#tbd later maybe idk probably?

[cleoselene]

my mother - who is 74 - walks a neighbor's dog twice a day to make some money. No it's not a difficult job, but still. She is 74 and had planned all her life to be very much retired right now , but she ended up with one very sick kid (me) and one shithead kid (my brother) who strained her finances -- me by her needing to help me with housing (she took out a mortgage on her place to help me get my condo. My roommates and I pay rent to her and never miss a payment but with HOA fees and insurance constantly going up in Hurricaneland, and both me and roommates on fixed Social Security incomes, the ends don't exactly meet) and my brother by being a fucking asshole loser who refused to have a fucking job.

The man has three kids, two who are still minors, and he REFUSES to work. This is one of many reasons he is divorced (of course, his ex-wife cheated on him literally hundreds of times, so there's that mess too, but that's another story), because my ex-SIL got sick of him never having a fucking job. Once the divorce was final and he didn't have his wife supporting him, he turned to the only other woman he could rely on to pay his way: his mother. My mom didn't want to pay his rent every fucking month for three years, but she loves her grandchildren, and she wanted them to have a father.

Because her children didn't have a father. My dad dipped out when I was ten because he was a drug addict. My mom lives with that guilt all the time, always apologizing to me for not giving me a better father -- as if that's her fucking fault! She was a rock star of a mom! A single parent, a social worker who didn't have much money but her work genuinely made the world a better place. But she feels awful that her kids' father ditched out on us. And my brother knows she feels awful about it. And he exploited that. For literally years. She went from comfortably retired to now having a lot of credit card debt because she paid his rent for 3 years.

When she finally put her foot down as his lease ended and she was no longer a cosigner, he moved in with his girlfriend in Manhattan. She is 23. He is 48. Yeah, it's disgusting. He is leeching off her now. He is also not talking to my mom since she's not paying his way anymore (I mean, she IS paying for his fucking iPhone, though, more on that in a moment).

So. Christmas. She hasn't heard a word from him. She hears some news from my ex-SIL that the kids are going to fly up to NYC to spend a few days with him, which, as much of an asshole as he is, she is glad for, because she wants her grandchildren to have a father. But he hasn't called to wish her a Merry Christmas

So I mentioned her part-time job. For the former congressman whose dog she walks. Lovely, sweet people. They gave her a couple of gifts and a $50 Christmas bonus. Mom sent that $50 to my brother as a gift. He did not acknowledge it or even say thank you.

I am OUTRAGED on her behalf, honestly. She has done nothing to deserve being treated this way by him. And I am depressed that I am stuck being a sick kid who is also a drain. I was supposed to get a PhD and take care of her! Failing being able to make it rain for mom I just wrote her a sappy long facebook message telling her how she's the best ever, but god. Why is my brother such an asshole?

She told me yesterday that when I visit next she wants to go through her will and redo it. She wants to give him a token amount, a few grand, and reassign the rest of what she would have given him in her estate to his kids. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is. She deserves better. :/

[missposessive]

-> sly fox

synopsis -> you're giving miko the silent treatment. so, she simply turns into her fox form to cuddle you until you give up the act.

warnings -> light angst but the problem is resolved later, miko may be ooc idk

w/c -> tbd

you could say that arguments between you and your wife, miko, weren’t incredibly common… 

so when you two do get into one, something pretty bad has to have happened, considering how calm and composed she is about every. single. thing. 

so, maybe it was a little surprising when you expressed how much you disliked her being gone so frequently to either write her newest light novel, or take care of her business at the shrine, and she started to raise her voice.

the fight went on for about an hour until she wordlessly walked out of the house and set her path towards the shrine. you just kind of stood there for a while, thinking back on how stupid the whole argument was. you felt valid for expressing your point and how you feel neglected, but you also felt that you could’ve just asked her properly and sat her down to talk to her instead of doing it right when she walks in. 

and at the same time, she acknowledged that she had overreacted way too much, and she wished she could just listen to you. 

so, to no surprise, the next day when she walked into your shared home, you were ignoring her.

you thought she was being too petty the night before, and you were probably right. you only wanted her to hear you out!

at first, it started off as you made breakfast for the two of you and then ate it in your office. it was a nice place, considering you and yae had a nice amount of mora, giving the both of you a nice place to live. so big rooms and a big house in general would be standard for the both of you.

then, you went out to inazuma city alone. normally, every saturday, you two would go out to look at the markets, considering those were the days all the sellers had their shops open and also the days they’d give the most generous sales. when you left, miko stood in the doorway, giving you a slightly puzzled look before sitting back down on the couch and reading a new light novel in her collection.

