#this became fandom central lol

[zvezdacito]

Tbh I think a lot of people downplay the stakes Malleus is in that makes him overblot as just surface level loneliness by itself and that's why they think his overblot is unwarranted/annoying compared to the other six. It makes sense he jumps to such drastic measures to avoid facing whatever comes next because whatever it is will last not just a few years but literally a millennium + either way because of multiple systemic reasons he knows he's not just gonna be able to connect with a bunch of new people/explore a bunch of new experiences to make up for it.

Compared to other overblotters, it seems no matter what course of action Malleus will end up in a bad ending since he's a species seemingly among the few left of his kind while also being biologically predisposed to outliving everyone. It's as if he can never have a happy ending as long as he's himself, or that as a king (and symbolic "lord of all villains") his happiness will only come at the cost of others'.

I feel like a lot of people also give him the entire blame of his failures to connect properly with his peers. When even before they knew about his impulsivity or lack of cognitive empathy people were already jumping to conclusions about him. (Said mindsets came about from internalizing the depersonalization he was raised with, he's the sole heir of a country battered by colonization who place very high expectations on him to be a symbol of hope for them again after all)

Assuming the worse because of his powers, the reputation that came from it, and because of (the once again systemic issue) humans and people outside the Briar Valley barely knowing anything about/only having stereotypical rumors to go off the nocturnal fae who closed themselves off to try and stop humans from invading them more💀

So yeah givevn all of this Malleus was a ticking time bomb and even then he was about to just stand down and put his own feelings aside until he became accidentally convinced there was a way that didn't have to exclude him. It's an unfortunate clash of circumstances between different people and that's what TWST is all about. So yeah idk just kinda baffling some people are unironically out there saying things like "Malleus should've just held himself together for one night that's so selfish" when it's kinda made extremely clear by the story there's way more leading to the characters' making choices than that

From an outside point of view as the audience of course there are obvious steps Malleus could take to make the most out of what he has and to not inadvertently be a prick to others, but it pretty obvious why in his shoes it's not really feasible rn lol. Other than these things I could think of at the top of my head, a lot of the things people single him out as especially selfish or unreasonable for are things the other overblotters and characters in general also do lol.

> Like the class dynamics at play? NRC is literally rich boy central many characters express some kind of class privelege

> Not receiving consequences for his actions? This is a staple twst writing flaw for all its stories in general, most overblotters have gotten a slap on the wrist/their actions relatively covered up by the end. And Fellow legit just walks away from an undisclosed time of human trafficking like it was no big deal😭

Ironically Malleus will probably be the first overblotter to not have his actions hidden to only a select circle of people and receive severe repercussions for it because someone like him "should've been above that".

But yeah sometimes I feel like the extent of how some factors in Malleus's background, upbringing and environment determine his way of thinking and why he thinks he needs to do certain things is underestimated by the fandom and only the surface level of what he's doing is focused on which results in some people talking about his character and his flaws in a very dismissive way idk

[yangkitties]

bros before hoes ✰ profiles: NEXUS

NEXUS is a 7 member group under PLEDIS. NEXUS stands for how they are the connecting point between now and the future. NEXUS is also word play on the phrase ‘next us’ to show that they are the future, and the next big thing. Their fandom name is 'AXIS', signifying that their fans are their central point which allow NEXUS to continue being who they are!

park y/n: 02, nexus’s mood maker. OBSESSED with park sunghoon since the age of 11 when they saw him on tv for the first time, he's basically half their personality. makes terrible decisions and learns from them the hard way. genuinely just a little goof trying to survive.

bang chan: 97, nexus’s oldest. the best leader anyone could have asked for, but runs the practice room like the military. gives the best hugs and is doing his best to make sure his group stays out of trouble.

kim sunwoo: 00, nexus’s resident sassy boy. likes to stir shit up even though he’s one of the oldest. actually just a little bit of a loser who likes anime too much. has weird friends. 

lee chaeryeong: 01, nexus’s sweetheart. so sweet. just so nice and lovely and silly. everyone loves her and treats her like a little princess, even though she’s one of their oldest. deserves everything in the world and more !!

lee jooyeon: 02, nexus’s silly goose. likes to play the guitar and is generally very nice. super supportive and cheerful, has the voice of an angel. actually just the sweetest guy ever.

fukutomi tsuki: 02, nexus’s visual. loves loves LOVES making new friends. an absolute queen, and has been friends with y/n since both of them became trainees. has known y/n the longest. friend’s with enhypen’s jungwon. 

oh haewon: 03, nexus’s maknae. funny and savage as FUCK, loves hanging out with her members. she brings balance to the group and is slightly too chronically online for her own good.

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synopsis > with the help of fukutomi tsuki, park y/n finally gains the courage to face their long time crush, the one and only, park sunghoon. park sunghoon thinks it's love at first sight when he sees her. paired up as the new mcs of music bank, shenanigans ensue when y/n learns about sunghoon's crush...

note: i had so much fun coming up with the group concept and stuff lol

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[chaoticcreative14]

Fic request: There seems to be a dearth of ***IN CHARACTER*** Coulson-centric fics written by people who have actually watched Agents of SHIELD and digested how his character grew and changed over the years.

It's like fandom invented their own characterization to flesh out what little we saw of him in the Phase 1 era movies (2008-2012) and then never ever let that characterization go even as he became a very different character. Because of that, shipping Clint Barton / Phil Coulson is a fanon pairing that has persisted long after we found out Clint had a wife and kids (2015) and only ever heterosexual love interests for human!Coulson (2013-2018).

So here we are 10 years later, and people are still churning out fics in that fanon pairing and thus writing Coulson's character as the type of man whose career was primarily about being the handler for a pair of assassins instead of as the type of man who rebuilt SHIELD from the ground up to be an organization that didn't try to solve every problem with assassinations. Meanwhile, given all the tidbits we learned in AoS about his SHIELD career over the years, he couldn't have been Clint and Natasha's handler for very long because Fury had Coulson running around managing all sorts of special projects (grooming Coulson for leadership), not running a pair of assassins for years and years.

My objection isn't to pairing Coulson with a man. I'm totally fine with writing Coulson as bisexual, but I wish people would pair him with someone he's been shown to be crushing on (Steve Rogers) or has had repeated interactions and obvious on-screen chemistry with (Glenn Talbot) or ANYONE HE EVER ACTUALLY APPEARED ON SCREEN WITH EVER. Or even paired with no one (alone and lonely is very in-character for Coulson) but still the central character of the story and not some minor background character in fic focused on some ship he's not in.

