#this is the friend that was stressing me out btw

[thomstrainers]

talkingn about my day in the tags :3

[sqrkyclean]

yeah thats. what i thought. traumadumping i guess in the tags abt it.

[basicallyjaywalker]

I'm headcanoning rn that the ninja all have anxiety tics and they flare up at various times

In the same way that tics will make you involuntarily jerk or speak, theirs involve involuntary power use

Nya has had to stop the entire place from burning down when Kai accidentally flings a fireball

Jay has surged multiple appliances while trying to use them normally

Cole has accidentally made holes in the nearest surfaces including walls, floors, and furniture

Zane has frosted himself on accident

Nya has had to apologize for squirting water on someone

Lloyd has gloves he wears when he has bad periods because the damage from multiple energy balls in a row was just too much

[blossoms-phan]

im booooooorred can they upload

[thelingering]

*exasperated sigh lol* changeeeeee is hardddddd

[bunnyboy-juice]

thinking of all the mutuals who ive become casual friends with and just

[quietlyblooms]

pls know if you're my friend, my desire to ship increases tenfold and i'm becoming that mom who tries to set her daughter up with her friend's kid bc wouldn't it be so dang cute if they ended up together uvu

[equalperson]

I fucking hate being traumatized because why am I bawling the hardest I've bawled in god-knows-how-long because someone I didn't even like that much berated Me. gasping wailing trembling and snotting over this for several minutes.

[calciferstims]

live footage of me 0.3 seconds after I start to really like a new person immediately searching for stim gifs related to them so I can make an imaginary gift stimboard in my head (that will never actually exist)

[my-thoughts-and-junk]

thinking about fallout 4 against my will

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Me, while manically cleaning my room at 3:27am: I should make several large, life-changing, irreversible decisions.

[s0fter-sin]

so lately i’ve been obsessed with a 141 dancer au

gaz runs classes, has a youtube channel and quickly becomes one of the most sought after choreographers in the music video scene. soap is his dance partner for his classes, he helps run them and does demonstrations with him

ghost is also a choreographer and he’s gaz’s Arch Nemesis

he's famous for never performing his routines, never doing public appearances without his skull mask and being highly exclusive with who he allows to perform his choreo which earns him his name (since he’s a ghost creator). gaz however is a social media darling, his classes and videos regularly doing huge numbers

they both popped up around the same time and are neck and neck in terms of popularity and skill and they immediately rub each other the wrong way

gaz accuses ghost of not actually choreographing his routines himself bc no one has ever seen him dance and ghost thinks gaz is a clout chaser who's just in it for the fame instead of passion

he became a dancer as a way to channel his rage after years of being an underground fighter, the discipline and physicality helping him more than fights ever did. he hates the thought of someone just using it just to get famous when it literally saved his life

deep down they know their accusations are wrong and they have a grudging appreciation for the other's talent but they'd both rather die than admit it

price is a famous dancer turned director they both work with frequently and they always fight over him; trying to get their routines picked for his music videos. he's also the only one in the industry who's ever seen the ghost perform (before he got famous and before the Incident™)

he finally gets fed up with them constantly being at each other's throats and hires them both to work together and choreograph a joint routine. they're both famous in their own right but this video is for a huge artist so neither of them can refuse no matter how much they hate the other

gaz has a gymnastics background but also a ballet background which lends him to a more fluid style whereas ghost’s style is stronger, more masculine with sharper movements so they naturally end up butting heads

then there's soap who has a completely different style altogether, focusing on a more modern, breakdancer style which makes him see everything completely differently

but it also adds to his self-doubt bc he didn't have a formal dance education, he built his entire repertoire by himself. people see him as inferior to gaz who has that very formal, highly disciplined style. his insecurities about only ever being seen as gaz's demonstration partner and that he can only do gaz’s routines so all his skill is just an extension of him instead of being seen as a dancer in his own right forces him to adopt a rigid - destructive - perfectionism in himself and his body

soap meets ghost before the first rehearsal. he gets to the studio early to practice when sees this beautiful man dancing

he has no idea who he is but he moves so seamlessly, almost better than gaz, and he immediately falls a little in love. the man catches him watching in the mirror and he flusters, getting worse as the man just smirks at him and flawlessly completes the routine

soap tries to save face and asks him to teach him the routine he's doing

the man agrees, introducing himself as simon. the style of the routine is familiar to soap but he can't focus on it when simon's hands are on his waist, guiding him through the steps; his chest pressed up against his back. they work together beautifully, picking up each other's body language and dancing together easier and better than they've ever danced with anyone

then gaz arrives and the vibe in the studio immediately changes

simon's easy confidence becomes hostility, pulling up the skull gaiter he'd let hang around his neck as he practically pushes soap behind him to square up to gaz

soap’s shocked when gaz hits back with the same energy until he realises it's the same way he acts whenever he talks about ghost and his stomach drops

he steps out from behind ghost to side with gaz and the betrayal in simon's eyes hurts more than anything he's ever felt

from there it's romeo and juliet; camp gaz versus camp ghost as they fight over every step of the choreo and soap is the poor bastard stuck in the middle

soap tries to channel that “you’re my best friend’s rival, i have to hate you,” mindset but he can’t forget the way it felt to dance with simon

and how much he wants to do it again

[slytherinshua]

I swear I won't, I see you as a really good friend and I swear i won't overstep your boundaries 😭😭😭😭😭😭

thank you 😭😭 its rly hard cause so many ppl have done that to me before and i feel like such an asshole if i don't talk to them abt it but its also completely shitty of them to continuously use me as a counselor when i didn't sign up for it

[scionshtola]

i went to sleep early and didn’t even get any rest bc i was having college stress dreams

[one-step-at-a-time25]

I gonna cry rn

(For no fucking reason)

[datastate]

also quick addendum because i've sorted out my thoughts and am not just sitting shell shocked.

i'm more certain in my affirmation that tobari referring to miharu's mother at a distance is to keep himself in check. the ring would've been something given when he was an adult(? which i assume he wasn't when he had taken miharu and tried running away, at the least, still too young for anything permanent); this would've been the time spent in-between until he had found miharu again or had suspicions that miharu's ability was reawakening (whatever the trigger would've been).

however, there's also the possibility that (if they are related, which. gestures. idk why i'm so nervous abt accepting that... aliases happen all the time) their grandmother had lived elsewhere when the slaughter happened & took miharu in afterward, then moved closer to banten unintentionally which meant that tobari now had space to act while assumed dead. the promise miharu made, i imagine, would've been something to do with the incident being forgotten or never happening in the first place. tobari consistently blames his own naivete & how others seem to act before he can shoulder the blame, maybe he hadn't realized the effects it would've had on miharu in return to use that form of hijutsu; the promise would've been either the wish (for everyone to forget him/the pain he incurred, which. smiles painfully. allusions to yoite...) or to not use the power altogether again, to keep himself safe & it's as i previously assumed with the info. being locked inside just with the specific knowledge that miharu had instinctively drawn upon to keep them safe, and tobari was terrified of that.

or maybe i'm completely off-base <3 maybe tobari's just miharu's half-brother. his father and miharu's were the same, but the mothers were separate. which would also explain somewhat why the grandmother isn't familiar w him anyway + separate last names... (if that's a legitimate thing to draw upon... again, aliases)