the last one was at dinnertime, where she had tried to see if you’d go out to dinner with her and the shogun. considering that they were the two most important people in inazuma, they had to have meetings every so often to keep the region in line.

you’d usually attend these, considering they were often very fun and never incredibly business related (in which the shogun claimed talks about business lulled her to sleep), and you two would always go down by the shore before heading home. you simply shook your head before moping back into your bedroom.

now, you were being the petty one, she thinks. but at least you weren’t simply ignoring her anymore, at least you were giving her some form of signal that you heard her. 

though, on the walk to the selected dinner choice between her and the shogun, she thought about the whole situation. this morning, she tried to ignore you back, considering she was equally as stubborn and petty when she wanted to be. but she was also very wise, so why couldn’t she figure out a way to get you to stop ignoring her? or, to simply stop acting the way you are now. she finds it very dumb.

she thought and thought and thought and she thought her brain might explode until she came up with a conclusion. she laughed to herself a little bit before walking into the luxurious place, where you’d only see people with as much status as the kamisato siblings seated and able to afford the bill. 

of course, the shogun picked this place out. she chose it “without realizing” that she’s got no mora, leaving the bill in the kitsunes hands.

once the meeting was over, she rushed home pretty fast, ready to spring her plan into action. it was really late at that point, nearing 11:00 pm. so when she entered your shared home, it was no surprise that she found you asleep, but this time on the couch. she sighed in a light manner before going into her fox form, trotting along to you and jumping up onto the couch to snuggle into your chest.

you woke up when you felt her tail lightly brushing against your face, making you spit hairs out of your mouth and sighing, rubbing your eyes.

“jesus, miko, okay,” you lift her up before turning her around and making her lock eyes with you. “keep this up and you're gonna stay in air jail.”

to that, she squirmed a little, making you laugh lightly before setting her on the ground for her to transform back. once she did, she sat next to you, taking your legs and setting them on her lap. 

“i’m sorry for being so aggressive last night. i thought about the argument a bit more, and i realized how petty that was,” she started, rubbing your calf up and down. “i should’ve just listened to you in the first place.”

that sentence shocked you a little bit, making her chuckle. she was never the first to admit she was wrong. 

“i’m sorry for being so stupid and ignoring you the whole day. i should’ve just tried to see if you wanted to make amends before assuming you didn’t want to see me all day.”

she nodded, patting your leg before standing and grabbing your arms to stand with her.

“lets just go to sleep. and no, you are not sleeping on the couch tonight. i refuse,” she leads you with slow steps up the stairs and into your shared room. “sorry for coming off as so intimidating all day.”

that made you slap her arm, sending the both of you into a small laughing fit. you felt so lucky that she was who you married, even though she’s the pettiest person you’ve ever met.

[rookfang]

ON: Starting Armor Design Notes

( This is, quite literally, just the notes I made on Laika's armor design, and idk, I thought it might be interesting if anyone wants to see the inner machinations of my mind. I've included the "first pass" of ideas and my later notes! )

OVERALL: Colors: Navy Blue, Teal Green, Red, and Black. Silver for metals. Sleek, with a striking accent of red. Scaled Leather Somewhere. Desi & Romanesque science fantasy. Thigh high, heeled boots - both because I like them and the high fashion element that runs through Tevinter designs. Black leather garter, again because I like them.

REQUIREMENTS: - Some twist on the Little Red Riding Hood theme. - Some form of drapery - Removable elements that could hide her fact upon first meeting.

PRE-DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS

Romanesque: maybe Toga praetexta? Being adopted Laika in higher standing than most elves in 'Vint, but still not enough to wear something like a Stola or Trabea, Praetexta was also very much used by children, a pre-coming of age thing - could tie to the fact that Laika is a severed Dalish, and thus never received Vallaslin, and would be a child to the eyes of her clan. But otherwise, she IS an adult, and that could communicate too much childishness, especially when combined with the twin braids. Gladiator/Praetorate guard-ish shoulder pads, maybe arm bracers? A Lunulae would be cute, but perhaps too tied to childhood. Hard to think of a way to include LR.

Desi-esque: A salwar kameez with a simple sari over top. Either a shortened Nivi-style Sari or a Tamil style, to prevent any dragging. As much as I like the idea of drapery that is loose and could show motion, it doesn’t fit her chemist vibes. Either way, this would lean more into the Southern Indian design motifs we see in the architecture and some of Dorian’s clothing. Only issue I can see would be Red=Marriage, and would that, combined with the garter, create a marital theme? The salwar would have to be blue or black to compensate, and really draw the focus away. A red sari could be the LR element.