Sorry, I meant this to be a simple fic request for more in-character Coulson-centric fics but then I thought "well I'd better explain what I mean by that" and then 12 years of frustrations poured out of me all at once lol. Coulson is my #1 favorite character in the MCU, but I abandon so many fics a few chapters in because of the awful mischaracterization. :(

I got this lovely request from an anon! I tried my hardest to make this *in character* Coulson so I hope you like it! He’s one of my favourite Agents of Shield characters so I hope I did him justice! Sorry it’s a bit short.

This is my first time posting a fic to tumblr so please bear with me if there are any formatting issues.

Description: Daisy is doubting her abilities as a leader but it’s okay because Coulson is there to give her one of his famous pep talks.

Word Count: 994

Coulson was sitting in his office finishing up some paperwork after a long day when he heard a knock on his door. He knew who it was without asking, only one person who would be coming to see him at this late hour. “Come in Daisy,” he said, looking up from his paperwork. She walked in and closed the door behind her.

“Hey,” Daisy said, walking towards his desk slowly. “How’s the paperwork going?” Coulson put his pen down and sat back in his chair.

“It’s going, but I think we both know that’s not what you came here to talk about,” he answered her, gesturing for her to sit down. “So tell me, what’s on your mind?”

Daisy sighed and looked down, bracing herself before sitting down quickly. “How do you do it?” she asked.

“What, do you mean my general cool and unflappable demeanor, or did you have something more specific in mind?” Coulson asked her. Daisy gave a slight smile at that.

“Not exactly, well, yeah kind of,” she said, clearly nervous.

“Daisy, what’s going on?” he asked, starting to get worried. She inhaled deeply before asking what had been on her mind since before she entered his office.

“I’m in charge of people now. Joey, Elena, Lincoln and I’m… I’m terrified that I’m not a good leader” she explained, fear plain on her face. Coulson felt sympathy shoot through him at the revelation, having experienced something similar himself.

“Well, I’m pretty confident that you are,” he tried to reassure her.

“How can you be so sure of that?” Daisy asked. Coulson took a deep breath, trying to find the right words to help her.

“I get where you’re coming from, I do,” he started. “Look, when Fury gave me control of S.H.I.E.L.D I wasn’t sure that I could do it either. Honestly there are still days where I question if I can.” Daisy looked at him with surprise.

“But you always seem so sure of everything,” she said, causing Coulson to laugh.

“I appreciate that you think that, and I guess my acting is better than I thought,” he said. “But the thing is, I think part of being a good leader is being afraid that you’re doing it wrong.”

“How do you live with that?” she questioned, still unsure of herself.

“I’m not gonna lie to you, it’s hard. I guess you just have to try and always do right by them so that when you make a mistake, and you will make a mistake, they’ll have your back.” Coulson said, seeing so much of himself in Daisy at that moment. “Mistakes are gonna happen, no one can be perfect all the time, god knows I haven’t been. I’ve found the important thing is how you handle those mistakes.”

“You’ve been pretty close to perfect,” she countered. Coulson was silent for a moment before replying to her.

“You don’t think I was terrified when Ward dropped Fitzsimmons into the ocean? You don’t think I blamed myself? I’m responsible for all of you, and when one of you gets hurt, I feel like that’s on me,” he told her, emotion clear in his voice.

“That must be really hard,” Daisy admitted.

“It is,” he agreed. “But I also wouldn’t trade it for anything. I’d rather be the one to have your backs than to have anyone else do it, and if I take that responsibility, it means no one else has to. The reality is, being the leader means doing the hard job, the one that terrifies you more than anything else,” he explained.

“Yeah, that sounds like it sucks,” she replied.

“Oh it does,” he said with a laugh. “But someone has to do it.”

“I guess I would rather be the one looking after them. At least I know I have their best interests at heart,” she admitted.

“See, now you’re starting to get it,” he said with a smile.

“You know, you’re really good at this whole pep talk thing,” Daisy said with a smile of her own.

“I’ve had a lot of practice,” Coulson replied with a shrug. “For what it’s worth, I think you’re doing a great job, Daisy.”

“Thanks Coulson,” she said, his trust in her meaning more than she could say. “It means a lot, coming from you.”

They sat in silence for another moment just looking at each other. Finally, Coulson broke. “Now, did my incredible and rousing speech do the job or am I gonna have to pull something else out of my sleeve?” he asked.

“What else do you have up your sleeve?” Daisy asked, curiosity colouring her voice. Coulson thought about it for a moment, coming up completely empty.

“You know, I have no idea. I was kind of banking on you not choosing that option,” he admitted. Daisy burst out laughing at that.

“As much as I would love to hear you fumble to come up with something, the speech did its job,” she said, standing up from her chair. “Thanks AC,” she said, heading towards the door.

“Anytime,” Coulson told her. “Although, maybe next time we could do this at, you know, not 2am?”

“Hey, you’re the one who’s still awake,” she argued, swinging the door open and backing out slowly with her hands up. “If you didn’t want to be bothered, you shouldn’t have kept your light on.”

“You make a good point,” he acquiesced. “Goodnight Daisy,” he concluded.

“Goodnight Coulson,” Daisy returned, and with that she was gone. As the sound of her footsteps faded, Coulson resumed his paperwork, feeling hope bloom in his chest. He had meant what he said about Daisy being a great leader, and although she still had a lot to learn, he knew she’d be even better than him eventually. One thing was for sure, the future of S.H.I.E.L.D was safe in her’s and the rest of the team’s hands.

[true-blue-sonic]

The fandom doesn’t want a Year of Silver cause they don’t think it’ll perform well. I don’t want a Year of Silver because I have absolutely no faith in the current writer’s characterisation of him and do not wanna sit through an entire fucking year of that. We are not the same

Yeah, I understand fully what you mean. My thoughts on it are three-fold: firstly I indeed wonder if a year for Silver will really work out, because he's not as popular as others. The Year of Shadow worked because Shadow is hugely beloved, to the point there was a time he was more popular than Sonic himself. It's no surprise to me that a game with a storymode in which he plays a central role would sell well! But Silver does not have that popularity by far. On Tumblr people seem moderately fond of him, but I have no clue how he's seen on other websites. It might be quite risky to dedicate a whole year to him; I fear he might not be able to carry it. (And then of course there's also the issue that Shadow just plays like Sonic + Chaos Spear + extra gimmicks that are still very fast-paced, whereas for Silver's PK they'd really have to make changes compared to how he played (and ran lol) in '06, in my opinion. It might take some time for Sonic Team to work out what to do with Silver and in what playstyle, perhaps more than Shadow. That could make them hesitant to try, but that's just pure guesswork on my part.)

