#still dunno if these constitute as headcanons at times

[affluent-havoc]

Naegamigiri/Naegirigami/Tonaegiri/ BEACH DATE

Beach time! Gang at the beach together! Here’s what they get up to!

Here's Byakuya staring into the void while Makoto and Kyoko flirt in the background.

Some Naegiri. Makoto's really happy to be here.

And here's an epic showdown.

Though, in all honestly, they didn't really get up to much during their time at the beach. Just a few things but nothing too crazy. And they ensured it was moslty just them there. No way Byakuya's going out to the beach around a bunch of people. Same with Kyoko to be fair. Byakuya and her are introvert gang for life. Also, Byakuya DID pretend to read a magazine for a while cus he "didn't wanna interact with anyone". He was just being dramatic though. Sometimes he likes playing hard to get because he finds Makoto's insistence on trying to hang out with him to be cute. Byakuya's not willingly admitting that though! But, anyway, they didn't get up to TOO many shenanigans. Like, they have their fun but it's mostly just chill. Besides, after a while Kyoko and Byakuya went on a bit of a tangent about beach worms and Makoto got a bit scared. Yeah... Kyoko and Byakuya don’t really trust the sand as much as Makoto does. or well, did. Let's just say that Makoto's got a new fear in his arsenal. Yay!

Though, legit, after they did an info dump about beach worms burrowing in people's dirty dogs, Makoto was just like "Yeaaaah... I think we can leave the beach now". No worries though! Kyoko and Byakuya make up for it by getting Makoto some ice-cream and just going to one of Byakuya’s holiday mansions with an indoor pool. None of them really swam that much but they all got something out of it so it’s all good!

[s3a-s1ug]

Enkivaldr parent headcanons

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ANON REQUEST- unfortunately I couldn’t find the ask in my notifs so sorry abt that :[ anyhoo finally got this one out! Sorry it took a while tho lmao- hope you guys enjoy it tho!! >:]

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-Enki would definitely start off as barely interacting with the two while they started living together after escaping the dungeons. But that gets difficult when they literally live together

- he’s honestly not sure what to do cuz he usually spends his time alone. So he tries to steer clear of them but that plan blows

- Ragnvaldr encourages him to hang out with the girl a bit. He might as well because they’re staying together. He’s not the most enthusiastic about the idea to say the least

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“Tch well I’m not her parent am I?”

“Ja ,Enki , I know but I think you should at least try… maybe you could- I dunno…”

A small silence is in which Enki didn’t break eye contact while Ragnvaldr thought

“Oh! I know! Maybe you could read her some or your book to her? Maybe before she goes to bed, ja?”

“Hmph I hardly think ancient ritual text and dark magic could constitute as bedtime stories” he said in a snark tone

“Well just find something, okej?”

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- so yeah ENKI READS THE GIRL BEDTIME STORIES JSJSJEJK

- He reads her things like stories about the gods or maybe share some excerpts from his own research

- She doesn’t understand it too well so she sometimes asks occasional questions during his reading and he answers [he secretly loves to answer her questions]

- Sometimes he gets so envied in what he’s reading aloud he doesn’t even realize that she’s fallen asleep. His heart melts a bit when he sees her. He says goodnight and leaves quietly

- Ragnvaldr is so genuinely happy about this. Whenever Enki comes out of her room and goes to Ragnvaldr he has the biggest smile on his face

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“What are you gawking at!?” He snapped

“Nothing, stjärnljus, just happy” He replied warmly

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- They would also go on nature walks together JSKSJ- although it does take some convincing to get Enki to actually go outside

“Come on Enki just for a bit. If not for me then for the girl.”

“I understand but I must finish my research”

“Yes but it has been…days since you’ve been outside, ja? You are kind of like a -how do you say…a vampire.”

“A vamp…” he cut himself off processing what Ragnvaldr just said “I’m not even going to dignify that with a serious response…” yet he still pondered and then sighed “fine maybe your right- not about the vampire part- but I might need to go outside for a bit”

“That’s the spirit!”

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- The all walk together. The girl LOVES going outside for walks. He loves running through fields and finding animals with Ragnvaldr. And looking under rocks to find all sorts of bugs with Enki.

- Seeing the two be so interested in the same thing and bonding over it make Ragnvaldr SO HAPPY

- On a good day, if they’re walking down a path together, Ragnvaldr stands on one side of the girl holding her hand and Enki holds her other on the opposite side

- Ragnvaldr even show her some simple hunting and fishing techniques. Enki takes mental notes of everything he’s saying

-Enki slowing but surely warms up to him and the girl and seems genuinely content with both of their company. Even if he doesn’t like to admit it. But Ragnvaldr knows that he has a soft spot for the girl

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I had so much fun with this! JSKSJSJ this was so wholesome omg

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[the-rule-of-beasts]

OK so this is a bit specific but headcanons for scrybes with someone who has to take medication daily? Who has a little trouble remembering to take them? (can be purely platonic) I feel like grimora would be the type to have tea ready for you before you have to take your pills as a way of reminding you and making sure you have something to take them with. The others I dunno tho.

*points at this ask* THIS!! ANON!! ANON YOU'RE A GENIUS!!

As someone who has to take pills daily and often forgets I--- this is amazing and I have no choice but to thank you profusely

Leshy

Perhaps surprisingly, he's really good at reminding you to take your medicine. He's a creature of habit, and he's found that your routine has become HIS routine.

Romantic or not, he makes sure you're up at the right time, he gets you some water, and he just watches as you take them.

He'd set them up for you too, but he's terrified of accidentally fumbling and dropping something or messing up a dosage.

I feel like he'd be a bit to nervous to help you with injections if that was one of your things- he's already terrified enough of hurting you, the idea of stabbing you with a needle doesn't sit very well with him.

But he's happy to be moral support if you need it!!

He's always really curious about your medicine, but he doesn't want to push in case it's a touchy subject for you.

He tries his very best to make sure you have something to eat as well if you need it, though he is still learning what constitutes a good snack for humans. A for effort at least!!

Overall- very gentle about it. He has a habit of treating you like glass, and that'll extend to reminding you to take care of yourself. He isn't above force-feeding you if you ever fight him on it though.

You're taking your medicine, and you're going to LIKE IT

Grimora

Anon, you are absolutely correct about Grimora. She's the kind of person who gets all of your medicine ready for you all nice and tidy with a cup of your favorite tea. She'll usually have something light for you to snack on as long, maybe a biscuit or little slice of cake- maybe a sliced up apple or little bowl of berries. Whatever you like!

She basically has a timer that goes off in her head for when you need to take your medicine, she has never once been late in gently reminding you or just,,, bringing it to you on a cute little platter.

Unlike Leshy, if injections are one of the things you have to deal with, she is more than happy to help you out with those- or just do it for you! She's hardly squeamish, and she's?? Frankly scarily good at it?? Like,, you don't feel a thing when she does them for you, it's spooky

Overall she is also very gentle and sweet about it, and hopefully it isn't my bias showing through but I think she'd be the best with helping you out with that sort of thing.

Also not above forcing you to take your medicine if you fight her on it, though definetly less violent than Leshy. More gentle pestering than like,, the same vibes of making a dog take a pill they don't wanna take.

Magnificus

So the thing about Mags is that he's also?? A bit forgetful?? He's usually got like, twenty other things on his mind at any given time, but!! He does his best!!

I'd like to think he keeps a little journal to keep things straight in his head, so he usually tries to make a note on his schedule to remind you about it. Something like 'make breakfast, study, remind the Challenger to take their medicine'

It's honestly kind of sweet, he does his best to remember the little things, despite how difficult it can be for him.

