#they/theirs/their/them/themself

[holly-natnicole]

[Image Description: Full body images of Raine Whispers from ‘the Owl House’ (2020). There are 5 of them in the image, standing in a row. The 1st 2 are of Raine in their mid-teens, the middle one is Raine in their early adulthood, the 4th image is of Raine in the main time period of the cartoon T.V. series, and the final image is of them in the Epilogue. The background is the gender nonbinary pride flag.]

[good-beans]

this is so stupid but i always have fun imagining the milgram characters watching their own/others mvs and seeing their reactions, especially for MeMe

That’s not stupid at all, thank you so much for the ask!! It’s sooo interesting to think about! I planned on just posting this drabble, but the more I thought about it, the more I started jotting down headcanons for everyone 👀 Of course there’s the initial disbelief and shock that Milgram can really do what it claims, but once they accept that, they’d have a lot of interesting reactions…

Es gets to watch the video first, then the prisoners are free to watch their own in the privacy of the courtroom/extraction room/wherever. Other prisoners can watch them only with explicit permission from the video’s singer. No one is allowed to watch Undercover except for Es. At first they spend hours looking at those final frames of themself flinching from the camera, hoping to jog any sort of memories, but eventually they give up on it. While actually watching it, they don’t mind the murder silhouettes. While sleeping, however, it has triggered more than one nightmare.

Haruka: He thinks Weakness is very pretty – he’s amazed seeing himself on the screen and hearing his voice, knowing he’s not that good of a singer. Even before his innocent verdict, it gives him a huge surge of confidence. Once he gets to know the others better, he gives them mv permissions, then stares intently at their faces to see their reactions as they watch it. AKAA scares him a bit, seeing his own intense emotions on screen, and he only gives Muu permission to see it. When he’s alone, Haruka pauses the shots of his mother, just to stare for a while.

Yuno: Laughs at the symbolism her mind used in Umbilical. She’s never shied away from sexual words/thoughts, so it's funny the video was as tame as it was. She thinks the song is fun, and isn’t afraid to show the others and sing snippets of it around the prison. Some days it’s too emotional for her to get into it, but most of the time she tries to display a confident attitude about it. After Tear Drop, she’s satisfied with her anger and more overtly sexual images. If anything, she feels too exposed by the shots of herself looking more vulnerable/sad. 

Fuuta: He experiences a solid mix of embarrassment at the gaming theme in Bring it On and feeling a surge of pride that he looks badass in the knight’s armor. He’s worried the warden won’t take him seriously with the video game obsession, but he absolutely loves the song and thinks it portrays his toughness and ideals well. He’s less thrilled with Backdraft, everything about it unsettles and embarasses him. He’s thrown by the shot of crossing out his own silhouette – he’d had self-harming thoughts, but wasn’t quite ready to confront them so blatantly yet. Like Haruka, he can be caught pausing the arcade shot just for a moment before turning the whole thing off and storming away.

Muu: She has mixed emotions towards After Pain. She hates seeing herself look so weak and pathetic, but it gives her a lot of hope that her story will be understood. She misses her friends, and seeing them again is bittersweet. She closes her eyes at the moment of the stabbing – she’s only gotten the courage to watch it through her fingers once. She watches INMF once, then refuses to look at it again from shame/horror. Despite Haruka’s begging, she doesn’t let him watch it, either. 

Shidou: He asks Es what they saw in Throw Down. Upon finding out his family wasn’t in it, he chooses not to watch it. He believes he already knows all about his emotions and crime, so there’s no need to go through that pain again. He’s tempted to watch it when he’s confused about Es’ verdict, but still holds off. He does watch Triage when informed his family is in it. He spends hours in front of the screen by himself. Only after seeing that one does he watch Throw Down, though he’s still left confused about Es’ decisions.

Mahiru: Absolutely loves TIHTBILWY. She thinks it perfectly describes her situation, and that the song is very cute. She lets others watch it, and unlike Yuno, feels like singing it 24/7. It reminds her of her bf, and she thinks that’s very romantic. Similar to Shidou, she spends a lot of time watching I Love You just to look at her boyfriend. She shows it to everyone, just to show him off and talk about him, even if she does skip over the beginning and end each time.

