get a photo with chara and everyone’s faces crossed out or a chara nightmare when you finish a pacifist run after a genocide run is chara reminding frisk of the pain they caused and showing them that the atrocities they committed aren’t something they can just erase and move on from. chara just wants monsters to be happy and to be ok and they hate that once again a human has taken that happiness away from monsters, but they know a reset won’t stop frisk because they will just start over, so if they erase the world and take frisk’s soul for frisk to get it back they can hope that without that soul and determination frisk can’t reset anymore and thus no more genocide run, even though that ultimately isn’t the case. chara just wants to help monsters and they’re angry at her another human for hurting them

asriel says in the epilogue that chara wanted to hurt the humans in the village when they attacked asriel and them, but once again it’s not bc chara is evil or violent, it’s bc they were traumatized by humans and and this is like a fight response to those triggers, and also bc they wanted to protect asriel!!!

chara’s plan to collect 7 human souls as talked about in the tape was for the good of monsters, not so they could hurt humans. they wanted monsters to go free and to live a normal life with their monster family. when they say “our plan had failed, hadn’t it?” in the genocide run they’re referring to their goal of freeing and saving monsters, not like, killing the people that asriel wouldn’t fight. chara wanted to save monsters and to break the barrier, they didn’t want their soul to fuse with asriel because they knew that meant their soul couldn’t be one of the 7 to free monsters. when frisk killed the monsters in the genocide route it meant that monsters weren’t free or safe, their plan with asriel to free monsters from the underground and save them from the prison humans put them in had failed because once again a human had taken everything from them

on a lighter note, pacifist run chara narrates and translates for frisk! chara and frisk likely come from the same village seeing as they’re both able to just go up the mountain and see what’s there, so they probably know the same form of sign language. frisk is mute and signs things to chara, who translates over the phone for them. they also describe everything around frisk since they’ve lived there before and know what everything is while frisk doesn’t know. when they don’t know what to say, they describe stuff! they probably aren’t sure what to make of the mettaton fight since they’ve never seen mettaton ex before, so they say “smells like mettaton”. they don’t know about the amalgamates so they say “smells like sweet lemons” during your fight with lemon bread

the mummy wrappings in the red soul coffin were for chara. asriel removed them from their coffin and carried them off to the village before those supplies could’ve been used. when he brought chara back in after they were attacked, toriel took them out to the flower bed in the ruins where they initially landed to give them a propel burial, and then chose to live in the ruins specifically to take care of chara. chara is buried under the flowers right at the start of the ruins which is why asriel refuses to leave in the epilogue and says “someone has to take care of these flowers.” it’s also in part why toriel is so sad and lonely, being in the ruins and visiting her child daily makes her remember the pain she felt losing chara and asriel and it makes her extra worried about losing frisk and the other humans. through visiting chara like this, both asriel and toriel can see them and talk to them even though they’re mostly gone

asriel and chara were the ones who left those echo flower messages about wishes. chara was the one who laughed and said “it’s just funny, that’s my wish too”

just like kris, chara also had little red horns. chara didn’t like that they were human since they hated humans, but loved monsters and wished they were one. asriel made them little paper horns to be more monster-like, and eventually toriel sewed them an pair and put it on a headband so they could stay on their head

not really a headcanon or theory, just a note. there’s lots of similarities between kris and chara: red eyes, knives, portrayed as “strange”, likes to scare other people (kris hiding under noelle’s bed and putting ketchup on their arms to scare her, and chara doing their creepy face to asriel in the tape—they likely did it before cause asriel had to have known what it was so there’s nothing saying they only do it when asked by asriel), a bit secluded and like to be alone (toriel is no longer upset with kris when she finds out they didn’t answer her calls bc they were with a friend, chara is only ever shown or talked about in relation to asriel or their parents), both kind of get rid of their soul in some way (kris removes their soul and chara like died to give their soul to the monsters), both have similar outfits (although kris looks more like frisk in their face and hair), very close to their asriel, both like monsters, both have mostly obscured eyes until the ending of the game, etc.