He isn't the type to set things up for you I don't think, just a gentle reminder and then double checking a little bit later to see if you did remember. It's not that he doesn't trust himself to do it right, it's just that you know the procedure better than he could.

He would also be willing to help you out with injections. He's not quite as good at them as Grimora is, there's still that little pinch and a bit of bleeding, but he still helps! He'd definitely check in with you the whole time and apologize if he hurt you too bad though.

Overall- as good about reminding you as he can be!! He cares enough about you to try and remember to get you to take care of yourself, so that in and of itself is an accomplishment if you ask me!

Wouldn't force you to take your medicine if you refused, though he would sigh and look pretty disappointed. Disappointed Mags isn't the best Mags

P03

He's also surprisingly good at reminding you. But unlike Grimora who has a figurative alarm that goes off on her head, it has a literal alarm that it has set that goes off, out loud, every day, on the dot.

It'll either just sort of look at you, like 'you know what that means, Challenger' or they'll find you, get up real close and flatly go "Take your medicine."

It's effective, I'll say that at least. Though he's certainly lacking in bedside manner.

Once again I cannot stress enough- it isn't for lack of caring! Not at all!! He cares a whole lot- he's just a little BASTARD and they're incapable of showing any proper emotion.

They don't set it up for you, though they'd be lying if they said they hadn't thought about it. It's just the issue of not really having a dexterous hand, so he's worried about dropping or breaking something. Secret sweetheart I tell you!!

He unfortunately won't help you with injections, once again because he just?? Can't really?? He doesn't trust himself enough to allow himself to poke you with anything sharp and potentially breakable. They're happy to lend their support though!!

Surprisingly, he tends to try and make sure that you eat something and get enough water fo you to feel at your best. I feel like he'd maybe even swallow his pride and go to Grimora or someone to get some pre-made food for you to eat.

He genuinely cares about you a lot, he just has a lot of trouble showing it. He'd definitely be one to be fantastic about reminding you, just a little lackluster in the caring aspect. He's trying though!!

He would also be one to force you to take your medicine. He's in the middle of Leshy in Grimora- he's not above a bit of manhandling, but he's not gonna like,, force your mouth open or anything.

Overall a solid 7/10, it's doing its very best

[cattles-bians]

'our exes are dating' damie AU part 2

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em: jamies like, sitting w her head in her hands wearing big stompy boots and flannel going god dani our exes are dating. we’re Stereotypes (danis like well. i will hold my tongue about the outfit but technically their exes are also dating)

obsetress: "what about my outfit?" "nothing baby, you look very cute”

obsetress: ok but dani and jamie finding out rebecca and vi are dating and jamie's immediately calling owen like "mate."

em: i am so thinking of making the bly manor au version of The Chart from the l word

em: owens like who haven’t u dated at this point n jamies like oi (quietly) u know i get nervous around girls

em: owen we can’t ALL be Married to hannah grose

obsetress: jamie can't stand vi most of the time like you said but she definitely had a drunken one night stand with perdita

obsetress: they were both young and lonely and had something to prove

obsetress: ok but imagine vi and rebecca are having some holiday party at their fancy ass apartment and dani and jamie are showing up and perdita is there and viola's like "dani, you remember my sister. jamie, this is–– jamie? perdi? are you okay?”

obsetress: perdita pulling vi aside later and hissing "that's her! that... jamie, that's her" "who?" "that... that girl i told you about, vi, the one who––" "the one who insisted on buying you breakfast but then never called you back?" “yes"

em: jamie......

obsetress: she wants to be so nice and so soft but then…

obsetress: also they stayed over at perdi's and she was sober enough the next morning to realize what a trust fund baby flat looks like

em: jamie viola acquaintances to enemies to. nope still enemies

jamie: dunno what the fuss was about. not like i stole anything

dani: sorry what

dani: why would you even think... did you?

jamie: what? don’t be ridiculous.

jamie: i cut that shit out years ago

obsetress: in vi and rebecca's lavishly furnished guest bedroom later that night…

dani, whispering: we could, you know

jamie, half asleep next to her: wot

dani: steal something. they wouldn't miss it

jamie: dani, we can't just––

dani: that print over there is nice though, isn't it?

dani: would look nicer at ours

em: the most illegal thing dani has done is smoke a joint so she’s READY

obsetress: she is ITCHING obsetress: anyway they absolutely take it and the next time vi and rebecca come to theirs for "a quaint, country weekend" viola doesn't even notice, but rebecca squints at it for a minute

em: sjhfjsh,afasf

obsetress: be gay, do crime -dani clayton, probably

obsetress: new crack headcanon: dani always trying to rope jamie into doing benign little gay crimes with her

obsetress: smoking a joint, stealing vi and rebecca's print, stealing owen's veggies

em: jamies like babe u know i’ve. been to prison right. i don’t really want to- and danis like no i only mean SMALL crimes

em: Funny Crimes

em: jamies like oh well actually i love fucking with viola i’m in

obsetress: the only thing that could convince jamie

obsetress: jamie's like "what if we replace viola's green tea with that silly detox green tea" and dani is just like

obsetress: "i see you trying and i love you so much for that"

em: i am wheezing at ‘what if we gave viola laxatives’

dani: she has a delicate constitution she’d know Immediately

jamie: (eating some suspiciously old leftovers) rich people are fucked

em: jamie: i’m gonna rearrange her books

obsetress: dani visibly cringes

obsetress: ”don't tell me that's gonna bother you too" "i–– nO"

em: full on greenhouse scene pphht. no?!

obsetress: flashback to: dani and viola rearranging her library for fun on a rainy day

em: jamie: i’m gonna buy cleanskin wine and put expensive labels on it

dani: now THATS funny

obsetress: full on jamie taylor bootlegging operation

[later edit: cleanskin wine is an Australian/New Zealand term for cheap unlabelled wine.]

obsetress: jamie: look, dani, you went from bootlicker to bootlegger

dani: hey!

em: relabelling garbage wine for fun and profit

em: viola does that wine sniffing thing and she’s like mm. do i detect some notes of willow. a lovely cultivar and damie are trying. so hard not to lose it

obsetress: rebecca side eying the two of them

obsetress: what is friendship if not just exes fucking with each other

em: so true bestie

obsetress: omg final thought before i ptfo on the book rearranging

obsetress: when they were together dani def suggested to vi that she organize her shelves by color and viola just stared at her in horror

obsetress: ”i know americans are illiterate dani, but really?" "and i know the british are notorious snobs, but seriously?"

obsetress: (it is not as toxic as it sounds. they're mostly just snarking at each other and end up kissing against a bookcase like half a minute later)

obsetress: and just. imagine how happy viola is when rebecca moves in with her massive collection of russian poetry volumes and automatically just starts slotting them in in alphabetical order by author's last name

obsetress: vs. at dani and jamie's where jamie just leaves books where she leaves them and lets dani take care of the rest

em: at mike don’t worry we will meaningfully flesh out ur side characters

audacity: anyway I'm slipping away from work for 1 minute to say leftist jamie and liberal vi still lives in my head rent fucking free thanks to y'all because it's literally—

audacity: i am kindly asking it to stay In My Head

em: ‘liberal vs leftist ding ding ding round one fight’ has been RUNNING around my head

em: viola saying landlords provide a valuable service wrt housing and resources and dani has to HOLD jamie back

audacity: vi: capitalism is an important aspect of our society since it provides much-needed inspiration for the working class—

obsetress: five times jamie and viola got into a fight at their standing damvibecca biweekly dinner and one time they didn’t

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em: i wanna believe jamie and viola realise they both have an incredibly niche interest in common, and jamie HATES this (violas like oh ho ho i have charmed this jamie taylor, she absolutely has not) but i can’t figure out what the fuck the interest would be

em: maybe maybe some intersection of storytelling and folklore and ghost stories but i cannot figure it out

obsetress: jamie hates it but suddenly she’s been talking to viola about rural hauntings in northern england and viola’s been talking to her about rural hauntings in southern england and two hours have gone by

em: dani: it’s nice to see you guys get along :)

jamie: ……… >:/

[kailedger]

for all the YOI fanfic author, p.2

Oh wow, let me tell you, I really didn't expect the previous post on Russian culture to blow up ahaha (Here’s the link to it, in case you’re wondering: https://kailedger.tumblr.com/post/621351027189350400/for-all-the-yoi-fanfic-authors) But since it did, I decided to make a part two, sort of? It's not gonna be about mistakes in fanfiction, but more about things English-speaking authors don't mention simply because they don't know they exist.