Kazui: He is very similar to Shidou; he refuses to watch his videos until T2, assuming it would be too painful to watch something he already knows and wishes to avoid. Unlike Shidou, seeing Hinako is far too painful, and he regrets watching it and seeing her so happy on their wedding day. Though maybe he’s still waiting, and hasn’t seen any of the videos yet…

Amane: Magic makes her worry more than anything. She fears she’s poisoned by unnecessary vainness since so much of her video involves cute things, colors, outfits, animals, and is set up like a tv show. She’s also worried that Es and the others will really see her as a child because of how cute the whole thing is. She prevents herself from watching it too many times, but buried under all her fears, it gives her a surge of pride seeing herself so talented and pretty and the star of the show. Purge March only reaffirms her confidence in her crime – the video brings up some awful memories, but it shows her as a leader, a warrior, a hero! It brings her comfort and confidence more than anything.

Mikoto/John: The videos are distressing to both of them, and they spend all their time studying the others’ screentime. Mikoto watches in horror as John does things that line up with his spotty memories, and John panics seeing that his actions distress Mikoto more than they’ve reassured/saved him. John does end up watching his own scenes a few times – it feels incredibly good to appear in a way that Mikoto may finally notice him. He feels seen. Now, logically I think that MeMe would be the final tipping point in which Mikoto finally accepts the situation and his DID, but if I must stick to his canon denial, then I’d say he goes on a whole rant about movie magic andt the crazy things you can do with editing nowadays. He doesn’t have a good explanation on how Milgram found his home and knew so much about him, but he explains everything away as cgi or camera effects. Double manages to sway him a bit more, as he hears John speak so plainly to him. Just as the audience had some debate on who was apologizing at the end of Double, Mikoto and John wonder who is apologizing to whom. Though they both come to the conclusion it’s their own apology, they decide that if it was the others’, they’d accept it and forgive them.

Kotoko: She’s very pleased with Harrow, and is unashamed to show it to the others. Though she’d been able to watch a few of the previous prisoners’ videos, it still shakes her a bit when she realizes that Milgram really does have the tech to look deep inside her. She watches it just a few times – not obsessing over it, but not afraid either. Deep Cover, however, is a once-and-done sort of deal. She claims she’s not letting the others watch it because “they couldn’t handle such harsh but true criticisms about themselves,” but she doesn’t end up watching it anymore herself, either.

[greatgoddyke]

much ado about pleasure

[thegreatyin]

i think the scoundrel is starting to care about their city-self.

extremely slowly. extremely, extremely, painfully slowly. as slow as molasses drips off a spoon made entirely out of delusion and ripped-up flower petals.

...maybe care isn't exactly the right word. tolerating? putting up with? allowing the city to exist without going out of their way to ruin all of their own hopes and dreams?

it is nice, having a place that knows them so intimately. having a place practically dedicated to them and them alone. having a place where they belong- because they are that place.

they can grow used to it, if they give it a chance. and they are (will be) the master of such a thing...

yes. yes, they can give it a chance. they can give it a chance indeed.

maybe it can give them one too.

[gnawednoble]

i half-believe sending vitale off w varric was viago giving them a way out, if they wanted to take it. i think there's some part of him that still believes being a crow is killing/going to kill vitale. he can't tell them to leave and they can't tell him if they were planning to. the only way out is death.

and going on what already looked like an impossible task? the only way viago will ever believe rook de riva is dead is if you give him their body. that's basically canon. but would he have searched very hard for it, if varric had - at any point - written to say that rook was dead, the body mangled/burned/unrecoverable? if he felt that varric was telling the truth, sure. there's probably an expectation that they don't take reports like that at face value. if he had someone he trusted not to report to any of the others what happened or to not kill rook on sight, if he sent them to look and they discovered rook wasn't dead. but the only two people he trusts like that seems to be teia (who might be willing to let rook go, if viago was asking) and rook themself.

i don't know if viago was expecting them to take the opportunity, but he had to have known he was opening that path for them. and vitale wouldn't have, if they even noticed that it was an option. they only have a few people that they allow themself to care about and viago's one of them.

the team changes that, slowly, but they've known viago for so long... if it occurs to them later that they need to get out - because seeing so much more of the world and being able to help so many people has softened a part of them they buried a long time ago - that connection is what's going to make them hesitate the most.