Pulling from both is probably my best bet. I think the Salwar+Sari set, with Romanesque armor ( And maybe corsetry? There is a little bit of Victorian England in Tevinter, especially the portrayal of Minrathous ) and then adding details on top of that. Definitely some kind of criss crossing belt situation, it’s so like. Fantasy Requirement. I think a lower face mask and goggles combo would sell the “self taught chemist” vibes well. Lean more Sari than Toga, since I already have a character with a Romanesque design.

( below are the actual notes i sat down and made right before i actually started drawing )

SALWAR: High neck, with either buttons or some kind of zipper (do they have zippers? they have fucking tank tops, they can have zippers) Not so high neck that it fully covers her neck scars though. Navy blue with teal piping, making it very Clean and Cool toned.

SARI: Red. Could have a hanging loose end? TBD. Lining would be fun, but might lessen the striking effect.

ARMOR: Roman armor is three rectangular "tongues" that go over the shoulder, and a fourth underneath that goes to the middle of the forearm. Corset can just be very standard shapes. Scaled black leather - scales very cool, very snake.

GLOVES: Navy blue leather with red trimming ( in part to visually break it up from the sleeves of her salwar. ) Triangular / diamond shapes as accent. Red palms to remind her of people lost in the fight to fix Tevinter. "Ne'er will these hands be clean" energy.

BOOTS: Not sure if they should be black and silver ( to match the garter ) or navy and red ( to match the rest of the suit. ) TBD in color study. Triangle shapes at the top of the boots' tongues

ETC: - Needs to have the Keys from the Rogue Aspirational armor - many potion bottles ( diamond shaped...? ) - maybe even a book on her belt? nerd. - Put a lil snake on her garter :-) it’d be cute. - Hair in double braids ( since that’s her “field” hairstyle ) - mismatching hair ties ( teal on the upper left and bottom right, red on the upper right and bottom left ) - The goggles should be normally resting on the crown of her head. Goggles could be tied with a bow tied in the back? That’d be cute - maybe each side is a different ribbon color? - Cutesy elements but in ways that aren’t the key focus of the design.

[whentherewerebicycles]

today is my first full non-workday alone in over three weeks and I give myself full permission to savor it without any guilt or sense of obligation to anyone. here are some things I’d like to do:

read the last 40 pages of ninth house

get a decent ways into nona the ninth so I don’t interrupt my novel-reading rhythm. I might take my hammock somewhere to read later tbd as I find that putting my phone out of reach and having dedicated hammock time is a good way to jumpstart the next book

last night I started messing around with an old WIP that I meant to finish for a fest last summer but didn’t, which I still think has some interesting stuff in it (not to mention about 20k of existing draft material to work with). I can’t tell if I’m intrigued enough by it to start the revision process but I do notice that every time I open the draft doc I end up adding to it, so idk. I also have this other purely self-indulgent fantasy AU that has just been a fun world to play in for the last couple weeks when I needed a distraction, so I might tinker around with that a bit more too. so maybe I’ll sit out on the deck at some point with my laptop and play play play for a bit

I want to cook something, probably while on the phone with liz… she sent me a cookbook recently that I liked a lot and I want to try a few of the small plates recipes from it either today or tomorrow

on a related note I want to sit down and do some journaling about the next steps in my learning to cook journey. I’m at the point where I feel confident in my ability to execute easy to moderately complex recipes well & with consistent results—ie if I make the same dish multiple times it’ll taste reasonably good the first time, better the second time when I incorporate the modifications I came up with, and pretty consistently good every time I make it after that. I also feel like once I read a recipe all the way through I don’t need to consult it very often during the cooking process because I’m less focused on what’s on the page and am instead tasting and testing and monitoring what’s happening with the food & adjusting accordingly. but I would really like to become the kind of cook who can look at the ingredients at hand & prepare a meal without a recipe or with only the loose outlines of a recipe based on my understanding of how things fit together and what the components of a good meal are. and I think in order to level up in that way I will really have to sit down and start designing some structured learning challenges for myself, and I’ll also need to build in lots of metacognitive writing along the way to make sure I’m consolidating what I’m learning and applying it to future situations. anyway this is the kind of self-teaching/learning design work I love and I am excited to spend some time thinking about it this weekend.

nice long walk with the dogs… maybe on the off leash trail in the “weekend woods” aka the nearby trail system I for some reason only visit on weekends even though it’s like a 3 min drive from my house lol. Pip will love that

that’s it today is just a day of rest and play!!