I’ll give you the general info and then maybe throw some thoughts about how specific YOI characters would relate to that info in my personal opinion.

HOLIDAYS. We have a lot of those TBH, but I'll mention the most important ones - the ones for which we have official days off. I mean, yeah, you can find a list of those in Wikipedia, if you want, but it doesn't actually tell you the reality of things. I've already mentioned the New Year in the previous post, so let’s skip it.

23rd of February is the Defender of the Fatherland Day. It's actually for those who served in the army, but the tradition is to congratulate everyone who's male. Must have something to do with the fact that on 8th of March we have an International Women's Day, when we congratulate everyone who's female. Doesn't really make sense to me, since, you know, there are women in the army too. And a lot of men haven't served a day in their life, what the hell do I have to thank them for? (Here's an example: my dad used to be in the navy, submarine's captain actually, and every year when I congratulate him, he says something along the lines of "Why? There was no war conflict when I served". That's him being humble, but still, the point is there).

ANYWAY! We're not very big on celebrations of these two holidays, most of the time you just give a call to your respective male/female friends and relatives, give flowers to the ladies and just... enjoy your day off?

 Next one is the May holidays. Those are usually on the 1-3 of May, the official name (as Wiki states) is "The Day of Spring and Labour". Honestly, no one uses it lol We just say "the first May holidays" (since we also have the second, that's how much we don't wanna work in May; kinda ironic the holiday is called "the day of labour").

You don't congratulate anyone on this day, usually you just have a couple of days off. If we're lucky, the weather would be nice and then people go to the countryside to have a (oh my god, this is gonna be a mouthful) SHASHLYKI. We'll get back to this thing, and you know why? Since if you want someone to embrace the real Russian culture, you would make them go to shashlyki, trust me.

 The second May holiday is the Victory Day, and it's kinda... controversial in a way. It is a big celebration for the victory in World War II. Soviet Union suffered a lot during the war with the Nazi Germany, St. Petersburg was under the siege for more than TWO YEARS. And this holiday is both somber and happy since thanks to our ancestors we survived this hell and are now able to live in peace. The celebration is pretty big on official levels - there are military parades everywhere, concerts, people thank the war veterans (there are precious few of them left by now). When I was still in school, they made us visit those parades every year. Guess what? I've never been to a single parade since I graduated. It's not that I don't value the heroism of people who fought in WWII, it's that I think our government uses this holiday to brag how great we are (or, rather, THEY are), 'cause they haven't done anything worth of praise since 1945, which is... depressing, when you think of it. The ridiculous thing is the parade was canceled this year due to coronavirus, but GUESS WHAT? They've used BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to still have it on 24th of June. While the rate of people getting sick is still abnormally high. All because on the 1st of July we're having a vote on the constitution amendments and our government needs an extra boost in patriotism from our people (should I mention some of the amendments are homophobic? Yeah, it sucks).

Well... that was a rant completely offtopic lol. But, you know, this is the opinion of the most people below the age of 35. Also a huge problem here in Russia. Anyway, as I was saying. Used to be a really great holiday where we thanked the veterans and were reminded of the price they paid. Now it's just a sad excuse for the government to waste money sigh

So, a day off. Some fireworks, a hell lot of traffic problems due to parades. Not much else, if you're from the younger generation.

 Same thing goes to the 12th of June. Officially a "Russia Day", but since up until the point I graduated from the uni I had summer holidays, I barely even acknowledged the holiday, cause I didn't have to study/work anyway. So like... I lived my whole life here in Russia, and I have no idea why we celebrate this holiday on the 12th of June. I can google it right now, but that kind of would contradict my point here lol.

The last one is on the 3-4 of November. I think it's called something like "Unity Day", but, again, no idea why. Most of the time we just call it "the November holidays" or even "fall holidays". Honestly, most of the time we just care about the days off, especially if the holiday is supposed to be "patriotic". (When I put it like this, we kinda sound like assholes. Probably cause we are lol).

Birthdays mainly depend on the specific person. I used to love my birthdays and it was a big holiday for me when I was a kid, but then I turned 18 and it kinda lost its charm. You still celebrate it, especially if the date is something like 30, 35, 40, 45 and so on. But it gets less and less exciting over the years. I gather my friends at home and just have drinks, my fiance goes to a bar on his birthday. Not very... celebratory, ya know?

So. YOI characters. ALL OF THEM would definitely celebrate New Year. They would probably send some congratulations on 23rd of February and 8th of March. It you think of the Russian rinkmates as friends, they can go the countryside together on the first May holidays, but not actually do anything on the Victory Day (Yakov may attend the parade since he’s from the older generation). Nothing specific to do on 12th of June or November holidays, most likely the rink would be closed, so, like, just a day off.

  And now to the important stuff. SHASHLYKI. Oh my god guys, I’m so excited, cause this is one of those things that is AWESOME in Russian culture. And also makes most of the foreigners really confused. But it has some similarities with the American barbeque gatherings, I think.

First of all, many of us live in big cities (like I live in St. Petersburg for example), but we still have countryside houses. Sometimes it’s where our grandparents live, sometimes we buy it specifically. The thing is – we usually go to these places we call “dacha” to have some rest from the noise of the big city and enjoy the fresh air. Usually dachas have gardens, my mom is crazy about all this greenery stuff (I personally don’t see what’s the big deal with taking care of the plants, but I was told it comes with age ;D).

And to enjoy the experience even more we have shashlyki. It’s usually grilled meat (chicken, pork, whichever you prefer) and vegetables, but the process is what makes it really fun. Most families have their own recipes for marinated meat, you prepare it beforehand. Then, on the day, you make some snacks (salted pickles and fresh vegetables come to my mind immediately; pickles are like a must-have, it’s almost an obligatory food since it goes really well with vodka lol). While some of the people sit around the table, have drinks and catch up, there’s usually one person responsible for grilling meat. And this process is very important – it’s gotta be cooked on the brazier with actual flame (or, more like, coals). You put pieces of meat on a metallic skewer and then grill it (I think there’s the word “kebab”, but we usually use it to describe an entirely different meal, so, shashlyk it is). And let me tell you – having a freshly grilled shashlyk with some vegetables and a drink like wine (or vodka if you’re into it) is the best feeling in the world.

So you’re enjoying the fresh air, really tasty meal, have some drinks with family or/and friends. A pretty common thing (not for everyone, but I personally love it) is having someone play the guitar and sing songs around the campfire. The songs we sing are usually either stupid or old, and you would never just casually listen to those on your own, but when the time comes and you sit with the guitar, somehow EVERYONE knows the lyrics. The point is to have fun, not make a concert out of it :)

I actually think that Victor and the rest of the gang would at least try to give Yuuri (and other non-Russians, who knows) this kind of experience. I also headcanon someone (Otabek or maybe Victor himself) knowing how to play the guitar. But I wouldn’t trust Victor with the grilling, honestly, it requires a lot of attention, and… well… you all know what Victor is like ;D

  And since we’re on the topic of music, let’s discuss it. Me and a dear friend of mine @clarie-foster, who also happens to be both Russian and a YOI fan, had a lot of headcanons on this.