And then secondly, there's a lot of characters who are more popular than Silver, yet who don't really get much attention either. Sure, Amy, Knuckles and Tails became playable in Frontiers, but they got no year for themselves despite Knux and Tails starring in the second movie. I don't even want to imagine the fandom implosion if Silver got a full year starring him in a central role before any of these characters XD And I would understand it! To me, Silver deserves getting more spotlight, but that's because he's my favourite and we don't get much content on him. If your favourite is Tails or Knuckles or Amy or Eggman or Metal Sonic, and they'd get snubbed by a far less popular character, I can imagine very well that'll leave you feeling bitter (and also, it doesn't help that Silver is already scorned for '06 presenting him as the Third Male And Thus Very Important Hedgehog™️ at the expense of other characters, or at least so I've heard before). Perhaps after more attention has been paid to others in the cast could a Year of Silver fly over better, but as things in the fandom are now, I think it'd cause utter mayhem.

And thirdly, I agree with your point that Silver is not well-written in a lot of supplementary material. I have as extra point that I really don't like Bryce's voice for him; nothing against the guy, but in TSR Silver sounds like a cockier Sonic half the time and vaguely like a Silver the other half, and compared to what we used to have before with Quinton's Silver I consider it a huge downgrade. On the other hand, I adore Kirk's Shadow in SXSG and Kirk is quite a contested voice actor for him, so maybe with better directions the same can happen for Bryce? But in general on the topic of Silver's characterisation, I've been seeing more posts on Tumblr describing how Silver is highly OOC in e.g. the IDW comics, and then if you also count stuff like the most recent takeover's incredibly random "Silver is kinda like my little brother! :D" statement that has zero basis in canon... I guess overall we don't know what the future holds here, haha! But I think Sonic Team could be wary about making a whole Year of Silver, when keeping my first two points in mind. Though on the other hand, the more time goes on, the more chance there is SoJ pays more attention to Silver's characterisation in the West and implements changes there to keep him more in line with his game- and Sonic Channel personality, maybe?

Overall, we just can't know, but I wouldn't worry about it too much either: in SXSG I'd say Shadow was written really well in the way he talked and moved and just existed in the game, and I greatly enjoyed his storymode in no small part due to the fact he felt very authentic to the character to me. I think if SoJ is on the case (because they are probably the ones making a Silver game in the end), there'll be much more quality control around Silver's character than e.g. for the IDW comics or a takeover. But I think it might be years before we get a Year of Silver or even a game that has Silver in any way playable in a main role, to be honest. We'll just have to wait and see! In 2018 Takashii Iizuka said a Silver game could be a possibility, and Shun Nakamura is also still fond of his creation, or so I've heard. I'm curious to see what the future will turn out to hold🍀

[orlissa]

Have you always known you want to be a literary translator?

Lol, no.

I think I've told this story here before, but here it goes, like, from the very beginning.

Ever since I can remember, I've always had a knack for storytelling - I actually had a short story published when I was 11 -, and got into fanfic at 12. Back then, it was only in Hungarian, and at the point like 99% of Hungarian fanfics were Harry Potter. It was like other fandoms didn't exist.

But a year or two later I got into a fandom (X-Men: Evolution) that very little Hungarian following (well, I remember there being a few fics, but really just a few and not the best), so I found myself having to venture to English sites - and what happened is that my "good for school" English got... pretty good. By the time I was 15, I was reading novels in English and trying my hand in writing fics in English (I was shameless, too. I lived in a dorm during my high school years, and I remember I was the only member of an English club there, so I got the teacher holding the club to devote it to editing my fics. Something I would definitely not have the guts to do today). In the next few years, I pretty much transitioned to English fandom places.

Then the summer I turned 17 - that was the age of Twilight, and everything was about vampires - I found a book series that spoke to me: it had vampires and a touch of Wicca, and the main character, at least it was prominently displayed in the blurb, was struggling with Math and paralell parking. My weakest subject was Math and I was struggling to get my license at the time - this book spoke to me. Looking back, the series wasn't... great, but at the time it really hooked me. I read the first four books of the series that summer.

As it happened, when I was reading the first book, it's Hungarian edition was already in the works, coming out in that September. And the publisher had a really good marketing manager at the time, who saw to it that the series had an online forum for the fans. I found this forum maybe a week after it launched, and being my shy and and not at all attention seeking self (*sarcasm*) I pretty soon became a central figure there - so much so that the aforementioned marketing manager soon sought me out and offered me an admin position there.

(It was such a great community, too. We did launch parties, and almost had a camp, which then was thwarted the last minute by the weather. I still have friends from there.)

Anyway, so the forum flourished, books in the series were steadily coming out in Hungarian, and we were having fun. Christmas came, and me being me, I wrote a little fic for my friends on the forum, as a gift (I guess I ended up translating it to English, and I think it's still on my old ff.net account). And the forum being an official one run by the publisher, my little fic got to the marketing manager, who sent it to the owner of the company and the translator of the series. And the translator loved it - like it was just fluffy piece, and apparently he said that it was "better than the original" (which is not a big deal, because, yeah, looking back the series wasn't really quality). I took the praise blushing.

A few months went by and the publication process for the fourth book in the series went underway - only they couldn't contact the person who did the editing of the previous books (later it turned out that they died, but no-one knew thaty yet). And they needed an editor ASAP.

That's when the translator, already a veteran in the business, said that hey, they could try me out. So they offered me a job - I was 17, still in high school, and I had an Adult Job, with actual Adult People. I was fucking proud of myself.

And then we did... 4 or 5 books like that. He translated, I edited. Then when I was nearing my high school graduation and we were heading towards the next book, the translator said that he didn't feel like translating this series anymore, but he would be okay with me translating and him editing. And, well, that's what happened. Like, literally I had my high school leaving exams one week, and was working on the translation the next.

He ended up recommending me to some other publishers as well (I work for neither today, either because they've gone defunct or because I wasn't satisfied with the way I was being treated), and then I was just... there. I had references, and I had connections, and I had a job I could do whenever and wherever I wanted while working on my degree. It definitely beat fast food.