[winter-spark]

I didn't post my pinterest board at the end of October because I wasn't on but I've seen people do this thing where they go "What hairstyles I think the x characters would have if they were black" so I'll eventually still post my pinterest board but I wanted to try this. So

What hairstyles I think Spring troupe would have if they were black:

Sakuya Sakuma:

Type 4 hair, secured by a scarf tied up.

Masumi Usui:

Two-toned locs that cover his eyes. (The image here is 3 toned which is cool and a good idea too, I was just initialing thinking two like, some bleached some not.)

Tsuzuru Minagi:

Short finger coils.

Itaru Chigasaki:

Locs, potentially sister locs. He got them either during or after college and has upkept them since. (He has a loctician)

Citron[ia]:

When they meet him, Type 4 hair with the front brushed/clipped/tucked down

At Zafran Palace, mid-large braids with gold hair cuffs and stuff.

After Winter Year 2, something akin to the hairstyle he had when they met him but maybe with a little something extra like a small top ponytail, a couple of front braids or some added decorative pieces. Though I'm not sure if the decorative pieces would be when he has to make royal appearances or not.

Chikage Utsuki:

Loc Knott Bob with bangs. Probably typically down to the bottom of his ear, but I do think his hair grows fast. He didn't always have his hair loc'd but I've already said why he does now.

And that's Spring Troupe! I hope you guys enjoyed this. This is the cleaned up version from my Pinterest. But they were already pretty cleaned up(besides Itaru), Spring Troupe was fairly easy to figure out I think Itaru was the hardest and that's just because I couldn't decide what style of locs he should have. I'd say maybe it was actually Tsuzuru but I had his selected fully so... (Also Type 4 but no letter for Sakuya & Citron Idk if Sakuya has fhe same type as Citron or as Tangerine I guess both is also an option but tbd. Also Idk everyone else's hair type here)

Originally I wanted to include Izumi in this group but I decided not to so I'll have to post what I'm thinking for Izumi later. Meaning I'll share the other troupes and characters too. To the best of my abilities.

{So, assuming I actually post them here's where I'll add the links later:

Summer Troupe | Autumn Troupe | Winter Troupe | Zafra | Other (Mankai-related) | Other (Non-Mankai-related)}

[sarasa-cat]

Thinking more and more that:

ONE: Cyberpunk's entire canon (all of the prior RPG sourcebooks plus the game plus extra new media) *SPEAKS* to me for cathartic reasons. Mostly for writing fanfic, but also for maybe maybe for minor experiments in virtual photography other for other kinds of visual fun (fanart? moodboards? gif sets? idk?) in my "copious free time" because that whole world inspires me visually. Also, VP tools in CP77 look like a it could provide lot of good escapist fun.

TWO: I really think I would enjoy Veilguard more if I just went back to my Merrillquisition and slowly worked my way through it. Inquisition has its problems as a game (too big, toooooo biiiigggg) but there is a lot in that I do indeed like and it is still wintery and horrid here so hiking in Thedas is actually a therapeutic thing to do. I'm also more likely to think about fandom things for Thedas if I remain in the DAO-DA2-DAI space, at least for now.

Since neither of those games are new to me (although there is a lot of new-to-me content in both of those games), I think it is easy enough for me to play both of them and switch back and forth as mood strikes.

Indie games are for more for extended-coffee break play. ;)

SDV still very much wants to be the subject of a bunch of fanfic prompts for 2025 prompt challenges.

...

And that means I'm probably putting off Veilguard until late 2025 or even until 2026. And that's okay. I'm reasonably spoiled and I'm fine with that. The game is fun but it isn't scratching the correct itch for me right now. If I decide to pick it back up sooner rather than later, I'll probably make another rook for Emmrich and go from there. tbd.

I don't have a lot of time for playing video games even though it is now February so I finally have *some* time.

Feeling undecided.

I could start plowing through my backlog of indie games. That would be a good idea for many reasons.

I'm feeling very conflicted about my current Veilguard run. I don't like a choice/option that was cut off from my Elven mage Shadow Dragon who is situated inside my primary canon world. Actually, I just ... idk. So I haven't felt compelled to pick it back up after 30-odd hours of slowly collecting all of the companions (but not much more).

So, for big budget games, trying to decide if I want to:

CP77: Do a full playthrough of CP77 with my preferred/canon V but now with all of the (no longer) new stuff that dropped ages ago. Also, my initial run of CP77 was less than completionist and there is a lot I still want to do in that world but very much starting from the beginning.

DAI: Finally play all of the DLCs and take more time to explore things I never touched 10 years ago. And do it with my Merrillquisition because I feel I need to see the Solasmance disaster before going any further in Veilguard.

DAVG: Ignore choice above and back up my Shadow Dragon by, idk, about 12 hours of play? By a bunch. Make different choices, then go forward, yada yada.