What you need to know, is when it comes to music, here in Russia we’re pretty flexible. The popular music is the one you can here everywhere, it’s on European and American charts, like, I dunno, Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Gaga etc. There’s Russian pop-music and, honestly, it sucks lol. Most of the time I listen to it cause it’s dumb and catchy. There are some good artists, of course, I can throw you a couple of name bands like “Ночные Снайперы”, “Сплин”, “Би-2”, but the songs are in Russian, and although the lyrics are pretty damn good, they’re kinda hard to understand if you don’t know the language (I mean, just reading the translation won’t give you the whole experience). And those bands are… depressing? In a way? Not that the songs are extremely dark or something, but you kind of listen to those in a melancholic mood. Me and one of my best friends used to go out on the balcony in summer, sit wrapped in a blanket and listen to those songs. Great experience, if a little sad.

BUT. There’s the old pop-music. We have some of those artists, who were really popular when my parents were young and somehow still popular these days. Their music is honestly average – the tunes might be catchy, the lyrics are mediocre at best, but… when you have a little bit to drink, you get in that mood, where you start singing those old pop-songs. And it’s not like listening to ABBA or, I don’t know, A-ha, since those are classic and still good these days. Russian pop-songs SUCK, they’re horrible, but somehow that is the best kind of music when you’re drunk.

I personally think Victor is one of those people who would totally jam to the old Russian pop. It’s funny, since most of it is from female singers (There’s literally a song from a Russian singer Irina Allegrova called “Go crazy, wild empress”, no kidding). I just can picture him so clearly being drunk and singing those old songs with abandon lol.

Mila would probably join him while laughing hysterically. Georgi too, since he’s a drama queen. And Yuri would make all kinds of disgusted faces.

 Two facts which I have never seen being mentioned in fanfiction, which is really weird. So Victor lives in St. Petersburg, as we all saw from those last scenes in the anime (in the background you can see actual places from St. P like our sports stadium). And St. Petersburg is mostly known for two things: bridges and white nights.

WHITE NIGHTS OH MY GOD. I don’t want to go to deep into the details since I don’t really understand the nature of this thing (something to do with sun not really going down? I dunno), but in summer, especially in June and July it basically doesn’t get dark in St. Petersburg. I mean, the sun does go down, you can see the sunset and everything, but the sky stays like… white-grey, almost as though it’s midday, just cloudy. Like we’re in the middle of white nights right now, and the darkest hour is around 1 am, but even then it doesn’t really get dark at all. A lot of people from other cities and countries get confused by it, like, there was this time when Stephen Colbert was a guest on a Russian talk-show and he had a hilarious convo with the host. It was something like this: “So I’ve been in St. Petersburg for one day. It has lasted for 46 hours. Please tell me if the sun will ever go down, ‘cause I’m going crazy”.

For us common people white nights can get really annoying, if your curtains are not black-out, you can have a hard time falling asleep (since, you know, it’s too freaking bright outside). But it’s actually really great for late-night walks and is considered really romantic.

And, speaking of romantic, the bridges! What’s so special about those, you’d think. So St. Petersburg is built on the river Neva – it’s like really big, has a lot of tributaries and distributaries and flows through the whole city. Hence why we have tons of bridges.

And those bridges are drawing bridges, meaning they are separated in the middle by a special mechanism and are being lifted in the air so that the trade ships can pass underneath them. The most impressive one is the Palace Bridge – it’s one of the main sightseeing spots in the city. For most tourists it’s obligatory to visit St. Petersburg and see the drawing of the Palace Bridge. It happens at night, around the time of 1 am or 2 am. It’s really pretty, cause there are lights everywhere, you can see the ships passing by and the view of this huge structure being lifted in the air is really magnificent. Combine it with the white nights and you’ll have one of the most romantic dates you can have here in Russia.

(On the more realistic and depressing note: despite the drawing of the bridges being really beautiful, it’s SUCH a pain in the ass for the regular people. Like, because of the drawing you can’t really get from one side of the city to another. For example, I live in the northern part and if for some reason I couldn’t get to it from the center of the city before the drawing of the bridges, I’m stuck till like 4 or 5 am. Subway only opens at 6 am, and although we have a couple of bridges which never draw, those are on the outskirts of the city, so taking an uber and driving there would cost you a lot of money and also would take like and extra hour or so. Thankfully, the drawing of the bridges lasts only from April to October-November, while the ship navigation on the Neva river is possible).

Last, but not least, SOCIAL MEDIA.

So, like, Instagram is pretty popular in Russia and so is Twitter. But what people rarely mention is our own social media site – Vkontakte (www.vk.com, if you’re interested). It started to become popular in like… 2008, I think? Basically it used to be and knock-off from Facebook, even the color scheme is the same. It became more and more popular over the years, since Facebook was never really a thing in Russia (like, I had a profile there, but I’ve never used it). Now it’s like… if you don’t have a VK profile, it’s super weird lol. I communicate with most of my friends through it, since it has a lot of really cool features: chats, group chats, communities, music, videos and photos. It’s gotten so big that VK even hosts its own music festival each year with a lot of popular Russian artists.

Victor is a social butterfly, so he would definitely have a VK profile. So would Mila, Yuri and Georgi, I personally think most of their communication would be through it. Maybe they would even force Yuuri to create a profile, but he’s not really into social media much, so he wouldn’t really use it.

 I think that’s it for now. Like I said, if you have any questions, feel free to ask, I would be happy to answer! ;)

[enbyboiwonder]

Speedle, Eric, Cisco and Eddie Thawne!

Give me a character, and I’ll break their ass down

Tim Speedle

How I feel about this character:

God, I love this sassy, sarcastic little shit. The moment he cut himself off in that worry-fueled speech he had prepared for Eric about the dangers of staying in the water too long in the pilot, I was sold. There was no turning back. And I only came to love him more as I watched more of the series, and still more with every episode I rewatch. Also, I love him even more fiercely for every person who doesn’t understand him.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

In descending order (for once, I can rank these no problem! Though that will not be true of the others), there’s:

Eric Delko

Ryan Wolfe

Greg Sanders

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

I love his canon relationship with Eric the most, but since I also ship them, it doesn’t count, so... Alexx Woods and Calleigh Duquesne.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

tbh I thought that my headcanon that he has ADHD (which is totally true) would be an unpopular opinion, but that was probably just my anxiety talking. Everyone I’ve talked to about it (who are admittedly few, granted, but still statistically significant) have received it well, so.

I guess... that he does actually care? People seem to take his line about his job as a CSI merely being a paycheck to heart, despite that there are multiple instances where it’s obvious he cares. God, would someone who doesn’t care have taken Wally under his wing like that, and blamed himself when the kid committed suicide? No, no I’m not getting into this now, this deserves its own post, but he is so far from unaffected that it’s not even funny. This boy cares, so much. Whenever someone says he doesn’t, I have to think, Are we even watching the same show?