chara can only verbally talk to frisk, but they can talk through the phone, similar to how asriel spoke to frisk on the phone at the end of the true lab even though he didn’t have his soul back then and was still a flower, and similar to how you can understand the memory head amalgamate when you use your phone. frisk is one of the few people who can hear their voice irl

chara can verbally talk with mettaton, mew mew, and nabstablook since they were all once ghosts/are ghosts. mettaton sometimes helps chara to speak and to appear to crowds bc they can use his microphones to speak since that’s technology and chara can use his advice to show their own incorporeal form more clearly. chara and nabstablook get along very well as shy ghosts who are best friends with their family

chara and frisk become best friends in pacifist runs :3 frisk returns the the underground sometimes to talk to asriel and lets chara speak to him while they visit through their phone, and eventually chara convinces asriel to come back with them and to live with them again (yes i know this isn’t possible in canon shhhhhhh)

chara is autistic and has adhd. they also have chronic pain and use a cane as a result of their chronic pain and bc of a long lasting injury they sustained from falling into the underground, or they float as a ghost

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consciousness streaming ! (i love saying this it just makes everything sound more dramatic, like it's out of a medieval times movie idk)

but anyway, i have finished reading inffqth

and altho im not crying anymore, i did cry through like, chapters, 10 to 12, maybe more in 11 and 12, but specially 11

i said this dream was beautiful, and i still mean it, probs even more now that i saw him completely, i have like, a list with my favorite dream's in fanfics and urs just kicked everybody to be number one

this george too,,, god how much i wanted to fight him, at some point i said out loud how i was gonna take that "stupid" box of feeling and throw it on a river so he finally opens up, but honestly, i probs got mad at him bcs he was taking decisions i would have also taken

when he was talking abt how he was too much and nobody wanted that, i was like "ok well no need to attack me like that"

but im so happy they got to solve it in a non tiring way? like usually the communication just goes the wrong way or never happens and it gets so frustrating, like just TALK alr pls

+ very random but when this scene happened

—"George," Dad says with a nod.

—"Dad," he says back, "Drive safe." Another nod,

LISTEN I, i wanted to be petty, i wanted george to say "Jim." just out of spite, ik it doesn't change a lot but in my way of seeing it it would have been funny but petty iguess

i have like, many more screenshots of the story, since i cant ever reread a whole fic cus i hate knowing what's gonna happen, but at the same time i love rereading bits of it so pictures it is, kinda sad i can't like, send them here all marked up like they do with printed-out books, i like doing that a lot

ALSO, gotta give the biggest kudo's trophy to kate, even though she was the one making me cry cus jfc why is she such a nice and healthy mom, she was so understanding and caring and god, building her a pedestal, she deserves it

i think ur way of writing a parent k worded me, reading kate just suddenly made me think of these exact dream and george as parents and my brain shut down, i really thought "god a kid fic of scoops would totally destroy me" (i am very weak for kid fics, have a soft spot for them)

now i am probably gonna read iwywah, (cus i realized ive read everything else of urs thats dnf and that's the only fic left) and ill probs cry again, who knows,

scoops just really going for that "makes readers cry" trophy smh /lh

anyway, again, thank u for writing this

also saw that u mentioned u have a friend that's like this dream and im so happy for u!! u seem to be deserving of lots of nice things, sending love to u guys :] <3

I almost forgot to answer you because i was just staring in wonder at this ask--I love it!

Chapter 11 was a doozy, don't blame you for crying there. lots of growth and realizations and decisions. I'm so glad you still love my Dream. As for George here, I'll admit, he's hard to love for a while, but that's mostly because I see myself in him so much (like you said, same decisions I would make) and I want to bang his head against a wall (or in this case, his mother).

The thing about his dad in this fic-- like chapter 11 got completely re-written because it disappear on me, yeah? well, the original chapter dealt way more with his dad. George and Neve go straight to Brighton first instead of London to Kate, and George has an awkward encounter with the new lady friend where we realize, she's just a woman and just as messed up about all this as everyone else and it really humanized his dad and the whole situation but when is got deleted, I was like okay this is a sign. This story is not about George's family that much, like it's about Dream and George getting together and this is a fun side trip and sheds more light on things, but at the end of the day, we didn't need that light.

I think it's so cute you screenshot your favorite parts! My friend (the dream friend) does this and every once in awhile will send me an unhinged screenshot from a fandom im not in and it takes me out.

I love Kate in this fic, she's my fave. I'm proud of how she turned out and how real she seems. Definitely not perfect (in the epilogue where she tells everyone but george about the guy she's dating--proof that it's harder to change than we realize, but she apologizes to george and makes it right), but the kind of adult I want to be as I age--not afraid of life but living it. I guess I did some projecting there.

If I ever write a kid fic, I will count on your kudos, lol. I've thought about a non-traditional one but I'm not ready to commit yet.

Let me know how you like "Accomplice" I uh think you're going to have some more family feels in that one. I think i have themes I like to explore.

Thank you for your beautiful message--sending you all the positive vibes and good things <3