DAVG: Restart game entirely and mentally attach it to one of my other world states that I am interested in but less attached to. Create a Mournwatch rook for Emmrich. And then slam through it ONCE without too much concern over the key choices in game.

BG3: Return to my long ignored BG3 playthrough? I didn't get very far -- probably 20 hours in for the character who made it the furthest?

Something else? There are so many BIG games in my pile of shame.

[bisamwilson]

i think,,, i might have burned myself out

[ghoulrpc]

for the next three months, i’ve moved back into my dad’s house to be his full time caretaker. i’m reaching out to my mutuals that if you have ever wanted to do a discord rp with me... now would be the best time. i really need some distractions when i get free time during the day. all i ask is that you be understanding that with being his caretaker there is times i will disappear and replies might take some time. 

send me an im if you need my discord or msg me on there if you’re interested ! 

[sunraise]

not an urgent thing but if u commissioned me at the price of u gifting me one month of classic discord nitro who would be interested

[gabekidd]

Is there some sort of wire that trips in old people’s brains after they hit a certain age that just makes them super radical about their beliefs or

[seoafin]

rip!mc being emotionally gullible makes soooo much sense

cuz after hearing her father blame her for her mother's death,,, and her carrying that w her... omg

not to mention,,, how much i LOVE her character ?? the thought process ?? ur so insane wow

now,,,, a pretty shitty theory (i think) that i had and wanna ask about,,,, is the reason why rip!mc so interested in curses because of something to do w her mother's death? cuz (i hope im not getting this wrong) i believe her mom was killed by a curse. maybe she's trying to understand more about that situation? idk i just feel like her mother's death impacted her HEAVILY (her being so morbid)

also !!! i really love her cursed technique !! (it suits her and all the shit she got going on a lil tooooo well LMAO) if you don't mind me asking, does she have a domain? if so, what is it? what else can she do?

and lastly,,,, gojo and rip!mcs relationship.... why do i want it LMAOO i love this trust and respect based relationship they have. it's so complex wow

anyways im so sorry about how long this is bdbfnddn okay thank u have a great day/night

it's a mixture of being book smart but also growing up practically isolated after her parents died so there’s a tendency to take things at face value. i just think it’s funny because gojo goes around saying and doing things in a roundabout way, but all of that just flies over rip!mc’s head so it basically forces him to be more truthful about things and to gojo that’s harder than prying teeth 😭

not a shitty theory!!! it’s a mixture of that/general interest and fascination with geto’s cursed technique. i think i said this before somewhere? but studying curses helps rip!mc feel closer to geto in a way <3

yes rip!mc probably has a domain. she can’t hold it very long though. details tbd??? i envision it ensures an extremely slow death and plays with the concept of time. think being stuck and unable to move, aware of every single excruciating second that passes. has it been 2 minutes? 2 years? who knows. it’s pretty traumatizing so rip!mc rarely uses it.

huge huge huge spoiler underneath that i haven’t introduced in the story yet (suicide ment)

rip!mc’s dad commits suicide a year after her mother is killed. after that short scene in the most twisted curse, rip!mc’s father breaks down even more and tells her he’s sorry for blaming her and that it wasn’t, in fact, her fault her mother died. a year later, her father hangs himself while she’s at school. upon finding him dead, she brings him down, lugs his corpse to his bed, and just....freezes him. this goes on for about 2-2 months until rip!mc calls the number of the auxiliary manager who gave her their card at her mother’s funeral. jujutsu tech takes care of everything from there on and nobody talks about the fact that rip!mc basically preserved her father’s body for months and carried on, pretending everything was Fine. so yeah the girl definitely needs therapy and a healthy relationship which r two things gojo cannot provide :D

[ghostantine]

I wanted to sit on my ass all day painting this poster but i got to go to work for some status meeting :PP

[kidoyuuto]

hi i dont usually make text posts here directly that often but i had an idea for an au that i wanna ramble about in order to try and flesh it out a little more so if ur interested it’s under the cut

so this au. i guess it’ll take place during the go time period.  but its an au where the original aliea captains are like..cloned?? and there’s basically a second coming of aliea academy that the go kids have to fight against

since they’re clones they look almost exactly like how the original aliea captains looked except for two things: 1) their colors are almost completely opposite (desarm’s hair and outfit is mostly white, gran’s hair is blue, etc.) and 2) they’re about the same age as the go kids are instead of adults like the original aliea teams are at this point.  this is because they were cloned at a later point in time than when the originals were born and also because i wanted the go kids to fight them equally as kids LOL

so their personalities are much different than the originals as well. for example gran is way less friendly (although he seems to still take after original gran in that he highly looks up to his father figure who is tbd), and desarm is less cocky but also talks more for some reason. i guess. idk im still sorting shit out here

but ya so i figure during the whole aliea fiasco the government generally thought seijirou was crazy and dismissed him all except for one guy who stayed behind and s..somehow got the kids’ dna i guess idk. maybe he grabbed a hair from their uniforms or something, doesnt matter too much, the point is that he used their dna to make clones of them while they were enriched with the aliea meteorite’s power.  he probably then put them into like. cryosleep until they were ready to be Unleashed Into The World or something