One thing I wish had happened with this character in canon:

That they hadn’t friggin’ killed him off! They could have had him survive the shooting and then resign to do something else. Becoming a cop/CSI is something that he just kinda fell into, anyway; he might not have minded being one (he has always wanted to help people), but it wasn’t what he wanted to be, he just kept with it because, yes, it pays the bills, but also the science is something he likes and is good at, and he can help people with this job, even if at times it’s only finding closure for the loved ones of the victims. He could have, say, become a social worker like his mother, or even gone back to school to become a teacher, I don’t know. But the point is, he didn’t have to die.

x

Eric Delko

How I feel about this character:

I don’t have much to say about him since he’s not a character I hyperfixate on (which mostly seems to be characters I relate a bunch to, like Speedle), but I do love him! Just, more in the background. It seems I only have two modes when it comes to liking things: I love it obsessively and hyperfixate on it, or I like it passively except where it intersects with a hyperfixation. Which is annoying.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Tim Speedle

Ryan Wolfe

Or maybe the other way around. We do get a lot more wolfeko content, and while the amount of canon content doesn’t necessarily correlate with how much I ship a pairing (I have a bunch of rarepairs I get super invested in), well, it doesn’t hurt. And he and Ryan have gone through a lot character development together over the course of the show, which I love.

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Hm. Probably Calleigh and Alexx again, tbh

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I think I’m too late to the party to know what would constitute an unpopular opinion lmao the Miami fandom’s so dead :’/

One thing I wish had happened with this character in canon:

I dunno. I mostly like his canon storyline, though I’m sure as I get through my rewatch, I’ll think of something!

x

Cisco Ramon

How I feel about this character:

I love him so much. He’s the entire reason I even started watching this show, and the main reason I’m still watching it / still want to watch it.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Harry Wells

Cynthia Reynolds

Ray Palmer

Barry Allen

(I haven’t seen s6 yet so tbh idk yet if I ship him with Kamilla or just don’t mind them, much less where she’d fall on this list.)

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Caitlin Snow

My unpopular opinion about this character:

I mostly just stay on the fringes of fandom so I have no idea

One thing I wish would happen with this character in canon:

I just want my boy to be happy!! Please, writers, just let him be happy for once? Pls

x

Eddie Thawne

How I feel about this character:

He’s a sweetheart, and I miss him. 

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Iris West

My non-romantic OTP for this character:

Hm, I don’t think I have a brOTP for him

My unpopular opinion about this character:

ditto

One thing I wish had happened with this character in canon:

It feels like this show only kills off the good guys and not the bad guys. Why. Eddie didn’t deserve this!!

[hoardofheroes-blog]

watts / hazel ehHEHhHE

send me a ship and i’ll tell you : very selectively accepting.

who hogs the duvet

hazel is just so big that i feel like he would do it without trying. watts is gonna have to fight for it

who texts/rings to check how their day is going

i don’t feel like... either of them does this?  i feel like maybe a little later into their relationship they might ask for ‘mission updates’ that really just mean ‘are you still alive’

who’s the most creative when it comes to gifts

hazel takes it upon himself to see what it takes to make watts emotional, by getting him very thoughtful and meaningful gifts -- although i feel like then watts would return in kind

who gets up first in the morning

watts - hazel the big bear boy sleeps for hours

who suggests new things in bed

i feel like it kinda comes up naturally while they’re in bed and its a fairly even split between the two -- hazel tends to just do things in the moment, still asking for permission, but there’s not a whole hell of a lot of discussion beforehand.

who cries at movies

i can’t really see either of them crying at a movie tbh

who gives unprompted massages

hazel, when watts has been working for hours and is in desperate need of a break

who fusses over the other when they’re sick

i mean watts is a doctor so that makes the most sense lmao -- especially bc i headcanon hazel never really even knows he’s sick unless he has more physical symptoms like a cough, so if he feels it, its bad

who gets jealous easiest

hmmm.  maybe hazel though by a hair.

who has the most embarrassing taste in music

watts probably listens to classical music or something similar and hazel doesn’t really listen to a lot of music at all so i don’t think either constitutes as embarrassing.  nerdy maybe

who collects something unusual

oh god i don’t even wanna imagine what kinda things watts collects for evidence or scientific reasons the little shit

who takes the longest to get ready

watts maybe, just bc hazel takes about zero time in the morning to get ready. i’m sure watts does something to his mustache that takes time lmao

who is the most tidy and organised

i get the feeling they both kinda have to be in salem’s presence, nothing can get too messy. i’m sure watts has all his stuff organized and hazel’s used to doing the cleaning so his things are always in order

who gets most excited about the holidays

pffft neither?  they have no reason to celebrate at this point, just another day on the calendar

who is the big spoon/little spoon

hazel is massive so he’s probably always the big spoon, though i’m assuming they do the little front cuddle thing a lot too

who gets most competitive when playing games and/or sports

j f c  i feel like its a general rule that, unless they’re sparring for practice, anything competitive among salem’s disciples is a bad idea. someone’s gonna lose another eye

who starts the most arguments

watts has a mouth on him i think and it probably can get a rise out of hazel on occasion, although i think hazel can be equally annoying, probably just by saying literally nothing at all and it pissing watts off

who suggests that they buy a pet

uHHH i dunno how well that would go over with salem so probably neither omg

what couple traditions they have

watts testing hazel’s semblance for research and then cuddling afterwards bc it was intense ok

what tv shows they watch together

crime documentaries i bet

what other couple they hang out with

???????? i think as far as others are concerned, watts n hazel aren’t even really a thing, and they prefer to keep people thinking that way

how they spend time together as a couple

hazel spends a lot of time just watching watts work and asking the odd question, though i’m sure they also go on missions together / train together / spend time in quiet parts of the palace just chatting

who made the first move

haZEL PROBABLY, just bent down and kissed watts hard out of the blue

who brings flowers home

hazel, bringing home some herbs: are these usefulwatts: no but nice try

who is the best cook

hazel is a great cook! he cooked for gretchen for 17 years so he’s learned up

[minetteskvareninova]

Dunno. I always just figured Hürrem is, like, of more robust constitution somehow? Like, Hatice and Mahidevran are just a lot more fragile, health-wise.

Except Mahidevran’s health couldn’t have been that bad, when she outlived Hürrem by several decades. I’ve heard some people (I think it was @mc-critical?) say she probably had some problems with her reproductive system specifically - or maybe it was just bad luck. Miscarriages tended to be a lot more common in those times, but that’s mostly because women also used to be pregnant more often. Mahidevran’s one successful pregnancy and one miscarriage (as far as we know; it could’ve been more, we don’t know) could be a bad sign, depending on how old Mustafa is (though considering he’s at least six years old, it probably is in any case).

Hatice in general is presented as this fragile little flower, and though there turns out to be a lot more fire in her personality-wise, her health, especially in the first season and the first half of season 2, is just not very good. I personally headcanon her as a sickly child, whose health got better over time. It neatly fits into the trend of Hatice starting the show as this willowy Disney princess figure, only to then display more and more spine as the time goes on, only to end up as the grief-stricken, but also extremely proud and stubborn woman of later seasons.

I think in the doylist sense, the writers just thought they couldn’t get away with making Hürrem miscarry when they did the same thing with her rival AND one other woman in the cast. Like, season 1 had its fair share of soap opera bullshit, but I would say the writers still had standards in terms of how far they were willing to push it. Also, historical Hürrem had her first five children relatively close to each other, so there just wasn’t that much room for it, unless they were going to turn Abdullah into a miscarriage, which they just didn’t do. Finally, in the watsonian sense, there is a relatively big gap between Cihangir and the other children, where theoretically a miscarriage or two could’ve fit, we just never hear about in-universe? Like, there isn’t any real explanation for this gap in the show itself, “Hürrem had several other failed pregnancies between Bayezit and Cihangir” is as good of a reason as any.