Don't get me wrong, I love my job most of the time, and I think I'm good at it (i just heard it back last week that some bloggers were praising my work at some event), but it was never planned and me being where I am today is absolutely due to some events that were mostly out of my hands.

[chiisana-sukima]

follow up to the question you just answered (tho I'm a different anon), when did you first get into fandom? what was it like back in the day?

I read what I would now consider my first fic when I was thirteen. It was split into two traditionally published Star Trek novels, but they were whumptastic, barely sanitized Spirk (no sex, but omg the "Ill die for you, give up everything for you, endure horrible torture, etc" vibes were off the charts). And while I can't say they awakened something in me per se--because I had already read a bunch of other raunchy queer scifi by other authors--they were certainly my first taste of transformative works, and I've been in fandom on and off since I became old enough to drive to cons a few years later.

Why is that romulan chick there when this is sanitized gay porn? No idea, its been years since I read these.

I went to Star Trek cons when I was in my twenties and still know some of the con runners from that time. There were, to put it bluntly, a lot of raves and a lot of sex lol. It was a more open time period in some ways, or at least it was open enough my whole friend group basically all banged.

Otoh though, there wasn't nearly as much language to think and talk about identity. I think The Youth TM have really stepped up around issues of gender and sexuality in ways that are net huge positives, including for older queers who can now identify ourselves in ways that may always have been central to us, but which we didnt have language to express (I still call myself bi and queer but can now also say I'm nonbinary/genderqueer and aro--both of which I have been for as long as I can remember but only have words to discuss now). We banged a lot back then (which was great! no regrets!) but didn't know ourselves very well.

I didn't become what I'd call active in fandom on a regular basis though until the 1990s. I was a manga translator in the late nineties/early 2000s and ran a small scanlation team. There wasn't as much Discourse about what kinds of content are acceptable then as there is now, but Discourse springs eternal, so there were a bunch of other kinds of wank instead. My team was international, and we ended up splitting over a weird mix of factors that included one of the members being incredibly racist due to childhood trauma during the Yugoslav wars, my own anxiety over customs opening all my packages from Japan, and an attempt by a traditional publishing company to co-opt all the scanlators as contractors for shit wages and no benefits.

I took a long break and then came back into fandom on the fic reading/writing side in 2015, and I love it here a lot. AO3 is the best thing since sliced bread. Even though I worry about purity wank and the panopticon and how that's all affecting people growing up now, I think overall fandom is a better place for the togetherness that the internet has bred. It's much more accessible now compared to when I was young, and it's easier to find your own little tribe of weirdos who match your freak pretty exactly.

[pangaeaseas]

asterope lily black!

....in my defense I was like 17 when I did this and not yet wise in the ways of the world....look many many people are guilty of similar sins...

Basically this is the most WHAT THE FUCK WAS I DOING of these LMAO

So I never actually wrote any actual SCENES for this fic, but I have an 11 page lore doc that outlines the basic plot of this and loredumps about a bunch of OCs who would be important if I ever wrote anything. Yes. 11 whole pages. And no scenes. I cringe in shame. Also there are pictures...there is a doll maker image of the OC the fic revolves around.....the prose of the lore doc is written in this very weird conversational style with like slang and too many acronyms...ok every teenager deserves to be this cringe! it's not a crime!!!

Asterope Lily Black is of course that central OC. I think her name is awesome actually! Great name! Makes sense for her backstory! She goes by Aster which is so fun and cool bc Aster is a flower! It works for her backstory bc both of her parents' family naming traditions are included...her parents....lily Evans and regulus black.

Yes. I have to confess. I thought about writing Regulily.

many, many people in the recent history of this fandom have felt compelled to woobify regulus black and, to my shame, I must admit that I was one. Yes, in the dark dark days of my youth, I was like...what if I made Regulus Black a woke sex symbol???

I know. To be fair to me, I DID feel really iffy about actually writing the Regulily part bc...even at that point when he was woke in my head he was like..pathetic and sad woke he was a poor little baby and I never really worked out why Lily would be attracted to him (especially not to the point where she would have to be in this AU) so I was like 'ok this is an AU of my headcanon version of him where he's actually hot for some reason'. And then I didn't really want to write the Regulily prequel which I felt was necessary to make the rest of the fic comprehensible which is probably why I wrote nothing real for it.

So I guess I decided Regulus was like...a spy? For the Order? And Lily was this handler? Except for some reason this was happening in her seventh and his sixth year so that Aster could be the right age?? AND SHE WAS DATING JAMES WHILE SECRETLY DATING REGULUS??? Honestly poor James he had an awful time here. BC his wife had a baby with someone else in complete secrecy while saying she loved him and he never found out...I did realize how fucked up this was and it was gonna be a big moment when Sirius found it out. And for some reason Lily was like ok I want the Death Eater to raise our baby. WTF was everyone thinking. OK. At least Sirius was the godfather of the secret baby he also had no idea about (like he didn't even know about her existence somehow???). (BC the real reason I wanted to write this scenario wasn't the regulily it was to have a character who was both sirius's niece and Harry's sister.)

So Regulus has his OC friend Celestine Pucey, who's actually a very fun character I might use elsewhere, marry him and pretend the baby was hers. Except whoopsie she died in a random Death Eater attack. and he died. and for some reason Lily didn't know about this (to be fair she WAS in hiding it wasn't completely implausible) and didn't change her secret kid's care plan. So Aster got sent to her fake mother's family the Puceys. The Puceys were mostly awful with the exception of my boy Adrian Pucey who became Aster's best and only friend. Also Marietta Edgecombe is a Pucey and Aster's enemy lol bc I'm on my make really random characters related agenda all the time.

Aster doesn't know about her parentage, bonds with Adrian and literally no one else, goes to Hogwarts and is a Slytherin to be like her dead lost parents regulus and Celestine, and basically blends into the wallpaper until Chamber of Secrets, maybe vaguely contemptuous of her unknown half brother.

Now the Puceys were emotionally abusive to Aster and only wanted her for her money and control of the powerful Black family (as she was now the heir to Sirius) and also their matriarch Amaranth Prewett Pucey was a special level of crazy (evil Gryffindor) and did some kind of Dark magic ritual and, the summer before Chamber of Secrets, finds out Aster isn't related to them and is actually a half blood and loses her shit. Aster is kicked out but to avoid scandal they don't publially explain that...somehow...she is a halfblood and the daughter of Lily Evans. And then there's this very cute scene where she runs into Hermione on the Hogwarts Express who is distraught bc Harry and Ron are who the fuck knows where and Aster has to see a Muggleborn as human for the first time and process that she herself isn't pureblood! And she finally has family that loves her in the form of Harry though idk when she told him she was realted to him.