LISTEN I KNOW THIS IS WEIRD I JUST SUPER ENJOY CLONE STUFF FOR SOME REASON its really cool to me..and i wanted to draw an inverted color au for desarm so naturally i had to build a wholeass au around it 

so yeah uh. thats what i got so far LOL i guess im calling it the aliea kai au or something b/c that sounds like something thatd go along w canon naming

[silversupremacy]

Can you do leafy or clover headcanons please :)

I can do both

Leafy Sexuality Headcanon: I could see her as bi but with a preference for men Gender Headcanon: Girl with a question mark sound. I don't wanna label her a cis girl but like I don't really have a solid gender concept for her :0 certainly fem leaning but like maybe a demi-girl? A ship I have with said character: I am not too fussed abt shipping w/ leafy. I guess I can say I don't mind Fiery x Leafy cause it's p popular, but I'm really not super into any Leafy ships. Leafy x Pin is cute, I think I saw that before? A BROTP I have with said character: Man, honestly Leafy is a chara I struggle on just cause- she wasn't in bfb much due to getting out early and then when I watched the original bfdi I jsut was struggling through it so I paid no attention to character interactions. But! I do like art with fiery and leafy interacting and hanging out. Like sure its ship art most of the time, but idk, I just like them hanging out. A NOTP I have with said character: Not fussed abt notps for leafy :0 Can't think of anyone I'd actively not want to see with her. A random headcanon: I like making her like, a little leaf bug crossed w/ a kangaroo for my creature design xD And she can just spring away so far, jsut, nyoom. General Opinion over said character: I wiiiiish I could see what everyone sees in her, I wish I found bfdi as a kid before I had highe opinions on animation and writing; But since bfb was my first watch of the bfdi universe, and leafy got out early, I jsut was so confused abt her character? Like ok, she puts up a facade of being nice and she really tries to people please, but then when she comes back later she- just seems different? Like she just turned it down a number of notches. But like, why, what changed in the EXIT that made her more chill. I really do want to like her!! But I just don't really have a solid view on what her character is and it kinda confuses me. Clover Sexuality Headcanon: She likes girls, I struggle to see her with a guy or a generally masc person for some reason Gender Headcanon: Feminine for sure, but I don't think she would care too much abt gender. Maybe she would experiment with some pronouns like bun/bunself or a butterfly type neopronoun. A ship I have with said character: I actually think Clover x TBD is kinda cute just cause cute charas, but I'm not too big on Clover ships? I think she would be neat with a lot of the s2 gals tho :0 A BROTP I have with said character: Her and Nickel's dynamic is fun, I wish we could see Nickel warm up to her cause I like them w/ a sort of sibling style dynamic with Clover being a kind of older sister figure. Would like to see her interact with people like Soap or Salt or Pepper, just curious how that would go. Heck, I think she could take over the world if she met Taco and was convinced, buuuut then she'd see a butterfly and be like Oh ok time to do some wandering :) and jsut leave. A NOTP I have with said character: I hesitantly say shipping her with Nickel; thanks to a youtube map I watched I prefer them as sibling dynamic. So not so much a notp as much as just I would kinda squirm if I saw it but could probably be convinced I guess? A random headcanon: She randomly wanders away from contestant grounds during off time and will just turn up in a town like 50 miles away after 1 hour and no one knows how she got there. She always manages to get back tho. General Opinion over said character: Oooh she's so cute and she's very funny. Her exit interview was probably my fav peak into her character cause she was kinda backhanded? She's like "If I really had my luck I wouldn't be talking to you :) " Like she basically said Pls frick off to her interviewer but in a nice way. I jsut think we didn't see enough of that character side of her in the show. Really wish we could get more Clover content! I'm hoping that ii does something post season 3 like the comics but w/ s3 characters in hotel oj too, just cause I want that interaction content so bad.

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The Petite Prince: Chapter 3

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, 7, 8

Chapter 3: Of course, little prince

Summary: Roman is a child. Virgil and Logan lost him, and Remus has found a new purpose in life.