One interesting thing to note is that Hatice and Mahidevran both miscarry but Hürrem never does. Hürrem gets poisoned but doesn't lose the baby. And honestly that is insanely lucky. Whereas Hatice falls down the stairs and loses hers. And Mahidevran is apparently upset enough at Hürrem's mere presence that she miscarries whereas Hürrem is forced to watch Leo die and almost gives her own life in his place but she still doesn't lose the baby. In spite of the toll that that would take.

I feel like this has some implication but I can't quite formulate exactly what yet. Especially combined with the absence of Şehzade Abdullah. And the way in which the show treats Hürrem's sons' deaths overall.

[jaku-the-askblog]

Aku Headcanon: Powers/Origin

((so im gunna geek out a little bit here about my personal ideas of Aku’s powers/what exactly he is and how that ties into the series, ok? Ok

Prepare for the long haul on this one guys

(Small disclaimer: this isnt a scientific/psychological thing, and im pretty sure this ain’t even close to what Genndy wanted to be canon. These are my ideas, pertaining to the askblog and a certain fic universe, based on canon, of my Aku. Lets move on)

I. So what is Aku according to Abby?

Firstly, despite whatever canonically or fanon-wise in my own series’ Jack and Aku himself (and others) call him, Aku isn’t a demon/wizard/etc. We already know, pretty much canonically, that Aku is one of a kind. Which means beings like Demongo, his minions, others, aren’t even close to what Aku is.

^A babby Aku leaves his nest to fend for himself in the harsh and unforgiving wild

Unless you wanna go on the theory that Aku’s minions are also him but lets not right now

I refuse to accept that Aku is “pure evil” unless you want to get into moral debate and the theories on what constitutes “evil,” because perhaps in the perspective of that universe he is the Worst Evil Ever but comparatively to our own world and especially my own perspective he really...isn’t. Which isn’t to say he’s done downright vile and awful and evil things, because he really has! He’s just not “pure evil.” I firmly believe that it’s just what we’re being fed, because all that we know about Aku is really from the perspective of other characters (ie, Jack’s father being the one that created Aku and immediately assuming that he’s something to be destroyed). And Aku seems to run with this because, realistically, it’s all he’s ever known/tried.

(I have additional input on Aku’s birth and his “starting” personality, but I will save that for another time)

(“But the gods said—” you start.

“FUCK the gods,” I spit back, punching Odin in his remaining eye, “Theyre fuckin useless as shit anyway”)

HOWEVER, I think Aku is something more like a conscious controlling what’s essentially pure magic from that universe in physical form, with magic being like a manipulatable energy source according to that universe’s rules. I think that, much like in the Avatar (the animated series not the atrocious live action one) series, the way this magic/energy can be used varies from person to person, from being to being. And a being like Aku, who’s made up of the stuff, is going to inherently be more powerful and more versatile than anyone else that just uses magic but wasn’t born from it. AND his magic is more wild and free and flexible than the contained/inherited forms of it that other mortals have.

And from there it only gets more fun.

You see, we never really hear/see Aku mention his time spent as the Black Goop, which likely infers he either couldn’t form into something that could speak/move around or he just doesn’t remember in the way a human might. Either way means he had no control over himself. Which only feeds my theory that Aku’s just a brain constantly controlling what are really just mindless drones with power to do his bidding much like his/the entity’s former shape.

I also theorize that, if he didn’t have the same kind of consciousness, the Black Goop was absorbing anyone/thing that came into contact because that was the only thing the mindless, physical manifest of magic knew to do. It can’t think to express itself! It can’t think to grow legs and walk around!

But on the other hand, if he was...some kind of mind in there, but couldn’t form into a shape, perhaps he was latching onto living things, trying to learn about them, trying to find some form of escape. I haven’t worked out which he was in the goop form as of yet, but either works really.

I do think that’s why the gods were trying to destroy the entity, because they knew that if it started wandering around the universe in a semi-tangible form, especially with the power it originally had, wild and free, then it would cause effortless and wide-spread chaos.

And somehow Jack’s father’s fire gave him/the magic the power to form a brain, buuuut it has its limitations from Aku.

Let’s take a closer look.

II. Aku’s Essence vs Aku Infection

In episodes like the Ultrabots, the final episode, and even in the comics, we see that when Aku has his essence control/power others, he retains some level of control over the individual to do his bidding. They also sometimes gain his powers, but I think that’s also under his control.

So what’s the difference between this and the Aku Infection?

I don’t think Aku knew about Jack getting infected. And instead, Jack was the one that made himself into Aku.

This really boils down to semantics and me wanting to go completely off my rocker here, so bear with me.

^Accurate depiction of abby now

First, though it is typical of Aku, we never see him attempt this again. If you want to include the IDW comics, he doesn’t even consider it in issue 10. Instead, he uses his time in Jack’s mind to eat his memories.

HOWEVER within the episode itself, we see an interesting progression of things:

Jack steals jewels from the explorers without realizing it

Argues with himself (!!) about rescuing a stranded sightseer and the reward if he does so (which he demands for money) yet doesn’t seem to notice the fact he’s doing so

Begins to feel irritated and twitchy as well as itchy (likely as his skin changes)

STILL SOMEHOW FAILS TO NOTICE HIS BODY CHANGING

Begins to speak/look more like Aku as time goes on

(Also, a minor, tiny detail but: no beard. Hmmmmm)

NOW let’s consider something here: normally Aku controls his essence to do as he wishes. In fact, he typically immediately controls his subjects. But Aku wasn’t in good shape when we see him first in this episode, nor is his state brought up again.

What (or shall I say who) is typically on the forefront of Jack’s mind, and he associates with darkness?

Thaaat’s right! Aku!

^This is what happens when you jack off too often kids

So I think, at this point, however subconsciously, Aku’s essence/that magic latched onto what Jack associated with that start of darkness and became what he thought it would be.

It became his idea of Aku. And it simply ran with it, because that is the first and most powerful thing Jack thought of. After all, Jack has no experience in controlling magic, and especially not one as powerful as Aku’s. And that magic, now detached from the main consciousness, is basically just trying to find it’s way out in him, so it was mindlessly searching for the easiest way to be “expressed.”

By examining Jack-Aku’s behavior and wording more closely, I’d like to point out something. Right after Jack FINALLY realizes what’s happening, we have this exchange:

Jack: “This cannot be happening!”

“Aku:” “Oh yes it can!”

Jack: “Must…keep…control!”

“Aku:” “Yeah! Gotta get a grip.”

Jack: “Need help. The monks—!”

“Aku:” “I got to find those accursed monks!”

Now, does this actually sound like something Aku would say, or like someone who’s imitating Aku would say?

Hm. Let’s look at another example.

It’s close, I’ll give Jack-Aku that! But it’s a little…too close. Again, like someone’s doing an impression of Aku.

It is close to things Aku has said before, but it still feels just off to me.

Jack-Aku certainly fights a little differently, but there’s still more touches of Jack than Aku in there. Sure his swings are more brutal, but then there’s stuff like this:

^SUPERHERO LANDING

That doesn’t look like an Aku pose to me. That’s a Jack one.

Now I do realize, as I said, most of this is just semantics and most of it could be explained away with “Aku was just fucking with Jack.” But I dunno, that just seems like it’s not what’s really going on, especially since we don’t see the original Aku trying to control Jack, much like how we got a hint of that in the Ultrabots and even in Mad Jack.

Interestingly, season 5 seems to support this!

You see, I think the priestess wanted to bear Aku’s children, so that’s what his magic did for her. There was probably something in her head that thought seven was a good number, so that’s what happened for her. As for why the essence didn’t overwhelm Ashi and her sisters before, I suspect that it became combined with their DNA in order to sustain them (as the priestess wished; at least until they “lived” until she was done with them) and became dormant until Aku “reactivated” it.