I then got stuck with what would happen in PoA bc obviously Sirius would have really big reactions to Aster exsiting but I couldn't figure out precisely how. But I do know that Aster ended up becoming a concert pianist and recording an album of Stravinsky's piano music, just to make this somehow weirder.

[maoam]

The Atlas fandom is increasingly surpassing itself by showing how unbearable they can be, I thought that the rise in popularity of the pandemic had made the fandom unbearable but the mediocre Netflix adaptation is reaching a new level. Among the worshipers of the Fire Nation for their uwu baby zuko (I have no problem with zuko but his fandom ruined the character for me), the changes in central parts of the characters and the lifelong fight of zutara wanting to be canon in some reality. Besides, the fandom became annoyed by the war ships but then a new crackship appeared with Zuko and Sokka and makes them bisexual, of course to do this Suki is completely erased from existence and they make Sokka the most heterosexual character in the series to date Zuko.

I'm not a big fan of Atla fandom either. They treat the series as FLAWLESS and giving it any criticism is usually met with 'YOU DIDN'T GET IT'. Unless they are zutarians who think the series' biggest issue was that Zuko and Katara didn't get together. Lol.

However I will stand by the statement that despite its flaws Atla is miles better than Lok. Lok literally destroyed the mythos of Atla and further Americanized the setting and it just wasn't good. While Atla has some simplified concepts, at least those concepts are consistent and the show has some meaningful things and relationships in it. In Lok the relationships alone just suck. The only reason Lok even gets any clout these days is because they made a popular tumblr crack ship canon in the last 3 minutes (without developing it or fixing the things that made even the two's friendship iffy and not believable to me). But someone else made a comic about it after the series was over that retconned a bunch of stuff so it's okay apparently.

I don't get the Zuko and Sokka ship either. But it's hilarious to watch Zuko/Sokka and Zuko/Katara shippers fight each other, especially when the latter calls the former misogynist. Like neither of you is that good, chill out... And yes, some Zuko stans are really annoying, especially when they hate on Aang.

I'm not gonna watch the live action series anyway, I just don't like this mindset nowadays that every cartoon has to be made into live action. Cartoon is respectable media in itself, it doesn't need live action.

[dhampiravidi]

when you dislike the MC of a good series AKA Who Will Die in The Wicked Powers

damn, being petty enough to flip off the MC x canon ship in my (favorite) fandom is really kicking me in the ass--

yeah, basically I can't touch half the TSC stuff on Tumblr bc I'm so anti-Clace...(meanwhile I love literally every other character that's been in every Shadowhunter series)...& they're probably gonna have a wedding + kids in the next books (assuming Jace isn't killed)...

The Wicked Powers is most definitely gonna have the Princes of Hell as the main villains. I feel like Luke, Gwyn, or Izzy will die, since the younger Shadowhunters are supposed to be central & well...look at the couples who will be alive/extant by TWP:

SPOILERS FOR ALL SHADOWHUNTER BOOKS!!

Jace & Clary

Magnus & Alec

Simon & Izzy

Julian & Emma

Kit & Ty

Kieran/Cristina/Mark

Dru & Ash (& maybe Jaime)

Diana & Gwyn

Luke & Jocelyn

Tessa & Jem

(forgive me if I'm missing anyone!)

Jace already died once. Clary had dreams about dying, but those were shown to be visions of Thule. Based on canon events, I think they're Clare's favorite ship. SAFE.

Magnus almost gave himself to Asmodeus in CoHF. Alec almost-ish died saving Magnus in The Eldest Curses. Also, Alec almost died thanks to that poison demon in TMI (the one Magnus saved him from). Malec might end up forced to rule some region of Hell (reason unknown but I think it'll have to do with them beating/destroying Asmodeus). I feel like past events foreshadow Magnus dealing with the unfortunate sides of being a warlock. But he won't die--the "killing your gays" trope might actually save he & Alec.

Simon nearly died when the vampires attacked him (when he was a mundane), then when Valentine bled him pre-Daylighter (then Jace's blood saved him). He "sacrificed" himself to Asmodeus CoHF, in the form of his vampire immortality + memories (which he basically got back later on). Izzy...she's been through a lot psychologically & about as much as I think most Shadowhunters would physically. She lost Max & her dad. But she's a badass (I'm not faulting her for it, either). So I don't think she's safe.

Julian & Emma both lost their parents in horrible ways. Their whole series was about the parabatai curse (which, to me, was conveniently not mentioned in chronologically earlier series...probably because it wasn't invented til TDA was written, lol). They're kinda written to be the leaders of Livvy's Watch. SAFE.

Kit has his whole faerie power reveal shit to explore & he + Ty are some of the major characters in TWP. I'm pretty sure they'll spend the series healing their relationship. SAFE.

Kieran/Cristina/Mark will survive because 1) Kieran as the Unseelie King is an important Shadowhunter ally, 2) they're poly rep in YA, which is rare, and 3) killing one of them off would leave the others to mourn in such a weird way. SAFE.

I love Dru Blackthorn. She's one of the main of TWP, so I think she'll survive, plus tbh I don't think any more Blackthorns will be killed. Ash will probably end up as the Seelie King or as Clace's adopted son, to "redeem" Sebastian in a narrative sense. Jaime's sort of a main for TWP as one of Dru's love interests. SAFE.

Diana & Gwyn aren't main characters (though I like their romance). Diana also is the ONLY transgender person in all the books (unless I missed something). I don't think she'll be killed off. Gwyn might be just because I see the Wild Hunt as an important group in TWP & he might die protecting Diana (narratively, this shows strengthened faerie-Shadowhunter relations, despite the Wild Hunt being unaffiliated with either Court).

Luke & Jocelyn deserve to be endgame, but I could see Luke being killed off as one of those "MC's loved one is killed so the MC goes & avenges them" type of things. I love Luke & Jocelyn as characters, though.

Tessa & Jem deserve to be endgame, arguably, more than any couple. They were the mains in their series, then Jem survived but was sort-of-"lost" when he became a Silent Brother. Then he miraculously became a (mortal) Shadowhunter again when he was burned by heavenly fire, he just left the Clave behind to hang with Tessa (good choice!). Tessa has a baby & she's gonna suffer enough when she outlives Jem. SAFE?