Words: 1524

Ships: Familial prinxiety, logince and Creativitwins. Eventual familial royality, roceit and DRLAMP  

Genre: Fluff with a side dose of angst

Warnings: A few swears, Remus (if that needs a warning idk), falling, arguing, small blood mention, small injury, corpse mention, tell me if there’s any more!

Taglist: @pricklyfish777 @sunflowerblondeuwu @itriedandimtired

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The floor outside of big him’s room was waaay more slippery than Roman thought it would be. But then again, the socks he was now wearing probably didn’t help.

The small royal looked down at the smooth wood floor and giggled, a devious little smile slowly spreading across his features.

Slippery, smooth, perfect for sliding around!

Ignoring the fact he could, and probably would, fall and hurt himself, Roman ran across the hall, slipping with every step, cackling hysterically as he neared the stairs.

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Remus was strolling about, letting his tentacles drag behind him on the hardwood floor of the light side commons.

These dorks should never leave this place unsupervised.

Hehe… dork…

Wonder what they’re doing… Didn’t Patton turn into a giant frog?

That’s pretty hot…

Then suddenly a crash, ending with a small lump landing on the floor at the bottom of the stairs.

Oop.

Wonder what that is…

A corpse someone threw down the stairs?

A bag of bones?

He crept closer.

Is it a-

Then the lump moved... and started crying?

Wait, was that lump a… child?

A child!

Remus moved forward, summoning a stick to poke it, when suddenly the loud wailing stopped.

I thought children were supposed to cry, like all the time?

Isn’t that a thing that living children do?

Then the child turned its head towards him.

Roman?

“Roman?”

The child, Roman, nodded its head, staring at Remus in awe.

Not at Remus, he realized, but at his tentacles.

“Ten-tenacles!” The youthful voice squealed.

Remus felt a wave of protectiveness wash over him.

Mine.

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Roman had almost successfully gotten down the stairs, and was quite proud of himself for doing so.

But then came the last two steps.

The petite prince had gotten confident, too confident, and so he let go of the rail.

That had been his big mistake.

The fall had been a blur of color and movement, and then he landed.

Roman felt a small pain shoot up his right -or was it his left?- ankle, causing tears to well up in his eyes.

He let out a loud wail.

Princes weren’t supposed to fall, that wasn’t fair!

He continued to sniffle.

Then stopped.

What if he annoyed someone?

Roman heard the shuffle off feet behind him, and turned towards the person (And their stick).

Then stopped, slack-jawed.

“Roman?”

It was Remus. Big him didn’t like the Duke very much, thought he was scary. Well, this Roman wasn’t scared of anything.

So he nodded, his gaze drifting to the bright green tenacles trailing behind the figure.

The prince’s eyes widened.

“Ten-Tenacles!”

They were so big! And they looked suuuper slimy. He wanted to poke them. How could he poke them?

“Can I have you’ stick?” he asked.

With a big stick like that, it would be easy to touch them.

“Sure.” His big brother replied in a soft voice.

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Remus handed the three year old the stick, still a bit shocked.

He had a baby brother. A baby bro!

I must protecc. He’s just a smol boy, alone in the world…

(Who said he wasn’t allowed to be extra?)

Then, a sharp pressure on Petunia.

He looked at the tentacle to see a stick, the stick he gave Roman, poking at it. And he laughed.

The little prince looked up at him, confusion clear on his face.

“Wha?”

Remus smiled. Hopefully it wasn’t too scary.

“It’s nothing. Do you want to go to my room? There’s way more stuff to poke there.”

The prince grinned and nodded determinedly, showing off his gap tooth.

Adorable. So cute. My baby bro is cuter than any of the other regressed sides. Change my mind.

And so Remus scooped the little Roman up into his tentacles, causing the smol one to squeal in delight.

“Tenacles!”

“Yup. Tenacles is right, little knight.”

Roman stuck his tongue out and harrumphed, (so pure).

“I’m a Prince, not a kni-not a knight!”

Remus felt his grin spread.

“Of course, little prince.”

And then they sank down into Remus’s room.

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Virgil felt a sense of fear overtake him. They lost him. They lost the bean.

“Logan, we need to find him, like, right now.”

“I know!”

“Should we get Patton? He could help.”

He watched Logan wince.

“I don’t think that would be a good idea, Virgil. You weren’t there throughout the whole ordeal.”

The whole ordeal? That didn’t sound good.

“Ordeal?”

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Logan sighed. He would have to recount the whole tale to Virgil, which would take time. They didn’t have time. They had to find Roman. But if he told Virgil later, that would also take time… Aha! A compromise was due.

“We will look for Roman first, I will tell you as we search.”