And then, Ashi is initially overwhelmed by Aku’s essence, but once she takes it for her own—

^THATS MY GIRL

It becomes her own. She’s owning Aku’s powers, Aku’s essence, Aku’s magic for her own use. It becomes what she wants it to be.

Jack never did that because he never took it. He allowed himself to be overwhelmed by it, letting it do it’s own thing inside him, and it nearly transformed him into his own Grand Theft Me nightmare.

III. Aku’s Powers (and the actual powers of the sword)

Ok ok, so what does this all have to do with Aku’s powers? Well, like I mentioned earlier, Aku is made up of pure energy that can be made into (almost) anything he wants to do with it.

“So why doesn’t he just do _ to kill Jack?!?!?!”

That’s actually quite simple: Because Aku has no idea what he is either.

^Aku voice: AWHUA

He has literally no frame of reference, no concept or comparison. All he’s ever really gotten is from others, who call him “evil,” “demon,” “wizard,” etc. He knows he’s more powerful than any being in the mortal world, but he doesn’t know how or why. He simply is.

(This feeds back into that linked post from the beginning about Aku being something of a narcissist, because he makes himself into whatever others think of him in order to be “accepted.” But I have more words on that idea at a later point when I can get all these thoughts about his powers out of the way, though I firmly emphasize that I’m not even close to a major in psychology so I’m not fit to diagnose him with anything, really. This is all just for funsies)

It’s how I explain his ability to pop random powers out without notice or mention of them again, ie creating a dark clone of Jack, encasing a living man in stone while also making him immortal?, telepathically manipulating objects from afar, RAISING THE FUCKING DEAD, etc etc. He knows he has tremendous powers, but does he explore their limits? Find out what all he can do? No! And why would he, if he’s already immortal and immune to everything? He only seeks out to use these powers like that when it conveniences him.

And yea, that would be his own fault. But it’s his life, and he’ll do as he pleases.

Now, let’s get to the sword.

It’s heavily implied (if not outright stated) that the sword is made from Jack’s father’s spirit/soul. The gods insist that only the strength of such a thing, combined with the virtue of “human righteousness” can destroy Aku. This is where they say he’s a “force of ultimate evil” and all that, but I already don’t like that the gods are entrusting this “duty,” which they started but didn’t finish, onto a mortal. Mighty suspicious.

So how exactly does the sword work if Aku isn’t made of evil, but instead pure magic? Easy. The sword destroys that magic from Aku’s physical form. It’s literally cutting away his control and his power, in a harsher and far worse way than if Aku were to be using his energy on his own. And the gods basically made a soul contract with Jack’s father to give it that power without there being serious repercussions on the wielder of the weapon. Because technically destroying a magic/energy like that should totally backfire and act more like splitting an atom than a cool firey-burning effect.

^( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

So Aku and his powers are in a constant state of decay-recovery, because he’s using his own body to do all these powers and abilities, but the sword speeds up the decay process faster than Aku can recover. And yes, Aku using massive amounts of magic quickly with little or no recovery period would do a similar thing, but the sword will always take longer and threaten to do more permanent damage for that than Aku using his magic himself, because it destroys instead of frees. And since magic is energy, Aku recovers through time and reabsorption of magic from…well, anything. Typically just the energy of the universe, I suppose.

So why couldn’t/didn’t Jack’s father destroy Aku the first time?

Because he didn’t make a final strike. Instead he allowed even the smallest sliver of Aku to persist. And if you do that, then you give Aku ability to reform.

(“But what about in season five when—“ you try again.

“It was bullshit and you know it,” I say as I firmly curb-stomp that “final fight” scene.)

So why did Aku get turned into a tree and was imprisoned?

….Yeah I haven’t worked that one out yet either, I’ll give you that. I’m thinking it may have something to do with cutting away so much of Aku that his mind is locked away and stripped of its power over his body, but I haven’t worked out all the fine points yet.

Aku makes his choices to do evil things, to follow his own will (whatever his will may be) but he’s still limited by his own mind and what he believes he’s capable of, due to mainly just being too lazy/unwilling to try anything else. Yes, of course like I said outside forces only contributed to this, effectively helping him make his own box to put himself in, but it only explains why he’s like that. It doesn’t excuse him, and ultimately his choices were still his own.

PHEW well I think that’s about all for now! Hope I made sense and you enjoyed reading! I’ve been stewing on this one for a long, long while, but only recently got half a mind to coherently jot it all down and explain it, so there’s probably a few holes here and there, forgive me... :,D

Thanks necessary for:

@strawberry-smilodon, for reading my draft!! and then i kept adding more...and more... and more.....

Obv @teacupballerina, for basically doing most of the theorizing waaaaay before i even got back into this fandom and inspiring my own mind to start thinking harder about Aku and canon :3

all my friends that tolerated me geeking out about this before i wrote it all down...i love yall 😙

And thank YOU for reading!!!

[affluent-havoc]

Since it's still Valentines Day on my end and my aroace ass's birthday is tomorrow (lowkey young infant me was cooking cus I was supposed to be born this day but said no), I might as well ramble a bit about Byakuya before tomorrow hits in which I shall 100% be drawing whatever I desire cus I'm awesome (not really) and right now, the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise is pulling me back in faster than Sonic could spin dash into me and turn all my bones into protein powder. AAAANYway, I feel I actually have a solid sexuality headcanon for once in my life. Like, with any other Danganronpa character, I'm very open to all interpretations. Hell, I am STILL open to differing Byakuya Togami interpretations. I mean, Bi-yakuya is too perfect to be forgotten! IT'S A PERFECT PUN AND MORE BI-YAKUYA TRUTHERS HAVE GOT TO USE THAT PUN POTNETIAL TO IT'S FULLEST!!! But, anwyay, I do also feel that I can safely say that I myself headcanon him as aroace now. I dunno. I like it. Also I feel my views on what relationships can be has evolved so much in ways I did not expect to happen because past me decided to make a Tumblr. This leaves me in a bit of a weird position though... For one, it was at the middle to end of last year I realized my own aroaceness, mostly the aro part since I knew I was ace for a while though, reflecting now, I feel the aro part is much stronger than the ace part though I digress. First of all, at the start of my Tumblr, I drew quite a bit of shipping art with this prick. Second of all, I dunno if I should still do so as I do still respect the old Naegami era of me. For once I'm not gonna be dogpiling on my younger self's thoughts and feelings. I was valid then and if I was till drawing the Naegami art, I'd still be valid now! I've grown, damn it! But also, third of all, it's still a bit confusing to me when to decide if something constitutes as ship art or if I should just leave it ambiguous. Or hell, if I should just add the tags for the hell of it or just not use ship tags anymore. Though, at the end of the day, I still really enjoy Byakuya and his dynamic with Kyoko and Makoto (Togiri is also underrated as hell) and I at least personally feel that sometimes, shipping tags is what gets you those good dynamic explorations with characters. After all, it's not like there's a way to get platonic tags of characters. At the same time though, I still do really like other interpretations of the trio. So, I'm a bit at a loss here. To ship or not to ship. To dwell on this or not to dwell... and I'm REALLY good at dwelling. I am the same person who still remembers being a little ittle bitty tot and stealing toys in pre-k which is probably a bit wild that I remember that to begin with cus it's not even like I have those old stolen toys anymore, at least not the ones from pre-k... But, who knows. Maybe the answer is that it's fine if I don't have an answer, as weird as that sounds. It's all fiction at the end of the day. It's not like any Danganronpa character has a fully solidified sexuality. The fun to me at least IS that there's so many differing interpretations that aren't right or wrong, just that those varied interpretations can become a catalyst to create more art and discussion. So, I think I'll think about this another day or just coast my way into figuring this out until I either forget about this or just stop caring about potential consistency! for real tho, i think i was doomed to fall into sonic again eventually. like, the long lanky bastard i adore so much literally has a sonic ref in his old high school. i was doomed the moment i started getting attacked to this loser!