[lover-of-mine]

Hi! This is long, but just some Inside Baseball-y theorizing/thoughts on LFJ... I don't have any insider info or anything lol but I know a bit about how the business side of the industry works.

So, he would have been brought back as either a recurring guest star or a recurring co-star (co-stars are usually minor characters who basically serve to push other characters to where they need to be, which is probably what he was in S2. Guest stars have a bigger role and are usually a little more central to the story they're being used in). The distinction is a little fluid and can be up for negotiation by your agent (guest stars get paid a higher rate), but I think Tommy lands pretty solidly into recurring guest category for S7, so that's my guess as to what he was contracted as. (The step above that but before main cast is series regular, which is where Karen and Ravi etc fall)

From what we now know, his original arc was only supposed to be 4 episodes, and he was there for Eddie. Then Natalia's actress became unavailable (I think she was doing a play?) and their original plan sort of fell apart, because if Eddie had his gay awakening in 704 and Buck was single (since Natalia wouldn't be there) the rest of whatever they had planned for the season would stop making sense... hence the switch, and imo you can see some traces of the original plan in the version that eventually made it to air.

And then they were renewed for S8-9, which realistically would have been very much up in the air at the time the season was originally being written. They'd just come off the strikes, they were on a new network, they had a shortened season, they were planning a BIG swing by bringing at least one of their long-term characters out of the closet, so I don't think it's a coincidence that the renewal news came in the wake of those eps airing. I think the network was probably waiting to see how they'd do in the ratings once that happened before they decided how to move forward.

So once they were renewed, they decided to slow down the pace of whatever story they had planned since they now had more or less guaranteed time to do it. The back half of S7 was a hasty rewrite and suffered for it – I think that's been made obvious in interviews and just from what you see on-screen lmao

LFJ was probably asked back for a handful of 7B scenes because of the rewrites – most of his "presence" was done without him actually needing to be on-screen. A couple references to him here and there and one or two scenes in an episode, and that was kind of all they needed story-wise to keep Buck busy while Eddie started down his spiral. I don't think his "popularity" or "fanbase" or whatever had much at all to do with him staying longer. BIG fandom pushes can sometimes sway things, but I think people generally overestimate their influence on these kinds of decisions. It ultimately comes down to money and viewership and story needs, and it made sense for him to stay longer than expected, so he stayed.

When it stops making story or business sense to keep him, he'll be gone, which might have already happened if they think he's caused more trouble than he's worth. There's also the possibility that he'll be promoted to a main on SWAT or get booked for something else and become unavailable just like Natalia's actress did. That happens super frequently.

Or maybe not! If they have a plan for the wrap-up of that storyline that requires him to be physically present, or even if they want to keep him around off and on all next season, then he'll probably be back for a couple episodes, but they're definitely not going to be writing full independent storylines for him. If you pay attention, he (and Buck!) stopped being the focus of any of the plotlines as soon as the bulk of that story was resolved (Buck realizing he's bi and coming out to the rest of the team). Whatever their plan, his function is/was to push Buck to where he needs to be for whatever's next in his story, because Buck is the one who's part of the main cast. He's the one who gets storylines written about him.

I agree with a lot of this, really. I say his approval made him stay, but I kinda mean in the sense that Buck being bi was well received and unlike other love interests, he was well received, so keeping him in the background wasn't creating problems as they set up whatever it was they wanted to do with season 8 using the remainder of s7 after the renewal. I don't think his purpose on the narrative is completely done yet, so I do think he could be back to further Buck in whatever way they need him to, because like you said, he exists to push Buck somewhere and they stopped using Buck on his own after he came out and that's definitely not something that's gonna transfer into s8, so whatever plan they have for Buck is probably going to use him. I think the question is if the chaos that's been going on lately makes it worth it to drag out his presence or if they'll choose to get over with it quickly because while he still makes sense narratively, he might be stopping making sense from a business perspective. But we don't know, this is all speculation at this point. There's a chance he's already written off and there's a chance they are planning on keeping him as a presence for longer. We'll have to wait and see I guess. But this is a very detailed view, thank you for sharing it.

[coralhoneyrose]

for the ask meme!

💥👻🤩🤔

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

Definitely the inability to have same-sex marriage in game. I would love to play the gay awakening mod someday for that very reason. As is, I definitely ignore that aspect of canon in my writing. Crossing my fingers that if they ever decide to re-make Awakening they’d approach things with a more progressive lens.

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

If we’re taking “wildest” to mean least common / not shared by many other members of fandom, it’s probably just Chrom being demisexual since I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone else expressly portray him that way? If we’re taking wildest to mean just like completely out there and off the rails crazy then uhhh…let’s say it’s this one that I definitely didn’t come up with just a second ago, where in the video that plays when you boot up awakening, that scene that LOOKS like it’s Chrom and Sumia on the balcony with Baby Lucina is actually Chrom and Robin and Robin is just wearing a very elaborate hyper-realistic disguise or perhaps was on the other end of that body swap spell from the Henry support. I’d say that constitutes wild adhfdjk

🤩 What led to your interest in the fandom?

For fire emblem in general, it was actually a combination of my partner recommending the series to me and Byleth’s announcement for Smash Ultimate LOL. I played Three Houses first and was totally consumed by it for a year or so before eventually branching out to other entries. My partner had suggested Awakening as the next one I play, and I enjoyed it the first time through but like…a normal amount? I particularly liked Chrom as a character but had played as m!Robin and was bummed the game wouldn’t let me pair them together.

And then almost a year after that I decided to replay as f!Robin because I was curious how it changes the narrative (and particularly the Lucina scenes) if you’re with him. And the story just hit me completely differently that second playthrough. Chrom and Robin’s relationship being such a central focus emphasized the game’s themes in a way that burrowed into my brain and has not relinquished its hold on me since. I started reading fics and looking for fan art, found some excellent and highly influential ones early on, and then became totally consumed by thoughts of the two of them and trying to write my own Chrobin stories. And the rest is history!

🤔Would you ever want to write something canon if you got the opportunity?