There.

This was going to be… something.

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Remus rose up in his room, a slime-covered Roman in his tentacles.

“That fun, little Prince?”

Roman just laughed in response.

Remus, still smiling, set the smol one down, gently enough that he wouldn’t break anything. That didn’t stop the Prince from scrunching up his face in pain.

The duke frowned.

“You okay, little prince?”

Roman nodded, then stepped forward on his right leg to do… something… Remus didn’t know, and cringed in pain.

“I don’t think you are, RoRo. Did you hurt yourself on the stairs?”

“No.”

Remus stared at him.

“Maybe…”

Cocked (Hehe) his eyebrow.

The smol one groaned.

“Yeah, I di- I did. But I’m okay!”

He then took another step forward and tipped over, saved only by the mattress Remus summoned in a panic.

It was only slightly bloody. (It was drenched in blood)

He quickly summoned a different mattress (a bloodless one, don’t worry), and flicked his hand, soaking Roman with water.

He loved his baby bro, but cleaning him properly? That was a bit much.

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Roman’s face was smushed into a mattress.

Then he smelt blood.

Then he didn’t.

And then-

“AhHhHhH!”

He was drenched in water! It was so cold!

Roman jumped up from his soft savior, ignoring the pain shooting up his foot, and scrunched up his face in concentration.

Aaaand, BAM!

The prince giggled hysterically as he splashed ReeRee with water.

“Take that, you he- you heathen!”

His brother laughed, equally as hysterical, and lifted his hand, summoning more water.

“Oh it. Is. On!”

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Logan and Virgil sank in and out of the different rooms of the mindscape at a lightning pace, all the while talking about what had happened with Patton and Janus(?!?!) and looking for the bean.

“He sank out? Before the video was done?”

Virgil was shocked. And out of breath. He motioned at Logan to stop for a moment so he could recuperate.

They were back in the commons.

“Yes, he did. And I suspect that the happenings of this ordeal is what led to his eventual regression.”

That… did make sense.

“It isn’t an optimal situation.” Logan remarked.

“No shit, Sherlock,”

“I am not Sherlock,”

“It’s an expression,”

“It isn’t in my collection of vocab cards.”

“Then add it, genius!”

“I will! Just-”

A laugh echoed throughout the mindscape.

Two laughs.

”Is that-”

“Roman?”

“And-”

“Remus?”

The pair stared at each other.

“It came from the entrance of the Imagination.”

“How is your hearing that good?” Virgil mumbled, as the two ran (more exercise? He was not fit enough for this) towards the Imagination.

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Would they find Roman? That’s TBD.

Totally believable, dude.

It means ‘to be determined’.

Whatever.

Just get on with it, guys!

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Remus grinned, picking Roman up off the ground and spinning him through the air.

“As your prince, I command you to s- I command you to stop!” he squealed.

Remus cackled.

Then he gently placed the smol one down and bowed. “Of course, little prince.”

After the water fight, they had made a deal. If Roman let Remus bandage his ankle, they could go do something in the Imagination. On Remus’s side.

He was a little hesitant to agree at first, but anything was better than a pained little prince. Even the ruination of childhood innocence.

Come to think of it, maybe he shouldn’t have agreed to that.

But it actually went well, so Remus decided not to think about it.

“Now, let’s go!”

The scaled-down side looked up expectantly at Remus.

“To where?”

Roman’s face screwed up in thought.

“ReeRee’s!”

I never thought I could like actual cute things, but here we are.

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“To where?”

Roman’s face screwed up in thought.

They could go to…ReeRee’s room!

He opened his mouth to say so, but couldn’t quite form a sentence.

That was so annoying! How was it so easy for big him? No fair.

“ReeRee’s!” he managed to get out.

Yes!

Words were hard, so even one was good.

Remus picked him up.

“Off we go!”

And as they sank down out of the Imagination, the dark grass brushing against Roman’s cheeks, the wind picked up.

The paper crown sat atop his head was then caught in the breeze, thrown off and carried to the edge of the Dark Imagination, ready to be found by a very distressed pair of left brain boys.

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“Virgil?”

“Yea- oh no…”

“Exactly.”

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Thanks for reading this chapter of The Petite Prince!

If you want a little side story about what the Creativitwins were up to in the Dark Imagination, please let me know.

As the story progresses, I’ll probably make a bunch of fluffy side stories (excuse the pun) about cute stuff that just…happens throughout the main plot (If you people want that).

Also, sorry if Remus is a bit out of character. I’ve never written him before and he’s a lot softer with Roman, sooo, yeah.

Any constructive criticism would be great!

Thanks again!