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Today’s pointless headcanon/oc for Yo-kai Watch! I dunno if there’s an actual word for taking a vaguely described backstory character and turning them into their own thing? Kinda an oc, kinda not... Anyway, some spoilers for Dr Maddiman’s new sidequests in Yo-kai Watch 3 which I just heard about today and CRIED A LOT OVER!

Okay now it has been officially confirmed that new YW3 Yo-kai Dr Kagemura is officially Dr Maddiman’s son who grew up! Imagine the world’s largest tears falling down my goddamn face right now. I really like that there was so much subtle evidence of it before this dlc update sidequest thing came out, it was a good way to build hype! Like Kagemura Hospital is apparantly what the Nocturne Hospital was called in japanese, and one of the preset nicknames when you catch Dr Kagemura could be read as ‘His Son’. Thanks infinately to kaialone for all those amazing translation posts, I’m so happy to know that all their work paid off with that headcanon coming true! Also, does this mean he’ll be called Dr Nocturne in the dub? Or I wonder if they might change it up a bit. Cos in japanese Maddiman’s name calls him a hospital director instead of JUST a doctor, maybe kagemura’s dub name might make it clearer that he’s lower ranking? I dunno if its a very important detail though, beyond making it easier to guess that theyre related. But the dub will probably include all these postgame bonus sidequest downloads as part of the main package, so it doesnt really matter as much.

ANYWAY THE HEADCANONS

Like.. I just want this whole awkward family to have a happy ending. Headcanon of what if Maddiman’s ex-wife also became a yo-kai!

I can hope for this!! or, at least, I can hope that if we ever hear more about kagemura’s backstory specifically then we can know if his mum ended up living a happy life in those 50 years before the game starts. But seeing how young kagemura seems to have been when he died, that’s got me worrying if his story ended up just as tragically as his father’s did. My old headcanons about this were that maybe maddiman’s son was very sickly as a child, and thats what started the whole ‘i will take over the world with yo-kai in order to protect my family’ obsession. And then the idea was that kagemura’s resentment of his father caused him to become obsessed with becoming a better doctor, putting everything into studying for medical school and dying in his late teens from overwork combined with his weak constitution. TRAGIC HEADCANONS! The Perfect Spice For Tragic Canon!

Aaaaaanyway, mystery unnamed wife lady headcanons! I was thinking if she became a yo-kai she might be like Nurse Taykeabreake, Laxy Daisy, maybe even Shirkly Temple? Or, tbh, it would make more sense if she had a different job to her husband. Easy Rider -> Easie Writer? I know that Cutta-Nah already exists as a Yo-Kai that makes people lazy, and there’s plenty for sleep, but I’m sure we could figure out a similar yet distinct thing to go with. maybe she’s specifically about procrastinating your homework? I’m thinking she’d look like a stereotypical strict teacher, or maybe a newspaper journalist or something. And her personality would kinda be that way, she’s all neat freak and easy to anger, and takes everything super seriously even though her ‘lessons’ are on how to completely fail at being productive. Eight hour essay on not writing essays! Oh, lol maybe she accidentally causes people to become MORE productive, cos she’s so bad at her job? XD

But yeah, the idea would be that her yo-kai form was manifested from her desire for her husband to come home from work every now and again. Just like his workaholic nature was exaggerated into mad science, her trying to get him to loosen up and take care of himself turned her into the personification of no rules ever. in a very strict and ruley way! Imagine if she ended up getting a gaggle of friends along the way too, but for her she just ended up in a group of baddinyan and co. Acts as the mom figure to all the gangsters! (”man look at how dirty all your jackets are!” *gets halfway to the washing machine before falling asleep*) Or maybe this could be an excuse for why her son appeared as a yo-kai before her? Like ‘i was gonna come back from the dead but I procrastinated’. So she only appears after her son and ex-husband reconcile and visit her grave together.

And the personality I’m thinking of for her is kinda just like the stereotypical ‘nagging housewife’ cartoon character, but portrayed sympathetically. Cos its not like she didnt have reason to get angry at him, this is the man she loves and she barely even sees him anymore, and he’s potentially gonna get himself killed in some extreme experiment and she doesnt even know that his motive for starting this all was just to protect his family in his own mad way. If anything, what little we know of her is that she’s abnormally patient with him. She put up with it for a long time, it seems, and deciding to divorce him and move back home must have been equally as painful for her. At least, I think it would be even more tragic if it was that way, yknow? Nobody is really a villain of the story, but it still ended up horribly because of just lack of communication and bad timing. I think her and maddiman always used to bicker and stuff, but it was more like a comical clashing of two larger than life personalities. Maybe they met in medical school and started off as just best friends, she was always all ‘darn it, stop with your endearing social awkwardness!’ and he was all ‘you need to relax, yo!’ and she was all ‘NO U NEED TO RELAX. AND ALSO STOP WEARING THE SAME LABCOAT TWO WEEKS IN A ROW’ *lovehearts in the air, somehow* Sassy couple. best couple. It all looked so promising at first! If anything, the problems came from when they stopped arguing, and just started being silent and stewing in their problems. Until it boiled down to a guy spending all day in work to avoid talking about his marital issues, just to come home and find that his wife had left a divorce note, unable to face him either. :(

And probably... honestly even if they both came back as ghosts, i doubt they would get back together. I think they would be incredibly happy to see each other, and they would be able to talk about what happened and apologise, but still they’ve changed so much that getting remarried wouldnt really be on the table. They’d totally be amicable exes and best friends, but its hard to start a relationship again when you know your breakup literally caused everyone in the family to die horribly and become earthbound spirits of misfortune. That’s a bit of an epic divorce... OH MAN I JUST GOT THE FEELS AGAIN Like... Maddiman’s diary talks about how he doesnt even take care of himself cos he’s so obsessed with work, and how his wife would complain as she tried to wash his clothes after he forgot to change them for weeks. So imagine like “oh god what would you do without me” and the answer is LITERALLY DIE! We don’t know HOW he died, but the japanese version seems to imply that he literally died halfway through writing this diary and just kept going. Like... after his wife left he just locked himself in his lab and kept working until he worked himself to death, and then got back up and kept working for fifty years afterwards... Can you imagine his wife and son’s perspective?? You still love this guy, it was really painful to leave but you thought it was necessary to give your kid a good life. Maybe you hoped that it’d be a wake up call and your ex is better off without you. You think about him every now and then and wonder if he’s doing okay, you wonder maybe about visitation rights for his son when he gets older. Then the first and only thing you hear about him in years is that he’s collapsed on the job and been hospitalized in critical condition. Maybe she had her own turn at being the one who walks through the door to find the worst possible goodbye? Desperately packing up all your things and flying back to japan to try and see your ex-husband in a coma, but when you walk into the hospital you find he’s just passed away. And then her and the child had to live the rest of their lives never knowing that he was just a few streets away as a yo-kai still haunting the same office. DEPRESSING HEADCANONS! FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!

seriously i just have to happy headcanons after this plz yo-kai hugs for all of this sadly doomed household ghosty ex-wife: Sit up straight and take your slacking off lessons! *agressively buries maddiman in blankets* *drags him away from his work with giant buff demon arms*