Oh gosh, like be a writer for a fire emblem game? My instinct is to say no, but I think a big part of that is that I feel wildly unqualified LOL. In a universe where I had more of the required skill set / background and training though, it would be really cool to try my hand at it! Though I think I’d probably rather write support conversations than like…the actual main narrative for the game

Thank you for the ask! <3

[pumpumdemsugah]

You're one of the best accounts I follow here so the fact that you watched Arcane and liked it is pretty cool, since I also love this series (hoping for you to do tons of spans of Arcane content lol)

About Mel, yeah, it's exactly what you said. People genuinely dislike complex characters despite the fact that they claim to love and want more of them. The things get worse when the characters are women, because the audience just seem to accept two types of female characters: the badass girl whose whole character is about how she can fight but she barely has plot importance, not even a personality. Or the waifu. Their only job is to like the main character and if the male character she's in love with is the one that male audience insert more, this waifu character is treated like the best women ever.

Regarding to Mel, I think she's also targeted by fujoshis since Jayce likes her and they have a relationship. Viktor/Jayce became a highly popular ship in the fandom. I think it isn't more popular than caitvi simply because a big part of Arcane fans are caitvi shippers and their relationship is a central part of the plot.

When people say they want complex characters they want a broody white man. That's it! God forbid you say...hmm idk because that was my reaction to her. She's clearly smart but like the other elite in the city, out of touch about anything beyond her world. Even before we learn more about her, she's presented in a way where it's obvious she's about the cerebral and connections, her backstory just clarifies she is the way she is because she hates violence and war so depends on everything else to her detriment.

What's crazy is it's very common for political characters to have other motivation but these fuckers were diagnosing her with a personality disorder. I've seen so many male characters that are evil and political from the get go of a story and people don't react like this. They don't need a tragic backstory to guess the person that keeps their cards to their chest has motivations that aren't obvious ?? Hello !

I saw a video going through the traits that make a character strong in Arcane is their weakness and hers was manipulation and not political savvy or even persuasiveness. Sorry but when women are called manipulative it makes my skin itch. I feel like male characters only get that treatment If they're slimy as well and are meant to be pathetic

Similar fictional men get praised for their intelligence and being able to read people when they're obviously devious and manipulative but those are woman descriptions

I've also noticed people don't seem to understand how a story works or what character development is. They want everything all at once. She's not the main character, why would we have her backstory before its plot necessary? It wasn't even that people didn't trust her straight away but the intensity of that distrust because did Jayce not jump all in with back room dealings when he realised he had to ? But is he manipulative for that or simply playing the game for the greater good of his technology?

I even saw someone saying they saw a black fan in bits about her. I really think something is wrong with certain types of black fandom people. The whites didn't like her so you're having a melt down? Get a grip.

[fantomette22]

6, 25 about Gehrman

Thank you Jara! :D The asks list

6. What's something you have in common with this character?

Hm very good question 🤔 I wanted to say a lot of things but they are more fanon & headcanons than canon lol (yeah I project a lot hm u_u) So as "real" common thing well,

I have a black hat and red scarfs XD

I like being alone and comfy I supposed, in calm and peace. Smt I'm sad too kinda normal you would said but I wonder when I'm going with my life and if I would be own my own or share it with smn. And I guess I'm can be quite creative and cultivate like him.

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Well at first I was hm very neutral? Curious to know more for sure 🤔 It's not like he's really develop or of any help at first. + a part of the fandom I saw was really adamant and negative towards him for some reason... (and oh boy I knew nothing yet XD)

Now, well he became one of my fav for sure! I very enjoy this character! My interpretation of him make me like him a lot. It's like this and nothing would change that. He's not angel of course but I like the character for many tragic and human aspect. I like imagining how he was in life, what's his story, his interests, his relationships with other characters etc I mena bro is the first hunter! The first to have take weapons to fight beast and teach other! It's not nothing. And well without him no hunter dream and everything he's a central and major charters in story lore.

And I mean his aesthetic is just ✨ and his theme OMG I love it and I feel I can all his life when I listen to it. I could go on for hours but let's keep it simple XD

[fulcrumstardust]

1, 32 and 50 for the bookworm asks?

Name the best book you've read so far this year.

It's gonna be Gideon the Ninth! I know, late to the party. Blew my socks off, I've been murdered by this book like nothing else. (5 stars read to speak like the booktube girlies 😂)

Two runners-up: Jade City and She Who Became the Sun

32. Name your favorite author(s).

This is so hard because I don't think I have favorite authors? 😭 I tend to like series or a book from someone and then move on, I guess. Or maybe it's my trust issues and the countless series that let me down.

(Pierce Brown is a great writer for example but I've read one (1) series from him so is he my fav? I also really love Alexander Freed's mind but I want to read something that isn't corporate from him. Gimme.)

50. What kind of book have you never read but always hope to find at some point in the future?

Sadie, what does that mean? 😂 Like my dream story? Sure yeah, all the books that promised me so much and DIDN'T DELIVER!

This might be a niche problem but why is it so hard to find a scifi and/or fantasy series that goes hard BUT with a serious romance that ISN'T the sole focus but still CENTRAL to the themes. You know what I mean? It's like you have to choose, either the smut or the world building. What if I want both? Basically, what I'm getting from the rebelcaptain fandom lol

📚 ❥ Ask me book questions

[2n2n]

I love the Tsukasa and Nene ship, and it seems that you do too and I would like to know why? Because this ship doesn't seem to be very popular what attracted you to it? And do you think it's possible for this ship to happen in the manga? (Unfortunately seen from my point of view I don't think so, because Tsukasa seems so innocent for this to happen, besides he only thinks about Hanako-kun 😢)

Popularity or suggestions from others has little to do with what I ship; I read the work, I imbibe the story, and I ship things based on what I am intrigued by, or perceive, in the story. I don't tend to engage much with fandom when reading something first time, so I had no idea what was 'big' or what wasn't (I didn't look at the fandom at all until the Far Shore arc, where I only really suddenly glimpsed it because I was looking for Sumire/Hakubo stuff & was blindsided by other's dislike of Hakubo). For instance, the popularity of Mitsuba and Kou, and ?? Aoi and Nene ?? completely and utterly baffled me, I wouldn't have guessed people really cared about any of that. I came out of it only caring about the twins x Nene-chan.

As it is, it intrigued me early on that Amane can compare Nene-chan to Tsukasa. They share a lot in common, centrally their love of Amane. In canon and in AUs, Tsukasa often acts like a sort of informant, giving Nene-chan information. The canon itself gives me the impression he places a lot of trust on her, and likes her. The story itself lead me to asking questions about it, and its viability only kept increasing as I read. I went into this expecting to only like HanaNene, but, AmaTsuka became the next obvious thing, but then weirdly the final piece, TsuNene, felt like it started taking shape...