[disastersteps]

oh yeah its been a bit, i want to show that anita's thinking position in that comic cover i made is similar to aoyun (their puppet)'s pose hence. it's really just anita. that's them.

this is them when they think or plan about what to do next, etc. etc. <:3c

[zukishaylupo]

My college had a club rush thing [where the clubs have tables and you can sign up for them]!!!! And there was an art club table with stickers!!!!! There were a lot of MHA ones!!! These are just some of the ones I got and decided to put on my laptop!!

I know people [irl, not people who see this post, lol] are probably gonna think a lot of negative things about me because of this, but at this point, idc.

Anyways, I hope everyone has a good day!!

- Zuki Shay Lupo (They/hx) :3c

{My pronouns do kinda "shift" in the way of I like some more one day and others the next, today my preferred ones are what are in the parentheses. They/them is always preferred.}

[letmeblued]

Why do people try to prove that they made art that it's clearly AI generated 🤔

[hylianengineer]

It's writing-angsty-queer-DND-character-backstories hours.

[holly-natnicole]

I headcanon Naminé as transgender; more specifically, as agender. This specific enbe (enbe means a person who is gender nonbinary in some way) uses they/theirs/their/them/themself pronouns.

[faaun]

if ur friend cheated on someone (an acquaintance-friend) would u still be friends w them ? note that the relationship ended immediately so you wouldn't lose the other acquaintance nor do they care if you're still friends w the friend who cheated . but then u are friends with someone who cheated.

[20w14a]

Was gonna make a convoluted post talking about Evil X and Worm Man since y'know I like them a lot as evidenced on this blog but to sum it up, as funny and neat as they are as just plain joke characters they really do feel like foils to each other and I really wish that was shown more.

[pronounwarehouse]

Hi! Can I request a check with the names pine and hibiscus and the prounouns they/them/theirs/themselves, it/it’s/it’s/itself and moss/moss/mosses/mosself please? I like bugs, drawing, and reading! Thank you ! (It can all be in one check)

(I'm so so sorry for being late to answer this, my laptop was having technical issues and I only got it fixed today)

mixed:

I saw Hibiscus wearing a really nice sweater with centipedes on it, and it looked great on them! Moss always has the best fashion sense. It lent me their copy of a book too, so that was really nice of moss!

they/them:

I saw Hibiscus wearing a really nice sweater with centipedes on it, and it looked great on them! They always have the best fashion sense. They lent me their copy of a book too, so that was really nice of them!

it/its:

I saw Hibiscus wearing a really nice sweater with centipedes on it, and it looked great on it! It always has the best fashion sense. It lent me its copy of a book too, so that was really nice of it!

moss/mosses:

I saw Hibiscus wearing a really nice sweater with centipedes on it, and it looked great on moss! Moss always has the best fashion sense. Moss lent me mosses copy of a book too, so that was really nice of moss!

[rusanya-does-edits]

Focalors icon where Focalors is Assigned Mage At Birth (AMagAB), a they/them/their/theirs/themself (singular) pronoun user, and genderhubris!

Assigned Mage At Birth (AMagAB) - A xenoagab for those who were assigned mage at birth. They/Them (singular) pronouns - A semi-normative pronoun set outside of the male/female binary. Conjugated as they/them/their/theirs/themself. Genderhubris - A gender system relating to ones pride or self-confidence. When your gender is inherently affected/impacted by your own pride or confidence.

[mxdotpng]

we. as a community. are severally lacking in anything about richard and asbel trying to kill each other.

EDIT: these tags have become less and less about asbel and richard killing each other. i am so sorry. do not ask me to speak about anything ever this is exactly what happens every time.

[arolesbianism]

Mizuki vc calling all besties, survive