Yes, I think it's possible for the ship to happen. I think it's the point of a lot of threads and ideas… I really do believe that. There are enough comics, illustrations, and commentary from JP fandom that make me feel I am not the only one seeing it, either. It's just the American fandom is helpless.... I call myself delusional but like any good delusional person, I believe what I think is true.

I guess after playing Narisokonai Snow White especially-- wherein you spend half the game exploring the love between the Princess x one twin, and then the OTHER half of the game unraveling the love the OTHER twin feels for the Princess-- yet ultimately relinquishes her to his brother, who he feels the Princess loves truly and deserves to be with-- I'm, really convinced that it's not just my delusion, but the sort of multilayered love story intrigue Iro-sensei likes to tell. We have much more to learn about Tsukasa!

I don't think Tsukasa "only thinks about Hanako-kun". I think these sentiments are incredibly sincere:

and intentionally loaded. You don't get a single vibe from TsuNene scenes? Aren't these vibes why anyone ships it? Well, I get major vibes.... It's not like....... Teru x Natsuhiko, or, some other frivolous idea invented out of thin air. lol

It could be his love for Amane that makes him love Nene-chan; the only other person who can understand what it is like, to wish to die for Amane.

For him to be willing to let Nene-chan in on so much, and share so many precious moments with Amane, I feel he has to admire her.

Iro-sensei likes complex romantic intrigue!!! I can't say enough ... Narisokonai Snow White was so about the interplay between the cast of twins + a girl they both like. The Princess and Rasphard were similarly ill-behaved children, something the Ambrose family notes in the text. The Princess, who is already in love with Estelio, sees similarity between the twin boys. We use established love between individuals to implicate love all across the ships. As the player of the game, you can cause either twin to yandere out on the princess based on what choices you make....

I believe in twin romance supremacy. I think it is why we have twins + a girl.

I think it is Iro-sensei's fetish lol

Now what I will say is your thought of "Tsukasa is too innocent for it to happen" is kind of real, but you should give more credit, then, to Nene-chan, who could also make it happen... :) ;) I mean look at her as it is, chasing down Hanako all running away from her every few chapters....!

Maybe Tsukasa doesn't understand everything he feels or everything that could be possible! Amane also thought he didn't value anything, much less her life. Nene-chan teaches the boys many things about love~

[true-blue-sonic]

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i had to remeber all of them lmao, also you can make one of our boys ^^

i let you choose ^

i think i already know question 16 btw XD

I tried to do both wherever I could; I put it under a read more because it became a tad on the long side ^-^

1. My first impression of them

My first brush with the Sonic franchise was with the Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games 3DS, specifically the plot with the fog and stuff. And thus this was my very first encounter with Silver:

And let me tell you, I had NO IDEA which one was which, lmao. Should I have been able to tell? Probably, but my English was quite garbage back in 2014 still, and so I didn't know. But once they appear in full, I thought Silver looked quite cool!

For Espio I sadly don't remember, but my first encounter with him was in that game as well. But Silver definitely endeared himself to me more quickly than Espio did, I do recall that!

2. When I think I truly started to like them (or dislike them, if you've sent me a character I don't like)

Silver I began to like quite quickly in my early stages of being part of the Sonic fandom; Blaze used to be my absolute favourite, but I threw myself right into the cutscenes from '06 because she and Silver were in the thumbnail (also halfway through the story, so I had no idea what was going on and stuff lol). And from then onwards, Silver quickly became my favourite instead. I did always like Espio somewhat, but I began to like him lots more once I began working on New Beginnings with him in a central role.

3. A song that reminds me of them

For Silver that is most of Owl City's repertoire, since I just get Silver Vibes from that. For Espio I don't have one right now, but for the two of them together it's One Way Dream by Jay Cosmic and DESERT STAR.

6. My least favorite ship of them

Ships with characters neither have ever really interacted with tend to be ships that I don't particularly like. But I don't have an Absolute Least Favourite Ship for either of them.

7. A quote of them that you remember

"Come here, little fella! Where are your friends?" from Silver in Rivals 2 (because it's just so unexpectedly cute in a game wherein he otherwise is quite serious <3). For Espio I can recall quite a few quotes, but not really anything that stands out as particularly intriguing, I must be honest.

10. Describe the character in one sentence

Silver is a blunt and rash but optimistic and kind-hearted time traveller from the future, who travels back to the past to protect the world from destruction with use of his psychic powers.

Espio is a stoic ninja detective who concerns himself greatly with training and improving, but who means well and has a caring and sometimes silly spirit inside him.

11. What’s the first thing you think about when thinking about the character?

Silver: brave psychic time traveller, Espio: serious but kind ninja detective. And both together: my bois!!

13. Your favorite friendship they have

Each other aside, I like Silver and Blaze as friends; after everything they have been through in '06, they found each other again, and both of them are shown to care greatly for each other. And for Espio, I like his friendship with the other two Chaotix! They drive him insane at times, but it is clear that he would do anything for them, and he is not above engaging in the silliness they bring with them at times.

17. What do you think their first word was?

For Silver I figure it is something like "fire" or "monster", since that seems quite relevant to his living situation. And for Espio I once imagined that he spent a long time being entirely silent as a young child, but then one day he began busting out complete, grammatically correct sentences like it was nothing, and that stuck ever since! It suits Espio to only begin doing something once he was certain he could do it perfectly immediately, in my opinion, haha.

20. A weird headcanon

Not sure if it's weird, but Silver is left-handed in my stories. I tried to look into the games if there is any canon basis for it, but there does not seem to be. But my parents apparently thought I (as toddler learning to write) was going to be left-handed, until I made myself be right-handed because that was what everyone else did. So that is why I like the idea that Silver, who lives alone in the future, is left-handed instead.

For Espio, I can imagine he's got quite a bit of ninja weaponry tucked away around the house, just in case of an attack wherein he needs to act quickly. Since he is the only one who cleans, he is also the only one who knows where all of his weaponry is hidden.

24. What do you think is a secret they have that they never told anyone?

Both of them never delve into their pasts, also not with each other. They don't like thinking back about how things used to be, not if they got each other in the present and their future instead. I imagine neither had a particularly nice life leading up to the things that changed everything, namely Silver travelling to the past the first time and Espio joining the Chaotix, so that is one topic they leave entirely untalked about.